All in the Same Boat???

I keep hearing this over and over from news sources since the Covid-19 made its debut in the last few months. If you are reading this: please do not say that we are all in this boat together! If you are in Christ Jesus, you are not in a boat with unbelievers! If you are in Christ Jesus, you know in whom you have believed and know without a doubt that He has revealed by His death, that He abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. To those taught this word from 2 Timothy 1:8-12.....to which Paul was appointed preacher, an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles, Paul suffered by facing death, yet his courage was assured that Christ and Him alone would keep him securely, and safely guard him until that Day of Christ's glorious return.


You and I are not in a "boat" with those who blast leaders of  "their" country. You and I are not in a "boat" with those who sit around on soft couches and huddle to discuss Covid-19 and all its possible effects on you. You and I are not in a "boat with "fear-mongers"!
No thank you, I am not in that "boat"! Our focus of faith is a faith that knows in whom one has believed and trusted in, that faith of knowing Jesus who is that Author and Finisher of our faith. (Hebrews 12:2) I focus on Him and not the Promise. But I will make mention of that promised given me that no evil befalls me or mine! I focus on Him who rose from the dead and is seated "now" in heavenly places making intercession for me and you, if you believe right now!

You and I are to have that "bull-dog" faith, a vital faith that rests in Him and not on humanity. In 2 Timothy 1:6-7 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and a sound mind.
That sound mind consists of one with the ability from God to make the right decisions in regard to qualities of self-control and of self-discipline. 
It is used when things like trials and tribulations appear. It will not look like someone acting out of "fear"!

God's power thoughts guard our mind when we choose to place them in our heart and remind Him we hold them. No, He does not forget we hold them, but it is certain He desires to hear and I am certain that this very thing brings pleasure to Him that His children sound and act like Him!

1 Corinthians 1:4-9 NKJV I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, 5 that you were enriched in every thing by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, 7 so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom were called in the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

No one and I mean no one person is ever impoverished by becoming a Christian. In the realm of the spiritual, that joy is given. It is that cheerful delight. It comes because of God's grace. It is a divine gratuity.

In the household of faith, Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world----our faith. ( 1 John 5:1-4)

Faith is what overcomes and it is Christ Jesus! We are to activate spiritual weapons and not those silly carnal ones.    2 Corinthians 10:3-6 NKJV For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.

Behind every stronghold is a lie----a place of personal bondage where God’s word has been dominated or controlled to an un-scriptural idea or personally confused belief that is held true. Behind this lie is fear and behind the fear is an idol!

Idols are established wherever there exists a failure to trust in the provisions of God that are ours through Jesus Christ. To pull them down: we must use the word of God: Hebrews 4:12-13 . We must use the Blood of Jesus at the Cross: Revelation 12:11 and we must pull down strongholds speaking the name of Jesus: Mark 16:17!

You and I reside in the spiritual of God to combat both the temptations and the persecutions of a godless society. Our spiritual authority comes through God alone :Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject to the governing authority. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Jesus did not come just for His family …He came for us who would believe in His name and receive Him by faith.

In this day and time, we can certainly tell of those who choose to live not by faith but by the amount of cash they have in hand and by the title in front of their name to get “said” products to save their family from Covid-19! No their family members do not have "the virus", but they want to have the drug on hand just in case they need it.

My husband and I heard of this report of a woman with Lupus. She has had it many years, and because of that malaria drug, she has been able to get strength back in her body to become a business leader in her community. While taking this hydroxycholoroquine ( used many decades for cases of Malaria especially in Africa), this drug has helped this young woman and millions of others world-wide to live an almost normal life till the last three weeks when the word went out this “very drug” was curing those with Covid-19. 

In the recent week, the word in news sources is that doctors in this country including dentists are writing prescriptions for this drug with their family name on it. ( We heard this on Chris Salcedo on Newmax: Friday, March 27, 2020 at the hour of 2-3 pm Pacific time)
 Point being that the number of those who are doing this has caused a 300 percent spike in needed drug to keep a supply to those who really need it for Lupus and have used it consistently to live that "normal" life for decades. Whether they know Jesus is not certain, but those who do and continue to do and act out in this kind of active child like behavior should consider what “boat they are in” and if Jesus is with them in the tribulation or are they out there doing their own thing by their own devices to take what someone really needs to live this day and have opportunity to know Jesus!

This came close to home in this news alert today for my own grandmother passed away from Lupus back in the mid-1970’s and they had no idea what to give her to help her at that time. And yes, she knew Jesus and she regularly read His word. 

Point is: are we really choosing to love others to live by faith in Jesus, or living by our faith in ourselves because Jesus cannot be found among us???

 Matthew 1:23 NKJV Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His  name Immanuel, which is translated, “God with us”…: Those of the household of faith, have God with them. We are to meditate on His being with us, being mindful of the love He has for us and live like we know it in our hearts!

To Know the love of Christ and be rooted in that love….not in an intellectual way or of a theological knowledge but we participate in His blessing because we are a child of God. In any situation, you and I are to give reverence to Him in all situations relating to people around us. In every word we speak, and in every step we take we will either glorify Him or speak nothing of Him.

It is not your title nor your ethnic or family pedigree that makes one acceptable to God but only by honoring God by believing in, trusting fully, and loving Jesus Christ, more than diseases, and money in your account and statutes created for your praise or even for your status!

Our position as a member of the household of God is found in Ephesians 2:8-13!  For by grace you ( I) have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. 11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh---who are called Un-circumcision by what is called Circumcision made in the flesh by hands---12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Those resurrected by the New Birth have left the “old man” behind. They are dead to the old way of living and doing. In this new state we are those who are resurrected in spirit and transformed in our moral essence. We are set for good works! Our mood or manner is not to be shaped or developed by the spirit of this world. For the prince of the power of the air exercises his influence not only globally but also culturally.

For the boundary set for those in Jesus Christ are those who are obedient to love our neighbor as ourselves. Grace was revealed and in us it appears as true order, and yes, it is that peace on earth in those who believe! It is "the authentic" filled with the joy of the Lord that is our strength and not by stealing from others.

Be careful if you are climbing into a boat, or if you are in a "boat"….better make sure Jesus is in it with you and not the world!

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Quality without the Zika virus

Dragonflies

I was thinking of the word "quality" today. Now decades ago, quality meant something made to last. It was made to last long, have a look of style without regrets in it! I remember this ad from a television division that the quality would go in before the name would go on.....that is into the future!
Had a flashback to the earlier day and how anything our family bought lasted for years. My mother had no automatic dishwasher other than my sister and myself.  One of us would wash and the other would dry. Of course the one drying had some extra opportunity to complain about the dishwasher. I like drying myself, but I chose to rinse again if need be. But anyone who dried them, had to put them away and that meant extra work indeed! So if you liked drying and complaining, you paid back in extra work.
Heard this clip of a mid-afternoon show coming on (yesterday)...it was during the news break at noon. I actually like One America News because they give accurate news and not the garbage the regular media seem to think I want to hear. NO thank you!
From a local station, a preview of a coming attraction showed this young woman of about twenty and she did not think her dad was giving her enough money to live on weekly. Okay I am catching up, now what ....is she receiving an allowance or what? Then the host of the show shouted out a thousand dollars a week. I stopped from exiting the room. A thousand dollars a week? And the young woman starts to cry, stands up like in a fit of hurt and demands more money, because....and hear this....she does not want to work at a job because " it is so hard"!

I had no words. Really I still have no words for this thing I heard and they televised yesterday. I figure if you are in good health, no broken bones and have a brain, you can work at a job. Most people I know have jobs, have worked at a job or are about to get a new job! How exciting is that to do something, be creative in the person God created each of us to be, right?

So with quality, washing dishes, and a thousand a week is not enough.....something is out of whack somewhere! I remember my dad saying a job was an advantage to many people. He grew up in the time of the great depression and many people had no jobs to go to or make money for their families.
In all this, I think what an advantage we have in God when He can show us the right place to work to make the finances we require, we can find ways to make washing dishes fun when you really dislike the dishwasher to run. (people say the run quiet today, I disagree!)
But by prayer each day we can touch the face of God and speak of the desires in the new job, maybe a new dishwasher or even pray for someone else's need.
Making demands today seems to be the rule of the day. People making demands on that which they either know nothing of or they know all too well!
BUT what about the demand for quality to go in us before we go any further?

Quality: the standard of a thing measured; to the degree of excellence: do you work toward a better marriage, do you work in knowing your kids better

Working order: working according to the nature and the purpose of a machine or of a person…OF A person will be one….of favorable character with tendency/ praiseworthy character Merriam Webster Dictionary

That Strength is Living conditions that regards one alive with life blood, as to  necessity for food, shelter, clothing   and security..….. also to having regard for actual life that which is valid…., has the meaning of the legitimate living by force…that is sound and reliable.                                                      

Do people see us as being sound, reliable, a legitimate one who lives with ability, a quality of excellence that has a praiseworthy character?   

 Within this code of conduct, it was our God who gave us true happiness and well being through that which is truth in His instruction. 

 In a nation that was founded on God, the initial word at the very beginning was for people to read and write.

In all the years I went to school and graduated from high school, the point was to be educated to read and write and to work at some job. It was to prepare for " the future"! Yesterday my husband and I were appalled to hear that in city of Detroit Michigan that only a 5 percent number of those graduating high school have the ability to read and write their own name. In the city of Baltimore Maryland, it was a little more at 11 percent of those graduating high school could read and write their name. Why is that leaders are allowing the young people to be "dumbing down" when educated should be the optimum word for the day of their youth to their graduation year. They say many are not going to college because of money, but I wonder how many are not going to college because they cannot read or write. I know this is going on in some cities for we heard it done last year in a school system in Oregon.

Quality! If measured to the excellence scale where will most find themselves whether the business owner, the college professor or the doctor at some hospital? I certainly want someone qualified to operate if that is necessary for life, but if they cannot read or write then they will have no credentials to do that "thing". How sad for so many who lack an education they really deserved.

While at home, we did what we were asked and for an allowance, I do not remember one. We helped out with chores and feeding the livestock, and we got to see a movie once and awhile, but I do not remembering feeling that I missed anything from the time. I loved being with my parents, although I did not feel that I knew that all that well, but they saw that they had a job, and they saw we were fed and clothed with education in mind for our futures!

No, in fondness I think of the times of washing dishes with my sister, I think of the conversations we had around the table in the kitchen and how much laughter spilled into the yard for many to hear in our neighborhood. We never seemed to be without, but I remember my mother telling me at times not to ask for anything.
BUT there was generally two things I always asked for: one was pens to write my school work and the other was "ruled paper" to write the homework on to deliver it to the teacher the next day.
Yes in fondness, I think of my parents who decided to put some quality in their children and into their family. I pray that will happen in these United States of this country we call America. There should be no dumbing down for our youth, for they will lead someday. Hopefully it will not be in a welfare line, the food line or even any kind of hand out line, but they receive an education that will help them grow in life to become those responsible citizens this country needs!

Let's be responsible adults. We are to know the authority that has been given us here on earth in our salvation. Our authority that came through Jesus is to rule by the word of God, stand firm believing God's instruction to us and then be fully committed to seeing His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Only that which is allowed as holy is that which is approved by God. It is not by manipulating others to get something or even to get something done.
If this lack of quality in lives continues and famine appears what will be the outcome? The headline may carry news of famine, disease or Zika virus. But as a child of God I check out dried food reserves, I pray for clouds of dragonflies to come to this region of Washington and eat up those mosquitoes with Zika virus and I expect God to show us the next instruction for all our days on this earth.
If you wash a dish, or dry a dish, if you require extra money every week for living expenses the best place to start is with God. And pray for the youth of your community that they will be raised in the admonition of the Lord, be raised to be excited about going to school, to learn to read and write and to become the citizens God intended for them to become. We are to remember God is faithful and those who call on Him in spirit and truth, He will answer as we abide in His family, He will move prosperity to our home, life into our lives and continue to experience His goodness all the days of our lives in that quality of excellence! Amen.

Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of the Lord makes one rich and He adds to sorrow to it.

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