I haven't been posting as much, and it is because my mother is very ill, and my dad is going through a health issue also. I will post when I can. I appreciate your prayers for Jon & Janice, my parents.
Revelation 18:1, "After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory."
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This is precious! It reminds me of us giving praise and thanks to God! God sees us as His little children, and loves to hear us praise Him from our heart for His wonderful, merciful love displayed through His Son Jesus!
Psalm 100:1-2, "Everyone on earth, on your feet now—applaud God! Bring a gift of laughter,
sing yourselves into his presence, praise Him!"
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I have thought it would be awesome to make a picture of Jesus out of real blooming flowers, in heaven. They never die there. But then I thought, why would I need to do that? Jesus will be right there with us, and we will gaze at His beautiful face! Imagine the love in those eyes...love that says, "I died for you, see the scars in my hands, side and feet? I am keeping them forever so that you will be reminded of just how much I love you:-)" Love that says, "I don't judge you for what I think is in your heart. I know what's in your heart, and I love you anyway. I want to change your heart. I want you to know that you will never be good enough to gain heaven, but I want to put my goodness in you, so you can know me now, and be with me forever! PLEASE don't ignore Me." That's Jesus my friends!
1 John 3:2, "What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we'll see him—and in seeing him, become like him. All of us who look forward to his Coming stay ready, with the glistening purity of Jesus' life as a model for our own."
Jesus wants to share His heart with yours. Will you let Him?
From TheBlaze:
Thumb tacks typically assist people in hanging papers on cork boards or walls. But one artist has taken this basic home and office tool and used it in a unique way — to create a portrait of Jesus Christ. Red, black, white, yellow, green, blue, magenta and purple pushpins were strategically merged together to create a stunning picture.
Artist Rob Surette (Image Credit: AmazingHeroArt.com)
The Huffington Post has more about how the project took form:
Up close, this work of art may seem like an ambiguous blob, but take a step back and you might just have a divine vision.
Self-described “artistic superstar” Rob Surette used 24,790 colored thumbtacks to create his pushpin portrait of Jesus.
Here’s the portrait:
Image Credit: OddityCentral.com
The project took six months to complete, with Surette working on it one hour per day, seven days per week. After all, the massive portrait is quite large at 22-square feet (5.5 feet by 4 feet).
Image Credit: OddityCentral.com
Oddity Central continues, describing what drove Surette’s decision to create the intriguing portrait:
Rob Surette has been fascinated by pointillism ever since he discovered the art of Georges Seurat, who invented the dot painting technique during the late 1800s. He became a master of it himself and now creates incredible works of art that always has viewers asking how he achieves such elaborate visual illusions…
Before starting work on this portrait, Surette set a record for the world’s largest Lite Brite creation(513,000 pieces), and wondering what other objects he could use to create a portrait out of dots, he settled on push pins.
Image Credit: OddityCentral.com
The Jesus portrait is currently valued at $250,000.
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Here's another first! I've never seen a bird feed a dog noodles, or anything else for that matter! Mighty nice of that bird! If anyone ever calls you bird brain, take it as a compliment:-)
Acts 20:35, "You'll not likely go wrong here if you keep remembering that our Master said, 'You're far happier giving than getting."
Try surprising someone today, by sharing something with them that they will appreciate!
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This story is from several years ago, but still has a powerful message today!
If you're at a place in your life when the challenges almost seem too much to bear, don't quit in discouragement. Your miracle is just around the corner. God may be allowing you to be tested, but He is with you, and at just the right time, He will break through with the answer He knows you need!
Jesus went through the ultimate test, and knows how to walk you through this life you're experiencing! Don't give up! Help is on the way!
2 Corinthians 4:8-9, "We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed" God's best 2 U, Joy J
Phillipians 4:19, "I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me."
Congratulations Nick and Kanae!
From TheBlaze: From No Limbs to No Limits, motivational speaker Nick Vujicic has overcome disability and depression to encourage others to live life to the fullest. Born with Tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterised by the absence of both arms and legs, Vujicic struggled with depression and loneliness as a child. However, Nick says his faith in God and encouragement from friends and family helped him discover his purpose in life. Since the age of 19 Nick has been fulfilling his dream of being able to encourage others through motivational speaking and sharing his testimony about how God changed his life and gave him a future and hope.
“I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There’s a purpose for why you’re in the fire,” the Australia-born Vujicic writes on his website. Vujicic moved to California in 2007 and has traveled around the world, sharing his story with millions of people, speaking to a range of different groups such as students, teachers, youth, businessmen and women, entrepreneurs, and church congregations of all sizes. Given his inspirational story, you can’t help but smile when seeing the motivational speaker enjoying his honeymoon with the love of his life.
The best-selling author married Kanae Miyahara in California on February 10, the couple spent last week in Hawaii on their honeymoon. The Daily Mail reports that Vujicic mastered life’s daily tasks as a teen, and went on to show that he can do everything that able bodied people can do-including writing, typing, playing drums, brushing his teeth and using a camera.
Video of the motivational speaker discussing “knowing God:”
Matthew 18:11, " “For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost." When we realize we can't change our own hearts, and that we are lost and need help, that is when Jesus intervenes on our behalf, and we realize we are found!
Can you imagine being trapped by snow in your car for two months?! This is truly a miracle!
From TheBlaze:
Image source: YouTube
A Swedish man who survived being trapped in a snow-covered car for two months has been rescued and is recovering in the hospital, the Telegraph reported.
Peter Skyllberg, 44, was found in his car Friday off a snow-filled forest road in northern Sweden. He was discovered by passersby on snowmobiles who at first thought the car was a wreck, the BBC reported. When they dug their way to a window they saw movement inside.
Skyllberg said he’d been inside the car since Dec. 19 and survived by drinking only a little snow. It was not immediately clear how he became trapped.
“He was in a very poor state. Poor condition. He said he’d been there for a long time and had survived on a little snow,” policeman Ebbe Nyberg told the BBC. “He said himself he hadn’t eaten anything since December.”
Temperatures outside had been below -22 degrees, the Telegraph reported. One doctor said the air trapped around the car had likely formed a kind of igloo.
“In the car he had very warm clothes, he had a warm sleeping bag, and as the car was snowed under, that would have made it more like an igloo. Down below the snow, you would normally have a temperature of around zero,” Dr. Ulf Segerberg of Norrland’s University Hospital in Sweden said.
He added that it’s not unheard of for someone to survive for so long without starving to death.
“Starvation for one month, anyone can tolerate that if they have water to drink,” Segerberg said. “If you have body fat, you will survive even longer, although you end up looking like someone coming from a concentration camp.”
According to the BBC, one doctor told the Vasterbotten Courier Skyllberg might have survived by going into “a kind of hibernation.”
Skyllberg has not spoken publicly about his ordeal. One of his neighbors described him to the Telegraph as a “loner” who disappeared after a failed business attempt left him deeply in debt.
“He had got into a lot of debt, and he couldn’t pay his bills, and then he just disappeared,” Magnus Jernberg said. “It was a bit of a joke for us. We said ‘Oh, I think they just found Peter’. And then it was Peter.”
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From BuzzFeed:
Last week, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite captured these stunning images of magnetically captured plasma moving like a tornado across the sun's surface. But even more stunning than this video of the solar tornado are its statistics: it's estimated to be about as large as Earth itself, with wind gusts approaching 300,000 mph and a temperature of 15,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Uh… wow.
Psalm 8:4, "I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry,
Moon and stars mounted in their settings.
Then I look at my micro-self and wonder,
Why do you bother with us?
Why take a second look our way? What an amazing Creator God. He created the sun, moon and stars, and yet He thinks about you all day and night. He loves you, and sent His Son, Jesus to die for you and save you! Wow! Malachi 4:2, first part, "But to you who fear My, The Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings. God's best 2 U, Joy J
This video reminds me of how the enemy of our souls, Satan, tries to sneak up on us, and he always means harm, but Jesus is the protective barrier keeping the enemy away from us!
Isaiah 59:19, "So shall they fear The name of the Lord from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. When Satan tries to spring a surprise on us, Jesus lifts of His standard, and says, "No farther." God's best 2 U, Joy J
I like the classical violin music on here. I don't like music with a strong beat, so I enjoyed this. I am not promoting the music videos offered at the end of this video!
This video is from Colorado, USA. I know where I'm at, we have not really had winter this year. I have never seen anything like it, not that I'm complaining after last years blizzard! Those in Europe have had a really harsh winter, and this video may look like your neighbor hood right now:-)
Psalm 147:16, "He sends the snow like white wool; He scatters frost upon the ground like ashes." Job 37:9-10, "When blizzards roar out of the north and freezing rain crusts the land.
It's God's breath that forms the ice, it's God's breath that turns lakes and rivers solid." Job 38:29, “From whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?"
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The new World Trade Center being built in lower Manhattan is being heavily guarded with some impressive technology, according to sources, to help avoid a repeat of 9/11 or an attack of any kind for that matter.
The New York Post reports that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in addition to traditional cameras and other surveillance equipment, will be employing facial recognition cameras, sensors to detect heat, radiation and explosives, and computers capable of monitoring behavior patterns. All this technology, which it reports an official as saying “has never been done before,” will be connected to a system monitoring for unusual behavior as part of NYPD’s Lower Manhattan Security Initiative.
The rebuild of the World Trade Center is set to be completed in 2013 with much of the security technology being set up by Behavioral Recognition Systems, which the Post notes is a Department of Defense contractor. The Post spoke with John Frazzini, president of the Houston-based firm, who described the technology as well ahead of what is traditionally used but declined to elaborate further.
There is no security that even compares to knowing Jesus Christ! John 10:28, "And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand." When Jesus comes, there will be no more need for expensive security. You can have security right now. Give your heart to Jesus, and He promises you eternal life, if you follow Him! He gives you His perfection to replace your sin:-) That's security! God's best 2 U, Joy J
What strikes me about these videos is the clarity of the shots! It's almost like you are there! When someone jumps out of an airplane or base jumps, they always go down, but not so on our trip to heaven! We will fly at supersonic speeds with no need of a space shuttle! Won't it be mind blowing to fly through Orion?! How about the Eye Of God or Helix nebula?!
I can't wait!:-) 1 Corinthians 2:9, " No one's ever seen or heard anything like this,
Never so much as imagined anything quite like it—
What God has arranged for those who love him."
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Take your Pick or listen to all of these videos!
Phillipians 4:8, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things."
Acts 17:26, "And hath made of oneblood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;" No matter where we go on this planet, God knows where we live, and He knows who we are. He knows who lives in every house in the cities shown in these videos!
From TheBlaze:
View from space of the East Coast.
NASA must know how much earthlings like seeing their own planet from a space-eye view. Within the last week, it has released several new time-lapsed videos that break down North America by region. (Related: New time-lapsed vid from space: Moon setting over the Atlantic during the day)
Watch as the International Space Station takes you from just southwest of Mexico up the United States Eastern Seaboard, hitting all the major cities (New Orleans, Mobile, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City):
Next, you can see the Great Plains at night. The footage goes from northern Mexico east toward Indiana and Ohio. It’s a short clip, but look closely around 0:15 to see the Aurora Borealis peaking out toward the top:
In a similar view of the plain states, though from a different direction, this video takes you though San Antonio and Houston up past Chicago (can you make out the Mitten State’s shape around 0:30?):
Vibrant northern lights can been seen in this footage taken from North Dakota toward Quebec:
You may have heard of Kevin Richardson, and animal behaviorist in South Africa. A pride of 38 lions on a private reserve have accepted him as one of their own! It is absolutely amazing!
This is how mankind and animal interacted before sin entered the world! It is a picture of what heaven will be like! Isaiah 11:6, "Then wolves will live in peace with lambs,
and leopards will lie down to rest with goats.
Calves, lions, and young bulls will eat together,
and a little child will lead them."
Can you imagine being able to walk up to any animal of your choice, and freely pet them, and play with them? Play hide and seek with a 12 foot grizzly, or brush a Great White's teeth:-), or feed a 2 foot morel mushroom to a giant elephant! How about having a playful stare down with a beautiful white tiger?! How about painting zebra stripes on a rhinoceros?:-) The possibilities are endless! It will be awesome, because God will be there!
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