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🌵🚫🍞🌵Desert Fasting: Existing In Need [3 parts]

I.🌵 Stayed Like a Drought: The Soul That Waits for Rain 🌧️ Theme statement: “Like a drought waits for rain, so for You, Lord, I am stayed.” This image captures one of Scripture’s most powerful spiritual postures: dependent waiting. A drought does not strive. It does not manufacture rain. It

📜📢 How Do You "Read" It? [2 parts]

When Jesus says “Have you not read…?” in Matthew 12:3 and asks “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” in Luke 10:26, the Greek verb “read” goes beyond mere recitation. It carries a strong sense of interpretation, understanding, and theological conclusion. In first-century

🤐⏱⚖️🪞🛐🕊 The Mirror of Misperception: Facing the Horror in Psalm 137 [2 parts]

I. Psalm 137: Inspired Lament, Not Ethical Blueprint Psalm 137 is one of the most emotionally unfiltered passages in Scripture. It is not polite. It is not restrained. It ends with a line that jars modern readers: “Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against

🩸🔥🐑🛐✨ Altared States: What It Means to Be a Nation of Priests [5 parts]

I. 🛢️ Exodus 30 - The Anointed Priesthood In Exodus 30:22–33, the LORD commands Moses to prepare a sacred anointing oil—a precise blend of myrrh, cinnamon, cane, cassia, and olive oil. This oil was: * Holy (qodesh) — set apart for God alone * Restricted — not to be replicated for common use

🌍📈 The World Population and the Fullness of the Gentiles [3parts]

Here’s the standard demographic timeline used by historians and the UN for when the world population crossed each billion 🌍📈 (These are estimates, not stopwatch moments.) I. 1. 🌱 World Population Milestones * 1 billion — ~1804 The long pre-industrial climb finally breaks the billion mark. * 2 billion — ~1927 Industrialization, sanitation, and

A Look at Laughter: Human and Divine [4 parts]

I. 1. God Laughs: Divine Laughter in Scripture God laughing appears primarily in the Old Testament and often carries deep theological meaning. The Hebrew word often translated as “laugh” is צָחַק (tzachaq). Key passages: * Psalm 2:4 – “He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them

👁️‍🗨️💔🧠🙏🌅 Psalm 88 and Lamentations: Two of the Lowest Points in Scripture [2 parts]

I. 1. Psalm 88:9a: “My eye grows dim through sorrow; every day I call upon you, O LORD.” Hebrew: * (ʿênî) = my eye (singular) * Not עֵינַי my eyes (plural) This is not a grammatical accident. Biblical Hebrew is perfectly comfortable using the plural for physical eyes—and does

🤴🔇👂🚫⚖️💔 David, the King Who Likened Himself to a Deaf-Mute [3 parts]

I. 1. Psalm 38:13–14 “But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth. I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.” (ESV) Key features: * Deliberate silence * Refusal

⚖️💀🛑➡️🌅 The Sentence of Death = The Death of Self-Reliance [2 parts]

I. 1. Psalm 38:21 — The Cry of Felt Abandonment “Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me!” Mental posture: Experiential distress Key feature: God’s absence is felt, not doctrinally affirmed. Psalm 38 is penitential and embodied. David is overwhelmed—by sin, enemies,

☁️🧠☁️ Mundus Vult Decipi (The World Wants to be Deceived) [4 parts]

While listening to a segment of the Joe Rogan podcast, I heard him and his guest reflect on what the exposure of names in the Epstein files has brought to light. His guest drops the following Latin and it got me thinking: Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur “The world wants

🧠🌱🪞🧭 "We Become What We Remember" [2 parts]

I. 1. Memory in Scripture Is Never Neutral Biblically, remembering is not mental recall alone. It is relational, moral, and directional. To remember God is to live oriented toward Him To forget God is to live as though He were absent. This is why Scripture so often pairs remembering with

🌬️🔥✨👑 Fire from His Presence: Surviving the Face of God [4 parts]

I. The Texts Acts 3:19 (ESV) “Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.” Leviticus 10:2 (NIV) “So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they