The Wide Path Dropout Mama
The Wide Path Dropout Mama
Hope in the hard
On today’s episode I speak about how hard life has been. Not just for me but for God’s people as a whole. I talk about how the patterns and parallels found in the Bible can give us insight on what to expect for our lives in this life as we await Jesus’ return. I reference Petra Scott and her ministry The Road to Jerusalem https://theroadtojerusalem.org/about/
Scriptures I referenced are Isaiah 2, 9, 11, & 53; Ecclesiastes 1:9; Hosea 6:3; Zechariah 14:16-19; Revelation 19; Romans 8:25; Song of Solomon 8:4; Psalm 10:17.
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Hi, my name's Jenny. I'm a wife, a mom, an entrepreneur and, most importantly, a disciple of Yeshua Jesus. I've been a Christian for over a decade, having studied the Bible for at least that long or better. Until about three years ago, I thought I knew Jesus pretty well. Then my world was rocked. I started studying the Bible from its Middle Eastern context and culture, and what I found has completely changed my and my family's lives forever. Join me as I share all that I've learned about our Jewish Messiah and listen to my conversations with other moms on their own journey with Jesus, as we discuss the practical ways that we walk out our faith in our everyday lives. This is a conversation for the Christian mom who wants more.
Speaker 1:This is the Wide Path Dropout Mama podcast. Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. It's been a while because you know life, but I'm so happy to be back and I'm going to try to get a few episodes out a little bit more timely this time. I'm going to try to get out at least once a week from here on out, so we'll see how that goes, but I'm going to switch it up this time with this episode. I'm going to talk a little bit more about just what's going on in real life right now, not just with me, but what I see kind of going on in a lot of people's lives right now. So I just want to speak to the hardness of life right now that I'm seeing in my own life and and everybody around me, especially those um, mostly those who are following after Jesus very closely, those who live for him and who are almost always keeping their eyes on him. There's been a lot going on, there's been a lot of punches being taken in the body, and so I just want to speak to that and tie it into the patterns in the Bible and the pattern of Jesus's first visitation in comparison to how it's going to be when he comes back this next time. So sit back or get comfortable, get a beverage of your choice, maybe get a notebook and your Bible and let's talk about it. Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Thank you so much for being here with me today. I know that your time is so valuable and so precious and the fact that you are spending a little bit of it with me is just so special to me and I just honor you for that and I thank you. So I'm gonna get right into it.
Speaker 1:As I was saying in the intro, I want to talk about life right now and how hard it's been, not just for me, but for all of you. If you guys have been having a time like I've been having, it's been really hard, and we're not just talking about just for a few weeks or months. We're talking about the last decade. Okay, it has been.
Speaker 1:My husband says that we've been in the grinder, and he's right. We have been in the grinder, we have been working hard. We have been in the grinder. We have been working hard. We have been fighting tooth and nail. We've been fighting for things, we've been fighting against things. And don't get me wrong, there have been so many blessings in the last decade. I've had my two babies. We have grown a business. We have grown it. We've shrunk back down. We've just my two babies. We have grown a business, we have grown it. We've shrunk back down. We've just all these things. And God is. He's always been there with us and he's always been so good, and there have been pockets of joy and times of laughter and happiness. But overall, the theme of the last decade is it's just been hard.
Speaker 1:So I want to look at that and look at what's going on in the world today. It's not a peaceful time. We've got wars, we have rumors of wars. Our government is not. They're not being good shepherds. We don't feel safe there. I mean, I could go on and on there. There's so many things, but I want us to look at the Bible and the patterns and the parallels there and God's overall timeline.
Speaker 1:If you have been listening to this podcast for any amount of time, you know that I am so passionate about God's feast days and his set apart calendar and there is so much that we can gain from looking at that calendar and looking at those appointed times. When we are looking at our own lives, when you look at those set apart days, they can tell you so much about what's going on in our lives right now. For instance, if you look at the feast days, which are shadows or foreshadows of Jesus's first and second coming right, when you look at those, we can gain patterns. We can see patterns. That gives us insight into what's going on. So the first thing I want to draw your attention to is laws and all of those commandments. A lot of those pertain to farming and an agricultural way of living, which is how the people in the Bible lived. That's how they made their living. They were shepherds, they were farmers, they had vineyards, right. So a lot of those commandments had a lot to do with that kind of life and a lot of those feast days would have something to do with, for instance, shavuot or Pentecost as we know it today.
Speaker 1:The cool thing about where we're at right now in the timeline is when Passover happened. Remember Passover? Those first three spring feasts happened right there in the first week of Passover. So you've got. Jesus died on Passover. He was in the tomb during the Feast of Unleavened Bread and he rose on the Feast of Firstfruits. Well, in the Bible, in Leviticus 23, it tells us that on the Day of Firstfruits, we are to count seven Sabbaths from that day, or 50 days up to the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot. Days up to the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot, which is also known as Pentecost, and penny in Greek is 50. So that's where you get that from. So we are to be counting 50 days in between the Feast of Firstfruits and Shavuot, and that time is called the counting of the Omer, and you were to. It's a measurement, right? It's a measurement that you were to count every day and that measurement of barley was going to give you an idea of what you could expect for that harvest, that wheat harvest that was coming at Shavuot Guys I could get.
Speaker 1:I would love to do another episode on, just this time alone, the counting of the Omer, because it is so cool. If you look at sometimes it can be compared to when the Israelites were given manna every day in the wilderness. They were given just enough for what they needed for that day and the counting of the Omer is like a daily measurement for what they needed for that day. And the counting of the Omer is like a daily measurement and it's also, like I said, an indication of what they were to expect at that wheat harvest. So as you're counting up every day, as you're counting the Omer every day, you're kind of taking a look at your life and you're examining everything and being thankful for what he's giving you every day. And he's giving you just enough every day to keep you strong and to give you just what you need to walk the walk that he's called you to walk. But there is an expectation there as you're counting every day, there's an expectation of that promise that he's given you that he's going to fulfill it. So I just wanted to do that little plug about the counting of the Omer and we'll come back to that in a minute but I wanted to paint that picture for you as we're going to talk about this idea of hope and anticipation. So I'm just going to give you a little bit of a personal story here.
Speaker 1:I have a ladies meeting that I meet with on Thursday nights. I try to make it every Thursday. It doesn't always happen but I try to and a couple of weeks ago we had this amazing woman speaking at our little ladies group and her name is Petra Scott. She has a ministry called the Road to Jerusalem and what she does is she calls it reconciling the modern day church to Jesus's humanity, and what she means there is. She is teaching the everyday Christian person who doesn't really know a lot about the culture of Jesus, and she's teaching them about his Jewishness right, his ethnicity. So she was speaking to us and she was praying before she spoke to us and she asked the Lord, what do you want to speak to these women? And he told her. He said these are seasoned women, they are not new believers, they are strong believers and they have a very close relationship to me and I want you to talk to them about hope, y'all.
Speaker 1:As I was sitting there listening to her talk about this message of hope, I was like, wow, I took my mom. She was crying. There were so many people crying, I was crying, it was beautiful, but I found myself, over the next few days, as I was thinking about this, not believing that that was for me. Do you ever have that happen where you listen to somebody or you hear a podcast or you hear a sermon and it sounds amazing, but you don't really feel like you're allowed to have hope or you're allowed for that thing or that dream or whatever? That is me. I just didn't. It just didn't seem real for me.
Speaker 1:And a couple of days ago I was in the backyard and I was praying and I was like Lord, if this, if this message of hope was for me, would you let me know, would you? I was asking him basically to give me permission to hope, because I got to tell you I've. I just have not had any of it lately. And I felt the Holy Spirit say what if I want you to hope, even if I don't give you any indication? And I thought, oh shoot, here goes my season of having to have faith and hope without any kind of sign from him, you know.
Speaker 1:So later that day I had to drive to Jacksonville. I had to go get some parts for work and I was listening to this podcast of this married couple and they were talking about how you know that you're hearing from the Lord. And the guy was talking about him having a dream where he was passing out flyers to a relationship summit. And I'm driving and in that same minute I look up and there is this huge sign that says Summit Contractors. And I was like, oh, ok, that is not a coincidence. I don't believe in coincidences when it comes to our Lord. So I was like, ok, I was. I felt something start to stir in my spirit, right. And so I'm listening to the wife talk about one of her dreams and what she had happened in her dream actually happened, ended up happening verbatim in real life.
Speaker 1:And a lot of times when I'm thinking about the things that I want in my life that haven't yet come to pass, the promises that he's given me, I have been telling myself you know what? These are yours, they belong to you. You just haven't made it there on the timeline and as I'm listening to her talk about this, I thought, oh my gosh, lord, you gave her a glimpse of her timeline, of what was going to happen on her timeline, what you had for them on their timeline, and I started crying and I started feeling hope and I said, lord, I said please don't let this be my hormones. If this is real, like I do not want this to be my hormones y'all. No, sooner did I finish saying that a truck passed me that was hauling a trailer. On the side of it. It said Chandler's Hope Closet Y'all.
Speaker 1:I started sobbing and sobbing, and sobbing, and I knew that God was giving me permission and encouragement to start hoping again, hoping again. So I just want to encourage you that if you are going through a wilderness season right now, if the promises that he's given to you are lying dormant, please, I am giving you permission to hope right now. This is not just for me, like, please understand when I tell you that that situation where God did that for me, that's not just for me. He knew that I was going to share this with y'all, because that is another thing that I want to draw your attention to these patterns and these parallels, god set apart calendar. There is a heavenly calendar, there is a heavenly timeline and my sweet mentor, miss Brenda, has really opened my eyes to this lately. He has a overall heavenly timeline that we are all connected. In that way he's working all things for our good and for his glory on his set apart timeline and so if he's giving me permission to hope, that means that you have permission to hope. So with that, I want to get into some of these parallels and patterns that I found that I want to show you because all of the answers and the encouragement that we need will be found in God's word. That is where we get our life, that is our daily bread, right. So let's get that daily manna, let's get that county of the Omer and let's go into this and take a look at some of these parallels.
Speaker 1:The first parallel we're going to look at is going to directly tie into our lives here on earth as we are waiting for Jesus to come back. So, going back to the agricultural reference from earlier, in Israel you have two seasons of rain that you were looking for throughout the year, because without that rain you had no harvest, no crops, right? So these seasons of rain were referred to as the former rain season in the spring and the latter rain season in the fall. The latter rain season in the fall. This directly coincides with the spring and the fall feasts, which are both the blueprints for how the Messiah would come to earth on both of his visitations. So, with that in mind, I want to read a little part out of the book Finding the Afikomen, finding Jesus in the Spring Feast, by Christy Eisner, and it's going to tie into this agricultural idea and this reference to Jesus in regards to how we're living right now until he comes back.
Speaker 1:Leviticus 23 lists the feasts and when they are to be observed throughout the year. The feasts are listed in a particular order, on specific days and months on the Hebrew calendar, because they are the exact blueprints of how the Messiah would come down to earth. He would come in the spring the former rain agricultural season in Israel and walk through the order of the spring feasts, like he did at his first coming, when he fulfilled his role as suffering servant. Likewise he will come the second time, in the order of the fall feasts the latter rain agricultural season in Israel, and fulfill his role as conquering king. So our first parallel is Jesus as the suffering servant and the conquering king.
Speaker 1:You and I both know that throughout the Hebrew Bible, which is the Torah, the prophets and the writings the Torah is just the first five books, genesis through Deuteronomy there are so many prophecies describing Jesus as a conquering king. And then you've got in Isaiah 53, this prophecy of this suffering servant, right. So when Jesus came and he served and he died, his people were so disappointed because they were looking for a conquering king. They were looking for a Messiah who was going to come and rescue them from the oppression that they were under because of the Romans at the time. They were ready to have a Messiah that was going to come and overthrow that and reign as king forever, and they would be established forever, forever, and that would be it. That's not what happened.
Speaker 1:That's why, in the gospels, when John asked his disciples, he said is this the Messiah or are we waiting on another? He knew who Jesus was. He grew up with Jesus. He was Jesus's cousin. As a matter of fact, he was the first person to acknowledge Jesus in his mother's womb. When Mary came to visit Elizabeth, he leapt in his mother's womb when he saw Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus. So he knew exactly who Jesus was. He knew Jesus was the Messiah. But what he was really asking was is he the suffering servant or is he the conquering king? And we both know the answer to that.
Speaker 1:He came to be the suffering servant here on earth. I don't want to say all churches and all pastors, but a lot of churches and pastors preach a lot about our calling and Us in our place in this kingdom. But really it is all about him. And the Bible gives us these patterns that we can look at to know what our place is. And if you look at John 13, 16, I have it here in my notes, I'm going to read it it says truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
Speaker 1:So if we look at the pattern of Jesus in his first coming, what did he come to do the first time? He came to serve? He came to suffer. He healed people, he preached the good word, he healed the sick, he healed the blind. He just went around doing good and he suffered. He did not come to establish his kingdom yet. He was not rich, he was not mighty, he was not honored. He wasn't even liked a whole lot by most of his people.
Speaker 1:So if we look at that scripture and we look at the pattern of Jesus's life, what should we expect our lives to look like at this time on earth, until he comes back right? We're supposed to serve, and it's not that we are supposed to suffer, but the word says that we will. That's just the way that it is. And if you look at God's people, throughout all of the Bible and throughout history as a whole, his people have always been under oppression. They have always suffered, they've always been under persecution. It has been hard for them and it took me so long to see this pattern. But when I finally had my eyes open to it, I thought, wow, okay, this is what this life is about. In this life, right here and right now, we are supposed to be serving others. We are not supposed to be self-seeking. This is not our time to, you know, have riches and live high on the mountain and for everything to be all about us. It's supposed to be about helping our brothers and sisters. Who can I help? Who can I show the love of Jesus? How can I serve Jesus? How can I serve the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1:I look at somebody in my own life that I admire greatly. It's my sister. My sister, she is such a servant, she has such a servant heart. She has this beautiful home. I mean it's gorgeous. It's got this big, beautiful pool in the back and she lives in this beautiful neighborhood and there are a lot of kids in her neighborhood and all of the little kids love to come over to her house. And my sister, she loves the Lord and she has shared with me that she has kind of felt guilty for having this really nice house and the fact that she gets to stay home. She doesn't have to work she could if she wanted to, but she doesn't have to because her husband provides for them. And she shared with me that she feels guilty.
Speaker 1:And I said, kelly, look at the way that you serve your community, look at the way that you love on these little kids. You have made your home, your ministry and it's truly beautiful to watch the kids because they all love being there, because when they're there she's ministering to them, she's serving them, she's sharing Jesus with them. She's literally loving on them like Jesus would. She's like Jesus. She's like let the children come to me because I want to love on them. And when you look at, and she also is fostering, she fostered this baby girl that she is now adopted and who is now a wonderful part of our family, who we adore.
Speaker 1:And it was hard for her because her other daughter is kind of grown up and out of that baby stage and it was hard for her to go back into that baby stage. Right, it's a lot of work, especially when you've gotten out of that season and you've gotten used to that little bit of freedom. When you go back to that it's kind of like, oh my gosh, like never for a second does she regret what she did. But the work is hard. And I reminded her.
Speaker 1:I said, kelly, you know, look at the pattern of Jesus. When he came the first time, he didn't come to be conquering king and to set up his throne. He came to serve and to be a servant and to suffer. And that's what you're doing. And to suffer. And that's what you're doing. You have sacrificed your comfort to be a servant for this baby girl and to give her the family that God has called her to have through you and your family. So I just want to encourage you that if life is hard, if things are hard and you're going through a lot of suffering, that is a pattern of our Messiah. On the other hand, I do believe, as my mentor, brenda, always says, that we will have peace, we will have joy, we will have laughter. We will have all of these things here in the land of the living.
Speaker 1:Because, remember, there is another side to this parallel. You have the suffering servant, and now we are going to talk about the conquering king. This may be the first time that you are hearing about this, but Jesus is coming back as the conquering king and he will establish his throne and he will rule here on this earth for a thousand years. There will be a millennial reign. So all of those promises that he's given you, as Petra Scott said at our ladies meeting, he's not going to come back and then all of that is just gone. He's going to be here for a thousand years. We still will have work to do. It's going to be a busy, buzzing, super active kingdom, right With so many people, so many jobs that need to be done, and he will fulfill the things that he said that he was going to do in your life. So I want to give you that hope for that kingdom come right. There is excitement, there is anticipation for what is to come. So I do want you to get excited, and even before Jesus comes back we don't know when he's coming back so we still have time to do the things that he has called us to do. And that is another point that I wanted to make.
Speaker 1:If there is something that you have on your heart that you feel like you've been called to do, I have this sense that the Lord has put on a lot of you people's hearts to do something for the kingdom. It may be starting a podcast, it may be starting some kind of a ministry. I just want to encourage you. If he's placed that on your heart, go do it. Go do it.
Speaker 1:Sisters, do not have the mentality of, well, so-and-so is already doing it, or this person already has that ministry, or what could I possibly have to say that anybody would even want to hear. I promise you, we want to hear it, we need to hear it. Nobody can reach people the way that you can. There is nobody else here on this earth that has the same perspective that you have, that has had the same life experiences as you've had, and there are gonna be people that only you can connect with, only you can encourage. So I wanna encourage you if you have something on your heart to do, if you have a blog that you want to write, if you have a book you want to write, if you have a podcast you want to do, please do it. Go, start researching how to do it. I promise you that it's not as hard as you think it's going to be, especially if you ask the Lord to take you by the hand and lead you. He's going to do it.
Speaker 1:That's what he did in this podcast for me. I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't know how to use any of this software. I didn't know how to edit, I didn't know how to do any of this, but he took me by the hand and he led me. And here we are. I'm doing it and I am now encouraging you to go out and do the same thing, because we really need whatever God has put on your heart to do. The kingdom needs it and somebody out there needs it. So just take that and do what you will with it for whatever it's worth to you.
Speaker 1:I just felt led to say that, okay, going back to this idea of the conquering king, let's look at some of these prophecies that show you that this is what's going to happen. So if you look in Isaiah, isaiah 2, isaiah 9 and Isaiah 11, I can't I'm not going to read them all on this podcast, but I encourage you to go read them for yourself, because they all talk about this idea of this conquering king that's coming back. That's why everybody, all of his people, were so surprised when he didn't do all of those things, because that's what they had been reading all of their lives. That's who they were looking for. In Isaiah 11, it starts out with there is a shoot from the stump of Jesse that's coming. And something really, really cool that I want to read you from Zechariah talks about when Jesus establishes his kingdom, how we are going to be, or the people who are left on the earth.
Speaker 1:The rulers of the earth will be required to go up to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of Tabernacles, or he will not give them rain for their crops. That is one of the scriptures that really convinced me about celebrating the feast days, because I thought, if this is going to be happening when Jesus comes back during his reign, then I better start practicing now. So let's go look at that. This is Zechariah, chapter 14, verses 16 through 19. Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up, year after year, to worship the King Yahweh Almighty and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. If any of the people of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King Yahweh Almighty, they will have no reign. If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no reign. Yahweh will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
Speaker 1:So just another plug for the feast days. Y'all know that I'm so passionate about the feast days because they, directly, they are the blueprint and the pattern for our Messiah's coming, his first coming and his return. They are the appointed times that help to show us where we are on God's calendar and where we are in our own lives. And when you I've said this before, I'll keep on saying it when you start getting yourselves on that set apart calendar, when you start celebrating those appointed times, your life will begin to line up and you will know that you are in God's will, you are on his set apart timeline. Okay, that's my plug.
Speaker 1:We're going to move on for now, but that's going to conclude the parallel of the suffering servant versus the conquering king. Parallel of the suffering servant versus the conquering king. I encourage you to go seek out some of those other scriptures that talk about Jesus as a suffering servant and the conquering king Isaiah 53, those verses in Isaiah, those chapters in Isaiah I mentioned before. Also, in Revelation 19 talks about Jesus as king. But for now we're going to move on to some other parallels and patterns that I have found and we'll kind of just blow through some of these.
Speaker 1:But look at the former and the latter reigns that we talked about before. I want to show you something really cool in Hosea 6, chapter 6, verse 3. And it talks about think about the pattern of Jesus's coming to the earth. Those patterns are the feast days, are the blueprint to his visitations. And remember when we talked about the former and the latter rains, that spring rain and that fall rain, which directly correlates to those spring feasts and the fall feasts. I want to read that in Hosea 6, verse 3. It says this Let us know and let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the. How cool is that?
Speaker 1:Okay, moving on, let's take a look at these other patterns and parallels. You've got the Israelites that were in the wilderness for 40 years. You have Yeshua, who, as soon as he got baptized, he went to the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights. You have Noah in the rain for 40 days and 40 nights. You have the cycles of adultery and then the consequences, and then the Lord wooing them back into covenant. You have that happening over and over and over again. And then, when you look at 1 and 2 Kings, you see the cycle of the kings doing evil in the sight of the Lord, the kings doing good in the sight of the Lord. You can read it over and over. It kind of flip-flops back and forth between a king who was observing Yahweh's ways and then a king who did evil in the sight of the Lord. And then you have look at the flat matzah at Passover and then the two full loaves at Shavuot. That is another pattern in parallel. And then look at the wedding that was held on Mount Sinai. And then look at Jesus did with them and how there was a wedding on Mount Sinai and how Jesus betrothed to his disciples and everybody who would follow him in the upper room that night. You have that comparison.
Speaker 1:You also have all of these, the number 40, you see over and over. I mentioned the Israelites and the 40 years in the wilderness, noah and the 40 days of rain. Well, look at this. In Moses's life alone, he has three sets of 40. So you have from birth to 40 years old. He's raised by the Egyptians. At the age of 40, he kills that Egyptian taskmaster and he has to flee and go into exile for the next 40 years of his life. So from 40 to 80, he's in Midian, he's raising his family, he's shepherding. At the end of that 40 years that's when he meets Yahweh, and then you go into the last set of 40, and that is when he begins his ministry at 80 years old and then he goes on to be one of the closest people to ever be to Yahweh himself. That is huge, but what I'm really trying to do is just show you all of these cycles and these patterns that you can see throughout the Word of God and another thing that I want to show you.
Speaker 1:In Ecclesiastes, chapter 1, verse 9, it says what has been is what will be, what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. That whole concept. When I really began to see that, when I first started reading the Bible, I became a daily reader of the word. I am in my fourth year of being a daily reader of the word. I have begun to notice this. This has begun to be the lens that I see this life through.
Speaker 1:There is nothing new under the sun. So all of this craziness that we see happening in the world today, as far out as it is, even with like AI and all of these different genders and all of this stuff, there is nothing new under the sun. The word says that. So that brings me comfort to know that this ain't nothing new and the Lord is not surprised by this in the slightest. So if he's not surprised and if the Bible says that there is nothing new under the sun, then we should not be amazed.
Speaker 1:What does it say in the word? Somewhere I can't think of exactly where it is, but why are you so full of awe over this. We should not be full of awe over what's going on, because the Bible tells us that there's nothing new under the sun, and I hope that that brings you comfort, like it does for me, because God is sovereign, he's seen it all, he knows it all. He has established every single day of time itself before the foundations of the world. So there's nothing new, there's nothing to be afraid of, you guys, because our creator, our God, our Father, our Messiah, he has got us in the palm of his hands, he has numbered our days, he has set out our ways before us, he has given us a lamp for our feet to follow. I just pray that this episode can bring you some peace and bring you some hope for maybe, what's to come, even in the midst of things being hard, even in the midst of suffering. I just pray that the patterns of the Bible, the parallels that we find in his word, that it would bring comfort to you and it would bring hope and anticipation for what's to come. So, before I leave you, I want to leave with you some scriptures that my sweet mentor, brenda, sent me that I think that will really help you as you continue in your time of waiting and hoping again, and that is Romans 8, 25.
Speaker 1:There are several versions here, but there's one that in particular that I want to read to you, and it's the New Living Translation. And it says but if we look forward to something we don't yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently. So the patient part is hard I get that, I'm not a patient person but the confident part that ties into what we were talking about during this time of counting the Omer. Today we are currently on our 45th day of counting the Omer, so we're getting close to Shavuot here. But we are to have that expectation, that anticipation of the Lord fulfilling the promise that he's given us, of that hope being actually brought to life. Right, and we can wait patiently and confidently, knowing that when he does fulfill the promises that he's given us, it's going to be so much better than we can even dream or imagine. So please, I just pray that you can wait patiently and confidently in anticipation of what he's going, of how he's going to fulfill those promises.
Speaker 1:The next scripture that I'm going to leave with you is Song of Solomon, chapter eight, verse four, and I'm going to read you the CSB version. So it said and this is going to tie into the reference to God's set apart calendar and his heavenly timeline, that timeline that we are all under, that we're all connected to right. So it says, young women of Jerusalem, I charge you, do not stir up or awaken love until the appropriate time. There is an appointed time for each of us, for everything. Everything under the sun has its own appointed time. Just like the other day when the Lord showed me those things, that was my appointed time to have hope again. The Lord knew that that was the appointed time that he was going to give me that hope. Each and every one of you has an appointed time for everything in your life. So just be patient and wait confidently, like Romans 8, 25 says, and do not stir or awaken that until that appointed time.
Speaker 1:And the last scripture that I want to leave with you is Psalm 10, 17. And this goes out to the person who is really, really struggling right now. You, even after all of this, you're still wondering if you can even hope. And you are just. You are broken, your heart is broken. You are completely without any hope. It's hard for you to just get up every day and do the things that you have to do, but I want to leave it. I want to leave this for you.
Speaker 1:It's Psalm 10, verse 17. You, yahweh, hear the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them. He hears you. He hears you and he wants to comfort you. He hears you and he wants to comfort you. And if that's you, I just want to encourage you to get alone with God. Get alone and get quiet and just cry out to him and pour out your heart. Tell him how you feel he already knows it anyway. Tell him how you feel he already knows it anyway, and just ask him Father, please, if this hope is for me, if you have hope for me, please show me, and I promise you he's going to show you, because he is the God of hope. He is so loving and so gentle and so kind, especially to the brokenhearted. He wants to comfort you and give you hope. So with that, I'm going to leave you and I hope that you will look into all of these ideas that I've laid out for you, these patterns, these cycles, ideas that I've laid out for you, these patterns, these cycles. I will leave a lot of the info in the show notes for you and the scriptures that we went over today and, as always, I thank you so much for spending this time with me and I just pray that Yahweh will bless you and keep you in perfect peace until next time.
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