Photography 101 day 1
This reminds me of home because it is the same type gas pump I used at my dads garage when I worked there at my first job. Pumping gas, changing oil, brake jobs, flat tires. Started when 12 years old….
Photography 101 Day 2
Living on the coast, this is my favorite street
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A beautiful spot not far from home.
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Photography 101 day 1
This reminds me of home because it is the same type gas pump I used at my dads garage when I worked there at my first job. Pumping gas, changing oil, brake jobs, flat tires. Started when 12 years old….
Photography 101 Day 2
Living on the coast, this is my favorite street
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A true word, is my faith strong enough to call myself a Nazerine?
“And they have overcome (conquered) him by means of the Blood of the Lamb and by the utterance of their testimony, for they did not love and cling to life even when faced with death [holding their lives cheap till they had to die for their witnessing].” (Revelation 12:11)
“Therefore, you will fully know them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:20)
“Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.” (Matthew 24:9)
Christians are the people of the Nazarene: Jesus Christ. Christians are known by one thing: LOVE. We are bound by love. We are commanded by our Lord and Savior to love everyone–even our enemies. We are supposed to pursue peace with all men to the best of our ability. Our most valuable fruit is the evidence of God’s love working…
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In the Old Testament we find two people meantioned by name who walked with God. I’ve struggled with this concept for 30 years.
I have a “Billism” a theory if you will, that the Lord God in the Old Testament is not one member of the Trinity but the Lord, (Jehovah, the Eternal One), is the Father. God, (Elohim, the creator, ruler), is Jesus, who sacrificed himself to the Father that we might have Salvation. (See The Trinity in the Old Testament).
So we find that when Enoch Walked with God, he was Walking with Jesus. Jesus said come on home.
When Noah Walked with God, he found grace (Salvation), in the Lords sight and was just and perfect in his generation. He was the heir of righteousness.
To Walk with Jesus is the Lords desire for whosoever will. Lord help us to learn to walk with you. Not ahead of, or behind but with, beside, in harmony, peace and grace. Help us to live this scripture:
Matthew 11:28-30
King James Version (KJV)
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
I had a Bible teacher who taught us to look at this scripture like this:
Jesus said:
My yoke is easy and my burden is light.
So take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart : and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Lord help us to take up Your yoke and learn to Walk with You.
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Lambs and sheep for the majority of the Old Testament were to be sacrificed, or to be the spoils of war. A commodity, something bought and sold. Sacrificed to the Lord or food for the family.
It isn’t until Isaiah that we find the concept of the Good Shepherd.
Isaiah 40:11
King James Version (KJV)
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
This is the picture we have of Jesus the Good Shepherd. It is a good and true picture. He does hold and comfort us, feed and lead us beside the still waters. He restores our souls.
Young David is another example of a good shepherd:
1 Samuel 17:20
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And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
When David left his sheep, he left them in the care of a keeper. Jesus has left His church to the care of His Pastors and Ministers the called, chosen and faithful. When David learned of Goliath, he was full of faith and power.
1 Samuel 17:33-37
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And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee.
The Lord prepares His Shepherds to protect His flock against the roaring lion (the devil) and the bear (powers of this world) the Shepherd needs to be a prayer warrior to have the wisdom, understanding, knowledge and skill to defeat the enimies of the Lord, whosoever they be.
2 Samuel 24:17
King James Version (KJV)
And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.
Here we find the first reference of Gods people being sheep. David had sinned, against the command of the Lord he had taken a census of the people. The Lord gave him 3 choices of punishment, He chose the hand of the Lord and His mercy, rather then the hand of man. 70 thousand died before this prayer.
In the book we see several instances of the Lord releasing their enimies upon His people because they rebelled.
Isaiah 53:6
King James Version (KJV)
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Jeremiah 23:1
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Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:17
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Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bone.
Then we have this wonderful prayer:
Psalm 119:176
King James Version (KJV)
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
This is a prayer that the Lord honors, if we wander astray like the parable of the lost sheep He will find and rescue us.
Ezekiel 34:11
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For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
In Luke 15 we find the parable of the lost sheep, the Shepherd finds and brings him back.
The lost coin….they seek till they find. Then we have the rich man with two sons. please read carefully:
And he said, A certain man had two sons:
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father.
But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
We have the son, he has it all even his inheritance. He takes it and leaves the presence of the Father. He isn’t wondering away, he is deliberate, decisive, determined. He is broke, in bad company, feeding swine.
He comes to his sences, heads to home, Father sees him runs to meet him, restores him to a place of honor.
The difference is the Lord went to find the wondering sheep, He waited for the rebellious son to return. Both were welcomed back but one needed saving while the other needed to repent.
No one can pluck us from the Fathers hand….but He dosn’t hold us there against our will.
Lord may our hearts stay turned to you.
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I have learned that at different times in my Walk with God I need different things. When I was first saved I needed to be fixed. My mind, body and spirit were tuned to the worlds ways. I needed a Spiritual tune up.
The Lord gave me a clean heart, a discerning Spirit, the Peace that passes understanding, the Comfort of the Holy Ghost. A clean slate, I was forgiven. Have you been forgiven?
Now we have decisions to make, will we continue to fill ourselves with the things of God or let the world creep back and gain control of our life once again.
If our only contact with the Lord is on Sundays, then we need and probably attend a Fix-it Church. We are continually broken, sick, depressed, no joy, no victory, certainly no peace.
We are not alone, most Church people fall into this category. We love the Lord but never realized there is more available.
A Fix-it Shop Church preaches The Cross and Salvation, Love, obedience, fruit, feeding the hungry, clothing the needy, loving the unlovable. All excellent things, Godly things, just not filling things.
We need a Filling Station Church. Now a Filling Station Church will challenge us to grow. We find ourselves asking questions, searching the scriptures.
Intellectually, systematically, deliberately moving through the word, Old and New till we have studied to be approved, workmen, rightly dividing the word of truth.
We will not know this with just Sunday services. It takes a real commitment to the Lord. A desire that grows as a relationship matures.
Expecting a miracle, knowing God is. Knowing that Jesus is truly alive in our hearts and minds. Wanting to obey, follow and embrace the Way of the Lord.
If you aren’t desiring a closer relationship with our Lord, you need to set your face like flint towards the Lord and ask Him for that desire.
Ask Him to show you the way to a Filling Station Church.
I pray we would be filled.
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I heard it again today, the church is a hospital where the sick and hurting go to nurse their wounds and recover.
Horse feathers! !!
If we want the church (Christian people), to grow in the Lord we need to quit nursing and heal them. Jesus wasn’t a nurse, He was a healer. He said we would do even more than He.
The Fix-it Shop Church would be more like Jesus: He repaired the lame, gave sight to the blind, cleansed the leaper, stopped the issue of blood, raised the dead. We have the gifts of the Spirit, if we would only learn to operate in them.
Most of the time He touched them and they were healed. Some touched the hem of His garment and were healed. Others were touched by the shadow of an Apostle for their healing. According to your measure of Faith. He healed all that were afflicted.
” Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.”
It wasn’t often they had to do more than accept the gift of God. It happened now….almost immediately, no long recovery times. When Jesus touched you, you were changed. We need to know ourselves and be able to teach others how to touch the hem of His garment.
( but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.)
Now I know, you who are in the trenches, don’t really want my input but if you’ve read this far, please hear me out. I believe I have the mind of God in this. (Lord forgive me).
The Jewish people read through the Law and Prophets every year. The word gets into their hearts and minds. I believe that this is why the Apostles had such powerful ministries. They understood the Old Testament as they lived the New.
Since Jesus did away with the Law of Sin and Death, we no longer teach the Law and Prophets. …we don’t consider it relevant to our walk, when it is the foundation of our truly knowing Jesus.
If I were to Pastor again, Sunday morning I’d preach up a storm. Sunday night I would go through the New Testament chapter and verse.
I would study the Word and teach the revelation I received.
I would do the same mid week with the Old Testament. I would be careful to try not to relie on other books or studies.
Fresh Manna, gathered and prepared daily is the most fulfilling.
Enoch walked with God and was not, because God took him. His name means: dedicated; disciplined.
We need to be dedicated and disciplined so we can pass it on to others. Then maybe we can have a Fix-it Shop Church.
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2 Peter 2:21
King James Version (KJV)
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Do you loose your freewill after you are saved?
John 10:26-30
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But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.
1 John 2:19
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They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
These scriptures are given as proofs that once saved always saved. I believe that no man can pluck us out of the Fathers hand and if we know Him, we would continue with Him.
Unless, in our time of hurt, we don’t alow Him to comfort, protect and guide us.
His hand is open, not a fist….In my self pitying time, I cried out to the Lord…..felt He had left me. So I turned my back on Him…..
” Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.“
Like Balaam, I sometimes built alters and made sacrifices (prayed wrongly), trying to get God to change His direction for my life…
I could have very easily been like Cain and left the presence of the Lord. The Lord offers Salvation, Comfort, Peace and the Holy Ghost to whosoever will. We have freedom to accept or reject His Love and Grace at any point in our lives.
Like the prodigal son, I came back. Cain stayed away. God finds the lost sheep but some deliberately leave and the Lord allows that also.
I am more comfortable believing that we have freewill to leave Gods hand than to once believe I was in His hand and be mistaken. To me that would be too cruel for my loving God.
Let’s look at a few more scriptures:
Genesis 1:27
King James Version (KJV)
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
God created man in His own image, to fellowship with Him, to walk, talk enjoy each other. He only had one requirement….don’t eat that fruit.
Today we are saved, so that we have fellowship with Him, to walk, talk, enjoy each other. We only have one requirement….do not deny or attribute the power of the Lord to the devil.
Adam sinned, was cast from the garden, but still had a measure of fellowship with the Lord. The Lord gave them Cain and Able.
Cain had fellowship with the Lord…..brought an offering to the Lord. (his attitude was wrong: look what I did, instead of Lord thank you for your perfect provision).
The Lord rejected the offering, Cain killed Abel:
Cain had a wrong attitude for worship and a wrong attitude in chastisement. He couldn’t accept that the Lord was greater than he, so he rejected the Lord.
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
God did not send Cain from His presence, yet he left. Still under the Lords protection.
Let’s look at the Hebrews delivered from Egypt: They make it to the edge of the promised land….had an evil heart of unbelief and wondered the desert for 40 years.
That generation never entered the promise. We have a promise today…..to enter into His rest. I don’t know that alot of us enter.
To enter into His rest is more than being born again or Spirit filled. It is to live in Christ. Not put Him on Sundays and do as you please the rest of the week. You will not enter the rest of God, that way.
The committed Jewish people read the Old Testament through every year…..it becomes ingrained, planted firmly in their hearts and minds. They are dedicated, deliberate and determined to study the Word.
We need to be dedicated, deliberate and determined to study the Old and New Testament so that it is firmly ingrained, planted in our hearts and minds.
We have a great advantage in our Walk with God. We are under Grace. When we miss the mark, repentance brings forgiveness. To obey is always better than sacrifice. ….
2 Peter 2:20-22
King James Version (KJV)
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Don’t walk out of the Masters hand, turn to Him, not away when the seas of life get rough.
: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Lord, help us to do our part….be faithful.
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