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cleansing Spirit of Power Power is well, powerful! Just in this year, 2020, we’ve witnessed the best and worst uses of power. Presidential Elections, Senate Races, District Attorneys Races etc. are all about answering one power-related question: Who will be in charge and making decisions for the upcoming term? Just as power exists on large …
cleansing Spirit of Counsel Counsel. We use that word a lot. Guidance counselors in school systems. Life counselors in private officers. Legal counsel in legal affairs. In every situation, there is a consultation of some sort and then advice is given. We use correction too. Correctional facilities. Correction pens. Corrective lenses. In every scenario, something …
cleansing Spirit of Understanding Grant me the serenity to internally, be still like the waters and externally, flow with them. The above words is the prayer that I wrote at the end of journal entry for today. The chaos, upheaval, uncertainty and challenges are all too much for me to fathom. Yet that is because …
cleansing Spirit of Wisdom Bezalel and Oholiab. Do those two names sound familiar? After the Moses guided the Israelites from Egypt, God commanded Moses to build a tabernacle to receive His Presence and gives Moses explicit instructions (Exodus 25). Depending on the translation, this tabernacle could be referred to as a “sanctuary” or “tent of …
cleansing Spirit of the Lord What does having the Spirit of the Lord in our lives look like?… motion & progress. In the verse above, Isaiah 61:1, Isaiah is a prophesying about a man who will do unprecedented things on earth during his short lifetime. The man Isaiah describes is a “mover and shaker”, focused …
cleansing This verse may look familiar if you read this past Sunday’s post, Travelers. I was reading Isaiah 41 from The Passion Translation and saw this footnote: “These seven trees speak of fullness of new creation life. Compare them to the seven branches of the lampstand and the seven Spirits of God.” This idea of …
Faith: Hoping & Longing This by far has been a year of both, seen and unseen! Some things we anticipated and others things that we didn’t… It was love at first sight for Jacob. Rachel was stunning and she was no doubt, the woman he wanted to spend forever with. Working for Rachel’s father, Laban …
Faith: Hoping & Longing “Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.” ~African Proverb. Without fail, the birds sing many songs to God, every morning. They have no idea where their next meal is coming from, what weather or destructive human interaction they may encounter, yet they still sing. Joining them …
Faith: Hoping & Longing “There isn’t a bad wind that doesn’t end.” I can remember my mom giving me lessons about the weather of life over the years (like the one above). When she would remind me that eventually things change, I would always wrestle with the thought that the promise of ‘eventually’ has no …
Faith: Hoping & Longing Today marks 148 days since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and 135 days since I started journaling about this experience. Tonight, as I contemplated my (and peers, professors, other faculty) return to campus for the fall semester, the Holy Spirit gave me something important The only person’s life I should focus …