A source of direction for every avenue of our lives......

 Psalms  27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?  27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.  27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.  27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.  27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.  27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.  27:7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.  27:8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.  27:9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.  27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.  27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.  27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.  27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.  27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

I know the Lord is the Key to all things in life. when dealing with any unfavorable situation, favorable too, seek the face of God! let Him and His word light your path, not human reason. the wisdom He will ingrave in your mind body spirit and soul is time test and infinitely accurate. me nor you will ever be the first person in history faced with whatever you are going through, good bad, or indifferent. seek and yea shall find: knock, and the door will be opened unto the: ask, and it shall be given! JEHOVAH knows our heart of hearts, hears our cries, feels ever solitary ounce of pain, strife, joy, and happiness we experience in this temporary existence. He will deliver you some how some way. we may not like it, but its not about us, its all for His glory and purpose. The non-believers may say, "if there is a God, why are His people, people in general, allowed to suffer?" i would answer that something like this: we are allowed to suffer to be taught to appreciate what He has given us. we are allowed to suffer because of the free will choices of others. we are allowed to suffer that good may be brought to others through our griefs and periods of despair. we are allowed to suffer to atone for our transgressions against Him and His people. we are allowed to suffer to illustrate the fragile nature of this thing we call life. we are allowed to suffer to expose the evil in the world in ways mankind should never ignore, but we frequently do. we are allowed to suffer bring forth change, much needed change in that area of life. ultimately, we are allowed to suufer to prove man is not the pinnacle of the univers: God is! it is all for His glory. all of the suffering in the world illustrates a plethora of mandatory changes required to live life in harmonious, simplified, peaceful, and Christ - like manner. why are war, trafficking of all sorts, intentional ignorance, sloth, gluttony, lethargy, vanity, pride, deceit, treachery, and murder so prevalent in society? why is sex used to promote everything? because our greedy and self-centered desires have all but ushered in lucifer and crowned him king of society. satan knows our every weakness, as does YahWeh, so he instinctively, and ingeniously invented tactics that were designed to drive a wedge between us and JEHOVAH. these tactics are still as accurate and deadly as when he first employed them against Adam and Eve; even further back, when his vanity caused a war in heaven and resulted in 1/3 of the angels be dispatched permanently from the presence of JEHOVAH NISI and the heavenly hosts, thus spawning the demons afflicting the world today......... lead by none other than guess who, lucifer. all he did was plant a seed and now we have a problem the size of the milky way galaxy and groing. But, psalm 27 speaks to the true weapon to defeat this enemy in our lifetime: ABBA, THE FATHER, JEHOVAH, YAHWEH, AND 700 + names he is known by. wake up and smell the coffee! The Father is speaking, listen!!!!!!!!!

A conversation...........

My wife asked me this morning to explain what Ezekiel 34: 25-26 means for our lives.  We have been going through trials and tribulations like never before in our marriage.  The Scripture is a testament to the goodness and virtuousness of Jehovah! It is also a testament to the movement of the Lord in our lives.

Help me interpret the meaning of this for our lives

"Showers of Blessing":

25 'I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing. (Ezekiel 34 : 25 - 26 - ESV)

What it means to me is this: God will separate the evil from the good of His people. He will make the good people His own, and cause the to prosper by His means, will, and way. Blessings abound for His people. He wants to and will open the doors of His storage house of blessings and let them flow down to us! And they shall be more than our lives can hold.

What I think it means for us: God will get rid of the evil around us and in us. What we have been going through was meant to try our faith, loyalty, and dedication to all that is Jehovah! I will liken it to purifying gold. We are nuggets of raw gold, full of impurities (sin & unbelief). He will use fire (trials & tribulations) to expose and destroy the impurities from within us. Thus, leaving Him with the end product, pure gold (us fully submissive to Him, the strength of our faith increased, and a remedy for whatever the trials and tribulations messed up in our lives.......blessing! Blessings more than we can count, more than we deserve.)

Amen to the discipline, love, nurturing, goodness, compassion, and blessings of God.  Just let Him in your life and He purify you that you will be perfect in His sight.....if you let Him.

God wants to spoil us with all of His gifts and even better, His presence!  However, because of sin and unbelief, like raw gold, we must be refined or purified.  God allows us to go through hardships in life like the loss of a job, a loved one, a house, and many others, to expose the iniquity within us and around us and to test our faith (dependence on Him to get us through).  He does this to give us a chance to see that we are not perfect, not even close, and to own up to our faults!  Once the evil God sees in us is exposed and we own up to it by confessing to God your sins, and wholeheartedly asking for forgiveness, He will purge us of them, thus making us perfect in His sight.

In my moment of travail, My Father, Christ, and the Holy Spirit day light to chase away my darkest hour

I know this is long, but its what God impressed upon my heart this morning...... I encourage you to read the chapter in its entirety in two version, and let the word of God resonate in your hear, mind, body, and soul! be blessed sisters & brothers:
 
Trials and tribulations can only last for a night, for moon must give way to the rising of the sun!  Jesus is the light that will restore us from our darkest hour! Shout and rejoice for the Lord has come to redeem His people out of their times of suffering and travail. 

As a mother to be is in agony at the time of birth, she soon forgets that pain when her child I'd place in her arms! Her tears are no longer tears of pain and anguish, but now tears of overpowering JOY!  The same occurs when God delivers us from strife and suffering: 

Let us, the people of God: His peculiar people, search our ways with the eyes, hands, mind, and conviction of the Lord & Savior Jesus Christ!  The Holy Spirit is our guide to completing this task.  None of us are perfect, thus we need to continually search ourselves with the guidance of the Holy Spirit in order to keep close to God.  Lamentations 3:38-41 says, " 3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?  3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?  3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.  3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens."

We must praise God at all times and in all our ways glorify Him!  By searching ourselves wholeheartedly with the Holy Spirit, we have a clear picture of who we are and what we are made of.  Take what we are made of and who we are, compare this to what God says we should be via His Word, Scripture.  We will be amazed at the results.  Where we fall short, beg for His help in build these areas up and give thanks in advance for the work we need Him to do! For the areas the are aligned with what God asks us to be, give thanks right now for allowing us to be in good standing in those areas.  It is our duty to bring Glory to the Most High. Who we are as people, individually and collectively as well as internally and externally, dictates if we are truly fulfilling this task! Let's clean ourselves up and bring God the Glory He deserves! Amen!

LAMENTATIONS 3
Lamentations  3:1 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.  3:2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.  3:3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.  3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.  3:5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.  3:6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.  3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.  3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.  3:9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.  3:10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.  3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.  3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.  3:13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.  3:14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.  3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.  3:16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.  3:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.  3:18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:  3:19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.  3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.  3:21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.  3:22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  3:23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.  3:24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.  3:25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.  3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.  3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.  3:28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.  3:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.  3:30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.  3:31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:  3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.  3:33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.  3:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,  3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,  3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.  3:37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?  3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?  3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?  3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.  3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.  3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.  3:43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.  3:44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.  3:45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.  3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.  3:47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.  3:48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.  3:49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,  3:50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.  3:51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.  3:52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.  3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.  3:54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.  3:55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.  3:56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.  3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.  3:58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.  3:59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.  3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.  3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;  3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.  3:63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.  3:64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.  3:65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.  3:66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

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Why is the true meaning of virtue lost in society today?

Proverbs 12:4 & 31:10-31

Proverbs 12:4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that causes shame is as rottenness in his bones. Proverbs 31:1,0 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 31:11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 31:12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 31:13 She seeks wool, and flax, and works willingly with her hands. 31:14 She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar. 31:15 She rises also while it is yet night, and gives meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. 31:16 She considers a field, and buys it: with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. 31:17 She girds her loins with strength, and strengthens her arms. 31:18 She perceives that her merchandise is good: her candle goes not out by night. 31:19 She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. 31:20 She stretches out her hand to the poor; yea, she reaches forth her hands to the needy. 31:21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. 31:22 She makes herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. 31:23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land. 31:24 She makes fine linen, and sells it; and delivers girdles unto the merchant. 31:25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. 31:26 She opens her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. 31:27 She looks well to the ways of her household, and eats not the bread of idleness. 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. 31:29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excels them all. 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the LORD, she shall be praised. 31:31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

I know there is a good deal to read, but please read the Scripture verses above objectively and allow them into your heart!

Proverbs of a virtuous women. There is a lot that can be learned here for people of all ages, races, nationalities, religious beliefs, and so on. First, even though these passages were written in the context of a women, this applies to all people. The analogy commonly used is that we, the people, are the church and are recieve to Christ as a bride, to which He is the Groom. Please keep this in mind.  These words come from a time when virtuous person meant a female virgin who, once married, does nothing to shame her husband neither in life together nor after he has died should she do anything to shame his family name.  The above passages, to me at least, offer a broader view of what could be defined as a virtuous woman. But I feel this "definition" should apply to and be revered by men as well.

To be virtuous means to be pure. All people should be pure in every avenue of life.  When we falter, Christ is there to alert us of our error(s), should we not already know what our error was, offer forgiveness from the error, and provide a way and guidance on that path back to Him; virtuousness.

To be a virtuous bride to Christ we must renounce and die to sin and be born again. Reborn in His blood covering.doing all we can to bring honor, glory, and praise to the Father whom Christ sits at the right hand of.

Being without a  blemish does not mean that perfection is expected of us. It means that we are to live by the Precepts and example of Christ. Go and sin no more. Should we falter seek God for forgiveness, don't steal away in embarrassment and shame of our wrongs. Learn from it, teach other about it, and continue on our journey with God. Amen!