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THE LIVING GOD HELD ME

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Do you ever need to be #HELD?  We have a german shepherd in our family and he is one big strong dog.  There are times when I will be talking to him and he is overcome with the need to be held on my lap.!  Yes he is larger than I. (Got the picture}  Have you ever felt the love of God calling you closer to Him?  When things are too big and heavy for us to handle with turmoil and injustice surrounding us today, where do you go for solace?  I call on the LORD and read His Word which I want to share with you now.  Psalm 94  “The LORD will not cast off His people, nor forsake His inheritance, but judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.  Who will rise up for me against the evildoers:  or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?  Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.  When I said, My foot slips, thy mercy, O LORD HELD ME UP.  In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul.  Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with Thee, which frames mischief by a law?  They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood, but the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.  He shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yes the LORD our God shall cut them off.” Job 8:20,21 “GOD will not cast away a perfect man, neither will He help the evildoers:  He fill his mouth with laughing and lips with rejoicing.”  May I turn to the LORD for His loving touch and lean not to my own understanding, but LET GOD HOLD ME, comfort me, teach me, and direct me all my days!  

THE LIVING GOD SAID, “WOE”

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Well have you ever heard so many #lawyers, #politicians, #newscasters and #talk shows participants vehemently shouting their opinions on the character of public officials?  Technology has given a voice to all who want the attention or a platform.  The old saying “Talk is Cheap” is definitely viral today!  Most story lines which are addressed over and over seem to me to be direct attacks aiming to destroy the individual.   As I see and hear many opinions expressed on various people and subjects, I see a pattern of behavior that is told in the Holy Bible.  Jesus Christ did not mince words when He said, “WOE UNTO YOU, LAWYERS!  FOR YOU HAVE TAKEN AWAY THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE:  YOU ENTERED NOT IN YOURSELVES, AND THEM THAT WERE ENTERING IN YOU KEPT OUT.  He said these things unto them, as the scribes and Pharisees began to criticize Him vehemently, and to provoke Him to speak of many things:  Laying wait for Him, and seeking to catch something out of His mouth, that they might accuse Him.” Luke 11:52-54  Again I say, “Everything old is new again”.  Rev.12:12 “WOE to those inhabiters of the earth and sea – for the devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knows that he has but a short time!”  What is the answer?  THE LIVING GOD’S WORD – JESUS CHRIST.  1John4: “Trust not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.  You know the Spirit of God:  Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God…  Rev.4:4 greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.  Those that are of the world speak of the world and the world hears them.  We are of God:  he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God does not hear us.  That is how we recognize the spirit of truth from the spirit of error. . 1John3:23 “This is His commandment, That we should believe on the name of His Son, Jesus Christ and love one another.”  You choose.

THE LIVING GOD – SIN

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The song title of an old favorite hit, ” What’s love got to do with it” goes right along with the question, “What’s sin got to do with GOD? Just read what the love of God did for us by sacrificing His only son to cleanse our sinfulness as recorded in 11Corth. 5:21 “GOD MADE JESUS TO BE SIN FOR US, WHO KNEW NO SIN; THAT WE MIGHT BE MADE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM”  17.”if anyone is in Christ Jesus, they become a new creature as old things are passed away; and all things become new.”  Through loving care of you as a babe and young child,  did your parents bathe you to remove all the stench and dirt from your body?  “And such were some of you, but now you are washed – you are (sanitized} sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” 1Corth.6:11   Have you acknowledged your sins need to be covered by Jesus cleansing blood?  Ps. 51:3 “For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.  2.  Wash me throughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.”  God through Christ became our sin on that cross as He died giving His blood to cover and cleanse our sins before our Father GOD.  Now this is the miracle of miracles for us to have eternal life with GOD.  The choice is yours – Choose you this day to be washed clean by His righteous blood!  You see love has everything to do with it….

THE LIVING GOD – TAUGHT

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School is back in session.  Do we ever stop learning?  I know I am constantly faced with new information, concepts, inventions, and change!  When I received a B.S. degree, I had only just begun on my adventure in acquired knowledge.  In order to teach school, there are many hours of study and preparation.  Through the past fifty years, I have taught numerous children in public schools, private school, and church Sunday schools all the while learning more than I taught.  The one book that has remained constant in my search for knowledge has been the Bible – the word of GOD.   “O GOD, THOU HAS TAUGHT ME FROM MY YOUTH: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.  Now when I am old and greyheaded, O GOD, forsake me not until I have shown Thy strength unto this generation, and Thy power to every one that is to come.” Psalm 71:17,18  “They shall all be TAUGHT OF GOD“John 6:45  “LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY, and Jesus said, When you pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.  Thy kingdom come.  Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.  Give us day by day our daily bread and forgive us our sins; as we forgive everyone that is indebted to us.  Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” Luke 11:2-4    May we listen and learn from GOD’s WORDS.

THE LIVING GOD IS NEVER WEARY

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Are you weary?  Webster’s dictionary states weariness comes from having one’s strength impaired by toil, suffering, fatigue, or having one’s patience, tolerance, or liking exhausted.  Now that sounds to me like all of our present day society!  If you listen to what is being presented by every news feed or broadcast, one would stay depressed; however, they have the latest pill for your problem and even include all the side effects to those miracle pills.  So what you gonna do?  Just keep on keeping on with the same ol same ol?  How is that working out for you?  Listen to the word of the Lord in Isaiah 40:28,29 “Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the EVERLASTING GOD, THE LORD, THE CREATOR OF THE ENDS OF THE EARTH DOES NOT FAINT AND IS NEVER WEARY...there is no searching of His understanding.  He gives power to the faint and to them that have no might He increases strength..31.  they that wait upon the LORD SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and walk and not faint. I claim these words today from Ps.55:22 “Cast your burden upon the LORD, and He shall sustain you”

THE LIVING GOD – PROMISED

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“I promise you,” can be said; however, how good is the word proclaiming the statement?  Do you stay true to your word?  How many statements are proclaimed through texting, tv, internet, business and politics in a day?  The lyrics of a song from ‘My Fair Lady’ which states “Words, Words, Words, I’m so sick of words” are more appropo to our current society than when they were penned.  There is a saying which I heard in my childhood from my father – “A man is only as good as his word”  What has changed?  It seems to me that people are talking out of both sides of their mouths!  If you promised another person something, are you going to stand by it?  In other words, some say one thing, but act another way.   Does the Bible record words of God ever making a promise?  Please read James 1:8 “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.”  1:12-20 “Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed (trapped) When lust has conceived, it brings about sin,and sin when finished brings about death.  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted by evil nor does He tempt any man,  Blessed is the man that endures temptation:  for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the LORD HAS PROMISED TO THEM THAT LOVE HIM.  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.  Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth!”  I choose to stand on the Word of GOD and believe HIS PROMISES.

THE LIVING GOD’S HABITATION

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Where do you #abide?  Where do you sleep?  Where do you eat?  Where do you relax?  Where is your shelter?  Where is your family gathering?  In other words do you have a #habitation?  I realize that all too many people are homeless today because of wars, storms, finances, domestic problems, or just bad choices from addictions.  Recently, I had a bad storm to cause two huge pecan trees to fall destroying the garage.  First, I needed the trees removed, but the ground was so saturated that the large equipment could not be supported to do the work required for demolition.  After weeks of more rain, the sun shone and the drainage allowed for tree removal, but then to disassemble all the roof, walls, and content took another week.  Getting bids on construction was another taunting endeavor.  The builders had to start from the foundation up working between more rainy days!   As of today, carpenter work is progressing with rafters almost completed with the roofer on standby.    All this turmoil over rebuilding has me turning to God’s Word where He shows me access to His habitation!  Ephesians 2:18-22 “through Him we have access by one Spirit unto the Father.  Now you are no more strangers or foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD: and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto an holy temple in the LORD:  IN WHOM YOU ALSO ARE BUILT TOGETHER FOR AN HABITATION OF GOD THROUGH THE SPIRIT.”  I want to be God’s habitation!   

THE LIVING GOD IS LOVINGKINDNESS

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Have you given or received #lovingkindness?  I observe our society becoming more and more self-centered taking hundreds of #selfies to flash before anyone anytime.  Do you think that the constant need to be acknowledged by others is a cry for #love?  In my lifetime, I have watched the explosion of people with house pets.  Those pets give loving companionship during the ups and downs of our life experiences.  Many stories and shows portray animals with more kindness and loyalty than people demonstrate.  Now I have always loved my pets and they have enriched my life; however, animals are not the source of lovingkindness.   Our creator, the Living God is Lovingkindness.   When I see people crying out, ‘Look at Me!’  I want to say, “God Is looking and He loves you – warts and all”  May I share His love and kindness from His Word with you today.  Ps.36:7 “How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O GOD”  Ps.51:1 “Have mercy on me, O God according to thy lovingkindness”  Ps.107:43 “Whoso is wise and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.”   Eph.2:7 “That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus for by grace are you saved through faith, and that is not of yourselves; it is the gift of GOD.” ♥