muchlovedson

[muchlovedson]

76 “And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest;

For you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

77 To give knowledge of salvation to His people

By the remission of their sins,

78 Through the tender mercy of our God,

With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;

79 To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,

To guide our feet into the way of peace.”

80 So the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel.

Luke 1:76-80

6 But you shall be named the priests of the Lord,

They shall call you the servants of our God.

You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,

And in their glory you shall boast.

7 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor,

And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.

Therefore in their land they shall possess double;

Everlasting joy shall be theirs.

Isaiah 61:6-7

[muchlovedson]

God the Righteous Judge - ( regarding the mountain lion incident )

A Psalm of Asaph.

50 The Mighty One, God the Lord,

Has spoken and called the earth

From the rising of the sun to its going down.

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,

God will shine forth.

3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent;

A fire shall devour before Him,

And it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.

4 He shall call to the heavens from above,

And to the earth, that He may judge His people:

5 “Gather My saints together to Me,

Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

6 Let the heavens declare His righteousness,

For God Himself is Judge. Selah

7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak,

O Israel, and I will testify against you;

I am God, your God!

8 I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices

Or your burnt offerings,

Which are continually before Me.

9 I will not take a bull from your house,

Nor goats out of your folds.

10 For every beast of the forest is Mine,

And the cattle on a thousand hills.

11 I know all the birds of the mountains,

And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you;

For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls,

Or drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God thanksgiving,

And pay your vows to the Most High.

15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble;

I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”

16 But to the wicked God says:

“What right have you to declare My statutes,

Or take My covenant in your mouth,

17 Seeing you hate instruction

And cast My words behind you?

18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him,

And have been a partaker with adulterers.

19 You give your mouth to evil,

And your tongue frames deceit.

20 You sit and speak against your brother;

You slander your own mother’s son.

21 These things you have done, and I kept silent;

You thought that I was altogether like you;

But I will rebuke you,

And set them in order before your eyes.

22 “Now consider this, you who forget God,

Lest I tear you in pieces,

And there be none to deliver:

23 Whoever offers praise glorifies Me;

And to him who orders his conduct aright

I will show the salvation of God.”

Psalms 50 NKJV

“But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you. They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness. These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.””

‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭1‬-‭22‬ ‭ESV‬‬

[muchlovedson]

Found this deer carcass in our property near the Santa Cruz mountains last February. It wasn’t until about a month ago that I had an encounter with the killer while I was out around 9:30PM testing out couple of 5000 lumen flashlights.

I was standing here when I saw two big eyes reflecting about 100 yards away next to the big tree stump ( red arrow in the picture). I got bit excited when I realized they were mountain lion eyes. After about 10-15 seconds, the eyes began to move and I saw a large mountain lion slowly walking out from behind the tree. It appeared to be walking up the hill then suddenly it charged towards me at full speed, galloping down the hill. I was in complete shock and couldn’t believe what I was witnessing. I remember vividly the striation on chest and shoulder muscles as it sprinted down the hill toward me. I instinctively ran back towards the house but I knew it was going to catch me before I can get to the front door. Luckily, I just happened to park my truck behind the house that night which I’ve never done before nor after that night. And thank God for the auto key sensing door unlock feature.

Since the property owner does not believe in 2nd amendment, i now have a small collection of spears and knives just in case we have another unfriendly encounter.

“Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you. For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. “When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.”

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭4‬:‭23‬-‭26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

[muchlovedson]

”Therefore say to the children of Israel: ‘I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the Lord.’ ”“

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭6‬:‭6‬-‭8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

”Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons. Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?“

‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭10‬:‭14‬, ‭19‬-‭22‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

”‘You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out. And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them. But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples. And you shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.“

‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭20‬:‭22‬-‭24‬, ‭26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

”but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;“

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭7‬:‭8‬-‭9‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

”Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.“

‭‭Mark‬ ‭4‬:‭18‬-‭19‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

”For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.“

‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭1‬:‭20‬-‭22‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

[muchlovedson]

When the fog sets in your life, follow the Light.

”Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”“

‭‭John‬ ‭8‬:‭12‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

[muchlovedson]

“And she said, “O my Lord! As your soul lives, my Lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the Lord. For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him. Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord; as long as he lives he shall be lent to the Lord.” So they worshiped the Lord there.”

‭‭I Samuel‬ ‭1‬:‭26‬-‭28‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

[muchlovedson]

“Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.”

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭8‬:‭19‬-‭20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

[muchlovedson]

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭32‬:‭8‬ ‭NKJV

[muchlovedson]

[muchlovedson]

This was truly incredible. Didn’t realize how lucky I was until a local lady told me it hasn’t been active since January. Later I found out I arrived within minutes and this video was taken 7 minutes after the reported eruption time. Park rangers and fire truck showed up and blocked off the parking lot entrance as I left.

View from opposite side of the crater 20 minutes prior.

[muchlovedson]

Sunrise at the tip of Long Island, NY

“Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭60‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Montauk lighthouse

[muchlovedson]

“And the Lord said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.”

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭34‬:‭1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The story of Moses breaking the first tablet and God rewriting the Ten Commandments on a new tablet has been on mind the last few days.

There have been times of regret, feeling miserable for failures and mistakes I’ve made and being too hard on myself: Sometimes I pray for a second chance to do what is right and redeem myself.

But when the second chance is given, you find yourself lost, not knowing what is the truth. Fear keeps you from doing what you have been wanting to do all this time. You question if the situation has changed.

P 267…. We are back in the same place again.

I hear God of second chances. Take it.

[muchlovedson]

4 I sought the LORD, and He heard me,

And delivered me from all my fears.

5 They looked to Him and were radiant,

And their faces were not ashamed.

6 This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him,

And saved him out of all his troubles.

7 The  angel of the LORD  encamps all around those who fear Him,

And delivers them.

8 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

 9 Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him. 10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

Psalm 34:4-10

[muchlovedson]

God’s Mercy on His People

14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her. 15 I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

16 “And it shall be, in that day,” Says the Lord, “That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’ And no longer call Me ‘My Master,’ 17 For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals, And they shall be remembered by their name no more. 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, And with the creeping things of the ground. Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth, To make them lie down safely.

19 “I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy; 20 I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the Lord.

21 “It shall come to pass in that day That I will answer,” says the Lord; “I will answer the heavens, And they shall answer the earth. 22 The earth shall answer With grain, With new wine, And with oil; They shall answer Jezreel. 23 Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth, And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; Then I will say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people!’ And they shall say, ‘You are my God!’ ” Hosea 2:14-23 NKJV 

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.” ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10‬:‭23‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

[muchlovedson]

https://youtu.be/uHz0w-HG4iU

had an uncanny dream last night. a white dove came out of nowhere and landed on my right hand. Then it went berserk flapping its wings almost falling to the ground like it was in distress or dying. Then it flew back to my hand and i noticed a thin fishing line wrapped around the neck. I removed the fishing line and it sat there peacefully.

I can feel the darkness lifting off me today. Thank you Lord!

“and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.””

‭‭Luke‬ ‭3:22‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.”

‭‭I John‬ ‭3:1-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”

‭‭John‬ ‭8:34-36‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2:4-10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.””

‭‭John‬ ‭8:12‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

[muchlovedson]

3 I will give you the treasures of darkness

And hidden riches of secret places,

That you may know that I, the Lord,

Who call you by your name,

Am the God of Israel.

4 For Jacob My servant’s sake,

And Israel My elect,

I have even called you by your name;

I have named you, though you have not known Me.

5 I am the Lord, and there is no other;

There is no God besides Me.

I will gird you, though you have not known Me,

6 That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting

That there is none besides Me.

I am the Lord, and there is no other;

7 I form the light and create darkness,

I make peace and create calamity;

I, the Lord, do all these things.’

Isaiah 45 NKJV

[muchlovedson]

““Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭10:27‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Had a dream super early this morning. No imagery but just an audible voice that said, “ Acts 14:9”. I woke up right away and immediately looked it up on the Bible app.

“And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.”

“This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed,”

‭‭Acts‬ ‭14:8-9‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked.”

‭‭Acts‬ ‭14:10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

…………………………………………………………………………

“Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.”

‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭33:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“It shall come to pass in the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭14:3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭60:2‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“And the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.”

‭‭Joshua‬ ‭3:7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“But you, be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded!””

‭‭II Chronicles‬ ‭15:7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭10:1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬