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The LIVING GOD#IS

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Is it not the day of #knockoffs?  Can you tell the #genuine for the #copied.  Notice the #Isis name.  Is it an imitation trying to replace the original “GOD WHO IS?   What does the Bible say?  Rev.1:8 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, says the LORD, WHICH IS, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”   Ps.71:19 “Thy righteousness O GOD IS very high…who is like unto thee!” Rev.1:5 “from JESUS CHRIST WHO IS the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood”  Jesus gave His own blood for us not like those taking others’  blood for their own supposed redemption.  You see, GOD IS LOVE and if you will turn, seek, ask, and accept Him, you get the real omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent Lord.  Luke17:21 “Neither shall they say, lo here or lo there. for behold, the kingdom of GOD IS WITHIN YOU.”   May you choose to rejoice in His sacrificial birth, death, and resurrection because of His great love for each of us made in His image so that we may have fellowship right now with the LIVING GOD WHO IS.  “The LORD LIVES…and let the God of my salvation be exalted.” Psalm 19:46

The LIVING GOD #CHASTENS

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How does God’s #LOVE correspond to His CHASTENING?    Chasten is defined by Webster as correcting by punishment; discipline – to purify or refine by freeing from faults.  Psalm 94:12 “Blessed is the man whom Thou dost CHASTEN, O LORD, and teaches him out of Thy law”  I think Hebrews 12 gives us additional understanding on perfect love.  “do not regard lightly the discipline of the LORD nor faint when you are reproved by Him; for THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE CHASTENS, AND SCOURGES  EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.  We had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?  For they chasten us for a short as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good that we may share His holiness.  Now no CHASTENING for the present seems to be joyous, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, will it yield the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” Isaiah 53 tells us of the Father’s chastisement of our sins covered by His son, Jesus’s perfect love.  “He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we ourselves esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted,  He was pierced through for our transgressions,  He was bruised for our iniquities; the CHASTISEMENT for our well being fell upon Him and by His scourging we are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”   What does Revelation 3 say to us?  “As many as I LOVE, I REBUKE AND CHASTEN;  be zealous therefore, and repent.  Behold, I stand at the door and knock;  if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me.  To him that overcomes will I grant to him to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His throne.”

The LIVING GOD #HOUSE

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House of #Horrors seems to be the thrill for the young and old this October.  What do you experience within it’s walls? – #Fright -#Fear -#Death -#Mutilation -#Screams!  You pay money for that?  What a contrast between the house of horrors and the HOUSE OF GOD…. -Peace -Joy -Life -Love -Singing –  Any place where GOD manifests His presence is the HOUSE OF  GOD . Gen.28:16,17  From a lonely dark night with a stone for a pillow, “Jacob said, surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not… How awesome, this is none other but the HOUSE OF GOD, and the gate of heaven.”  Where are you today?  Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.  IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE are many dwelling places: if it were not so, I would have told you: for I go to prepare a place for YOU. . .I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am there you may be also…..I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.” John 14:1-6  Are you living in a house of horrors?  Turn away and choose the House of God.  “”For the time is come that judgment must begin at the HOUSE OF GOD:  and if it first begin at us what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of GOD?”” 1Peter 4:17

The LIVING GOD #LIBERTY

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The power of #choice is #liberating.  As a six year old during WWll, I walked alone to and from school each day.  I was empowered by my freedom to walk, skip, jump or dawdle; however, I had to be on time for school and home.  At an early age, I learned that with liberty came responsibility to myself and others, but I found some scary scenarios along the way which brought me to depend on God.  Paul gives us sound advice in Galatians about LIBERTY IN CHRIST JESUS…”because of false brethren secretly brought in who came in privily to spy out our LIBERTY WHICH WE HAVE IN CHRIST JESUS, that they might bring us into bondage: to whom we gave no place that the truth of the gospel might continue with you”Gal.2:4,5  “Is the law then against the promises of God?  God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.  But scripture has shut up all men under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.” 3:21,22  “STAND FAST IN THE LIBERTY WHEREWITH CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE, and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage.  . .For you have been called unto LIBERTY; only do not use LIBERTY as an opportunity for the flesh, but by love serve one another.  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, ..You shall LOVE your neighbor as yourself, but if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another…Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” 5:1,13-16

The LIVING GOD #EVERLASTING

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A #lifetime #warranty is rarely offered on anything today.  As I am observing the behavior of this culture, I think most people believe everything is disposable from paper to people!  What about GOD?  In the very beginning, Gen.1:27 “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him, male and female created He them.”  Ps.90:2 “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING THOU ART GOD.”   Everlasting meaning enduring, perpetual, and eternal.  Ps.136:2 “Give thanks to the God of gods, for His LOVINGKINDNESS IS EVERLASTING”  We are not disposable items for God made us everlasting in His image!  He also gave us the ability to make decisions and choices to honor and love our creator or to selfishly live for the moment of self gratification.  Either way we have an eternal warranty with our Lord and Savior.  Ps.139:23,24 “Search me, O God, and know my heart:  try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and LEAD ME IN THE WAY EVERLASTING”  Will your warranty be redeemed  in Heaven or Hell?   John 3:16″For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have EVERLASTING LIFE.”

The LIVING GOD #CANDLE

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#Strife, #Violence, #Destruction are constantly before us today.  No wonder we get #weary.. As I read God’s Bible, I find these words of #wisdom.  Prov.17:11 “An evil man seeks only rebellion”  Prov.17:15 “He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just are both an #abomination to the Lord.”  Romans 13:9-14 “Let us walk honestly in the day; not rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envy.  You shall love your neighbor as yourself – love works no evil to his neighbor..Now is high time to awake out of sleep…..the night is far spent the day is at hand: let us cast off the works of darkness, and put on the armor of LIGHT ..put on the LORD JESUS CHRIST.”  11Sam.22:29 “For THOU ART MY CANDLE, O LORD; and the LORD will lighten my darkness” 

The LIVING GOD #DELIGHTS

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I had an uncle who could not pass a mirror without stopping to smile/adjust his hair and admire himself!  In this day and time I can only imagine all the #SELFIES which he would post.  What does the #Bible say about all this self adulation?  Prov. 1:22 “How long, you simple ones will you love simplicity?  scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?”  Prov. 18:2 “A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself”  Ever heard it said, ‘It’s all about #ME’?  Eccles. 5:4 “the LORD takes no DELIGHT in fools”  Prov. 2:6,10,11 “the LORD gives wisdom; when wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge it is pleasant unto your soul; discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you”  Micah 7:18  “Who is a GOD like Thee, who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His heritage?  He does not retain His anger forever, because GOD DELIGHTS in UNCHANGING LOVE.”

The LIVING GOD #DESIRES

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Many people enjoy Hallmark stories, so I want to share the greatest love of all.  It is recorded in John 17:24-26 when Jesus said, “Father, I DESIRE that they whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am, in order that they may behold My glory, which Thou gave Me; for Thou did LOVE ME before the foundation of the world.  O righteous Father, although the world has not known Thee, yet I have known Thee; and these have known that Thou did send Me; and I have made Thy name known to them and will make it known; that the LOVE  wherewith Thou did LOVE ME may be in them and I in them..”   “For GOD so LOVED the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”  John 3:16