From: "Beverly French" <frenchb@vcss.k12.ca.us>
To: "Heritage" <gheritage@juno.com>
Subject: Loving Greetings to All
Date: Sunday, September 30, 2001 6:59 AM

"The Lord has established His throne in the heavens;
 And His sovereignty rules over all."  Psalm 103:19

The Lord is the one who has set up and permanently placed His throne.
And He says through the prophet Isaiah to presumptuous man,
"...Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool.
 Where then is a house you could build for Me?
 And where is a place that I may rest?
 For My hand made all these things..."  Isaiah 66:1-2b

We have seen over these last weeks how temporary even our strongest efforts
are.  There is nothing on earth that comes from man that is permanently
established.  The recognition of this very fact has cause many to be
fearful.  How very blessed is the one who belongs to the Lord!  And like the
Psalmist, we too, can say,
"Whom have I in heaven but Thee?
 And besides Thee, I desire nothing on earth.
 My flesh and my heart may fail,
 But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
 Psalm 73:25-26
I say again, how blessed is the Believer!  The Lord tells us in Scripture
over and over to "fear not", "standfast", "take courage", "be of good
cheer".
The reason?  He tells us, "...I will never desert you, nor will I ever
forsake you."  Hebrews 13: 5

I'd like to share that verse as it is in the Amplified Bible,
"...For He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give
you up nor leave you without support.  [I will] not, [I will] not, [I
will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down
(relax My hold on you)!  [Assuredly not!]
How is that for certainty?!

How comforting!  Jesus tells His disciples and all of His own down through
the ages, "In the world you will have tribulations, BUT take courage (be of
good cheer); I have overcome the world."  John 16:33 (My emphasis)

The throne of God is established in heaven, but the atoning death of Jesus
our Lord has made possible His dwelling in the hearts of each one who is
born from above, born of the Spirit.  Never alone!  Never out of His
presence!  So we continually look to and yield to our King of kings and
Lord of lords so that He may express Himself through each one of us to
a world who desparately  needs to come to know Him.

As the Psalmist says and so say we,
"Bless the Lord, O my soul;
 And all that is with me, bless His holy name."  Psalm 103:1