5/08/2013

ASCENSION DAY !


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And 
no man 
hath ascended up to Heaven, 
but HE+ 
that came down from Heaven, 
even the SON+ of Man
which IS in Heaven ! 
Words of JESUS
before HE+ was crucified
and Resurrected, 
as recorded in John 3:13


Now that
HE+ 
ascended, 
what is it 
but that 
HE+
also descended 

first 

into 

the lower parts 

of the earth ? 

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HE+ 
that descended 
is the same also that ascended 
up far 
above all Heavens, 
that 
HE+ 
might fill all things. 
Ephesians 4: 9, 10


... Go to MY+ Brethren and say unto them,  
I+ ascend unto MY+ FATHER 
and your FATHER   
and to MY+ GOD 
and your GOD. 
John 20: 17b


...What and 
if ye shall see 
the SON+ of Man 
ascend up where 
HE+ 
was before ?
John 6:62

My Brethren, 

You watch all things temporal but you need to watch things in Heavenly places. Times are changing. Soon, life will not continue on as it has been. Times are changing.  Take heed, lest your heart be over-charged with surfeiting and entanglements of your temporal existence. It will be gone in an instant. 

You do not need new "THINGS;" rather, you need an intense focus upon ME+.

In the days coming, I+ AM the only ONE+ Who+ will be able to keep you safe.

Discard the frivolous, the superficial, the external.... all those things which distract you from ME+. Burn them or give them away. Only you, My+ Brethren, can draw close to ME+. It is not given to those outside of ME+ to be able to draw close to Our FATHER WHO art in HEAVEN. 

Draw close to ME+... close to ME+... to ME+.  

3/30/2013

Death Hath NO more DOMINION over HIM+ ... ALLELUJAH !

Order of the GOOD SHEPHERD+

JESUS,
WHOM+
GOD hath raised up, 
having loosed the pains of Death; 

because 

it was NOT POSSIBLE
 
that HE+ should be holden of it ! 

Amen, 
Alleluia ! 

Since by man came death, 
by Man+ came also
the Resurrection 

from the Dead. 

For as in Adam all die, 
even so in CHRIST
shall all be made alive ! 

Yes, even so in CHRIST
shall all be made alive !  

Worthy is the LAMB+...
Worthy is the LAMB+....
Worthy is the LAMB+ 

that was slain
to receive  power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.

O GOD our FATHER,
Who for our redemption
didst give
Thine Only-Begotten SON+
to suffer death on the cross
and by
HIS+ Glorious Resurrection
has delivered us
from the power of the adversary.

Grant us so to die daily from sin
that we may evermore live with
HIM+
in the joy of His+ Resurrection.


This we ask,
through
JESUS CHRIST our LORD,
WHO+
lives and reigns with THEE
and Thy Blessed HOLY SPIRIT,
ONE GOD,
now and forever to the endless ages.
Amen 

3/29/2013

Can GOD FORSAKE His Own ?

Drawing by Anon Artist
Precious SAVIOR!
Crucified!
No death is so thorough. No shame is so complete.
First, there was the scourging.
The scourging post was two feet high. An iron ring, placed close to the top, projected from both sides.

Clothing was ripped away... 
from a prisoner so that he stood naked. Roman lictors were
professionals. They confined their labours to the fine, 

brutal art of scourging, and they could beat a victim until 
only the barest spark of life remained in the prisoner.
Wrists were firmly shackled to the iron rings. Then the victim was stretched, face down, with his feet pointing away from the post.

The Roman scourge was a flagra, a short-handled whip consisting of several thin iron chains which ended in small weights.

Scourging was called the "little death". It preceded the 
"big death": Crucifixion.
Even the tension of awaiting the first blow is cruel. The body is rigid. The muscles knot in tormenting cramps. Colour drains from the cheeks. Lips are drawn tight against the teeth.

As the whip descends, the chains fan out across the back, and each link cuts through the skin and deep into the flesh. The weights crash with bruising force into the ribs and curl tortuously around the chest.

When a man is scourged... 
there is pain beyond the memory of pain. 
Sweat bursts from the brow and stings the eyes. 
At each stroke of the flagra, 
a victim's body twitches 

like a beheaded chicken. 

The second stroke 
patterns the back and half of the chest 
with a V-shaped network of small cuts. 
Only the Son+ of God 
could hold back the high-pitched wail 
of unbearable agony.

The very juice of life is torn away with every lash. There is only the blinding, burning pain as cruel whips whistle again and again through the air and across the back and shoulders. The flagra can flay a man alive.

Under Hebrew law, the strokes were limited to 39. 

Roman punishment was not so limited. 
There was only one rule for the lictor who scourged a man about to be crucified: he must not die. A spark of life must be sustained for the agony on the cross.

Men have bitten their tongues in two under such beatings.
Only blessed unconsciousness could bring relief.

The limp body of a victim... 
was cut away from the post. His wounds were washed but 
not otherwise medicated. The next step was the parade to 
the execution ground.
Roman politicians always liked to make examples of condemned men. The long, slow parade along public streets was designed to serve as a warning to others that Rome dealt quickly and mercilessly.

A centurion usually served as the executioner or carnifex servorum.

While four soldiers held the prisoner, 
he placed the sharp five-inch iron spike in the center of the palm of the hand. A skillful, experienced blow would send it through to the wood. Four to five more strokes would hammer the spike deep into the rough plank, and a final blow turned it up so that the hand could not slip free.
A small projection, resembling a rhinoceros horn and known as the "sedile" is fitted solidly through the crotch. This was fitted in order to take most of the weight off the condemned man's hands. Then a nail was driven through each foot.

It was a death reserved for slaves, thieves and traitors.
The wounds in the hands send fire down through the arms.
Fainting only relieves temporarily.
It is darkness and pain; then pain and darkness.
The pain in the back, arms, hands, feet and crotch is a dull, throbbing, horrible, endless pain. The pain builds up. It multiplies. 

It is cumulative.  

There is not one moment of respite.

The cross is planted so that the greatest amount of sunlight will pierce the prisoner's eyes.

Below, the curious crowd wait, fascinated by the torture. The macabre scene is played out slowly. Dying should be a private thing, not a public spectacle. There is something obscene about having a mob of people standing around, waiting for you to die.

Then the thirst begins.
The lips are dry. The mouth is parched. The blood is hot. The skin is fevered. The greatest of all needs at this moment is a drop of cool water.
Water is denied.
At the foot of the cross the death-squad drinks in the presence of the dying man, to add to his mental torment. The sun shines directly into the eyes of the crucified. Even when the eyelids are closed a red glare penetrates. The tongue thickens. What was once saliva is now like unloomed wool. Swelling begins in the hands and the feet. The sedile digs deeply into the genitals. It is impossible to turn, or to change one's position. Muscles begin to twitch.

The real horror is only beginning.
What has happened up until now is child's play.
One by one the muscles of the back gather in tight, knotty cramps. There is no escaping them, no pulling out of them, no gentle massaging hands to ease them away. They move across the shoulders and the thorax. They move down into the abdomen.

After two hours on a cross, every muscle in the body is locked in solid knots and the agony is beyond endurance. Men shriek themselves into insanity.

The pain and symptoms are identical to tetanus (lockjaw or the state of a muscle when undergoing continued contraction).

Man, with all his genius, has never devised a more cruel or more agonising death than that of tetanus - the slow, steady contraction of every muscle. 

Death by crucifixion makes the agony last as 
long as possible.
Each hour is an eternity.

At times the cramps make the neck rigid and the head is held flush against the vertical beam. A man longs for death. It is his only desire.

There are flies, insects, and the yelps of dogs with the smell of blood in their nostrils. Birds of prey, scavengers of the skies, circle lower and lower.

Prayers seem to mock a man, but you either pray or curse.
As the hours pass, the tiny blood vessels which feed the nerves will be squeezed flat, and with the lack of blood circulation comes a numbing paralysis.

A new agony develops ... for those who linger 
on the cross. 
It is the agony of the mucous membrane.
During crucifixion, the mucous membrane 
- that thin, slippery tissue 
which lines and lubricates much of the human body - 
dries to the consistency of fine gravel 
and scrapes the tender tissues of the anus 
(the posterior opening of the alimentary canal).

The dried membranes 
tear at the tortured throat. 
They lie like stones in the sinuses. 
Layers of tissue are ripped from the eyes 
every time 
they are moved or blinked.
On the cross there is no end of suffering. It is only the manner of suffering that changes, and the degree of pain that changes.

As the hours passed, soldiers were inclined to hasten death. They began breaking bones. Standing on a ladder, a practised legionnaire would swing a mallet in a short arc and shatter the right femur (the thigh-bone) instantly. A second, sharp blow would shatter the left thigh. These were new pains.

Could there ever be more intense suffering this side of hell?

Most condemned men died naked.

JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED. HE+ died the most brutal death ever devised by man.
HE+ took my place. It was my sin that sent Him+ there.
JESUS died the most thorough death ever devised. It was designed to allow the slow death-erosion of cell, muscle, emotion, bone, tissue, mind, spirit, blood and heart-beat. 
CHRIST was crucified, states the Scripture. HE+ did it all for you and me...

Thus the victory 
of the Resurrection 
is the most complete victory 
ever recorded.

Up from the grave 
HE+ arose,
With a mighty triumph 
o'er His+ foes;

HE+ arose a VICTOR+ 
from the dark domain,

And HE+ lives forever 
with His+ saints to reign.


HE+ arose! 


HE+ arose!


Hallelujah! 

CHRIST arose!

No further sacrifice for my sins is needed.
JESUS paid it ALL.
1 CORINTHIANS 1:17-24
by C. M. Ward (Sydney)
www.cai.org

3/27/2013

UNION with CHRIST JESUS

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Stay in UNION 
with CHRIST JESUS !

Let the prince of this world find

NOTHING
in you.


Stay in UNION 
with CHRIST JESUS !

Do not scatter your strength.
Concentrate on ONE+. 
Be thorough. 
Be attentive.

Move away 
from the world 
NOW! 

Unify yourself with ME+. 

Practice bringing 
every thought
into captivity 
to My+ Word. 

Practice thinking
"whatsoever things are 
pure, holy, lovely, and of good report"
about one another. 


If you see a need, then pray and make supplication with as much zeal as if it were you yourself  standing in need of mercy.  

Intercede AGAINST the devil for the deliverance of that person, with the same cry for defense that you would wish for yourself, against the lying torments of satan. 

Remember: 
I+ will judge you
by those SAME STANDARDS 
by which 
you have judged others. 

To the merciful, 
I+ will show mercy. 
But, to the froward, 
I+ will show Myself+ contrary. 

Unify yourself with ME+; 
I+ will keep you. 

Troublous times are upon 
the face of the earth. 

Stay in union 
with ME+.  


Let the prince of this world find
NOTHING
in you.



Stay in UNION
with 
ME+...

for without ME+

you can do

NOTHING! 



3/26/2013

" ... NOTHING in ME+"

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Hereafter, 

I+ 

will not talk much with you:

for

the prince of this world 

cometh, 

and hath

NOTHING 

in 

ME+. 

John 14:30 

3/23/2013

HOSANNA to The Son of David !

HOSANNA 
... O, SAVE ! ...
to The Son of David !
Photo by Karen Hanson
Healing As A Sacred Path blog

Holy Land Palm Sunday Processional 

Blessed is HE+ Who+ cometh 
in the Name of The LORD !

~ Palm Sunday ~
The Great I AM 


I AM the Resurrection.

Hosanna to the Son of David !

I AM the Life.

Blessed is HE+ that cometh

I AM the Way.

 in The Name of The LORD ! 

I AM the Truth.

they cast their garments upon the colt 

I AM the Bread of Life. 

And they sat  JESUS  thereon.

I AM the Light of the world.

...they spread their clothes in the way. 

I AM the Vine. 

...the whole multitude of the disciples 
began to rejoice


I AM the Door.

and praise GOD with a loud voice ...


I AM the Good Shepherd.


for all the mighty works that they had seen;


...I AM The SON+ of GOD.
John 10:36

Saying, 
Blessed be The KING+ 
that cometh 
in the Name of The LORD; 
peace in Heaven, 
and glory in Highest. 
Luke 19:38

3/17/2013

PASSOVER Affirmations....

Affirmations of Faith

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for worship during Guided Meditations.



O Earth, Earth, Earth...
Hear the Word+ of The LORD !

JESUS said, 
I+ 
am
The Way, 
The Truth, and 
The Life; 

No man cometh 
to The FATHER
except by ME+.  

O Earth, Earth, Earth...
Hear the Word+ of The LORD !

Neither is there Salvation 
in any other;
For there is no other Name+ 
under Heaven
given among men, 
whereby we must be saved. 

O Earth, Earth, Earth...
Hear the Word+ of The LORD !

That at the Name of JESUS
every knee shall bow, 
of beings in Heaven, 
beings in earth, 
and beings under the earth,

And that every tongue should confess
That JESUS CHRIST is LORD
to the Glory of GOD The FATHER. 

O Earth, Earth, Earth... 
Hear the Word+ of The LORD !