The BIRTH-RIGHT of HIS+ INCARNATION ....

ADVENT MEDITATIONS for 2014

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Revelation 12:5  And she brought forth a MAN CHILD+, WHO+ was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her CHILD+ was caught up unto GOD, and to HIS throne.

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This Royal ROD, this scepter, is used in Psalm 23 ... 

 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for THOU+ art with me; THY+ rod and THY+ staff they comfort me... 

... and in Isaiah 11:4.  

But with righteousness shall HE+ judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and HE+ shall smite the earth: with the rod of His+ mouth, and with the breath of His+ lips shall HE+ slay the wicked.

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This Special SCEPTER like the world has NEVER SEEN BEFORE ~ His+ Royal Rod ~  is  unyielding.  

It is the birth-right

of HIS+ INCARNATION: 

JESUS, LORD at Thy+ Birth. 

His+ Royal Rod will come against all those who are UNYIELDING towards the LORDSHIP+ of the HOLY ONE+ of Israel. 

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     Harken, , does not MY+ Word say, "... and with the froward, I+ will show Myself+ froward ? "   Does not My+ Word say, "... if ye walk contrary to ME+, then I+ will walk contrary unto you ? "

BEHOLD, I+ AM The LORD;  I+ change not. 

Turn ye, turn ye, ....  

O, why will ye die ... ? 

BEHOLD,  I+,

I+  have the keys of Hell and death!

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The Rod of Iron in the Hand of The RISEN CHRIST will sift all nations. It will sift all religious organizations. It will sift each person carrying the name of CHRIST in his mouth. 

This Royal Rod will sift each nation by the TRUTH+ : What have you done to MY People, the ancient race who has brought forth The MESSIAH+ ? 

What have you done to MY People, MY+ little ones who have believed on ME+ and followed ME+ according to My+ Ways ? 

I granted you authority for a short time over MY+ People. How have you used that authority, O Egypt? O Sidonia ? O Tyre ? O current "city of baal" sitting on the Potomac? 

IT WILL BE REQUIRED OF YOU. 

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This Royal Rod will also sift every religious organization. 

What have YOU done to MY+ People, the ancient race whom I+ called forth to bring forth The MESSIAH ? 

What have you done to MY+ People, MY+ little ones who have believed on ME+ and followed ME+ according to MY+ Ways ?  

I+ placed you in authority over them to feed their souls and guide them away from the satan, to protect their lives. Have you done this ? 

IT WILL BE REQUIRED OF YOU.  

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O, WHOLE House of Israel, you call me "LORD, LORD" ... yet you do not do the things I+ say.  Is it merely the structure that I+ will be judging ?  Or will individuals be weighed in the balances, also ? 

What has each one of YOU who carry My+ Name, done with ME+, the promised CHRIST, The LIGHT+ of the World ? 

You have MY+ Word; did you give it freely to the world? 

You have MY+ Love; did you share it freely with the world? 

Alas... you have MY+ wrath... 
if you gave yourself more 
than you gave to ME+, in obedience.

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O Long-Suffering LORD Who+ became INCARNATE that we might become Holy, help me to turn my life around to the Living Light+, emptying myself to be filled with THEE+.  

I yield myself to THEE+, O HOLY ONE+, Who+ came once in humility but Who+ is returning in unquestionable KINGSHIP+ to this earth, to find a people prepared for THEE+. 

O, how I want to be among that number! 

This I pray, O LORD, in Thy+ Name and for Thy+ Sake. Amen

The Irresistible CHRIST+ ...

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What Our LORD declares is Eternally true:

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I,

if I be lifted up,

will draw all men

unto ME+ .

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When once you know HIM+,

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CHRIST

is

absolutely irresistible.

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You can no more help trusting HIM+

than you can help breathing.

page 21, The GOD of ALL COMFORT, by Hannah Whitall Smith, 1956 ed.

Hannah Smith writes to the Christian:

The LORD wrestles with us in order to bring us to a place of ENTIRE dependence on HIM+. We resist as long as we have any strength; until at last HE+ is forced to bring us to a place of helplessness, where we are obliged to yield; and then we conquer by this very yielding. Our victory is always the victory of weakness. ...

And this victory will be ours, if we take the LORD to be our Banner, and commit ALL our battles unto HIM+.

from page 85, The GOD of ALL COMFORT.

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The LORD is my shepherd;

I shall not want.

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HE+ maketh me to lie down

in green pastures,

HE+ leadeth me beside the still waters.

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HE+ restoreth my soul.

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HE+ leadeth me

in the paths of righteousness

for HIS+ Name's sake.

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Yea, though I walk

through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil

for THOU+ art with me.

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Thy+ rod and Thy+ staff,

they comfort me.

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THOU+ preparest a table before me

in the presence of mine enemies;

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THOU+ anointest my head with oil;

My cup runneth over.

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Surely goodness and mercy

shall follow me

all the days of my life

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and I will dwell

in the house of The LORD

forever.

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Our LORD JESUS CHRIST becomes absolutely irresistible for anyone who can see that HIS+ great good heart never changes towards HIS+ friends.

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Do you know

The Irresistible CHRIST ?

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What CHILD+ is This?

Who+, laid to rest in Mary's lap,
is sleeping...

Advent Meditation #2

2010

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HE+ maketh me to lie down in green pastures;

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HE+ leadeth me beside the still waters.

HE+

restoreth

my soul.

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Dear Gracious, Heavenly FATHER, Who ordereth our days aright:

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Deliver me from discontent. Help me to rest the ordering of my days... my life... in Thy Hands.

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Forgive my foolish ways of self-pity and complaining. Deliver me from accusing others of rejecting me... when I so badly need to make certain I have no rejection in my heart towards them. Forgive me for accusing even THEE when THOU art, in reality, saving me from my own mistaken and foolish desires.

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I thank THEE for the green pastures and the rest when I come close to THEE. I thank THEE for the Living Water, so filling and quiet, which flows to Thy Children through CHRIST JESUS, Thy Beloved Son.

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O THOU, Who respecteth no man's person nor position, I thank THEE for including me in all Thy Promises, through JESUS CHRIST my LORD.

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In the name of Thy Only-Begotten SON+, in Whom+ we live and move and have our being, I pray. Amen.

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Whose child are you?

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