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Sunday, December 06, 2020

1 John 5 ~ Everyone



Patmos, Friend of Jesus — John's Dwelling

And in 90 A.D., this was the de facto Vatican of the Christian World.



1 John 5

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. 

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. 

And his commandments are not burdensome. 4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

6 This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 


7 For there are three that testify: 
 the Spirit
 and the water
 and the blood; and these three agree. 

9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. 

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, 
and this life is in his Son. 

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. 

14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.


John's front yard, the cave entrance would be more visibly seen than these caves.
God had placed John on top of the world and a little like Mount Tabor to the Sea of Galilee.
The Transfiguration.

John woke up on Patmos and cheerfully began to do what God asked him to do. 

To write us two thousand years later. John was cheerfully following what God wanted from John. We think of Ten Commandments, and really what God is asking we do is the Life God has placed within us. Where we know we dwell.

John's appointed Life was to bring everyone. Everyone. And as John considered this where did he start?

Ephesus. 
The born Jew, John, was including the 7 Sages of Greek Wisdom. John wanted to take what his age considered to be the thoughts of mankind and bring understanding of Jesus. John begins His Gospel explaining seeing the Transfiguration. When John's brother James, John and Peter witnessed Jesus speak with Moses, Elijah and Father God. This had astonished John. Changed his entire life. John certainly was Not leaving Jesus on Good Friday. Or ever.

Ephesus was a Port.
When people gathered, they spoke in conversation of the aspects of life they knew, had considered and would speak of today. The bones of conversation.

Ports 
1. Would be moving forward. They wouldn't speak of self-pity. Weakness was for being attacked. 

2. Conversational challenges would be welcomed. Even in 600 B.C. people hoped to learn from the bare bones of conversation to broaden their inner conversations — ship travel has the time of inner awareness.

(Probably far more interesting than watching repeat new stories : : : : : : peaceful protests, peaceful protests, peaceful protests,  peaceful protests, peaceful protests, peaceful protests, meth and heroin deaths in Oregon and Washington, meth and heroin deaths in Oregon and Washington, meth and heroin deaths in Oregon and Washington, how many Democrats can get on a plane, restaurant or leave the state or country to tell the smaller pigs on the farm what to do first, how many Democrats can get on a plane, restaurant or leave the state or country to tell the smaller pigs on the farm what to do first, how many Democrats can get on a plane, restaurant or leave the state or country to tell the smaller pigs on the farm what to do first. The official news stories to avoid. Avoid the unofficial news stories and repeat the above until you leave the channel.) (Statin Island, Statin Island)(Cuomo in quarantine.)

3. Not complaining much about things beyond their control. Robbers are like Hyenas looking for the very weakest. Being upbeat was important. Rabble-rousing puts one in prison or stockades. 

4. Kind, fair enough, yet unafraid to speak up. Conversation should be lively.

5. Unworried about celebrating success in the popular traveled paths of culture. Not resenting established ideas. 

Why?  A Life Worth Leading.
The inner awareness of internal questions. The consciousness of mankind. The growing soul. Man's eternal meaningful life. A life worth leading.





We could spend time discussing the elements, the history of the Sages, but the reason mankind was interested in the elements were ~ the discussions:

1. What is everything made of, are we like the stars, the Heavens, what is Life? 
What will life be if we are present or have passed on?

2. Are we like water? 
Poured out. Nurturing. When we are weakened? How to regain the loss of what appears to run off.

3. Is air strong? Meaning Wind.
 What is the wind, where will we be moved, shaken and taken? Gravity, would we be pulled down.

4. What builds Life? 
What are the Basic Components? What separates us? How are we connected? What is the relationship? What will we glean?

5. Where have we come from? 
What is our strength, can we overcome weakness?

6. What is fire? 
What is eros? What is stable? What is enduring?

7. How do all of these questions transform us? 
What is the Unity? The Blessing of Community, the Ages, the Ancients and the Future near and far?


John answers from walking with Jesus and finding the exact nature of God, “Heals Them All.”

Wisely, John, does not attempt to answer the questions of all people. Blessed are the eyes that see and ears that hear. Jesus says some seeds are trampled and unwilling to hear or listen. John is seeking the fruitful of God in this passage. The Soul open to being loving.

John witnesses to those willing to be Loving. John is older. He has lived what prophets longed to see. He has voyaged and lived in Ports and now God has placed him to observe and be outside from daily ranges. John is in the wilderness as Mark knew this to be.

Consider the paths of John to life in the village of Patmos:


Narrow and straight Path. 
We say Christmas is the Happiest Season. We tell Father God He can trust us to care for the Christ Infant. And we prepare to Celebrate Light and Love. To give to those we Love. And in this focus, we find we've been given the Work of God and find ourselves cheerful. Christmas is what we make if it. We can turn this into scrambling for some odds or ends to place in a gift sack, or we can tenderly give life assistance and be pleased to see Love thrive and prosper in the Path God Gives for those we Love.

Hobby Lobby has the best commercial new for year 2020: 
The teenager sees the tree needs to be decorated and the laundry done. The teenager knows his mother is working and will be tired and filled with stress. He decorates the small tree and puts a bow on the Laundry he folds. His mother is utterly astonished and delighted. “Christmas is What You Make of It.” We can be assured John has done this for Mary, His Mother. Delight.

All for Love. All for Love. All for Love.

Living water. A tremendous force. This has been the year of the Hurricanes and Fire. Water will go exactly where it will. Seeping and Soaking. Recovery will unfold as time sees what will be. Fire is a clean slate and requires a total change. The type of forces we know in aging and in changes of life, we all live.

In this season, John sees several Blessings. One is to see others living in God's Love. Seek Goodness, find goodness of God within others. To expect God is moving, working, warming those we are given. To see optimistically the good within.  Light of Jesus Christ in mankind, spreading to the entire world.


This is the Confidence
 we do the work of mankind to do:
To Believe in Jesus, One of God Trinity, The Highest Name of Jesus.


Isaiah 40

  Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
    and cry to her
that her warfare is ended,
    that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord's hand
    double for all her sins.


3 A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
    make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

4 Every valley shall be lifted up,
    and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
    and the rough places a plain.


5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
    and all flesh shall see it together,
    for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”


The Word of God Stands Forever
6 A voice says, “Cry!”
    And I said, “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass,
    and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades
    when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
    surely the people are grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades,
    however
 The word of our God will stand forever.



The Greatness of God
9 Go on up to a high mountain,
    O Zion, herald of good news;
lift up your voice with strength,
    O Jerusalem, herald of good news;
    lift it up, fear not;
say to the cities of Judah,
    “Behold your God!”



10 Behold, the Lord God comes with might,
    and his arm rules for him;
behold, his reward is with him,
    and his recompense before him.




11 He will tend his flock like a shepherd;
    he will gather the lambs in his arms;
he will carry them in his bosom,
    and gently lead those that are with young.


12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
    and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure
    and weighed the mountains in scales
    and the hills in a balance?

13 Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord,
    or what man shows him his counsel?
14 Whom did he consult,
    and who made him understand?
Who taught him the path of justice,
    and taught him knowledge,
    and showed him the way of understanding?


15 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
    and are accounted as the dust on the scales;
    behold,
He takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
16 Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,
    nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.


17 All the nations are as nothing before him,
    they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.




18 To whom then will you liken God,
    or what likeness compare with him?



19 An idol! A craftsman casts it,
    and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
    and casts for it silver chains.
20 He who is too impoverished for an offering
    chooses wood that will not rot;
he seeks out a skillful craftsman
    to set up an idol that will not move.

21 Do you not know? 
Do you not hear?
    Has it not been told you from the beginning?
    Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

It is He who sits above 
the 
Circle of the earth

    And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
    and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
23 who brings princes to nothing,
    and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.

24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
    scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
    and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

25 To whom then will you compare me,
    that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

26 Lift up your eyes on high and see:
    who created these?

He who brings out their Host by number,
    calling them all by name

By the greatness of His Might
    and 
Because He is strong in power
    not one is missing


Why do you say, O Jacob,
    and speak, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
    and my right is disregarded by my God”?

28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God,
    The Creator of the ends of the earth.

He does not faint or grow weary;
    His understanding is unsearchable.

He gives power to the faint,
    and to him who has no might He increases strength.

Even youths shall faint and be weary,
    and young men shall fall exhausted;

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.



Abba, Father God

You 
open Your Arms willingly and
with great care
and cost
to provide us Life.

Love.

Let us reason together within 
Your Everlasting Word.
Our sins though scarlet,
shall be washed white.

God's Love for you.

Within a great cloud of Your witnesses
we find Peace
God of Love
God of Encouragement.

Love.

Within Your Encouragement
we will Live lives of Meaning.
Meaningful Lives.
Life Worth Living
and find the Joy of the Lord is our Strength.

Though the mountains fall and the hills turn to dust,
Yet our God's Love will Stand
As a Shelter
for All 
who will call upon His Name.

We will find and sing the Praise
and the Glory of God.

Love.

Could the Lord ever leave you?
Could the Lord forget His Love?
He will not abandon you.

His Steadfast Love goes on forever.
Peace is flowing like a river.
Flowing out to you and me.
Setting all the captives free!

Abba, Dwell in us
Help us to be Pleasing to You.
Dwell in those we Love.
Help us to Seek You First.

Love, 
Peace and Joy, Faith.

In seeking You first.
We will look for Heaven on earth
and  bring more Heaven to earth.

 We ask with Great Expectation for the hardship
we have overcome
to bring forth
Beauty, Love, Justice,
Equality

Jesus help us in this Nation to be in Your Word and see more Joy.
Covered in God's Love,
President Donald Trump, the First Lady and Their Family
Vice President Mike Pence, the Second Lady and Their Family.
All of Our Families.
The Presidential Team.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Deborah Birx

Governor Abbott and all 50 Governors and Legislatures.
Senator Tim Scott

The end of trouble surrounding this Virus.
All Trouble.
Help this Virus end quickly, safely

Help us to have Fair and Good Elections about now, please.
America is Strongly Polled to Show Extreme Concern.
Be Strong Georgia. Be Strong.

We rest in the Hands of Our Good Father.

In Jesus Christ's Love. Amen.









Saturday, December 05, 2020

Psalm 30:1-10 ~ Most Holy to the Lord



Father God took great delight to return the Temple Tools after the Babylon Exile 70 Years. And then the Arch of Titus records the loss of the Temple Tools to the Roman Empire.

God had put His Delight in His Son.

Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; 
and the government shall be upon His shoulders. 

And His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, 
The Mighty God, 
The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.



The Yeshiva University Museum and Center for Israel Studies celebrate
the reproduction of the original mosaic of the Temple Tools
in the Arch of Titus Rome.  C 82 A.D.



The Table to the right could be the Altar of Incense stripped of gold and molding.  The objects inside the table are horns used in the Temple.

Exodus 30:1-10

“You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. 2 A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. 3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it. 4 And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. 

5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 6 And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you. 

7 And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it, 8 and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations. 9 You shall not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it. 10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”

  

1 Kings 2:28
When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.
  
  
1 Kings 1:50
And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

Psalm 141:2 
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! 

 Revelation 5:8 
And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, reach holding a harp,
 and golden bowls full of incense, 
which are the prayers of the saints 


Bellow: Actual Piece of Solomon's Portico from the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem


What would you imagine a Prayer Bowl would look like in Heaven? John visited Jesus in Heaven about 60 years after they'd last seen each other on a Sunday Afternoon. Described in Revelations 1.

I'd imagine a Prayer Bowl in Heaven would look similar to something like this:


The Prayers of the Saints:

Luke 1

8 Now while he was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty, 9 according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense. 

10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense. 









11 And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 12 And Zechariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. 13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, 15 for he will be great before the Lord.


Our prayers go Far. And stay very close. 
When the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit of Jesus dwells within us.




Psalm 131 

A Song of Ascents. Of David.


O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;
    my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
    too great and too marvelous for me.

2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
    like a weaned child with its mother;
    like a weaned child is my soul within me.

3 O Israel, hope in the Lord
    from this time forth and forevermore.



You might want to enlarge the video, in the lower, right corner.
See minute .22 for the Golden Altar





Abba, Father God,

 John 17:22 
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, 
that they may be one even as we are one. 

Abba, Dwell in us
Help us to be Pleasing to You.
Dwell in those we Love.
Help us to Seek You First.

Love, Peace and Joy, Faith.

In seeking You first.
We will look for Heaven on earth
and  bring more Heaven to earth.

 We ask with Great Expectation for the hardship
we have overcome
to bring forth
Beauty, Love, Justice,
Equality
Rejoicing in the hopes and prayers of many.

We pray for the safety of
our Schools to be a safe, good,
warm place for the Children
Children need their Schools.
We uphold them with our Love and Prayers.

We ask Your Mighty Word
to for all this Season
Finding Your Blessing and Word of Love.

Revelation 1:6 
 Made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father
--to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! 
Amen.

Opening our doors with expectation of Your Continued Goodness
in ourselves, in the ones we Love,
Jesus Christ in the people You bring us.

Blessing our Nation, blessing us.
Ending our Divisions.
Lord Jesus Christ Dwell in Us!

His Steadfast Love, Jesus, we ask to bring into our loved one's lives.
May Father God bless us all in Jesus.

Jesus help us in this Nation to be in Your Word and see more Joy.
Covered in God's Love,
President Donald Trump, the First Lady and Their Family
Vice President Mike Pence, the Second Lady and Their Family.
All of Our Families.
The Presidential Team.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Deborah Birx

Governor Abbott and all 50 Governors and Legislatures.
Senator Tim Scott

The end of trouble surrounding this Virus.
All Trouble.
Help this Virus end quickly, safely
Thank You for the Vaccine
Hurricane Overcomers.
And Fire Overcomers.

Thank You, the Willing Help You Give us
Please continue to bless us.
Help us to have Fair and Good Elections about now, please.
America is Strongly Polled to Show Extreme Concern.
Be Strong Georgia. Be Strong.
CNN is offered for sale by Parent AT&T, we pray for truthful news with the new owner.
And for the people who are so freaked out by the news, they say this is the worst part of the entire Pandemic.
Facebook your Governor, the trend has already started. Transparent Communication.

We rest in the Hands of Our Good Father.

In Jesus Christ. Amen.

Selah!





Friday, December 04, 2020

Psalm 128 ~ May the Lord bless you from Zion

Romans believed all roads lead to Rome. Roman occupation would have changed so much of Judea. It's probable,  even the roads inside Jerusalem changed. 



12 miles outside of Bethlehem is Beit Shemesh and the local high school students helped with an Archaeological Dig. Discovering an intact Roman road. This was called the Emperor's Highway leading to Jerusalem.



Found in the Roman Road near Bethlehem:
Coins — a coin minted by Roman prefect of Judea Pontius Pilate from 29 AD, a coin minted by Agrippa I from 41 AD, dating to the second year of the revolt against Rome (67 AD) and a later Islamic coin from the Umayyad period.





The Song of Ascents are Psalms 119 to 134
The Song of Ascents are the idea of a Sermon Series. 
God Working in One Direction.
Similar to Exodus. A Clear Direction. The Book of Esther.


Psalm 128

  

1 Blessed are all who fear the Lord,
    who walk in obedience to him.

2 You will eat the fruit of your labor;
    blessings and prosperity will be yours.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
    within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
    around your table.

4 Yes, this will be the blessing
    for the man who fears the Lord.

5 May the Lord bless you from Zion;
    
may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem

    All the days of your life.

6 May you live to see your children’s children—
    
Peace be on Israel.






This year seems a bit rockier.
Fortunately, we need not build an outbreak upon a pandemic outbreak
We have sight of the destination in the Journey.
Time to enjoy Today
knowing Spring is coming.




The Psalm includes walk. Walk by Faith. 
Is more... Eternal. This is the first year we bought table decorations, new placemats for Christmas for our breakfast table! The first set were very red, so we layered these with white nubby woven placemats. The breakfast table always has some decoration on it. We did set the Dining Room, more for tradition. But we acknowledged and decorated the smaller table. Not smaller in our heart, just an awareness this year is different.





Encouraging Truth.
I had a phone call with a longtime family friend (I wasn't complaining at the time) and she said realize all the real difficulties. And this was so helpful and strengthening. All week long. To realize we aren't just being whiny.  To be strong. To see the stock market climb is encouraging. So encouraging. The business analysis, calculations by analytical gatherer's of our future. The last four years. The growth expected.


Shake, Rattle and Roll.
Shake it off.

Hebrews 12:1
Throw off
Strip off
Lay aside
Fling aside
Shake it off
shake, shake, shake it off

Hebrews 12:1 
New International Version
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,

New Living Translation
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

English Standard Version
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Berean Study Bible
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,


Contemporary English Version
Such a large crowd of witnesses is all around us! So we must get rid of everything that slows us down, especially the sin that just won't let go. And we must be determined to run the race that is ahead of us.

Good News Translation
As for us, we have this large crowd of witnesses around us. So then, let us rid ourselves of everything that gets in the way, and of the sin which holds on to us so tightly, and let us run with determination the race that lies before us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,

International Standard Version
Therefore, having so vast a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, and throwing off everything that hinders us and especially the sin that so easily entangles us, let us keep running with endurance the race set before us,

NET Bible
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

New Heart English Bible
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

A Faithful Version
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great throng of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily entraps us; and let us run the race set before us with endurance,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Therefore, we also, who have all of these witnesses who surround us like clouds, let us throw off from us all the weights of the sin which is always ready for us, and let us run with patience this race that is set for us.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Since we are surrounded by so many examples [of faith], we must get rid of everything that slows us down, especially sin that distracts us. We must run the race that lies ahead of us and never give up.

New American Standard 1977
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Weymouth New Testament
Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

World English Bible
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Augusta Elliott Wilson Anderson Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having shake and shaken off, to shake it off and the closely besetting sin, 
through endurance may we run
 the contest that is set before us,


Ascend



Psalm 130 
A song of ascents.

 Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;
2     Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
    to my cry for mercy.

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
    O Lord, who could stand?
But with You 
there is forgiveness,
    that you may be feared.

5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
    and in His Word I hope;
6 my soul waits for the Lord
    more than watchmen for the morning,
    more than watchmen for the morning.

7 O Israel, hope in the Lord!
    For with the Lord there is steadfast love,    
and with Him 
is plentiful redemption.
8 And He will redeem Israel
    from all his iniquities.





Splenda Cookies roasting on the fire!





Light of the world



Abba, Father God,

 John 17:22 
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, 
that they may be one even as we are one. 

Abba, Dwell in us
Help us to be Pleasing to You.
Dwell in those we Love.
Help us to Seek You First.

Love, Peace and Joy, Faith.

In seeking You first.
We will look for Heaven on earth
and  bring more Heaven to earth.

 We ask with Great Expectation for the hardship
we have overcome
to bring forth
Beauty, Love, Justice,
Equality
Rejoicing in the hopes and prayers of many.

We pray for the safety of
our Schools to be a safe, good,
warm place for the Children
Children need their Schools.
We uphold them with our Love and Prayers.

We ask Your Mighty Word
to for all this Season
Finding Your Blessing and Word of Love.

Revelation 1:6 
 Made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father
--to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! 
Amen.

Opening our doors with expectation of Your Continued Goodness
in ourselves, in the ones we Love,
Jesus Christ in the people You bring us.

Blessing our Nation, blessing us.
Ending our Divisions.
Lord Jesus Christ Dwell in Us!

His Steadfast Love, Jesus, we ask to bring into our loved one's lives.
May Father God bless us all in Jesus.

Jesus help us in this Nation to be in Your Word and see more Joy.
Covered in God's Love,
President Donald Trump, the First Lady and Their Family
Vice President Mike Pence, the Second Lady and Their Family.
All of Our Families.
The Presidential Team.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Deborah Birx

Governor Abbott and all 50 Governors and Legislatures.
Senator Tim Scott

The end of trouble surrounding this Virus.
All Trouble.
Help this Virus end quickly, safely
Thank You for the Vaccine
Hurricane Overcomers.
And Fire Overcomers.

Thank You, the Willing Help You Give us
Please continue to bless us.
Help us to have Fair and Good Elections about now, please.
America is Strongly Polled to Show Extreme Concern.
Be Strong Georgia. Be Strong.
CNN is offered for sale by Parent AT&T, we pray for truthful news with the new owner.
And for the people who are so freaked out by the news, they say this is the worst part of the entire Pandemic.
Facebook your Governor, the trend has already started. Transparent Communication.

We rest in the Hands of Our Good Father.

In Jesus Christ. Amen.

Selah!



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Who Jesus Is
1 Timothy 1:1-11 ~ God our Savior, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope
Matthew 16:13-20 ~ who do people say the Son of Man is?

Good News for us to remember and Think Upon
Animals are found in Heaven ~ 6 Prophets See Animals in Heaven

Anger, Jealousy=Trouble




The Bible explains the Bible, Prophetically

Bible - in your hand, today

Bible Accuracy



Blessing







Blessing our Father God

Blessing - unaware

Boundaries

Brothers
Christmas - His Word Upholds the Universe - December 25th


Psalm 135 ~ who is in your midst
John 1:1-14, 16, 29-51 ~ He was in the world

Details - Putting it all together and discovering it is about God

Psalm 108 ~ In triumph I will parcel out Shechem

Determine your own path, just love Him

Judges 16 ~ like any other man
John 4:43-54 ~ Doing what Jesus says


Earthquake

Every Day, Still Today
Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow


Exodus - History












Heavenly Hosts
His Messengers of Light












Elements of Nature Displaying HIS Glory
Exodus 40:16-38 ~ In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.

I Decide What is Right and Wrong - God noticed this in the Garden of Eden from Eve

Individualism and Groups

It's the End of the World as We Know it, And I Feel Fine. (One of our most read posts.)
Grandpa - The Bible is Really the Life Story of People and
their Abba









Gates of Heaven


Gifts of God, all of us


Giving - God certainly is





























Glory


God sees His Creation as Good!!!


Gravity






















Good Friday

Gossip

Gratitude

Greatest

Grief, Forgiveness, Homecoming


Hated Emotion - Fear




































History - Is There History Showing Jesus was Alive - VERY EXTENSIVE HISTORY

Holiness


Holy Spirit ~ Manifestations

Homeward Bound, still a sojourner

Honey, Do this

Invitation
John 3:31-36 ~ that God is true

Israel - Destroyed Completely and Rebuilt. A sign of Jesus. Existing today.

Jesus clearly put a Foundation for His Resurrection to be Believed by the Multitudes of all of Israel and the Nations

Jesus and His Childhood Privacy
Nazareth - What Jesus did See Growing Up

John the Beloved Disciple


The Journey of Joseph


























Live It
Psalm 117 ~ Praise the Lord
Psalm 82 ~ rescue the weak and the needy
2 Samuel 4:1-12 ~ David answered
Hebrews 12 ~ Thankful
Psalm 31:3-8,17-21 ~ Thou hast redeemed me
Isaiah 40:1-11 ~ His reward is with Him
Matthew 13:31-32 ~ the birds of the air come and perch in its branches
Matthew 6:25-34 ~ your heavenly Father knows that you need
Luke 11:29-32 ~ Rise up
Psalm 126 ~ shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves
Luke 14:15-24 ~ there is still room
Joshua 1:1-9 ~ I am giving
Acts 5 ~ speak in the name of Jesus
John 1 ~ the Light shines
John 3:5-8 ~ born again
~ they went on from there and passed through Galilee
Judges 20 ~ Israel

Losing a Loved One - Passing ON

Revelation 21:22-27 ~ those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life

Not Being Tossed Back and Forth with Emotion
Ephesians 4 ~ speaking the truth in Love

Marriage
Romans 7:1-12 ~ bear fruit for God
1 Corinthians 7 ~ For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband
Genesis 37:12-24 ~ when Reuben
Psalm 143 ~ Your steadfast love
Psalm 86 ~ For great is your steadfast love

Media... taking it down the path
1 Corinthians 10 ~ Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God





Mercy, an Inseparable Component of Truth
Matthew 23:23-26 ~ clean
1 Samuel 12 ~ serve the Lord with all your heart
Matthew 22:34-40 ~ The great and first commandment. And a second is like it

Miscellaneous
Job 38 ~ Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Psalm 19 ~ the heavens declare the glory of God
2 Kings 5:1-15 ~ a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper
1 Chronicles 13 ~ the Lord blessed the household of Obed-edom










Peace




Pharisee ~ Religion
Luke 11:42-46 ~ Woe to you Pharisees!


Pictorial Images of the 12 Tribes of Israel








Picture It


















Overcoming, with God's help!


Positive Attitude in Trouble




Prophets - the Law and the Old Men in Robes or People who Love the Lord. Flaws and Virtues. What They Sought in the Lord and What Drew Them to Him.



Praise



























Prayer

Psalm 91 ~ Prayer is always heard, God has an open door policy



Prayer Needs




Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words

Promises

Prosperity Gospel











Repeat and Repeat







Rest

Restore

Revelation 8:2
Seven Angels who stand before God

Revisionist History - Moses and Jeremiah said
there would be days like this
Deuteronomy 8
Jeremiah 23


Rock


SALVATION! What is needed?

Science - Blinded me - No - He Who Opens the Eyes of the Blind - With Science!!!

Second (3rd or 4th) Rate Seventh Level of Heaven

Seventh Level of Heaven







Shepherd

Smile!



Time Management





Life and Travels of Paul

Shroud

Transfiguration



True
The World Changed Rapidly after the first Easter



Trust Him

Uncomfortable Scripture

Video Game Player

Visual







Who is like our God?

Willingly

Works and Grace
Mark 1:4-11 ~ You are my beloved Son; with You I am well pleased

Worry

Wrathful, Nasty Old God from the Old Testament

Yahweh




Years - Thousands of Them are Yesterday in His Sight


80 Books of the Bible
Holy Spirit Approved by the First Council Nicaea and St. Nicholas
Included by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Today included by the Catholic Church
God wants to save the world.
The Apocrypha has Purpose; other cultures blend here.





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