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2025, Christian Living, Gospel of Matthew, Look and See, Pictures, Scripture Pics from You Version

Birds!

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There’s a YouTuber whom Jerry and I frequent. 
Tim Janis. 
The scenes are mesmerizing with natural beauty, and the music is calming and relaxing. We like it! 

Today, some of the scenes we watched included birds in flight. Majestic!  And then I thought of you. Well, actually, first I thought of Father and His Majesty and His Awesomeness to create all that we see and what we are yet to see. 

Birds. Amazing creatures! They fly!! I think you might enjoy this video about how they fly. 

And the GOD who loves us designed it, all of it! This knowledge should do great things for us! Our faith, our love, our trust, our worship, should SOAR!

How about a few pics of some birds before I close today?   And don’t forget our Scripture Pic before the close. 

Image from YouVersion

Holy hugs, Kathie

2025, Gospel of Matthew, Salvation

Birds and Worries

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Reading time: 2 minutes

If The WORD of GOD has fallen on the heart of any individual since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, what soil of heart did it fall upon? 

Time will tell. 

The Parable of the Sower reveals the conditions of mankind’s hearts.  

Matthew 13:  1That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. 2 Such large crowds gathered around Him that He got into a boat and sat down, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.  5 Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.  9He who has ears, let him hear.”  source

Reading further in the chapter, we learn the Seed is the Word of GOD, the Gospel of JESUS. We also learn that this GOSPEL is spread abroad, offered to people for acceptance or rejection. When that Seed falls on the soil of the heart of a repentant, receptive soul, salvation comes, and fruit will follow.

The Parable reveals types and conditions to us. Some people hear The Gospel, and their hearts are so cold, deceived, and/or callous that they immediately turn away.  Some hear the Gospel and have an emotional response that feels good for a while, but the pull of the world is so strong that they return to life as usual.  Still others also have an emotional response that lasts for a while, but disappointments come, and they figure this GOD-thing is not for me and go on their way.
And then there are the few who hear The Gospel, admit their need of The Savior, that He is the only One with holy forgiveness and Life, and they say YES! And as they walk with JESUS, He produces fruit in them; the more they yield to Him, the more fruit.

Did GOD birth you into His Kingdom since September 10? Then there will be fruit.

Did GOD impart a revelation of Himself in you since September 10? Then there will be fruit. 

Some a hundred-fold, some sixty-fold, some thirty-fold.

Thirty is better than nothing, but let’s not settle for the least. Whatcha say? 

Until we gather here again, Holy hugs, Kathie עֶבֶד

2025, Confession, Gospel of Matthew, Salvation

New Leaf

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I really don’t have to confess this here because I’ve voiced nothing here about last Wednesday other than revealing an afternoon of prayer, but I am.

I got caught up in the grieving, emotional grieving, rather than Scriptural grieving, I’ve come to see. I repent!

 Assassination. It’s heinous! No one deserves that! Neither should a mere human be idolized, yet we may be seeing it done, I’m afraid.

Still others may, as a result of Wednesday, turn over a new leaf, but I’ve discovered leaves blow every which way with raw emotions.

A new leaf will not cover us. Please recall with me in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve made for themselves coverings of fig leaves.
A new leaf, we might say.
The Creator rejected their leaf coverings and He made for them coverings of skin (coverings which they accepted!).
He made those coverings because He required and still does a Blood Sacrifice for the remission of sins. Please note that the Requirement is HIS Requirement, and that HE is the One who provides the means to satisfy the Requirement.  What more could we ask?

I have marveled again and again that many people are content to watch the shedding of blood in movies, even paying for such in the name of entertainment. Moreover, some resort to shedding blood themselves, either as we saw on Wednesday or in so-called medical clinics, etc., and yet to speak of the BLOOD of YESHUA (JESUS  if you prefer) is an affront to more people than to those that it is not. Go figure that.
We are a blood-thirsty world, but not for the cleansing, regenerating Blood of the ONE who can give us LIFE, here and now, and forever.

So, as a result of September 10, 2025, please don’t turn over a new leaf, don’t make resolutions to read your Bible, and do good deeds.  Yes. I did say that.
Instead, seek with all your mind, heart, every ounce of your being to KNOW The JESUS of the BIBLE (the Reading and good deeds will follow). Please seek to know the JESUS who is better than any new leaf you can turn over again and again and again.

I am not interested in you or anyone setting out to follow a bunch of dos and don’ts. I am interested in you and everyone having a saving, never-ending encounter with The GODMAN, who is worthy of our love, trust, worship, adoration, and allegiance now and forever.

Today, I am not going to expound on patriotism, America, or any of that, other than to point you to what  JESUS  said at Mark 12:17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him.  Mark 12  I hope you will use the link; perhaps you will notice it is taxes we owe Caesar. And in some of the Epistles of Paul, we are commanded to pray for all the Caesars of the Land and to obey the laws of the Land that do not violate the Scriptures.

What else Scripture tells me that I owe to this Land, I know not.
This temporary Land we do appreciate, and it would MOST benefit from our unwavering and exclusive allegiance to our Creator GOD, revealed to us in JESUS the CHRIST, quickened to us by HOLY SPIRIT through the Scriptures.

So yes. Do we need to read our Bibles daily? Absolutely! But not because we have a new leaf but because we desire to be cleansed from head to toe, inside and out by the BLOOD of the Risen LORD of The Universe.

One more thought: salvation is not a fire insurance policy that we apply for and then go on with our old sin-filled ways until cash-in day.   Nope. See Matthew 7:23

Until we gather here again, Holy hugs, Kathie עֶבֶד