Prayers and Edification
Jesus Movies
Gospel of Luke -- A very edifying work free on You Tube - 2 hours. Stars Robert Powell. At least this Jesus / Yahshua among all the version at least smiles! The Spanish version is at this Link.
The Gospel of John in a modern movie of 3 hours length, with Spanish subtitles, is at this YouTube link.
Gospel of Luke (Powell version again) -- but 1 hr 23 minutes.
Gospel of Matthew (unfortunately, with an actor playing Jesus with a NY accent. I am from NY, so this is not a slight on my fellow Bronxites.) - 4.5 hours
"What is Truth?" question of Pilate in Passion of Christ 1 minute
Other Edifying Videos
Joseph (from Genesis) - 3 hour YouTube movie. Martin Landau is in the movie.
Abraham - 3 hour YouTube with Richard Harris and Barbara Hershy
Moses - 3 hour YouTube -- with Ben Kingsley as Moses
Prayer List for JWO Supporters
Please pray for Gary Rozar and his wife Mina who are in the South Pacific doing missionary work. Gary is a strong JWO proponent. Their latest news is at this link.
Books to Consider
A new book in 2012 Not A Fan teaches us Jesus / Yahshua wants committed followers willing to sacrifice, and not fans. Here is a website: http://www.notafan.com/
Worship Songs
Era, Dont' Go Away -- You Tube - worship to God in Latin combined with what partially can be seen as a song by God as lover to us not to leave. (It also involves a human heart calling for love to another human heart.) The refrain "don't go away" can be found in Psalm 119 where David says: 'Keep teaching me Lord, don't go away!' Thus, I listen to the song in that sense, and it brings up an emotion of a prayer to God to stay with us.I will translate the Latin portion below:
Don't Go Away Lyrics by Era
Gratias agimus ["We give thanks."]
Agimus tibi ["for our blessings"]
Propter magnam gloriam ["For the great glory"]
Propter gloriam tuam ["For your glory"]
Domine Deus, Rex coelestis ["Lord God, Heavenly King"]
Oh Domine Deus! ["Oh Lord God"]
Pater omnipotens ["Almighty Father"]
Don't go away, don't go away
Forever and ever we'll go on
Don't go away, don't go away
There's no other place where you belong
Don't go away
Oh Domine Deus! ["Oh Lord God"]
Pater omnipotens ["Almighty Father"]
Don't go away, don't go away
Forever and ever we'll go on
Don't go away, don't go away
There's no other place where you belong
Don't go away, don't go away
I've given to you, babe, all my love
Don't go away, don't go away
Forever and ever we'll go on
Refreshing Approaches
Edifying Believer
Jeremy Morris - Christian songwriter - has right attitude of humility and not seeking money
Prayer from Eden Southworth in Lost Heiress
And who shall care for you?
And who shall help and shelter you when the burden grows too
heavy for your strength and the storms beat too fiercely
upon you?
There is One who cares for you, who will shelter you under the
shadow of His wing...One who invites you to cast all your cares
on Him. He is the God of the fatherless and of the widow,
without whom not a sparrow falls to the ground,
much less one of you.
And there is no limit to His love or to His power.
And in your times of trial, when you are like to faint under the heat
and burden of the day, cast all your cares on Him,
because He cares for you.
And when you are weary and heavy-laden go to Him
and He shall give you rest.
When you are tempted to murmur at your fate,
and to long for the peaceful, sheltered lot of others-
remember that the post of danger, of difficulty,
of toil and privation, is also the post of Honor.
Like a wise general chooses his best and most valued soldiers
for the posts of difficulty and danger, (He chose you)
and He sympathizes with you....watches over you....
is ever ready to come to your aid,
that 'as your day so shall your strength shall be',
that you shall not be tried more than you are able.
You may be small and weak but your Father is ALMIGHTY.
In our weakness is His strength made manifest."
[Quote from "The Lost Heiress" by EDEN Southworth]
Kipling's Prayer "IF" for Virtue of a Son (Imagine God saying this to you)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself [better: Your Father Above] when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! ........
[by Rudyard Kipling 1856-1936][I made one "small" change to make it our heavenly Father's prayer.]
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