Let's start with what - at least for those with "eyes to see!" - should be obvious today: They really DO want you dead. As Yahushua pointed out, the Adversary/Devil/BadDevilThing/etc, "comes but to steal, kill, and destroy." Which is a great description of what we see...
What is the purpose of the wilderness experience? The very basis of the word has much to teach on this subject. The Tabernacle was to be the center of the camp. That message is still speaking to us today. Are we listening? Joinedtohashem.org
How can you be a spiritual warrior when the government takes away parental rights? The Wise Guys take a deep dive into Biblical concepts that can help the believer stand firm. 3wiseguys@hebrewnation.net
News and commentary for Tueday, 16 May, 2023. Looks like at least another six months have gone by, because yet another major "Conspiracy Theory" again proves to have been True all along. And More Treason comes to light...
News and commentary for Monday, 15 May, 2023.
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Why are your actions or “works” important? Rabbi Steve Berkson continues teaching about the relationship between salvation, faith/belief and works/actions by taking us to the letter from Peter, an emissary/apostle of Messiah Yeshua, to the chosen, and dissects what he...
Prayer makes you think.
For instance, who was better prepared for what happened after midnight in the Garden of Gethsemane, Yeshua or his disciples? Why?
Apparently, Peter needed to go to bed with the chickens, and by the time the cock crowed three times the next morning, he’d denied Yeshua and run away. Just hours before, Peter didn’t imagine such a thing were possible.
An often-quoted proverb helps us to understand the inner process of prayer:
“As a man thinks within himself [b’nafsho], so is he…” (Pr 23:7)
“B’nafsho” is “in his soul.” The soul is defined as a bundle of appetites, emotions, desires, and intellect. The soul thinks. We don’t usually hear the beginning or the end of the proverb, though. The beginning of the proverb is:
“Do not eat the bread of a selfish man or desire his delicacies…”
The rest of the verse is:
“…he says to you, ‘Eat and drink!’ But his heart [lev] is not with you.”
The heart is sometimes seen as the mind, interconnected with the soul. Even scientists understand there is a “heart brain” that communicates with the head brain. In context, the proverb warns us that in spite of the generous words he says, a selfish person’s silent soul and heart think the opposite and wish that you would not accept.
The connection between prayer and the proverb is that it is possible to pray one thing with the lips, yet not to really believe it or want it to come to pass. It is possible to pray one thing and think the opposite. Yeshua struggled in this like we do, yet he prayed the perfect solution in the Garden of Gethsemane:
“Nevertheless, not my will, but Yours be done.”
This was either the week where average Americans began to awaken to the fact that what was once their country has been successfully invaded, or that it was in fact, conquered long ago. And it is also the week where the regular Torah portion gives us a stunning...
My recent experience taking care of a family member healing slowly and becoming discouraged lead me to think that there might be others who are facing discouragement and that David reminds us of how we can still rely on our Heavenly Father even when we think we are...