Monthly Archives: January 2017

The Enemy

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Contrary to popular demands in the world, Children of Yahweh are not to be mean and hateful to our enemies.

Here’s what Jesus said:

Matthew 5:43-44 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemies.’ But I say to you, love your enemies. Pray for those who hurt you.

If you’ve spent any time in the Book of Proverbs you know Yahweh throws the hammer down. He truly wants unity and harmony in His creation, us, humans.

If we’re hatin’ up on everyone and his enemy there isn’t going to be unity and harmony. There will be chaos and contention among the villagers.

My challenge to you today is to stop hating and start loving. Oh, you say you don’t hate anyone? Really? Ruminate on that for a bit and then come back and comment that you have zero hate in your heart. Even I have some hate buried in my heart. If you say you don’t… I don’t believe it. I call you to the carpet on it. I see all those posts on social media. There are the passive-aggressive haters. Which is usually the ones who murmur under their breath but never really take any action. It’s all in their hearts and minds. Then, there are the all-out aggressive haters. They’re the protestors and war mongers. Then there are the temper tantrum throwers. Some of them are protestors. Some of them go at it a bit differently so they have all the attention.

Yahweh is not happy with this behavior. It is infantile. We’re all acting like babies. We need to grow up, spiritually and mentally. We need to surrender to Yahweh and let Him be the Pilot. He is still on the Throne of Grace. We need to fall to our knees and repent seeking forgiveness and get back on the right track with Yahweh.

Who’s with me? Comment and let me know that you’re standing up with Yahweh, not man. If any hate comments are made they will be deleted.

I Called On You!

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Yahweh was speaking to Isaiah. He may not always audibly speak to us today. But, through the Holy Spirit and His living Word, He does.

How often do you get a phone call or someone at your door and you ignore it because you don’t have time, or just don’t want to deal with it? I’ve done it! I’ll admit it! You wouldn’t know it by my social interactions, but, I’m an introvert. Actually, technically, I’m an extroverted introvert. I socialize. I then need my solitude to recharge. Click the link and read up. Maybe you’re like this too?

However, there are some who blatantly ignore out of disobedience to Yahweh’s calling.

Obedience is tough. It’s easy in today’s society to ignore the call of Yahweh and keep going with our day to day life without His guidance & wisdom. Are you distracted with life? Are you weary? In the last line of the scripture, it tells us that when we’re disobedient we will live in pain. That’s what He offers us in our disobedience. I don’t know about you, but, I’m not a fan of living in pain. You interpret this pain whatever way you wish. But, I believe it means living in torment and trials that cause pain of all kinds. Now, that’s not to say we’ll be with any pain whatsoever, otherwise. This is talking about needless pain. Some pain is needed to grow in our faith in Yahweh.

Answer Yahweh’s call. Be obedient to His call. You won’t regret it! That is my challenge to you.

What do you do with Yahweh’s calling? Comment and be blessed and bless others.

Same Power

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He moved mountains when He spoke, He brought the dead to life, He made water into wine, He made food appear where there was none or very little. He healed all sorts of illnesses where there was no cure. For example, he made the lame to walk, the blind to see, and the deaf to hear, etc.

He knows all, He hears all, He sees all, and He is everywhere all the time. In fact, His Holy Spirit lives in us! He gives us spiritual life.

There’s so much more I’m probably missing. He is so mind-blowingly awesome!

Who am I to question what Yahweh can or can not do? He is the miracle maker.

He loves. He saves. He lives in the hearts of those who believe and accept Him as their personal Savior. Do you? Have you? If so, tell me about it. I want to hear your story.

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Chains Will Be Broken

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That’s some powerful praise and worship that happened while Paul and Silas were imprisoned. It set all the prisoners free; not only physically, but, spiritually as well. All their bonds were broken. Physically and spiritually.

Further into that scripture, not only did this praise and worship free the prisoners but also, the prison guard. When the guard realized what was happening he went to Paul and Silas and fell to his knees, seeking to be saved. He asked Paul and Silas what he must do to be saved. In v.31 they told the guard: “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved – you and all the people in your house.”

Folks, do you find yourselves in bondage/chains? You can find freedom and be loosed of those chains of bondage. All you need to do is “believe” in Jesus Christ, the One and only True Saviour of the world. Not only for yourself, but for all those around you. Just like in the scripture, praise and worship Yahweh, publicly, and allow the power of the Holy Spirit to work in the hearts of all those around you. True and pure praise and worship is powerful enough to break the chains of bondage.

Join me in lifting our hearts, spirits, and minds in praise and worship to Yahweh, and be freed.

Listen to this music video to help you get started:

Comment and let me know how Yahweh is working in your life. What season of life are you in?

Me: I’m on the edge of Winter/Spring. Yahweh is working His plan in my life. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Something big is coming. I can feel it. I am beginning to see something powerful through the fog. It’s hard to make out, but I can feel it, deep in my spirit. How about you?

Brokenness

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There’s always, always, at least one, who pushes buttons and boundaries. Isn’t there? I know I did when I was a kid. I paid the price for it, too.

Well, the Pharisees and Sadducees were no different back then. They wanted to know their boundaries.

They wanted to know what was most important. So, they asked Jesus as much. In today’s scripture, the question is this: which command is the most important? The answer: Jesus said: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and most important command.”

In our brokenness, we struggle with so much in life. We even struggle spiritually.

We seem to live in our brokenness. We carry it on our chest like a badge. As if it’s an honor to be a victim.

Friends, I’m here to share with you that we don’t have to live in this brokenness. We have the victory through Jesus’ blood. We can claim it. I do! I claim victory over my brokenness.

We need to allow the Holy Spirit to fill us to overflowing with that victory to praise, honor, glorify, and love Yahweh with all our soul, all our mind, and all our heart.

That’s not to say we won’t face trials and opposition in life, because, we will. It’s when we allow Yahweh to have control and surrender fully to Him that we find peace knowing that He will bring us through to the other side.

Where do you find yourself today? Are you stuck in brokenness? If so, allow Yahweh to work in that brokenness to bring you to a place of healing and peace. Please comment your story and bless others in blessing yourself.

Prayers and Promises

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Because of His grace and truth, to HIS great name, we give glory.

There’s more than meets the eye in this verse. Here’s what I found in my research:

Because God promised to deliver them, not for their sakes, but for his Name, (Isaiah 48:11 – I do this for myself, for my own sake. I will not let people speak evil against me, and I will not let some god take my glory.), therefore they connect their prayer on this promise.

Let no opinion of our own merits have any place in our prayers or in our praises. All the good we do, is done by the power of his grace; and all the good we have, is the gift of his mere mercy, and he must have all the praise. Are we in pursuit of any mercy, and wrestling with God for it, we must take encouragement in prayer from God only.
Matthew Henry

How is His grace and mercy blessing you right now? Comment and let me know. Let’s bless others as we’re blessed in where we are right now.

Me? I personally have to really work at focusing on Adonai. Because life is the way it is around the world right now and being pressed from all sides, it’s easy to get distracted and forget Yahweh’s grace and mercy. I find myself withdrawing from the world and drawing closer to HIM. He is my comfort, my protector, my all!

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Purposeful Life

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With all the social issues going on around us we need to bring out focus back to our Creator, Yahweh. So, this message is strong.

Man was created to live and breathe in an atmosphere of praise-filled worship to The Creator.

Without Yahweh, we are nothing less than self-centered, self-pitying, and complaining (see Gen.3:9–12). But upon receiving salvation and life through Jesus Christ, our daily living calls us to prayer and the Word for fellowship and wisdom in living.

Our daily drawing near to God in that union is to be showered with praise: “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving And into His courts with praise.” Such a walk of praise-filled acceptance to Him will nurture deep devotion, faithful obedience, and constant joy.

We can move into each day that we live knowing that a praise walk is not wild and offhand, nor decreased to insignificant ritual but, a walk of life-saving power is available to those of us who believe in Jesus.

The Holy Spirit is a renewing spirit. The Bible says: He saved us because of His mercy. It was not because of good deeds we did to be right with him. He saved us through the washing that made us new people through the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5).

In order to be renewed by the Spirit, the author, Sherwood Wirt, in his book, Afterglow says,

“We must go to the cross, not only to kneel in reverence, not only to bow in commitment, not only to pick up our cross and carry it but, to be crucified.”

Self-crucifixion means that Christ will send His power into us as individuals by the same Spirit. But, first, as another author/evangelist, Richard Bennet says,

“The Christian has to attend his own funeral–willingly.”

I know, that sounds creepy. But, it’s the truth, isn’t it? We must attend our own carnal spiritual funeral, first, willingly.

I know that is a tough thing to do. However, it’s required to live a Christ-centered life.

I struggle too! You’re not alone.

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Refiner’s Fire

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Today’s word is part of a meme community called “Five Minute Friday”. It’s a community of writers who each writes for 5 minutes straight, just typing to get practice in writing to improve.

To better read the message, click the image to make it larger.

Happy Friday Blessings, all!

God Almighty

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Luke_1_37 imageWhere do you find yourself in life?

Last night my husband and I attended the 2nd, in a series, Bible study at our home church. It’s titled: Growing in God.

I noticed a trend in the responses of the attendees. The trend was that we all wanted to focus on our relationship with God and have a better prayer life, as well as, being in His Word more.

The other thing? We get in our own way on our path to maturity in our faith and believing in an all-powerful God who can do anything.

We tend to think that we have to do everything ourselves to make things happen when and where and how we want. We do not trust Yahweh to allow Him to take the pilot’s seat in our lives.

We need to step back, take a deep look at our faith walk, and take notice of what’s going on.

Ask yourself these questions:

  • What am I doing?
  • Am I in my own way?
  • What do I need to do to step aside and let Yahweh have control?
  • Do I trust Yahweh? If not, why?

Once you work out the answers to these questions apply them to your life.

Remember, Yahweh can do anything!

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What’s In A Leader?

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Real leadership is humility. Jesus said: Whoever wants to become first among you must serve the rest of you like a slave. In the same way, the Son of Man did not come to be served. He came to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many people.” (Matthew 20:27-28). Therefore, as we assume the role of leadership, we should do so with the attitude of Christ.

True leaders are servants first.

What are you doing to be a leader/servant? What style of leader/servant do you have?

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