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Hi my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. I am so excited to write to all of you. I have been praying for you. I am sitting in one of my favorite coffee shops. I just finished doing my Bible study and writing to the LORD…. That is how I journal.

I figure that since God is the Only One Who knows everything because He is Omniscient {and I do not because I definitely am not};  then it behooves me to include Him in every aspect of my life. I love life this way. Life with God. It works for me! It will work for you too.

I purchase many spiral notebooks during the ‘back to school sales’ when they are very inexpensive. I also purchase colorful pens, since I like to write in multi-colors. Then I write my heart out to the LORD each day. (Sometimes I miss of course–Life happens), but I love to write to the LORD. I tell Him everything.

I write my prayers to Him. I talk to Him about my failures and fears, my hurts and heartaches, my wishes and woes, my desires for my family and all of my generations, as well as the things that I am rebuking off of their lives and mine. He knows every single thing about me, my family, my life and my heart’s desires any way. He gives me the desires of my heart.

PSALM 37:4   DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD AND HE WILL GIVE YOU THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART.   (esv)

I used to love that verse because I thought it meant that God would give me what I wanted, what my heart desired. God does do that sometimes when He thinks this is in our best interest. I actually love that Scripture even more now that I have learned that God, the Creator of the Universe and everything and everyone in it, and me; will Give Me The Desires Of My Heart–meaning He will put the desires into my heart that need to be there. Glory to God! This is awesome to me. (I guess we can still understand the verse to mean the first thought that I mentioned; I prefer the second interpretation now.)

Dear LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth, God Almighty Maker of Heaven and earth, Holy Spirit, we come to you with our knees bowed and our hearts prostrate before You. We come to You as Your beloved children. We bask in Your Holy Presence. Thank You LORD that You love us and all of our generations. Thank You that You protect us and give Your angels assignments to carry out regarding us.

Thank You mostly that You gave Your Only Beloved, Begotten Son Jesus Christ our LORD to die for us and take away our sins as far away as the East is from the West. Thank You that You want to do this life with us right here on earth and then for all eternity in Heaven for those of us who have repented from our sins and accepted Your Son Jesus Christ as Our LORD and Savior.  He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Him.

Thank You Jesus that You gave us Your Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us into all wisdom while we are here on this earth as sojourners. Our real, eternal home is with You in Heaven. This life here on earth is just a vapor. Thank You that You have called us to co-labor with You to bring You precious souls and to carry out Your Will on earth as it is in Heaven.

Call us LORD, call all of Your people, all of Your precious children to You in a mighty way. Remove their blinders, take out their hearts of stone and replace them with a heart of flesh, a heart after Your Own Heart LORD. Teach us to love as You love. Not only our loved ones but also our ‘enemies’, or those who choose to be our enemies. Send us Revival, send us Restoration and Regeneration, send Your Spirit to sweep the nation, to sweep the entire world with Your Dunamis Power now LORD, we need You! We cry out to You! We thank You in advance. We worship and praise You LORD. In Jesus’ Precious Name we pray. Amen. Glory to God!

I had my Bible study last night at the mission. I love that so very much. I get to be God’s oracle to share Jesus with other people who are currently hurting, down trodden, devastated, and broken. But again I say only ‘currently’. This is not who they are. They are children of the Most High God, just like you and I are. They are Victorious in Christ Jesus, just like we are. We all just need to believe this. We all need to speak forth God’s All Powerful WORD of Life, the Bible. His instruction book for us for all generations, and for all of humanity. This is Truth that Supersedes fact!

Our study was about “What do we do when we are so very broken and overwhelmed?”

What we do is look to our God Who has our names inscribed on the Palm of His Hand. The LORD Who is the Author and Finisher of our lives. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the One Who knit us together in our mother’s wombs and watched over us as we grew there. God prepared gifts for us to carry out before we were even born here on earth.

ISAIAH 49:16   SEE I HAVE WRITTEN YOU NAME ON THE PALM OF MY HAND.   (nlt)

EPHESIANS 2;10   FOR WE ARE GOD’S HANDIWORK, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS TO DO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD PREPARED IN ADVANCE FOR US TO DO. 

God tells us that He has a plan for us. A plan to prosper us and not to harm us. A plan to give us a hope and a future. God wants to do this life with us. He never wants us to feel like we are on our own down here on earth. God never leaves us nor forsakes us. He is an Ever Present Help in times of trouble. (I know I have had a lot of times of trouble, perhaps you have also,)

JEREMIAH 29:11   “FOR I  KNOW THE PLANS THAT I HAVE FOR YOU DECLARES THE LORD, PLANS TO PROSPER YOU AND NOT TO HARM YOU, PLANS TO GIVE YOU A HOPE AND A FUTURE.”

Did you get that? This is God talking to us. He, God Himself, has plans for you, for me, for us, and His plans for us are GOOD!    GOD IS GOOD!   Glory to God!

Jesus told us that in this world we will have troubles, difficulties, heartbreaks, devastations. Jesus also told us that we can be confident and courageous in Him because HE HAS OVER COME THE WORLD! And JESUS GIVES US HIS PEACE! Not our own peace which would be flawed or insufficient. He gives us HIS PEACE! HE IS PEACE…HE IS JEHOVAH SHALOM!  The key is that we have to have faith and we have to believe this. This is the TRUTH because Jesus says it is. We need to take this TRUTH from the LORD and plant it deep into our hearts and souls and minds.

JOHN 16:33   “I HAVE TOLD YOU THESE THINGS SO THAT IN ME (JESUS) YOU WILL HAVE PEACE. IN THE WORLD YOU WILL HAVE TROUBLE. BUT TAKE HEART, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD!   (niv)

HEBREWS 12:2   LOOKING UNTO JESUS, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM, ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME AND HAS SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD.   (nkjv)

HEBREWS 13:5,6    I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU! SO WE CAN SAY IN CONFIDENCE, “THE LORD IS MY HELPER; I WILL NOT BE AFRAID, WHAT CAN MERE MORTALS DO TO ME?”

I think that is a very powerful Scripture to end this with! Glory to God! Until we get to talk again, please remember that I love you so much and I am praying for you and all of your generations. Most importantly, Jesus loves you!

 

Hello my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It has been over 2 months since I have written. It seems like a life time. I have missed you. I feel as if I have to write this letter to you all right now or more time will pass without writing. I have been facing some of life’s challenges. I had to take many hours of educational courses that were required for my profession. I also had to re-evaluate some things in that were happening in my life. But Yay! Here I am, writing to you from my heart of love for you.

Dear LORD, thank You for this time together with my World Wide Family; Your family that You love so dearly LORD. Please bless them and keep them always LORD and all of their generations. Keep Your angels of protection around them. LORD, please bless all of the fathers to be powerful Christlike leaders in their families. We just celebrated Father’s Day, please raise up powerful Christian men who have hearts after Your Heart LORD and hearts for their wives and children.

You created us to be Your family LORD. You created us to do this life’s journey with You. Help us to create and nurture families that honor You. Help us to realize truly that You are the only Creator and You have created us. You have given us Your manual for life, Your Holy Bible. You have directed us as to what Your idea of a family truly is. Let us follow Your ways in all that we do LORD. You have given us Your Truth that supersedes fact. Let us not go astray from this. We ask this in the Precious Name of Jesus and we thank You in advance. Glory to God!

As I mentioned, I have been facing some challenges and trials in my life, as well as some attacks from the enemy of my soul. If you do not know, the Bible tells us that we have an adversary who roams around like a lion seeing whom he may devour. Some times when you are doing your best to do what you feel the LORD is leading you to do, the attacks increase in intensity.

1 PETER 5:8   BE SOBER-MINDED AND ALERT. YOUR ADVERSARY THE devil PROWLS AROUND LIKE A ROARING LION, SEEKING SOMEONE WHOM TO DEVOUR.  

But the fabulous thing is that I serve the One and Only True God Who is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient and Victorious! He has no equal and He has no rival. He tells me that the battle is not mine, but it is His and He never looses. He has already won. He conquered death, hell and the grave. I am Victorious in Him.

2 CHRONICLES 20:15   ….DO NOT BE AFRAID OR DISCOURAGED BECAUSE OF THIS VAST ARMY. FOR THE BATTLE IS NOT YOURS, BUT GOD’S.  (niv)

I feel like I have won a Victory simply by writing this letter to you right now. I am “writing the wrongs”. I have been experiencing some discouragement lately. Now I feel encouraged. I notice this all of the time. When I am preparing a Bible Study lesson for the Mission or writing to you all out of a heart of love, I feel that God has greatly encouraged me and I am blessed by Him. I pray that you are also.

Unfortunately I have to go for now. Until we get to talk again, please remember that you are all always in my prayers and I love you. Most importantly, Jesus loves you.

Hello my most wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. This is so fabulous to me, that I am writing to you all again, and without very much of a time lapse in between now and the last time that we spoke. I feel that the LORD has been putting on my heart, the burning desire to be more bold for Him at such a time as this.

Do you realize that we may just be the generation that ushers in the second coming of the LORD Jesus Christ? What an honor and privilege that is! The fact that we were born on the exact date that we were born and that we are alive here and now is amazing. At the very least we can be World Changers for Jesus!

Dear LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth, God Almighty Maker of Heaven and earth, Holy Spirit, we love You. We humbly come to Your Throne of Grace. We worship You, we praise Your Holy Name. Help us to live our lives in the obedience that You require LORD. You say that obedience is better than sacrifice. We offer You both LORD. We offer You obedience to Your WORD, the Bible which is the TRUTH that supersedes all, Lord Jesus.  Lead us Holy Spirit. Teach us how to bring You joy and pleasure and precious souls so that we can all live with You for all eternity in Heaven. We offer You the sacrifices of our very lives.

Please protect us and all of our generations while we are currently still alive here on this earth for such a time as this. Help us to be World Changers for Jesus. Help us to bring You Your inheritance of the nations LORD. Keep Your angels around us Father. Even when we suffer and die for You as some of us do LORD. Let us know that You are always with us and our families. You never leave us nor forsake us. When we open our eyes again after we have left this realm of life here on earth; we will behold Your Beauty, Your Majesty, Your Pure Love, Your Glory. We will then finally be home. We ask this all in the Precious Name of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. We thank You in advance LORD. Amen. Glory to God!

I know that the world seems to be getting crazier and more dangerous. Sin and hatred, terrorism and murder, lawlessness and lasciviousness seem to be more rampant than ever. In fact people just re-define the laws to meet their sin filled agendas. Some people consider bad to be good and good to be bad. They consider right to be wrong and wrong to be right.

These people are from all walks of life. The highly educated and the uneducated, the wealthy and those without finances, those who live in mansions and those who live in missions, those who feel that they are good and morale people and those that have never cared at all about being morale. LORD please help us all.

ROMANS 3:10   AS IT IS WRITTEN, THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NO NOT ONE.     (kjv)

What if, you and I, in our own lives here and now, could affect change? What if we can actually change the world? We can! Do we want to? I want to. Have you heard the saying by Edmund Burke? “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”………….. (Of course this means good women too.) Let’s do something!

Have you read the story of Queen Esther in the Book of Esther in the Bible? An evil advisor to the king named Haman, had devised a heinous plot to  cause the annihilation of the Jewish people and he connived King Xerxes to agree to this. When Queen Esther’s Uncle Mordecai, {who had  raised Esther since she had become an orphan when her parents were killed}, found out, he sent word to her requesting that she go to the king to plead for mercy for her people the Jews.

She in turn sent word to him explaining to her uncle that if anyone goes before the king without being summoned; he has but one law. That person will be put to death unless the king extends the gold scepter to them and spares their lives.

Queen Esther’s Uncle Mordecai sent word back to her saying, “Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for SUCH A TIME AS THIS?”

Queen Esther then sent word to her uncle asking him to gather all of the Jews who were in her home town of Susa and have them fast for her. They were not to eat or drink for 3 nights and days. She and her attendants would fast in the same manner. She said that she would then go to the king, even though it was against the law.  She said “AND IF I PERISH THEN I PERISH.”

She did not perish. Her people the Jews were saved from annihilation because she boldly went before the king on the behalf of her people, while risking her own life. Of course it was God Who preordained all of these events and saved and protected Esther, her uncle, and all of their people. It was God also, Who touched the heart of King Xerxes and caused him to set forth another decree that allowed the Jewish people to defend themselves and they were triumphant instead of being destroyed. {Original decrees could not be reversed so it is because of this that the king made another decree.}

Praise God! One little orphaned girl who grew up to become Queen Esther; saved her people-God’s people, because of her courage to boldly stand up against evil in-spite of the fact that it might cost her, her own life. Also, because, if you notice; she and the people prayed and fasted to the LORD. He alone answered their prayers and delivered them. He alone answers our prayers and delivers us. We can be BOLD for the LORD! Even in this day and time of extra evil. Actually I should say; especially in this time of extra evil. FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS. THE TIME IN WHICH WE, YOU AND I LIVE!

Well, I have to go for now. Until we get to talk again, please remember that I love you and am always praying for you and all of your generations and all of my generations. God protect us all. God use us all and make us all BOLD for Him.  Most importantly, Jesus loves you.

2 TIMOTHY 1:7-10  FOR GOD HAS NOT GIVEN US A SPIRIT OF FEAR, BUT OF POWER AND OF LOVE AND OF A SOUND MIND. THEREFORE DO NOT BE ASHAMED OF THE TESTIMONY OF OUR LORD. OR OF ME HIS PRISONER. RATHER JOIN WITH ME IN SUFFERING FOR THE GOSPEL, BY THE POWER OF GOD. HE HAS SAVED US AND CALLED US TO A HOLY LIFE-NOT BECAUSE OF ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE DONE BUT BECAUSE OF HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE. THIS GRACE WAS GIVEN US IN CHRIST JESUS BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF TIME, BUT NOW IT HAS BEEN REVEALED THROUGH THE APPEARING OF OUR SAVIOR, CHRIST JESUS, WHO HAS DESTROYED DEATH AND BROUGHT LIFE AND IMMORTALITY TO LIGHT THROUGH THE GOSPEL.    (niv)     {Apostle Paul wrote this while he was a prisoner, awaiting execution, for preaching the Gospel=Good News of Jesus Christ.}

Hello my most wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. Yay, I did it! (Well, in reality, I should say that the LORD did it for me.) I am actually writing to you all again; sooner rather than later. The LORD gave me His strength when I was, (am) very weak; actually quite fragile- emotionally. Sometimes my life seems to take a downward spiral, despite my best intentions and actions. The great news is that whether I am on an emotional high or a downward spiral or just living every day life laterally; God is always with me right where I am. He loves me, He loves you eternally.

PSALM 139:7-10   WHERE CAN I GO FROM YOUR SPIRIT? WHERE CAN I FLEE FROM YOUR PRESENCE? IF I GO UP TO THE HEAVENS, YOU ARE THERE. IF I RISE ON THE WINGS OF THE DAWN, IF I SETTLE ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE SEA, EVEN THERE YOUR HAND WILL GUIDE ME, YOUR RIGHT HAND WILL HOLD ME FAST.   (niv)

Dear LORD Jesus Christ, God Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth, Holy Spirit, we come to you today with humble hearts. We prostrate ourselves before Your Throne of Grace. We leave our burdens there and instead bask in Your Perfect Love. We love You LORD. We worship and praise You. We give You our families to take care of. We give You our brokenness. We instead accept Your wholeness that You give to us. We thank You God for giving Your Most Precious Son, our LORD Jesus Christ to die and take away all of our sins and to arise Victoriously! We thank You Jesus Christ for giving us Your Holy Spirit so that we can live Victoriously in You on this earth as it is in Heaven. Protect us and all of our generations with Your angels LORD. We thank You in advance. In the Precious Name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Glory to God!

Quite honestly, I find myself very alone at times and feeling emotionally  overwhelmed with life. The great news is that I am never ever alone. JESUS IS  ALWAYS WITH ME! It is here in my current emotional state that I feel the need to write to you. Not because it is all about me. Quite the opposite; I write to you now because it is not at all about me.

I am just a person, a Christ follower, a Christian, who is trying to be transparent. I hope and pray that in my transparency, I may help someone else. I should rather say, that I pray that God may help someone else through my life’s stories. I am His heart and hands extended to a hurting world. I am His scribe. God can use anyone and everyone. Even me, and especially you. Wont you allow Him to use you too?

There are many fabulous, anointed and powerful Christians who are world changers for the LORD. (I know, I watch TBN -Trinity Broadcast Network constantly!)  I do mean constantly. Every time that I am home, that channel is on. This is a powerful conduit that God uses for me and the multitudes around the world to be able to receive the strength and encouragement that we need from the LORD.  The very presence of, and words preached by these Christians, their families, all of their generations brings healing and hope in the LORD to this very broken and darkened world! I am so very thankful to God for all of His powerful Christian people that He is raising up and using for such a time as this. Let us be the light of the world, drawing all mankind to the LORD.

MATTHEW  5:14-16   “YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. A TOWN BUILT ON A HILL CANNOT BE HIDDEN. NEITHER DO PEOPLE LIGHT A LAMP AND PUT IT UNDER A BOWL. INSTEAD THEY PUT IT ON ITS STAND, AND IT GIVES LIGHT TO EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE. IN THE SAME WAY, LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE BEFORE OTHERS, THAT THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD DEEDS AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.” 

I have to believe that God also uses me, even in the midst of my brokenness.  It is for this reason that I try to keep writing to you even though I may be experiencing broken emotions myself. It is for that reason that I go to the mission and try to share a Bible study for some of God’s precious children who are currently without homes and broken also. It is for that reason that I try to help facilitate a Grief Share Group even though I am grieving more than I have ever grieved in my entire life. God can use broken vessels, broken people who have broken hearts, to help others. The reason of course is because it is never about us or me; it is always, only, ever, about God! To God be the Glory!

Well I have to go for now. Until we get to talk again, please remember that I love you and you are always in my prayers. Most importantly, Jesus loves you. Praise God that we are celebrating this Passover and Easter Season. Praise God that we can celebrate our LORD every moment of every day of our lives!

Hello my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. I have missed you very much. It has been over a month since we have spoken. I am determined to write to you all at least this one time during the month of March. (Even if it is on the last couple of hours on the very last day of March.) I have been experiencing some painful life issues and have been needing healing in my own life. Thank God that I intimately know the Divine Healer, the Divine Physician, Jehovah Rapha. I cling to Him tenaciously. I hope that you do also.

Dear LORD Jesus Christ, God Almighty, Holy Spirit, we come humbly before Your Throne of Grace. It is there that we lay down our burdens and give them to You. They are too great for us to personally handle. Thank You LORD, that You never meant for us to carry our burdens. You tell us to give them to You. Lead us LORD into the way that You would have us go. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit and give us Your Wisdom. Protect us LORD and all of our generations. Give us Your Hope, Your Pure Love. Heal our relationships with one another. Help us to reach out to the hurting, even when we are hurting ourselves. We thank You in advance. We love You and praise You. In Jesus Precious Name. Amen.

Well, I am sorry that this is so short. I needed to write this so that I would not stop writing. I needed to talk to you all even if it was ever so briefly, so that I could continue writing this and not quit. I will write again soon. I love you all so very much, and most importantly, Jesus loves you.

Hello my most Wonderful World Wide Family.  I love you all so very much. I have missed you a lot! Now it is already February. We are moving our way through the year 2019. How have we all done thus far? Have you made some New Year’s Resolutions that you have been diligent to keep?

I am sure that we have also made some resolutions that we have already failed at, miserably. We are after all human and we will fail and we will fall. (I personally pay for a gym membership and have yet to cross the gym threshold. I really need to get going!) The important thing is that we get back up, dust ourselves off and keep on going.

The thing that is even more important than that is that we realize that we are not doing this life alone. We belong to God. He is not only our Creator; He is our Heavenly Father. He loves us unconditionally and for all eternity. There is no-one who loves us more than He does. There is no greater love than His.

JOHN 3:16   FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON (JESUS) THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES ON HIM SHALL NOT PERISH BUT SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.

We are all “whosoevers”. We all desire to love and to be loved. We desire to be heard, understood and to be respected. We want to have meaningful relationships, to feel that we are important to someone and to have something to give to this world in the few short years that we are here. We were created this way by God. His very Nature is Love, it is not just something that He does; it is Who He is.

Dear LORD God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, Jesus Christ our Savior, and Holy Spirit, we come to You with our love. We worship and adore You. We thank You for Who You are and Whose we are. You alone are Holy. You alone are Worthy of our praise. Thank You that You first loved us and called us LORD. Thank You that Your Pure Love is unconditional and everlasting. Thank You that You love us just where we are and You love us too much to leave us in our failures. You make us Victorious in You! You make us Over comers no matter what life throws our way. It is because of Your Love that we can love.

LORD draw all of Your people unto You. Show them Your Love Father. Heal their broken hearts. Show them that they are never alone. You never leave them nor forsake them LORD. Thank You that You protect them and all of their generations with Your angels. Show us how to fulfill the destiny and purpose that You created us for LORD. We thank You in advance. We love You LORD. Teach us to love one another. To love all mankind regardless of who or where they are. We ask this in the Precious Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Glory to God!

During this month of February, we celebrate Valentine’s Day. For many this is a time of gift giving and receiving. A time of romance and gratitude for our loved ones. This is a day to look forward to. A time to make reservations to go out to an elegant restaurant, wearing out best attire. The sky is the limit. It is a time of giving the most exquisite gifts of jewelry, flowers, cards and chocolates.

Yet for others of us, this is a time of heartache. A time that we may reflect on how lonely and alone we truly are. A time when we realize that we are unloved and cannot celebrate.  A time when we are broken, confused, weary, devastated and about to give up. But don’t give up! We are never, ever alone.

We are loved more than we can ever fathom. We are precious to our God. He wants to shower His Love and His Gifts upon us, not only on Valentine’s Day; but every day of our lives. Wont you let Him. Come to Him. Talk to Him, love Him. HE LOVES YOU!

There is no greater love than this, Jesus said, than that a man lay down his life for his brother. JESUS laid  down His life for you! Please give your life to Him. There is no better choice. There is no greater love that you can experience. All other love pales in comparison.

I have to go for now. Until we get to talk again, please remember, you are always in my prayers and I love you. Most importantly, Jesus loves you.

Not able to proof read.  Sorry.

Poet listed as anonymous, or sited as unknown, however this is attributed to James Allen Francis

ONE SOLITARY LIFE- A poem about JESUS CHRIST

HE was born in an obscure village, the CHILD of a peasant. HE grew up in another village, where HE worked in a carpenter shop until HE was 30. Then, for three years, HE was an ITINERANT PREACHER.

HE never wrote a book. HE never held an office. HE never had a family or owned a home. HE didn’t go to college. HE never lived in a big city. HE never traveled 200 miles from the place where HE was born. HE did none of the things that usually accompany greatness. HE had no credentials but HIMSELF.

HE was only 33 when the tide of public opinion turned against HIM. HIS friends ran away. One of them denied HIM. HE was turned over to HIS enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. HE was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While HE was dying, HIS executioners gambled for HIS garments, the only property HE had on earth. When HE was dead, HE was laid in a borrowed grave, through the pity of a friend.

Twenty centuries have come and gone, and today HE is the central figure of the human race. I am well within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned-put together-have not affected the life of man on this earth as much as that ONE SOLITARY LIFE.

JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, our LORD and SAVIOR!

3 JOHN 2  BELOVED, I WISH ABOVE ALL THINGS THAT YOU PROSPER IN ALL THINGS AND BE IN HEALTH, EVEN AS YOUR SOUL PROSPERS

This is my prayer for you, my most Wonderful World Wide Family. In Jesus Name. Happy New Year 2019!

 

Good morning my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much! I have to get going this morning because we are feeding our friends who currently don’t have homes at our church. But I just wanted to wish you all the Merriest, most blessed Christmas ever!

Please remember this holiday celebration is for everyone of us and it doesn’t cost a penny,  (unlike commercialism would like for you to think.) The cost has already been paid when God the Creator and our Heavenly Father, and Jesus’ Only Father, gave us  His Only Son, Jesus Christ our LORD  to be born of a miraculous virgin birth, as a Babe in a manger in Bethlehem, to a young peasant couple. Today He wants us to celebrate His Son’s Birthday with Him. Glory to God on the highest and peace, good will toward all men.  And not only today, we can, and should, celebrate Jesus everyday!

Please do not forget that this King Baby- Jesus, is also Jesus the soon returning King, Priest, Savior of the entire world. He will not return as a Baby at that time. He will return in all of His Dunamis Power and Glory and the whole world will see Him at the same time! ( We will talk about this  later). He is, and always has been the KING OF THE WORLD! This is one of those TRUTHS that Supersede Facts!

Dear LORD God Almighty, thank You for Your Son, our LORD Jesus Christ, Whom we celebrate today and every day of our lives. Draw us all unto You LORD, wherever we may be all over the world! Please let those who may be lonely, sad or hurting and broken today; to know that You are and always will be right there with them and their families for all generations. Protect us LORD and provide for us as only You can. Keep Your angels around us LORD. We ask this in the Precious, Holy Name of Your Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Glory to God! Thank You LORD for Your Son!’

Happy Birthday Jesus! Merry CHRISTmas World!

Hello my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It is great to be writing to you on this day which is 4 days until Christmas. Yay! I love this season of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ!

Dear LORD God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth,  galaxies, mountains and oceans. Birds of the air, fish of the sea, animals that roam the earth and all of us, your children. Thank You mostly for gifting us with Your Only Beloved, Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He is of course the reason that we are celebrating this season. We love You LORD. We worship You. We thank You that You were born and died that our sins, although they are many, are completely forgiven when we bring them to You in repentance. We bring You our mess and You give us Your Righteousness in exchange.

Thank you for this season of loving and giving. Thank You that You protect us and love us LORD, and want to do life with us. In fact, so much so that You came from Heaven to earth, born as the Baby King Who Rules the world! Not only do You want us to do life with You; You want us to count on You for our provision, protection, guidance, wisdom, blessings, counseling, and correction in righteousness. You give us gifts to use for your glory. You write the story of our lives before we have even taken our first breath. You are the Author and Finisher of our lives.

You give us purpose and destiny no matter who we are. No matter if we are extremely educated or of average intelligence. Whether we work in a professional capacity or a job which requires more physical labor. Whether we are rich or currently living in poverty.  We thank You for always being with us and never, ever leaving us nor forsaking us. Thank You that we are never alone and You protect us with Your angels. Thank You mostly for Jesus. In Jesus Precious Name we pray and thank You in advance.  Amen. Glory to God!

Just Who is this Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Whom we celebrate at this Christmas season? The LORD and Savior, God Almighty. He is the LORD Who is spoken of in   GENESIS 1:26     LET ‘US’ MAKE  MANKIND IN ‘OUR’ IMAGE.

He is  JOHN 1:1-5   IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD. THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM ; AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANY THING MADE THAT WAS MADE. IN HIM WAS LIFE; AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN THE DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT.  (kjv)

JOHN 1:14     AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, AND DWELT AMONG US. AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY, THE GLORY AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.    

Jesus was prophesied to be born in the town of Bethlehem hundreds, (or thousands of years?-sorry, I am not positive.) of years before He was born.  MICAH 5:2-5 {OT}   “BUT YOU, BETHLEHEM EPHRATAH, THOUGH YOU ARE SMALL AMONG THE CLANS OF  JUDAH, OUT OF YOU WILL COME FOR ME ONE WHO WILL BE RULER OVER ISRAEL ,WHOSE ORIGINS ARE FROM OLD, FROM ANCIENT TIMES.”

MATTHEW 2:1-6  {NT} AFTER JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM IN JUDEA, DURING THE TIME OF KING HEROD, MAGI FROM THE EAST CAME TO JERUSALEM  AND ASKED, “WHERE IS THE ONE WHO HAS BEEN BORN KING OF THE JEWS?” 

Jesus was born of His Mother Mary who was a virgin. ISAIAH 7:13-14  (Old Testament {OT} for those who do not know) ….THEREFORE THE LORD HIMSELF WILL GIVE YOU A SIGN: THE VIRGIN WILL BE WITH CHILD AND WILL GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND WILL CALL HIM IMMANUEL, (GOD WITH US). 

LUKE 1:26-35  {NT} GOD SENT THE ANGEL….TO A VIRGIN PLEDGED TO BE MARRIED TO A MAN NAMED JOSEPH, A DESCENDANT OF DAVID. THE VIRGIN’S NAME WAS MARY.

ISAIAH 9:6-7   FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN; AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER. AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE. OF THE INCREASE OF HIS GOVERNMENT AND PEACE THERE WILL BE NO END, UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID AND OVER HIS KINGDOM, TO ORDER IT AND ESTABLISH IT WITH JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE. FROM THAT TIME FORWARD, EVEN FOREVER. THE ZEAL OF THE LORD OF HOSTS WILL PERFORM THIS.     

Wow that is amazing!! Jesus was prophesied so many times in the Old Testament of the Bible, hundreds of years before He was ever born. Then we get to read about Him in the New Testament. He fulfilled everyone of the prophecies in His Life. These are only a very few. More to come.

This our Amazing LORD God Almighty  Who was born as a Baby in a manger and we celebrate His miraculous birth on Christmas. Glory to God!

Well until we get to speak again, I love you all so very much. You are always in my prayers. Most importantly, Jesus loves you. God bless you and all of your generations.

LUKE 2:14      “GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOODWILL TOWARD MEN!”                                 (nkjv)   (and Luke 2:1-20)

CHRIST BORN OF MARY!

1:  AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS THAT A DECREE WENT OUT FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE REGISTERED. THIS CENSUS FIRST TOOK PLACE WHILE QUIRINIUS WAS GOVERNING SYRIA. SO ALL WENT TO BE REGISTERED, EVERYONE TO HIS OWN CITY.

4:  JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE , OUT OF THE CITY OF NAZARETH, INTO JUDEA, TO THE CITY OF DAVID, WHICH IS CALLED BETHLEHEM, BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE HOUSE AND LINEAGE OF DAVID, TO BE REGISTERED WITH MARY, HIS BETROTHED WIFE,  WHO WAS WITH CHILD. SO IT WAS, THAT WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE COMPLETED FOR HER TO BE DELIVERED. AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHS, AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN.  

GLORY IN THE HIGHEST!

8:  NOW THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS LIVING OUT IN THE FIELDS, KEEPING WATCH  OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT. AND BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD STOOD BEFORE THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE AROUND THEM, AND THEY THEY WERE GREATLY AFRAID. THEN THE ANGEL SAID TO THEM, “DO NOT BE AFRAID, FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY WHICH WILL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. FOR THERE IS BORN TO YOU THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHO IS CHRIST THE LORD. AND THIS WILL BE THE SIGN TO YOU: YOU WILL FIND A BABE WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHS, LYING IN A MANGER.

13:   AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD AND SAYING:      “GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOODWILL TOWARD MEN!” 

15:  SO IT WAS, WHEN THE ANGELS HAD GONE AWAY FROM THEM INTO HEAVEN, THAT THE SHEPHERDS SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, “LET US NOW GO TO BETHLEHEM AND SEE THIS THING THAT HAS COME TO PASS, WHICH THE LORD HAS MADE KNOWN TO US.” AND THEY CAME WITH HASTE AND FOUND MARY AND JOSEPH, AND THE BABE LYING IN A MANGER.

17:   NOW WHEN THEY HAD SEEN HIM, THEY MADE WIDELY KNOWN THE SAYING WHICH WAS TOLD THEM CONCERNING THIS CHILD. AND ALL THOSE WHO HEARD IT MARVELED AT THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE TOLD THEM BY THE SHEPHERDS. BUT MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS AND PONDERED THEM IN HER HEART. THEN THE SHEPHERDS RETURNED, GLORIFYING AND PRAISING GOD FOR  ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY HAD HEARD AND SEEN, AS IT WAS TOLD THEM.     

Wow God, what an amazing Birth Announcement this was about Your Son, our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth!

Good morning my most wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It is so wonderful to be able to talk to you all this morning on this day, just 8 days before we celebrate Christmas. I love, LOVE, L.O.V.E this season of celebrating the Birth of Jesus! I really love this season for just that reason too; to celebrate the birth of God’s Son…..GOD’S SON’S BIRTH…. imagine that! And God the Creator of the Universe, and of you and me, wants to celebrate His Sons birth with us. In a spectacular way; in a life changing way. Like when His angels lit up the skies of  Heaven with His Glory, as they announced the LORDS birth.

I also love it for the spectacular light shows and elegant home decorations. I love  the festivities,  gatherings of family and friends and even strangers, and delicious food. I love the extra opportunities to bestow our generosity upon those who are less fortunate.  I love that there is an out flowing of love “in the air” around this season that is so real that it is almost tangible.   I just LOVE CHRISTMAS! CHRISTmas. Who would ever want to take “Christ” out of Christmas? Come on world; the Birth of Jesus is the reason for the  Christmas celebrations. The Divine Giver God gave His Gift of His Son to us, His children, here on earth.  Jesus is the Reason for the Season! (as the saying goes) This is just another example of a Truth that Supersedes fact. {The name of this blog  : ) }

Dear LORD God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, we come to you with love and adoration. We come to You with thanksgiving swelling up in our hearts for Jesus Christ our LORD! Please help us to light up Your world with Your world changing light, like Your angels lit up Your skies with Your Glory on that Victorious night over 2000 years ago. You tell us to be Your light in a darkened world.

That night when You personally made Your Birth Announcement that Your Only Beloved, Begotten Son our LORD Jesus Christ was born! When PURE LOVE was born. When life changing PEACE THAT PASSES UNDERSTANDING was born!  When the DIVINE HEALER, PROVIDER, REDEEMER, MIGHTY COUNSELOR was born. When the KING of kings, LORD of lords, MAGISTRATE of magistrates, the ONE AND ONLY GREAT POTENTATE was born as a Baby in a manger.

Thank You LORD. We love You, we praise You, we worship Your Holy Name!  Help us to love our “brothers and sisters” as You want us to, no matter what part of the world they live in. Help us to reach out in love to all mankind, all humanity with Your love. Raise us up to represent You the way that You want to be represented; not the way we think we “feel like” representing You. Please protect all of these Your people LORD for all generations. Please keep Your angels around them. In Jesus Precious Name we pray and thank You in advance. Amen. Glory to God!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!

Well, I am so blessed to be able to spend some days with my 2 youngest granddaughters. They have been patiently, (or not so patiently), been waiting for me to write to you all.

I just wanted to make a couple of observations from this Scripture story about Jesus Birth.

We learned in Bible College that throughout Scripture God has included many historical facts. We see that the government officials of that day were named. This is historical proof of the birth of Jesus in that day and time. God includes so many historical facts throughout His Bible because His entire Bible/WORD is about His Son Jesus.

The Old Testament includes types and shadows of Jesus and is referred to as “Jesus Concealed”,  (by some). The New Testament is of course Jesus the LORD when He actually lived in a Human Body as God Incarnate on this earth and is  referred to as “Jesus Revealed.” These historical facts also help those who are atheists, agnostics, of other faiths and world views to know the TRUTH and the TRUTH will set you free!

It is beneficial for those who are extremely educated and sadly may think that they “know more than God”. As for me personally, I have always believed in God and Jesus and Holy Spirit, the One and Only Triune God,  by Faith. But when I also found out about all of the Historical facts; I was overly amazed. It also made me wonder how the Scholars of the Jewish faith missed their own Messiah when all of the facts , truths, and prophecies completely depict just Who this Jesus Christ of Nazareth is…. the LORD! The Messiah!

We notice that Mary and Joseph were betrothed or engaged at the time and yet Mary gave birth to Jesus our LORD. This is because Jesus is of course God’s Son and of God’s miraculous birth process.  Mary was impregnated by the Holy Spirit putting Gods Seed, Jesus, into her womb. (I hope I am explaining this correctly.) This God’s best miracle, I think. Joseph is His earthly father, perhaps like a stepfather that we have now days. Mary, a teenage bride, was obedient to God, taking the chance that she could even be killed or stoned because she was pregnant and not married in that culture in that day and time.

We see that God’s angel made the announcement.  Then multitudes of other angels joined in singing glorious melody about God’s Son, the Newborn Baby King of the whole world. God’s Glorious light was shining all around the shepherds and lighting up the entire sky. God the Father, God Jesus’ Father, was so proud of His Son as He made His Birth announcement  known to the whole world.

We see that God chose to make His announcement to shepherds who watch sheep for a living and who were living out in the fields. God did not go to the rich, the elite, the scholars, the kings.  He chose to make His announcement to His shepherds. He told them what they would behold with their eyes that would let them know that this was His Son. That is exactly what they found when they arrived in Bethlehem and found this King Jesus wrapped in swaddling cloths in the manger.

Then they left and told this story;  glad tidings of the good news of Jesus’ birth to the world. As we should go and  tell the whole world of the Gospel; of the Birth, Life, Death, Resurrection, Soon Return and Eternal Reign of this Jesus Christ our LORD the King of the world. And tell people how they can all have a personal, intimate, daily, moment by moment relationship with our LORD. We are not created to live this life without Him.

I have to go for now. Until we get to talk again, I love you and you are always in my prayers. Most importantly Jesus loves you.  (Sorry,  I can’t totally proof read for errors, my grandchildren are ready to go….NOW!)