But do not forget this one thing, dear friends:
With the Lord a day is like a thousand years,
and a thousand years are like a day.
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some
understand slowness.
He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish,
but everyone to come to repentance.
(II. Peter 3. 8 & 9).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Praise the Lord.
Sing to the Lord a new song,
His praise in the assembly of the saints.
Let Israel rejoice in their Maker.
Let the people of Zion be glad in their King.
Let them praise His name with dancing
and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
For the Lord takes delight in His people;
He crowns the humble with salvation.
Let the saints rejoice in this honor
and sing for joy on their beds.
May the praise of God be in their mouths
and a double-edged sword in their hands,
to inflict vengeance on the nations and
punishment on the peoples,
to bind their kings with fetters,
their nobles with shackles of iron,
to carry out the sentence written
against them.
This is the glory of all His saints.
Praise the Lord.
(Psalm 149).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Let the people of Zion be glad in their king.
Let them praise His name with dancing
and make music to Him with
tambourine and harp.
For the Lord takes delight in his people
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face
to keep the Israelites from gazing at it while the radiance
was fading away. But their minds were made dull, for to
this day tha same veil remains when the old covenant is read.
It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.
Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the
Lord’s glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever
increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit.
(II.Corinthians
Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of suffering,
take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered.
You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord
finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
Above all, my brothers, do not swear- not by heaven or by earth or
by anything else. Let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, or you will
be condemned.
(James 5. 10-12).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
(James 5.10-12).
We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have
heard, so that we do not drift away.
For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation
and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape
if we ignore such a great salvation?
This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed
to us by those who heard Him. God also testified to it by signs, wonders
and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according
to His will.
(Hebrews 2.1-4).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
So this I say and solemnly testify in the name of the Lord, that you
must no longer live as the heathen do in their perverseness (in the
folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility) of their
minds.
Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is clouded.
They are alienated from the life of God because of ignorance that is deep-
seated in them, due to their hardness of heart.
In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and
reckless and have abandoned themselves as a prey to unbridled sensuality,
eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity that their depraved
desires may suggest and demand.
But you did not so learn Christ!
Assuming that you have really heard Him and been taught by Him, as all
Truth is in Jesus embodied and personified in Him,
Strip yourselves of your former nature which characterized your previous
manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring
from delusion;
And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind,
And put on the new nature created in God’s image, in true righteousness
and holiness.
(Ephesians 4. 17-24).
AMEN!
Bless the Lord, O my soul
and all that is within me,
bless His holy name!
Bless the Lord, O my soul
and forget not
all His benefits.
Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
Who redeems your life from
the pit and corruption,
Who crowns you
with lovingkindness
and tender mercy,
Who satisfies your mouth
with good so that
your youth is renewed
like the eagle’s.
( Ps.103.1-5)