Jesus is the Son of God

Jesus is the Son of God, as 1 John 4:15 reads: "King James Bible Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God." And Jesus is God: John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:14, "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." There is no way to the Father except through the Son. John 14:6New International Version (NIV) 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." So if you are seeking God, believe on His Son Jesus, and you shall be saved. The ONLY way to God is through Jesus. It's not through any other....only Jesus!

Jesus Is Our Refuge and Fortress

Psalm 91:2 NKJV:  "I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress; my God.  In Him I will trust."

I didn't know the full meaning of the word "fortress," so I looked it up.  Here's what I found:

1. a military stronghold, especially a strongly fortified town fit for a large garrison.

   synonyms:

   fort, castle, citadel, blockhouse, stronghold, redoubt, fortification, bastion;More

   • a heavily protected and impenetrable building.
   • figurative

     a person or thing not susceptible to outside influence or disturbance.

     "he had proved himself to be a fortress of moral rectitude"

   
   

Wow!  This is amazing.  I especially like "a heavily protected and impenetrable building" and "a person or thing not susceptible to outside influence or disturbance."

Our Lord is strong and impenetrable!  We can go to Him and know we are safe and protected...always!  

Whether against wickedness in high places or evil-doers on the earth, we are safe when we look to and trust God.

Just as soldiers of old retreated to their castle or fort or blockhouse, we can retreat to our Lord, Jesus Christ!

Jesus Is Our Shield

A shield protected soldiers from darts, swords and other advances of the enemies.  The Scriptures below tell us how the LORD is our shield!  He will protect us, and He will sustain us!  Glory to God!

Psalm 3:3 NKJV:  "But You O LORD are a shield, my glory and the One who lifts up my head."

Psalm 5:12 NKJV:  "For You, O LORD, will bless the righteous; with favor you will surround him as with a shield."

It's so reassuring to know that God surrounds us as a shield.  He is our Protector!

Knowing that gives me peace, strength and assurance to face whatever comes my way.

Thank You, LORD!

Jesus Is Provider

There is a Scripture that I have stood on, believed and quoted for some time now.

God always meets my needs, and I often don't know how, but then again it's not up to me to know how or why, but to trust the He will and thank Him for all He's done.

This is the Scripture:

Philippians 4:19 NKJV

"And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus."

In vvs. 10-18, Paul was thanking the Philippian church for sending aid to him. He told them he didn't seek the gift, but sought the fruit that abounds to their account (give and it shall be given...Luke 6:38).

Paul called their gifts "a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice and well pleasing to God."

They were obedient to God, and that pleased Him.  And Paul gave all glory to God for supplying his need.  God will use others to bless us and to provide. We need to be grateful and give Him the glory.

God provided for Paul, and Paul tells the Philippians that fruit will abound to them.

Provision can mean a lot of things.  Financial, shelter, clothing, food and anything else we need.

You might not be rich in finances, but if you have Jesus in your life, and if you have everything you NEED, then you are very rich indeed.

Jesus Is Healer

Jesus Heals

Jesus is revealed as Healer and so much more in Isaiah 53.  Here's what it says in the NKJV...

1. Who has believed our report?  And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

2. For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant.  And as a root out of dry ground.  He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.

3. He is despised and rejected by men.  A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.  And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;  He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

4. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

5. But He was wounded for our transgressions.  He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

6. All we like sheep have gone astray.  We have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

7. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth.  He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth.

8. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who will declare His generation?  For He was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

9. And they made His grave with the wicked~but with the rich at His death, because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

10. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief.  When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.

11. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.  By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities.

12. Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

*First of all I would like to point out that when you see an italicized word in the Bible, it was added to make reading easier, and to clarify things, and wasn't in the original text.  Try reading it without those words, and you will sometimes get a clearer understanding of certain passages.  Yes it is supposed to clarify, but sometimes (not every time) it takes away from the original meaning.

Now I want to break down a few verses to show you who Jesus is to all who believe in Him.

This is the best known prophecy of the Crucifixion in the Bible, and both Matthew and Peter quote from it in the New Testament (Mt. 8:17 and 1 Pet. 2:24).

V. 2 tells us that Jesus was a regular guy.  If we saw Him back then, we would not desire Him anymore than anyone else, unless the Spirit revealed Him to us, as He did the disciples.

V. 3 the word "grief" literally means sickness, and notice how V. 4 says he bore our "griefs" (sicknesses) on the cross.  In fact griefs and sorrows in the Hebrew language mean "physical afflictions."

V. 5 is what He was wounded for, and this was for us!  He also took the chastisement upon Himself, so that we can have peace!

V. 6-7 as all of our iniquities were placed on Him, He was silent.  I've heard it said that an army of angels were waiting, and if He would have opened His mouth to beckon them, they would have stricken everyone dead to protect Him, but He took it...for us!

V. 11 we are justified by Jesus, because He bore OUR iniquities.  He was innocent.  He was and is God.  Yet He did that so we could be reconciled back to God, and so that by faith, we can walk in all that He has for us.

1 Peter 2:24 talks about this prophecy in past tense (because it had already happened by then)

24. who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness~by Whose stripes you were healed.

We WERE healed!  It HAS been done.  He HAS provided peace for us, and we CAN live righteously through Him.

Hallelujah to Jesus!!!