Today Our Daily Bread James 5 ++

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Yesterday’s Daily Bread was written when I was very, very sleepy, as you can tell by the atrocious spelling mistakes . I left out the reference !- Matthew 5, One of the best, a good one to replace your meditations.
Love U, Lena

James 5:1-20
Warning to the Rich
1Look here, you rich people, weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you. 2Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags. 3Your gold and silver have become worthless. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh in hell. F15 This treasure you have accumulated will stand as evidence against you on the day of judgment. 4For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
5You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every whim. Now your hearts are nice and fat, ready for the slaughter. 6You have condemned and killed good people who had no power to defend themselves against you.

Patience in Suffering
7Dear brothers and sisters, F16 you must be patient as you wait for the Lord's return. Consider the farmers who eagerly look for the rains in the fall and in the spring. They patiently wait for the precious harvest to ripen. 8You, too, must be patient. And take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near.
9Don't grumble about each other, my brothers and sisters, or God will judge you. For look! The great Judge is coming. He is standing at the door!
10For examples of patience in suffering, dear brothers and sisters, look at the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11We give great honor to those who endure under suffering. Job is an example of a man who endured patiently. From his experience we see how the Lord's plan finally ended in good, for he is full of tenderness and mercy.
12But most of all, my brothers and sisters, never take an oath, by heaven or earth or anything else. Just say a simple yes or no, so that you will not sin and be condemned for it.
The Power of Prayer
13Are any among you suffering? They should keep on praying about it. And those who have reason to be thankful should continually sing praises to the Lord.
14Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. 15And their prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make them well. And anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.
16Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results. 17Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for the next three and a half years! 18Then he prayed for rain, and down it poured. The grass turned green, and the crops began to grow again.
Restore Wandering Believers
19My dear brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders away from the truth and is brought back again, 20you can be sure that the one who brings that person back will save that sinner from death and bring about the forgiveness of many sins.
FOOTNOTES:F15: Or will eat your flesh like fire. F16: Greek brothers; also in 5:9, 10, 12, 19.
~ Lena’s Journalin’ ~
What a passage! I’m looking at the first section “Warning to the Rich”. I wonder if the scholars considered titling it, “Warning to the Destitute”? Everything in our Born again spirit led life should be thought of through the eyes of God’s plan, His Kingdom on earth, for eternity, plan.
This first passage is really speaking of this plan, in fact it is actually talking about the true purpose of human life on earth. Of ALL of the spirit beings who could have been put inside of bodies and born as humans, guess what? We’re it! You do know there are new spirit beings, new chances being born everyday, right? New potential, new life, new purposes, etc… What I so see it as saying, is this- we are here because of God’s love for the world, just as Jesus came out of God’s love for the world, so He created every man, woman and child with that same hope about them. What is that hope? That all men would be saved by the blood sacrifice of Jesus’ and that all men would in turn bring others to that great salvation. That is the purpose of life here in a nutshell, a big one at that. Even if a person does not know this, they are still held to its purpose and call. They will stand before God in judgment one day having fulfilled as much of this purpose as possible or not. If they tried to build for themselves and their own families little manly kingdoms on earth, where all of their physical, mental and social needs were met by their own plans and successes, there will be eternal trouble awaiting, because the purposes to fulfill are NOT our own selfish and even good purposes. The purposes to be fulfilled are the purposes of God.
When Jesus was here on earth, He used earthly things to show us that the Lord has been putting us all in OJT for sometime. He used the things set by God that are happening all around us to show us we’ve been “set up” for kingdom of God success. One such thing was a field of harvest, harvesters, laborers, investors, wheat to become bread, etc… he showed us that the world is the field, that Kingdom workers were harvesters and a harvester who works a field can turn that work into food for nations, namely the nourishment of true life that comes from knowing and following after God’s words.
If a person goes out and makes their own fields, which all men have that tempting potential to do. If they raise up servants unto themselves, if in using the principles of God, they get rich in worldly treasures that will burn in fire and won’t be able to go with them in death, If they put on crowns and invest in more and more of the same, they are in Big Kingdom Business trouble, eternal type of trouble. They will find it was worth absolutely nothing. I believe when we stand before our Father God, His righteous Son and His inviting Holy Spirit, we will be in our full intellect and understanding. I believe that before our very eyes will flash the scope of the end from the beginning and all of the in between, but it will be in a form that we do understand, and the biggest regret of all will be felt inside of us as never before, that we did not love the world as He does, enough to go work in another man’s field even as a servant to save somebody.
Jesus did that, he had a Kingdom in heaven and glorious with the father god 24/7 as we know days and he came and bowed down to another, went into the field of another ( the world was ruled by satan) and he served in the field when He owned the field, He served so hard there that He died there shedding all of His blood for the field, to pay the price to give the field to another, His father.
Any and all worldly self- exalting, self – supplying, self- serving, self- promoting ambitions etc. are going to burn up! They have no eternal value whatsoever.
Many times sickness comes to us as a result of disobediences and unfulfilled purposes. Things become out of line, things are chaotic and our bodies respond. It’s like when one gets close to a flame, the heat alerts us that if we get closer we’ll get burned. The heat says, “turn around, don’t do that, repent!” sickness does not come from God, it comes from the devil, who has rule in us if we are outside of the rule or will of God. If God has asked you to do or not do something and you disregard Him or take his words as mere hints which you don’t HAVE to obey, you have just entered into enemy territory. If you find yourself there use it as a check point, ask yourself if you’ve resisted God’s nudging spirit, even in the simplest thing like quitting a bad habit. Resist God’s nudge and open doors to other so-called friends. The ridiculous thing is those are not friends at all, they are out to destroy any potential the kingdom of God has here on earth- us! Light-bulb time….Thus the sickness! ( it comes to steal kill, destroy- Jn 10:10) If we repent, change our minds and hearts and actions towards doing God’s nudging will, we will find ourselves stomping on the head of a snake, a serpent, a liar and thief of God and His kingdom plan.

Proverbs 27:17-19
17 You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another. 18 If you care for your orchard, you'll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you'll be honored. 19 Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
Psalm 122:1
1 When they said, "Let's go to the house of God," my heart leaped for joy.


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