THE MIRACLE OF LIGHT-THE POWER OF LIGHT  3-28-21

The most powerful and creative work of God is light all the miraculous begin with the command of God. Light is not the light of the sun the moon or the stars but calling down of the Lord of glory upon the planet, that was without form and void. Earth. Chosen in the midst of the universe of stars planets and heavenly bodies. Light is always associated with good or goodness because it is sourced is God.  Light gives spiritual life. Only light can produce living works. Dead works don’t produce anything.  Light protects kind of like a vaccination. Jesus told us to become children of the light. We know the future because we are of the light. We’ve been given spiritual light not of this world. We are a light to the nations.

GEN 1:3 “When God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was completely formless and empty, with nothing but darkness draped over the deep. God’s Spirit swept over the face of the waters. And then God announced: “Let there be light,” and light burst forth!”  TPT

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Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.  AMP

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Gen 1:4  And God saw that the light was good (suitable, pleasant) and He approved it; and God separated the light from the darkness. 

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. AMP

Matt 17:5  While he was still speaking, behold, a shining cloud [composed of light] overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, This is My Son, My Beloved, with Whom I am [and have always been] delighted. Listen to Him!    AMP

Mal 4:2  But for you, sunrise! The sun of righteousness will dawn on those who honor my name, healing radiating from its wings. You will be bursting with energy, like colts frisky and frolicking. MSG

Hab 3:4  And His brightness was like the sunlight; rays streamed from His hand, and there [in the sunlike splendor] was the hiding place of His power.  AMP

James 1:17 Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle.

18 He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures. MSG

ISA 60:1-3 “Rise up in splendor and be radiant, for your light has dawned,and Yahweh’s glorynow streams from you!² Look carefully! Darkness blankets the earth, and thick gloomcovers the nations, but Yahweh arisesupon you and the brightness of his glory appears over you!
³ Nations will be attracted to your radiant lightand kings to the sunrise-glory of your new day. TPT

2 COR 4:6 the one who has cascaded his light into us—the brilliant dawning light of the glorious knowledge of God as we gaze into the face of Jesus Christ.^[ TPT

Albert Einstein said, “Light is constant. Light is the only constant. It is unchangeable. Light is eternal.” But Paul wrote about this first.

1 Tim 6:16 Who alone has immortality [in the sense of exemption from every kind of death] and lives in unapproachable light, Whom no man has ever seen or can see. Unto Him be honor and everlasting power and dominion. Amen (so be it).  AMP

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1 Tim 6:16 He’s the only one death can’t touch, his light so bright no one can get close. He’s never been seen by human eyes — human eyes can’t take him in! Honor to him, and eternal rule! Oh, yes.  MSG

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1 TIM 6:16 He alone is the immortal God, living in the unapproachable light of divine glory! No one has ever seen his fullness, nor can they, for all the glory and endless authority of the universe belongs to him, forever and ever. Amen! TPT

John 8:12 Once more Jesus addressed the crowd. He said, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light which is Life.  AMP

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JN 8:12  Then Jesus said, “I amlight to the world, and those who embrace me will experience life-giving light, and they will never walkin darkness.” TPT

Heb 1:2 [But] in the last of these days He has spoken to us in [the person of a] Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time [He made, produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order].

3 He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high, AMP

Eph 5:13 But when anything is exposed and reproved by the light, it is made visible and clear; and where everything is visible and clear there is light.

14 Therefore He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine (make day dawn) upon you and give you light. 

15 Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people),  AMP

ROM 13:12-14 Night’s darkness is dissolving away as a new day of destiny dawns. So we must once and for all strip away what is done in the shadows of darkness, removing it like filthy clothes. And once and for all we clothe ourselves with the radiance of light as our weapon.

¹³ We must live honorably, surrounded by the light of this new day, not in the darkness of drunkennessand debauchery, not in promiscuity and sensuality, not being argumentative or jealous of others.

¹⁴ Instead fully immerse yourselves intothe Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, and don’t waste even a moment’s thought on your former identity to awaken its selfish desires. TPT

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Rom 13:12-14. It was night for long enough; the day has arrived. Cease immediately with any action associated with the darkness of ignorance. Clothe yourself in the radiance of light as a soldier would wear his full weaponry.

13 Our lives exhibit the kind of conduct consistent with the day, in contrast to the parade of the night of intoxicated licentiousness and lust, with all the quarrels and jealousy it ignites. By being fully clothed in Christ makes it impossible for the flesh to even imagine to find any further expression or fulfillment in less. Jesus is Lord of your life.  Mirror

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Rom 13:12 The night is far gone and the day is almost here. Let us then drop (fling away) the works and deeds of darkness and put on the [full] armor of light.

13 Let us live and conduct ourselves honorably and becomingly as in the [open light of] day, not in reveling (carousing) and drunkenness, not in immorality and debauchery (sensuality and licentiousness), not in quarreling and jealousy.

14 But clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), and make no provision for [indulging] the flesh [put a stop to thinking about the evil cravings of your physical nature] to [gratify its] desires (lusts).  AMP

JN 12:36 So believe and cling to the light while I am with you, so that you will become children of light.”After saying this, Jesus then entered into the crowd and hid himself from them.   TPT

1 Thess 5:4-5  But you are not in [given up to the power of] darkness, brethren, for that day to overtake you by surprise like a thief.

5 For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we do not belong either to the night or to darkness.  AMP

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1 THES 5:4-5 But you, beloved brothers and sisters, are not living in the dark, allowing that day to creep up on you like a thief coming to steal.

⁵ For you are all children of the light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night nor to darkness.  TPT

Col 1:12-13 Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God’s holy people) in the Light.

13 [The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,   AMP

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COL 1:12-13 Your hearts can soar with joyful gratitude when you think of how God made you worthy to receive the glorious inheritance freely given to us by living in the light.

¹³ He has rescued us completely from the tyrannical ruleof darkness and has translated us into the kingdom realm of his beloved Son.  TPT

Eph 1:18 I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of his calling—that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritances that he finds in us, his holy ones! TPT

Phil 2:15  That you may show yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish (faultless, unrebukable) in the midst of a crooked and wicked generation [spiritually perverted and perverse], among whom you are seen as bright lights (stars or beacons shining out clearly) in the [dark] world,  AMP

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Phil 2:15 For then you will be seen as innocent, faultless, and pure children of God, even though you live in the midst of a brutal and perverse culture. For you will appear among them as shining lightsin the universe,  TPT

Acts 13:47 For so the Lord has charged us, saying, I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles (the heathen), that you may bring [eternal] salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth. AMP

Isa 60:19 You’ll have no more need of the sun by day nor the brightness of the moon at night. God will be your eternal light, your God will bathe you in splendor.

20 Your sun will never go down, your moon will never fade. I will be your eternal light.  Your days of grieving are over.  MSG

1 John 4:17 In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world.  AMP

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1 Jn  4:17.  So now, with us awakening to our full inclusion in this love union, everything is perfect! It’s Completeness is not compromised in contradiction. Our confident conversation echoes this fellowship even in the face of crisis; because, as he is, so are we in this world, our lives are mirrored in him. We are as blameless in this life as Jesus is! This perfect love union is the source of our confidence whenever we face the scrutiny of contradiction. Mirror

Num 6:25 The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;   AMP

Isa 2:5 Come, family of Jacob, let’s live in the light of God. MSG

“Stop begging God.”  3-26-2021

He already loves you and is totally invested in helping you. No strings attached. We think if I praise Him enough, thank Him enough, pray to Him enough I will receive what I need. No this is paying a wage earning some thing. It’s not through having zeal that we receive the promises of God but through grace. Paul’s confession; he had great religious teachings but that did not make him who he was to be. When we pray the Father hears us not  because we’ve gained a secret formula in prayer but because our Father loves us. He makes grace come our way. Our worth is defended by his gift not by our behavior. So we do not preach works we preach Christ and by his grace we receive every gift and promise no giving up.

Ps 37:25 I have been young and now am old, yet have I not seen the [uncompromisingly] righteous forsaken or their seed begging bread. AMP

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PS 37:25 I was once inexperienced, but now I’m old. Not once have I found a lover of God forsaken by him, nor have any of their children gone hungry.  TPT

Rom 8:28-34. Meanwhile we know that the love of God causes everything to mutually contribute to our advantage. His master plan is announced in our original identity.

29 He predestined and engineered us from the start to be jointly fashioned in the same mold an image of his Son according to the exact blueprint of his thought. We see the original and intended pattern of our lives preserved and his Son. He is the first born from the same womb that reveals our genesis. He confirms that we are the invention of God.

30. Jesus reveals that we pre-existed in God; He defined us. He rendered us innocent and also adorned us with splendor and esteem.

31. All these things pointed to one conclusion, God is for us! Who can prevail against us?

32 The gift of his Son is irrefutable evidence of God’s heart towards us. He had nothing in reserve; but freely gave everything we could ever wish to have; this is what our joint sonship is all about.

33 God has identified us, who can disqualify us? His word is our origin. No one can point a finger; he declared us innocent.

34 What further ground can there possibly be to condemn mankind? In his death he faced our judgment; in his resurrection he reveals our righteousness; the implications cannot be undone! He now occupies the highest seat of authority as the executive of our redemption in the throne room of God. Mirror

HEB 4:16 So now we draw near freely and boldly to where grace is enthroned, to receive mercy’s kiss and discover the grace we urgently need to strengthenus in our time of weakness. TPT

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Heb 4:16. For this reason we can approach the authoritative throne of grace with bold utterance. We are welcome there in his embrace, and are reinforced with immediate effect in times of trouble. Mirror

Ro 3:24. While the law proved mankind‘s dilemma, the grace of God announced the same mankind‘s redemption in Jesus Christ! Their blameless innocence is a free gift! The gift principal puts the idea reward out of business! There is no exception, this belongs to every single person, Jew and Gentile alike! Mankind‘s righteousness is now redeemed. Jesus Christ is a proof of God’s grace gift; he redeemed the glory of God in human life; mankind condemned in the language of religion, is now mankind justified in the language of the gospel! Mirror

Ro 4:3-6. Scripture is clear, “Abraham believed what God believed about him and that concluded his righteousness.“

4 There is a large difference between a reward and a gift: if you have earned some thing through hard-work, what you receive in return is your due and certainly not a gift.

5 It is clear than that someone who believes that God declares the ungodly innocent understands that it is faith and not our toil that accounts for righteousness.

6 David confirms his principal when he speaks of the blessedness of the one who discovers Gods approval without any reference to something specific that they have done to qualify themselves. Mirror

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Rom 4:3 What we read in Scripture is, “Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own.”

4 If you’re a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don’t call your wages a gift.

5 But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it’s something only God can do, and you trust him to do it — you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked — well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.

6 David confirms this way of looking at it, saying that the one who trusts God to do the putting-everything-right without insisting on having a say in it is one fortunate man:MSG

Rom 5:15 But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many.

16 Nor is the free gift at all to be compared to the effect of that one [man’s] sin. For the sentence [following the trespass] of one [man] brought condemnation, whereas the free gift [following] many transgressions brings justification (an act of righteousness).

17 For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God’s] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).  AMP

Rom 11:6. Grace cannot suggest debt or obligation at the same time. The word grace can only mean what it says. The same argument goes for mankind’s good

works; if salvation or any advantage for that matter is to be obtained according to the prescribed regulations of conduct, then that’s it. No amount of Grace can change the rules! Grace means grace and work means work. Mirror

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RO 11:6 And since it is by God’s grace, it can’t be a matter of their good works; otherwise, it wouldn’t be a gift of grace, but earned by human effort.  TPT

ROM 11:29 And when God chooses someone and graciously imparts gifts to him, they are never rescinded.TPT

Rom 9:31 Whereas Israel, though ever in pursuit of a law [for the securing] of righteousness (right standing with God), actually did not succeed in fulfilling the Law.  

32 For what reason? Because [they pursued it] not through faith, relying [instead] on the merit of their works [they did not depend on faith but on what they could do]. They have stumbled over the Stumbling Stone.  AMP

John 1:14. Suddenly the invisible, eternal Word takes on visible form– the incarnation, on display in a flesh and blood person, as in a mirror! In him and now confirmed in us! The most accurate tangible exhibit of God‘s eternal thought finds expression in human life! The word became a human being; we are his address; he resides in us! He captivates our gaze! The glory we see there is not a religious replica; He is the authentic begotten Son. The glory returns in fullness! Only grace can communicate truth in such a complete context! Mirror

Jn 1:16-17. He is the source of our completeness. Everyone may now realize their own completeness as evidenced in him. This Is grace mirrored and grace!

17 The law was given to Moses; grace and truth have their genesis in Jesus Christ. Against the stark background of the law, with Moses representing the condemned state of mankind, Jesus Christ unveils grace and truth! Mirror

1 Cor 1:7-9 That you are not [consciously] falling behind or lacking in any special spiritual endowment or Christian grace [the reception of which is due to the power of divine grace operating in your souls by the Holy Spirit], while you wait and watch [constantly living in hope] for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and [His] being made visible to all.

8 And He will establish you to the end [keep you steadfast, give you strength, and guarantee your vindication; He will be your warrant against all accusation or indictment so that you will be] guiltless and irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah).

9 God is faithful (reliable, trustworthy, and therefore ever true to His promise, and He can be depended on); by Him you were called into companionship and participation with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.  AMP

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1 COR 1:7-9 So now you aren’t lacking any spiritual giftas you eagerly await the unveiling of the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One.

⁸ He will keep you steady and strong to the very end, making your character mature so that you will be found innocent on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ God is forever faithful and can be trusted to do this in you, for he has invited you to co-share the life of his Son, Jesus, the Anointed One, our King!^[ TPT

1 Cor 15:10. Well my own thing completely disqualified me; his doing now defines me. I am what I am by the grace of God. I am because he is! His grace was not wasted on me; instead I am inspired to labor be on the point of exhaustion, more than anything I ever did under the law a performance; whatever it is that I accomplish now has grace written all over it. I take no credit for it. Mirror

2 Cor 9:8 God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you’re ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. MSG

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2 COR 9:8 Yes, God is more than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have more than enough of everything—every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do.  TPT

Eph 2:5-7. This is how grace rescued us: while we were yet in the state of deadness and indifference in our deviations we were co-quicken together with Christ! We had nothing to do with it. By grace you are-having-been saved! Grace defines us and interprets our salvation.

6 We are co-included in his resurrection. We are also Co-elevated in his ascension to be equally present in the throne room of the heavenly realm where we are co-seated with him in his exclusive authority. We are fully represented in Christ Jesus.

7. Imagine how God Is now able for timeless perpetuity to exhibit the trophy of the wealth of his grace demonstrated his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. Grace exhibits excessive evidence of the success of the cross. 

8 Your salvation is not a reward for good behavior! It was a grace thing from start to finish; you had no hand in it. Even the gift to believe simply reflects his faith!

9 if this could be accomplished through any action of yours then there would be grounds for boasting.  Mirror

2 Tim 1:9 who first saved us and then called us to this holy work. We had nothing to do with it. It was all his idea, a gift prepared for us in Jesus long before we knew anything about it.

10 But we know it now. Since the appearance of our Savior, nothing could be plainer: death defeated, life vindicated in a steady blaze of light, all through the work of Jesus.  MSG

1 PET 1:13 So then, prepare your hearts and minds for action! Stay alert and fix your hope firmly on the marvelous grace that is coming to you. For when Jesus Christ is unveiled, a greater measure of grace will be released to you.  TPT

PASSION 3-21-2021 By Mary Dorian

Proverbs 22:29  If you are uniquely gifted in your work, you will rise and be promoted.
You won’t be held back—you’ll stand before kings! TPT

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Prov 22:29 Observe people who are good at their work — skilled workers are always in demand and admired; they don’t take a back seat to anyone. MSG

Proverbs 11: 10-11 The blessing that rests on the righteous releases strength and favor to the entire city, but shouts of joy will be heard when the wicked one dies.
¹¹ The blessing of favor resting upon the righteous influences a city to lift it higher, but wicked leaders tear it apart by their words. TPT

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Prov 11:10-11 When it goes well for good people, the whole town cheers; when it goes badly for bad people, the town celebrates.

11 When right-living people bless the city, it flourishes; evil talk turns it into a ghost town in no time.  MSG

Rev 3:16-20 But because you are neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm, I am about to spit you from my mouth.

¹⁷ For you claim, “I’m rich and getting richer—I don’t need a thing.” Yet you are clueless that you’re miserable, poor, blind, barren, and naked!

¹⁸ So I counsel you to purchase goldperfected by fire, so that you can be truly rich. Purchase a white garment to cover and clothe your shameful Adam-nakedness. Purchase eye salve to be placed over your eyes so that you can truly see.

¹⁹ All those I dearly love I unmask and train. So repent and be eager to pursue what is right.

²⁰ Behold, I’m standing at the door, knocking. If your heart is open to hear my voice and you open the door within, I will come in to you and feast with you, and you will feast with me. TPT

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Rev 3:16-20. This is what really disappoints; when you anticipate a refreshing cool drink but instead get a mouthful of lukewarm sulfur tasting water, you would naturally spit it out!

17. As your name suggests, you were experts in justifying yourselves, you were convinced that you have all your ducks in a row, your plumbing is sorted your trade and economy or thriving industries, you think that you were completely independent. Yet you have no idea how bankrupt you really are! Your entire economy is flawed since you were trading with monopoly money! It’s fake currency, your scales are rigged! If only you knew how desperately in need you are of someone to show you tender compassion and mercy! I mean, look at you! On the outside you may appear to be standing tall and proud in your self-righteousness but in reality you are in a pitiful state! You are like a crouching, cringing beggar! Your smokescreen has blinded your view! You think you’re hiding in your fancy brand-name clothes but you don’t realize how naked and exposed you are!

18. I invite you to talk business with me! Come, let us resolve this together! I want to make you really rich! I advise you to buy gold from me! Gold that is thoroughly refined in the fire, not flawed currency of your own trade! We’re not talking a mixture here! No dross! And from now on, buy your clothing for me; white garments, not of the blended brand of your own making! Clothe yourselves completely with these and there will not even be a hint of shame! For your eyes, buy eye salve from me to anoint your eyes so that you may clearly see yourselves in Christ!

19. It is with affection that I address everyone of you, whoever you are. I would earnestly persuade you as a parent would instruct and nurture their children; eagerly acquaint yourselves with all that I have in mind.

20. You have shut me out in your self-righteousness, but behold, here I stand knocking at the door! If anyone recognizes my voice and let’s me in, I am ready to join you for the feast! Yes I will dine with you and you with me! Mirror

Rev 5:10  Then you made them a Kingdom, Priests for our God, Priest-kings to rule over the earth.  MSG

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Rev 5:10 You have chosen us to serve our God and formed us into a kingdom of priests
 who reignon the earth.” TPT

Prov 18:16 A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men. AMP

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Prov 18:16 A gift gets attention; it buys the attention of eminent people.  MSG

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Prov 18:16  Would you like to meet a very important person? Take a generous gift.
It will do wonders to gain entrance into his presence. TPT

Hebrews 12:2-4  We look away from the natural realm and we focus our attention and expectationonto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection. His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God!

³ So consider carefully how Jesus faced such intense opposition from sinners who opposed their own souls, so that you won’t become worn down and cave in under life’s pressures.

⁴ After all, you have not yet reached the point of sweating bloodin your opposition to sin. TPT

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Heb 12:2-4. Look away from the shadow dispensation of the law and the prophets and fix your eyes upon Jesus. He is the Fountainhead and conclusion of faith. He saw the joy when he braved the cross and despised the shame of it. As a executive authority of God he now occupies the highest seed of dominion to endorse mankind‘s innocent!

3 Ponder how he overcame all the odds stacked against him; this will boost your soul Energy when you feel exhausted.

4 Would you be willing to die for your faith? Mirror

2 Cor 7:11  And now, isn’t it wonderful all the ways in which this distress has goaded you closer to God? You’re more alive, more concerned, more sensitive, more reverent, more human, more passionate, more responsible. Looked at from any angle, you’ve come out of this with purity of heart.  MSG

1 John 2:17 his worldand its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love todo the will of God live forever TPT

OPEN YOUR EYES WIDE 3-18-21  VIDEO

See what God is doing, see what God is saying. If your eye is healthy and sees right spiritually your whole body will be healthy. Jesus open the eyes of men that were born blind. Awesome miracles. Jesus is the light not only for the blind man but for the whole world. Gods intimate knowledge of our lives is sometimes referred to as “the eye of the Lord“. He opens our spiritual eyes so we too can have intimate knowledge of him. When Saul gives his testimony he talks about his site was recovered and he was a new man.

Matt 6:22-23 “Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light.

23 If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have!  MSG

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Matt 6:22-23 The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is sound, your entire body will be full of light.

23 But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [your conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness!  AMP

LU 11:34-36 The eyes of your spirit allow revelation-lightto enter into your being. When your heart is open the light floods in. But when your heart is hard and closed, the light cannot penetrate and darkness takes its place.

³⁵ Open your heart and consider my words. Watch out that you do not mistake your opinions for revelation-light!

³⁶ If your spirit burns with light, fully illuminated with no trace of darkness, you will be a shining lamp, reflecting rays of truth by the way you live.” TPT

Jn 9:30-39. The man answer them, “I am amazed that you just cannot see this; how can you not perceive where he is from? I mean, hello! He open my eyes!

31 Are we not supposed to know that sinners don’t dictate to God, but those who worship God and desire to perform his delight has a “hotline“ to heaven.

32 Since the beginning of time no one is ever heard of anyone who open the eyes of a man born blind!

33 If this is not proof of the man’s close acquaintance with God, then what is – he would be powerless to perform anything on his own.“

34 They replied, “you were born in utter sin and here you are trying to teach the Saints!“ And they cast him out.

35 Jesus heard that they cast him out and went looking for him; when he found him, he asked him, “do you believe in the son of God?“

36 He answered, “then who is he sir, that I may believe in him?”

37. Jesus said, “you have seen him, and he is speaking to you!”

38 And he said, “Lord I believe. And he worshiped him.”

39 I have come to judge the worlds blindness-so that they who are blind me see and those who think that they see may become blind. Mirror

John 1:3 All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.

4 In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.

5 And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it].  AMP

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Jn 1:3 The Logos is the source: everything commences in him. He remains the exclusive Parent reference to their existence. There is nothing original, except the Word!  The logic of God defines the only possible place where mankind can trace their origin.

4 His life is the light that defines our lives.

5 The darkness was pierced and could not comprehend or diminish the light. Mirror

John 1:9 There it was — the true Light [was then] coming into the world [the genuine, perfect, steadfast Light] that illumines every person. 

10 He came into the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him [did not know Him].

11 He came to that which belonged to Him [to His own — His domain, creation, things, world], and they who were His own did not receive Him and did not welcome Him.

12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name — AMP

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Jn 1:9-12. A new day for mankind has come. The authentic light of life that illuminates everyone was about to dawn in the world!

10. Although no one took notice of him, he was no stranger to the world; he always was there and is himself the author of all things.

11 It was not as though he arrived on a foreign planet; he came to his own, yet his own did not recognize him.

12 Everyone who realizes their association in him, convinced that he is their original life and that his name defines them, God gives the assurance that they are indeed his offspring, begotten of him; he sanctions the legitimacy of theirs sonship. Mirror

Job 42:5 I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear, but now my [spiritual] eye sees You. AMP

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Job 42:5 I admit I once lived by rumors of you; now I have it all firsthand — from my own eyes and ears!   MSG

Ps 33:18 Watch this: God’s eye is on those who respect him, the ones who are looking for his love. 

19 He’s ready to come to their rescue in bad times; in lean times he keeps body and soul together.  MSG

PS 33:18-19 The eyes of the Lord are upon even the weakest worshipers who love him—those who wait in hope and expectation for the strong, steady love of God.
¹⁹ God will deliver them from death, even the certain death of famine, with no one to help. TPT

Prov 7:2 Do what I say and you’ll live well. My teaching is as precious as your eyesight — guard it!  MSG

Eph 1:17 [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him,

18 By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones),  AMP

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Eph 1:17-18. I desire that you will draw directly from the source; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory candles within us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the unveiling of his master plan. I long for you to know by revelation what he has known about you all along!

18 I pray that your thoughts will be flooded with light and inspired insight; that you will clearly picture his intent in identifying you in him so that you may know how precious you are to him. What God possesses in your redeemed innocence is his treasure and the glorious trophy of his inheritance! You are God’s portion you are the sum total of his assets and the measure of his wealth! Mirror

Acts 22:12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, well spoken of by all the Jews who resided there,

13 Came to see me, and standing by my side said to me, Brother Saul, look up and receive back your sight. And in that very instant I [recovered my sight and] looking up saw him.

14 And he said, The God of our forefathers has destined and appointed you to come progressively to know His will [to perceive, to recognize more strongly and clearly, and to become better and more intimately acquainted with His will], and to see the Righteous One (Jesus Christ, the Messiah), and to hear a voice from His [own] mouth and a message from His [own] lips;

15 For you will be His witness unto all men of everything that you have seen and heard.

16 And now, why do you delay? Rise and be baptized, and by calling upon His name, wash away your sins.

17 Then when I had come back to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple [enclosure], I fell into a trance (an ecstasy);

18 And I saw Him as He said to me, Hurry, get quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony about Me.  AMP  ▼▼▼

ACT 22:17 “Then I returned to Jerusalem. And while I was praying in the temple, I entered another realm

¹⁸ and saw him. He said to me, ‘Hurry and depart from Jerusalem quickly, for the people here will not receive the truths you share about me. TPT

Matt 13:13 This is the reason that I speak to them in parables: because having the power of seeing, they do not see; and having the power of hearing, they do not hear, nor do they grasp and understand.

14 In them indeed is the process of fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah, which says: You shall indeed hear and hear but never grasp and understand; and you shall indeed look and look but never see and perceive.

15 For this nation’s heart has grown gross (fat and dull), and their ears heavy and difficult of hearing, and their eyes they have tightly closed, lest they see and perceive with their eyes, and hear and comprehend the sense with their ears, and grasp and understand with their heart, and turn and I should heal them. 

16 But blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) are your eyes because they do see, and your ears because they do hear.

17 Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men [men who were upright and in right standing with God] yearned to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.  AMP

2 Cor 4:6-7. The light source is founded in the same God who said, “light be!“ And the light shone out of darkness! He lit the lamp in our understanding so we may clearly recognize the features of his likeness in the face of Jesus Christ reflected within us.

7 And now, in the glow of his glorious light and with unveiled faces we discovered the treasure where it was hidden all along, in these frail skin suits made of clay. We did not invent ourselves; we are Gods idea to begin with and the dynamic of his doing and amazing engineering. Mirror

2 Peter 1:8 For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

9 For whoever lacks these qualities is blind, [spiritually] shortsighted, seeing only what is near to him, and has become oblivious [to the fact] that he was cleansed from his old sins.

10 Because of this, brethren, be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure (to ratify, to strengthen, to make steadfast) your calling and election; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall.  AMP

Job 13:3 Surely I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue and reason my case with God [that He may explain the conflict between what I believe of Him and what I see of Him]. AMP

1 Jn 3:2. Beloved, we know that we are children of God to begin with, which means that there can be no future surprises; his manifest likeness is already mirrored in us! Our sameness cannot be compromised or contradicted; our gaze will confirm exactly who he is, and who we are. Mirror

FAITH IS LIVING 3-14-2021  VIDEO

What is coming? What’s on the way is a faith revival for the church. We will have faith for the totally completely impossible. People say, “I have all the faith in the world”. Not true you only need as much as a grain of a mustard seed if it is God‘s faith. Our faith is not a thought or an idea. It is living, it is a life, it is Jesus. When the 10 men with leprosy were healed, only one of them when he realized he was healed came to show his gratefulness. His faith in Jesus made him totally whole. In the storms of life, we can’t mentally make things happen. Our faith must be living, settled completely in Jesus Christ. In Jesus hometown, he didn’t do many miracles because they could not have faith in him as the Messiah. With the woman with the issue of blood, did she believe his robe to  heal her or Jesus? She had faith in Jesus. These people who were healed or raised up from the dead, did not have any confidence in their ability to believe. Their confidence was in Jesus. They have a living faith in them.

Luke 17:6 And the Lord answered, If you had faith (trust and confidence in God) even [so small] like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, Be pulled up by the roots, and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you.  AMP

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Luke 17:6  But the Master said, “You don’t need more faith. There is no ‘more’ or ‘less’ in faith. If you have a bare kernel of faith, say the size of a poppy seed, you could say to this sycamore tree, ‘Go jump in the lake,’ and it would do it.  MSG

 Matt 17:20 He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith [that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. AMP

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MATT 17:20 He told them, “It was because of your lack of faith. I promise you, if you have faith inside of you no bigger than the size of a small mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move away from here and go over there,’ and you will see it move! There is nothing you couldn’t do!^[ TPT

Rom 1:17. Herein lies the secret of the power of the gospel; there is no good news in it until the righteousness of God is revealed! The dynamic of the gospel is the revelation of God‘s faith as the only valid basis for our belief. The prophets who wrote in advance about the fact that God believes that righteousness reveals the life of our design. “Righteousness by his faith defines life. Mirror

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ROM 1:17 This gospel unveils a continual revelation of God’s righteousness—a perfect righteousness given to us when we believe. And it moves us from receiving life through faith, to the power of living by faith. This is what the Scripture means when it says: “We are right with God through life-giving faith”   TPT

HEB 12:2-3 We look away from the natural realm and we focus our attention and expectationonto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection. His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God!

³ So consider carefully how Jesus faced such intense opposition from sinners who opposed their own souls, so that you won’t become worn down and cave in under life’s pressures.   TPT

Luke 17:19 And He said to him, Get up and go on your way. Your faith (your trust and confidence that spring from your belief in God) has restored you to health. AMP

MATT 8:26-27 But Jesus reprimanded them. “Why are you gripped with fear? Where is your faith?”Then he stood and rebukedthe storm, saying, “Be still!” And instantly it became perfectly calm.

²⁷ The disciples were astonished by this miracle and said to one another, “Who is this Man? Even the wind and waves obey his Word.” TPT

MATT 13:53-58 Right after Jesus taught this series of parables, he leftfrom there.

⁵⁴ When Jesus arrived in his hometown of Nazareth, he began teaching the people in the synagogue. Everyone was dazed, overwhelmed with astonishmentover the depth of revelation they were hearing. They said to one another, “Where did this man get such great wisdom and miraculous powers?

⁵⁵ Isn’t he just the craftsman’s son? Isn’t his mother named Mary, and his four brothers Jacob, Joseph, Simon, and Judah?

⁵⁶ And don’t his sisters all live here in Nazareth? From where then did he get all this revelation and power?”

⁵⁷ And the people became offended and began to turn against him.

Jesus said, “There’s only one place a prophet isn’t honored—his own hometown!” ⁵⁸ And their unbelief kept him from doing many mighty miracles in Nazareth. TPT

Matt 9:29 He touched their eyes and said, “Become what you believe.”  MSG

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Matt 9:29  Then He touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith and trust and reliance [on the power invested in Me] be it done to you; AMP

Mark 5:35-43 While he was still talking, some people came from the leader’s house and told him, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?”

36 Jesus overheard what they were talking about and said to the leader, “Don’t listen to them; just trust me.”

37 He permitted no one to go in with him except Peter, James, and John.

38 They entered the leader’s house and pushed their way through the gossips looking for a story and neighbors bringing in casseroles.

39 Jesus was abrupt: “Why all this busybody grief and gossip? This child isn’t dead; she’s sleeping.”

40 Provoked to sarcasm, they told him he didn’t know what he was talking about. But when he had sent them all out, he took the child’s father and mother, along with his companions, and entered the child’s room.

41 He clasped the girl’s hand and said, “Talitha koum,” which means, “Little girl, get up.”

42 At that, she was up and walking around! This girl was twelve years of age. They, of course, were all beside themselves with joy.

43 He gave them strict orders that no one was to know what had taken place in that room. Then he said, “Give her something to eat.”  MSG

Matt 15:26 He said, “It’s not right to take bread out of children’s mouths and throw it to dogs.”

27 She was quick: “You’re right, Master, but beggar dogs do get scraps from the master’s table.”

28 Jesus gave in. “Oh, woman, your faith is something else. What you want is what you get!” Right then her daughter became well. MSG

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MATT 15:26-28 Jesus responded, “It’s not right for a man to take bread from his children and throw it out to the dogs.” 

²⁷ “You’re right, Lord,” she replied. “But even puppies get to eat the crumbs that fall from the prince’s table.”

²⁸ Then Jesus answered her, “Dear woman, your faith is strong! What you desire will be done for you.” And at that very moment, her daughter was instantly set free from demonic torment.TPT

John 16:33 I’ve told you all this so that trusting me, you will be unshakable and assured, deeply at peace. In this godless world you will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I’ve conquered the world.”  MSG

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John 17:1. Having said these things Jesus lifted up his eyes into the heavenly sphere and spoke, “Father the hour has come; this is a culmination of time! Glorify your Son; endorse your opinion of your Son so that the Son may mirror his opinion of you and cause your dignity and worth to be made renowned and rendered  illustrious in order to become manifest and acknowledge throughout!

2 Within the mirror reflection of glory you co-echo every nook and cranny of flesh on exhibit in the Son’s authentic “I-am-ness“! In order the every detailed aspect of what it takes to live life in the flesh may be and endued the life of the ages.

3. This light of the ages, invites them to engage in the inexhaustible adventure of knowing you, the only true God and Jesus as the Christ whom you have commissioned!

4 I have caused your dignity and worth to be made renowned and rendered illustrious in order to become manifest and acknowledged throughout the earth by accomplishing the work which you have given me to do.

5 And now, oh Father, bestow the most intimate closeness of your own person upon me with the glory that I shared in your immediate presence even before the world was. Mirror

Gal 2:20  “My old identity has been co-crucified with Messiah and no longer lives; for the nails of his cross crucified me with him. And now the essence of this new life is no longer mine, for the Anointed One lives his life through me—we live in union as one! My new life is empowered by the faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that he gave himself for me, and dispenses his life into mine! TPT

Rom 3:3-4. The question is, how does someone’s failure to believe God affect what God believes? Can their unbelief cancel Gods faith?

4 God‘s word is not under threat! In fact if all mankind fails, truth remains intact. Truth is defined in God; it’s neither challenged nor vindicated by human experience. Contradiction does not intimidate or diminish the faith of God. Scripture records that God stands justified in his own word; it confirms that God’s promise and purpose are not compromised by mankind’s failure; neither is God’s reputation threatened by our behavior. Mirror

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Rom 3:3 So, what if, in the course of doing that, some of those Jews abandoned their post? God didn’t abandon them. Do you think their faithlessness cancels out his faithfulness?

4 Not on your life! Depend on it: God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth. Scripture says the same: Your words stand fast and true;

Rejection doesn’t faze you. MSG

Rom 3:26. All along God refused to let go of mankind. At this very moment God’s act of righteousness is pointing them to the evidence of their innocence, with Jesus as the fountain of faith. Mirror

Rom 3:30-31. There is only one God, he deals with everyone, circumcised or uncircumcised exclusively on the basis of faith.

31 No faith does not rewrite the rules; instead it confirms the original life-quality meant for mankind as documented in the law, is again realized. Mirror

Rom 4:13-14. Righteousness by faith and not righteousness by the law promoted the promise when God announce to Abraham that he would father those who would inherit the world. It is again a matter of embracing a gift rather than receiving a reward for keeping the law.

14 Faith would be emptied of its substance and the principal of promise would be meaningless if the law of personal performance was still in play to qualify the heirs. Mirror

Rom 10:17 So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself).  AMP

1 Cor 2:5 So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men (human philosophy), but in the power of God.  AMP

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1 Cor 2:5 which made it clear that your life of faith is a response to God’s power, not to some fancy mental or emotional footwork by me or anyone else.  MSG

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BE STILL AND KNOW I AM GOD  3-12-2021  VIDEO

Be still and know I am God. Selah pause and calmly think on that. Sometimes we just need to wait on the Lord. We need to feel God‘s presence and His absolute feeling of trust in us as we trust in Him. We do not have to figure out what to do.We don’t have to do all the talking.  God will do the work. We can depend on Him. Our waiting on God is our stillness and it brings us peace.

Ps 46:10 “Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything.”  MSG

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PS 46:10 Surrender your anxiety. Be still and realize that I am God.I am God above all the nations, and I am exalted throughout the whole earth. TPT

Ex 14:14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace and remain at rest. 

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Ex 14:14 God will fight the battle for you. And you? You keep your mouths shut!”

Job 6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my peace; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.  AMP

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Job 6:24 “Confront me with the truth and I’ll shut up, show me where I’ve gone off the track.  MSG

Job 37:14 Hear this, O Job; stand still and consider the wondrous works of God.  AMP    ▼▼▼

Job 37:14  “Job, are you listening? Have you noticed all this?  Stop in your tracks! Take in God’s miracle-wonders!  MSG

PS 131:2 I am humbled and quieted in your presence. Like a contented child who rests on its mother’s lap,  I’m your resting child and my soul is content in you.
³ O people of God, your time has come to quietly trust,  waiting upon the Lord now and forever. TPT

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Ps 131:2  I’ve kept my feet on the ground, I’ve cultivated a quiet heart. Like a baby content in its mother’s arms, my soul is a baby content.

3 Wait, Israel, for God. Wait with hope. Hope now; hope always! MSG

ISA 32:17-18 The work of righteousness is peace, and the result of righteousness  is quietness and confidence forever.¹⁸ My people will live free from worryin secure, quiet homes of peace.TPT

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Isa 32:17 And where there’s Right, there’ll be Peace and the progeny of Right: quiet lives and endless trust.

18 My people will live in a peaceful neighborhood — in safe houses, in quiet gardens.  MSG

Rom 8:24-28. For what we already experience confirms our hope and continues to fuel our expectation for what we still cannot see. In the final visible completeness of the harvest, hope has fulfilled its function.

25  In the meantime our expectation takes us beyond visual confirmation into a place of patient contentment.

26 The spirit also sighs within us with words to deep for articulation, assisting us in our prayers when we struggle to know how to pray properly. When we feel restricted in our flesh, he supersedes our clumsy efforts and hits bull’s-eye every time.

27 He Who scrutinize is the heart understands the intention of the Spirit. His intercession for the saints is consistent with the blueprint purpose of God.

28 Meanwhile we know that the love of God causes everything to mutually contribute to our advantage. His master plan is announced in our original identity.  Mirror   ▼▼▼

Rom 8:24  That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don’t see what is enlarging us.

25 But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.

26 Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans.

27 He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God.

28 That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.  MSG

ISA 40:31 But those who wait for Yahweh’s grace will experience divine strength.  They will rise up on soaring wings and fly like eagles, run their race without growing weary, and walk through life without giving up. TPT

Ps 37:7 Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and patiently lean yourself upon Him; fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.  AMP

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Ps 37:7 Quiet down before God, be prayerful before him. Don’t bother with those who climb the ladder, who elbow their way to the top.  MSG

Mic 7:7 But as for me, I will look to the Lord and confident in Him I will keep watch; I will wait with hope and expectancy for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.  AMP

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Mic 7:7 But me, I’m not giving up. I’m sticking around to see what God will do. I’m waiting for God to make things right. I’m counting on God to listen to me. MSG

Lam 3:25-30  God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks.

26 It’s a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God.

27 It’s a good thing when you’re young to stick it out through the hard times.

28 When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence.

29 Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions: Wait for hope to appear.

30 Don’t run from trouble. Take it full-face. The “worst” is never the worst. MSG

ISA 64:4 These amazing things had never been heard of before; you did things never dreamed of!  No one perceived your greatness. No eye has ever seen a God like you, who intervenes for those who wait and long for you TPT

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Isa 64:4 Since before time began no one has ever imagined, No ear heard, no eye seen, a God like you who works for those who wait for him. MSG

PS 130:5-6 This is why I wait upon you, expecting your breakthrough, for your Word brings me hope.
⁶ I long for you more than any watchman would long for the morning light.I will watch and wait for you, O God,throughout the night. TPT

Isa 30:15 For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning [to Me] and resting [in Me] you shall be saved; in quietness and in [trusting] confidence shall be your strength. But you would not,    AMP

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Isa 30:15 Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, says: “Come back to me! By returning and resting in Me you will be saved. In quietness and trust you will be made strong. But you refused. TPT

Isa 30:18 But God’s not finished. He’s waiting around to be gracious to you. He’s gathering strength to show mercy to you. God takes the time to do everything right — everything. Those who wait around for him are the lucky ones.  MSG

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ISA 30:18 For this reason the Lord is still waiting to show his favor to you so he can show you his marvelous love. He waits to be gracious to you. He sits on his throne ready to show mercy to you.  For Yahweh is the Lord of justice, faithful to keep his promises. Overwhelmed with bliss are all who will entwine their hearts in him, waiting for him to help them. TPT

HEB 4:16 So now we draw near freely and boldly to where grace is enthroned, to receive mercy’s kiss and discover the grace we urgently need to strengthenus in our time of weakness. TPT

PS 5:3 At each and every sunrise you will hear my voice as I preparemy sacrifice of prayer to you. Every morning I lay out the pieces of my life on the altar and wait for your fire to fall upon my heart TPT

Gal 5:5 Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit.

6 For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love. MSG

Ps 33:20 We’re depending on God; he’s everything we need.

21 What’s more, our hearts brim with joy since we’ve taken for our own his holy name.

22 Love us, God, with all you’ve got —  that’s what we’re depending on. MSG

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PS 33:20-22 The Lord alone is our radiant hope and we trust in him with all our hearts. His wraparound presence will strengthen us.²¹ As we trust, we rejoice with an uncontained joy flowing from Yahweh!
²² Let your love and steadfast kindness overshadow us continually, for we trust and we wait upon you! TPT

ISA 26:3 Perfect, absolute peace surroundsthose whose imaginationsare consumed with you;  they confidently trust in you. TPT

1 Sam 12:16 So stand still and see this great thing the Lord will do before your eyes now.  AMP

Ex 33:14 And the Lord said, My Presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.   AMP

Ps 94:19 In the multitude of my [anxious] thoughts within me, Your comforts cheer and delight my soul!  AMP

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Ps 94:19 When I was upset and beside myself, you calmed me down and cheered me up.  MSG

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PS 94:19 Whenever my busy thoughts were out of control, the soothing comfort of your presence calmed me down and overwhelmed me with delight. TPT

Matt 6:31 What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving.

32 People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works.

33 Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

34 “Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes. MSG

NEW PLANS STRATEGIES FOR NEW DAYS 3-7-21  VIDEO MARYS WORD 3-5-21  2

A strategy is a plan of action to achieve a major goal.  It often is hard for us to move in a new plan. Especially when it’s a new thing. David was a warrior and a worshiper. his ear was always open to receive new strategies from the Lord to defeat his enemies. When Paul realized that his time on this earth was running out, he reminded those with him how he would never depart from the plan of God for his life. All God’s  plans move forward in love.

ISA 9:6-7 A child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. The responsibility of complete dominionwill rest on his shoulders, and his name will be: The Wonderful One! The Extraordinary Strategist! The Mighty God!  The Father of Eternity! The Prince of Peace! TPT

PS 1:6 But how different it is for the righteous! The Lord embraces their paths as they move forwardwhile the way of the wicked leads only to doom. TPT

Ps 139:15  You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.

16 Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.

17 Your thoughts — how rare, how beautiful! God, I’ll never comprehend them!

18 I couldn’t even begin to count them — any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!

19 And please, God, do away with wickedness for good! And you murderers — out of here! —  MSG

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PS 139:15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, God!How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.  TPT

Eph 1:11 Through our union with Christ we too have been claimed by God as his own inheritance. Before we were even born he gave us our destiny that we would fulfill the plan of God who always accomplishes every purpose and plan in his heart.

Dan 12:3 And the teachers and those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness (to uprightness and right standing with God) [shall give forth light] like the stars forever and ever.  

4 But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the Book until the time of the end. [Then] many shall run to and fro and search anxiously [through the Book], and knowledge [of God’s purposes as revealed by His prophets] shall be increased and become great.  AMP

Isa 48:6-7 You have heard [these things foretold], now you see this fulfillment. And will you not bear witness to it? I show you specified new things from this time forth, even hidden things [kept in reserve] which you have not known.

7 They are created now [called into being by the prophetic word], and not long ago; and before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, Behold, I knew them! AMP 

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ISA 48:6-7  You have heard what I foretold and have seen it all unfold, so admitthat it happened and I was right!  From now on I will tell you about new things never seen before,hidden things, well-guarded secrets you know nothing about.⁷ They are created now, brand new today, not long ago! You’ve never heard of them before now, so you cannot say, ‘Oh, I already knew about that.’ TPT

ISA 59:21 “And this is my covenant promise with them,” says Lord Yahweh. “From now on, my Holy Spirit will rest on them and not depart from them, and my prophetic words will fill their mouths and will not depart from them, nor from their children, nor from their descendants, from now on and forever,” says Lord Yahweh. TPT

Jer 29:11 I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out — plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. MSG

Ps 40:17 [As for me] I am poor and needy, yet the Lord takes thought and plans for me. You are my Help and my Deliverer. O my God, do not tarry!  AMP

Prov 16:1 Mortals make elaborate plans, but God has the last word.

2 Humans are satisfied with whatever looks good; God probes for what is good.

3 Put God in charge of your work, then what you’ve planned will take place. MSG

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Prov 16:3 Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.  AMP

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PRO 16:3 Before you do anything, put your trust totally in God and not in yourself.  Then every plan you make will succeed. TPT

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PROV 19:21 A person may have many ideas concerning God’s plan for his life, but only the designs of God’s purpose will succeed in the end. TPT

Eph 1:8 He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need,

9 letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, MSG

1 Peter 5:10 The suffering won’t last forever. It won’t be long before this   generous God who has great plans for us in Christ — eternal and glorious plans they are! — will have you put together and on your feet for good. MSG

Isa 14:24 God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks: “Exactly as I planned, it will happen. Following my blueprints, it will take shape.

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Isa 14:26 This is the plan, planned for the whole earth, And this is the hand that will do it, reaching into every nation.

27 God-of-the-Angel-Armies has planned it. Who could ever cancel such plans? His is the hand that’s reached out. Who could brush it aside? MSG

Acts 20:27 For I never shrank or kept back or fell short from declaring to you the whole purpose and plan and counsel of God.   AMP

Rom 8:28-29. Meanwhile we know that the love of God causes everything to mutually contribute to our advantage. His master plan is announced in our original identity.

29 He pre-designed and engineered us from the start to be jointly fashioned in the same mold an image of his Son according to the exact blueprint of his thought. We see the original and intended pattern of our lives preserved in his Son. He is the first born from the same womb that reveals our genesis. He confirms that we are the invention of God. Mirror

Eph 1:9 Making known to us the mystery (secret) of His will (of His plan, of His purpose). [And it is this:] In accordance with His good pleasure (His merciful intention) which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him, AMP

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Eph 1:9. The secret is out! His cherish love dream now unfolds in front of our very eyes. Mirror

1 John 5:14-15 And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us.

15 And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him. AMP

Heb 11:7 [Prompted] by faith Noah, being forewarned by God concerning events of which as yet there was no visible sign, took heed and diligently and reverently constructed and prepared an ark for the deliverance of his own family. By this [his faith which relied on God] he passed judgment and sentence on the world’s unbelief and became an heir and possessor of righteousness (that relation of being right into which God puts the person who has faith).  AMP

Judg 6:15 Gideon said to Him, Oh Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.

16 The Lord said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.  AMP

Ex 14:13 Moses told the people, Fear not; stand still (firm, confident, undismayed) and see the salvation of the Lord which He will work for you today. For the Egyptians you have seen today you shall never see again. 

14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace and remain at rest. 

15 The Lord said to Moses, Why do you cry to Me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward! 

16 Lift up your rod and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the Israelites shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.   AMP

Gen 21:15 When the water in the bottle was all gone, Hagar caused the youth to lie down under one of the shrubs.

16 Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about a bowshot, for she said, Let me not see the death of the lad. And as she sat down opposite him, he lifted up his voice and wept and she raised her voice and wept.

17 And God heard the voice of the youth, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the youth where he is.

18 Arise, raise up the youth and support him with your hand, for I intend to make him a great nation.

19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the [empty] bottle with water and caused the youth to drink.

20 And God was with the youth, and he developed; and he dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer.   AMP

Luke 22:42-43 Saying, Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but [always] Yours be done.

43 And there appeared to Him an angel from heaven, strengthening Him in spirit.

EPH 3:14-20 So I kneel humbly in awe before the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,

¹⁵ the perfect Father of every father and childin heaven and on the earth.

¹⁶ And I pray that he would unveil within you the unlimited riches of his glory and favor until supernatural strength floods your innermost being with his divine might and explosive power.

¹⁷ Then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you, and the resting place of his love will become the very source and root of your life.

^18–19 Then you will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences—the great magnitudeof the astonishing love of Christ in all its dimensions. How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding—this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God!

²⁰ Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you. TPT

REPENTANCE  3-5-2021 VIDEO REPENTANCE SPOKEN WORD 2

Repentance means changing your mind, changing your thinking. Repentance is a transformation in thinking that leads to a change in action. It’s not a feeling of guilt about sin the opposite of repentance is to have a hard heart that is resistant to change.

Rom 12:2-3 Do not allow current religious traditions to mold you into its pattern of reasoning. Like an inspired artist, give attention to the detail of God’s desire to find expression in you. Become acquainted with the perfection. To accommodate yourself to the delight and good pleasure of him will transform your thoughts of fresh from within.
3 His grace gift inspires me to say to you that you’re thinking must be consistent with everything that is within you according to the measure of faith that God has a portioned to every individual. Let the revelation of redemption shape your thoughts. Mirror  ▼▼▼

Rom 12:2-3 Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

3 I’m speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.  MSG

Mark 1:15  “Time’s up! God’s kingdom is here. Change your life and believe the Message.”   MSG

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MK 1:15 His message was this: “At last the fulfillment of the age has come! It is time for the realm of God’s kingdom to be experienced in its fullness! Turn your lives back to God and put your trust in the hope-filled gospel!”  TPT

2 Tim 2:25-26 Your Gentle way of instructing those who oppose you will inevitably lead them to see what God believes concerning them and give them the best possible chance to acknowledge the truth.
26 And so they will escape the intoxicating influence of the fallen mindset and the enslaving dictates of the devil. Mirror

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2 TIM 2:25-26 Then with meekness you’ll be able to carefully enlighten those who argue with you so they can see God’s gracious gift of repentance and be brought to the truth.

²⁶ This will cause them to rediscover themselvesand escape from the snare of Satan who caught them in his trap so that they would carry out his purposes. TPT

Prov 1:23 If you will turn (repent) and give heed to my reproof, behold, I [Wisdom] will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make my words known to you.  AMP

PROV 1:23 Come back to your senses and be restored to reality. Don’t even think about refusing my rebuke! Don’t you know that I’m ready to pour out my spirit of wisdom upon you and bring to you the revelation of my words that will make your heart wise? TPT

Matt 11:20 Then He began to censure and reproach the cities in which most of His mighty works had been performed, because they did not repent [and their hearts were not changed]. AMP

Ex 9:34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet more, and toughened and stiffened his hard heart, he and his servants. 

35 So Pharaoh’s heart was strong and obstinate; he would not let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had said by Moses.  AMP

Acts 2:38 And Peter answered them, Repent (change your views and purpose to accept the will of God in your inner selves instead of rejecting it) and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of and release from your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

39 For the promise [of the Holy Spirit] is to and for you and your children, and to and for all that are far away, [even] to and for as many as the Lord our God invites and bids to come to Himself.  AMP

Ro 2:4-7 Do not underestimate God‘s kindness. The wealth of his benevolence and his resolute refusal to let go of us is because he continues to hear the echo of his kindness in us! That’s his patient passion is to shepherd everyone into a radical mind shift.
5 A calloused heart that resist change accumulates cause to self-destruction, while God‘s righteous judgment is revealed in broad daylight.
6 By resisting him you are  on your own; your own deeds will judge you.  
7 The quest of mankind is to be constant in that which is good, glorious and honorable and of imperishable value. We are eager to pursue the original blueprint-life of the ages. Mirror

2 Cor 3:16-18. The moment anyone returns to the Lord the veil is gone!
17 The Lord and the Spirit are one; his Lordship sanctions our freedom. A freedom from rules chiseled in stone to the voice of our redeem designed echoing in our hearts! 18 And we are, with new understanding, see ourselves in him as in a mirror. The days of window-shopping are over! In him every face is unveiled. In the gazing with wonder at the blueprint of God displayed in human form, we suddenly realize that we are looking into a mirror, where every feature of his image articulated in Christ is reflected within us! The Spirit of the Lord engineers this radical transformation; we are led from an inferior mindset to the revealed endorsement of our authentic identity.  Mirror

2 Cor  7:10 To anchor one thoughts in God’s thoughts when faced with a difficult or painful experiences, brings escape from sorrow and leaves one with no regrets; but oh, what a dreadful contrast is the world system which adds regret upon sorrow! Where as the one brings such immediate relief, the other seems to be an inescapable death trap! Mirror

Heb 6:1. Consequently, as difficult as it may seem, you want to divorce yourselves from your sentimental attachment to the foreshadowing doctrine of the Messiah, which was designed to carry us like a vessel over the ocean of prophetic dispensation into the completeness of the fulfilled promise. A mine shift from attempts to impress God by your own behavior, to realize the faithfulness of God, is fundamental. There is no life left in the old system. It’s dead and gone; you have to move on. Mirror

2 PET 3:9 This means that, contrary to man’s perspective, the Lord is not late with his promise to return, as some measure lateness. But rather, his “delay” simply reveals his loving patience toward you, because he does not want any to perish but all to come to repentance. TPT

The Aramaic is quite different and can be translated “The Lord does not treat his kingdom like a dutiful chore, as some people consider it, like the treatment of a temporary laborer. But he pours out his Spirit on your behalf, since he does not wish that anyone should perish but that everyone should come into grace.”

Acts 3:19 So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord;  AMP

Acts 2:38 And Peter answered them, Repent (change your views and purpose to accept the will of God in your inner selves instead of rejecting it) and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of and release from your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  AMP

Joel 2:13  Change your life, not just your clothes. Come back to God, your God. And here’s why: God is kind and merciful. He takes a deep breath, puts up with a lot, This most patient God, extravagant in love, always ready to cancel catastrophe. MSG

Matt 3:2 His message was simple and austere, like his desert surroundings: “Change your life. God’s kingdom is here.”  MSG

Luke 24:47 And that repentance [with a view to and as the condition of] forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. AMP

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Luke 24:47 and then a total life-change through the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed in his name to all nations — starting from here, from Jerusalem!  MSG

Matt 19:16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?”

17 So He said to him,  “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

18 He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ 

19 ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'”

20 The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?”

21 Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. NKJV

LU 15:11Then Jesus said, “Once there was a father with two sons.

¹² The younger son came to his father and said, ‘Father, don’t you think it’s time to give me the share of your estate that belongs to me?’So the father went ahead and distributed among the two sons their inheritance.

¹³ Shortly afterward, the younger son packed up all his belongings and traveled off to see the world. He journeyed to a far-off land where he soon wasted all he was given in a binge of extravagant and reckless living.

¹⁴ “With everything spent and nothing left, he grew hungry, for there was a severe famine in that land.

¹⁵ So he begged a farmer in that country to hire him. The farmer hired him and sent him out to feed the pigs.

¹⁶ The son was so famished, he was willing to even eat the slop given to the pigs, because no one would feed him a thing.

¹⁷ “Humiliated, the son finally realized what he was doing and he thought, ‘There are many workers at my father’s house who have all the food they want with plenty to spare. They lack nothing. Why am I here dying of hunger, feeding these pigs and eating their slop?

¹⁸ I want to go back home to my father’s house, and I’ll say to him, “Father, I was wrong. I have sinned against you.

¹⁹ I’ll never be worthy to be called your son. Please, Father, just treat me like one of your employees.”’

²⁰ “So the young son set off for home. From a long distance away, his father saw him coming, dressed as a beggar, and great compassion swelled up in his heart for his son who was returning home. So the father raced out to meet him. He swept him up in his arms, hugged him dearly, and kissed him over and over with tender love.

²¹ “Then the son said, ‘Father, I was wrong. I have sinned against you. I could never deserve to be called your son. Just let me be—’“The father interrupted and said, ‘Son, you’re home now!  TPT