JESUS

Sunday dinner of salmon cakes and Prayer.

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1 Corinthians 10:31 English Standard Version (ESV)

31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

 

 

 

My salmon cakes cooking up.

 

Good Sunday morning to you all, or what ever time it is for you right now!

Many families now a days spend their time away from each other during the weekdays and the weekends they catch up and have a good meal at the table with each other. But when they are grown and have to take on their own responsibilities as adults….things might change and so enjoy your times together when you can.

 

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My baked veggies in some butter.

I enjoy praying and reading the scripture with my family and then having a good meal. Being filled with the peaceful spirit of the LORD and a full tummy is a total feeling of peace and comfort for me.

My grandmother was an excellent cook and no one I know can or could have cooked as well as she could. When we had family dinners , relatives we have not seen for a while would come and leave full. I remember seeing the men eat so much that they sat in the living room loosening their belts and then falling asleep. Everyone was a hard worker and when we all got together it was either in the church or at the house catch up on things.

Deuteronomy 12:7 English Standard Version (ESV)

7 And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

English Standard Version (ESV)

homemade cupcakes 2019

My fruit filled muffins.

 

John 6:35 English Standard Version (ESV)

35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

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My fruit filled cupcakes with icing.

By the time dessert was ready to be eaten, most of the family was content feeling, but when “the eyes are bigger than the tummy” things lead to the belt loosening thing and falling asleep in the living room.

Everyone said my Grandmom was a good cook. But you can tell that when she didn’t have any leftovers to speak of to put away. My Grandma was a good woman who loved the LORD and raised up her kids to do the same.

 

homemade bananna icecream 2019
My homemade banana ice cream

 

Hebrews 10:25

25. Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near

Enjoy your new year with those who truly do love you and look out for you. Do not associate with those who envy you and say evil things about you when you are not around. They do not share the heart of JESUS and share the heart of the evil one. It doesnt matter if they are family. For they are people and make their own choices on how they want to live. With GOD the FATHER as the lead, or the fallen one who is lost.

You need no distractions on you path to righteousness. None.

Be joyful, encourage others and particularly for others who are followers of JESUS. For they maybe going through a trail that is weighing them down and you may not even be aware of it. if you are being to self centered at the moment to not see it. Not everyone physically shows what they are going through, nor speak about to others. They may keep things to themselves as they are going through what they are going through.

Enjoy your meal with your family, loved ones, and friends. May this blog post encourage you and bless you as you read and share the word of GOD. #passitforward!

 

Peace!

 

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Avoid negative people. 1Peter 5:8

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Picture from “purehappylife.com”

Hello everyone, I do pray that you all will have a blessed and happy new year of 2019! May GOD and HIS beloved son JESUS always keep watch over you and all of your loved ones wherever you all maybe on GODS earth!

I want to share something with you about starting your new year off with joy and peace. We need to think about the different people we come across in our travels from year to week to days and so on.

During your course of the day , of any day in your life you will meet a negative person who just seems to maybe even enjoy being negative. These people we should pray for avoid and move on.

You may have even tried to show them about being negative is not good way to be, by being positive.  You know, telling them good things, showing them the blessings in life and all they seem to come up with is a complaint or something negative. as if to turn their backs on joy.

I know many people who are suffering with this negative mindset, and I do feel sorry for them even though I do know this is a choice they have made to be.

Anyone can feel depressed at any given time, but to dwell on it is not good. It will keep you down. Until only the LORD to throw a rope to them up and out into a wonderful perfect blessing!

King David in the Bible who wrote the Psalms dealt with negativity and by reading the Psalms you do see how much he did love GOD and depended on GOD to pull him up.  GOD did just that, and he always did.

You see the trails he went through in his time of life is no different from what we as the people of today go through right now. He had his haters too, that sought after him to destroy him. When you are a loving child of GOD this is what happens every single day when you have to work or be around those who are un GODLY and hate GOD. They will see that there is something different about you and will hate you too.

Matthew 16:24

1.Then said  Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Even if you have recently been saved and now love GOD and HIS son JESUS, those people you once called as a friend will now turn against you. Hating you, because now you are different to them. They can sense it in you. You are now covered with the blood of JESUS and do have Him in your heart.

Matthew 24:9

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

What you will need to do now is to see that were you were is not where you needed to be. Those people who you once associated with will not want you around them. For their heart is not like yours now since you have accepted JESUS as your savior.

Prayer, faith , trust, understanding and making GOD your 1st best friend in your life who is THE perfect best friend to have and HIS son JESUS is 2nd because he is the son who came after the FATHER GOD in heaven. That’s how it is for me, and I am very comfortable with that too. You will see you can not depend on people, or things of the world to find your joy, for it is in the LORD. You will never be alone of feel alone when you will see that you have two very, very, very good loving friends with you at all times in your life.

Here is a site with even more scripture to read that is encouraging. For we follow the lead of JESUS our savior.

John 15:18-27 King James Version (KJV)

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.

22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

 

Just remember….

Revelation 21:4

“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Please be safe as you may choose to celebrate the new year, keep GOD 1st in all you do. Blessed as you read this blog and GODs scripture included, and pass forward the blessing to others to read as well.

Would JESUS be in the #metoo?

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Jesus take my hand

This artwork by Lester Kern “Take my hand”

Would JESUS approve of the “metoo” movement that is against abuse if he walked the earth ? Yes I believe so because the people in it know it is wrong to abuse.

This is on my heart and has been for sometime now, which is the ” #metoo”  movement. It is very important to understand as to what is really going on that is never taken serious to those who are not the victim.

You may know that with all of the issues of the day regarding any kind of sexual abuse….there still needs to be compassion and care for one another. If any of you reading this has ever been disrespected or abused on ANY level at any time in your life, you know the hurt.

You know according to your experience in your OWN life what you have gone through. Be it at any age from infant to elderly citizen, male or female what that sexual abuse was and how you had to deal with it. From the times when you were a small child, or in preschool to and through college, to dating to marriage, in the hospital with doctors, and even in church.

It could have been verbal or physical , it doesn’t matter what it was if you felt it was wrong and made you feel uncomfortable at the situation you were in. You instinctively knew it was wrong.

What I can not understand as the reason as to why so many do not want to believe that these things happen. And how rude and mean , insensitive many people are when they hear about the women that confess the crime that was done to them. This happens is not inclusive to age or gender.

What is needed in these cases is a savior, one who hears the cries and feel and sees the tears we have going through this evil if we are able to live through it. For both the victim and the criminal need JESUS for they both need healing even of the criminal will do time for the crime.

If you thought you had no one to talk to, you do. JESUS

Jesus over me

This artwork by Lester Kerns

 

I go to GOD and his beloved son JESUS for help. Faith and trust will let me wait ans see how GOD handles the situation. This is what I need to do when I am facing a situation I can not control I am in. We all need the protection from JESUS in this world. Many people do not know who JESUS is. Many live by what they want to do without thinking of the consequences that will be the result.

We pick and choose the lifestyle we want to live, and then when things have gone wrong we will point our finger at the LORD as if it is HIS fault when it was ours alone. These people who abuse feel this way when they are caught and then will play the victim over the evil they do.

But our JESUS has shown compassion for the abused and confused of this earth. He spared the woman who was adulterous and had been with many men. She came to JESUS with oil to anoint him and to prepare him for burial.

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Luke 7:36-50 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat. 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner. 40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on. 41 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. 42 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? 43 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. 44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. 45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. 46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. 47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. 48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven. 49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also? 50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.

Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

To know this kind of love, from the sins we have done to others and ourselves has to limit or measure at all. But this is good to know that you can be healed with the help of JESUS, we can not do this alone.

To have been there to look into JESUS’s eyes and to see this kind of love, would bring me to my knees in tears of joy because I know I have help, a savior and his name is JESUS!!!

Jesus and the woman and the oil 2

I want you all to know who have been abused….dont give up on yourself. JESUS did NOT give up any of us for this is why HE gave his life on the cross. To save all of us from our sins, heal us and show us the way to heaven where we can have all of the unconditional love we need and want .

No more pain.

No more tears.

No more feeling the guilt from what others have done to you ever again.

We wait for GOD to call us home as we do HIS will here on earth. Just think about this good news…to be able to look into the face of our loving GOD and HIS son JESUS for all of eternity long. That is our goal and the best blessing to ever have! Be encouraged and let GOD deal with all of those that have hurt you.

May you all receive a blessing from the reading of the this blog , passing it forward and sharing it as well.

 

Peace!!

 

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