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Thursday, June 03, 2021

Psalm 18:1-20 ~ the blast of the breath of Your nostrils †




Psalm 18:1-20


To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. 

He said:








 I love you, O Lord, my strength.

2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
    my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
    my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,
    and I am saved from my enemies.

4 The cords of death encompassed me;
    the torrents of destruction assailed me; 
5 the cords of Sheol entangled me;
    the snares of death confronted me.

6 In my distress I called upon the Lord;
    to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
    and my cry to him reached his ears.

7 Then the earth reeled and rocked;
    the foundations also of the mountains trembled
    and quaked, because he was angry.

8 Smoke went up from his nostrils,
    and devouring fire from his mouth;
    glowing coals flamed forth from him.
9 He bowed the heavens and came down;
    thick darkness was under his feet.
10 He rode on a cherub and flew;
    he came swiftly on the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him,
    thick clouds dark with water.
12 Out of the brightness before him
    hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.

13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens,
    and the Most High uttered his voice,
    hailstones and coals of fire.
14 And he sent out his arrows and scattered them;
    he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.
15 Then the channels of the sea were seen,
    and the foundations of the world were laid bare
at your rebuke, O Lord,
    at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

16 He sent from on high, he took me;
    he drew me out of many waters.
17 He rescued me from my strong enemy
    and from those who hated me,
    for they were too mighty for me.
18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
    but the Lord was my support.
19 He brought me out into a broad place;
    he rescued me, because he delighted in me.

20 The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness;
    according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.





History is so very important. Critical, significant, Important. If we didn't know the absolute Joy David has in finding out he is alive today instead of dead, we wouldn't know Psalm 18 isn't comfortable poetry. Knowing this reason connects us to David in the Bronze Age. We understand. Completely.

Recovery from a Near-Death-Experience. Joy.

David interacted with God all his life. Daily. The Response of God nourished him, Loved David and fed him to find bravery and Joy. David was continually seeking God first. And watching for His answers. David in remarkable, astonishing in so many ways on the edge of holiness. But teaching us in their Daily Relationship, David was always in complete belief of God's Mercy. David Loved the Lord and, actually, was obediant. 

This Psalm is not reflective Poetry. This Psalm is, "Life has never looked better!!!"

During the time of the 2nd Exodus,  Daniel, and the minor Prophets, Jeremiah, Ezekiel are prolific due to the Joy of Life. They have reached a dire and critical time and found God has indeed been Steadfast.  The Abundant Life. When Life is new again because you have survived. 

We were united to cheer for Italy signing for Life and Hope. We loved to see NYC cheer the hospital workers putting all their futures on the line to help save others' lives. Psalm 18 would be excellent for this time.



Scripture is alive and working. We need to read Psalm 18 and wonder as life offers some unusual choices, what we have to sing about today.

When I wake up in the morning, I know God loves me. I wake up knowing God Loves me. I'm grateful for Edward. For my home. The Happy Poodle Puppies. For my family. For my sons. It's just this is what provides Joy for me when life is offering challenges. I am nourished and fed to deal with the events of the day. Like reading the Scriptures and listening to Christian Music. We can't have the world or someone else chose our choices. We find who we are to Christ Jesus understand our gifts, talents and struggles and let Jesus be our True Compass. To find why the Joy of the Lord is our Strength. His Love is our Strong Tower in all the changes, joys and situations we have growing up to be going to our Prodigal Son's Father.












Abba, Father,

Help us to seek You First!
We will be still on this day and not grieve overly as Pandemic plays upon us. 

We will have the Joy of the Lord.
Dwell in all of me, Father God, I ask in the Highest Name of Jesus.

Father God, in John's 17th Gospel Chapter, Jesus prays for us. The Scriptures are alive. We ask in Jesus Great and Highest Name, He will pray for us. We want Your Good Creation to be healed, the world, You want to save in Jesus Christ. The Prayer of Jesus is Righteous and avails much.

The Gospel of Luke, Chapter 9, tells us
when we learn about You and Your Son Jesus Christ,
we will follow You. And You will welcome us and we will learn of the Kingdom of God,
and You will heal those who need to be Healed. Jesus the exact nature of our Father.

We ask Huge Prayers and Blessings,
You uphold the Universe with the Power of Your Word.
Jesus and Eternal Life is Your Steadfast Love to us.

We pray for our Nation to overcome these difficult times. 
For our Nation: The Way, The Truth and the Life.

We ask to see more of Heaven on earth 
and pray for Your Good Creation.

Bless those we Love.
Bless our families.
Thank You for Hearing our Prayers. 

We thank You for our Blessings.
Peace. Better than the riots from last year.
We pray for those who are so concerned and not saying.
We ask Your mercy upon the dying. My mother.
We pray for families to find wisdom and Love in encouragement
and the discussions we need to know one another. 
Help families strengthen one another.
Bless our efforts to
communicate.

We pray You Reign over the Changes of Life
we do not control and ask Your Capable Love upon these days.
Your Mercy and Willing Help. Comfort. Comforter.

Bless Elliott with Healing. We diligently ask.

In the Most Loving, Most Capable,
Highest Name of Jesus we pray, Amen!





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Wednesday, June 02, 2021

Psalm 48 ~ Great is the Lord

 


The Jordan explains Heaven's Clear Living Water

Glimpses of Heaven in the Mirror


Heaven's Open 12 Gates, our seasons and decisions of our life.


Rush hour.


Psalm 48


Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
    in the city of our God!
His holy mountain, 2 beautiful in elevation,
    is the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
    the city of the great King.

3 Within her citadels God
    has made himself known as a fortress.



Meeting Jesus Christ for the unprepared. Every knee will bow.

4 For behold, the kings assembled;
    they came on together.
5 As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;
    they were in panic; they took to flight.
6 Trembling took hold of them there,
    anguish as of a woman in labor.
7 By the east wind you shattered
    the ships of Tarshish.









8 As we have heard, so have we seen
    in the city of the Lord of hosts,
in the city of our God,
    which God will establish forever.

 Selah



9 We have thought on your steadfast love, O God,
    in the midst of Your Temple.







10 As your name, O God,
    so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
  Let Mount Zion be glad!

Let the daughters of Judah rejoice
    because of your judgments!

12 Walk about Zion, go around her,
    number her towers,
13 consider well her ramparts,
    go through her citadels,
that you may tell the next generation
   that this is God,
our God forever and ever.
    He will guide us forever.







Abba, Father God,

Bless us to live in Your Heart. 
And dwell in us with Your Love and Grace.

Help us to seek You first
and we will see more Heaven on earth.
Thank You for telling us Your Heart to pray for this.

Your Steadfast Love.

We pray all the hopes we have had of improvements will be filled.
We pray our economic situation will be stable and prosperous. 
We thank You for Your People finding Your Blessings Daily.

Pandemics historically have war, violence, anger, illogical thinking;
we pray for cooler tempters, temperate weather and
optimistic faith, hope and Love.

Help us to Chose to be Happy in
Your Blessings You Provide.

The Lord God Almighty is 
Our Blessing and Hope
we will Fight the Good Fight.

Jesus help us in this Nation to be in Your Word and see more Joy.
Covered in God's Love,

Governor Abbott and all 50 Governors and Legislatures.
Senator Tim Scott
Thank You for the Vaccine
In Record Breaking Time.
Help us to have Fair and Good Elections about now, please.
Bless the Legislatures as we re-examine Voting laws.
America is Strongly Polled to Show Extreme Concern.

Bless the United States Churches making decisions
to remember Jesus. To see the other denominations
have pulled themselves from 18 million to 800g congregants.

See the non-participation and polls in the Nightly News Viewership.
See the internet is filled with the people seeking
The Word of God. More than ever.

Be calm. Be strong. Have faith.
Be Strong all the Churches. Believe in the Lord and His Word.

We pray for truthful news.
We rest in the Hands of Our Good Father.

In Jesus Christ. Amen.




Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Psalm 50: 23 ~ the salvation of God

 


Let us bring Thanks



Psalm 50: 23



23 The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;

to one who orders his way rightly

I will show the salvation of God!”





Part of the Pandemic unified us all. The desire to be safe and bring safety to each other.



And now we face fewer angry people, but still  confusion and unhappiness.

If the fading Pandemic unites us again it is to try to upbuild each other and create a stronger life for ourselves, the people we love, the people we like and God has given us and, then, society as a whole. Always, this huge work, is with our prayers reaching toward what we know and trusting God for what we don't know.




Psalm 50 is a work about fake piety, fake rules and fake ways discerned only by God. 


The counter to Psalm 50 is brutal, honestly. 
Honesty without mercy.  Jesus knew Zacharias' name. God's Messiah Son didn't stand up and humiliate sinners. Jesus never said something like - hey Zacharias, you live at 7867 Mulberry Lane, outside of Hill 3 in Jerusalem. You were fat as a child, your mother dressed you like a silk worm, now you have 5 bottles of wine a week. You live in fear of your brother, who reminds everyone what a loser you are. And today, you have dreadful anxieties and pimples. Most of your conversation and prayers are boring, you are self-centered. Your wife never loved you. Your children are unintelligent because you are never the brightest, shiniest thief of a tax collector. Jesus would sound more like the opposite of God.

Psalm 50 has a lot of God's true discernment into a soul in need of honesty. 




If we do the opposite of what Psalm 50 rebukes. If we find the God of Love to see His Ways.

My grandmother lived next door to Virginia McMurray for almost 40 years. Grandmother had severe hardships, Virginia had severe hardships. They could jab all the wrong buttons, just having a conversation. Grandmother had joy and privilege as a child. Virginia had privileged been the wife of local good guy, Football Coach of Ole Miss. Virginia was known all over the county and then some. Then unexpectedly he fell ill and died fairly young. Suddenly, both women were widows. Grandmother could do this and that. Virginia was filled with good works no one programmed her to do. Rides to Churches. Done. 

Grandmother was in heavy grief in a different decade. Virginia had overcome her widow grief, being a decade a head. Grandmother's only son was talented and sharp. Virginia's son struggled. My father moved away, far away and was selfish. Virginia had the company of her son, sometimes to the very last bone of hmm.

Virginia would brush past criticism and find a new path. Grandmother couldn't do this till she re-married a handsome Episcopalian Priest. Virginia was still a widow.

And then the two women could share a sorrow and remember why they enjoyed each other and find comfort in their being placed by God as neighbors. Virginia was eventually the Grand Marshall of July 4th for the county. Grandmother was in Heaven and her grandchildren would delight in Virginia rolling along. Something that might have irked Grandmother. However, her grandchildren would smile at her with enjoying the irk and Grandmother. Making Grandmother feel fine.


This is a Universal Story of friendship. We can all hope to find and be the honest, forgiving, true, gracious women.




Today, a circle of friends lost a long 40-year friendship. 



I saw women put a true, cheerful, kind, honest remembering. Upon a death linked to the overflow of Pandemic. There was determination to remember the interesting, the witty, the worldly funny, the motherhood, the times we laughed. And a protection of each other from the darker side of a time filled with in-process recovery. A safety net we could all hold on to.







Abba, Father,


Father God, help us each day to put our hands out to do Your will in a way that stretches our lives and our will to find Your Will delightful. 

When we find sad news, far from pleasing to us and to You, call us back to You. 

In gratitude, let us remember all You have done for us. Being so very grateful for the people You bring us.

For the patience to bounce away from criticism. Not to create petty conversations. To be a joy bringer.

Help us find honesty within ourselves. 

To be joy bringers rather than joy absorbers. 

To see what You'd have us to see in the people around us. Admire Your people for their good points. Learning to be encouraging instead of fault finding.  Yet not white-washers. To love with our heart and to love with our actions when the heart is not stirred. Being with Your efforts, joy to the people You give us around us. And wisdom to be the people we are created to be.

Help our sacrifices be Thanksgiving. Not the ashes of normal rituals requiring only the motions. Not to recite the right phrases, but to remember God is Joy and do the work of 'seekng;, when we don't readily find what is good. By faith and hope, discover goodness.

Help us not to take Your quietness, Father, as agreement for appearances without substance.

We ask Your Help to offer thanksgiving and set our lives ordered rightly by Your Love, Grace and Mercy. 

So many areas pull us, Father God. Help us each day to sort out the priority. 
In Your Love and Wisdom. 
In the Highest Name of Jesus Christ. 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
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