Today's Reading: Joshua 1:8-9, let not this book of the teaching cease from your lips, but recite it day and night, so that you may observe faithfully all that is written in it. Only then will you prosper in your undertakings and only then will you be successful. I charge you: Be strong and resolute; do not be terrified or dismayed, for The Lord your God is with you wherever you go

Sticking To Scripture

This is to all Christians denominations or non-demoninations, stick to scripture. It's easy to be led into so many directions especially within ones own religion. Also, non-believers need an audience as well as believers. A non-believer cannot stand strong without followers and the difference in those of us who do believe can stand strong alone and impossible to be defeated when we roar in numbers. To minimize our stronghold is to separate us independently. This is why we must strengthen our own temple, our bodies, just like Christ did.

Stick with scripture and do not allow other religions outside the Judeo-Christian frame work be dismantle. Understand what Judeo-Christian really means and how we are define. I have been away, but now I am back......in the month of April we are going to explore the transition from God's servant Moses to his attendant Joshua, son of Nun, who became a fierce warrior only fearing God, leading the Israelites to the promise land. Read chapter 1 and reflect their transition to our transition of today's time. Explore the settings and compare today's setting. Ask the questions, why then and why now? Comment on what you find or stored this in your own memory library.

A Evangelize Story- Mixing of the Languages

First, I am a grocery clerk and I have access to many customers from various of background. If you read the wheel story, I recently learn that being a grocery clerk has it's perks...God perks. Yesterday, I saw an rabbi that I known from the local temple near my employment. We spoke and exchange words and went on with our daily lives. In my work station a man appears and I greeted him with a Good Morning and How are you doing? He was honest, he responded "not so well". I don't know why, but my response was for him to read the Gospel of Matthews. Matthews was on my mind, because it was on my to do list of many. I had just finished reading the first book of the series "The French Twist" by Sandra Byrd. She integrated Matthews gospel into her novel, They Can Eat Cake, a very good book by the way. However, I was taken back from the response from the man and even more to my response. He said, " I don't know about that", I am a Jew. I smile and said great, then read Isaiah 52:12, For you shall not go out in haste and you shall not go in flight, for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard." I told him that no matter what our situation may be today, we have an advantage, we have scriptures to turn and support us. I then let him know that what we call Old Testament was their Torah and writings and I address it in his own language of the word of God. I continue to further explained Isaiah scripture where the Lord of Host is at the head and God is at the tail of the Israelites, as they move throughout the regions, as the Lord leads and God himself protects them from behind. I then said that the Jewish people laid the foundation for us all. We continue to talk and he said that he has a Bible, but had not use it for sometime and he loved Isaiah, he would have to take a look at that verse. We ended our conversation and as he was leaving, he turned around and said, he was glad we talked.  I asked if he attended the local temple nearby, remembering the rabbi I just saw moments earlier. He said no, he was more a conservative Jew, I thank him for the conversation that we both shared.

Why I did not evangelize this Jewish man towards Christianity, or continue to address the Gospel of Matthew? I did..... I spoke his language, for if you remember any parts of Isaiah.... that Jewish text, announces the coming of our Lord, Immanuel!

Wow, It's been a long time....The Wheel

I am glad to be back. I love blogging, but to be honest...I have not found my footage yet. Blogging is alike lot photography, I should always take my journal/notepad and pen with me...I never know when a subject matter takes place or show an interesting twist. I now embark on another journey of many...but this time it's different- I am giving into God, leaping out on faith and turn my fear into blogging and being a servant of God.

During this absence and my many attempts of blogging, including having many blog names, I've learned more about the wheel of life. Yes, it is actually a wheel and it turns non-stop, no matter when, where, what, why and how...it just turn. It's function is to turn only, no scientific reasoning or mathematical calculation (well maybe some math), however it's function is to just turn, to get us from point A to point B. Jesus says to John in the Book of Revelation 1:8- "I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Amighty". All special events takes planning, preparing, settings and time, what makes this event any different and especially if it's for the end of our age. The wheel continues to turn because it has it's own destination appointed by God. In the meantime, God has an assignment for me to attend to and while the wheel turns, I need to be planning, preparing, setting the table for all those who thirst for the coming of the Almighty.

First, change must start with me...

How? Because every time I think about change, I think about the world. Then God says, my beloved, if you start seeing the change in you, so will the world.

"Here I Am"

Here I am, send me!

My, my, how many times have God heard that phrase, from the mouth of his children. I know that I have announced my claim to those precious words frequently. However, it goes more like this: Here I am Lord, send me, the next day: Okay Lord, Here I am send me and the next day: I am really ready now Lord, Here I am or is it Here I am Lord, send me. God is very loving, peaceful and graceful, because I am still on this planet witnessing to his Holy Name. I know that his seat has very deep marks each time he hears those words coming from my mouth, that he fills my spirit with his glory, just to shut me up.

However, continuing on to other truths, at some point in our life, we do reach Isaiah coined expression of “Here I am”. To get to that destination, we have to travel an unknown path, to “Here I am” then God puts us on a straight and narrow path to the Kingdom of God. Yes, we will wonder off, but that is in our nature and we will recognize signs that will informed us, we traveled this road before. It’s the same path that has gotten us to the “Here I am” versus the road to the Kingdom of God. Amazingly, we tend to want to stay on that back road, because we feel safe and we recognized previous engagements in our lives. Although, we know we need to move on, this road can lead us into dark remotes areas of our lives and we will never see what is on the other side. Therefore, we send out a long distance cry, “Here I am Lord, send me” and just as quickly as we were diverted off course, we have found ourselves back on track, towards the Kingdom of God.

I know that our repetitions in prayer may seem as a hindrance to God, that is a very false statement and if we believe that God is to busy for us, we are denying his unconditional love and grace inside our hearts. I speak from experience, I am writing this post, announcing those very words: Here I am Lord, send me. 

The Cup

 I listen to President Obama's speech last night on the War in Syria and I notice this fine print of communication. While everyone is advocating the communication we should instill into our congressional leaders, our government had successfully use an old technique from ancient times called "Art of Persuasion. The truth is, our government wants war, regardless if it's limited (another persuasive argument). Just like Pontius Pilate cleaned his hand of Jesus Christ blood, our government are cleaning their hands of this "strife" and allowing the liability to lie on the people of this nation. Regardless, of our stance in this Syrian conflict, I really don't know which choice is right or wrong. I only hope that the will of God, is the decision that we make. Sometimes in life we can make a difference and there are times, we have to allow the difference to be the choice of our lives. How do we begin to implement that process? I don't know, my only response is through prayer.