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Immutability of God — Vol.4 Ch 6

5/25/2020

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Immutability of God --
​it means God's Character doesn't change.



The unchangeability of God can give us peace. It is an attribute of God that we can hang our hat on, lean against, trust.
This unchangeable attribute has a name. It is called immutable. God's core never changes. God created Time, He is outside of Time and because of that He remains constant. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Unlike this world, where we find change the only constant. God's immutability provides security.


With change comes uncertainty, and chaos. So, what do we do when it feels like the only thing we can count on is: nothing remaining the same?
We can settle into the Truth that God is Immutable. He does not change. 
*In Malachi 3:6 we read: "I am the LORD, and I do not change." *And also in James 1:17 James says: "Whatever is good and perfect comes down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes...." 
We are children of the unchanging God. Just think about that for a moment.
 This Immutable attribute gives us even more assurance when we know He is just and He is love.  He is perfect and complete. He lacks nothing. Trusting in the God that is perfect, just, and lovely allows us to meet the unforeseeable future with an anticipation instead of trepidation. Breathe in the wonderful Truth that God Character hasn't changed. He won't change. He is right here outside of space and time and in control of all around. Anticipate His remaining the same. 
Robyn Cox
@RR&BC,LLC 2016



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Robyn and Biff Cox pray that He becomes your
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Make a Joyful Noise — Vol 4. Ch. 5

5/20/2020

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Make a Joyful Noise
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Did you know there is a little known nerve that connects your brain, to all your major organs? In fact, it controls your heart,, lungs, and digestive tract. It is the longest nerve of the autonomic nervous system in the human body. The ending part of this nerve is known as the nucleus ambiguus. It is called the Vagus nerve. It runs from you brain down your neck (jugular, carotid sheath, etc.), lungs, heart, abdomen. It conveys sensory information about the state of your body's organs to the central nervous system. It takes a little hook around the trachea and exiting the esophagus then entering the diaphragm through the esophageal hiatus. Then down into your colon. It also controls a few skeletal muscles. And muscles of the Larynx (speech).
This nerve has been determined to be what Ecclesiastes 12:6 is referring to when the Bible reads:
6."Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed; 7 then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it."


Some say the golden bowl is the head (head injury), the pitcher is the lungs (lung disease) and the wheel is the heart and circulatory system (heart failure). But the most interesting one is the Silver Cord. This is the only place in the Bible this term is used.
When we sing or hum this Vagus nerve reverberates throughout our entire body. It stimulates our organs and creates a healing response, as if we were exercising our heart, lungs, etc. If you stop right now and hum and throw the air up into your sinuses you can honestly feel the movement. This activity has been used to help epileptic sufferers to calm them, it has been used to calm heart rate. This is not to replace your doctor care, of course. But as a person who no longer has a voice due to a brain dysfunction (1), it is one of the exercises I use to continue slowly helping  my esophagus muscles. Why do I bring this up in a devotional?

This humming/singing exercise can be done anywhere at anytime and is proven to calm our bodies. Now, think about this. If you've ever done a Bible study leading you on to join the journey with the Israelites through the Song of Ascents: Psalms, 120-134.

Psalm means Song. God is guiding the Israelites to sing during their journey. He is giving them songs to sing and this exercise inadvertently physically calms them. That is the way God is. He knows the science behind his instructions. i.e. washing of the hands, cleansing of animals before eating, etc... and He knows we don't know how intricately we are made. As we begin to walk through this journey of COVID 19. Remember, God is available to help you through these days. Praise Him in Song. Trust Him. He knows what He is doing and where we are going.

Please be encouraged by this information. Recognize that God even gave us singing and praise to calm our hearts and our minds. Make a Joyful Noise unto the LORD. Take a moment to lift up a song to the Great Almighty Creator — Jehovah.
Be blessed this day,
Robyn Cox
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A Promise Keeper Keeps His Promises —Vol 4. Ch 4

5/6/2020

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A Promise Keeper Keeps His Promises


 
As I celebrated Palm Sunday this year, with my husband and my bible, reading Genesis, I was captivated by Abraham’s faith once again. At the age of seventy-five Abram was called by God to leave his homeland, Haran, and promised he and his offspring would be a blessed nation.

Twenty-five years later, yes when Abraham was 100 years old and his wife Sarah was 90, they had their first child, Isaac. 

Granted, Sarai had not been the most patient woman in those twenty-five years. (A very important story for another time.) Isaac was born to Abraham and Sarah in God’s timing, not theirs.

Somewhere around Isaac’s fifteenth year of life God calls out, “Abraham.”
And Abraham responds, “Yes, here I am.” 

God tells Abraham to take his beloved, Isaac, up on the mountain and sacrifice him as a burnt offering. The Word says that God was testing Abraham’s faith. Abraham responded faithfully. This one hundred+ year old man woke up early the next morning, he chopped wood for a burnt offering, saddled his donkey, took two servants and his son, Isaac, and began a three day journey to Moriah.

Isaac was not a baby. He was a young man. When they got to the place God told them to go, Abraham left the donkey with his servants saying: “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.” Abraham puts the wood on Isaac’s shoulders and carries the rest. 

Notice the pronouns here. Abraham says ‘WE’ not ‘I’.  WE will worship, WE will come right back.

As they continued on their walk Isaac asked his father, “Father? We have the fire and the wood, but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”

“God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son” his Father responded.
They arrived at the place God had designated and Abraham built an altar and arranged wood on it. He tied his son Isaac up and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice."

Stop, stop for just a moment. Think about this unwavering trust. Abraham picked up the knife. Abraham, in faith, picked up the knife. And think too about, Isaac, a fifteen-year-old young man, out of love and respect for his father, just laid there.

This act of faith and love shakes me every time. This did not look good for the family. This did not bode well for the nation that God had promised Abraham. The entire journey was a journey of darkness. And Abraham prepared to do exactly what he was asked to do by the LORD God Almighty.

Was this an easy task? Was it hard for his son? Without relationship and faith in a promise keeping, loving, caring God would Abraham have done this? Without Isaac’s love and respect of his own father, would Isaac have done this?

“At that moment the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven. “Abraham! Abraham!” Abraham is stopped from ending his son’s life. God is satisfied with Abraham’s faith and God provides a ram caught by its thorns in a thicket. So, the two sacrificed the ram, worshiped the Lord and returned to the servants. What an act of faith in the Promise of God from them both.
We are in the moment of testing. Are we listening to God’s still small voice? Are we providing the security our children need from us, as we answer, “The LORD will provide. He alone is trustworthy,” When they ask us the big questions, “Will we have enough food, are we going to die? 

When we place our heads on our pillows at night are we handing over the world’s problems into the hands of whom they belong? Do our children see this? Even our adult children, do they see this? Do you really believe God is trustworthy? 
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Abraham named the place where he came into this deep faith YAHWEH-YIREH (which means “The LORD will provide”). To this day people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
What? What will be provided? His promises. 
The Promise Keeper’s promises.
Yahweh Yireh!
 
Be blessed this day as we remember His promises.
Robyn Cox

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    WHOSE AM I?
    God's Girl

    I want to spend my life learning how to fear God well - because when you fear God well, you have nothing else to fear
    And when you have nothing to fear you find REST 
    and in the midst of REST you find GRACE


    Who am I to this world?
    *Lover of God
    *Mrs. William
    Franklin Cox IV
    *Writer/Blogger
    *Sweet Romance Writer - the happily ever after kind.
    *​mom and Omi


    The Good Stuff:
    *My husband takes care of me - in a 1,000 different ways - I love that.
    *Children both my own and those I've collected from all over the world calling, or texting, or Skyping / visiting.
    *The Revisionaries critique writing group 
    These are My Peeps folks


    Favorites:
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    *My Garden
    *Writing
    *Flavored Coffee Creamer
    *Breakfast
    *A Journal To Write In
    *A Pen To Hold
    *My office
    *Ebenezer lying beside me while I work.
    *Computers that work
    *Books to read
    ​

     My Calling:
    Share with the world the Joy of intimate relationship with God. Invite eveyone to come with me and to spread the Good News.



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