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  For the last several days, I have been so engulfed with making short videos per verse in the Minor prophets that I did not feel it necessary to put in words my comments. But tonight, I want to share my summarize what I have learned from Jonah to Zephaniah.  I have discovered so much about God and myself; I left screaming who can I tell? God has put in His Word all the counseling I need or ever wished I knew existed.  He left everything I ever needed to know in His Word.   Once I was stuck on a few familiar scriptures that were good for me, but I had no idea God knew so much about my decisions on an everyday basis.  I never knew it mattered to Him to tell me everything about my life or words to share with others when they need to make the right choices.  God's Word is personal.  I have learned so much since the book of Daniel through the minor prophets; it amazes me in and out.  God knows everything about everything.  He has feelings, and He...

 

 

Nahum 1 Nahum sends a message to the enemy God used to bring His people to correction.  However, God will not hold the enemy guiltless.  How can God use and judge people at the same time?  If your heart is evil, God will use your evil heart to show people what it is like to be under someone other than Him, who is absolute love.  We will have to submit to somebody, and if we don't want the leadership of God, then we must be submitted to someone, and that someone is the enemy. He allows the enemy to rule over our lives.  His plan is always to save everybody, but if we choose not to listen to Him, all who are not under His control will die. Although the enemy is the Assyrians in this chapter, I have chosen the spirit of the Assyrians to show how relevant our behavior connects to the wrath of God.  Just like Israel, who disobeyed God and had to go into a 70-year exile, we too will be judged by God.   What is Assyrian behavior?  Assyrian behavior lifts...

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Micah 2 If the United States had met Micah during the years of segregation, we might have had a fear of God to have a conscience about how blacks were treated by whites.  This is a very sensitive subject to many of our churches, perhaps because we want to forgive and forget the past.  Well, if that would help us to move forward, we would have to erase the prophecy of Micah chapter 2.   We are instructed by God to study to learn the behavior of Israel so we can get a clear picture of what will happen to us if we, too, refuse to change.  Israel murdered and slaughtered people who did not give them what they wanted or did what they said.  They actually pulled the skin from the backs of people.  All of this was done using God's name to support their evil doing.   All leaders must know the Word of God to see how God concluded this behavior throughout eternity.  I listen to some of the best white teachers of the Word, and they barely touch the mess...

Micah  1 Micah is a prophet God used to warn Israel and Judah, the northern and southern kingdom of Israel about their treacherous behavior.  Israel was a nation called by God.  They knew what God wanted and refused to take heed.  God sent Micah along with other prophets to tell them to Stop! Israel looks a lot like our religious world today.  If I did not know when this message was written, I could say that it is the news of our religious structure currently. The government and the priest of Israel were corrupt.  Brides were a way of life.  They took advantage of the weak and prostituted themselves and still said they represented God.  God gave them detail and strong warnings to stop.  But they refused.  Now God is telling them what they did to others will be turned upon them.   The governments in both Israel and Judah were responsible for the decision of the people. God warned them that they would be given the same deadly outcome ...

  Jonah 4  Jonah angrily leaves the city and sits outside of the city at a distance, waiting on its fate.  Nineveh was an evil city filled with evil people. When we think someone deserves the fierce anger of God because of valid reasoning, we subtly anticipate destruction upon them.  For example, if a woman has been abused by her husband, and he faces trauma in his life, you may think it is the result of his previous abusive behavior.  God does not condone this thought process. We are all guilty of the wrath of God.  Yes, you would like the person who caused you harm to stop and learn from his bad behavior, but to wait for someone to die because of the wrong they've done is evil.   Any sin deserves death. Jonah told God that it would be better if he were dead than to see him let Nineveh get away with the evil they were known for. God asked Jonah, do you have the right to feel this way?  As I said previously, Jonah then left the city and went outsi...

I use pictures to share how I see the story in each chapter.  I have written my thoughts, videoed them, and now I am illustrating my understanding of the simplicity of the Word of God.  When you take your time and read the Word, it becomes amazingly alive and straightforward to comprehend.  When Jesus said his instructions were easy, he meant it. In Jonah 3, God appears to Jonah for the second time.  This time Jonah obeyed.   God gave specific instructions and told him to say only what He bid him to say.  God used the word bid when telling Jonah how to request a response from the people to change. When I think of bidding,  I think of an offer;  God offers a chance for an entire city to change.  The desperation from God is heartfelt. Jonah went as instructed, did what God said, and the people obeyed. An entire city changed.  When the king listened to the people who told him what Jonah said, he was convicted and set in motion change for ev...

Perhaps Jonah was swimming when God told him to go to Nineveh.  Jonah admitted that he was not going to Nineveh and bought a ticket elsewhere.   Lesson one for me, God does not accept bad behavior from his children.  God chose Jonah to carry out this assignment, and Jonah showed God that he was not obeying. Jonah was not confused about what God told him to do; he heard clearly and disobeyed. When God speaks, those who know His voice are not confused. Jonah was at the ship station and paid for a ticket to Tarshish. Defiance at its finest, says me, who has done the same thing.  Jonah was thinking and made his plan to go away from God's instructions.  God's people add value to others, and when we are out on our own, we bring chaos to other lives.  The ship informed the water, and the water responded by saying, not on my watch.   The storm shook the ship, and those who understood the water turbulence started trying to make the ship lighter.  But that ...

Jonah 2 describes the life of  Jonah from the inside of a whale's belly.  It has ten verses, each showing details of what was happening with Jonah.  Jonah was afraid, sad, and encouraged, and he found the strength to praise.  Jonah sounded like me when I went in the wrong direction. God had to catch and sit me alone to examine myself.  We will find out later why Jonah altered God's command. However, I would like to say what I learned about myself in this chapter.  As stated, my emotions have been like Jonah's.  The video I created shows exactly how I see Jonah in this condition. Jonah could not run, perhaps he could have strayed in his mind, but the ability to get out of that situation was not a choice for him.  Sometimes God allows us to stay put. Learn from this place.  No one can help you, and you can't walk away.  God told the whale to swallow him and not bite him.  The only thing Jonah said that bothered him physically was the ...

Hello, and thank you for coming to my space to share a little of the Word of God! Chapter 7 of Amos showed me that  God uses those who make good use of their time with their own hands in everyday life.  Amos is not ashamed of what he does for a living, and he seems to have done it well. Amos did not bite his tongue when repeating what God told him.  Many people who had some influence over people disagreed with Amos.  They told Amos to go and speak to Judah, the southern kingdom; wherever you go, just don't keep preaching at us. Amos stood his ground and gave details of what would happen because Israel, the northern kingdom, did not want to obey God. This video describes all of the details that I saw in each verse.  I hope that it helps you gain a better understanding of how easy it is to be led by God. Whatever you do stay in the Word of God.  

Amos was a hired hand, a cattleman; he had no educational background in bible school.   Amos was a responsible man working with the cattle.   God saw Amos as a choice to speak through.  God talk to Thank you for stopping in! Amos and Amos obeyed.   God has chosen  Amos to speak to Israel concerning their backsliding in worshipping other gods. God has given me the passion for taking His Word and making it as simple as I know.  Using visuals gives a greater understanding of what is in writing.  You do not have to be a preacher or someone special to understand God.  God has made His Word so easy that even a child can obey.  This video was created to show how easy it is to understand God.  Every picture is my way of pulling out the details of God's Word in picture form.  Lay aside all excuses and let us learn how easy it is to know God through His Word. I want to advertise God's Word!  

 

 

 

Is God love?  What is love?  If you asked the average person what love is, you might hear several answers; the people I've asked what love was tells me that love is an emotional feeling of something nice being done.  If we define love as such, then that would exclude who God is as love.  God is love, and love defined by God is not limited to emotional feelings.  When God loves, He disciplines.  Discipline shows us our limitations before we hurt ourselves.   When Israel refused to obey God, God put them under a heavy and ruthless discipline by those that did not understand the totality of leading mankind.  Israel chose to be under this type of control because they refused to listen to the knowledge of God.  Israel turned to sticks and stones and treated an object as their God.  So God, in return, sent them to harsh treatment so they could learn the lesson of who God was.   Using this method by God had a limit and a purpose.  God...

When God cries for His people, His tears sound like the storms of nature.  

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