The First Time
I remember a time, when every time I read the Bible, it was predominantly to hear from Him— My Savior, my Redeemer—the glory and lifter of my head. It was personal. It was first love. A time Before Strong’s…
#Heart Matters
Joseph's 4 Coats and 2 Pits
Joseph’s four Coats, Two Pits, & Tamar’s Ripped Tunic
The story of Joseph in Genesis 37 is full of symbols. Why does Joseph wear so many coats and get thrown into pits (plural?) Clothing is important. Our clothing says something about us…
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Audiobook
New Audio Book Release, Free Chapter–Madmen
At times, Prophets see things they wish they had never seen. They hear words that terrorize them. What the prophets of old saw and knew was more than they could bear. They called it the burden of the word…
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Komondor Sheep Dogs
The Komondor and The Good Shepherd
For the Komondor to learn obedience and become a faithful friend, they need much training. These dogs love to keep their eyes on their owners (we need our eyes on Messiah) and are loyal if they are trained early, but some of the dogs who were not cared for or trained properly attacked the ones they were supposed to be protecting–the sheep and their owner.
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control freaks
What are the Root Causes of Control and Manipulation?
What are the root Causes and how to react when dealing with these abusers? “With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them
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Total Eclipse
Total Eclipse and Double Darkness
While researching, I found under the genealogy of Benjamin a man named Shaharaim, whose name means two eclipses— double darkness.
The prophets describe the day of the Lord as a day of darkness and no light. “Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?” (Amos 5:20).
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gratitude
I’ll Have What They are Having!
One of my favorite stories is found in the Book of Acts. Yeshua’s apostles were beaten, chained, and in prison—a dungeon of darkness. What do they do? Woe is me? Blame it on the devil? Complain about their bloody backs, injustice, slander the oppressors? We don’t read about that. What we read is that they sang praises.
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A Change is Gonna Come, Feasts of Yom Kippur
Preacher Man Says it’s the End of Time. . .
The preacher man says it’s the end of time, and the Mississippi River is going dry. The interest is up, and the stock markets down
And you only get mugged if you go downtown.
Nothing has changed much. Except you don’t have to be downtown to get mugged, raped, murdered, or snatched into the biggest form of slavery today—sex trafficking.
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Inspirational, Introspection
Are They Not Written in the Book?
And Bonnie (Tekoa) Manning and all that she did, all her past with her sins, her shame, wrong choices, and bad mistakes, the date of her rebirth, her good and the beauty she brought, yes, it’s all there.
“The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.” (Isaiah 40:7).
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#Heart Matters, Spiritual death
Introspection, and Healing for the Soul–Avanah
And what I’ve found in my own life and some of these people is a strange healing takes place. Healing most don’t discuss. It involves Gratitude for tiny things that go unnoticed by others. Things like belching, passing gas, a regular bowl movement, and a gut calm for a few hours. Healing from pride and arrogance happens for some if bitterness, sorrow, and anger at God do not take root.
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