ONE MESSAGE. ONE FAITH.

Isaiah 12-17 God has not forgotten. God is just. God is love. God is merciful. These are the things that come to mind as I read the passage for the day. Many times there is no need for a deep revelation. God sends us his word to remind us of his character. We may never meet or know of an Assyrian, or Persian. The use of Babylon may be literal or metaphorical. What is certain and real, and unchanging is God's sovereignty and his character. God has not forgotten. The heaven is the Lord's throne and the earth is his footstool. He sits high and looks low and is cogniscent of everything that has and ever will happen. This includes our lives. God says vengeance is His, and if God be for us who can be against us. Just as God may use the enemy, as he did for Israel, to get your attention, the enemy still has to face their end. God is just. He is a righteous judge and makes the right decision every time because he knows all things. Some results may not make sense to us, but our knowledg...

Ms. Grace: Finally,  I am so glad you answered my call. Been calling for a while now with no answer. But hey meet me at the cross road between broadway and straight street. There is some info that someone is out to kill you, and I have to get you to a safe house. An Hour later  Ms.Grace: Glad you had time to meet me. ( urgently )  I have this key your father gave me for you to claim the house he bought you. It's loaded with an internal security feature that is on night and day. Once he transfers his name to the deed, anything you need just give him a call. He'll take care of everything. You'll recognize the house by the red door marked with your Father's name. Now when you go through,you'll be covered with a red solvent. Don't be alarmed. It's a cleansing agent for dirt removal, sanitizing, and disinfecting of anyone who goes through the door.  As an added bonus it imprints a cellular signature beneath your skin so he can track you and you tw...

Day 9: Genesis 4-7 I never realized before this week that Noah and his family sat in the ark for a full week, seven days, before the rain even started. A full 7 days! Oh my, I get restless after an hour. I can only imagine what was going through Noah's mind. Seven days, looking at the same walls, in the confined quarters of a boat, after being out in the great outdoors since birth. Seven days , with not just his wife, but the wives of his 3 sons. Me? I would have looked around and thought, "uh, so...when was this this scheduled to happen?" Talk about faith in God's word. There is only record of God speaking ONE TIME to Noah about the ark and the rain. ONCE. For the next 120 years Noah works to build this huge ark to God's specifications, and waits. 120 years and no record of God giving a reminder call. He trusted in what God said. Some of us, like now, read the bible, God's written word to us, EVERY DAY, and still find ourselves questioning God...

Matthew 1-2 I am comforted in the reading of this passage. God's word of a savior is fulfilled little by little, though it was years from the time it was spoken. When God speaks, things move into place to confirm His Word. Sometimes we may not see the result for a time, but the means necessary to produce the promise is already taking place. We may not always recognize what God is doing, sometimes not until we look back and realize that certain things were necessary for what we are now experiencing in God. Ruth never imagined that she would be in the blood line of the promised messiah. God took, Solomon, the child of adultery, and included him in the blood line as well. There are things that come out of our lives that we feel have no place in God's plan. No good could possibly come from this, we think.

Isaiah 1-6 The lord who suffers long does not suffer forever. There is a reason in Genesis that he made us in his image. We can feel how God feels. It is evident in the first chapter of Isaiah that God is intensely frustrated. He loves Israel, and even after suffering, they still stiffen their necks, refusing to submit to God. He has grown tired of meaningless offerings, for they are only for form and fashion. We can tell when someone does something for us out of genuine compassion or when someone does something out of duty. In the case of the latter, I usually feel uncomfortable , knowing that this person is forcing themselves to perform a service. I have just inconvenienced them. In other words, it is not a good feeling. God is not a man that he should lie, but he does smile, and he does frown, as well. When we are filled with the promise of God's spirit, and we do things contrary to His Spirit, the Holy Ghost is frustrated, or grieved. The scripture admonishes u...

Many of us know this by heart, and if not, it's a good one to commit to memory. Further more, it s a good one to put to practice.  If we want to be blessed, just do what God blesses, someone once said to me. That makes much sense, I say. Psalm 1 BOOK I : Psalms 1-41 1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. 4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Joshua 1-5 Be strong, be of good courage, do not be afraid. God says this to Joshua multiple times in the opening of this book. Be strong, be of good courage, do not be afraid, opens and ends chapter one. And there is a reason. God wants to build up Joshua's courage, not in himself only, but in the Lord. God does not just tell him to be not afraid. He adds this factor; for the Lord thy God will fight for you. If we know God is fighting for us then we have nothing and no one to fear. Little did Joshua know that in chapter 3, he would find out, the thing they were going up against- in this case Jericho- was already shaking in it's boots.

I felt like a  young girl sitting on her fathers knees as I read the timeless story of  THE BEGINNING. I found myself smiling as I read the way God lovingly ordered and arranged the world just so we could live in it. I felt God's arms as I read how he meticulously fashioned man in his own image- taking time to think it out before he started. He didn't just call man into existence like the other creation- he formed man. Then he had compassion on him as he knew that it was a good thing to give Adam ( pronounced A-dom in Hebrew), the Hebrew name for man,  a wife.

I am so excited! The bible journey has begun again. It never gets old, as it is lively and active!  I hope you have your bibles (or bible apps) out for this one. Without further ado: We began our bible in a year reading at Romans chapter 1: To all who believe, the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ- (I.E. the Gospel  as noted in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 ) -- is the power unto salvation. Furthermore, believing, goes hand in hand with obeying. I'll show you...