My encouragement in life is to see the Lord. My best moments in life is when God is lifted up within my soul. My encouragement in life to experience the forgiveness of my sins by our God. The only God of all creation. Holy are you God, It was your plan to send forgiveness. You allowed the sins of humankind to sacrificed the life of Yeshua Hamashia (Jesus Christ).
Because of his arrest, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection we are washed clean of sin. Fill us, Holy Spirit with an intimate focus on experiencing and knowing God's blessings. By your power Holy Spirit let knowledge flow of the blessings and miracles, we have received.
With this flowing knowledge of God's love guide our worship to be a worship of love. We need knowledge of God's gentile care and his love flowing around, over and through each of our lives. Accepting each of us as we are, our God, has taken time out of the business of creation and managing this world, for a little one on one time. It is during these moments, each we know that our soul, has been touched individually.
When our human focus is on knowing the Lord our God is Holy. The desire within our soul is to experience entering into God's glorious and precious presence. Maybe our question should be if we are always in the presence of being in Holy of Holies. It's just a matter of our focus. Are we in the ways of God or the ways of the world?
Earlier in Mark chapter nine is the report of the transfiguration of Yeshua Hamashia (Jesus Christ). This spiritual miracle is replaced among his chosen disciples as their focus shifts to an argument about who will be the greatest?
The true believer, just like each whom have been called; are called to experience and know spiritual life. Our human focus does shift from the image of God within each to the desires and needs of our physical bodies. This shift is normal and is within by God's plan. To understand the effect of the shift from physical focus in contrast to being on the spiritual consider the reading of Mark chapter nine. While knowing Yeshua is the Son of God, being with Yeshua, learning from Yeshua, and walking with Yeshua, his chosen disciples shifts their focus to who will be the greatest.
Mark 9:33-34 (CJB) They arrived at K’far-Nachum. When Yeshua was inside the house, he asked them, “What were you discussing as we were traveling?” But they kept quiet; because on the way, they had been arguing with each other about who was the greatest.
The teacher, God own Son; is giving instructions about something important, His arrest, His trial, His crucifixion, His Resurrection. Do you understand it? With this action coming shortly it was necessary for them to understand. They needed to know why God's Son had to be a suffering servant?
A human lack of understanding can cause a focus shift to what humankind does understand. Simply put, What in this for me? Or as they argued which of us would be considered the greatest? In this strictly human focus on the desires and wants of our human nature focus, how are they to understand. We all need to know the value of what is being offered; "Peace with God".
My encouragement in life is to see the Lord. My best moments in life is when God is lifted up within my soul. My encouragement in life to experience the forgiveness of my sins by the God of all creation. Holy are you God for sending forgiveness by the sacrifice of life by Yeshua Hamashia (Jesus Christ).
Mark 9:30-32(CJB) After leaving that place, they went on through the Galil. Yeshua didn’t want anyone to know, because he was teaching his talmidim. He told them, “The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men who will put him to death; but after he has been killed, three days later he will rise.” But they didn’t understand what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him.
His own has disciples have experienced and knows what its is like to be with Yeshua. He is the promised and anointed one, he is Hamashia. The instructions he is teaching is what we even see to this day. People rejecting God's Son. Do we understand why other people, even loved ones in our own families, neighbors, friends, and co-workers, reject the source of blessings, the source of rain.
Humanity was created in the image of God. A fact to often forgotten in the battle of life. Instead we are fighting to survive, trying to exist in the ways of the world. What would happen with understanding, if instead of blessing and love, God would send fire. The results would have been a response to God out of terror. God desires a decision of which he is worthy, a decision made with love. The very same kind of love a child offers you. A smile, with arms held open. An expression an indication this child accepts you. Wanting your care, your love. Make my day, "Pick me up".
When your focus is upon the love and blessing of God, do you want more of God? When you give loving attention and care for a child doesn't the child let you know they want more of you?
Mark 9:36-37(ESV) 36 And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, 37 “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
The bottom of the Jewish community pecking order was noticed by Yeshua as he walked through Galilee with his disciples. Yeshua said it was important to receive the least of these as these are. Yeshua came from the glories of God to serve the needs of humanity. While in the pecking order of God's creation, humanity is no where near setting the stars in the sky.
My encouragement in life is to see the Lord. My best moments in life is when God is lifted up within my soul. My encouragement in life to experience the forgiveness of my sins by the God of all creation. Holy are you God for sending forgiveness by the sacrifice of life by Yeshua Hamashia (Jesus Christ). The prophet Daniel reported.
Daniel 7:13-14(ESV) 13 “I saw in the night visions,
and behold, with the clouds of heaven
there came one like a son of man,
and he came to the Ancient of Days
and was presented before him.
14 And to him was given dominion
and glory and a kingdom,
that all peoples, nations, and languages
should serve him;
his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away,
and his kingdom one
that shall not be destroyed.
Do you understand in the ways of the world, in the ways of making business, making money; a child has no status. In the pecking order of life they are and were at the bottom of the power struggle. Yet when it come to a child's acceptance of you, not a lot is required. You can be accepted as you are.
My encouragement in life is to see the Lord. My best moments in life is when God is lifted up within my soul. My encouragement in life to experience the forgiveness of my sins by the God of all creation. Holy are you God for sending forgiveness by the sacrifice of life by Yeshua Hamashia (Jesus Christ).
Mark 9:35 He sat down, summoned the Twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all.”
Instead of a focus on whom among you will be the greatest, focus on the ways of God. Be a servant of all.
Philippians 4:7 Then God’s shalom, passing all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with the Messiah Yeshua.
