Abba Father

I hope everyone had a good Easter. Angel Cabrera wins the Masters and gives me great hope for someone turning 46. Maybe I'm not as old as I feel--ha-ha. Kenny Perry in the playoff with him was set up to be the oldest ever winner at 48+.
The victory that we celebrated yesterday in Christ is the real win. The verses that came to me this morning are Gal. 4:6-7. "And because you Gentiles have become His children, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, and now you can call God your dear Father. Now you are no longer a slave, but God's own child. And since you are His child, everything He has belongs to you."
In this time of fear and unbelief in the economy, this word should bring great comfort to His children. As we look up and say, "Abba Father", I know that He hears us and will work for our good. The Father will work for our good to bring Glory to His name. We just trust Him and know that He owns everything and if He owns it then we own it.
I don't see anywhere in the Bible where we are told to store up our treasure in the US Stock market, or trust ye your 401K. I will try to keep my focus on Abba Father, and I will not look to the right or the left.
---Be Blessed---c

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday brought beautiful weather to Greenville, SC. Fantastic service at ecfmauldin.org because He Lives! I saw something today in the scripture that I have overlooked in the past--- or my memory is failing. I am going to stay with the Gospel of John and site Jn. 20:19 (c3-paraphrased) The disciples went that evening and locked themselves in because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. (after they had went and saw the empty Tomb and empty burial clothes and Mary had told them that she had seen Him and gave them His message.)--- These are the people that hung out with Jesus and seen innumerable miracles, and they had heard first hand from Jesus what was going to happen and they had BELIEVED!

They were afraid. We should not beat ourselves up for being afraid ---sometimes. The difference between we and them is that we are MORE blessed than they because Christ spoke that blessing over us when he had to show Thomas his hands to prove to him that He was Jesus. We also have the Holy Spirit IN us now and they had yet to recieve Him. We are well advised to have His Faith and DO NOT FEAR! --- It is Finished. He has overcome the world. He will not leave us as orphans. If He left ---He will come back and get us!

I recommend reading the last of John if you have not read it lately. Start at John 13 and read to the end of the Book. I love the last verse of that Gospel---"And I suppose that if all the other things Jesus did were written down, the whole world could not contain the books.

Be Blessed---c

Daily Grace Easter Saturday

Easter Saturday is a day not mentioned. We can read about Good Friday and Easter Sunday but now that I'm writing this blog, it made me think about Easter Saturday. Staying in The Gospel of John, we can read about the death and burial, which took place on Good Friday before the Passover on the Sabbath--Saturday. As the disciples went about their celebration of the tradition of Passover what were they thinking? I went back and looked at the early chapters in John and found something that I had not noticed before.
After Jesus was baptised and called his disciples, he preformed the water to wine miracle at Cana. Then in the 13th verse of Chapter 2 we read, "It was time for the annual Passover...". This is the first Passover -recorded- that Jesus attended. In this account we see Jesus cast out the merchants selling doves from the Temple. The Jewish leaders confronted them with a demand. '"If you have this authority from God then show us a miraculous sign." Verse 19 is his reply. "All right." Jesus replied."Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up."' Maybe one of his inner circle thought of this during 'That' Saturday, as they were mourning Jesus' death.
As I was reading this, I got to the next verse and I was confronted with two things at the same time. I had been trying to get my wife's contacts imported to her Windows mail from Aol, and had changed the view in her mailbox. While I was reading this passage in John, she kept saying "I can't fix it, I can't fix this!." At the SAME time I read the reply of the leaders to Jesus. They said, "It took 46 years to build this Temple and you can do it in three days?" I thought, "I'm turning 46." My wife exclaimed I guess "I'm going to have to start from scratch." I laughed the hardest I have laughed in a long time.
I knew that it was a simple fix for her mailbox. I knew that it is a simple fix to rebuild my 46 year old Temple. Jesus fixed the destroyed relationship between God and man. He started from scratch! The old was swallowed up in the NEW! The old system of law was completely rebuilt new In Christ! And I laughed and I laughed. God sits in Heaven and laughs at his enemies. ----Be Blessed---c

Good Friday

Good Friday. Good Friday for all who believe in The Way, The Truth and The Life---Jesus. To continue my thoughts for the week, what was Jesus doing that Friday morning? We can find an account of this in John chapter 18.
Verse one of chapter 18 says that after the last supper and the out-pouring of the Will of God, Jesus and the disciples went for a walk across the Kidron valley. We don't see that Jesus slept at all. He is arrested during the night and goes to trial before the High Priest and that trial ended in the early morning (John 18:28). We don't know how long exactly that Jesus had been awake before going to trial, but he was wholly man and fatigue had to be setting in. We see that He fully realized(Jn. 18:4) all that was going to happen to Him. Maunday Thursday ran into Good Friday. No rest. So as I awake this morning, Jesus had already been awake for probably 24 hours straight.
I wake up rested and while I was asleep, Jesus had poured out The Father's Will, been betrayed, been denied by his main man--3 times, sweat blood, prayed for every believer in the world, lied about, rejected by the officials of the people he came to save, and turned over to the government and put a soldier's ear back on!! Good Friday has just begun. What a Savior we have. I give Him all praise!! Be Blessed---c

Maundy Thursday

We find the events that happened in Jesus life here on earth on this day in John 13-17. Events is probably not the right term. The out-pouring of God's will is really what happened. It started with Jesus washing His disciples feet, showing them what he was here to do and for an example to them as to what they are to do to receive that which he pours out to them in the following chapters. Jesus gives his inner circle the inside scoop on God's plan right here before He takes the sin of the world.
Jesus starts his outpouring with this---Don't be troubled, you believe God now believe Me. The first thing he said was to stop worrying, stop letting fear have its way with you, don't be troubled. That is a key to receiving what he says in the chapters to follow. Chapter 13 says to forgive, and the first verse of 14 says don't fear. The keys to the Kingdom are right here. Chapter 14 verse six gives us the first key, "I am the way, the truth and the life...".
God always announces ahead of time what is going to happen to bear witness of Himself. He does not do things in darkness (Is. 45:19) His Son here tells us that if He goes away He will come back to get us. And if He goes away He will not leave us alone. He will send The Comforter, and it is better for us that the Comforter--Holy Spirit--come than for Him to stay here. For this day I want to meditate on the words that Jesus gave to his inner circle, and I want to think on His prayer for us, John 17:21.... Come Lord Jesus---Be Blessed---c

chometz

As I was thinking today about the time we are in as it relates to the traditional Passover I found the title term of this blog.  I will provide a link at the end to read more.  I just posed the question to myself "what was Jesus doing on Tuesday before passover the year of his death?"  My favorite book is probably John and I knew the chapters 13-17 were about the events the night before he was crucifixion, so I backed up from there.  John 12:12  "The next day..." which would have meant it was 5 days before passover---Tuesday---today.  The triumphant entry into Jerusalem.  John 12:1 sates that six days before passover...".  He was anointed that day, and the next day was the entry into the city of David, Jerusalem.  

During that day the (Jewish passover) tradition is to search your home to find anything made with yeast to rid yourself and your household of it.  During that day a miracle happened.  John12:28--'"Father bring glory to your name."  Then a voice spoke from heaven saying, "I have already brought it glory, and I will do it again."'  Father had for the third time announced to the world that Jesus was his Son.  Then the last thing Jesus said that day "My light ...Believe in the light...and you will become children of the light.(Jn. 12:35-36)  

In thinking about the chometz, how are we to relate the search for yeast in our household?  The father of the house in the traditional passover celebration takes a candle and seaches throughout the house looking for anything non-kosher.  The big thing that they are looking for is anything made with yeast.  I immediatley think of "Beware the yeast of the pharisees...".  I believe that for me today I need to take the Light of Christ into the house of my heart and search for anything that is made of pride.  If anyone ever had the opportunity for pride it would be the Son of God himself, however, we see in John 13 He took off his robe and washed the diciples feet---even Judas his betrayers feet!  Jesus did not have to go searching his house for pride.  He was the fullfillment of humility.   Be Blesses---c    

Link for chometz  http://www.jewishmag.com/53mag/bedeka/bedeka.htm   

standing against rejection

Any human over the age of probably three years old knows or has experienced rejection.  Rejection comes in many forms but probably most often shows up in a verbal fashion.  Being accepted is a need within everyone of us.  Without acceptance we strive for a place or a purpose to feel accepted.  Church or religion is where many rejected people find their place of approval.  We do the right things and recieve the praise of men to get our approval need met.  That approval is always short lived and is temporarily satisfying.  That is rarely if ever authorized by The Holy Spirit, and it leaves us exhausted and offended because we have done it out of our flesh as an obligation and not out of The Love flowing through us by the Holy Spirit.

Matt. 3:17 says that at the Baptism of Jesus a Voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, and I am fully pleased with Him."  Three verses later, the devil came to Jesus and said"If you are the Son of God, change these stones into loaves of bread."  If Jesus lived in the place that most christians live, He would have turned the stones into a truckload of bread and said "I told you, I told you, nanny nanny nanee nanee."  But as we Know he used the Word and quoted Deut. 8:3.."they must feed on every Word of God."  The Word of God had just come from heaven "This is my Son, and I am fully pleased with Him."

If we are in Christ, we are fully pleasing to Our Father God, and there is no need for us to jump through religious hoops to gain that approval.  We can be at rest while the world and religion drive themselves to exhaustion to please man and try to gain something that they already have in Christ.  The real thing is that we must KNOW that we are swallowed up in Christ.  Just as death was swallowed up in the ressurection of Christ, we are also.  Faith is the only way to gain righteousness, and the only Righteousness is in Christ---Be Blessed---c

just a day

sick today sorry i didn't get the blog to you today --be back tommorrow---by His stripes we were healed--c

Top of the day

Everyday is a day of potential.  We don't know what is going to happen.  I always try to start the day with the mind of Christ.  Whenever problems, questions interrogations or temptations attacked Jesus,  He returned to them with The Word.  Today my word is Jer. 15:20 "They will fight against you like an attacking army, but I will make you as secure as a fortified wall.  They will not conquer you, for I will protect and deliver you.  I, the Lord, have spoken."

What a word to start the day!  Whatever comes today, I will say be to me according to Your Word.  That's the words of Mary, the mother of Jesus, when she was told that she would deliver to the world Our Savior.  That is Faith.  May all who read this be Blessed today.---c

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