Thank yoiu again Brother Jim, thank you for all the App references.

I had a good laugh at the HMS Richards show... so when you hear "There Is A Place of Quiet Rest" you begin and when you hear "Jesus Is Coming.... Againnnnnnn" you know you are finished 

No matter how dark the trials of this life—and yes; the trial Jesus endured at Calvary was dark—the “light at the end of tunnel” is directly connected to the joy of seeing souls redeemed as we endure whatever God allows us to pass through for His will to be done!

Do we see the cross in its full glory? Do we discern the glory and joy possible to us in bearing our cross with Christ as we experience crucifixion of self for His mission of saving souls? Oh, let’s not miss the TRUE GLORY of life—living in constant contemplation of the glorious victory Jesus has wrought for us and extending that victory to each new soul that is brought to behold the eternally good news!! Jesus is fully God and fully Man, and He fully defeated Satan!! Jesus knows we are human, but He offers us the SAME DIVINE NATURE that He lived by—by faith in the word!!! “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” (2 Peter 1:4).

“‘Now is the judgment of this world,’ Christ continued; ‘now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all unto Me. This He said, signifying what death He should die.’ This is the crisis of the world. If I become the propitiation for the sins of men, the world will be lighted up. Satan’s hold upon the souls of men will be broken. The defaced image of God will be restored in humanity, and a family of believing saints will finally inherit the heavenly home. This is the result of Christ’s death. The Saviour is lost in contemplation of the scene of triumph called up before Him. He sees the cross, the cruel, ignominious cross, with all its attending horrors, blazing with glory.” {The Desire of Ages, page 625, paragraph 4}

When Satan loses his hold on you—when sin truly appears hateful as it is for its very baseness and you gladly obey God out of love, life takes on an entirely new aspect. Freedom in obedience in which our life experience reveals all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing is truly living the heavenly life while still on earth. We are converted for God’s glory and His purposes, and we find our highest joy in Him. So we may live, through abiding in Christ, on “earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). May this be the constant experience of each of us, I pray.

Amen my dear brothers!  God wants the heart, all of it. And when we give it to Him, the Holy Spirit promised will take possession of the heart.

But Israel as a nation had divorced herself from God. The natural branches of the olive tree were broken off. Looking for the last time upon the interior of the temple, Jesus said with mournful pathos, “Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see Me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord.” Hitherto He had called the temple His Father’s house; but now, as the Son of God should pass out from those walls, God’s presence would be withdrawn forever from the temple built to His glory. Henceforth its ceremonies would be meaningless, its services a mockery. { DA 620.4}     

As we watch Israel today, we see the curse they called upon themselves when they said "His blood be on us and our children." Matt. 27:25. The good news is that if a Jew will learn of Jesus, he will be grafted back into the natural tree. "And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?"  Rom. 11:23,24.

In the estimation of heaven, greatness of character consists in living for the welfare of our fellow men, in doing works of love and mercy. Christ the King of glory was a servant to fallen man. { DA 613.4}

How different the world measures people's worth than how God measures us.

1 Samuel 16:7 "But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."