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If God Cannot Negate Himself

His Teachings Cannot Negate Him

 "If you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, "Be removed and be cast into the sea', it will be done. And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive." Mathew 21:21-22

Jehovah Jireh

 The Lord will provide. Genesis 22:14

"Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3

Building faith

Good begets Great

and it gets better

Reading the Bible gets better as I read it, particularly with regularity. A little bit of diligence has its' own reward. Seems like the more I do something the more I want to do it, as a sense elation grows within me. Just like I praise God if I feel like it, but especially to my own benefit when I don't feel like it. My overwhelming emotion is gratitude, thankful for God's existence and for the existence He has spoken into me.  

Psalm 103

 1Bless the LORD, O my soul;

all that is within me, bless His holy name.

2Bless the LORD, O my soul,

and do not forget all His kind deeds—

3He who forgives all your iniquities

and heals all your diseases,

5who satisfies you with good things,

so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

When I leave my flesh behind, I believe in my spirit my youth will be renewed more wonderfully than I can conceive while in the flesh. What beautiful hope our future blessings we believe bring!

Groanings too deep to be uttered

....for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words....Romans 8;26 

For whom, He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren. Romans 8:29  

Are there are those who believe there is anything true yesterday but not true today? Then where do they stop and start believing? Anything not true today was not true yesterday as well. Anything true yesterday is still true today or else how is the crucifixion still true for those believers? One has to be a grammatical gymnast of the highest order to turn truth on and off arbitrarily without so much as a wink. That which requires the greatest faith is surely the most precious to Existence Himself. 1:45pm August 26, 2021  

Expanding Faith

 The immediate verse below is a marvelously written passage from Hebrews, one of my favorite books alongside John. It summarizes the Christian experience beautifully, concentrating on Jesus, as was John, the love book.  It is in Hebrews where we read the definition of faith as the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. I like one translation that renders assurance as "evidence". I am in love with expanding faith. Sunday Aug 15, 2021

Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the Cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2 

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed." I Peter 2:24

  

Healing Verses 

"Surely He has borne our grief's and sicknesses, and carried out sorrows and pains, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our inequities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with his stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:4-5

"And He...healed all that were sick: spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses" Matthew 8:16-17 

This is where reading the word is important to me. I read and reread from my collection of healing verses. I set no time limits. I will persist forever. No matter what happens or when. 

The Wisdom Book

Proverbs 3:25-26 

Do not be afraid of sudden terror, Nor trouble from the wicked when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught. 

 Proverbs 16:9 (NET) – “A person plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps.”

Another famous Psalm

Psalm 91:1-7 He who dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. This is the Psalm where we are told not to be afraid of the arrow that flies by day. I love to read this Psalm over and over. This is my hope, how I program my thinking, building faith. 

How terrible is must be, to be without hope. I mean, like, forever and ever into eternity. The spirit, once existing, never dies. Even oblivion, in order to be aware of itself, has to exist.