Sunday, January 21, 2018

Hi Brian!

It looks like the "sign of remarkable events soon to happen" from last week's blog didn't involve the Vikings.  I understand some other wonderful blessings have been taking place for you and your family, though! So that wonderful, exciting, miraculous finish last week was a sign of personal blessings to happen soon! I am increasing my expectations for remarkable events in my life, too! The word for today is found only once in the Bible. It is "immutable" and it is found in Hebrews 6:16-19:

16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; KJV

This is the Greek word "ametathetos". Strong's Concordance says: unchangeable. Thayer's Greek Lexicon says: not transposed, not to be transferred, fixed, unalterable. I like the Amplified Bible for this one, though it is a little wordy:

16 Men indeed swear by a greater [than themselves], and with them in all disputes the oath taken for confirmation is final [ending strife]. 17 Accordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened (mediated) with an oath. 18 This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before [us]. 19 [Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out upon it — a hope] that reaches farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil,  AMP

In other words, the very unchangeable nature of God gives us confidence that everything He has promised in His Word WILL come to pass in our lives if we will lay hold of them in faith and refuse to give up or quit! We can count on Him and His Word! We are praying for blessings stacked upon blessings for you and all of your beautiful ladies! Here is Hillsong with "Anchor":


Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!