I used to wonder why people stay in churches for years, decades even, and never grow. They never stop sucking on the teat, and they never grow to be able to handle the real meat of the Word. They remain stuck as babies.
This is what we use whenever we have muscle pain or headaches. This will also work on migraines.
As a child of Yahweh, obedience is not a choice, it is required. From cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation, the Holy Bible stresses the importance of obeying the law. In fact, in many places, it doesn’t just say obey it, but GUARD it. If you guard something, you protect it with everything in you. We should do that with the commandments of Yahweh.
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.
Casting Pearls
Like most people, when I am attacked, I want to strike back to defend myself, but it’s not me that needs defending in this situation. As I was praying this morning, I heard that still small voice whisper to my soul, “hold your peace.”
Casting Pearls
We know that persecution will come. As a follower of Yeshua, you expect to face persecution from strangers, from sinners, from the world. You don’t expect the persecution to come from your brethren, from people of your own church, from your spiritual teacher. There is a major problem when someone is comfortable using Yah’s platform, the pulpit, to throw stones at people. “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” Matt. 7:6
For months we have had a huge jar of nuts. Did I mention it was huge? We didn’t want to eat it, but “it costs too much” to just throw away.
Have you ever been so hungry that once you were able to eat, you ate until you were so full you could barely move? Have you ever been so thirsty with your lips parched, your mouth dry, beads of salty sweat drying on your face and neck, so thirsty that you drank so much water…
My mother used to tell me, “waste not, want not.” I don’t know about you, but I get a little disgusted at having to throw away or compost what was once really good and delicious food! Food that we worked hard to make money to buy or to grow in our garden. Have you ever gotten to the end of the week or the end of batch cooking for the week and wondered what to do with the vegetables that are left over? You don’t want them to go to waste, but you don’t quite know what to do with them either.
As a nation, as a people, we are going the wrong way.
