Don’t you love it when someone delivers what they promised you! Seems that promotion wins over delivery today. You start out with a promise that your internet or tv provider charges will be a certain amount then months later you receive a bill which is three times what the introductory promo was. Does that sound familiar? What about the political promises on healthcare? Has it delivered? That turns my thoughts to political elections on Tuesday, I pray daily that America will turn to GOD to ask for His DELIVERANCE. While reading the Bible today, His Words comforted me, and I want to share them with you. “LORD says, ‘If you return, then I will restore you – before Me you will stand; and if you extract the precious from the worthless, You will become My spokesman. They may turn to you, but you must not turn to them. Then I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; and though they fight against you, they will not prevail over you; for I AM with you to save you and DELIVER YOU,’ declares the LORD. So I WILL DELIVER YOU FROM THE HAND OF THE WICKED, and I will redeem you from the grasp of the violent.” “Behold I AM going to make them know –This time I will make them know My power and My might: they shall know that My name is the LORD.” Jeremiah 15:19-21; 16:21 GOD DELIVERS
Author: Barbara Jones
SHOUT – Genesis 1:1
THE LIVING GOD #SPIRIT
This time of year, we hear about and see all manner of #evil #spirit aberrations in #movies, #TV, and yes-even on neighborhood doorsteps! Today our society seems to embrace the spirit of evil with glee, but refute the HOLY SPIRIT. The Bible clearly proclaims God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Do You? These are just a few Bible verses I would like to share with you Not as a TRICK, but a TREAT…. “The hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in SPIRIT and TRUTH; for the Father seeks such to worship Him. GOD IS SPIRIT.” John 4:23 “We have not received the SPIRIT OF BONDAGE TO FEAR but received the SPIRIT of ADOPTION so we can call , Abba Father. The SPIRIT bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.” Rom.8:15,16 “GOD REVEALS to us by HIS SPIRIT, for the SPIRIT SEARCHES all things, yes the deep things of GOD. We have not received the spirit of the world, but the SPIRIT which is of GOD; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of GOD. So things which we speak are not words teaching man’s wisdom, but the HOLY GHOST TEACHINGS comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” 1Corth.2:10-13 “Now the LORD IS THAT SPIRIT: and where the SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY.” 11Corth.3:17 “Rejoice.. pray…be thankful..QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT...” 1Thess.5:16-19 ” Avoid even the appearance of evil. ” On this Halloween, are you promoting the spirit of fear and evil or do you show the Spirit of the Lord in a loving, caring, giving demeanor? Let God’s Spirit shine through the darkness.
THE LIVING GOD #VISIT
When was the last time you had a #visit from anyone? Years ago, #family and #friends or #acquaintances would actually come to one’s home, sit down, and share a conversation with one another. You always knew the boisterous one with a lively tale to be told. Another one was more reserved, but shared something good that took place recently. Certain traits of the individuals would manifest through their words shared during chats at our visit. As I matured, I realized patterns that had developed in the lives of those with whom I had shared visits. Some told whoppers – very embellished events while others very carefully twisted the truth to make themselves look good. Telling our life adventures and interactions through a one on one visit does not occur often, but the pattern of interaction seems to be repeating through Facebook and the internet today. My childhood story of playing with an elephant in the backyard was immediately identified as untruth; however, today we have Donkeys and Elephants in our dens on TV spouting untruths and we say, “It’s O.K. everyone lies” What does GOD SAY as HE VISITS WITH US? Jeremiah 9: “Their house is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, said the LORD. They bend their tongues lie a bow for lies; but they are not brave for the truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not ME, said the LORD. They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies. Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit; one speaks peaceably to the neighbor with the mouth, but in the heart lays wait for him. SHALL I NOT VISIT THEM FOR THESE THINGS, SAID THE LORD: SHALL NOT MY SOUL BE AVENGED ON SUCH A NATION AS THIS? They have forsaken my law which I set before them and have not obeyed my voice, but walked after the willfulness of their own hearts…HEAR the WORD OF THE LORD let your ear receive the WORD OF HIS MOUTH.”
THE LIVING GOD #CORRECTS
Last week while I was driving home, a woman turned in front of me (of yes, she had a red light) while holding her phone up in her right hand trying to follow the GPS…Her car was filled with passengers who had no idea where they were and all were depending upon her and instructions from a satellite! Ever been there? Just heard a news alert on hurricane Matthew that one man drowned when he drove into a flooded river following his GPS. We all need directions to get on the correct path in our lives. WHO CORRECTS YOUR DIRECTION? If man can build technology to instruct, direct, and correct our earthly movements from outer space. why do we doubt the Spirit of God when He corrects our direction in order to reach His Eternal Destination. Pro.20:24 “Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man understand his own way:” Proverbs 3 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean of your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not despise the chastening of the LORD; or be weary of HIS CORRECTION: for whom the LORD LOVES HE CORRECTS; even as a father the son in whom he delights. Happy is the man that finds wisdom and gets understanding. Prov. 4 Hear instruction from the Father…I have led you in the right paths..Enter not into the path of the wicked and do not go in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it turn from it…let your eyes look straight ahead. Watch the path of your feet and do not turn to the right or to the left: remove your foot from evil.” Jeremiah 10:23,24 “O LORD, I know ..it is not in man that walks to direct his steps. LORD CORRECT ME” Do you get frantic when you are lost? Isaiah 26:3 “God will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on the LORD: because he trusts in the LORD forever for in the LORD JEHOVAH IS EVERLASTING STRENGTH…7.O LORD, make the way of the righteous smooth and the path level while following thy way.”
THE LIVING GOD #WORD
WHO GETS THE LAST #WORD? In any #conversation, #argument, #debate, or #verbal #exchange, the one expressing the last word seems to me to have the more lasting effect. I have known a few people who always had to have the last word on any subject. When you twitter do you need the last comment? I personally think having the last say on any matter seems to make the one giving it a feeling of superiority. In my family, the elders always had the last word, and we honored their wisdom and stature as heads of our households. Today, I notice many individuals who act superior to their peers as well as the older generations displaying no need for a word of wisdom. Some people have cleverly shortened words, made up slurs, or transposed the words’ meaning. (high jacked words). I am glad to say there is one word that will never change! “In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with GOD, and the WORD WAS GOD.” John1:1 “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” John 1:14 “the WORD of GOD IS LIVING and active and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit of both joints and marrow and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Heb. 4:12 The Bible tells me who got the first word and who will get the final last word... “HE is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called THE WORD OF GOD.” Rev.19:13
THE LIVING GOD #TRUTH
#Lies, lies and more lies seem to be filling our air ways today! How can you decern #truth from error? I was an only child, yet I had a very large extented family of aunts, uncles, and cousins who exchanged eventful encounters via conversations over meal time get-togethers. One such episode about me, I heard repeated too many times! At the age of three, I had been playing in the backyard with my three cousins when I came into the kitchen to ask my aunt for some water. She said, ” what are y’all playing?” I proceeded to fill her in…”Well, you see, I am playing with a very large elephant that lets his trunk down for me to sit and then he puts me up on his back …so I really need some water!” Aunt Hen looked at me and said, “Barbara Ruth, if you keep telling those whoppers the boogie man’s gonna get you!” Without skipping a sip, I said, “I’ve told a bunch of um and he ain’t got me yet.” No, not one of my crowing moments! Family, friends, God and His Holy Word have tempered my heart to tell the truth. Col.3:9 “Do not lie to one another since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices” Have you grown into a truthful individual that others can believe what you say? Is it important to be a truthful person? Just as men swear an oath to confirm their truth, God desires to show His heirs the unchangeable purpose guaranteed by His oath recorded in Heb. 6:16-20 “It is IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE “ Lessons I learned as a child are even more vital today when lies and truth are hidden by the cold blooded evil serpent twisting good for evil. Who can you trust that is telling the truth? Ps.119:160 “GOD’S WORD IS TRUTH” Deut.32:3,4 “I will proclaim (publish) the name of the LORD: ascribe greatness unto our God. HE is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment: GOD of TRUTH and without iniquity, JUST and RIGHT IS HE.”
THE LIVING GOD #PRESERVES
#October 2, 2016 the #United #Nations takes control of the #internet replacing the #United #States authority!….What is that to you? Observe…#Find#Bible#Truth was reaching hundreds in #Russia and #China, but now – not one! 2Peter1:12 “I shall remind you even though you already know – you have been established in the truth which is present with you”. Is the Bible being blocked on the internet by the prince of the airways, Satan? If I did not known Jesus Christ as my savior, Satan’s constant germinal infiltration would destroy my life. Simon Peter said in 2Peter, “Those who have received a faith the same kind as ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ see His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life…partakers of divine nature...if these qualities are yours, you will not be useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Now I am talking about germs and Jesus / life and death. What does that have to do with preserves? As a young ministers’ wife living in our first parsonage next door to the church, the gracious farm women brought fresh green beans with canning jars to teach me how to preserve food by canning. I still remember the feeling of the sustained high heat required to kill the germs (we had no a/c in that Texas heat) After removing the jars we would listen and count as each individual lid would pop as it sealed. Preserving was finished when the germs were killed and the beans were sealed until the time of the feast. If we can preserve beans, I know GOD CAN PRESERVE US. Ps.97:10 “You that love the LORD, hate evil: LORD PRESERVES the SOULS of HIS SAINTS; HE DELIVERS THEM OUT OF THE HAND OF THE WICKED.”