CONSIDER YOUR WAYS –> THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE. Proverbs 1 (Complete Jewish Bible) 1 The proverbs of Shlomo the son of David, king of Isra’el, 2 are for learning about wisdom and discipline; for understanding words expressing deep insight; 3 for gaining an intelligently disciplined life, doing what is right, just and fair; 4 for […]
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The Case of Mistaken BOUNDARIES
Men and women have erected the wrong boundaries: THEIR OWN. Whose Boundaries have you ERECTED, RESPECTED & PROTECTED? Do you know? Are you aware? Are they G-D’s? Or are they yours? If yours, you get the opposite effect of what you’re hoping for. Within the Torah, we find G-D’s Framework for properly erecting and building […]
Responding to The First Lament
Genesis 3:9 The FIRST LAMENT and LIFE-LONG POINT OF CONSIDERATION 9 Adonai, God, called to the man, “Where are you?” For context ‘Ayeka?’ is the penetrating question we contemplate each morning IN THE LIGHT OF MESSIAH that it may DIRECT OUR DAY(s). It’s most often translated ‘Where are you?’ But its Hebrew meaning is much deeper than […]
Beware of Spiritual Laziness
Every RELATIONSHIP requires GOOD WORK. It’s not like we have an option to work or not to work. Not working IN any relationship is actually a ‘bad work’ in and of itself, as it CREATES DYSFUNCTION. Let’s see why… We are already CREATORS as we were created in The Creator’s Image and Likeness. In a […]
WORTHLESS RELIGION & ELEMENTARY LIVING
Sermons motivate us, but only G-D’S RUACH OF EMET (Spirit of Truth) – The LIVING TORAH – IS THE POWER to continue delivering our souls (which is what we must have to prove ourselves Disciples of Messiah – see John 15:8): James 1:19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, […]
Noach, Yetzer Hara, and VICTORY!
CALL YOURSELF (ONLY) WHAT G-D CALLS YOU (PROCLAIM/CALL OUT/RECITE). Are you? VICTORIUS ATTITUDE comes from our ‘yetzer hatov’ (GOOD/properly functioning inclination). DEFEATIST ATTITUDE comes from our ‘yetzer hara’ (evil/dysfunctional inclination). Expounded from this thought in Genesis from this week’s Torah Portion ‘Noach’… YETZER is a ‘framework, purpose, and mindset’. We have TWO [since we ‘ate […]
‘PRAYER FOR DUMMIES’ and Kavanah
The ‘prayer struggle’ is real. I mean the HOW TO’S of prayer seem essential to the Follower of Messiah. Let’s look at a Hebrew word that will give us some insight, some helpful instruction, kind of PRAYER FOR DUMMIES. The Hebrew word kavanah is essentially MINDFULNESS in the words we pray. It is the word […]
The Door to The Kingdom of Heaven
The Torah Portion for this week lays out for us the 8 Moedim. These are the Eight Appointed Times of The LORD G-D from Vayikra (Leviticus) 23. They were established for us from ‘The Beginning’: (from www.studylight.org) The word moed comes from the word yâ‛ad meaning ‘to meet’. The two letter root is ayin-dalet, can be expressed as ‘see […]
The SMELL of The Offering
Our Torah class has been studying ‘The Lamp of ADONAI’ as well as the ‘lamp of the wicked’. It is important we understand these two lamps, since we are already surrendered to one of the two (and thus producing one of Two Types of Fruit). The details of these Two Lamps can be found in […]
Arrogance Is Not Holy Reverence
Arrogance is far from The Holy Reverence of ADONAI <– and that is where WISDOM manifests. First, DEFINE REVERENCE – especially how G-D Himself defines it. That will take some time, searching and thought. Now, differentiate between King Messiah’s Reverence and worldly reverence (or fear). What or who have you ‘lifted and admired’ above ADONAI […]