James 1 ~ God, who gives generously to all without reproach

Jewish houses built on wings to add the grown children who were married. The houses continued to grow. The Bible reports Simon Peter and Andrew, brothers, lived with Peter's mother-in-law.

Joshua 24:15

"And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve,

whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.

But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

James 1

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion:

Greetings!

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

James, the Book of the Bible, where the very Brother of Jesus, son of Mary and of Joseph, tells us about what he learned spending 33 years with Jesus Christ, Only Son of God.

Parallels.

Both James 1 and Mark 7 say, "watch what you say." Mark 7 says be heart with your words. Do not be lip service. Then both say do not say harmful things. Your life is your test if God sees worthy to save. Exactly as we claim the privilege to determine where we will spend time.

James 1 is absolutely astonishing advice from Jesus' brother.

This chapter is basically - astonishing, life-changing, in a word - wow. And if we adapt the first paragraph to conversation - it's not to poke at your faith with annoyance or questions. To grab hold of the handlebar and hang on. Because if we start pulling at the threads of a handlebar, we dismantle a perfectly sound handlebar. Better to get glue and put the loose thread to use. Use the 'yes, I believe' and not pick, pick, pick at this.

Rich or poor. Gone in the MIDST of pursuits. Whoooohooo I want that! Long life, exceedingly good health and Zap off to Heaven. GOOD NEWS. ALLELUIA.




We begin the chapter by addressing the dispersion - addressing us today - saying the view is to looking at as you have traveled further down the road, and life has variation and changing events. Importantly, Jesus says don't let life let you become bitter. See what new adventures life brings. Look at difficulties as a way of doing a test. All have worked on various tests. On -target- people like to see some 'action' for the possibilities of new life entering.

Being steadfast makes us able to go far. With Jesus and incredible reality - how far.  Recently, I read an article on the details of the Chronicles of Babylon which agree with the Second Exodus - the exile and slavery in Babylon. Even gives dates. March 7,  597 B.C. The second of three roundups of the people of Judah. The Babylonian Chronicles agree with Genesis. People before the atmosphere changed of the great waters covering the earth - where we all find fossils of sea creatures in odd places - and before the flood changing the atmosphere - people did live to be 800 years old.  The Chronicles of Babylon agree.

Noah says we can live now to be 120 years old. And in being steadfast, we bring more to ourselves, our spouse, our children, grandchildren and to the people unborn.

In this steadfastness of holding on to God, we become reliable. Doing what Father God asks us to do, makes us more at peace, more reliable as life - of course, changes. We hold on to our truth of what God tells us. God says we realize in doing what God wants us to do, we have begun to reach the place of Life. Creation waits for the unveiling of the Sons of Man. Jesus tells us He is Son of Man. This is an amazing place. God is Savior of mankind, we who will believe in Him. He invites us to be in the His Path of His Life. God tells us, really, if we lean upon God, the burden is Light. Love lifts the burdens of Life.

Happier people are trusting God. They say change will come. But God finds joy in the people who say, Today is God's Gift. Let us not change. God surely loves us as we have this gratitude. And if we spend our time saying God is always here for us, we will miss the old age downfall of Ecclesiastes House Solomon tells us will come. I have witnessed the removal of Ecclesiastes House - in generous hospitality.

Peace. More and more people are turning television off. This is a first since 1950. Clamor. Being taught alien values. Repetitively. What is good comes as a gift of God. If we focus on what is wrong and entertaining, we will find less peace. God tells us He is God of Encouragement. God wants to help us solve problems, see what is good, encouraging others. See the good. Believe God will help.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of Jesus' own Will he brought us forth, by the Word of Truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

James is able to see Jesus was a perfect gift. Light of the world. Jesus did not change. Did not vary. His words are truth.

And James has the unique position knowing - the family of Mary and Joseph James, Joses, Simon, and Jude, as well as the sisters, are the firstfruits of God's Creation. James had a unique Life to look forward to in Heaven.

The Law of Liberty. Has a few requirements.

So if any is religious, bridle the tongue. We start the Chapter by saying God give generously without reproach. Can we point to another Scripture for this?

James 4:12
There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

Jesus said not to judge. In understanding others, we are revealed. Citing mercy is needed.

Romans 2:1-3
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?


Visiting widows and orphans. Surely not on the fun, jazzy things to do list. Instead it is asking facing head on - there are problems out in the world - we hope not to share in. Discomfort. The lack of the ability to truly help one another. Time spent, care given. Strong enough to carry on with our lives. Trusting God, that as He gives life, He also gives us the ability to do the life He has given us. We have to believe this for ourselves and others to nourish others and nourish ourselves.



Abba,

We give Thanks for the delight You have had in Your creation. The delight Jesus found in mankind. For what Jesus has done, moving the Holy Spirit to dwell within us. Telling us about You.

Thank You for helping us carry our burdens. For giving us Joy. For giving us people to Love. For the earnest desire for them. For finding You miracles and protections never cease. Being incredulous and grateful. For Your Plans, a Hope and a Future. More than we can imagine.

The Blessings of Jesus on those who pray. And for seeing the power in Prayer. Those prayers encompass our World asking the Mercy and Love on this Nation and the creation of God's without borders. We expect without doubting, the Greatness of God to be displayed in our prayers. Bringing more Heaven to earth.

 In the Name of Jesus Christ, we have seen You. Amen.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Micah 7 ~ Steadfast Love

Matthew 12:1-8
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 

2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” 

3 He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? 6 I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. 7 And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

Symbols. Like the shape of heart. For many years people thought, maybe until Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simon's dissections, this was the shape of a human heart. And now we know it is the shape of a pig heart. And we've known it collectively for about 700 years. And yet it has Such Appeal. Could we be responding, in wonder, to the shape of our souls? We cannot know this.

Our soul is all we have that we carry into eternity. And even to believe in eternity we have to Believe with a faith. The soul is said to weight 21 grams or half a pound. Is this refuted? Yes. Modern Science actually, and really, might talk about this but the experiment was scientific and has not been disproven.

https://www.learning-mind.com/does-the-soul-really-weigh-21-grams/
http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp

God tells us something in Matthew 12 about the Grace of God. Heart. Intensions.

David built Israel up. Yet God placed David in Bethlehem to grow up quietly. The youngest of 8 sons, not even called when Samuel showed up to and asked to see all of the children. David relied upon the LORD to be merciful to him and he relied upon HIM best in need.

Ephesians 6:4
“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

David trusted God when trouble arrived. He trusted the LORD was not merely provoking him. Aaron's sons died when they did not sacrifice to the Lord correctly. The Sons of Aaron ate without regard to the law. David trusted God. And God gave him leeway. Why? It was Love.

Yet when God did punish David, it was for acting without Love.

We place our hearts, mind and soul before Father God.

Micah 7

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
for the remnant of his inheritance?


He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.


19 He will again have compassion on us;
he will tread our iniquities underfoot.


You will cast all our sins
into the depths of the sea.


20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our fathers
from the days of old.

What was David - the builder of his relationship with God. He built with so much trust. He built himself. His father's family. His city. His nation. And sacrificed his family. Because he was flawed. Yet God redeemed that.

Titus 1:1-15
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

Titus 1:7-9
For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may bgote able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

Romans 3:22-29
The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

And how shall we know.

Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.

John 15:22
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you

1 John 3:21
Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God, 22and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

John 15:22
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you


Why would God have chosen David with his flaws? Because we all have flaws. David had belief and sincerity of heart. David offers us the depth of God's grace and a road map to not walking the difficult path of David. God honors David for being loving.



Abba, Father,

Please, Lord answer us when we are in distress;
may the name of the God of Jacob protect us.

Please send us help from the sanctuary
and grant us support from Zion.


Please remember all your sacrifices
and accept our offerings.

Please give us the desire of your heart
and make all your plans succeed.

May we shout for joy over your victory
and lift up our banners in the name of our God.

May, You, Lord, grant all our requests.

Now this I know:
The Lord gives victory to his anointed.

He answers us from His heavenly sanctuary
with the victorious power of Your right hand.

Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. Jesus.

They are brought to their knees and fall,
but we rise up and stand firm.
Lord, give victory to the king!
Answer us when we call!

Thank You we place all our cares with You, Jesus. Amen.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Psalm 26 ~ I do not sit with the wicked

Ziklag Tel Se. Dirt. The giant ditch David lived in as a mercenary - learning to be in battle. Does not look good in the high heat of a dry summer. Where David believed he was anointed of God and looked for work with other nations. These malcontents would be the backbone of his army. Later David would welcome warmly the rest of the nation who had shunned him - David knew was their Shepherd.

Psalm 26

Of David.

Vindicate me, O Lord,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
Prove me, O Lord, and try me;
test my heart and my mind.

For your steadfast love is before my eyes,
and I walk in your faithfulness.

I do not sit with men of falsehood,
nor do I consort with hypocrites.
I hate the assembly of evildoers,
and I will not sit with the wicked.

I wash my hands in innocence
and go around your altar, O Lord,
proclaiming thanksgiving aloud,
and telling all your wondrous deeds.

O Lord, I love the habitation of your house
and the place where your glory dwells.

Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,
nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
in whose hands are evil devices,
and whose right hands are full of bribes.

But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
redeem me, and be gracious to me.
My foot stands on level ground;
in the great assembly I will bless the Lord.

What a long road David traveled. And how off course he seemed to go, being a mercenary to learn to train men for war. Having his family kidnapped in Ziklag. Losing his first wife. Being chased as a criminal. Living in a glorified ditch. Loosing the crown to Saul's concubine's son. Regaining the crown. Being shunned by some of the children of Israel. Taking Jerusalem. Killing Saul's sons by concubines. Having mercy on their mothers. Doing the wrong thing as a father. Killing Uriah. Ignoring when his daughter was incestuously raped. Having a family of children who were at war with each other. Winning every battle even in fear and sorrow. Finding this anointed path wobbles and continuing with God to go so far. God proclaiming David's heart in the midst of all this path and trouble. Being given the Kingdom! David's absolute belief and heart cry of thanksgiving and wonder. A warrior king - Loved - by Abba God.


2 Samuel 7

‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel. 9 And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. 10And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, 11 from the time that I appointed judges over my people. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. 

Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house. 12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, 15 but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. 

16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me.  Your throne shall be established forever.’”

 17 In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.

18 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 19And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD. You have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD! 20 And what more can David say to you?

 For you know your servant, O Lord GOD! 

21 Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

22 Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

Does Faith make a good person?

The Bible is very honest. We see people at their worst. Perhaps if David had not been part of the Word of God, just a king somewhere, then David would have been shown to have made Israel secure for the first time since the Exodus. David overcame battles, withstood plague, conquered civil war. Established his line. Was known to be merciful and gathered a country in chaos. Established trade. Gathered national alliances. Two of his wives were shown to always adore him. The prophetic Nathan stayed with him always. His generals all stayed, even the ones David really didn't like.

The conclusion would be David was an absolute success.

Would we say this made him a good person? God would say so. And God and David understand God sees all the potholes life can put down. All the emotional crippling things like David's first wife not only marrying another man, but publicly disdaining him nationally. David withstood a national man hunt for him - because of the Word of God. Rabbis and High Priests were slaughtered for merely being kind to a hungry David. David's father refused to call him to be considered by the Prophet Samuel, who chastised Jesse by having them all stand while David was gathered from shepherding the flock. God put all of these things in David's life and considered David to be a wonderful heart. Even as the first wife Michal was put away from her next husband and away from David. Even when David put away his concubine for the result of civil war. God allowed David to have all the heart ache of bigamous life. David remains God's favorite earthly king. And a fine example of the reason for Christian man and wife.




Abba our Father,

You Lord God reign,
    let the nations tremble;
You sits enthroned between the cherubim,
    let the earth shake.

Great is the Lord of Zion;
   You is exalted over all the nations.
Let the people praise Your great and awesome name— Jesus -
    HE is holy.

You our King are mighty, and loves justice—
    You have established equity;
in Jacob You have done
    what is just and right.

Exalt the Lord our God
    and worship at Your footstool;
    You is holy.

Moses and Aaron were among Your priests,
    Samuel was among those who called on Your name;
they called on the Lord
    and You answered them.

You spoke to them from the pillar of cloud;
    they kept Your statutes and the decrees You gave them.
Lord our God,
    You answered them;
You were to Israel a forgiving God,
    though You punished their misdeeds.
Exalt You Lord our God
    and worship at Your holy mountain,
    for the Lord our God is holy.

We thank You, Father God, we give the ones we Love to You.
We give the people You have given us to pray for.

We give You incredible Thanks for Your Great and Astonishing Mercy.

Today I have heard of miracles God has provided. Of Protection and the acknowledgement of Your Protection going forth and give incredulous thanks and knowledge of Your Promises. Live is us and let goodness, love and gratitude go forth always, please Abba, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

And let our prayers circle the earth You created and found good - yesterday, today and tomorrow.
And with our hope and faith in You, we will see our Nation protected and the world pray with believing prayer.

Jesus is God and that is where we will rest. Amen.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Revelation 1 ~ He laid His Right Hand on me

2 months on a ventilator, the appearance of an Angel - created the miraculous healing of Chelsea Banton

Revelation 1

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

John to the seven churches that are in Asia:

Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

More than probably, we will see the Life of Jesus unfold. Any day we want to see of Jesus' journey on earth - when we are in Heaven.


And we will see the live events unfold - giving us not just eyes of faith - the reward of the reality of God's Word.


John 5:17

Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working."

We will live Ephesians 3 knowing our families - for many generations. And see Jesus and our Father - their works in their lives. Knowing miracles we had never known before.


Our Abba,

You have given us the melting Words of Your help when Peter tried to walk with You and You reached out and held him up.

You have given us the melting Words of Your help when John tried to take in Your Wonders in Your Kingdom.

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!

Thank You Abba, for what has been on earth, what is on earth and the Kingdom we will see.
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!

Help us serve You, Lord, with gladness!
  
We will join the Heavenly Host calling You Holy, Holy, Holy
Come into his presence with singing!

With eyes of faith
and our new physical eyes in Your Kingdom
we will Know that the Lord, He is God!

It is You who made us, and we are Yours, Abba.
We are Your people, and the sheep of Your pasture.

12 always open Gates, 12 huge pearls of Heaven
Enter Your gates with thanksgiving,
and Your courts with praise!
    Give thanks to Abba; bless Jesus!

For You Lord are good;
Your steadfast love endures forever,
and Your faithfulness to all generations.

We will lift up our soul, our Spirit to You, Abba.
We will lift up our Loved ones.
We will lift up our cares.
We will lift up our eyes to Love, Joy, Peace.
And with Great Joy proclaim,
Amen in Jesus Christ.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Mark 2:1-12 ~ Which is easier to say

Painted by James Tissot

Mark 2:1-12

 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2 They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. 

5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

6 Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, 7 “Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? 9 Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’? 10 But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” 

So he said to the man, 11 “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” 

12 He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”


Psalm 126

A feast of our eyes and senses

1 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."
3 The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.
4 Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like streams in the Negeb!
5 Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!
6 He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

One day when we are in Heaven, we will see this happen -  Jesus will make His memories alive for us to see. 

Our technology - our wisdom - is merely "seeing through the glass darkly" and Jesus will show us His life - - -  exactly. We will,  in Heaven, sit with Jesus and see His Life!!! Why wouldn't our gifts - wisdom - be from the Lord God, maker of Heaven and earth. And why don't we consider these gifts a shadow of what is to come in Heaven.

James 3:17-18
The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere. 18 Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.





This day will be a prime example of the Joy Jesus had living here with us. As a man and fully God.

God will feed us - the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Staying in step with the Spirit - we do away with:
sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like - those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Jesus said blessed are the eyes of the ones who physically were able to see the Life and Wonders and Awe of Jesus living Grace upon Grace. More blessed are we! We did not see and yet we believe.  The man in the painting demonstrates helplessness and weakness - but God makes all things possible.

God is his strength, healing, and grace. Jesus turns this time into His Father's Glory. God is the center. 

I believe we will see this so clearly - that if we sit beside the path Jesus walked - we will see His feet create dust. 

John 20:29
Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."


And Jesus will show us Himself - every day of His life on earth. Time is a concept God has created and changed even for King Hezekiah. We will see the actual days. A privilege of the Father of All, Father of Jesus, to show us His Son.

John 20
43 And they were all astonished at the greatness of God. While everyone was marveling at all that Jesus was doing, He said to His disciples, 44 “Let these words sink into your ears"


What other generation of the millenniums - could know seeing Jesus live each day if we wanted to - is really possible? Rejoice.





Because Father God is sufficient - Jesus, The Son of God, calls us His.


God encourage us to live the life God gives us. To press on in humility when the victory is unseen. To give us His Grace when life is good. Walking the path of our lives with faith, in all seasons of our lives.



Father God,
Please be the center of me and the ones I love. We hold on to You, Father God - look to Jesus -  for the free gift of Salvation - be within us as the fruit of Your Holy Spirit. 

We are nourished - in all seasons of our life - we will depend on You  and Your steadfast Love will see us through. We pray for our lives, the lives we love, the people You have given us. And as we do this, we know the faithful all across the world pray. And we look at our larger prayers for the Nation, the world and know our prayers have covered this in Jesus' Name as well.

 Amen in Jesus Christ.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves †