6:44 . . . 44:6 His Sovereign Will, The Great "I Am That I Am"

I praise God, am so thankful for The Lord!  He is speaking, relating.  Pressing through, face down, imploring, asking, receiving; He is so faithful to the faithful!  It can be a bit nuanced, wending through the miasma and attacks and constant subterfuge (the worst subterfuge is subtle, quiet, sneaky, long-burning) but HE can, and does, blast that away in a flash, and it is glorious, as He is!

Among other things, He had me recall these two lines of His Word.  I found it notable that one was 6:44 and the other was 44:6.  He is SO deep and intricate and through all and wry in a Holy interpersonal way, relating and speaking to EACH as His own.  He is intimate.  He comes to you, as you are, where you are, in the moment--hence, why it is so laudable and productive and reciprocal . . . to PRAY ALWAYS--ALWAYS, as much as humanly possible, stay in constant repartee, report . . . with and within The Holy Spirit.

Anyway, He gave me these numbers/verses today.  I roughly recalled them, but curious, and to make sure it wasn't just my imagination, I looked them up, and then loved and marveled how that fit together like Holy bookends--Alpha and Omega style!

Both testify to HIS sovereign grace and will--His will and sovereignty.

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"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day."  --John 6:44

“This is what the LORD says, He who is the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of armies: ‘I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me."  --Isaiah 44:6

Interesting Times

I started writing this post during the midst of the Palisade fires in CA. . . . Every time I try to write or finish it, something comes up and I can't quite get it done.  Then I thought it could come off as complaining or too woe is me.  Whatever challenges I face I know pale compared to the suffering of so many others.  I have never been one for self pity.  

Anyway, I'll go ahead and just post what I started, see below, fwiw.:

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"Greetings and wow.

Where does one start. . . ?

And I don't like saying "I" . . . "me" . . . "my" and have it be about that.  I'm just sharing (humbly, noting, getting old, old man wisdom)

I don't even know where to start.  I've tried to write several times--end up erasing it.

So much is going on for so many.  My heart breaks for all.  My hope still beats.

Personally, getting hammered from all sides.  

 

I dare say, I saw this "day" coming.   

I get flak for being a "prophet of doom".  It is not me wanting to bring anyone down.  I just see how things will go, student of history and scripture, and try to warn, for what it's worth, mostly so that one can have a semblance of material preparations, but above all Spiritual.  

Because, the bottom line, one way or another is (in this fallen world) death.  SO!  WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT!?

That has been my supreme quest, since a young age.  I was startled as a child to note that the adults and others around me never thought to give a thought about what the purpose, meaning of life is, ultimately.

I have some family (cousins) who lost everything in Palisades fire.  Mormon families, with lots of children--been there for 10 years--then BAM!  Explosion of fire, devastation.  Well, and Mormon families are very sentimental, deliberate regarding all their memories, possessions, and safe situations.

Also had a couple of musicians, old friends there, who I've played music with for years . . . they lost everything.  

It kind of reminds me of one of my early on "vision" posts about "the day of slaughter". 

Our youngest son and daughter-in-law and their old dog "uncle Banjo" there (on good advisement) booked it outta town for a bit to shelter into a safe space.  

Things are very fluxy.   "FLUXY".  

And I say "fluxy", because, meanwhile, on the ground, in my day-to-day, workman world--keeping "life and limb" material realm together--things have lately been very unusual.  It has only happened a few times over the last 40 years, where I suddenly didn't have work.  I have never advertised--have always had ongoing personal references and recurring consistent longtime (house painting) clients.  But twice this year--once for an unusual scary stretch last summer (my usually busiest time) . . . and now!  

Just before the fires kicked off, I got temporarily pulled off a fairly big job where one of my longtime clients got diagnosed with colon cancer.  He's about my age.  When the fake pandemic was going on, I still continued to work, and was working for him.  I told him, as I told many others, early on that I didn't believe anything the government and experts were saying and NO I would not be getting the V!  I warned all who I could.

Well, most went ahead and followed the directives and propaganda.  

Several are dead now.  This client, I believe now has "turbo cancer"--is having an emergency operation tomorrow.  I pray he pulls through, but, sadly, I have my doubts.

Also, our daughter-in-law's sister (age 34, married, two young children) is married to a medical worker and ended up getting 3 or 4 doses.  She is now fighting for her life, as her breast cancer exploded and is in all her organs.  She doesn't have long.

Anyway, yeah, so on our homefront, it has been a bit stressful.  All of a sudden, all of my work just stopped.  I reached out to hustle up some work, and not even a response.  Very odd.  Super spooky.

I am highly recommended and have worked for these various people for years. 

I've suspected it could be that these disastrous past 4 years have caught up to many, even the well-off, who tend to be my paint clients.  It feels as though many are circling the wagons.

Hopefully, things will truly turn around here soon!  So far, all the right things seem to be getting done out of the gates.  I AM leery of Elon (never trusted the guy, not sure he's even real) and definitely suspect of the AI infiltration, ubiquity.  And certainly NO FAN of the new mRNA V's being floated.

Interesting times. . . .

Stay Strong And Don't Be Distracted

If you're ever beset, been beset (which, I dare say all are in this fallen, sinful world) and the call of faith (faith--without which you cannot please God) via The Holy Spirit comes calling, your spirit will respond.  And SO will all the enemies of faith.  They (the wicked, demonic minions) sound an alarm, and, where they had you pretty well under wraps (or so they imagined) they will come swarming back to attempt continued oppression.  Distractions, subversions, accidents, "bad luck" etc., (their pathetic playbook) will abound.

Hah!  It only makes their presence and evil intent more obvious.

Meanwhile "the angel of the Lord", and angels, and The Lord Himself, will sustain and show the Way to go, step-by-step.  

Stay fast.  Delve and strive into The Word, into earnest real prayer, speak in aloneness with God.  It is a proper fight, a battle.  Thank and praise and worship God, that He created and found and chose you to be with Him in His Eternal Kingdom!

His ways are mysterious to the fallen, mortal mind.  The SPIRIT--THE HOLY SPIRIT--will reveal the unspoken things, in angelic, Godly "talk" to your mind and soul.

Stay strong, and do not be distracted by the petty filth of the wicked.

Live Everyday. . . .

 Perhaps later I will post the writing I started several times recently to finish.  But for now, I can say this.  The Lord is alive and speaking.  It is a fight, battling the enemy always until the blessed, given-by-grace end.  Which is the beginning.

For now, I can sum up recent interactions and advice in the spiritual/worldly battle as "to live everyday walking in simple obedience to God while all hell is coming against you to stop you."

He Is Still Speaking

 I have an extensive recap post coming up regarding many things going on personally and recent, ongoing "events" in the world.  I've been working on it for days.  Several times I have erased it and started over.  I'll get it done, God willing. 

Meanwhile, I have this:

"It is difficult to live without some one to whom we can open our hearts and confide our secrets.  But to whom can we better disclose them than to Jesus, who, more than all the others, is a friend and the most faithful, the most constant, and the most worthy of our confidence.  Seek, therefore, in Him alone thy consolation and thy peace; lay open thy heart incessantly before Him; have recourse to Him in all thy troubles and be not discouraged if he seem to hide His countenance, for this is only the effect of His love towards thee, and the trial of thy fidelity towards Him.  Pray, entreat, and conjure Him in His bounty to assist thee; and be assured that, sooner or later, you will experience the effects of His goodness.

Preserve your heart for Him, and detached from every creature; love Him for the sake of His own infinite perfections; and love all things else only as they lead you to Him and to His love. 

Let pains, injuries, sorrows and humiliations become as welcome to thee as they were to Jesus Christ; and let the esteem and the praises of men be to thee objects of dread and contempt, because they were so to Him.  

In a word, accustom thyself to know Him, to speak to Him, to love Him, and seek to please Him in all things, that, living thus in the exercise of His love, the last motion of your heart may be an act of the love of thy dearest Redeemer"

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Ok . . . last night in deep, passionate prayer and imploring . . . this is what He said.  This morning, I was compelled to seek my ancient little copy of Imitation of Christ, opened it "randomly" to a page.  And what I read was near word for word for I was "told" in that meditation and prayer last night.  He lives!  He is still speaking, to those who diligently, humbly, face on ground, yearn and strive to hear His voice and counsel.

 

Suspicious Fire Update

 Update .... One of my cousins, who live(d) in that fiery LA area . . . lost everything, all cinders. . . . 

Another one who lives there, so far, last I heard, has been spared.

Our son and daughter-in-law, and old doggy took off to safer places, "better safe than sorry" to wait it out. 

I'm thinking of the toxic burnt chemicals (rubber, plastic, fiberglass, glass, metal and who knows what else, etc., that make up a home) being spewn in the air . . . breathing and being coated with that--best to get away, which they did.

Explosive Fires & Endure For Love Of God

 Last night, about 4am I awoke with dreadful sense.  My mind ruminating over the usual worries, bills, health, relatives dying of "turbo cancer" (yeah, they took the v . . . 34 year old mother of two).  

I had a heavy heavy sense of ominous dread that I couldn't shake and, so finally just got out of bed, went downstairs to check on things, check the news.  Well, and quickly caught the fire news.  

We have family and friends in that zone.  Our son and daughter-in-law (and dog "uncle "Banjo") are ok but keeping an eye on it.  Waiting to hear from one of my cousins (a mother with a family of five) who are directly in the path.  Haven't heard back from them.  And a couple of close friends--haven't heard from them yet.  

Heavy heart right now . . . for this, and a number of reasons.

This life is a vapor--tomorrow is not promised

Then I think of the Savior . . . and the apostles . . . and the prophets . . . and all of the innocent creatures, the faithful, the martyrs, who have suffered the worst persecution one can imagine.  And I expect more, sadly.  

As I've long written . . . we are under deliberate, evil attack, constantly, from within and, obviously  without. The knowledge and experience and reality of evil and the stakes at hand , in this fleeting mortal life, constantly recur to my mind and soul, BUT and only strengthen my appreciation of the knowledge, experience, reality of it's opposite--GOODNESS, LOVE, TRUTH--GOD!  

The Adversary's powerful tactics are to confuse, confound, distract, mollify, coddle, lure, bribe, extort, subvert, pervert, mystify--create so much "smoke and mirrors"--so that the targeted living soul ignores and barely or rarely ever thinks deeply about what the actual meaning and purpose of this life is--short and brutal as it tends to be.

It makes the rebellious mad and hateful and lash out and enable possession (of the demonic) -- to hear that the purpose of life . . . is the purpose of YAHWEH--about The Glory Of God!  HIS awesome, Holy majesty, sovereignty! 

Once one grasps and surrenders to THAT realization, suffering can be endured with a song and a prayer! 

This is not our home.  We are not the boss.  Stop resisting.  God's grace is sufficient. 

Our sufferings, as terrible as they can be, are "not to be compared to the Glory that shall be revealed in us!" 

The Subtle, Steady Predator

Spooky.  I'm not buying any of it.  This seeming peaceful "transfer of power".  Just my opinion, hope I'm wrong.  But I sense something is afoot, and it will "strike" when you least expect it. . . . 

[Meanwhile . . . the "singularity" agenda/program is taking firmer and firmer hold, inside and out; and that alone may be the "strike". . . .]

The slow, steady tightening of the snake's maneuvers--while it seems comforting and soft at first . . . keeps on getting a subtle death grip.  Then, the snake, or an octopus ie., at the end of it's mission . . . does the last constricting submission move; then consumes its subject/prey.

A Day That Will Live In Infamy

 Today--a day that will live in infamy, Jan. 6, (for what the cabal instigated and the innocent citizens held as political prisoners) USSR style. . . . 

Chatter has it that "they" are planning some nefarious, explosive deed to frame patriots and thwart the "peaceful transition of power".  I pray not.

The Way . . . in these times

My heart breaks for everyone.  The fragility and pressure and heartache and struggle . . . for every single creature, large and small. . . .

I'm a nothing, barely nothing . . . but within my meager divinely templated, mortal heart . . . I hear the echoes of the pain and suffering and the lonely cries of all.  I fathom it is because, being made in the image of God, there is some sort of (albeit miniscule) semblance of His grief and passion.  Indeed, I shall re-iterate, it is but a mere MINISCULE semblance of His sorrow, mixed within the joy and glory and wonder, in this realm, but here it is.

He is so profound.  He is sovereign.  His ways are mysterious and unfathomable to us mere crawling creatures. . . .

Yet, here He Is!

It is actually a special, unique and un-looked for joy . . . to share . . . in even the tiniest particle of His majesty which comprehends, yes, dire suffering amidst the majesty and breadth of His Creation.

He blows my mind.  Thank GOD!  

Otherwise, I might find myself getting too full of myself and mistaking all of His gifts of existence for something that I, or we, or they, or any one creature concocted.

HENCE . . . why the wicked . . . always truck . . . to find a way to make themselves a god of sorts.  They get frustrated and angry that He does not fit into their scheme of things. . . .

Every cult, every religion, every urge, every pretentious pose, every thoroughfare OUTSIDE (as if it could EVER be OUTSIDE GOD) is THE fool's errand.

When He says, "I never knew you." . . . . He means it.

There is a reason that the angels sing and glorify and seek endlessly to glorify God . . . forever!  

There is nothing else.  There is no one else to be Praised, such as He!  And they who did not fall, are even now singing His praises and endlessly grateful to be a speck in His Eye, I dare say........

He is magnanimous to bestow a plethora and menagerie and intricate, complex designs throughout all of creation to bespeak His nearly unapproachable Nature/Being/Character . . . . . . . (THANK GOD HE ALLOWS THOSE WHO LOVE HIM TO APPROACH HIS INEFFIBLE BEING AND LITERAL PRESENCE!)

Then, there is the absence of His Presence and blessing..... Oh LORD! NO! NO! NO! Please Lord never leave me or cast me out of your Presence!  Your Word says there will be those who go there....NO NO NO Lord God, have mercy on me!

Indeed,  

His majesty . . . surrounds all experience and being.

Fools dare to take a mere slight sliver of His glory, and try to make it their own.  FOOLS!  And I would not wish such fate on anyone!  But I . . . you . . . are not God and have no business telling Him how and what He ought do with HIS creation and creatures.

Well, AND HE OBVIOUSLY HAS A PURPOSE IN CREATING SUCH A REAL SCENARIO that we find ourselves amidst!

One can complain, cavil, rebel, reject, puff-up in degenerate pride and spiraling violent angst, etc,. . . . 

But to no avail.

For HE IS LORD.

He IS GOD!

Bow down, submit, relinquish foolish pride, PRAY PRAY PRAY that you shall be spared from His wrath!  

For He is HOLY.  It is His Nature, His Being.  Seeking His Holy Being that Is That He Is, is The Way 

And He is personal!  He will meet you like a friend--one YOU can interact with, personally, intimately. 

The Liar . . . seeks to deflect and obfuscate and subvert and pervert and control and oppress and torment to the point that the poor little soul is so beaten down that it gives up Hope and Faith in God, and just then, limply relinquishes to the evil one(s).

Well, and they (the evil ones) have a place that they desire and deserve, made for them, and are celebrating, parading about their way to there.

Those who thirst for righteousness and for peace and for love and above all: love of GOD ALMIGHTY SOVEREIGN KING OF ALL KINGS, CREATOR, I AM THAT I AM, GOD LORD SPIRIT . . . shall be comforted in the quietest moments--it's a still, small voice--the voice and Spirit of Truth, Who He promised to provide us with, regardless of the times, the chaos, the distractions!

Praise GOD!  LOVE GOD!  GOD IS LOVE (a supreme mystery which the Chosen will, God-willing explore FOR THE REST OF THIS ETERNITY!)

-bro t    

Happy/Terrified 2025 and "BARFO"!

"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 

But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.

Where can I go from Your Spirit?
         Or where can I flee from Your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
         If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.

If I take the wings of the dawn,
         If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

Even there Your hand will lead me,
         And Your right hand will lay hold of me."

--The Lord God Creator Of All, The Great I Am That I Am

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Whenever I feel beset, concerned, anxious, wondering . . . I find recalling and meditating on the Truth that God is OMNISCIENT, OMNIPRESENT, OMNIPOTENT . . . brings me to my senses.  It is both terrifying and comforting at once.  Ah, the mystery of God!  He works in mysterious ways (to us) . . . and is both to be (righteously) feared and loved beyond all measure!  There is none greater.  There is nothing greater.  He is the all in all.

"When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all."  [This verse is heavy, deep and, in a way, explains it all, btw.]

The mystery of The Trinity, Who is God . . . causes many to stumble.

Why not, simply accept that God IS WHAT AND WHO HE IS!

Of course, the simple (albeit marvelous) human mind, of itself cannot comprehend the depth and breadth, and width of His Being--like an animal cocking its head to comprehend a man digging a trench for some purpose. . . . 

Such are our simple (yet complex and astounding) minds that try to comprehend the workings of God--HIS purposes.

The suffering--the allowance of wicked, cruel evil abounding and seemingly ruling this fallen, material realm. . . . It makes one wonder.

BUT . . . He has given us His Word, and there is a Divine Purpose to all of it!  WHICH, is none of our business--so far as criticizing, complaining, cajoling, twisting . . . thinking we, the fallen could do "it" better.  HENCE . . . Lucifer, who imagined he could . . . and we all are feeling, seeing, experiencing the result of that dreadful, foolish, prideful impetus.  

HENCE, why Hell exists.  For those who want to argue with, defy, hate GOD AND HIS SOVEREIGNTY (because their foolish pride wants to be God) there is a place He has made for them, which satisfies their rebellion against HIS will.  BARFO! [You've no doubt heard of FAFO--"Fck Around and Find Out"]  Well, I just made a new one--"BARFO" 

Be A Rebel and Find Out.

And yes, also, one of the (many) mysteries surrounding The Lord's nature, Being is that He has a "sense of humor".  OBVIOUSLY He does, because we do . . . and we were created "in His image". . . . 

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AND, THANK YOU! I so appreciate your friendship, comradery, fellowship, interest, support  (you know who you are:) over here in this little inimitable (so far😬) corner of the realm.