#we die like hagar's son

[rugwurm]

i cant believe they put ishmael in the bible

[scribeforchrist-blog]

Seeing Through the Opening

MEMORY VERSE OF THE WEEK

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+ 1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from every form of evil.

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VERSE OF THE DAY

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+ Genesis 21:19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

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SUBJECT: Seeing Through the Opening

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** SAY THIS BEFORE YOU READ; HERE’S SOME CHRISTIAN TRUTHS **

I AM LOOKING

I AM WAITING

I AM ALLOWING GOD IN

I AM RIGHTEOUS

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THOUGHTS:

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   Sometimes, we don’t see through the opening. We ignore every opening, every sign, even a hint. We ignore it because we are so overwhelmed. We are looking at what's happening and not what we need to. Sometimes, he will take us far away from everything we know so we can see it. Even on our own, we still can't see it. It's not until he shows us that this is what he is trying to show us.

  We wonder sometimes why he couldn’t show us this at the beginning, why he had to take us through this for us to see, and sometimes it's not God taking us all the way around; sometimes it's us that don’t see, it's us that are confused ,it's us that refuse to see it through his lens. Maybe he’s trying to show us we are in the wrong relationship, wrong job, not the hobbies, or maybe bad tendencies; whatever it is, we must see past what we think is right and ask him to open our eyes.

 The woman in this story was so upset with how everything went in her life that she was asked to leave, and when she did, she only had a small amount of food and water in her wineskin. Her name was Hagar.

   Verse 14 Early the next morning, Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.

   As we go through the seasons in our lives, sometimes it feels that in that particular season, we are going into EVERYTHING alone and that we have so little. Still, sometimes God will have us to have so little so when he do bless us and allow us to have we can be content in his way of doing things , and we are more keen to leaning on him because if God places us in a season with everything, some of us will never look to him, some of us will never see what he's trying to show us, and we will never thank him nor be appreciative or content.

    As Hagar was in the desert of Beersheba, she ran out of water and placed her baby under some bushes because she couldn’t watch him die. She began to cry, and as she cried, the angel of the lord told her to stop crying, that she didn’t have to worry about anything, and that God would bless the boy; he would make him a great nation.

  God wants to bless us with so much, but sometimes, we can't see what He is doing because we are looking at where we are. Look at Hagar. Look at her child. She was so overwhelmed by fear that she didn’t see anything but death, and some of us now only see where we are and can't see pass that, but God is saying, I'm going to bless you. Don’t fear, I'm going to see you through, don’t fear, but because we are so focused on the voice of the enemy and the words of others, we get lost and lose sight of what he is trying to show us but not Hagar She heard Gods voice, and she listened to him carefully.

    Verse 19: Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So, she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

    God showed her, do not fear for your son; wherever you are, I will take care of him; all God needed her to do was see what was ahead, and it was well. Jesus is the living water for us. All we have to do is partake in him, all we have to do is drink from him, but some of us won't do it; we refuse to do it because we want our blessing in another way; we want our blessing to be more enormous, just like Naaman he didn’t want to wash in the waters of  Jordan he was upset, and he denied his blessing he was so angry because he felt he could’ve gone to the rivers of Damascus. After all, it was better.

   2 Kings 5:12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.

 Naaman’s servant went to him and said, please do this wash in the Jordan; some of us, God is trying to stop us from storming off. He is trying to teach us to be content and show us his blessings that are over our lives; some of us he is speaking to and he’s saying you must start small; you can have your blessing one day, but I need you to do this first, and sometimes of us he’s saying I’m not saying no but I’m saying not RIGHT NOW I NEED YOU TO SEE THROUGH THE OPENING.

  No matter how much we are in need, we don’t see because it’s not what we wanted, so we don’t see what God is trying to do; he's trying to build character; for the last two weeks, we have been talking about character but look at what God is trying to do, look at what doors he's trying to get you to walk through, if we can walk through this tiny door we can open up the big doors ,God is saying look at this, and you will see. Sometimes, God is trying to show us our character and what we need to change before we get what we need.

Verse 14: So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.

   Just like that, he was healed. Sometimes, we must go through the back door instead of the front one. God didn’t say this road is going to be easy. He didn’t say every blessing would come this way, but he said it would come when we open our eyes and see his plans, not yours. Our plans are just ours, but when we are obedient and allow him to mold us and show us, we will learn what he has for our lives; we must take our eyes off the situation to see where he’s trying to take us.

  *** Today, God is trying to take us somewhere; he’s trying to show us another way, but some of us are so focused on what we want and what we want to do ,that we aren’t focused on the opening he’s trying to get us to see, we must learn to allow God plans to work, we must start hearing him speak from the beginning and a lot of us won’t, we will try to get our plans to work instead of seeking him for his plans.

  The seasons we are brought to are supposed to teach us a lesson; sometimes, those lessons are hard to get. Sometimes, they aren’t, but how whatever God is trying to show you do it, and stop looking at this person, and saying they didn’t have to do this or that; no, each of our paths in life is different; what we go through is supposed to help us see him, not ourselves. Allow him to be what you need, let Him order your steps, and follow him. ©Seer~ Prophetess Lee

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PRAYER

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Heavenly Father, thank you for today, lord; thank you for your mercy and grace; thank you for loving and caring for us. Lord, we ask you today for guidance through our situations. We ask you to help us see the opening and what you’re trying to show us. Lord, we ask you to change our character and heart, mold us, and shape us into your image. Lord, we are so grateful for what you do and what you have for us, and we thank you for the new beginnings in our life; in Jesus Name, Amen

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REFERENCES

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+ Proverbs 14:16 One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.

 

+ Colossians 1:13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

 

+ Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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FURTHER READINGS

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Proverbs 22

Esther 4

Deuteronomy 11

Matthew 20

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[aeide-thea]

beautiful & also terrible to have the sort of brain where you find yrself at 4:30 AM looking up intersections between jewishness & arthuriana. like. fucking amazing rabbit hole but. why am i not asleep. my head hurts and my eyes are sandy.

however. some cool things (that probably some of you knew abt already, but i did not!):

King Artus – "a 'Hebrew Arthurian Romance of 1279… Judaized and transformed.' […] Although the story in 'King Artus' is fairly straightforwardly Arthur’s as we know it today, there are little touches that tie it to Jewish literature. When, for example, Arthur’s mother, the Duchess, learns that her husband is dead and she has been deceived by the shape-shifting Uther Pendragon, she tries to figure out how that could be possible. 'No sooner had he gone more than a bow-shot’s distance away from the castle than the messenger came straight to my chamber.' That bow-shot’s distance comes not from Arthurian legend but from the story of Hagar, who sits a bow-shot’s distance away from her son Ishmael when Abraham casts them out and she does not want to see her son die."

Bovo-Bukh – "a chivalric romance adapted in 1507 by Elye Bokher (Elijah Baḥur *Levita) into 650 ottava rima stanzas in Yiddish from a Tuscan version (Buovo d'Antona) of the early 14th-century Anglo-Norman original, Boeuve de Haumton. This tale of the heroic adventures of the noble Bovo, exiled from his homeland by the machinations of his murderous mother, his wanderings through the world (as far as Babylon), and the love story of Bovo and Druzyana, their separation, his triumphant return home, and the final reunion with Druzyana and their two sons, proved to be one of the most beloved tales in the Yiddish literary tradition over the course of more than two centuries."

Vidvilt – "anonymous 15th–16th-century Yiddish epic. This Arthurian romance of the chivalric adventures of Sir Vidvilt (and his father Gawain), based on Wirnt von Gravenberg's 13th-century Middle High German Wigalois, proved to be one of the most enduringly popular secular narratives in Yiddish literary history, with numerous manuscript recensions, printings (the first in an extensively expanded version by Joseph b. Alexander Witzenhausen, Amsterdam 1671), and reprintings, in rhymed couplets, ottava rima (Prague 1671–79), and prose, over the course of three and a half centuries. The anonymous poet of the earliest Yiddish version composed more than 2,100 rhymed couplets (probably in northern Italy), following Wirnt's plot rather closely through the first three-quarters of the narrative (abbreviating much and generally eliminating specific Christian reference), before offering quite a different conclusion."

Sir Gabein – "from 1788-89, a tale in which the Arthurian knight Gabein does not return to Camelot but – via Russia and Sardinia – reaches China and ultimately ascends to the Chinese imperial throne as the new emperor." slow blink.

also this is getting beyond arthuriana into just epic poetry generally but. literally all of this sounds fascinating.

anyway. literary scholar manqué.e hrs as always here at k dot tumblr dot edu obviously! however. my ear is open like a greedy shark, &c.

[awideplace]

Recently we have seen in the Middle East what is the purest form of Islam. The leader of Hamas is not some guy in a cave, he is a man wearing a grey suit and he hops on a video and says that it is Allah's wish that what happened in Israel will happen to all of the infidels all over the world.

The stage and the theater of attention in our world is not Finland, it's not Norway, it's not Thailand, it's always been and always will be what's happening in the Middle East because that is the land of Genesis, Genesis meaning "beginning" and that is where everything began, that is where everything is focused right now, and that is where everything will end in the battle of Armageddon which is modern day northern Israel. The world's events around us consistently propel us and catapult us into the land of the Bible. What you are witnessing in our culture is the testimony of the fact that man is not basically good, man is basically and fundamentally evil. In Genesis chapter 3 sin enters the world and in Genesis chapter 4 you have the first murder; Cain kills his own brother, Abel. Men have been murderers from the beginning and they have been restrained by law and by standards of morality that have been imposed on them.

In the beginning God places his people in this rich land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and that is the land called Mesopotamia which is modern day The Middle East. God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants and Abraham messed up this promise in a way when instead of trusting that God would give him a son through his wife Sarah, he slept with Hagar and now the battle that takes place in our modern world is a battle between two former sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. The sons of Ishmael represent the Arabic world; the sons of Isaac, consequently the sons of Jacob, are the sons of Israel. The sons of Ishmael were unified by a common religion in the 7th century BC under the leadership of Mohammad, the greatest Muslim prophet. And now the hundreds of millions of people that live in the Arab states all hate with a passion and are intent on killing the people of Israel. It's a land mass of Israel that is the size of New Jersey with a Jewish population roughly the size of the greater Phoenix area, but it dominates the media.

All false religions are bad, but Islam may be amongst the worst and most powerful because it perverts the nature and person of Jesus Christ. Islam believes Jesus was a mighty prophet, subject and submissive to Mohammad and he did not die on the cross, he did not die at all, he was taken up to Heaven like Elijah. In the Muslim faith there is no assurance of salvation, but there is a single way you can know for sure you are going to Heaven and do you know what it is? To die in jihad. The only way you can know for sure you are going to heaven if you are a Muslim if you are killed in action, is slaying the infidels. When men die in jihad, as you can imagine there are no shortage of volunteers in a religious worldview like this, when men die in jihad they go immediately to paradise and it says in the Quran that when they are there in paradise they are greeted by 72 beautiful virgins of whom they have eternal sex with. That is the promise to 11-year-old's growing up in the Gaza strip; if you grow up and you blow up Jews and Christians you will enter heaven and be greeted by your own harem of virgins. All non-believers in Mohammad are infidels, but in the Muslim faith, the little Satan they call is Israel. And do you know who the great Satan is? America, because we protect and stand behind Israel. One Muslim on the voice of Palestine radio says, "The Muslim loves death and martyrdom just as you Jews love life."

There is a great difference between he who loves the afterlife and he who loves the world, and the Muslim loves death and seeks martyrdom. One boy after 9/11 is recorded, his name was Ahmad, and he was going to a school on the Gaza Strip and he says this to reporters, "I will make my body a bomb that will blast the flesh of Zionists, the sons of pigs and monkeys, I will tear their bodies into little pieces and cause them more pain than they will ever know." He is 11-years-old and his classmates respond and say, "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar," god is great. And the teacher says, "May the virgins give you pleasure."

The Quran has 123 verses that call for fighting and killing anyone who does not agree with this statement, "There is no god but Allah and Mohammad is his prophet." Quran Surah 5:33 says about infidels, "They shall be slain or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off"; Surah 9:5 says "Slay the infidels wherever you find them and lie in wait for them and establish every stratagem of war against them"; Surah 47:4-9 promises paradise to whoever cuts off the head of an infidel. Sometimes we call this radical Islam, I want you to understand this is just Islam. That's just what they believe. It's not a peaceful religion. It's a religion at its very core, the first thing Mohammad does, is slaughter all the infidels. It's those who walk in the ways of Mohammad that subscribe to this thinking. You don't just have a different belief system than them if you're a Christian, you're their enemy. And they are commanded by god to fill the rivers red with the blood of infidels. Hamas, or I would say obedient Muslims, could be described as merciless, heartless, violent, wicked, evil, lovers of pleasure.

Jonny Arvadanis

[nerdygaymormon]

My Mother’s Day Sermon

I'm David and my mom is right back there, she's the organist. Happy Mother's Day to her. I wasn't assigned a topic to speak on, so I've chosen to focus my remarks on repentance.

Pshhh. Can you imagine? It's Mother's Day, of course the topic will be motherhood. I recognize that like a lot of holidays, Mother's Day can be difficult for some. Some of you have mothers who've passed away. Some moms have a child who has passed. Many people deal with infertility issues or have miscarried. Some had a parent who was abusive. Some moms here today have children who've distanced themselves. Some don't want to become moms and others have longed for it but it hasn't happened for them. There's many reasons this could be a hard day. We acknowledge that, and we grieve and mourn with you and respect your feelings. I hope my remarks don't add to the burdens you carry. I've heard a lot of men speak on Mother's Day about angel mothers and how perfect their mom is. Only sometimes have I heard about real women who had real struggles and how she gained insight as she read the scriptures, she held family prayer and did her best in those circumstances. I like the latter example because none of us are perfect and could use some practical examples and encouragement. Nine years ago I spoke on Mother's Day and gave examples of my mom being an imperfect mom, but whose overall efforts showed she measured up. I want to put her at ease, this is not going to be a repeat. I'm going to talk about women from the scriptures. Mothering is not for the faint of heart. For those of you in the trenches with little children, it can be hard. They're busy, they require a lot of care and attention. Moms of young ones often need a break and some adult time.

Moms of teenagers encounter a different set of challenges as their child tests boundaries and tries a lot of new things, including things their parents wouldn't approve of. 

Then they're out of the home. You organized your life around them and now what? It can feel empty. You know this, but it's worth saying, you don't have to be perfect to be a good mom. Life doesn't wait until we're perfectly prepared and feeling up for whatever is coming. We learn by doing. We work to improve and strive to be better. Just because we aren't perfect or have everything figured out doesn't mean we don't have a lot to contribute, that we don't make an important difference in the lives around us. Mary left 12-year-old Jesus in Jerusalem and it wasn't until after a day's journey that she noticed. It took another three days before Mary found Him in the temple. No one calls Mary a "bad" mom. She did her best, made mistakes, corrected them, and remained committed. That's a good model. Hagar was a servant who was taken away from her homeland and impregnated by her master. She tried running away, but without food & water in that harsh climate, her baby was dying. She went back and stayed a servant for many years. She made difficult choices in order provide food, shelter, and education for her son. Many moms make great sacrifices. People have to compromise, make the best from the options that are available to them. Sariah packed up her house, lived in the wilderness, and moved across the world. Her children fought the whole way. It was tough. Emma Smith had 6 children die in infancy. Did they complain? Yes. Did they weep? Of course. Did they yell? Guaranteed. Was their best sometimes just barely hanging on? Indubitably. Were they imperfect? Absolutely. Did God work with their imperfections? Very much so. Elder Stanfill came to our stake conference last September. He grew up a rancher and farmer. He tells the story of harvesting grain in Montana. The machinery they used would harvest the grain, throwing it into the holding tank and the chaff would be left behind on the ground. They adjusted the combine several times to maximize the amount of grain being gathered, and yet some of the kernels of grain still wound up on the ground with the chaff. The imperfect harvest was as good as the machine could do. 

God works in that imperfection. "Migrating swans, geese, and ducks descend onto the fields to nourish themselves on their long journey south. They ate the leftover grain from [the] imperfect harvest. God had perfected it." Some of life's most important lessons come in the imperfections and are to be found in the mess. You are involved in an amazing work, to train and prepare people for the world, to be their best selves, to be a person of good character and curiosity, to become people who make positive contributions. That's truly noble. I know it's easy to see our shortfalls, to have regrets, to wish we could have do-overs. I hope you also take time to appreciate all the good you do. Look at your successes. You're good enough. Whether you are a married or single mom, a young or more seasoned mom, a working or stay-at-home mom, the Atonement makes us all enough. Alma 7:11-12, describes the Atonement as Jesus suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind so that He feels mercy for us in what we are dealing with, and so that He knows how to aid and comfort and sustain us. I think it's comforting to think Jesus knows what I'm feeling because He's felt it, He understands. I can ask Him for strength, I can ask Him for help. Today I'm also thinking about Esther from the Bible. Reading her story reminds me there are times when God will ask us to do things that are difficult. Esther found herself in a position to rescue her people from death, but it was a big risk and might not be successful and could cost Esther her life. She was reluctant. It was difficult for her. She put her trust in God. She wasn't perfect, but when it counted, she measured up. 

That sounds like a lot of moms I know. Sometimes it's hard. Sometimes it's changing poopy diapers when you're not feeling well. Sometimes it's getting a phone call from school about some trouble. Sometimes it's a visit to the police station. You never know what will come your way, but when it counts, most people find a way to measure up. Mother's Day is a reminder that all of us should respect mothers, and mothering figures, and thank them for their impact on the lives around them.

[aikoiya]

LoZ - Ganon's Parents

You know what I just realized?

We never learn about Ganon's mother.

Like, yeah, we learn about Kōme & Kotake, but they are his surrogate mothers, not his biological ones. Which, in this situation, means that he was adopted.

Like, I know that a surrogate mother today means a woman who's been payed to have someone else's baby, but the thing is, in such situations wouldn't that baby have been given to the person who bought it? Which, holy shit, that's really gross.

But, Ganondorf wasn't. He was raised by Kōme & Kotake, so why specify them as his surrogate mothers? Which, btw, if that were the definition being used, they would just be his mothers. In fact, provided that definition was true, only 1 of the pair would be his mother while the other would be his aunt.

And no, I don't think that they're supposed to be a lesbian couple. They look identical & when they fuse, they're referred to as the Twinrova.

Suggesting that they're twin sisters.

Unless people are suggesting that they're incestuous, which gross. And, now that I think about it, could explain why Ganon ends up a tyrant. If they're incestuous, there's no telling what else they support. What they taught him to be okay with. No telling what they did to him growing up. Which, again, could explain why he ends up a tyrant as it suggests that he could've been groomed & abused in one way or another, which would actually make me sympathetic to him to a degree. They're called witches too.

And I've also seen someone say that they believed that Gerudo were hermaphroditic, which would be the only way that both could actually be his biological mothers. But then, again, even if this was true, why specify them as his surrogate mothers & not just his mothers period? In fact, if it were true, then why would "male" Gerudo be considered so significant? I mean, it'd be irrelevant.

But, if my thoughts are true & neither one is his biological mother, then this suggests that his biological mother isn't in the picture for one reason or another. Whether because she's dead or something else.

And the fact that Kōme & Kotake were hinted at again in TotK suggests that this happened again.

So, does this mean that Gerudo who birth males tend to abandon them?

Is that what happens to the 100 year voe? Are they just left out in the desert to die like Hagar tried to do to Ishmael?? That's messed up!

Or did something more sinister happen? What if Kōme & Kotake killed his parents & took him in order to make him the Ganondorf that we know?

What if they are worshipers of Demise & are the true villains of the story?

For that matter, who were his fathers in both instances?

Was he human or Hylian or Sheikah?

Personally, I think for TotK Ganon, I might make him the son of a Tabanthan native. Someone who'd grown up in Tabantha Village, which I tend to portray the humans that live in Hebra as being very Norse-adjacent. So, yes, his dad has some serious Viking-coding.

In fact, I think I'll make him have inherited a lot of his features.

His mother? I see having been a Highland Gerudo, which I tend to portray as being much less... discriminatory against the male populous & doesn't bar them entry to their town which I call Ealiyah.

LoZ Cultural Masterlist

[thejesusmaninred]

"The Anchors." From Mark 6: 53-56.

Earlier in the chapter we mentioned the Director and the Directions. Now we touch upon the Destination, what is called crossing over, called Gennesaret. The Gospel describes it as healing in the marketplaces. To achieve Shabbos in particular one has to not only have enough money to spend but to know where to shop. The desires we entertain must be the right ones or there is no point in pretending to exert the effort. This knowledge and its habits are not easy to come by but once the age of reason finally dawns, what is called Shabbat or self-realization takes place and all wickedness shopping efforts die on the vine.

People think this means you can't put on leather chaps on go pee on strangers in the shower house, but that is only if one does not have anyone, even a dog or a goldfish waiting at home.

Crossing over does not mean the bodily functions come to an end, only their ability to interfere with sound judgement.

Notice the flick of the tongue of venom in the mind: We are willing to be troubled over thoughts of a bathhouse, but not at all over war, terrorism, school shootings or climate change. The ability to become troubled over the correct things is a sign of what is called Gennesaret.

53 When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and anchored there.

54 As soon as they got out of the boat, people recognized Jesus.

55 They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was.

56 And wherever he went—into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

The Values in Gematria are organized into Four Directions, which we are familiar with:

v. 53: They landed and anchored. Upon achieving Shabbat, which comes after Shabbos, negative tendencies are completely exhausted. Anyone who has overcome a deleterious relationship to a person or a substance can explain once happiness is achieved, there is no going back.

Except not all of our problems from smoking or eating too much crack, it is the society at large. This is why spirited persons always charge straight at tyrants and tyranny swords and teeth bared and kill them without a care in the world. We are expected by God to be tyranny free our entire lives and as happy as possible until the final minute. We are not permitted to take pause for a Mormon, a freak in the Republican Party or the Russians and wonder when our happiness will one day return.

The Number is 10084, ק‎ףד, "take care, be careful."

v. 54: The people recognized Jesus. They knew how shitty everyone else was acting. The Number is 3642, גודב‎‎, gudev, "Be good, or...!"

v. 55: They ran throughout the region. A region is 191, א‎טא‎‎, ata, "you, together" a region is a man who "has it together." Run towards a man like this, away from the others. Especially if he is you:

The Number is 1741, אזדא‎‎, azda, "pass by trouble fast, advance time."

"The verb עדה ('ada I) means to pass on or by, or to advance."

v. 56: All who touched were healed. The Number is 12682, יב‎ו‎חב‎, 12 and 12."

This refers to the offspring of Ishmael and Jacob, from Chayeh Sarah:

Ishmael’s Sons

12 This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.

“This is the account of how the Father of Compassion, who made the idolaters hear, obey, and respond and  become servants of the Nation...”

13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth [the high place] firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar [turbid] , Adbeel [to cause to grieve], Mibsam, [perfumery] 14 Mishma [to draw out support], Dumah [silence of waiting], Massa [to test the range of abilities], 15 Hadad [thunder], Tema [the south country], Jetur [one who transits], Naphish [refreshing desire] and Kedemah [eastward]. 16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps. 17 Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people. 18 His descendants settled in the area from Havilah  [to make a fort out of a languishing village] to Shur [to excite], near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur [to straighten or make level]. And they lived in hostility toward[m] all the tribes related to them.

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There are 12 Skills associated with Ishmael as there are with his nephew Jacob/Israel. 

“To hear obey and respond, you must be born in the High Place, where the anticipation and causes of the turbid, grieving future ends. Draw out the support [from the well [reflection], the thunder [the law], from the sun [intelligence], from the instruction and practices] and entertain new desires as one transits to the east.  [= the morning, the new day, also implies meditation and reverence of God]. 

This will activate languishing cultures, excite them, and make them level. Maintain hostility towards men who worship each other and make gods out of themselves.” 

God= the future; one that is immersed in knowledge of the past, but drives towards a vision that is unsurpassed. This is the nature of life as prescribed the One who calls Himself the Living God.

From Vayishlach:

Jacob had twelve sons:

23 The sons of Leah:

Reuben [the leader] the firstborn of Jacob [the follower],

Simeon [who listens], Levi [is loyal], Judah [who praises], Issachar [who is rewarded] and Zebulun [the glorious dwelling] .

= Leaders are born from servants and followers. Those who are loyal are rewarded and live in glory. 

24 The sons of Rachel [the ewe, youth beauty] :

Joseph [fruitful] and Benjamin [Seated Right].

25 The sons of Rachel’s servant Bilhah:

Dan [to govern] and Naphtali [challenges].

26 The sons of Leah’s servant Zilpah [the trickle] :

Gad [treasure] and Asher [happiness]

These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram [the ultimate substitution].

27 Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre [seeing, from adversity], near Kiriath Arba [four cities= Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed and Tiberias, which mean “teaches peace”, “friendship”, “cornerstone”, “piercing, seeing”. where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. 28 Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years. 29 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

= “Abandon the past and trade up to a virgin future that is governed by righteous men who overcome calamity and reward the people with fortune and happiness. They rise from adversity, leaving a record of how one overcomes and lives many many years: through  peace, friendship, compassion and laughter. From these tenets, competent leaders and followers are made.”

To walk on water is to unharden the heart and soul search wherever the sooth can be found. Who searches for happiness where happiness resides is verily one who is reborn within the Holy Spirit and fulfills the Directions within the Gospel.

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How the spiritually blind and STUPID monks are at Mount Athos that they ... How the spiritually blind and STUPID monks are at Mount Athos that they call Angel John a Saint? https://youtu.be/gfDKd6lBHxY Holy Gospel of our SUPERNATURAL FATHER of our supernatural “souls” Elohim, Allah, ParBrahm, etc., delivered by the first Anointed Christ, which in my native language Punjabi, we call Satguru Jesus of the highest living God Elohim, Allah, Parbrahm, etc. that dwells within His most beautiful living Temple of God created by the greatest artist demiurge Potter, the lord of the visible Nature Yahweh, Brahma, Khudah, etc. and it is called Harmandir or “Emmanuel” if you are not “greedy” according to Christ Rajinder:- Mount Athos is full of spiritual women Disciples but they won’t allow a physical woman. Such spiritual Prostitutes cannot be fished into the Royal Kingdom of God where there are “Solitary” spiritual men whether in the flesh they are a male or a female, a Jew or a Gentile, etc. because your supernatural soul counts in the Royal Kingdom of God for the Saints and NOT the physical body. Thus, we are the Fishers of the solitary spiritual twice-born men and not spiritually blind Disciples of the Pope, Abbots, etc. We learn the Gospel Truth through logical reasoning and not by reading the holy books such as the Bible, which is liable to corruption and is called “Milk” for the once-born people. We seek the “Butter” and that you get by churning the Milk logically to extract “Logo”, the Very Face of God. The Gospel Truth is the “Bottom line” Absolute Truth and there is nothing beyond that. That makes our Supernatural Spiritual Father self-existant. This was stressed by Saint Thomas, “Although we are Solitary yet we are of one accord”. Here is a Sample of the Absolute Gospel Truth. The tribal people like Judah, Levi, Benjamin, Jatt, Khatri, etc. are born and they will die and not the spiritual Jews, Hindu, Sikh or Muslim, the colours given by the most High Satan Al-Djmar Al-Aksa that dominates the world of the religious fanatics devils who kill each other in millions. Thus, the Blind Guides, the Rabbis led the blind Disciples into the Pits of Holocaust. The root of the word Disciple is “Discipline” as the military soldiers are disciplined by laws or commandments. So, in Christ Jesus we are twice-born “solitary” Labourers like the Sadhu Melchzedik but living no more in the wilderness but in the family homes enjoying the family life as Jesus advised the Samaritan leper that he had cured and he being the “Salt of the Earth” son of Joseph whom the Eleven liars and murderers wanted to kill but sold him as a slave to the Egyptians ever-faithful sons of Ishmael born of the concubine Hagar but faithful sons of Abraham whilst the sons of Isaac for their gift of spirituality had become egoistic and unfaithful to Abraham and Yahweh and suffered under their spiritually blind dead in the letters of the holy Books as today, they are getting bundled up in the Israel for the Final Burning – Matt 13v24-30 is getting fulfilled. They became Jews outwardly unfaithful to Abraham and Yahweh that Christ Jesus had to take a Virgin Birth among them to enlighten them but they not only loved the “Darkness” to fleece their devotee Disciples but they also circumcised the people of non-semitic race such as Aryans and Negroes and made them Jews outwardly, the Fake sons of Isaac of the Semitic Race. So, the Jew being a spiritual self “inwardly of heart” and not the physical tribal body, not a single Jew like Hindu, Sikh or Muslim died during the Holocaust. This is the Absolute Gospel Truth and this made Jesus to take the Virgin Birth among the spiritually sick people. John, the Baptist, Prophet Elijah; my god is demiurge “Yahweh”, the creator of Pots into which the supernatural soul was infused by our Supernatural Father of our “souls” to make us living baptised the Jewish men of Age in the water in the name of Abraham. So, we should worship our Father in truth as Peter spoke for the Kingdom of Heaven and spirit, Surti, to understand “His Word”, the Absolute Gospel Truth for our Peace-of-Mind and that was Preached like a Sower by the Apostles. In short, these spiritually blind Abbots and Monks living at the Mount Athos is a typical example of the Blind Guides and I had the opportunity to exchange views with them in their Monastry in Essex described as:- The Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist is a monastic community for both men and women, directly under the Ecumenical Patriarchate. So, they are under an adulterer – Matt 19 and not Free as set by our Bridegroom Christ Jesus. They are so blind that I pointed out to them that John, the Baptist was not a Saint from Above but an Angel from Below like Angel Stephen who was baptising the Jewish men of age in the name of Abraham whilst the Temple Priests were making Jews outwardly and spiritually Blind Fanatics Devils as you can see them today inwardly – John 8v44 but they won’t listen to me.       Trinity:- www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/trinity.pdf

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THIRSTY SOUL!

THIRSTY SOUL

Psalm 42:1-2

 

Physical thirst is as natural as air and can only be satisfied by water. Just as water is essential to the body, spiritual thirst is even more necessary. We should long for God in the same way we long for water, but on a much higher scale. This thirst should encompass the totality of our being.

It may sound strange to say, “my soul thirsts for God,” but we should all thirst and hunger for righteousness, as instructed in Matthew 5:6. That’s the only way we can be satisfied.

This generation is so preoccupied with tasks, places to go, and goals to achieve that they miss out on truly living, including acknowledging God, thereby making God seem irrelevant.

Isaiah 55:2 is an interesting, encouraging, and promising verse. Water is necessary for survival. Some nations are blessed with good water, but those that are not must find good water sources for their people. This may sadly mean having to pay for clean drinking water. In such cases, these people would need to budget for water when they go shopping. However, in the verse mentioned above, the Lord invites anyone who is thirsty to come and drink without spending money, freely.

When your soul is fainting within you, and you’re desperately searching for water like the Israelites in Psalm 107:4-9, that’s when we should long for the words in John 4:13-14. Jesus says, “Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” Are you desperate for this water?

Thirst refers to the sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by a lack of fluids, resulting in a desire to drink. The word ‘thirst’ can also be a synonym for a strong desire or craving for something, like a thirst for knowledge or wealth.

What are you thirsting for? Most desires can likely be satisfied with something reachable, but the deep longing, the thirst of the soul, can only be met by God.

Have you ever been truly thirsty for God? A genuine thirst or craving for water like Hagar and her son in the wilderness of Beersheba in Genesis 21:14? A thirst that makes you so desperate that you’re willing to do anything for satisfaction.

Then come to the river of God that is full of water, as invited by Psalm 65:9. Cool, clean, refreshing, life-giving, and sustaining water is only found in God when we thirst after righteousness.

The psalmist here used the metaphor of thirst to express his deep longing for God, for spiritual things, the appetite and desire to know God more intimately.

We can imagine how painful and desperate it would be to be dehydrated, knowing that we could die without water, especially in a desert area or somewhere where there’s no clean, drinkable water. Only in such a state would we appreciate the water we have and God, who is our thirst-quencher.

This is exactly what happens to our souls when we distance ourselves from God. If our bodies require water, our inner being, the soul, requires God.

In a dry and thirsty spell, nothing would excite or motivate one, but that’s when we must humbly surrender to the Lord to water our soul for renewal, revival, and refreshing.

As the Good Shepherd illustrated in Psalm 23:2, the Lord will lead us to streams of refreshing water where we’ll be hydrated and revived.

Why do you spend money, your wages, on what is not good and will not satisfy you? Echoes Isaiah 55:2. Some things may quench our thirst better than others, yet water can never quench the thirst of some things, such as salt, regardless of how much we drink. Just as nothing can quench our thirst for God, except God, as stated in Revelation 7:16.

Come to the Lord. He’s waiting to turn those issues into pools of water for you, as seen in Psalm 114:8.

PRAYER: Father may my thirst always push me to the fountain of the living spring, as I continue to draw water from the well of salvation in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Shalom

WOMEN OF LIGHT INT PRAYER MIN.

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February 25, 2024

February 25, 2024

Second Sunday of Lent

Genesis 22: 1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18

This story of Abraham willing to sacrifice his son Isaac, is one of the most difficult passages in the Old Testament.

Psalm 116

The psalmist speaks of the obedient servant of God.

Romans 8: 31b-34

“If God is for us,” Paul writes, “who can be against us.”

Mark 9: 2-10

Today we have Mark’s account of the Transfiguration.

The first reading this second Sunday of Lent is one that most preachers would like to avoid.  In every sense of the term, is it a “difficult text.”  It recounts the test facing Abraham.  Would he, as God asks, sacrifice his son Isaac?  Right there we must wonder why God is asking this of Abraham?  Thank goodness we know the end of the story.

The book of Genesis is a combination of at least three oral traditions some of which date back to the 13th century before Christ.  One author calls Genesis “A narrative of ancient Israel’s traditions and concepts of the past. It is a mixture of myths, legends and cultural memories….”  The 21st century student and preacher should keep these realities in mind when one hears or reads this passage.

As we explore the text there are several items that catch our eye.  God says to Abraham, “Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love…(and) offer him up as a holocaust…”  The Hebrew commentators call this the “tenth and climatic test of Abraham, the first Jew.”   But Isaac is not his only or first son.  We forget that Ishmael is his first son whose mother was Hagar, Abraham’s wife’s servant.  This reality enables us to place a cultural umbrella over the story.  The second thing we notice is that Sarah is out of the picture here.  Sarah had encouraged Abraham to take Hagar and hope for a child which she did give Abraham.

As you listen to the text, ask yourself is Abraham really thinking that God will help him?  He says to his servants in a verse which is left out today, “The boy and I will go up there (the mountain) and return to you.”  This is an interesting comment. One final point, God promised Abraham and his descendants a future, but Isaac had not produced a grandson to carry on the line.  Yet he might die.  What about the future?   Many questions surround the story.

But the message of the passage is the faith of Abraham during great pain and suffering.  But it is a difficult one with a happy ending.  It is critical to remember the culture and time in which this oral story originated and was finally transcribed.  Father John McKenzie S.J. shares with us that the inclusion of this story may have been an ancient way of discouraging human sacrifice or an expression of truth through “an imaginary narrative or parable.”   

Perhaps one of the most important lessons that flows from this story is the harm that can be done by literally taking or preaching about stories such as this one without understanding the time or the culture from which it originated.

One can easily make a connection between the first reading and Paul’s letter to the Romans.  “God did not spare his own son but handed him over for all of us.”  But there are differences.  Rome executed Jesus.  And note, Paul shares with us that Jesus’ execution was for all of us.  And Paul adds words of consolation. “If God is for us, who can be against us.”

This Old Testament story emphasizes the importance of the faith that ancients believed Abraham possessed and passed on to his children.  And it offers us an opportunity to reflect on this passage with an understanding of an ancient culture and its impact on the faith of a community.

What about us in our day, our time, and culture?  What is our faith asking of us in our world which is so bitterly divided?  How will we be remembered in centuries to come?

[2q5b]

VAYERA

By Ezra

November 1st, 2023

I speak with my heart in my mouth, with my heart fallen into the pit of my stomach. Understand that, while you listen to my voice. Understand that the IDF is mercilessly destroying the city of Gaza and the beautiful human beings, all those irreplaceable human shields, who live there. And around the world, so many people blame, not Israel, but the Jews.

Things happen. You fuck around, and sometimes you find out. God doesn’t make exceptions. A city full of people is full of sin, and it is utterly destroyed. No one is spared. But wait! What if there should be fifty righteous people there? Abraham asks God, with far worse than mere tears in his voice. God relents. Okay. Fifty. But what about 45? 30? Okay, thirty.

What about 20 people? 10? Okay, says God. Ten. And an agreement is made.

There aren’t ten righteous people. There’s only your nephew and his family, who - wait! - you didn’t realize were there. Tough luck. And so they’re doomed to die with the rest of the sinners.

Oh, what’s that, Abraham? You wanted to go lower than ten? You want Me to make an exception? 

Time stops. Good miracles happen, too, everywhere, at the exact same time as the bad ones. Abraham and Sarah have a child, Yitzchak, Isaac, named for the laughter of bewildered joy of two people in their nineties, suddenly, miraculously, expectant parents.

And things happen to the children. They find out. The slave-girl, Hagar, and her teenage son Ishmael get sent away from the family home, Abraham tearfully handing them inadequate supplies for their journey. They go, they get lost in the wilderness, they run out of water, they know they’re going to die in the wilderness. Then they meet God. Maybe this reminds you of a story that happens to the Jews, later.

Let me stop time again, before Ishmael can die of thirst. Flash forward. Abraham has been commanded by God: Lech lecha. Bring Isaac up as a burnt offering on one of the mountains. Which one? I’ll tell you later. No exceptions. 

A burnt offering. A burned child.

Is this what it means to obey God? To kill a child? To watch Ishmael die, to cut Isaac’s throat?

No. No.

There is a well of water we have not yet seen. There is a ram just over there, caught in the thicket. A messenger of God is there to redirect us, if only we can pay attention.

The war - within, without - is so terrifying. The terms seem so stark. Some part of us wants justice to necessitate brutality. We want to give up listening, grab the knife and just act. We want to just sit down and cry, while our child dies of thirst.

So many of us come to ask: If it is in the name of safety, how can we not bomb Gaza? If it is in the name of freedom, how can we not terrorize Israel? How can we not destroy these sinful cities full of evil, dangerous people?

We are so traumatized, we stop looking for another solution.

וַיִּפְקַ֤ח אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־עֵינֶ֔יהָ וַתֵּ֖רֶא בְּאֵ֣ר מָ֑יִם

God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water.

וַיִּשָּׂ֨א אַבְרָהָ֜ם אֶת־עֵינָ֗יו וַיַּרְא֙ וְהִנֵּה־אַ֔יִל אַחַ֕ר נֶאֱחַ֥ז בַּסְּבַ֖ךְ בְּקַרְנָ֑יו

Abraham lifted his eyes and saw, a ram, off in the distance, caught in the underbrush by his horns.

Some people, at some terrible times, come to believe there is no choice but to allow the deaths of children, to justify them, even to cause them. Our Torah wants us to listen differently. These trials teach a different way of looking. An openness in every moment to the possibility that there will be, in fact, some way to protect the helpless from harm.

I don’t know what the path away from death, and toward life, is. Neither did Hagar or Avraham, not at first. But they were not hardened against seeing that path when it did open. And it always opens. 

Like them, I am ready for my eyes to be opened.

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The Sign of the Covenant 

Sunday, September 24th 2023 A.D. 

Genesis 17:1-14 

Golden Text:       10 This is My covenant, which ye shall keep, between Me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.  11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt Me and you.  12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.  - Genesis 17:10-12 

God wanted His people to be a special people. As you know a covenant was cut. The meat offering of the covenant, offered to the Lord had to be cut.  Here there is a cutting on every male child of Abram and all that are in his household, born or otherwise acquired.  This was a covenant sign that all of the people belonged to God under the covenant of God. 

This was now thirteen years after the birth of Ishmael and the first time in Scripture that we are told God had personally visited Abram since Abram was 86.  Abram was 86 years old when his son Ishmael was born of Hagar. Now Abram is 99 years old and we have God speaking to him about another child. WHAT?  Abram is 99 years old. 

My wife has a tea for the ladies. They always have a Bible quiz. One of the questions often asked was: How old was Sarai (Sarah) when she conceived a child?  There was a lady named Sister Gladys Kennedy who always attended who was in her nineties. The correct answer was Sarah was two or three years younger than Sister Kennedy, when Sarah conceived Isaac. Our point being that this was indeed a miracle birth of Abraham and Sarah, with a child coming from a 90 year old womb and the seed of a 99 year old man.  IS ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR GOD? 

Draw near with faith and realize that with God, all things are possible.  If you doubt that you can ask Lazarus who was raised from the dead after being dead for four (4) days. NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR GOD. 

Message Text:  -  Genesis:   Chapter 17:1-14 

1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I Am the Almighty God; walk before Me, and be thou perfect. 

Abram was ninety years old and nine. Did you read that carefully? Abram was ninety-nine (99) years of age. We all KNOW that would make Abram too old to do any good for God, he should have done things when he was much younger.  God cannot use an old man like that.  Oh, sure God should be nice to Abram, but after all Abram is 99 years old. He considered past his prime by the world. Well Abram was, in the eyes of the world, too old when he left Haran. 

Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran (Genesis 12:4). He was 86 years old when the son Ishmael was born of Hagar, the servant girl (Genesis 16:15-16). He had waited some 25 years for the fulfilment of God’s promise to give a son through Sarai. It had been some 13 years since his last recorded word from God. 

BUT WAIT. GOD APPEARED.  God actually appeared to this older man. WOW! He must want him to go to tell those in the nursing homes, that is all that he can do at 99. RIGHT? NO! Life has passed him. He can only prepare to die. God has nothing for a 99 year old man OR perhaps God is not bound by the ideas of man.  

The LORD appeared to Abram: Undoubtedly, this was another appearance of God in the person of Jesus, who took on a temporary human appearance before His incarnation on earth (as with Hagar in Genesis 16:7-9). 

I Am Almighty God: God’s first words to Abram made an introduction and a declaration of His being. By this name El Shaddai (God Almighty), God revealed His Person and character to Abram.  

The last time God appeared to Abram was 13 years before. 

I Am the Almighty God; walk before Me, and be thou perfect. But God speaks.  We believe that this is an appearance of God. And whenever we have an appearance of God before the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, the One Who declares or shows Himself in Bodily form is the LORD Jesus Christ. 

No man hath seen God at any time; the only Begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.- John 1:18 

Since there is only one form in which God appears bodily, we believe God the Son, then this must have been an appearance of God the Son centuries before He was born of a virgin in Bethlehem. And this Person spoke (say, speak, utter) and directed this old man to walk (go, walk, depart) before God AND to be perfect (be upright, sincere).  Why would God ask a 99 year old man to begin a ministry to walk in it, to be upright and sincere? Perhaps the ways of God are different from the ways of man. Perhaps with GOD, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. 

But is Jesus Almighty God?   YES! 

8 I Am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.  - Revelation 1:8 

2 And I will make My covenant between Me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 

I (GOD) will make My covenant (agreement, promise that cannot be broken) between Me (God) and thee (Abram). Did you read that?  GOD ALMIGHTY is going to make a covenant, (a promise that cannot be broken) between Me (GOD) and you, mortal man. God knows the future and God here declares that Abram and his seed will keep the covenant. This was a promise of God Who is all knowing. This was the same covenant that God had been telling Abram of since his days in Ur, then Haran and finally here in Canaan. It had now been 25 years since God first made His promise to Abram.  Have you ever had to wait that long? 

GOD IN PRESENT TIMES. There is a story that I have been told, that I believe to be true. There was a fine Christian lady who had been praying for the conversion of her husband for two decades. Then one day her husband was on the way home from a business trip and had been killed in a car crash. She was hurt and now very upset with God, Who had not saved her husband. One day, about a month later, a young seminary aged young man came to the office of that man and asked for him by name.  They told his wife. She came out to see him and told him the sad news.  And when she found out that he was a seminary student she asked him why did he think God had not saved her husband? The young man said I need to tell you this.   

About a month ago I was hitchhiking back to my school.  It was cold and raining and so I was trying to get a ride. A man in a late modeled car stopped to pick me up. He said he usually did not pick up hitch hikers but it was cold and raining.  He asked me where I was going. I told him. He said well, I can take you up the road about an hour. But may I ask you a question? Then he asked me about the Bible and some passages. After about 15 minutes I asked him, Sir, if you were to die today do you have the assurance you would go to heaven? He said, quite frankly I do not and my wife has been bugging me for years. She became a Christian very early in our marriage. Then I asked him if he would like to know for certain. He asked can one KNOW? I said Yes.  First we have to know that God loves you and has a plan for your life and it ends with the paradise of heaven. But when we sin, the plan of God is frustrated. I explained how all sin earns us the death penalty for the wages of sin is death. A person who sins has earned eternal death and torment. But that love of God had sent Jesus to die on the cross to pay that death penalty for us. So, we do not have to go to hell, but can go to heaven and He makes it so very easy.  

Then I went over Romans 10, verses 9 through 13. And by now I could see a tear in his eyes. Then I asked him if he wanted to pray to receive Jesus and know that he would be in heaven when he died. He said he really would like that. So we pulled off to the side of the road and he prayed that prayer confessing his sins and asking God to save him. It was wonderful. We were both in tears. Crying tears of joy. And we continued our talk until I was to get out and go up a road to my school and he let me out.  He gave me his card.  He said he could not wait to get home to tell his wife. So your husband is in heaven, as we speak.  

The two of them rejoice together and she prayed and asked God to forgive her for doubting Him. 

NOTE: MY GOD IS REAL FOR I CAN FEEL HIM DEEP IN MY SOUL. 

3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,  

Abram knew he was in the presence of God. What did he do?   

Abram fell on his face. You and I can only imagine what might happen.  Suppose that the resurrected Jesus appeared before you in all His glory. Do you suppose you would react as Abram or later John? 

12 And I turned to see the Voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;  13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks One like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.  14 His Head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire;  15 And His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His Voice as the sound of many waters.  16 And He had in His right Hand seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.  17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. ...  Revelation 1:12-17  

Then God spoke in an audible Voice: 

4 As for Me, behold, My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. 

My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. God once again assures Abram that Abram is to be the one through whom will come the seed of the new covenant with God. The covenant agreement is with Abram and He tells Abram that he is to be the father of many nations.  This promise is being made to a man who has had no children with his wife Sarai and only one child with the Egyptian maid Hagar. God knows the future and God is sharing that information with Abram. 

5 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. 

Abram means, “father of many.” What a name for a man who was fatherless for the first 86 years of his life. The culture looked upon children as a reward. Thus many thought no children may have been a punishment.  

Now, God went a step further and made his name “father of many nations.” 

Thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. God changes the name Abram, father of many to a new name that means father of many nations (Abraham). God is now revealing His plan. God is planning on a people that are peculiar to God (Jewish nation) which will be joined by whosoever will and those people will make up the covenant people. All who are in Christ Jesus are also heirs to this promise. 

Galatians 3:26-29: - 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.  28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. - Galatians 

6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 7 And I will establish My covenant between Me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 

I will make thee exceeding fruitful.  God here makes a promise to Abram about him being exceeding, (surpassing, going beyond) fruitful, (profitable, beneficial). The covenant first announced in Genesis 12:1-3 is to be passed on to the children of Abram-Abraham. His children, which children? 

And I will make nations of thee. From you, Abram will come nations of people. 

Kings shall come out of thee. Not just numbers, but also important people, leaders of those nations. 

And I will establish My covenant between Me and thee and thy seed after thee. And I do not limit this to you, Abram, but My covenant is with you and your children and grandchildren and great .... Never before had God mentioned this part of the covenant. God Who knows the future, could assure Abram that this covenant was going to last. His line, his offspring would keep the covenant.  

8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. 

By now Abram would have realized that in the natural man, Abram most likely would not produce children. But God had made a promise. 

I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Those who come after Abram: his seed, (descendants, those not yet born) children, grandchildren, great ... will God give to those children of Abram this land of Canaan.  And it shall be an everlasting (continues forever) possession. (They will own it) 

I will be their God. They will receive the land, but more importantly God has agreed to be the God of Abram (Abraham) and the line of Abram. They will not worship gods made with the hands of man that cannot speak, cannot hear, cannot perform miracles. NO! As for you and your house (lineage) is concerned you will worship and call upon the Only True, Living, Creator God. The land was and is God’s covenant promise to the Jewish people. Are the promises still valid?  YES. (See Romans 3 and Romans 11) 

9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep My covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.  10 This is My covenant, which ye shall keep, between Me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.  

Keep My covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee.  

Covenant:  Easton's Bible Dictionary 

A contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means "to cut," and hence a covenant is a "cutting," with reference to the cutting or dividing of animals into two parts, and the contracting parties passing between them, in making a covenant (Genesis 15; Jeremiah 34:18, 19). 

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2. The word is used with reference to God's revelation of Himself in the way of promise or of favor to men. ... We have an account of God's covenant with Abraham (Genesis 17, comp. Leviticus 26:42), ...   

This covenant had a sign or token. Every man child among you shall be circumcised.  There was to be a cutting away of the foreskin on every male child who was a part of the family of Abraham and those bought in his household, the ones Abram owned. Circumcision was/is required of every male at the age of eight days old. 

CIRCUMCISION: 

A religious rite performed on male children of Jews on the eighth day after birth; also on their slaves, whether born in the house or not. It was enjoined upon Abraham and his descendants as "a token of the covenant" concluded with him by God for all generations, the penalty of non-observance being "karet," excision from the people (Gen. xvii. 10-14,xxi. 4; Lev. xii. 3). Aliens had to undergo circumcision before they could be allowed to partake of the covenant-feast of Passover (Ex. xii. 48), or marry into a Jewish family (Gen. xxxiv. 14-16). It was "a reproach" for the Israelite to be uncircumcised (Josh. v. 9; on "the reproach of Egypt"... 

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... According to Ex. iv. 24-26, the circumcision of the first-born son was omitted by Moses, and the Lord therefore "sought to kill him"; whereupon "Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son, and made it touch [A. V., "cast it at"] his [Moses'] feet," saying, "A bridegroom of blood art thou to me." Thus Moses was ransomed by the blood of his son's circumcision. 

Strange as was this omission on the part of Moses, the omission of the rite on the part of the Israelites in the wilderness was no less singular. 

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...As recorded in Josh. v. 2-9, "all the people that came out" of Egypt were circumcised, but those "born in the wilderness" were not; and therefore Joshua, before the celebration of the Passover, had them circumcised with knives of flint (compare Ex. iv. 25) at Gilgal, which name is explained as "the rolling away" of "the reproach of Egypt"... 

There are some commentators that explain God did this because it was safe for the child, others had done it and so forth. NO! God did not follow them. This was a sign or token. It was the idea of God. It was only long afterward that the wisdom of God was seen and verified God knew exactly what He was doing, when to do it, and the purpose of it so the world would know who were his people. Later science caught up. IT WAS NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND as some try to have you believe. This was the idea of God. The world tries to tell you that it was adopted from other cultures. Not true. THIS CIRCUMCISION was the outward sign of the covenant with God. 

But we ask: but I ask you, who are the true seed of Abraham?  

7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.  8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. - Romans 9:7-8 

28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:  29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. - Romans 2:28-29 

11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt Me and you.  12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.  13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 

God makes it very clear to Abram who is to be circumcised. God does not limit it to genetic (DNA) but also every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. All of these males must needs be circumcised: and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. There are to be no exceptions.   

Notice the reaction of Abram-Abraham: no committee meetings, no checking around, just immediate obedience to God and to the everlasting covenant. 

14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken My covenant. 

There is a severe penalty for those who do not come under the covenant authority of God. The uncircumcised will be treated as one who has rejected the Covenant of God. He is a covenant breaker. As such he will not enjoy any of the benefits  of the Covenant of God. In the New Testament era it is not as if you rejected baptism, it is as if you rejected the salvation offered to whosoever will. 

For God so loved the world, that He (Father-God) gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him (Jesus and His death in their place) should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 

Notice the verse says should not perish. Why? Because Jesus died for all sins and all sinners, but if you chose not to accept His death in your place, although you should not perish, it does not say you SHALL NOT perish. Failure to repent and rely upon Jesus death on the cross will leave you outside the salvation covenant. 

As Circumcision is necessary to every male in the household of Abram, salvation is only for those who are willing to turn from a life of sin and accept the death of Jesus to pay for your sins.  Jesus paid the death penalty. You must accept the benefit: His bloody, sacrificial death has earned for you.  BECAUSE OF HIM you should not perish, you should have everlasting life. Have you accepted Him and His death in your place?  If not . . .   . 

Final word about Circumcision. The world will tell you that this practice was practiced by others before, but the main purpose of earlier circumcisions was to help in procreation of children. Only here in the Bible does God set it forth as the only way to heaven is through Jesus. The circumcised ones had to also believe in the Messiah of Israel, then yet to come. But now He has come, being born in a stable near or in Bethlehem. HE came to die. HE died to pay the death penalty that your sins earned you.  TURN ALL THE WAY TO JESUS. 

The New Testament Covenant.  Salvation, saving one from being on the way to hell and now making heaven his/her home. 

HOW?  God does not make it difficult. 

Romans Chapter 10:9-13 

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed.  12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.  13 For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved. 

If you believe Jesus is Lord, the One Who makes the final decisions in your life; and you believe that after His crucifixion (bloody death on the cross) He died and was buried in a tomb. (But God raised Him from the dead.) YOU can be saved from the penalty and torment of hell and the lake of fire. Call upon Him to forgive you, to cleanse you, to come into your heart and life. You trust Him as Lord and the Only Way to heaven, then you will be saved. You will make your final home the paradise of heaven. HALLELUJAH.  

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I come before You asking You to make sure that I am totally in the faith and am a fit vessel to be used of You. If I am not now fit, Lord, please forgive me of all of my sin and unrighteousness, cleanse me and make me Yours. Then Lord make me fit for Your use and bring to me those that You want me to share the Good News of Jesus Christ and all that HE has done for me. And make me aware that the covenant with You (since Jesus was born, lived and died for me) is only available through my faith in the Lord Jesus and what HE has done for me. I admit my heart is deceitful, the things I do, even for You are like filthy rags. Take me, as I am and change me, so that I may be used by You. Then make me willing and available to be used by You, I pray in the Name of Jesus Christ, the LORD. Amen and amen. 

May God bless you in all that you do for Him, Brother J.R. Soul winner, Bible teacher, Defender of the Faith

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Six:

God gives blessings in strange ways: Reading Day 6

Happy Birthday to meeeee! I am 33 today. We bought a new battery for my husbands van and I no longer have to start it every morning before I leave the house haha. It’s just a boring old Wednesday and I’d rather die than take my children into a restraunt so tonight we are going to get burgers at the dairy bar and eat outside on the pic nic tables. It is officially my faviorte time of the year, Summer- Sigh in contentness. I live for summer. 

Also, just a quick health update. Today I am down 18 pounds. I will admint that I’ve been a little bit embarrassed about the fact that this drug has made me drop so much weight so quickly when I have been unsuccucessful on my own and I’ve worked so hard at it. But yesterday I read something in a group I follow and it really resignated with me. Also, it just so happed to come from the girl who first told me about this drug. She said this medicine is life changing, it’s too importiant to gate keep. She’s right. If she hadn’t told me about this drug I would not have done my research and decided to give it a try. I would not be down all of this crazy inflimation from my auto-immune issues and I would not be feeling like myself. So, thank you to her.  My ankles have not been this skinny in FOREVER. On that note, I had a realization yesterday! Since my double steroid shots a week and a half ago I have not taken an antiinflamitory! I think it’s a combanation of the steroid shots (although my knee hurts again lol) and the simaglutide but (fingers crossed) I think the combo may have pushed me out of this crazy four month long flair I was  having! I am so happy and shocked. I thought swolen pain was just my life now. Thank you, God. Amen. I do wish I could have gone to the Rumo during the flair but I hope we can just still move forward with a diagnosis without the flair.  

Anywho, back to business… This morning on my way to work I listened to Genises 19-21 and let’s just say that that esclated quickly! I’m talking Angel murder and insest.

In today’s passages two angels go to Sodom and Gamorrah to see if it is as wicked as believed and Lot convinces the angels to stay at his house instead of the town square,  in an attempt to save the city. The men of the city come to Lots house to find out who the men are. Lot begs the townsmen to not be wicked and even offers them his two virgin daughters- um, thanks dad! The men refuse and try to break into Lots house. The angels tell Lot to take his family and leave. Lot tries to warn the two men who are to be his son in laws but they think he’s joking. When Lot is hesitant to leave the Angels throw him, his wife and two daughters out of the town. In the valley, Lots wife turns back and turns into a pillar of salt. For whatever reason Lot decides to take his daughters into a cave instead of the city he was fleeing to. In despair the daughters decide they will never have husbands so they get Lot drunk and sleep with him so they can both get pregnant. Seriously, like what? 

We then go back to Abraham and Sara. Although the timing is unclear, Abram and Sara go to ANOTHER King and present Sara as Abrams sister (also, she is his half-sister we discover- I guess that was a thing in those days) instead of his wife. The king takes Sara but before he touches her God comes to the king in a dream and tells him he will be destroyed for taking another man’s wife. The king points out that he did not know and was innocent. God tells him to return Sara and be spared. The king does and asks Abram why they would do such a thing. Abram told the king it was because he does not follow God. The king gives blessings to Abram and declares Sara innocent in the whole fiasco.

Then, Sara has her son and catches Hagar’s son laughing at him. She makes Abram (even though he does not want to- but God tells him to do what Sara wants and he will take care of them) throw them out into the wilderness. – This is the servant that she gave to Abram for the sole purpose of having this son. The boy grows up in the wilderness and Hagar gets him an Egyptian wife.

So- everybody following? Stay tuned and we will see what happens tomorrow.

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Share4Christ: Our Eye-Opening God

“And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.” Isaiah 29:18

Whenever it feels like all hope is lost, it’s a lie from the devil. Our eyes can sometimes remain clouded and veiled by our human thoughts, words, and actions. When we think and believe we see an outcome or a concluded end to a situation or circumstance, we are actually not seeing.

Hagar, thinking she was all alone, concluded the end of the matter; her son Ishmael was going to die, and there was nothing left to be said and done. God never wrote that script and was with her even on that journey. God opened her eyes, and she saw for the first time and understood that her path was pre-planned. No matter how sudden, upsetting, rough or hard it looked, God was leading her towards that hard path but with a water provision in store and ahead (see Genesis 21:14-19).

Elisha’s servant saw an ambush of enemy troops, but when Elisha prayed to God to open his eyes, he saw the hillside was filled with horses and chariots of fire (see 2 Kings 6:14-17).

Abraham also was tested and almost took his son’s life. He couldn’t see the ram caught in the thicket until his eyes were opened, and “…he looked up and saw…” (see Genesis 22:13).

Whatever path or terrain we find ourselves in this year, let us ask the Lord to open our spiritual eyes to “look up and see” what our physical eyes can’t see due to the cloud of physical distress or discomfort.

For if God can plan ahead for our salvation through His Son Jesus Christ, nothing in our lives can catch our God off guard. Only God knows our end even from the beginning, and He’s factored in all we would need along the way. We are never alone, even when we think or see we are.

By: Chinwe Aggrey

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DOTK

devotion by Kesha Trippett

Our Eye-Opening God

“And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.” Isaiah 29:18

Whenever it feels like all hope is lost, it’s a lie from the devil. Our eyes can sometimes remain clouded and veiled by our human thoughts, words, and actions. When we think and believe we see an outcome or a concluded end to a situation or circumstance, we are actually not seeing.

Hagar, thinking she was all alone, concluded the end of the matter; her son Ishmael was going to die, and there was nothing left to be said and done. God never wrote that script and was with her even on that journey. God opened her eyes, and she saw for the first time and understood that her path was pre-planned. No matter how sudden, upsetting, rough or hard it looked, God was leading her towards that hard path but with a water provision in store and ahead (see Genesis 21:14-19).

Elisha’s servant saw an ambush of enemy troops, but when Elisha prayed to God to open his eyes, he saw the hillside was filled with horses and chariots of fire (see 2 Kings 6:14-17).

Abraham also was tested and almost took his son’s life. He couldn’t see the ram caught in the thicket until his eyes were opened, and “…he looked up and saw…” (see Genesis 22:13).

Whatever path or terrain we find ourselves in this year, let us ask the Lord to open our spiritual eyes to “look up and see” what our physical eyes can’t see due to the cloud of physical distress or discomfort.

For if God can plan ahead for our salvation through His Son Jesus, nothing in our lives can catch our God off guard. Only God knows our end even from the beginning, and He’s factored in all we would need along the way. We are never alone, even when we think or see we are.

By Chinwe Aggrey, A DOTK Community Writer

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What you don't attest publicly you cannot enjoy privately.

But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God.

Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.” Ruth 1:16-17.

We serve a God who gives us the grace to create, value and maintain powerful relationships. The above scripture portion is the famous faith confession of an unbelieving daughter in law Ruth. A believing mother in law Naomi impacted her unbelieving daughter in law Ruth's life, so much that she is saying " Your God is my God, your people are my people, where you go I will go, where you lodge I will lodge, where you die I will die, where you are buried let me be buried. (Nowadays most of the daughter in laws are saying to their mother in laws, forget your God and your people, just give me your son and all that you have, I'll take and leave).

Naomi had two daughter in laws Orpah and Ruth, Orpah bid good bye to her and left, whereas Ruth clung onto her ( Ruth means clinging). Orpah represents walking in the flesh after her husband's death she turned back to her gods and people. Ruth represents walking in the spirit, after losing her husband she had the opportunity to leave Naomi, but she clung onto her. Both the women had and faced the same problem, they lost their husbands, they lived in famine, both were seeking for livelihood and security. Orpah chose to walk in the flesh she left her mother in law and went her way, but Ruth chose to walk in the spirit, she clung onto Naomi in her time of distress and troubles, she became the bread winner of the family and took care of her.

Orpah who walked in the flesh is not remembered ( gone and forgotten) whereas Ruth who walked in the spirit is remembered in and through eternity, she is the great, great, great grandmother of Jesus, her name is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus.

There are two ways of walking, one is walking in the flesh and the other is walking in the spirit, walking in the flesh will bring us temporary gains, whereas walking in the spirit will bring us late but permanent benefits. Those who walk in the spirit will be called and known as the sons of the most high God. Hagar walked in the flesh and Sarah walked in the spirit, Hagar is gone and forgotten, but Sarah is remembered as the mother of all nations. In the end the sons of the spirit will rule and reign over the children of the flesh ( Thank You Jesus).

Faith will always see, hear, attempt and achieve the impossible. Orpah thought it's better to leave her mother in law to her own fate and leave, so she went back to her gods and her people. Ruth was a Moabite woman, she never knew the living God, but because of her husband and mother in law she came to know the living God. In her problems also she never left God and her mother in law, she said " Your God is my God and your people are my people". God in heaven heard what Ruth spoke on the earth, and He honored and rewarded her faith, He brought forth His Son Jesus through her lineage.

No matter what you are going through in life never leave God. Health, education, businesses, money, medicine, relationships, contacts, influence may fall and fail, but this living God Jesus will never fail, He said "I will never leave you nor forsake you ". Jesus will honor and reward your faith, He will reward you for putting your trust and hope in Him, He will pull you out of the impossible circumstances that you are going through and lift you to a new glorious level, those who see and hear your testimony will say to you, tell us about the God that you serve, show us your God even we would like to serve Him. What He did for Ruth, He will do it for you, your faith, walk and testimony will be a inspiring real life story to your future generations and everyone around you.

Today make a decision not to leave God in any circumstances.

Tell yourself God will honor and reward my faith and take me a new glorious level.

Tell the devil - God is performing a marvelous and a glorious miracle and my life will never be the same again, my testimony and life will be so bright and shining that you will have to wear Ray-Ban, Gucci or Armani sunglasses ( choice is yours ).

And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with it's passions and desires.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Galatians 4: 24,25.

For you are all sons of God through your faith in Christ Jesus- Galatians 4:26.

Father we thank You for the word, Lord we thank You for the gift of faith that You have given to each one of us, give us the grace to use our faith and see miracles manifest in our lives. Lord we uphold all the daughter in laws and mother in laws who are having relationship problems, intervene in their problems and give them the grace to maintain peaceful relationships and let their testimonies draw people into the kingdom, in Jesus matchless name we ask and pray. Amen and Amen.

ನೀವು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕವಾಗಿ ದೃಢೀಕರಿಸದಿರುವುದನ್ನು ನೀವು ಖಾಸಗಿಯಾಗಿ ಆನಂದಿಸಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ.

ಆದರೆ ರೂತ್ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದು: “ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಹೋಗಬೇಡ ಅಥವಾ ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಹಿಂಬಾಲಿಸುವುದನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಹಿಂತಿರುಗಬೇಡ ಎಂದು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಬೇಡು; ನೀವು ಎಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಹೋದರೂ ನಾನು ಹೋಗುತ್ತೇನೆ; ಮತ್ತು ನೀವು ಎಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಮಾಡುತ್ತೀರೋ, ನಾನು ವಸತಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತೇನೆ; ನಿಮ್ಮ ಜನರು ನನ್ನ ಜನರು, ಮತ್ತು ನಿಮ್ಮ ದೇವರು, ನನ್ನ ದೇವರು.

ನೀವು ಎಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಯುತ್ತೀರಿ, ನಾನು ಸಾಯುತ್ತೇನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅಲ್ಲಿ ನಾನು ಸಮಾಧಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತೇನೆ. ಕರ್ತನು ನನಗೆ ಹಾಗೆ ಮಾಡು, ಮತ್ತು ಅದಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ, ಮರಣದ ಹೊರತಾಗಿ ಏನಾದರೂ ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಬೇರ್ಪಡಿಸಿದರೆ. ರೂತ್ 1:16-17.

ಶಕ್ತಿಯುತ ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳನ್ನು ರಚಿಸಲು, ಮೌಲ್ಯೀಕರಿಸಲು ಮತ್ತು ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸಲು ಅನುಗ್ರಹವನ್ನು ನೀಡುವ ದೇವರನ್ನು ನಾವು ಸೇವೆ ಮಾಡುತ್ತೇವೆ. ಮೇಲಿನ ಧರ್ಮಗ್ರಂಥದ ಭಾಗವು ನಂಬಿಕೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ ಸೊಸೆ ರುತ್‌ನ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧ ನಂಬಿಕೆಯ ನಿವೇದನೆಯಾಗಿದೆ. ನಂಬಿಕೆಯುಳ್ಳ ಅತ್ತೆಯಾದ ನವೋಮಿ ತನ್ನ ಅವಿಶ್ವಾಸಿ ಸೊಸೆ ರುತ್‌ಳ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಎಷ್ಟು ಪ್ರಭಾವ ಬೀರಿದಳು, ಅವಳು "ನಿಮ್ಮ ದೇವರು ನನ್ನ ದೇವರು, ನಿಮ್ಮ ಜನರು ನನ್ನ ಜನರು, ನೀವು ಎಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಹೋಗುತ್ತೀರಿ, ನಾನು ಎಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಹೋಗುತ್ತೇನೆ, ನೀವು ಎಲ್ಲಿ ವಸತಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತೇನೆ, ನಾನು ಎಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ, ನೀವು ಎಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುತ್ತೀರಿ ಸಾಯುತ್ತೇನೆ ನಾನು ಸಾಯುತ್ತೇನೆ, ನೀನು ಎಲ್ಲಿ ಹೂತಿತ್ತೀಯೋ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಸಮಾಧಿ ಮಾಡಲಿ. (ಇಂದಿನ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಹೆಣ್ಣುಮಕ್ಕಳು ತಮ್ಮ ಅತ್ತೆಗೆ ಹೇಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ, ನಿಮ್ಮ ದೇವರನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಜನರನ್ನು ಮರೆತುಬಿಡಿ, ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮಗನನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ನಿಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಎಲ್ಲವನ್ನೂ ನನಗೆ ಕೊಡು, ನಾನು' ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಗುತ್ತೇನೆ).

ನವೋಮಿಗೆ ಒರ್ಪಾ ಮತ್ತು ರುತ್ ಎಂಬ ಇಬ್ಬರು ಹೆಣ್ಣುಮಕ್ಕಳಿದ್ದರು, ಓರ್ಪಾ ಅವಳಿಗೆ ವಿದಾಯ ಹೇಳಿ ಹೊರಟುಹೋದಳು, ಆದರೆ ರೂತ್ ಅವಳಿಗೆ ಅಂಟಿಕೊಂಡಳು (ರೂತ್ ಎಂದರೆ ಅಂಟಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು). ಓರ್ಪಾ ತನ್ನ ಗಂಡನ ಮರಣದ ನಂತರ ತನ್ನ ದೇವರುಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಜನರ ಕಡೆಗೆ ತಿರುಗಿದ ನಂತರ ಮಾಂಸದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವುದನ್ನು ಪ್ರತಿನಿಧಿಸುತ್ತಾಳೆ. ರುತ್ ಉತ್ಸಾಹದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವುದನ್ನು ಪ್ರತಿನಿಧಿಸುತ್ತಾಳೆ, ತನ್ನ ಗಂಡನನ್ನು ಕಳೆದುಕೊಂಡ ನಂತರ ಅವಳು ನವೋಮಿಯನ್ನು ಬಿಡಲು ಅವಕಾಶವನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿದ್ದಳು, ಆದರೆ ಅವಳು ಅವಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಅಂಟಿಕೊಂಡಳು. ಇಬ್ಬರೂ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು ಒಂದೇ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯನ್ನು ಎದುರಿಸಿದರು, ಅವರು ತಮ್ಮ ಗಂಡನನ್ನು ಕಳೆದುಕೊಂಡರು, ಅವರು ಕ್ಷಾಮದಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು, ಇಬ್ಬರೂ ಜೀವನೋಪಾಯ ಮತ್ತು ಭದ್ರತೆಗಾಗಿ ಹುಡುಕುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಓರ್ಪಾ ತನ್ನ ಅತ್ತೆಯನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ತನ್ನ ದಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯಲು ಆರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಳು, ಆದರೆ ರೂತ್ ಆತ್ಮದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯಲು ಆರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಳು, ತನ್ನ ಸಂಕಟ ಮತ್ತು ತೊಂದರೆಗಳ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಅವಳು ನವೋಮಿಗೆ ಅಂಟಿಕೊಂಡಳು, ಅವಳು ಕುಟುಂಬದ ಬ್ರೆಡ್ ವಿಜೇತಳಾದಳು ಮತ್ತು ಕಾಳಜಿ ವಹಿಸಿದಳು.

ಅವಳ ಮಾಂಸದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಓರ್ಪಾ ನೆನಪಿಲ್ಲ (ಹೋಗಿ ಮರೆತುಹೋಗಿದೆ) ಆದರೆ ಆತ್ಮದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ರೂತ್ ಅನ್ನು ಶಾಶ್ವತತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನೆನಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ, ಅವಳು ಯೇಸುವಿನ ಮಹಾನ್, ದೊಡ್ಡ, ಮುತ್ತಜ್ಜಿ, ಅವಳ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು ಯೇಸುವಿನ ವಂಶಾವಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಉಲ್ಲೇಖಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ನಡೆಯಲು ಎರಡು ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳಿವೆ, ಒಂದು ಮಾಂಸದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವುದು ಮತ್ತು ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಆತ್ಮದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವುದು, ಮಾಂಸದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವುದು ನಮಗೆ ತಾತ್��ಾಲಿಕ ಲಾಭಗಳನ್ನು ತರುತ್ತದೆ, ಆದರೆ ಆತ್ಮದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವುದು ನಮಗೆ ತಡವಾಗಿ ಆದರೆ ಶಾಶ್ವತ ಪ್ರಯೋಜನಗಳನ್ನು ತರುತ್ತದೆ. ಆತ್ಮದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವವರು ಸರ್ವೋನ್ನತ ದೇವರ ಪುತ್ರರೆಂದು ಕರೆಯಲ್ಪಡುವರು ಮತ್ತು ತಿಳಿಯಲ್ಪಡುವರು. ಹಗರ್ ಮಾಂಸದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದರು ಮತ್ತು ಸಾರಾ ಆತ್ಮದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದರು, ಹಗರ್ ಹೋದರು ಮತ್ತು ಮರೆತುಹೋದರು, ಆದರೆ ಸಾರಾ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಗಳ ತಾಯಿ ಎಂದು ನೆನಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಕೊನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆತ್ಮದ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಮಾಂಸದ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಆಳುತ್ತಾರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಆಳುತ್ತಾರೆ ( ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು ಜೀಸಸ್).

ನಂಬಿಕೆ ಯಾವಾಗಲೂ ನೋಡುತ್ತದೆ, ಕೇಳುತ್ತದೆ, ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸುತ್ತದೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅಸಾಧ್ಯವಾದುದನ್ನು ಸಾಧಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಓರ್ಪಾ ತನ್ನ ಅತ್ತೆಯನ್ನು ತನ್ನ ಅದೃಷ್ಟಕ್ಕೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟುಬಿಡುವುದು ಉತ್ತಮ ಎಂದು ಭಾವಿಸಿದಳು, ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಅವಳು ತನ್ನ ದೇವರುಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಜನರ ಬಳಿಗೆ ಹೋದಳು. ರೂತ್ ಒಬ್ಬ ಮೋವಾಬ್ ಮಹಿಳೆ, ಅವಳು ಜೀವಂತ ದೇವರನ್ನು ಎಂದಿಗೂ ತಿಳಿದಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ, ಆದರೆ ಅವಳ ಗಂಡ ಮತ್ತು ಅತ್ತೆಯಿಂದಾಗಿ ಅವಳು ಜೀವಂತ ದೇವರನ್ನು ತಿಳಿದಿದ್ದಳು. ತನ್ನ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅವಳು ಎಂದಿಗೂ ದೇವರನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ಅತ್ತೆಯನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಹೋಗಲಿಲ್ಲ, "ನಿಮ್ಮ ದೇವರು ನನ್ನ ದೇವರು ಮತ್ತು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಜನರು ನನ್ನ ಜನರು" ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದರು. ಸ್ವರ್ಗದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ದೇವರು ರುತ್ ಭೂಮಿಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೇಳಿದ ಮಾತನ್ನು ಕೇಳಿದನು, ಮತ್ತು ಅವನು ಅವಳ ನಂಬಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಗೌರವಿಸಿದನು ಮತ್ತು ಪುರಸ್ಕರಿಸಿದನು, ಅವನು ತನ್ನ ಮಗನಾದ ಯೇಸುವನ್ನು ಅವಳ ವಂಶಾವಳಿಯ ಮೂಲಕ ಹೊರತಂದನು.

ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ನೀವು ಏನನ್ನು ಅನುಭವಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೂ ದೇವರನ್ನು ಬಿಡಬೇಡಿ. ಆರೋಗ್ಯ, ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ, ವ್ಯವಹಾರಗಳು, ಹಣ, ಔಷಧ, ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳು, ಸಂಪರ್ಕಗಳು, ಪ್ರಭಾವ ಬೀಳಬಹುದು ಮತ್ತು ವಿಫಲವಾಗಬಹುದು, ಆದರೆ ಈ ಜೀವಂತ ದೇವರು ಜೀಸಸ್ ಎಂದಿಗೂ ವಿಫಲಗೊಳ್ಳುವುದಿಲ್ಲ, "ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಎಂದಿಗೂ ಬಿಡುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ಅಥವಾ ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ತ್ಯಜಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ" ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದರು. ಯೇಸು ನಿಮ್ಮ ನಂಬಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಗೌರವಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರತಿಫಲವನ್ನು ನೀಡುತ್ತಾನೆ, ಆತನಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಮ್ಮ ನಂಬಿಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ಭರವಸೆಯನ್ನು ಇಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಅವನು ನಿಮಗೆ ಪ್ರತಿಫಲವನ್ನು ನೀಡುತ್ತಾನೆ, ನೀವು ಹಾದುಹೋಗುವ ಅಸಾಧ್ಯವಾದ ಸಂದರ್ಭಗಳಿಂದ ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಹೊರತೆಗೆಯುತ್ತಾನೆ ಮತ್ತು ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು

நீங்கள் பகிரங்கமாக சான்றளிக்காததை நீங்கள் தனிப்பட்ட முறையில் அனுபவிக்க முடியாது.

ஆனால் ரூத் சொன்னாள்: “உன்னை விட்டுப் போகாதே, உன்னைப் பின்தொடர்வதை விட்டுத் திரும்பாதே என்று என்னைக் கெஞ்சாதே; நீ எங்கு சென்றாலும் நான் செல்வேன்; நீங்கள் எங்கு தங்கினாலும், நான் தங்குவேன்; உங்கள் மக்கள் என் மக்களாகவும், உங்கள் கடவுள் என் கடவுளாகவும் இருப்பார்கள்.

நீ எங்கே இறக்கிறாய், அங்கே நான் இறப்பேன், அங்கேயே அடக்கம் செய்யப்படுவேன். மரணத்தைத் தவிர வேறெதுவும் உன்னையும் என்னையும் பிரிந்தால் கர்த்தர் எனக்கு அதைச் செய்வாராக. ரூத் 1:16-17.

சக்திவாய்ந்த உறவுகளை உருவாக்கவும், மதிக்கவும், பராமரிக்கவும் கிருபை அளிக்கும் கடவுளுக்கு நாங்கள் சேவை செய்கிறோம். மேலே உள்ள வேதப் பகுதி, அவிசுவாசியான மருமகள் ரூத்தின் புகழ்பெற்ற நம்பிக்கை வாக்குமூலமாகும். ஒரு விசுவாசியான மாமியார் நவோமி தனது அவிசுவாசியான மருமகள் ரூத்தின் வாழ்க்கையில் மிகவும் தாக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்தினார், அதனால் அவர் "உங்கள் கடவுள் என் கடவுள், உங்கள் மக்கள் என் மக்கள், நீங்கள் எங்கு செல்கிறீர்கள், நான் எங்கு செல்வேன், நீங்கள் தங்கும் இடத்தில் நான் தங்குவேன், நீங்கள் எங்கே தங்குவேன் நான் இறந்துவிடுவேன், நீங்கள் புதைக்கப்பட்ட இடத்தில் என்னை அடக்கம் செய்யட்டும். (இப்போது பெரும்பாலான மருமகள்கள் தங்கள் மாமியாரிடம் கூறுகிறார்கள், உங்கள் கடவுளையும் உங்கள் மக்களையும் மறந்து விடுங்கள், உங்கள் மகனையும் உங்களிடம் உள்ள அனைத்தையும் எனக்குக் கொடுங்கள், நான். எடுத்துக்கொண்டு செல்வேன்).

நவோமிக்கு ஓர்பா மற்றும் ரூத் என்ற இரு மருமகள்கள் இருந்தனர், ஓர்பா அவளிடம் விடைபெற்று வெளியேறினாள், அதேசமயம் ரூத் அவளுடன் ஒட்டிக்கொண்டாள் (ரூத் என்றால் ஒட்டிக்கொண்டிருக்கிறாள்). ஒர்பா தனது கணவரின் மரணத்திற்குப் பிறகு சதையில் நடப்பதைக் குறிக்கிறது, அவள் தன் கடவுள்கள் மற்றும் மக்களிடம் திரும்பினாள். ரூத் ஆவியில் நடப்பதைக் குறிக்கிறது, கணவனை இழந்த பிறகு, நவோமியை விட்டு வெளியேற அவளுக்கு வாய்ப்பு கிடைத்தது, ஆனால் அவள் அவளுடன் ஒட்டிக்கொண்டாள். இரண்டு பெண்களும் ஒரே பிரச்சனையை எதிர்கொண்டனர், அவர்கள் தங்கள் கணவனை இழந்தனர், அவர்கள் பஞ்சத்தில் வாழ்ந்தார்கள், இருவரும் வாழ்வாதாரத்தையும் பாதுகாப்பையும் தேடுகிறார்கள். ஒர்பா மாமியாரை விட்டுவிட்டு தன் வழியில் நடக்கத் தேர்ந்தெடுத்தாள், ஆனால் ரூத் ஆவியில் நடக்கத் தேர்ந்தெடுத்தாள், அவள் துன்பம் மற்றும் பிரச்சனைகளில் நவோமியைப் பற்றிக் கொண்டாள், அவள் குடும்பத்தின் ரொட்டி வெற்றியாளராகி, கவனித்துக் கொண்டாள். அவளின் மாம்சத்தில் நடந்த ஓர்பா நினைவில் இல்லை (போய் மறந்துவிட்டாள்) அதேசமயம் ஆவியில் நடந்த ரூத் நித்தியத்திலும் நினைவுகூரப்படுகிறாள், அவள் இயேசுவின் பெரிய, பெரிய, பெரிய பாட்டி, அவள் பெயர் இயேசுவின் வம்சாவளியில் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளது.

நடப்பதற்கு இரண்டு வழிகள் உள்ளன, ஒன்று மாம்சத்தில் நடப்பது மற்றொன்று ஆவியில் நடப்பது, மாம்சத்தில் நடப்பது நமக்கு தற்காலிக ஆதாயங்களைத் தரும், அதேசமயம் ஆவியில் நடப்பது தாமதமான ஆனால் நிரந்தரமான பலன்களைத் தரும். ஆவியில் நடப்பவர்கள் உன்னதமான கடவுளின் ம��ன்கள் என்று அழைக்கப்படுவார்கள். ஹாகர் மாம்சத்தில் நடந்தாள், சாரா ஆவியில் நடந்தாள், ஹாகர் போய்விட்டாள், மறந்துவிட்டாள், ஆனால் சாரா எல்லா நாடுகளின் தாயாக நினைவுகூரப்படுகிறாள். இறுதியில் ஆவியின் மகன்கள் மாம்சத்தின் பிள்ளைகளை ஆளுவார்கள் (நன்றி இயேசு).

நம்பிக்கை எப்பொழுதும் பார்க்கவும், கேட்கவும், முயற்சி செய்யவும் முடியாததை அடையவும் செய்யும். ஒர்பா தனது மாமியாரை தனது சொந்த விதிக்கு விட்டுவிட்டு வெளியேறுவது நல்லது என்று நினைத்தாள், அதனால் அவள் தன் கடவுள்களிடமும் மக்களிடமும் திரும்பிச் சென்றாள். ரூத் ஒரு மோவாபிய பெண், அவள் உயிருள்ள கடவுளை அறிந்திருக்கவில்லை, ஆனால் அவள் கணவன் மற்றும் மாமியார் காரணமாக அவள் உயிருள்ள கடவுளை அறிந்தாள். அவளுடைய பிரச்சினைகளிலும் அவள் கடவுளையும் மாமியாரையும் விட்டு விலகவில்லை, அவள் "உன் கடவுள் என் கடவுள், உன் மக்கள் என் மக்கள்" என்று கூறினார். பூமியில் ரூத் பேசியதை பரலோகத்தில் உள்ள கடவுள் கேட்டார், அவர் அவளுடைய நம்பிக்கையை மதித்து, வெகுமதி அளித்தார், அவர் தனது மகன் இயேசுவை அவளுடைய பரம்பரை மூலம் பெற்றெடுத்தார்.

வாழ்க்கையில் நீங்கள் என்ன செய்தாலும் கடவுளை விட்டு விலகாதீர்கள். உடல்நலம், கல்வி, வணிகங்கள், பணம், மருத்துவம், உறவுகள், தொடர்புகள், செல்வாக்கு வீழ்ச்சியடையலாம் மற்றும் தோல்வியடையலாம், ஆனால் இந்த வாழும் கடவுள் இயேசு ஒருபோதும் தோல்வியடைய மாட்டார், "நான் உன்னை விட்டு விலகுவதுமில்லை உன்னை கைவிடுவதுமில்லை" என்றார். இயேசு உங்கள் விசுவாசத்தை மதிப்பார், வெகுமதி அளிப்பார், அவர் மீது உங்கள் நம்பிக்கையையும் நம்பிக்கையையும் வைப்பதற்காக அவர் உங்களுக்கு வெகுமதி அளிப்பார், நீங்கள் கடந்து செல்லும் சாத்தியமற்ற சூழ்நிலைகளிலிருந்து உங்களை வெளியே இழுத்து, உங்களைப் பார்ப்பவர்களும் கேட்பவர்களும் உங்களை ஒரு புதிய புகழ்பெற்ற நிலைக்கு உயர்த்துவார். சாட்சியம் உங்களுக்குச் சொல்லும், நீங்கள் சேவை செய்யும் கடவுளைப் பற்றி எங்களிடம் கூறுங்கள், நாங்கள் அவருக்கு சேவை செய்ய வி���ும்பினாலும் உங்கள் கடவுளை எங்களுக்குக் காட்டுங்கள். ரூத்துக்காக அவர் என்ன செய்தார், அவர் அதை உங்களுக்காக செய்வார், உங்கள் நம்பிக்கை, நடை மற்றும் சாட்சியம் உங்கள் எதிர்கால சந்ததியினருக்கும் உங்களைச் சுற்றியுள்ள அனைவருக்கும் உத்வேகம் தரும் நிஜ வாழ்க்கைக் கதையாக இருக்கும்.

எந்தச் சூழ்நிலையிலும் கடவுளை விட்டுப் பிரியக் கூடாது என்று இன்று முடிவெடுங்கள்.

கடவுள் என் நம்பிக்கையை மதிப்பார் மற்றும் வெகுமதி அளிப்பார் மற்றும் என்னை ஒரு புதிய மகிமையான நிலைக்கு கொண்டு செல்வார் என்று நீங்களே சொல்லுங்கள்.

பிசாசிடம் சொல்லுங்கள் - கடவுள் ஒரு அற்புதமான மற்றும் அற்புதமான அற்புதத்தைச் செய்கிறார், என் வாழ்க்கை மீண்டும் ஒருபோதும் மாறாது, என் சாட்சியும் வாழ்க்கையும் மிகவும் பிரகாசமாகவும் பிரகாசமாகவும் இருக்கும், நீங்கள் ரே-பான், குஸ்ஸி அல்லது அர்மானி சன்கிளாஸ்களை அணிய வேண்டும் (தேர்வு உங்களுடையது).

மேலும் கிறிஸ்துவுக்கு உரியவர்கள் மாம்சத்தை அதன் ஆசைகள் மற்றும் ஆசைகளுடன் சிலுவையில் அறைந்துள்ளனர்.

நாம் ஆவியில் வாழ்ந்தால், நாமும் ஆவியில் நடப்போம்.

கலாத்தியர் 4:24,25.

ஏனெனில், கிறிஸ்து இயேசுவில் உள்ள நம்பிக்கையின் மூலம் நீங்கள் அனைவரும் கடவுளின் மகன்கள் - கலாத்தியர் 4:26.

தந்தையே நாங்கள் உமக்கு நன்றி கூறுகிறோம், ஆண்டவரே, எங்கள் ஒவ்வொருவருக்கும் நீங்கள் வழங்கிய நம்பிக்கையின் பரிசிற்காக நாங்கள் உமக்கு நன்றி செலுத்துகிறோம், எங்கள் நம்பிக்கையைப் பயன்படுத்தவும், எங்கள் வாழ்க்கையில் அற்புதங்கள் வெளிப்படுவதைக் காணவும் எங்களுக்கு கிருபையைத் தாரும். இறைவா, உறவுமுறை பிரச்சனையில் உள்ள அனைத்து மருமகள்களையும், மாமியார்களையும் ஆதரித்து, அவர்களின் பிரச்சனைகளில் தலையிட்டு, அமைதியான உறவைப் பேணி, அவர்களின் சாட்சியங்கள் மக்களை ராஜ்யத்திற்குள் இழுக்கட்டும், இயேசுவின் நிகரற்ற நாமத்தில் நாங்கள் கேட்டு ஜெபிக்கிறோம். ஆமென் மற்றும் ஆமென்.