Qoheleth: Verse of the Day

   

 

 

   

  

  Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas this year.  So thankful that several years ago, the Lord gave me the best gift I could have asked for, the salvation of my soul.  Such an underserved gift, but one given to me by God because of His great love.  Not because of what I was, but in spite of what I was.  The only thing that I had to do to receive it was to admit I was a sinner (not hard to prove) , and that Jesus (God in the flesh) came to live a sinless life and to die on the Cross for my sin and the sin of all the world.  So grateful  to be one of the “whosoever” will.  Thank you Father God, for the gift of your son, and for your Mercy and Grace! If you want to know Jesus as your savior, all you have to do is ask!  Most things in life are dependent on who you are, or who you know.  How much money or education you have?  Where you are from, or what color you are?  What you have done, or what you can do?  Whether you are...

   

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

 

 

Observations from a time of intense suffering and grief.    Let me begin this by saying,  God is faithful.   If you haven't noticed, contrary to media reports, the world is growing darker by the day. For those of us who are believers, the contrast is growing sharper.  Blending in with the world is no longer possible as the world has grown more dark.  Lines have finally been drawn that God's people can no longer in good conscience still step over.  As the world slides further and further into demonic worship and the false Jesus of compromise,  the differences grow more stark.  Even some professing Christians believe that their 'Jesus' is just fine with sin, and in fact, he admits he may have been wrong about all of that.  If you'll read the first four books of the New Testament, you'll discover that The real Jesus is God, is sinless perfection, is WISDOM itself, and His mortal body was killed BECAUSE He pointed out peoples sins and they w...

Thanks to my daughter Beth for the photo 

   The Lord promised that one day He will fix the heart of His people . They will no longer call him master or other words of fear. They had become associated with Baal worship and thus were no longer fit to be used in the worship of Yahweh. They will finally,  truly love Him and call Him, my man or my husband, and serve Him out of  love.  The word Ishi also carries a meaning of ‘my salvation’.  What a wonderful thing to be in Love with our Lord!  What a wonderful thing for Israel to finally be totally devoted to her God! What a wonderful time when we too will be fully devoted to Him!  We can , along with them at that time, truly say for the first time honestly and with no reservations  that we love Him and will keep ourselves ONLY unto HIM. Only then will we truly, fully keep the first commandment. “and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the fi...

 

  

 

   Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks, for His kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a...

 

   

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  GUILE ,  noun  gile. Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit EVIL  2556   kakós  (an adjective, and the root of  2549 /kakía , "inner malice") – properly, inwardly  foul ,  rotten  ( poisoned ); (figuratively) inner  malice flowing out of a  morally-rotten  character (= the "rot is already in the wood"). The word evil here refers to all types of evil that can be spoken.  A positive way to say this is found in Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. We fool ourselves into thinking it is ok to talk about someone judgmentally, if the thing we are saying is ‘true.’  The truth is, unless we are saying that thing to build up the person, or to try to help in the situation, we are truly just telling it to delight ourselves in gossip.  We edify ourselves in effect stating how much better we...

 

 

 

   “Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: Praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels: Praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon: Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created. He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: He hath made a decree which shall not pass. Praise the LORD from the earth, Ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; Stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains, and all hills; Fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; Creeping things, and flying fowl: Kings of the earth, and all people; Princes, and all judges of the earth: Both young men, and maidens; Old men, and children: Let them praise the name of the LORD: For his name alone is excellent; His glory is above the earth and heaven. He also exalteth the horn of his people, The prais...