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 […]
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‘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 […]
The Restorer of LIFE and our PRAYER
What does ‘prayer’ mean? How can understanding the Hebrew word for prayer HELP and HEAL our eyes and ears? Let’s investigate!
Chanukkah Gospel?
What is The Channukah Gospel? Well, I’ve actually never heard that term before, BUT stay with me! Let’s explore… In ‘The Divine Fire of Ezer Kenegdo’ teaching, I set before the disciples the following principle: THE GOOD NEWS is first proclaimed in Genesis 1:3 with the Divine Command, ‘Yehi Ohr!’ (‘EXIST, LIGHT!’)…And ‘Light existed’. Prior to […]
The ‘Gentle and Quiet’ Spirit
This verse in 1 Peter 3:3-4 always bothered me: ‘Your adornment must not be merely external – braiding the hair, wearing gold jewelry and putting on dresses, But let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit which is precious in the sight of […]
Ephesians 5 – Reverence and Humility
Mutual Submission (humbling oneself under another) through REVERENCING THE MESSIAH is the Holy Ground where all Newness of LIFE springs forth from. Anytime one Image-bearer DEMANDS from another Image-bearer something that G-D COMMANDS us to ‘give freely’ (as HE does) – such as LOVE and RESPECT or reverence – it PRODUCES a host of WORLDLY FEARS. We […]
A Complete REST and a Complete BRIDE
Shabbat means ‘to cease/stop’ all forms of creative work just as G-d did since it had been already completed/finished, in order ‘that it could itself produce’: Genesis 2 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, along with everything in them. 2 On the seventh day God was finished with his work which he had made, […]