Wow!!!  What a couple of weeks it has been...and so many bunny trails.  Sheesh!!!

You know, a lot of life's issues would be fixed if people would just read their Bibles.  Yep, seriously.  It's all there.  Nothing secret.

I decided to do some research on idols after the Lord had told me to 'study the word, Idols.'  If you believe as the pagans do, you have to have more faith, in my opinion, than you do to believe on Jesus Christ.  Yep, that's my conclusion.  This blog posting is going to squish a couple of things in here as time has been really short lately for me although, with what, it seems elusive.  It's like the older I get, the more time just vanishes.  

As I started my Bible Word study on idols I really fell in to a bunny hole.  First of all, I ran across a verse in Numbers that as I read it, I heard the Lord say, "Maybe Trump is not a Cyrus but he's a Phinehas..".  I never knew there was a 'good' Phinehas.  I only knew of the Phinehas who was one of the sons of Elisha that did evil.  So as I was studying about the name of an idol, somehow, I wound up on a verse not talking about an idol.  However, it was dealing with Israel and Moses, we all know how messed up Israel was during that time and the problem they had with, yep, you guessed it, IDOLS!!!  I felt this was a good time to write on the sacrifice God made when He sent His son, Jesus, as the sacrificial lamb for our sins to restore us to right relationship with Him.  Israel saw this played out as the blood on the doorpost and the Passover Lamb which is what I tend to think of at this time of year vs. the esoteric goddess that it seems Christianity never learns and keeps praising and honoring her name, Easter.  Hmmm, I wonder how pleased God really is with that???  Yep, I'm gonna keep on saying, "Happy Ressurection Day!"  My thoughts, "Thank you, Lord, for being my passover lamb.  For taking my sins upon that cross, dying for me and raising up on the third day!  Thank you for sending your Holy Spirit to live in me."  Yeah, that one...that's what I'm going to think on and am thinking on...Back to Phinehas...

As I said, I heard the Lord say, "Maybe Pres. Trump is a Phinehas."  I looked up the scripture in the Blue Letter Bible and found out Phinehas means a "voice of brass."  Hmmm, interesting, that could fit.  Not a put down, but when a trumpet, which is a brass instrument plays, it is heard.  President Trump has a voice that is heard.  I also thought how everyone refers to him as King Cyrus...what I saw about Phinehas, who was the son of Eleazar which means "whom God aides."  I just found that really interesting.  Pres. Trump does seem to have 'aides.'  He is very smart.  He seems to know just how to defeat the enemy.  The deal with Phinehas though, the good Phinehas, is that he saved Israel's butt from God's wrath.  I found that really interesting.  He helped to restore the Israelites back to right covenant with God for a time.  I believe this is what Pres. Trump is attempting to do for our country.  Restore us back to a biblical foundation like our country was built on, Christian principles.  And, AND as a musician, to find another verse referencing the importance of singing songs of praise to the Lord and playing instruments was just awesome!!!  I then saw Pres. Trump with his hands lifted up praising the Lord.  I don't know...I do not know him.  But things I have seen him post and say make me think 

Pres. Trump is a Bible believing Christian... but I did feel more than ever to remind myself and anyone that will hear to pray for Pres. Trump.  If you are a psalmist, you know the battle Pres. Trump is in and he is the front-man 'Phinehas.'  

Num 25:10  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 

Num 25:11  Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. 

Num 25:13  And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. 

Num 31:6  And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.

This led me to other studies that led to other bunny trails that I am not feeling led at this point to share.  But I can say, if you will take time to spend with the Lord, hear from Him, and do what He says to do, He will bless your socks off.  Squishing on to the next topic, The Lord is my Light and my Salvation.  I woke up with an old song in my head, "The Lord is my light and my salvation.."  Sing, sing...sing, sing...hmmm, whistling, it was just in my head.  Then same day an hour or two later, I'm reading in my Bible Psalms 27, "The Lord is my light and my salvation."  LOL!!!  Thank you, Jesus!!!  He's always working that way confirming Himself to next, we get a package in the mail.  Hmmm, not expecting a package... what is it???  My husband opens it and pulls out this beautiful, fuzzy, velvety blanket with the most beautiful orange, brownish colors (which are not our colors per se), but we love this blanket.  It's beautiful - even the orange colors.  Our cat, Slim, who is an orange tabby loved it too.  He hopped on it like 'These are my colors!"   The wording on the blanket "The Lord is my light and my salvation" Bible verse.  Thank you, friends!  We are blessed!  We pray the Lord is abundantly blessing y'all too!!!  Psalms 27 was my passage for that whole week.  Everyday, meditating on it.  Reading it over and over, the whole chapter.  Strange how God works to prepare us for the next steps and what is coming when He is teaching us and leading us.  We are so much better off obeying Him than anything else.