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CHRISTmas PRAYER

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ABBA / DADDY,

Most everyone we know, and love tend to forget that this HOLYday called CHRISTmas is about Jesus, Your Son, Your gift to each of us.

We forget that 3,500 years ago YOU wrote down through the hands of YOUR Prophets the Messianic Jewish Old Testament Prophecies about a coming Redeemer, the coming Messiah who would take away each individual’s sins if they but believe in JESUS and His death on the Cross.

You sent your Holy Angels to proclaim His birth to Shepherds; the poor to whom the hope of the ages would mean the most. How awesome to think that Heaven touched Earth that night so long ago.

We thank you for last year, for you honored each of us with food, clothing, shelter, relationships with loved ones and a job to work and pay our bills.

Help us to learn from life and its lessons. Help us to love one another. Help us to look forward to each brand-new day, because with you, all things are possible.

Regardless of what might be ahead, we trust YOU in all our circumstances. We may not be sure of the future, but we know who holds the future in HIS hands.

We look forward to your personal care for each one of us and those we care about so deeply, through the coming year. Those we desperately love; who have not come to know you yet. Help us to share the Gospel with them.

We Praise, Honor and Thank…

You Father for sending us your beloved Son as our Redeemer.

You Holy Spirit for staying with us during our Journey Home.

You Jesus, for going to the Cross, because of the joy you saw in the future.

Yes, Jesus, who is able to keep us from stumbling, and who will bring each of us that know and love HIM into His glorious presence, innocent of sin and with great joy.

We recognize and honor Jesus as YOUR great gift to us at CHRISTmas.

Yet , we also look up to the Heavens, as YOU promised, for the soon Coming of our Messiah, our Redeemer, The King of Kings and The Lord of Lords…
Yeshua/Jesus… “The Lion of the Tribe of Judah.”
Amen and Amen

” To Be Humble”

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The following is just a taste of the meal I have prepared for you.

The Holiday of Thanks Giving. Have you noticed that the word Thanksgiving is really made up of 2 words… Thanks and Giving.

This holiday in today’s world showcases only one thing….”Its ALL about ME and the things I want” We don’t spend one minute Thanking God for the blessings we have and for sure we spend less time Giving (not money, not ourselves)…but the Gospel to those all around us.

There is an example for us in the Bible of a man who understood himself. He knew why he was born, how he was to live, what his purpose for living was, and who to rely on for all his needs.

This man according to Scripture was one of a handful of men that God Himself loved in a more personal way…a real man after Gods Heart. Who do you think it is; Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Job, Elijah, David? All are candidates but none of them meet the standard and neither do I.

So this Thanksgiving I am thankful that I try but fail to be a man after Gods own heart. I am thankful that I try to tell people, even though it generally falls on deaf ears about the Truth of God and their need to prepare for the coming judgment.

I am thankful that I try to live every day for God. More often than not I fail to do so. You see I am not a David, or a Noah or the others.

But like them, I am a Sinner, saved by God’s Grace, through Faith Alone, through Christ Alone.

What I am thankful for is God’s Mercy to me and that He sent His Son to die on that Cross for me. He left me a helper who lives inside of me so when I am weak He is Strong.

And finally I am thankful that the passion that burns within me is to share the Messiah of Israel, the Christ of Christmas with all of you and anyone else that God brings me an opportunity to speak with.

I am truly humbled by Gods ability to use cracked pots of clay for His Glory. We do our best to derail HIS purposes. But still His Will gets done in our lives as He arranges meetings in time between His seed planters and the hearts of those whom He has pre-destined to receive the seeds.

May you all Praise God from whom all Blessings flow. May you all give HIM GLORY and HONOR this Thanksgiving Holiday Season because He is in control of it all…and for that I am very thankful.

Who IS the man God sent to us to ? The man whose Heart Beats with Gods …..HE is the GOD / man JESUS….HE IS….ALMIGHTY GOD. If you know HIM, HE will walk with You ALL the Way HOME to HEAVEN.

We were raised to think the letters TGIF means “ Thank God Its Friday”.

That is the wrong interpretation of the letters.

T G I F …. Means….
THANK GOD I’M FORGIVEN !
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LIVING STONES…. New Year’s Resolution 2019

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Our culture’s worldview is one of despair. The two markers representing our life during this short journey thru time are the date of our birth and the date of our death.

Between these two markers we walk the road of despair called life.

If you listen to our educational systems teaching about the subject of Origins you will come to understand that our lives can only be a cosmic accident. These teachings come from a “Faith-Based” system built on the theory (not fact) of evolution.

Evilution simply stated says we live lives of no meaning, and no accountability until we reach our destiny which is too die, be annihilated, buried into the dirt, chemically broken down as nutrients that go back into the ground and reunited to the food chain from which we came from. Is that your DESTINY?

This goes against everything we feel deep within us. If evolution is true then why during this life do we cry out to empty heavens, to some force we think is higher than us, for meaningfulness? Our cries go up daily for help, but to whom?

All we hear is the echo of our own hollow voices because if you believe in evolution that’s all there is…hollow word’s from hollow people.

Evilution represents the Ascent of Man to a higher plane. Have you noticed lately that man is not ascending, but descending back to his supposed animal behavior both young and old alike?

Your ultimate glory, the apex, the pinnacle of your existence as part of mankind is to go “back to the dust from which you came” into the meaningless, darkness of nothingness.

Part of the later statement sounds Biblical, doesn’t it, the part about being dust?

How sad, the only joys we have between these two life markers, birth and death, is a new car, a bigger house, a better job, living out our sexual fantasy’s that cause pain to our loved ones, gaining power over others to elevate our own importance.

A wise man named King Solomon once said, “Vanity, Vanity…all is Vanity.” Mankind’s beginning and ending is to develop pride to its ultimate end, vanity. Then be no more.

We live for pride, for vanity, because we crave significance. We want respect, and we want dignity. But, if we have no meaning because we are a cosmic accident then where oh where do we find an answer?

That answer can only be found in the Truth. But to recognize the Truth you must first understand the Lie. You will find the Truth in Scripture, the Bible…the Words of the True GOD. And the Bible will equip you to recognize the LIE that is coming, so you will recognize it and not place your faith in it.

So make your New Year’s Resolution to open the only book written where you will find YOU written on its pages. Yes you are part of the Greatest Story Ever Told that speaks of the Beginning and the Ending of TIME and the automatic rebirth of the earth, nature, and the universe for an Eternity with GOD.

Yes you too will be re-born to eternal life with GOD or eternal life without GOD. The Angels that fell from Grace have no choice but will go to the place where GOD is not for eternity.

You are fortunate because you have a choice to make. Spend time in the Word of God this year so you can answer the most important question in the Bible that came from the lips of Jesus, the Christ. You will meet HIM personally, face to face in the future. Your answer will determine where you spend eternity.

Who Do YOU Say That I AM?

Wishing you Eternal Life in the New Year

Ernie

Thankful…

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THANKFUL for the TOUCH of my Masters Hand

If you know Jesus as your Savior & Lord then know in your heart, mind and soul that you are an ordinary person in the hands of an EXTRAORDINARY God.

In this life we must walk in Faith. We walk before God strong in heart but often weak in our faith. We keep asking for signs, for fleeces testing His promises to each of us as believers. Yet like a good, kind and gentle father…our ABBA, our Daddy, continues to hold our hand and lead us home to be with Him where we finally will be able to walk by sight.

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am but an alien here. Yet I will do all I can to serve my Lord until the day He calls me home. I look forward to that day and long to hear the words of Victory that will be spoken directly to me by Him…
“Well Done My Good and Faithful Servant”. Until then I have HIS SHALOM !!!

I walk the shadow lands of this earth that soon will be no-more. I speak HIS Words not my own to fallen hearts that have no idea of what is to come or where they will spend eternity. I am not called to be a candle in the darkness, but a PILLAR of FIRE in this wilderness. I do none of this in my own strength, but through the Power of the HOLY SPIRIT who lives within me and guides me.

I wake up each morning filled with HIS TEARS for all those I love that do not know HIM. I am a DULAS of CHRIST. That word has been used incorrectly for centuries to mean servant. The word means SLAVE.

HE is my MASTER, I have no will but to do HIS WILL until HE COMES. I am a True Alien here; living among earth dwellers that do not understand that they are “But Dust”. May you realize before it is too late that JESUS Came to SAVE YOU from Yourself !

When you stand before the door of eternity you will open it and see a light bulb with a pull chain before you. If you have not accepted JESUS as your SAVIOR, the door will open before you and you will pull the chain to turn on the light, but instead you will turn on the DARKNESS…FOREVER.

YOM KIPPUR ENDED 2,000 years ago.

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To be LOST,  then FOUND

Dear ABBA… Daddy,

Sometimes I feel so alone. No longer do I have the excitement and wonder of youth. The seasons of life have all but gone by so quickly. All my life I have had a front row seat before my television watching the horror story of man’s inhumanity to man unfold on the world’s stage.

I have heard too much and have seen too much of the world around me. Ancient Messianic Prophecies, in ISAIAH, JOEL, ZECHARIAH and more written by Elohim / אלוהים, who stands outside of time; continue to come to life daily before my eyes.

The END of TIME and the BEGINNING Of ETERNITY has begun. You can read them in HIS BIBLE, One Book made up of the Old Testament and the JEWISH NEW TESTAMENT. The Bible is the only True communication to mankind from outside this world.

Why are we so focused on ourselves that we have grown calloused to the pain all around us? How is it that our tears have stopped flowing?

We see, yet we are blind. We hear, yet we are deaf…our hearts have grown cold towards everyone, except ourselves. The words of Isaiah are just as true for Fallen Mankind as they are for the Nation of Israel.

Isaiah 6: 9-10 “and he said, “Go, and say to this people. Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive. Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Gods revealed Truth remains The Truth whether we believe it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not. JESUS is the SON of GOD and HE said every knee shall bow and every mouth will confess HIM as LORD on Earth, and in Heaven. And YES, there will be NO NON-BELIEVERS in Hell.

HE IS THE LORD of the Living and THE LORD of the Dead. The Lord of the Lost and the Lord of the Found.

The smoke and mirrors of this world’s value system no longer comforts me. The mask that I viewed the world through was ripped off my face at the age of 38 in 1985 when I came to faith in the SON of GOD, before His Cross planted in the Judean Dirt outside the City of Jerusalem. There you will find me face down in the dirt every day at His Feet; praying for those I love to WAKE-UP before it is too late for them.

No longer can I hide my emotions. The reality of the pain and despair that surrounds me has wrapped my heart in grief for all those I see and meet who do not know HIM.

So, like the prophets of old I cry out into the darkness with tears. I preach HIS LOVE shown at HIS CROSS, and I preach HIS SOON COMING JUDGEMENT with Tears and Compassion for the Lost.

Because My Grief for the LOST is my Daily PASSION and my Prayer is that THEY Would BE FOUND.

 

Do you live your life daily according to Your Will or HIS WILL ?

Is your WALK of FAITH so strong that you can Feel His hand in yours as you walk through this journey called Life?

Can you Hear HIS footsteps as HE walks alongside you?

Can you Smell the Sweet Fragrance of Christ all around you in the midst of your storm?

Without that kind of FAITH, our walk on this planet called Earth is extremely difficult. Even Jesus cried out to HIS FATHER from the Cross; My God, My God, WHY have YOU forsaken ME. And in return…the Silence of God was deafening. Yet even the silence was part of the plan, because that is what we do as believers…we live out HIS Plan …not ours.

Have you ever given any thought to the tears JESUS will wipe from your eyes? Why am I going to be crying before Him? Maybe because as hard as I tried, the motives of my heart are always tinged with pride. Maybe because in my own way I too have Mocked God by trying to blend into the sewage around me like a Chameleon?

Maybe because I have not taken His command to share the Gospel serious enough and JESUS will show me the hundreds of times I could have made a difference in someone’s life by planting a seed for the Holy Spirit to water.

I will stand before Him and use words to give an account of the life He gave me to live out before HIM. He will then give an account of the times He had given me words to speak, but I chose to remain silent.

To my shame my life is full of words never spoken. Words that were meant to give life by planting seeds into the hearts of people that God put into my path. Thousands upon thousands of words never spoken have filled my memory with If Only Moments. Only God knows the answer to “what If I had obeyed and spoke.”

In the end when we stand before JESUS as HE wipes the tears from our eyes; the lesson we will learn is that our lives will be measured not only by what we did, but also by what we did not do.

I know I am weak and I know I am not Holy. But, I also know HE said in my weakness, HE will show HIS strength if I look to HIM for help.

If you feel the need to… then ask HIM to help you match up your walk with your talk …I have.

May El Gibbor, The Lord God Almighty, cover you and your family with His
Wishing you …and everyone You love…His Wings of protection.

May Yeshua, The Lord Jesus, continue to provide your family with His Grace and Mercy as you make HIM the center of your relationships.

May the Ruach HaKadesh, The Holy Spirit, bless and keep you and your family as He lights the steps of your path all the days of your life and all the way home to heaven.

Shalom.

Happy Mothers Day !

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As a Father I want to tell you how much I respect and admire Mothers. God has given you a gift that He has not given to men. God has given you a heart that is capable of expressing unconditional love for your Children and Grand Children; no matter what life brings.

You also have had more involvement in raising and molding your Children and Grandchildren; to be the people that GOD wants them to be.

You have the ability to see through the eyes of Love; no matter what life brings.  Each of you is truly blessed as a Mother. And the Lord of LIFE, the LORD of LOVE…JESUS wishes you…  a Happy Mother’s Day.

There have been a number of Mothers stories told in the Bible. Yet there is One Woman who has been blessed from Heaven more than all the others.

She also serves as a True Example for Earthly Mothers to follow.

Her Hebrew name is Miriam…you would know her as Mary: The Mother Who is Blessed among Women

Mary, a virgin pledged to a man named Joseph, was also visited by the angel Gabriel. He said to her in Luke 1:31,

“Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

Mary wondered at how this would be possible, and the angel told her, “The Holy Sprit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.” Mary embraced these words in faith. When she visited her cousin Elizabeth, Elizabeth proclaimed, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!” Mary believed God would fulfill His promise.

An angel of the Lord also visited Joseph, who put him at ease with Mary’s pregnancy. As we read in Matthew 1, Joseph took Mary to be his wife, but they did not consummate the marriage until after she had given birth. Mary and Joseph traveled to Bethlehem for a census, where she gave birth in the humblest of environments, a Stable filled with animals.

Mary treasured up many things in her heart as she raised Jesus, but she also had to endure the greatest sacrifice of all time—her son was the Son of God and He had come to give Himself up as a sacrifice, the one and only sacrifice that could be made for mankind. She had to watch Him suffer, be tortured and mocked, and die a cruel death on a cross by crucifixion.

The cross cut deeply into Mary’s heart. Despite the pain, Mary was there. She was a mother from the beginning, and a mother at the end. A mother called by God never relinquishes the title of Mother.

When a woman becomes a mother, there is an instant realization that the day will almost certainly come when pain will be part of her life. The crosses are different for every family, but frankly, the crosses usually come. There may be a divorce, or disease, or death. There may be harsh words, and unacceptable actions. There may be tough love, and impossible nights.

Through it all, mothers called by God will be a Mother for Eternity. There is nothing like a mother’s love.

What a gift from God, to live long enough for parenting to make sense! Some parents live long enough to see God’s plan for their children. Some see God working in the lives of their grandchildren. Some surely only see God’s plan from the halls of heaven.

Scripture tells parents in Proverbs 22:6   “Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

There are so many solid principles for parenting in the Bible, no parent can afford to not know them. If you’re going to be a godly parent, be sure to be immersed in God’s Word, fully committed to the calling He’s given you.

John 19 tells us,

“Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, ‘Woman, here is your son,’ and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother.’ From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.”

Even while He was dying, Jesus cared for His mother and gave her a new son to love her. Mary was blessed among women, for she was chosen by God to bear His Son and raise Him. Though there was death there was yet joy for Mary, as her son did not stay dead. He rose again from the grave, securing eternity for her and all who would believe.

GOD BECAME FLESH

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Have you ever thought about the fact that God, who is Love, choose to come down to visit with us for a while and clothed Himself in flesh with a body like ours? Why would God do that?

The God of creation and the Universe, the only TRUE and Holy God became a man so we could touch Him for a while. Yes He came down to communicate to us through His words. But, I believe even more important than that He came down so He could touch us and we could touch Him.

Two thousand years ago, there was a special generation alive on the earth that walked in the cool of the day with their God, as Adam did in the Garden. This special generation lived by sight, smell, hearing and taste and had the ability to TOUCH God.

God became “Immanuel” which means God With Us. This special generation experienced God with All their senses; but they recognized HIM NOT because they knew NOT the time of HIS COMING.

Today we live by faith alone. Faith is a special sense that God gives only to those who believe in His Son Yeshua / Jesus who came down to us with Salvation in His Hands. Those of us who believe in Him shall on one future day walk by sight, forever with Him in heaven.

Jesus while here on earth became the God / Man. But Jesus looked no different than anyone else; you could not have picked Him out of the crowd of the nation of people He was born into. There was nothing physically unusual about Him. There were only two ways of telling He was God. The first were the Words that came from His mouth and the second was the Touch of His hands.

Both His Words and His Touch performed many miracles. The miracles were designed to prove that He is God Incarnate, (God in Flesh). But there is a greater meaning behind His Words and Touch than the miracles He performed to prove to us who He is. Everything He did, He did because He loves us. He IS Love. It is because of that Love for us that He came to us.

To Jesus His coming is ALL about a Family Reunion. Every Word spoken and every Touch felt was meant to prove His love for His family…that’s you and I.

Have a Blessed CHRISTmas

YOM KIPPUR ENDED 2,000 years ago.

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Sign lost found

To be LOST, then FOUND

Dear ABBA….Daddy,

Sometimes I feel so alone. No longer do I have the excitement and wonder of youth. The seasons of life have all but gone by so quickly. All my life I have had a front row seat before my television watching the horror story of man’s inhumanity to man unfold on the world’s stage.

I have heard too much and have seen too much of the world around me. Ancient Messianic Prophecies, in ISAIAH, JOEL, ZECHARIAH and more written by Elohim / אלוהים, who stands outside of time; continue to come to life daily before my eyes.

The END of TIME and the BEGINNING Of ETERNIY has begun. You can read them in HIS BIBLE, One Book made up of the Old Testament and the JEWISH NEW TESTAMENT. The Bible is the only True communication to mankind from outside this world.

Why are we so focused on ourselves that we have grown calloused to the pain all around us? How is it that our tears have stopped flowing?

We see, yet we are blind. We hear, yet we are deaf…our hearts have grown cold towards everyone, except ourselves. The words of Isaiah are just as true for Fallen Mankind as they are for the Nation of Israel.

Isaiah 6: 9-10 “and he said, “Go, and say to this people. Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive. Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Gods revealed Truth remains The Truth whether we believe it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not. JESUS is the SON of GOD and HE said every knee shall bow and every mouth will confess HIM as LORD on Earth, and in Heaven. And YES there will be NO NON-BELIEVERS in Hell.

HE IS THE LORD of the living and the Lord of the dead. The Lord of the Lost and the Lord of the Found.

The smoke and mirrors of this world’s value system no longer comforts me. The mask that I viewed the world through for 68 years has been ripped off my face many years ago when I came to faith in the SON of GOD, before His Cross planted in the Judean Dirt outside the City of Jerusalem. There you will find me face down in the dirt every day at His Feet; praying for those I love to WAKE-UP before it is too late for them.

No longer can I hide my emotions. The reality of the pain and despair that surrounds me has wrapped my heart in grief for all those I see and meet who do not know HIM.

So like the prophets of old I cry out into the darkness with tears. I preach HIS LOVE shown at HIS CROSS, and I preach HIS SOON COMING JUDGEMENT with Tears and Compassion for the Lost.

Because My Grief for the LOST is my Daily PASSION and my Prayer is that THEY Would BE FOUND.

REMEMBERING HANUKAH

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I thought I would take a moment to write about Hanukah, so that you might pass this along to your Jewish friends and family members.

God has called us throughout history to remember his mighty works among our Jewish people. The Jewish Roots of who we are has been set in our hearts and minds through our obedience of Gods command to remember HIS Mighty Works.

Tomorrow, we celebrate the holiday of Hanukah, a special time of remembrance of the story of the Maccabees, through whom God performed the cleansing of the Temple through the miracle of lights.

However, we tend to forget that centuries before the Maccabees were born, at the exact time of Hanukah, Solomon’s Temple was dedicated to the Holy One of Israel and the light of His Shekinah Glory came to be with our people Israel. This was the first Festival of Lights.

The very presence of God came to the Temple in the form of light within the Holy of Holies. The Shekina Glory rested above the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant.

The Rabbi’s tell us according to Old Testament Prophecy that the Messiah will come to the New Temple that will be re- built on the Temple Mount in Israel in the near future, during the end times.

The Prophet Isaiah speaks of the light of the coming Messiah…the One who would come to serve and be a light to All the Nations of the Earth.

God promised a Redeemer and Deliverer from ages past, who would come at the end of time and at the appointed time; to judge and bring peace to this world.

As you light the Shamus candle, remember that the word means “Servant”. It represents the One who will come to serve His people Israel. The One who will finally bring not an end to the Story …but a new beginning…that will last for Eternity.

May the Ancient of Days, the Lord God of Israel shine His countenance upon you and your family and give you LIGHT for the journey ahead and peace within your hearts. May you Seek to Understand and have Discernment from Almighty God and His Word in the Old Testament; so you will be able to recognize the Coming TRUE MESSIAH and not bow to the False Messiah.

Blessings,
Ernie

Lights of Chanukah

What Thanksgiving Means To Me

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For just once, can Thanksgiving be about someone else, rather than about me and the stuff I want.

A wise man once said we all live in a constant state of worry. We worry about how we can get the things in life that we think we need. Then when we have them, we worry about losing them…we’re never happy… never content, we have no peace.

To my shame, as a Believer, I am more often consumed with me and making me happy by satisfying my wants and desires rather than considering anyone else’s.

That’s when I feel the worlds pull and momentarily forget Who bought me, Redeemed me and to Whom I now belong.

Well, I am approaching 68. After all these years I have learned painfully that every decision I have made has either a positive or negative consequence on those I love.

The impact of any decision is always greater on those I love than on me. I can take my own pain. But the pain I cause others is too much for me to bear and breaks my heart.

As Thanksgiving approaches my thoughts are not about the things money can buy…the stuff of life we feel we must have that causes us to be in debt for years. The stuff the world says I need to satisfy the BODY I still rent space in while here.

Thanksgiving is about the needs of others, my family, my friends, my neighbors and even you. It’s about seeing the silent cries of those around you and showing them you care. It’s about a great love and passion for the LOST.

I am thankful to JESUS for His mercy to me. That through the Cross Jesus has provided me a new birth, a new life and a new destination for eternity.

Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. One in which our forefather’s thanked the Lord for His grace, mercy, protection and provision by meeting their NEEDS.

Thanksgiving should be an attitude of prayer. We thank GOD for His abundant daily provisions to us.

BUT MOST OF ALL, we need to pray for those we love to come to the CROSS and thank, KING JESUS “who FOR THE JOY set before HIM, ENDURED the Cross, DESPISING the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

JESUS who came to Seek and Save the LOST from themselves, so they might be FOUND.

Thanksgiving