A Psalm for Christmas Eve and New years Eve::

Praise God for Christmas!

A Psalm for Christmas Eve:

Praise Him for the incarnation, for the word made flesh.

I will not sing of shepherds watching flocks on frosty nights, or angel choristers.I will not sing of a stable bare in Bethlehem,or lowing oxen, wise men trailing star with Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. Tonight I will sing praise to the Father who stood on Heaven's threshold and said farewell to His Son as He stepped across the stars to Bethlehem and Jerusalem.

And I will sing praise to the infinite, eternal Son, who became most finite, a baby who would one day be executed for my crime. Praise Him in the heavens, praise Him in the stable, praise Him in my heart.

My Prayer for the New and upcoming year of 2013:
After All the gifts have been un-wrapped, and the year 2012 comes to a close, I am reminded of the shortness and berevity of life how fragile life is indeed,
Charles H Spurgeon, said it in a nut shell: Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity."
~ C.H. Spurgeon ~

How so many live only for today as if they have all eternity in the present, not realizing the temporality of the present; the train keeps on moving into Eternity yet priorities for the many are in light of the present--Even for Believers when faced with Temptations, are we living in light of seeking our Heavenly Father to deliver us from Evil! May God grace you with His presence in His Only Begotten Son as you seek Him through out the year 2013.

My prayer to all my Family and friend:
May the Eternal Son of God become un-wrapped in your heart through out the days of your life in the year 2013; May you find the light o...f His Presence routing out all the darkness in your heart until the full noon Day Sun of His Appearing in His Second Return; that He may rule your heart and you be full of His Eternal Glory by Faith in the Eternal Son of God; that you may know the Eternal unapproachable Light of God the Father, Through Jesus Christ the Son and by the Power of the Holy Spirit illuminating the Eyes of your heart to His eternal Presence through out this year and all the days of your life, both now and forever more! Maranatha! Amen! Come LORD Jesus!

Fixing our Eyes On Jesus our True Joy to Sing! Hebrews 12:2-3

Preached on Sunday Afternoon: Hebrews 12:3-4

Hebrews 12:2-3
2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

Focus on Jesus During this Advent season, who is our true Joy for the Celebration of His Birth and Second Coming!
I noticed many people decorating their houses with lights, animated figures, tinsels and wreaths:
But bear in mind this Rhyme: To decorated with tinsel and light is such a futile thing unless Jesus Shines the light of His life in your heart to make your sing! Sing for Joy to know He is King will Reside in your heart to cleanse you from sin to be free forever to sing for all Eternity to your King! Such a futile thing without Christ the King in your heart to bring, presents with a condemned heart without the King! Blessed It is to be full of Joy knowing that Through Jesus you are forgiven to sing for but The one and only King, Ponder this question one more time, will you sing for Joy this Advent season now and everyday, for the King, indeed the God of very God, the King of all Kings to His magnificent majesty, glory and praise will you sing, Indeed for the King! You can only sing with praises to bring when The King And Great God and Saviour brings salvation to your heart to make you Sing! JV


when He You may feel it is Christmas all over again, and you do not have the Christmas spirit in you, but I have to tell you, most people misinterpret the Christmas spirit for the buying of merchandise in the stores, and with that could lead to much despair and depression, just look at the news on Black Friday, when people were fist fighting in the malls over sale items--Indeed, fixing our eyes on Jesus reveals that He came to Expose our sin and Darkness and our need for Deliverance from sin, and only He Can take away our sin and break the bonds of sin that keep us bound in the caverns of darkness of our sin cursed heart. Do not be deceived, True Joy this Advent and everyday is to Believe on Jesus and trust in His Death and shed blood to take away your sin and to Trust in His victory through His Resurrection to quicken you and make you alive to Him through the Holy Spirit:

Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace!

Hail the Son of Righteousness!

Light and life to all He brings

Ris'n with healing in His wings

Mild He lays His glory by

Born that man no more may die

Born to raise the sons of earth

Born to give them second birth

Hark! The herald angels sing

"Glory to the newborn King!"

An Unapproachable Light! Hebrews 1:1-4 ITimothy 6:11-21

The Sun in all its Brilliance is flawed and has spots on it, not that God made it imperfect, but that as a result of the Fall and the curse, the Sun has spots! Jesus is the radiance of God's Glory, The light of His presence is ever so Brilliant that He dwells in an unapproachable light! And in Him there is not spots! In Him there is no blemish! In Him there is no darkness at all! His Light is more glorious than the Sun, that we will no longer need the Light of the sun, but in the New Heaven and earth will bask in the light of His Presence Indeed! His Bride will indeed be presented to Him without Spot or wrinkle and will Share and dwell in His glorious brilliant Light of His Presence, Such a perpetual Light for all Eternity!

Revelation 22:4-6
4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.
6 The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.”

Hebrews 1:1-4
In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, ² but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. ³ The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. ⁴ So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.


1 Timothy 6: 11-21
11 But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you 14 to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen. 17 Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 18 Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. 19 In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life. 20 Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, 21 which some have professed and in so doing have wandered from the faith.  Grace be with you.

The sun is brilliant and bright, you cannot look into the sun directly with your naked eye, or you will go blind, and if you do, you will experience temporary blindness, and dark orange like spots in your vision.

However, the sun in all its brilliance is way inferior to God, by virtue of being created by God, and by virtue of  developing flaws overtime, such as sun spots, and by virtue of having limited brightness, impure light rays, destructive radiance of too much exposure to it light.

Jesus shines brighter than the sun, in Him there is no darkness at all! 1 John 1: 5-9 ⁵ This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. ⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.


In Jesus there is no Spot or wrinkle, Just pure radiant light brighter than the sun. And He Promises to receive His Bride without Spot or wrinkle, His Bride the Church will indeed Shine in all His Glory!

1 Peter 1:17-19
17 If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth; 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 5:26-28
26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;








 

We must have the resolution to have, seek and fight for The confident Assurance to Rest in God’s Unchanging, Sovereign, Infinite Nature Alone! in times of Crisis! Psalm 62

Preached on Sunday 11-11-2012,
Psalm 62


We must have the resolution to have, seek and fight for The confident Assurance to Rest in God’s Unchanging, Sovereign, Infinite Nature, Alone! in times of Crisis!

Apart From Resting in Jesus the Rock of our Salvation; you will be a restless wanderer never finding rest; always being shaken by life threatening situations of Conflict within and without, by people in life who hate you and seek your demise; Always shaken by distressful and disheartening situations of loss and helplessness; Trusting in self and others apart from Christ, Riches and places that do not last, but are like a vapor mist that appears and behold vanishes in a split second!

But Until you discover The mountain surrounded by the vanishing fog of crisis and Distressful situations; Until you pierce you eyes through the mist and find God The Rock, the Mountain of your Salvation and My Refuge; in Him there is Permanency when the mist vanishes! Jesus, is indeed my Rock, and I am like Peter, a rock, and upon THE ROCK, will Jesus Build His Church, Matthew 16:16-19. And He is THE ROCK, He Is God!

Trusting in Him you will never be shaken by shifting sand, vanishing mist and fog of sin, distress and crisis; in Him will you Truly Rest!

In Jesus Alone is your Sufficiency, In Jesus alone did His Shed Blood Ever please and satisfy the justice and wrath of God on Behalf of the Sin of His People; in Jesus' Resurrection Alone is there ever hope of being resurrected bodily; In Jesus alone is there everlasting life! in Jesus alone is He ever My Rock Mighty to Save! In Jesus Alone does my Soul Ever find Rest!

Are you Restless? You know, painful situations, crisis and loss will not go away, God wants you to Deal with unpleasant painful circumstances, fight and wrestle with them, fight and wrestle until you are ever so Resolute to find that God is there He is your Rock of Salvation in Him your Soul will find rest--Deal with it! Until you See God! The Rock, the Ever Majestic Mountain of your Faith, knowing the testing of your faith will prove to discover That Jesus is your Rock, He is the Rock of your Salvation in Him, Alone! Does my Soul Ever find Rest!

God the Holy Trinity causing my ultimate Glorification Romans 8:28-32

God the Holy Trinity causing my ultimate Glorification:


Chosen and Loved By God the Father, Kept in God the Son, Sanctified through God the Holy Spirit Unto Glorification forever to be with God the Holy Trinity three in One: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit; Never to leave the Unapproachable light of His Glorious presence forever in unity with the Trinity God the only one!

Romans 8:28"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

The Confident Assurance of God's Unchanging Nature and Eternal Being! Psalm 62

The Confident Assurance of God's Unchanging Nature and Eternal Being!


Psalm 62
1 My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. 2 He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. 3 How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down— this leaning wall, this tottering fence? 4 They fully intend to topple him from his lofty place; they take delight in lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse. Selah 5 find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. 6 He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. 7 My salvation and my honor depend on God[a]; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. 8 Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Selah9 Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath. 10 Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them. 11 One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, 12 and that you, O Lord, are loving. Surely you will reward each person according to what he has done.

In times like these, it may seem that the present leaders are permanent, but according to Scripture in Psalm 62, they are but a breath! A mere vapor mist around a mountain; though the mist may be thick surrounding a mountain almost to conceal the reality of the mountain; nonetheless, when the vapor mist dispels and vanishes the Mountain was always there. Therefore, pierce your eyes through the mist and fog until your Soul Rests in God Alone, until you see Him as our Rock and refuge. Do not place your trust in finite human leaders who are temporary, here today and gone tomorrow! Who are set up by God's Eternal and Divine providential will to execute His purpose!

You may say what purpose is there in increased taxes, in the killing of unborn babies in abortion in the spread of Hedonism and immorality, in the promotion of Gay marriages(that by the way, such unions will kill and destroy civilizations because two gay people cannot ever propagate Children, God created them Male and Female to be united in the bonds of Marriage to express their Natural function in the union of Male and Female in holy Matrimony, not the other way around), The legalization of drugs and controlled substances such as Marijuana; So what purpose is there in all the injustice and wickedness in the world? God is holy and will not let the guilty go unpunished, to the Glory of God indeed!

Psalm 62 declares it is for the purpose of the Glory of God to find rest in God alone! David likens God to a Rock. When you go to look at a Mountain, you cannot help but see permanency! When you go to the Rock, you cannot help but find God to be a Refuge, a place for shelter and protection from the storms and to be shielded from Enemies.

Psalm 62 contrasts the permanency of God's Eternal Nature as a Mighty rock in contrast to the temporary nature of finite man, who is likened to a mere breath, both lowborn men are a breath and high born men are a lie, to be weighed on the Scale they amount to nothing! "Selah9 Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath. 10 Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods; though your riches increase do not set your heart on them"

The final conclusion to the matter is that my soul rests in God alone! It is to His glory that I must find my rest in Him alone. And when difficult times arise, we tend to wish that our enemies just perish and die, because we do not want to deal with the situation or deal difficult people, or circumstances that arise to threaten our existence by the hands of wicked people and enemies.

But God want us to deal with the circumstances, He wants us to deal with all our oppositions, enemies and difficult situations, He want us to pour our hearts to Him verse 8.

God will not get rid of our enemies, they will surround us like the sea, they are set up by His Divine appointment and providential will; The difficult situations and circumstances are there for us to use them to Seek Him; He wants us to seek Him in the midst of our Enemies, to find Him as our Rock, to deal with the difficulties by praying and pouring out our hearts to Him to the details of life, so that we can deal with our situations with His Great Strength, help and Deliverance, to find Him with us to help us deal with our difficult situations, circumstances, people and enemies. "8 Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge."

Therefore, Deal with your circumstances no matter how hard or difficult, find God as your Mountain and Rock see Him through the mist of difficult circumstances and people, Know that they are but a mere vapor Mist that vanishes until your soul find Rest in God alone!

When we seek Him and find Him with all our hearts, we can declare with David in this Psalm that my soul find rest in God alone, Salvation comes from Him and I will not be shaken when I trust in Him.

Difficult situations arise to waken me up and goad me to find my rest and Salvation in God my Rock! That I may depend on God who is Eternal, Faithful and Sovereign Directing all circumstances in my life that I may deal with them through prayer and find rest in God.
In doing so, the purpose for all the situations that God wants me to deal with through prayer and trust in Him alone, will always lead me to the Glory of God!
But woe is me if I fail to seek Him when difficult situations, opposing circumstances, threatening people and enemies seek to destroy me and topple me; woe is me if I fail to use the rising tide of difficulties and opposition as an opportunity to seek God as my refuge and Rock through the Rock of my Salvation--even Jesus Christ, My Lord and My God! In failing to seek Him, I will indeed be decimated and destroyed; if I fail to go to the Rock of My Salvation through Prayer during the rising tide of threatening situations and circumstances.Finite man, leaders, broken circumstances, difficult situations, oppositions, threatening people and enemies are indeed temporary and unstable to trust in, a mere breathe; here today and gone tomorrow!

But God is indeed my Rest, my Rock, Refuge, Mighty to Save me eternally as I trust in His only Begotten Son!

Temporary Rulers will be a footstool for His Feet! Psalm 110

Psalm 110 Of David. A psalm.

1 The LORD says to my lord:[a]
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet.”
2 The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of your enemies!”
3 Your troops will be willing
on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,
your young men will come to you
like dew from the morning’s womb.[b]
4 The LORD has sworn
and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.”
5 The Lord is at your right hand[c];
he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
6 He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead
and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
7 He will drink from a brook along the way,[d]
and so he will lift his head high.

Psalm 2:
1 Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth rise up
and the rulers band together against the LORD and against his anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break their chains
and throw off their shackles.” 4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.
5 He rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying, 6 “I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.” 7 I will proclaim the LORD’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father.
8 Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. 9 You will break them with a rod of iron[b]; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.” 10 Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. 11 Serve the LORD with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling. 12 Kiss his son, or he will be angry
and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

It does not end here with these inferior Rulers! Rulers who Employ their hating means and inventions of hate toward God to support their ways and rule of rage and hatred against God! The people gathered to themselves rulers who will support their life styles that show rage and hatred toward God and His Holy Son; being controlled and in bondage to their sin cursed self and ruled by this world of darkness.

All the rulers through out history are just a mere breath and vapor mist under God's Sovereign Rule of the universe! God Sovereignty is directing all these corrupt rulers in the past, present and future to Direct their heart like a water course according to His Divine purpose and predetermined Plans to be fulfilled in His only Begotten Son Proverbs 21:1, to the end of accomplishing His ultimate purpose in the Culmination of all things in the Ultimate Revealing of the Rule of His Son until all His Enemies are made a footstool for His feet!

Just think, it is God's revealed will that Obama was re-elected. I also, look in history and see even in the Roman, Babylonian, Persian, Egyptian empires and more, how evil rulers ruled by a Law of lying and broken promises, unfaithful to execute Justice and faithfulness to their words; full of lies, greed for sordid gain, oppression over the people and murdering of the innocent--even today, of the unborn babies murdered by a rule of law of legalized abortion. But fear not, though wickedness and corruption and the murdering of innocent unborn babies and injustice seems to prevail; God was, and still is, directing these inferior sovereigns for His good and perfect will to be revealed in the culmination of all things in the ultimate rule of His Son. It happened today and in History gone by, in order that Church and the elect and Believers in Christ are directed by the Hand of God to place our Faith in the rule and governance of the Kingdom of God through Jesus!Thy will be Done on earth as it is in Heaven...for thine is the Kingdom and Power and Glory and dominion forevermore!

God, I Praise you for your Sovereign rule over the universe and History in and through My God and Savior and King of all Kings, your only begotten Son the LORD Jesus Christ unto His rule and dominion forever more, His Kingdom without end!