"As for the head of them that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips come upon them."

Ps 140

Is pagan tradition like Poison Ivy?…

Poison ivy's oil, urushiol, remains potent after leaving the plant. Its effectiveness depends on environmental conditions and surface type:

Urushiol can stay active for 1-5 years on objects like clothing, tools, or pet fur if not washed off. It resists degradation from heat, cold, or drying out.

The oil on dead poison ivy leaves or stems can remain active for up to 5 years under dry conditions. And contact with contaminated surfaces can cause a rash in sensitive individuals even months or years later, as urushiol doesn't break down easily without cleaning.

Washing with soap and water or specialized products within 10 minutes to an hour of exposure can remove the oil and prevent a reaction. Alcohol-based wipes also work.

Very rare individuals can come in contact with urushiol to no ill effect…

Yes. Pagan Tradition is just like Poison Ivy. Contact with it will infact negatively affect, almost everyone who has contact with it. In extremely rare cases, a person can handle it without issues but in almost all cases it causes a spreading problem.

Also, like poison ivy, pagan tradition has a way of affecting other things beyond itself. Just as the urushiol oil of poison ivy can remain on surfaces long after the plant has passed and upon the dead leaves, long after the plant has died so as to affect the unsuspecting, so too pagan tradition can lie in the most unsuspecting of places and negatively affect people who are otherwise unawares. Even when our pagan tradition is dead, contact can harm even still.

So be aware of such plants…Whether they be physical or spiritual.

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NEW TESTAMENT

MATTHEW 6:16 & 18
"And when you fast, don't make it obvious, as the hypocrites do, who try to look pale and dishevelled so people will admire them for their fasting. I assure you, that is the only reward they will ever get. Then no one will suspect you are fasting, except your Father, who knows what you do in secret. And your Father, who knows all secrets, will reward you.

LUKE 2:37
She was now eighty-four years old. She never left the Temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping YHVH with fasting and prayer.

LUKE 5:33
The religious leaders complained that Yeshua' disciples were feasting instead of fasting. "John the Baptist's disciples always fast and pray," they declared, "and so do the disciples of the Pharisees. Why are yours always feasting?"

ACTS 13:2 & 3
One day as these men were worshiping Adonai and fasting, the Ruach Kodesh said, "Dedicate Barnabas and Saul for the special work I have for them." So, after more fasting and prayer, the men laid their hands on them and sent them on their way.

ACTS 14:23
Paul and Barnabas also appointed elders in every church and prayed for them with fasting, turning them over to the care of Adonai, in whom they had come to trust.

OLD TESTAMENT

LEVITICUS 16:29 & 31
"On the appointed day in early autumn, you must spend the day fasting and not do any work. This is a permanent law for you, and it applies to those who are Israelites by birth, as well as to the foreigners living among you. It will be a Shabbat day of total rest, and you will spend the day in fasting. This is a permanent law for you.

LEVITICUS 23:32
This will be a Shabbat day of total rest for you, and on that day you must humble yourselves. This time of rest and fasting will begin the evening before the Day of Atonement and extend until evening of that day."

1 KINGS 21:9
In her letters she commanded: "Call the citizens together for fasting and prayer and give Naboth a place of honour.

ESTHER 9:31
These letters established the Festival of Purim-an annual celebration of these days at the appointed time, decreed by both Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther. (The people decided to observe this festival, just as they had decided for themselves and their descendants to establish the times of fasting and mourning.)

PSALMS 109:24
My knees are weak from fasting, and I am skin and bones.

ISAIAH 1:13
The incense you bring me is a stench in my nostrils! Your celebrations of the new moon and the Shabbat day, and your special days for fasting-even your most pious meetings-are all sinful and false. I want nothing more to do with them.

ISAIAH 58:3,4,5 & 6
'We have fasted before you!' they say. 'Why aren't you impressed? We have done much penance, and you don't even notice it!' "I will tell you why! It's because you are living for yourselves even while you are fasting. You keep right on oppressing your workers. What good is fasting when you keep on fighting and quarrelling? This kind of fasting will never get you anywhere with me. You humble yourselves by going through the motions of penance, bowing your heads like a blade of grass in the wind. You dress in sackcloth and cover yourselves with ashes. Is this what you call fasting? Do you really think this will please Adonai? "No, the kind of fasting I want calls you to free those who are wrongly imprisoned and to stop oppressing those who work for you. Treat them fairly and give them what they earn.

JEREMIAH 36:6 & 9
So you go to the Temple on the next day of fasting, and read the messages from Adonai that are on this scroll. On that day people will be there from all over Judah. This happened on the day of sacred fasting held in late autumn, during the fifth year of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah. People from all over Judah came to attend the services at the Temple on that day.

DANIEL 6:18
Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night fasting. He refused his usual entertainment and couldn't sleep at all that night.

DANIEL 9:3
So I turned to Adonai YHVH and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting. I wore rough sackcloth and sprinkled myself with ashes.

JOEL 1:14
Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Bring the leaders and all the people into the Temple of Adonai your YHVH, and cry out to him there.

JOEL 2:12 & 15
That is why Adonai says, "Turn to me now, while there is time! Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Blow the trumpet in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting.

ZECHARIAH 7:5
"Say to all your people and your priests, 'During those seventy years of exile, when you fasted and mourned in the summer and at the festival in early autumn, was it really for me that you were fasting?

NEW TESTAMENT

1 CORINTHIANS 9:27
I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.

1 CORINTHIANS 11:32
But when we are judged and disciplined by Adonai, we will not be condemned with the world.

EPHESIANS 6:4
And now a word to you fathers. Don't make your children angry by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction approved by Adonai.

COLOSSIANS 2:23
These rules may seem wise because they require strong devotion, humility, and severe bodily discipline. But they have no effect when it comes to conquering a person's evil thoughts and desires.

2 TIMOTHY 1:7
For YHVH has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

TITUS 1:8
He must enjoy having guests in his home and must love all that is good. He must live wisely and be fair. He must live a devout and disciplined life.

HEBREWS 12:5 - 11
And have you entirely forgotten the encouraging words YHVH spoke to you, his children? He said, "My child, don't ignore it when Adonai disciplines you, and don't be discouraged when he corrects you. For Adonai disciplines those he loves, and he punishes those he accepts as his children." As you endure this divine discipline, remember that YHVH is treating you as his own children. Whoever heard of a child who was never disciplined? If YHVH doesn't discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children after all. Since we respect our earthly fathers who disciplined us, should we not all the more cheerfully submit to the discipline of our heavenly Father and live forever? For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But YHVH's discipline is always right and good for us because it means we will share in his holiness. No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening-it is painful! But afterward there will be a quiet harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.

1 PETER 4:7
The end of the world is coming soon. Therefore, be earnest and disciplined in your prayers.

REVELATION 3:19
I am the one who corrects and disciplines everyone I love. Be diligent and turn from your indifference.

OLD TESTAMENT

DEUTERONOMY 8:5
So, you should realize that just as a parent disciplines a child, Adonai your YHVH disciplines you to help you.

DEUTERONOMY 11:2
Listen! I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of Adonai your YHVH or seen his greatness and awesome power.

DEUTERONOMY 21:18
"Suppose a man has a stubborn, rebellious son who will not obey his father or mother, even though they discipline him.

1 SAMUEL 8:13
I have warned him continually that judgment is coming for his family, because his sons are blaspheming YHVH and he hasn't disciplined them.

1 KINGS 1:6
Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, "What are you doing?" Adonijah was a very handsome man and had been born next after Absalom.

JOB 33:19
Or YHVH disciplines people with sickness and pain, with ceaseless aching in their bones.

PSALMS 6:1
O Adonai, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your rage.

PSALMS 32:4
Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Interlude

PSALMS 38:1
O Adonai, don't rebuke me in your anger! Don't discipline me in your rage!

PSALMS 39:11
When you discipline people for their sins, their lives can be crushed like the life of a moth. Human existence is as frail as breath. Interlude

PSALMS 50:17
For you refuse my discipline and treat my laws like trash.

PSALMS 94:12
Happy are those whom you discipline, Adonai, and those whom you teach from your law.

PSALMS 119:67 & 75
I used to wander off until you disciplined me; but now I closely follow your word. I know, O Adonai, that your decisions are fair; you disciplined me because I needed it.

PROVERBS 1:2, 3 & 7
The purpose of these proverbs is to teach people wisdom and discipline, and to help them understand wise sayings. Through these proverbs, people will receive instruction in discipline, good conduct, and doing what is right, just, and fair. Fear of Adonai is the beginning of knowledge. Only fools despise wisdom and discipline.

PROVERBS 3:11
My child, don't ignore it when Adonai disciplines you, and don't be discouraged when he corrects you.

PROVERBS 5:12
and you will say, "How I hated discipline! If only I had not demanded my own way!

PROVERBS 6:23
For these commands and this teaching is a lamp to light the way ahead of you. The correction of discipline is the way to life.

PROVERBS 12:1
To learn, you must love discipline; it is stupid to hate correction.

PROVERBS 13:1 & 24
A wise child accepts a parent's discipline; a young mocker refuses to listen. If you refuse to discipline your children, it proves you don't love them; if you love your children, you will be prompt to discipline them.

PROVERBS 15:5
Only a fool despises a parent's discipline; whoever learns from correction is wise.

PROVERBS 16:22
Discretion is a life-giving fountain to those who possess it, but discipline is wasted on fools.

PROVERBS 19:18
Discipline your children while there is hope. If you don't, you will ruin their lives.

PROVERBS 20:30
Physical punishment cleanses away evil; such discipline purifies the heart.

PROVERBS 22:15
A youngster's heart is filled with foolishness, but discipline will drive it away.

PROVERBS 23:14 & 23
Physical discipline may well save them from death. Get the truth and don't ever sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and discernment.

PROVERBS 29:15,17 & 19
To discipline and reprimand a child produces wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child. Discipline your children, and they will give you happiness and peace of mind. For a servant, mere words are not enough-discipline is needed. For the words may be understood, but they are not heeded.

ISAIAH 26:16
Adonai, in distress we searched for you. We were bowed beneath the burden of your discipline.

ISAIAH 38:16
Adonai, your discipline is good, for it leads to life and health. You have restored my health and have allowed me to live!

JEREMIAH 17:23
but they did not listen or obey. They stubbornly refused to pay attention and would not respond to discipline.

JEREMIAH 30:11
For I am with you and will save you, says Adonai. I will completely destroy the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not destroy you. But I must discipline you; I cannot let you go unpunished.

JEREMIAH 31:18
I have heard Israel saying, 'You disciplined me severely, but I deserved it. I was like a calf that needed to be trained for the yoke and plough. Turn me again to you and restore me, for you alone are Adonai my YHVH.

JEREMIAH 46:28
Fear not, Jacob, my servant," says Adonai, "for I am with you. I will destroy the nations to which I have exiled you, but I will not destroy you. But I must discipline you; I cannot let you go unpunished."

LAMENTATIONS 3:27
And it is good for the young to submit to the yoke of his discipline.

Thought for Today: Wednesday July 09

Forgiveness is not easy! In fact, often we cannot forgive the person or persons who hurt us deeply without the help of our Elohiym. But is it impossible for YHVH to overcome those hurts and heal those wounds? No, of course not. Just remember what it cost the Moshiach to forgive each one of us! Ask Him to help you that you can forgive others. What those people did to you was wrong, and you may still bear emotional scars, but YHVH does not want you to carry those hurts forever! Take today and think of your family or friends from the past and if you feel that you still have something to forgive them for – do it! Heal yourself.

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