GRACE UPON GRACE

ISAIAH 66:18-22 BUT BE YE GLAD AND REJOICE FOR EVER IN THAT WHICH I CREATE: FOR, BEHOLD,  I CREATE JERUSALEM A REJOICING,  AND  HER PEOPLE  A JOY.  AND  I WILL REJOICE IN JERUSALEM,  AND  JOY IN MY PEOPLE:  AND  THE VOICE OF WEEPING  SHALL BE NO MORE HEARD IN HER,  NOR THE VOICE OF CRYING.  THERE SHALL BE NO MORE  THENCE AN INFANT OF DAYS,  NOR AN OLD MAN  THAT HATH NOT FILLED HIS DAYS: FOR  THE CHILD SHALL DIE  AN HUNDRED YEARS OLD;  BUT THE SINNER  BEING AN HUNDRED YEARS OLD  SHALL BE ACCURSED.  AND THEY  SHALL BUILD HOUSES,  AND INHABIT THEM  AND  THEY SHALL PLANT VINEYARDS,  AND  EAT THE FRUIT OF THEM.  THEY SHALL NOT BUILD,  AND  ANOTHER INHABIT;  THEY SHALL NOT PLANT,  AND  ANOTHER EAT:  FOR AS THE DAYS OF A TREE ARE THE DAYS OF MY PEOPLE, AND MINE ELECT SHALL LONG ENJOY THE WORK OF THEIR HANDS LOVE

LAMENTATIONS 3:31-41   FOR THE LORD   WILL NOT CAST OFF FOR EVER:  BUT THOU HE CAUSE  GRIEF,  YET WILL HE HAVE COMPASSION  ACCORDING TO THE MULTITUDE  OF HIS MERCIES.  FOR HE DOTH NOT AFFLICT WILLINGLY  NOR GRIEVE THE CHILDREN OF MEN.   TO CRUSH UNDER HIS FEET  ALL THE PRISONERS OF THE EARTH.  TO TURN ASIDE  THE RIGHT OF A MAN  BEFORE  THE FACE OF THE MOST HIGH,  TO SUBVERT  A MAN IN HIS CAUSE,  THE LORD APPROVETH NOT.  WHO IS HE THAT SAITH,  AND  IT COMETH TO PASS,  WHEN THE LORD COMMANDETH IT NOT?  OUT OF THE MOUTH OF  THE MOST HIGH PROCEEEDETH  NOT EVIL AND GOOD?  WHEREFORE DOTH  A LIVING MAN COMPLAIN,  A MAN FOR THE PUNISHMENT  OF  HIS SINS?  LET US  SEARCH AND TRY OUR WAYS,  AND  TURN AGAIN TO THE LORD.  LET US LIFT OUR HEART  WITH OUR  HANDS UNTO GOD IN THE HEAVENS.    LOVE  

1 SAMUEL 5:10-11     THEREFORE THEY  SENT THE ARK OF GOD TO EKRON.  AND  IT CAME TO PASS,  AS  THE ARK OF GOD CAME TO EKRON,  THAT  THE EKRONITES CRIED OUT,  SAYING,  THEY HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT  THE ARK OF GOD OF ISRAEL TO US,  TO SLAY US AND OUR PEOPLE.  SO THEY SENT AND GATHERED  TOGETHER ALL THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES,  AND SAID,  SEND AWAY  THE ARK OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL,  AND  LET IT GO  AGAIN TO HIS OWN PLACE,  THAT IT  SLAY US NOT,  AND  OUR PEOPLE:  FOR THERE WAS  A DEADLY DESTRUCTION  THROUGHOUT ALL THE CITY;  THE HAND OF GOD WAS VERY HEAVY THERE.  LOVE

ZECHARIAH 6:2-8 In the first chariot were  red horses;  and in the second   chariot black horses;   And in the third  chariot white horses;  and in the fourth chariot  grisled and bay horses. THEN I  ANSWERED AND SAID  UNTO THE ANGEL  THAT TALKED WITH ME,  WHAT ARE THESE,  MY LORD?  AND  THE ANGEL  ANSWERED AND SAID  UNTO ME,  THESE ARE  THE FOUR SPIRITS OF THE HEAVENS,  WHICH GO FORTH FROM  STANDING BEFORE  THE LORD OF ALL THE EARTH.  THE BLACK HORSES  WHICH ARE THEREIN  GO FORTH INTO  THE NORTH COUNTRY; AND  THE WHITE  GO FORTH AFTER THEM  AND  THE GRISLED  GO FORTH TOWARD  THE SOUTH COUNTRY.  AND  THE BAY WENT FORTH,  AND  SOUGHT TO GO  THAT THEY MIGHT  WALK TO AND FRO  THROUGH THE EARTH:  AND HE SAID  GET YE HENCE,  WALK TO AND FRO THROUGH  THE EARTH.  SO THEY WALKED...

JEREMIAH 10:2-6          . THUS SAITH THE LORD, LEARN NOT THE WAY OF THE HEATHEN, AND BE NOT DISMAYED AT THE SIGNS OF HEAVEN; FOR THE HEATHEN ARE DISMAYED AT THEM. FOR THE CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE ARE VAIN: FOR ONE CUTTETH A TREE OUT OF THE FOREST, THE WORK OF THE HANDS OF THE WORKMAN, WITH THE AXE. THEY DECK IT WITH SILVER AND WITH GOLD; THEY FASTEN IT WITH NAILS AND WITH HAMMERS, THAT IT MOVE NOT. THEY ARE  UPRIGHT AS  THE PALM TREE,  BUT SPEAK NOT:  THEY MUST NEEDS BE BORNE,  BECAUSE THEY CANNOT GO.  BE NOT AFRAID OF THEM;  FOR THEY CANNOT DO EVIL,  NEITHER ALSO IS IT IN THEM  TO DO GOOD.  FORSOMUCH AS  THERE IS NONE  LIKE UNTO THEE, O LORD;  THOU ART GREAT,  AND  THY NAME IS GREAT IN MIGHT.   LOVE

ZEPHANIAH 4:11-14 Then answered I,  and said unto him,  What are these  two olive trees  upon  the right side of  the candlestick  and  upon the left side thereof? And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these  two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil  out of themselves? And  he answered me  and said,  Knowest thou not  what these be?  And I said, No, my lord. Then said he,  These are  the two anointed ones,  that stand by  the Lord  of  the whole earth.   LOVE 

2 SAMUEL 7:21-29   FOR THY WORD'S SAKE, AND ACCORDING TO THINE OWN HEART, HAST THOU DONE ALL THESE GREAT THINGS, TO MAKE THY SERVANT KNOW THEM. WHEREFORE THOU ART GREAT,  O LORD GOD:  FOR THERE IS NONE LIKE THEE,  NEITHER IS THERE ANY GOD  BESIDE THEE,  ACCORDING TO ALL  THAT WE HAVE HEARD  WITH OUR EARS.  AND  WHAT ONE NATION  IN THE EARTH IS LIKE  THY PEOPLE,  EVEN LIKE ISRAEL,  WHOM GOD WENT TO REDEEM  FOR A PEOPLE TO HIMSELF,  AND  TO MAKE HIM A NAME,  AND TO DO FOR YOU  GREAT THINGS AND TERRIBLE,  FOR THY LAND,  BEFORE THY PEOPLE,  WHICH THOU REDEEMEDST  TO THEE FROM EGYPT,  FROM  THE NATIONS AND THEIR GODS?  FOR THOU HAST CONFIRMED TO THYSELF THY PEOPLE ISRAEL TO BE A PEOPLE UNTO THEE FOR EVER: AND THOU, LORD,  ART BECOME THEIR GOD.  AND NOW, O LORD GOD,  THE WORD THAT THOU  HAST SPOKEN CONCERNING  THY SERVANT,  AND  C...

JEREMIAH 30:15-17 WHY CRIEST  THOU FOR  THINE AFFLICTION?  THY SORROW IS INCURABLE FOR THE MULTITUDE OF THINE INIQUITY: BECAUSE THY SINS WERE INCREASED, I HAVE DONE THESE THINGS UNTO THEE.   THEREFORE ALL THEY THAT DEVOUR THEE SHALL BE DEVOURED; AND ALL THINE ADVERSARIES, EVERY ONE OF THEM, SHALL BE A SPOIL, AND ALL THAT PREY UPON THEE WILL I GIVE FOR A PREY. FOR I WILL RESTORE  HEALTH UNTO THEE, AND I WILL HEAL THEE OF THY WOUNDS, SAITH THE LORD; BECAUSE THEY CALLED THEE AN OUTCAST, SAYING, THIS IS ZION , WHOM NO MAN SEEKETH AFTER. LOVE