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Name: Julie
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Monday, July 19, 2010

I have faith...

I believe Father Yahweh will provider for me.  I believe I am forgiven of my sins as long as I repent and sin no more.  I believe all things are possible with and through Father Yahweh.  Galatians 5:22-23  “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”  Do we truly know and understand what those words mean?  Love…everyone thinks they know what love is!  Love per the Encarta Dictionary: English (North America) 

 

love

1. feel tender affection for somebody

 

transitive and intransitive verb to feel tender affection for somebody such as a close relative or friend, or for something such as a place, an ideal, or an animal.

 

2. feel desire for somebody

         

Transitive and intransitive verb to feel romantic and sexual desire and longing for somebody

 

3. like something very much

 

transitive verb to like something, or like doing, something very much

 

*I love watching Vampire movies.

 

4. show kindness to somebody

 

transitive verb to feel and show kindness and charity to somebody

 

*love your enemies

 

Love: feel affection for, adore, worship, be devoted to, esteem, respect, admire, have a high regard for, be in awe of, reverence, devotion, deference, awe…let me pause on awe.  Awe is a mixture of wonder and dread: a feeling of amazement and respect mixed with fear that is often coupled with a feeling of personal insignificance or powerlessness.  In the presence of Father Yahweh, The One and only Omnipotent…yeah…you get the picture!  Possessing complete, unlimited, universal power and authority, Father Yahweh is absolute power.  His is the Power and the Glory for ever and ever!  Yahweh is love!

 

 

joy   

1.    great happiness

 

feelings of great happiness or pleasure, especially of an elevated or spiritual kind

 

 

delight, elation, euphoria I’ll stop there…enough said on joy.

 

peace

1.    freedom from war

 

freedom from was, or the time when a war or conflict ends

 

 

2.    composure

 

a calm and quiet state, free from disturbances or noise.

 

3.    mental calm

 

a state of mental calm and serenity, with no anxiety

       

4.    harmony

 

freedom from conflict or disagreement among people of groups of people

 

You get it, right…peace is being calm, quiet, having serenity; those are just a few synonyms

 

long-suffering

                  

patiently enduring

 

          patient and enduring in the face of suffering of difficulty

 

Synonyms for long-suffering: forgiving, resigned, tolerant, accommodating, patient and selfless, merciful, pardoning, lenient, forbearing, magnanimous, sympathetic, tolerant, generous, fair, just, compassionate, empathetic, kindhearted, considerate, open-minded, charitable…

 

gentleness

 

1.    kind

 

having a mild and kind nature or manner

 

2.    mild

 

being moderate in force or degree so that the effects are not sever

 

3.    using little force

 

using little force or violence…

 

mildness, calmness, kindness, tenderness, placidness, easy going, serene

 

goodness

 

1.    good quality

 

the quality of being good

 

2.    virtuousness

 

personal virtue or kindness…

 

decency, kindness, honesty, integrity, righteousness, honorable and morale fall under that group.

 

faith

 

1.    belief or trust

 

belief in, devotion to, or trust in somebody or something, especially without logical proof

 

2.    religion or religious group

 

a system of religious belief, or the group of people who adhere to it

 

3.    trust in God

belief in and devotion to God

 

4.    set of beliefs

 

a strongly held set of beliefs or principles

 

5.    loyalty

 

allegiance or loyalty to somebody or something

 

Synonyms: confidence, trust, reliance, assurance, conviction, belief, devotion, loyalty, hope, sincerity, expectation, reliance, dependence, certainty, passion, fervor, credence, dedication, zeal, allegiance, fidelity it’s all faith.

 

meekness

 

1.    mild

 

showing mildness or quietness of nature

 

2.    cowed

 

showing submissiveness and lack of initiative or will

 

Synonyms: humbleness, timidity, submissiveness, gentleness, modesty, tentativeness, obedience 

 

Temperance

 

Synonyms for  temperance: restraint, control, moderation, self-control, self-discipline, strength of mind, strength of will, will power

 

Fully knowing the words, perceiving or perhaps the better word would be comprehending the meaning of all the words that are used in Galatians 5:22-23  “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

 

What that indicates to me is that the fruit; the product or consequence of something done or if you want fruit can also be used as “offspring”.  Which can mean that we are produced, shaped, fashioned, formed …created.  Okay, so we invite Jesus…Yahushua, in to our lives.  We accept the precious gift of His sacrifice and we invite Him to use us as He wills.  What does that mean?  Well, to me that means that when a person has the Spirit of Yahushua it is evident in ones every actions.  That person will have the  qualities of love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance.  David C. Pack explains it the best: http://www.thercg.org/books/wirf.html

 

Thank You father Yahweh…glory HalleluYah!

 

 

 


Saturday, May 29, 2010

Currently
The Best of Passion (So Far)
By Passion
Better is One Day
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A New Frame of Mind

Blowing      I am making up my mind that from this moment on I am going to present a happy persona and stop sharing all my intimate thoughts with everyone.  I will save those for only those deserving of my quirky individuality; and of course if asked a direct question I always answer.  Depending on who is asking I either answer honestly and bluntly or I answer honestly and guarded.  I am going to try and curb my swearing and stop sharing my sexual personality with everyone.  I will save that for the man who finds me, pursues me, and takes hold of me!   I will not have sex with this man.  I have promised Father Yahweh that I would only have sex with my husband, and not the unbeliever I am married to now.  So this man is not going to sample the wares.  I won’t even discuss sex with him until we are in a committed relationship lasting at least three months.  Then I will spring on him my sexual appetite and the fact I do not believe in double standards.  I truly have given up on finding a man, my soul mate.  He now has to recognize me and approach me.  I’m done.  I will smile and flirt and be polite, but I will not be making any moves or starting any titillating conversations.    

 

 

     I acknowledge that I live an abundant and joyful life.  I do not need another to make me happy.  I have Yahshua in me and with me at all times.  He is all I truly need.  I figure I may have another 38 years, if the world doesn’t end in my life time, which I wouldn’t be surprised if it does.  This system of things is just getting worse and worse.  Lucifer is not proving a thing and can not run this world as it was originally plan by Father Yahweh. I am storing my treasures in heaven!  I am looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth. 

 

     Will we get to speak with the angels?  Play with lions, tigers, and bears?  Will we be able to talk to the animals?  When Father “Babbled” the languages, did that include the animals and other creatures of His world?  Just trying to determine why Eve wasn’t freaked out when the serpent started talking to her in the Garden of Eden.  Anyway, I believe I am right where I am supposed to be.  Father Yahweh created us to behave in a certain manner.  Our make up is detailed to His specifications.  He knows my flesh is weak and my will is strong yet if  He allows me to be in a situation where I am tempted and I stumble I know I will be forgiven.  Being I have Yahshua in me, if I get the feeling I should not be doing something… that weird feeling in the pit of my stomach I get every now and again; I will acknowledge the Spirit is talking to me and NOT do it.  I do so miss several things.  Is this a sacrifice on my part?  I know I can not impress Father Yahweh.  He has seen it all and created it all. 

 

     He knows me better than I know myself because He created me, and made me just who I am.  He knows how and when I am going to die…or if I will die at all.  Maybe I will be alive when Yahshua comes in the clouds and be caught up with Him.  I want to hear well done good and faithful servant.  I do not have a problem telling people I belong to Yahweh and that I am Yahshua’s bride.  (My husband, I am in need of some tender loving.  A bit of hugging and kissing to start…will do nicely.)  Yes, I am asking Yashua to take care of my needs.  Hey doesn’t it say in the bible that a husband should take pleasure in his wife and wife should do like wise with her husband?  I know it does.  So, why can I not ask?  After all, he did created man and woman with sexual organs, and we were made in His image.  I often wonder and then think did HE put that thought in my head?  Am I being disrespectful?  Who knows!  That damned Lucifer ruined it for us all, the jealous sycophant!  He rob us of our opportunity to get to know Father Yahweh one on one, he prevented us from having a close personal relationship face to face…so now we have to do it spiritually.  I have to trust my spirit.  I get those pangs when I am doing something wrong.  I stop and heed the warning.

 

     I am at peace with myself and with my relationship with Yahshua.  I accept that He died for me and all of those who believe in Him.  I love my fellow man and try to do unto others as I would have done unto me.  Then there is my family!  They know how to push my buttons and for some reason love doing so.  I try my best not to ask of my children too much.  I don’t ask to tag along; I wait until I am invited.  I stopped asking them to pick up my prescriptions and items I need; I go myself.  I need to get out there and go shopping…I seem to be doing this solo though.  I have to call people to get info on products I am considering for purchase.  I can joke around and make silly comments over a product that strikes me as crazy with strangers.  I can shop alone.  I can eat alone, go to the movies alone and I can watch a sunset on my own all alone.  Then again I am never alone as I have Yahshua with me an in me at all times! 

 

 


Saturday, March 27, 2010

Currently
The Face of Love
By Sanctus Real
The Face of Love
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Spare the rod spoil the child...

My children The Rents



Spare the rod spoil the child. I know, there are those who feel that is barbaric, and believe me, I agree…to an extent. Picture it, Catskill, summer of 1973; sitting down to dinner with your favorite person in the world as your dinner guest. That person has your chair and you are sitting next to your dad on his right. He puts peas on your plate and you say, “Yuk, I don’t want those.” So he puts more on your plate, which, stupid you, prompts, “I am not eating those.” Where the back of that strong right hand knocks you out of your chair after land upside the side of your face. You hit the kitchen wall and land on the floor, the chair hitting your legs, your head hitting the base board heater cover. In pain and humiliation; having your hero witness all this, you jump up and escape to the safety of your bedroom in tears. Hugging your pillow with your face muffled in it you are then surprised and terrified because he is standing in the doorway, belt in hand, ready to give you “something to cry for!” He is so angry that it doesn’t matter where that belt lands or how many welts he leaves. He is going to work that anger out on you.

No. That is not what God had in mind when He said

24He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. Proverbs 13:24

I remember a teacher, Mr. Pearson, hitting my with a yard stick, on my buttocks, for leaning out a window to see if the bus was outside. I jumped back and glared at him accusatorily. He stuttered and apologized stating he thought I was someone else. Oh, well, I guess that makes it alright? The girl he thought I was had it worse than me! Her father was a puncher and one day he took a gun and shot up there house. Thank God he missed the people he was aiming at! I remember Mr. Franco and his wooden paddles that the guys made him in wood shop. Talk about sadistic! That is why the rules changed. You can only beat so many of us before we put our foot down and make sure it never happens to our children. If a teacher every laid a hand on one of mine, well, I pity that person!

Spanking people! Good old fashion spanking. Three smacks on a bare bottom or a belt on a jean clad butt or even a wood spoon on a clothed bottom. Nothing abusive just enough for a miscreant to learn not to do it again and it lets them know you care. I agree, if a child talks back or uses foul language soap in the mouth is a better punishment. The fifth commandment states: Honor thy father and mother; no where in the Ten Commandments does it state anything about children being honored. People who live for their children are teaching their children to live for their children.

Guilty, I know! I am from that generation where, “I am never going to be like my mother and father!” I wasn’t either. I did the counting bit, and was lucky that my children didn’t test me. I took their favorite things away from them, and then forgot to give them back. They found other things as favorites. I said clean your room, and if I didn’t find it clean when I checked back, I’d mess it up and give them more work to do. Don’t defy me. I am sure they would have preferred for me to have spanked them. I know my husband hit them, hell I saw him slap one of my daughter’s friends! Slapped her face, so if he could do that, I know he was hitting my children. I know my husband use to get beat by his dad. So I understand why there is a law for abuse. However!!! If your child is misbehaving like going in your wallet and stealing money to buy things he/she should not have then a spanking is in order. Of course you first have to explain to the child why it is wrong and have them give their word they won’t do it again.

It is our job to teach them honor. A person is only as good as their word. Then there is always the, “W. W. J. D.?” Yes, Jesus would turn the other cheek, with an adult! If your child thinks they can do anything they’d like then don’t be surprised when you have to make a court appearance. Been there done that! This is the voice of experience. Take MY WORD for it. Spare the rod spoil the child.


Saturday, January 16, 2010

Currently
Business Up Front/Party in the Back
By Family Force 5
12. Replace Me
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2010 New Year Resolution

It is time for my true New Year Resolution 1 John 5: 14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. I am asking in Yahshua’s name, based on my resolve, my marriage to one Rickey Edward Stough, shall be dissolved and we will be divorced, prayerfully before my 47th birthday, definitely by the end of 2010, God willing.  Amen

I believe Jesus or Yahshua is the son of God. I love God, Father Yahweh, and I love His son Yahshua. He is the true God and eternal life.  I have been stating for years that this system of things, this world, is Lucifer’s the slanderer / Devil.   I am reborn in Jesus and therefore I have the ability to overcome the world.  The whole world is under the control of the evil one.  I have strength in Christ to stand firm in my beliefs, on my own, with just His support and His spirit living in me…through me. 

 

Sometimes I feel all alone, even though I live with five other people.  I have my belief system, and the others in this house have their own personal relationships with their Higher Power.  I do not judge nor do I know their hearts.  Only God has that knowledge.  I do know that gambling, anger, and abusive words fly almost every night in the lower quarters of the house.  Meanwhile upstairs is horrific pain and a search for a pain killer be it in the form of alcohol, marijuana, or pills.  They just bring to mind the scripture:

1 Corinthians 6

9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.  

In my quarters it is just me, myself, I, my angels and a constant conversation with Father Yahweh through Yahshua.   Two of my children live in this house as well, however they are young adults who work and have social lives and are hardly ever home.  I truly don’t know who is washed and sanctified in this house.  I can only speak for myself…otherwise I very well may be serving the father of lies!

When I am feeling along it is usually because I am craving a human connection in the form of a mate.  Someone who understands my belief system and believes as I do.  A man who gets me and all that I am about and accepts me as is.  Not often though, as I truly am never alone.  I have the Holy Spirit with me 24-7.  I am human though, and miss the intimacies of a human relationship.  I can honestly say that I have not been decently kissed in over 20 years.  I sacrifice that condition and am here to tell you that sex, although as wondrous and so feel good as it is, it is not a necessity of life!  Yeah, yeah, yeah those of you, who know me, truly know me, know that when I am in a relationship I turn in to an insatiable lover.  My sex drive doesn’t park or slip into neutral it gets stuck in drive.  Well, I am not in a relationship, and I have vowed to my God and my Lord and Savior that I will not enter into another relationship until I am divorced from my unbelieving husband who abandoned our marriage bed years and years ago.  Then and only then will I look to start a relationship with another man with the intention of serious dating which leads to marriage.   I will not lie with another man unless he is my husband.

 

The only reason to be married is if you can not abstain.  1 Corinthians 7 9But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.   Now I can abstain, but I don’t want to, I am freaking burning here!!  Yeah, yeah, yeah Christians are not to divorce.  Did I mention I am married to an unbeliever and he deserted our marriage bed?  He moved out of state to Florida.  He doesn’t love me or want me; he just has his own reasons for not wanting to divorce me, a divorce, by the way, I am biblically entitled to!  1 Corinthians 7  15But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace.  I would love to be in peace with my sexual nature!

 

Perhaps he thinks he is punishing me, that is more his style.  Well, I have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to play hard-ball.  I am going to have to see about having him investigated for mismanagement of our son’s, Cordan, trust fund.  Actually more like misappropriation of funds!  Our son was hit by a car when he was 35 months old and there was money from the incident for our son’s future.  Rickey used it for his future and pissed it away; crude terminology, but ever so true!  Eh, I will hirer a divorce lawyer and try it the court system way instead of on my own like I did the last two times.  If that doesn’t work, then I will play hard-ball.  I will have to check with my son first and see what he says, he is so blindly loyal to his dad.  That is one of the after effects of the car accident.  A survivor of major head trauma Cordan / Corey is very easily manipulated.  I am not a manipulator…guess who is! 

 

Corey is talented, creative, sensitive, loving, strong, and dedicated.    He is an amazing man with a code of honor that makes him stand by his dad.  He stated to me once that he was afraid that if he left his dad, his dad would have no-one and end up committing suicide.  He vividly saw this as if it were a premonition.  I have been separated from my husband for a long time now.  I have no idea who he is now.  When I was with him, I could positively unequivocally tell you that wouldn’t be a thought in the man’s head.  He has said that if he ever had a condition that was life threatening or if he was going to be less than he was, he would just walk out into the woods and never come back.  He didn’t say if he would take a gun or a knife with him, just that he would not die in the house.  I do know that if he were to be a vegetable he would not want to be on life support running up hospital bills.  He doesn’t want to be resuscitated if there is a chance he’s be paralyzed or if he had a brain injury that would make him less than who he is.  If there is a possibility he may have brain damage or need to wear a “diaper”…any of these scenarios, then just let him die.  I would be surprised if he has changed his mind about any of that.  Suicide?  He is too intelligent for that.  His personality may have changed, however the man is still brilliant, talented and creative that can’t change, it is his foundation the nature of his condition.

 

Just so you all know: I would never ever consider suicide, it is a sure fire one way ticket to Hell.  So, I will not even contemplate IF and HOW I would do myself in!  I have made it clear to every one and anyone who will listen to me over and over again through out my life.  If ever you find me dead and it looks like suicide, its murder!  It would have to be murder I am not going to Hell. 

 

Father, I come before You in Yahshua’s name, pleading my case.  You know my heart.  I prayed for years that You would call Rickey and that he would answer.  Now we are apart, and he is not willing to live with me to the standards I require.  Please Father, I need a covering, You know what I need better than I do.  Please, I am storing up my treasures for the New Earth and the New Heaven.  I long to hear” 'Well done, good and faithful servant! …”  I do not want to be accounted with those whom You will be gnashing Your teeth over.  Those You will cut off from You at the end of days.  Hebrews 11: 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.  I pray You do not cringe when I say You are my God.  I give You leave, and invite You into my day, every day.  Every day I say may Your will be done.  I sing along with Family Force 5, “Replace Me” Crush me, tear me, break me, mold me Make me what You want me to be I am Your's for You to use Oh, Take and Replace me with You.    I pray it is Your will for me to be free of Rick in Satan’s system of things.  I need You to interfere and over ride Satan’s hold on my legal worldly issue of marriage and put through my divorce…I am begging You.  Amen

There is something that has been laid on my heart.  Me.  The way I am.  My likes and dislikes and the way I think and do things.  Since totally devoting myself to servitude of You I have gotten several tattoos, developed a passion for Vampire Folklore, and have cleaned up my life.  You know all this.  I know we are not to have graven images to bow down and worship, I am not worshipping my tattoos.  I worship You and Yahshua.  You know my heart and my craziness.  I have a touch of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) nothing major, hopefully an endearing idiosyncrasy.  I still stand my ground and say that You are my creator and You made me this way.  Sure the tattoos were my choice, but I believe this body is a vessel for my soul and there is no harm in decorating it.  It’s not coming with me to the New Earth and New Heaven.  Ashes to ashes dust to dust.  2 Corinthians 5 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. I want to be cremated anyway, 1 Corinthians 13:3  If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.  Yes I know the body is the temple, but we are to be concerned with the inside of our bodies.  1 Corinthians 6 12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

 18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.  Now this is why I abstain and yet have tattoos!  God knows my heart and He hasn’t laid on my heart yet to have them removed, so…until He does…I will have tattoos and may get a few more!  I am fleeing from sexual immorality.  Doing my best to keep the 10 Commandments and believe in His word, especially John 3: 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  Amen!

 

1 John 5

Faith in the Son of God

 1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

 6This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7For there are three that testify: 8the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9We accept man's testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Concluding Remarks

 13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

 16If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that. 17All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.

 18We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him. 19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true—even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Matthew25: 21"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' … Matthew25: 23"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'  

 

 

1 Corinthians 6

Lawsuits Among Believers

 1If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? 2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint as judges even men of little account in the church! 5I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6But instead, one brother goes to law against another—and this in front of unbelievers!

 7The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.

 9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Sexual Immorality

 12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

 18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

 

 


Sunday, July 26, 2009

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     It’s been awhile since I have done Sabbath properly.  I am praying that I will be able to change things around so Honoring my Mother and Father does not interfere with keeping the First  Commandment.  Any way, Father Yahweh you know my heart and I ask that you lead me in my need to write this Sabbath.  I ask this in Yahshua’s name…amen.

 

     I am a bit confused Father, I know, You are not surprised (Did we get sarcasm from You or did that come from Satan?  I digress where was I?)  Oh yes… I read 1 Corinthians 11 which states that men should not cover their heads when they pray and should not have long hair.  (Snerdfarkles!  I love long hair on a man.  * Heavy sigh* )  Women should cover their heads:  5And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is just as though her head were shaved. 6If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; WAIT!    “Woman… prophesies” I thought women were to be quiet or silent in church.   Back up!  I was looking at women should cover their heads when they pray.  Wow, time to get out a bandana.  Why did I never see that before?  Why did I think as long as I had hair I was fine and that I just could not shave my head like Sinead O’Conner?  I thought my head covering was Yahshua!  So before a woman prays or does anything in the name of Yahshua we are to cover our head as well as be covered in the blood of Yahshua; praying in Yahshua’s name for the only way to Yahweh is through his son.  Which means you must be saved and believe that He died so who so ever believes will have everlasting life.  I believe!!!!  I still think I better grab a bandana or a cap.

 

     Okay, I am back to remaining silent.  I really would like to go to college and become a pastor or ordained minister.   1 Corinthians 14 (New International Version)  1 Timothy 2:9-20 (King James Version)  These verses make it clear that being Eve was the one who broke the law and with the curse she took away women’s equality.  I know that is a bitter pill to swallow.  I am one of the bossiest women going and to have to remain silent, LOL  ME?  Be quiet???  Well, if I had a husband that believed and worshipped my God and Savior I would subject to him.  My husband is Yahshua and I bow to Him.  I teach those who leave an opening for a comment.  If a man asks me a question I answer it, however if there was a man in authority present I would defer to him and remain silent, unless the man said something I did not agree with and then the Spirit would lead me to correct a wrong statement!  I have done this when scripture was misquoted to make a non believer side with Satan.  The man was not in authority!  I don’t play that game.  Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world!  Okay, women are not to preach.  I have it Father.  I submit. 

 

 

     My congregation would be looked at like they were part of a cult anyway! 

Sabbath is Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.  Read my other blogs!  It should be a day of rest with NO work being done.  No spending money.  It is not a day of pleasure; it is a day of honor and worship.  We are not to be honoring other gods.  Those who went before us should never have compromised and blended Paganism with Christianity.  Deuteronomy 12:32 (New International Version)   32 See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.  We wouldn’t participate in Christmas, Easter as the pagans do, Halloween or do birthdays.  Women would not be allowed into “church” (a gathering of people who are there to pray, worship and learn about Father Yahweh and His bible.) with out head coverings.

 

     Leviticus 19 Various Laws Yeah.  I have several tattoos and want more.    I like my steak medium rare… these are forbidden.  I will glance at my horoscope if it is there to be seen and I have had readings done.  I know that doing these things disrespect God.  Reasoning to make the rule breaking is only serving Satan and lying.  If we think God can not see the truth, we have blinders on!  I claim The Blood of Yahshua.  I also am not from Israel or am I Hebrew.  Does that mean that being a Gentile the law does not apply to me?  Can I say, and get away with it, that being Yahshua died for me that I am washed clean? As long as I believe I am saved, which I am, the rules and laws of the Non-Technology-Age those laws and covenants from the 12th and 2nd century that didn’t have the knowledge we have now…do the still apply?  I trust my Tattoo Artist implicitly.  Not only that, but some of the laws were rescinded.

 

     Romans 14   4Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

 5One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. 8If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

 

     I am saved and my interpretation of the bible , and the place the Spirit has lead me to, has me honoring Sabbath as I do.  I struggle with the Pagan Holidays.  I believe Yahshua was born in October and the December celebration of putting up a tree and decorating it and then exchanging presents is not worship of any kind.  Halloween is all about the candy and I do not honor the dead…I honor the adrenalin rush of being scared!  I don’t do Easter Eggs or bunnies, Easter is the day Yahshua rose from his slumber.  I honor that.  The Thursday before Easter Sunday I honor the memory of what was to come with one hour dedicated to “Waiting” with Him.  At least I try to.    Who are you to judge someone else's servant?  I believe that is Yahweh telling those who do not believe in Him not to judge His people, His servants.  You have no idea what that person is really up to.  Many think people who “DO” Halloween are serving Satan.  I know I hate Satan and when I do Halloween it is because I want to make the little children happy.  They come to our haunted house and get good treats all in fun.  My heart belongs to Yahshua.  He knows my heart and my thoughts and no where in there is Halloween considered evil.  Now there are people out there who celebrate all Hallows Eve and there are those out there who are actually Satanist.  I have yet to meet a practiced Wicca who looks at Halloween as a night to sacrifice a living soul!  It is actually, in the practice of Wicca, their New Year.  Sure there are a few witches who practice the dark arts, then again there are a few Christians who see nothing wrong with breaking al commandment here or there.  We are not to judge others.  Sure we are not to be unevenly yoked 2nd Corinthians 6:14  with non believers does not say we are allowed to be judgmental.  Do unto others as you would have done unto you.  Can you play the “If Game”?

 

          Deuteronomy 12:32 (New International Version)   32 See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it. 

 

     To add Pagan holidays to Elohim’s days is like trying to have two dominant male head of house holds.  To much power for one house and the people who live under that roof are going to be torn between the two.  I believe Father Yahweh when He says not to put other gods before Him, He is a jealous God.  He acknowledges that there are other gods.  I believe not everyone is called to my God.  I have theories on that.  If a believer walks away from their faith and turns their back on God and then forms an alliance with a non believer and they create a child or two…if that was all done outside of the covering of Yahshua and those children were never dedicated to God and covered in the blood of Yahshua… see where I am going with that?  I believe that is why there are so many non believers.  I believe every word of the bible that Yahweh states.  He stated not everyone would be called and some would be called and would not answer.  I tried being a witch.  I just could not pray to the other Gods.  My Spirit became uneasy and I felt funny…and scared.  I gave that practice up right quick, but I did learn all about it and it is not evil, it is just not for those of us who have been ‘Called”.  I have been called.  For me to read my horoscope or have a tarot card reading, visit with a psychic, do numerology or speak with a medium is to cause offense to my Father in heaven.  As long as I am not celebrating or dedicating anything to other gods and saying that Christmas is Yahshua’s birthday, which it is not, I am okay with my Elohim.  I may stumble here and there, for I am not Yahshua, I am one of the Saints though and loved and forgiven.  Praise Yah!  Amen

 

     I pray that these writings of mine helps who ever Yahweh leads to this page as He intended.  If you need clarification or want to reason together over something I have written…feel free to leave a comment or you may email me at WisteriaRain@gmail.com

 

Bible Verses I was inspired by:

 

1 Corinthians 11 (New International Version)

 

 1Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.

Propriety in Worship

 2I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the teachings, just as I passed them on to you.

 3Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 4Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. 5And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is just as though her head were shaved. 6If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head. 7A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. 8For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; 9neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 10For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head.

 11In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. 12For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God. 13Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 15but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. 16If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God.

 

 

1 Corinthians 14 (New International Version)

 

 26What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. All of these must be done for the strengthening of the church. 27If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. 28If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and God.

 29Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 30And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. 31For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. 32The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets. 33For God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

      As in all the congregations of the saints, 34women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. 35If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.

 36Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached? 37If anybody thinks he is a prophet or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord's command. 38If he ignores this, he himself will be ignored.[i]

 39Therefore, my brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. 40But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.  I get it!  Women should not interpret tongues when they are spoken in church!  If a woman doesn’t understand she should ask her husband what was said.  One of the other church men would have told him.  Does not mean we are to be silent in church! 

1 Timothy 2:9-20 (King James Version)

 9In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

 10But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

 11Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

 12But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

 13For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

 14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

 15Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

 

 

Timothy 3

 1This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

 2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

 3Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

 4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

 5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

 6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

 7Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

 8Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

 9Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

 10And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

 11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

 12Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

 13For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

 14These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:

 15But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

 16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

 

Leviticus 19 (King James Version)

Leviticus 19

 1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

 2Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

 3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

 4Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

 5And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.

 6It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.

 7And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.

 8Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

 9And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

 10And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.

 11Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

 12And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

 13Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

 14Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

 15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

 16Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the LORD.

 17Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

 18Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

 19Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

 20And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

 21And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.

 22And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

 23And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.

 24But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.

 25And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.

 26Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

 27Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

 28Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

 29Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

 30Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

 31Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

 32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

 33And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

 34But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

 35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

 36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

 37Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.

 

2 Corinthians 6:14 (New International Version)

Do Not Be Yoked With Unbelievers

 14Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

 

 

Psalm 34:9 (New International Version)

 9 Fear the LORD, you his saints,

       for those who fear him lack nothing.

1 Corinthians 6:2 (King James Version)

 2Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

 

Ephesians 1 (King James Version)

Ephesians 1

 1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

 2Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

 4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

 5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

 6To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

 7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

 8Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

 9Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

 10That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

 11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

 12That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

 13In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

 14Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

 15Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

 16Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

 17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

 18The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

 19And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

 20Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

 21Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

 22And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

 23Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

 

 

 

 

 



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