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PREPARATION...FIT FOR HIS COMING

April 16, 2020 

Jesus is preparing a place...He is coming again!

John 14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kpT0yf4YOI

HUMBLE OURSELVES!

March 26, 2020

2 Chronicles 7:13-15 New International Version (NIV)

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among My people, ¹⁴ if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ¹⁵ Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.”

HUMBLE OURSELVES!

I have been silent is sharing My Daily Delight with The Lord for the past two weeks for several reasons that don’t need explaining, but today my heart is stirred to appeal to God’s People.

 

The Scripture for today has been preached, shared, prayed, and proclaimed in many ways over the past few years as most Americans have been concerned about the condition of our country.  It seems that everyone has someone or something to blame for the condition we are in.  My dear fellow Christians, the blame falls on us!

LISTEN carefully to the Scripture that we have chosen for our solution.

Background:  Solomon has just finished building the Temple and his house and has offered sacrifices and prayed to God…and God answers:

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a temple for sacrifices.

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among My people, ¹⁴ if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ¹⁵ Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. ¹⁶ I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will always be there.

¹⁷ “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe My decrees and laws, ¹⁸ I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’

¹⁹ “But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them, ²⁰ then I will uproot Israel from My land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for My Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. ²¹ This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ ²² People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.’”

This Scripture has to do with God’s People, the Israelites, and the Temple built to give God a place for His Spirit to dwell and His People to worship Him.  It is also about Solomon, the king.

For us to claim this Word and pray, we must associate ourselves as God’s People and recognize the fullness of these words.  This is God’s People in the Land He gave to them with blessings – the land of Israel.  God says:  “When disaster comes…”  it will be the result of turning from God and His instructions.  So, how do they get rid of the disastrous conditions of weather, pestilence and disease?   We say, seek God and pray!  Why do we choose to stop there and think that’s the solution?  God said:  “If MY People, which are called by MY Name, will HUMBLE themselves…”  We act like we are superior because we belong to God and it’s everyone else who is at fault!  God said, those who claim His Name are at fault and need to humble themselves and do 3 more things:  PRAY; SEEK HIS FACE; TURN FROM WICKED WAYS!  Are we, God’s People, doing this? Praying this way?  You know we have to do this in reverse – we have to turn around to face God and the only prayer He wants to hear is confession. 

THEN…He will HEAR…FORGIVE your SIN; and HEAL your Land…

THEN…His Eyes will be open and His Ears attentive to the PRAYERS offered in that Place (the Temple where sin offerings were made and worship from the heart of love for God),  

“I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will always be there.”

We hear the Heart of God!  What is it?  His People seeking Him with confession on their hearts and repentance to worship Him!

QUESTION ~ Where is the Temple of God today?  There isn’t one in Israel! 

IF you are one who truly bears the Name of God because of believing and receiving the Gospel of Jesus Christ, THEN…

My Dear Family of God, when are we going to fall on our face before God confessing our sin and rise up in humility and confess to the rest of the world; then STAND UNITED in PRAYER thanking God for healing our land and making HIS LOVE & PRESENCE A REALITY so that, the world may believe?

IMPRESSIONS FROM GENESIS

As I begin reading the Bible on a 90-Day Study with some other ladies, I looked back at some notes of the past and discovered this from another study.

Impressions from Genesis                                                                            Tuesday, January 4, 2011 12:03 PM

As I have read Genesis, I titled it "We Are Blessed!"

   

# 1 ~ God created...then blessed - then He said:  "Be fruitful and multiply..." (vs. 1:27; 5:1; 9:1)  We are blessed to be "fruitful and multiply" in God's Image and likeness. (See John 15 & Romans 8:29) 

*[Ladies note who did the fruit bearing!  It began with ONE Woman!  After woman was created God said His Creation was "very good!" - woman is His crowning joy and she is His partner in giving life (birth of mankind.)  We are specially created and dear to God's heart!]

     ~ The unrighteous die in the Flood.  Verse 9:1 Righteous Noah is blessed and told "to be fruitful and multiply." [Now it begins again with 4 Women doing the fruit bearing...giving life!]

*Another note:  Being "fruitful and multiplying" was instructed before sin entered and after the world was cleansed of unrighteous.  God intended the fruit and multiplying to be in His Image.  Look at John 15 and the Vine life and see how we are to bear fruit...more fruit...much fruit.  The Vine is Jesus Christ.  The branches are Believers.  The Fruit is the Image of Christ The Vine!  ALL is to glorify (reveal the Person, Power and Presence of God) The Father!

#2 ~ GOD created in His Image; in His Own Likeness!

Verse 5:3 - Adam had a son in his image (in his own likeness.)  This was Seth.

(Abel had been killed by Cain and Cain had been banished.)  This tells us something about Adam and his relationship to God.  Seth began the redemptive line leading to Christ.
I challenge to watch the redemptive line and who comprises it as you read through The Word!

The teacher in me can't help studying instead of just reading.  I share to be "fruitful and multiply" for His glory!

I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR IMPRESSIONS AND INSIGHTS AS YOU READ AND STUDY THE WORD...SHARE WITH US!

"You are My witnesses, declares the Lord, that I am God." Isaiah 43:12

ONE YEAR OF WALKING IN THE FOOTPRINTS OF JESUS

ONE YEAR OF WALKING IN THE FOOTPRINTS OF JESUS…Connecting the Dots…!  My Sunday School class did this twice ending on June 24, 2015 and August 24, 2019

…We have followed in the steps of Jesus from HEAVEN…to  HEAVEN!

…We’ve read, observed, tasted, learned and experienced how Jesus lived in a human body

…how He fulfilled His created purpose to redeem the world from the bondage of sin;

And demonstrated how to live in this sinful world without participating in the sin and yielding to the flesh.

…He gave those who believed and were born again, His Very Own Spirit to finish His work by telling the lost in sin they have been redeemed.

…He returned to Heaven to prepare us a new home!

SO…where do we go from here?  What do we do with what we have learned and experienced?  What did Jesus say we were suppose to do while He was gone?

SUGGESTIONS: 
Remember His last words in Matthew 28:18-20 and Acts 1:8

***THE HOLY SPIRIT has been given…as our Teacher, Guide, Helper, Comforter and Constant Companion!  Galatians 5 (16)

***The Holy Spirit is A GIFT OF POWER!  He also gives GIFTS to those He indwells!

Check out:  ROMANS 12…I CORINTHIANS 12…EPHESIANS 4

***He unites THE BODY OF CHRIST and designates each BODY Part.  JESUS IS THE HEAD!

…Our Created Purpose, our Spiritual Gift and our Body Part in Christ are ALL perfectly fitted, matched and designed to produce an Abundant Life that satisfies SELF in EVERY facet.  It is who and what you were created for and God’s Completed Will for you!!! ...CONNECT THE DOTS!  

…We need to get personally, intimately, emotionally, lovingly, mentally absorbed, devoted and obsessed with the REALITY of HIS PRESENCE LIVING IN EACH OF US PERSONALLY!

***GOD THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD AND THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD…ALL…HAVE AN ENEMY! 

He has many names, but we know him best as The Devil and Satan. 

He HATES GOD and all that belongs to HIM. 

He IS EVERYTHING OPPOSITE OF GOD…BUT, he is in no way equal to GOD. 

He was created by GOD and will be destroyed by GOD. 

He knows his days are running out so he is NOT holding back anything that would kill, steal and destroy ALL that is GOD’S!

(See JOHN 10:10 a summary of Life)

…DO NOT FEAR him!  We have the WEAPON that defeats him!  We must KNOW our WEAPON and be Expert with it…like any Good Soldier!  We MUST have an abundance of AMMUNITION…for the enemy is relentless!   (Begin with EPHESIANS 6:10-19)

***We have our ammunition of The Holy Spirit of God and The Holy Word of God so let us go forth empowered…Amen!

Planned studies to continue focus of Reality of Holy Spirit living in us and working through us: Ephesians;  1 & 2 Peter; Hebrews.

THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD

June 7, 2019

Jesus said: 

“The Father who lives in Me does His works.”

John 14:10b

(John Chapters 14 & 15)

THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD

My delightful time with my Lord today has revealed some refreshing insights that has brought me JOY!

I have made notes and an outline,  but I wish I could express in words the ecstasy of His Presence and His Spirit teaching and reminding me of His words.

*If we would read God’s Word and not pay attention to the divisions of chapters and verses, I think we would get a clearer understanding…my opinion.

Our Focus today is the end of what we call The Lord’s Last Supper from John’s account.

I realized today that I have made divisions of this evening in Jesus’ life according to the chapters in our Bible and lost concentration that these were His last words and instructions before He is going to complete His purpose for being born.  He was trying to prepare them for the unknown that was about to turn their lives upside down, and give them some comfort and answers to questions when they are confused and shocked and trying to make understanding where there seems to be none.

My lesson today is realizing that Jesus was telling them that even though they were no longer going to see Him in the flesh that He was going to become even more intimate to them by living WITHIN them!  Thus, the beginning of instructions on the Presence of THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD and the life with Him.

Remember what HOLY means.  It means sanctified, set apart for God’s use.  

The HOLY Spirit is the Spirit of God set apart for:

-those who have seen the Truth of Jesus Christ from The Word of God

-those who have believed He IS the Son of God

-those who know Him personally

-those who love Him

*Those who Love Him, keeps His Words; remains(lives) in Him; He reveals Himself to them; 

He and The Father will make Their Home in them.

“I Am the Vine…”

The Jesus Vine is evidence of His Presence.  Let’s look at this Chapter 15 instruction

The Branches are those described above.  They believe, know, love and live for Jesus Christ.

NO FRUIT is caused by unbelief and is removed!

FRUIT is likeness of Jesus, but immature – it is pruned!

MORE FRUIT has been pruned and bears more of Jesus

MUCH FRUIT comes from a Branch that is mature and secure, remaining(living) in Jesus and proving they are His!

SO THAT…

…where Jesus is, I will be also.

…The Father will be glorified.

…I can ask and receive my desires

…When His Word comes true, I will believe

…The world may know God loves them

…Know His Joy from within and my Joy will be complete

CONCLUSION

***Jesus said:  “Apart from Me, you can do nothing.”

 (John 15:5)

“The Father who lives in Me does His works.”

(John 14:10b)

“I will never leave you, nor forsake you;

so that we may boldly say:

The Lord(within) is my Helper; I will not be afraid.

What can man do to me?”

(Hebrews 13:5-6)

SPIRITUAL WARFARE

April 12, 2019

I’ve asked you to PRAY for me and Rose on many occasions…and you have been faithful and gracious to do so.  TODAY I come and ask for those of you who want to be warriors of God to join me in STANDING against the spiritual forces of evil and powers of darkness according to Ephesians 6:10-20 on behalf of Rose’s mind and medicines.

Jesus said that EVERYTHING we do is to give God GLORY.  Rose’s present state of mine and the medicines she is taking do NOT give GOD Glory because they have produced ANGER, HATE, DESIRES TO HURT, NO RECOGNITION OF GOD.  She is FILLED with CONFUSION, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, and HOSTILITY.

God has been very obvious in our lives over the past year as Rose has gone through getting her hearing and life in a place of peace, praise and plans for a great future in her old age.  Many of you have shared in this journey and joined with supporting us in PRAYER and GOD’S LOVE.

About a month ago things changed drastically as she was diagnosed with Dementia and put on new medications that she has reacted to differently than normal and her behavior has progressively and quickly become dangerous to her and me.

I have researched Scripture, sought medical and spiritual council and have found like-minded thinking about taking her off all these mind controlling meds and seeking the Mind of Christ and His Plans for our lives to give Him glory in ALL situations.

The Scripture above in EPHESIANS 6:10-20 outlines for us clearly who and what causes our battles that don’t honor God; and tells us how to battle against these powers of darkness…we STAND…STAND…STAND...with FAITH, RIGHTEOUSNESS, SALVATION, PEACE, GOD’S WORD (as our weapon) and PRAYER in THE SPIRIT OF GOD that dwells within each Believer of Jesus Christ.

#2 Request:  I, Betty Nunes, ask as Paul did “Pray at all times in the Spirit with every prayer and request, and stay alert in this with all perseverance and intercession for the saints.  Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel…Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should.”

I believe that when these medicines of chemicals that the body was not designed for by God are out of her system, she can return to her right mind and receive the Word of God and give Him praise.   Then, God will do what He has promised to finish the work He has begun in us until Jesus Christ returns.  He will work in us how to give Him glory…even with Dementia!