Month: December 2018

Enabling

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Hi Peeps,
Today’s Quote
When someone doesn’t believe in marriage, family, values, and ethics of God’s wisdom, mercy, grace, love, structure, and commandments, you should believe them by finding a mate that does.”  ~  Jon Barnes

Job

A person will never need a job if they can get milk, food, meat, clothes, and stuff for free.  There is no incentive to improve, learn, grow, work, and love in any relationship.  We all have a job to play with rules, regulations, commandments, and obligations.  Good relationships thrive on the quality of work and faith you bring to the table of your life, family, friends, and job.

Allow

Don’t allow people to ignore or fumble around with their responsibilities.  Expect and demand better of yourself and others will follow when we follow God’s plans.   Being meek and humble in your pride is cool, but be aggressive in doing excellent work in your faith.  People will know what you stand for and make their own choices.

Standard

The standards that you set with God’s best will help you to identify your spouse, raise your children, and accomplish the work of faith in your lifestyle of love.  Love is not a rug to step on.  God is love, but he will let you go to hell, by your own choice.  God does not enable anyone.  He is very clear and specific with His Instructions and the work of your faith matters.
Today’s Question
Why is it that many people will not enter into the Gates of Heaven or do you think God will leave the Pearly Gates Unlocked for the disobedient people who did nothing?

Enjoy The Reading

Job 39 

The Lord’s Challenge Continues

39 “Do you know when the wild goats give birth?
    Have you watched as deer are born in the wild?
2 Do you know how many months they carry their young?
    Are you aware of the time of their delivery?
3 They crouch down to give birth to their young
    and deliver their offspring.
4 Their young grow up in the open fields,
    then leave home and never return.
5 “Who gives the wild donkey its freedom?
    Who untied its ropes?
6 I have placed it in the wilderness;
    its home is the wasteland.
7 It hates the noise of the city
    and has no driver to shout at it.
8 The mountains are its pastureland,
    where it searches for every blade of grass.
9 “Will the wild ox consent to being tamed?
    Will it spend the night in your stall?
10 Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow?
    Will it plow a field for you?
11 Given its strength, can you trust it?
    Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work?
12 Can you rely on it to bring home your grain
    and deliver it to your threshing floor?
13 “The ostrich flaps her wings grandly,
    but they are no match for the feathers of the stork.
14 She lays her eggs on top of the earth,
    letting them be warmed in the dust.
15 She doesn’t worry that a foot might crush them
    or a wild animal might destroy them.
16 She is harsh toward her young,
    as if they were not her own.
    She doesn’t care if they die.
17 For God has deprived her of wisdom.
    He has given her no understanding.
18 But whenever she jumps up to run,
    she passes the swiftest horse with its rider.
19 “Have you given the horse its strength
    or clothed its neck with a flowing mane?
20 Did you give it the ability to leap like a locust?
    Its majestic snorting is terrifying!
21 It paws the earth and rejoices in its strength
    when it charges out to battle.
22 It laughs at fear and is unafraid.
    It does not run from the sword.
23 The arrows rattle against it,
    and the spear and javelin flash.
24 It paws the ground fiercely
    and rushes forward into battle when the ram’s horn blows.
25 It snorts at the sound of the horn.
    It senses the battle in the distance.
    It quivers at the captain’s commands and the noise of battle.
26 “Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar
    and spread its wings toward the south?
27 Is it at your command that the eagle rises
    to the heights to make its nest?
28 It lives on the cliffs,
    making its home on a distant, rocky crag.
29 From there it hunts its prey,
    keeping watch with piercing eyes.
30 Its young gulp down blood.
    Where there’s a carcass, there you’ll find it.”
Love,
Jonathan

Sex

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Today’s Quote
“The sexuality of a person is regulated from the eyes, imagination, and mind of a person and I refuse to glare, fantasize, or touch things that will cause me to sin or do not belong to me in my marriage.”  ~ Jon Barnes

Porn

Pornography, gambling, infidelity, fornication, lying, cheating, and stealing and all sinful.  These are personal habits and choices that are hard to get rid of.  Like, crack, coke, meth, opioids, alcohol, drugs and other abusive behaviors that exploit people numbs the mind, kills the heart, and robs the soul, avoid these things at all cost. Ask God to give you better things to do with your time to enjoy what is yours and not mine.

Access

Easy access and free samples seem harmless to the mind of a child, but you are no longer a child and should know better.  The things you do now, your children and family will copy, which may be a snare to the next generations to come.  Your depression, addictions, and medical complications will come from your parents’ inability to solve these basic problems and your lust for copying stupid activities of old.  Lazy people don’t want honest solutions, otherwise, they would use them.

Human

Human trafficking of the mind is at an all-time high with drugs, sex, and bad music messages that robs the innocence of our youth and society.  We must be proactive and vigilant in explaining these things to our kids, families, and friends because it is a cultural, worldwide, epidemic.  Let us not be drunk, confused, blinded, or ignorant in the wicked ways of our mainstreamed, worldwide, Internet culture.  Take a stand, protect the future of your family, and treat sin like an opioid addiction. 
Today’s Question
Are you fighting the good fight of faith in front of your computer, TV, colleagues, friends, family, and enemies or has the sex appeal of laziness, substance abuse, dishonest habits, and lust clouded your judgment? 

Enjoy The Reading

Job 38 

The Lord Challenges Job

38 Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:
2 “Who is this that questions my wisdom
    with such ignorant words?
3 Brace yourself like a man,
    because I have some questions for you,
    and you must answer them.
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
    Tell me, if you know so much.
5 Who determined its dimensions
    and stretched out the surveying line?
6 What supports its foundations,
    and who laid its cornerstone
7 as the morning stars sang together
    and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?
8 “Who kept the sea inside its boundaries
    as it burst from the womb,
9 and as I clothed it with clouds
    and wrapped it in thick darkness?
10 For I locked it behind barred gates,
    limiting its shores.
11 I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come.
    Here your proud waves must stop!’
12 “Have you ever commanded the morning to appear
    and caused the dawn to rise in the east?
13 Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth,
    to bring an end to the night’s wickedness?
14 As the light approaches,
    the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal;
    it is robed in brilliant colors.[b]
15 The light disturbs the wicked
    and stops the arm that is raised in violence.
16 “Have you explored the springs from which the seas come?
    Have you explored their depths?
17 Do you know where the gates of death are located?
    Have you seen the gates of utter gloom?
18 Do you realize the extent of the earth?
    Tell me about it if you know!
19 “Where does light come from,
    and where does darkness go?
20 Can you take each to its home?
    Do you know how to get there?
21 But of course you know all this!
For you were born before it was all created,
    and you are so very experienced!
22 “Have you visited the storehouses of the snow
    or seen the storehouses of hail?
23 (I have reserved them as weapons for the time of trouble,
    for the day of battle and war.)
24 Where is the path to the source of light?
    Where is the home of the east wind?
25 “Who created a channel for the torrents of rain?
    Who laid out the path for the lightning?
26 Who makes the rain fall on barren land,
    in a desert where no one lives?
27 Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground
    and make the tender grass spring up?
28 “Does the rain have a father?
    Who gives birth to the dew?
29 Who is the mother of the ice?
    Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?
30 For the water turns to ice as hard as rock,
    and the surface of the water freezes.
31 “Can you direct the movement of the stars—
    binding the cluster of the Pleiades
    or loosening the cords of Orion?
32 Can you direct the constellations through the seasons
    or guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens?
33 Do you know the laws of the universe?
    Can you use them to regulate the earth?
34 “Can you shout to the clouds
    and make it rain?
35 Can you make lightning appear
    and cause it to strike as you direct?
36 Who gives intuition to the heart
    and instinct to the mind?
37 Who is wise enough to count all the clouds?
    Who can tilt the water jars of heaven
38 when the parched ground is dry
    and the soil has hardened into clods?
39 “Can you stalk prey for a lioness
    and satisfy the young lions’ appetites
40 as they lie in their dens
    or crouch in the thicket?
41 Who provides food for the ravens
    when their young cry out to God
    and wander about in hunger?
Love,
Jonathan

Perfection

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Hi Peeps,
Today’s Quote
“Sometimes the truth of perfection sounds so negative that you have to be careful how you deliver the message so that people can receive what God is sharing with you to tell others.”  ~ Jon Barnes

Showing

Living and showing your message will be a great example of role play, role modeling, and effecting positive changes in life, relationships, and family dynamics. The inside will see the outside of our character and they will never be strangers.  Also, we will all piss each other off each day, if we allow the devil to steal of joy, sense of humor, and humility.  It is always a good practice to reflect and think before talking so much.  Writing and reading help a lot too.

Quiet

Let God show you solutions in you quiet hour and notice how much stronger your faith develops to see the daily miracles right before your eyes. Do not fall off the deep edged cliff, because you took your eyes off of Christ, by thinking that you are perfect and know all things.  Learn to listen and copy God’s ways in your thoughts, words, work, actions, and deeds.

Reservation

Take small steps and look carefully into what you say and do, as you learn, grow, and improve your standing with God, family, friends, and enemies.  Your timing and smile mean a lot when delivering the important daily messages of love, hope, and mercy.  We are not robots, machines, aliens, or animal from the forest.  Every battle is not for you to win.
Today’s Question
Does the gift of Love requires you to sacrifice and give something that is perfect?

 

Job 37 

37 “My heart pounds as I think of this.
    It trembles within me.
2 Listen carefully to the thunder of God’s voice
    as it rolls from his mouth.
3 It rolls across the heavens,
    and his lightning flashes in every direction.
4 Then comes the roaring of the thunder—
    the tremendous voice of his majesty.
    He does not restrain it when he speaks.
5 God’s voice is glorious in the thunder.
    We can’t even imagine the greatness of his power.
6 “He directs the snow to fall on the earth
    and tells the rain to pour down.
7 Then everyone stops working
    so they can watch his power.
8 The wild animals take cover
    and stay inside their dens.
9 The stormy wind comes from its chamber,
    and the driving winds bring the cold.
10 God’s breath sends the ice,
    freezing wide expanses of water.
11 He loads the clouds with moisture,
    and they flash with his lightning.
12 The clouds churn about at his direction.
    They do whatever he commands throughout the earth.
13 He makes these things happen either to punish people
    or to show his unfailing love.
14 “Pay attention to this, Job.
    Stop and consider the wonderful miracles of God!
15 Do you know how God controls the storm
    and causes the lightning to flash from his clouds?
16 Do you understand how he moves the clouds
    with wonderful perfection and skill?
17 When you are sweltering in your clothes
    and the south wind dies down and everything is still,
18 he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror.
    Can you do that?
19 “So teach the rest of us what to say to God.
    We are too ignorant to make our own arguments.
20 Should God be notified that I want to speak?
    Can people even speak when they are confused?[a]
21 We cannot look at the sun,
    for it shines brightly in the sky
    when the wind clears away the clouds.
22 So also, golden splendor comes from the mountain of God.[b]
    He is clothed in dazzling splendor.
23 We cannot imagine the power of the Almighty;
    but even though he is just and righteous,
    he does not destroy us.
24 No wonder people everywhere fear him.
    All who are wise show him reverence.[c]”

Love,

Jonathan

Protection

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Today’s Quote
“God protects those who are doing His work and He provides opportunities, solutions, and miracles to honest individuals with integrity, character, and love.” ~  Jon Barnes

When

When you pray, ask for direction.  When you speak, pray for peace.  When you moan, ask for protection and love.

You

So don’t be afraid, He will hear every whisper. God knows all of the things you will need.  So trust and believe that He will take care of all of your issues to provide all that you see.

Hear

Hear with your heart, listen with your hand, and work with your mind to see the vision before doing the task.  Then allow God to push your steps forward into success with order and perfection.
Today’s Question
Did you know that God’s protection and plan for your life have been arranged from the beginning of time and your life, job, and work of faith is necessary for you to complete?
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Job 36 

36 Elihu continued speaking:
2 “Let me go on, and I will show you the truth.
    For I have not finished defending God!
3 I will present profound arguments
    for the righteousness of my Creator.
4 I am telling you nothing but the truth,
    for I am a man of great knowledge.
5 “God is mighty, but he does not despise anyone!
    He is mighty in both power and understanding.
6 He does not let the wicked live
    but gives justice to the afflicted.
7 He never takes his eyes off the innocent,
    but he sets them on thrones with kings
    and exalts them forever.
8 If they are bound in chains
    and caught up in a web of trouble,
9 he shows them the reason.
    He shows them their sins of pride.
10 He gets their attention
    and commands that they turn from evil.
11 “If they listen and obey God,
    they will be blessed with prosperity throughout their lives.
    All their years will be pleasant.
12 But if they refuse to listen to him,
    they will cross over the river of death,
    dying from lack of understanding.
13 For the godless are full of resentment.
    Even when he punishes them,
    they refuse to cry out to him for help.
14 They die when they are young,
    after wasting their lives in immoral living.
15 But by means of their suffering, he rescues those who suffer.
    For he gets their attention through adversity.
16 “God is leading you away from danger, Job,
    to a place free from distress.
    He is setting your table with the best food.
17 But you are obsessed with whether the godless will be judged.
    Don’t worry, judgment and justice will be upheld.
18 But watch out, or you may be seduced by wealth.[a]
    Don’t let yourself be bribed into sin.
19 Could all your wealth[b]
    or all your mighty efforts
    keep you from distress?
20 Do not long for the cover of night,
    for that is when people will be destroyed.[c]
21 Be on guard! Turn back from evil,
    for God sent this suffering
    to keep you from a life of evil.

Elihu Reminds Job of God’s Power

22 “Look, God is all-powerful.
    Who is a teacher like him?
23 No one can tell him what to do,
    or say to him, ‘You have done wrong.’
24 Instead, glorify his mighty works,
    singing songs of praise.
25 Everyone has seen these things,
    though only from a distance.
26 “Look, God is greater than we can understand.
    His years cannot be counted.
27 He draws up the water vapor
    and then distills it into rain.
28 The rain pours down from the clouds,
    and everyone benefits.
29 Who can understand the spreading of the clouds
    and the thunder that rolls forth from heaven?
30 See how he spreads the lightning around him
    and how it lights up the depths of the sea.
31 By these mighty acts he nourishes[d] the people,
    giving them food in abundance.
32 He fills his hands with lightning bolts
    and hurls each at its target.
33 The thunder announces his presence;
    the storm announces his indignant anger.[e]

Love,

Jonathan

Invitation

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Today’s Quote
“New things will happen with God’s invitation and blessings, because of your obedience to copy and innovate better solutions for the future with grace, mercy, and precision.” ~  Jon Barnes

Outreach

Your organized strategies, plans, and path will be sound, wise and complete no matter where you go around the globe with God’s message of love and faith.  People will look up to you and copy your good works of faith, because of your inspiration, discipline, and love.  They will not copy your hypocrisy, but they will mock you and your stupidity.

Preparation

Each day, read, study, meditate, pray, and follow the new information God gives you so that you are prepared to give as you receive and share with others.  Organize your time and movements to make things more efficient.  People will ask questions and receive what you have to give, in love, patience, meekness, kindness, long-suffering, and joy.

Participation

Your daily participation with The Fruit of The Spirit will help you to grow in grace, kindness, and effectiveness so that your family prospers from the innovation and invitation of God’s perspective.  Take this talent, mindset, heart, dedication, and work of faith where ever you go and God will be at your side all of the time to help you.
Today’s Question
Are you ignoring God’s daily invitations and innovations in your works of faith, based on your laziness, inaction, and old-fashioned methods?
 

Job 35 

Elihu Reminds Job of God’s Justice

35 Then Elihu said:
2 “Do you think it is right for you to claim,
    ‘I am righteous before God’?
3 For you also ask, ‘What’s in it for me?
    What’s the use of living a righteous life?’
4 “I will answer you
    and all your friends, too.
5 Look up into the sky,
    and see the clouds high above you.
6 If you sin, how does that affect God?
    Even if you sin again and again,
    what effect will it have on him?
7 If you are good, is this some great gift to him?
    What could you possibly give him?
8 No, your sins affect only people like yourself,
    and your good deeds also affect only humans.
9 “People cry out when they are oppressed.
    They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
10 Yet they don’t ask, ‘Where is God my Creator,
    the one who gives songs in the night?
11 Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animals
    and wiser than the birds of the sky?’
12 And when they cry out, God does not answer
    because of their pride.
13 But it is wrong to say God doesn’t listen,
    to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.
14 You say you can’t see him,
    but he will bring justice if you will only wait.[a]
15 You say he does not respond to sinners with anger
    and is not greatly concerned about wickedness.[b]
16 But you are talking nonsense, Job.
    You have spoken like a fool.”
 
Love,
Jonathan

Language

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Today’s Quote
“The sounds of silent vibrations hold the true meanings of your intentions to let God know who you really are in Him and they account for your existence, destiny before, during, and after time, space, and age of ages.”  ~  Jon Barnes

Feel

I feel that you cannot comprehend what God is saying unless you allow Him to teach you all things.  If not, you will read and know God’s words and works, but you will still be evil and not comprehend Good.  If not, you will hear, understand and know that good new but you will adamantly reject God’s Truth and replace it with your own truth.  I feel there is hope if you do the listening and work of faith in love, by talking less.

Vibrate

Who you are vibrates in the continuous loop of time, space, matter, math, and logic to God in His Own Language of Wisdom that surpasses any understanding, as you are without excuse for knowing and understanding who God is!  Your foolishness consumes and destroys your own soul with your own actions of vibrations before you speak a word or do work.  Follow God’s vibrations of love and light from His Word and you will be the salt of the earth, singing and living with joy.

Become

Become and develop your true vibrations in God before the devil steals them from you, based on your acceptance to the team of evil.  Resist the temptation of disobedience, sin, and mayhem.  Become the Child in Christ with your consent and constant deeds of repentance, acceptance, work, and faith in God that vibrates your name into the Book of Life, with the Blood of Christ in ink.
Today’s Question
Is your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life or did your vibrations erase your name from God’s true destination for your soul?

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Job 33 

Elihu Presents His Case against Job

33 “Listen to my words, Job;
    pay attention to what I have to say.
2 Now that I have begun to speak,
    let me continue.
3 I speak with all sincerity;
    I speak the truth.
4 For the Spirit of God has made me,
    and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5 Answer me, if you can;
    make your case and take your stand.
6 Look, you and I both belong to God.
    I, too, was formed from clay.
7 So you don’t need to be afraid of me.
    I won’t come down hard on you.
8 “You have spoken in my hearing,
    and I have heard your very words.
9 You said, ‘I am pure; I am without sin;
    I am innocent; I have no guilt.
10 God is picking a quarrel with me,
    and he considers me his enemy.
11 He puts my feet in the stocks
    and watches my every move.’
12 “But you are wrong, and I will show you why.
    For God is greater than any human being.
13 So why are you bringing a charge against him?
    Why say he does not respond to people’s complaints?
14 For God speaks again and again,
    though people do not recognize it.
15 He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night,
    when deep sleep falls on people
    as they lie in their beds.
16 He whispers in their ears
    and terrifies them with warnings.
17 He makes them turn from doing wrong;
    he keeps them from pride.
18 He protects them from the grave,
    from crossing over the river of death.
19 “Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds,
    with ceaseless aching in their bones.
20 They lose their appetite
    for even the most delicious food.
21 Their flesh wastes away,
    and their bones stick out.
22 They are at death’s door;
    the angels of death wait for them.
23 “But if an angel from heaven appears—
    a special messenger to intercede for a person
    and declare that he is upright—
24 he will be gracious and say,
‘Rescue him from the grave,
    for I have found a ransom for his life.’
25 Then his body will become as healthy as a child’s,
    firm and youthful again.
26 When he prays to God,
    he will be accepted.
And God will receive him with joy
    and restore him to good standing.
27 He will declare to his friends,
‘I sinned and twisted the truth,
    but it was not worth it.[a]
28 God rescued me from the grave,
    and now my life is filled with light.’
29 “Yes, God does these things
    again and again for people.
30 He rescues them from the grave
    so they may enjoy the light of life.
31 Mark this well, Job. Listen to me,
    for I have more to say.
32 But if you have anything to say, go ahead.
    Speak, for I am anxious to see you justified.
33 But if not, then listen to me.
    Keep silent and I will teach you wisdom!”

Love,

Jonathan

Universal

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Today’s Quote
“When you make universal choices and decisions based on God’s Intellect, the meaning of your life transcends time, space, and personal comprehension for the fruit, seeds, and work you sow and reap.”  ~ Jon Barnes

Deep

Deep in the mind of God lies your destiny, to which there is no end to your soul.  It’s resting place dwells therein, with your fate in your own hands.  Just because God knows your fate does not negate your responsibility to choose and navigate your lifestyle towards Heaven or Hell.  You are at the helm of your own ship and the direction you set sail into deep waters.

Into The Shed

Meditate, ponder, muse, study, ready, and pray about your end game with God.  Are your choices Universally Sound by God’s Biblical Standards or did you follow something else that is a fraud, like your own imagination?  God is smart enough to help you find solutions to your problems so go into His Shed and find them.

Humility

Get rid of your pride so that the humility, honesty, and discipline that is needed for you to submit to God’s plan of action in your faith will work out.  You will grow into a heavenly tree, based on your obedience and not your talent, good looks, intellect, or luck.  When you stick to God’s Facts, you will dwell deep into the shed of God’s Universe for entering Heavenly Places Forever.
Today’s Question
Did you extract God’s message, memo, and intentions for your life to share with the world or is your life a joke, kidding around with the devil and his tricks of sin?

Enjoy The Reading

Job 34 

Elihu Accuses Job of Arrogance

34 Then Elihu said:
2 “Listen to me, you wise men.
    Pay attention, you who have knowledge.
3 Job said, ‘The ear tests the words it hears
    just as the mouth distinguishes between foods.’
4 So let us discern for ourselves what is right;
    let us learn together what is good.
5 For Job also said, ‘I am innocent,
    but God has taken away my rights.
6 I am innocent, but they call me a liar.
    My suffering is incurable, though I have not sinned.’
7 “Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job,
    with his thirst for irreverent talk?
8 He chooses evil people as companions.
    He spends his time with wicked men.
9 He has even said, ‘Why waste time
    trying to please God?’
10 “Listen to me, you who have understanding.
    Everyone knows that God doesn’t sin!
    The Almighty can do no wrong.
11 He repays people according to their deeds.
    He treats people as they deserve.
12 Truly, God will not do wrong.
    The Almighty will not twist justice.
13 Did someone else put the world in his care?
    Who set the whole world in place?
14 If God were to take back his spirit
    and withdraw his breath,
15 all life would cease,
    and humanity would turn again to dust.
16 “Now listen to me if you are wise.
    Pay attention to what I say.
17 Could God govern if he hated justice?
    Are you going to condemn the almighty judge?
18 For he says to kings, ‘You are wicked,’
    and to nobles, ‘You are unjust.’
19 He doesn’t care how great a person may be,
    and he pays no more attention to the rich than to the poor.
    He made them all.
20 In a moment they die.
    In the middle of the night they pass away;
    the mighty are removed without human hand.
21 “For God watches how people live;
    he sees everything they do.
22 No darkness is thick enough
    to hide the wicked from his eyes.
23 We don’t set the time
    when we will come before God in judgment.
24 He brings the mighty to ruin without asking anyone,
    and he sets up others in their place.
25 He knows what they do,
    and in the night he overturns and destroys them.
26 He strikes them down because they are wicked,
    doing it openly for all to see.
27 For they turned away from following him.
    They have no respect for any of his ways.
28 They cause the poor to cry out, catching God’s attention.
    He hears the cries of the needy.
29 But if he chooses to remain quiet,
    who can criticize him?
When he hides his face, no one can find him,
    whether an individual or a nation.
30 He prevents the godless from ruling
    so they cannot be a snare to the people.
31 “Why don’t people say to God, ‘I have sinned,
    but I will sin no more’?
32 Or ‘I don’t know what evil I have done—tell me.
    If I have done wrong, I will stop at once’?
33 “Must God tailor his justice to your demands?
    But you have rejected him!
The choice is yours, not mine.
    Go ahead, share your wisdom with us.
34 After all, bright people will tell me,
    and wise people will hear me say,
35 ‘Job speaks out of ignorance;
    his words lack insight.’
36 Job, you deserve the maximum penalty
    for the wicked way you have talked.
37 For you have added rebellion to your sin;
    you show no respect,
    and you speak many angry words against God.”
 

Love,

Jonathan

One Day

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Today’s Quote
“Doing the work of faith one day a year is not good enough, because God will hold you accountable for the 365 days in a year to judge what you have done.” ~  Jon Barnes

About

God is not about to throw out his math skills of accountability and assessment of your character, nature, and measure of faith in your personal work and walk with God during your lifetime.  Your repentance and connection to God with the Blood of Christ will teach you how to remain holy and separated unto God.  However, it only takes a second for you to choose and cut that tie and bond with God, based on your choice and wicked behavior.

Amount

You must keep your lamp full with the Spirit of God in your heart and life so that your light keeps shining now and forever.  This unlimited amount of love that God has supernaturally given you will sustain you in all times if you are a true believer.  You will run your race with all that you have to prove your loyalty to God.  He will sustain, teach, and test you each day and God’s training is thorough.

Account

God’s accounting on your life is none of my business. God’s accounting in my life is none of your business.  His judgment will condemn or correspond to your faith walk, facts, and records to account for your life.  One Day, you will be seen as you are and God will decide if you are worthy.  Strive to be worthy at all times and humble your causes into the Hands of God and His Righteousness.
Today’s Question
Will The Blood of Christ save you, if you are a habitual thief, liar, cheater, and an evil person, pretending to be a true Christian or do you really think God is as stupid as you are?

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Job 32 

Elihu Responds to Job’s Friends

32 Job’s three friends refused to reply further to him because he kept insisting on his innocence.
2 Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the clan of Ram, became angry. He was angry because Job refused to admit that he had sinned and that God was right in punishing him. 3 He was also angry with Job’s three friends, for they made God[a]appear to be wrong by their inability to answer Job’s arguments. 4 Elihu had waited for the others to speak to Job because they were older than he. 5 But when he saw that they had no further reply, he spoke out angrily. 6 Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said,
“I am young and you are old,
    so I held back from telling you what I think.
7 I thought, ‘Those who are older should speak,
    for wisdom comes with age.’
8 But there is a spirit[b] within people,
    the breath of the Almighty within them,
    that makes them intelligent.
9 Sometimes the elders are not wise.
    Sometimes the aged do not understand justice.
10 So listen to me,
    and let me tell you what I think.
11 “I have waited all this time,
    listening very carefully to your arguments,
    listening to you grope for words.
12 I have listened,
    but not one of you has refuted Job
    or answered his arguments.
13 And don’t tell me, ‘He is too wise for us.
    Only God can convince him.’
14 If Job had been arguing with me,
    I would not answer with your kind of logic!
15 You sit there baffled,
    with nothing more to say.
16 Should I continue to wait, now that you are silent?
    Must I also remain silent?
17 No, I will say my piece.
    I will speak my mind.
18 For I am full of pent-up words,
    and the spirit within me urges me on.
19 I am like a cask of wine without a vent,
    like a new wineskin ready to burst!
20 I must speak to find relief,
    so let me give my answers.
21 I won’t play favorites
    or try to flatter anyone.
22 For if I tried flattery,
    my Creator would soon destroy me.

Love,

Jonathan

Lane

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Hi Peeps,
Today’s Quote
“Get out of the dumb lane by not copying what other people say and do: Copy what God says and does.” ~ Jon Barnes

God

God doesn’t have any lanes for you to travel in, but He has commandments of obedience, forgiveness, truth, faith, work, and trust.  Believe that God will reward your honest efforts of love, grace, mercy, and purpose in Him and you will continue to follow the Path of Righteousness that God sets for you.

Connect

Follow and study how ants communicate, move around, and work together to improve each other’s standing.  They don’t do it alone or in isolation.  The connection is two by two and the truth is quickly carried to the next one without changing the message.  There is no need to fight, argue, and hold onto hurtful feelings from the past or present.  Forgive, move, and work like the ant and God’s message of forgiveness will live in your heart.

Formulate

This is not a lane but a pattern God has set and instructs us from the readings in His Bible to understand how we should move, think, learn, grow, and know how to share love, truth, and justice in our daily lifestyle.  Stop using dumb phases that you hear from people and use bible stories to communicate like ants and God will fix and bless your mess with love, forgiveness, wisdom, and leadership of how ants operate.
Today’s Question
Did you forget God’s message by limiting God’s power with your lane of hate, control, un–forgiveness, and disobedience?  ~  Jon Barnes

 

Job 31 

Job’s Final Protest of Innocence

31 “I made a covenant with my eyes
    not to look with lust at a young woman.
2 For what has God above chosen for us?
    What is our inheritance from the Almighty on high?
3 Isn’t it calamity for the wicked
    and misfortune for those who do evil?
4 Doesn’t he see everything I do
    and every step I take?
5 “Have I lied to anyone
    or deceived anyone?
6 Let God weigh me on the scales of justice,
    for he knows my integrity.
7 If I have strayed from his pathway,
    or if my heart has lusted for what my eyes have seen,
    or if I am guilty of any other sin,
8 then let someone else eat the crops I have planted.
    Let all that I have planted be uprooted.
9 “If my heart has been seduced by a woman,
    or if I have lusted for my neighbor’s wife,
10 then let my wife serve[a] another man;
    let other men sleep with her.
11 For lust is a shameful sin,
    a crime that should be punished.
12 It is a fire that burns all the way to hell.[b]
    It would wipe out everything I own.
13 “If I have been unfair to my male or female servants
    when they brought their complaints to me,
14 how could I face God?
    What could I say when he questioned me?
15 For God created both me and my servants.
    He created us both in the womb.
16 “Have I refused to help the poor,
    or crushed the hopes of widows?
17 Have I been stingy with my food
    and refused to share it with orphans?
18 No, from childhood I have cared for orphans like a father,
    and all my life I have cared for widows.
19 Whenever I saw the homeless without clothes
    and the needy with nothing to wear,
20 did they not praise me
    for providing wool clothing to keep them warm?
21 “If I raised my hand against an orphan,
    knowing the judges would take my side,
22 then let my shoulder be wrenched out of place!
    Let my arm be torn from its socket!
23 That would be better than facing God’s judgment.
    For if the majesty of God opposes me, what hope is there?
24 “Have I put my trust in money
    or felt secure because of my gold?
25 Have I gloated about my wealth
    and all that I own?
26 “Have I looked at the sun shining in the skies,
    or the moon walking down its silver pathway,
27 and been secretly enticed in my heart
    to throw kisses at them in worship?
28 If so, I should be punished by the judges,
    for it would mean I had denied the God of heaven.
29 “Have I ever rejoiced when disaster struck my enemies,
    or become excited when harm came their way?
30 No, I have never sinned by cursing anyone
    or by asking for revenge.
31 “My servants have never said,
    ‘He let others go hungry.’
32 I have never turned away a stranger
    but have opened my doors to everyone.
33 “Have I tried to hide my sins like other people do,
    concealing my guilt in my heart?
34 Have I feared the crowd
    or the contempt of the masses,
    so that I kept quiet and stayed indoors?
35 “If only someone would listen to me!
    Look, I will sign my name to my defense.
Let the Almighty answer me.
    Let my accuser write out the charges against me.
36 I would face the accusation proudly.
    I would wear it like a crown.
37 For I would tell him exactly what I have done.
    I would come before him like a prince.
38 “If my land accuses me
    and all its furrows cry out together,
39 or if I have stolen its crops
    or murdered its owners,
40 then let thistles grow on that land instead of wheat,
    and weeds instead of barley.”
Job’s words are ended.
Love,
Jonathan

Book Club

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Today’s Quote
Start a book club that talks about the wonderful stories in the Bible to see how they relate to your lifestyle, home, work, community, school, and church environments so that you can fix the hidden problems you still have.”   ~  Jon Barnes

You

You are the church and your book club should include and invite everyone to read what God has to say.  Sharing, talking, and doing this work of faith will follow you where ever you go and possibly inspire others.  It is pure joy to see people read, share, listen, and love God’s word, works, and music created for His Service and Glory.  This is bigger than you, so get out of God’s way and enjoy God’s Book Club of Sharing.  

Book 

Buy ’The Book’ and go by ’The Book’ so that people can join God’s Book Club for pleasure, enjoyment, healing, inspiration, and quality of life.  Honoring God in this way will allow more miracles to formulate in your life, all day every day.  Share, walk, talk, read, re-read and do the work of faith that is in The Book, and your business of life and work will make good sense.

It

Book your own flight and take a trip around the world helping others to join your Book Club for God, by spreading His Message of Hope, Love, Charity, Forgiveness, Repentance, Thanksgiving, Faith, Reading, and Obedience.  It matters what God thinks and does with what you are doing for Him, not the other way around.
Today’s Question
Are your books, business, and thoughts more important than  God’s Plan, Books, Business, and Thoughts?
Enjoy The Reading
 

Job 30

Job Speaks of His Anguish

30 “But now I am mocked by people younger than I,
    by young men whose fathers are not worthy to run with my sheepdogs.
2 A lot of good they are to me—
    those worn-out wretches!
3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger.
    They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.
4 They pluck wild greens from among the bushes
    and eat from the roots of broom trees.
5 They are driven from human society,
    and people shout at them as if they were thieves.
6 So now they live in frightening ravines,
    in caves and among the rocks.
7 They sound like animals howling among the bushes,
    huddled together beneath the nettles.
8 They are nameless fools,
    outcasts from society.
9 “And now they mock me with vulgar songs!
    They taunt me!
10 They despise me and won’t come near me,
    except to spit in my face.
11 For God has cut my bowstring.
    He has humbled me,
    so they have thrown off all restraint.
12 These outcasts oppose me to my face.
    They send me sprawling
    and lay traps in my path.
13 They block my road
    and do everything they can to destroy me.
They know I have no one to help me.
14     They come at me from all directions.
They jump on me when I am down.
15     I live in terror now.
My honor has blown away in the wind,
    and my prosperity has vanished like a cloud.
16 “And now my life seeps away.
    Depression haunts my days.
17 At night my bones are filled with pain,
    which gnaws at me relentlessly.
18 With a strong hand, God grabs my shirt.[a]
    He grips me by the collar of my coat.
19 He has thrown me into the mud.
    I’m nothing more than dust and ashes.
20 “I cry to you, O God, but you don’t answer.
    I stand before you, but you don’t even look.
21 You have become cruel toward me.
    You use your power to persecute me.
22 You throw me into the whirlwind
    and destroy me in the storm.
23 And I know you are sending me to my death—
    the destination of all who live.
24 “Surely no one would turn against the needy
    when they cry for help in their trouble.
25 Did I not weep for those in trouble?
    Was I not deeply grieved for the needy?
26 So I looked for good, but evil came instead.
    I waited for the light, but darkness fell.
27 My heart is troubled and restless.
    Days of suffering torment me.
28 I walk in gloom, without sunlight.
    I stand in the public square and cry for help.
29 Instead, I am considered a brother to jackals
    and a companion to owls.
30 My skin has turned dark,
    and my bones burn with fever.
31 My harp plays sad music,
    and my flute accompanies those who weep.
 
Love,
 
Jonathan