KURIOS DOXA 

LORD OF GLORY

1 Corinthians 2:8

Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified The Lord of Glory.

GLORY: Honor, Splendor, Majesty, Praise, The Unspoken Manifestation of God

Pronounced: koo'-ree-os dox'-ah

According to my Helps/Studies, the word Kurios means "a person exercising absolute ownership rights"; Lord

    This designation is used 722 times in Scripture. Repetition is meant to reinforce and imprint on us the fullness of The Word we are learning. It is not necessary for us to remember it in our minds, as what is being imprinted on our hearts is done spiritually and when we need it, The Holy Spirit will bring it to our lips and then we will speak it out. (Read all of 2 Corinthians 2)

   When we sing The Doxology, we are praising His glory. But what is His glory? Absolute ownership rights. Lord. We recognize that Jesus Christ is LORD of ALL. Even us, especially us. For we are His craftsmanship. The believer in Christ is truly owned by His Lord and Savior and for this we give Him all the praise. From the depths of our hearts we cry out, "Holy, holy, holy is The Lord God Almighty! Worthy is The Lamb That Was Slain!" 

    His glory is His majesty. Majesty to rule, majesty to judge. Wonderful, beautiful glory. That which has not yet been seen by the believer still on this side of heaven but longed for even now. 

     Even the thief on the cross recognized Jesus Christ as Lord. Such a simple word but with so much spiritual discernment in his words to Jesus. Luke 23:42 Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” Lord-Kurios: Master, Owner, Supreme in Authority. This is our Lord. The Lord of Glory. Majestic Ruler of All. 

    Let us prepare our hearts to enter into His courtyards and His presence.

Cleanse My Heart, Lord 

Open The Eyes of My Heart, Lord

For Your Glory 

Storm All Around You

Worthy Is The Lamb

     

The Fountain of Living Water - Names of God

 

Jeremiah 2:13

"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The Fountain of Living Water, and they have dug their own cisterns - broken cisterns that cannot hold water."

Here God is not speaking to the world in general, He is speaking to, and about, His own people: His elect, His chosen. The people He has called to be His people. 

In forsaking God, God's people had turned their backs to and their faces from hearing The Word of God. In so doing they (we) have also stopped obeying The Word of God and are content to do their own thing. We are bringing God's judgment on the house of God in our disobedience and disregard and unthankfulness. 

We must repent of our wickedness and return to a faithful walk with God. We must allow His Holy Spirit to change our hearts and strengthen our desire to have God active in our daily lives. We must seek His face with all of our hearts that His Word may fill us completely and there be nothing left of the selfish desires that have taken us from Him. We must pursue His grace that we might be covered with it, that sin would no longer be in God's houses. 

These broken cisterns with which we have surrendered ourselves to and surround us are the idols and icons of our wickedness. With our eyes turned from God and having looked to the left and to the right, after being instructed not to do so, we have wandered far from righteousness and dallied in unrighteous behavior. 

We must clean out God's house and remove the idols from His altar. We must not tarry in doing so, lest we provoke God even more and He rain judgment upon us. We must seek His face, confess our evil deeds, ask forgiveness and turn away from, stop participating in, such deeds/actions/activities/beliefs. 

When God says in His Word not to do something and we do it, that's a sin against God. When God says to do certain things and we don't, that, too is a sin against God. Both of these need to be repented of (confessed to God that we may be forgiven by Him and turn away from the wickednesses we are doing and turn to Him to obey Him, follow Him, live in Him). 

The Fountain of Living Water can only live in unbroken cisterns (unbroken wells). When we are broken by worldly pleasures, then there is no room for a Savior to enter into and live in. We have filled our hearts with rubble, with trash, with selfishness and self-centeredness. 

We have pasted astrological signs on the walls of our hearts. We are focused on the night sky and not on He Who created the heavenly points of light. We have sought out other gods to worship: gods who cannot see, cannot hear, cannot answer prayer, cannot heal, cannot fight for us; gods who are created by men who refused to give themselves to The Only Almighty God, and in doing so have turned untold numbers of people to their wicked ways of living. 

We are God's people but we are not living like God's people. Now is the time to clean house. Now is the day we turn back to God in repentance that we might be renewed, replenished and refurbished in our hearts, in our minds, in our spirit and in our lives. 

Come back to Jesus. Come and be filled with The Living Water that He is. 

 JUST AS I AM

EIRENE - PEACE

 

EIRENE 
(pronounced: ay-RAY-nay)
PEACE 

Ephesians 2:13, 14
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our Peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility. 

Colossians 2:20-23
For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross. 
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds. 
But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. 

     This Peace, this Christ, is the only peace there is in this world. Though nations rage against nations to put some kind of definition of peace in place, that will never fully happen, for there is always someone who thinks their definition of peace is better, when in reality only God's definition of peace is perfect. 
     The Peace which God has given to us is His only begotten Son Jesus Christ The Messiah. Born in Bethlehem in a stable and laid in a feeding trough, He would die on the cross bearing the weight of the sins of all mankind, be laid in a borrowed grave where He conquered death and hell and the grave, walking out into newness of life. This Peace is my Peace. This Jesus is my Jesus. 
     This Peace can be your Peace. 

Dear Heavenly Father,

I acknowledge I am a sinner and that I have sinned against You and Your Word. I believe that Jesus Christ is Your only begotten Son. That You sent Him to die on the cross in my place and bear the weight of my sins on His shoulders. I believe that Your Word is Faithful and True and that You keep Your promises. 

I believe that Jesus Christ walked out of the grave, having conquered death and hell and the grave, into newness of life; being that resurrected Savior that He might reconcile me to You through His sacrifice and obedience. 

Please forgive me of all my sins against You and Your Word. Lead me and guide me with Your precious Holy Spirit through Your Word and reveal Yourself to me in it. 

Thank You, Father, for washing my sins away with the blood of Your beloved Son and bringing me into Your family. 

I love You so much,

In Jesus' precious Name,

Amen. 

THANK YOU LORD FOR SAVING MY SOUL

THE WAY OF THE CROSS LEADS HOME

A Star Shall Rise

 

Numbers 24:17

I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near. A Star will come forth from Jacob, and a Scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.

2 Peter 1:19

We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a Lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and The Morning Star rises in your hearts.

When we see Jesus with the eyes or our hearts, it is then that The Morning Star rises in our hearts. It is then that Christ comes to live within us, washing away the sin in our hearts with His shed blood, which covers all sins ever sinned by anyone who believes.

It is then that that day has dawned a new day and we begin the journey to become more Christlike, more separated and set apart from the darkness of this world in which we live, for the Light of God's Love - His only begotten Son - shines within us and radiates outward, reaching to shine on everyone we interact with.

Let His Light shine in you today. He's calling you to come into His Light.

This Little Light of Mine - Oak Ridge Boys

No Room - Spirit Song

 

Walking Before God

 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am The Almighty God; walk before Me, and be perfect. 

    To walk before God is to be sincere with Him. To live a life of integrity and honor. Not lying to ourselves, nor anyone else, especially God. For God knows our hearts before we do. He can see what we're thinking, so He knows what motivates us to be who we are. 

    This life we live is ours to live, yes. But when Christ lives in our hearts, then this life we live is no longer ours to live however we want to live; this is a surrendered life. We give our hearts to Christ when we believe that He is, indeed, The Messiah, The Holy Only Begotten Son of God, Who died on the cross as punishment for our sins, our transgressions, our iniquities and walked out of the grave to give us new life in Him. The least we can do in this new life is surrender what we want in life for what God wants in our life. 

    Many rush into a saving faith but are unwilling to give anything more than lip service, for they choose to live in their comfortable sin, instead of living for Jesus the way God desires us to. Let us not be lip-syncers, just moving our lips, but not our hearts. Let us put God first in every day that He allows us to live. Wake up thankful. 

    When God makes His presence known to each one of us, He declares (introduces) Himself to us, regardless of our age and circumstances. Here in this verse we read that Abram was 99 years old; thirteen years after he had Ishmael -- the son given but not promised -- but just in time to have Isaac, the son of promise. 

    Sometimes when we receive a promise from God we become impatient when the promise doesn't arrive or appear when we think it should. We go about our lives, at times making unwise decisions that are in direct violation of God's Word and Promise. Until God comes to us, heart to heart, face to face, voice to ear. 

    I have been in the depths of despair in my life. There was a point when I was so sad and discouraged by the life I was trapped in that I had lost all hope for a better one. And Jesus made Himself known. In my kitchen in my home a little over 30 years ago. I was not alone. Jesus made Himself known and called me to Himself and I ran into His arms by faith. And I never left. 

    My faith in Christ Jesus is certainly stronger and more voiceful now than it was in the beginning of my faith, my walk before God. My physical voice may be dimming but my spiritual voice is calling out to all of you, "Come. Come to Jesus Christ and be saved by God's grace, healed by God's mercy, filled with God's Holy Spirit and walk with us." 

    Now is the time to turn your back on sin and make the decision to live a holy and uncorrupted lifestyle, seeking to please God and not ourselves. Let us put God first in our thoughts, our days, our lives: speaking His Word aloud in our hearing, hearing His Word from a Holy Spirit-filled man or woman who also lives their faith out loud. Let us turn to God and seek His face, His kingdom, His glory as never before. Let us walk together in our most holy faith and stand strong in these last days before His return to bring His bride, His church home. 

LIVE OUT LOUD - Steven Curtis Chapman 

Names of God & Christ - Pistos Alethinos

 PISTOS ALETHINOS 

(pis-tos' al-ay-thee-nos')

FAITHFUL and TRUE

Revelation 19:11

Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called FAITHFUL and TRUE.

With righteousness He judges and wages war. 

Pistos/Faithful: trustworthy. Strong's writes: believing the faith God imparts. (wow) 

Alethinos/True: truthful. Strong's writes here that this word emphasizes the authentic unity between what is true and where truth originates. (how awesome is that!) 

And this Mighty Warrior is prophesied in Psalms and Isaiah, as well:

Psalms 45:3-5

Strap Your sword at Your side, O Mighty Warrior; appear in Your majesty and splendor. / In Your splendor ride forth in victory on behalf of truth and humility and justice; may Your right hand show Your awesome deeds. / Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath Your feet.

Isaiah 63:1-4

Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.” / Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress? / “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained."

And, again, in Matthew 16:27 

 For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done. 

Jude 1:14, 15

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.” 

Revelation 19:12-13, 15

He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.

Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 

His holiness demands a righteous people, a people who must choose to follow Him, The Word of God, now, on this side of eternity. There are no second chances after death. There is no limbo, no purgatory. There is now; there is heaven (for the righteous born again believer who follows Christ) and hell (for the unrighteous wicked who refuse to believe that Jesus Christ is Lord). 

As Jeremiah wrote thousands of years past, Choose this day whom you will serve..as for me and my house, we will serve The Lord. And in my house? We will serve The Lord. The prodigals will return to The Lord and He will receive them into His kingdom and into His dwellingplace. 

Do you believe? I do.

 

TELL ME THE STORY OF JESUS

Names of God & Christ - Revelation

 

REVELATION

Revelation 1:5 THE FAITHFUL WITNESS

Pistos Martus

Revelation 1:8 ALPHA AND OMEGA

ARCHE AND TELOS

The Beginning and The Ending

Revelation 1:8 PANTOKRATÓR

The Almighty

Revelation 1:11 ALPHA AND OMEGA 

PROTOS AND ESCHATOS

The First and The Last

Revelation 1:13 HUIOS ANTHROPOS

The Son of Man

Revelation 1:18 ZAÔ

Living One 

Revelation 4:8 KURIOS THEOS PANTOKRATOR

Lord God Almighty

Revelation 5:5 LEON PHULE IOUDAS

The Lion of The Tribe of Juda

Revelation 5:5 RHIZA DABID

The Root of David

Revelation 5:6, 8 ARNION

The Lamb

Revelation 15:3 BASILEUS HAGIOS

King of Saints

Revelation 17:14 KURIOS KURIOS

     Lord of Lords

Revelation 17:14 BASILEUS BASILEUS

                     King of Kings

Revelation 19:1 KURIOS HEMON THEOS

The Lord Our God

Revelation 19:11 PISTOS ALETHINOS

Faithful And True

Revelation 19:13 LOGOS THEOS

The Word of God

Revelation 19:16a BASILEUS BASILEUS KING OF KINGS Revelation 19:16b KURIOS KURIOS LORD OF LORDS

Revelation 22:16 HAVA’ RHIZA GENOS DABID

I Am The Root And The Offspring of David

Revelation 22:16 LAMPROS ORTHRINOS’ ASTE  

                                The Bright And Morning Star