Monday, May 22, 2017

"WATER VAPOR,    LIGHT, ------  AND    YOUR    BACK!!!!!!!


A TRUE STORY THAT HAPPENED TO A DEAR FRIEND---

My dear friend (we will call her "Amy") was going through a very difficult time in her work.

Early one morning as Amy was driving to work, there was a very dark rainstorm in front of
her.

After driving for a while toward that storm, Amy noticed a RAINBOW in front of her, near the storm cloud. She sensed that she was to look BEHIND her.  When Amy turned around and looked-----
She saw the sun SHINING BRIGHTLY on her back!!!

Amy sensed that JESUS was saying to her - "Yes, there is a storm ahead of you --- but I'VE GOT YOUR BACK!!!!!!!


JESUS CHRIST  --- "..the chastisement (punishment) necessary for our peace was put upon Him, and by His Stripes we are healed."  (Isaiah 53:5).

In His being "scourged" JESUS received  CRUSHING, FLESH-RIPPING blows upon His back - for OUR PEACE AND OUR HEALING.

The rainbow is a sign of GOD'S PROMISES. (Genesis 9:13-17)

JESUS CHRIST is the "YES" AND "AMEN"  for EVERY PROMISE OF GOD!!! (II Corinthians 1:20)


A rainbow is composed of water vapor, light, and THE HOLY, FAITHFUL, INFINITE, INTIMATE LOVE OF GOD!!!!!!!!!

Who would choose something so temporary, so ephemeral as "light and water vapor" to bear the weight of HIS PROMISES???

HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! GOD-----Who chose HIS SON JESUS CHRIST ["I am the light" (John 8:12)]...to bear the weight of OUR SINS  on His cross....

HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! indeed!!!!!
Let us bow our hearts and WORSHIP the ONE WHO IS WORTHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!! (Revelation 5:12) 

Friday, May 12, 2017

I am...THE WAY!!!...(and the TRUTH...and the LIFE)!!!!!!!

[The Son of God (Yahweh) is  JESUS - "THE WAY!!!!!!!

In this, the 6th "I AM" in the book of John,...it is a three-fold announcement.

In saying "I AM the WAY", JESUS is NOT giving the directions from one location to another location.

Instead, He is giving us directions to Father GOD,S HEART, and declaring that HE (JESUS)
is HIMSELF the LIVING PERSON that will take us there!!!!!!!!!!

Again, this is a three-fold Declaration.  The last two expressions explain the sense in which
 Jesus is "THE WAY"-----to the FATHER:

JESUS is the TRUTH about GOD, and the VERY LIFE OF GOD.  As such, He reveals TRUTH to us, and GIVES LIFE to us!!! 

John 17:8, 11 -
"Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.'

"Jesus said to Him, 'have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip?
"He who has seen ME has seen the father; so how can you say 'show us the Father'?
"Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in ME? 

"The words I speak to you - I do not speak on my own authority; but the Father Who dwells
in Me does the works.

"Believe ME that I am IN the FATHER and the FATHER IN ME, or else believe Me for the sake
of the works themselves."

(Psalm 25:4-10)
"Show me Your Ways, O LORD;
teach me Your paths.
Lead me in Your Truth and
teach me,
for You are the GOD OF MY SALVATION;
 on YOU I wait all the day."

"Good and upright is the LORD;
therefore He teaches sinners in the way,

"The humble He guides in justice,
and the humble He teaches His way."

"All the paths of the LORD are
mercy and truth,
to such as keep His covenant and
His testimonies."

{Barry's comment: In my experience, when Jesus means something (different from what I understand).....what He means is always 'infinitely superior' to what I understand!!!!!
Please see Ephesians 3:20}

****Please Always ask the Holy Spirit to "guide you into the truth" that He wants you to walk in.
        (see John 16:13)***

(Jesus speaking) "The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." (John  6:63)


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Thursday, April 13, 2017

EDGES   -   WHISPERS   -   HIS POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!  
 
"Saying with a loud voice:
WORTHY is the LAMB WHO was
slain,
To receive power and riches and
wisdom,
and strength and honor and glory
and blessing!.....

"Blessing and honor and glory
and power
be to Him who sits on the throne
and to THE LAMB, FOREVER and
ever!"  (Revelation 5: 12-13)

Yes, (INDEED), GOD is WORTHY to receive ALL praise, worship, and thanksgiving!!!

HE is also to be reverently feared.
HE is " "HOLY!"   "HOLY!"  "HOLY"!!! (Isaiah 6:3)

JOB learned that!!!!!

After GOD spoke to JOB.....

JOB responded:
"I have heard of YOU by the
 hearing of the ear,
But now my eye sees You.
Therefore I abhor (despise, think nothing) of myself,
and repent in dust and ashes." ( JOB 42:5-6)

"Behold the reverent (awe) fear of the LORD is wisdom,
and to depart from evil is understanding."   (JOB 28:28)


 "Man's frailty and GOD'S MAJESTY"!!!!!!!!

"The dead tremble,
Those under the waters and those
inhabiting them.
Sheol (the place of the dead) is naked before HIM,
and destruction has no covering,

" HE stretches out the north over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing.

"HE binds up the water in His thick
clouds,
Yet the clouds do not break under it.

"HE covers the face of his throne,
and spreads HIS cloud over it,

HE drew a circular horizon on the
face of the waters,
At the boundary of light and darkness,

"The pillars of heaven tremble,
and are amazed at His rebuke.

"He stirs up the sea with His
power,
"And by His understanding He
breaks up the storm.

"By His Spirit He adorned the
heavens,
His hand pierced the fleeing
serpent,

Indeed these are the mere  EDGES
of HIS Ways,
And how small a  WHISPER  we hear
of  HIM!
But the thunder of HIS POWER WHO
can understand?"  (JOB 26: 5-14)


Let us INDEED be in reverent awe of HIM!!!!!!

"The (reverent) fear of the LORD is the
beginning of wisdom;
A good understanding have all those
who do His commandments.
His praise endures forever."
(Psalm 111:10)

"...CHRIST JESUS.-...became for us wisdom from GOD..." (I Corinthians  1:30)

By the HOLY SPIRIT- Let us follow JESUS  - 
and DO HIS commandments!!!!!!!!! 

 

 

Friday, March 24, 2017

THE   MOST    BEAUTIFUL   SONG........EVER!!!!!!!


 Once, while (by the Grace of GOD), I was serving on a Men's Christian Retreat--------

---As I stood and looked at a cross---
As I looked at that CROSS, Our LORD gave me some understanding........

"On that instrument (the cross of Jesus Christ)  The most beautiful Song (EVER!!!!!!!!)
was written!!!

A Love so  HOLY and  BEAUTIFUL-------
It is enough to forgive EVERY sin EVER committed by  EVERY person who EVER
lived!!!!!!!  And to heal EVERY sickness or injury that EVER occurs!!!!!!!

"The  LORD is my Strength and my SONG"; He also has become my SALVATION"
(Isaiah 12:2).

His  LOVE so HOLY and  BEAUTIFUL --- that it (HE) will change all of us believers-in-Jesus-----
into the very image of JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!
"...we all...are being transformed into the SAME image from glory to glory, just as by
the SPIRIT of the LORD." (II Corinthians 3: 14-18).

This SONG (JESUS CHRIST!!!)  so HOLY and BEAUTIFUL---------

KNOWING "That HE who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the DAY of JESUS
CHRIST!!!  (Philippians 1:6)

Even now, this SONG (JESUS) "...rejoices over you with gladness, will rejoice over you with singing"!!!  (Zephaniah 3:17)


I believe that HEAVEN  will be FILLED with people singing His PRAISES and THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!

OUR HOLY AND AWESOME LORD JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!!

"Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before HIM, all the earth." (Psalm 96:9)

Lets fill our LIVES here on EARTH with praise and Thanksgiving unto HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

GOD,   THE    BUTTERFLY,    YOU   AND    ME


"HE (JESUS CHRIST) UPHOLDS, MAINTAINS,GUIDES, AND PROPELS THE

UNIVERSE

by HIS mighty word of power..."    (Hebrews 1:3/ Amplified Bible)

The SAME hands that were nailed to the cross for us, the SAME HEART
AND HANDS that puts a baby together in it's Mother's womb...(Psalm 139:13-16)

The same HEART AND HANDS that teaches a beautiful, DELICATE butterfly
how to fly, and carries it from North America - across the STORMY Gulf of Mexico,  to winter in the mountains of Mexico, and return them to us in the spring.....

His SAME HEART AND HANDS will guide You and Me, and carry us THROUGH the
storms of this life!!!

 THE PROMISE OF GOD'S PRESENCE:

"Then Moses said to the Lord, 'see, You say to me, ' bring up this people.'  
But You have not let me know whom You will send with me.  Yet You have said
'I know you by name, and you have found grace in My sight.

'Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your
way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight.  And consider
that this nation is Your people'

'And HE (GOD) said, ' MY PRESENCE will go with you, and I will give you rest.
(Exodus 33:12-14)

give rest, nu - ach (" noo - ahch") : to rest, [Strong's # 5117], settle down.  Nu'ahch
is the verb that describes the Spirit of God resting on the MESSIAH  (Isaiah11:2),
God's Presence soothes, comforts, settles, consoles, and quiets us."

HINT:  GOD'S PRESENCE can ALWAYS found in the "praises of His people:
*** (See Psalm 22:3)
"But YOU are holy,
enthroned in the praises of (His people) Israel." (Psalm 22:3) See also Psalm 16:11. 

      




Wednesday, February 1, 2017

(Amazing Grace)

"HOW   SWEET   THE   SOUND"!!!!!!!!!

While serving on a Men's retreat several years ago.....during a chapel service, the worship leader was playing his guitar and singing worship songs;.....when he began singing "Amazing Grace How sweet the sounds that saved a WRETCH like ME".....I believed that our Lord was wanting to teach me something.....so I submitted myself unto God and asked Him to teach me.....saying, "What ARE those "sweet sounds' ?"

It was music - worship music of the most holy kind -- singing TO JESUS, about His obedience to the Father's heart:

A. The percussion sounds:

1) The percussion sounds of this music were made by the hammer striking the  spikes as they were driven through Jesus' hands and his feet!!! and...

2) the cross on which Jesus hung... hitting the bottom of the hole---which caused a very intensely painful "jerking" motion as the spikes pulled on Jesus' muscles and bones!!!

B.The "string music" sound in this music was caused by the whips which  ripped chunks of muscle and flesh from Jesus' back and legs!!! (Mark 10:34)

C. The "wind instrument" sounds of this music were the throats of JESUS, of one of the criminals being crucified along with Jesus, and the Roman who was guarding JESUS.as they spoke the words:

1) (JESUS) "Not my will, but THY will be done". (Matthew 26:39

 My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?!!!?
"Why are You so far from Helping Me?, and from the words of My groaning? (Matthew 27:46)

"Then Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do' " (Luke 23:34)

(There were two criminals being crucified beside Jesus; one of the criminals believed Jesus was indeed the Messiah): And Jesus said to him " Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise." (Luke 23:43)

Jesus said to His Mother, 'Woman, behold your son' " (John 19:26) [(The term  Jesus used when He said "Woman"  is a term of respect and endearment]

Then Jesus said to the disciple (John) 'Behold your mother'.  And from that hour, the disciple (John) took (Mary) into his own home. (John 19:27)

"After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished that Scripture might be fulfilled said 'I thirst'.  (John 19:28)

"So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said 'It is finished' ". (John 19:30)

"And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, 'Father, into Thy hands I commit My Spirit.' " (Luke 23:46)


[ The roman centurion) having seen what had taken place, recognized God and thanked and praised Him and said, 'Indeed, without question, this Man was just and innocent' " (Luke 23:47)


AMAZING GRACE how  (SWEET!!!) the sounds that saved a wretch like me.

You also can be saved...JUST ASK JESUS TO SAVE YOU!!!!!!!! 

         




Monday, January 2, 2017

THE   LINE   OF   JESUS'   HOLY   LOVE!!!!!!!!!


By Holy God's loving Grace, Today I walked in the warm sunshine at the City Park in Cleveland.....
So nice!!!

Near one end of the park are two (2) beautiful Maple trees!!!

This (fall) season, the leaves of those two trees are a Glorious red, BRILLIANT RED!!!


One of those trees was planted as a memorial to a Cleveland policewoman who was killed in the line
of duty several years ago.

The other tree was planted as a memorial to a US Army Sgt. from Cleveland who was killed in the U.S. war on terrorism.


The BRIGHT SUN shining on those BRIGHT RED leaves.....reminds me of the BLOOD  that JESUS shed on His "tree" (HIS CROSS)-------not in "the line of duty" - but in the line of HOLY LOVE!!!

"O Lord, YOU are the portion of my INHERITANCE, and my cup.
"The LINES have fallen for me in pleasant places. YES, I have a GOOD INHERITANCE---(Because YOU are my inheritance!!)

"You will show me the path of life; IN YOUR PRESENCE is FULLNESS of JOY; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore"!!! (Psalm 16:5,6, and 11).


Let us PRAISE AND THANK GOD that we are in the BLOODLINE of "the LION of the tribe of Judah" !!! (JESUS)

"FEAR NOT,  FOR THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH HAS TRIUMPHED!!! (Revelation 5;5)

And we are "complete in HIM". (Colossians 2:10)

THANK YOU, OF HOLY GOD!!!!!!!