Your favorite inspirational verse/thought?

[Charon]

Praise God. You certainly had a substantial upbringing.

Good days indeed.

[NovemberRain]

Ohhhhh! How blessed they were to be able to go there! And your father preached a sermon on The Mount of Olives!   

I wish I could have been there for that! 

And you got an olive wood Nativity Scene from that trip! Even though your father did have to come back home in his underwear…

[IceWizard]

Matthew 24 : 13-30
KJV




13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place,
(whoso readeth, let him understand: )
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop
not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field
return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child,
and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter,
neither on the sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation,
such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time,
no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved:
but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you,
Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,
and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that,
if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you,
Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold,
he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east,
and shineth even unto the west;
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is,
there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her light,
and the stars shall fall from heaven,
and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,
and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven
with power and great glory.

[Charon]

And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,
and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven
with power and great glory.

The words of God are so powerful and glorious. Come, soon My Lord.

[IceWizard]

[IceWizard]

Matthew 24 : 31-43
KJV


31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds,
from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree;
When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves,
ye know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things,
know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say unto you,
This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no,
not the angels of heaven,
but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noe were,
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they
were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,
until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came,
and took them all away;
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field;
the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill;
the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:
for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this,
that if the goodman of the house had known in what
watch the thief would come, he would have watched,
and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

[Charon]

Take me Lord God.

[IceWizard]

Matthew 24 : 44-51
KJV


44 Therefore be ye also ready:
for in such an hour as ye think 

not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant,
whom his lord hath made ruler over his household,
to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant,
whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you,
That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart,
My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants,
and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day
when he looketh not for him, 

and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder,
and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites:
there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

[Charon]

[IceWizard]

Monday, Aug 21








Ecclesiastes 1 : 9-18
KJV


9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be;
and that which is done is that which shall be done:
and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new?
it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things;
neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to
come with those that shall come after.
12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by
wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven:
this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man
to be exercised therewith.
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun;
and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight:
and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo,
I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom
than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea,
my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom,
and to know madness and folly:
I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
18 For in much wisdom is much grief:
and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.




Today's Prayer...


Dear Father in heaven,

Let our thoughts be filled with all that is honorable,
just, pure, gracious, good, and praiseworthy.
We want to await Your Spirit, not giving way to anxiety,
but showing ourselves worthy to be Your children.
We want to be Your children,
who can rise above even the most difficult
conditions and maintain a quiet trust,
to the glory of Your Spirit within us.
Protect us now and always in Your divine peace."


In the Name of the Most Holy we
pray in Jesus' Name

Amen