It's been a while since I've last posted , much to my dismay, but I've gotten so distracted from writing these past few months. I've noticed it's very easy for women to become worry wart Marthas and allow themselves to be caught up by the cares of this world. I've not only let the household chores and my nursing career to put hobbies on the back burner, but my relationship with God as well. By the end of each day I'm so exhausted I end up crashing on the couch and watching television, instead of devoting the moment to time with the Lord or my writing. Prioritizing is something I'm struggling with but is something I hope to have mastered within this next year. It's an art I definitely will need by September since that is when my second child is due. I'm excited to have another little one in the house but I can only imagine how hard it will be juggling a household with two children in tow!
Hopefully the Lord will turn me into more of a Mary within the next few months, if I trust Him to take full control of my life.
40But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
Monday, January 31, 2011
Gaining Control of My Martha Tendency
41“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42but only one thing is needed.f Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Luke Chapter 10
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Hello Sharlinda!
Did you know that the historical Jewish Mashiakh [‘Messiah’] was a human?
The historical Mashiakh was called Y’hoshua and live in the first century. He was a human just like the prophecies said he would be [Documentation: Link]. I.e. he was not divine and he was born to Yoseiph and Miriam. He fulfilled the Messianic prophecies that the Jewish Mashiakh was prophesied to fulfil during the first century. His teachings were later redacted by the Hellenists and the redaction is called the ‘gospels’. They created a counterfeit image called Jesus, that doesn’t resemble at all whom the historical person called Rabbi Y’hoshua was. They are diametrical opposites.
It is important to take time with the Creator. He and doing His Will revealed in His Instruction manual called Torah should be ones highest priority! This is what Rabbi Y’hoshua taught. He followed Torah and his followers that were called the Netzarim followed the Torah. Torah teaches that one shouldn’t pray to a dead human/try to have spiritual contact with a human in the Realm of the Heavens.
Following the teachings of Rabbi Y’hoshua leads oneself into doing ones utmost to keep the military-style orders of Torah [‘books of Moses’] non-selectively, including an immensely meaningful relationship with the Creator.
Anders Branderud
Jesus is just English derived from the Greek form of His name. Jesus was fully man yet fully God. He was God the son come down in the flesh to save us from our sins. You can't have a relationship with God unless you know Jesus Christ. He is the one and only Messiah foretold in the Old Testament.
This is just one of many things that Jesus had to say about himself
John chapter 14
5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
John chapter 8
48The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”
49“I am not possessed by a demon,” said Jesus, “but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. 50I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge. 51I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”
52At this the Jews exclaimed, “Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that if anyone keeps your word, he will never taste death. 53Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?”
54Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me. 55Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word. 56Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.”
57“You are not yet fifty years old,” the Jews said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!”
58“I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” 59At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.
John Chapter 11
25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
The book of John tells how Jesus came to earth in the flesh. He wasn't a regular human being born in sin. He was God.
John chapter 1
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
6There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
10He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’” 16From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. 17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known.
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