A LETTER TO HOLY GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER!!!!!!!!!!!! www.galileebreeze.blogspot.com

 OH HOLY GOD OUR FATHER---I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!! YOU Chose me, Adopted me, and Accepted me as YOURS In JESUS!!!!!!!!! (Ephesians 1:1-6).

I bow before YOU!!!!!!!!!

YOU are the Author of my life.  YOU "wrote down my every day before the day of my birth". (Psalm 139:16)  (YOU "put me together in my Mother's womb." (Psalm 139:13).

YOU "will complete the work which YOU have begun in me, and each and every one of us" who accept JESUS CHRIST as our LORD and SAVIOR! (Philippians 1:6). (John 3:16/John 17:3).

I love YOU for WHO YOU ARE!!!!!!!! 

                                                 YOU ARE "the ONLY TRUE GOD" (John 17:3)!!!  (This--- JESUS HIMSELF declared in HIS Prayer for us!!!!!).

I Exalt YOU!!!!   I WORSHIP YOU!!!!  YOU are "WORTHY to receive All Glory---All Honor---All Blessings---All Praise---All          Thanksgiving---All Love---All Majesty---All Power---All Might---     All Dominion---All Blessing---All Dedication---All Surrender---All Reverence---All Awe---All Obedience---Forever!!!!!!!!!!!! (Revelation 5:12 ++++++++++++).

THE TRUTH that YOU ARE "with me" (Matthew 28:20/Psalm 139:1-12/Amplified Bible +++++); THE TRUTH that YOU love me through Every Heartbeat and Every Breath---AND---BETWEEN Every Heartbeat and Every Breath!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE TRUTH that YOU paid the Highest Possible Price for me by sending YOUR ONLY SON (JESUS!!!!!!!!)  to be "despised, rejected, forsaken, wounded, crushed, to carry Our grief, sorrows...the punishment (necessary) for us to have peace and well-being...and YOU our LORD and GOD put upon YOUR SON JESUS---the guilt and iniquity of us All..."(Isaiah 53:1-12)...so that we can be saved (John 3:16) and filled with YOUR Holy Spirit (John 20:22)...and so that "...as we continue to behold [in YOUR WORD OH GOD] as in a mirror, the Glory of YOU LORD, and we are constantly being transfigured into HIS very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from THE LORD [WHO IS THE SPIRIT]." (2 Corinthians 3:18/Amplified Bible).

That we may come to Live with YOU IN HEAVEN---

I bow to YOU---that YOU may make All this to BE SO in and through me...(All of YOUR sons and daughters)!!!

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!

Surrendering...in ADORATION of YOU "OH GOD MOST HIGH..." (Psalm 47:2) "OUR Heavenly FATHER..."         !!!!!!!!!(Mathew 6:14).

YOUR Barry

 

GOD'S MERCY COST US NOTHING........ www.galileebreeze.blogspot.com

HIS MERCY cost HIM HIS ONLY SON!!!!!!!!! 

"To whom has the Arm (HIS Perfect Love, Grace, Mercy, Healing, Saving) of the LORD been revealed?"  To   You, and me---Each and All!!!!! (Isaiah 53:1).

HE (JESUS) had no Stately Form, no Royal Kingly Splendor, no beauty, no appearance that we should desire HIM. HE was  A MAN of sorrows and acquainted  with grief and sickness; and like ONE from whom men hid their faces.. HE was despised, and rejected, and forsaken by men, and we did not appreciate HIS Worth or have any Esteem for HIM."

"Surely HE has carried our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried   Our   sorrows and pains of punishment...But HE was wounded for   Our   transgressions, HE was Crushed for  Our  guilt and iniquities, the punishment (Necessary) for    Our   peace and well-being was put on HIM, and with the stripes (that wounded HIM) we  are healed and made whole."

"All we   (me and You)   like sheep - have gone astray.  every one of      Us   we have turned to our own way; and GOD has made to fall on HIM (JESUS) the guilt and iniquity of   Us   All." (Isaiah 53:1-6/Amplified Bible).

"Blessed be the GOD and FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, the FATHER of Mercies, the GOD WHO is the Source of every Comfort   (Consolation and Encouragement).  HE WHO consoles and encourages us in every difficulty...So that we may console and encourage others in their difficulties, (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).

OUR HEAVENLY FATHER says to us:

1) I love   you   as if  you  were the ONLY child I will ever have.  (I gave MY ONLY SON to save   you). (John 3:16).

2) "I will have mercy on   you...". (Hosea 2:23).

3) "My rod and staff will Comfort   you. (Psalm 23:4).  

4)  "For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but MY kindness shall not depart from   you,  nor shall MY covenant of peace  bs removed, says the LORD, WHO has Mercy on   you. (Isaiah 54:10).

5) I will hold   you. (Isaiah 41:13).

6) "The Eternal GOD is   your   refuge...and underneath are (MY)  everlasting/ever present arms." (Deuteronomy33:27).

7) "In the day when I cried out, YOU answered  me..."   (Psalm 138:3).

8) "I will extend peace to  you   like a river...you   will (like a child) be bounced on MY knees... as   one  whom his Mother comforts, so  I  will comfort   you." (Isaiah 66:12-13). (New King James Version Bible).

JESUS was despised, rejected, forsaken, oppressed, crushed, afflicted,and punished for  You and me. (Isaiah 53:1-6/Amplified Bible).

JESUS ("The TRUTH"/John 14:6)---HIS promises to   you   and   me - each  and  all of us:                              1) "We  are Chosen, Adopted, and accepted in HIM..."    (Ephesians 1:1-6).                                                         2) HE declares in HIS WORD: I will not leave  you  nor forsake   you." (Isaiah 41:17/Isaiah 42:16).                  3) "I AM with   you   always." (Matthew 28:20).            4) JESUS is "... the YES and AMEN to every promise of GOD". (2 Corinthians 1:20).

"Be still and know that I AM GOD..." (Psalm 46:10).      DEFINITION: "know" - to be acquainted with/to Experience HIM."

The most effective way that I have experienced is:        1)Sit still in a quiet place; (2) "Bring your thoughts captive to the Obedience of JESUS" (2 Corinthians 10:5); (3) Close your eyes; (4) Ignore the time;            5) Focus on GOD.

Please do NOT try this ONLY one (1) time. Do this

several times in the 30 days.                                        HE is waiting for YOU with HIS Warm, Open Heart of HIS Perfect Love..."and underneath are HIS everlasting/ever present arms..." (Deuteronomy 33:27).

Because JESUS paid it All for   us... Lets end this with a  BLESSING:

"And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying...This is the Way you shall bless (MY people): Say to them:                    "The LORD Bless  you   and keep   you; fhe LORD make HIS Face shine upon  you, and be gracious to  you, the LORD look upon   you   with favor, and give   you peace."

"So they shall put MY NAME on them, and I will Bless  them. (Numbers 6:22-27).

AMEN---YES, let it BE SO!!!!!!!!                                   

THE SECOND FLOOD??? THE POWER OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS!!!!!!!!

The first flood was in Noah's time...When "...the waters rose up so deep that the waters covered the highest mountains ( Yes, even Everest) by at least 22 feet (7 meters). {Genesis 7:17-24; plus (+) the footnotes underneath Gen. 7:17-24}.

From the First (water)-flood ---Noah, his wife, their 3 sons, and the wife of each son were all saved from the flood---a total of 8 people.  (In the BIBLE - The number "8" is most often associated with new beginnings/Resurrections.

The second flood was the BLOOD OF GOD'S ONLY SON JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!

The flood of Noah's time was a flood of such GLOBAL VOLUME of water---to wash away sin and the people of sin.

The Second flood - JESUS' BLOOD!!! was of SUFFICIENT HOLY RIGHTEOUS POWER to cover the sins of ALL people!!!

In (John 1:29) John the Baptizer saw JESUS and declared "Behold! The LAMB of GOD Who takes away the sin of the world!!!"

"There is Life, Power, Protection, and total Deliverance in the Blood of the LAMB.  HIS Blood is SUFFICIENT to save our souls and heal every disease or infirmity."

"For the life of the flesh is in The Blood.  And I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the Blood that makes atonement for the soul." (Leviticus 17:11).

DEFINITION: "Make atonement, chapar ("kah-par"), Strongs # 37225. The primary meaning is "to cover".  The verb (chapar) is used in (Genesis 6:14) where Noah was instructed to cover the ark with pitch." (Numbers 15:25/New Kings Bible/Word Wealth Edition).

1. "There is PROTECTION under the covering of the Blood. "Now the Blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the Blood, I will Pass Over you when I strike the land of Egypt." (Exodus 12:13).

2. "There is SALVATION under the covering of the Blood. "And HE said to them, "This is MY Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many.  "Nor is there Salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be Saved. (Acts 4:12).

3). "There is HEALING under the covering of the Blood.  "But HE was wounded for our transgressions, HE was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement (necessary) for our peace was (put) upon HIM, and by HIS stripes we are healed," (Isaiah 53:5).

4. "There is PROVISION under the covering of the Blood."  "HE also  brought them out with silver and gold..." (Psalm 105:37a).

5. "There is LIFE under the covering of Blood. And there was none feeble among His tribes...(Psalm 105:37b). "...Life is in the Blood... " (Lev.17:14).  "...I have come that they have life, and that they may it more abundantly." (John 10:10b.).

6. "There is FORGIVENESS under the covering of the Blood.  "And according to the law almost things are purified with Blood, and without shedding of Blood there is no forgiveness." (Hebrews 9:22).

7. "There is CLEANSING under the covering of the Blood.  "But if we walk in the light as HE is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the Blood of JESUS CHRIST HIS SON cleanses us of all sin." (1 John 1:7).

8. "There is REDEMPTION under the covering of the Blood.  "In HIM we have redemption through HIS Blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of HIS grace." (Ephesians 1:7).

9. "There is JUSTIFICATION under the covering of the Blood.  "Much more then, having now been justified by HIS Blood, we shall be saved from wrath through HIM." (Romans 5:9).

10. "There is sanctification under the covering of the Blood.  "Therefore JESUS also that HE might sanctify the people with HIS own Blood, suffered outside the gate."  (Hebrews 13:12).

11. "There is PEACE under the covering of the Blood. "For it pleased the FATHER that in HIM all the fullness should dwell, and by HIM to reconcile all things to HIMSELF, by HIM, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the Blood of HIS cross." (Colossians 1:19-20).

12. "There is washing in the Blood.  "And from JESUS CHRIST, the Faithful Witness, the Firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.  To HIM Who loved us and washed us from our sins in HIS Own Blood." (Revelation 1:5).

13. "There is OVERCOMING POWER in the blood.  "And they overcame him by the Blood of the LAMB and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death." (Rev. 12:11).

14. "There is SPEAKING POWER in the Blood. crying out for mercy, grace and blessing on our behalf.  "To JESUS the MEDIATOR of the new Covenant, and to the Blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel." (Hebrews 12:24).

15. "There is ACCESSING ABILITY in the Blood, allowing us into the PRESENCE of GOD>  "Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the HOLIEST by the Blood of JESUS," (Hebrews 10:19).

{From The Hidden Power of the BLOOD of JESUS." Mahesh Chavda. Destiny Image Publishers.  "Occasional page copying is permitted and encouraged."

Ask JESUS to Save You!  Ask HIM to fill you with the HOLY SPIRIT!!!  PLEAD THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST OVER YOURSELF, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR HOME, OVER EVERY PLACE THAT YOU GO!!!!!!!!  

"...YOU are MINE...!!!!!!!! www.galileebreeze.blogspot.com

GOD says: "..."I AM GOD Most High" (Psalm 47:2)

I AM HE Who created the earth and the universe, and all that is on the earth, and in the universe...in six (6) days---and rested on the seventh  (7th) day. (Genesis 1:1-31).

I AM the ONE WHO "...Chose You, and Adopted You, and Accepted your you as Mine in JESUS. (Ephesians 1:1-6).

I AM the ONE WHO "...put you together in your mother's womb, (Psalm 139:15).

I AM your Heavenly Father WHO "...wrote down  Your every day before the day of your birth." (Psalm 139:16).

I, Your Heavenly Father, Am always thinking of You---"How precious are Your thoughts toward me, O GOD!!!  How great is the sum of them!  If I should count them, they would be more than the sand!"      (Psalm 139:17-18).

"MY plans for you are plans for good...to give you a future and a           hope." (Jeremiah 29:11).                                                                          (MY plans for you are based on, and empowered by--- MY faithfulness to my Righteous Character and to MY WORD). (2 Timothy 2:13/Amplified Bible).

JESUS says "...I AM with you Always." (Matthew 28:20)

"I WHO keeps You ---shall Neither slumber nor sleep." (Psalm 121:3-4).

I Love You the same each day---as the day MY ONLY SON  died on the cross to save You from your sins.  "I AM the LORD, I do not change." (Malachi 3:6).  

"JESUS CHRIST is the SAME yesterday, today, and Forever." (Hebrews 13:8).

                                                                                                                  "...Thus says the LORD, WHO created you, and HE WHO formed you...Fear not, for I have Redeemed you; I HAVE CALLED You BY YOUR NAME;  YOU ARE MINE!!!". (Isaiah 43:1),

**** NOW - You and I are to Regularly Declare: (Put Your name in the Blank space)---I         am chosen to be Saved (John 3:16), filled with the HOLY SPIRIT (John 20:22), bow down before GOD regularly, study HIS WORD, and Share it with others.****

GOD says: "I AM the ONE TRUE GOD."  WHO declares that "...in and through You I can Do that which is far over and above ALL that you  dare ask or think (Infinitely Beyond  our Highest Prayers, Desires, Thoughts, Hopes, or Dreams...".  (Ephesians 3:20/Amplified Bible).

GOD our FATHER says to us: "I Love YOU with MY Everlasting/Ever Present LOVE." (Jeremiah 31:3).

"If We are faithless (do not believe and are untrue to HIM), HE remains TRUE (Faithful to HIS WORD and HIS Righteous Character) for HE cannot deny HIMSELF," (2 Timothy 2:13/Amplified Bible).

"JESUS CHRIST is the 'YES' and 'AMEN' to Every Promise of GOD." (2 Corinthians 1:20).

JESUS says "HE (the HOLY SPIRIT) will guide You into all TRUTH."    (John 16:13).

"Now to the KING ETERNAL, IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, To GOD WHO ALONE is WISE, be HONOR and GLORY Forever and Ever. AMEN." (1 Timothy 1:17)

           

"I NEED..." www,galileebreeze.blogspot.com

 Sub-Title: "GOD'S LOVE...HIS PLAN...HIS SEEDS...HIS HARVEST...HIS GLORY!!!!!!!!!

Much too often...I SAY "I NEED..." when it is really only a desire, rather than a 'Need'!!!

Definition-NEED...A lack of something Required, a Necessity.

Definition-DESIRE...a Wish, or longing for.

Frequently, I say - "I need to Exercise three (3) times per week in order to maintain good health. (That fits the definition of Need- Necessity/Required).

HOLY GOD OUR FATHER WANTS to Meet our Needs (Luke 15:31).  Today (7-3-2025) I have been Praying - "I need healing for my back...".  Of course I WANT to be healed QUICKLY---But O so     Graciously Our FATHER Gently reminds me that HE has a more far-reaching plan and time for HIS healing for my back...

For Example: When I go to the Doctor's office...I will see many other people that HE wants me to Pray for... and Maybe some of them will pray for me!

Because GOD has written down (in Psalm 139:16) that "...HE wrote down our EVERY day --- BEFORE the day of our birth!!!  (So HE knows whom I will See, or will be seen By... on Every Day!!!

HE UNDERSTANDS us!!! (Proverbs 8:14).  HE KNOWS that waiting PATIENTLY is difficult for us:  So HE has provided for us HIS HOLY SPIRIT to enable us:  "But the Fruit of THE HOLY SPIRIT is: Love, Joy, Peace, PATIENCE, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control." (Galatians 5:22-23).

Let me relate to you a True Story:  A man named William Jennings Bryan  lived in the United States of America from 1860 - 1925.  Mr, Bryan was both a lawyer and a politician.  He had, (and exercised),  a strong Christian Faith.  He was a truly Excellent speaker...so gifted a speaker that he was called "The Silver-Tongued Orator" (Speaker).  In one of the books (IN HIS IMAGE) which he wrote ...He tells a personal story:  "I was passing through Ohio some years ago and stopped to eat at a restaurant.  My attention was called to a slice of watermelon, and I ordered it and ate it.  I was so pleased with the melon that I asked the waiter to dry some of the seeds so that I may take them home and plant them in my garden.  That night a thought came into my mind---I would use that watermelon as an illustration.  So, the next morning when I reached Chicago, I had enough seeds weighed  to learn that it would take about five thousand (5,000) seeds to weigh a pound, and I estimated that the watermelon weighed about forty (40) pounds. Then I applied mathematics to the watermelon.  A few weeks ago before, someone, I know not who, had planted a little watermelon seed in the ground,  Under the influence of sunshine and shower that little seed had  'taken off its coat and gone to work' ; it had gathered from somewhere two hundred thousand (200,000) times its own weight, and forced that enormous weight through a tiny stem and built a watermelon.  On the outside it had put a covering of green, within that a rind of white and within the white-a core of red, and then it had scattered through the red core little seeds, each one capable of doing the same work again,  What architect drew the plan?  Where did that little watermelon seed get its tremendous strength?  Where did it find its flavoring extract and its coloring matter?"  

"Then GOD said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind..."(Genesis 1:11).

So let US seek, AND FOLLOW GOD'S WISDOM (1 Corinthians 1:30) and timing for our days and nights...BOWING before HIM and asking HIM to fill us with HIS HOLY SPIRIT so that through us---HE can bring about HIS Harvest of GLORY to HIM--- by us scattering HIS seeds into other people's lives!

Those seeds will repeat the same work again, and AGAIN and AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

JESUS says to us:

"...you shall be baptized with THE HOLY SPIRIT... (Acts 1:5).

"...you shall receive power when THE HOLY SPIRIT has come upon you..." (Acts 1:8).

"...Repent and let you be baptized in the NAME of JESUS CHRIST for the forgiveness of sins; and you shall receive the HOLY SPIRIT..." (Acts 2:38).

"And when HE (JESUS) had said this, HE breathed on them and said  (Ask) and RECEIVE the HOLY SPIRIT." (John 20:22).

"He (THE HOLY SPIRIT) will guide you into all truth." (John 16:13).

BY HIS HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH US...HE SHALL BRING A HARVEST OF GLORY TO HIMSELF!!!!!!!!! 

HOLY GOD'S LOVE AND PLANS FOR EACH AND ALL!!!! www.galileebreeze.blogspot.com

"Now it came to pass, in the days when judges led Israel, that there was a famine in the land...and a certain man of Bethlehem (his name was Elimelech);  He and his wife (Naomi), and their two (2) sons moved to another country called Moab....then Elimelech died; and Naomi was left with her two sons...Naomi's two sons took wives from Moab;...then both of her sons died.  So Naomi survived both her sons, and her husband. (Ruth 1:1-5/The Living Bible).

Naomi decided to return to Israel with her two (2) daughters-in-law (Orpah and Ruth), for she heard that the LORD had blessed Israel by giving them good crops again.  

But after they began their journey, Naomi changed her mind and said to Orpah and Ruth, 'why don't you return to Moab?'...she spoke kindly to them...                                                                                                  From The footnote: "Kindly" translated from the Hebrew word "hesed" carries the idea of love and loyalty---a Covenant of Constancy.  Naomi knows  YAHWEH (The LORD)'S character and prayed that Orpah and Ruth will experience HIS Goodness, that HE is Kind and Trustworthy.

"Orpah and Ruth said to Naomi: 'We will return with you to your people...they lifted up their voices and wept...Orpah  kissed Naomi...and Ruth CLUNG to Naomi and embraced Naomi.  Ruth said to Naomi 'urge me NOT to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, wherever you lodge-I will lodge; your people will be my people, and your GOD will be my GOD.'" (Ruth 1:1-16).

So Naomi returned to Bethlehem, and Ruth with her.  (****Yes, THIS Bethlehem---where generations later JESUS was born.****).  So Ruth said to Naomi...'Please let me go to glean the grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.'  Naomi said to Ruth, 'Go, my daughter.'

Ruth went and gleaned in the field after the reapers.  And she HAPPENED to come into the part of the field that belonged to Boaz who was of the family of Elimelech (Naomi's deceased husband). When Boaz came to the field of grain, he spoke to Ruth: 'Listen, my child, stay right here to glean; don't think of going to any other field. Stay right behind my women workers.  I have warned the young men to not bother you...help yourself to the drinking water."

Ruth thanked him warmly: 'How can you be so kind to me?  You must know that I am only a foreigner.'  Boaz replied, 'Yes I know, and I also know about all the love and kindness you have given to your Mother-in-law...and that you have come to live among strangers.  May the LORD GOD of Israel, under Whose wings you have come to take refuge, Bless you for it.'"

Ruth answered, 'O thank you sir. You are so kind to me, and I am not even one of Your workers'...so Ruth worked there all day...and she gleaned a great amount of grain!  She carried it to Naomi with what was left from her lunch.

'So Much!!!!' Naomi exclaimed!  'Where did you glean today?  Praise the LORD for whoever was so kind to you!'  Ruth told her all about it, and mentioned that the owner of the field was Boaz.  Naomi said, 'Praise the LORD for a man like that!  GOD has continued HIS kindness to us!  That man Boaz is one of our closest relatives...our Kinsman-Redeemer!'  [Just as JESUS is to all who follow HIM!!!].

So Boaz (her Kinsman-Redeemer) became Ruth's husband!!!!  Through Boaz's and Ruth's son "Obed" they became ancestors in the tribe of Judah...which is the tribe from which King David, AND our HOLY LORD JESUS CHRIST descended!!!! !!!!                                   (The name "Obed" means "Worshiper").

What should You and I GLEAN from this GOD'S WORD???? ????

A. No matter Where your life began----in submiting to GOD through JESUS CHRIST---with HOLY GOD'S plan of redemption -''We come into GOD'S family!!!!" (Ruth 4:16-22/Living Bible).

B. "The book of Ruth enobles the Beauty of Commitment and underscores the Values of family Commitment. (From the Foreword to the Book of Ruth/NEW KING JAMES BIBLE).       

JESUS says in John 16:13---"HE (the Holy Spirit) will guide you into all Truth."                                                                                                JESUS says in John 14:6---"I AM the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the FATHER (in heaven) except through ME," 

"Blessed be the GOD and FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER of Mercies and GOD of all comfort, consolation, and     encouragement." (2 Corinthians 1:3/Amplified Bible).

PLEASE OH PLEASE---You read the book of Ruth for Yourself!!!! (It is only 5 pages!!!!). If you will read the whole book...You will be BLESSED with many Personal insights!!!!

SHALOM SHALOM!!!!

**** "JESUS...HE HIMSELF IS OUR PEACE(Ephesians 2:14/Luke1:79) "JESUS SHALOM, JESUS SHALOM JESUS SHALOM JESUS SHALOM****

Definitions:  (1) JESUS (Greek);  (2) YESHUA  (Hebrew): HE IS OUR SAVIOR/OUR WHOLENESS!!!!

(3) "SHALOM" : ("Sha-loam"), (Strongs #7965) "Completeness, wholeness, peace, health, welfare, safety, soundness, tranquility, prosperity, perfection, fullness, rest, harmony; the absence of agi-tation or discord.  Shalom is much more than the absence of war and conflict. It is the wholeness that the entire human race seeks"!!!            ****In (Isaiah 53:5) "...The chastisement (punishment)  NECESSARY for us to have peace was put upon JESUS, the Suffering Servant."

****Please allow me to here insert some information that will enable the rest of this message to be more clear and meaningful:                      In the BIBLE, each letter in each word---has a Numerical value.  "The  number eight (8) is specially associated with Resurrection, Re-  generation, and the beginning of a new era, or order." (Number in Scripture. E. W. Bullinger.  Kregel Publications. Grand Rapids,Mich).

Two Examples: (A) On the ark, during the flood (Genesis 8:1-22), there were Noah, his wife, their (3) sons, and each son's wife = 8!!!!                                                                                                          (B) In the New Testament, the numerical value of the letters in the name JESUS is 888********                                                                  **** As you read this message, you will notice that Alternate sections are the Name Jesus and Shalom (8) times!!!!*******

****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****    ****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom  Jesus Shalom****   

"The woman said to Him (Jesus), 'I know that Messiah is coming...HE will tell us all things,  Jesus said to her, I Who speak to you am HE." (John 4:1-19).

****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****  ****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom**** 

"I AM the Living Bread Which came down from heaven."( John 6:51).

****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****    ****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****

"It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing.  The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life." (John 6:63).

****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****    ****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom  Jesus Shalom**** 

"I AM the light of the world.  He who follows ME shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." (John 8:12).

****Jesus Shalom  Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****   ****Jesus Shalom  Jesus Shalom  Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****

"Most assuredly, I say he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up another way, the same is a thief and a robber.  But he who enters by the door is the Shepherd of the sheep." (John 10:1-2).

****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****  ****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****

"Then Jesus said to them, I am the door of the sheep. (John 10:7).    Footnote: Entering the sheepfold through Jesus is a saving action and provides the sheep with abundant life and provision. (The picture is one of security and safety in Jesus as the door to the sheep's daily comings and goings.")

****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****  ****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****

"Now Martha said to Jesus, 'Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died...I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.' "Jesus said to her, I AM the resurrection and the life.  He who believes in ME, though he die, he shall live." (John 21-27).

****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom**** **** Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****

"Jesus said " 'I go...and prepare a place for you...I will come again and receive you to MYSELF; that where I AM there you may be also..Jesus said to him,  L AM the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through ME." (John 14:1-6).

****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****  ****Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom Jesus Shalom****

"If you love ME, you will keep MY commandments.  And I will pray the Father, and HE will give you Another Helper that He will abide with you forever. (The Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive.  But you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.)  {"Another: one just like Me...He will do in My absence what I would do if I were physically with you.  (John 14:15-16/(Word Wealth Edition).

 In JESUS CHRIST'S HOLY NAME!!!!!!!!            Shalom   Shalom                

****PRAYER...PRAISE...WORSHIP...UNTO GOD LEAD TO... PEACE, REST, JOY, AND THANKSGIVING AND VICTORY IN LIFE!!!!!!!!

PRAYER, PRAISE, WORSHIP, GIVING THANKS TO GOD... ALL BEGIN WITH "A"???

Oh GOD our Heavenly FATHER - So Gracious and Merciful and Loving---YOU  give to us gifts that display YOUR Character ---           because "...everything that is Truly Good comes from YOU!!!!!!!!       (James 1:17).

When I have difficulty going to sleep, or when I am waiting for someone...GOD has given to me a way to use that time for HIS Glory, and to  Bless others!!!...

"Beginning with "A"???

A. "Amen"---used most often to end prayer (meaning -  "I agree, let it be   so!"  Also to end the "Blessing" before eating a meal.

"Amen" is actually one of the Names of JESUS CHRIST!!! In (2 Cor-  inthians 1: 20):  "For the SON OF GOD , JESUS CHRIST...for all the  promises of GOD in HIM are Yes, and  in HIM, AMEN, to the Glory of GOD through us."

B. In (John 1:29), John the Baptist says "Behold the LAMB of GOD WHO takes away the sin of the world"!

C. CHRIST - the Greek translation of MESSIAH!  Also, JESUS is coming back for those of us who have accepted HIM as Savior and LORD.  

D. HOLY GOD, HIS SON JESUS is not a distant deity.  HE is the One True GOD---Who chooses to live in our hearts when we ask HIM to!!!  "They are the excellent ones in whom is My delight."             (Psalm 16:3).

E. GOD loves you/me/us with HIS "Everlasting love.." (Jeremiah 31:3).  "The Eternal GOD is your refuge...and underneath are the         Everlasting arms."  (Deuteronomy 33:27).  *The word for "ever-        lasting can also be translated "Ever PRESENT".

F.  GOD is our Heavenly "Father...Forever...Faithful". (Ephesians 

1: 1-6/ 1 Timothy 2:13/Amplified Bible).

G. GOD is SO good that HE gave HIS ONLY SON to save us from our sins. (John 3:16).

H. GOD is "HOLY! HOLY! HOLY!" (Isaiah 6:3).  HE is "Here with us...and For us always." (Matthew 28:20/Psalm 1:39:1-12/Romans 8:  31).

I. "I AM WHO I AM" (Exodus 3:14).  JESUS says "I AM the resur-      rection and the Life." (John 11:25).

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I (Barry) do not have room enough in this space to give an explanation for all 26 alphabet letters. But I have something better for you near the end of this message.

J. JESUS is "the name above all names" (Philippians 2:9).  K "KING

OF KINGS". (Revelation 19:16).   L LOVE; "LORD of LORDS".        (Revelation 19:16).   M  "Father of Mercies" (2 Cor. 1:3).   N  " I will  never leave you nor forsake you..." (Joshua 1:5).  O  Omnipotent "Al-  mighty" (Genesis 17:1).  Omni-Present "With you always." (Matt. 28:  20).   P.  "PRINCE of PEACE". (Isaiah 9:6).  Q.  "...looking forward to His promise...be found by HIM in gentle and quiet spirit..." (1 Peter    3:14).   R. "Jesus became for us Righteousness from GOD..."(1 Cor.    1:30).  S.  Salvation (John 3:16)/  Safety "I will both lie down in peace and sleep For YOU alone,  O LORD, make me dwell in safety."  (Psalm 4:8).    T TRUTH (John 14:6).  U  "I am understanding..." (Proverbs 8:14).  V. Victory. (Acts 2:29-36).  W.  Wisdom "...JESUS     became for us wisdom from GOD...".  (1 Cor. 1:30).  X. "GOD has      bestowed on us all things suited to life and godliness, through the full,  personal knowledge of HIM WHO called us by and to HIS glory and excellence." (2 Peter 1:3).  Y. YAHWEH. (Exodus 3:14).  Z. Zion "The city of the LORD." (Isaiah 60:14).  (Personally, I like to use "Zip code" for (Z).  GOD always knows where I am (Psalm 139:1-16), and HE can communicate with me any way that he wants!!!

My personal experience: I have been doing this for several years...and it (HIS WORD) always calms me, strengthens my faith, and richly blesses me in ways unspeakable!!! (Ephesians 3:20).

Occasionally our Most Intimate FATHER GOD gives to me a New word for 1 of the 26 letters...and it is genuinely thrilling how it touches my heart - how intimate HIS love is (HE WHO knows my thoughts before I think them, my words before I say them - He wrote  down my every day before I was born, and He always has good plans  for me (Psalm 139:1-24/Jeremiah 29:11).

PLEASE, I Urge you, TRY this for two (2) weeks, and personally experience HIM for yourself!!!

AMEN (let it Be So in my life)!!!                                                          ALL GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!! (Rev 5:12). 

 

    

 

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 In Exodus 26-27 we find Moses passing on GOD'S commandments      about how to make, and how to use, the items used in the tabernacle.  

In Exodus 27:20 He is giving the commandments for "The care of the   Lampstand." 

"And you shall command the children of Israel that they bring to you   PURE OIL of Pressed olives for the light to burn Continually."             ("JESUS is the Same yesterday, today, and forever."  (Hebrews 13:8).

From the Footnote under Exodus 27:20: "The oil to be burned in the lamp was symbolic of the Holy Spirit.  BEATEN olive oil, which was  the Best, was used in the tabernacle.  To obtain the oil,  olives were gently pounded in a bowl and the oil was extracted from the pulp."

I recall reading in a study about olives...that "..harvesting the olives    was accomplished by using poles to beat the limbs of the olive trees...  this caused the olives to fall to the ground,"

JESUS' limbs (arms, legs) head, and body were BEATEN: ("they struck HIM on the head...and they spat on HIM") (Mark 15:19).            "Pilate, wanting to gratify the crowd, delivered JESUS to them, after he had scourged HIM,..to be crucified." (Mark 15:15).

JESUS was Beaten/Whipped---                                                                Footnote for Matthew:27:26--- "A victim to be scourged was stripped  and tied to a whipping post.  Then he was beaten mercilessly with a    whip consisting of several leather thongs, each loaded with jagged pieces of metal or bone and weighted at the end with lead. Fragments  of flesh would be torn from the victims, some of whom did not survive the ordeal."

(JESUS)- "A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, HE was wounded for OUR transgressions, HE was crushed for OUR iniquities  ...the Chastisement NECESSARY for OUR peace was upon HIM, and by  HIS stripes We are healed."  (Isaiah 53:3-5).     

The place where JESUS was betrayed, and arrested---was named the Garden of Gethsemane.  "Gethsemane" means "OLIVE PRESS"---       a place where the oil was pressed out of the olives by CRUSHING the olives.

IN (JOHN 8:12) JESUS declares: "I AM THE LIGHT..."

"For GOD WHO said, 'let light shine out of darkness' (Genesis 1:3-4)  HE has shone in our hearts so as (to beam forth) the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the MAJESTY and GLORY of GOD  (as it is manifest in the PERSON and is revealed) in the FACE of JESUS  CHRIST, the MESSIAH." (2 Corinthians 4:6/Amplified Bible).

So, what is to be our (Ongoing) response to this HIS WORD?

Let us confess our sins quickly, ask GOD for forgiveness, and repent...so that HIS PURE LIGHT shines through us.

JESUS says: "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and GLORIFY your FATHER IN HEAVEN>"            (Matthew 5:16).

AMEN.   

****BECOMING ONE****

JESUS PRAYS FOR ALL BELIEVERS.....                                                                     

"FATHER, the hour has come.  Glorify YOUR SON, that YOUR           SON also  may glorify YOU.  YOU have given HIM authority over         all flesh, that HE shall give eternal life to as many as YOU have         given HIM.

I have manifested (revealed) YOUR NAME to those whom YOU        have given ME out of the world.  They were YOURS, YOU gave them to  ME, and they have heard Your Word.

"Now they have known that all things which YOU have given ME      are from YOU.  For I have given unto them the words which YOU have  given Me, and they have received them, and have known surely that  I came forth from YOU; and they have believed that YOU sent ME.

"I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who believe in ME    through their word...that they may be one, as YOU, FATHER, are in ME, and I in YOU, that they also may be one in US, that the world      may believe that YOU sent ME.

"And the glory which YOU gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as WE are ONE. (John 17:1...22).

"I in them, and YOU in ME; ...that they may be made complete in one, that the world may know that YOU HAVE SENT ME, AND        HAVE LOVED THEM AS YOU LOVE ME." (John 17:23).

FATHER, I desire that they also whom YOU gave ME may be with ME where I AM, that they may behold MY glory which YOU have given  ME, for YOU have loved ME before the foundation of the world."        (John 17:24).

In this chapter (John 17) JESUS declares THREE (3) times that we are to be ONE IN HIM.                                                                                      ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  From the book "Numerics in Scripture" by E. W. Bullinger/Kregel Publications:                                                                                            "All things that are specially complete are stamped with the number three (3),  GOD'S attributes are three (3); Omniscience-(All-Knowing- Psalm 139:1-24).  Omnipresence - ("with us always" (Psalm 139:1-12/Matt. 28:20).   Omnipotence - "I am Almighty" (Genesis 17:1).  THREE Persons in the GODHEAD: FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT. THREE    DENOTES Perfection."

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THE Vital Importance of gathering together:                                         "Then those who Revere (hold in AWE) the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD listened and heard them; So a book of remembrance was written before HIM for those are reverent to HIM  and who meditate on HIS NAME.

"They shall be MINE says the LORD of HOSTS, on the day that I       make them MY special treasures.  And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him." (Malachi 3:16-17).

"And let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,      for HE WHO promised is faithful.  

"And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good        works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much more as the  DAY (of JESUS RETURNING) approaches." (Hebrews 10:23-24).

"O Righteous FATHER! The world has not known YOU, but I have known YOU; and these have known that YOU sent ME." (John 17:25).

O!!! That it may BE SO in our lives!!!!!!!!!       

 AMEN.   

"OUR HEAVENLY FATHER'S BEAUTIFUL, INTIMATE LOVE FOR US!!!

**** Please Read This Aloud ****

JESUS CHRIST - HE WHO "...upholds, maintains, guides, and propels the Universe by HIS Mighty Word of power." (Hebrews           1:1-3/Amplified Bible).

HE WHO Creates Beautiful Flowers with such Exquisite designs of     color and shape, And creates the Beautiful Butterflies that love the       flowers so---

May HE breathe on you the very breath that says: "I love You with my everlasting love...". (Jeremiah 31:3)...

"THE ETERNAL GOD Is your Refuge...and underneath are the            Everlasting Arms..."  (Deuteronomy 33:27).

"Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the Shield of the LORD."  (Deuteronomy 33:29).

The breath that says "I call you Friend". (John 15:15).

The breath that says: "It is Finished".  (John 19:30).

AS I went outside to give these thoughts back to GOD our Heavenly    Father...I saw a butterfly on the ground, walking--- I very gently picked  it up, and carried it to some beautiful flowers that were growing in the sunshine.

As I sat underneath the White Dogwood tree...exchanging these thoughts with our Heavenly Father...a breeze stirred the White              dogwood tree  -  causing a shower of white petals to Blanket me.

In (Revelation 22:2) "the leaves of the tree of life are for healing          and restoration..."

May this (HIS) word be for Your healing and restoration:

"I have called you by your name, You are Mine..."  (Isaiah 43:1).

"I am called "...a child of God..."  (John 1:12).

" I (Jesus) have called you 'Friend' ".  (John 15:15)

"I love you with My everlasting love..(Jeremiah 31:3).

"...in Me, you may have peace."  (John 16:33).

"JESUS CHRIST is the same yesterday, today, and forever."                  (Hebrews 13:8).

In the paragraph about the Butterfly (above)...The Hand that moved    the butterfly, placing it gently among the flowers in the sOnshine        is our Father God's hand... You are the butterfly...the breeze is the        Holy Spirit, JESUS says in (John 8:12): "I AM the light." 

Now, Please read it Two Times more!!!                                   

 

"SOUNDS OF MERCY, AND GRACE...AND..."

 Once while serving on a Christian Men's Retreat, I heard the Worship Leader singing the song "Amazing Grace".

That song begins with the beautiful and Holy Declaration: "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me..." As I sang along with that song...the Holy Spirit prompted me to ask:  "Father, what were those Sweet Sounds?"  He answered me, giving to me understanding:  "Those 'Sweet Sounds' were music."...I said..."Music?!?!?".

In the music---the "percussion instruments" were (1) The HAMMER DRIVING the spikes through JESUS' wrists into the wooden cross; and, (2) The "Thump!" as the cross hit the bottom of the hole in the ground.  (That caused a very Painful "jerk" on JESUS' muscles as the cross came to a sudden halt when it hit the bottom of the hole,).

The "String Instruments" were the lashes of the whip that ripped and tore JESUS' back, sides, arms and legs!!!  

The lyrics (words) of the song were the seven (7) statements that JESUS made while HE was on the cross; plus what the thieves said as they hung on their crosses; plus the Roman soldier's Declaration: "Surely that is a Righteous Man."  JESUS' last statement was "It is Finished!!!". (John 19:30). (Please YOU! look for yourself by reading the New Testament to find the other six (6) things JESUS said while on the cross.

***From a footnote below John 19:30: "It is Finished - The Greek tense indicates that the work of redemption has been COMPLETED ONCE AND FOR ALL, AND it's results are ABIDING CONTINUOUSLY."*****

I Must insert another insight here that the HOLY SPIRIT gave to me just now: The sounds are Sweet to HIM---because HE ALREADY KNOWS the Sweet Sounds that we will sing to HIM for eternity in Heaven (because we accepted HIS sacrifice for our sins!).

Some Helpful definitions: 1) Grace = favor, kindness, affection, un-merited favor, un-deserved Blessings. (Zech. 12:10/2 Cor. 12:9).           (2) Mercy = unfailing love, tenderness, pity, love; active desire to remove distress. (Micah 6:8/Hosea 2:13/Romans 9:15).

There are many great Blessings---From Genesis 1:1-3 "In the beginning...Let there be light"...all the way through Rev. 22:20-21 "Surely I am coming quickly...The grace of our LORD JESUS CHRIST be with you all. Amen."

A partial list of "Sounds" of Grace and Mercy: 1) "...thus says the Lord Who created you..."I have called you by your name...you are Mine,"(Isaiah 43:1.  (2) "I have chosen you, adopted you, and accepted you as Mine in JESUS..." (Eph. 1:1-6). (3)  "I will have Mercy on (him/her) (Hosea 2:2-3).  (4) "The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make HIS face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the LORD turn His smile upon you, and give you peace." (Numbers    6:23-26).  (5) "The Eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms." (Deu. 33:27).  (6) JESUS says "I am with you always." (Matt. 28:20). (7) "Because Your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You." (Psalm 63:3-4).  (8) "But YOU are Holy, you enthrone Yourself in the praises of Your people." (Psalm 22:3).  (9) "As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people.." (Psalms 125:2). (10) Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is in within me." (Psalm 103:1-2)  (11) "Fear not, for I am with you, I will hold your right hand." (Isaiah 41:1-3). (12) "I know the plans that I have for you...plans for you to give you a future and a hope."  (13) "Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, His compassions  fail not...they are new every morning, Great is Your faithfulness..." (Lamentations 3:22-25).  (14) "And Mary will bring forth a Son, and you shall call HIS NAME JESUS, fot HE shall save His people." (Matt. 1:21). (15) "Heaven and earth will pass away, but MY words will by no means pass away." (Mark 13:31).  (16) If you, then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much More will your Heavenly Father give The HOLY SPIRIT to those who ask HIM."  (Luke 11:13). (17) "...HE, the SPIRIT of TRUTH, will guide you into all truth." (John 16:13).

The above is only a partial list.  You Will have deep, thrilling blessings as you add your OWN list!!!  You can read all of GOD'S WORD this year---only about 30-40 minutes each day!  (Get your OWN plan at www.shilohplace.org

Our Sounds to GOD OUR FATHER, JESUS HIS SON, THE HOLY SPIRIT - are to be GIVING THANKS, PRAISE, and WORSHIP!!!  And our Sounds to others shall be: "I forgive you...Please forgive me...JESUS LOVES YOU...THANK YOU...I BLESS YOU IN JESUS CHRIST'S HOLY NAME!!!!!!!!               

*** REJOICE!!!...IN?...OVER? ****

 "REJOICE IN THE LORD"!!!!! ALWAYS!!!  Again I willl say Rejoice!!!"   (Philippians 4:4).

Definition: Rejoice - Joy, to  be greatly happy; to be excessively Happy!

In "THE MESSAGE BIBLE" this verse (Phil 4:4) says:                         "CELEBRATE GOD ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, I MEAN REVEL IN HIM!"

IN the NEW KING JAMES  BIBLE HE declares it this way:                  :...King David LEAPING and TWIRLING  before the LORD...".        (2 Samuel 6:6 New King James Version).).

Some translations state that "GOD rejoices over US with SINGING       and DANCES with Delight over US "!!!!!!!!

"The LORD your GOD in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; HE    will REJOICE over YOU with gladness, HE will quiet you with HIS  love, HE will rejoice over You with Singing."!!!!!!!! (Zephaniah 3:17).

If we focus on OURSELVES, or focus on our Circumstances--- that can make it more difficult to believe that HE REJOICES OVER US!!!

But many times in GOD'S WORD we are taught/Commanded to focus  on HIM---"but we all...behold the Glory of the LORD, being transformed into the same image from glory to glory...by the Spirit of the LORD." (2 Corinthians 3:18).

As we CONTINUE to focus our thoughts on HIM---we are reminded that HE is the "ONE TRUE GOD" (John 17:3)/ "THE LORD MOST HIGH" (Psalm 47:2) 

When HE looks upon us - HE KNOWS by HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE the Most Terrible Price that HE paid for us---and knowing what we will be when "...HE completes HIS good work in us..." (Philippians 1:6)

ONCE FOR ALL TIME AND INTO ETERNITY - HE-THE ONE TRUE GOD SET OUR VALUE TO HIMSELF by paying the HIGHEST POSSIBLE PRICE for EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US-   by sending HIS SON JESUS to a Tortuous death on the cross---to pay for OUR sins!!!  SO, BECAUSE GOD HIMSELF does NOT change     (Malachi 3:6); AND Because JESUS  CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, AND FOREVER." (Hebrews 13:8).---

"THE LORD YOUR GOD in your midst will save...(HE) will rejoice over you with gladness...[In HIS LOVE...He will make NO mention of past sins, nor even recall them].  HE will exult over you with singing." 

Several years ago,  when my wife Mary worked in a town (Dahlonega, Ga.) several miles from our home in Cleveland, Ga.---several times each week I would drive to a gym in Dahlonega-to exercise.  On some of those trips I would first stop by to visit Mary at her office .

On a certain day in April, I stopped by to visit Mary.  As I talked with her---I realized that she was experiencing a day which was even more stressful than usual!

My plan for that day was that I would go to the local library to look for a specific book.  But as I prayed and drove toward the library--- Our LORD gave to me understanding---that rather than look for a book---I should sit outside the library, enjoy the warm sunshine and the spring flowers that our LORD had provided for me...so that I could sit there and pray for Mary!!!

{Please allow me to insert here some information that will help make the rest of the story to be more clear:  Whenever we pray for someone OTHER THAN OURSELVES---it is called Intercessory Prayer}.

As  prayed for Mary, I also began to rejoice and thank our LORD for the warm sunshine, the beautiful flowers, And for the FREEDOM to be there and pray...and to praise and thank our LORD that "...HE HIMSELF is our peace..." (Ephesians 2;14); HE HIMSELF "... is our Strength and our Song..." (Exodus 15:2);  "JESUS CHRIST is the SAME yesterday, today, and forever." (Hebrews 13:8); and that JESUS is "...with us always..." (Matthew 28:20)

SO, I was rejoicing IN HIM---As i continued this---the HOLY SPIRIT moved me to ask:  "LORD, does this mean that I am to Rejoice IN YOU in an Intercessory manner for Others???  ONLY by HIS grace and by HIS FAITHFULNESS I do now, and I am to continue to "rejoice in the LORD..." in an Intercessory manner for others. HOW GOOD!!! Our HEAVENLY FATHER IS!!!!!!!!!!!!

As I mentioned earlier...Rejoicing can be "to dance and twirl in joy."

Back to Mary: As I talked to Mary later...her stress had eased, and her peace Increased As i rejoiced For her!!!

***(You may find this (following) Amusing---                                        Because i am now age 79, I sometimes have difficulty with my balance=so I do dance and twirl SLOWLY!  Sometimes in the parking lot outside the gym - I lift up my hands and twirl...and people walking nearby call out to me, asking "are you OK?" "Do you need help?"  That gives to me an opening to witness to them about "Rejoicing in the LORD"!!!

GOD REJOICES OVER US!!! HE IS WORTHY FOR US TO REJOICE IN HIM!!!!!!11!

HE     IS     WORTHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!