Entrusted Living

Notes taken from Dr. Micheal Heiser’s Laws for Bible Study: Learning to Study the Bible part 1, Naked Bible Podcast 016 . Dr. Micheal Heiser’s Laws for Bible Study: Learning to Study the Bible part 1, Naked Bible Podcast 016. You can find more from him at his site: drmsh.com . He is extremely well studied and well read and down to earth. His site is a great resource for trustworthy biblical interpretations to help understanding. My intentions with this blog post and reiteration is to direct believers to information that can assist them to deepen their walk with God. This topic has been on my heart, desiring to stay close to the text and build a stronger biblical theology. Introduction: Bible reading is not bible study. So what most people think is bible study, isn’t real biblical research. This usually includes reading/listening to uninformed source material that is producing positions and are not text driven, poor arguments that are personal and not textually b...

Did you know that the word ‘take’ in the passage “thou shalt not take the Lords name in vain” is most commonly misinterpreted as ‘to use’ Exodus 20:7? A closer translation would be ‘to bear, to carry’, from the Hebrew word nasah. So the passage is more accurately saying ‘do not bear the name of the Lord in a worthless manner’. When we claim the Lord God our God we then become His representatives. When we say, ‘yes I am the Lord’s’ we want our conduct to reflect this. We want to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. We want to honor His name and bring it glory; we want what He stands for to be presented. We want to bring His love, His goodness, His truth. God asks us to imitate Him and love others as He loves us. He wants us to bear His name! He wants us to walk with Him and be grown up in Him. We are meant to image God for He made us in His image. When we walk uprightly in Him it pleases Him and brings Him glory and blessings and favor and goodness are poured out us...

What are you willing to give up for God?   IN order to walk in our full potential for the Lord, one must give Him all to receive all. This requires us to hold nothing back, trust Him and obey His will for our life. And what God wants most is that one thing we least want to give up. Everybody has something on their heart. Well God wants us to give Him our hearts; that very thing we don’t want to give up, the thing our heart is attached too. He wants us to be fully His, fully satisfied in Him. He asks us to give Him our heart because He wants to take us deeper into relationship with Him and share His heart with us. He wants to take us into to deeper trust, deeper spiritual living & being. He wants to bless us & do amazing things in our lives. It takes a heart. God is the one who really knows our hearts. There is nothing we can hide from Him. Sometimes we are blind to the truth in our heart but God desires truth in our innermost parts. "The heart is more dec...

I've been working in a little restaurant in Ecuador, baking cakes for a year now. Almost exactly a year ago, the manager came out onto the street to speak to me. He said "you make cakes right? Would you like to make them for me?".  He had seen Instagram photos of dishes and things I had made. At this time I was still broke and homeless and needed a job. I had been in this situation for over half a year. I had left America because I wanted to change my life and find myself. I knew that I wasn't living for God and wanted to change the way I approached everything. How I worked, what I gave my energy to, how I lived, where my heart was. During my first year in Ecuador everything shook me to the core and demanded I draw closer to God. The old was falling away to make way for the new. This cake encounter was an answer to prayer. My heart wanted to build a family, I wanted to be a stable woman, strong for God and strong for the people I love. I knew I needed to have f...

Prayer is such a powerful tool. “The prayers of a righteous man are powerful and effective...prayer offered in faith will restore...pray for one another so you may be healed” James 5:15-16. We are encouraged to “rejoice always, pray without ceasing and in everything give thanks” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. To ask, to knock and to seek. "To enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise” Psalm 100. Whatever is taking place, we can take it to prayer. We can take it to the one and only almighty God. The best thing is, that’s exactly what He wants us to do! The Psalms show us a great example of the heart of a man who feared and trusted in the Lord and loved Him above all. In them, we see the Psalmist give praise and glory to God over and over; we see him pour out his heart, his fears and anguishes as well as his joys, delights and gratitudes. David calls out to God in distress and when he is in joy. He gives blessings and curses. He relies on prayer to help him fi...