Acts 26 ~ Fortunate

 

Acts 26 ~ I consider myself fortunate

 to stand before you today 

Always remember the Victories

2021 November

This morning I asked the Lord, if we pray, "Give us this day, what do we do with, staying home with Edward and Covid to "Give us the day."  My day presented itself, and the evening began to go far better.  

Edward had been quite ill, in the hospital, a sudden colon bleed out and then suddenly with Covid. Not wanting to eat. A right tango. With presented food, the doctor ordered, to his meh. We texted and Edward was prayed for by our neighborhood. A 15 minute improvement and healing. Edward in bed, me far enough away in the hallway, to have coffee and Edward has coffee with me.  He asked for a meal and his Covid and fever ended. Conversation surpasses loud arguments over food and wellness. Love still wins.

These last 9 months, Edward has had 5 eye operations. The first two were cataracts. And the last 3 were retina reattachments. Now, Edward can see from his injured eye

for the first time since April. The Surgeon and his office said this is astonishing so close to the operation.  And his retina has attached beautifully.  The other eye will be lasered when this eye is stable. This could be an easy surgery.  We so appreciate your prayers.  Edward is doing well.  Thank you for praying for our health. 

Blessed to have our first grandchild.

We haven't been to see our new grandchild yet, due to elevation, being blind and our children live in very high elevation. Hopefully soon. Enjoyed hearing her coo and fuss on the phone. How swiftly babies adapt to life.  She is already just waking up once in the night to be fed. 

We see prayers being answered. Please continue to pray for peace and the wishes of our parents and great and grandparents to be fulfilled in a peaceful and complete manner.  God is moving and working and the joy of finding answered prayers.

Answered prayer is a joy to live and remember and bring happiness.  Let's pray for the Nation to be in hope and faith. Renewal and dreams to fulfill and see them established making God pleased and joyful Himself.

Thank you for your prayers. So very much. Remember all the incredible results from the Reagan Presidency on Prayer.  God Loves our prayers.

Jesus the Lord. Alleluia

and Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You, Jesus

Psalm 103 ~ Obeying the Voice of His Word

 

Psalm 103

Bless the Lord, O my soul,

and all that is within me,

bless 

His Holy Name!

2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,

and forget not all His benefits,

3 Who forgives all your iniquity,

Who heals all your diseases,

4 Who redeems your life from the pit,

Who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

5 Who satisfies you with good

so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

6 The Lord works 

righteousness

and justice 

for all who are oppressed.

7 He made known His ways to Moses,

His acts to the people of Israel.

8 The Lord is merciful and gracious,

slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

9 He will not always chide,

nor will he keep his anger forever.

10 He does not deal with us according to our sins,

nor repay us according to our iniquities.

11 For as high as the Heavens are above the earth,

so great is His steadfast Love toward those who fear Him;

12 as far as the east is from the west,

so far does He remove our transgressions from us.

13 As a father shows compassion to His children,

so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear Him.

14 For He knows our frame;

He remembers that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like grass;

he flourishes like a flower of the field;

16 for the wind passes over it, 

and it is gone,

and its place knows it no more.

17 But the steadfast Love of the Lord 

is from everlasting 

to everlasting 

on those who fear Him,

and His righteousness to children's children,

18 to those who keep His covenant

and 

remember to do His Commandments.

19 The Lord has established His Throne in the Heavens,

and 

His Kingdom rules over all.

20 Bless the Lord, O you His angels,

you mighty ones who do His Word,

obeying the Voice of His Word!

21 Bless the Lord, all His Hosts,

His ministers, 

Who do His Will!

22 Bless the Lord, all His Works,

in all places of His dominion.

Bless the Lord, 

O my soul!

We can all find good reason to feel inadequate, all. We are not God. The only place on earth I really see the Magnitude of God Himself is the Ocean. And for a good reason, Heaven does not have an Ocean. Heaven is the Home of our Father God, Abba, where He will live and move and have His Being with us.

Here on earth, we live and move and have our being with Father God only in faith. 

Heaven will have Shining Water and if we follow the water, we will arrive where God our Father has all of our prayers in His Heart. The Book of Revelation says God inhales our prayers.  The aroma of our prayers arrive in His Kingdom. To His Joy and Love.

 esus would say, "Fear Not." And we are invited with boldness and confidence to enter His 12 Open Gates and ask of Him all of our cares and prayers.

The Ocean is pure light in summer with families and newlyweds, the people who gaze and gaze and gaze at the unending water and sky and seek the sunrise and sunset. The Ocean. All is Bright. Glories stream from Heaven afar. Love’s pure light. Radiant beams from Thy Holy Face. With the dawn of redeeming grace, The Lord in Heaven on high decreed.

 The Ocean is a visual aid to the Size of God to be fully understood.

The Ocean can be extremely formidable. 

In Winter, what was warm is now an entirely different color. Waves Boom, Crash and Pound. The relentless force of the Ocean is captivating. How is this to be seen. With extreme joy to be indoors with a very nice warm drink. Hopefully a fire nearby. This is extremely peaceful.

John 3:8

The wind blows wherever it wills. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.

And this is how we will face our inadequacies. With God's Grace. 

It is He who has made us and not we ourselves. To see the Ocean and understand the storms is to understand the mysteries around us God will not unfold. To our very Blessing.

We will never be able to do and serve
 and Love and Heal 

and forgive and nourish 

and lead 

and fill ourselves 

and others 

As the 3,000 pages, God has Spoken in His Word. Jesus will save humanity, and He will fill every dot and every iota. And this is our Comfort and Helper.

We will take stock of ourselves and we are told only God and our own heart truly know us. There will be days we howl with desire to do more, to be more, to fill more and shine brighter. On these days, we have to know God has known us and put our names in the Book of Life. Do we know and read and write in the Book of Life? Of course, we do not.

God does tell us this. His Glory falls on us.

We are meant to be made each day in the Image of God. 

When we see Jesus, we see what God sees like the Prodigal Father willing to put down His Kingdom, His Work He does today, His Heart and His Legs running to us coming Home. In our Adoption into Jesus - our Wonderful Savior. 

God sees part of Himself coming Home. His own Words tell us, "Beloved."

Remember on your days of storm, the haven from the storm, Your Shelter.

Jesus spoke the Words we know 2,000 years later, nourishing the millennia of the Communion of Saints - Called to Jesus Christ - and as He walked by, ALL were healed. And as He walked by, the mournful and needy felt such Love from Jesus - there was an invitation to touch God. Reach out to Jesus Christ and be Healed. 

Jesus would call us by name and say, "Well Done, Good and Faithful." Jesus also said, "Rise."


And in what way will this touch our lives?

I have known a man of God for 40 years and he looked over his life and said, "Was this enough?" And know the True Answer is, "Yes." We do not know what Words we speak that will touch love and life forever. And really all of God's Story is placed all around us in His Goodness. It seems a little too little to mention the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life." And yet, I want to tell you for 28 years my mother and my grandmother, Anita, preached, "Don't go out late alone without truly needing to. Don't let someone with a gun put you in the car. I mean this. Get under the car. Roll under. Get shot running zig zag in a parking lot. Don't roll your eyes at me, Promise!"

You grow up with this for 28 years and you glance over with boredness and agree and pick up the tv remote and change the channel. Until your brother John goes to Stephen F. Austin University and puts gasoline in his blue VW Bug in 1990, one quiet afternoon. And as he had $15 and put in just a top off, he got in his car to find the most afraid teenager telling him to drive him to Tyler, Texas. With a very, very shaky handgun pointed at John. This was someone not used to guns. Who profoundly apologized and said if my brother drove... Then all would be peaceful. My brother drove 100 feet and pulled over and said, Your choice is to shoot me here or as I get out and run. He told the teenager he wouldn't be reported, but call the police for a ride if it was an emergency. And my brother jumped out of the car and made it to safety.


What the point of this story is - the stories we tell our children - make a path. Make a Way. The way we help people - helps people. We are part of a LIFE . Part of a Way. Part of a story. Part of a Plan -where we walk by faith.



Feeling inadequate? Ok. We are. Our God given job is John 6:29 "The work of God gives us is this: to believe in the one he has sent."

We will take today. And Believe as Jesus has Loved us, we will provide nurture. We will provide help. We will provide Comfort. We will provide Love. We will provide Joy. And in doing this - we will love ourselves as God does.

Making Peace. Doing what we can to be peace to one another as a Work of God. Finding in our heart a place for those who dwell beside us peacefully. Showing Mercy. And, surely, we will leave in our footsteps, all the days of our lives, allowing God to help our lives, will and way that goodness and love will last in our footsteps even to the confidence of dwelling in the House of the Lord.

Where did we learn this? From Jesus. Tenderly forgiving each other and showing honor.

Abba, Father God,

You are our Help, and our Helper

You have called Yourself

our 

Comfort

and 

Comforter

Proverbs 3:26 

For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.

Isaiah 41:10 

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, 

for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, 

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

2 Corinthians 3:5 

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, 

but our sufficiency 

is from God,

Hebrews 13:6

So we can confidently say, 

“The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

1 John 3:20-21 

For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, 

and He knows everything. 

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

Philippians 4:13 

I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

Romans 15:13 

May the God of hope fill you 

with all joy and peace 

in believing, 

so that by the power of the Holy Spirit 

you may abound 

in 

hope.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

Peace and the Joy God gives us.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

Please, Father,

Bless Edward with healthy retinas

Today Edward found out

his eye is seeing far more

than anticipated and his

good Surgeon

has done a good job.

With a God Bless, Edward, please

a necessary second eye 

to follow.

We Pray Glory

of God

to Heal Edward.

The Lord to bless us 

and our family with health

and the dreams we have,

Your Will and Peace

as the little baby has colic fairly intensely.

And slept through the night.

We have had an intense week

Peace and Prosperity for the Godly

Healing

Joy of the Lord

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

In the Name of Jesus 

fill us

surround us

Embolden us

lead us

redeem us

and keep us forever.

Lord Jesus Christ

Only Son of God, our Father.

WE PRAY 

BLESSINGS 

for those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Jesus Christ

Shine on us

ALL

Let evil and practicing evil

depart 

far 

from us

and our children.

Thy Kingdom come

Thy will be done

on earth

as it is

in Heaven. 

And we will be blessed indeed. 

Jesus the Lord. Alleluia

and Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose!

Jeremiah 31:10-13 ~ Hear the Word of the Lord

 

Jeremiah 31:10-13

“Hear the Word of the Lord, O nations,

    and 

declare it in the coastlands far away;

say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,

    and 

will keep him 

as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

11 For the Lord has ransomed Jacob

    and 

has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.

12 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion,

    and 

they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord,

over the grain, the wine, and the oil,

    and 

over the young of the flock 

and the herd;

their life shall be like a watered garden,

    and 

they shall languish no more.

Jeremiah 32

6 Jeremiah said, “The Word of the Lord came to me: 7 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, ‘Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.’ 8 Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the Lord, and said to me, ‘Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ 

Then I knew that this was the Word of the Lord.

9 “And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver. 10 I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales. 

11 Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions and the open copy. 

12 And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in the court of the guard. 13 I charged Baruch in their presence, saying, 

14 ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: 

Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time. 15 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.’

Genesis 22

17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies, 18 and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because 

you have 

obeyed 

My Voice.” 

19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would bless me and enlarge my border, and that Your Hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” 

And God granted what he asked.

Matthew 4:19

"And He said to them, 

"Follow Me, 

and 

I will make you Fishers of men."

Luke 7:14-16

14 Then He came up and touched the bier, 

and the bearers stood still.

 And He said, 

“Young man, I say to you, arise.” 

15 And the dead man sat up and began to speak, 

and

 Jesus gave him to his mother. 

16 Fear seized them all,

 and 

they glorified God, saying,

 “A great prophet has arisen among us!” 

and 

“God has visited His people!”

Daniel 10:12 

Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.” 

2 Chronicles 31

31 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.

2 And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the Lord and to give thanks and praise. 3 The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed feasts, as it is written in the Law of the Lord. 

4 And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the Lord. 5 As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. 

And they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything. 6 And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of the dedicated things that had been dedicated to the Lord their God, and laid them in heaps. 

7 In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. 8 When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel. 9 And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps. 10 Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, for the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.”

11 Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.

 12 And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things

. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother as second, 13 while Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers assisting Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the chief officer of the house of God. 14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the east gate, was over the freewill offerings to God, to apportion the contribution reserved for the Lord and the most holy offerings.

 15 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were faithfully assisting him in the cities of the priests, to distribute the portions to their brothers, old and young alike, by divisions, 16 except those enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and upward—all who entered the house of the Lord as the duty of each day required—for their service according to their offices, by their divisions. 

17 The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers' houses; that of the Levites from twenty years old and upward was according to their offices, by their divisions. 18 They were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole assembly, for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy. 

19 And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of common land belonging to their cities, there were men in the several cities who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone among the Levites who was enrolled.

20 Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, 

and he did what was good and right and faithful 

before the Lord his God. 

21 And every work that he undertook 

in the service of the house of God 

and 

in accordance with the law and the commandments, 

seeking his God, 

he did with all his heart, 

and prospered.

And we will be blessed indeed. 

Jesus the Lord. Alleluia

and Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose!