Jane's God-Given Words

God-Ordained and Holy Spirit Inspired

All the words Jane spoke led us directly to God's Word. Here is a comprehensive list of all the God-given chapters Jane asked us to read. They are written out in their entirety.  

Psalm 8: Purpose

LORD—written in all caps. Yahweh. A name considered too holy to even be spoken out loud. He is the LORD and He is our Lord. He ordained praise as a way to insulate us from those who are HIS foes and those who seek to take things into their own hands. When we keep our focus on who HE is, then we understand life is not about us. It is ALL about Him!

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.  From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him the son of man that you care for him?  You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalm 150: Praise

Praise Yahweh—the LORD. In all things and at all times—Praise the LORD. His acts of power knows no bounds and He has surpassing greatness. When you are praising the Maker of heaven and earth you understand that HE is in control and you can put your faith and trust in HIM. It's ALL about Him! 

Praise the LORD.

Praise God in his sanctuary;

    praise him in his mighty heavens.

Praise him for his acts of power;

    praise him for his surpassing greatness.

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,

    praise him with the harp and lyre,

praise him with tambourine and dancing,

    praise him with the strings and flute,

praise him with the clash of cymbals,

    praise him with resounding cymbals.

Let everything that has breath praise the

        LORD.

Praise the LORD.

 Psalm 140: Protection

A plea to Yahweh—the LORD. LORD, here is the problem. Our faith and our trust is in YOU. YOU avenge. YOU hold accountable. YOU free us. I KNOW that YOU will secure justice. We praise YOUR name. Not only will we "live before you," we can thrive because of who YOU are. It's ALL about Him!

Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men; protect me from men of violence, who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day.  They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips.          Selah

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plan to trip my feet.  Proud men have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cord of their net and have set traps for me along my path.          Selah

O LORD, I say to you, "You are my God."  Hear, O LORD, my cry for mercy.  O Sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer, who shields my head in the day of battle—do not grant the wicked their desires, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, or they will become proud.          Selah

Let the heads of those who surround me be covered with the trouble their lips have caused.  Let burning coals fall upon them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.  Let slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down men of violence.

I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.  Surely the righteous will praise your name and the upright will live before you.

Isaiah 30: Provision

A long chapter that seemed like Greek to me back in September of '07, but which now makes perfect sense. It condenses down to this: we either try to do things our own way—or—we wait on the LORD to fulfill His plans. If we try to do things our own way—there is punishment. If we open our hands and wait on the LORD—there are blessings. The LORD longs to be gracious to you; He rises to show you compassion; He is a God of Justice; and He will direct your path. Blessed are all who wait for Him! It's ALL about Him!

"Woe to the obstinate children," declares the LORD, "to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin; who go down to Egypt without consulting me; who look for help to Pharaoh's protection, to Egypt's shade for refuge. But Pharaoh's protection will be to your shame. Egypt's shade will bring you disgrace. Though they have officials in Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes, everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them, who bring neither help nor advantage, but only shame and disgrace."

An oracle concerning the animals of the Negev:

Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys' backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation, to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do-Nothing.

Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.  These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the LORD'S instruction. They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.  Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!"

Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says:

"Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit, this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.  It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth  or scooping water out of a cistern." 

This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:

"In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.  You said, 'No, we will flee on horses.'  Therefore you will flee!  You said, 'We will ride off on swift horses.'  Therefore your pursuers will be swift!  A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill."

Yet, the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion.  For the LORD is a God of justice.  Blessed are all who wait for him!

O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more.  How gracious he will be when you cry for help!  As soon as he hears, he will answer you.  Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.  Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."  Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, "Away with you!"

He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful.  In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.  The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel.  In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill.  The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.

See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.  His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck.  He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction;    he places in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray.  And you will sing, as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people go up with flutes to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.  The LORD will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.  The voice of the LORD will shatter Assyria; with his scepter he will strike them down.  Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his punishing rod will be to the music of tambourines and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.  Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king.  Its fire pit has been made deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

Psalm 1: Path

There are two paths and two choices. The path of the wicked—which leads to destruction, OR, His path of righteousness—which leads to blessings. We each get to choose which path we are going to take; HE chooses the consequences. It's ALL about Him! 

Happy are those who don't listen to the wicked, who don't go where sinners go, who don't do what evil people do.  They love the LORD's teachings, and they think about those teachings day and night.  They are strong, like a tree planted by the river.  The tree produces fruit in season, and its leaves don't die, everything they do will succeed.

But the wicked are not like that.  they are like chaff that the wind blows away.  So the wicked will not escape God's punishment.  Sinners will not worship with God's people.  This is because the LORD takes care of his people, but the wicked will be destroyed. (NCV)

Jeremiah 33: Promise

The LORD's promise of restoration. Call to Me (the LORD) and I will answer you. You are captive now, but there will come a day when you are freed and your land and fortunes restored. There will come a day when you hear the words, "You are free to go." I will free you. It's ALL about Him!

While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time: This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it—the LORD is his name: 'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.' For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses in this city and the royal palaces of Judah that have been torn down to be used against the siege ramps and the sword in the fight with the Babylonians: 'They will be filled with the dead bodies of the men I will slay in my anger and wrath.  I will hide my face from this city because of all its wickedness.

" 'Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security.  I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity and will rebuild them as they were before.  I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me.  Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honor before all nations on earth that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and will tremble at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it.'

"This is what the LORD says: 'You say about this place, "It is a desolate waste, without men or animals."  Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither men nor animals, there will be heard once more the sound of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD, saying,

"Give thanks to the LORD Almighty, for the LORD is good; His love endures forever."

For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before,' says the LORD.

"This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'In this place, desolate and without men or animals—in all its towns there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.  In the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hand of the one who counts them,' says the LORD.

" 'The days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will fulfill the gracious promise I made to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

" 'In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David's line; he will do what is just and right in the land.  In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety.  This is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.'

For this is what the LORD says: 'David will never fail to have a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, nor will the priests, who are Levites, ever fail to have a man to stand before me continually to offer burnt offering, to burn grain offerings and to present sacrifices.' "

The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: "This is what the LORD says: 'If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time, then my covenant with David my servant—and my covenant with the Levites who are priests ministering before me—can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne.  I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars of the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.' "

The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: "Have you not noticed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two kingdoms he chose'?  So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation.  This is what the LORD says: 'If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed laws of heaven and earth, then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his sons to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  For I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.' "

Every single one of God's promises given to us through the most unlikely of sources—an elderly frail woman in a nursing home with Parkinson's Disease and advanced dementia—came true. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. 

It's ALL about Him.

Next Entry: The Proof Came—AFTER

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Welcome

     A True Story of God's Faithfulness

The Amazing Story
     The Sovereign Hand of God
Her Name Was Jane
     HIS Story Begins

A Blessed Event

     A God-Ordained Divine Appointment
Our Winding Paths
     God's Scripted Plan
For Such A Time As This
     HIS Greater Purpose
The Journey Home
     One Last Promise
A Legacy Lives On
     HIS Story Continues
A Story to Tell
     It's All About HIM
Walking by Faith
     It's All About the Journey
Following HIS Footpath
     HIS Great Faithfulness
Jane's God-Given Words
     God-Ordained and Holy Spirit Inspired 
The Proof Came—AFTER
     "You Are Free to Go"
The Path to Salvation
     The Reward is Eternal Life