Proverbs 3:12 ~ as a father the son in whom he delights

We are lean to believing Mary told Joseph about Gabriel when she explained about being pregnant. And we all understand from the Bible, Joseph thought he'd move away from this trouble quickly.

The Lord draws near to people who want to be merciful and further away from us when we go our own path with our own ways.

Proverbs 3:12

For the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.


If everyone is moving as fast as they can each day, no real time for deep growth is going to occur. If you sit down to memorize the 10 Commandments, you realized the Commandments are orderly and start with GOD. This is important. We do not serve Google. Or a flowchart. We love a GOD who is interested in creation, in emotion, in the depth of our hearts. We love a God who says, I'm important, too. And that, is very admirable. And honest. And lovable.


So, we are working today our way back up to the top, reverse order. Joseph found mercy and God made sure Joseph was kept safely as the head of his house and family. Tender care from God the Father, to the merciful.

God of the humble, thinking of others.


Galatians 3:6

Consider Abraham: "He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

Jesus, as baby, was swaddled - held snugly. Comforted with blankets. Covered. Numbers 6, the blessing God told to Moses in 1500 B.C. said we are covered to have peace - in the Name of Jesus. Ephesians 6 says when we are covered in the mercy of God, we are actually armed for safety. Saying we Are Strong in His Might. Joseph found God our Father ensured his safety.

Thank You Father God.

We think upon what the life of Joseph saw with his own eyes. 

And the You are the same Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. We rely upon our Father God. Lifting up our cares and loves and worries and work to Jesus and our Abba. Knowing You will cover us in the Name of Your Son Jesus.


As Our Father shows compassion to His children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who reverently Worship Him.

Malachi 3:17
"They will be Mine," says the LORD of hosts, "on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him."

 Amen in Jesus the Lord

Nazareth

And Jesus

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Matthew 13:32 ~ the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.

Heaven Invades Earth: Joyful Peace in Uncertainty

December 11, 2016  Double Click the Sermon page

This is an excellent sermon from HopePointe by Father Bryan White. Finding Joy in Difficult Circumstances.

We all have times where we are blue, down or discouraged. We have to be sincere.

Paul was a tent-maker to supplement his Ministry. If you were to ask Paul how to put up a tent, he would say you have to plan carefully. Fabric Pieces are measured. And for the Tent to be shelter, a durable frame would be also measured and sometimes a team of people have to put the tent up and in place.

Our lives are like this - what would be a parallel? The Bible has a very good parallel.

Matthew 13:31-32

31 Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field. 32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”


What would Jesus say additionally? Be Salt and Light.

1 Thessalonians 5:11
11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.


Philippians 2
19 Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I learn how you are doing. 20I have nobody else like him who will genuinely care for your needs. 21For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.


God is saying that by building each other up ~ we are building a shelter. We put down our cares to create a shelter. We make meaningful lives. We find Joy.

In certainty, of course, we must be real. Not a happy face with a sad heart.

1 Timothy 1:5
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Romans 12
8 if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully. 9 Love must be sincere!!!



Tonight HopePointe Anglican Church hosted the Community  with Christmas in the Woods. A Spectacular Event pulling in Beautiful Music, Art from the Centuries, the Congregation demonstrated the Art. We heard Jesus is Joy and Jesus is the Reason for Christmas. We joined in singing 'Emmanuel' and "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" we were treated to talented singers of all ages. Jesus was thrilled.


Father God,

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For Christ did not please himself.

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Our God will give us endurance and encouragement. Grant us eternally and internally to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together we may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And we will welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you and me, for the glory of God.


We know that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs, and in order that all people might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,

“Therefore I will praise you among the people,
and sing to your name.”

We hope to please the heart of Jesus, Abba and Holy Spirit
“Rejoice, O God, with Your People.”

We will Praise the Lord, all People!

We know with Isaiah,

“The root of Jesse has come,
even He who arises to rule the all people and nations;
in Jesus will we all hope.

May Our God of faith, hope and Love fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

We offer to Abba freely with Joy and Expectation the blessings of those we love and the people Jesus has Given us. We offer with Lifting Hearts the Churches, work places, and communities we know. We give great thanks for our Nation and freedom to Praise God. Be pleased with Us, Father God, Shine and lift up Your Face upon us and we are Glad and in Joy. Blessed be the Name of Jesus our Lord this Christmas Season, Now and Always Alleluia and Amen in Jesus Christ - God's Only Son.

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Micah 6:8 ~ do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?


Come what may, good Christmas, crying all the time Christmas, excellent Christmas.

We know what Father God wants from us.


Our Abba, Thank You for specifically telling us what You love us to do. Send Your Holy Spirit, please, when we are unable. Thank You for Your Good Will. And for those we love. We lift up all our concerns to You. Celebrating Your Victories Each Day.

Thank You for so many answered prayers. Watch over our family times and help us to continue to please You in the Name of Jesus, Our Righteousness, we rely. Christmas is for Jesus. Amen.

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Colossians 3 ~ If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 3

3 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.

 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones,
holy and beloved, 
compassionate hearts, 
kindness, 
humility,
 meekness, 
and patience, 
13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, 
forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, 
so you also must forgive. 

14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 

 
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 

17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. 22 Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 


23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

25 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

What happened in that field.

1 Corinthians 15

Those who belong to him. 24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For he “has put everything under his feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28 When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.

40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.


The Shepherds encountered this:

51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

55
“Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”

56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 

57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.



And once the Shepherds were changed and had seen Glory of God in the Highest.

Luke 2

The shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.




Our Abba,

You are the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

You makes me lie down in green pastures,
You leads me beside quiet waters,

Jesus refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for His name’s sake.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Uplift those I LOVE and people that are given. Bless them to have Wisdom.

Watch over, lead and guide our Churches, Communities and Nations. We look in Expectation of Jesus. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

Hebrews 11 ~ for the conviction

Holy Family by Henry Ossawa

Hebrews 11

11 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the people of old received their commendation. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible



Advent and Jesus the Lord, as told through Hebrews 11

By faith Joseph offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice to be merciful to Mary, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting him as the earthly Father to His Son. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

5 By faith Jesus was in His Father's house so that we should not see death, and he was not found by Mary and Joseph for 3 days missing, because God had put zeal for His Father's House in Him. Now before Jesus was taken, he was commended as having pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek him.


7 By faith the Wise Men, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed a pilgrimage for the saving of themselves and their households to the millenniums. By this God could have condemned the world and us. Yet with Jesus Christ we have become an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

8 By faith Mary obeyed when she was called to go out to a place that she was to receive as an inheritance as a handmaiden of the Most High God. And she went out, alone, not knowing where she was going in the future. 9 By faith she went to see Elizabeth in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, traveling 70 miles with uncertainty, heirs with Jesus of the same promise. 10 For she was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. 11 By faith Mary herself received power to conceive, even when she was a virgin, since she considered God faithful who had promised.

12 Therefore from one woman, and her as good as dead, to her parents, were born descendants to the Children God would call His Beloved, as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland of God. 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

17 By faith the shepherds, when they were tested, offered up to find what Good News had been told to them, and they who had received the promises were in the act of offering up His only son, 18 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 19 They considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, they did receive Him back.

20 By faith Simeon invoked future blessings on Jesus and His Beloved. 21 By faith Simeon, when dying, asked to depart in peace, blessed Jesus of Joseph, bowing in worship over the baby Jesus' head.

22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, knew he had provides well for Jesus that He was seen coming to His hometown, and as He taught the people in their synagogue, and they were astonished. “Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?” they asked. 55“Is this not the carpenter’s son? Isn’t His mother’s name Mary, and aren’t His brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? 56 Aren’t all His sisters with us as well? Where then did this man get all these things?” Joseph knew where Jesus had His Wisdom.

23 By faith Jesus, when he was born, was hidden by his parents, and the Wise Men Isaiah spoke of in th 60th Chapter because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

24 By faith Jesus, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of the King of Kings. 25 Choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of the nations, for Ge was looking to the reward. To see a New Heaven and a new earth. 27 By faith Jesus left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 28 By faith He kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

29 By faith the people crossed into the wilderness as the Exodus, but the Pharisees, when they attempted to do the same, were greeted with Jesus' true commentary. 30 By faith the walls of doubt in the healed fell down after they had been encircled with the God of Love. 31 By faith Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given belief to the Christ of God.

32 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of the Apostles— 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. 35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated— 38 of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

39 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, Stephen saw Heaven from afar, 40 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.






Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah. Was faithful to the law, after he had considered this, Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him. By Faith.

Blessed are You, Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be Your Father and Ours, In the Holy Spirit we rely upon God. Always. Amen.

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