Matthew 6:1-4 ~ Trumpet

Matthew 6:1-4

1 "Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

2 "Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others.

Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you." 

God has always Loved a Good Announcement.

Let there be Light. True God of True God. True Light of True Light.

And Jesus Christ is God's Son and Word made Manifest.



And in God's Temple meticulously planned, God placed the Court of Women where Jesus would be welcomed. Simeon and Anna were here as Jesus is Presented in His Father's Temple. And here God has placed the Menorah to Light up the Temple. And here, among the Lamp Stands, John recognized God's Home in Revelation 1. This is where God feels at home.

And in this announcement area. The horns were copied and mounted, next the Gate Leaving the Court of Women, to make a noise to show a gift to God. Unfortunately, this theft-proof-giving made an announcement noise. The more coins, the more noise. God's house sounded a little like Vegas. And the Pharisees and Sadducees did not plan for the noise to stay in Vegas.

Josephus records the gates of the Court of Woman opened by the Hand of God during the sack of Nebuchadnezzar II and of Titus in 70 A.D. The Pharisees and Sadducees hid behind these gates and they were locked and opened by themselves. God might have felt their reward, they had proclaimed for so long, had ended.

At this same spot. God declared, as Jesus was presented, we received our Reward who Believe in Jesus Christ. With the Lights of Moses and of Solomon, built to be pleasing to God. Returned by Nebuchadnezzar II. And found today in the Arch of Titus in Rome today.

This is very cleaned up to see the detail.

The horns are seen,  to the back right side, might have been used for Matthew 6. The gold horns Jesus pointed to as He explained Matthew 6. The Menorah was definitely in the sight of Jesus as Matthew 6 unfolded.

Temple of Jerusalem. The Place of Trumpeting.



Abba,

We ask Your Blessing, knowing this of Your Love. Holy to our LORD. Jesus told us His Joy in His Given Life. John 14,15 and 16. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

For the Lord himself
will descend from heaven with a cry of command,
with the voice of an archangel,
and with the sound of the trumpet of God.

And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Revelation 11
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."

Abba, Jesus told us to pray for more Heaven on earth. And we will. The Trumpet Call of the Holy Spirit of God's Goodness to dwell in us. Knowing every thought, mind, soul and body - our heart. Our Love.

This Trumpet of God's Love for our Loved ones. The people You give us. And our Joy.

God Bless us. Amen in Jesus.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Peace among those whom He is Pleased

How are we going to take the every day and make "Glory to God in the Highest and on earth peace among those whom He is Pleased"?

An Exercise of Daily Faith and God in All Events.

How to make sure we see Father God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Jesus saw the willingness of Father God ' every day'. We live more of a social media more apparent life of Frank Zappa and the Mothers, fast-paced find-the-time life. And yet - God is where everything happens that matters.

When you 'Really' look at the events of life - and you put your faith as part of your perpetual conversation with God Who Loves You Most - (we do Faith to drive down the highway) - we can find God is in every particle.

So, we are going to do this Faith where we realize Life goes far beyond and do this to a regular song.

"Smoke on the Water" - Fire in the Sky.

Man, you see - Smoke on the Water is The Holy Spirit in Genesis 1. Fire in the sky - definitely - Acts 2. (What I saw, reading today is this tidbit of Acts 2 - the violent Wind of the Holy Spirit - was in the house.) No matter what we get out of this - we know - we will never forget.

Deep Purple - the Majesty of God. His Son - King of Kings.

The sound is Strong. The Chords Majestic. The Urgency to be part of God. The Almighty God of All.

Salvation is happening in Smoke on the Water. Even the kids are being saved. We will never be in the old place again.

We all came out of the town, like traveling to find Jesus in our personal wilderness. On the Shore of Lake of Galilee.

To make mobile. Records of our lives - recorded monuments of touchstone meaning - a truly meaningful life. The Mission of Loving Christ is to be mobile with God's love into the every day. The Message of the Bible tells us time is fleeting. Day is short. Make the Best of God for God for one another.

Now we are Gambling, here, when we take up the Faith. We assuredly know taking up the Faith of God - is not comfortable. And the song continues - isn't the real gamble - to put the Way, the Truth and the Life on the way back. The back, back non-burner. Wouldn't we really all like to see useless and senseless pain - die. Sadness and sorrow - flee away. Let what is wretched die with an awful sound - acknowledging - the end of what is misery.

(Remembering the beginning of God's Mission is to Pray and Rejoice in One Accord - One Voice. A Joyous Noise Before the Lord.)

Funky Claud was running in and out - yes. Emperor Claudius was indeed running back and forth panicked to find True God of True God. We want the young to have Good, Strong Meaningful Lives and Salvation. The Best Swiss Time of their lives. A New Path to Good Life. Out with the old.

The Old Grand Life - what we saw as the Marble Epics is empty and cold as hell. The Adventure of God - having us roll forth - with Fire. With a real life of Gusto.

No matter what we get out of this - we know - we will never forget.

And The Joy of Faith. Of Hope. And definitely Love.



The flair gun? We might see this:
If we had to take this to the young level - where true faith is - we would find the "Where's Waldo" of Faith. Even the expectancy of the chords.







Oh, and, we surely can take this to the Best Level:

The Heavenly side of the Multitude of the Heavenly Host Praising God

Luke 2:13-15

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

14 "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!"

15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."

And the Shepherd side of the Heavenly Host

How will we place the Story of Father God and His Son? In every page of the Bible, the Bible supports the Bible. The epic adventure of seeing Jesus Christ's Story as Continual. Like seeing God in "Smoke on the Water".

What is an Angel? Yes, definitely a Messenger of God who will only carry a Jesus centered message the Bible supports.

Psalm 104

3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He walks upon the wings of the wind;
4 He makes the winds His messengers, Flaming fire His ministers.

We can see the Heavenly Host.

Winds of the Holy Spirit in Genesis 1.

Fire at the Birth of Jesus Christ, King of Kings, True God of True God.

Wind of the Angelic Messengers.

Acts 2 - Wind and Fire of the Holy Spirit - Messenger of God the Most High. The Holy Spirit announcing Life for those in Christ Jesus believing the Salvation of God and His Promises for you.

And ... we will begin completing the picture...

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom He is pleased

To please the God of All of Creation. All of the Heavenly Host and Glory. The Author of Salvation. God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ - to please them - we have sought God with faith. With belief. With Hope of His Glory. And then - we have pleased Father God to look longingly for His Love.

And now to complete this Word of God - let us go to see life - what He has told us of. To see life from God's viewpoint.

Abraham believed God and was considered righteous. Abraham was called Friend of God.

Our Abba,

We ask Your Blessing of Grace and Peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


Blessed is our the God and our Father.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, has presented the Father with a New Heaven and a new earth.

Because we know our Father.
The Father of mercies
and God of all comfort.

This is Our Father and Jesus, who comforts us in all our affliction,
enabling us, strengthening us,
that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction,
with the comfort all the Blessings of Grace and Peace,
with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

In Christ’s one offering of His life, and in His sufferings,
we share abundantly in comfort.

We trust You God in our difficulties and troubles,
We believe in Your Good Will and Good plan - affliction is raised up to
comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, God will work all things for Good. Trusting in Him.

In Jesus Christ, God, wonderful Jesus, our hope for ourselves and our loved ones is unshaken,
for we know that in life sufferings,
Jesus will find us sharing our comforts.

Father God, we pray impossibly for the Love of God to continually flow in our prayer life.
That when we are silent - Your Wonderful Love is pouring forth without ceasing.
We pray the impossible of more Heaven on earth and for the believers of God and the
ones they pray for - to Know Your Love and see the weary world rejoicing in Christ Jesus.

Our Alleluia Chorus will come from Jesus. Amen.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Psalm 31 ~ Be gracious to me, O Lord

Psalm 31

1 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!


2 Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily!

Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me! 3 For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me; 4 you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.


5 Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.

6 I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD. 7 I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul, 8 and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

9 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.

10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. 11 Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. 12 I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel. 13 For I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

14 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God." 15 My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors! 16 Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love! 17 O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol.

18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

19 Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind! 2

0 In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men;
you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city. 22 I had said in my alarm, "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.

23 Love the LORD, all you his saints!
The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.

24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!




To be part of the New Covenant is a Jesus bless you always Blessing.


In the Old Testament, a man is sent with a message from God. He is told do not get off the path. Just give the message. And he has a problem or two and he overcomes - delivers the message and is on his way home - when a 'man of God' stops him to have a visit in his home and the man goes because the message is delivered and the 'man of God' is helping.  It was nothing of the sort. The man returns home to find he has ruined the message and voided the instructions of God. The man is condemned. We are so Very Fortunate to be part of the New Covenant of Jesus Christ.

God in the New Covenant - is never going to leave us. We are not ever left or forsaken of God for all who call on Jesus as God.

Ephesians 6 addresses the reality we learned in the Vietnam War, the torturers knew you can tear people down with continual harm. It was the goal actually. And because God is Jesus - and Jesus is the exact image of the Merciful Father - we have Refuge with Jesus  -who makes all things work for good for those who love the Lord and want to work according to His Purpose.

God tells us He instinctively places the Holy Spirit in those who believe. I once was new to an area and made friends with two women more wealthy than I was. We all had very young children. It was fine until ski clothes were to be handed down. An object to be divided. I was frankly the only one in need. And now there were only two friends, not me. I knew from non-verbal communication some lie had been told. I decided because the problem was told to me as non-existent - it was to be exactly that. I left this up to God. Eventually the lie based friendship ended. And one woman came and told me the lie told against me. The truth is in this neighborhood, as time went by - she could tell this lying woman was going to tell things that were not true. She was not a very stable person who manipulated the truth to appear as if she was telling the Truth. The Truth comes out and in her speech you could tell - this woman was apt to use a particle of the Truth to tell a Lie. And because this is evident over a few years, all the neighborhood knew this. All things were manipulated for any benefit of that individual. As the time came to make changes, the woman with the manipulations - left. Others went on, because being seen - is to be understood.

Being in the New Covenant - we all 3 survived and know each other about completely now.




We know. When we are shown another's character we will make allowances. I made friends with a new neighbor in settling a dispute. Eventually the new friend wanted the old 20 year friend and not me. Eventually the new friend wanted my family's attention and not mine. Eventually the dispute I'd settled, came back to being my dispute. We make allowances for each other and find the shoe fits. Is this bad? Not really.  Without allowances, we have no mercy. And Mercy gives Life Meaning. We take the problems life will give us, Jesus promises life gives problems. And we make sure we don't hand out the problems too often. We make sure we don't let the root of bitterness get us. We work at being the Light that Shines of Jesus Christ.




Win Win
Win Lose.

Sometimes situations are not going to be Win Win. You can't win. However you can win. We have a part of us we all - according to Research, we do inherently know - we have part of us we know are continuing to God. I've seen parts of my life I felt were tragic. And in my 5th Decade, I see God was making me stronger to get to the Truth. The Truth wins. It can be now, later or in Heaven, but the Truth wins.

When we support the Truth - in actions, words and deeds. We make a place for ourselves no one can take. We make self esteem to God. Pleasing God gives us backbone. Bravery. Endurance. Kindness. Ability to bound over the rough places. When we please God - we know we have all the help we need.

No one really makes another less. When we know we stand before God and have His Love. We are Strong. No doubt, we all fail, but when we know we have God's true empathy and Love - we will stand again.





What Joy is Going to Arrive?

God knows definitely. We have to produce the fruit within us to have the Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Hope, Faith and Love. When our house is to God - when our soul is to Father God. We will have the joy within us to have reached the knowledge we are Loved and Held and Appreciated and Esteemed by All That Matters. And when you reach the place where your heart has Joy with God - then you want others to know this place too.


Jesus sent out His Disciples two by two. It wouldn't be like Jesus not to go two by two when He sends two by two. Jesus is paired from Luke 1 with John the Baptist. At times they have harmony and other times John the Baptist is afraid in prison. Jesus acknowledges John the Baptist has flaws saying the least saint in Heaven is greater than John the Baptist. But Jesus is shown to want to feed the multitudes the days after John is beheaded. Jesus spends time in prayer. Jesus sees the willingness of God to allow Jesus to walk on the water. Jesus is not going alone. Peter wants to travel with Jesus. Jesus might have had a good joke and a laugh at Peter's failure. Instead Jesus shows us about moving on in life. Jesus is going to reach down and help Peter. Peter is going to safely journey with Jesus Christ. Jesus does not let the soul happy to God exist in glorious aloneness with God. Jesus does not get the giggles the newbie fails. Jesus does not make a joke so Peter knows who is God. Jesus does not look at the sky and say, "Really God, this one, Really?" Jesus does not let the root of bitterness happen. Jesus does not act like Lucy and press Peter's head a little bit down in the water so we know who is Boss. Jesus immediately helps Peter. This is our God. This is the God we want.

Our God helps people in honest ways. Our God allows us to get to the place where we want to talk to Him. Our God understands heart to heart is heart to heart. Our God immediately helps us back on the path. Our God comes to get us when we are off the path and makes breakfast. Our God makes us so comfortable we ask Him - why John? Our God sees squabbles and still spends time with us.

Our Father God is so good - Peter will risk another few water adventures.

Having faith the trees are in God's Plan. Tending the Orchard year around.

What Joy is Going to Arrive?

How much work are you willing to put into your Orchard with God. Fruit is cultivated.




Abba,

We ask the Blessing of peace to those on whom Your favor rests. We ask our souls continue to fill
with Joy, Peace, Faith, Hope and Love.

Jesus Christ is our God. Jesus, the radiance of God's glory. Jesus the exact representation of Your Being.

Father, increase us of the assurance of things hoped for. With conviction. We want, Father God, the
commendation of You, Yourself. This Blessing of God.

We believe the universe was created by the Word of God. You are sustaining all things by Your powerful Word. Jesus God.

We believe You reward those who seek You. We want to please You, we want to draw near to You in faith, Father God. 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 God.

We want Your Heavenly Homeland in our souls today. Making our homecoming entirely Home. We want our joys to be the joys pleasing to You.

And in our souls today - we want Jesus. We know You give faith conquering kingdoms, enforcing justice, obtaining promises, stopping the mouths of lions, quenching the power of fire, escaping the edge of the sword, making strength out of weakness, making mighty in war, putting armies hostile to God to flight. We know this faith receives back their dead by resurrection.

We ask more Heaven on earth for ourselves, the ones we Love, the people You have given. We reach for the fruit of faith telling us we can make more perfect Heaven on earth every day with the Hope, Faith and Love You give daily.

We ask with all our Heart in Jesus, the Glory of God dwells, where we see You, Father God covering us in Jesus.

Amen.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Psalm 54 ~ O God, hear my prayer: give ear to the words of my mouth

This is the cave where Saul slept and David let him live. David went unusual places for God. The area is described well and this is the cave of the region with depth for the men with King Saul. Pretty reliable information. Actually, not much doubt.

Psalm 54

A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, “Is not David hiding among us?”


1 O God, save me by your name, and vindicate me by your might.

2 O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth.

3 For strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before themselves. Selah

4 Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.

5 He will return the evil to my enemies; in your faithfulness put an end to them.

6 With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, O LORD, for it is good.

7 For he has delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.





Psalm 91:6
"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, For the arrow that flieth by day, For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, For the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand."


David knew - - - Pestilence. In letting Saul live, (who had killed Priests of the Temple for merely feeding David and his small band) David was risking his parents and 7 other brothers and their families. You'd have to wonder if David's group were disappointed Saul survived the hunt for David's head on a spike. Or Saul might have attached David's body on a well-known wall until falling  to pieces.

Pestilence is really pretty serious. 10,000 ways to lose life.

Let's examine David's son, Solomon's opinion of the Grisly. Solomon explains his father's situation well:


1 Kings 8

31 "If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house, 32 then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

We see Saul did this - after giving David his own daughter to marry.

33 "When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house, 34 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.

Succinctly Solomon has described Israel - war-torn - during Saul.


And Solomon goes on to describe the Pestilence merciful David could well have experienced. These are the terrors of the Bronze Age and of all mankind:


1 Kings 8

37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or
blight
or mildew
or locust
or caterpillar,
if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates,
whatever plague,
whatever sickness there is,

38 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house, 39 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind)

40 That they may fear you all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.


And not only that pestilence apparently spare them and the nation - that opportunity would not pass them by - leading to more pestilence.  All opportunities that lead forward into goodness:

41 "Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name's sake 42 (for they shall hear of your great name and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,

43 hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.




David believed in the Shield of God allowing him to be merciful and blessed.

David believed in the Mercy of God allowing David to be benevolent. This is an era where your new ally might ask you into the fields to delight in child sacrifice. David was teaching the Mercy of God in doing righteousness. David is no shrinking Petunia to offer goodness and thanksgiving as sacrifice. David is fully informed of the cost of Mercy and would have Mercy be the guide.

David believes when we have approached Father God having done all within our Power - God is going to answer prayers.

The Protection of God for those placing their lives in God's hands doing Mercy and Righteousness.

Abba,

A Thousand years is one day to You. We ask The Vast and Amazing God who calls us His Father, for His Blessing this day and always -upon us and our loved ones.

Three God days ago,

Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the LORD, he arose from before the the first day of the First Temple of Jerusalem, planned lovingly by David, and went to altar of the LORD.

Solomon knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.

And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel (that is us with God's Living and Active Word)
with a loud voice, saying,

"Blessed be the LORD
who has given rest to his people Israel,
according to all that he promised.
Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.


The LORD our God be with us,
as he was with our fathers. (Our families).

May our Father God not leave us or forsake us,
Our Father God may incline our hearts to Him,

to walk in all His Way, Truth and Life,
to worship our Father God in Spirit and Truth.
Living in Relationship with God of Love, Hope and Encouragement.

Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD,
and with confidence in Jesus,
be near to the LORD our God day and night.


May Father God maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel,
as each day requires,
for all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God;
there is no other.

Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God,
walking in his statutes
and keeping his commandments,
as at this day."



Just as we are able to know the same Father God,
His Holy Spirit and Son Jesus Christ. We are able to catch the words of Solomon as they Live.
Knowing this profound blessing of Three of God's Days - is Alive - Active and the Love of our Father.

Because of the Love Father God has for us,
Jesus has made us God's temple and God's Spirit dwells in your midst.

Listening to Your Living Word with our Spirit, The Holy Spirit You place in us,
we know the Scriptures, and we know the power of God.

Jesus fill us, our loved ones, the Believing world with the Joy of the Holy Spirit.
Filling us with Joy, Hope, Love, Patience, Mercy and letting the Light of Christ
shine in our hearts, bringing Words of Life. Explaining the Love God sees in us and
He has for us.

In Jesus, we will know God eternally and forever. Amen and Amen.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Psalm 115 ~ Trust in the Lord

Psalm 115

1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

2 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"

3 Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

5 They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. 6 They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell. 7 They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat. 8 Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.  

9 O Israel, trust in the LORD!
He is their help and their shield.

10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD!
He is their help and their shield.

11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD!
He is their help and their shield.

12 The LORD has remembered us; he will bless us;
he will bless the house of Israel;
he will bless the house of Aaron;
he will bless those who fear the LORD,
both the small and the great.

14 May the LORD give you increase, you and your children!

15 May you be blessed by the LORD, who made heaven and earth!

16 The heavens are the LORD's heavens,
but the earth he has given to the children of man.
17 The dead do not praise the LORD,
nor do any who go down into silence.

18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forevermore.
Praise the LORD!

This man, at the top, with the Eternal Armor of God looks underdressed. Maybe we should instead want the Helmet with Visor and Ski Gear. This might be safer and faster. More modern wisdom.

What if James Bond's enemies chased him fiercely on the ski slopes? That Armor of God? Would the Armor of God hold? Could they get him in the neck! Take out an artery in his leg. Shoot him in the back. Even get his calf or thigh. This Armor doesn't look covering enough. At least, not to deep-seated worriers with high clearance worry skills.

Surely, if he's dead - he would be glad to show Jesus our Lord, he had the armor, faithfully on.

And what if enemies leave him to die in the forests on the ski slope? Wouldn't this man want to call out for help in the middle of the forest or at night? The Ski Gear is not going to comfort him.

And if it took days, wouldn't this man be warmed to know God was helping him survive. Giving him hope to endure and even pray for the ones he loves.

What if the enemies had stranded all his family with him? Wouldn't the Armor of God give them faith to endure and hope? This man is going to want to lead his loved ones in a victorious, strengthening, overcoming journey.

We are assuming the Armor of God failed to protect him. We are giving the worst case scenario.

Is this sinful? The Disciples of Jesus, He Loved and cooked breakfast for - had presented Him with many fears and even the worst case scenario. Jesus is God Himself. He is not petty and He is not shaken. Jesus says when you sit down to build a Tower - you consult many counselors - if you are wise.

It could be the man had forgotten, the Armor of God was placed on many years ago. And in crisis, remembered the Promises of God hold firm. He could quickly be polishing the enduring Armor of God and finding Salvation of real Help.

Quite a few people have had a time or two needing the Shield of God during harsh circumstance.


Genesis 15:1
1 After these things, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision:
"Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."


Since King David, men have argued superior armor. Even during the time of Judges, Israel has sung of overcoming with God as a Shield.

1 Samuel 17:7-12

7 The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And his shield-bearer went before him. 8 He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. 9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us." 10 And the Philistine said, "I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together." 11 When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. 12 Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse...

Evidently, the idea of superior Armor is enduring.

David!

2 Samuel 22:3
3 my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.

Apparently, the Armor of God is indeed pretty compact. Fitting behind 3 smooth rocks and a slingshot.  In fact, David has seen the Armor of God lead to peace.

2 Samuel 22:36
36 You have given me the shield of your salvation,
and your gentleness made me great.

You have to Love Bronze Age Warrior Kings. David knew where he wants to Live. How many times do you see someone battle superiorly and they wish for a shield of gentleness?

1 Chronicles 12 tells us God sent David help. Many, Many Warriors to protect him. It's manifestly a very, very large Shield of God. The Shield of God is what God Himself calls the Shield to be.

18 Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said, "We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you. "Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.

22 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.


Psalm 3:3
But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

Psalm 18:30
30 This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

What are the properties of the Shield being used faithfully? This Shield of God is commanded of God daily. Father God is still working to this day, with Jesus Christ.

Psalm 28:7
The LORD is my strength and my shield;
in him my heart trusts,
and I am helped;
my heart exults,
and with my song I give thanks to him.

Trusting, exulting, singing.

JESUS.




Proverbs 2:7
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity

The Goodness of Jesus was all over women of the 1st Century. They helped the Disciples. The women helped Jesus. Jesus saw to their needs and comforted the women. John 4 tells us Jesus quickly told a woman Jesus is the Messiah. Wisdom shows up in the Old Testament as a woman. Multitudes of only women showed up to mourn Jesus on Good Friday.





Wise men still serve Jesus. And have for millenniums. Having peace in difficult times.

Isaiah 21:5
They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield!




Jeremiah 46:3
"Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!

Bravery and courage!

Philippians 4:13
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.






Ezekiel 27:10
10 "Persia and Lud and Put were in your army as your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you;
they gave you splendor.

Nahum 2:3
3 The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet.

Proverbs 31
21 She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.

We just never know where God is going to show us His Glory.

Psalms 18
He tore open the sky and came down!

He stood on a thick, dark cloud.

He flew across the sky,

Riding on a Cherub angel racing on the wings of the wind.

Abba,

We count on You to be our Light. Jesus the Light of the world.

We count upon Your Protection and Glory.

We know You are Living Water,

Nourishing, Seeping, Filling,

Your Will Prevails, and You will travel where You please.

Anywhere God would go as Living Water - You Will.

We, with complete expectation, believe in the Fulfilling

of Your Word,

Love.

Fill us with our Loved Ones,

our cares filled with trust and Hope in Your Love,

Fill the Believing world to see the Love of God shine forth.

And please, as we trust in the Armor of God for all our days,

in this Great Possibility of Your Glorious Promise to us

Let the Living Water of Your Love continue to flow.

Your Word tells us You will do far more than we imagine or know,

We ask Your Love to be the Living Water continuously running.

The Prayer for Living Water to flow as Your Love, Spiritually.
Let this Prayer be the Font of Your Love Continually Flowing.

Even as the Angels sing Holy, Holy, Holy

Is Our Lord Father God Almighty.

In Jesus Christ, Who is and was and is to come, we pray and say Amen.

 ♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

Psalm 36 ~ The Great Deep

Psalm 104:12

Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; they sing among the branches.

Psalm 36

1 Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated. 3 The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good. 4 He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.

5 Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.

6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.



7 How precious is your steadfast love, O God!

The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

8 They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.



10 Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart! 11 Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away. 12 There the evildoers lie fallen; they are thrust down, unable to rise.

Genesis 1:20-21

And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”

So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.


Yar. No one has considered the vast and deep qualities of God the Almighty Father of the Universe without considering the wisdom and scope of an Amazing God. The planets orbit is caused by what source. The Lightning of the earth connects to the flares of the Sun. The earth's magnetosphere is formed by the interaction of the solar wind with Earth’s magnetic field. Not an uninformed Creator in this Creation. The DNA within our own bodies shaping our lives and length. Formed by ancestors thousands of years ago. Not by accident.

The mummies of China from 6,000 years ago come from Europe, U.K., India. Children of the Middle Ages were not named until age 5. And mummies from thousands of years ago, show children of a young age surrounded by the sacrifice of a household of tenderly made blankets. Horses are recorded in China for the first time in 1600 B.C. and tenderly made tombs of 6,000-year-old horses near the woman with saddles and of European descent.

When we fly on an airplane at night, we see lights of streets and homes. Large lights of commercial use and small lights of small children from bedroom windows. Names and souls and lives are dearly known to God of All Things. The Father who made a plan from Genesis 1 to move His Spirit to be so close to dwell within us. A Plan from the Beginning.

The history of huge wars of Empires for the benefit of the few and for monetary gain. The History of Israel. A small nation oppressed by the sweep of Empires near, around and occasionally oppressing and utterly sweeping away Israel to the utter doom of the Nation... seen many times in the history of the world. And in these harsh conditions - Father God finds time to instruct His Children with His Word and  letting oxen eat as the field is plowed. Do not boil a baby of an animal in its mother's milk. Hygienic death is swift in kosher and less painful - merciful. Sacrifice - life required of the innocent animal - painful to the one with the sin. Making an animal - not just an item of food. A new thought in a brutal age. Not sport to snare. Life. Loss. Innocence.

Noah collected the Animals. To travel in the wilds of uncharted life. When we appreciated the gift of animals God has given us, we know in the fear Noah had - the animals gave comfort. Comforting the animals, caring for their needs. Animal affection and gratitude.

Noah was concerned with the dove.  The animals are part of creation. Not just as a means to an end - how will we know? The Scriptures repeat. God has placed His Spirit in mankind - without this Spirit - mankind would not be delightful. Just as empty space can contain solar wind and magnetics. The Creation and Spirit of God is present in what is empty by appearance.



The Presence of God is His Wisdom and Goodness in the vastness of Creation and the repeat of the Word of God to warm us to His Love.


Matthew 6:25-34
Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Noah collected the animals, because Father God collects the little animals of His Vast Creation. His Pleasure.

Isaiah 40:31
They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Psalm 50:11
I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.

Matthew 10:29
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Matthew 10:16
Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Psalm 91:4
He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings, you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

Matthew 23:37
how often I have longed to gather your children together,
as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings

Psalm 139

Where can I go from your Spirit?

You are there, if I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea

How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—

Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.


What has caused the Father who would give us His Son, His Jesus,
to place this love upon us
and His Creation His Living Word calls to us as Good?



God tells us of His Heart.

Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

The Way, Truth and Life.

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts
and intentions of the heart.

1 Samuel 16:7
The Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the 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.

Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 34:18
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Ezekiel 11:19
I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them.
I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh




Abba,

Give us Your Blessing each day. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Live in my being and essence. Live in those I love. Bless the world to live in Your Love, having Joy,
Compassion and Mercy. Guard us and deliver us. Your Love and Protection.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, God of God, Light of Light. True. God.

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †