Jesus Conquered Death for us! He Lives!

In Honor of Rachel

 

Where there is Faith

~Kinsman 

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I believe in faithfulness

I believe in giving of myself for someone else

I believe in peace and love

I believe in honesty and trust but it's not enough

For all that I believe may never change the way it is

Unless I believe Jesus lives

Where there is faith

There is a calling, keep walking

You're not alone in this world

Where there is faith

There is a peace like a child sleeping

Hope everlasting in He who is able to

Bear every Burden, to heal every hurt in my heart

It is a wonderful, powerful place

Where there is faith

There's a man across the sea

Never heard the sound of freedom ring

Only in his dreams

There's a lady dressed in black

In a motorcade of cadillacs

Daddy's not coming back

Our hearts begin to fall

And our stability grows weak

But Jesus meets our needs if only we believe

Where there is faith

There is a calling, keep walking

You're not alone in this world

Where there is faith

There is a peace like a child sleeping

Hope everlasting in He who is able to

Bear every Burden, to heal every hurt in my heart

It is a wonderful, powerful place

Where there is faith

~4 Him

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"God is still God and His faith Shall Not fail us"

 ~Yellowstone FB

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"The dawn is not distant

nor is the night starless; 

love is eternal!

God is still God, 

and His faith shall not fail us:

Christ is eternal!"

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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Secret Sorrows that only the LORD can soften

~Yellowstone FB

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"Every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he’s only sad."

~Cited on the opening of the movie, I Heard the Bells.

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Psalm 3:3-5

..."But You, O Lord, are a shield about me,

My glory, and the One who lifts my head.

I was crying to the Lord with my voice,

And He answered me from His holy mountain. 

I lay down and slept;

I awoke, for the Lord sustains me."...

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"Be Still, and Wait; and See"

~Mountain Blue Bird, Yellowstone FB

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She waited for the call that never came;

searched every mail for a letter, 

or a note, 

or card, 

that bore his name;

and on her knees at night, 

and on her feet all day,

she stormed Heaven’s gate in his behalf;

she pled for him in Heaven’s high court.

“Be still, and wait; and see”—

the word God gave; 

then she knew that He would do 

in and 

for and 

with him,

that which she never could.

So doubts ignored

she went about her chores with joy—

knowing, 

though spurned,

His word was true.

The prodigal had not returned, 

but God was God,

and there was work to do. 

-Prodigals and Those Who Love Them, by Ruth Bell Graham.

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Speaking Truth even through Mallard

~Mallard Fillmore 

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Thankful

Grateful

Truthful

Indebted

Appreciated

Valuable

Respected

Valid

Reality

Unmistaken

Authentic

Genuine

Legitimate

Correct

Exact

Accurate

Right

Bona Fide

Trustworthy

Dependable

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The Truth and The Lie

~Yellowstone FB: Owl.

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Our Job as a Saint: Do what is in front of you!

Do it for the LORD and Glorify His Name

2 Timothy 3

"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come....."

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We can't wait for the perfect time to do "this or that" for the LORD.  

Live your life TODAY for Him. 

In all you do, do it for Him. 

Change your thinking. 

You don't have to be in a foreign country - your country is already "foreign"!!

Peeling potatoes? do it to glorify God. 

Changing diapers? do it for the LORD.

Any other "ordinary" things? do it for the LORD!

Your life is important in whatever you are doing so get busy and live for the LORD!

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Marcel Marceau Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children From Nazis

The Frenchman who would become known as the world's greatest pantomime artist helped smuggle Jewish children to safety in Switzerland during World War II.

The world-famous mime artist Marcel Marceau worked with the French underground as a teenager and help save many Jewish children from death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed annually on 27 January (the date the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated in 1945), is an occasion not only for commemorating the millions who died during the Holocaust (1933-1945), but also for acknowledging the heroic efforts of those who helped European Jews escape the clutches of the Third Reich.

One of those acknowledged heroes was the internationally acclaimed pantomime artist Marcel Marceau (1923-2007), whose work as a young man with the French underground was celebrated in a Facebook video posted on 26 January 2018:

The same story is told in this excerpt from an unattributed article widely shared on social media since 2015:

Marcel Marceau’s extraordinary talent for pantomime entertained audiences around the world for over sixty years. It also saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust.

Born to a Jewish family in Strasbourg, France in 1923, young Marcel Mangel discovered Charlie Chaplin at age five and became an avid fan. He entertained his friends with Chaplin imitations, and dreamed of starring in silent movies.

When Marcel was 16, the Nazis marched into France, and the Jews of Strasbourg — near the German border — had to flee for their lives. Marcel changed his last name to Marceau to avoid being identified as Jewish, and joined the French resistance movement.

Masquerading as a boy scout, Marcel evacuated a Jewish orphanage in eastern France. He told the children he was taking them on a vacation in the Alps, and led them to safety in Switzerland. Marcel made the perilous journey three times, saving hundreds of Jewish orphans.

He was able to avoid detection by entertaining the children with silent pantomime.

Documentary filmmaker Phillipe Mora, whose father fought alongside Marcel in the French resistance, said, ”Marceau started miming to keep children quiet as they were escaping. It had nothing to do with show business. He was miming for his life.’’

Marcel’s father perished at Auschwitz. Marcel later said, “The people who came back from the camps were never able to talk about it. My name is Mangel. I am Jewish. Perhaps that, unconsciously, contributed towards my choice of silence.”

While fighting with the French resistance, Marcel ran into a unit of German soldiers. Thinking fast, he mimicked the advance of a large French force, and the German soldiers retreated.

Much of the above was confirmed by Marceau himself in his acceptance speech when he was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Medal for humanitarianism in 2001. 

“I don’t like to speak about myself,” he said, “because what I did humbly during the war was only a small part of what happened to heroes who died through their deeds in times of danger.” He continued:
I will speak only briefly about my own deeds. It is true that I saved children, bringing them to the border in Switzerland. I forged identity cards with my brother when it was very dangerous because you could be arrested if you were in the underground. I also forged papers, not to save only Jews, and children, but to save Gentiles and Jews, especially Gentiles because there was a law in Vichy-occupied France — to send the young French men, who were eighteen, nineteen years old, to factories in Germany to work for the German Army. And then I had an idea to bribe the officials, and make people look much younger in their photos. I was born in Strasbourg on the Rhine and when the war was declared in September 1939 all Strasbourg had to be emptied by the French government to save the people because we were on the border between Germany and France. Then we were sent to Perigord in the south of France. I was sixteen years old.

As the speech went on, Marceau also paid homage to his father Charles, a kosher butcher in Strasbourg who was deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz (never to return), and his cousin Georges Loinger, a Resistance fighter who would later confirm some of Marceau’s wartime exploits. When Marceau died in 2007, Loinger’s remembrances were quoted in an obituary published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:

When the French Jewish Resistance decided in 1944 to evacuate Jewish children hidden in an orphanage west of Paris, Resistance commander George Loinger called on Marcel Mangel.

Mangel, Loinger’s younger cousin, helped sneak the kids out of the Parisian suburb of Sevres to Annemasse, on the Swiss border.

The episode represented one of Mangel’s finest hours, but it was not what would make him world famous. After the war, Mangel changed his name to Marcel Marceau — after a general in Napolean’s army who hailed from the Alsace region — and became a world-renowned mime artist.

Marceau died in Paris on Saturday at the age of 84.

“The kids loved Marcel and felt safe with him,” said Loinger, now 97. “He had already begun doing performances in the orphanage, where he had met a mime instructor earlier on. The kids had to appear like they were simply going on vacation to a home near the Swiss border, and Marcel really put them at ease.”

The anecdote about Marceau persuading a unit of German soldiers to surrender by “miming” the imminent arrival of French forces appears to have been mythologized a bit in the telling. For instance, Loinger didn’t mention Marceau’s using pantomime to subdue the Germans in his 2007 account of the incident:

“He and several other French soldiers were in the field in Germany, though I don’t remember  where,” when a group of 30 German soldiers led by an officer surrendered to him,” Loinger recalls. “He brought them all back to his base as prisoners. Marcel always said that was his greatest exploit as a soldier.”

Marceau’s own version of the story (as related to American historian Timothy Ryback in 1997) confirms that role-playing was integral to the event, but it does not imply that Marceau played a non-speaking part in that instance:

He claimed he had learned the power of illusion on a sun drenched afternoon toward the end of World War II while fighting with the French Resistance. He and a companion had entered a clearing and suddenly found themselves face-to-face with a unit of German soldiers. Startled, Marceau acted as if he was the advance guard of a larger French force and demanded the German surrender.

As Marcel related the incident, he suddenly sprang to his feet and struck a predatory pose. The night air filled with menace and, an instant later, triumph. Though it was well past midnight, I still see the helmets of the surrendering Germans glinting in that sunlight meadow.

Marceau confirmed that his first public performance as a mime was on a stage in front of 3,000 U.S. troops in Frankfurt, Germany after the war’s end. “I played for the G.I.s and two days later I had my first review in the Stars and Stripes,” he said in his Wallenberg Medal acceptance speech.

Observers sometimes remarked that part of the great mime’s allure was a deep sadness that lurked at the heart of his performances. “You see the pain and the sadness in his mime skits,” Georges Loinger said after his cousin’s passing. “The origin of that pain was his father’s deportation.”

Fittingly, Marceau is honored as both a victim and a hero of the Holocaust, the event that more than any other shaped the course of his life.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marcel-marceau-saved-children-nazis/

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No matter who you are, where you are, each of us can choose to live for the LORD in whatever circumstances we find ourselves.

Romans 12:1-2

"Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."...

1 Peter 1:13-16

..."Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Isaiah 41:10

" ‘Do not fear, for I am with you; 

Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,

Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’ "

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Our Greatest Advocate

~Kinsman 

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1 John 2:1-2

"My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world."...

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The Living Breath of God

~precious missionaries ready to head home 

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Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God

Holy Spirit, living breath of God

Breathe new life into my willing soul

Bring the presence of the risen Lord

To renew my heart and make me whole

Cause Your Word to come alive in me

Give me faith for what I cannot see

Give me passion for Your purity

Holy Spirit, breathe new life in me

Holy Spirit, come abide within

May Your joy be seen in all I do

Love enough to cover every sin

In each thought and deed and attitude

Kindness to the greatest and the least

Gentleness that sows the path of peace

Turn my strivings into works of grace

Breath of God, show Christ in all I do

Holy Spirit, from creation's birth

Giving life to all that God has made

Show Your power once again on earth

Cause Your church to hunger for your ways

Let the fragrance of our prayers arise

Lead us on the road of sacrifice

That in unity the face of Christ

Will be clear for all the world to see

~Getty & Townend

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Simply Accept

~Kinsman 

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Romans 10:9-10

..."if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation."... 

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Be Anxious for Nothing

 ~ROSE is ROSE

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Philippians 4:4-7

..."Rejoice in the Lord always; 

again I will say, rejoice!

Let your gentle spirit 

be known to all men. 

The Lord is near.

Be anxious for nothing, 

but in everything 

by prayer and supplication 

with thanksgiving 

let your requests 

be made known to God.

And the peace of God, 

which surpasses all comprehension, 

will guard your hearts and 

your minds in Christ Jesus."...

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Charles Wesley's Original 18 Stanzas :o)

In it's entirety:

-by Charles Wesley, 1739, based on Psalm 35:28

O for a Thousand Tongues

1.Glory to God, and praise and love,
Be ever, ever given;
By saints below and saints above,
The Church in earth and heaven.

2. On this glad day the glorious Sun
Of righteousness arose,
On my benighted soul he shone,
And filled it with repose.

3. Sudden expired the legal strife;
'Twas then I ceased to grieve.
My second, real, living life,
I then began to live.

4. Then with my heart I first believed,
Believed with faith divine;
Power with the Holy Ghost received
To call the Saviour mine.

5. I felt my Lord's atoning blood
Close to my soul applied;
Me, me he loved - the Son of God
For me, for me he died!

6. I found and owned his promise true,
Ascertained of my part,
My pardon passed in heaven I know,
When written on my heart.

7. O For a thousand tongues to sing
My dear Redeemer's praise!
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of His grace!

8. My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the world abroad
The honors of Thy name.

9. Jesus! the Name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;
'Tis music in the sinner's ears,
'Tis life, and health, and peace.

10. He breaks the power of cancell'd sin,
He sets the prisoner free;
His blood can make the foulest clean,
His blood avail'd for me.

11. He speaks, - and, listening to his voice,
New life the dead receive;
The mournful, broken hearts rejoice;
The humble poor believe.

12. Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb,
Your loosen'd tongues employ;
Ye blind, behold your Saviour come,
And leap, ye lame, for joy.

13. Look unto him, ye nations; own
Your God, ye fallen race;
Look, and be saved through faith alone,
Be justified by grace.

14. See all your sins on Jesus laid;
The Lamb of God was slain;
His soul was once an offering made
For every soul of man.

15. Harlots, and publicans, and thieves,
In holy triumph join!
Saved is the sinner that believes,
From crimes as great as mine.

16. Murderers, and all ye hellish crew,
Ye sons of lust and pride,
Believe the Savior died for you;
For me the Saviour died.

17. Awake from guilty nature's sleep,
And Christ shall give you light,
Cast all your sins into the deep,
And wash the AEthiop white.

18. With me, your chief, ye then shall know,
Shall feel your sins forgiven;
Anticipate your heaven below,
And own that love is heaven.

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One Thousand Tongues!

 "O for a thousand tongues to sing

my great Redeemer's praise,

the glories of my God and King,

the triumphs of His grace."...

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Psalm 118: 1, 24

"Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;

For His lovingkindness is everlasting."...

..."This is the day which the Lord has made;

Let us rejoice and be glad in it."...

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Psalm 34:1, 8

"I will bless the Lord at all times;

His praise shall continually be in my mouth."...

..."O taste and see that the Lord is good;

How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!"...

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Psalm 91: 2, 14-16

..."I will say to the Lord, 

'My refuge and my fortress,

My God, in whom I trust!'...

...“Because he has loved Me, 

therefore I will deliver him;

I will set him securely on high, 

because he has known My name.

“He will call upon Me, 

and I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble;

I will rescue him and honor him.

“With a long life I will satisfy him

And let him see My salvation.”

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Hear Him!

 ~Kinsman Co.

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..."Hear Him, ye deaf; His praise, ye dumb,

your loosen'd tongues employ;

ye blind, behold your Savior come;

and leap, ye lame, for joy."

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Nehemiah 8:10

..."Then he said to them,

 'Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, 

and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; 

for this day is holy to our Lord.' 

Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” ...

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Luke 15:3-7

..."So He [Jesus] told them this parable, saying,

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 

‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance."...

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2 John 1:12

..."Though I have many things to write to you, 

I do not want to do so with paper and ink; 

but I hope to come to you and speak 

face to face, so that your joy may be 

made full."...

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1 Peter 1:3-9

..."Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord 

Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has 

caused us to be born again to a living hope through 

the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 

to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable 

and undefiled and will not fade away, 

reserved in heaven for you, who are protected 

by the power of God through faith for a 

salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In this you greatly rejoice, even though now 

for a little while, if necessary, you have been 

distressed by various trials, so that the proof 

of your faith, being more precious than gold 

which is perishable, even though tested by fire, 

may be found to result in praise and glory and 

honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; and 

though you have not seen Him, you love 

Him, and though you do not see Him now, 

but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with 

joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining 

as the outcome of your faith the salvation 

of your souls."...

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GLORY to the LORD GOD!

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My Gracious Master!

~Yellowstone FB

..."My gracious Master and my God,

assit me to proclaim,

to spread through all the earth abroad

the honors of thy name."...

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Mark 16:15

Jesus said: ...“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."...

2 Timothy 4:1-5 

"I solemnly charge you in the presence of God 

and of Christ Jesus, 

who is to judge the living and the dead,

and by His appearing and His kingdom: 

preach the word; 

be ready in season and out of season; 

reprove, rebuke, exhort, 

with great patience and instruction.

For the time will come when they will not 

endure sound doctrine; 

but wanting to have their ears tickled, 

they will accumulate for themselves teachers 

in accordance to their own desires,

and will turn away their ears from the truth 

and will turn aside to myths.

But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, 

do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."...

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He Sets the Prisoners Free!

 ..."He breaks the pow'r of reigning sin,

He sets the pri'sner free;

His blood can make the foulest clean,

His blood availed for me."...

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John 1

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.

He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.

There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man.

He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth."...

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The Name that Charms!

.. "Jesus, the name that charms our fears,

that bids our sorrows cease;

'tis music in the sinner's ears,

'tis life and health and peace."...

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Psalm 46

"God is our refuge and strength,


A very present help in trouble.


Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change


And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;


Though its waters roar and foam,


Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. 

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,


The holy dwelling places of the Most High.


God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;


God will help her when morning dawns.


The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;


He raised His voice, the earth melted.


The Lord of hosts is with us;


The God of Jacob is our stronghold. 

Come, behold the works of the Lord,


Who has wrought desolations in the earth.


He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;


He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;


He burns the chariots with fire.


“Cease striving and know that I am God;


I will be exalted among the nations, 

I will be exalted in the earth.”


The Lord of hosts is with us;


The God of Jacob is our stronghold."

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Broken Hearts Rejoice!

..."He speaks -  and, list'ning to His voice,

New life the dead receive;

The mournful, broken hearts rejoice;

The humble poor believe."...

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Psalm 34:18

..."The Lord is near to the brokenhearted

And saves those who are crushed in spirit."...

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