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Receive Yeshua, Don't Just Accept Him

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    There is a profound difference between merely accepting Yeshua and truly receiving Him into your nephesh. Acceptance may be spoken, a nod, a moment of assent, yet reception changes the very core of who you are. God’s desire has always been relational. In Deuteronomy 6:5 , He commanded, “ You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. ” The Hebrew words deepen the meaning. Levav ( לֵבָב ) is heart , the seat of thought and emotion. Nephesh ( נֶפֶשׁ ) is soul , the living self that desires, feels, and experiences . Me’od ( מְאֹד ) is strength, abundance, the entirety of one’s being. Loving God in this way is not intellectual assent; it is full surrender, total reception. Acceptance touches the lips, reception transforms the soul. The prophets show what follows when a heart truly receives God. Ezekiel 36:26-27 says, “ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone fr...

When Darkness Covered The Earth

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There are moments in history when the world seems to hold its breath. The year 536 was one of those moments. Across Europe, Asia, and the Near East, people looked up and saw a sun that no longer burned with strength. It hung in the sky, pale and weakened, giving light without warmth. Imagine waking up day after day and noticing that the sun never seemed right, never bright, never strong. Crops failed. Seasons forgot their order. Summer felt cold. Winter felt endless. Hunger crept into villages and cities alike, killing thousands. Parents watched as the food they had carefully stored ran out. Children went to bed hungry. People tried to keep their animals alive, but even livestock grew weak and died. For many, it felt as if creation itself had turned its face away. What matters is not only that it happened, but that it was seen, remembered, and recorded by people who did not know one another, yet told the same story. People in different lands, speaking different languages, described the...

More Of The Wonderful Women In The Bible

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From the very beginning, God has worked through women in ways both quiet and bold, ordinary and extraordinary. Some were mothers who shaped the faith of their children, like Sarah, Rebekah, and Hannah, praying and guiding with wisdom and love. Others were leaders and prophets, like Miriam, Deborah, and Huldah, whose courage and discernment influenced nations and kings. Some risked everything to save lives, like Jael, Esther, and the Widow of Zarephath, trusting God to protect them and accomplish His purposes. Many served faithfully behind the scenes, like Mary, Tryphena, Tryphosa, Persis, and the unnamed women who ministered to Jesus, offering support, resources, and devotion that strengthened God’s work and His people. Across the pages of Scripture, these women acted with courage, hospitality, faith, and joy. They spoke boldly when wisdom demanded it, ministered faithfully when patience was required, and loved sacrificially when hearts were broken. They remind us that God does not mea...

“Does anybody really know what time it is?”

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“Does anybody really know what time it is?” The question is more than curiosity; it is a doorway into understanding the limits of human perception and the vastness of God’s eternal plan. Even the most precise watches, even a Rolex, cannot tell what time it really is. They measure seconds, minutes, and hours, yet they cannot mark the moments that matter most, the moments God ordains. My husband has said many times, “Even a Rolex won’t tell you what time it really is.” Humans experience time in three dimensions. We see the house today, and it may be gone tomorrow. We watch the seasons turn and note the years on our calendars. This is chronos , ordinary chronological time, the sequential measure of events that can be counted, observed, and tracked. It is transient, fleeting, passing like sand slipping through the fingers. Yet even as these things pass, the truth of their existence remains. The house was there, the season was full, the moment passed, and that truth, though unseen, is etern...

The Gospel of Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ

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God, YHWH, is eternal and self-existent, the source and Creator of all that is. He did not come into being, nor was He formed. He simply is, without beginning or end. From Him, and by His word, all things came into being, visible and invisible, ordered, purposeful, and good ( Genesis 1:1–3; Psalm 33:6; John 1:3 ). Every star, every creature, every human heartbeat, and every blade of grass exists because He willed it, spoke it, and breathed it into being. Even in the vastness of His eternity, He delights in the smallest details of our lives. Creation was not an accident, and life itself is a reflection of His wisdom and glory. Humanity was formed in His image, male and female, bearing His likeness , created to walk with Him in love, in trust, and in obedience ( Genesis 1:26–27; Genesis 2:7 ). God breathed into man the breath of life, and man became a living being, a nephesh (living being, life of a creature). Life was never meant to be solitary; it was relational, meant to reflect God...

The Whole Duty of Man

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  : Fear, Obey, Live - A teaching on Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 There is a weight in the words of Ecclesiastes, a solemn authority that comes at the very end of a lifetime spent observing, questioning, and reflecting on the mysteries of life: “ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man ” ( Ecclesiastes 12:13 ). These are not casual instructions or fleeting advice. They are the final insights of a man called Qoheleth (קֹהֶלֶת), a name that often goes unnoticed or misunderstood. Qoheleth means “ assembler ” or “one who gathers,” derived from the Hebrew root qahal , meaning assembly or congregation. This tells us something crucial about the voice we hear in Ecclesiastes: he speaks not to himself alone but to all who will listen. He gathers observations, experiences, and reflections, assembling them into a pattern meant to guide the hearts of those who seek meaning. Sometimes translations call him “ The Preacher ”...