Cheerful giving…

Exodus 12: 33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” 34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. 35 The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. 36 And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.; 

Exodus 25: 25 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. 3 And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, 4 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats' hair, 5 tanned rams' skins, goatskins, acacia wood, 6 oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 7 onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

Exodus 36: 5 and said to Moses, “The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do.” 6 So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, “Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing, 7 for the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.

2Corinthians 9: 7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. …11 You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.

Romans 12:4 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; 7 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; 8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Thank YOU….

Thank you…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVzeS5i8WQ

 

Solo flight….

I am making my first solo flight this week to go to a conference in Tucson…when I look back on the last three years, I would never have thought I would do this again…it used to be no big deal to fly somewhere, travel, go on a cruise, visit family…etc…now I am not as strong, needing plenty of rest, watching every step, but, am hoping to do this…

When I look back over those same years, there were thousands of prayers, cards and calls of encouragement, visits from friends and family…an excessive amount of doctor visits, etc…God was there all the time…I was afraid, I admit it, I did have peace as well…

Now trying an old/new adventure and I will have family at the other end of my flight to help me through…and there is anxiety, I admit…but will move forward as I can…

Don’t we all do this…go through the “what ifs”, the questions…then land right back with Jesus as our guide, the Holy Spirit speaking counsel to our hearts…

Thank YOU…

Psalm 56: 3 When I am afraid,

    I put my trust in you.

Psalm 94: 19 When the cares of my heart are many,

    your consolations cheer my soul.

Psalm 27: 8 You have said, “Seek my face.”

My heart says to you,

    “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”

Peace…peace…

God of all my days..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYkZE8AogDE

 

 

Upholds…

No comments…just letting these words sink in…

Psalm 37:23 The steps of a man are established by the Lord,

    when he delights in his way;

24 though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong,

    for the Lord upholds his hand.

Isaiah 49: 16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;

    your walls are continually before me.

Psalm 54: 4 Behold, God is my helper;

    the Lord is the upholder of my life.

Psalm 63: 8 My soul clings to you;

    your right hand upholds me.

Psalm 145: [The Lord is faithful in all his words

    and kind in all his works.]

14 The Lord upholds all who are falling

    and raises up all who are bowed down.

Hebrews 1: 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

5 For to which of the angels did God ever say,

“You are my Son,
    today I have begotten you”?

Or again,

“I will be to him a father,
    and he shall be to me a son”?

6 And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,

“Let all God's angels worship him.”

7 Of the angels he says,

“He makes his angels winds,
    and his ministers a flame of fire.”

8 But of the Son he says,

“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,
    the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you
    with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”

10 And,

“You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning,
    and the heavens are the work of your hands;
11 they will perish, but you remain;
    they will all wear out like a garment,
12 like a robe you will roll them up,
    like a garment they will be changed.
But you are the same,
    and your years will have no end.”

Thank YOU…

You uphold me…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTX9WJiYKdU

 Reformation Day…

Something else to celebrate….just think that we have the written Word, because of this event…God wrote his letter to each of us and we can hold it in our hands, our heart…give it to others, learn from it, be encouraged by it, be able to read and share of God’s salvation …

https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/reasons-christians-should-celebrate-reformation-day.html?aps=87dbe57c95f8aaf799abcd0402e81a2173de59a0a968659e7eee66ca7f4d67ae&utm_content=711367_20261031_1496&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lst_cw_crosswalk_daily_update_2&utm_source=newsletter&bt_ee=+8GYticI6fZocasFX2MtQxPtCLc7LTrpJTxbyXCaSIBN2Ng0lMQ89g/InJVwdu0O&bt_ts=1793441200126

“Halloween numbers show that “Boo!” is big business in America. Consumer spending on the holiday is expected to reach about $13.5 billion this year.” Epoch News…

This is so temporary…God’s Word is eternal….

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/holidays/what-is-reformation-day-christian-meaning.html

Thank YOU….

Psalm 119…

Word of God speak…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqsnGE3_dsg

Books of the Bible…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNwryJeaaE

 Disheartened….

“Instead of being disheartened by the condition of the world, I wanted my followers to be lights shining in the darkness…..focus less on bemoaning evil and more on working to create something that is good.” Sarah Young, Jesus Always….

I don’t know about you, but I am getting tired of politics right now…I love our country, don’t get me wrong… but the back and forth of words and attitudes, the slinging of slurs and scoffing is tiresome….and for those who live in countries who don’t have the freedom we do to vote, I am sorry…I appreciate our freedoms, I just get tired of the words and backbiting…and the darkness it spurs…

Romans 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Isaiah 5: 20 Woe to those who call evil good

    and good evil,

who put darkness for light

    and light for darkness,

who put bitter for sweet

    and sweet for bitter!.

Jeremiah 17: 9 The heart is deceitful above all things,

    and desperately sick;

    who can understand it?

John 13: 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

I thank God who bestowed his goodness upon this land…please, Lord, help us to be the shining light, to love those around us, to stand for good… help us to follow You…

Thank YOU….

How firm a foundation…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL1ZCyW8HJc

 

Beware and consider…. 

There are so many connections in the Word…reading in Exodus the other day…I found these verses…I was immediately drawn to Jesus and his last night…

Woe to be a wicked person…

Woe to be a liar…

Woe to those who take bribes…

Woe to have a crooked heart…

Woe to be a betrayer…

Not much good said about any of those…

Exodus 23: 23 “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. 2 You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice….

6 “You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. 7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 8 And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

Proverbs 6:19 a false witness who breathes out lies,

    and one who sows discord among brothers……

12 A worthless person, a wicked man,

    goes about with crooked speech,

13 winks with his eyes, signals with his feet,

    points with his finger,

14 with perverted heart devises evil,

    continually sowing discord;

15 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;

    in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

Matthew 26: 14 Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.

Matthew 26:59 Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, 60 but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward 61 and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’” 62 And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?” 63 But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” 64 Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” 65 Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy.66 What is your judgment?” They answered, “He deserves death.” 67 Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him, 68 saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?”

We are to…

Psalm 37: 1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
    be not envious of wrongdoers!
2 For they will soon fade like the grass
    and wither like the green herb.

3 Trust in the Lord, and do good;
    dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
4 Delight yourself in the Lord,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

5 Commit your way to the Lord;
    trust in him, and he will act.
6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
    and your justice as the noonday.

7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;
    fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
    over the man who carries out evil devices!

Plus….

Psalm 37 song….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvpXmh5hRWw

 Weight of the world… 

These verses struck me the other day as I was Listening through the last chapters of Exodus….

“Bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the Lord ….”

The responsibility, of that task as Aaron went before the Lord is heavy…as a person in the group of people whose judgment he was bearing, I would want to be as good as I could so that his burden was lighter…

Exodus:28:29 So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart, when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them to regular remembrance before the Lord. 30 And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the Lord. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the Lord regularly.

When I think of the verse about sin, that we all have sinned, not just a few, but all…we did the same to Jesus…he took all of our judgement, everyone’s…the whole world…for all time…the weight is infinite…so heavy that only God could do it…no mortal could do it…it is hard to fathom in my finite mind….

What a God….what a Redeemer….

Thank YOU….

1Peter 2: 24a He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.

Psalm 119: 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge,

    for I believe in your commandments.

Romans 11: 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord,
    or who has been his counselor?”

2 Corinthians 5: 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Teach me your ways…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhasPQ6Lvos