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Monday, November 28, 2022

Isaiah 2:1-5 ~ the Mountain of the House of the Lord

Isaiah 2:1-5



The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.


 It shall come to pass in the latter days
    that the mountain of the House of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains
    And shall be lifted up above the hills;
and all the nations shall flow to it,
  and many peoples shall come, 
and say:

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the House of the God of Jacob,
that He may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in His paths.”

For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
    and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4 He shall judge between the nations,
    and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore.

5 O House of Jacob,
    come, let us walk
    in the Light of the Lord.





We've been on a journey, we mostly never anticipated, since March 2020's Pandemic.  The Pandemic brought our quiet times to say 2/3rd's of us feel we have more clarity on being the people we want to be.  Learning Strength.

The changes brought from seeing strangers crying in fright at Starbucks. The lack of crowds returning with the same ease. The deep 1/3 concern Americans say they really have in 2022. 

Not the type of Journey unknown for the first Christmas in Bethlehem. Carrying this eventually to Jerusalem, then Rome and the world. 

We know about 1/3 of America traveled home for Thanksgiving. When Isaiah saw this coming journey coming, Isaiah did not have the complete understanding Jesus Christ, before Abraham, understood. Jesus is the Word of God manifest, to Live, Move and Have His Being with our Father.  





We can understand a great voyage, a vacation, a pilgrimage, a bucket list.  The awe of anticipation of a Festival! Way, Truth and Life!  Isaiah would well understand the Ascents all understood in the Anticipation of regular life, down the road on the Journey and suddenly in God's Holy Temple.


When Isaiah saw this coming journey coming, Isaiah did not have the complete understanding Jesus Christ, before Abraham, understood.
 Jesus is the Word of God manifest, to Live, Move 
and Have His Being with our Father.  



This is the beginning of finding the Roman Road connecting Bethlehem to Jerusalem. Worked on by Israeli High School students with great anticipation. Finding artifacts going back to the time of Jesus Christ walking this road. 

The road, 2,000 years ago, a familiar life would add in new adventures and new memories, to be elevated by God moving His people in Worship and Beauty. Not just the local room, usually without a window. This was built as a Temple with a path to eternity with God. To hear not just one or two instruments, to gather with 2 million people to hear Music and Worship. Beauty far beyond the usual. To see the wisdom of the ages produce awe in the Lord. 



The Holy Spirit told Isaiah this would be uphill.
A planned journey uphill.

Ahhh, the Songs of Ascent!

We know the Psalms!

Consider the Dreams of Christmas for Children. The dreams of adults. The hope
for a Good Christmas. Jesus led the Disciples, the soldiers, the Emperors of the Empire, the Governor Festus, adopted by Emperor Claudius and raised from his father's slavery, then King Agrippa and his wife Bernice, the soldiers in Judea for Good Friday, and Jesus knew what was said about all Roman roads lead to Italy...


Many Italian Villages are on hills and have roads of ascent. Christmas is enchanting! As the Pandemic knew of Italian travel.




One of the aspects, of Italian living, real living, 
is something the English, the French, Italians and Spaniards know:

Small, small refrigerators. Pots to grow produce. Potted Tomatoes, peppers and vegetables. Planning in vast quantities is limited because the joy of strolling nearby to have what you need in hand to go home. Not fear of running out, ease of planning and replenishment. Italian families travel to America to find Christmas decorations because family Italian Christmas is simple. The decorations they have frequently are family tradition. The few pieces are used again and again.



We all have something in common. We all probably will face this for Christmas:



The fact of Christmas, it occurs, and is written to be celebrated by going uphill. And usually a day filled with things to do. And as we climb the ladder and smile with the memories, we know we are not only juggling our time, we are juggling needs and finances. Relationship and reward. Worthy and ordinary. Adult decisions while holding magical dreams and worthy love.





When Isaiah saw this coming journey coming, Isaiah did not have the complete understanding Jesus Christ, before Abraham, understood. Jesus is the Word of God manifest, to Live, Move and Have His Being with our Father.  




Samaria! 

Probably not the pilgrimage the Disciples put on their Bucket List. 

Not exactly the ahhhh of Antioch. 
Nor the rival of the Italian Riviera!
Although Caesarea might have been a little racier! 

Yet, alas, only to the Remnant who had held up Jerusalem after Jeremiah predicted the fall of the Temple. The Samaritan ninnies without proper Babylonian lineage credentials, later DNA centuries confirmed. Merely the line of the king, Herod.




Oh have you been told, the greatest Christmas gift of all:  
 The meaning of the heart is the loving hearts held by Jesus. Forever.


The Gift of Christmas
The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand, Today.



Romans 10:9-10

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 
For with the heart one believes and is justified, 
and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.




Abba, Father

Cover us this day in Your Name. The Highest of All Names and we are Blessed.

We will be still and know You are God the Almighty of All.


Cover us in Jesus Christ and we have a Hope and Future. 
We Believe and trust in You.

Cover those we Love and we Live in Love. 
We see glimpses of Heaven.

Cover us in Jesus and we lift our cares to You.

Cover us in Jesus and we are inspired to Live and Love more.

Cover us in Jesus and we tell the truth with mercy.

Cover us in Jesus and we brush off what would cling to us 
and find Joy in Pleasing You.

Cover us in Jesus 
and we want All to Love Jesus.

Cover us in Jesus 
and we Believe Father God will bring the world to salvation 
in Jesus Christ.

Cover us in Jesus 
and we know Tomorrow and Today are in Your Hands.

Cover us in Jesus
 and we find Joy knowing our prayers join the Saints covering the world 
in Prayers for more
of Your Heaven on earth.

Cover us in Jesus and we Believe the Nation Trusting in You 
will be Blessed.

Always pray daily:
Dwell in us, please, Father.
Dwell in those we Love.
Salvation is in Jesus Christ, we ask.
Help us to Seek You First
And we will finish well in Jesus Christ.

Cover us in Jesus 
and we Believe the days to come for ourselves 
and our children and unborn children will live
in Goodness and Steadfast Love 
in the New Covenant of Jesus.

Cover us in Jesus 
and we Believe You are the God of the Impossible.

We ask the Oceans to give moisture to the skies
and rain to pour over the thirsty and parched 
places of Your Good Creation,
Cover us in Your Word, Jesus Christ, 
God's Word made Manifest.

We thank You to answer our prayers. 
The miracles we know.
We ask to Live in Love, Joy and Peace seeking and 
finding Your Kingdom in Heaven 
and on earth in Jesus Christ.

Pray for me in day 5 of Covid.
Doing ok, no fever, Optimism of Healing Fast!
Grateful for the 3 Vaccinations, lessening the effects!
Taking Aspirin!

Blessed be Father God for bringing us Jesus. 
Amen and Amen.







♔ Lord Jesus Saves †








Yay Jesus

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Isaiah 54:10 ~ My Faithful Love

 


Welcome to Advent - Prepare to Receive Jesus, The Gift of God!



Leftovers!!!!

Ok, sure, few people are going to vote Leftovers as a Christmas Memory Favorite. Yet the most delicious leftovers are two ingredients added together later. Like Good Turkey Tortilla Soup or Pecan Pie and Rice Pudding, crust and all.

When asking a Thanksgiving Table what they are most grateful for, and they have been through puberty in the last ten to 20 years, you might see a bunch of attitude or ennui. There is Poll One when this has been asked several years.  And Poll Two asks the same table, what is your Favorite Christmas Memory? You will receive entirely different hearts.  When the goal is, was and will be... favored as displaying loving and open hearts.  

Oh, the varieties of Polls, even when discussing North Pole times. You are probably expecting Scripture. We will!


Saint Francis of Assisi said, if our preaching isn't walking, then we are not preaching! Which was re translated as, "Declare the Scriptures, and if you must, use words !"

My Favorite Christmas Memory!




In the late 1970s, my family lived in Emporium, Cameron County, Pennsylvania. My father asked me to walk with him to Emmanuel Episcopal Church for the Christmas Midnight Service. Emporium had huge Maple trees which were farmed for the Maple Syrup. And the weather was exactly as the images shows. We walked and held hands and talked about people and places Daddy had known most of his life. Daddy was always entertaining and sincere. This was one of my most special memories. 

The town was lighted so beautifully. This time with my father is one of my finest memories.






I was told we had been seen walking to Christmas Eve. People were very pleased. Mentioning people just usually drove in cars on Christmas Eve. I was surprised, and I asked, why were we noticed? 


We had discovered a Christmas tradition rarely spoken of. A sort of secret tradition. Emporium town dwellers keep the lights on to almost 2 a.m. early Christmas morning. People were so excited to speak of this! Smiles lighted up faces. I asked if this was for Christmas? Indeed, this was for "Christmas," putting Jesus as the first activity and encouraging people to go to the Midnight Eve Church Celebration. Jesus at the very first stroke of the clock on Christmas, His Birthday. A very, very fine way for the town  Celebrating Christmas. And the joy on the faces. They told me we looked that joyful, too.

We can all picture something like this in Heaven. Jesus' Birthday. Lights and hearts open to Celebrate The Lord.



What would you pick !!!

Everyone remembers their own Christmas Tree. The art to Celebrate the Birth of Christ. A spire pointing to Heaven. Gifts and Loved Ones.   Let's jog some Christmas Memories.



If you go back past, just past Norman Rockwell and John Falter paintings, Christmas was simple and the trees more sparse. Electric lights, maybe. Pastels were new at Christmas! Pink was really Hollywood glam!


This tree was a style for generations. Uniform of Steadfast Christmas!!! Go Forth Orderly to Express the Merriment of Christmas Forever and Ever, Alleluia!!!


The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Tinsel Defeat! Tinsel had paper burns, Really.


America Loved FDR and Tinsel too

Style? People complain about 1990s music, but we all dressed in black, black, black and the Christmas Trees were white, white, white!!!


George Silver Spoon was Very Iconic!!!
And
Made White Loooook GOOD.




1970s we had our own Green Party. Granola was in. 
John Denver, Baby. 
Did you realize if you tell children today
about stringing Popcorn and cranberries, 
they think this is hilarious, we put food on the tree???

I had to remember why we did this!
To feed the birds, they loved this. And they DID! 





White Continues to be a Christmas Favorite with Our Father!


And Open Doors for ALL Like the Gates of Heaven

for Education, Choices,
Medical Services,
Middle East Peace,
Jobs for ALL




What we learn through the years,
we take all those ornaments
and we start putting them on the tree
until you have Beauty
Joy
Memories
Hope
Love
making
Christmas

The All IN Style!

 




The Everyone All in Style goes back to the early 1940s, when everyone used the outdoor Christmas Lights on the indoor tree. Why? Because they didn't have Microwave ovens yet. You won't find good photos of this. Because no one could take great at night photos of the Lassie Style ALL in Christmas Tree.  Mostly with the Tinsel!  And later with Popcorn strings. Oh, the smell of Pine and Popcorn!

We did say we would look at Scripture. And we usually do!


You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen
But do you recall
The most wonderful Christmas Scripture of all!




For every time and season, the Lord has not forgotten us. 
He has been with us all.
Knowing our Hearts, 
adoring those who know their favorite Christmas Memory 
He
has given us. 


 Isaiah 54:10





The mountains may shift, and the hills may be shaken, 
but My faithful love won’t shift from you, 
and My covenant of peace won’t be shaken, 
says the Lord, the One who pities you.


Psalm 139

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
    you discern my thoughts from afar.

 You search out my path and my lying down
    and are acquainted with all my ways.

 Even before a word is on my tongue,
    behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
 You hem me in, behind and before,
    and lay Your hand upon me.
 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
    it is high; I cannot attain it.

 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
    Or where shall I flee from your presence?
 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!


Romans 10:9-10

Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord 
and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, 
you will be saved. 
For with the heart one believes and is justified, 
and with the mouth one confesses 
and is saved.


Psalm 136

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good,

    for His steadfast love endures forever.
2 Give thanks to the God of gods,
    for His steadfast love endures forever.
3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords,
    for His steadfast love endures forever;

4 to Him who alone does great wonders,
    for His steadfast love endures forever;
5 to Him who by understanding made the heavens,
    for His steadfast love endures forever;
6 to Him who spread out the earth above the waters,
    for His steadfast love endures forever;
7 to Him who made the great lights,
    for His steadfast love endures forever;
8 the sun to rule over the day,
    for His steadfast love endures forever;
9 the moon and stars to rule over the night,
    for His steadfast love endures forever


Luke 1

To give 
knowledge of salvation 
to His people
    in the forgiveness of their sins,

Because of the tender mercy 
of our God,
    whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
to give Light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
    to guide our feet 
into 
the way of peace. 

Amen and Amen and Amen and Amen
Jesus Christ the Lord!










And memories yet to make...













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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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