a better hope

It was impressed upon me recently the power of the tongue and how blessing and cursing are in it. Well,  then I came across this video , which goes further in explaining how that works. Many curses and blessings are embedded in our everyday language. What a fascinating thing. You can also visit  part two  and  part three .  Thank you for reading. And God bless. My Tumblr .  And my other blog, None Dare Call It Treason.

You know, I thought about this when I read the word unicorn in the Bible but didn't understand what it was talking about. Maybe I looked it up and forgot, but this was a good reminder, if that's the case. Here's a video explaining where that word came from .  Thank you for reading. And God bless. My Tumblr .  And my other blog, None Dare Call It Treason.

My father has skin cancer. Please pray for healing. His name is Charley. Thank you.  Thank you for reading. And God bless. My Tumblr .  And my other blog, None Dare Call It Treason.

Some things only God can do. We all get to a point in our walk with Him where we feel we can go no further. And then God constrains us to do just that. We can't fathom where we're headed or how to get there, but we take His hand and go.  I almost stopped writing here (as well as all my other blogs) recently because God wanted to deal with something in my heart and I felt it was such a big thing I couldn't imagine presenting my thoughts and ideas on Christianity while I was going through it. I felt I was doing Christianity all wrong, that I had disqualified myself from even speaking about it. It was a very humbling moment. I won't speak about that thing God is doing, but it cuts to the very heart of me. If you feel inclined to pray for this humble writer, he would appreciate it greatly.  Just think of all the solutions the world has for those things. A troubled mind. A broken heart. A rebellious spirit. They aren't solutions at all. They don't change anything. On...

Sometimes you're the only one who can do anything about a situation. In those cases, it's wrong to do nothing. This guy, instead of feeling bad about what he didn't have, decided to stand in the gap for others and give them what he didn't have.  I don't know how to be a dad. There really isn't a manual except what the Bible says. My own dad was more of a "what not to do" than anything else. But, I changed how I pray for myself and my son recently and since doing that, it seemed he softened toward me and we have more good moments. This is a change on his end, but it's likely due to something I was praying. One of the curses listed in Deuteronomy 28 essentially refers to alienation between parents and children. Perhaps breaking that curse allowed us to be closer.  I don't know what kind of kid I'm raising. I don't know what it's going to be like when he gets older and what he'll get into. All I know is my job is to pray over him e...

This is an odd story . Every time I read it, it sticks out to me. Manoah and his wife were the parents of Samson. But how Samson's mother was depicted and how she was treated by her husband always puzzled me. She talked with the angel and relayed everything to her husband. Her husband clearly didn't believe her. I think even the angel was a little put off by his unbelief. Here we have a woman who is godly but her husband lags behind her in faith and belief. She has more sense than her husband spiritually (and maybe in other ways) yet we don't know her name. I thought that was unfair. Part of the reason she wasn’t believed right away was the fact that this was a patriarchal society and women didn’t have many rights. I don’t know how right that was (look at how Job treated his daughters and it’s a different story), but that’s how it was. If an eyewitness to a crime was a woman, her testimony wasn’t allowed in court. And, we have the Bible verses regarding when a woman under a...

This is a prayer request for my ex-wife's  mother, whose name is Jennine. I asked God why it seemed my ex was quite sad lately (normally I wouldn't overly concerned but it seemed extreme), and this is what I believe the answer is. Jennine was admitted to a nursing home/assisted living kind of situation not long ago. Everything went downhill fast after she got the second covid booster shot. (Which is another post entirely.) Then she started having dementia-like symptoms. She's on a cocktail of drugs, one of which is Zoloft, which has symptoms like thoughts of suicide (which she now has). Anyway, she is in her 80s and it doesn't look like she will be with us much longer. Once they get in a place like that and start taking all the drugs, it doesn't take long. The reason this is a prayer request is, unless Jennine kept it to herself, I don't think she is saved. So, this is asking for prayers for her salvation. Special angels on an emergency mission to minister to he...

An interesting story is found in Judges chapter 9 . Here we see a vital lesson: it's not just what we do but what we lend our support to that matters. God sees where our money goes, for instance. Distancing ourselves from the end result of something by paying for it and not doing it ourselves does not make us immune to the consequences. (I also think of the men who paid Judas to betray Jesus.) I used to give money to a mission organization based in India but later found out the money was misused. Then I gave to another mission in India. Finally, I decided to give to the American Bible Society because, I thought, they simply distribute bibles. Then I decided to give to my church, as that is biblical. Honestly, I don't know where my money goes, which is why I pray over my tithes and donations before I send them. I ask that the money wouldn't be misused or frittered away on things that aren't important. I ask that it goes to help those most in need. Because I can't see...