Some COMFORTING articles

 

Hebrews 10:36-37

King James Version

36 For ye have need of patience, that, 

after ye have done the will of God, 

ye might receive the promise.

37 For yet a little while, 

and he that shall come will come, 

and will not tarry.

I know the world's in dire need of comfort these days.

It's as if nothing makes sense anymore.

The chaos, crime, cruelty, needless deaths.

Watching how everyday Iranian people are currently fighting for their freedom, and getting massacred for it, tore at my heart.

Watching how their families chose to sing, and dance, even as they grieved for their loved ones, tore it even further.

Watching, as they waited for help, hoping alongside them, and praying for all oppressed people fill my heart each day.

All of us who have gone through the pain of losing loved ones know grief.

But not many have experienced what many families, in many parts of the world, feel under those brutal circumstances.

This, as whole families, tribes, villages, towns, and cities have suffered terribly, in pursuit of truth, justice, and freedom.

Or of how many believers have perished for their faith.

But it's that very faith in CHRIST that will keep us going.

I, too, have known grief, the past four years.

Save for the GRACE of GOD, I'd have remained shattered.

So I just remind myself what the HOLY SPIRIT taught me:

Ecclesiastes 12:7-9

King James Version

7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: 

and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

As GOD tasked me to write, my only recourse was to honor my loved ones, and turn to Him to make sense of things:

STRENGTH in the MIDST of GRIEF

ODE to WARRIORS

With GOD giving me strength through His SPIRIT, this workman managed to write so much more.

These articles helped me get through the tough times, knowing life had to go on, my work had to continue, and to give people comfort as well.

We watchmen are warriors for CHRIST, soldiers in His army.

We have to keep going, and help others along the way, each day

All these articles have been written through the guidance of the TRIUNE GOD, and Scripture -- which all equipped me with strength, soul, and spirit.

These will help you make sense of things, too:

The PURPOSE of affliction

COMFORTING the afflicted

For GOD's PERFECT PURPOSE

The REFINER's FIRE

CONQUERING the LAST enemy

OUR times are in GOD's HAND

JESUS comforts the GRIEVING

GOD's WORD forever

GOD of PEACE

GOD of COMFORT

SPIRIT of COMFORT

Do BABIES go to JESUS?

HOW to KNOW the WILL of GOD

PLUMBING the DEPTHS of our SOUL

How the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD Taught Me

Without the HOLY SPIRIT life is nothing

What the HOLY SPIRIT TAUGHT me

CITIZENSHIP in HEAVEN

What happens when WE die?

The TROUBLING things

PEACE through JESUS

PROMISES of JESUS

The RESURRECTION

The RAPTURE

ETERNAL LIFE

GRIEF therapy

GOD's WILL

GOD's WAYS

GOD's WISDOM

GOD's LOVE

To better understand grief, affliction, the fragility of life, and the ways of GOD, we must remember what He said:

Isaiah 55:8-11

King James Version

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, 

neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 

so are my ways higher than your ways, 

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For as the rain cometh down, 

and the snow from heaven, 

and returneth not thither, 

but watereth the earth, 

and maketh it bring forth and bud, 

that it may give seed to the sower, 

and bread to the eater:

11 So shall my word be 

that goeth forth out of my mouth: 

it shall not return unto me void, 

but it shall accomplish that which I please, 

and it shall prosper in the thing 

whereto I sent it.

Remember, too, eternal life -- for believers:

John 3:14-15

King James Version

14 And as Moses lifted up 

the serpent in the wilderness, 

even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15 That whosoever believeth in him 

should not perish, 

but have eternal life.

Therein lies my comfort.

That GOD is in charge.

That everything belongs to Him.

That He gave all power to JESUS.

That He gave His SPIRIT to comfort us.

That He is STEADY.

That He has given His TRUTH.

That only His WORD will remain -- FOREVER.

GOD said so:

Isaiah 40:8

King James Version

8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: 

but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

JESUS said so:

Matthew 24:35

King James Version

35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, 

but my words shall not pass away.

Find your faith in CHRIST.

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Why Israel WILL survive

 Romans 11:18

King James Version

18 Boast not against the branches. 

But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, 

but the root thee.

We could really write a whole book on Israel.

On this chosen nation of GOD.

On her ability to manage her nation.

On her ability to survive.

As if GOD's hand is upon her.

Or is it?

We shall find out.

From her reality.

And from Scripture.

Israel's reality:

When you're a David, you know how to deal with a Goliath, no matter if Goliath has many brothers.

When nations hate you, you don't hate them back.

When nations go on the offense, you go on the defense.

When you've been at war too long, you know how to survive.

When your government is being crushed from within, you know it is the enemy's infiltration, trying to weaken you from within.

When you have no friends, you know it doesn't matter. GOD is your FRIEND. What better friend can one have?

When others try to withhold supplies from you, you know you have to make your own.

When others try to weaken your resolve, you know it is a trick from the enemy.

When others try to bully you, you know you must work from your strengths.

When others spread lies about you, you remain in your own truth.

When others want to destroy you, you know you must survive.

This is the miracle that is Israel.

Ganged up on all fronts.

And yet she survives.

Through the MIGHTY HAND of GOD.

Even as she hasn't acknowledged JESUS, the MESSIAH.

GOD's will be done, through her.

She is meant to live, thrive, and survive.

She is meant to have a "remnant".

She cannot be destroyed.

She lives, for GOD's purpose.

For Himself.

Deuteronomy 14:2 

King James Version

2 For thou art an holy people 

unto the Lord thy God, 

and the Lord hath chosen thee 

to be a peculiar people unto himself, 

above all the nations that are upon the earth.

Isaiah 43:21 

King James Version

21 This people have I formed for myself; 

they shall shew forth my praise.

1 Peter 2:9 

King James Version

9 But ye are a chosen generation, 

a royal priesthood, 

an holy nation, 

a peculiar people; 

that ye should shew forth the praises of him 

who hath called you out of darkness 

into his marvellous light;

Israel is not perfect.

But GOD loves her anyway.

She has sinned against GOD too many times.

GOD judges her, she repents, then He forgives her.

She still doesn't acknowledge JESUS, the MESSIAH.

But JESUS died for her anyway.

She is the center of Satan's evil eye.

Because she is the APPLE of GOD's eye.

Do you now see what all this battle is about?

It's about JESUS, and Satan.

As it has always been.

Israel is hated, because GOD loves her.

Hatred has always been the work of Satan.

All that GOD loves, Satan will destroy.

At his own peril.

Satan truly has a learning disability.

He has not learned the first time.

So he hasn't, to this day.

But GOD's will be done.

Israel is for GOD's GLORY.

As everything is.

Right from the start.

JESUS taught us that.

EVERYTHING for GOD's GLORY.

It was never for any man's glory.

Much less for Satan.

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Our TRUE composition

 

Genesis 1:9-10

King James Version

9 And God said, 

Let the waters under the heaven 

be gathered together unto one place, 

and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; 

and the gathering together of the waters 

called he Seas: 

and God saw that it was good.

This is a hard teaching.

For many will refuse to acknowledge it.

And yet, GOD makes it plain.

How He created man:

Genesis 2:7

King James Version

7 And the Lord God formed man 

of the dust of the ground, 

and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; 

and man became a living soul.

Psalm 139:15

King James Version

15 My substance was not hid from thee, 

when I was made in secret, 

and curiously wrought 

in the lowest parts of the earth.

How He grew every tree:

Genesis 1:11-13

King James Version

11 And God said, 

Let the earth bring forth grass, 

the herb yielding seed, 

and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, 

whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, 

and herb yielding seed after his kind, 

and the tree yielding fruit, 

whose seed was in itself, after his kind: 

and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning 

were the third day.

Genesis 2:9

King James Version

9 And out of the ground made the Lord God 

to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, 

and good for food; 

the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, 

and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

How He formed beast, and fowl:

Genesis 2:19

King James Version

19 And out of the ground the Lord God 

formed every beast of the field, 

and every fowl of the air; 

and brought them unto Adam

to see what he would call them: 

and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, 

that was the name thereof.

Man, grass, herb, tree, beast, and fowl were all created by GOD "out of the ground".

No wonder we all go back to it.

After Adam's fall, GOD declared this:

Genesis 3:19

King James Version

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, 

till thou return unto the ground; 

for out of it wast thou taken: 

for dust thou art, 

and unto dust shalt thou return.

King Solomon acknowledges the same:

Ecclesiastes 3:20

King James Version

20 All go unto one place; 

all are of the dust, 

and all turn to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

King James Version

7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: 

and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

No wonder, GOD declares:

Isaiah 45:9

King James Version

9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! 

Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. 

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, 

What makest thou? 

or thy work, He hath no hands?

Now, when you hear, "from the ground up", there's truth to it.

But not in the way man defines it.

Think upon the Rapture:

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

King James Version

16 For the Lord himself 

shall descend from heaven 

with a shout, 

with the voice of the archangel, 

and with the trump of God: 

and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 Then we which are alive and remain 

shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, 

to meet the Lord in the air: 

and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

I know, it's very humbling.

To realize GOD created us from "dust of the ground".

It's a good way of being "grounded".

That we may be of the SPIRIT.

A paradox, but that's the way GOD wants it.

We need to humble ourselves before Him.

In GOD is PERFECT WISDOM.

We need to praise Him.

For His love, and mercy.

And here's how we can.

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