Thought for Today: Wednesday September 14:
Do not resist or run from the difficulties in your life. These problems are not random mistakes, they are hand-tailored blessings designed for your benefit and growth. Embrace all the circumstances that He allows in your life, trusting Him to bring good out of them. View problems as opportunities to rely more fully on Elohiym. When you start to feel stressed, let those feelings alert you to your need for YHVH. Thus, your needs become doorways to deep dependence on YHVH and increasing intimacy between you and Him. Although self-sufficiency is acclaimed in the world, reliance on Elohiym produces abundant living in His Kingdom. Thank Him for every difficulty in your life, since they provide protection from the idolatry of self-reliance.
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I have been having a very hard time focusing and just doing the right thing without getting distracted and just flat out not doing what I am supposed to. It has made my parents lose their trust in me, and now I am starting at the very bottom of the barrel with trust and privileges, and I just don't feel right about myself at all. I am going back to how I was in middle school, and there is no way I would like to relive ANY of that. Could I just ask for y'all's prayers for peace and comfort and diligence? I am a hard worker, I just get really lazy and I don't want to work (specifically with school), and I really need to fix that. I just want the same trust from my parents that I had yesterday. I hate doing this to myself, where I do great at the starting, but then it's all downhill from there. I have been praying myself, but I am having trouble finding the words. I know that I just need to continue to trust that Yahweh will get me through this.
I hope everyone has a great day or end of the day, wherever you are. Thank you for all the prayers. I appreciate each and every one of them.
God bless ??
#deuteronomy 28 spends a lot of ink on curses for disobedience, but little on blessings for obedience. Perhaps this has to do with the ambiguous and subjective nature of many blessings.
The light of God desires to shine through us into the world, but it can't if we are only focused on ourselves. The ultimate goal of every righteous man must be to become an effective conduit of God's Light into his community and even the whole world.
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PUSH
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A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room
filled with light and God appeared. The Lord told the man He
had work for him to do and showed him a large rock in front of
his cabin.
The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock
with all his might. So, this the man did, day after day.
For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders
set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving
rock, pushing with all of his might.
Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out,
feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain.
Since the man was showing discouragement, the Adversary (Satan),
decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the weary
mind:
"You have been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it
hasn't moved."
Thus, he gave the man the impression that the task was
impossible and that he was a failure. These thoughts
discouraged and disheartened the man.
Satan said, "Why kill yourself over this? Just put in your
time, giving just the minimum effort, and that will be good
enough. That's what the weary man planned to do, but decided to
make it a matter of prayer and to take his troubled thoughts to
the Lord.
“Lord,” he said, "I have labored long and hard in your service,
putting all my strength to do that which you have asked.
Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock by
half a millimeter.
What is wrong?
Why am I failing?”
The Lord responded compassionately, "My friend, when I asked you
to serve Me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to
push against the rock with all of your strength, which you have
done.
Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it.
Your task was to push.
And now you come to Me with your strength spent,
thinking that you have failed.
Is that really so?
Look at yourself.
Your arms are strong and muscled,
your back sinewy and brown;
your hands are callused from constant pressure,
your legs have become massive and hard.
Through opposition you have grown much,
and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have.
True, you haven't moved the rock. But your calling was to be
obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My
wisdom. That you have done.
Now I, my friend, will move the rock."
At times, when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own
intellect to decipher what He wants, when actually what God
wants is just a simple obedience and faith in Him.
By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains,
but know that it is still God who moves mountains.
When everything seems to go wrong...just
P.U.S.H.!
When the job gets you down... just P.U.S.H.!
When people don't react the way you think
they should... just P.U.S.H.
When your money is "gone" and the bills are due... just P.U.S.H!
When people just don't understand you... just P.U.S.H.
P= Pray
U= Until
S= Something
H= Happens
~Author Unknown~