GRACE UPON GRACE

 ZECHARIAH 8:9-17 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS;  LET YOUR HANDS BE STRONG, YE THAT HEAR IN THESE DAYS THESE WORDS BY THE MOUTH OF THE PROPHETS, WHICH WERE IN THE DAY THAT THE FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD OF HOSTS WAS LAID, THAT THE TEMPLE MIGHT BE BUILT. FOR BEFORE THESE DAYS  THERE WAS NO HIRE FOR MAN,  NOR ANY HIRE FOR BEAST;  NEITHER WAS THERE  ANY PEACE TO HIM  THAT WENT OUT OR CAME  IN BECAUSE OF THE AFFLICTION:  FOR I SET ALL MEN EVERY  ONE AGAINST HIS NEIGHBOUR.  BUT NOW I WILL NOT BE  UNTO THE RESIDUE OF  THIS PEOPLE AS IN  THE FORMER DAYS,  SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS. FOR THE SEED SHALL  BE PROSPEROUS;  THE VINE SHALL GIVE HER FRUIT, AND THE GROUND SHALL GIVE HER INCREASE, AND THE HEAVENS SHALL GIVE THEIR DEW; AND I WILL CAUSE THE REMNANT OF THIS PEOPLE TO POSSESS ALL THESE THINGS. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS,  THAT AS YE WERE  A CURSE AMONG THE HEATHEN,  O HOUSE OF JUDAH,...

EZEKIEL 11:16-25 THEREFORE SAY, THUS SAITH  THE LORD GOD; ALTHOUGH  I HAVE CAST THEM FAR OFF  AMONG THE HEATHEN,  AND ALTHOUGH I HAVE  SCATTERED THEM AMONG  THE COUNTRIES,  YET WILL  I BE TO THEM AS A LITTLE  SANCTUARY IN THE COUNTRIES  WHERE THEY SHALL COME.  THEREFORE SAY, THUS SAITH  THE LORD GOD; I WILL EVEN  GATHER YOU FROM THE PEOPLE,  AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT  OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE  YE HAVE BEEN SCATTERED,  AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE  LAND OF ISRAEL.  AND  THEY SHALL COME THITHER,  AND THEY SHALL TAKE  AWAY ALL THE  DETESTABLE THINGS  THEREOF AND ALL THE  ABOMINATIONS THEREOF  FROM THENCE.  AND I WILL GIVE  THEM ONE HEART, AND I WILL  PUT A NEW SPIRIT WITHIN YOU;  AND I WILL TAKE THE STONY  HEART OUT OF THEIR FLESH,  AND WILL GIVE THEM  AN HEART OF FLESH:  THAT THEY MAY  WALK IN MY STATUTES,  AND KEEP MINE OR...

MATTHEW 24:8-13 ALL THESE ARE  THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS. THEN SHALL THEY DELIVER  YOU UP TO BE AFFLICTED,  AND SHALL KILL YOU:  AND YE SHALL BE HATED OF  ALL NATIONS FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. AND THEN SHALL MANY  BE OFFENDED, AND SHALL  BETRAY ONE ANOTHER,  AND  SHALL HATE ONE ANOTHER.  AND MANY FALSE PROPHETS  SHALL RISE, AND SHALL  DECEIVE MANY.  AND BECAUSE INIQUITY  SHALL ABOUND,  THE LOVE OF MANY SHALL  WAX COLD. BUT HE THAT SHALL  ENDURE UNTO THE END,  THE SAME SHALL BE SAVED. LOVE

HOSEA 11 WHEN ISRAEL WAS A CHILD,  THEN I LOVED HIM,  AND CALLED MY SON OUT OF EGYPT. AS THEY CALLED THEM,  SO THEY WENT FROM THEM:  THEY SACRIFICED UNTO BAALIM,  AND  BURNED INCENSE TO GRAVEN IMAGES.  I TAUGHT EPHRAIM ALSO TO GO,  TAKING THEM BY THEIR ARMS;  BUT THEY KNEW NOT  THAT I HEALED THEM.  I DREW THEM WITH  CORDS OF A MAN,  WITH BANDS OF LOVE:  AND I WAS TO THEM AS THEY  THAT TAKE OFF THE YOKE  ON THEIR JAWS,  AND I LAID MEAT UNTO THEM.  HE SHALL NOT RETURN  INTO THE LAND OF EGYPT,  AND  THE ASSYRIAN SHALL BE HIS KING, BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO RETURN. AND THE SWORD SHALL  ABIDE ON HIS CITIES,  AND SHALL CONSUME HIS BRANCHES,  AND DEVOUR THEM,  BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN COUNSELS. AND MY PEOPLE ARE BENT  TO BACKSLIDING FROM ME:  THOUGH THEY CALLED THEM  TO THE MOST HIGH,  NONE AT ALL WOULD EXALT HIM.  HOW SHALL I GIVE THEE UP,  EPHRA...

PSALM 9:5-8 THOU HAST REBUKED THE HEATHEN,  THOU HAST DESTROYED  THE WICKED,  THOU HAST PUT OUT  THEIR NAME FOR EVER AND EVER. O THOU ENEMY,  DESTRUCTIONS  ARE COME TO A PERPETUAL END:  AND  THOU HAST DESTROYED CITIES;  THEIR MEMORIAL IS PERISHED  WITH THEM.  BUT THE LORD SHALL  ENDURE FOR EVER:  HE HATH PREPARED  HIS THRONE FOR JUDGMENT.  AND HE SHALL JUDGE  THE WORLD IN RIGHTEOUSNESS,  HE SHALL MINISTER  JUDGMENT TO THE  PEOPLE IN UPRIGHTNESS.   LOVE

PSALM 3:1-8 LORD,  HOW ARE THEY INCREASED  THAT TROUBLE ME!  MANY ARE THEY  THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME. MANY THERE BE WHICH  SAY OF MY SOUL,  THERE IS NO HELP  FOR HIM IN GOD. SELAH. BUT THOU, O LORD,  ART A SHIELD FOR ME;  MY GLORY, AND THE  LIFTER UP OF MINE HEAD. I CRIED UNTO THE LORD WITH  MY VOICE, AND HE HEARD ME  OUT OF HIS HOLY HILL. SELAH. I LAID ME DOWN AND SLEPT;  I AWAKED;  FOR  THE LORD SUSTAINED ME. I WILL NOT BE  AFRAID OF TEN THOUSANDS  OF PEOPLE,  THAT HAVE SET THEMSELVES  AGAINST ME ROUND ABOUT. ARISE, O LORD;  SAVE ME, O MY GOD:  FOR THOU HAST SMITTEN ALL MINE ENEMIES  UPON THE CHEEK BONE;  THOU HAST BROKEN  THE TEETH OF THE UNGODLY. SALVATION BELONGETH  UNTO THE LORD:  THY BLESSING IS  UPON THY PEOPLE. SELAH. LOVE     "Adonai, though many rise against me, You are my shield and my glory. I will not fear what surrounds me....