Quality Faith

 

The Object of faith is the crucified Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ….Romans 3:21-26 NKJV But now the righteousness of God apart  from the law is revealed, bring witnessed by the Law and the Prophet , 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, too and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrated at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.;  Ro. 4:24-25 NKJV 24 but also for us, it shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 who was delivered up because our offenses and was raised because of our justification, and then compare in 1 Cor. 1:30 NKJV But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God----& righteousness & sanctification & redemption--; Hebrew 1:9  You have loved righteousness & hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions.

THE Principle of the faith excludes boasting: Romans 3:27-31  NKJV Where is boasting them? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. 29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles also, 30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.; Romans 4:4-5 NKJV Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. 5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.  Also found in  Romans 9:30-33 and then compare with Ephesians 2:8-10; Titus 3 3:4-8; Phil. 3:7-9

THE Nature of Faith is an abandonment of all self-sufficiency and self-reliance in favor of a whole-hearted commitment to “the revealed “ word of the invisible God. See in Romans 10:4 for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.;  Ro. 10:9-10 NKJV that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus & believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 for with the heart, one believes unto righteousness/ with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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 & then compare with Hebrews 11:7.   The righteousness of God: unto eternal life, seen in Romans 5:21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

1.   Without “the righteousness of God” which is received by faith in Jesus Christ, man truly remains lost. He is separated forever from God…..to be spiritually dead in sin: Galatians 5:4 …….2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 NKJV 7 and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 these shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. In Christ, we are given a new position which is defined & motivated to practice. In unity with Him in His death and resurrection, we now Christ are made into what God requires.  

                                                           

Separated forever from God…..to be spiritually dead in sin: Romans 2:1-16; Romans 9:1-5  I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart, 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God and the promise; 5 of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who iover all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.; Romans 9:30-33; Romans 10:1-4; Galatians 5:4 and 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9

Righteousness is related to salvation, forgiveness of sin, & eternal life…See in Romans 1:16-17; Romans 6:23; Romans 8:1-2; Romans 10:1

 

So when we speak of a faith having quality, what is to be seen? Genesis 28 gives us details that faith is relational. Genesis 28:16-18 NKJV 16  Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.” 17  And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!”  18 Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.

In the thousands years before us,  oil's primary use was for food. Olive oil, a high-quality fat, gives the body more energy than carbohydrates do, and at the same time, it has fewer byproducts when metabolized. People of the Mediterranean area have known for millennia that natural fats are good for us, and the fat in olive oil is especially beneficial. While we might think of oil as just some cooking grease, the people of the Middle East held a far different view.

1.   The Hebrew word translated as "oil," shemen (Strong's #8081), literally means "fat" or "grease," but figuratively, it means "richness," an important idea to keep in mind. The word is also translated as "fruitful." Hence, oil symbolizes wealth, abundance, health, energy, and a vital ingredient for a good life.

2.   For the people of the time, then, olive oil was almost like liquid gold. In fact, oil sometimes functioned as a kind of currency. When properly made and stored, it will keep for years and thus hold its value. Biblically, abundant oil is a sign of prosperity (Deuteronomy 32:13; 33:24; 2 Kings 18:32; Job 29:6; Joel 2:19, 24),& running out of oil is indicative of famine and hard times (Joel 1:10; Haggai 1:11). In the Proverbs, excessive use of oil signifies wastefulness (Proverbs 21:17), while saving oil is characteristic of a wise man (Proverbs 21:20). While we no longer attach such value to oil, we need to understand its importance to life for those in the Bible.

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Relationship was presented but refused: Exodus 20:18-21 Now all the people witnessed the thundering, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. 19 Then they said to Moses, “You speak with us and we will hear; but let not go speak with us, lest we die. 20 and Moses said to the people, “Do not fear; for God has come to test you and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.” 21 So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

1.   People were refusing the close relationship with God

2.   They turned to Moses to hear and then tell them what He said

3.   But God came to bring relationship with those who would believe, walk in faith toward Him. 1Cor. 10:2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud & in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food,4 & all drank the same spiritual drink.For they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them & that Rock was Christ.5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

4.    1 Corinthians 10:2 tells us that the Israelites were “baptized into Moses”—referring not to water baptism, but to the fact that they became united with him as never before as they recognized his leadership and their dependence on him. So it is with Christ. When we were baptized into him (Matthew 28:19), we achieved a profound identification.

5.   Matthew 28:19 God therefore & make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father & of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ..Unity with the Father: Romans 6:5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection.

And what was His resurrection? Only those who knew Him saw Him again! And we will know this resurrection, this taking when raised up. And speak to tell others!

Romans 6:3-5 NKJV 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead b the glory of the Gather, even s o we also should walk in newness of life. 5 for we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

1.   identified with Christ’s death and resurrection that we actually did die with him and truly were raised with him, so that we now share in his resurrection life.

2.    Galatians 2:20 tells us: “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” Galatians 6:14 says: “...the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” Just as we died with him, we were also resurrected with him. “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God” (Colossians 3:1).

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Communion with God and People is Given by Holy Spirit : 1 John 1:3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.     and 1 John 4:13  By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

If we have not the Holy Spirit in our lives, we cannot love others in our lives. Holy Spirit enables us to love others!  So from our foundational passage found in Matthew 25:1-13 Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bride groom. 2 Now five of the them were wise and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. 6 and at midnight a cry was heard, ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!” 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise,’ Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you, but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. 11 Afterward the other virgins, came also, saying, “Lord, Lord, open to us!”12 But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ 13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of man is coming.                     

1.   From verse 2 the foolish: taken from moros numbering 3474 means dull, stupid, heedless, blockhead….likely to they are not enlightened, do not have the Holy Spirit so they are not born again unto God

   These were all asleep. So no one was awake watching for the Lord!

2.   Again God put forth a relation initiate by Himself. And we keep in step with the Holy Spirit for that relationship: Ephesians 4:29-32 NKJV 29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as  God in Christ forgave you.

Galatians 5:24-25 NKJV 24 and those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us keep also walk in the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 13:14   NKJV  14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion ( fellowship) of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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Looking at the Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13), citizens of the ancient Mediterranean world also filled their lamps with oil. The oil not only burns as fuel in the body, but also as fuel for fire. Used as medicine, as the Parable of the Good Samaritan reveals we also see that olive oil protected and nourished the skin and scalp in this dry desert region.  As we learn from Leviticus and Deuteronomy, God commanded oil to be used in the consecration of sacred people and things, in addition to its use as an ingredient in some of the offerings.  In looking at the oil placed on young David the son of Jesse. Oil was placed on Saul to be king.

                                                            

As seen, all the uses of oil and the value it adds to life, we can understand why it symbolizes richness, fruitfulness, abundance, & vitality. We can also grasp why it played such an integral part in the consecration of things like Jacob's pillar, representing the richness, fruitfulness, and abundance of God being poured out. While the indwelling of the Holy Spirit will certainly produce abundance & fruitfulness (see Galatians 5:22-23), it is more accurate to say that oil and the Holy Spirit are often parallel, but not exclusively so. As the example of Israel shows, God frequently provides abundance without imparting His Spirit.

 

When God revealed Himself to Jacob at Bethel in the dream, Jacob was a lying, cheating, supplanting scoundrel fleeing for his life.  

1.   God initiated a relationship with this cheating scoundrel who was on the run.  After the night of sleep, having a dream and God's words to him, he now was a man with a future.   

2.   Change had taken place in his life, even though God had not yet given him His Spirit. God made promises concerning his descendants & his safety. He promised never to leave him, a taste of true abundance through this experience with God, & the source of everything oil represents.

3.   In His visitation of Jacob was similar to the man pouring fine, expensive oil on a dumb rock: It set something apart with abundance that was ordinarily common and unremarkable.

4.   Jacob had his first experience with God. It was powerful indeed & a monument of sorts was created. We are told that he piled up some stones & poured some oil over them & then called it ‘the house of God.’ Yes, there it is….he had created a very cheap monument that he used as an example to his great experience with our great God! It was in the middle of nowhere & was a meeting with God in the quiet place.  His experience was something that had cost him nothing.

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 In Gen. 28:16-17 KJV Jacob himself said, “ Surely the Lord is in this place; & I knew it not. 17 And he was afraid, & said,  “How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, & this is the gate of heaven. Jacob had not been changed by meeting with God in that moment of time. He was still Jacob! He was still known as the one who manipulates by calculating his next move . Was he using his strategy on God?  Genesis 28: 18 tells us this: Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it us as a pillar, & poured oil on top of it.

 

1.   That word “pillar” has the numbering 4676 & has the meaning of idol. 

2.   BUT another rock was anointed with oil and that was Jesus. He came to have a meal at the house of a Pharisee and His feet were anointed for the task ahead. He would be the burden bearer!   Mark 14:3-9 NKJV ¶ 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table,  a woman came having an alabaster flask  very costly spikenard. Then she broke the flask, & poured it on His head.  4 But there were some were indignant among themselves, & said, “Why was his fragrant oil wasted?  5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, & given to the poor. And they  criticized her sharply.  6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me.  7 For you have the poor with you always, and  whenever you wish you may do them good;  but Me you do not have always. 8 She has done what she could: she has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial. 9 Assuredly, I say to you  wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

Those indignant to give extra to the Lord that is; as in worship & to glorify Him will in no way operate in it.  She came to do the work beforehand. She came before anything occurred to Jesus. She came exhibiting abundance for Him, for His life & His burial to be one heart with Him always!               

3.   Fausett’s gives this:the scent held in this precious oil was like a strong Valerian acting on the nerves….It is noted that the nervous system makes us who we are….

4.    the most important function of the nervous system is to integrate & respond to the environment—it lets us be mobile, independent units in a rapidly changing world. 

5.   So God is moving on them, on their nervous system to move for life, to move for victory. The nervous system is essentially an extension of all the processes that occur in the rest of the body, but on a much faster timescale. Because of this, the more rudimentary the nervous system, the less “self”-directed control a creature has over its own movement.

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For example, if in my belief, I think that plants are drastically more intelligent than humans, they simply can’t move like we can. A tree can spread seeds certainly, but a human can literally fly around the world of their own volition. The seeds will go where the animal takes them, or where the wind blows them.

Basically, nervous systems are for moving. Things would be breaking open unto the new. Jesus would bear the sin of the world but do we know it, hear it and obey it? Is resurrection on our minds when considering His return. This is for the first trip, for His first-fruits like Him?                  

As from Matthew 25:1-13 and the five wise and five foolish virgins, we find Holy Spirit is valid and important. The five wise virgins possessed a reserve of God's spiritual richness, fruitfulness, and abundance, which would include the Holy Spirit but not be limited to it. They had these things because they had an active, growing relationship with Him. The foolish virgins had a measure of those things, but they were foolish because they did not have enough. They did not take the time to prepare and ensure that they had everything they needed to last through the times of darkness.        

Quality of Faith is having an abundance of prosperity of the Lord. It is the blessing of Jacob, the faith of Abraham, and the salvation in Jesus! It is also belief in His work: His salvation, His death on the Cross, His burial and His resurrection. That faith is strength and is overcoming.  It is looking forward to future, it is never forsaken, an inheritance received, that rough places are smoothed, that what is not seen will be seen by Him, who calls us by name, and leads us in paths we have not known being guided by Holy Spirit always looking to reach and touch Him in the ways to see as Mary did.       

Quality is just that. It is transforming you from being the dust of the earth to being the image of God. Belief in Him who is true always, not sometimes. 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14  Amp. Bible But we, brethren beloved by the Lord, ought and are obligated [as those who are in debt] to give thanks always to God for you, because God chose you from the beginning as His first fruits (first converts) for salvation through the sanctifying work of the [Holy] Spirit and [your] belief in (adherence to, trust in, & reliance on) the truth. 14 It was to this end that he called you through our Gospel, so that you may obtain and share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah).  There is no “coasting” into meeting with Jesus for when we look at the terms of the Gospel. It is by holding in that “faith” that reliance where all our trust is in HIM!  Labor is trouble and Jesus knew it and saw it. He came to bring the Gospel and the power to resurrect dirt. He is our perimeter. He is heaven on earth where the kingdom is spoken of and seen daily. We are fixed, firm & resolved to faith, fixed in sound judgment, defending our faith done in the maintenance of integrity, exhibiting zeal with a faithful love.  Amen.

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Flint into Fountain of Waters

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Ever held a piece of flint in your hand? A friend gave us a sample many years ago. It would fill the hollow part of my hand. I have it somewhere in a box of things from other church members (you know things you like to hold onto to remember that friend or family from long ago)


In the tales told me long ago, anyone going out for a camping trip always had their flint rock with them in case of rain. Unless you smoked back then, and no kind of lighter was available, then yes, matches would be required at number one on my list of things to take on that outing.
Now that was decades ago, and today they have waterproof matches! In those ancient times, flint was used as a weapon like for the arrowhead used by the Indian tribes. We held it important for its use in igniting a spark to start a wood fire!



Was reading through Psalm 114 and I thought of that rock of flint.
I mean, someone like passing by a rocky region with much limestone and the such might come across some kind of flinty rock and unless you knew where to search for arrowheads you might miss seeing that rock already shaped into an arrowhead by person long dead.

My husband knew where to search for them and found some from time to time. He tried teaching our daughter but her heart did not seem to be into that kind of thing at the time of her youth!

Let's look into Psalm 114!
Psalm 114
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 2 Judah became His sanctuary, And Israel became His dominion. 3 The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. 5 What ails you, O sea, that you fled?
6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams? O little hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

In this writing, the focus is on the distinction of two kingdoms, yet still one group of people, not lost like what is given as the Anglo-saxon theory of the 10 tribes being lost.

No, God in His mercy keeps His own and keeps them safe.
In this passage: we see the six marvelous works of our great God! The Red Sea was divided (Exodus 14:3), the Jordan River was divided ( Joshua 3:13; 2 Kings 2:8,14) , mountains skipped like rams.
the hills jumped like rams (from v.4) , the rock poured rivers of water (seen in Exodus 17:6)
Exodus 17:6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at [Mount] Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

............And the flint into a fountain of waters.
Many a traveler through that region describe what is to be the very rock that Moses struck. It is said to be a vast size of granite. The Dake's Bible states: it was a rock: 15 feet long, 10 feet wide and 12 feet high. It is described as a rock with holes and channels through it which could only be formed by the exertion of water running through it. It was stated also that the water that flowed at that time supplied water to 6,000,000 people or more and also for their stock as well!

When their need was met by being filled, the water cease to run!

God is not hindered! He is our sufficiency and what could make fire like flint became what the people needed. It was the needed water that came rushing forth, and watered the people and their stock as well. What we must do, whether man or woman, grown or a as a child, it is we each individually must seek the Lord for His plan for our lives.
We can certainly work to make a living. Each, male or female can do the work around the home or even in the work place, but it takes God to make us into what we are destined to be come in His hands. The fire rock became gushing torrents of water; not limited to any firmness of the rock.
The Israelites came to the place of hardness. They had a hardness of heart and even within seeing all this wonderful things God did to deliver them, they were found in the desert without the surplus of water for survival!
But God! But God in His mercy blessed them with water. These people did not need to make weapons for war or make a fire, they needed the much desired cool water to quench their thirst.

John 4:13-14  Amplified Bible 13 Jesus answered her, All who drink of this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty any more. But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up (flowing, bubbling, [continually] within him unto (into, for) eternal life.


God is our help and He is our shield. But we must stay with Him, talk with Him, and be people who pray to keep the communication lines open!

May we as His people seek His beauty and His love giving thanks for His word of truth that sets us free. It is in Him that we are alive. He meets our thirst and gives us our daily bread (Matthew 6:11)
Friends can come and go throughout our lives, but God must always be present for us. Keep your watch on Him, and desire His peace and comfort. Know He brings you to that even place, His habitation (Psalm 33:14; Psalm 52:5) and will bring to you a strength that will carry you through all your tomorrows! And may your inner most being bubble forth with praise to our God and King! Amen.


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Absolute Perfection

Was hearing about this "special auction" of yes, the special artwork of some gifted people. Now I had never heard of it (this specific auction house), but I have the information recorded. Not sure why I would keep it, but was amazed at what these "folks" considered as art. One specific thing was a stretched fabric like canvas pulled across tightly and fastened to a rectangle  piece of wood. There was nothing on the "white" sheet of canvas. (looked similar to framing a picture of a good size)
This "art" sold for over 100 hundred thousand dollars. Perfection?

But I am thinking of absolute perfection.
And this is found only in the one True God.
As God the Father:
Matthew5:48
48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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God's Work is perfection.

Deuteronomy 32:4

4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect;

For all His ways are justice,

A God of truth and without injustice;

Righteous and upright is He. 

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God's Way is perfection.

Psalm 18:30

30 As for God, His way is perfect;

The word of the LORD is proven;

He is a shield to all who trust in Him. 

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2 Samuel 22:31

31 As for God, His way is perfect;

The word of the LORD is proven;

He is a shield to all who trust in Him. 

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God's Will is perfection!

Romans 12:1-2

 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 

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Psalm 19:7-8

7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul;

The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; 

8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart;

The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; 

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God's Gift's are perfection!

James 1:16-18

16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures. 

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God's Word is perfection!

1 Samuel 3:21

21 Then the LORD appeared again in Shiloh. For the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD. 

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2 Samuel 22:31

31 As for God, His way is perfect;

The word of the LORD is proven;

He is a shield to all who trust in Him. 

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Jeremiah 15:16

16 Your words were found, and I ate them,

And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;

For I am called by Your name,

O LORD God of hosts. 

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Psalm 119:140-142

140 Your word is very pure;

Therefore Your servant loves it. 

141 I am small and despised,

Yet I do not forget Your precepts. 

142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,

And Your law is truth. 

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Jesus Christ....perfection!

Hebrews 2:10

10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings

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Hebrews 5:9-11

9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as High Priest "according to the order of Melchizedek,"  

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God, the Creator of the heavens and earth is the immutable God. He is the One Who was before. He brought forth mountains, and even before He formed the earth and world, God is from everlasting to everlasting. (Ps 90:2) He is holy, righteous, sovereign, love, merciful and life to us!

In Revelation 15 and verses 3-4 we find that they still song the song of Moses, the servant of God and the song of the Lamb.

Revelation 15:3-4

3 They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: 

"Great and marvelous are Your works,

Lord God Almighty!

Just and true are Your ways,

O King of the saints! 

4 Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name?

For You alone are holy.

For all nations shall come and worship before You,

For Your judgments have been manifested." 

NKJV

Opening the Bible, we enter the place of the lovely, written by an Author Who is, was and will always be the everlasting God. Through the pages one finds men and women, too, who find that pathway with God and truly find the full meaning and purpose in what works, what His thoughts are to a new people born again into His glory. From Genesis to Revelation we gain God's perspective of life He meant for good and not for evil. And Jesus is coming again soon for His church that is without spot or wrinkle. Being the man or woman baptized into God's church with the Holy Spirit not only dwelling in us but leading us all the way HOME, is it any wonder that we weep in the good times as well as the bad times.

We have no good thing within us, but receiving Jesus as Lord, we gain a HOME. Leaving self-righteousness at the curb, we take on His righteousness, and the gift of great Price. We cannot buy our way in. No one can buy what belongs to God. (Acts 8:17-24)

The Lord is gracious and He chose you and me. 

(John 15:16; Luke 19:10)

 Since He is the merchant, the price paid was His life, and the church is the pearl. The church is one body (Ephesians 4:4), composed of those He has sought out through the ages to be a habitation of Christ by His Spirit and who will be His bride at His return.

Let's look up! Let's gather and worship Him. For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting and His truth endures to all generations.

Psalm 124:2-8

2 "If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,

When men rose up against us, 

3 Then they would have swallowed us alive,

When their wrath was kindled against us; 

4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us,

The stream would have gone over our soul; 

5 Then the swollen waters 

Would have gone over our soul." 

6 Blessed be the LORD,

Who has not given us as prey to their teeth. 

7 Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers;

The snare is broken, and we have escaped. 

8 Our help is in the name of the LORD,

Who made heaven and earth. 

NKJV

Father, thank You for choosing us. Thank You for Your goodness to us. We have come to the land of the living. We have forsaken our old lives, to live with You and be at Home in Your peace and love. You are our refuge and our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. 

Hallowed BE Your NAME!

Notice: 

The Voice of Prayer  has two new teaching published:
Meekness: Not Weakness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckFuD-ZaDxE


Christmas Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKXnnlvjAVA


You can also visit my Youtube channel The Voice of Prayer for more teaching at  http://bit.ly/1tNyBhV

Wimpy Whine or A Battle Cry that is Set for Change

Thinking on Jesus and His walk on this earth we conclude He encountered many people. His walk took Him to a variety of people.  His life may not resemble ours. His family was of the Hebrew nation. His hair different than yours or mine. His love, well, it was of course Heaven SENT!
When He spoke He needed no megaphone to be heard. He walked with those He knew, preached on the hillside and prayed in the night for the city He longed to nurture with the Father's love.
A man of intercession, we find He had a clear vision of what to pray for those God the Father loved so much.

Luke 13:34-35......34 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing! 35 See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!' "              NKJV

Yes, He had wanted to gather the children together. He desired what the Father desired.

Psalm 81:13-16

13 "Oh, that My people would listen to Me,

That Israel would walk in My ways! 

14 I would soon subdue their enemies,

And turn My hand against their adversaries. 

15 The haters of the LORD would pretend submission to Him,

But their fate would endure forever. 

16 He would have fed them also with the finest of wheat;

And with honey from the rock I would have satisfied you."   NKJV

Jesus came to bring love and light from the Father. God the Father desired His people to listen to Him. He desired Israel to walk in His WAYS! He so wanted to subdue all the enemies that was prevailing against them. And God would see them fed with the finest of wheat and with the honey from the rock God would satisfy indeed!

Yes, Jesus came and did that. Jesus endured for the joy that was set before Him. That joy came from the Father of His love. When He arose from the dead, He was seen by many. Was not held in a deep secret, but A REVEALED Jesus had risen from the dead.

He came through and in the Crowning MOMENT showed the earth and all its inhabitants that God was Alive! He came to reveal the Battle had been won. The cry had been heard, "it is finished!" And finished it was!

All chaos broke out after He was risen in Heaven. The disciples now Apostles were being changed from glory to glory. The talk was probably non-stop. But on Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came in power, He revealed the wind of change.
Prayer was the word Jesus gave. Go back to Jerusalem and tarry!

Do you want change?

Is it time to speak as Jesus spoke? Is it time for a Battle Cry or just that wimpy whine?

As the intercessor for your family, for your community and for your church or body of believer's, is it time to shout out in prayer?

My intercession times are not marked with sighs or too much silence. I am not protesting God's goodness, but I am protesting the enemies and their rights. They have none in my life or in yours.

 I do not need a megaphone. God hears my cries, and He hears yours as well.  I may not have every hair in place on my head or even the clothes on that looks like a militant ready for battle, but I do have on the full armor of God. I am in tune with His heart and when I hear that battle sound of the drums.........playing........I am knowing my God is for me and He is on His way with what I require.

Prophetic, most likely.

Significant always. For intercessory prayer is reaching God's heart for those around us. It is the instrument of sound from our hearts that states loudly..........." boots are on the ground and we are taking territory for the kingdom of God".

Cursing, never.

Complaints, no. I'd rather not whine when I know His Blood covered and brought change for a human race.

God is brilliant. He needs no introduction. He made His life known when He placed the stars in the sky. Keeping our focus on Him, helps us capture His thoughts for the right plan, for the people to pray for, for the family member who is lost in drugs, for the one wanting to control you in the work place, or even in some form of rejection, Jesus knows. God always brings us to the that place which is knowing who we are in Him and how valued we are.

Let Him remind you of the Love He sent for you. Let Him soothe your anxious brow that everything is going to be alright.

Let Him gather you as a mother hen and her chicks, and let Him speak mysteries that will light the fire in your heart to pray............to give the sound of the beating drums from that which comes from Heaven through you to bring change. Touch Heaven today and see your earth changed for the good.

That is why He came!

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Notice: 

The Voice of Prayer  has a new teaching published:

Prayer Is LOVE at War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p53fKT3_BeU

You can also visit my Youtube channel The Voice of Prayer for more teaching at http://bit.ly/1tNyBhV