I am grateful for a fantastic nights sleep last night ( at our age that is rare to sleep all night ). As well, The Holy Spirit woke me up in time to do morning meditation and prayer time with time to still be in the pool as soon as it opened.
I am grateful for the markdowns on pineapple ( which is really good for us ) at the grocery store.
I am grateful for the rain and heat which is making the crops grow incredibly
I am grateful for the ability to work on my blog with no distractions
I am grateful for the quiet time spent with Poppa in the sanctuary. It is amazing how much the stress leaves me replaced by peace and love
I am grateful for The Holy Spirits guidance to avoid the trap of getting into a fight started by my narcissistic mother
I am grateful for The Holy Spirits guidance on why my buddy, our cat which is a gift from God, takes his elliptic seizures and to not worry about them.
I am grateful for The Holy Spirits guidance on how to give my buddy his medicine so there are no fights
I am grateful for The Holy Spirits guidance on buying organic chicken bone broth soup which the cats love. It is very good for them.
May you have a grateful heart towards He who has given so much to you.
indeovi vas ( may you live with Jesus in Latin )
Seleh- stop and think about it.
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Be careful what you think because your thoughts run your life. Proverbs 4:23 The Holy Bible, The New Living Translation
This is the most difficult task each of us must master every day.
Satan loves to control our minds with lust.
Things that look like sugar but are really toxic : gee, let’s have sex with numerous partners sounds good but the harvest of such actions is sexual disease; gee, lets go in debt to buy toys we don’t need but the harvest of this is being a slave to your creditors (ask any homeowner ) and the list goes on.
Then there is our pride. He, she said something that was offensive to me. In my younger days we either talked it out or ignored it. Today, so many are selfish and immature that they make it a capital offence. Then there is the pride of look at me. Many deface the beautiful bodies God made by covering themselves up with tattoo’s and or piercings so they look like freaks in a side show.
It is so easy for satan to control our minds because we do not set a guard over it.
The guard of course it The Holy Spirit.
I cannot count the number of times He has warned me about negative thoughts that were destructive. I greatly rejoiced and thanked Him for it and in the praise the negative thoughts went away.
That is why we need to pray every day for Jehovah to send Him to set guard over our thoughts. Then be receptive to The Holy Spirit’s soft voice and obey Him. We need The Holy Spirit to help us think and behave like Jesus.
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Philippians 2:5
Prayer: Thank you Jehovah Mephalti (Psalms 18:2 The LORD My Deliverer ) for blessing me with sending The Holy Spirit to deliver me from the claws of satan when he attempts to domineer my thoughts with destructive negativity. I praise You in the name He He who never allowed satan a foothold in His mind, Christ Jesus. Amen
May you have a grateful heart towards He who has given so much to you.
indeovi vas ( may you live with Jesus in Latin )
Seleh- stop and think about it.
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The godly will rejoice in the Lord and find shelter in him. And those who do what is right will praise him. Psalm 64:10 The Holy Bible, The New Living Translation
It’s more natural to gripe and complain and question than it is to praise in the midst of disappointment and confusion. Yet we’re to give praise continually.
How?
We can give praise continually by remembering God, including Him in our day and filtering whatever happens through His perspective.
The cross of Jesus Christ is a demonstration of the infinite wisdom of God.
Every philosophy of life is proven by what it ultimately produces in a person’s life. God’s wisdom produces perfect righteousness.
God made Jesus “who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5:21).
God in His grace gives a believing sinner a right relationship with Him based on the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ. Jesus died in the sinner’s place. “The wages of sin is death,” and Jesus died that death for us. Christ is our righteousness and for all who trust in Him as their Savior.
The apostle Paul tells us not only that Jesus Christ is the wisdom and the righteousness of God, but He is also our sanctification. “By His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30, NASB1995).
The Scriptures presents three tenses of our sanctification. We have a positional sanctification. Our position in Christ by faith is true regardless of the degree of our spirituality (1 Cor. 6:11; 1:2; Heb. 10:10). We have a progressive sanctification, which refers to our whole life (1 Pet. 1:6). We shall also have a future sanctification because we are not yet fully set apart. We shall see Christ and be complete in Him (1 Jn. 3:1-3; Eph. 5:26-27; Jude 24-25).
Christ imputed is not our sanctification. Christ accredited to the believer by the work of the Holy Spirit is our sanctification. Our sanctification is a process of development and growth. It will not be completed until the day of our complete and perfect redemption with resurrected bodies when Christ returns.
We are to grow up in all things to Christ. It is a matter of growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ. Sanctification is a process of separation by which our Lord Jesus Christ is imparted by the Holy Spirit to our daily life. It does take time to grow spiritually. But it should be a steady and continuous process of growing in the likeness of Christ.
The bottom line of all true wisdom is, “Am I becoming more and more like Jesus Christ?” God’s wisdom in Christ brings us into conformity with Him who was perfectly conformed to God the Father.
Christ imputed is my righteousness. Christ imparted is my sanctification. One day I will be perfectly conformed to God in Christ. That will be my glorification.
“Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure” (1 John 3:2-3, NASB1995).
In the matchless wisdom of God, we are to be in continual pursuit of holiness. The standard had not changed: “Be holy, for I am holy.”
In His wisdom God has given us the responsibility of walking in holiness. He still says, “Pursue holiness, for without holiness no one will see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14). It is a lifelong task.
This practical daily work of sanctification is a process, and it’s something we never completely attain in this life. As we grow in our separation from sin and conform to the will of God in one area, the Holy Spirit reveals a need in another area. We will always be pursuing holiness in this lifetime.
We are not alone in this spiritual struggle. No one can attain this goal in his or her own strength. God has equipped us with the indwelling Holy Spirit and spiritual amour.
God wants us to walk in obedience to Him. As we obey His Word, we grow in our sanctification. God gives us the power to live the Christian life, but in His wisdom He expects us to assume our responsibility in obeying Him.
Message by Wil Pounds (c) 2006 Anyone is free to use this material and distribute it, but it may not be sold under any circumstances whatsoever without the author’s written consent.
He cried out to the man of God from Judah, “This is what the Lord says: You have defied the word of the Lord and have disobeyed the command the Lord your God gave you.You came back to this place and ate and drank where he told you not to eat or drink. Because of this, your body will not be buried in the grave of your ancestors.”
After the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet saddled his own donkey for him, and the man of God started off again. But as he was travelling along, a lion came out and killed him. His body lay there on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. People who passed by saw the body lying in the road and the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported it in Bethel, where the old prophet lived.1 Kings 13:21–25 The Holy Bible, The New Living Translation
Did you notice that even though the lion killed the prophet, it did not touch the donkey?
How about the donkey not running away from the lion?
Did you notice the lion did not attack the people?
Did you notice the people walking along were not afraid of the lion?
Did you notice that they reported it to everyone?
What this tells me was that the Lord instructed the lion to kill the prophet because he disobeyed Gods command but not to touch the donkey because it was innocent.
The donkey did not run away because the Lord spoke to it and assured it it was not going to be hurt or killed.
The people must have had The Holy Spirit speak with them and inform them not to be afraid of the lion but to tell everyone what they saw.
What this says to me is that the wicked will be punished while the innocent are safe from the punishment. The punishment will be executed in the open for everyone to see the hand of the Lord and in fear and awe they cannot but share this with others.
As well, the prophet was left to lay in the gutter as it were for the wild dogs to eat his flesh instead of receiving a proper burial which was extremely shameful.
Makes me wonder what kind of deaths these wicked politicians, legalized dope pushers ( big pharma which have destroyed so many lives with the scamdemic just for profit,) and the murderers in the military complex which start wars for profit and shed much innocent blood are going to receive.
Prayer: Thank you Jehovah Hashopet (Judges 11:27 The LORD the Judge ) that You shall apply proper justice to the wicked that have caused so much destruction and suffering to the innocent and the gullible through their bullying and conniving. They cannot bribe their way out of it, they cannot con their way out of it and they cannot escape Your just, justice. I praise You in the name of The Supreme Judge, Jesus Christ. Amen
May you have a grateful heart towards He who has given so much to you. indeovi vas ( may you live with Jesus in Latin )
Seleh- stop and think about it.
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The Old Testament is full of sacrifices in which an innocent animal was killed. These were substitutionary sacrifices meaning that the death of the animal was in the place of someone else.
Why was there such an emphasis in the Jewish writings? The holiness of God reveals that everyone who has ever lived has sinned. We have all failed to live up to God’s expectation of us. We have “all sinned and come short of the glory of God.” We have failed the test of God for a righteous person.
The penalty for breaking the laws of God is separation from Him throughout eternity. We deserve the death penalty. “The wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23). “The soul that sins will die” (Ezekiel 18:4). As a consequence of our sins we deserve to spend an eternity in hell.
Jesus Christ redeemed us from the law. He chose to die in our place. It was His free volitional choice. We deserved to die and He stepped in and voluntarily chose of His own free will to die in our place. Jesus took our death in His sacrifice for sin. He experienced both physical and spiritual death in our place on the cross as our substitute.
Every Easter is a vivid reminder of our sinfulness, and the penalty of our sins was laid on Christ.
God conducted the first ever sacrifice for sin. He chose the animals to sacrifice for Adam and Eve, and then He clothed them with the skins of the animals (Gen 3:21). Adam and Eve saw the first death anyone had ever witnessed. God slay the animals and in that event taught man that he deserved to die for His disobedience, and that it was possible for another to die in his place. The animals that were shed for their clothing paid the price of their sin debt. Those coats of animal skins were a constant testimony of the price of sin.
The greatest substitutionary sacrifice ever paid for sin was carried out at Calvary when Jesus died on behalf of another. Why Jesus? “For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin” (Heb. 10:4). Those sacrifices in the Jewish tabernacle were a constant reminder of sin and the wages of sin. They symbolized that God would one day provide His own Lamb to do what animals could never do. They were a symbol of how man’s sins had to be dealt with, but symbols cannot lift up and take away our sin.
Jesus Christ accomplished the only effective sacrifice for sin. His death was a substitutionary sacrifice that accomplished precisely what had to be done to gain our salvation. We deserved to die for our sin, but Jesus Christ chose to die in our place. When Jesus cried out from the cross, “It is finished,” He paid our debt in full.
Christ is the “better sacrifice” (Heb. 9:23) because His blood alone cleanses of all sins (1 John 1:6-9). He entered into the presence of God in heaven for us, once for all and offered the perfect sacrifice for sin. He is more valuable than even thousands of animals. “He put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself” (Heb. 9:26). Christ has been offered by God “once to bear the sins of many.” What was impossible for bulls and goats to accomplish Christ did on our behalf.
By coming to do the will of God, “We have been sanctified through the one offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Heb. 10:10). Christ “having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God. . . For by one offering He perfected for all time those who are sanctified” (Heb. 10:12-14).
Have you accepted the one perfect sacrifice that lifts up and takes away every sin? Have you responded by faith and thanked Him for being your substitute? In His sacrificial death He gives you His life. Believe in His saving death and He will give you eternal life today.
Message by Wil Pounds (c) 2006 Anyone is free to use this material and distribute it, but it may not be sold under any circumstances whatsoever without the author’s written consent.
But no, all have turned away; all have become corrupt. No one does good, not a single one! Psalms 14:3 The Holy Bible, The New Living Translation
I know a county where it takes years to complete a building project.
First there is all the permits and all the studies that have to be passed.
Then at each stage of the building the inspectors will fail it for the slightest thing ( of course you have to pay each time the inspector comes).
Because of this this county is run down with few employment opportunities. Poverty is rampant and the housing is almost third world.
The county next to it is honest and its economy is booming.
Corruption enriches the few while causing poverty and hardship for the masses. Joseph- Anthony a son of Jehovah
On an individual basis corruption destroys the moral fabric of our soul and so slowly, like a disease, destroys those that dance with the devil.
Those with integrity have spiritually, mentally healthy and fulfilled lives. We sleep in peace. Joseph- Anthony a son of Jehovah
Prayer: Thank you Jehovah Mekaddishkem (Exodus 31:13 The LORD that Sanctifies You ) for blessing me with sending The Holy Spirit to guide me and help me to live a sanctified life. I know it is hard but also that it is the only manner in which to conduct myself. I praise You in the name of the most Holy of Holies, Jesus Christ. Amen
May you have a grateful heart towards He who has given so much to you. indeovi vas ( may you live with Jesus in Latin )
Seleh- stop and think about it.
This photo and article @ Joseph- Anthony a son of Jehovah 2023 Anyone is free to use this material and distribute it but it may not be sold without authors consent
One of the great majestic names of the LORD God is “The LORD Our Righteousness” (Jer. 33:16).
Jesus Christ is our righteousness (1Corinthians 1:30). We do not and cannot attain a right relationship with God in our own righteousness because our self-righteousness is as filthy rags. We are guilty sinners in the need of a perfect righteousness (Rom. 3:23; Jer. 17:9; Mark 7:20-23).
When we speak of Christ our righteousness, we are using a great forensic term referring to our acquittal by God. All that we have as Christians we have received as a free gift of God through Jesus Christ. We are justified once and for all by grace through faith in Christ. It never has to be repeated because it is a non-repeatable event. When we are united to Christ, we have a righteous and holy standing before God. We are “in Christ.” We have a vital union in Him. We enjoy a right relationship with God because of the finished work of Christ on the cross. Christ is the basis of our perfect acceptance with God (2 Cor. 5:21).
God has robed us with the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. He is the basis of our acceptance with God.
Godet said, “It is the act of grace whereby God removes the condemnation pronounced on the sinner, and places him relatively to Himself, as a believer, in the position of a righteous man. The possibility of such a Divine act is due to the death and resurrection of Christ.” His death is the foundation of everything God does for the sinner.
The apostle Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:12 that we are through the atoning death of Christ declared righteous before God. This “righteousness” of God in Christ is that quality, which is ours when God acquits the believer, based upon the finished all-sufficient death of Christ (Rom.4: 22-25). God acquits the believer for Christ’s sake, not ours.
This righteousness, like justification, is always forensic. God is Judge, and we must stand before Him. We can only plead guilty because we are guilty. God treated Jesus Christ as if He were the guilty sinner, and deals with the believing sinner as though he or she were righteous. Christ did not deserve the curse; we did. The imputed righteousness of Christ to the sinner is a demonstration of the wisdom of God. It is a display of His justice, mercy, grace, love, and power as would never enter into the mind of men. It is a manifestation, “The foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men” (I Cor. 1:25).
The cross and the resurrection is the power of God unto salvation. Let us glory in the cross of Jesus Christ and God’s saving grace.
Because our right standing with God is His work, He alone can get all the glory. God pronounces the verdict based upon whether we have accepted or denied Jesus Christ as our Savior. Man cannot satisfy the Judge unless he is righteous. There is no denying of the fact that no man is righteous before God. No man can produce the righteousness God requires. It has to be given to him if the sinner gets it. Under these circumstances, his faith is counted to him as righteousness (Rom. 3:23; Gal. 3:26). Christ Himself becomes the righteousness we need (2 Cor. 5:21). God the Righteous Judge views us not as we are in our sinfulness, but in Christ. He is our perfect standing before God. It is only the righteousness of Christ that can possibly satisfy the perfect demand of the law of God.
Christ is our righteousness; none other will satisfy God.
Message by Wil Pounds (c) 2006 Anyone is free to use this material and distribute it, but it may not be sold under any circumstances whatsoever without the author’s written consent.
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