JESUS IS...{a walk through the Scriptures}

Jesus is….
From Genesis, He is the Ram at Abraham’s altar.
From Exodus, He is the Passover Lamb.
From Leviticus, He is the High Priest.
From Numbers, He is the Cloud by day and the Pillar of Fire by night.
From Deuteronomy, He is the City of our refuge.
From Joshua, He is the Scarlet Thread out Rahab’s window.
From Judges, He is our Judge.
From Ruth, He is our Kinsman Redeemer.
From 1st and 2nd Samuel, He is our Trusted Prophet.
From Kings and Chronicles, He is our Reigning King.
From Ezra, He is our Faithful Scribe.
From Nehemiah, He is the Rebuilder of everything that is broken.
From Esther, He is the Mordecai sitting faithful at the gate.
From Job, He is our Redeemer that ever liveth.
From Psalms, He is My Shepherd and I shall not want.
From Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, He is our Wisdom.
From Song of Solomon, He is the Beautiful Bridegroom.
From Isaiah, He is the Suffering Servant
From Jeremiah and Lamentations, Jesus is the Weeping Prophet.
From Ezekiel, He is the Wonderful Four-Faced Man.
From Daniel, He is the Fourth Man in the midst of a fiery furnace.
From Hosea, He is My Love that is forever faithful.
From Joel, He baptizes us with the Holy Spirit.
From Amos, He’s our Burden Bearer.
From Obadiah, He is our Savior.
From Jonah, He is the Great Foreign Missionary that takes the Word of God into all the world.
From Micah, He is the Messenger with beautiful feet.
From Nahum, He is the Avenger.
From Habakkuk, He is the Watchman that is ever praying for revival.
From Zephaniah, He is the Lord mighty to save.
From Haggai, He is the Restorer of our lost heritage.
From Zechariah, He is our Fountain.
From Malachi, He is the Sun of Righteousness with healing in His wings.
From Matthew, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
From Mark, He is the Miracle Worker.
From Luke, He is the Son of Man.
From John, He is the Door by which every one of us must enter.
From Acts, He is the Shining Light that appears to Saul on the road to Damascus.
From Romans, He is the Justifier.
From 1 Corinthians, He is our Resurrection.
From 2 Corinthians, He is our Sin Bearer.
From Galatians, He redeems us from the Law.
From Ephesians, HE is our Unsearchable Riches.
From Philippians, He supplies our every need.
From Colossians, He’s the Fullness of the Godhead Bodily.
From 1 and 2 Thessalonians, He is our Soon Coming King.
From 1 and 2 Timothy, He is the Mediator between God and man.
From Titus, He is our Blessed Hope.
From Phileman, He is a Friend that sticks closer than a brother.
From Hebrews, He is the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant.
From James, HE is the Lord that heals the sick.
From 1 and 2 Peter, He is the Chief Shepherd.
From 1, 2 and 3 John, it is Jesus who has the tenderness of love.
From Jude, the Lord is coming with 10,000 servants.
From Revelation, lift up your eyes, Church, for your redemptions draweth nigh; He is our King of kings and Lord of lords.

ALL HAIL THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME, FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME LIKE THE NAME OF JESUS. HIS NAME IS ABOVE ALL NAMES.

From the Celebration Hymnal #14.

The Hand of God

We have seen the eye of God...
























Now we can see the hand of God...

Photos taken by the Hubble Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory

The Best Story Ever Told!

The High Priest is Alive...pt. 1

A bit of Old Testament History:

The Jewish nation had a temple. This temple had an inner part called the Holy of Holies. No one was to enter this part of the temple, except one day per year: The Day of Atonement. This was the day that the High Priest would enter into the Holy of Holies to present a sacrifice to the Lord. This sacrifice was to atone (cleanse) the sins of the entire Jewish nation.

"To the high priest alone it was permitted to enter the holy of holies, which he did only once a year, on the great Day of Atonement, for "the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest" (Hebrews 9; 10). Wearing his gorgeous priestly vestments, he entered the temple before all the people, and then, laying them aside and assuming only his linen garments in secret, he entered the Holy of Holies alone, and made expiation, sprinkling the blood of the sin offering on the mercy seat, and offering up incense. Then resuming his splendid robes, he reappeared before the people
(Lev. 16)." (christiananswers.net)

Picture from christiananswers.net

Hearing for the First Time

This video is from a missionary friend of mine in Paraguay:



Hearing for the first time! Did you see the look on his face when he heard his first sounds?

I can't help but think about hearing the Gospel-the message of Jesus Christ. Having grown up in a Chrisitan Culture, in a Chrisitan Home the message was always around me. What is is like to hear the message for the first time? I think the look would be similar to that of Jorge's.

What a privilege it would be to go to a part of the world where the Gospel has not been heard...and to be there when they hear it for the first time!

To read more about Jorge's story visit Passion for Paraguay.

A Divine Dance

God wants your answer to by "YES!"

A Colorful God...

The first time I saw this woman at church, I was a little surprised to see the colors in her hair; a most unusual do for a retirement community. I finally had the nerve to ask her the story behind her hair (the following is paraphrased by me)

“Last summer I was doing a Bible study and I really was impressed by how colorful God is. The theme of color kept running through my head. I was at the beauty salon and saw a hairdresser adding colors to hair and I felt that God wanted me to represent His color through my hair. So I did it, a little nervous as to what all the ‘old people’ at church would think (the ladies love it…the men not so much). A few weeks later I went to visit my grandkids who are teenagers. Both were shocked at my hair. On Sunday they asked if it was ok to go to church with hair colored like this (as they have some crazy hair too). I told them it was; they joined me for the first time at church. One is now walking with the Lord.”

Is that not the coolest story of how God can use the weirdest things to bring others to Him. I was so blessed by this woman’s story and am glad I had the guts to ask her to tell me her story. What are the stories that are around you that you might be missing out on because you don’t want to ask?
For another story of a great Christian who was asked to do something that went against his culture read Reese Howells - Intercessor