JEHOVAH-QEREN

Blessed Tithers

MALACHI 3:10, 12
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

All blessings from God come with prerequisites. In order for God's people to receive this blessing, their tithes had to be put into God's storehouse, the treasury room in the sanctuary.
When this is done properly, God opens the windows of heaven and pours out a blessing upon His chosen and called people.
ISAIAH 44:3
"For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, 
And floods upon the dry ground:
I will pour out My Spirit upon thy seed,
And My blessing upon thine offspring."

Then every nation will see that this holy nation is Blessed of the LORD. 
This is the last Blessing Of God that we see in the Old Testament. 

Blessed At the End of Days

BLESSED AT THE END OF DAYS

Daniel 12:12
Blessed is he who waits (on the LORD), and come to (attains, reaches) the end of the 1,335 days.
This blessing is specific. It is only for the people who have chosen to follow Christ after the Church, the bride of Christ, has been removed from the earth.

But it is even more specific than that, because while some will come to the knowledge of saving grace after the rapture takes place, not all will make it to the end of the 1,335 days.

Blessed Trusters

Jeremiah 17:7
Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose Hope the LORD is. 

I decided to use this blue cross with the water across it because of the next verse which emphasizes this one visually: Jeremiah 17:8
"For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit."
A tree planted by waters that is not afraid or anxious but continues to be fruitful even in the hard times.
The cross is a tree of humiliation, for only those designated criminals by the government were hung on them to die. But Jesus Christ was not a criminal and though the government refused to condemn Him, they hung Him on a cross anyway, by giving into the crowd's demands, "His blood be upon us and our children!" Matthew 27:24-25.
And, truly, when He died on the cross for the sins of the people, with the weight of sin upon His shoulders, that declaration was fulfilled in every one who believes that Jesus Christ is LORD and died for them.
BLESSED am I for trusting in the LORD, He Is my Hope.

And the water? Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost." Being born again is when the Word of God washes the sin from our hearts and the Spirit makes new the soul of the believer. 
It is not something we could ever accomplish in a thousand lifetimes: Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek." and again in
1 Corinthians 1:18 "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." 
1 Corinthians 2:12-14 "We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us...And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words...The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned." 
Only the power of God through His Word and His Spirit can change a person's heart and destination. But we must each make that individual choice on our own. We can choose to believe God and receive eternal life through Jesus Christ or we can choose not to believe and then receive death twice over and eternal damnation from God. 
I choose to believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. I choose to follow Christ where He leads me. I choose to be filled with God's Holy Spirit, and am thankful God chose to fill me and refill me, for when my well begins to run dry, I know I can turn to Him again and again to be filled and refilled that the Spirit of God would not be quenched within me. 
I choose to live a life pleasing to God; a life of obedience and humility; a life of trust and hope. My life. My choice. 

Today's Blessing Jan 15 thru Jan 18 2020

After the new heavens and earth are created, God has this Blessing Promise for they who are the Blessed of The LORD:

Amazing, looking at these last four days I realize that each one is focused on Seeds. But not seed that is placed in the ground to grow, Seed that is placed in the heart to grow the soul. 

JEHOVAH-PALAT

Today's Blessing is knowing that Jesus Christ is my Deliverer. 

JEHOVAH-PALAT (pronounced YAHWEH-PAH-LAHT) 

He has delivered me from living a sin-filled life to living a Spirit-filled life, a life that will take me beyond death into God's eternal presence. 

John 3:16 tells us "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on Him should not perish but have everlasting life." That's deliverance: believing that Jesus Christ is (1) God's only begotten Son; (2) Savior {shall not perish/die/be destroyed}.  

Romans 10:13 "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved."

 

Amazing Grace-Hymn

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me! 

I once was lost but now am found,

Was blind but now I see.

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,

And grace my fears relieved;

How precious did that grace appear

The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares

I have already come;

'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,

And grace will lead me home.

When we've been there ten thousand years,

Bright shining as the sun,

We've no less days to sing God's praise

Than when we first begun.

The Lord has promised good to me,

His Word my hope secures;

He will my shield and portion be 

As long as life endures.

Yes, when this heart and flesh shall fail,

And mortal life shall cease,

I shall possess within the veil, 

A life of joy and peace.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,

The sun forbear to shine;

But God, who called me here below,

Will be forever mine.

 by John Newton, 1725-1807

Blessed Who Wait For Him

Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow to fulfill His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:15
Consider also that our Lord's patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him.


Isaiah 26:8
Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.

I used this shade of blue as it was the closest to sapphire blue I could make. There are two verses in Ezekiel that describe the throne of the LORD as being sapphire or lapis lazuli (depending on which version of the Bible you read). And while sapphire comes in more colors than blue, I have always been drawn to blue sapphires. 
Ezekiel 10:1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. And, again, in Ezekiel 1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

Blue is the color of grace. It is the shade of bruising upon Christ's body and face as He was beaten in the courtyards before being whipped 39 times across His back. Blue, cerulean blue, is one of the colors of thread used in the curtains in the tabernacle which separated the holy of holies from the rest of the tabernacle rooms. 

So, when I picture a sapphire throne on which The LORD sits, that is the color I see. And why does He sit on that particular throne at this time? He is seated at the right hand of The Father, interceding on behalf of His people. Why do we need interceding? We are not perfect, we are sinners, all of us. We make mistakes, errors in judgment and fall short of the glory of God. 

We needed a Savior who would know that we are feeble and unable to make it on our own, so God sent us His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to live and example for us, and die in our stead that we would not die in our sins. After Jesus defeated death, hell and the grave in that two day period in which He was sealed in the tomb, God rolled away the stone and Jesus walked out of the grave, having risen from the dead, giving all who believe this eternal life through Him. 

And after a few days, Jesus ascended into heaven to be with His Father again, waiting until that day when God says, "Go". "Go get Your church, Your people and bring her home." 

Isaiah 25:9


And in that day it will be said, "Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."

Blessed Is Egypt Assyria & Israel

In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing upon the earth. 
The LORD of Hosts will BLESS them, saying, BLESSED be Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork, Israel My inheritance.
ISAIAH 19:24-25

Studying through this I see that the names of these countries are all people and their descendants. We know Israel is Jacob and Jacob's descendants. But how many of us knew that Egypt is Ham (a son of Noah) and Ham's descendants? Or that Assyria is Ashur, Shem's second son? Granted I have read through my Bible several times, but I had not realize this part before. And I love the study of naming.

When the 'that day' happened and will happen, the Truth of the Word of God would forever change some of the people who lived in these three countries. Why only some? Not everyone would believe in the God of Israel. But those who do are forever blessed.

• The Name of The Lord would be their refuge
• The Word of The Lord would be their strength
• The Truth of The Lord would be their blessing

All nations involved would in turn be able to bless the lands around them. When refuges from Israel would flee to Assyria and Egypt, they would bring the gospel with them. 

Have you ever thought about how God removes idol worship from a person's heart? He doesn't just yank it out and leave a gaping hole. No, first the hearts have to be shown that the idols are useless. And how does He do that? God causes great disasters to happen and when people turn to their idols for help which never comes, they turn to God, who will be their help, their deliverer. 

But God delivers us from so much more than disasters of the land: The Lord Is Deliverer (2 Samuel 22:2) YAHWEH-PALAT. 

God delivers us from the punishment for sin which is death. He did this great deliverance through the obedience of His only begotten Son who died on the cross in our place: Jesus Christ the Messiah.

Isaiah 53 describes the awful ways in which God's only begotten Son was treated by us, the people He came to save. Isaiah 53:5 "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; And with His stripes we are healed." 

His stripes could only be upon His back through His back being torn apart by a whip, a leather strap which had pieces of bone and lead  intertwined in the leather braids. The whip was made of several straps of such combinations, not just one. Picture that and think on these things. Our Deliverer took a beating none of us would have survived and still was made to carry His cross through the city and up the hill to where He would be crucified and die. For us. Thank You, Jesus, for taking my place in death. 

But God wasn't finished. Beyond the cross was the grave and Between the cross and the grave was death and hell. For our sins were upon Christ Jesus and with these sins on Him He must first need to enter hell and conquer that. Then He arose from death, conquering that. God rolled away the stone and Jesus walked out of the grave, conquering that, too. Woo-hoo! He is risen!! 

Our Deliverer. God made a Way, a high Way, in which all who believe that Jesus Christ is God's only begotten Son who died on the cross and walked out of the grave may traverse. In that day.

In that day in which you believe, you, too, will walk in the Way.

JEHOVAH-QANNA

JEHOVAH-QANNA
THE LORD IS JEALOUS

For you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is JEALOUS, is a jealous God. -- EXODUS 34:14

With God there is no coexist, only GOD. He is the zero-tolerance God. When Moses asked, "Who shall I tell the people sent me to them?" God did not reply I am (name of any god here) but I AM THAT I AM.

Just because a person chooses anyone, anything or nothing to believe in does not mean God will give that person(s) a pass when they die.
All of our worship, our love, our focus must be directed in His direction. BUT, though God demands our love and worship, He does NOT force it: we must make the choice to love Him in return. And out of that reciprocal love our worship will flow.

Our God is a consuming fire: Deuteronomy 4:24; Hebrews 12:29. Everything that is not of Him is consumed by Him. And other gods, idols, are not of Him. All such are destroyed by His fire, consumed away as if they never were, which they aren't. 

Today's Blessing - A Bountiful Eye

BLESSED BOUNTIFUL EYE
Proverbs 22:9
"He that has a bountiful eye shall be Blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor."

What does 'bountiful eye' even mean? When we realize that God has a bountiful eye and He directs that eye on us, we begin to understand it even more so: 

The LORD has a bountiful eye and is Blessed; for He is our Bread and has given Himself for us.
Jesus answered, "I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst." John 6:35

As Christ's ministers, we are to give of this Bread to the poor in spirit, the lost and undone, the lonely of heart, the naked soul: basically everyone we meet whom the Holy Spirit directs us to. Not everyone is meant to preach to large crowds, most encounters are one-on-one. 

There is more than enough of God's Bread of Life to go around. This bountiful eye shared His Bread with the whole world, when He sent His Son to die on the cross for us. Though there are more people on the face of the earth now, there is still enough Bread for each one. 

2 Corinthians 9:7-8, 11 "Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for loves a cheerful giver. .. And God is able to make all grace abound towards you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work ... Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causes through us thanksgiving to God."

We are to give of what God has given us with a cheerful heart. Not grudgingly, as if we don't want to give, but we will anyway. That way? Not the right way, nor will God accept it as a gift to Him. But because we choose to share our bounty with others in a joyful manner, God makes all grace abound towards us, and what we have given away is multiplied to us. God's math is higher than our math.

And because we have given cheerfully, we are 'enriched in every thing to ALL Bountifulness'. We have more than enough, more than enough bread (storehouse/pantry) that the stomach requires, and more than enough Bread that the soul requires. 

It is this bountifulness in us through our obedience to Him that causes our soul to give spontaneous thanksgiving to God. "Always rejoicing" 1 Thessalonians 5:16 & Philippians 4:4.

As the man said in John 6:34, "Sir, give us this Bread at all times."

NYE 2020

     So, a small group of us spent New Year's Eve at church, praising and praying in the new year. A much better way to celebrate the end of one decade and ring in the next. 

     We four met at the altar, greeting the occasional wanderer who joined us at differing times of the eve. Yet we remained. But were we prepared for this new thing that God would be doing through us? Were we truly His watchmen, guarding the Word in our lives or were we there for our benefit? Let us hope that we gathered together for His glory and honor and not for ours.
     As I read my Bible, I was informed by the Holy Spirit to read it aloud and stand at the gate. So, I moved from the altar to the top of the stairway, facing the doors which would open to receive the worshipers; speaking aloud the Word which I was given.
     Four passages of Scripture were mine to speak. 

• Isaiah 17:14 - Isaiah 18:6
• Isaiah 35
• Psalm 90-97
• Isaiah 58-60

     And when I had finished reading, I was instructed to return to the altar and pray, which I did. And after awhile, we sang worship songs which we shared with each other. Rhonda had brought a speaker which shared a blue tooth line with her phone, so the music filled the air, as well as the souls which sought God's direction in this coming year. 

     The call to prayer and fasting was given several days in advance for all who would to come and seek God's face, to fall upon our knees and prostrate ourselves before the King, seeking only an audience with Him and none other. To be near Him. To hear His heartbeat. 

     We answered the call. The call to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness. The call to pray for the lost and dying. The call to seek God's face and not just His hand. The call to fast and pray, that the difficult things which needed to be overcome and delivered from would be set free, not just in us but in those for whom we prayed. 

     The call to come and worship now, for to morrow was not promised. The call to obedience according to His Word. The call to repentance and redemption, ours and yours. The call to enter His gates with thanksgiving in our hearts. The call to enter His courts with praise. 

     That's how we celebrated New Year's Eve 2020. Let the glory of the LORD rise among us!