As a believer in Yeshua/Jesus...ever wonder why...

You stumble? 

We all do it. 

Ever wonder how to keep from stumbling...so much?

As I was reading this morning I came across this little gem.

It's found in the book of Peter.
Straightforward - Peter tells us how it is - what we need to do to keep ourselves in check so we don't stumble in our walk with the LORD. 

Have a look and be encouraged.

I was!

2 Peter 1

1 From: Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah

To: Those who, through the righteousness of our G-d and of our Deliverer Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah, have been given the same kind of trust as ours:

2 May grace and shalom be yours in full measure, as you come to a full knowledge of G-d and Yeshua/Jesus our Lord.

3 G-d’s power has given us everything we need (wow) for life and godliness, through our knowing the One who called us to his own glory and goodness. 4 By these he has given us valuable and superlatively great promises, so that through them you might come to share in G-d’s nature and escape the corruption which evil desires have brought into the world. (wow)

5 For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with perseverance, perseverance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if you have these qualities in abundance, (so important) they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah. 

9 Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away. (if we forget from how great a height we have fallen then there is no hope for us)

10 Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty. (this is the key) For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble. 

11 Thus you will be generously supplied with everything you need to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah.

*An amazing thing happened at the doctor the other day.*

We ALL need a little good news now and again - ESPECIALLY now!

So I shared the story of what happened when my husband took me to the doctor the day, in his full  camouflage military uniform, on facebook. There was such an AmAzInG response - I felt I needed to share it here as well! 

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As we were getting ready to leave, my husband stood there dressed in his camouflage military uniform, getting ready to wheel me out in my wheelchair.One of the ladies in the waiting room called out to us and said,

"Thank you sir for serving our country."

This struck up a conversation between us. One thing led to another, and the woman said,

"Can I pray for you and for your safety?"

My husband nodded, "Yes."

The woman laid her frail little hand on my husband's shoulder,  and began to pray

 like the lady in the movie war room! 

The entire waiting room came to a hush.

I sat there in my wheelchair, laying my hands on my husband as well, quietly agreeing in prayer. When she was finished I just said, "Amen"

Suddenly another older woman came shooting across the room. With a heightened tone in her voice she shouted, almost scolding us, and said,

"Did I just see you all praying over here?!"

I said, "Yes?"

The little (literally she was like 5 feet tall and weighed about 90 pounds and probably was about 90 years old to boot ) woman continued, she said,

"Then can you please tell me why you didn't come on over there and get me and ask me to join in with you and pray for this man? Don't you know there's power when more than one person joins in and prays?"

I apologized and explain that I didn't know she wanted to pray with us.

At that her daughter called her back to her seat and told her that she was embarrassing her.
THAT got her going all the more (little fire cracker)
Her mother told her,

"Don't ever be embarrassed to pray in public! You never know who may need a prayer and you never know when you may not  be able to pray in public anymore!"

WoW

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I'm so excited about this!

Okay, so... I was reading the Psalms, again. I started over from the beginning. THIS time I began reading from my mobile device on biblegateway.com. (wait for it) The reason this is important to my point is that, I have read and reread the Psalms many, many times...and...I never noticed this before!
I guess that is why I am so excited about it.

(Now for those who already knew this, please just click to the next page and let me be excited. For those who haven't realized this like myself well...this is the deal.)

In Psalm 107 King David prophesies about the Messiah Yeshua calming the storm for his disciples. Almost right down to the letter. I think it's pretty cool.

I was just mentioning to my daughter this morning how cool it is that every time we read the word of G-D he has something new for us.

  Okay, so here are the scriptures.

First the Psalm. 107. Then following below are the scriptures from theNew Covenant from the Book of Mark and Matthew. No highlighting required as it is quite obvious when you read the scriptures (all three), that  the Psalmist was talking about the very moment in time that Yeshua calmed the storm for his disciples.                                                                                                 

   Psalm 107:25-30

For He commands and raises the stormy wind,

Which lifts up the waves of the sea.

26 

They mount up to the heavens,

They go down again to the depths;

Their soul melts because of trouble. 

27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits’ end. Then they cry out to the Lord in their trouble, And He brings them out of their distresses. He calms the storm, So that its waves are still. 

Then they are glad because they are quiet;

So He guides them to their desired haven.

Mark 4:35-41

35 On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” 36 Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. 37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. 38 But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

39 Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. 40 But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?”[a]41 And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”

Matthew 8:23-27

23 Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. 24 And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. 25 Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

26 But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. 27 So the men marveled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”