Isa. 53:5 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. ……But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
I was watching a clip on testimonies from the Passion of Christ movie and one was about a couple whose toddler drowned in the bath tub and turned blue. The mother was at fault for leaving her toddler alone for a few minutes. The father realized at that moment that Satan was trying to steal his baby daughter. My husband in his previous marriage, lost a baby at six weeks old to SIDS and had a babysitter that night when the child was attacked. It was the very first night his wife and him went out to dinner after the baby was born as a couple on their own. The baby turned blue in his crib, and the babysitter knew CPR, but she could not bring their baby back to life nor could the paramedics.
Just a year ago, I happened to meet the man who is an architect that was dining with my husband and his previous wife when he received the phone call that his baby had died. We did a college class project for him and a student in my group worked for him (it's a small world) so I had a chance to meet someone who knew my former husband, before I met him.
This father in the clip remembered what Jesus did on the cross from the Passion of Christ movie, and he remembered the “chastisement or punishment for our peace” was on Jesus. Anyone who has lost a very dear loved one especially a husband/wife or child to death will understand how peace is taken away especially at holidays and the anniversary of the death of that loved one. Jesus bore the chastisement for our peace. The baby did come back to life after the paramedics came to the house and the father was standing on God’s word that Jesus bore the punishment. This is an example of human intervention, but backed up by divine intervention. David killed Goliath with a stone, but David said that God would deliver Goliath into his hand. On my next blog, I’ll talk more about facing Goliath. We are co-laborers with God.
When I was four-years old, I got caught under a horse raft at a pool, and was drowning and my mother jumped in and saved my life or I would not be alive today or my children. My mother said the life guard was not paying attention. Anyone who has saved a life from drowning, I understand it is an exuberant feeling. I happened to be out on Monroe Lake last summer when a man with us saved someone who broke her ankle swinging from a rope that was intoxicated and almost drowned. As a Christian, I consider it’s a great joy to save a soul spiritually from drowning.
With the death of my husband, I’ve been healed of the pain of separation anxiety (much like a baby goes through in leaving his/her mother in the early stages in life when they go to a babysitter or a child's first day in kindergarten) in losing my spouse to death as I appropriated that Jesus was forsaken of his Father God. There was darkness that came upon the noon hour which is the brightest day when the heavenly Father turned His back on His son because of our sin.
Many of us have had people turn their backs on us either in going through a divorce or misunderstandings in our lives. It could even be family members or Christians who fail to love us and accept us as we are. In death there is a sense of desertion, even though it’s unintentional on the person who died.
God said I am finding my identification with Christ in appropriating what Jesus did for me to receive emotional and physical healings. We are to be identified with Jesus in his death, burial and resurrection. To receive salvation, emotional, or physical healing we identify with what Jesus did for us on the cross. Not only in taking our sins, but “by his stripes/wounds we are healed” as it says in the scripture above.
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. Romans 6:4
having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. Colossians 2:12
I decided a few years, not to cut back on my activities, but to move forward in trusting the Lord to take away knee pain. When a pain hits my body, I thank the Lord that he took that pain on his body for me. By his physical stripes I am healed. Appropriating what Jesus did on Calvary is looking back 2K years and just as salvation is for today, it’s also recognizing that God’s blood and healing power is for today. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. The Old Testaments saints looked ahead in faith to what Jesus Christ the Messiah was going to do whereas we look back to Calvary by faith in what he did for us. I’ve not had to cut out physical activity in my life. There have been times I struggled in hiking, but I’ve pressed on not to let pain take over my life from my knees. That is how I walk in victory. Have not had any knee pain in a year. I don't plan to slow down in life since I consider I am in my second childhood!
Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:3
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, Philip. 3:10
To know Christ is to be in an intimate relationship like Adam knew his wife Eve. Adam was intimate with his wife. We are intimate in our fellowship and becoming to know our Lord’s will and wishes through studying God’s word and spending time in prayer, praise, and worship before Him. Many Christians know Jesus as their Savior, but they don’t know him as their Lord. They have not taken the time to really get to know the Lord. It’s going from head knowledge of what Jesus has done and applying it to our lives to heart knowledge.
Christ is Us is the Hope of Glory
It is Christ in me “the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27, To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in You, the hope of glory: We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
For many, we are the only Jesus people will see. God give us a vision how we present our lives for you. I’m glad that we can be living witnesses of your love!
Rolling With the Punches
I was listening to the radio during the last horrendous rain storm and a minister was talking about the horrendous beating of Jesus in the face when he was blind folded. Our body has a natural reaction to flex when it is going to get a punch so he experienced the full blows because he could not see the punches coming.
Luke 22:63-65: Now the men who were holding Jesus mocked him and beat him; they also blindfolded him and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is it that struck you?” And they spoke many other words against him, reviling him.
It said his appearance was so marred people hid their faces from him. They pulled his beard out. In football a quarterback who is blindsided is usually hurt because he did not see the attack coming.
Isaiah 53:3 And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Jesus bore the attacks of the enemy for us now we have to learn to “roll with the punches.” So death, cycles of depression of grief, bad things that happen to us may be out of our control, but we learn to roll with the punches.
Definition of roll with the punches:
Rolling with the punches is that understanding that the punches are going to come in life and sometimes being ready to duck when they come. I’ve run into some people who have that military attitude of the “stiff upper lip”--- suck it up. If we look at the writings of David, David expressed his feelings. I don’t see where David had the “stiff upper lip.”
When I wake up every morning, I thank God that I’m blessed and loved of God, it has nothing to do with what I feel or what I see in my life. Jesus came in His Father God's name. His name is excellent in all the earth, and God exalted his name above every name on earth or in heaven.
O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Psalms 8:1
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, Philip 2:10
Jesus answered, "I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me, John 10:25
Who knew no sin
That we might become His Righteousness
He humbled himself and carried the cross
Love so amazing
Love so amazing
Chorus:
Jesus Messiah
Name above all names
Blessed Redeemer
Emmanuel
The rescue for sinners
The ransom from Heaven
Jesus Messiah
Lord of all
His body the bread
His blood the wine
Broken and poured out all for love
The whole earth trembled
And the veil was torn
Love so amazing
Love so amazing, yeah
Chorus:
Jesus Messiah
Name above all names
Blessed Redeemer Emmanuel
The rescue for sinners
The ransom from Heaven
Jesus Messiah
Lord of all
All our hope is in You
All our hope is in You
All the glory to You, God
The light of the world
Chorus:
Jesus Messiah
Name above all names
Blessed Redeemer
Emmanuel
The rescue for sinners
The ransom from Heaven
Jesus Messiah
Lord of all
I was watching a clip on testimonies from the Passion of Christ movie and one was about a couple whose toddler drowned in the bath tub and turned blue. The mother was at fault for leaving her toddler alone for a few minutes. The father realized at that moment that Satan was trying to steal his baby daughter. My husband in his previous marriage, lost a baby at six weeks old to SIDS and had a babysitter that night when the child was attacked. It was the very first night his wife and him went out to dinner after the baby was born as a couple on their own. The baby turned blue in his crib, and the babysitter knew CPR, but she could not bring their baby back to life nor could the paramedics.
Just a year ago, I happened to meet the man who is an architect that was dining with my husband and his previous wife when he received the phone call that his baby had died. We did a college class project for him and a student in my group worked for him (it's a small world) so I had a chance to meet someone who knew my former husband, before I met him.
This father in the clip remembered what Jesus did on the cross from the Passion of Christ movie, and he remembered the “chastisement or punishment for our peace” was on Jesus. Anyone who has lost a very dear loved one especially a husband/wife or child to death will understand how peace is taken away especially at holidays and the anniversary of the death of that loved one. Jesus bore the chastisement for our peace. The baby did come back to life after the paramedics came to the house and the father was standing on God’s word that Jesus bore the punishment. This is an example of human intervention, but backed up by divine intervention. David killed Goliath with a stone, but David said that God would deliver Goliath into his hand. On my next blog, I’ll talk more about facing Goliath. We are co-laborers with God.
When I was four-years old, I got caught under a horse raft at a pool, and was drowning and my mother jumped in and saved my life or I would not be alive today or my children. My mother said the life guard was not paying attention. Anyone who has saved a life from drowning, I understand it is an exuberant feeling. I happened to be out on Monroe Lake last summer when a man with us saved someone who broke her ankle swinging from a rope that was intoxicated and almost drowned. As a Christian, I consider it’s a great joy to save a soul spiritually from drowning.
With the death of my husband, I’ve been healed of the pain of separation anxiety (much like a baby goes through in leaving his/her mother in the early stages in life when they go to a babysitter or a child's first day in kindergarten) in losing my spouse to death as I appropriated that Jesus was forsaken of his Father God. There was darkness that came upon the noon hour which is the brightest day when the heavenly Father turned His back on His son because of our sin.
Many of us have had people turn their backs on us either in going through a divorce or misunderstandings in our lives. It could even be family members or Christians who fail to love us and accept us as we are. In death there is a sense of desertion, even though it’s unintentional on the person who died.
God said I am finding my identification with Christ in appropriating what Jesus did for me to receive emotional and physical healings. We are to be identified with Jesus in his death, burial and resurrection. To receive salvation, emotional, or physical healing we identify with what Jesus did for us on the cross. Not only in taking our sins, but “by his stripes/wounds we are healed” as it says in the scripture above.
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. Romans 6:4
having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. Colossians 2:12
I decided a few years, not to cut back on my activities, but to move forward in trusting the Lord to take away knee pain. When a pain hits my body, I thank the Lord that he took that pain on his body for me. By his physical stripes I am healed. Appropriating what Jesus did on Calvary is looking back 2K years and just as salvation is for today, it’s also recognizing that God’s blood and healing power is for today. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. The Old Testaments saints looked ahead in faith to what Jesus Christ the Messiah was going to do whereas we look back to Calvary by faith in what he did for us. I’ve not had to cut out physical activity in my life. There have been times I struggled in hiking, but I’ve pressed on not to let pain take over my life from my knees. That is how I walk in victory. Have not had any knee pain in a year. I don't plan to slow down in life since I consider I am in my second childhood!
Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:3
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, Philip. 3:10
To know Christ is to be in an intimate relationship like Adam knew his wife Eve. Adam was intimate with his wife. We are intimate in our fellowship and becoming to know our Lord’s will and wishes through studying God’s word and spending time in prayer, praise, and worship before Him. Many Christians know Jesus as their Savior, but they don’t know him as their Lord. They have not taken the time to really get to know the Lord. It’s going from head knowledge of what Jesus has done and applying it to our lives to heart knowledge.
Christ is Us is the Hope of Glory
It is Christ in me “the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27, To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in You, the hope of glory: We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
For many, we are the only Jesus people will see. God give us a vision how we present our lives for you. I’m glad that we can be living witnesses of your love!
Rolling With the Punches
I was listening to the radio during the last horrendous rain storm and a minister was talking about the horrendous beating of Jesus in the face when he was blind folded. Our body has a natural reaction to flex when it is going to get a punch so he experienced the full blows because he could not see the punches coming.
Luke 22:63-65: Now the men who were holding Jesus mocked him and beat him; they also blindfolded him and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is it that struck you?” And they spoke many other words against him, reviling him.
It said his appearance was so marred people hid their faces from him. They pulled his beard out. In football a quarterback who is blindsided is usually hurt because he did not see the attack coming.
Isaiah 53:3 And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Jesus bore the attacks of the enemy for us now we have to learn to “roll with the punches.” So death, cycles of depression of grief, bad things that happen to us may be out of our control, but we learn to roll with the punches.
Definition of roll with the punches:
1. to be able to deal well with difficulties or criticism
2. to absorb the force of a blow, as in boxing
3. when things don’t go your way and you adapt to the changes and keep moving ahead instead of flipping out
4. Coping with and withstanding adversity by being flexible
When I wake up every morning, I thank God that I’m blessed and loved of God, it has nothing to do with what I feel or what I see in my life. Jesus came in His Father God's name. His name is excellent in all the earth, and God exalted his name above every name on earth or in heaven.
O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Psalms 8:1
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, Philip 2:10
Jesus answered, "I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me, John 10:25
Jesus Messiah by Chris Tomlin
He became sin Who knew no sin
That we might become His Righteousness
He humbled himself and carried the cross
Love so amazing
Love so amazing
Chorus:
Jesus Messiah
Name above all names
Blessed Redeemer
Emmanuel
The rescue for sinners
The ransom from Heaven
Jesus Messiah
Lord of all
His body the bread
His blood the wine
Broken and poured out all for love
The whole earth trembled
And the veil was torn
Love so amazing
Love so amazing, yeah
Chorus:
Jesus Messiah
Name above all names
Blessed Redeemer Emmanuel
The rescue for sinners
The ransom from Heaven
Jesus Messiah
Lord of all
All our hope is in You
All our hope is in You
All the glory to You, God
The light of the world
Chorus:
Jesus Messiah
Name above all names
Blessed Redeemer
Emmanuel
The rescue for sinners
The ransom from Heaven
Jesus Messiah
Lord of all
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