For you, for me

Isaiah 53:10-12 NIV

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer,
   and though the LORD makes His life an offering for sin, 

He will see his offspring and prolong His days,
   and the will of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
After He has suffered,
   He will see the light of life and be satisfied; 

by His knowledge My righteous servant will justify many,
   and He will bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give Him a portion among the great,
   and He will divide the spoils with the strong,
because He poured out His life unto death,
   and was numbered with the transgressors.
For He bore the sin of many,
   and made intercession for the transgressors. 

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Jesus intercedes for us, He bridged the gap between us and the Father. The Holy Spirit, our councilor, prays in moans and groans interceding on our behalf prayers that we do not know how to pray. It is because of what Jesus did for us on the cross that has allowed us access to the Father anytime 24/7. He made the bridge and opened the door for us to walk through. There is only one way to the Father and that is through the Son. The way is narrow and few are willing to follow it.

Romans 8:26-27 NIV

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. 

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What  can we say? Thank you Jesus, thank you. We do not deserve this gift but You love us more than we could ever love You. I will walk with You for the rest of my days and when tribulation and trials come I know You will be with me giving me strength to do things in the way You want them to be done. 

 

What about you? Will you accept His love gift?
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No Violence in Him

Isaiah 53:7-9 NIV

He was oppressed and afflicted,
   yet He did not open His mouth:

He was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
   and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
   so He did not open His mouth.
By oppression and judgment He was taken away.
   Yet who of His generation protested?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
   for the transgression of my people He was punished.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
   and with the rich in His death,
though He had done no violence,
   nor was any deceit in His mouth.

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Jesus is innocent and pure, no sin was found in Him. He is fully God and fully man, only He could pay the price for our sin. Jesus was tempted, He knows fully well how hard life here on earth is. I believe Satan tempted Jesus way more than he has ever tempted us. In Gethsemane the temptation from Satan was so intense His sweat was like drops of blood.

Luke 22:43-44 NIV

An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

When temptation comes think about how Satan tempted Jesus, our trial will never ever match what Jesus went through and if He can do it then with Him guiding and yoked along side of us, so can we do whatever is placed before us. 

Matthew 11:29-30 NIV

"Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

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Love Offering

 Isaiah 53:1-3 NIV

Who has believed our message

   and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
   and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him,
   nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
   a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
   He was despised, and we held Him in low esteem. 

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Revelation 1:4-6 NIV
...Grace and peace to you from Him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve His God and Father—to Him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. 

The power of the universe lies in the hands of the one who paid the price. He is a gentle Lamb who came in love and peace for the forgiveness of our sins. He came but we rejected Him. He loved us but we spat on Him. He forgave us but we mocked Him. After He rose from the dead He said He would return, He warned us to watch the signs of the times for with His second coming He will be coming clad in fighting armor returning as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

Matthew 24:27 NIV

For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

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