The Boldness of Marriage

 Saints,

The boldness of marriage should relate to the boldness of entering into a fellowship with Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:9) from the faithful Father who arranged this intimacy.  In all, continue looking into the mirror of the Bible 2 Corinthians 3:18, stick with opening up often and you'll not get lost along the way.  Know God isn't looking for perfection Jeremiah 3:1 (Romans 3:23) He is looking for an established covenant that is better than ever before Hebrews 8:6.

I would say twice from Hebrews, but actually three times (Isaiah 43:26) we're called to be bold with God. 

Hebrews 4:16 (KJV, AMP)
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 10:19 (KJV)
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

In closing,

Let the church be subject unto Christ.  Keep looking to the principles of Jesus, NOT to the circumstance of feelings, but looking to His patience with us and our patience with what we deal with.  For Jesus Luke 21:19, the Apostle Paul Romans 5:3 and the Apostle James 1:2-4 all talk a GREAT deal about patience having her perfect work, that we may be perfect!

Ephesians 5:24 (KJV)
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Yamin Noraim

 Saints,

In this season the good Lord has laid it upon my heart to share the joy of making things right with our neighbors.  It's never an issue with God for repentance comes quite easily for His mercy is new every morning. 

Lamentations 3:22-23 (KJV)
²² It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
²³ They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

In the realm of the spirit, quite sad when folks hold onto a grudge more gracious-fully than an old friendship.  

Days of Awe – In Hebrew, Yamin Noraim, also called the Ten Days of Repentance. It is the most serious season in the Jewish calendar. This period begins at Rosh HaShanah and includes ten days of introspection and repentance, leading to Yom Kippur on the tenth day. It is a time of soul searching and of making things right with God and one’s neighbors.

Nadler, Sam; Rose Publishing. Feasts of the Bible Participant Guide (p. 57). Rose Publishing. Kindle Edition. 

In Closing,

Whether waiting till the fall feasts or when it's upon one's heart to heal. Go ahead and let your neighbor know all is well, God is Good, and His mercy is from everlasting to everlasting.  Hallelujah to the Lamb of God!   Healing the soul is refreshment of joy unto all.

My Friends, the Big IF

 John 15:14 (NASB)
You are My friends IF you do what I command you.  - Jesus

1 John 3:18 (Complete Jewish Bible)
Children, let us love not with words and talk, but with actions and in reality!

Titus 1:16 (KJV)
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

1 John 4:20 (NASB)
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

James 4:4 (KJV) 
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 

Saul & Manasseh

 2 Chronicles 33:10-13
10 Now the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.
11 So the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks [through his nose or cheeks] and bound him with bronze [chains] and took him to Babylon. (AMP)

12 But while in deep distress, Manasseh sought the LORD his God and sincerely humbled himself before the God of his ancestors. 
13 And when he prayed, the LORD listened to him and was moved by his request. So the LORD brought Manasseh back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh finally realized that the LORD alone is God!

Saints,
Manasseh reigned 55 years and for the most part a disgrace to society.  Between him and the 1st King of Israel Saul (1 Samuel 22:19) who killed 85 priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep because of his jealousy of the anointing upon King David.  

God in His infinite mercy showed these two jerks grace beyond everything.  
How much more will God stand in the gap and demonstrate His infinite mercy (kindness) to one who is suffering in righteousness? 

I say to myself and unto all the following passages ..

1 Peter 1:6-7
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, ⁷ That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

1 Peter 4:12-13
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: ¹³ But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Isaiah 49:4
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in empty futility; yet surely my vindication is with the Lord, and my recompense is with my God.

Philippians 2:16
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Labored in vain, Isaiah 49:4

Rose early this morning to quickly dive into fellowship with Jesus and surrendered myself (Ephesians 5:24) at the Cross. Crucified to the world (Galatians 6:14) that He may shine gloriously through me.

Thought of King David in 1 Samuel 25:21 when faced with difficulty, he quoted 'in vain I have taken care of all ... in the wilderness'.  

From this I found Isaiah 49:4 and Philippians 2:16 of where I and many of us can relate to.

Isaiah 49:4
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in empty futility; yet surely my vindication is with the Lord, and my recompense is with my God.

Philippians 2:14, 16
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. 

In closing,

The storms of life come (John 16:33) and take to heart what Jesus, the Apostle Paul & James have said to keep our joy or count it all joy.  Psalms 60:11, 108:12 both say "Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man."

Surely our vindication is with the Lord, and our recompense is with our God!  -- Isaiah 49:4