PRAY WITHOUT CEASING - WORK FAITHFULLY - MAKE STRAIGHT THE PATHS

PRAY WITHOUT CEASING -  

WORK FAITHFULLY -  

MAKE STRAIGHT
THE PATHS 

  

When my children were growing up they knew

their Mother and Father were busy and occupied in

giving their efforts in helping a local 

Church to be what it should be -

A LIGHTHOUSE.

A LIGHTHOUSE GIVES LIGHT

SO THAT POSSIBLE ROCKS

IN THE WATER CAN BE 

AVOIDED

IT ALSO HELPS TO

LIGHT UP THE DARKNESS

SO THAT A SHIP CAN

FIND ITS WAY.

WHATEVER A CHURCH IS NAMED

IS NOT THE POINT.

IT IS WHETHER IT STICKS 

FAITHFULLY

LIKE GLUE

TO THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD

TO THE PRECEPTS THAT IT HOLDS FORTH

AND TO THE 

BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES

IT GIVES US.

ALL WE EVER NEED 

IS THE WORD OF GOD 

FOR TODAY

THAT IS ALL WE HAVE

IN THE DARK NIGHT OF

SIN THAT 

FOLDS ITSELF

OVER EVERY ASPECT

OF LIFE 

FROM BIRTH

TO

DEATH.

LIFE.

LIFE ETERNAL.

LIFE EVER LASTING.

FOR EVER AND FOR EVER.

WHAT DOES IT 

REALLY MEAN 

TO 

LAST 

FOR EVER ?

For God So loved the World
that He gave his only 
begotten Son that 
whosoever 
believeth in him
should not perish,
but have 
everlasting 
life.
JOHN 3.16

Matthew 5.16

Let your light so shine 

before men

that they may see

your good works

and 

glorify your

Father which is in

heaven.

I was just a child 

in 1935.   Here I am 

just barely two years old

and I thought 

I was helping my 

Grandmother

in the garden ! 

Oh ! my !  

I know now how

much she loved me 

and wanted me to 

learn how

to do 

and be

all I could be 

for God.

Do you know 

we are all

LITTLE CHILDREN? 

So often 

we are unable 

to do for our self

until some ONE 

takes a hand to 

teaching 

a new truth

and a new way

to me.

UNTIL I LEARN TO 

RECEIVE FROM 

ANOTHER

I CANNOT 

LEARN 

...

A PERSON
HAS TO BE WILLING
TO 
BE TAUGHT
TO BE LED 
TO BE SHOWN WHAT 
TO DO.

AND GOD'S WORD 
DOES THAT 
ECACTLY THAT.

Psalm 119.105  
THY WORD IS A LAMP
UNTO MY FEET,
AND A LIGHT
UNTO MY PATH.

I challenge you that
the Great Commission 
in Matthew 28.18 - 20 
is the CORE TRUTH
of the LIGHT we are to 
display 
in our lives.
WITH THE LOCAL 
BODY OF BELIEVERS
A LIGHT CAN SHINE
EFFECTIVELY
IT SHOWS HOW
WE CAN LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
IT SHOWS A 
BIG CONTRAST WITH 
WHAT THE WORLD HAS TO 
OFFER.
Jesus said,  
"Upon this rock will I build my 
church, and the gates of hell
shall not prevail
against it.
Matthew 16.18.
Peter had just responded to
the question that 
Jesus gave,  
"Whom do you say
that I am?"
And Simon Peter answered
and said unto him,
Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the Living God."
Matthew 16. 16.
In John chapter 13
v 33, 34
Jesus told the 
disciples
"A new commandment I give
unto you,
that ye love one another; 
as I have loved you, 
that ye love one another.

v. 34 

By this shall all men
know that ye are my 
disciples, if ye have 
love one for another.

ROMANS 10.9, 10
THAT IF THOU SHALT CONFESS 
WITH THY MOUTH
THE LORD JESUS,
AND SHALT BELIEVE
IN THINE HEART 
THAT GOD HATH RAISED HIM
FROM THE DEAD,
THOU SHALT 
BE SAVED.
FOR WITH THE HEART 
MAN BELIEVETH UNTO
RIGHTEOUSNESS,
AND WITH THE 
MOUTH 
CONFESSION IS 
MADE
UNTO SALVATION.
ACTS 1. 7,8
It is not for you to know 
the times or the seasons,
which the Father 
hath put in His own power,
but ye shall receive power, after
that the Holy Ghost is come 
upon you, and ye
shall be witnesses
unto me, both
in Judea, 
and in Samaria,
and unto the 
uttermost part of the earth.

TO BE ABLE TO PRAY

WE MUST FIRST BE SAVED.

WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?

said the people who were 

listening to what the 

disciples were telling 

them that JESUS WAS RISEN

FROM THE DEAD

AND GONE BACK TO 

HEAVEN

AND WILL 

COME AGAIN....

WHAT MUST WE DO 

TO BE SAVE?

Peter answered,

REPENT 

AND BE BAPTIZED 

EVERY ONE OF YOU

IN THE NAME OF 

JESUS CHRIST

FOR HIS 

REMISSION 

(FOGIVENESS) 

OF SINS, 

AND YE SHALL RECEIVE

THE GIFT OF

THE HOLY GHOST.

FOR THE PROMISE IS

UNTO YOU, 

AND UNTO YOUR CHILDREN,

AND TO ALL THAT ARE AFAR OFF,

EVEN AS MANY AS

THE LORD  OUR GOD

SHALL CALL.

Acts 2.38 - 40

REMEMBER 

BAPTISM IS NOT WHAT

SAVES US.

WE ONLY  SHOULD BE BAPTIZED

AFTER WE REPENT AND BELIEVE

ON THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST,

AND THIS IS TO OBEY 

HIS COMMAND 

AND

TO IDENTIFY

OUR LIFE WITH 

THE 

DEATH

BURIAL

AND

RESURRECTION OF 

JESUS CHRIST

AS 

A

SUBSTITUTE 

AND 

ATONEMENT

FOR MY SIN

IN MY PLACE

AND 

AS HE ROSE FROM THE GRAVE

I AM DEAD INDEED TO SIN

AND ALIVE UNTO GOD

THROUGH THE

BLOOD OF THE 

FINISHED WORK

ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY.

THE CHURCH IS 

THE PEOPLE 

WHO "ARE CALLED OUT" 

TO BE HIS PEOPLE

HIS CHURCH

In every way, we

are NOW members 

of God's family.

Galatians 3.26

For ye are all the 

children of God 

by faith

in Christ Jesus. 

Ephesians 2.8,9

For by grace 

are ye saved through faith;

and that not 

of yourselves;

it is the gift of God;

not of works,

lest any man should boast.

Philippians 1.6

Being confident of this

very thing, 

that he that hath begun 

a good work in you

will perform it 

until the day of Christ.

Galatians 3.13 

Christ hath redeemed us 

from the curse of the law, being made

a curse for us; for

it is written,

cursed is every one

that hangeth from a tree.

Galatians 3.14 

That the blessing of Abraham

might come on the Gentiles

through Jesus Christ; 

that we might receive

the promise of the 

Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3.28 

There is neither Jew nor Greek;

there is neither bond nor free; 

there is neither male nor female, 

for ye are all 

one in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 2.1, 2

Wherefore, laying aside all 

malice, and all guild, and hypocrisies,

and evies, and all 

evil speaking,

as newborn babes, 

desire ye the sincere milk

of the WORD  that ye 

may grow thereby.

ROMANS   10.17 
so then faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God. 

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TRUTH - GOD MADE ALL THINGS

 TRUTH -  GOD MADE ALL THINGS 

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In the beginning 

before anything 

was 

there

was 

God.

Genesis 1.1

 In the beginning

God created the heaven

and the earth.

Job 38.4 

Where wast thou when

I laid the foundations

of the earth?

Declare, if thou hast

understanding.

Hebrews 11.1

Now faith is

the substance of things

Hoped for, the

evidence of things

not seen.

Rev. 4.11

Thou art worthy,

O Lord,

To receive glory

And honor

And power:

For thou hast created

All things

And for thy pleasure

They are and were

Created.

Genesis 1.2

And the earth was

without form and void,

and darkness was upon

 the face of the deep.

And the Spirit of God moved

 upon the face

 of the waters.

Psalm 104.30

Thou sendest forth

 thy spirit,

They are created:

 and thou renewest

the face of the earth.

Jeremiah 4.23

I beheld the earth ,

and, lo, it was without form,

and void; and the heavens,

and they had no light.

Genesis 1.3

And God said, Let there be light:

and there was light.

Psalm 33.5

He loveth righteousness

and judgment: the earth

 is full of the goodness

 of the Lord.

2 Cor. 4.6

For God, who commanded

the light to shine out of darkness,

hath shined in our hearts,

to give the light

of the knowledge

of the glory of God

 in the face of Jesus Christ.

Genesis 1. 4 

And God saw the light that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.  

Genesis 1.5

And God called the light

Day and the darkness

he called Night.

And the evening and the morning

were the first day.

        Psalm 74.16 

The day is thine,

 the night is thine;

 thou hast prepared

the light and the sun.

John 8.12 

Then spake Jesus again
I am the light
 of the world: 
he that followeth me
shall not walk in darkness, 
but shall 
have the light of life. 
 unto them, 

In the beginning - 

God 

was

Genesis 1.1 is a summation

of all that is done in Creation.

He  God  made it all.

He made it good. 

He blessed it. 

And He gave us 

of HIS OWN IMAGE.

God created.

God formed and fashioned

us.

Psalm 33. 6, 8 - 9 

By the word of the LORD  were the

heavens made; and all the host of them

by the breath of His mouth. 

Let all the earth fear the LORD: 

Let all the inhabitants of the world 

stand in awe of Him.  For He spake

and it was done He 

commanded, and it stood 

fast."  

Colossians 1.16 -17 

For by Him were all things created, 

that are in heaven, and that

are in earth...

all things were created by Him, 

and for Him: and He is 

before all things, 

and by Him

all things exist. 

ON THE FIRST DAY

GOD CREATED LIGHT.

*Light began energizing the universe.

*The Holy Spirit moves upon the waters.

*The source of Energy brings flow of 

energy waves 

which in turn 

create 

the magnetic 

fields.

*the Earth's rotation begins

*Three basic force fields are evident: 

1. Gravitational  - the force between

two objects 

2. Electronic - magnetic  - the force

between electrons and nucleus of atoms

3. Nuclear - the force between 

protons and neutrons of atoms.

(This force is 

 1 billion tons per cubic inch.)

God not only made the Light, 

He separated it 

from 

the darkness.

The Evening and the Morning 

were the first Day.

So let me sum up with this

little thought 

for my post today

that 

MY DAY BEGINS 

WITH HOW 

I SPEND MY EVENING.

The day begins with the evening.
The Light cannot dawn  in our heartsuntil firstwe see and acknowledge the DARKNESSIN OUR SOUL
Whenwe admit to our  self that "I am in darkness"  then I am ready to know there must be light or I perish.  

THY WORD 

IS A LAMP UNTO

MY FEET,

AND A LIGHT 

UNTO

MY PATH. 

PSALM 119.105

I can remember 

going to a summer camp

where at night

if we had to 

use the restrooms,

we had to

walk in

dark paths.

With a lampit helps me know where I am, With a lightto my pathI can stepwhere I needto go to get to where I am going.   

JESUS IS MY LIGHTHOUSE JESUS IS THE LIGHTFROM THE CHURCHES LOCALLYWHO ARE HELPING EACHPERSON OFTHEIR BODY TO LOVE EACH OTHERAND TO CARE FOR ONE ANOTHERTO REACH OUT TO THE DARKNESSOF THE SEA OF THIS WORLDTO LIGHTUP AND BRING OTHERS

TO THE LIGHT.

JOHN 8.37  AND YE SHALL KNOW 

THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH 

SHALL SET YOU FREE. 

JOHN 14.6 
I AM THE WAY
THE TRUTH,
AND THE LIFE,
NO MAN COMETH TO
THE FATHER
BUT BY ME 

TO GROW 

A FLOWER SEED 

MUST BE 

PLANTED

LET YOUR

LIFE 

BEGIN

BY THE SEED OF 

FAITH

IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST

WHO 

IS 

THE LIGHT 

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.

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HOW ABOUT YOUR HEART   ?   

                                                 

COME JOURNEY WITH ME;  

WALKING BY FAITH - 

I KEEP CLIMBING 

RIVERS OF LIVING WATER, ARE YOU THIRSTING?

RIVERS OF LIVING WATER 

                                                           
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Rivers 

The source of refreshment

The thirst quenching water we need

AS THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES 

 APPROACHES

I  CONSIDER THE 

SOURCE 

OF 

WATER 

[Water is always essential for

living]

AND 

OF 

LIGHT

  MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT 

AWARE OF ANY LIGHTS

EXCEPT THE 

LIGHTS

ON THE CHRISTMAS TREE

The Chanukkah Candles 

are lit every year at

the Festival of Lights.

IN THE TIME WHEN JESUS WAS

HERE AMONG US,

THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

CELEBRATED 

THE 

CHERISHED HERITAGE

OF ISRAEL'S

PROVISION

IN THE WILDERNESS

BY GOD

WATER 

FROM

THE 

ROCK

AND

LIGHT 

TO 

SHOW

THE 

WAY 

AS A LIGHTHOUSE GIVES LIGHT

TO SEA GOING SHIPS

SO GOD GAVE A PILLAR

OF LIGHT

BY DAY AND A PILLAR OF FIRE

BY NIGHT

TO LEAD THEM

GUIDE THEM

TO DIRECT THEM 

THE ROCK IN THE WILDERNESS

WERE THE SOURCE

OF ENOUGH WATER

 TO QUENCH THE THIRST

OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 

JESUS IS PICTURED 

IN THE 

The Feast of Tabernacles 

           This feast had a threefold practice -  

                              (1)   It was considered as "the ingathering" 

                                  The Time of Harvest

                                        (2)  As the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles) it
                                    had relation to Living in the Wilderness.
                                            Living in Tents, booths, to
                                                      symbolize their
                                                          memory of it.
                             (3) Feast of Jehovah - "Yhwh"   which
                                     had relation to the ultimate harvest 
                                      of the Messiah.   
                                              Looking to Messiah's coming.
                    

                    SO LET US TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THIS
                          WAS ALL ABOUT .....

                     With 2.5 million people that came out of Egypt
                     with Moses,   how much water  ? was involved? 

                      *  THE JEWS CELEBRATED GOD'S 
                           PROVISION OF WATER IN THE 
                           WILDERNESS.....
                                      a. This required 12 million gallons of
                                             water daily.
                   * THE JEWS CELEBRATED GOD'S 
                               PROVISION OF LIGHT ALONG THE
                               PATHWAY - A PILLAR OF CLOUD BY
                              DAY, AND A PILLAR OF FIRE BY NIGHT.
                        
                                      a. When the Pillar of Light stopped -
                                           the people stopped, and stayed. 
                                           When the Night came - there was
                                          Light to protect and keep safe.
                           
                        Each day for a week 
                          * FOUR GIANT GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS
                              75 FEET TALL    in the Court of the Women
                              and towered over the Temple grounds on
                               the Temple mount.
                                      Each evening, they were lit.
                                     Once lit,  these lit the entire Temple area
                                       with their light. 
                                   They had special "windows" that allowed
                                   maximum light to flow from them, and 
                                   could be seen from any point in Jerusalem.
                          They were a fiery presentation of the 
                              Shekinah Glory of God in the Tabernacle
        
                        Each day -   after the morning sacrifice and
                       ceremonies, the festive meal,  the entire afternoon
                      spent in meditation on the Law, and the evening 

                     sacrifice, JUST AS DARKNESS FELL, the SPECIAL CEREMONY OF THE LIGHTING 

OF THE 

CANDLEABRA WAS HELD.                          John  7. 10 - 11 

Each day as the lights were lit,  thousands of worshippers were 

watching as priests ascended ladders to the four golden bowls, filled them with 10 gallons of oil each, and lit the oil soaked wicks, comprised of used priestly garments. 

             As the sky began to glow - a group of torch bearing

            "chasadim"  would dance before the people, and the 

             Levites would start playing with harps, flutes, cymbals,

             trumpets, and "instruments without number" .  

                             The Levitical Choir would begin to sing

                            the 15 DEGREE - or ASCENT PSALMS

                          (Psalm 120  - 134)   as they stood on the 

                          15 steps which led up from the Court of 

                            the Women to the Court of the Men. 

                  All of this not only looked BACK 

                           to the Shekinah Glory in the past,

                              but LOOKED FORWARD 

                                   to the future Shekinah Glory 

                                    of God when Messiah would come

                                       in His Kingdom.   

      

         

On the very last day of

the FEAST OF TABERNACLES

AT DAYBREAK  -   Hundreds of worshippers in festive array

left that palm and willow leaf booths and proceeded to the Temple.    Each worshipper carried the LUBLAH - the myrtle, willow and palm branches bound together -  in his right hand, and in the other hand - the ethrog - or the "boughs of fruit" 

Leviticus 23.40.     At the first glimmer of sunlight, the priest on the pinnacle of the Temple signaled for THREE LONG TRUMPET BLASTS and the OPENING OF THE GATES.

               

  At the opening of the gates,

(1) One group remained in the temple,

for preperations for the morning 

sacrifice, 

(2) One procession went to Motza in 

the Kedron Valley, and gathered 

branches which would be 

used in the morning services.

(3) The most important group proceeded 

to the Pool of Siloam which was 

fed by the "living waters" of an 

artesian spring.

To the sound of trumpets,

flutes,

and other instruments, 

the procession to the Pool of Siloam

is followed by a pries bearing a golden pitcher.

As the priest dipped the pitcher into 

the Pool of Siloam

they would chant the words 

"Ho, everyone that thirsteth,

come ye to the waters,

and he that hath no money,

come ye."  

ISAIAH chapter 55.1

"Therefore with joy shall ye
draw water out of
the wells of
salvation."

ISAIAH CHAPTER 12. VERSE 3

They then return to
the Temple through the Water Gate.

These two processions reentered the temple
to THREE LONG BLASTS OF THE TRUMPETS
AT THE EXACT MOMENT
ANOTHER PRIEST
WAS READY
WITH THE MORNING
SACRIFICE.
(a)
To the sound of trumpet blasts
the group with the willow branches
drove them into the ground
so as to form a leafy canopy
over the BRAZEN ALTAR.
(b)
The priest with a pitcher of water
was joined in the Court of the Priests
by another priest with a pitcher of
wine (fruit of the vine- unfermented grapes)
for the Drink Offering.
They ascended the altar together,
joining the priest ready to
make the BURNT OFFERING.
(c)
As the people shouted "Raise thy hand"
the priests with the water and wine
pour both into long silver funnels which
lead into the Altar.  This outpouring
of water, universally understood
by the Jews as symbolic of the prophesied
outpouring of the Holy Spir8t, was
the central object of
the entire day's ceremonies.
(d)
IMMEDIATELY the priests begin
to lead in the great
HALLEL - which consisted
of Psalms 113 - 118.

KJV - HOLY BIBLE - PSALMS 113 - 118 

TO THE SOUND OF AN 
ORCHESTRA OF FLUTES,
THE 400 PRIESTS WOULD
CHANT EACH VERSE
OF THE HALLEL -
Psalm 113 - 118 

The people repeated the first line 
of each Psalm, and shout 
HALLELU  JAH  to every other
verse.

IN PSALM 118, the people would
the first verse,
 "Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD,
then verse 25a
"Oh, give thanks unto the LORD, 
for He is good,
His mercy endureth forever." 

All of this would take place 
in a building crescendo of Praise
as the people shook their "lulabh"  
branches to the Lord as they
chanted these words. 

AS THE PRIESTS MAKE THE CIRCUIT
OF THE ALTAR 7 TIMES
SINGING AGAIN
THE WORDS OF 
PSALM 118.25 
(having done one circuit around
the altar each of the 
six days before) 

THIS PICTURED THE END 
OF THEIR WANDERINGS
IN THE WILDERNESS

WITH THE VICTORY 
IN JERICHO
Symbolizing that Messiah 
would be Victorious One Day
with all the Gentile nations
in the Millenial Kingdom.

FINALLY 
BIBLE - KJV - PSALM 82
PSALM 82 was chanted 
to trumpet blasts  ending with
Psalm 82.8"Arise, O God, 
judge the earth, for Thou 
shalt inherit all nations." 

While all this has been
going on,
Jesus is now in Jerusalem.

  K J V   The Bible - John Chapter 

                         HOLY BIBLE - KJV - JOHN CHAPTER 7

  

[But when his brethren were gone up, then went he
 also up unto the Feast, not openly,
  but as it were in secret.
                   Jesus arrived secretly at this Feast, while the 
                 leaders are looking for Him.   Meanwhile, the 
                people are ALL IN DISCUSSION ….  just who
                is this  Jesus ?   

                              * Some thought Jesus was a good man.

                               *Some thought he was a deceiver.

                               * Some thought he was a master-teacher.

                                * Some thought he was a prophet.

                                 *Some accepted Him as their Messiah.]

                SUDDENLY - THE LONE FIGURE OF CHRIST
                   STANDS UP AND CRIES OUT ….
                 "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and 
                   drink.   He that believeth on me, as the scripture
                   hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of 
                       living water."  
                                  (This spake he of the Spirit, which 
                                    they that believe on Him should 
                                                       receive  John 7. 37 - 39) 

BIBLE - KJV - JOHN CHAPTER 7.VERSE 37 

BIBLE - KJV - JOHN CHAPTER 7 VERSE 38

                      THE EFFECT ON EVERYONE IS 
                             INSTANTANEOUS.

                         Many of the people when they heard
                             this saying, said "Of a truth, this is 
                                 a Prophet."     John 7. verse 40
                                      
                          Others said, "This is the Christ (Messiah)
                          But some said, "Shall Christ come out 
                              of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said,
                         "That Christ cometh of the seed of David,
                             and out of the town of Bethlehem, where
                            David was?"      John 7. verse 41 

                              So there was a division among the 
                           people because of him.   John 7. verse 43.

                               And some of them would have taken
                             him; but no man laid hands on him.
                                                                    John 7.verse 44.

                             

      

                    so as we are about to celebrate CHRISTMAS
                      let us remember the very One who has 
                     been born of the Seed of David, and has 
                      indeed been born in Bethlehem.

           BIBLE - KJV - MATTHEW 2.1 - 12 BIRTH OF JESUS 

                    JESUS IS THE FOUNTAIN - hymnal.net                         
                            In my next post I will continue
                            in a discussion of Scripture 

                            WITH CHANUKKAH - AND 
                    JESUS AS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.