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Dreaming of Frogs and Termites

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 A few years ago I was praying for prophetic dreams. One night I did have a prophetic dream, I believe. I was watching two frogs in a river they were large fat frogs they had a smile on their face and their heads were pointed to the sky as they floated down a river. Both of them picked up their feet and just enjoyed the ride. I woke up the next morning and the Lord reminded me that I needed to go with the flow. I have a hard time with things that I cannot change in life. Yet God wants me to pick up my feet and go with his flow. And biblical terms God wants me to dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture stop worrying about everything or trying to change things that I cannot just enjoy the ride his ride. A couple of days later I had another dream that year. I was watching a termite. The termite would work as long as he could and then when he got tired he would just stop moving and go to sleep. As soon as he woke up he would start working again. God use this analogy to remind me that ...
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Malachi 2 notes

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 Malachi 2 notes V1 Not taking things to heart or taking things seriously was their main problem. V3 Losing Phineas blessing. Numbers 25. Aaron begat Eleazar. Eleazar baguette Phineas. V4 DID NOT revere Gods reputation V8 Using Gods word for personal gain V10 Spiritual pride of priests V11 Worshipped other god V15 Committing adultery V16 Divorcing for pleasure Ch3v1 Behold my messenger is coming to clean you out Ch3v2 He comes with fire to purify, like soap to clean the filthy people out of Yahweh's house. See Jesus clears temple.  ______________________________ World events around 400bc [  ] Persians versus Greeks Jews probably in transition of siding with the Greeks I'm getting away from the persians. No matter who is rolling over them they don't want them to they are very small nation that just returned to being a nation. They want to become a great nation like in the time of King David but they need to turn their heart to the Lord so that they can get a good leader wi...
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Malachi 1 notes

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 Malachi 1v2 Xref romans 9v13.  In the Book of Malachi we read about priests who have been corrupt. In the same way in the Book of Romans the priests were still corrupt as Malachi was written only 400 years prior to the time of Jesus christ. Concerning this corruption the Apostle Paul makes an argument saying that those born of Abraham do not always inherit Abraham's promises. But just as God loved Jacob and hated Esau or more so eat them the nation God chose Jacob or Israel because they had done God's Will and obeyed the lord. He rejected Esau and the nation of Edom because they wanted to destroy Jacob and the nation of Israel just like Cain destroyed abel. But this time God saved Israel and Jacob. Here are the argument continues to say that even though the Jews are born of Abraham they do not necessarily automatically inherited the promises of abraham. Nor the promise of God's blessing but instead it is based on obedience and belief in the Lord. For this reason God has re...
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Lying for a good cause

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 When I grew up I hated lying and I never wanted to lie ever. As I got older I realized that sometimes I lied for a good cause. And then I thought what is the moral stance of God on that issue? Well in King David's story we see that King David lied to another king that would have killed him otherwise. He pretended to be insane and let drool drip down onto his beard so that he could save his own skin. He also lied to King Saul when he evaded him. He also took bread from the priests and ate and drank so that he could survive. God considered all of these things righteous. For God had said that David was faithful in everything that he did except for in the case of Uriah the hittite. There are more examples but God does allow us to lie if it is for a good cause. Now he wants us to try to be honest at all times, but sometimes we are in an unfair game. For example homicide investigators sometimes lie to their suspects in order to get them to confess to their crime. A woman kidnapped by a ...
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Zechariah outline part 1 of 2

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 Zech outline part 1 of 2 I. 7 VISIONS AT NIGHT A. Intro 1:1-6 B. Horses (saw at night) 1:7-17 C. Horns (eyes) 1:18-20 D. Measure line (eyes) 2:1-5 E. Flee 2:6-13 F. Joshua 3:1-10 G. Zerubabel (waked me) 4:1-14 H. Theives (eyes) 5:1-4 I. Grain basket (eyes) 5:5-11 J. Chariots (eyes) 6:1-8 K. Crown 6:9-15
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Broken Trust

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 We recently had to take my daughter to the emergency room. Every time a doctor takes her vitals my little daughter and gets extremely emotionally disturbed. I cannot help but realize that her disturbance comes from the sudden removal of her freedom of physical movement. Though she is safe physically, she is being damaged emotionally. The evidence is obvious by the look on her face and the screams from her vocal cords. It is in those moments that she experiences broken trust. She trusts us parents to protect her from everyone. In those moments we fail to protect her from the doctors and nurses who pin her down and take a look in her ear and put stethoscope to her chest and black pump band around her arm. Have we done anything wrong as parents? Absolutely not. But broken trust remains regardless on her end of the deal. In the same way God has allowed many horrible things to happen to me including torment by evil people of which I could not escape. In those moments I have broken trus...
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Addressing the Root Cause of Homelessness

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  I love all people, including the homeless.   I have worked, by God’s grace, 4 plus years in homeless ministry services.   Though I love them, I have also come to some important conclusions about them.   Mostly, homeless ministry services temporarily help individuals for a brief time in their lives, but it does not solve homelessness in any manner.   Let me explain why I believe this. First off, I separate homeless people into two main groups: average middle class Americans who temporarily lost their way in life, and the perpetual homeless who cause trouble to those around them.     The root cause of temporary homelessness comes from being born into poverty, or a series of bad choices which they soon rectify.   I was homeless for three months in 2013, and it was caused by choosing a school major (psychology) which led to no jobs after graduation. Of the perpetual homeless population, the root cause of their homelessness comes from a selfish p...
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