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Monday, May 17, 2021

Psalm 97 ~ Give Thanks



Psalm 97


The Lord reigns, 
Let the earth rejoice;
    let the many coastlands be glad!

2 Clouds and thick darkness are all around Him;
    righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
3 Fire goes before Him
    and burns up His adversaries all around.




This Gif lightning started off as pink, but went white. 
We had pink, only, this afternoon!

4 His lightnings light up the world;
    the earth sees and trembles.
5 The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,
    before the Lord of all the earth.

6 The heavens proclaim his righteousness,
    and all the peoples see his glory.
7 All worshipers of images are put to shame,
    who make their boast in worthless idols;
    worship him, all you gods!

8 Zion hears and is glad,
    and the daughters of Judah rejoice,
    because of your judgments, O Lord.
9 For you, O Lord, are most high over all the earth;
    you are exalted far above all gods.

10 O you who love the Lord, hate evil!
    He preserves the lives of his saints;
  He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Light is sown for the righteous,
    and joy for the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous,
    and give thanks to His holy name!


Smile and Wave at Sam Houston's Statue
Sam was for peace.
All the time.
Houston is named for Sam!


Our "There and Back Again" began at 4:30 this morning going to Dallas attending to my mother's house repairs. We saw the sunrise. And thrilled finding the rain was holding off. Blue skies instead. Spring in Texas. Rain has been plentiful in May. Beautiful. A great early, early morning Highway ride.

The Storm was just hitting downtown Dallas and the glass and interior lights were glowing.


Then the contractor decided not to complete the work. 
And the other contractor was right on time and spit spot. Trip was pointless? God is in charge! We had breakfast in a favorite Dallas spot. Saw family. Debated by text. Saw my mom. Wept some. Headed for home. Nothing better than Home after that.




Coming home we saw blue skies, then some heavy fog turning rolling Central Texas hills into flatland with clouds making the vistas look like North Carolina's smokey mountains.








 Real beauty. Privileged. God having some experimentation with scenery!


Turning into our street the vast, gigantic dark, dark grey almost black skies, gave way to sunlight in the heavy rain. Beautiful to see - all- of the day.




What is the rarest color of lightning?
Yellow lightning is uncommon; however, they tend to be cooler than the blue, lilac and white. They're caused to due to a high concentration of dust in the air. And is an indication of a dry thunderstorm with low-precipitation. White lightning is the hottest, and literally, all bolts radiate white color.

When lightning strikes, different particles will scatter this light and cause the strike to appear as blue, pink, purple, white or even a brown-ish tint.



Edward and I arrived home, we sat watching part of the storm. Drank hot tea. Every lightning bolt was pink as a rose.  The room filled with pink rose colored lightning.  I moved to sit away from the window and watch face on from the couch!



Then the lightning stopped, suddenly the sky was green. 


A green sky indicates a severe storm producing tornadoes and damaging hail, a green sky does not guarantee severe weather. 


Then the green departed and our sky had some Champagne Golden. And this is a thunderstorm filtering through the clouds of sunset. Marvelous.

And it's time to pray for Texas again. 
We have Flash Flood Warnings near Houston, while Dallas has the Trinity River in some flood stages trying out the Levies.  The Dallas Rivers flow south where we are having big rain.


Abba, our Father,

We ask for Your Blessings.

Thank You for the gift of Psalm 97 today. To read of Your Glory .
 To be swept in Your Glory. Thank You.

Living water of Jesus flow unendingly as Love. 
To be encouraged and helped as we do Your Willing Plan You do have for us all.

To know as Jesus spoke of Living Water and gave You a new Heaven and a new earth, we find Your Throne in Your Kingdom by walking beside the shining water leading to Your Home.

Flowing, filling, seeping in all areas of our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind, for ourselves and the ones we Love. Filling us.


As we are on Your Path, we ask Your help to stay on the Path. 
We ask Your Love to know the daily steps. 
And looking back on our lives, knowing we present our Soul to You.

The Blessings of Jesus healing us and holding us. His Good will and Healing be present in peace
for His Mercy. Love and Answered prayer for Elliott, Dee and our prayers for Elliott. 


Blessings to know Jesus and Your Word. To be comforted by You. 

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.

Blessed in Jesus and His Name flow over our Nation and to the believers, today and tomorrow of the world.  To all of His Children all over His Good Creation.

Please give Texas Mercy to not have floods anymore!!!

Amen in Jesus.
Amen and Ament








Sunday, May 16, 2021

Hebrews 4:12 ~ Heart


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.


Sometimes the Word of God leaps ahead of you, and everything God speaks ties together. Superseding all your striving and you must be still and know God.

Isaiah 35:6 
Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. 
Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

When we read Scripture, say The Book of Revelation Chapters 1 and 2, briefly considering all 7 Churches God speaks of. You will see verse 91 and I will see verse 131. Yet, this is the Word of God and feeds us where we are. This is why the Gospel accounts are not merely repeats and instead explain man's brief time on earth considering Father God and His Gift of Life.

John meets Jesus 60 years later, leaving on a Sunday afternoon as the walls melt and John is face to face with Jesus. Jesus is the Comfort of God to us. Comforter. Helper. Jesus helps us all uniquely as He healed on earth. John's astonishment is met with Jesus moving on to the Mission of saving the world in Jesus Christ. Was this comforting to John? Probably. Jesus is tailoring the Most High God's Universal Plan of Salvation to John's understanding of the Eternal and Jesus. Would we necessarily be comforted? No. But John has Help and Comfort. Why would we think so? God the Almighty's Plan would be far larger than anything we know. Yet, God upholds the Universe with His Word. Our God knows the Heavenly Host by Name. He is fully sufficient to Uphold the Universe, Fulfill His Word, All His Promises and comfort us individually.

Jesus moves on to John acting as Jesus' Helper. And they begin to explain what to say to the 7 fragmented Churches.

Jesus is thinking of the end of days. Jesus is speaking with John who understands which of the 7 earthly Churches have challenges, opportunities and areas of growth. John is in awe and in Hope and with the Future. Today.

Jesus is not only doing the impossibility of the Red Sea parting, the 600,000 Children of the Exodus Fed, the 5000 fed and the Millenniums knowing of this Grace, Jesus is speaking to us Today.



The Seven Churches are the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. You might be Sardis today or Ephesus next week.  You are the Temple of God. And you might not be getting along with your cousin, your mom or dad, sibling or spouse, but they are and you are Temples of God when Jesus dwells in you. Ask Jesus to dwell in you.

John explains and proclaims God. God is Love. God isn't feeling loving today. God isn't favoring you more today. Our God is Love. My God is always Love.Our  God's Love is more than we understand. God's Love Upholds the Universe and offers you, as a Child of God, doing God's Love and Joy, Eternity. God's Love reaches to one person and covers all His Plan.

Jesus tells us about the 7 Churches.

John 17:13-23

Now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.


Jesus is telling us of differences and separation. And Jesus Overcomes. Jesus seeks for us to Live in His New Commandment - To Love One Another. Jesus makes us understand we do our best and the forces of good and evil in life will be the Prodigal Son's story. Jesus prays for us to enjoy ourselves and find Joy in God's Strength. 

Solomon, briefly, had God. And Solomon put all his eggs in his own wisdom and pleasure. Solomon went up to try to get God to accept Solomon's terms and Solomon found bitterness and unhappiness while demanding God give Solomon what Solomon wanted.

Jesus makes this clear.  Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Providing all things to be made new in Jesus. To live with Hope and a Future. To Pray with Hope. Jesus just asks we act in Love. Let Love be Sincere. Let Love be our greatest debt to one another. Jesus asks us to Love ourselves and God and let this Love spill over to such depth, we feel this love from each other.







Jesus, John reported, had so much going on in His Life, we couldn't possibly record Jesus each day.  Jesus has Joy. Our Jesus asks us to Live for God to be our Hope and Future.



Abba, Father God,

Like the Book of Hebrews, the 11th Chapter, the quotes about faith with Gladness, Happiness, go on and on. More than we can know or imagine.

Help us to Seek You first.

May the Word of God living in us,
 Strengthen us in 
all Goodness.

In the Name of Jesus for ourselves,
and those we love. Amen.





So the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness
and praise spring up before all nations.

Jesus bless Elliott with Your Willing Healing!
Please

Father God help us to fill those we love with renewed hope for years ahead
 filled with love. 
We ask in the Highest name of Jesus Christ. Amen.


Let the Amen be of His Will being the Exact Nature of 
Jesus Christ. 
Blessings for the Goodness of Your Will and Plan. Amen!









Luke 18:1 ~ And He told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart




Luke 18:1


And He told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray 
and not lose heart.
























Edward and I went out and had dinner. Just about everyone had removed their mask. And really this was a time in coming. How wonderfully good to breathe and look at all the people again!






Like the world news, here in Houston's 4th largest city, a Church friend from a decade past, went on a car trip to visit her grandchild, she returned home by car 10 hours and 700 miles later to die of Covid at age 80. Last Friday, 15 days ago.

The news we all have, personally, and in the media we call news, is hopeful and tempered with Pandemic brains. Facts can find danger or change. Swinging news. Tempered news. Opinion news. Jesus Christ calls Himself: the Way, the Truth and the Life.

We do this for ourselves every day. We have 'the comment' or we feel blue, then we look to support our emotion. Feeling elated and hopeful, we look for support to continue to feel encouraged. The weather is even a source for our changes and the variation from normal in the soaked South USA. Where I might add, drought was the long range forecast, usually accurate.

We are in a transitional period. People discuss a new normal. Change is normal, but worries looking at the weather are not the usual. We have been through a stay at home Pandemic. I was observing a swim party on my street and another gathering too. Not what we have seen for the last set of two years.  And as the swim party was ending, the party goers looked more stressed than relaxed. More somber. The party face had been removed.

Historically, Pandemics take about 3 years before we find human beings being more rational.
We know this intellectually. The comments and the somber faces are a reflection of our own thoughts. The future events show promise and then the dire warnings. You can't be in a fairly severe car accident without being more cautious. 

The Gospels have similar Chapters, and yet there are dissimilarities. Because if you've been in trauma, the people remember bits and pieces of dramatic events. This is well known to people who gather facts after a dramatic set of emotional circumstances. Like police or investigators.

The Disciple John was asked in the Second Century if he approved of the other Gospels. John said he absolutely did. Remember John's 21st Chapter says if all the events surrounding Jesus were published, the world couldn't hold the books. And yet, the Gospels have different versions of similar days. It's all factual, but in gathering the Upper Room for the New Covenant, some were sent ahead. The Disciples went in different physical directions. And even at the Last Supper, no one except God saw all the Disciples having conversations. 

The news is emotional. We don't hope for emotional news, but the times would say we all have emotions. And as the Sam's store clerk told me, from the Holy Spirit, the day I won't forget, "Remember, every day, God is giving you what you require, it's up to us to see His Blessings." My son elbowed me, and said, "See."


The Light of the world is Jesus.
Nothing in darkness is dark to Him.
Jesus brings us Light.



Abba, Father God,

There was a man asking his friend, at midnight, for help for the traveling friend. Journey.
And his friend declined for the late hour. Impudently, the two friends had Discussion at the midnight hour. The friends, in relationship, had the steadfast Love to hammer out the needed events.

Jesus tells us He knows we think You are sometimes a Judge who doesn't move mountains. And then we feel You are not the Judge we hope You'd be. Jesus says He acknowledges this in our relationship with You. Jesus says always Pray and have Hope. Pray about everything. 

The Gates of Heaven are always open. The Keys Peter was given, that, has to give us pause to realize You help us in the Life You have given us. Numbers 6 has the Blessing Moses was told to give God's Children. God Lifts His Countenance Upon us. Graciously. God Smiles. God's face shines upon us. You, God, according to Proverbs 8, Delights in us. The New Testament calls us Beloved of God.

Father,
Please dwell in us.
Help us to seek You First.

Fill the Ones we Love with Jesus Christ.
Light of the world.
Light of mankind.

See us Pray for Israel.
Pray for our Nation,
Our Blessings and our Concerns.
Help us know, again, Your Heart for us.
Knowing Your Steadfast Love.

And with Your Love
we will do as You say, Overcome.

Blessed be the Name Jesus
and Blessed be the Father, Our Father,
Giving us Jesus, Your Exact Nature.

We won't forget to lift up Elliott and his healing to Your
Love and Word. Thank You, Elliott is doing better. Mend him totally, please.

In Jesus Christ,
Alleluia, Mercy is Given
Amen and Amen!










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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.
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