In my time of making preparations and listening to the admonition of those who are "trusting the Lord" I have been torn at times. It is easy in our society to get carried away with simple sustainability and start "needing bigger barns." I'm thankful when I get side tracked in that direction, that is exactly the Scripture passage I hear.
Y'hshuwah certainly set the example of how the Kingdom Economy actually works. We are given increase to share. There are three things I've been instructed to reserve a supply, beyond my business inventory, and gardening. Those three are of course to not waste garden produce, but I've been instructed to store coats, and sheets. I can and freeze every summer until frost wipes out the garden, and this year I'm attempting to maintain fresh produce through the winter, although so far, it doesn't look like an easy or promising task. Could be, "to everything there is a season' applies to the absence of fresh produce in winter, at least for me in my location at this time. I'll keep you posted on that one.
The other two items have come into reality in interesting ways. For whatever reason, my family who is farther north has continuously offered coats "nobody can wear." It seems my Mom always brings them in the summer when the thrift stores prefer to not take those items for donation. Thrift stores only have so much storage space and often they are just inundated with old clothes that really should have been relegated to rag bags. So, as the coats have been offered in July and August, they have been stored to be given away when the winter need arises. So far that has worked in an amazing way! The needs actually "present themselves" and some are kept in reserve based upon the words of Messiah that we should pray the fleeing not be in winter. Since our society seems "hell bent" to do things in opposition to the Word of YHWH, I feel the ensuing calamities may leave some folks fleeing who just may need coats when they arrive.
Sheets, on the other hand are stored for a future time. It's specific, for bedding, curtains, and sewing. Sheets serve so many useful purposes. They may not be the print or result in the style of choice, but they can certainly keep the draft down . . .
I just keep seeing, over and over, in headlines, in dreams and visions, that the true "currency" in the last days is going to be basic supplies, food, soap, and clothing. We don't need to hoard, we just need to have enough to share [sow] that YHWH can give the increase. It will be so interesting when we do "community up" to see what others have been instructed and gifted to do!
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
The Cost of Compromise
As the ominous haze and fog of "affordable health care act" becomes enforced, I believe we have to go beyond the current administration to actually place the blame. This horror has become mandated law, but it couldn't have happened without the choices of dependency we, as a society, have been making for years.
Let's face a very unappealing fact. We place our trust in insurance and the wisdom of man, and call it "of G-d." Should we look at this a bit closer and question. Maybe if modern medicine and insurance were of G-d, this leader who the religious conservatives loathe would not have managed to put it in place.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield has always been a pet peeve of mine. The cross has clear significance in Scripture, in regard to healing; and shield is used as a reference to faith! How did we not see this? No eyes to see, perhaps . . .
We can choose to blame the White House, Congress, even the Supreme Court, but . . . if those quoting Isaiah 53:5, were actually living it, this could not have happened. If we had realized years ago, that "inviting Jesus into our heart" was the same thing as "YHWH's Torah written on our heart . . ." we would have been living according to Exodus 15:26.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: Hebrews 8:10
Y'hshuwah clearly stated they that are whole, need not a physician. Three times it's recorded! And He promised to make us whole . . .
But when Y'hshuwah heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Matthew 9:12
When Y'hshuwah heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.Mark 2:17
And Y'hshuwah answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. Luke 5:31
Remember the woman with the issue of blood recorded in Mark 5:25-34? Also recorded in Matthew 9 and Luke 8. Three times once again! There are three specifics mentioned. She had given physicians all that she had but was no better, G-d had clearly not used physicians, and she had faith to be made whole! Although mandated health care was not mentioned, she had lived a long time with the problem before placing her full faith in touching the hem of His garment.
Hem or boarder of garment reference: also found in Numbers 15:38.
Let's face a very unappealing fact. We place our trust in insurance and the wisdom of man, and call it "of G-d." Should we look at this a bit closer and question. Maybe if modern medicine and insurance were of G-d, this leader who the religious conservatives loathe would not have managed to put it in place.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield has always been a pet peeve of mine. The cross has clear significance in Scripture, in regard to healing; and shield is used as a reference to faith! How did we not see this? No eyes to see, perhaps . . .
We can choose to blame the White House, Congress, even the Supreme Court, but . . . if those quoting Isaiah 53:5, were actually living it, this could not have happened. If we had realized years ago, that "inviting Jesus into our heart" was the same thing as "YHWH's Torah written on our heart . . ." we would have been living according to Exodus 15:26.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: Hebrews 8:10
Y'hshuwah clearly stated they that are whole, need not a physician. Three times it's recorded! And He promised to make us whole . . .
But when Y'hshuwah heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Matthew 9:12
When Y'hshuwah heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.Mark 2:17
And Y'hshuwah answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. Luke 5:31
Remember the woman with the issue of blood recorded in Mark 5:25-34? Also recorded in Matthew 9 and Luke 8. Three times once again! There are three specifics mentioned. She had given physicians all that she had but was no better, G-d had clearly not used physicians, and she had faith to be made whole! Although mandated health care was not mentioned, she had lived a long time with the problem before placing her full faith in touching the hem of His garment.
Hem or boarder of garment reference: also found in Numbers 15:38.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Come on Out
For anyone who is still wondering and following any of the new and improved teachings of the "Prosperity Gospel," I have a word for you . . .
Unless you are the speaker who will receive the proceeds in the collection plate, it doesn't work. That is not to say, YHWH doesn't bless His servants, I'm talking to and about the people who are following the men speaking to itching ears, rather than following Y'hshuwah.
Sometimes through the week, as I ponder an article for this particular section of the Goshen Gazette, I wonder if I sound like I'm beating a dead horse or just being unnecessarily negative, but then I am shown another example of the need to shout the warning and proclaim the alternative. Our society now has things so backward, "alternative" is actually the original plan. All the way back to Abraham, the trading was in livestock and gifts, not money. The one time "money" is referenced in the account of Abraham, it was actually silver in exchange for land, burial land to be specific. There's no indication that Noah made any purchases in building the ark, and clearly money was a non-issue immediately following the flood.
As I watch our society go cashless, while so many become more dependent, I'm troubled. I've been told in no uncertain terms by believers that I just don't see the situation for what it is regarding government assistance. Oh, but I do see it! There is a slippery slope as we combine "G-d and country" that our Creator never ordained. "Country" is exalting itself to be the provider, when YHWH has already stated He provides. While cashless is a very short distance from cards to chips to . . .
I pray all of us get a real glimpse of His plan regarding the talents He placed in each of us, that we might truly enjoy the work of our hands and the product of our labor.
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of G-d. Ecclesiastes of Holy Scripture
Unless you are the speaker who will receive the proceeds in the collection plate, it doesn't work. That is not to say, YHWH doesn't bless His servants, I'm talking to and about the people who are following the men speaking to itching ears, rather than following Y'hshuwah.
Sometimes through the week, as I ponder an article for this particular section of the Goshen Gazette, I wonder if I sound like I'm beating a dead horse or just being unnecessarily negative, but then I am shown another example of the need to shout the warning and proclaim the alternative. Our society now has things so backward, "alternative" is actually the original plan. All the way back to Abraham, the trading was in livestock and gifts, not money. The one time "money" is referenced in the account of Abraham, it was actually silver in exchange for land, burial land to be specific. There's no indication that Noah made any purchases in building the ark, and clearly money was a non-issue immediately following the flood.
As I watch our society go cashless, while so many become more dependent, I'm troubled. I've been told in no uncertain terms by believers that I just don't see the situation for what it is regarding government assistance. Oh, but I do see it! There is a slippery slope as we combine "G-d and country" that our Creator never ordained. "Country" is exalting itself to be the provider, when YHWH has already stated He provides. While cashless is a very short distance from cards to chips to . . .
I pray all of us get a real glimpse of His plan regarding the talents He placed in each of us, that we might truly enjoy the work of our hands and the product of our labor.
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of G-d. Ecclesiastes of Holy Scripture
Monday, October 7, 2013
The Diffrerence
My life is very intertwined, and it wasn't always that way, as a matter of fact, I was quite disconnected and far from intertwined for years, personally. My life was distinctly cubbyholed with virtually no segue between. Now, my life flows around my service to YHWH and connects to that fact constantly. My business is either an extension of ministry or a support of it. The homestead enables me to not have to work in town or be dependent upon disability income, as well as preparing to share with those who would like to be less dependent on the developing new world order.
In conversations, I continue to hear and contribute the same basic information. Life is getting expensive! No doubt the cost of living appears to be just beyond the earning power of the majority, but is that because we have redefined the actual true cost of living? In reading earlier American history, pre-America European history, and of course back to Biblical history, we have definitely redefined "need." Our cost of living seems to include several extras we now consider essential to our every day living. The old saying about "keeping up with the Joneses" seems to have blurred into obsolescence with so many programs to "level the playing field." Life isn't a playing field and it's not about leisure time.
I think the real problem began when relaxation after a hard day's work, was replaced with the "need" for entertainment when the mantra became "work smarter not harder!" I'm not claiming to be the hardest working person around, but I do know, by the end of my average day, I want to relax, not be entertained, or worse go somewhere to unwind! We used to work hard enough in our every day life that we "unwound" as we went! Work is about a meaningful accomplishment, not a job to fill time so we could afford to kill time!
The economy of the kingdom does include or allow for the currency of our present system. Abraham bought a field with measured silver. Messiah had the disciples catch a fish with a coin in it's mouth. Torah addresses the topic of wages. We are called to work and earn and be in debt to no one, so paying our bills in a timely manner is as much of our witness as teaching and preaching. The situation today, though, is there is a day coming in which the currency will be replaced by a mark that is of eternal consequence. The sooner we sort through what we actually need vs. what we think we want will make this next question simpler.
If we worked hard enough to "wind down" through the work day, to enjoy a relaxing evening and look forward to a day of rest, would we need so much entertainment?
In conversations, I continue to hear and contribute the same basic information. Life is getting expensive! No doubt the cost of living appears to be just beyond the earning power of the majority, but is that because we have redefined the actual true cost of living? In reading earlier American history, pre-America European history, and of course back to Biblical history, we have definitely redefined "need." Our cost of living seems to include several extras we now consider essential to our every day living. The old saying about "keeping up with the Joneses" seems to have blurred into obsolescence with so many programs to "level the playing field." Life isn't a playing field and it's not about leisure time.
I think the real problem began when relaxation after a hard day's work, was replaced with the "need" for entertainment when the mantra became "work smarter not harder!" I'm not claiming to be the hardest working person around, but I do know, by the end of my average day, I want to relax, not be entertained, or worse go somewhere to unwind! We used to work hard enough in our every day life that we "unwound" as we went! Work is about a meaningful accomplishment, not a job to fill time so we could afford to kill time!
The economy of the kingdom does include or allow for the currency of our present system. Abraham bought a field with measured silver. Messiah had the disciples catch a fish with a coin in it's mouth. Torah addresses the topic of wages. We are called to work and earn and be in debt to no one, so paying our bills in a timely manner is as much of our witness as teaching and preaching. The situation today, though, is there is a day coming in which the currency will be replaced by a mark that is of eternal consequence. The sooner we sort through what we actually need vs. what we think we want will make this next question simpler.
If we worked hard enough to "wind down" through the work day, to enjoy a relaxing evening and look forward to a day of rest, would we need so much entertainment?
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