“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. + JOHN 3:16-18 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
Ask for What You Need
1One day he was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said, “Master, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.”
2-4So he said, “When you pray, say,
Father,
Reveal who you are.
Set the world right.
Keep us alive with three square meals.
Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others.
Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil.” + LUKE 11:1-4 - HOLY BIBLE - THE MESSAGE
Praise JESUS.
41“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42but few things are needed—or indeed only one. f Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” {LUKE 10:41-42 + HOLY BIBLE + NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION}
1-2 God spoke to Moses: “Tell the Israelites to turn around and make camp at Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. Camp on the shore of the sea opposite Baal Zephon. + EXODUS 14:1-2 + HOLY BIBLE + KING JAMES VERSION
JESUS
JOHN 20
Resurrection!
1-2Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone was moved away from the entrance. She ran at once to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, gasping for breath. “They took the Master from the tomb. We don’t know where they’ve put him.” + JOHN 20:1-2 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE
JESUS, THANKS FOR HELPING Me.
Praise JESUS.
40 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. + 1 SAMUEL 17:40 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
JESUS IS GOD {JOHN 1:1-5}
JESUS IS LORD AND GOD {JOHN 20:28}
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JESUS PREVIOUS "stone" {PROVERBS 27:3 + KING JAMES VERSION}.
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}."
WednesDAY, August the Fourteenth, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
1 Whoever is a slave must make the best of it, giving respect to his master so that outsiders don't blame God and our teaching for his behavior.
2 Slaves with Christian masters all the more so - their masters are really their beloved brothers!
3 If you have leaders there who teach otherwise, who refuse the solid words of our Master Jesus and this godly instruction,
4 tag them for what they are: ignorant windbags who infect the air with germs of envy, controversy, bad-mouthing, suspicious rumors.
5 Eventually there's an epidemic of backstabbing, and truth is but a distant memory. They think religion is a way to make a fast buck.
6 A devout life does bring wealth, but it's the rich simplicity of being yourself before God.
7 Since we entered the world penniless and will leave it penniless,
8 if we have bread on the table and shoes on our feet, that's enough.
9 But if it's only money these leaders are after, they'll self-destruct in no time.
10 Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after.
11 But you, Timothy, man of God: Run for your life from all this. Pursue a righteous life - a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy.
12 Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses.
13 I'm charging you before the life-giving God and before Christ, who took his stand before Pontius Pilate and didn't give an inch:
14 Keep this command to the letter, and don't slack off. Our Master, Jesus Christ, is on his way.
15 He'll show up right on time, his arrival guaranteed by the Blessed and Undisputed Ruler, High King, High God.
16 He's the only one death can't touch, his light so bright no one can get close. He's never been seen by human eyes - human eyes can't take him in! Honor to him, and eternal rule! Oh, yes.
17 Tell those rich in this world's wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage -
18 to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous.
19 If they do that, they'll build a treasury that will last, gaining life that is truly life.
20 And oh, my dear Timothy, guard the treasure you were given! Guard it with your life. Avoid the talk-show religion and the practiced confusion of the so-called experts.
21 People caught up in a lot of talk can miss the whole point of faith. Overwhelming grace keep you! + 2 TIMOTHY 6 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE
~~~ JESUS', JESUS ~~~
1Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. 2And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
The Lost Sheep
3And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 4What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. 7I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. + LUKE 15:1-7 + HOLY BIBLE + KING JAMES VERSION
Praise My LORD AND My GOD {JOHN 20:28}, JESUS!!!!!
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Today's "smooth stone" {1 SAMUEL 17:40}"
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}." WednesDAY, August the Fourteenth, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
1 Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents.
2 Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.
3 Don't allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed.
4 Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, Christians have better uses for language than that. Don't talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn't fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect.
5 You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them - the usual variations on idolatry - will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God.
6 Don't let yourselves get taken in by religious smooth talk. God gets furious with people who are full of religious sales talk but want nothing to do with him.
7 Don't even hang around people like that.
8 You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it!
9 The good, the right, the true - these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours.
10 Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.
11 Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are.
12 It's a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see.
13 Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ.
14 Wake up from your sleep, Climb out of your coffins; Christ will show you the light!
15 So watch your step. Use your head.
16 Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times!
17 Don't live carelessly, unthinkingly. Make sure you understand what the Master wants.
18 Don't drink too much wine. That cheapens your life. Drink the Spirit of God, huge draughts of him.
19 Sing hymns instead of drinking songs! Sing songs from your heart to Christ.
20 Sing praises over everything, any excuse for a song to God the Father in the name of our Master, Jesus Christ.
21 Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another.
22 Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ.
23 The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to his church, not by domineering but by cherishing.
24 So just as the church submits to Christ as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands.
25 Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church - a love marked by giving, not getting.
26 Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her,
27 dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness.
28 And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They're really doing themselves a favor - since they're already "one" in marriage.
29 No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That's how Christ treats us, the church,
30 since we are part of his body.
31 And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become "one flesh."
32 This is a huge mystery, and I don't pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church.
33 And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband. + EPHESIANS 5 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD
JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD
Plots Against Saul
19-21 Saul spent a few days getting acquainted with the Damascus disciples, but then went right to work, wasting no time, preaching in the meeting places that this Jesus was the Son of God. They were caught off guard by this and, not at all sure they could trust him, they kept saying, “Isn’t this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem among the believers? And didn’t he come here to do the same thing—arrest us and drag us off to jail in Jerusalem for sentencing by the high priests?”
+ ACTS 9:17 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
JESUS, Thank YOU FOR HEALING me.
16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and onlye Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. + JOHN 3:16 + HOLY BIBLE + BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE
Praise JESUS.
JESUS, Thank YOU FOR HELPING me.
"Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. {1 JOHN 5:21 + HOLY BIBLE + NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION}"The grace of the Master Jesus be with all of you. Oh, Yes! {REVELATION 22:21 + THE HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}"
At the crack of dawn on Sunday, the women came to the tomb carrying the burial spices they had prepared. They found the entrance stone rolled back from the tomb, so they walked in. But once inside, they couldn’t find the body of the Master Jesus. + LUKE 24:1-3 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. + JOHN 3:16 + HOLY BIBLE + ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION
Return to Jerusalem
33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, 34saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
46 and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And ye are witnesses of these things. 49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
50And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. 51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. 52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: 53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. + LUKE 24:33-34, 46-53 - HOLY BIBLE - KING JAMES VERSION
Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. + 1 SAMUEL 17:40 + HOLY BIBLE + NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION
JESUS' "five smooth stones {1 SAMUEL 17:40}"
JESUS IS GOD {JOHN 1:1-5}
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}." WednesDAY, August the Fourteenth, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
23 They're created new every morning. How great your faithfulness!
24 I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over). He's all I've got left.
25 God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks.
26 It's a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God. + LAMENTATIONS 3:23 - 26 + HOLY BIBLE ~!~ THE MESSAGE
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}." WednesDAY, August the Fourteenth, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
46 The police answered, "Have you heard the way he talks? We've never heard anyone speak like this man."
47 The Pharisees said, "Are you carried away like the rest of the rabble?
48 You don't see any of the leaders believing in him, do you? Or any from the Pharisees?
49 It's only this crowd, ignorant of God's Law, that is taken in by him - and damned."
50 Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus earlier and was both a ruler and a Pharisee, spoke up.
51 "Does our Law decide about a man's guilt without first listening to him and finding out what he is doing?"
52 But they cut him off. "Are you also campaigning for the Galilean?
53 Examine the evidence. See if any prophet ever comes from Galilee." Then they all went home. + JOHN 7:46-53 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}." ThursDAY, August the Fifteenth, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
Genesis 1
Heaven and Earth
1-2First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
3-5God spoke: “Light!”
And light appeared.
God saw that light was good
and separated light from dark.
God named the light Day,
he named the dark Night.
It was evening, it was morning—
Day One. ~ GENESIS 1:1-2, + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}." FriDAY, August the Sixteenth, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
The grace of the Master Jesus be with all of you. Oh, Yes! + REVELATION 22:21 + HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
JESUS', JESUS COMMANDS Us TO "Run hard and fast in the faith {2 TIMOTHY 6:12 + HOLY BIBLE + THE MESSAGE}." MonDAY, August the Nineteenth, IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD JESUS 2024
1 Children, do what your parents tell you. This is only right.
2 "Honor your father and mother" is the first commandment that has a promise attached to it, namely,
3 "so you will live well and have a long life."
4 Fathers, don't exasperate your children by coming down hard on them. Take them by the hand and lead them in the way of the Master.
5 Servants, respectfully obey your earthly masters but always with an eye to obeying the real master, Christ. + EPHESIANS 6:1-5 + THE HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
"Praise GOD, BEAUTIFUL."
The grace of the Master Jesus be with all of you. Oh, Yes! + REVELATION 22:21 + THE HOLY BIBLE ~ THE MESSAGE
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