Following Yeshua (Jesus) isnât just about believing the right things or checking boxes. Itâs about wanting to truly know God â to experience Him personally. And hereâs the amazing part: even that desire starts with Him. God is the one who stirs our hearts and awakens our longing. If you find yourself hungry for more of Him, itâs because Heâs already working in you.
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Many of us can recite Yeshuaâs (Jesus’) words about the two greatest commandmentsâloving God and loving our neighborâbut we often miss how deeply intertwined they are. We treat them like separate tasks: one for God, one for people. But in Greek, Yeshua uses the phrase homoia aute, which means âlike to it.â The second commandment isnât just next in lineâit shares the same nature. This small detail radically changes how we understand the passage: loving others is essential to loving God.
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In todayâs culture, freedom is often defined as doing whatever you wantâliving without restrictions, chasing your happiness, and controlling your destiny. But when you dig into the Greek word eleutheros, meaning “free,” you discover that real freedom isnât about cutting all tiesâitâs about being connected to the right things. True freedom isnât found in isolation, but in surrender to God.
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When the apostle Paul wrote this letter to his young student Timothy, he taught him some profound truths that I often apply in my life. I suppose when Timothy received these instructions, he was about my age â a young man still developing his skills at evangelism, teaching and instructing.
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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on in every person. He said, “My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’. One is evil — it is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good…
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Patience is one of those attributes that you cannot learn by reading about it. It’s a quality that can only be acquired by persistent, enduring, practiceâ and for me it’s a drill that I go over, and over, and over again!
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People read this verse, and think God is telling them to be passive — to overlook what happened. That is not a bad thing — but it isn’t exactly what Yeshua (Jesus) was saying. Turning the other cheek is not about being passive. It’s about being active! So active that it actually confounds your enemy! Turning the other cheek is about taking an action so revolutionary, so shocking, so out of the ordinary that it shocks everyone around. It confounds the world — and can also change it!
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