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Psalm 11:1-7

The intimate presence of God

Even at the most difficult time of your life you can experience the intimate presence of God. David was in a crisis. He was advised to run away and hide in the mountains. His response was to say, ‘I’ve already run for dear life straight to the arms of God. So why would I run away now?’ (v.1, MSG).
David starts by saying, ‘In the Lord I take refuge’ (v.1). He also finishes by focusing on a relationship with God, with the promise that the upright ‘will see his face’ (v.7). David uses metaphorical language to paint a picture of the intimate presence of the Lord.
His experience and desire for a relationship with God brackets the beginning and end of the psalm. There is no safer place, nothing more valuable in life and nothing that this world offers that can compare with the intimate presence of God – seeing his face.

Lord, today I want to see your face. I ask you to satisfy the deepest longings of my heart with your intimate presence.
 
Matthew 13:36-58

Knowing God’s Son

Some people are desperately searching and then find Jesus. Others, like me, almost stumble into finding him. But once you have found the treasure it is worth giving up everything else.
In between the parable of the weeds and the parable of the net, Jesus tells two very short parables about discovering the kingdom (vv.44–46). The only difference between the two is that in one case the person was actively searching (v.45) and in the other he seemed to stumble across it (v.44). In both, there is something of enormous value (‘treasure’ v.44, ‘fine pearls’ v.45). In both cases it was worth selling everything to get it (vv.44,46).
This is where true ‘joy’ (v.44), real ‘treasure’ (v.44) and ‘great value’ (v.46) are to be found. The kingdom of heaven is all about knowing the King. It is all about Jesus and how you respond to him. How everyone responds to Jesus really matters both for this life and beyond.
When you consider all the evil in the world, do you ever wonder why God does not deal with it straight away and get rid of it? In the parable of the weeds the servant wants to pull up the weeds, but his master refuses (vv.28–29). A judgment will come (vv.36–43,47–50).
He warns about the fate of those who cause sin and all who do evil (vv.41,49–50). He says of the weeds that God will ‘pitch them in the trash’ (v.41, MSG) and that he will ‘cull the bad fish and throw them in the garbage’ (vv.49–50, MSG). He promises on that day that you ‘the righteous’ (made right with God through Jesus) ‘will shine like the sun in the kingdom of [your] Father’ (v.43). It is your relationship with God that causes you to shine and it means that one day you will shine like the sun in the kingdom of God.
But God won’t allow the destruction of all that is evil yet. He wants to gather all the wheat into his barn. He deliberately allows a delay until ‘the end of the age’ (v.39), so that more people have time to respond to the good news about Jesus.

Lord, thank you that a relationship with you is the pearl of great value. Keep me close to you and help me to avoid anything that draws me away from our relationship.
 
Genesis 38:1-39:23

Experiencing God’s blessing

Are your circumstances far from ideal at the moment? Do you feel confined by them? Do you wish you were in a different job, a different place, or a different relationship? Whatever your circumstances, this passage shows that if you stay faithful to God you can experience his presence, his favour and his blessing right where you are.
We see here a contrast between Judah’s unfaithfulness and hypocrisy and Joseph’s faithfulness when faced with sexual temptation.
Judah, vulnerable after the death of his wife, fell into sin. His own daughter-in-law, Tamar, posed as a prostitute and he slept with her. As a pledge, he left his seal and its cord and a staff. She became pregnant by him (38:1–18).
When he heard that his daughter-in-law was guilty of prostitution and as a result had become pregnant, Judah said, ‘Bring her out and have her burned to death!’ (v.24). She then produced what he had left behind: the ‘seal and cord and staff’ (v.25). Judah was caught out. He realised his own hypocrisy and sin (v.26).
The grace of God is extraordinary. Perez, one of the sons born as a result of this incident, is listed in the genealogy of Jesus (see Matthew 1:3). In his grace, God takes what the devil intended for evil and uses it for good.
Judah’s sin is contrasted with Joseph’s righteousness: ‘The Lord was with Joseph and he prospered’ (Genesis 39:2). Potiphar, who saw that the Lord was with him and had given him success in everything he did, put him in charge of his entire household (v.4). As a result, the Lord blessed his household (v.5).
The expression, ‘The Lord was with [Joseph]’ appears four times in this passage (39:2,3,21,23). However, the fact that the Lord is with you does not stop you facing temptation. Joseph faced great temptation. Potiphar’s wife tried to entice him to come to bed with her. He absolutely refused.
He saw that giving in to this temptation would be a sin against God and against his employer, Potiphar: ‘How could I violate his trust and sin against God?’ (v.9, MSG). Not only did he refuse to go to bed with her, he refused even to be anywhere near that temptation (v.10).
Joseph shows us a great example of how to deal with temptation. The best way to resist temptation is to flee from it (2 Timothy 2:22). If you are facing great temptation, take radical action. Like Joseph, run from it.
Potiphar’s wife grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said again, ‘“Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house’ (Genesis 39:12).
Look at the contrast with Judah. Judah left his seal, cord and staff in Tamar’s hands. It was the evidence of his guilt. Joseph left his cloak in Potiphar's wife's hands. She used it to prove his guilt, although in fact it was the evidence of his innocence.
In spite of the fact that ‘the Lord was with Joseph’, having resisted temptation, he then suffered terrible injustice (v.19 onwards) and ended up confined in prison (v.20). He lost his liberty but not his freedom.
Even in prison, the Lord was with him. He ‘showed him kindness and granted him favour in the eyes of the prison warden’ (v.21). ‘The head jailer put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners – he ended up managing the whole operation’ (v.22, MSG) – ‘Because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did’ (v.23).
Your circumstances may not be ideal. You might feel like you are in prison – literally in prison, or confined like a prisoner in your job, a health issue, a difficult relationship or other circumstances. Yet in the midst of all this, if you stay faithful to God, you can experience his presence with you, his favour in the sight of others, and his blessing on your life. This is the ‘pearl… of great value’ (Matthew 13:45–46). This is your most valuable possession.

Lord, thank you that even when things seem to be going wrong and there are trials and temptations, I can know that you are with me and experience your blessing on my life.
 
Pippa Adds

You can’t keep a good person down. God was with Joseph even when everything went wrong. He did not necessarily rescue him from it, but he did use it for good. God was working on Joseph’s character. It was all part of his preparation.
 
I believe
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Before long the poor will not afford weddings, funerals among others as taxes make them beyond reach...
Before we know it the poor will have to leave their dead in motuaries because they cannot pay a million a government demands, and local governments may have to incur costs to bury the unclaimed bodies... but the first to suffer are funeral homes and wedding planners....CCM is a job killer, never creates any job but sniffs jobs to kill them by slapping hefty taxes which once collected are misappropriated in a form of insane wages, white elephants and to rig future elections...all in the name of development
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From Sumatra to Latra what we see is the proliferation of regulatory bodies which do not improve services but add heavy burden to tax payers because every new regulatory body created brings more mouths to feed and they don't disappoint to slap taxpayers with heavy fees and fines to squeeze cash and jobs out of market

We keep wondering whether death and weddings is now a government business or whether anybody ought to pay taxes when mourning their dead or when conforming to the institution of marriage?

Collecting taxes from the dead is abomination and double taxation. Funeral homes pay taxes why kill them by double taxation and vitiate jobs in the process

Targeting institution of marriage will lead to a spike in concubinage or "come and stay" which will pave way to lack of commitment and irresponsible behaviour. Such parents tend to pass those habits to their offspring and criminal conduct is groomed at behest of an extortionate regime...

Tax funerals and weddings and see where they get you to....you will always be a tail by punishing most deferential points in human life...three areas are most revered in human life which are birth, marriage and death..

Birth was already slapped with a half a million or so pushing expectant moms to seek and secure the services of informal maternity wardens and now deaths and weddings will soon go informal just to keep damning taxes off their back...
 
CCM is an occupation force because it derives its legitimacy to govern from itself no wonder human rights abuses are spiking

Haydom executive Secretary unload "fists of fury" because CCM no longer counts votes as a result they are not accountable to the electorate

 
BREAKING NEWS Big news of the world,
Italy did postmortem of dead corona patient, big revelation happened
Italy has become the first country in the world to perform an autopsy (postmortem) on a dead body from a Covid-19 and, after a comprehensive investigation, has discovered that the Covid-19 does not exist as a virus, but a very large one. Is a global scam. People are actually dying due to "Amplified Global 5G Electromagnetic Radiation (Poison)".

Doctors in Italy have violated World Health Organization (WHO) law, which does not authorize autopsies (postmortem) on the bodies of people who have died from the corona virus in order to find out after some kind of scientific discovery. It cannot be assumed that it is not a virus, but a bacterium that causes death, which causes blood clots to form in the veins, i.e. blood clots in the veins and nerves due to this bacterium and this is the patient Causes the death of.
Italy has beaten the virus, stating that "there is nothing but phelia-intravascular coagulation (thrombosis) and the way to deal with it is to cure it."
Antibiotics tablets
Anti-inflammatory and
Taking Anticoagulants (Aspirin) cures it.
And indicating that a cure for the disease is possible, this sensational news for the world has been prepared by Italian doctors by autopsy (postmortem) of corpses from the Covid-19 virus. According to some other Italian scientists, ventilators and the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) were never needed. Protocols for this have now been issued in Italy.
CHINA already knew about it but never made its report public.
Please share this information with all your family, neighbors, acquaintances, friends, colleagues so that they can get out of the fear of Covid-19 and understand that this is not a virus at all but just a bacterium that is exposed to 5G radiation. The cause is harming people who have very low immunity. This radiation also causes inflammation and hypoxia. Those who fall prey to this should take Asprin-100mg and Apronix or Paracetamol 650mg. Why… ??? क .Because it has been shown that covid-19 causes blood to clot which causes thrombosis to the person and due to which blood clots in the veins and due to this the brain, heart and lungs cannot get oxygen due to which the person Breathing becomes difficult and a person dies quickly due to shortness of breath.
Doctors in Italy disobeyed WHO's protocol and performed autopsies on corpses that had died of covid-19. Doctors opened the arms, legs and other parts of the body and after examining and examining them properly, they noticed that the blood vessels were dilated and the veins were full of thrombi, which usually stopped the blood from flowing. And also reduces the flow of oxygen into the body which causes the patient to die. After learning of this research, the Italian Ministry of Health immediately changed the treatment protocol of Covid-19 and gave aspirin to its positive patients. 100mg and started giving Empromax. As a result, the patients started recovering and their health started showing improvement. The Italian Ministry of Health discharged more than 14,000 patients in a single day and sent them home.
Source: Italian Ministry of Health

COPY TO OTHER GROUPS

We conclude it's FALSE NEWS!
 
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