BUT JOY!

BUT JOY!

In this life are many hard challenges. Whether you are saved by the blood of Jesus or whether you are not. BUT, when you have the LORD He is always there to bring you through and with a blessing. JOY cometh! 

While in the middle of a trial it may be hard at times to be joyful. But God's word tells us...JOY cometh. We may not be able to see the purpose of the fiery trial that has been laid upon us, but God has a purpose and if we keep our eyes on the Lord and stay encourage knowing that "ALL THINGS work together for good" then as sure as the night came the sun will also rise! 

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting JOY upon their heads: they shall obtain JOY and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Weeping may endure for the night BUT JOY cometh in the morning! 

I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Come unto Me and rest;
Lay down, thou weary one, lay down Thy head upon My breast.”
I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad;
I found in Him a resting place, and He has made me glad.

I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Behold, I freely give
The living water; thirsty one, stoop down, and drink, and live.”
I came to Jesus, and I drank of that life giving stream;
My thirst was quenched, my soul revived, and now I live in Him.

I heard the voice of Jesus say, “I am this dark world’s Light;
Look unto Me, thy morn shall rise, and all thy day be bright.”
I looked to Jesus, and I found in Him my Star, my Sun;
And in that light of life I’ll walk, till traveling days are done.

Horatius Bonar, faithful Scottish pastor,1846.

Is ANYTHING to hard for GOD?

Good morning! Today I thought I would write about how BIG our God is! The question, Is ANYTHING to HARD for GOD? I say NO! Not ANYTHING! 
Our God, who created heaven and Earth.

He commands the winds and the rains.

He freed His people from the hand of Pharaoh.

 He flooded the ENTIRE earth,

 but saved those who where righteous. 

He parted the Red Sea to make a way for His people to cross.

 He dried up the River Jordan for His people to "go and posses the land".

 He made the walls of Jericho fall!

 I say it again, Is there ANYTHING to hard for God? 

The Word tells us that by Faith, with God we are able to do anything, according to God's will. FAITH is believing! To have faith we must BELIEVE.


Hebrews 11: But without FAITH it is IMPOSSIBLE to please Him: for He that cometh to GOD must BELIEVE that he IS, and that he is a rewarder of those who DILIGENTLY seek Him.


The word of God say's that if we ask anything according to HIS will it SHALL be done! The real question is DO you have Faith and do you Believe GOD?

God is asking...

Jeremiah 32:27

Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

Genesis 18:14

Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

I say NO! There is nothing to hard for GOD! 

Hallelujah! He is RISEN!!!

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.

So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.

Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,

And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.

For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.

But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,

And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.

Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.

Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.

Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.

Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.

And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:

But these are written, that ye MIGHT BELIEVE that JESUS is the CHRIST, the SON of GOD; and that BELIEVING ye might have LIFE through his name.

~THANK THE LORD~

ALL the way to Calvary HE went for YOU and Me!

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged [him].

 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, 

and put it on his head

 and they put on him a purple robe,

And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.

 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.

Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!

When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;

And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?

Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power [at all] against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.

And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.

And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called [the place] of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:

Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.

And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.

Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.

Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.

Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.

 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.

 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:

 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.

And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.

And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

To be continued.... John 19

God's Promises :)

For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. 2 Corinthians 1:20

Today it is on my heart to search the bible and share the good promises of God! I have learned as I have been walking with God to claim these promises when praying and asking God to help with a situation or to move on a situation. God always does what He has promised to do! We serve a mighty God who is full of compassion and Love and has nothing but good for us! Hope these promises will be an encouragement to you as much as they are to me! 

God's Promises :)


1. Comfort
John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.


2 Corinthians 1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.


Isaiah 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.


Isaiah 50:3 For the LORD shall COMFORT Zion: he will COMFORT all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.


Isaiah 66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I COMFORT you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.



2. Provides 

Psalms 78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he PROVIDE flesh for his people?



Matthew 6:25,26 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?


3. Forgiveness


Matthew 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also FORGIVE you:


Mark 2:7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can FORGIVE sins but God only?


Mark 2:10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to FORGIVE sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)


Psalms 86:5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to FORGIVE; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.


4. Life (abundant and everlasting!)


John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath EVERLASTING LIFE, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.


Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end EVERLASTING LIFE.


John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have EVERLASTING LIFE.


Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit EVERLASTING LIFE.


Exodus 34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,


Philippians 1:26 That your rejoicing may be more ABUNDANT in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.


Thank the Lord for ALL His goodness, love and His promises to us! Have a great day in the LORD!

Is there a Hell? What does the bible say?

Matthew 10:28

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in HELL.



The bible has several scriptures that speak of what is describes as Hell. The scriptures also say that we need to Fear the Lord, or have a healthy respect for God. God is good and God does love us but there is indeed a Hell that the bible talks of over and over and over again! This is a long post mainly because I am listing most of the scriptures that refer to Hell in one way or another. It is hard to say I believe Gods word and then say there is not a Hell. I know it is not a pleasant subject that is why I am just going to let the scripture do most of the talking rather then me. It is good to be aware that there is a Heaven, but also that for every positive there is a negative or opposite. The opposite of Heaven is Hell, and those who are not saved and doing there best to live as Christ Jesus would show you too through His word need to have a good healthy fear of the one who can "Cast their soul AND body into Hell! 


Mark 9:47
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into HELL fire:

Psalms 139:8

If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in HELL, behold, thou [art there].

Proverbs 23:14

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from HELL.

Isaiah 28:15

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with HELL are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Jonah 2:2

And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of HELL cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.

Matthew 23:15

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of HELL than yourselves.

Mark 9:45

And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into HELL, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest HELL, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Revelation 20:14

And death and HELL were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Ezekiel 31:16

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to HELL with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

Ezekiel 32:27

And they shall not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to HELL with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

Isaiah 57:9

And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase [thyself even] unto HELL.

Isaiah 14:9

HELL from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Psalms 16:10

For thou wilt not leave my soul in HELL; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Acts 2:27

Because thou wilt not leave my soul in HELL, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Revelation 6:8

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and HELL followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Matthew 18:9

And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into HELL fire.

James 3:6

And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of HELL.

Job 11:8

[It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than HELL; what canst thou know?

Matthew 5:29

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into HELL.

Matthew 5:30

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into HELL.

Luke 12:5

But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into HELL; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

Matthew 5:22

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of HELL fire.

Proverbs 7:27

Her house [is] the way to HELL, going down to the chambers of death.

Job 26:6

HELL [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

Psalms 9:17

The wicked shall be turned into HELL, [and] all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on HELL.

Proverbs 9:18

But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of HELL.

Proverbs 15:11

HELL and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Proverbs 15:24

The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart from HELL beneath.

Proverbs 27:20

HELL and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Isaiah 14:15

Yet thou shalt be brought down to HELL, to the sides of the pit.

2 Samuel 22:6

The sorrows of HELL compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

Psalms 18:5

The sorrows of HELL compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

Psalms 55:15

Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into HELL: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them.

Amos 9:2

Though they dig into HELL, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

Matthew 23:33

[Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of HELL?

Ezekiel 31:17

They also went down into HELL with him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

Luke 10:15

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to HELL.

Psalms 86:13

For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest HELL.

Ezekiel 32:21

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of HELL with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

Acts 2:31

He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in HELL, neither his flesh did see corruption.

Psalms 116:3

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of HELL gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Matthew 16:18

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of HELL shall not prevail against it.

Luke 16:23

And in HELL he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Revelation 1:18

I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of HELL and of death.

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with HELL shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to HELL, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore HELL hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Matthew 11:23

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to HELL: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Habakkuk 2:5

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as HELL, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

Revelation 20:13

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and HELL delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Mark 9:43

And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into HELL, into the fire that never shall be quenched: