04/11/2025
From Becky's corner....
God misses His time with us...the main thing I recognized from seeing the expression of love and deep hurt on Jesus's face is that He didn't want one ounce of our time lost in meeting with Him. I saw how much He desires our fellowship ,more than we can ever desire His. You see He has a deeper capacity to love us and spend time with us than we do Him. If you have slacked up with your prayer time with the Lord, He misses His time with You ! He's saying to you now, I miss My time with you ! In ( John 14:18 ) it says, I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you. The Holy Spirit is always with us here on earth. Right before this scripture Jesus mentions that He would send us another comforter, which was the Holy Spirit. In this verse, Jesus also mentions that He himself would come personally to us ! Not only would the Holy
Spirit comfort us but He too, wouldn't leave us comfortless. Jesus promises to join the Holy Spirit on earth by also coming to comfort us. Jesus promises here that He would come to us, my friends, Oh how wonderful. You can expect a face to face visit from the Lord through this promise alone. That is what He does when we pray and commune with Him- only we are not aware at the time of how close He really is during our prayers. Jesus actually comes to us in prayer.
We really don't believe or take literally what the Lord is saying when He said, "Seek ye My face" (Psalm 27:8) ( 1 Chron16:11). Ask yourself " why would the Lord tell us to seek His face if it meant that we couldn't find it." We have allowed the one scripture that says ..No man can see My face and live, we've completely thrown out or overlooked other scripture like..."Seek my face". ( Exodus 33:20). We don't take this literally like we should, but God means just what He says, Jesus said, " seek and ye shall find " (Matt 7:7) If you seek the face of the Lord , you will find it. The Lord makes His face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee and give thee peace. (Numbers 6:25-26.) ( Proverbs 16:15) In the light of the Kings countenance is life and His favor is a cloud of the latter rain. (Psalm 4:6) Lord, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us.( Psalm 42:5) Hope thou in God ,for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance. You see in the scriptures that it says the Lords countenance or face helps us. This is why the psalmist would ask the Lord to make His face shine ,smile or be favorable to us or for Him to lift up the light of His countenance upon us.
Why does God hide His face from us. ( Psalm 88:14) Why hidest Thou Thy face from me ?
David wanted to know why the Lord hid His face from Him at times. He knew the power of seeing the Lord's face. David knew the power of a face to face relationship with the Lord . There are several reasons the Lord mentions that explains why He hides His face from us. One of the reasons is that we offend Him in some serious way. The biggest reason from the time of Adam has been simply because of our sin.
( Ezekiel 7:22) My face will I turn also from thee , and thy shall pollute My secret place ,for the robbers shall enter into it and defile it. Also read ( Ezekiel 39:23-24) ( Jeremiah 33:5) .
When Moses asked to see His glory , God responded to him that He would allow Moses to see His back parts ,but not His face ( Exodus 33:18-23). But God gave Moses a requirement to meet with Him and be ready in the morning and come up in the morning unto mount Sanai ,and present thyself there to Me in the top of the mount. (Exodus 34:2) Wow, Moses says to God," I want to see your glory." God tells Moses he will have to meet God in the early morning . David the psalmist said, "Early will I seek thee, to see thy power and Thy glory ,so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. (Psalm 63:1-2) God's power and glory are demonstrated and given in the morning times. I have realized that everything that God does that is significant is done early in the morning when He visits man on earth.
Please remember that me and Pastor John are here to pray for you . You can call or send a text to 828 527 3941. Remember our dear brother Ken , his dear wife went home to heaven after 41 years of marriage. love you all. Becky