🎶 Chopin Ballade No. 4

Frederic Chopin (1810–1849)

Ballade No. 4 in f-moll (1842), Op. 52

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Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

 

(1952 / 10:12)

 

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💥 Psalm 26

 

For THY lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in THY truth.

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The truth of God comes from heaven to us as the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, brings ideas, concepts, scripture directly to our mind, and we follow that truth.

God will never fail us nor forsake us.

Isaiah 54:17  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of ME, saith the LORD.

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Podcast: Courage to do the Word of God

 

 

 

 

Joshua 1:7   Only be thou strong and very courageous

Be strong in the LORD ... in the Word brought to you by the Holy Spirit.

You must not try to be strong in your own self or in your will power but in that specific word given you by God through HIS Spirit.

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We must not turn to the right nor to the left from that Word God has spoken to us by HIS Spirit.

The devil tried to persuade Eve that God hadn't really spoken those instructions to Adam.

Genesis 3:1-5    Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 

(Did God really say that?  Surely not.  You must have misunderstood.) 

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:  But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 

(Eve added to the Word of God when she said they could not "touch" that tree.  God didn't say that.  Inwardly we can never stand if we add to the Word of God on something for we know we added that and it causes the instruction to be polluted to the point we get to where we really aren't sure.  When we add to what God said, it becomes like leaven, working through the entire word.) 

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

(The devil will always try to stop us from believing what God says.  Thoughts will be brought to try to stop us.) 

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 

(Thoughts come to try to explain away what God said and to try to get us not to go that way.)

 

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When God tells me to do something, I try to do it quickly for I know the longer I wait the more opportunity I will have not to do that which God has said.

The devil will try to snatch the Word God has given me out of my heart and cause me to wonder, "Did God really tell me to do that?"

Then my own flesh will try to reason away the Word given me by God.

Then people watching me will try to get me to go another direction.

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When I was a new Christian in 1975, I had a major test.

A woman had taken me to court concerning my business which I owned at that time.

A word, which I believed to be from God, came to me:  "Don't testify."

I told my lawyer he might not want to represent me for I believed God had told me "Don't testify" in this court case.  (Lawyer said he would represent me even if I didn't testify.)

A woman who worked for me became angry when she heard I was not going to testify.

She had witnessed the situation and planned to testify.  When I was not going to testify, she felt the burden was on her.

I said to her, "What can I do?  I believe God has said to me 'Don't testify.' "

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The man I was dating at this time tried to get me to testify.  

He said:  "Joan, you aren't doing this girl any favors by not testifying."

I replied:  "I'm not try to do her any favors.  I'm just trying to obey God.  I believe God has told me 'Don't testify.' "

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At the court trial the judge was very shocked when he learned I would not be testifying.

During the trial, my lawyer said to me, "Flo's testimony did not go as well as I thought it would.  If you would testify, I know we would win."

I replied:  "I'll see."

I left the courtroom and went to rest room and began praying:  "What do YOU want me to do."

Immediately I heard, "Don't testify."

I returned to courtroom and shook my head "No".

After all this, I had a down moment and I said to God:  "I hope YOU know what we're doing.  We're going to lose this case."

But we didn't lose the case.  We won.  The judge ruled in my favor and I was acquitted.

Even when all on your own team are against you, you have to be strong enough in that which you believe God has said to you that you hold fast to that word.

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Mark 4:1-8    And HE began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto HIM a great multitude, so that HE entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.  And HE taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in His doctrine,

Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:  But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

13-20   The sower soweth the word.  

And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. 

(Remember how Satan came to Eve:  "Has God really said that?  That's not so."  Satan comes today to us with his thoughts to try to cause us to doubt.)

And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;  And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.

(At first when the word comes, they are glad ... but when people begin to scoff at them because of the word or persecute them in other ways, then they are offended and turn from the word God has given them and go in the way of the flesh and devils.)

And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.

(They received the word and did the word ... bringing forth fruit from that word given them.)

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A man came to me saying he was a pastor.  

He heard what I taught concerning preachers calling themselves "Reverend," exalting themselves above the apostles of the Bible and exalting themselves above the Word of God for no man in the Bible calls himself "Reverend."

This man, 48-years-old, had lived on church property for 30 years.

When he shared this word with his church group, according to his report, the church people became very angry and called him a false teacher and put him out of the church group ... and told him to vacate church property within that week.

He had no income, no money saved, no place to live.

He was married and had a young child.

My concern over him is I didn't think he had a solid basis on how to follow God, which we need in the storms of this present life.

We sent him a laptop computer which was not being used so he could get the teaching on our blog.  

I counseled him to get a secular job as Paul did and preach in his spare time.

I sent him teaching concerning following God by HIS Spirit.

After that I heard no more from him.  I felt by his sudden silence he turned from the teaching I had done which he said he believed.

It is so important to know about the Holy Spirit and how HE leads us and to meditate on those scriptures given us by the Holy Spirit of God that we can be strong enough and have enough courage to hold onto the direction of God.

We build a deep root system in God when we keep the word of God given by the Spirit of God before us day and night, thinking on that instruction ... until we can do that instruction.

This is the power of God for us.

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Joshua 1:7-9    Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Have not I commanded thee? 

(Isn't it God who commanded us by this word given to us?)

Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

(If God has told us to do this, God will uphold us.  What human is stronger than God?)

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Hymn: Standing on the promises

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1.  Standing on the promises of Christ my King, 
Through eternal ages let His praises ring,
Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing,
Standing on the promises of God.

Chorus:

Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of Christ my Savior;
Standing, standing,
I’m standing on the promises of God.


2.   Standing on the promises that cannot fail,
When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail,
Standing on the promises of God.

3.  Standing on the promises I now can see
Perfect, present cleansing in the blood for me;
Standing in the liberty where Christ makes free,
Standing on the promises of God.

4.  Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord,
Bound to Him eternally by love’s strong cord,
Overcoming daily with the Spirit’s sword,
Standing on the promises of God.

5.  Standing on the promises I shall not fall,
List’ning every moment to the Spirit’s call.
Resting in my Savior as my All in all,
Standing on the promises of God.


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The following scripture pertains to this hymn:

Joshua 1:5   I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Matthew 28:20   lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.


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v. 2   By the living Word of God I shall prevail,

The living word is that word that comes down to us from heaven.  It is put into our mind by God by HIS Spirit, by the Spirit of Jesus.  By this "living word" we know what to do.

John 6   Jesus says:

32-33   My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.  For the bread of God is HE which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

48-51   I (The Word) am that bread of life.  Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.  I am the living bread which came down from heaven:

Jesus, The Word, is the Word that comes down from heaven.  The living word of God is the word spoken to us by the Spirit of God.  By His Spirit, God will bring to our mind ideas that show us what to do, or scriptures which show us what to do.  And when it is that Word of God, it will never fail.  We can put our trust in what we have heard from God by His Spirit.   

The living word of God is just exactly that, living, because it pertains to the exact subject we are dealing with at that moment in time. 

We can hunt for a scripture and fail. Or we can try to figure out what to do and fail. 

But we will not fail when it is the Holy Spirit bringing the concept or a scripture to our mind to guide us in the matter at hand. 

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Here are promises from Jesus concerning the work the Holy Spirit will do for us.

John 14:26    But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John 16:13    Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself (of His own thinking); but whatsoever He shall hear (from God), that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come.


4 things the Holy Spirit does for the believer:

- HE teaches us all things. (secular and spiritual)
- HE reminds us of all Jesus has said to us through scripture, dreams, concepts
- HE guides us into all truth.  (often one thing at a time ... you do the first thing ... then a second idea comes and you do that ... on until the matter is resolved)
- HE shows us things to come.  (often by dreams ... sometimes by just knowing)


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v. 3   Standing in the liberty where Christ makes free,  

We are freed every time we have a word from God brought to our mind by His Spirit, and when we believe and act on that word in the midst of the trial or temptation.     


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v. 4   Overcoming daily with the Spirit’s sword,

God speaks to each of His children by His Spirit which lives inside each child.  The Holy Spirit brings thoughts from God to our minds to show us the way of God and the will of God as we live on this earth.

We overcome the trials and temptations of this present earth as we hear from the Holy Spirit daily, and take appropriate action to the instruction given by the Spirit.

You do have to be careful.  For the devil will try to imitate God and bring thoughts to your mind which are opposite to the way God wants you to go.  And often our own fleshly preferences will bring thoughts to us which seem good to us, but are opposite to the way God wants us to go. 

James 3:14-16   ... But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.  This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.  For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

So if that is the case, you must repent and pray for God to correct your own heart.  For you will not likely to be able to hear correctly until you are corrected.

Otherwise:  Prove all things by prayer and Bible.  If you will ask God to confirm the way to go and to make it clear to you which thought is HIS, and if you will take time before you act, it will be made clear to you which thought is from God.  Also in the Bible we have a scripture which tells us how to recognize the wisdom that is from God.

James 3:17   But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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v. 5   List’ning every moment to the Spirit’s call.
Resting in my Savior as my All in all,

Once we have established that a thought is from God, we must focus on that thought and rest in that word that we have heard from God concerning the matter at hand after doing that instruction in an appropriate way.  Often, we have to keep that word before us day and night to be strong enough to continue in that direction.  

Joshua 1:8-9   This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. 

Have not I commanded thee? 

(When God brings a word to our mind by HIS Spirit or when a scripture is made to stand out to us, that is God "commanding" us and we think on that word, taking action when needed, according to that word.)

Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

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🎶 Wagner: Die Meistersinger (fragments)

 

Richard Wagner (1813–1883)

 

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Wiener Philharmoniker

 Karl Böhm (conductor)

 

(1978 - Overture/10:06)

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💥 Going through God's stop signs!

I know I have done this many times!  Usually buying something that cost less and then having go to back and buy what I should have bought at first!

An expensive TV ... The owner of the shop said he would come out and calibrate the TV but he didn't and when I would call he was always too busy with staff meetings.  The TV was streaked and I was always trying to tune it.  One day the Holy Spirit said to me, "You don't have to put up with this."  I said, "That's right".  I had the money and could afford to buy another TV.  I went to Best Buy and bought another TV  and had the delivery men carry that TV away.  I'd only had it about 6 weeks.  I just suffered the loss.

Then  a car ...  In June 2020, the house in Texas sold.  All the money was in the bank.  I had a dream that we bought a new car.  

Earlier I was considering putting new upholstery on my 25-year-old car, when the Holy Spirit said to me, "Or you could just buy a new car."  That's right I could.  I'd never thought of doing that.  But the money was in the bank from the sale of the Texas house.  I had no debts.  I could pay cash for a new car!  That same night, God gave me a dream:  "I bought a new car, a Buick.  Then in the dream (a warning) I realized I should have asked my dad which car to buy." 

The day after the dream, we went out to look for a car.  We started at Lexus.  But didn't drive the Lexus because when I got into the Lexus I didn't like the way Lexus put the screen on top of the dashboard in that year, blocking the view from the passenger seat.

Pam had been driving Acura MDX and liked it.  The dogs had plenty of room in the back.  I wanted them to have what they wanted.

At the time they were working up the papers, Pam began to get a migraine.  Much later she realized she should have just stopped and not continued.  She had even told the Acura people she was getting a migraine and needed to cut this short.  They continued slowly and it took two 2 more hours.  I was waiting in the car and wondered why it was taking so long.

As we left, I saw the Mercedes building across the street from Acura and heard, "You should drive a Mercedes."  I failed to mention this to Pam.  We bought the Acura.  June, 2020.

We lived with that car for 3 1/2 years and even from the beginning we began to have trouble with the car and the dealer had to take it and redo the software to give the car more "energy", and something was broken under the car and we finally found it was unsafe to drive until a broken part could be replaced which we did replace. We also had a problem which the dealer said was caused by the sound equipment which I had added which he said affected the battery.  The battery was replaced. After that we had no more problem with mechanics.  But it was rough riding and I had trouble riding in the car because I had 2 surgeries on left broken hip.  Also it was a noisy car.  

(Before that car, I had a 1994 Lincoln Town Car which had air suspension and was treated for road noise and was relatively quite.)

For the next 3 1/2 years, when I rode in the car and we met another car I would wonder how "that" car rode.

This year, even before we ever went to look for another car,  Pam said one day she and the 2 dogs got into the MDX to go somewhere and all of a sudden it hit her:  And she said to God... "God. I don't like driving this car.  But what do I do?"

( I know in 2020 when we bought the Acura, I had a thought we should go to Mercedes.  Acura and Mercedes are directly across a 2 lane road from each other.)  But we didn't do that.  I probably failed to mention  it to Pam.

In the dream before buying the Acura, "I dreamed we bought a new car, a new Buick.  And I thought of how I should have asked my dad first which car to buy.

This was the night before we bought the Acura. God gave me a warning through that dream but I let it slip and went through a "stop sign".

I think we were a little off from that point, but 3 years later God got us where we should have been at first and with the money we will get from the Acura sale we only wasted $18,000.  At least that is how I see it.  

Now we are at the right place for us to go forward from here.

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Howard, the man to whom I was briefly engaged in Lubbock, drove Mercedes and so did his adult aged daughter.  I think I rode in it once but Howard said of himself he was a "lousy driver" and he always wanted me to drive and we went in my Lincoln Town Car to Colorado Springs and to my cousin's house in Albuquerque and to Clovis to a wedding anniversary.

Howard was a lousy driver.  He had a very big early Mercedes version of an SUV and it seemed clumsy the one time I rode in it.

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My dad, a fine mechanic, told me he thought Mercedes was overrated.  That was in 1960's ... but I know he would love this Mercedes today for between the time my dad said that, cars began to change their suspension systems and horsepower went down to save on gas.  My dad taught me to be sure to get a car with an engine that was very powerful, as powerful as the manufacturer made.  (I never consider the price of gas.)

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God was obviously leading Pam even before we had even decided to try to find another car.  

Then a couple week or so after that, I said to Pam, "Do you want to go out and drive cars today and see if we can find another car?"  Pam said, "No, maybe tomorrow."  I think my thought was "Rats ... then why am I getting ready to take a shower?"

As I remember, a couple of days passed and again I mentioned going to drive cars and Pam was agreeable.

So we began driving new cars, one than another.  Nothing in my opinion rode like the old cars of the 60's, 70's.  Until we got to the Mercedes S-class.  The Mercedes E-class didn't ride well to me.  The salespersons said, "You're going to have to have the S-Class." (He was right!)

The Holy Spirit gave me 2 scriptures pertaining to the S-Class.

Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

I Timothy 6:17  Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

I don't by any means consider myself "rich" on this earth but I probably have enough to last the rest of my life on this earth and if not God will surely provide for me.  I think the exhortation is that we not be miserly, not be afraid to spend a portion of our money.

(I'm 86-years-old.  I don't have any monthly retirement except for government social security of $800 per month.  I take no salary from the ministry offerings.  I have no debt and even with the money from social security some of that is left over monthly and accumulates in my bank account.  Joan Boney)

I live by this scripture:

Joshua 1:8  “This book of the law (The word from God and the scripture) shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good succ

We did buy the S-Class car.  One night when we went to get our food, as we were driving home I said, "This car really rides well."  As we saw other cars on the road I no longer wondered "how" those cars rode as I had done for the past 3 1/2 years.  I was at complete peace on the issue.

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Podcast: God who dwells in us makes us alive by HIS Spirit who dwells in us

 

 

 

 

Romans 8:11  But if the Spirit of HIM that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, HE that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (make alive) your mortal bodies by HIS Spirit that dwelleth in you.

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Hymn: Praise Him, Praise Him, Jesus our blessed redeemer

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1.  Praise Him! praise Him! 
Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!

Sing, ye saints! His wonderful love proclaim!

Hail Him! hail Him! mightiest angels in glory;
Strength and honor give to His holy name!

Like a shepherd, Jesus will feed His people,
In His WORD He carries them all day long;

O ye saints that live in the light of His presence,
Praise Him! praise Him! 
ever in joyful song!

2.  Praise Him! praise Him! 
Jesus, our blessed Redeemer,

For our sins He suffered and bled and died;

He, our Rock, our Hope of eternal salvation,
Hail Him! hail Him! 
Jesus, the Crucified;

Loving Savior, meekly enduring sorrow,
Crowned with thorns that cruelly pierced His brow;
Once for us rejected, despised, and forsaken,
Prince of Glory, ever triumphant now.

3.   Praise Him! praise Him! 
Jesus, our blessed Redeemer,

Heavenly portals, loud with hosannahs ring!
(portal:  doorway, way in, way out)

Jesus, Savior, reigneth for ever and ever;
Crown Him! crown Him! 
Prophet and Priest and King!

Death is vanquished! 
Tell it with joy, ye faithful,
Where is now thy victory, boasting grave?

Jesus lives! 
No longer thy portals are cheerless;
Jesus lives, the mighty and strong to save.


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Scripture pertaining to this hymn:

Romans 5:5-9     the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.  For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

But God commendeth HIS love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

(We didn't shed our blood for our sins, but Jesus shed His blood to pay for our sins ... without shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins  Hebrews 9:22 ... we cannot hope to pay for our sins and our wrong actions by our good works ... only by shed blood are we redeemed from sin and cleansed)

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Revelation 5:1-14   And I saw in the right hand of HIM that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. 

And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. 

And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. 

And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

And HE came and took the book out of the right hand of HIM that sat upon the throne.

And when HE had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. And they sung a new song, saying, THOU art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for THOU wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by THY blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto HIM that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped HIM that liveth for ever and ever.


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Luke 24:1-8   Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

(The dead human body decays and stinks. They brought spices to cover the odor of death. But God was not going to suffer the body of Jesus to see corruption as other flesh sees corruption.)

And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.

And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. 

And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:

And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

HE is not here, but is risen: remember how HE spake unto you when HE was yet in Galilee,

Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.

And they remembered HIS words,

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🎶 Chopin Ballade No 3

Frederic Chopin (1810–1849)

Ballade No. 3 in As-dur (1841), Op. 47

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Arthur Rubinstein (piano)

 

(1959 / 7:21)

 

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💥 To settle me when things go wrong and to restore me.

 

One morning recently, everything began going wrong:  I picked up my biscuit and a large blog of strawberry preserves fell onto my neck (I hate sticky stuff on my skin.); Then later, my cat got frightened and hit my hand with her back claws and made two deep cuts in my hand as she ran across my hand and my hand began to bleed; My laptop slid into my coffee cup and the cup fell but did not break; My computer began going wrong and the mouse kept sliding and the print got out of place;  I went into take a shower and the other animals began barking and making disruption.

I finally just stopped plans to take shower and I went into my bedroom and sat down and turned to God in prayer.  "Please ... create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit in me."  (Psalm 51:10)

I turned to Psalms and began reading the scriptures I had highlighted.

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Psalms

24:3-6  Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in HIS holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of them that seek HIM, that seek THY face, O Jacob.

(I remembered a phone conversation from the previous day that went on too long and I felt maybe I had lift up my soul into vanity ... I asked God to forgive me and I kept reading Psalms and thinking on various parts of scripture.)

25:4-5  Shew me THY ways, O LORD; teach me THY paths. 5 Lead me in THY truth, and teach me: for THOU art the God of my salvation; on THEE do I wait all the day.

(As I read above scripture, I remembered something else I had done this morning.  I just stopped and prayed asking for help in that issue and I asked God to forgive me and restore me and settle me.  I made specific requests on this issue which involved sound in the new car.  In the MDX car, that we are selling, I can control and tune the parameters for each instrument of the orchestra.  I prayed that I find another sound equipment , which we could attach, which would allow me to do this to the sound system of the new car. Or I prayed God to change me in my desire to be able to do this.  Either would work for me.  Philippians 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.  And I prayed for God to give my heart HIS joy for the remainder of the day.)

8-9  Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will HE teach sinners in the way. 9 The meek will HE guide in judgment: and the meek will HE teach HIS way.

(I was reminded of this:  

James 4:7  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.)

10-12  All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep HIS covenant and HIS testimonies. 11 For THY name's sake (THE WORD), O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
12 What man is he that feareth the LORD? HIM shall HE teach in the way that HE shall choose.

(A promise of God in verse 12. If we "fear the LORD" , turning to HIM and choosing HIS ways, HE will teach us in the way we shall choose)

13-15  His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. 14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear HIM; and HE will shew them HIS covenant. 15 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD (toward the Word); for HE shall pluck my feet out of the net.

17-18  The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring THOU me out of my distresses. 18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.


20-21  O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

(After this, I felt I was settled, restored and fine.)

Then I heard from the Holy Spirit the following:  "God will not fail you nor forsake you."

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Podcast: Two scriptures given to me by the Holy Spirit at this current point in time

 

 

 

 

Psalm 84:11  For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will HE withhold from them that walk uprightly.

I Timothy 6:17  Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

I will share the exhortation on this Podcast.

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Hymn: On Christ the solid Rock I stand

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  1.  My hope is built on nothing less 
Than Jesus Christ, my righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

Chorus:

On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand. 

2.  When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

3.   His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.

4.  When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
In Him, my righteousness, alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.


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Scripture pertaining to this hymn:

v. 1   But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

Jesus' name:  the  Word of God ... I wholly lean on that Word given me by God ... That Word which comes down to me from heaven pertaining to the issue with which I am currently dealing.

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v.2   I rest on His unchanging grace;

Every morning there is light from the sun.  This is unchanging until the end of this present world.

Genesis 8:22   While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

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On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,  

 

Christ, the solid Rock, is the WORD that is revealed by God to us in the issue at hand. 

 

Jesus says: 

 

Matthew 7:24-27   whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 

 

And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Jesus says: 

 

John 14:6   I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by ME.

The WORD given us by the Holy Spirit is the way to go.  The WORD is truth and life.  The WORD is Jesus.

John 1:1-4   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him (The Word); and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him (The Word) was life; and the life (The Word) was the light  of men. 


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John 6:33    For the bread of God is HE which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

³⁵  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to ME shall never hunger; and he that believeth on ME shall never thirst.

⁴⁸  I am that bread of life.

51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is MY flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.

We eat the flesh of Jesus and drink HIS blood as we live in the Word of God given to us by the Holy Spirit and as we do those things instructed in the Bible.  The Word is the Lord's supper.

54 Whoso eateth MY flesh, and drinketh MY blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 

55 For MY flesh is meat indeed, and MY blood is drink indeed.

56 He that eateth MY flesh, and drinketh MY blood, dwelleth in ME, and I in him. 57 As the living Father hath sent ME, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth ME, even he shall live by ME.

58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

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John 1:14   And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld HIS glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

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A few of many things THE WORD says to us, the children of God:

* I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.  (Joshua 1:5 & Hebrews 13:5)

The Word spoken to our minds by Jesus' Holy Spirit will always come to pass.

* No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of Me, saith the Lord.  (Isaiah 54:17)

* Jesus, The Word says ... lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.  (Matthew 28:20)

* my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (THE WORD). (Philippians 4:19)

* If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.  (James 1:5)

* Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.  (James 1:17)

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Matthew 16:13-18  When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but My Father which is in heaven.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build MY church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Peter was blessed because God revealed The Word to him. The Word revealed by God by HIS Spirit to us is the rock. The gates of hell will not prevail against that Word revealed to us by God.


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v. 4  When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
In Him, my righteousness, alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

I Thessalonians 4:13-18    But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with HIM.

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep.

For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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The apostle Peter tells us how to live and how to be found  "in HIM" when HE comes.

II Peter 3:10-14    But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,  Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 

Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

The only way we can live continually "in peace, without spot, and blameless", is to pray over every issue that touches our lives this day and every day, one problem at a time.  And to be cleansed by God that day by hearing what God would bring to us in the trouble.

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Our trust must be at all times in the blood of Jesus that cleanses us from all sins.

Hebrews 9:22  without shedding of blood is no remission.

God showed it to me this way:

I have shed no blood to pay for my sins. Jesus shed HIS blood to pay for my sins. Therefore my sins are paid for by Jesus' blood.

When thoughts of sins I did in past come to my mind, I must refuse to dwell on them. Instead I must reflect on the truth that all those past sins have been paid for by the blood of Jesus. There is nothing I can do of myself to make up for past acts which I now regret. I must trust my salvation in all things to have been bought by the blood of Jesus. I must keep myself in this truth at all times. 

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