Holy Bible Fellowship with StMatthew!!! (2)

[StMatthew2429]

Typing or coffee?

BOTH!!!!

Tim Hortons must make millions daily just on these things...

 

[newbeliever02072005]

Good Afternoon friends Newbeliever, MyLily, JJay, WGM, blessedvalley, and angelwind!

Im getting ready to drink down a giant IcedCap!!! MMM YUMMY!!!!

Just what I need on a day when its like -20 degrees outside! lol

Feeling left out here.....I have never had one of those. I like the hot cappuccino's....I wonder if the cold ones are any good.

Are you getting snow there Matthew? We are , about an inch on the ground already. Think its supposed to snow into the night. 9 degree temps are predicated as well.....eeeek!!! Time to crank up the woodstove!

 

[shakingthedustoffmyfeet]

Feeling left out here.....I have never had one of those. I like the hot cappuccino's....I wonder if the cold ones are any good.

Are you getting snow there Matthew? We are , about an inch on the ground already. Think its supposed to snow into the night. 9 degree temps are predicated as well.....eeeek!!! Time to crank up the woodstove!

The frozen ones are fabulous, New Believer. One summer I gained 15 pounds... that was the first summer I tried them. One blend had real toasted coconut in it. I am glad that blend of frozen frap no longer exists. I

 

[newbeliever02072005]

The frozen ones are fabulous, New Believer. One summer I gained 15 pounds... that was the first summer I tried them. One blend had real toasted coconut in it. I am glad that blend of frozen frap no longer exists. I

Well I probably should be happy that the TH's are in the city....about 45 miles from here

I certainly can't afford a 15 lb gain!!!

 

[StMatthew2429]

Feeling left out here.....I have never had one of those. I like the hot cappuccino's....I wonder if the cold ones are any good.

Are you getting snow there Matthew? We are , about an inch on the ground already. Think its supposed to snow into the night. 9 degree temps are predicated as well.....eeeek!!! Time to crank up the woodstove!

I wonder? lol
Let me tell you friend, THEY ARE!!!!

..Iwould overnight you one if it would make it, but besides the whole melting factor..Id drink it first!!!

Yeah you know...snow, wind, bitter cold...it FEELS like -9! BURRRRRRRR COLDDDDD!!!!!

:o

 

[Phil413]

Good evening Matt and friends... I hope you all have had a wonderful Sunday.Today we started a revival, and a couple of things the pastor preached really tugged at my heart. Has got me really looking forward to tonights sermon. I'm hopping that my work schedule will allow me to be home and attend the services through out the week. Wishing everyone a blessed evening.

 

[JPPT1974]

Wish you all a great evening
And a great week

 

[StMatthew2429]

Good evening Matt and friends... I hope you all have had a wonderful Sunday.Today we started a revival, and a couple of things the pastor preached really tugged at my heart. Has got me really looking forward to tonights sermon. I'm hopping that my work schedule will allow me to be home and attend the services through out the week. Wishing everyone a blessed evening.

Hey thats great news! Praise the Lord!
I pray your schedule allows it as well, but if not than its still all good, the Lord just has other plans for ya I suppose. but, he has a way of making thingas like that happen for his children! GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER PHIL!

 

[StMatthew2429]

Wish you all a great evening
And a great week

You have yourself a great week as weel sister!

 

[angelwind]

Good evening Matt and friends... I hope you all have had a wonderful Sunday.Today we started a revival, and a couple of things the pastor preached really tugged at my heart. Has got me really looking forward to tonights sermon. I'm hopping that my work schedule will allow me to be home and attend the services through out the week. Wishing everyone a blessed evening.

This sounds like fun...

 

[shakingthedustoffmyfeet]

Good morning manic Monday Matt.

 

[StMatthew2429]

Good Morning angelwind and WGM!

 

[StMatthew2429]

Todays Bible Study...ENJOY!!!

Monday, February 20 2006
Province

The English word province originated from a combination of two Latin words, pro, meaning before, and vinco, meaning conquer (vinco is also found in such words as invincible, meaning not conquerable, hence invincible has an opposite literal meaning from province). Province literally means that which I have conquered, based on its original usage by the Romans to describe a region that had been reduced to a dominion of Rome, under the command of a governor sent from Rome. Other empires adopted the term, some Biblical, some more modern.

"the remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down"
The English word "province" is used by some translations of the Scriptures to translate the Hebrew word (pronounced) med-ee-naw which means a district, or jurisdiction, but with the same imperial application as used by the Roman word province. A "province" is something that an empire creates for itself in a conquered land.
In the time of the Babylonian captivity, the Israelites were reduced to a "province" of conquered people.

"Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city" (Ezra 2:1 KJV) "And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire" (Nehemiah 1:3 KJV)
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Even by the time of their return when Jerusalem was being rebuilt, it was still "the province of Judea," while the people in Babylon were still regarded as "the province of Babylon," the conquered people of Judah in Babylon.

"Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands." "And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem" (Ezra 7:16 KJV)
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The usage of "province" (or rather the original Hebrew word meaning the same thing) to refer to a conquered land was continued by the Persians in the time of Esther:

"Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces ... In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him" (Esther 1:1,3 KJV)​

The apostle Paul was born in the Roman province of Cilicia (in what is today southern Turkey), while the land of Israel was itself another Roman province.

"Who, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him. And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia" (Acts 23:33-34 KJV) "Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem"
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Fact Finder: What empires of Bible History rendered the land of Israel into a "province" of their empire?
See Ancient Empires - Assyria, Ancient Empires - Babylon, Ancient Empires - Persia, Ancient Empires - Greece and Ancient Empires - Rome

This Day In History, February 20
1653: During the first English-Dutch War, the Dutch fleet under Van Tromp fought the British at the Battle of Portland.
1831: Polish revolutionaries defeated the Russians at the Battle of Growchow.
1862: William Lincoln, age 11, son of President Abraham Lincoln, died at the White House.
1920: Britain recognized the government of Trans-Jordan.
1938: British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden resigned in protest because of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Adolf Hitler.
1947: Louis Mountbatten was appointed the last British Viceroy of India.
1959: "Black Friday" for the Canadian aviation industry of the 1950s.

Prime Minister John Diefenbaker ended the CF-105 Arrow project - one of the fastest, most advanced fighters in human history (fighter aircraft designed and built over 40 years later are still inferior to the Arrow in some performance characteristics). With a top speed of over 1,500 miles per hour and a service ceiling of 58,500 feet (the modern-day McDonnell Douglas F-18 Hornet has a top speed of 1,300 mph and service ceiling of 50,000 feet - an Arrow could literally fly circles around a full-throttle present-day F-18), the Arrow was designed for the Royal Canadian Air Force to intercept and destroy Soviet nuclear bombers, and their fighter escorts, on route to targets in Canada and the United States, as they were entering the vast Canadian air space over the remote Arctic (Canada spent the "Cold War" years "sandwiched" between the 2 superpowers, with the U.S. on its southern border and the U.S.S.R. on its northern border).
Five Arrows were flying (two and a half times the speed of sound in the 1950s), five more were near completion, and another twenty six were on order when Diefenbaker cancelled the project. The stated reasons: high cost per aircraft, and a decision to use a promised by US President Eisenhower US missile-based defense (which was never produced - in 2004, over 40 years later, the US is still trying to create an effective "missile defense shield" for North America).
In what many consider to be a decision worthy of only a madman or a moron (this author would vote moron), Diefenbaker ordered (for which many Canadians, including this one, to this day are still struggling to forgive him, even though Diefenbaker died in 1979) every completed and in-production Arrow cut into pieces and scrapped (despite a persistent legend, that the Government and Military have always denied out of embarrassment, that a defiant Canadian air force Arrow pilot rescued one, just hours before it was scheduled to be cut up, by flying it out of the base in Toronto, without authorization, in the middle of the night, to a private air field somewhere in Canada (at low altitude so that it could not be tracked on radar, and no other aircraft in existence could catch it), where it remains today, after a supersonic low-level "buzzing" of Canada's capital city, Ottawa, including the Prime Minister's residence in which Diefenbaker was reportedly awakened by the thundering, plaster-cracking sonic booms of "the Arrow that got away").
All prototypes and blueprints were also deliberately destroyed. 15,000 production jobs were lost, plus another 35,000 jobs in spinoff industries. Many of the Canadian Arrow engineers left Canada, never to return. They found work all over the world, with several going to NASA where some elements of Arrow technology were successfully used in the Apollo moon landings ("Tranquility Base, Houston, the Eagle has landed, eh?") and various other projects of the US space program.

1962: John Glenn became the first U.S. astronaut in Earth's orbit. Amidst the violent roar and vibration of the powerful spacecraft as it was being launched, Glenn heard the barely-audible voice of a controller bidding him, "God's speed, John Glenn."
1965: The unmanned U.S. Ranger 8 made a hard landing on the moon, returned photographs and other data.
1984: Harris Shoerats, the oldest man in Britain, died at age 111.
1990: Soviet Parliamentary leaders proposed a draft law which would allow the republics the right to break away from the Soviet Union.


http://www.keyway.ca/htm2006/20060220.htm

 

[StMatthew2429]

Today's Promise from the Bible
Revelation 7:17


"For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."

Reflection

Christ has made good His claim of being the good shepherd. He has led us from the land of death to the holy city, the great Mount Zion, to green pastures. He has led us to calm waters, to the river of life everlasting! He has been faithful to draw us from the valley of death and install us upon thrones of glory in the city of life!

 

[StMatthew2429]

Meditation for This Morning
Charles Spurgeon


February 20 - Morning



"God, that comforteth those that are cast down." —2 Corinthians 7:6
And who comforteth like Him? Go to some poor, melancholy, distressed child of God; tell him sweet promises, and whisper in his ear choice words of comfort; he is like the deaf adder, he listens not to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. He is drinking gall and wormwood, and comfort him as you may, it will be only a note or two of mournful resignation that you will get from him; you will bring forth no psalms of praise, no hallelujahs, no joyful sonnets. But let God come to His child, let Him lift up his countenance, and the mourner's eyes glisten with hope. Do you not hear him sing—

"'Tis paradise, if thou art here;
If thou depart, 'tis hell?"
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You could not have cheered him: but the Lord has done it; "He is the God of all comfort." There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi. It is marvellous how one sweet word of God will make whole songs for Christians. One word of God is like a piece of gold, and the Christian is the goldbeater, and can hammer that promise out for whole weeks. So, then, poor Christian, thou needest not sit down in despair. Go to the Comforter, and ask Him to give thee consolation. Thou art a poor dry well. You have heard it said, that when a pump is dry, you must pour water down it first of all, and then you will get water, and so, Christian, when thou art dry, go to God, ask Him to shed abroad His joy in thy heart, and then thy joy shall be full. Do not go to earthly acquaintances, for you will find them Job's comforters after all; but go first and foremost to thy "God, that comforteth those that are cast down," and you will soon say, "In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul."

 

[StMatthew2429]

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—John 14:31[/SIZE][/FONT]​

Daydreaming about something in order to do it properly is right, but daydreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. In this passage, after having said these wonderful things to His disciples, we might have expected our Lord to tell them to go away and meditate over them all. But Jesus never allowed idle daydreaming. When our purpose is to seek God and to discover His will for us, daydreaming is right and acceptable. But when our inclination is to spend time daydreaming over what we have already been told to do, it is unacceptable and God’s blessing is never on it. God will take the initiative against this kind of daydreaming by prodding us to action. His instructions to us will be along the lines of this: "Don’t sit or stand there, just go!"
If we are quietly waiting before God after He has said to us, "Come aside by yourselves . . ." then that is meditation before Him to seek His will ( Mark 6:31 ). Beware, however, of giving in to mere daydreaming once God has spoken. Allow Him to be the source of all your dreams, joys, and delights, and be careful to go and obey what He has said. If you are in love with someone, you don’t sit and daydream about that person all the time— you go and do something for him. That is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Daydreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.




http://www.rbc.org/utmost/

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[StMatthew2429]

Day By Day By Grace
Bob Hoekstra


February 20th

The Grace of God and the Holy Spirit

This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: "Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit," says the LORD of hosts. Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of "Grace, grace to it!" (Zechariah 4:6-7)
The scriptures reveal a profound connection between God's grace and His Holy Spirit. Living by the grace of God and walking according to the Spirit are two different perspectives on the same reality. As we consider what walking in the Spirit comprises, we are also gaining insight regarding living day by day by grace.
Our passage from Zechariah confirms this correlation between grace and the Spirit. Here, the Lord gives a message to Zerubbabel, telling him how service is rendered unto God. "Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit," Human might and power will never be a sufficient resource for living life as God intended. Rather, the Holy Spirit must supply what we need for a life of service to the Lord.
In the next verse, this same truth is restated, using different terms. Now, the Lord is addressing the mountain of impossibility that stood before Zerubbabel. "Who are you, O great mountain? " This leader of Israel was given the challenging mission of reestablishing the testimony of God in Jerusalem, as the people returned from captivity. The obstacles had the appearance of being a "great mountain." Nevertheless, God declares that this mountain of obstructions would become a highway for advancement. "Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain!" Then, as God's man attended to God's assignment by the empowering of the Spirit, he would eventually place the final stone with an intriguing exclamation. "And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of "Grace, grace to it! " This summary testimony would declare that God's gracewas the explanation for the completion of the task. The relationship between grace and the Spirit is clear: "by My Spirit . . . grace, grace to it!" When we depend upon the Spirit, He works God's grace within our lives.
The early church also illustrated this "grace-Spirit" association. "They were all filled with the Holy Spirti, and they spoke the word of God with boldness . . . And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all" (Acts 4:31,33). The former statement indicates that their boldness came from the Holy Spirit. The latter statement, two verses later, reveals their boldness was a result of grace impacting them.
Almighty God, thank You for revealing this "grace-Spirit" association. In living by grace, I see that You must provide what I cannot produce or earn. In living by Your Spirit, I see that grace is not just a concept I apply, but rather it is a gift that must be imparted to me by the Spirit of God Himself. Lord, do Your work in me, I humbly pray, AMEN!

 

[StMatthew2429]

Here is Todays Glory of GOD Photo for Feb 20, 2006...ENJOY!

"The Heavens Declare the Glory of GOD:"~~Psalms 19:1

"M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy in Dust and Stars"

Zoom in right here...AMAZING!
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0602/m51center_hst_big.jpg

 

[angelwind]

These pictures from space are amazing...what a creation!

 

[MyLilyintheValley]

"There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. "
Yes, there is balm in God. Balm is used for healing and soothing. Sometimes the trials and turmoils of this life can cause so much stress, but if I just take the time and commune with God, tell Him what I need and let Him hold me in His arms, He applies that soothing balm and the peace that passes all understanding comes back and continues to flow. He leads me beside the still waters, He restores my soul. I have to keep going back and drinking from that fountain of living waters to get refreshed and renewed.