What have we done?
Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:
These words from Isaiah 9, apply to our Churches today. So many Churches, reverential, solemn, ritualistic, formal. Hymns, music so wordy no one knows what it means.
Christianity
What Measure Faith? – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
Romans 12:3
King James Version (KJV)
” For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”
Have you ever noticed, That God gives us all a measure of faith But fills us with the Holy Spirit.
What’s that all about?
What seek ye? – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
What seek ye?
What is your desire? What are your hopes? What are your dreams? What is it you seek?
Is it money, power or love? Is it peace, prosperity or purpose?
We are all seeking something, it’s elusive, it’s something we just cannot see, something that we desperately need. It is something we do not understand.
How long, oh Lord? – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
How long, oh Lord? How long will the heavens be as brass? How long will You ignore me?
Hide not Your face, Let your peace and joy fill my heart. Answer my plea.
You are my shepherd, I shall not want. Those are your words, Lord.
Your word is truth. You are not a man that you should lie.
Thank you lord, for the answers I do not yet see. I Love You Jesus.
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Know you are loved.
Is this a scripture?
“The Lord watches over His Word to perform it”
If it’s scripture, what’s the address?
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let thine heart keep
The writer of Proverbs says, let thine heart. Let thine heart, sounds like something our heart desires to do, that we need to let it do.
I believe this to be true. All of mankind is seeking and searching for something bigger than themselves. Some look for it in science, some look for it in false religions and some find it in Christ.
In Proverbs three, the writer said: ” <strong>My son forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments.”
I will raise me up a faithful priest, – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
1 Samuel 2:35
King James Version (KJV)
35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
What is a faithful priest?
Revelation Knowledge? : The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
My Pastor Davis Jones opened my eyes this AM. He noted the Scriptures; I am expounding on that Revelation. For the thirty five years I have been saved I have believed man is made in the image of God. In Genesis we find that Adam was made in Gods image
Then Adam sinned; This caused a Spiritual death. He was no longer immortal and became Adam the sinner man.
Understand before they sinned, Adam and Eve had free access to and could freely eat of the Tree of Life. Until sin there was no death. After sin Adam lives eight or nine hundred years before physical death but Spiritual death was immediate.
Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
God kicked them out of the garden so they couldn’t partake of Tree of Life, after they had sinned and had eaten of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil.
So now we get to the meat of the matter:
Genesis 4:25-26
“And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.”
If we stop there we understand all Adams children were made in the image of God. The next chapter should cause us to reconsider.
Gen 5:3
“And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:”
Adam begat a son in his own likeness and image. Since the fall the Holy Spirit would come upon individuals as He willed. Man was appointed a day to be born and a day to die physically. The Holy Spirit came upon the worthy (Moses, Joshua, David ), and the unworthy (Samson, Saul), alike, according to his work and will.
After Jesus, it was promised that the Holy Spirit would live within, giving us once again eternal life. So the children that are born to Spirit Filled Believers, (all who except Christ as Lord have a measure of the Spirit ), are born in the image of our heavenly Father and therefore fall under the protection of:
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;”
Now does this mean Children of Christian parents have a free ticket to heaven? NO.
Exodus 34:7
“Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”<
The sins on the unrepentant fathers is passed dowto the third and forth generation. The child born of Christian parents has a leg up. The Lord shows Mercy,forgives iniquity and transgression (original sin?), until sin, rebellion enters their lives.
To me that means babies that die of Christians are with the Lord. Our Children that stay in the Ark of our covering, will be blessed by the Lord. They will have to make the decision to Follow the Lord but will not have to hit bottom to realize the need of Salvation.
Please look up “Your God is too small”, ” How big is your God” and “Who than shall be saved?” in my archives for Scripture.
Our Children are truly blessed. I believe the Word of God and the examples we find of Gods mercy and grace.
Life is great, until it isn’t. – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
Life was great, I was drinking coffee out of my favorite cup. It was a gift from my daughter on her trip to Minnesota, uff da, is a Norwegian expression, it means oh my, or shucks, or even oot oh.
I have several uff da cups, every time my wife or daughter go to Minnesota, they get me a new one.
This was the first one that was made as a deformed Cup.
take heed to your spirit, — The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
We find this warning in the book of Malachi, the full quote from the Amplified Bible is this:
“Therefore keep a watch upon your spirit [that it may be controlled by My Spirit], that you deal not treacherously and faithlessly [with your marriage mate].”
What? The Prodigal didn’t return?
Once saved always saved? Not biblical. I get such a kick out of people who say God has to do things the way they believe.
Please, understand this; God is love, and would have all come to the knowledge of salvation.
a step between me and death. – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
“a step between me and death.”
The words of David to Jonathan,, Sauls son.
King Saul wanted to kill David but his son Jonathan, loved him. David was now officially on the run.
We are all just a step away from death. I wonder often why am I still alive. I am vile, unclean, sinful.
Forgiven.
Bring Joy to God – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station bill
The secret to putting a smile on Gods face:
My wife revealed it to me this morning. She lamented that she hadn’t spoken on the phone with Celeste, our daughter for 2 or 3 days.
That caused me to think of the joy I receive when she calls me to say Hi, how are you, I love you.
I am sure God receives joy when we just call on Him to tell Him we love Him, to thank Him for His many blessings. (When we aren’t asking or complaining ).
That’s it, tell Him you love Him, Thank Him. Praise and Worship. …THAT WILL MAKE GOD SMILE.
Shared from WordPress. From. Isaiah 53:5 Project
Why does God allow pain and suffering? – http://wp.me/p39Q8G-i6
Is Fasting the answer? – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
My wife told me this AM that I am reverting to my heritage. Negative City. I get it honestly, I don’t think my Mother ever ate a meal out, that was perfect.
The meat, tough, under or over cooked, or the vegetables raw, hard or soggy, tea too sweet, ect….
Unfortunately, I tend to be a lot like that, not about food but people who have the nerve to disagree with my enlightened views.
So to remedy the problem, I need to get back into the Word, Fast and Pray. Expecting the Lord to honor His Word, putting His Yoke on and walking with Him.
So yes, Fasting is a big part of the answer. I will humble myself and pray, waiting for His guidince, direction and protection. Knowing He hears our plea.
Lord, draw me close to You, thank You that in the Holy of Holies I will receive Grace and Mercy in my times of need.
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Ezra 10:1 (Revival) – http://wp.me/p2JpvQ-1j8
Are you the one who reminds God, You Promised?
Lord, help us to desire You.
after their own lust: The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
What is lust? Is it only lust at first sight? Or is it a deeper, more serious problem, something we don’t grow out of?
1 John 2:16
King James Version (KJV)
“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
When any of our desires become larger than our desire for the Lord, we find ourselves in trouble. I find myself desiring a pulpit, a following, as I do the mighty work of God.
So I gave them up: The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
Psalm: 81. 12. “So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.”
Is this what is happening in our Churches in America? Once build on a Godly foundation. The Lord is giving us up, to our hearts’ lust, as we walk in our own, rather than Godly counsel or wisdom.
I have provided me a king – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
” I have provided me a king “
The word of the Lord to Samuel after rejecting Saul as King. He chose David, because ” the Lord looketh on the heart.”
He chose David the Man after Gods own heart.
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
1 Samuel 15:22-23
King James Version (KJV)
“And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.”
The word of the Lord from Samuel, to Saul the King.
I am concerned that today in our “I’m forgiven” world, we don’t give any weight to the Old Testament. Yes, Jesus forgives us when we repent and turn to Him and I am thankful He does. (But)
That doesn’t erase the fact that the Lord requires us to be living Sacrifices. That means, we subject ourselves to Gods will and wants, rather than our own.
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