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Gotta have faith

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:27:14 +0000

The last couple of months have been hard on me. Today I was chatting in one of the chat rooms I go to asking for prayer for my Father in Law, and Granny. I was pming with a friend who I have chatted with for about 10 years. Man I been online forever. She a sweet woman and I was sharing with her some of the things Craig and I are going through.
I have been with out a job since my mom in law passed away, and haven’t found anything yet. I have started to wonder if I will ever find any business jobs that want me. Didn’t help today that I got a rejection letter in the mail.
When I was in the chat room someone had a word and I wonder if it might have been for me but I haven’t been asking G-d anything or to make a way because I don’t feel anything is yet impossible. I am frustraited because I know I am a good worker. Now to hear granny is in the hopsital, Hubby dad feeling suicidle and me with out work and knowing if anything happens to granny there is going to be no way to go down and see her. Well I am sure we can make away even if it means trading in a few games I enjoy, or a few movies I enjoy. I know I have to trust the L-rd. I know everything will work out and I just have to find what that is..

One gone other still here

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:57:47 +0000

This morning my hubby dad called me. I really am at a lost as to how to help him and not make matter worst. I wish I had words that could remove all his pain and keep him from feeling the grief he is expressing and I wish he come and stay here with family that will love him even when he being angry and lashing out. I understand it hard to deal with death of a love one and i can’t even begin to imagine what dad is going through but I know he hurting and in pain.
Losing a love one is one of the hardest things a person can go through. My husband and I are still dealing with grief and I know it safe to say we are all probably in the anger stage of our grief. I know his mom is with Yeshua, and she is no longer in pain but that don’t keep us from missing mom or wanting her here with us. I am worried about dad, and I don’t know how to fix it how to make it better. No words are going to heal this pain he has or fill the void he feels since losing mom. I know being there listening to him is important and does a lot of good, I know it makes him feel better at least for that time being.
This morning dad called me and told me he didn’t want to go on living and felt like ending it the other night. This isn’t the first time I have had this converstation. I am worried that he might decide not to call once, and that will be a pain I don’t want my hubby to feel. Dad has been like this before when Craig was growing up. I could think of no bible verse or even a verse in Psalms to share with dad.
I ended up telling dad that we loved him and if anything where to happen to him we just wouldn’t be able to handle that. I told him some other stuff, but can’t remember exactly what I said. By the end of the conversation I had him laughing a couple of times.
How do I help dad, I know words won’t fix this. Nothing I will say will take a way his pain. I wish I could protect both dad and my husband from pain like this.
All I can do is prayer for dad, and keep looking at the Kaddish (Mourners Prayer) and look for hope with the Father.
We have offered dad several times to stay with myself and hubby for a while until he is feeling better. I am hoping eventually we will be able to convince him to move into a apartment building for seniors so he can have friends more his age.
Last night I found out Granny was brought to the hospital. She fall… Dad wanted to call her so I told him that she was in the hospital, because of a fall.

Sabbath Part 6

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:52:32 +0000

Looks like we got all the scriptures, which I felt were relevant for this part of my study, so I may not use too many scripture references to speak about how the Sabbath was changed to Sunday. Every one who knows me well knows that I believe the Sabbath is still the same as when G-d first established it and it didn’t change with Yeshua resurrection. G-d does not change and will never change so I believe when he spoke that the Sabbath would be the same from generation to generation, so this doesn’t seem changeable.
At http://www.ucgstp.org/lit/gn/gn064/code_impact.htm I found this information,
For example, at the Council of Nicea (A.D. 325), church authorities essentially replaced the biblical Passover with Easter, a popular holiday rooted in ancient springtime fertility celebrations. “Endorsing this change, Constantine announced: “It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast [Easter] we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled their hands with enormous sin, and are, therefore, deservedly afflicted with blindness of soul . . . Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd” (Eusebius, Life of Constantine 3, 18-19, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1979, second series, Vol. 1, pp. 524-525).”
Another bit of interesting information is that Constantine murdered several people for which it seemed there was no real reason like his wife and kids, and other people in his family.
So why was he allowed to have the Passover Sabbath Changed to the Sunday after the Jewish holiday before this point it seemed that Christian where following the Jewish Passover, they where obeying the time of G-d. Before this, Constantine managed to have the Sabbath change to Sunday. Now it is very clear he hated anything Jewish and was very anti Semitic.
Now lets make this clear my Brother and Sister in Yeshua, Christian do not Replace the Jewish people, they will be brought back into the fold once the total number of Gentiles are brought in. Now I know there are a few Jewish people who are believers in Yeshua as the Messiah. As with everyone G-d reveals himself to those he wants when he wants too. Christian needs to fix the damage from many centuries that where done against the Jewish people because of hate and jealousy. I think most of their attacks have been brought on by Jealousy. Yes, I have Jewish heritage in my family, and sometimes when my Christian Brother and Sister hear about it or find out about it they treat me rather differently. Sometimes they say ugly things, and they are wrong, I know they say things out of simple ignorance.
Know we see one place were a mere man changed a Sabbath of G-d and this is dangerous what he doing. We are warned in the Bible to not be lead a stray and that pretty much what happened with G-d Sabbath.

Season

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:12:11 +0000

Today I don’t feel like much researching for my Sabbath post. I have so much information at the ready and I just need to figure out how I want to put it on to my site. I want my reader to be able to follow it but at the same time not being overwhelming and I think the last postings I did was a lot of reading and stuff to take in at one time. Might have been nice if I broke it up a bit, but I didn’t.
So today I am thinking about the season. I woke up this morning at about 5 maybe 6 am I can’t remember but I was as tired as could be and just couldn’t sleep, I woke up with a nightmare. I not sure if it was a nightmare or just my brain having some halloween fun since, I have watch some halloween movies with hubby for reviewing. Let me clear the air, we do not celebrate halloween, we did growing up because we didn’t know any better. Yes I have fond memories of halloween but that’s because my Birthday is the 27th of this month, and when we went tricker treating as kids everyone would give me extra candy or presents for my birthday so I will always remember this time of year as a fun time. Sorry I know, but at the same time with the wisdom of what Halloween is I know it not okay to celebrate, so I don’t.
The leaves are such a pretty color now, but there still a lot of green lift in the leaves, we had our first dusting of Snow on sunday. What dad got stayed around, I might have to think about getting a new pair of UGG Mayfaire. I can’t believe it’s already time to start pulling out the winter stuff.. Fall doesn’t seem to stick around that long.
I love having my B-day here in the fall because the leaves are always so pretty and taking drives are nice, eventhough I’d rather a lot of people not know my birthday. I am not against celebrating it, but haven’t been big into celebrating it after my dad got sick and passed away from cancer. There a lot I’d like to talk to him about expecially since this birthday didn’t go as well as I like but hey I guess it went better then if I went ahead and got involved in a scam. So I guess that was my b-day present from the government keeping me from getting my self into trouble, and my husband took me out to dinner on my birthday, and bought me a book which I am already done reading but he got it for me on Thursday.
The BBB helped keep me out of trouble, good thing I called them! Now I just am at a lost, maybe it time to go up to the MN workforce here and see what they have, but not sure what they have. I been thinking about going back to my home health care job from several years ago, but haven’t decided yet.

Sabbath Part 5

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:25:48 +0000

The Last verse on the Sabbath I found was Hebrew 4 9There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; 10for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. 11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.
Roman 3:21, But now quiet apart from Torah, G-d’s way of making people righteous in His sight has been made clear—although the Torah and Prophets give their witness to it as well.
Now I have went through the entire bible and still have found no proof that the Sabbath is now on the 1st day of the week. I am not disagreeing that it’s the L-rds day but I am disagreeing that it is the Sabbath and the day we are called to worship. I am sorry Yeshua did not change it when he rose from the dead and visited his Disciples. I understand he rose on the first day but I am sorry that doesn’t mean he changed it to the first day.
If Yeshua would have changed the Sabbath to the first day of the week, wouldn’t he have done it some time during his ministry time, Yeshua tells us he didn’t come to abolish the Torah, wouldn’t change the Sabbath kind of being Abolishing the Torah? So how was the Sabbath changed to Sunday, I will get in to this in my next few posts but right now, it’s time for me to take a break. G-d didn’t change the Sabbath, Neither did Yeshua. I will explain who and how it happened. I was surprised when I learned this, I used to believe you could worship on either day but now I do not feel this way and believe strongly that we are to honor G-ds Holy days including the Sabbath, feasts and festivals. So with this I will pick up with Part six on the outside sources of where the Sabbath got changed.

Sabbath Part 4

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:17:28 +0000

In Luke 23: 56Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.
If Yeshua changed the Sabbath why are his followers resting on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandments. This shows me that Yeshua followers where still following the Sabbath.
In Acts 13: 13From Paphos, Paul and his companions sailed to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem. 14From Perga they went on to Pisidian Antioch. On the Sabbath they entered the synagogue and sat down. 15After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue rulers sent word to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have a message of encouragement for the people, please speak.”
16Standing up, Paul motioned with his hand and said: “Men of Israel and you Gentiles who worship God, listen to me! 17The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers; he made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt, with mighty power he led them out of that country, 18he endured their conduct[a] for about forty years in the desert, 19he overthrew seven nations in Canaan and gave their land to his people as their inheritance. 20All this took about 450 years.
This clearly states on the Sabbath they where in the Synagogue, so they must still be observing G-d’s laws about the Torah.
Acts 32: 42As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people invited them to speak further about these things on the next Sabbath. 43When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.
44On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. 45When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was saying.
46Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. 47For this is what the Lord has commanded us:
” ‘I have made you[g] a light for the Gentiles,
that you[h] may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’[i]”
48When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
This is showing that there where both Jewish and Gentile Believers in the Synagogue on the day of the Sabbath to Worship G-d, here again there is no word about changing the Sabbath to the first day of the week. I haven’t even gotten to part of what I want and this is getting long sorry, good thing I decided to break it up some to make it easier on my readers. So still, we are worshiping on the Sabbath.
In Acts 16:3 On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. 14One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. 15When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
The disciples where looking for a place to pray, but instead they found them selves ministering which is something G-d wants on his Sabbath. Yes Prayer is good but I think it important that once again it mentions the Sabbath.
In Colossian 2: 16Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
The writer of Colossians didn’t want these believers to be made to feel bad because of the Sabbath or the New Moons, or festival services they celebrate. The gentiles of that time did not worship G-d, they worship false gods, and did not honor the same Sabbath the Jews or early believers would have followed. I do not believe the Gentiles celebrated the new moon unless the worship the moon goddess but now G-d had a specific service for every new moon. So this gentiles probably would have been harassed for worshiping G-d on different days then their gentile counterpart. That is why the writer is telling them do not be discourage. He is encouraging them to hold on to the Sabbath, which G-d gave them. So G-d here has a good diet supplements
for us and our faith. I think this is probably the verse I need to take heart to when it comes to my Christain friends who don’t like the fact I follow the Sabbaths.

Sabbath Part 3

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:09:24 +0000

Mark 16:1 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. 2Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”
4But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. 5As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
6″Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’ ”
8Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
Once again, it is pointed out After the Sabbath. I still don’t see Yeshua resurrection as being change of Sabbath. Why is it so important that Yeshua raised after the Sabbath, could it maybe be that it’s important for us to understand He didn’t raise until after the Sabbath. I don’t know why it said so often in our bible but I know there is a fairly important reason for it. I wonder if it is the same reason why many of our electronics having warning labels on them, every electronic I have purchased including those wholesale electronics I have all have warnings about not opening them. Maybe G-d is trying to show us, His Sabbath hasn’t change and should not be changed here. This is the only reason I can think of why it being said “The Day after the Sabbath.” Later in this chapter
12Afterward Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the country. 13These returned and reported it to the rest; but they did not believe them either.
14Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
15He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. 16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 17And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
19After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. 20Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.
Yeshua didn’t tell them here that the Sabbath was changed neither he did rebuke them for a lack of faith.

Sabbath Part 2

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:04:01 +0000

In Numbers 15: 32 while the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, 34 and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him. 35 Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.” 36 So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Now days we will not be put to death for not honoring the L-rds day but it’s still important to take note of this. Through the Torah or Old Testament G-d was very adamant his Sabbath be observed. G-d knows our hearts and He still loves us even if we have the wrong Sabbath, I know he understand that when people are mislead sometimes it because of man. Unlike us G-d don’t need Nikon binoculars, he sees everything, and is everywhere. G-d loves us but he did give us a Sabbath.
Moving on to what my Christian friends call the New Testament.
Matthew 28:1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
Why does the writer of Matthew says “After the Sabbath” This to me shows me that the writer and the people who followed the Messiah still worship on Saturday the 7th days of the week.
Matthew 1After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
2There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.
5The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”
8So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 9Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. 10Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”
The Angel didn’t say the Sabbath was changed neither. But he did instruct them what they needed to do. Yeshua does a lot of his Teaching on the Sabbath, the Bible is clear when he is teaching on the Sabbath. So doesn’t look like Yeshua changed the Sabbath during his time of ministry neither.
This verse I hear often as a change of Sabbath but I think that maybe his disciples where simply hungry and taking what they needed, it doesn’t say they cooked it just simply picked it.
Mark 2: 23One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
25He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”
27Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
Yeshua disciples pretty much did the same thing as David did when he was hungry, David had broken the law and went unpunished also because he and his companions needed food and G-d saw that need and fulfilled it.

Sabbath Part 1

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:51:23 +0000

Lately I have had some problems in a couple of chat rooms. My Christian friends haven’t been very friendly to deal with but that okay nothing new there and well I forgive them. I do not expect them to follow the Sabbath the way I do, because I realize most do not know how the Sunday Sabbath actually came about. What I do know is what G-d said in Exodus I think the 7th day Sabbath is very important to him because he mad it clear in Exodus 20: 8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
I think this is important because he tells us he created for the first 6 days and then he rested. Why would G-d feel the need to give us this day of rest and then change it to Sunday, that don’t make much sense to me because G-d created the Heaven and the Earth. I have found many blessing in the Sabbath of G-d, more blessing then a good magnetic bracelet
I know some of my Christians friends will bring up the day of Yeshua resurrection as being proof of the Sabbath change, I disagree with this interoperation of scripture and will get to that in a little while.
G-d really must have felt this was important here is something I didn’t notice in Exodus until just now. I am serious I just realized this; I guess searching on the Sabbath might end up being fun.
Exodus 31:12, 12 Then the LORD said to Moses, 13 “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy.
G-d says from generation to come to me this don’t make me think that he is planning on changing it once he gives us his Messiah.
Here just a few short verses later he repeats himself, not even a chapter a few short verse. I think when G-d does this he wants our attention.
14 ” ‘Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from his people. 15 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death? 16 The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant.
A lasting covenant to me this doesn’t seem to be one, which is going to change. Why would G-d stress it so much in the Old Testament and then turn around and change it on the day Yeshua rose.

Roles in family

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:33:24 +0000

In every family each person has a role. Sometimes family get a black-sheep one who is always in trouble. I wasn’t the black sheep in my family sometimes they might of wonder with all the trouble I found my self in to for unwise choices. I owe my outcome to my grandma because she was there when everyone else wanted to leave. I also played the same role in her family with my uncle we lived with. I been married a little over 2 years, and since I been married I have been playing the peace maker. I guess those role fits me almost perfectly because I am always interceding for people. Sometimes my husband and I feel like the family and some of the close friends of the family expect us to be superheroes or something. They seem to think e can fix all the problems. For the most we do pretty good at solving problems, and I am pretty good at keeping the peace in the family.
When mom got sick with the stroke I threw my hands up with his sister, I got sick of interceding for her and her lieing, and saying ugly hurtful things to mom and the rest of us. Mom passed away and now everyone is expecting hubby and I to fix everything it a little overwhelming for both of us at time.
I know Yeshua has told us how to act to one another, and I know what the Torah instructs us to, so once again I find myself playing this same role and trying to understand everyone side. I think my husband loves and hates this aspect of my personality, and I can understand because I don’t always look at his side and then side with him. I try to look at the other person side and understand where they are coming from is is hard.
G-d told our Husbands to love us the way Yeshua Loved the Church. I think this can be impossible with a wife like me, I am not a horrible wife but I am probably a hard person to live with because I am always defending or trying to bring peace into situations. G-d has given us all gifting, and sometimes those gifts are harder to love and want.
Last night his sister called because of Dad getting upset with her boyfriend or husband who lift her. Mom had given this guy something according to her and dad wanted it back and she said no, okay I understand if it’s a gift it should stay with the person. Now at the same time I understand dad, he wants to defend his daughter. No matter how much he gets mad or upset with his daughter he still wants to protect her and keep her name from being smeared. I told her to give it a few days and let dad calm down. I think right now everyone in that situation is running on high emotions and we attack those who are closest to. I am not saying her boyfriend or her haven’t done horrible things but in a way I see what dad doing as a fatherly thing to do. It’s his child and you know dad still loves her even through he said stupid things but so did she. I explained to her you guys have both spoken out of angry and give it some time.
Dad is not like G-d who when He gets angry he don’t stay stupid things, dad don’t have that same control as G-d. G-d no matter what we do he still there, yes he does convict us and allow us to suffer consequences for our behavior. My husband sister I believe she needs to fall flat on her face and not be bailed out from dad or the rest of the family, she needs to learn the hard way how to manage her money and family. I know this is mean but she been bailed out a lot and I believe there is a time when G-d steps aside from us as his children and says, okay learn the hard way. Since we are normally the type who picks the hard way to learn things it happens more often then I’d like to admit. I have learned plenty of things the hard way, and now I know better kindof like good used tape drives
. I have now said okay my role is peace maker, intercessor for the family, so I will have to get along with sis, and pray for her and Pray G-d helps me and gives me the words to speak to her and the rest of them.