PRAYER JOURNAL - GOD IS GATHERING HIS CHICKS TO SHELTER THEM FROM THE STORM

In my coffee cup ☕️💕 tonight.

HEBREW 3733 ornis 👉🏻 hen 🐓

Matthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34 each preserve Jesus’ lament over Jerusalem, in which He employs the hen metaphor to reveal His covenant love for Israel. Both passages read in part: “how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings”. The repetition across two independent Gospel settings underscores the importance Jesus placed on this image and assures readers of its authenticity.

Covenant Protection: The hen’s wings echo Old Testament language of divine shelter (Psalm 17:8; Psalm 91:4). Jesus identifies Himself with Yahweh’s protective presence, affirming His deity and unbroken continuity with prior revelation.

Maternal Tenderness: While Scripture frequently employs paternal titles for God, this feminine metaphor highlights the fullness of His compassion (Isaiah 66:13).

Human Resistance: The chicks’ refusal mirrors Israel’s historical obstinacy, a sobering reminder that divine grace requires humble reception.

Judgment and Mercy in Tension: The impending desolation of Jerusalem (Matthew 23:38) stands beside the gracious invitation to find refuge, illustrating the consistent biblical pattern of warning and promise.

Jesus is the active Gatherer—an activity elsewhere ascribed to God alone (Isaiah 40:11). By taking this role, He asserts Messianic authority and divine identity. The metaphor thus contributes to the cumulative Christological portrait in the Gospels: the Good Shepherd (John 10), the Mother Hen (Matthew 23; Luke 13), and the Shelter under whose wings salvation is found.

TIMESTAMP 10:37 😮 AND TODAY IS OCT 31 👉🏻 31 IS THE NAME OF ALMIGHTY GOD “El”

HEBREWS 10:37 AMPC “For still a little while (a very little while), and the Coming One will come and He will not delay.”

Holy Spirit revealed more through the image number on that last photo.

IMAGE NUMBER 3300 👉🏻 GREEK 33 age 👉🏻 come

Isaiah 1:18—While Hebrew has לְכוּ־נָ֛א (“come now”), the LXX renders with Δεῦτε δὴ, a close cousin to ἄγε. The sense is identical: God graciously summons Israel to reason together and be cleansed. 

Throughout the prophets, ἄγε or its near equivalents introduce divine invitations to repentance (Jeremiah 3:22) and warnings of judgment (Isaiah 41:21). The same particle can therefore herald grace or impending wrath, depending on the hearer’s response.

God invites the guilty to reason with Him and receive cleansing. Every call of ἄγε in Scripture foreshadows Christ’s invitation, “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened” (Matthew 11:28).

Blogger noted the time I started this post was 1:35 👉🏻 LUKE 13:5 AMPC “I tell you, No; but unless you repent (change your mind for the better and heartily amend your ways, with abhorrence of your past sins), you will all likewise perish and be lost eternally.”

"If you openly declare Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.”

Romans 10:9-11

FROM YOUR HEART PRAY THIS PRAYER ALOUD TO RECEIVE ETERNAL SALVATION. YOU MUST BE SINCERE AND INVITE JESUS TO BE THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE. AND THEN YIELD TO HIM!!!

Jesus, I declare that You are the Son of God who died for my sins. I believe you were raised on the third day and are now seated at the right hand of God the Father. I confess my sins to you now & ask for Your forgiveness. I ask you to come and live in my heart & to be my Lord and Savior. I surrender my life to You. Thank you for giving me Your righteousness, for transforming me into Your image and making me a child of God.