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Jeremiahs, Will You Please Step Forward?

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The sources are varied, as well as the stringing together of the words; but the messages I am hearing are the same ­– hear the Word of the LORD and get serious about your sins – repenting of them, that is.

Jeremiah 7 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Message at the Temple Gate

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 “Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house and proclaim there this word and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship the LORD!’”
3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.
4 Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
5 For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,
6 if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,
7 then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
via Jer 7 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Don’t you know Jeremiah was ‘uncomfortable’ giving this message? Don’t know he had a rolling in his stomach as he made his way to the Temple gate? Can’t you imagine his knees knocked together as he stood to proclaim this Word from the LORD?

Did you notice Jeremiah was standing at the gate of the ‘Church’ proclaiming this Word? He was out there where everyone could hear him.  Hmmm. What are we told over and over these days? Keep your faith and your JESUS to yourself; be quiet about Him.  Well, who are we going to obey? Them or HIM?

Luke 14: 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
23 And the lord said unto the servant, `Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
via Luke 14:23 – Passage Lookup – 21st Century King James Version – BibleGateway.com.

Is there anything that makes us more unpopular than naming sin? I mean think about it. Say it these days and what do folks say to you and in anger no less?

You have no right to judge me!

And what would my response be? Hopefully, in love and humility, I would say: “You’re right I don’t and I’m not, your deeds have already condemned you; see it’s right here. This is what God says: Your sin He hates because it will destroy you; you He loves and He will rescue you and deliver you if you will allow Him. Will you?”

Do I dare?
Jeremiah dared.
Would you say we could use some Jeremiahs around here now?
Where are they?
Jeremiahs, will you please step forward?

Again I am asking you to remember Specific Unspokens, Salvation lists, Israel, Revival, all listed at PFT.  I am still remembering Misty and Willow Grace, Nichole, Lance, Ann and her family (Barnes) and others. Please do so as well.  Click HERE to see the list.

A handmaiden to the KING of kings,
Kathie

Assurance - Promise, Christian Living, Forgiveness, Repentance, Salvation

Oh Blessed Truth

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Oh blessed truth!

John 6: New American Standard Bible (NASB)

37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. via John 6:37 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

And the one who comes to Me I will CERTAINLY not cast out.

For sure, for sure in the King James vernacular, EVERY soul who comes to JESUS in confession and repentance WILL BE received!!

NO ONE excluded!

Is there any better news than that?!!

John 6:40 For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”  via John 6 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Oh, ABBA, bless Your Holy Name for this truth, for this reality in each of us who have believed. HOLY SPIRIT, bring others to this Truth in JESUS Name.

And we come remembering Ann and her Dad and all the family this week as they adjust to this separation from Martha. It was her testimony of her love and faith in You that brings comfort and we thank You for the faith she received from You.  And others, Melinda, Betty, Misty, Willow Grace, LaJuanna, and well You know, LORD, the others listed there; those specific unspoken, that list of yet unbelieving souls, this Nation and Your beloved Israel, our IDOK Troops; all these we present now to You for help, for healing, for provisions, for gifts of faith, for every possible need they have; we are dependent upon You and You alone to help them.  Thank You for this confidence found in CHRIST JESUS alone. Amen and amen.

Praying for These – click HERE.

Just one of the KING’s Handmaidens,
Kathie

Assurance - Promise, Forgiveness, Repentance, Salvation

Pick One

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Warning! A tough one but I’m bound to post it.

The amazing Grace of God.

Why do humans reject His grace?

Two reasons I think.

One.
Unbelief.
Not willing to believe it’s true.

Two.
Pride.
Not willing to change.

For you see to ACCEPT the Grace of God we must admit we NEED the grace of God and we can only NEED the grace of God if we have SINNED against GOD.

And even the vilest of practicing sinners when confronted with the Grace of God know to ACCEPT this gift of grace requires CHANGE.  And in some that required CHANGE is more than they are willing to do.

How sad is that?!

So I am convinced that ALL refusals to stop practicing behavior that violates Scripture is because we either do not believe the Scripture or we don’t care what God says – we are hell-bent to do it our own way.

Are you familiar with ‘thumbing your nose’ at someone?  Well, that’s what refusing the Grace of God is in the FACE of GOD. In truth that is a mild illustration — refusing Him is much more vile than that gesture.

Know anybody like that?

Oh may it not be the reflection in the mirror.

Exodus 20

Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

The Ten Commandments

1 Then God spoke all these words:

2 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

3 Do not have other gods besides Me.

4 Do not make an idol  for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

5 You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me,

6 but showing faithful love to a thousand [generations] of those who love Me and keep My commands.

7 Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will punish anyone who misuses His name.

8 Remember to dedicate the Sabbath day: 

9 You are to labor six days and do all your work, 

10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates. 

11 For the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.

12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

13 Do not murder.

14 Do not commit adultery.

15 Do not steal.

16 Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.

17 Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.   via Ex 20 – Passage Lookup – Holman Christian Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Broken – bent  any of these lately?

Then HIS GRACE is need.

1 John 1: Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. via I john 1:9 – Passage Lookup – Holman Christian Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

ACCEPT OR REJECT – pick one.

Only a Handmaiden of the KING,
Kathie

Assurance - Promise, Christian Living, Forgiveness, Repentance

The Victorious

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First out of bed and before my coffee I was praying. Praying for some of those unspoken specifics listed at PFT. Click HERE to go there.

And then I read my Journey. Some of the very words I had written to ABBA were there on the page; the very circumstance was there on the page.  HE cares, He is listening. Oh, that we would learn to listen.

He speaks to us.

But often we do not hear. We hear not because we are dull of hearing. We are dull of hearing because we have talked, railed, complained and moaned for so long without listening. Without reading His Word, without obeying His Word.

But this is not so with the victorious. They have troubles. They have circumstances abundantly adverse and yet they are not defeated.

Why?

Because they listen. They seek to hear Him. They seek to obey Him.

There is someone close, very close who demonstrates this to me.  When she is assailed with her own flesh or the wicked enemy, she goes to ABBA, not to rail and complain and moan but to listen. She puts the opposition to silence (even her own flesh) by picking up her Bible and opening it for ABBA’s voice. She says He never fails to speak when she shuts up to listen and obey.

My earthly father’s favorite song was Trust and Obey – for there’s no other way to be happy in JESUS but to trust and obey. 

Trust and obey. Said another way – Learning to Listen. 

Isaiah 30: 21 Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
via Isaiah 30 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

And when you are blessed enough to hear, let not fickle, unfaithful emotions turn you from what you have heard.  WALK what you heard.

Joyce Meyer said something like this: You have to DO what is RIGHT even when doing what is right still FEELS Wrong.

Isaiah 30:15 For thus the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said, “In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength.” But you were not willing, via Isaiah 30 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Learning,
Kathie

Melinda has pneumonia, unable to see her sister Betty because of it — both dear women are depending on our prayers.