“Christ’s Love is not like our love. It does not exist because I have done something to generate it. Christ’s Love is God Himself - the same yesterday, today and in eternity. It does not exist because of what I do, and it does not die out because of something I cannot do. Quite the opposite - I exist because this Love brought me into being, and I shall continue to BE for as long as I do not let go of Him Who is Life.”
“Then [Christ] said to Thomas, ‘Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.’ And Thomas answered and said to Him, ‘My Lord and my God’!” ~John 20:27-28
(Icon: The Touching of Thomas from the altar of the Church of the Nativity of St John the Baptist (Chesmenskaya), St Petersburg, Russia)
“I guarantee that you will encounter difficult times in your relationship with Yah, blessed be His Name. The trust of some will waver in the midst of tests. Do not be one of those who waver because life becomes difficult or because the elder or congregation disappoints or betrays you. Do not give up the greatest and hardest relationship because you lose someone dear to you. Do not lose trust because you have unanswered questions or because you may not understand. Do not lose heart because you feel alone. Do not give up the good fight because you want to die, persecution endangers and harms your life, or for any other reason. Shun the rocky soil. Instead grow deep roots into the Lord through relationship with Him that is nurtured in daily prayer, meditation, fasting, fellowship, service, purpose…and focus and endurance.
My children, continue the struggle to draw near to the Lord even if you do not hear His voice. Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, more widely known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, did not hear from God for sixty years, yet she maintained faithfulness, enduring trust, in Him. Questions and doubts may arise - endure anyway. Challenges in your life and in your walk with God will come - persist anyway.
If you stand firm, persecution will come, but please never give up, never quit… do not allow bitterness to corrupt your heart. Seek Him for comfort, for purpose, and for answers. Even if you do not receive a response, sustain in your walk with the Lord. No matter how difficult the Way, the struggle, the fight, the race, may be…persevere. Trust Him. Trust Him for salvation and Life. Know that persecution and pain will come if you stand with His Anointed One (Revelation 2:9-10), but He will be there to help you every step of the way (2 Corinthians 12:7-10). He will be with you even if the test means the death of your body.”
~R. H. Ben-Shalom, Papa’s Last Words: They Lied About God
(Art: Burning Bush Byzantine mosaic 6th Century St Catherine’s Monastery. Sinai)
“That person does not have Christ who only has Him on his tongue. Neither does that person have Christ who has Him only on paper. Neither does that person have Christ who has Him only on the wall. Neither does that person have Christ that has Him in the museum of the past.
That person, in truth, has Christ who has Him in his heart. For Christ is Love and the throne of love is the heart.
If Christ is in your heart then, for you, He is God. If He is only on your tongue, or on paper or on a wall, or in the museum of the past and even though you call Him God, for you, He is but a toy.
The heart apparently is a narrow organ, but God can dwell in it. When God dwells in it, then it is filled and overly filled and nothing else can position itself in it. If, however, the whole world were to settle in it, it remains empty without God.
Brethren, let Christ, the resurrected and living Lord, pour faith into your hearts and your hearts will be filled and overly filled. He cannot enter and dwell into your hearts except through your faith. If you do not possess faith, Christ will remain only on your tongue or on your paper or on your wall or in the museum of the past. What kind of benefit do you have from that? Lower the living Christ into your heart and you will be permeated with the truth and you will sense unspeakable sweetness.”
~St. Nikolai Velimirovich
(Art: Jesus Christ Shroud Painting, by Nicholas Hodgson)
“God is an intelligible sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. It is within all things but not enclosed; outside all things, but not excluded.”
“I’ve scraped my palms bloody trying to roll away that stone, teacher mine, but it appears the Romans can keep their word after all. Does my visitation surprise you, Son of Man? Did you really expect me to wash away your memory like lamb’s blood from a doorway simply because I can no longer kiss your calloused hands, hear the Galilee in your Aramaic, doze off to the lulling rhythm of your breath? I thought you better acquainted with my stubbornness, lord. You are my Sabbath and I will observe you regardless of how many drink to your death. Where shall I begin? Your mother’s been very kind to me; she makes sure I eat and I ensure she sleeps. We are bound by blood, she says, bound by the communion wine which stained us up to the elbows when we washed and anointed your broken body. I wonder if she realizes adopting a crossroads-girl from Magdala can’t fill the hole left by a martyr-boy born under the Eastern star. Peter cannot breathe for missing you, and John weeps like a woman in labor. The rest have retreated, drawn themselves into hiding like sightless creatures blinded by the light of a new day. It’s as though everything we could have been gave up the ghost on that tree with you and now all that’s left are girls with ruined reputations and boys with scarred fishermen’s hands staring back at us from cups of bitter wine. What do you want me to say, teacher? That your people drink deep from the well of doubt, that something dark and empty roams the streets at night, crowing its bloody triumph from the temple walls? That every gulp of air in a world without the promise of you is like filling my lungs with poison, like drowning alive? I came to give you word of your people, Yeshua, so here it is. If ever you loved us, do not abandon us now when all we have left are riddles and parables and the hope of a third day. Do not inflict us with Sheol, with the absence of you.”
— Lamentation of Mary Magdalene (from the Aramaic: they have taken away my lord) by S.T. Gibson
“Nothing in this world compares to, is as beautiful, as difficult, as fulfilling, as purposeful, and as rewarding as nurturing a relationship with Yah, blessed be His Name. Nothing else in this world will offer you life in eternity. Only a relationship with HaShem (The Name) offers you eternal life. Know God by knowing His clearest revelation of Himself to humanity through His Word born flesh, Y’hoshua the Anointed One. Know HaShem through His written Word as taught through His Spirit.
This life is only temporary. It is not our Home. Our only Home is with Him.”
~R. H. Ben-Shalom, Papa’s Last Words: They Lied About God
(Art: God the Father by Cima da Conegliano, painted 1510-17)
having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.
Daniel 6:4
So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was there any error or fault found in him.
Daniel didn’t have Christ like we do , think about this we have much more greater power being baptized by The Holy Spirit. We have much more responsibility to stay perfect in faith, we have a lot of knowledge, lot of history if we just research and look ,therefore we have much responsibility to know The Truth which is Christ. Stay perfect in Him.
Daniel was such a praying man that God send an angel to him for confirmation and answer for the prayer.
Prayer is the most powerful weapon that has been given unto us, yet so many in belief underestimate it, if you are follower of Christ praying should be the number one priority in your life and most exercised.
The Lord has blessed me with much music for His glory through the risen Lord Jesus Christ in me. But He only directs me to publish what He wishes according to His plans and purposes. It is as if the Lord uses each song or composition to teach me that not
Album 28 of Music Inspired by the Holy Spirit since 2013
Original Keyboard Instrumental Prayers Featuring the Various Instrumental Voices of Guitar, Strings, & Piano Solos Performed by Suzanne Davis Harden, through the Risen Lord Jesus Christ, Inspired by the Holy Spirit, to the glory of God the Father, In Jesus’ name, amen.
Midnight Prayers and Meditations, Volume 2, is the second chapter of…
Jesus Christ said, “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming…
Lord, help me to always pray And not give up on Thee, To know that You are listening Although I cannot see… Thy face nor hear Thy voice With neither eye nor ear, And yet Thy Word has promised Thy sheep Thy voice can hear…
Thy sheep You hold always Firmly in Thy hands, Eternal life You give them, None shall ever pluck them… From out of Thy hands For there are none so…
“And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.” - Zechariah 12:10
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out. The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth: He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law, and compass, he enclosed the depths: When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth; I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men. Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways. [Proverbs 8: 22,33]
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