In this picture we see John the Baptist with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.[The Dove]

The beginning of the commandment of love is before us with the baptism of Jesus!

Gods name is love, and He gave His Son that we might receive the Gift of life by excepting Jesus as our savior, and our King.

John said "Prepare the Way of the Lord".

The Way is in the Ten Commandments, and in the Commandment of Love.

By learning of Jesus and the work that God [Dad] sent Him to do, we open the door to the gift of life and the Commandment of Love.

God has brought us together as one body [God and creation] in His Son Jesus.

Jesus walk to die for us began with John baptizing Jesus, the only begotten Son of God.

Matthew 3:13-15 says:13'Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

14 But John forbade Him saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

15 But Jesus answered and said to him, "Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness."
Then he allowed Him

Matthew 6:25-34
25 "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on.

Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

Are you not of more value than they?

27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

28 So why do you worry about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;

29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you,

O you of little faith?

I just wanted to take a moment to say hello, and to thank you for checking out what the Lord has given me to offer you here at Squidoo.

Really it isn't me, but what I have learned from The Lord, and what He gives me to benefit you!

Connie Walcott is a Master here at Squidoo, so i have a benefit in trying to prepare this Lens so that it is highly visable.

My service to the Lord is primarily in Fullheart Ministries.
We feed the Homeless on Sundays, and do bible studies on tuesdays. We also do a BBQ out reach every other Saterday.

Pastor Brad also has a food Ministry and another outreach on Wednsdays.

We, by the Lord are going to start opening Descipleship programs that will give those that choose so, not only a solid foundation in the teaching of God's Word, but another chance in this life to be a success!

IN THE NAME OF JESUS

The Sun gives light for day and the Moon gives light for night.

That which we see, we see in the light.
There is nothing to be seen in the darkness.

Matthew 6:22-24;

22 "The lamp of the body is the eye.
If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.

23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.
If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

24 "No one can serve two masters;
for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and mammon.
The New King James Version

God gave the Sun for the day and the Moon for the night,
keeping us around the clock in His Light.

That which He made for us, is just an example of what pure Love is!
To me "the man on the moon" is our Father in Heaven watching over us when we are in times of trouble, when there seems to be no answer.

As the Moon guides in the darkness of night so we don't stumble, so does our God guide us in His Word By the Holy Spirit, and in the name of Jesus!

Romans 13:1-3

1 Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities.
For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.

2 Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God,
and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil.
Do you want to be unafraid of the authority?
Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.

Matthew 22:17-21

17 Tell us, therefore, what do You think?
Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test Me, you hypocrites?

19 Show Me the tax money."
So they brought Him a denarius.

20 And He said to them, "Whose image and inscription is this?"

21 They said to Him, "Caesar's."
And He said to them,
"Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

We might think in ourselves that we don't have to strive to be honest in all things, but we do.

We might not really be aware when we are ducking honesty, for this world [satan], has a way of teaching things that remain hidden.

Seek our Father concerning these things and He will reveal them unto you.

We are the Body of Christ, and we need to care about ourselves.

The Lord is using me to strengthen the Body before His decisions begin to happen, thereby preparing the way of Jesus Coming.

Seek God our Father to learn and to Grow in the Body.

Remember we are two thirds water, so let it flow!

Mark 4:22-23

22 For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light.

23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
Matthew 5:14-16

14 You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

WE ARE THE BODY

In the old days there was more space to live in.
The air was cleaner.
The things that people did for the most part was semi safe and considerate of others.

The world was still waking up without the threat of destruction.
We didn't have to pay for water!

Sexual imorality was defined and understood. We knew what was right and wrong.

School was a safe place for our kids to go.
Our kids could also go to the store or any where else safely!

Back in the old days.....

Samuel Adams: The Indispensable Man
Gary Scott Smith
Grove City College
July 3, 2007

As we celebrate the 4th of July with fireworks, parades, cookouts, and speeches, we should be grateful to our many forebears who risked their property, reputation, and lives to attain our independence.
Some of them are well known and highly revered, most notably George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Hancock, and Patrick Henry.
The man, however, who arguably played the most significant role in the colonists' decision to declare independence is largely forgotten.
Today most Americans connect him only with the beer that bears his name.

If George Washington is the "indispensable man" in winning the Revolutionary War and insuring that the new republic succeeded, Samuel Adams deserves this title for his role in the colonies' declaration of independence from England.
More than any other American, Adams publicized colonists' grievances, defended their rights, and mobilized them to protest English policies.
While doing this, the devout Congregationalist continually argued that Americans' cause was righteous.
If they pursued their aims virtuously, he believed, God, who providentially directed history, would enable them to gain their independence.

Adams continually exhorted Americans to maintain their religious fervor and lead godly lives.

Fired by Puritan zeal and hatred of British rule, Adams used his political acumen and rhetorical skills to persuade many of his contemporaries to support independence.

I copied this from Crosswalk. com,

It seems to me that Independance comes from obediance to the the truth.
In the picture the bird is free!

Ask God to show you a picture of your self.
If you don;t think that it is a picture of Freedom, then ask the Lord for the direction that will place you in that freedom!

Jude 1: 3-17a
3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God F2 and our Lord Jesus Christ. 5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!" 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. 12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about F3 by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. 14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints,

15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." 16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. 17 But you, beloved..

Oh to be a child again! Yes? No?
In this world today it may not be the safest thing in the world to be a kid again, but it is where we get our best teachings.
From infancy everything is new, so there is something to be learned at every turn.
For example not only is the paddle ball fun, it requires hand eye coordination and practice in order to get to the place that we are content with it.

The nice thing is that we keep some of the things that it took to be a success with the Paddle Ball!
It is really amazing all of the stuff that we have taken in to become who we are.
If you remember, we learned most of the things that we learned with an innocent heart.

Unless a child is taught to not trust people, the normal path is to be kind to people.
Judgement of someone comes from how we are treated, not based upon how someone else treated us.

Matthew 18:3-6 [Jesus is speaking]
3 and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
4 Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.
6 "But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

God says to have the faith of a child. He didn't say have the smarts, He said have the faith.
we as adults are quite a bit more learned about life, so the faith of a child should be easy shouldn't it?

The answer is to once again become innocent to wrong.

Children can be deceived into many things just by their own way of thinking, so it must take the smarts of an adult to remain in the faith of a child
for everlasting life.
God say's that the Gift Of Life is Free!
Would He lie to one of His children?

Please read Numbers 23:19-20.

We need to believe and live our lives trusting God for His ways and not this worlds.

The faith of a child is YOU!!!

When you look at the picture you see beauty!
You also see what looks like harvest time.

In order for that place to be so beautiful, the people had to learn how to maintain it.

the same is with us in our lives. we need to learn how to make our lives beautiful!
Get rid of the ugly things in our lives. The things that take away from our attaining what is beautiful.
Trust in Jesus to Be your saviour and God our Father will bring you to that which YOU will confess is beautiful.

Your decision is the crop and the harvest is ripe!

Luke 3:33
[33]Which was the son of Aminidab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of...

We are the children of God if we have in fact confessed Jesus christ as our Lord and Savior, thereby receiving the gift of life for free.

Romans 10:9-11
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."

The picture shows the little ponys.

They come from a line of horses.

Shouldn't we in heaven see those that followed after us on this earth
[ our line]
because we passed down to them the truth, the way, and the life, which is Jesus?