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Is Your Wine Bitter or Sweet?

A winepress looks much different now than it did in Yahusha’s day, but they operate on the same precept. Pressure is applied in some way to squeeze the grapes in order to get the grapes to release their sweet juice. Pressure cannot be applied indiscriminately, though; care must be exercised. The pressure has to be carefully controlled or the seeds inside will be crushed and will release bitter tannins into the juice, making the juice unpalatable and certainly not good for making wine.

threshing: separating good seed from chaff
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The Good Seed and the Chaff

Part of harvesting is gathering the seed from the harvest, drying it out, and saving it for planting next season, because a true gardener is always looking ahead to what is coming. I learned something new recently about saving the seed that I find quite intriguing, and whether you garden or not, I hope you can garner some understanding in the many references to winnowing, separating the chaff from the wheat, and the good seed from the chaff.

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The Faithful Bride of Christ June 15, 2020

Are you a faithful bride? Marriage is the ultimate commitment or covenant that human beings make to one another. This is why in the Bible there are so many references to marriage and Christians being the Bride of Christ. When God first convicts our soul, we ask God to forgive us of our sins, and God, in his infinite grace, covers our sins with the blood of Jesus. We become the Bride of Christ. We have made the ultimate commitment and covenant with God. We are no longer our own to do as we please but we become one with God.

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Faith Unbreakable May 27, 2020

Faith Unbreakable It is so easy to have faith for other people and pray in faith for them, to believe for them, but when it is you and your family who are threatened by the proverbial fire, it is much harder to have faith for yourself. But we need to have strong faith for ourselves,…

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Striving With Others May 20, 2020

Striving with others Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm. Proverbs 3:30 KJV This is an interesting verse. It provides that there are two conditions on striving with another person 1) without cause or uselessly and 2) if he has not harmed you. The Hebrew word used for…