BELIEVER IN CHRIST AS MY BEST FRIEND

  MAY  YOU BE BLESSED IN THE NEW YEAR.  MAY YOU BE BLESSED WITH NEW IDEAS. AND A WILL TO HELP OTHERS. ABIDE IN THE LORD AND SAVIOUR AND KNOW THAT YOU ARE LOVED BEYOND MEASURE.  WHATEVER   WAS LOST MAY THE FATHER IN HEAVEN  RESTORE 100 FOLD BLESSINGS. MAY YOUR MIND BE HEALED , SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. MAY YOUR SOUL PROSPER AND MAY AMAZING THINGS BEFALL YOU IN YOUR LIFE.  MAY THE LORD'S  AMAZING GRACE  SHINE DOWN ON YOU BY DAY AND BY NIGHT. SHINES. MAY HIS FACE SHINE AMONG YOU IN 2023. A NEW YEAR BRINGS NEW THINGS. BREATHE AND EXHALE AND RELAX YOUR MINDS. BE KIND TO OTHERS AND BLESS OTHERS. THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX  AND SHINE SHINE SHINE. MAY YOU PROSPER THIS NEW YEAR 2023 AND BE CLOSER TO GOD MORE, AND MORE EACH DAY. IT IS SO AMAZING TO BE LOVED! THE FATHER IN HEAVEN LOVES US SO MUCH.

  STEPHEN WAS ONE OF THE 7 DEACONS CHOSEN BY THE CHURCH TO SERVE THE WIDOWS IN ACTS 6. THE WIDOWS WERE NEGLECTED. STEPHEN WAS CHOSEN TO GO OUT AND FULFILL AN HONEST REPORT OF THE MESSIAH, JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH. HE WAS FULL OF THE  HOLY GHOST AND WISDOM. STEPHEN WAS FULL OF GREAT FAITH AND POWER, MIRACLES WERE PERFORMED ON OTHERS THROUGH HIS FAITH.  STEPHEN CAME UP AGAINST OPPOSITION FROM THE SYNAGOGUE OF THE LIBERTINES, AND CYRENIANS, AND THE ALEXANDRIANS AND THEM OF CELICIA AND ASIA, DISPUTING WITH STEPHEN. STEPHEN WAS SET UP . HE WAS LIED ON ABOUT SPEAKING BLASPHEMY. ALL OF THE CONFUSION WAS BROUGHT UP AGAINST HIM AND TAKEN TO THE COUNCIL. FALSE WITNESSES WERE SET UP. STEPHEN WAS TELLING THE COUNCIL THAT THEY WERE STIFFNECKED AND UNCIRCUMCISED IN THEIR HEARTS. ACTS 7: 56 SAYS BEHOLD, I SEE THE HEAVENS OPENED, AND THE SON OF MAN STANDING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. VS 59 AND THEY STONED STEPHEN, CALLING UPON GOD, AND SAYING, LORD, JESUS , RECEIVE MY SPIRIT. 60 AND KNEELED DOWN , AND

  אַבְרָהָם   ʼAbrâhâm,  ab-raw-hawm'; contracted from  H1  and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous); father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram:—Abraham Abraham = "father of a multitude" or "chief of multitude" friend of God and founder of Hebrew nation via God's elective covenant . Neither shall thy name   any more be called   Abram,   but thy name   shall be Abraham;   for a father   of many   nations   have I made thee. GENESIS 17 VS 6 I WILL MAKE YOU VERY FRUITFUL; I WILL MAKE NATIONS OF YOU, AND KINGS WILL COME FROM YOU.  GENESIS 17 VS 7 I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT AS AN EVERLASTING COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND YOU FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME, TO BE YOUR GOD AND THE GOD OF YOUR DESCENDANTS AFTER YOU.  THE FATHER OF ABRAHAM . ISAAC AND JACOB IS THE KEEPER OF ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM AND HIS SON. HE IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIGHT. HE WILL KEEP YOU IN PERFECT PEACE WHOSE MIND IS STAYED ON HIM.                                     

  ARTIFICE -698=ORBAH HEBREW-TRICKS OF HIS HAND,SKILLFULL CONTRIVANCE; ELABORATE TRICKERY; WILE; DECEPTION, CRAFTY DEVICE; AN ARTFUL , INGENIOUS, OR ELABORATE TRICK. A HANDICRAFT ; A TRADE; ART OF MAKING. WORKMANSHIP; A SKILLFULLY CONTRIVED WORK. PSALMS 31:20 thou has wrought for those trusting in thee, before sons of men. thou HIDEST them in the secret place of thy presence, from ARTIFICES of man, thou concealest them in a tabernacle , from the strife of tongues. THE FATHER IN HEAVEN TEACHES OUR HANDS TO WAR. HE TRAINS HIS CHILDREN TO BE SKILLFUL IN TRADE AND HE TRAINS US TO HAVE ON THE FULL ARMOR TO FIGHT AGAINST THE WILES OF THE EVIL ONE. ARENT YOU GLAD HE IS OUR HEALER AND OUR DELIVERER

  ANTEDILUVIAN -BEFORE THE FLOOD-EXTREMELY OLD -SEMMINGLY TO BELONG TO AN EARLIER PERIOD.  OLD PERSON-OLDSTER-SENIOR CITIZEN . And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints, JUDE 1 14,15 Antediluvian  (literally, “before the flood”) refers to the time period before the flood recorded in  Genesis 6—8 . The righteous people who lived before  Noah’s  time are called antediluvian patriarchs. Those men are listed in  Genesis 5  and include Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Enoch, and Methuselah, who lived to be 969, making him the oldest person on record. The word  antediluvian  has also come to mean “extremely old” or “out-of-date.”