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Genesis 1:3  And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

<< Genesis 1:2Genesis 1:3Genesis 1:4 >>

This message is not to debate or argue for Genesis 1 or Creationism.  It is simply a statement on How Big God is.

It is interesting, Good Science, Excellent Science says the universe is 13.5 billion years old. The Bible covers about 6000 years. Now, in this message I will not argue either, because, 

I think God is so intelligent, so creative,

that He could have created the Universe, the whole universe in six days just as Genesis says, 6000 years ago and made it look like 13.5 billion years just to makes us humans gaze, geek, gawk, seek, and discover in awe of what He can do with His creative words as in "let there be light".

Even the best science of Big Bang Creationism testifies to the first element of creation, in the first three seconds of the 'Big Bang', there was visible light. And, that testifies to the Divine Inspiration of Genesis 1. Now most of us here reading this, believe that the Bible is Divinely Inspired, I just find it interesting that Creation Science testifies to what we believe.

God is so far beyond amazing everyday that I wonder why people think He is amazing. He loves us and what He does for us is out of that love and it happens every single day! God truly is so incredibly Reliable!  It is just what He does and He is not in trying to be amazing to us, because it is all done out of His love for us.

Why is it people are so self-centered they deny God and fail to see the Love everyday He has for us.  Everything is in its place, defined by God's Laws of Physics, and everything stays in its place each and every day.  All this science exists because God Loves us, wants us in Relationship with Him, yet people still deny Him.  How is it they deny yet love their life, the very life God gave them.  What is truly amazing is God's patience with us.  In His love for us, He continually waits for us to desire our Close Personal Relationship with Him, HE blesses us, and pours out His grace on us.

The Word of God is so Powerful just as is His Love and Patience.

Thanks be to God

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The conditions under which the Earth survives its existence is truly amazing.  We live in what "Creation Science" calls the "Goldilocks Zone".  The earth is not too hot, not to cold, gets just the right about of sunlight, just the right seasons for growing food, and many other conditions that are "just right" to keep  us alive.  The Gospels teach that God wants a Personal relationship with us.  It is amazing to consider that our Earthly conditions of our physical existence tells us the same.  Click the link below for a short thought on this and share as you are lead to do so.
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Publication  0197

Jesus, The Master of Patience

Jesus, The Master Of Patience

                                       

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Paul writing to the Galatians, 5:22-23  

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control...

As a Boy Scoutmaster and a middle school teacher I really learned the meaning and need for patience.

I would teach my young scouts the need to keep a knife sharp, as one will cut themselves with a dull knife more often than a properly used sharp knife.   Far too often, in their impatience and not heeding the teachings, they would cut themselves when forcing a dull knife to whittle a stick.  Then after our failure and as so many of us in wanting our way, we heed the good teacher of doing things right.  We always had plenty of bandages.

In another instance, in the classroom I taught the need to use flashcards (*1)  for learning new material as it reduces your time to study.  On the first test one semester, two good students made a 100.  One said he spent about an hour making flash cards and an hour studying.  The other did not make flashcards and spent four hours in study to make the same grade.  When I asked the student why he did not make flashcards, he said, "I didn't have time."  He learned the importance of having patience in following and heeding the instructions of the teacher, a person who knew best for his behavior.

Patience in Following Directions

How often is it, that we do not have the patience to follow and heed instructions or sometimes, even read the instructions.  We then take excessive time to complete a project, fail to complete a project correctly, or just fail to accomplish the task required because we did not read.

My students learning the skill of typing often learned the importance of patience and following directions; often by the experience of watching their friends type faster simply because of the friend following directions.  In learning the typing skill effectively, it was important to learn to type without looking at their fingers.  The student would have the opportunity to look at their fingers in learning a new letter, but very quickly I required them to cover their fingers for their daily practice.  In patience I would warn them about peeking at their fingers, to slow down, not use the backspace key, and "have patience with yourself".  "But Mr. Coggins, I can type faster if I look at my fingers," was the response.  But, as they saw their friends typing faster without looking at their fingers, they adopted my teachings and began to achieve good results as their friends.

Perhaps the greatest lesson I taught was having patience with themselves in following the directions of someone who knows what is best for them.  I also learned to have patience with the students by forgiving their earlier sorry results and grading their best performance in the last week for each quarter grade.  I found that their sins of past classroom mistakes being held against a student held them back from achieving their best later on.  Imagine that!

Jesus, In all His Power, He Had Patience 

In the same manner, Jesus was kindly patient with His disciples.  So many times, they showed ignorance of His mission and failed to respect people as he taught by his words and behavior what was best for their lives.  On two occasions  Jesus had to explain the parables to the disciples, Matthew 13:36, Matthew 15:15.  In all the teachings of Jesus, seeing the hatred of the Jewish leaders, and knowing the prophecy, in Matthew 16, Peter confesses Jesus as the "Christ, Son of the Living God", and just minutes later protested that Jesus just could not die at the hands of the Temple leaders.  How frustrating it must have been for Jesus.

IN ALL THIS FRUSTRATION Jesus endured with His disciples especially after waiting some 30+ years before even starting His ministry.  Imagine the self-control Jesus had when for years he saw the corrupt society the Jewish Temple leaders had come to create in their position to consort with Herod to keep the Jews under control.  He knew what His ministry had to be, yet he had to wait for God’s timing to start His ministry.  Imagine going all those years to Passover in Jerusalem and smelling the stench.  The stench developed over a full week of killing upwards to hundreds of thousands of birds and lambs slain as "forgiveness of sins", every Passover!  Birds and lambs sold by the Temple vendors at exorbitant prices that fatten the bank of the Temple leaders.  Jesus was patient for 30+ years until it was the right time to lash out at this corrupted practice of the old covenant and chastise the temple leaders as in Matthew 23.

Imagine the patient restraint Jesus showed as the Pharisees, the teachers of the law, the Sadducees  and their lawyers came to Him trying to trick him.  Trying to make Him say something they could then turn on Him to kill Him for blasphemy.  Never once were they successful because in self-controlled patience, Jesus listened and was always in control.   

I wonder if Jesus seethed in his patience as the Pharisees came to him wanting to see a sign from Him when He had clearly showed his abilities in times past.

And then, in His final moments, the patience Jesus had when He was in the Garden of Gethsemane and His disciples slept as he prayed and sweated tears of blood. 

It is interesting that in all of the Gospels, Jesus never used the word patience.  Yet patience was a required behavior and an example to us as a requirement of Jesus to accomplish His ministry.  

But for St. Paul patience was a keyword in living life as he taught and wrote his letters; in fact he teaches that 'patience' is a fruit of the Holy Spirit!  When living in the Holy Spirit in accordance with God's divine plan for our lives, the Holy Spirit leads us in patience and self-control!  Just as patient self-control was required for Jesus to complete His ministry, so to it is the same patient self-control required of us in our ministry.  We too must be patient in leading others to Christ and in being a good Christian example to those around us.

I had patiently led students in the proper methods of good typing skills, and then in patience allowed students to patiently learn for themselves the lessons I had for them.  Similarly, we too must patiently adopt and teach the lessons Jesus taught.  So to it is with our adoption of all gifts of the Holy Spirit.  

If we want people around us to truly know and be convinced of righteousness of the ways of Jesus, we must in patient self-control, living and teaching the lessons of Jesus.  Just as some of my students would not immediately adopt the lessons taught, neither will everyone come to know the full righteousness of Jesus immediately.  We must be a good example just as some of my students were the good examples to the other students in my classroom.  Just as with Jesus with His disciples, it is in our patience we must let people learn that the ways of the Master Jesus are good for us.  In doing so, just as with the disciples, those around us will come to the full knowledge that in Jesus' death and Resurrection, God verified Jesus' teachings and His behaviors for us to follow.  In that knowledge and wisdom, people around us will also know Jesus’ words and actions are God's plan for our righteous living and are truly perfect for our lives.

It is in God's Patience with us
            we are given our eternal Salvation.

Thanks be to God

lonnie

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Publication  0107


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JESUS WAS THE MASTER OF MANY THINGS.  But Patience was perhaps difficult.  He was fully human yet still had to be patient.  Sometimes we have no control and we have to be patient.  This is wise, but greater wisdom and leadership is having control but allowing people to learn from their mistakes and their impatience.  Click for some more  thoughts on the patience of Jesus.  AND DO RIGHT NOW!  oh my....my impatience is showing.  Click the link below.....please.
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Publication  0107

*1- Flash cards, put a question on the front and the answer on the back.    As you learn the question and answer, put it in a pile separate from what you don't know.  Then study the don't know pile.  After, you think you know it all.  Go back through all the cards again.

Who Is Your Own Worst Enemy?

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Galatians 5:22 NIV

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Mothers are a great example of patience.  A few years ago when I was three, my mother was painting my room, and I thought painting was really neat.  According to my mother who loved telling this story, I started asking, "Mama, I want to paint."  

Of course, the answer was no, "but mama I can do it, I know I can."
I was really persistent with mother's patience.  We went back and forth, as her patience wore thin, and with my insistence getting stronger, the telephone rang.  Of course, I was too young to answer the phone so she wiped her brush off a bit and answered the phone....and started talking... and then, sat down.  Bad thing!

I am sure of my thinking was along the lines of, "I will show her I am a big boy and can help her paint."  So, I dipped the brush in the paint and started painting.  About 45 minutes later she hung up the phone and came back to 'her' painting.  "He was so proud,"  she would tell people years later, "He painted Everything in sight, at his height.  He started with the walls, the window, the closet, the dresser, the bed, the headboard, the back of the headboard, the bed, the bed covering..... literally.   If it were at my height and it didn't move, it was painted.

When we lack patience, we often make a mess of things just like I did in my room.  Since I do not have a memory of this event, it is unlikely that my mother did much in the way of 'teaching' corrective action (aka punishment).  I think she showed extreme patience as she washed the paint off of me and the other things in the room.  

Teaching middle school and being a Boy Scout leader took and taught me much in the way of patience, and I had learned well from my mother.  In searching the NIV Bible translation, we find 17 uses and mostly definitional information about having patience with ourselves and others.  Those references are listed below and give us great learning and teaching tools..

I especially learned the value of patience in teaching keyboarding skills.  I also taught many students to be patient with themselves.  As I taught students to type without looking at their fingers, so many of them would really resist.  All I could do is tell them, "This is new and it is hard, but like many things you have to be patient with yourself."  Just as they learned to do the typing skill  and nearly all of them came to be very happy in typing without looking at your fingers, perhaps the most important behavior and skill I taught was being patient with themselves.

In a like manner, we need to learn to be patient with ourselves.  It is difficult to be patient with others, if we cannot be patient with ourselves.   Jesus did not talk about or refer to patience in His sermons, talks, and lessons.  He talked about many behaviors we should have, but never about patience.    He did not define patience as that would make it too easy for us.  He knows what is good for us and wants us to see real patience, His patience in the example He sets for us to follow.  As He taught us to show mercy because God is merciful, so too, we should show patience with others because God is constantly patient with us as we seek to be like Jesus in our walk with Him.

It is in our patience we work better with others and in our patience we more easily forgive our enemies.  As He is with us, in patience we show love, for it is in our patience we better learn to do God's will; and, in our patience and prayers, we come to know God's timing in our work for Him and His will for us in our daily living.

In your prayers, pray for having patience in all elements of your life, but especially pray for God through the Holy Spirit to give you the gift to have patience for yourself.  If not, you could be your own worst enemy.


Thanks be to God.
lonnie
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Topics: Patience Bible Verses

• Proverbs 19:11 NIV

  A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense.
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• Proverbs 25:15 NIV

  Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
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• Ecclesiastes 7:8 NIV

  The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.
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• Isaiah 7:13 NIV

  Then Isaiah said, "Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also?
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• Romans 2:4 NIV

  Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?
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• Romans 9:22 NIV

  What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patiencethe objects of his wrath--prepared for destruction?
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• 2 Corinthians 6:6 NIV

  in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
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• Galatians 5:22 NIV

  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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• Colossians 1:11 NIV

  being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully
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• Colossians 3:12 NIV

  Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
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• 1 Timothy 1:16 NIV

  But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life.
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• 2 Timothy 3:10 NIV

  [Paul's Charge to Timothy] You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
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• 2 Timothy 4:2 NIV

  Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction.
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• Hebrews 6:12 NIV

  We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.
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• James 5:7 NIV

  [Patience in Suffering] Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains.
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• James 5:10 NIV

  Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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• 2 Peter 3:15 NIV

  Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him.
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Publication  0091

Things God Desires for Us

Things God Desires for Us   

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God Desires For us

 to Desire what He Desires for us

  because He has a plan for us  (Jeremiah 29:11).
...
For us
  to understand that Faith is about Trust,
  Trusting Him in our Personal Loving Relationship with Him- our faith.
...

For us
To quit trying of find ourselves out of things in this world

 but to "...seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, 

                 and all these things will be given to you as well."
                    (Matthew 6:33)
...
For us

 to lose our earth-bound self-confidence
 by praying humbly for His confidence to fill our lives.
…
For us
 to Prune our lives of Undesirable Behavior

     Just as

           A farmer trims a grape vine to insure

           There will be fruitfulness in the next season.
...
God Desires For us

 to stop pursuing the ways of the world 

 By living in His Way

           in seeking His Perfect Guidance.
...
For us
 to shed our attempt at our self-control 

 by living in The Ways and the Example of Jesus.  
...
For us 
 to cease living in the ways we want 

 by living Gloriously in the Guidance of the Holy Spirit.
...
For us

 to cease being Content in our little Discontented lives

 because it is better for us to live in obedience to Him

     than to die in the pleasures of our earthly desires.
...

For us 

 to Pray first and foremost 
     for His the forgiveness of our sins 

     because He desires to forgive us.
...
For us to know that

 Just being Good is not Good enough

    and

   the Good Life begins with "I believe...".   
...
For us

 to be Merciful to others

 as He is Merciful to us.
...
God Desires For us

 to Love each other

 Because He Loves us.
...
For us

 to pray for each other

 because Jesus prayed for us.
...
For us

to be thankful in all Circumstances and 

     depend on Him to provide our needs.
...
For us

 to understand the difference between 

     our 'Wants' and our 'Needs'

  and He will supply our needs in His timing.
...
For us

 to Trust, love, and Worship only Him as our God.
...
For us

 to Help, Love, forgive, 

 and have forbearance toward others

    for truly He is patiently waiting on us.
...
God Desires For us
  to never give up, depend on Him faithfully,
  believe He will always deliver our needs,
  and 
   His Intentional Will and
      His Ultimate Will shall never fail us.
...
For us

 to do our part in Prayer and Bible Study

      for  building an Authentic Relationship in Him 

           leading to a Personal Relationship with Him.

Thanks be to God.

   lonnie                

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Publication  0049


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GOD HAD GOOD PLANS FOR US.  His intentional will for us is so very good for our everyday lives and He loves us so much that He sent His Son to teach and show us.  It is too bad that we sometimes get stupid and think we know better.  I am thankful He is always ready to take me back in.    Click for some thoughts on what God wants for us.
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