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Piano:  Silent Night

I send this out, once again.  

Asking the best, the Lord has for my friends.  

The star shown above, to forecast His Love.

My prayer is that you accept Him.

Merry Christmas,  Don’t miss Him.

Remember when you first understood and accomplished, coloring within the lines. How proud, we were, to master this skill.

It was a sure sign of growing up.  We showed our work to any and all.

Adults today, are reminding themselves of this simple pleasure, with adult coloring books.  (We tend to hide them now).  

It is a pleasure to remind ourselves, that we are able to do something well.   Even a small thing, that we have had mastered, for many years.

In many areas of our lives, we live, walk and work between the lines.  We know what is expected, what needs to be accomplished, and how to get the job done.

So that is what we do.    We stay within our, acceptable boundaries of life.  

We all do it, we want life to be clean, orderly, predictable.   

When Jesus is Lord of our life, we can no longer stay between the lines.

Life gets to be unpredictable, our steps are now ordered by the Lord.   We are at times, brought face to face with the dregs of society. (He shows us ourselves, and we must deal with it).

When we begin to stay within the lines as Christians,  we lose our way.  

My writing, the last few months, has been, writing between the lines.  

I have not  received any Biblical Revelation, grown any closer to the Lord, or expressed any original thought.  

There has been no urgency, no overwhelming desire to draw anyone else closer to the Lord.

I haven’t been feeding myself, so all I have had to give, is old manna.   (Manna, needs to be new, gathered fresh, every morning, or it rots).

Am I able to blame it on company, for disrupting my study and prayer time?   Our Pastor leaving? Or the pain in my physical body?   Maybe a combination of all the above?  I can try? 

Sadly,…  All,….   Just Excuses. 

I need to get back in the Word.  Close the gap, that has widened between the Lord and I.  He hasn’t moved…  Guess who did?

I am a firm believer that the Lord speaks to those who will listen and obey, everyday.

I may not hear His voice, but I can know His will by reading and obeying His Word. 

The only difference between, the great men of faith and us, is:  When the Lord spoke, the great men, listened, considered and acted.

Us?  Not so much…  Our first thoughts are, “God, doesn’t do that anymore.”

Mary said:  What, How?”  Then more importantly:   “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.”

Do you wish to be a great man or woman of God.  It’s OK, to wonder, What or How, as long as the result is. “According to Thy Word.”

Will you quit living between the lines, and say “YES LORD”.

Then you will have Manna, for others to receive.   All we can do is feed ourselves, and pray that others, will be encouraged to learn to feed themselves.

“We are a chosen generation , a royal priesthood, a holy nation,  a peculiar people, that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;”  (1 Peter 2:9)

Get into the light, Praise The Lord, walk, live, draw, color, write, speak….OUTSIDE THE LINES.

THEN:…. Watch the Lord, break forth in your life.   Amen.

In January of 2016, I studied 1 John and the 12 reasons he gave for writing.   My list is much shorter.

“that your joy may be full”

I truly want people to experience fulness of joy, not happiness, not excitement but true heartfelt joy, that comes from knowing the Savior, in a real and personal way.

“that ye sin not”

That our lives would line up with His Word, and we would Walk in His ways.   We will never not sin, but we can live, forgiven and blameless in the Beloved. 

“that ye may know that ye have eternal life,

The realization that we do have Eternal Life, right now.  Without Jesus the Eternity we look to, is less then desired.   Separation from our Creator, our families, our loved ones and desires.

The Eternal Life we can know, when we have Jesus, is a time of no tears or fears…  When we have the desires of our hearts.   Our trials and troubles are washed away by His blood.

“That ye may believe on the name of the Son of God”

The sum of my writing.   That you might believe on the name of the Son of God.

I am inadequate, my words, my prayers, my desires.  All lacking.   If you will not believe Moses, you will not believe, the one raised from the dead.

I write in the hope that something will touch your  heart, mind, a chord within your Spirit.

That something will draw you close…  The Holy Spirit is in charge.  

It is always your choice. 

Today, is the day.  Tomorrow may be too late. 

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Piano

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Piano

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Piano, another try….  did it work?

The Blood of Bulls and goats:

Hebrews 10:4
“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.”

Throughout the Old Testament, man had to give up something meaningful, important, something that cost them.  

They had to sacrifice the best of their flock, from the time of the Passover, (to save their firstborn), to the yearly sacrifices to cleanse from sin.

So they, find themselves sanctified, set apart from the rest of the world, in the service of God, for a time.

That their sin, would be forgiven.

They had to keep making this sacrifice, giving of the best of their flock, to stay in right standing with God.

Seems crazy to the modern man, ridiculous, meaningless, even stupid.  To give up the best of what they had, to please an invisible God.

Why?  Sin.    What is SIN?   

There is no such thing as sin, if it feels good, do it, if it tastes good, eat it, if you like it, do it again.

I have my own standards, we don’t need a Fictional God, to tell me, right from wrong. 

Momma taught us, instilled in us morality, the Golden rule, and integrity….

Don’t you dare judge me….  

Really?  Look around you, how’s that working? 

If you believe in a higher power or not, can you not recognize the Decay, Destruction, and Danger that lies ahead?

The Police are now targets, the criminals, victims.  Illegal aliens,  and felons,  encouraged to vote, when our laws forbid it.

People, paid to riot, to change their votes, to disrupt, to overthrow the will of the people.

Every man doing what is right in his own eyes.  

Stop!  

This invisible, fictional character, (this God character), that, those of us, who believe, know as Jesus.  Is real. 

He was sent down by the Father above, to save the World from sin.  

That which is displeaseing to Him.  That, which we know in our hearts is wrong.  

It really is simple,  you see the glory of His creation, and deny the Creator. 

God has given every one of us, a measure of faith, to believe, if we would.  

Whosoever will.  Is the key. It is our choice…

Ephesians 2:13
“But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”

The blood of bulls and goats,  hard to understand why the Lord went there in the first place.

But, a man, willing to die for me, that should make me stop and consider, WHY?

Why does the man fight for his country, his family, his wife?  Only love.

John 3:16-17

King James Version (KJV)

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

It was the Love of the Father, that sent the Son.

Ephesians 2:13

“But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.“

It was the blood of the Son, that brought us close to the Father.

Hebrews 10:19
“Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,”

It’s is the blood of the Son, that allows us to boldly, come to the Father, to stand before Him, Forgivin, Blameless, finding Mercy and Grace in our time of need.

Revelation 12:11
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”

It is the blood of the Son, our Testimony, and our love for Him, that gives us the victory.

Must we give up something dear to us to purchase this standing? 

Yes.  We must give ourselves, all of ourselves to Him.

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The bricks of our Faith:  theunfetteredpreacher – http://wp.me/p4qqra-21l

Revelation 

Building Bricks without straw: The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station – http://wp.me/p4qqra-1Kw

A Biblical Truth revealed 

• Our story jumps to the book of John chapter 5, the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda.  Jesus, has traveled back to Jerusalem .

The angels would stir or trouble the water at the pool of Bethesda.  There were multitudes of sick, blind and lame, waiting for this stirring .

The first one into the pool was healed.   What kind of joke was this?

The lame or blind needed help to see or maneuver to the waters, it doesn’t seem fair.

It might not have been, but it was how it was.

Jesus, who could have healed them all, choose one man.  (Note, Jesus knew he had been afflicted   a long time. (A word of knowledge)).

A lame man, and asked what he wanted?

“To be healed, but someone always beats me to the water.”

Jesus: “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.”

Things of note:

~  No mention of faith.  Many times he told folks their faith made them whole.  Not this time.

~  He was healed immediately.  The Lord doesn’t save, heal or comfort over time…  

When the Lord touches you, or better yet, you learn to touch Him, Salvation, Healing, Comfort, Direction come upon us immediately .   

The Lord answers the prayers of those who Seek and Obey His will.

~  The lame man, walked away carrying his bed, and this on the Sabbath.   The religious didn’t like it when a rule is broken.

~  He was confronted by the Jews… “What are you doing?  You are breaking the law.”

~  “The man who healed me, told me to… I don’t know who He was.”

~  “for Jesus had conveyed himself away, “

~  The healed man was found by Jesus, in the Temple.  

How appropriate, to go to the house of God, in thanksgiving.

He was told:  “Go and sin no more.”

Is sin the cause of sickness?   What does the Word tell us?

Psalm: 107:17-18

“Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.   Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.”

Mark 2:5

“When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the paralytic, Son, thy sins are forgiven thee.“

John 9:3
“Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.”

We often have no clue of Gods ways, we do have His assurance that His purpose is good.  (Romans 8:28, if we :26).

Psalms 115:3

“But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. ”

We must understand, the Lord did not always heal those He came across, and those He did, not always the same way.

This is because we would make that repeated way a religion, a ritual.

One thing was consistent:

“All who TOUCHED HIM WERE MADE WHOLE.”

Are you in need of Salvation, Healing, Direction, or Correction?

LEARN TO DROP DOWN IN WORSHIP.  Touch the Hem of His Garment.   Receive the Blessings of God.

John 5:1-9
“After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.   When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.  And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.”

Not knowing, the power of God: theunfetteredpreacher – http://wp.me/p4qqra-26d

Another reblog,  Still the cry of my heart…  Seek His Face…

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A reblog….  The cry of my heart….  we must Seek His Face