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2024, A Quick Hello, Hebrews, Questions

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Hello Friends,

It was not my intent to leave you in the middle of Luke.
Forgive me, please.

We are about to wrap up this year of 2024 and what a year it has been!
Not one I shall soon forget. GOD has been GOOD!
My beloved is continuing to recover here at home after a recent hospital stay, our family was here, and we loved on one another and rejoiced. Our hearts are full of gladness and our bodies are way tired! 😊

Shall we now turn our hearts to reflection and focus on our Heavenly Father and the adventures He will bring across our paths in 2025? Shall we in this coming week make provisions to leave behind the sins that have easily beset us this year?

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Hebrews 12 LINK to source

Shall we receive courage from The Holy ONE to forgive more easily, to let us lay not our heads on pillows to sleep with malice poisoning our minds? Shall we listen carefully and hear our family and friends with the benefit of the doubt? Shall we listen to HOLY SPIRIT and respond to Him quickly and favorably? These are just a few of the things coming to mind tonight.

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Until next time, holy hugs, Kathie

2024, Colossians, Hebrews, Questions, Repentance

Sugar and Flour

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Approximate reading time: 2 minutes.

People I love dearly, including myself, 🥰 I have heard say, ‘I just can’t resist it; if it’s in front of me, I am going to eat it or drink it.’  We must repent of this.  how-to-store-flour-and-sugar-long-term-1697700912-1848960292

As Christians, we say that we have the Spirit of Almighty GOD living within us. The same Spirit of GOD who is so powerful that He raised JESUS from the dead.

Graveyard dead, y’all.

I mean His heart was not beating, respiration had ceased, there was no oxygen in His lungs, and His body was in full repose for THREE DAYS! This was the state of JESUS our Savior and Father GOD raised His body from complete deadness to Living, Breathing again!

And we as Christians say we cannot resist a bag of potato chips or one more piece of cake? How can we deny Him like this?! How can we do this in the sight of so great a cloud of witnesses? Hebrews 12:1-3.  I can only think it is ignorance at best and at worst . . . something else. 

Please join me in repentance! Please see with me that for us to consistently place empty, excessive, non-nutritious calories, and even harmful substances into our bodies denies the power of GOD that we say we have living within us. Yes, I am mindful that Scripture speaks of occasional feasting . . . it also teaches frequent fasting. How can GOD deliver, rescue, and redeem us from hell and damnation and be so weak He cannot give us victory over a second plate of boneless chicken wings? Don’t you see with me that we must NOW, today begin to live in victory? If we do not, what evidence do we have to offer people around us who do not know JESUS?

Let me say it this way: We must love The LORD our GOD more than we love sugar and flour.

I read this to my beloved and he replied that it’s not just food and drink, this could be applied to anything in our lives. I wonder if he meant football and golf?

23 Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,24 because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 25 Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism. Colossians 3 Source 

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2 Chronicles, 2024, Daniel, Hebrews, Repentance, Salvation

People, GOD loves People!

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In early June I came here with a conversation springing from my reading of 2 Samuel, saying I was reading through the Bible slowly, Book by Book. I am continuing.

Today I finished 2 Chronicles. Yes, that’s pretty slow but it’s steady.  😊

2 Chronicles 36. In particular verses 15 – 27.

15 Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place. 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

17 So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, 18 who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials. 19 Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

20 Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.

21 So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.     source 

The first thing I want to call your attention to is again and again The LORD. Did you see that? Again and again The LORD sent His Messengers with His Message. And what did the people do?

Does that sound familiar to you? Do you know a people who are doing that today? Is it you?

What happened after the again and again and the mocking? Yes. The wrath of The LORD was stirred up beyond remedy. What does that mean? It means the kindness and goodness of GOD did not bring them to repentance so the only remedy left was for them to reap what they had sown. Is such a day coming again for a mocking people? We can be sure it is. What form will it take? That remains to be seen.

But this is not all I want to show you.

Do you see what happened next to the Sanctuary, the House of GOD?
Do you see what took place there?
Perhaps, the people ran to the Sanctuary when the judgment began,  but it was too late and they died there.
That’s not all. All the articles of the House of GOD were taken away. (Those articles were gold, silver, bronze – very costly!)

Now to my point. If you know from Scripture how meticulously and splendidly GOD gave instructions and made provisions for the building of His House, you might think He would certainly protect it.  He didn’t.
What was He more interested in? THE PEOPLE.
He wanted the People to return to Him. When they rejected His kindness and long-suffering, He took out the Whip. Do you think He has changed?

Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”

No.
PEOPLE are what matter to GOD.
People, GOD loves People!
Everything else is just stuff!

GOD LOVES PEOPLE.

Which means GOD LOVES YOU!

He is not who you have likely been taught He is.
Read His Word and find out for yourself who He is.

Let’s read the last verses of the Book and see what happened next.

22 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:

23 “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:

‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.

Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”

For some in Exile, they humbled themselves and returned to The LORD.

By the way, if you are interested DANIEL lived through this exile of 70 years and He loved GOD all the way through. You can read all about it in the Book of Daniel. I hope you will.

 

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Until next time, holy hugs, Kathie