Super Quick Bible Study: Good vs. Decent

Posted on May 6, 2021 by A Whisper, Screamed

Good (tov), in the Hebrew, means “functioning correctly;” therefore, decent means “striving to function correctly.” Yahshua said, “No one is good, but the Father [Mark 10:18, Luke 18:19].” Be decent and encourage those who are.

Luke 13:24 Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

Matthew 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

Isaiah 35:8 And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.

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Allow Me the Grace to Be a Heretic for a Moment

Posted on May 3, 2021 by A Whisper, Screamed

In this Walk of the believer, there are times when we make mistakes, endure the wrong thing, or wrestle with the Scriptures. This is why grace from Yah is vital; it’s His permission to overcome as many stumbling blocks as we can. We also must have grace to let people work through any error we believe they have and trust that He will lead them to His understanding. In their process, we may learn something we had never considered before.

My theory about Paul outgrowing his position on women teaching men was wrong. According to Zondervan’s NASB ©1995, the epistle to the Romans (and sent to other congregations) was written in 57 AD, while 1 & 2 Timothy were penned in 66 AD, during his captivity. I will play the heretic and say that was Paul’s opinion, not Father Yah’s. We tend to forget none of these people in Scripture were perfect and were from an ancient culture. The progression of people towards what Yah has wanted from the start has never stopped.

Also, we have a bunch of details missing. Where are the letters he had responded to? What did these women in Romans and Philemon do to earn Paul’s praise? What about wives whose husbands were not believers? Why did Paul say treat the older women like mothers [1 Timothy 5:2]? What did Timothy’s mother and grandmother do to instill faith in Yah into the younger man and earn Paul’s praise [2 Timothy 1:5]?

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.

We should be praying for comprehension of what Yah wants, not relying on our own logic. The Bible is His Word, but He is the final authority, and the entire theme of Paul’s letters was for us to set aside the desires of flesh and soul in order to become Spirit-led [Romans 6:14, Romans 8:14, Galatians 5:18]. Or, was he wrong there as well? Who actually believes this?

I am going deepen my heresy. For the brave, take this to the Lord in prayer. To figure out what women are required to do is found in the behavior of His Most Holy Spirit. Both the words for spirit, ruach (Hebrew) and pnema (Greek) are both female nouns. The Holy Spirit is His Helper and our Guide, full of knowledge, wisdom, and gifts for us from the Father. Could this be a clue to what the Father expects from women? I do not mean trying to be the Holy Spirit; don’t twist this.

Colossians 3:2 (Literal) The [things] above, set [your] heart-minds on not on the [things] that are on the earth.

Do we really know what this means? A scant few have had the vision of the third heaven, so what should our minds be grasping here? I have read what others have interpreted, but I sense something is missing.

Hebrews 10:25 …not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

What does one do when the congregations nearby fail to have Him in their midst? At the time whomever wrote this, they still had the Holy Spirit strong, but persecution was spreading. Also, there are times when Yah wants to teach us Himself, as He did with Paul and others. These are more reasons why seeking His knowledge and wisdom is important to our spiritual health.

Job 37:24 Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.

Matthew 11:25 At that time Yahshua declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to little children.”

Psalm 40:4
Blessed is the man who has made YHVH his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

To be holy is to be set apart for His purpose. Father Yah is His Own Purpose, therefore holy by nature. A component in holiness is be vulnerable, to expose yourself as He did in creating beings that could rebel against Him. Join me as I expose parts on myself by His direction. May He strengthen me in my weakness. Amen.

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What Does Yah’s Order look Like?

Posted on April 30, 2021 by A Whisper, Screamed

Yah has an order
It’s called flow
Flow like water
Over rocks and dams
Flow like air
Over barriers and homes

They both wear down
They both move mountains
They both give life
They both take life
They both can stagnant
Depending on the flow

We, with Yah, can flow
Without, we go stale
We have to move
We have to grow
We have to clean
We have to multiply
We have to send
His Will and Word
To others, never stop
Amen

Isaiah 58:11 YHWH will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Song of Solomon 4:15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

Isaiah 41:17 The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, YHWH, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

John 4:14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.

John 7:38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: “Streams of living water will flow from within him.”

Ezekiel 39:29 And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares YHWH Elohim.

Zechariah 12:10 Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

Joel 2:28 And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

Acts 2:17-18
And it will be in the last days, YHWH says,
I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,
and your young men will see visions,
and your elders will dream dreams.
And even upon My servants,
and upon My handmaidens,
I will pour out of My Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.

Job 32:8 (NKJV) But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.

Job 27:3 as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of Eloah remains in my nostrils…

Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow, nor do they reap, nor do they gather into barns, and your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 9:26 (ESV) So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.

Ephesians 2:1-2 (ESV) And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience…

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Super Quick Bible Study: Father, Direct My Way to You

Posted on April 26, 2021 by A Whisper, Screamed

Psalm 37:23 The steps of a man are ordered by YHVH, and He delights in his way.

Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from YHVH.

Proverbs 16:9 A man’s heart plans his course, but YHVH determines his steps.

Proverbs 19:21 Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of YHVH will prevail.

Proverbs 20:24 A man’s steps are from YHVH, so how can anyone understand his own way?

Jeremiah 10:23 I know, O YHVH, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

Psalm 119:133-135
Order my steps according to Your word,
and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Deliver me from the oppression of man,
so I will keep Your precepts.
Make Your face to shine upon Your servant,
and teach me Your statutes.

OK, I think I get it. Yah wants to come along as we walk the path to Him that He has laid. Although we may desire to be willing “vessels… fit for the Master’s use.” [2 Timothy 2:21], our mission is to become like Christ so we can rule alongside Him [2 Timothy 2:12, 1 Corinthians 6:3, Revelation 3:21], meaning we have to make decisions through reasoning under His influence.

2 Timothy 2:15 (NKJV) Be diligent [practice eagerly] to present yourself approved to Yah, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Ephesians 1:13-14 (ESV) In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of His glory.

James 1:21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly receive the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

Reasoning correctly is a practice; He promised to help us achieve it and give grace when we make a mistake.

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Super Quick Bible Study: Paul Has Been Misunderstood

Posted on April 26, 2021 by A Whisper, Screamed

2 Peter 3:16 [Paul] writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

And they still are! This is why we need to pray before, during, and after reading Scripture, in particular Paul’s letters. Remember, we are only getting fractions of the actual conversation (in fact, where are the letters he was responding to?)

For example, I could argue Paul overgrew his aversion to women teaching, since he heaped praises on women in Philemon 1:2 and Romans 16 (his last letter). How do we know if it was either his opinion (not of Yah), or a response to the behavior of former pagans? Take everything, everything, to the Father in the earnest seeking of truth. How many believers actually do that?

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Because of Adam’s Sin

Posted on April 19, 2021 by A Whisper, Screamed

Nothing on this plane of existence is perfect.
Nothing on this earth is without flaws.
There will never be a perfect Biblical translation.
There will never be a perfect text in Greek or Hebrew.
This is why we have to rely on Our Father.
This is why He says, “Ask… Seek… Knock…”

If one has no access to Scripture,
If one has no time for formal worship,
If one has no proper place to praise,
Will one’s loyalty and love stand?
Will one’s heart hold Him?
Will one wax cold?

1 Corinthians 13:9-13 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect comes, that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. For now, we see in a mirror, darkly [in obscurity]; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. But now faith, hope, and love, these three remain; and the greatest of these is love.

2 Corinthians 4:18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.

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A Long-Standing Action to a Prayer

Posted on April 13, 2021 by A Whisper, Screamed

A couple of Sundays ago, I awoke early, knowing I had need to pray before doing anything. Instead, I grabbed my Kindle in order to check the weather. The second it left its stand-by mode, a fit of hiccups hit me. I hate hiccups!

Tossing the Kindle aside, I stood and apologized to Our Father for not reaching out to Him first. I left the bedroom and sat to the top of the stairs as to not awaken the others, pleading, “I can’t pray and have hiccups at the same time. Please take them away.” They stopped, and I praised Him.

Why would I praise Him for that?

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer…

Years ago, I asked Him to correct me whenever He needed to and not to give up on me; I will get it in time, and You will get the credit. I have refreshed that petition many times since.

1 John 3:21–22 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

Father has interrupted my impure thoughts in many different ways: my phone ringing off the hook; shifting my mind onto something else, like a past memory; unexpected human interaction; etc. He has stopped arguments (my favorite is the interruption), reassured me when a rare panicked state touched me, and gotten on my case if He felt I wasn’t praying enough (usually through some physical issue).

James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

If you are having trouble interacting with Him, maybe He waiting for you do ask for things that He wants before blessing you.

Psalm 34:4 I sought YHWH, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 27:8 My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O Yah, I will seek.

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The True Meaning of “No Respecter of Persons”

Posted on April 10, 2021 by A Whisper, Screamed

The often-quoted passage of “…God is no respecter of persons…” has been used to remind people that in the grand scheme of things, good or bad, they are equal to everyone else in Father Yah’s eyes.

Oh, really?

Acts 10:34 (KJV) Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, “Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons…”

(ESV) Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism…”

(Literal) Having opened then Peter the mouth, he said “Upon truth, I understand that the God is not taking faces…”

Let’s break down the Greek word, prosópolémptés (taking faces). It is a compound of prosopon (face, surface, appearance, mask) and lambanó (with certainty, to take or receive). Prosopon can be further broken into two words, prós (going towards) and óps (eye, face). This word led to the words persona (Latin) and person (English), which both can mean a character. Even if we use the phrase “receiving characters” it still does not clarify its meaning. At first, I thought it meant “not taking people at face value,” but it did not jive with the next verse:

Acts 10:35 (KJV) But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

(Literal) …but [rather] in every ethnic group, the [one who] fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him.

Since Peter was a Jew, we must search the OT for uses of the word face. Every noun and verb in Hebrew have active symbolic meanings. In this instance, the phrase “seek [insert noun or possessive pronoun] face,” which appears hundreds of times, means to pursue Yah’s (or someone’s) attention or favor. The whole of Acts 10 revealed that it was time to reach out to the righteous non-Jews, so that the promise made to Abraham could be fulfilled. See Genesis 12:3, Genesis 18:18, Genesis 22:18,Genesis 26:4, Genesis 28:14, Psalm 72:17, Acts 3:25, Galatians 3:8.

The favor of YHWH now also belongs to the Gentiles for as long as they seek His Will and do it.

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Super Quick Bible Study: Father Yah Wanted You

Posted on April 3, 2021 by A Whisper, Screamed

Psalm 139:13-16 (NASV)
For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to You,
For I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth,
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.

Psalm 22:10 From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my El.

Jeremiah 1:5a (ESV) [YHVH said,] “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you…”

Isaiah 44:2a (ESV) Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you…

Job 31:15 (ESV) Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb?

Isaiah 49:1 (ESV) Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. YHVH called me from the womb, from the body of my mother He named my name.

Luke 12:7 (NASV) [Yahshua said,] “Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. [Matthew 10:30] Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.”

Matthew 6:26 (and Luke 12:24) [Yahshua said,] “Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”

Romans 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren…

Ephesians 1:4-5 (ESV) …even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will…

Ephesians 1:11 In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will…

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Our #1 Pastime

Posted on March 26, 2021 by A Whisper, Screamed

I am convinced that our primary form of entertainment should be Scriptural analysis with prayer sprinkled throughout, whether alone, as a family, or in a group setting. Notice, I said primary, not only. Yah doesn’t mind our leisure time, just care about His Desire at all times. Wouldn’t that be a form of “entering into His rest?”

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