WHOSE REPORT WILL YOU BELIEVE??????????
"FOR THE SCRIPTURES SAYS, WHOEVER BELIEVES ON HIM WILL NOT BE PUT
TO SHAME."
"FOR THERE NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN JEW AND GREEK, FOR THE SAME LORD
OVER ALL IS RICH TO ALL WHO CALL UPON HIM,
FOR WHOEVER CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED."
(ROMANS 10:11-13)
{AGAIN} "WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?"} (ISAIAH 53:1)
There is a Christian Song being played very frequently on Christian Radio.....
It speaks directly to this topic (Whose report will you believe?)
Due to copyright restrictions I will not share all of the lyrics.....I will share a few words:
[The song is being sung directly unto GOD] ---
"You say I am loved when I can't feel a thing;
You say I am held when I am falling short;
When I don't belong,
You say I am YOURS;
And (Oh LORD) I believe
What YOU say of me."
Radio, TV, Magazines advertise continually that if you intake, or eat, this vitamin supplement
this pill (etc.) then you will be healthy, beautiful, successful, rich, etc.
You decide for yourself----will we believe someone who is trying to {SELL} you something.....
Or...will we believe the ONE TRUE GOD...Who GAVE the highest possible price for each and
every one of us?
HOLY GOD speaks HIS MESSAGE with BOTH words and (ACTION)!!!!!!!!!
Once for all time, and into eternity ---GOD (SET) our value to HIM--by the price that HE paid
for each and all of us---(again) HE paid the price of sending HIS Sinless SON to die on the cross
to save you and me from our sins...(not words only), But....ACTION!!!!!!!
GOD does not change. (Malachi 3:6)
"JESUS CHRIST is the same yesterday, today, and forever." (Hebrews 13:8)
Since He NEVER CHANGES---HE [the ONE TRUE GOD] (John 17:3), and JESUS ["the
TRUTH"] (John 14:6)-----Then our value to HIM never changes!!!
It is not only the advertisers that put us down.....We ourselves murmur to our own heart......statements like "I am too old; I am too big; I will never look good".
In Genesis 17:4-5 God was speaking to Abram saying: "....saying, no longer shall
your name be called Abram ("Exalted Father"); but your name shall be called "ABRAHAM"
("Father of a multitude") for I have made you a father of many nations."
GOD was arranging that every time Abraham heard or spoke his own name...he would be reminded of God's promise.
The Principle: Let GOD'S WORDS, which designated His will and promise for your life,
become as FIXED in your mind, and as GOVERNING of your speech as GOD'S changing Abraham's
name was in shaping his concept of himself. (from Word Wealth in BIBLE).
****DO NOT "name" yourself, nor others, anything less than GOD does.***
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in YOUR
sight O LORD, my Strength and my Redeemer." (Psalm 19:14)
A LITERAL translation of the verse above says it this way: "Let what I speak, and what my heart murmurs to itself , be a delight to YOU LORD"!!!
Do not "name" yourself (nor others) anything less than GOD does.
HOLY GOD, LORD JESUS........ YOU SAY-------I BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!
LET IT BE SO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, March 22, 2019
Monday, March 11, 2019
"JOURNEY TO THE SUN (SON OF GOD!!!!!!!!!
"EPIPHANY"---Definition:
" A Revelatory manifestation, especially of a Divine Being."
*****Please, pray now- asking the HOLY SPIRIT to "guide you into the truth".****
Hey!!! Have you experienced one of those recently? Of course the BIBLE Lists many
of these:
JESUS IS HIMSELF the most important, crucial ONE:
(crucial- definition: extremely important or significant; (from the Latin "crux", cruc, cross).
JESUS manifests the HEART OF GOD!!!
In recent years Mary (my wife from God) and I have prayerfully chosen to go to the beach
in October --- when children are in school (and thus the beach is less crowded and noisy).
During October of a recent year, Mary and I were at Daytona, Florida for a few days ---
On a particular afternoon, Mary and I came in from the beach earlier than usual - because
the weather was getting quite cool.
It was cool in our room also. We attempted to turn the air conditioning off; and turn the heat on...
We could not get the heat to come on. Because of that I was uncomfortably cool.
I then decided to go down the first floor, and walk outside the westward-facing door - so
that I could sit on a bench facing the sun.
[ Please, allow me to insert a parenthetical note here].
Our gracious and most Holy
God has taught me over the years to pray about wherever I go --- even for a moment to sit in
the sun.
Which way (or which route I take) to a location determines who I will see and/or determines
who will see me. Both are important - Because GOD guides and enables me---and I will
pray for whom I see, and/or whomever sees me will see the WORD OF GOD on the t-shirt
which I am wearing at the time.....and it could be they will pray for me also. [As I have frequently
stated in this blog - in Psalm 139:16 it is written that GOD has "written down our every day before
the day of our birth"]...so HE already knows who needs my prayer, and who HE wants to pray for
me!!!
I apologize for the length of that inserted note - But it is crucial for clarity in the following story.
So, as I arrived at the ground floor of the building, then I stepped out into the warm sunlight,
I noticed that there were three (3) benches facing the sun...by GOD'S GRACE - I chose to sit on
the end of the 3rd bench.
As I sat on the end of the 3rd bench, I asked the man who was already sitting there -"Do you
mind if I sit with you?" He welcomed me to sit there.
While we sat there, we began to discuss GOD'S WORD/THE BIBLE ; we both agreed that we
"LOVE GOD'S WORD".
As we continued talking, the Man said that He was waiting to catch the bus to Orlando, Florida,
and that He had a good recommendation for a good job in Orlando, and that He had been out of
a job for a long time.
WE continued talking, and the Man asked me if I would please give to Him 56 cents (fifty-six cents).
He said that was all the money that He lacked in order to pay for the bus ticket.
Quickly I searched all of my pockets, and I found ONLY a key to our room in which my wife and I
were staying. So I asked Him, "PLEASE wait right here, and I will go up to my room, get the money, and bring it to You"... He agreed to wait. As I rode the elevator up to our room, I decided to give to Him MORE than (fifty six cents). I found a $10.00 bill in our room, and purposed to give that to him.
He received the $10.00 gratefully. At about that time the bus to Orlando stopped directly across from
us, so He stood up, we exchanged "good bye"s, and as He walked away, I told Him that "I will be praying for You". He thanked me.
Because the bus stop was on the far side of the street, I could not actually see Him board the bus; but when the bus pulled away...I could see that He was no longer on the sidewalk.
I remember thinking "..when I first sat by the Man --- (that) HE had the most serene peace and gentle love about Him...
As I have prayed about this (encounter) over the intervening years, I have concluded that this was indeed an "epiphany": ('A revelatory manifestation-especially of a Divine Being).
We must remember that JESUS CHRIST - HE WHO IS "THE TRUTH" (John 14:6),
states in Matthew 28:20 "I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS."
O WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS!
TREMBLE BEFORE HIM, ALL THE EARTH."
(1 Chronicles 16:29-30)
"EPIPHANY"---Definition:
" A Revelatory manifestation, especially of a Divine Being."
*****Please, pray now- asking the HOLY SPIRIT to "guide you into the truth".****
Hey!!! Have you experienced one of those recently? Of course the BIBLE Lists many
of these:
JESUS IS HIMSELF the most important, crucial ONE:
(crucial- definition: extremely important or significant; (from the Latin "crux", cruc, cross).
JESUS manifests the HEART OF GOD!!!
In recent years Mary (my wife from God) and I have prayerfully chosen to go to the beach
in October --- when children are in school (and thus the beach is less crowded and noisy).
During October of a recent year, Mary and I were at Daytona, Florida for a few days ---
On a particular afternoon, Mary and I came in from the beach earlier than usual - because
the weather was getting quite cool.
It was cool in our room also. We attempted to turn the air conditioning off; and turn the heat on...
We could not get the heat to come on. Because of that I was uncomfortably cool.
I then decided to go down the first floor, and walk outside the westward-facing door - so
that I could sit on a bench facing the sun.
[ Please, allow me to insert a parenthetical note here].
Our gracious and most Holy
God has taught me over the years to pray about wherever I go --- even for a moment to sit in
the sun.
Which way (or which route I take) to a location determines who I will see and/or determines
who will see me. Both are important - Because GOD guides and enables me---and I will
pray for whom I see, and/or whomever sees me will see the WORD OF GOD on the t-shirt
which I am wearing at the time.....and it could be they will pray for me also. [As I have frequently
stated in this blog - in Psalm 139:16 it is written that GOD has "written down our every day before
the day of our birth"]...so HE already knows who needs my prayer, and who HE wants to pray for
me!!!
I apologize for the length of that inserted note - But it is crucial for clarity in the following story.
So, as I arrived at the ground floor of the building, then I stepped out into the warm sunlight,
I noticed that there were three (3) benches facing the sun...by GOD'S GRACE - I chose to sit on
the end of the 3rd bench.
As I sat on the end of the 3rd bench, I asked the man who was already sitting there -"Do you
mind if I sit with you?" He welcomed me to sit there.
While we sat there, we began to discuss GOD'S WORD/THE BIBLE ; we both agreed that we
"LOVE GOD'S WORD".
As we continued talking, the Man said that He was waiting to catch the bus to Orlando, Florida,
and that He had a good recommendation for a good job in Orlando, and that He had been out of
a job for a long time.
WE continued talking, and the Man asked me if I would please give to Him 56 cents (fifty-six cents).
He said that was all the money that He lacked in order to pay for the bus ticket.
Quickly I searched all of my pockets, and I found ONLY a key to our room in which my wife and I
were staying. So I asked Him, "PLEASE wait right here, and I will go up to my room, get the money, and bring it to You"... He agreed to wait. As I rode the elevator up to our room, I decided to give to Him MORE than (fifty six cents). I found a $10.00 bill in our room, and purposed to give that to him.
He received the $10.00 gratefully. At about that time the bus to Orlando stopped directly across from
us, so He stood up, we exchanged "good bye"s, and as He walked away, I told Him that "I will be praying for You". He thanked me.
Because the bus stop was on the far side of the street, I could not actually see Him board the bus; but when the bus pulled away...I could see that He was no longer on the sidewalk.
I remember thinking "..when I first sat by the Man --- (that) HE had the most serene peace and gentle love about Him...
As I have prayed about this (encounter) over the intervening years, I have concluded that this was indeed an "epiphany": ('A revelatory manifestation-especially of a Divine Being).
We must remember that JESUS CHRIST - HE WHO IS "THE TRUTH" (John 14:6),
states in Matthew 28:20 "I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS."
O WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS!
TREMBLE BEFORE HIM, ALL THE EARTH."
(1 Chronicles 16:29-30)
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