Romans: 3-23.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

All have sinned.  All need a Savior.  Jesus is that Savior.
He loves you.  He tasted death for every man.  He suffered as though He were a sinner
for you.
Invite Him into your heart,  He is the way,  He is the truth,  He is life.

Romans: 10-9:10.  "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in
Your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you who'll be saved."
10:  For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified and it is with your mouth
that you confess and are saved.

If you would like to do so, open your heart right now and receive Jesus Christ as your Lord.
Ask Him to wash away your sins.  Tell Him you love Him.  Receive Him as your Lord

Pray this prayer:-  Lord Jesus, I acknowledge that I am a sinner, I need a Savior.  I
acknowledge  that You died for my sins.  You arose from the dead.  I now open my heart to you.
I accept You as my Savior.  Thank you for coming into my heart today.  I praise you and I thank you
I love you Father.

Now submit yourself to His word and let it build your life. Permit His word to work in your
Spirit.

Lydiaelijah.

Revelation: 4-3.

And the one who sat there had the appearance of Jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like the
Emerald encircled the throne.

God sits on the throne of judgement but above His throne is the rainbow, which means
He is merciful.  Though he may judge, He is merciful.  Though He may judge He is full of grace.
Though He may judge He is forgiving and loving.

God is reminding us that in the midst of all the calamities that you and I see, around us,
let us lift up our eyes and see the rainbow above.

The Rainbow promise - God is giving us the promise of His presence.


Lydiaelijah.

Matthew: 5-8.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

The important thing is to make a beginning.  God's Spirit will let us know where to go from there.

Our reading should be towards delighting in Him, gazing at His beauty as David said in
Psalm:27-4.  "One thing I ask of The Lord , this is what I seek:  that I may dwell in the house
Of The Lord  all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in his temple."

When we approach God in that way it inclines us to want more of Him.  There's no need to worry
about texts that we don't understand.  Jesus said to His disciples, "I have much more to say to you,
more than you can now bear".(John:16-12).  There's much that we will never know, but some of
The hard questions will be answered when we're ready for them.

God can never be understood through the intellect.  Insight arises from purity of heart - from love,
from humility, and a desire to obey.  It's the pure in heart who see God.  The more of God's truth
we know and want to obey the more we know.

George MacDonald wrote:-  the words of The Lord are seeds sown in our hearts by the sower.
          They have to fall into our hearts to grow.  Meditation and prayer must
           water them and obedience keep them in the light.  Thus they will
            bear fruit for the Lord's gathering.


Lydiaelijah.

Jeremiah:15-16.

When your words came, I ate them, they were my joy my hearts delight for I bear your name, O Lord
Almighty.

Here Jeremiah says - when your word came I ate them.  To have what Jeremiah have we must
Sit at the the Lord's feet and let Him feed us.

For many of us though we read God's word we are not feeding on God, we are more intend on
Mastering the text - finding out its precise meaning gathering theories so we can talk more intelligently about god..

The main purpose of reading the Bible however is to come to Him, to encounter Him as  our living God.  1st Corinthians. 2-16.  "For who has known the mind of The Lord that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.

When we read his word we are reading His mind - what He knows, what He feels, what He wants
And what He enjoys, and what He loves.

Take time to reflect on what He is saying.  Think about each word until God's heart is revealed
and your heart is exposed.

Lydiaelijah.

Solitude.

Matthew 6-6:  Go into your room, Jesus said, " close your door and pray to your Father, who is in heaven."

You may wonder why and how?  "Begin small and start promptly,". The idea is to keep things simple
And to begin now. Simplicity begins with solitude not mere time alone, but time alone with God.

Where can we find a quiet place in the midst of the demands of this world?
There is a meeting place - a time and place where we can meet with god and hear His
Thoughts and He can hear ours, a time for the two of us where He can have our full attention
and we can have His.

Solitude is where we are least alone and where our deepest loneliness can be relieved.
It's  a healing place where God can repair the damage done by the noise and pressure of the world.

The more you visit it the more you will want to return.

Lydiaelijah.

God's calling.

Genesis: 3-9.  But The Lord God called to the man, "WHERE A YOU?"

God makes the first move, He takes the initiative - calling us, leading us to a place of rest.
It's not that we're seeking God, He is seeking us. God is longing for us - to have us..

God's cry to Adam and Eve, "Where a you" this tells us that God is longing for us.  Are we longing for Him?  He feels lonely when He is separated from those He loves.  Some writers say that the whole Bible is about the "loneliness of God."

I like the thought that in some way God misses me, that He can't bear to be separated  from me, that I am always on His mind, He always looks for me "where A You?"  Deep within  us is a place for God.
We were made for God and without His love we ache in loneliness and emptiness.

It is now neither duty nor discipline that I impose on myself like hundred push-ups and hundred sit-ups each day - but a response, an answer to one who has been calling me all my life.

Lydiaelijah.