I love this picture of Jesus being alive while the soldiers are guarding the tomb and everyone else is going about their business, thinking that the powers that be have it all contained to their ways, and nothing can change that. And then their's Jesus, who is just continueing on His way regardless of the human race's acceptance, permission or acknowledgement.



My life is so much like that. I think everything is just as I perscribed it, and then there's Jesus. I can't keep Him dead and buried because He's alive and carrying out His plan in my life. I'm just like those soldiers that know that death awaits the old me if He gets loose. Well, what can I do but rejoice that He's alive.

An Awesome Poem written by an awesome brother

“Come out from there heed my command
Obey then I will heal your land
Waters will part I’ll turn the tide
If you accept to join my bride

I am the Lord, holy and just
You need my help I want your trust
I’ll take your shame I’ll take your doubt
I’ll give you faith, and send you out


Come out, from all that filth you’re in
Give up your life of wayward sin
Cast out the devil’s tempting thought
Believe instead my true report


A time will come, when on your own
With heavy heart, you only groan
But look to me your God above
I’ll not be slow to show my love


My Holy Ghost, to you I’ll give
He’ll teach you, how you ought to live
He’ll speak of me He’ll take your fears
And comfort you throughout your years


My gentle Spirit’s full of love
He’ll come to you just like a dove
Continued sin within His sight
May grieve Him so to take His flight


Make Christ your Lord, for Christ is true
Be holy; for I’m holy too
My secret things, will I disclose
To you my child, my fragrant rose


Priceless things, I long to give
When you decide with me to live
Not one good thing will I withhold
From you who walk my streets of gold”
Michael P. Johnson

The Strength of Your Love Jesus is my Rock

The strength in Your love
keeps moving me on
Forward one step at a time

In Your grace Your
bringing me home
Your way is so subline

Like a city on a hill
Your light for all to see
Your love breaks through the darkness
showing the way for me
I love You, Jesus

Though it be
just one step
You give Your all to me.
I love You, Jesus

Jesus is my Rock

Jesus is my rock
He is my salvation
Tho the world curse and groan
He is still my own


Nothing can come between
the love He has for me
I've chosen no longer to eat
from the forbidden tree


Only from the tree of life
from hence His life flows
I've chosen to only know
what His life given has shown


To be true and shun all fasehoods
to be found within His word
To be doing all I've seen
as well as all I've heard


Of the great and mighty Teacher
the One who died for me
The One religion rejected
Who died upon a tree


From the leaves that give the healing
from the vine which flows the sap
from the roots deep within Him
for Him, from Him. He fills the gap.

L.D.D.

The Trial of the night

John 11:9-10
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

What's that Buzz? Tell me whats ahappening

Well, I have to admit thats the first forum I've ever been banned from. I've had warnings and infractions of the rules but it appears they have a zero tolerance for one of there rules. Wow, I lasted there less than a week. Oh well.

I have still to catch up on the updating posts on my blog in the room off this one. "Why do the Nations Rage" haha When I figger out that answer I'll have overcome evil in my own life!!! After all rage pretty much got me banned.

I don't like being on forums anyway so no big loss. I'm tired of CF too, altho my acct is still open I have no desire to be there. All I have to do now is fill in the time that I used to spend on them. I need some new habits. But spring is here and the blossoms are on the trees. Beautiful. Praise you Lord!!!I still have the gallery work so thats good.

God of all grace

1 Peter 5:10
But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

While the title “God of all grace” occurs only in 1 Peter 5:10, “grace” in the developed sense discussed above is found no less than 106 times in 98 verses. "God of all grace" is a defining term of the Christian faith, for the Father, as the “God of all grace,” has chosen to call “us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus.”

John Wesley's Notes on the Bible
1Pe 5:10
Verse 10. Now the God of all grace - By which alone the whole work is begun, continued, and finished in your soul. After ye have suffered a while - A very little while compared with eternity. Himself - Ye have only to watch and resist the devil: the rest God will perform. Perfect - That no defect may remain. Stablish - That nothing may overthrow you. Strengthen - That ye may conquer all adverse power. And settle you - As an house upon a rock. So the apostle, being converted, does now "strengthen his brethren."

“Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16)

At the atonment seat of mercy we find acceptance with God by believing His word to be true — that when our sins were covered by blood, God overlooks our sins as it they had been obliterated when Jesus Christ becomes our permanent atonement cover. Through Jesus’ blood, our sins have been covered over. When God looks at us, He doesn’t see our sin, but the provision that His own Son. Jesus, who layed down His life for us as an innocent sacrifice so that God would look on us and see His perfection.

Genesis 2

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested [a] from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Adam and Eve Created to work the ground

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens- 5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth [b] and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth [c] and there was no man to work the ground,

The Father gave us the world to look after and just asks that we remember Who it really belongs to. Do the work God has given you to do, but He wants us to always rest a day completely because we are weak and just made from the dust that we work with.

Alleluia

And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
Mark 16:5-6


Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

Charles Wesley, 1707-1788


1. Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!
Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!


2. Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia!
Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia!


3. Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!
Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once he died our souls to save, Alleluia!
Where's thy victory, boasting grave? Alleluia!


4. Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia!
Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!
Made like him, like him we rise, Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!


5. Hail the Lord of earth and heaven, Alleluia!
Praise to thee by both be given, Alleluia!
Thee we greet triumphant now, Alleluia!
Hail the Resurrection, thou, Alleluia!


6. King of glory, soul of bliss, Alleluia!
Everlasting life is this, Alleluia!
Thee to know, thy power to prove, Alleluia!
Thus to sing, and thus to love, Alleluia!

Feeling Groovey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoWF2YalYvI&feature=related

Its beautiful spring day, the sun is shining and the buds are coming on the trees. I've got all kinds of plants coming up but I can't tell just yet what they are. I have gay feathers, that I know. And creeping Jenny. Two of my trailing phlox died over the winter and so did the Rosemary. I'm hoping the Eachenasia that I planted last year will return, its in a big pot on the porch so we'll see.
I'm trying to post here every day, but right now it's so early in the morning that I need fuelll.