Apr 29 2009
“Oyez!” “Oyez!” “Oyez!”
“This day I am but a Minstrel bidding you to sing!”
Come one come all and join in with this merry band,
let your praise go forth to God across this land.
Why be cast down, why be sad
If you purpose to praise you shall be glad!
Now is the time to worship,
now is the time to draw near.
Spurgeon: “O my soul, tune thy harp to a glad song of thanksgiving!”
“Oyez!” “Oyez!”
Apr 26 2009
“Oyez!” “Oyez!” “Oyez!”
“Listen, in God’s good time He brought forth the fruit of the earth.”
“And in His good time He brought you here to His domain!”
GENESIS:Ch1:11,12. (KJV)
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind,
and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed was in itself, after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
God is the original organic!
In the book of Levtiticus and Deuteronomy God tells the Israelite’s that if they do it His way ,He’ll bless them abundantly!
There He sets down how to look after the food of the earth, and what blessings will follow.
If you do it His way, you’ll have an abundance of healthy fruit and vegies!
This is His word to His people, and if you are in His Son Christ Jesus, you are grafted into the family of Abraham!
And all these blessings flow down to you because you are a child of God.
Galations Ch 3: 29.( KJV)
And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
There are princples and precepts set down for everything that God has made,
follow these and be blessed!
When we do it His way…
“Ye must be Born- Again.”
Spiritual abundance will be yours also!
PSALMS Ch34:8-10.(KJV)
O taste and see that the LORD is good:
blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
O fear the LORD, ye his saints:
for there is no want to them that fear him.
The young lions do lack and suffer hunger:
but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
“Oyez!” “Oyez!”
Apr 25 2009
“Oyez!’ “Oyez!” “Oyez!”
“I have crowned a hero, chosen a youth from the people.” Psalm 89:19.( Moffatt)
God said these words about David the King of Israel.
I say these words about the young men who went to war.
They are forever Heroes.
Our land has rest from war,
because these young men went to war!
I salute our Heroes.
April 25th
Anzac Day.
“Oyez!” “Oyez!”
Apr 24 2009
“Oyez!” “Oyez!” “Oyez!”
“The King has made me to be His Herald!”
“Awaken, awaken to this glad morn,
of which the King bids me,
to blow the horn!
Isaiah 52: 7. (Moffatt)
Look! ’tis the feet of a herald,
hastening over the hills,
with glad, good news,
with tidings of relief,
calling aloud to Sion,
“Your God reigns!”
The King is on His throne!
An audience is granted for you!
Break into a song of praise.
A triumph song.
Zechariah10: 1. (Moffatt)
Ask the Eternal for rain in spring,
ask the Eternal,
who makes lighting flash,
who gives men winter rain,
with grass on all their fields.
“Now begins the spiritual rain!
“Your God reigns!”
Go and proclaim this.
Remember…
Zechariah10:2. (Moffatt)
What idols say is useless,
the sorcerer’s vision is a lie,
dreamers are but deceivers,
idle their promises;
’tis they who make the people stray like sheep,
wandering for lack of any shepherd.
“Your God reigns!”
“Oyez!’ “Oyez!”
Apr 22 2009
“Oyez!’ “Oyez!” “Oyez”
A message from the King.
“Awake my love…come away with Me.”
Genesis 1:11,12. (Moffatt )
And God said, “Let the earth put out verdure,
plants that bear seed and trees yielding fruit of every kind, fruit with seed in it.”
And so it was; the earth brought forth verdure,
plants bearing seed of every kind and trees yielding fruit of every kind,
fruit with seed in it.
God saw that it was good.
“This morning as you awake, come away with Him!
You haven’t even begun to experience
what God has in store for those who love Him and obey Him.”
Genesis 2:8-15. ( Moffatt)
In the land of Eden, to the far east,
God the Eternal then planted a park,
where he put the man whom he had moulded.
And from the ground God the Eternal made all sorts of trees to grow that were delightful to see and good to eat,
with the tree of life and the tree that yields knowledge of good and evil in the centre of the park.
From Eden a river flowed to water the park,
which on leaving the park,
branched into four streams…
verse15:
God the Eternal took man and put him in the park of Eden,
to till it and to guard it.
Genesis 3: 8,9. ( Moffatt)
In the cool of the day,
when they heard the sound of God the Eternal walking in the park,
the man and his wife hid from the presence of God the Eternal among the trees of the park;
but God the Eternal called to the man and asked him,
“Where are you?”
The King is still calling…
“Where are you?”
He longs to have fellowship with you!
See how He formed the park for you, see how he provided for you!
This was always his intention,
to have you by His side.
So much so that He sent Jesus to die for you,
to make a way open for you to come to Him!
Come away with Him this day!
“Oyez!” “Oyez!’
Apr 20 2009
“Oyez!” “Oyez!” “Oyez!”
The King cries out: ” Open your hearts wide to me!”
2 Corinthians 6: 11-13. ( Moffatt Bible)
O Corinthians, I am keeping nothing back from you;
my heart is wide open for you.
‘Restraint’?_ that lies with you, not me.
A fair exchange now, as the children say!
Open your hearts wide to me.
Paul is entreating the Corinthian Christians.
He says he is ‘controlled’ by the love of Christ.
I also am ‘controlled’ by the love of Christ towards you.
i believe that Father God is saying this day that His heart is wide open for YOU!
If you don’t hear from Him_ that lies with you- with your restraint, not His.
A fair exchange now:
Open your heart wide to God!
2 Cor 6:16-18. ( Moffatt)
Keep yourself away from un-cleaness, darkness, sin.
For you are the temple of the living God…
as God has said,
I will dwell and move among them,
I will be their God and they shall be My people.
Therefore come away from these, separate, saith the Lord,
touch not what is unclean;
then I will receive you,
I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord almighty.
John 1; 12. ( Moffatt)
On those who have accepted him, however,
he has conferred the right of being children of God,
that is, on those who believe in his Name…
you are a new creation in Christ when you came to be in Christ;
what is old is gone, the new has come.
It is all the doing of God,
who has reconciled you to Himself through Christ!
Open Your Heart wide To God!
“Oyez!’ “Oyez!”
Apr 15 2009
“Oyez” “Oyez” “Oyez”
Citizens of the world!
There is a little water spider …
( Argyroneta )
In England fair and green,
found in ponds and ditches
who lives beneath the water’s surface…
in a kind of diver’s bell.
How does she do it?
She makes a bell-shaped case of silk,
anchoring it by fine threads to the water weeds
underneath the surface of the water.
The opening is turned downwards.
Up to the surface goes the spider,
using the hooked hairs on it’s lower body
it entangles a little bubble of air,
carrying it down and releasing it inside its home!
The air rises to the top of the bell, displacing some water.
Up again and again it will go
until the bell is filled with air!
The spider lives something of the life above,
beneath the water’s surface!
As it uses up the oxygen
up it goes for more.
Maintaining its life in an alien environment
only by ceaseless vigilance.
The life of your spirit can only be properly maintained…
by constant contact with God’s Spirit!
He is the air you breathe.
“Oyez!” “Oyez!”
Apr 14 2009
“Oyez!” “Oyez!” “Oyez!”
Before I ’shout’ today
I want to pray!
“Father in heaven, we come to You now,
asking that You reveal Your Holy Son Jesus Christ
to each one who will read this ‘post’ .
Bless them with Your Presence,
with the beauty of Your Holiness.
May they never be the same again,
how could they!
In the Mighty name of Jesus I pray,
Amen.”
” I want to introduce you to a friend of mine…
I’ve known him for 30yrs, it was our anniversary on the 11th of March 2009.
‘30′ is the Pearl anniversary, and He certainly is the pearl !”
Matthew 13: 45, 46. (KJV)
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man,
seeking goodly pearls:
Who , when he had found one pearl of great price,
went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
“Jesus is that pearl , and He means more to me than anything else in the world.
30yrs ago I made a vow :
To pledge myself to Him forever.
It wasn’t hard to do and yet it was the biggest thing I’d ever done,
To pledge yourself to an ‘ideal’
To a ‘person’ I’d never seen!
What did I really know about Him?
Not much!
I’d sensed His presence at the age of 8,
I’d colleced stamps for my Sunday School book
I’d fallen in love with the Christ who was on the stamp!
There he was with a lantern in His hand, knocking on an old wooden door,
with the scripture: Revelation 3:20 …
‘Behold, I stand at the door, and knock:
if any man hear my voice,
and open the door,
I will come in to him, and will sup with him,
and he with me.’ (KJV)
The word was alive to me at that moment!
I took it literally
And something happened to my heart.
He is alive and He lives in whosoever will …
be ‘Born Again’ of the Spirit of God!
I guess I had known Him then!
He was a friend from school
whom I met again as an adult.
We had some memories to share.
I simply testify…
I know Him and I’d like to introduce Him to you.
He is perfect!
He has no faults!
He is utterly unique!
His life is one of selfless devotion!
What has he done for me?
Everything!
He has made life new for me!
My God…
My Jesus…
is kind to me.
He feels my weaknesses.
He saved me from my sins and continues to save me from them!
What have I found?
Let me tell you!
I found a love like no earthly love.
A love willing to die for me.
Asking nothing in return.
He is winsome, blithe…
having no guile in Him.
He gently leads me to a restful place.
He feeds me
No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
Under His wings I have come to shelter.
Yes! I love Jesus Christ!
There is a beautiful Indian marriage custom:
At the wedding ceremony the women friends of the Bride accompany her with music to the home of the Bridegroom.
They usher her into the presence of the Bridegroom
that is as far as they can go,
then they retire and leave her with her husband.
That is the Christian’s joyous task:
to introduce you to Him,
then leave you to get to know Him…
“Oyez!” “Oyez!”
Apr 12 2009
“Oyez!” “Oyez!” “Oyez!”
“I’m Ringing the Bell!”
Epoch n. Beginning of period; period, era. one of notable events.
“The LORD is risen!”
“The grave could not hold Him!”
The days of the Passion of Christ are an epoch of notable events!
The world will forever be changed.
His death and resurrection heralded the beginning of the period of God’s grace!
When the stone was rolled away, and He walked free for you and me,
what a glorious blessed day!
Do you know what He did for you?
Lazarus was a ‘type’ of Jesus’ death and resurrection,
he must die to show forth the Glory of God. (John 11:1-45.)
Jesus waited until Lazurus was dead.
God the Father turned his face when Jesus died.
When Lazurus ‘came forth’
bound hand and foot,
with grave clothes
his face bound about with a napkin,
he represented what Christ would do for You!
When you are Born-Again by the Spirit of God,
the grave clothes of sin and death are loosed from you,
and you are let go…
let go of those things that held you back…
from seeing God,
from walking after Him,
from touching Him!
No wonder the ‘bells’ are ringing this day!!
An Epoch in your life?
“Hear the bells ringing,
They’re singing: be Born-Again…
Hear the bells ringing,
They’re singing: Christ’s risen for you…
He rolled your stone away!
Come forth into new life this day.
This is the beginning of a period…
An Era,
One of notable events
for YOU!”
“This day I’m walking the streets of your Town,
ringing my handbell so loud…
‘Come out’, ‘Come out’,
be part of the growing crowd.
Follow me to where the roads cross,
there I’ll stand and ’shout’
“OYEZ!” “OYEZ!” “OYEZ!”
Today is YOUR ‘Passing Out Parade’!”
Apr 09 2009
“Oyez!” “Oyez!” “Oyez!”
“The King would ask you: ‘Which group will you be in on Good Friday?’”
Luke Ch23:1(KJV)
And the whole multitude of them arose,
and led him unto Pilate.
V18: And they cried out all at once, saying,
Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas.
V21. But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
V23: And they were instant with loud voices,
requiring that he might be crucified.
And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
V35a: And the people stood beholding.
Since that earth moving day, people have been coming together on Good Friday
V48: And all the people that came together to that sight,
beholding the things which were done,
smote their breasts, and returned.
Those in the multitude that cry out:
“Away with this man, and release unto us…
our choice,
Barabbas,
he wont convict us of our need for a Saviour.”
Those in that multitude crucify Him afresh each Easter…
as they behold the things which were done
for them!
Then smite their breast, and return…
to their pursuits for the ‘holiday’ season.
V49: And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee,
stood afar off,
beholding these things.
Those that are acquainted with Him and follow Him,
stand afar off and behold these things which were done for them,
for their salvation.
They are those that praise and give thanks to him…
Jesus Christ The Saviour of the World.
Acts Ch 4: 12. (KJV)
Neither is there salvation in any other:
for there is none other name under heaven given among men,
whereby we must be saved.
”Which group will you be in?
In this year of Our Lord 2009?”
“I trust and pray it will be well with your soul.
“Oyez!” “Oyez!”