Hebrews 4: 16
Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need.
God is good and gracious, and wants us to approach Him with the confidence that we can trust Him fully to love us and do for us what He knows is the very best for us.
Jesus bought us with His precious Blood poured out as His possession, and He redeemed us with His Blood sprinkled on the sides of His altar, the Cross.
So I belong to Him at three levels: He is my Creator, my Maker; He is my Owner, my Judge; and He is my Savior and Redeemer.
He is Creator and Owner of all Creation, everybody; and He is Messiah to those who have recognized His authority over them and took their place in death so He could give them His Life.
So that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord of all (see Isaiah 45:22-24, Romans 14:10-12, Philippians 2:9-11, and Revelation 5:12-13).
That is the Source of our confidence; we need have no doubt, no fear, no hesitation. Once God has given us Jesus to take our death, the greatest thing He could do, then He will not withhold any other, lesser good thing from those who love Him.
We can trust Him fully and completely, the way He deserves. That is what He wants us to do, and what we must do to make Him Lord (Boss) in our lives.
When we approach Him with confidence, then He will respond in mercy and grace to meet our every need, every time.
O my Father, thank You so much for all You are and all You do. You planned, You devised, You designed, then You created, and You cared for and provided for what You made. Then You made the most wrenching decision to send Your own Son to redeem what had been lost, and gave Your Law to show us what He would do so we would recognize Him.
Father, You have done everything You could to show us and teach us and convince us of Who You are. And yet, so many still refuse to see.
But those of us who have turned to You have found You so much more! More than we could ever imagine. And what You have planned for us to reward us for submitting to You and letting You have Your way in us is so much better than we would be able to understand.
Father, You will receive all the glory, all the honor, all the praise; because You have done all things perfectly, even using us, your imperfect creatures who You are making perfect.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Friday, December 21, 2018
Know Your Business
Proverbs 27: 23-24
Know well the condition of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds; for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to all generations.
This tells us to take care of business, to stay tuned to our own wherewithal, our income and support. Then we will be free to focus on others' needs, also.
No one is concerned for your well-being as much as you are, and no one else is responsible for your happiness. We all have responsibility for ourselves first, to love ourselves properly, then love others as ourselves.
If we don't take care of our own business, how can we ever help anyone else?
O my Father, please help me to be aware of all You have blessed me with. Help me to use the talents and abilities You have given me to be responsible for all I find in my hand. Teach me, Father, to be consistent with what I do, and use my efforts to bless others as well as meet my needs.
You are so generous, Father; show me how I can be generous as You are. Let me see what I have to share, and release it from my grasp, so I won't hoard.
I know I tend to be stingy, holding on to whatever comes into my purview. But You have shown me to hold what I have in an open hand, to be ready to release and share what I would otherwise grasp. Only then will Your blessings be broadcast afar.
Continue working Your Plan, Father, to bring all Your Creation to the denouement that will climax the accomplishment of Your will; that will bring to the finish this whole Era of Man.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Know well the condition of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds; for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to all generations.
This tells us to take care of business, to stay tuned to our own wherewithal, our income and support. Then we will be free to focus on others' needs, also.
No one is concerned for your well-being as much as you are, and no one else is responsible for your happiness. We all have responsibility for ourselves first, to love ourselves properly, then love others as ourselves.
If we don't take care of our own business, how can we ever help anyone else?
O my Father, please help me to be aware of all You have blessed me with. Help me to use the talents and abilities You have given me to be responsible for all I find in my hand. Teach me, Father, to be consistent with what I do, and use my efforts to bless others as well as meet my needs.
You are so generous, Father; show me how I can be generous as You are. Let me see what I have to share, and release it from my grasp, so I won't hoard.
I know I tend to be stingy, holding on to whatever comes into my purview. But You have shown me to hold what I have in an open hand, to be ready to release and share what I would otherwise grasp. Only then will Your blessings be broadcast afar.
Continue working Your Plan, Father, to bring all Your Creation to the denouement that will climax the accomplishment of Your will; that will bring to the finish this whole Era of Man.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Fear Of Death
Hebrews 2: 14-15
Since then the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil; and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.
This letter is to the Hebrew Christians, who were children of Israel. The writer is telling them how, because they all lived in their human bodies, flesh and blood, so Jesus, the Lord God, also took upon Himself a human body, subject to death; and died our human death in order to conquer the devil's power to enslave us with the fear of death.
Fear is enslaving. People have done horrible things because they were afraid.
Because Jesus has conquered death, we no longer need to fear it. Death has been rendered powerless, and it will be our last enemy to be destroyed totally (I Corinthians 15:26).
Now God has given us His Holy Spirit to live in us. This is not a spirit of fear, but the Spirit of power, of love, and of a sound mind (II Timothy 1:7). So we need never be afraid of anything any more, even death.
Since we can't "know" what happens at death, until it happens, we can only believe the ideas others have about what they think it will be like. But no one has actually died and been buried, then later come back, except Jesus.
There are lots of stories out there from ancient manuscripts to modern-day near-death experiences. And a lot of people fall into error listening to these tales, because they don't know God's Truth.
Those of us who know God and are acquainted with His written Word, and have been born into His personal Family and received Life in His Holy Spirit, can trust what He has told us about what comes after this life.
We can trust Him when He tells us about these Last Days we are living in. We can trust Him when He tells us that King Jesus will return to this World to rule for a thousand years. We can trust Him when He tells us that His justice will settle every dispute, pay every debt, level every ground. The evil will be fairly dealt with, and the Redeemed will be rewarded. Everything will come out in the wash: He will cleanse this whole Universe, re-making it totally different.
The knowledge of this Universe will become obsolete (see I Corinthians 13: 8, Whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away.) when the New Heaven and New Earth are designed according to the First Law of Thermodynamics, but not the Second.
The First Law is "Conservation," what is, is, no more can be, and none can be obliterated, it only changes form. This is Creation: What God has made, man cannot add to or subtract from. It is.
Then sin entered the picture, and God cursed Man, the World and the Universe it resides in with death. This is the Second Law: "Entropy," everything degrades over time from order to chaos, it wears out, it wears down. This is death. This is why all living things die. This is how a Savior can die for us, in our place, so we can live forever.
So we no longer need to fear death, it no longer has any power over us. This enemy has been defeated, and will be destroyed utterly. Halleluia!
O my Father, thank You so much that we can trust what You have told us. That we no longer need to listen to anyone else, that we can trust Your written Word to be True. We can rely on everything it says will happen, because You see the end from the beginning. Father, You gave Your people Your Law, so they would know what Your Messiah would do and recognize Him.
Some did, but most of them didn't. Even today, many do trust You, but the great masses do not.
I don't know why You allowed Lucifer to draw away only a third of Your Angels, reserving twice as many for Yourself; yet among Mankind, Your pinnacle of Creation, You draw only a few among the many to be Your own.
Even though You are not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance (II Peter 3:9), yet many are called but few are chosen (Matthew 20:16).
I trust You, Father, to be Who You say You are, and that everything You do comes from Your Nature of Love; so it is good that You have given us a will that is free to choose or reject Your Love. And all Your children have freely chosen to love You back.
All the rest, who don't want anything to do with You, will not be forced. They have freely chosen, and You will allow them to experience the consequences of their choices: Since You are Light, they will have darkness. You are peace, they will have no peace. You are Love, they will know only hatred. You are Good, they will be bereft of anything good. You are our Source of everything, they will possess nothing.
And we who love You and desire Your Presence will enjoy forever all Your Goodness lavished upon us.
O Father, You are just and fair. You are beautiful and generous. You have chosen to lavish Your Love upon us, giving up Your own Son to redeem us. You have loved us with a Love so far beyond what my feeble mind can comprehend, I worship You as the only God. There can be only One above all, and You are.
Thank You, Father, that I need not fear anything in this life, this Earth, this Universe. You have conquered all that has been against me, even myself, and given me the right to become Your own child, in Your own Family. You caused me to be born spiritually, giving me Your Holy Spirit to make my dead spirit alive, able to see and understand Your Truth. And not be afraid of anything.
Continue, Father, to work Your Plan, use me in any way You know I can do, and You will receive all the thanks, all the credit, all the glory, forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Since then the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil; and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.
This letter is to the Hebrew Christians, who were children of Israel. The writer is telling them how, because they all lived in their human bodies, flesh and blood, so Jesus, the Lord God, also took upon Himself a human body, subject to death; and died our human death in order to conquer the devil's power to enslave us with the fear of death.
Fear is enslaving. People have done horrible things because they were afraid.
Because Jesus has conquered death, we no longer need to fear it. Death has been rendered powerless, and it will be our last enemy to be destroyed totally (I Corinthians 15:26).
Now God has given us His Holy Spirit to live in us. This is not a spirit of fear, but the Spirit of power, of love, and of a sound mind (II Timothy 1:7). So we need never be afraid of anything any more, even death.
Since we can't "know" what happens at death, until it happens, we can only believe the ideas others have about what they think it will be like. But no one has actually died and been buried, then later come back, except Jesus.
There are lots of stories out there from ancient manuscripts to modern-day near-death experiences. And a lot of people fall into error listening to these tales, because they don't know God's Truth.
Those of us who know God and are acquainted with His written Word, and have been born into His personal Family and received Life in His Holy Spirit, can trust what He has told us about what comes after this life.
We can trust Him when He tells us about these Last Days we are living in. We can trust Him when He tells us that King Jesus will return to this World to rule for a thousand years. We can trust Him when He tells us that His justice will settle every dispute, pay every debt, level every ground. The evil will be fairly dealt with, and the Redeemed will be rewarded. Everything will come out in the wash: He will cleanse this whole Universe, re-making it totally different.
The knowledge of this Universe will become obsolete (see I Corinthians 13: 8, Whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away.) when the New Heaven and New Earth are designed according to the First Law of Thermodynamics, but not the Second.
The First Law is "Conservation," what is, is, no more can be, and none can be obliterated, it only changes form. This is Creation: What God has made, man cannot add to or subtract from. It is.
Then sin entered the picture, and God cursed Man, the World and the Universe it resides in with death. This is the Second Law: "Entropy," everything degrades over time from order to chaos, it wears out, it wears down. This is death. This is why all living things die. This is how a Savior can die for us, in our place, so we can live forever.
So we no longer need to fear death, it no longer has any power over us. This enemy has been defeated, and will be destroyed utterly. Halleluia!
O my Father, thank You so much that we can trust what You have told us. That we no longer need to listen to anyone else, that we can trust Your written Word to be True. We can rely on everything it says will happen, because You see the end from the beginning. Father, You gave Your people Your Law, so they would know what Your Messiah would do and recognize Him.
Some did, but most of them didn't. Even today, many do trust You, but the great masses do not.
I don't know why You allowed Lucifer to draw away only a third of Your Angels, reserving twice as many for Yourself; yet among Mankind, Your pinnacle of Creation, You draw only a few among the many to be Your own.
Even though You are not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance (II Peter 3:9), yet many are called but few are chosen (Matthew 20:16).
I trust You, Father, to be Who You say You are, and that everything You do comes from Your Nature of Love; so it is good that You have given us a will that is free to choose or reject Your Love. And all Your children have freely chosen to love You back.
All the rest, who don't want anything to do with You, will not be forced. They have freely chosen, and You will allow them to experience the consequences of their choices: Since You are Light, they will have darkness. You are peace, they will have no peace. You are Love, they will know only hatred. You are Good, they will be bereft of anything good. You are our Source of everything, they will possess nothing.
And we who love You and desire Your Presence will enjoy forever all Your Goodness lavished upon us.
O Father, You are just and fair. You are beautiful and generous. You have chosen to lavish Your Love upon us, giving up Your own Son to redeem us. You have loved us with a Love so far beyond what my feeble mind can comprehend, I worship You as the only God. There can be only One above all, and You are.
Thank You, Father, that I need not fear anything in this life, this Earth, this Universe. You have conquered all that has been against me, even myself, and given me the right to become Your own child, in Your own Family. You caused me to be born spiritually, giving me Your Holy Spirit to make my dead spirit alive, able to see and understand Your Truth. And not be afraid of anything.
Continue, Father, to work Your Plan, use me in any way You know I can do, and You will receive all the thanks, all the credit, all the glory, forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Good To Be Afflicted
Psalm 119: 71, 80
It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Thy statutes.
May my heart be blameless in Thy statutes, that I may not be ashamed.
God singles out each one of us with the trials and afflictions each of us is subjected to. God doesn't tempt anyone, but He allows our own flesh, this World around us, and the devil to tempt us with all manners of troubles and sorrows.
Life in this World is our school, to learn God's ways and get to know Him.
When I am taking a class and there is a test I need to study for, I find that when I give a wrong answer, that's when I learn the right answer, because it was on the test.
God uses things in our world to show us His goodness and care for us through negative experiences, like taking a test in school.
When God let me break my hip, I was greatly hindered in living my daily life; I couldn't do anything automatically any more, I had to think about how I could accomplish every little thing I need to do each day.
That was a real test, and I found that the discipline of thinking about how to do even simple things could carry over into thinking before I speak, also.
So, I can say with David, that it was good that I was afflicted, so that I could learn how to interact with others with the Love that God loved me with through this whole healing process.
O my Father, help me to continue to learn from that mishap, to remember to think before I speak, even in the heat of the moment. Help my attitudes toward others be according to how You see them, and may I think Your thoughts for them. Then my words will be Your words, and relationships will be able to go on that path of healing.
Thank You, my Father, for all the ways You work in me, and on me, so that You will be able to also work through me. Help me to continue to grow in Your Love, so that my heart will be blameless according to Your rules, and I may not be ashamed.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Thy statutes.
May my heart be blameless in Thy statutes, that I may not be ashamed.
God singles out each one of us with the trials and afflictions each of us is subjected to. God doesn't tempt anyone, but He allows our own flesh, this World around us, and the devil to tempt us with all manners of troubles and sorrows.
Life in this World is our school, to learn God's ways and get to know Him.
When I am taking a class and there is a test I need to study for, I find that when I give a wrong answer, that's when I learn the right answer, because it was on the test.
God uses things in our world to show us His goodness and care for us through negative experiences, like taking a test in school.
When God let me break my hip, I was greatly hindered in living my daily life; I couldn't do anything automatically any more, I had to think about how I could accomplish every little thing I need to do each day.
That was a real test, and I found that the discipline of thinking about how to do even simple things could carry over into thinking before I speak, also.
So, I can say with David, that it was good that I was afflicted, so that I could learn how to interact with others with the Love that God loved me with through this whole healing process.
O my Father, help me to continue to learn from that mishap, to remember to think before I speak, even in the heat of the moment. Help my attitudes toward others be according to how You see them, and may I think Your thoughts for them. Then my words will be Your words, and relationships will be able to go on that path of healing.
Thank You, my Father, for all the ways You work in me, and on me, so that You will be able to also work through me. Help me to continue to grow in Your Love, so that my heart will be blameless according to Your rules, and I may not be ashamed.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Your Commandments Enlarge My Heart
Psalm 119: 32
I shall run the way of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
God is the One Who designed this whole Universe, and He formed the Earth to be our home, and put into it everything we will ever need while we're here. He designed it to give us all an abundance of the prosperity He put into it, and He gave us all the rules and directions on how to operate it.
His commandments are some of the rules we are to follow to access this prosperity, and it's all based on Love. We are to recognize how much God loves us, and love Him back; then we are to love our neighbor as we care for our own needs. Our neighbor is anyone in our world that needs the kind of help we can give.
O my Father God, my Creator and Source of everything I need or desire, thank You for Your great Love for what You have made, including me. Thank You for supplying all that we need in this Earth You made for us.
Teach me, Father, how to operate in this World to access the bounty You have placed here for our benefit. Let me use this bounty to help those who have need of it, to share and to teach and to love on them with Your Love.
Enlarge my heart, Father; find whatever hard places reside there, and soften them. Remove the stony places and replace them with vulnerable flesh, soft and approachable.
Enlarge my borders, the world I live in, to give me access to many more who need what I have to share; who all need You, Father. We are all so desperate for You! Bring me to those who You have prepared to receive the benefits You have given me to share; material, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
I want to run hard on Your heels, my Lord, according to Your commandments and precepts. Show me Your way, lead and guide me straight on, not turning to the left or to the right, not running ahead or lagging behind, not wandering off or pulling away.
Work Your plan through me, Father, to bless many with Your blessings; and You will receive all the glory, all the honor, all the credit for everything You have done; for it is You Who have done everything that is done to complete and finish this Story of Man on this Earth. And Your Kingdom will never cease to grow and increase.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
I shall run the way of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
God is the One Who designed this whole Universe, and He formed the Earth to be our home, and put into it everything we will ever need while we're here. He designed it to give us all an abundance of the prosperity He put into it, and He gave us all the rules and directions on how to operate it.
His commandments are some of the rules we are to follow to access this prosperity, and it's all based on Love. We are to recognize how much God loves us, and love Him back; then we are to love our neighbor as we care for our own needs. Our neighbor is anyone in our world that needs the kind of help we can give.
O my Father God, my Creator and Source of everything I need or desire, thank You for Your great Love for what You have made, including me. Thank You for supplying all that we need in this Earth You made for us.
Teach me, Father, how to operate in this World to access the bounty You have placed here for our benefit. Let me use this bounty to help those who have need of it, to share and to teach and to love on them with Your Love.
Enlarge my heart, Father; find whatever hard places reside there, and soften them. Remove the stony places and replace them with vulnerable flesh, soft and approachable.
Enlarge my borders, the world I live in, to give me access to many more who need what I have to share; who all need You, Father. We are all so desperate for You! Bring me to those who You have prepared to receive the benefits You have given me to share; material, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
I want to run hard on Your heels, my Lord, according to Your commandments and precepts. Show me Your way, lead and guide me straight on, not turning to the left or to the right, not running ahead or lagging behind, not wandering off or pulling away.
Work Your plan through me, Father, to bless many with Your blessings; and You will receive all the glory, all the honor, all the credit for everything You have done; for it is You Who have done everything that is done to complete and finish this Story of Man on this Earth. And Your Kingdom will never cease to grow and increase.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Monday, December 17, 2018
Joy Or Terror
Proverbs 21: 2, 15
Every man's way is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
The execution of justice is joy for the righteous, but terror to the workers of iniquity.
Everyone must live with himself, so we tend to justify all our decisions, so we think we're all right. But God sees our hearts, and recognizes the selfishness and greed and deceptiveness that resides there.
So when justice is done concerning the crimes that have been perpetrated against us all, then those who have done right can rejoice, but those who have done or agreed with the ones doing the unrighteousness and evil will fear for their own safety.
When we allow our own hearts to lie to us, to deny the truth of our ways to ourselves, we subvert and sabotage our own successes.
But God searches our innermost hearts and shows us the Truth of what is right and straight, and what is crooked and twisted. Then we can confess the wrongs and forsake those ways, turning to the righteous path to walk in it.
O my Father, thank You for Your Truth, thank You for showing us what is straight, and what is crooked. Thank You for Your great Love and compassion for us to tell us ahead of time everything You are doing in this World, so we can be prepared to face each day with courage and confidence.
Thank You, Father, for providing our every need; designing and making this Earth to produce our temporary material needs, and sending Your beloved Son to take care of our real spiritual needs.
Thank You, Father, for leading us into Your straight paths, so that we will rejoice when true justice is administered; and not be terrorized by the prospect of being caught in our iniquities, having already turned from them and cleansed of all our stains in the Blood of Christ.
Thank You, Father, for all that You do. Everything You do is right and just and fair. Your purposes guide Your great Plan of the Ages, and You are working out all the details using our choices.
Father, You use the doings of both the righteous and the wicked to further Your plans. Those who choose to do right will be rewarded, and those who choose to rebel against what is good will face Your wrath. And they will be terrified to face Your justice.
O Father, please send out workers into the fields that are even now white to harvest; send out Your under-shepherds to seek out and find Your lost sheep who have wandered into thorns and brambles and other dangers, to rescue them from being destroyed by the enemy and having to face Your wrath.
Draw them into the safety of Your one fold and one Shepherd, to know You and love You as You love them.
And You will receive all the credit, all the glory, all the honor, for designing and making and shaping and doing all Your will in all Creation. And Your Kingdom will never cease to increase.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Every man's way is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
The execution of justice is joy for the righteous, but terror to the workers of iniquity.
Everyone must live with himself, so we tend to justify all our decisions, so we think we're all right. But God sees our hearts, and recognizes the selfishness and greed and deceptiveness that resides there.
So when justice is done concerning the crimes that have been perpetrated against us all, then those who have done right can rejoice, but those who have done or agreed with the ones doing the unrighteousness and evil will fear for their own safety.
When we allow our own hearts to lie to us, to deny the truth of our ways to ourselves, we subvert and sabotage our own successes.
But God searches our innermost hearts and shows us the Truth of what is right and straight, and what is crooked and twisted. Then we can confess the wrongs and forsake those ways, turning to the righteous path to walk in it.
O my Father, thank You for Your Truth, thank You for showing us what is straight, and what is crooked. Thank You for Your great Love and compassion for us to tell us ahead of time everything You are doing in this World, so we can be prepared to face each day with courage and confidence.
Thank You, Father, for providing our every need; designing and making this Earth to produce our temporary material needs, and sending Your beloved Son to take care of our real spiritual needs.
Thank You, Father, for leading us into Your straight paths, so that we will rejoice when true justice is administered; and not be terrorized by the prospect of being caught in our iniquities, having already turned from them and cleansed of all our stains in the Blood of Christ.
Thank You, Father, for all that You do. Everything You do is right and just and fair. Your purposes guide Your great Plan of the Ages, and You are working out all the details using our choices.
Father, You use the doings of both the righteous and the wicked to further Your plans. Those who choose to do right will be rewarded, and those who choose to rebel against what is good will face Your wrath. And they will be terrified to face Your justice.
O Father, please send out workers into the fields that are even now white to harvest; send out Your under-shepherds to seek out and find Your lost sheep who have wandered into thorns and brambles and other dangers, to rescue them from being destroyed by the enemy and having to face Your wrath.
Draw them into the safety of Your one fold and one Shepherd, to know You and love You as You love them.
And You will receive all the credit, all the glory, all the honor, for designing and making and shaping and doing all Your will in all Creation. And Your Kingdom will never cease to increase.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Strength And Song And Salvation
Psalm 118: 6, 14
The Lord is for me; I will not fear; what can Man do to me?
If you know that the Lord God Almighty is on your side (because you're on His side), then you don't need to be afraid of anything anyone else can do to you.
The Lord is my strength
Wherever we find ourselves unable to do something we need to do, He is strong enough to do it through you.
and my song,
He is the One Who is to be praised with music, His fame spreads throughout the whole of Creation through the songs of Men and Angels.
and He has become my Salvation.
And He has come as our Redeemer, and acquired the Name of Jesus, to
be sin for us, Who knew no sin;
Jesus is the Son that was given to us when the new Child was born (Isaiah 9:6), and God the Son, the Lord, has become our Salvation as the Lamb of God. He bore our very sin-nature, encompassing all the sins that result from it, for each of us individually, as God saves people one-by-one.
that we might be made the rightousness of God in Him (II Corinthians 5:21).
His Blood washes us as white as snow, pristine, without a spot or wrinkle, perfectly pure. To fit us to live with Him where He lives.
So He has become our Salvation, our rescue from the power of sin right now in this World.
O my Father, You are my strength, I am powerless and weak. Because I trust You, because You have chosen me, I will not fear whatever happens to me in this World.
You are for me, so You will continue to hold me in Your hand, protecting me from Your wrath that shall come upon the whole World in the Day of Wrath.
You are my song that I will sing until the whole World hears! Or until You deem my purpose here finished.
And You will receive all the honor, all the glory, all the praise, forever!
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
The Lord is for me; I will not fear; what can Man do to me?
If you know that the Lord God Almighty is on your side (because you're on His side), then you don't need to be afraid of anything anyone else can do to you.
The Lord is my strength
Wherever we find ourselves unable to do something we need to do, He is strong enough to do it through you.
and my song,
He is the One Who is to be praised with music, His fame spreads throughout the whole of Creation through the songs of Men and Angels.
and He has become my Salvation.
And He has come as our Redeemer, and acquired the Name of Jesus, to
be sin for us, Who knew no sin;
Jesus is the Son that was given to us when the new Child was born (Isaiah 9:6), and God the Son, the Lord, has become our Salvation as the Lamb of God. He bore our very sin-nature, encompassing all the sins that result from it, for each of us individually, as God saves people one-by-one.
that we might be made the rightousness of God in Him (II Corinthians 5:21).
His Blood washes us as white as snow, pristine, without a spot or wrinkle, perfectly pure. To fit us to live with Him where He lives.
So He has become our Salvation, our rescue from the power of sin right now in this World.
O my Father, You are my strength, I am powerless and weak. Because I trust You, because You have chosen me, I will not fear whatever happens to me in this World.
You are for me, so You will continue to hold me in Your hand, protecting me from Your wrath that shall come upon the whole World in the Day of Wrath.
You are my song that I will sing until the whole World hears! Or until You deem my purpose here finished.
And You will receive all the honor, all the glory, all the praise, forever!
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
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