9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Jn 10:9). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
Month: February 2015
growing old in Christ JESUS
heard
the ancient paths
16 Thus says the LORD:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
hand find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Je 6:16). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LjwtLpys0o
if there is an answer to be found, it’s all here, it’s hard to follow JESUS but after time and time again and years past, it’s easy, JESUS just becomes a part of our nature as we take on the nature of Christ, the nature of the LORD God Almighty, defined by decades and years of surrender and submission to Christ and Christ alone, and one day, many decades later, we realize how far we’ve come, together, it’s been forty years, since the first day of the study of Scripture, refined by the FIRE of HIS WORD, the WORD of God, with many others like me, so many, we are now old and well the footsteps of JESUS is abiding according to the WORD of God, God breathed WORD, it does say it’s easy, take up our cross daily and run, run in a manner worthy,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CapVvy6K3NU
The Ancient of Days Reigns
9 “As I looked,
thrones were placed,
and the Ancient of Days took his seat;
his clothing was white as snow,
and the hair of his head like pure wool;
his throne was fiery flames;
fits wheels were burning fire.
10 A stream of fire issued
and came out from before him;
a thousand thousands served him,
hand ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him;
the court sat in judgment,
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Da 7:9–10). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
9 He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. 10 Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Da 12:9–10). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
The Scroll and the Lamb
5 Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne ha scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” 3 And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, 4 and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. 5 And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
6 And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7 And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. 8 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, reach holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 And they sang ua new song, saying,
“Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation,
10 and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,
and they shall reign on the earth.”
11 Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice,
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
and honor and glory and blessing!”
13 And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”
14 And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Re 5:1–14). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
my ever present God
Do you hear it.
Words to a song.
A new song.
One to dance to with JESUS.
God fills my life with wonder every single moment of my life. I cannot express the deep deep love that comes from this understanding and being totally and absolutely surrounded only by the LORD God Almighty.
All the time.
If you asked me to stop writing.
I could not.
If you asked me to stop singing.
I could not.
If you asked me to stop dancing.
I could not, either.
If you asked me to stop studying Scripture.
I could never do that at all.
If you asked me not to hear God’s voice.
It would be impossible.
Not to feel HIM.
HIS touch.
I do suppose that what you spend the most time doing you eventually become very good at.
The men and women of God spent so much time with the LORD that all they could think of and do, was all God’s will for them.
I feel exactly the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYNtQKFGpJc
thoughts
I’m going to take a stand. I’ve studied Scripture for years and years and years from those who are teachers of Scripture and I’ve examined Scripture through and through and through and will do so for the rest of my life.
Well, the consequences of sin is death and sin separates us from God.
Indeed we are covered by the blood of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world but there are ramifications and consequences to sin. Sin is turning of our backs away from God and one day, as sin drives a person farther and farther from the LORD.
You know the verse about the separation of the sheep from the goats, right.
My husband had this talk today and well, there are consequences to sin. Seven generations.
Look at the world today. Anything goes. The world is a playground for anything. It seeping into our churches and we are made to feel that holiness and purity is wrong.
So, this last week, I thought.
Is it that some are called and chosen and some are not. Is it that like pharaoh and Judas, some are chosen for the pit of fire, limestone.
I mean, if anything and everything goes.
Are we any different from the world.
This is the thing.
As for me.
No way.
I walk a holy and pure life of the LORD. Purify even my every thoughts O LORD that it aligns to YOUR thoughts O LORD. Clean and pure. Separate me and set me apart for YOU O LORD JESUS.
We all fall short so I’m going to have to let the LORD purify me more and more and more.
More and more and more of JESUS JESUS JESUS.
No one can separate our LORD JESUS from me. For HE is deep deep deep withing the inner-most being which HE fashioned with HIS very own hand.
Therefore, all I have to do is stand firm in the WORD and study HIS WORD diligently. Not turn to the left or the right but walk the narrow narrow gate. God’s ways are higher than our ways. So are HIS thoughts higher than our thoughts. JESUS is the only way home.
🙂
Hey, you know what, it may not go for popular but who said it’s a popularity contest.
I know this.
I’m on the sheep side.
LOL
I told my husband this. My conscience is clear and it makes for good night’s sleep, every single night of my life. Eight hours.
heard:-
lift me higher and higher
lift me higher LORD
higher and higher and higher
to YOU LORD JESUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhso5lB0h6E
5 For he will hide me in his shelter
in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
he will lift me high upon a rock.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Ps 27:5). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, faints
for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to the living God.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Ps 84:1–2). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
1 As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?2
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Ps 42:1–2). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
there is just ONE way, JESUS JESUS JESUS
41 And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Ex 28:41). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR9ygGyE2ew
Consecration.
Separation of persons, utensils, buildings, or places from everyday secular uses for exclusive dedication to holy or sacred use. In the Bible consecration was effected through an appropriate rite or vow. Hebrew expressions imply “separation” (Ex 13:2; Lv 8:10–12; Dt 15:19), “dedication” (Lv 21:12; Nm 6:9), or “ordination” (literally, “filling the hand,” Ex 28:41; 1 Kgs 13:33). NT references are fewer, but they frequently connote the idea of holiness (Jn 10:36; 1 Cor 7:14; 1 Tm 4:5).
In church usage, especially among hierarchical denominations, the term describes solemn rites that establish a bishop or other official in his office. It is also used to describe dedication of shrines, reliquaries, cathedrals, elements of the Mass, and lesser objects or buildings set aside for ecclesiastical functions.
Protestant teaching stresses the priesthood of every believer. Thus all Christians are “saints” (from the same root word as “consecration”), that is, devoted to God for life. In Roman Catholic doctrine the church consecrates (canonizes) great Christians as saints after they have died.
Consecration is significant in relation both to God and to the world. The apostle Paul spells out the term’s Godward meaning in Romans 12:1, 2. Its importance in relation to people and things is a basic theme of the apostle Peter’s first letter. In everyday life each Christian is meant to live out a “holy” and “royal” priesthood for God’s glory (1 Pt 2:9).
Christians consider the consecration of one’s own personality by the work of the Holy Spirit to be an important mark of spiritual maturity.
Elwell, W. A., & Beitzel, B. J. (1988). In Baker encyclopedia of the Bible (p. 511). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.
JESUS and me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnWKehsOXu8
39b ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ”
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Mt 23:39b). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
the imperfect me
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3257692/
we are not perfect, not one of us and some of us go overboard, I felt I was fat fat fat and stopped eating, it took a long long time to start eating again, like a normal person, saying someone is fat is not a nice thing to say, you never know where it could lead the person, I grew up in a Twiggy mentality, I was so thin, unbelievably thin, now I know why mostly when I do eat, I really do not feel hungry at all, it’s like it’s time to eat but I do not feel hungry, lol, a long time ago, forgotten about it really, the non perfect part of me, 😦 in Christ, you have to admit your weaknesses to overcome them, like a confession, JESUS just takes it all, you’d never know, truly, it’s mental, 😦 it was so bad both my husbands commented, you’re bone thin, you’re only bone, the thing is, you do not see yourself as bone thin, you still see yourself as fat, so, I don’t do diets as it’s my weakness and I don’t not eat, I still only eat once a day, you’d never know, this is my weakness, a place where I would never ever venture, not walk in that direction, a no no for me, a big one NO NO NO … with some, when you are brought into realization that it’s something you cannot control in your life, you don’t go there, for me, it’s starvation, it’s easy, no problem, so, I don’t go there, lost in the disease, the demons, darkness, my imperfect confession, we are called to make public confessions, not like when I was Catholic, in the box, it helps to know yourself, to know oneself one better,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOY0mjjmx8Y
when brought into remembrance, by the power of the Holy Spirit, we are to lay our burdens and failures and weaknesses at the foot of the cross, we follow those before us by example, teachers of the WORD of God, 🙂 the way it’s in HIS time, God’s time, no rush, it this way, it’s better,
the FIRE of God’s passion for me
my Saviour’s love for me
into YOUR hands I commit again
I truly belong to JESUS
fancy waking up in the loving song of my Saviour
❤
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYXJmnJCPG0
what happens is, JESUS speaks all the time, if we just take the time to listen to HIS beautiful loving words from the very mouth of the LORD God Almighty, how is it that life is so beautiful, so wonderful, so marvelous, so great and mighty and honorable and holy and pure and true and just just just JESUS, things are unbelievable, life is to be enjoyed with Christ JESUS our LORD, not without HIM, HIM and HIM alone, JESUS I believe in YOU, JESUS I belong to YOU, waking up in the arms of the Almighty, healed and strong and pure and holy, walking in the light and the glory of the LORD, this is what life all about right, this is what it truly is meant to be, it’s been hard getting here, lots of diversions, stop signs, falling down back on past steps being taken in victory, yet now, how does the LORD show me where I’m at, solidly grounded in HIS WORD, in Christ JESUS our LORD, now, when my heart broke when my Father told me to follow HIS Son and so I believed and followed JESUS though all the years I had been following my Father who art Thou in heaven, how does this work out or make sense to me, I have no idea, I just follow the voice of the LORD, the LORD God Almighty, the great I AM, Jehovah, Yahweh, and know, that all will be fine, cos in the end of it all, HE is in charge of all things, HE is in total and absolute control of all things, in the heavens and the earth, all things, every single thing, HE is everywhere, used to tell my boys at aged six, God is everywhere, and my youngest said, God is everywhere, just everywhere, yes, HE is, HE knows everything before it happens, so, there, he smiled, he was happy and contented knowing this, like I do, O to be like a child again and just believe without thinking, no thought of anything, you know what, I really thought about this writing and stuff and in the end, O well, I’ll just be me and not capitals and full stops nor commas, nor nothing really cos well the mind is so much faster than anything we can do really, right, so, I’ll just be myself and if people read or not, so what, it’s my journal and life and well, it’s just all about JESUS in the end, cos if I have to stop and think and be perfect, well, it’s just lost in conversation with JESUS JESUS JESUS, my LORD and Saviour, then really what is the point cos all is lost if there is no conversation nor communion with Christ and HIM alone, what there be no point in all of this if there be perfection but naught in the ONE that be the most important, Christ, the Christ, MESSIAH, JESUS JESUS JESUS, in obedience with my Father who art Thou in heaven, YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, I’m happy happy happy, the break has done me a lot of good, a second breath, to continue on this awesome journey, what is the good of writing if there is no communication with the LORD, this is how I exactly see it, what’s the point in any writing at all if there is no relationship with Christ JESUS our LORD, this is how I view all of this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEDcKZB7r2A
what can I say
what can I say
but
offer my heart O God
completely to
YOU LORD JESUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV5iZBTNYrk
wow, how far I’ve come, cos, I followed the instructions, I’ve not looked back, along life’s long and arduous journey of life life life, testing by fire, how much I’ve been bent and twisted into submission and surrender to Christ our LORD, the life of seer, the thing is, it get easier and easier, not harder, it’s like an engine on the roll in fifth, it just cruises, no looking back, forward and upward, to Christ and HIM alone, not many get here, the view is magnificent, honestly, what can I say or do, just offer up more of me to JESUS, this is my job, what is my job description, to hear and voice of the LORD, to write it all down, jot it all down, and release it, life is a blast in ups and downs, the thing is, to stand on God’s WORD, as it endures forever and ever and ever, not to depend on self, even, it ain’t easy but once you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll, and you just raise up higher and deeper, but then, to be truly honest, I’ve had a lot of help among the greatest, prophets and teachers, why, guess they like me for some reason or the other, for the LORD, I suppose, so many are just bogged down into a corner and just stay there at the other side of the cross and are not growing into full stature we are all called to, for fear of what, I suppose the fire, the fire of testing, the more tests there are the more growth there is, the more difficulty, the more maturity there is, and one stands, high, and one day, we just do not leave this mountain top cos we are solidly grounded and rooted in the WORD, HE is our stabilizer, we are in a Global University course and our lecturer, he is mature in God’s WORD and does not waver from any unsound doctrine, strong teacher, he is standing high and strong in the WORD, it’s the only way to stand, you get to a point where, you may, sit down or squat, but this is it, your feet solidly held by the arms of the Almighty, O but then, I’m a seer and my calling is so, a mighty warrior of the LORD, I’ve done so many battles, I’ve stood high above the storms, held gently and quietly in the hands of the Almighty, as the battle raged on beneath me, and trusted the Almighty God, the LORD God Almighty, and did not move at all, you know, we are not supposed to talk to the devil, I was instructed, and just stood in the arms of Christ JESUS our LORD, quietly, and was still still still, as still as could be, so no one would notice as the battle raged on, there are such battles still going on, in the air, in the expanse, O well, for today, for now, my part in this great great picture the LORD is working out in HIS time,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oEMoJJj3L8
was just thinking and talking to JESUS on our vacation, you know, the usual ………..
I’ve been thinking on our vacation. Just thinking. I know this is silly but I was thinking well, what will I need to take with me when I see JESUS, Face to face.
Well, all I have are three things really.
HIS nail pierced hand.
I’m holding it tight and well, as the conversation progressed, JESUS is holding my hand all the way, right. Into HIS kingdom. Thy kingdom come right. Today is forevermore and ever and ever, right. Amen.
Then, the kissing of HIS feet at the foot of the cross and well, in our daily communion with HIM right.
What better place than to be at HIS throne room for always.
Then, the very last but most important bit. For me, really is this.
As I touched and wiped the face of the Christ at the foot of the cross as HIS mother carried HIS broken body and heart and none, not any, could clean off the blood on HIS face.
My hair has been smeared with the very blood of Christ in the Spirit.
The smell till this day lingers on and on and on. No matter how hard and much I wash my hair, it still smells.
The aroma of Christ our LORD.
Intercession with HIM.
Communion with HIM.
I do not suppose anyone else, not that I’ve heard of, has, wiped the blood of JESUS’ face at the foot of HIS cross as HIS mother carries HIM weeping uncontrollably. No amount of hair on my head could wipe off the blood that was on HIS face. And yet, I so think. I, too, was soaked by HIS blood on my hair and to this day, I’ve lots of it. Just the other week, or, many a time, you’ve so much hair. Do I, I think to myself. I do not know.
I just know that no matter how much I wash it time and time again. It still has this lingering smell.
The aroma of Christ.
It bothers so many people. Once on the train a lady told me to keep my hair off her as it was poking her.
And yet, I think, if I had not wiped off the blood on JESUS’ face, then I would not have known that there are no scars on HIS face.
Now, this is the thing.
When I see JESUS, Face to face.
All I will have are these three things.
Now, this is. At this moment. As the conversation flows. Is this. For now.
And HE said, HE is satisfied.
By golly gee.
kaz 