Joshua 24:15 ~ As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD

 

Joshua 24:15

"If serving the LORD seems undesirable to you,

then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve,

whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living.

But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."

Zechariah 7: 8,9 

And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,  “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, 10 do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart."

Micah 6:8 

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

James 5:11

See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. 

  

 

We all have days in our lives when our faces are filled with grief.  Not anyone's favorite thing to look all out, grieved. This last two weeks, the last grown child we have living locally has been offered a job to move to another city with his brother.

My son wants to continue to use his education and joy building skyscrapers. And in the unique fashion of God, he has a new job and is assigned with 4 other men on a project in Denver.  The 4 men are from Houston and worked with Alexander on his last Houston skyscraper.  Alexander asked me what this meant, I said I'm sure it indicates you will live in Houston again.

His brother, just as he arrives,  had notice from his employer,  70 people will be let go because horrendous weather is on the wane. Good news. He is an attorney,  looking at an interview with medical legalities tomorrow. God bless him with spiritual food. 

My older son wanted another Husky dog like our wonderful Jackson, and now my younger son will bring his two Husky puppies to our older son. We did puppy camp, but finally the iphone being eaten as mouths of bloody treat, started to wane when every visit was a disaster of holes, eaten family silver, chewed sofas, shredded ottomans, eaten wallets, until the puppies were called monsters. By all of us. And now we will miss the little monsters. And shredded clothing, dog toys, doors shredded. Holes under the fence and the jacuzzi they put in. And all turned muddy so only their eyes showed. I can tell you, the little monsters enjoyed all of it.

My Grandmother Anita informed my mother, when we moved to France, this was a Sin. I'm trying to deal with this more gently. My sons will look forward to mega hiking, rough off-roading, climbing mountains with shale and lightning stories later, tents that flood with rainwater, snowboarding near sheer drops of death. Probably some hunting as well. There isn't a reason to sit in the snow weather to find they have plans every weekend. 

Your Safety Prayers and Family

Prayers are appreciated.

We have been cheerfully invited over and over. Edward and I glory in the Texas weather and have enjoyed all the Gulf of Mexico adds to the warmth. Probably, and certainly, it's only Jesus keeping my mouth shut and opening it only graciously.

I miss Little League Baseball

I'm really pretty shocked. But each day is a gift. We are here to live. To find what God has given. To grieve sincerely and not be a wet blanket. How. Well, we find out daily. Alexander has been with us half of each week, this year. Now he will be gone. He has made tremendous art with his talent for me to enjoy. We have projected left and right.  It's leaving me to think of the Exodus planning family businesses, and now we move to find employment.

Usually, when something happens, you know, like finding a tumor. Job loss. Decline of parents, I find a Scripture and hold on to this. Tonight, I was thinking of all the ways the Scriptures gently tell us not to even hold on too tightly to the ones we love. But I have decided to petition the Lord we love so much and put out this Scripture as the one to hold on to: 

 James 5:11 

See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Romans 12 9

 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

So in the interests of healing, finding joy in life and being sincere, let's have a post on....

SULKING

2 Timothy 2:15 

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Philippians 2:3  

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

1 Peter 2:1-25  

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 

Psalm 119:105  

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

1 John 2:1-29

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him.

Ephesians 2:8-9 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

2 Corinthians 5:19 

That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

Romans 8:1 

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

FINDING COMFORT

Romans 8:28 

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Philippians 4:8 

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Abba, Father,

Nothing is too Hard for God.

The Scriptures tell us 72 times and I believe You.

Mark 11:24

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, 

believe that you have received it, 

and it will be yours.

I believe Your Promises to me. Lord Jesus. 

Give us this Day:

I believe Your Promises to me. Lord Jesus.

Give us this Day:

Psalm 118:24 

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

  

Zephaniah 3:17 

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; 

he will rejoice over you with gladness; 

  he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.  

  

Matthew 6:9-13

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 

Your kingdom come,

 your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread, 

and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Hebrews 13:8 

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Psalm 84:11 

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. 

No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.  

  

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

John 16:33

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace.

 In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; 

I have overcome the world.”  

Thank You, Jesus Christ.

Lord of All.

Amen.

I received a Covfefe Text today and felt we could all use some good cheer

Here we go:

Sunday, June 17, 2018

COVFEFE ~ God Bless us everyone!!!

Cast Your Vote...

See Minute 4:01 ish TOO GOOD TO MISS!

Language Warning.

Reason Magazine's Game of Thrones. Libertarian Version.

As HBO's blockbuster series Game of Thrones returns for its seventh season, Reason offers its own freedom-filled parody. A libertarian paradise north of the wall? What's happened to Westeros' social security trust fund? Should it take low-income Dothraki four years to get a hair-braiding license? Watch!

Written and produced by Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg, and Andrew Heaton. Shot and edited by Bragg and Bragg. Starring Andrew Heaton, Austin Bragg, and Remy.

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

1 John 1 ~ Our Joy may be fulfilled

The Video again starts with You Tube giving us their opinion. His hair looks Marvelous.

1 John 1

1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life--

2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us--

3 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

4 And we are writing these things so that our joy may be fufilled.



5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/18/ai-will-save-us-from-yanny-laurel-right-wrong/

If you haven’t taken part in the yanny/laurel controversy over the last couple of days, allow me to sincerely congratulate you. But your time is up. The viral speech synth clip has met the AI hype train and the result is, like everything in this mortal world, disappointing.

Sonix, a company that produces AI-based speech recognition software, ran the ambiguous sound clip through Google, Amazon and Watson’s transcription tools, and of course its own.

Google and Sonix managed to get it on the first try — it’s “laurel,” by the way. Not yanny. Laurel.

But Amazon stumbled, repeatedly producing “year old” as its best guess for what the robotic voice was saying. IBM’s Watson, amazingly, got it only half the time, alternating between hearing “yeah role” and “laurel.” So in a way, it’s the most human of them all.

One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all

Thank you ya'll! Really. Really.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

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Genesis 1, Genesis 2:1-12 ~ And God saw the Light, that it was Good

 

God Has Loved 

His Son, He is well pleased

and has loved the world

to give us Jesus.

Let There Be Light

John 1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
He was in the beginning with God. 
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Genesis 1, 

Genesis 2:1-12

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.



Genesis 2:1-12

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 And the gold of that land is good

John 6:29 

Jesus 

answered, 

“This is the only work God wants from you: 

Believe in the One He has sent.”



God is Love

Hebrews 11:6

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 him.

1 John 3:22

And whatever we ask we receive from him,

because we keep his commandments and do what 

pleases him.

Abba, Father

Thank You for Your Blessings, we rely, always, on Your Willing Blessings.

God Spoke, "Let there be Light."

Our Wonderful Jesus was created, God of God, Light of Light.
The Father adored the Son.
The Son adored the Father.
The Son delighted in the Father.
The Son delighted in the Father's Master Workmanship.

God, our Father, has allowed Jesus full access to His Blessings and Abilities.

One in the Holy Trinity.

The Holy Spirit hovered over the waters.

 The Father, Son and Holy Spirit made plans for the New Covenant.

The Father, Son and Holy Spirit looked into mankind and were delighted.

Our Father looked at His Creation and said,
"It is Good."
"It is Good."
"It is Good."
"It is Good."
"It is Good."
"It is Good."
"It is Good."
"It is Good."
"It is Good."
"It is Good."

And Father God assured us about His goodness, saying, 

"It is not good for man to be alone."

The Children of Israel walked with dry feet through the Red Sea.

 We thank You for the People of Scripture - so real.
(And this is where you add your people you pray for on His Journey.)

Jesus knew He would be born to a Virgin. He loved Mary, Joseph, James, Jude, 

Joses, Simon and His Sisters. In believing in their goodness, 

He gave them Acts 1 and Acts 2.

Jesus was baptized for the sake of Righteousness. 

He was baptized by John the Baptist and Father God spoke, 

"This is my Beloved Son, listen to Him."

(And this is where you Bless God for the People who Bless you.)

Jesus fills our hearts with Love

Jesus began His ministry and went to the Pool of Bethesda. 

A man had been at the Pool for 38 years. And Jesus told him, 

"Your sins are forgiven, pick up your pallet and walk." 

We want to remember to be Grateful, warm and gracious. 

Not like the behavior of this man, turning Jesus in.

Jesus diligently and with Joy pressed forward. Going to Bethsaida, hometown of Peter, Andrew and Philip. Jesus would not fail to mention Philip. 

They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man 

and begged Jesus to touch him. 

Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. 

When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, 

Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?”

He looked up and said, 

“I see people; they look like trees walking around.” This man evidently worried a lot.

Once more, Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. Our Jesus never forsakes us. 

Our God wants us to see with our eyes and see clearly.

Jesus sent him home, saying, “Don’t even go into the village.” 

Displaying Jesus is the Exact Nature of His Father, who has endowed and bestowed a great purposeful humor. We pray to be delivered from trouble. And be blessed with humor.

Jesus was asked to heal a blind man, Jesus placed saliva and mud on the man's eyes and sent him to the Pool of Siloam to be washed and healed. 

We would like to be sent to the Pool of Siloam by Jesus. 

To be washed of our iniquities and illnesses. Blessed. 

And in being Blessed, to bring others this Blessing of Jesus Christ.

Jesus was asked to heal a man who was deaf and mute. 

Jesus placed His fingers in the man's ears.

 And this is where we pray for people with ear and hearing trouble.

 And Jesus touched the man's tongue and the man could hear and speak plainly again. 

Being mindful, Jesus told His Brother James, we are always invited to ask our Father for Wisdom. 

We ask You, for these many Blessings, Father God.

Jesus had sent His Ministers out two by two. After John the Baptist had died, Jesus fed the multitudes beside the Shining Sea of Galilee, He fed them Bread and Fish. Jesus mourned the loss of John the Baptist. We pray the Day of The Lord, we encounter, will be filled with the Mercies of God. We pray to finish well.

Jesus climbed the mountain to Pray with His Father. We would like to be able to climb this mountain with Jesus all the days of our lives, without pain and being encumbered. We pray to bring all we Love to See Jesus Pray with His Father. We pray to go back down the mountain and see Jesus, as Living Water, walk on water.

 We pray all of our loved ones see Jesus

 immediately raise Peter out of the water and to the safety of the boat. 

We ask this miracle for ourselves and those we Love.

We ask You, Father, to see the comfort and trust Jesus has sleeping in the Boat. 

We pray we see, with those we Love, Jesus calm the winds and the water to the perfect peace of Jesus Christ. This is our God. We ask to be sealed this day and always, for ourselves and those we Love in Jesus Christ, God's Son, Forever. 

We are praying for the Greatest, our Jesus, 

His Glory

more of God's good will,

Heaven upon this earth.

In Jesus, our Lord, we thank You for many prayers. Amen.

Thank You, Jesus

Easter

and Salvation. Amen.

He has the Whole World in His Hands

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