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Joshua, Psalms

Peace of Mind

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Joshua 8:31 (in part) . . . And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.  source 

Let me offer this: There must be a sacrifice for us to experience peace.
When peace of mind has fled,  we must lay something on the altar of sacrifice for peace to be restored.
Like what?
Unbelief.

And unbelief covers it all — anger, malice, fear, resentment, bitterness, faithlessness, striving, disputes, covetousness, etc. etc.

All our sins originate in unbelief.  That is not believing (trusting) GOD.
For starters, not believing HE is.
Or not believing He is good; not believing He loves us; not believing He is right and holy; and how about this, not believing He is incapable of doing us wrong.

Peace of mind comes when we believe GOD. Peace flees when we entertain doubt.
So what do we do? We return to the altar and lay down our unbelief again.

It’s called repentance.

Let me offer you two verses of Scripture that have helped me stay in peace more times than I can enumerate.

2024, Joshua

Child’s Play

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Yesterday’s post was Jordan Rivers in These Last Days.

Joshua 4:23, 24.  23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over. 24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.”  source 

Why did HE dry up the Red Sea AND the Jordan River? 
He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.” 

This is one of the wonders of Scripture when we have questions when we want to see why — just keep reading. The answer will come. 

Seven days they marched around Jericho, one time each day for 6 days and 7 times on the 7th day — and what happened?  The walls came tumbling down. 
I’ve not seen such a happening. Have you? 
And as I read this account, I wrote The LORD a note.
Just my opinion.
I’ll share it with you in part: I think the Mightest of all things You have ever done is raising JESUS from the dead after You had laid on Him all our sins. And every time You re-birth a sinner from death to life, You have done another Mighty work. The Mightiest of works since The Ressurection. 

This being true, as humans, we still want to SEE miracles; what we call miracles, the overruling of the natural world we can see, touch, smell, hear, and taste by the supernatural we do not experience by these natural means. It makes me sad, and I am as guilty as anyone, that we are yet so physically minded that we do not rejoice the MOST when a sinner is born again.
Parting the Red Sea, drying up the Jordan River bed, and collapsing the walls of Jericho without dynamite is ‘child’s play’ compared to the deliverance of one person from the kingdom of darkness to The Kingdom of LIGHT. 
Oh! to have a body and soul that consistently sees, hears, smells, tastes, and touches all of life in the Spirit!  
Practice makes perfect.  smile

Until Next time, with kindest regards, Kathie 

2024, Hebrews, Joshua, Questions

Jordan Rivers in these Last Days

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In these Last Days, the Father has spoken to us by HIS SON, but that does not mean all that He has spoken before has now been unsaid or is of no effect.

Hebrews 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;  source 

GOD is so smart! That’s an understatement but you get my point.

Joshua 3

14 So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them. 
15 Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,
16 the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho. 
17 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan. source

At the time, the Jordan

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was overflowing its banks – the Jordan was as deep as it gets, but something happened. The water was completely cut off as far upstream as Adam — wherever that is.
GOD was acting on behalf of His People and other people were going to hear about it.  Why?
Two reasons I think.
One, the Hebrews had to get across the river and two, GOD wanted people to know HIM.
HE still does.
In His mercy and His love, He was reaching out to the non-Hebrew. HE still does.

We don’t see many Jordan Rivers piling up water as far upstream as Adam these days, do we?
And if our DESIRE is to see the SIGN, we likely never will, BUT if we DESIRE GOD, we cannot now imagine what we will see.

GOD still wants People to know HIM.
In these Last Days, do we engineer our own way of damning up the Jordans in our lives?
How’s that working out for us and the revealing of GOD to others?

Until Next Time, Holy hugs, Kathie