April 13, 2025 • 25 mins
Pastor Vera McEwen is incredibly excited to give an open welcome to all at Love God Ministries! An online community where all truly are welcome, Pastor Vera embodies the Love of Christ through witness and discipleship. She founded Love God Ministries because conversations with people revealed a need for a community of believers where it does not matter how you look but recognize that you are a child of God.
Pastor Vera has been teaching and preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ and the Word of God for over 30 years. Her primary emphasis is spreading God's Love by providing pastoral care, preaching God's Loving Word, teaching God's Light-Filled Word, and implementing God's Living relational group architecture via in home communities.
She is currently reviewing the prospects of a doctorate in religious studies with an emphasis on Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic as encouraged by her professors at seminary. In addition to her vocation as Pastor she ministers as a certified professional and personal coach.
With God's help, she implements 1 Thessalonians 5.11, motivating people to be and do their very best by building one another up. Pastor Vera is a joyous, ever singing sister in Christ who after years of being pursued by God, stopped running and answered the call, halleluiah, הַלְלוּיָה
https://www.lovegod-ministries.org/
Pastor Vera has been teaching and preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ and the Word of God for over 30 years. Her primary emphasis is spreading God's Love by providing pastoral care, preaching God's Loving Word, teaching God's Light-Filled Word, and implementing God's Living relational group architecture via in home communities.
She is currently reviewing the prospects of a doctorate in religious studies with an emphasis on Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic as encouraged by her professors at seminary. In addition to her vocation as Pastor she ministers as a certified professional and personal coach.
With God's help, she implements 1 Thessalonians 5.11, motivating people to be and do their very best by building one another up. Pastor Vera is a joyous, ever singing sister in Christ who after years of being pursued by God, stopped running and answered the call, halleluiah, הַלְלוּיָה
https://www.lovegod-ministries.org/
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The following content is provided by a I Am Refocused
Radio contributor, Pastor Vera McEwen with Love God Ministries. We'll
be sharing today's message and now here is your host,
Pastor Vera McEwen.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
The penitent path, the penitent path is the journey of
the cross. Repeat that with me. The penitent path is
the journey of the cross.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We are journeying into the time of penitents, repentance. And
of course.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The course is that course of the cross that Jesus walked,
the path that Jesus took.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So that we could be free of all our sin.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The penitent path is the journey of the Cross. Today,
I'd like to teach you a word. It's a word
that we have in English, but it is from our
(01:44):
Greek culture and community.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The word is syth you rism.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Say that with me, sith you rism, sith you rism. Now,
like the word psalm, it has a P in front
of it, so if you were to pronounce it in
the Greek, it would be pacifiism. So scithiurism becomes pcidurism.
(02:18):
I will be using the Greek form of the word
throughout this message. What does pacifiurism mean it means, and
I'd like for you to close your eyes. Pacifiurism means
(02:42):
the sound, the whisper of the gentle breeze that ruffles
the leaves in the trees. Pacidurism is that wind that
caresses the face when you're in the wilderness. Pasidiurism is
(03:11):
that smell in the wind that is picked up from
the pine needles that are baking in the sun.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
As they move through.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
And to you, Pacidurism is supposed to be this calming wind,
this whisper.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That brings about peace.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
The path of penticns is a pacidurism of peace. It
is a whisper, a wind, a calming sensation, a breath
whisper on your face.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Of peace.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Turn with me to our first reading of the day,
Isaiah Chapter one, and we're going to hone in on
this willingness that is spoken by Isaiah in the very
last scripture reading verse nineteen. Now, we were to listen
(04:33):
to verse sixteen and eighteen, but I want to hone
in on verse nineteen as well, because Isaiah tells us
in verses sixteen through eighteen of chapter one to wash ourselves,
(04:53):
to cleanse ourselves get rid of all of our sin,
our transgression, by seeking justice, defending the oppressed, standing up
for the fatherless and the motherless, the orphan, and of
(05:16):
course taking up the cause of the widow.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And Isaiah says.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Through this, our sins that were scarlet, when we submit
and confess who we are to God, are cleansed, and
they shall be like snow, like wool.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
So bright.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And then verse nineteen says, and if you are willing,
if you willingly, and the word willing.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Is abba abba. The word willing is abba. If you
are willing, it means to be willing abba.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
If you are willing to be obedient, if you are
willing to place your sins on the feet of the cross.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
If you are willing, If you are willing, then you
will eat the good things of the land.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The penitent path is a pacidurism of peace.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And if you are willing, Abba, if you are willing,
then that pacidurism.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Of peace be all good.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Things for you in the land.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Turn with me to Psalm thirty two.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
We're gonna hone in on verses five, six seven, And
of course verse ten, I love, I love what God does.
When we come to God with our sins and ask
for forgiveness. Would we lay our burden at the foot
of the cross. Would we take that path of penitence,
(07:38):
that journey to the foot of the cross. I love
what God does you see when we ask for forgiveness.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Verse five says, when.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
We ask for forgiveness, God does something more than just forgive.
Verse five says, then I will knowledge my sin to you.
I will show up as who I am and be
penitent to you God. And did not cover my iniquity,
I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Is what the Psalm says.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And you, God, you Lord, forgave me. The word forgave
is the word nasa in Hebrew.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And I love this word.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
When I was learning Hebrew, I memorized it because of Nasa.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
The word means to lift up.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
So when God forgives you your sins, God literally lifts
them up.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Nassah lifts them up.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Off your back like a burden, so that you can
stand up straight and be clean and new. It means
to alleviate. It's like God erases all your sins.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
They are no more.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It means to carry, and this brings us to the
cross right the cross that Jesus carries is our burden,
and we are to may those sins, those transgressions at
the burden at the bottom, at the foot.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Of the cross. The penitent path is a pacipiism of peace.
You see. Why do I know that?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Because it says in verse six, Therefore, let all the
faithful prey that means you braylan, that means you dante,
that means you doors.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Let all of us pray while we may be found.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Surely rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.
And I love this. Why why do the storms not
reach us? Why are we lifted up?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Nassah? Why is that? It is because God is our
hiding place. When we look at verse seven, it says
you are my hiding place.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You will protect me that secouth, You will surround me
with your glorious wings. So not only will God lift
up your burden. Not only will God carry your burden
when you place them at the foot of the cross. God,
(10:47):
God will surround you, gather you in with songs of deliverance.
And we know what the differences, right, yes, you songs
of deliverance. Now let me drop down to verse ten,
(11:12):
because not only will God forgive you.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Nassah, alleviate, lift up.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Carry your sins, your burdens, take him all away.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Not only that, when.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You are penitent, there's this peace that comes upon you.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's a whispering.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Peace, a pasithiism of peace, because God, it says in
verse ten, will surround.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
You with unfailing love, unfailing love.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Hastdo custen unfailing love.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
The pentitent path is a psirism of peace, and offering
to carry your nassa, burdens, your sins, your transgressions.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Alleviate, and so that you can be surrounded, gathered in,
surrounded by the songs of Yeshia, the songs of deliverance, surrounded.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
By God's has said love everlasting. Now turn with me
to Hebrews chapter twelve.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
We're gonna hone in on verse nine through eleven.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
In Hebrew Paul's writes to us that we must submit,
that's that repentance, repent and be saved. That we must submit,
that we must be penitent. And he goes on to say,
because when you are penitent, when you place your burdens
(13:22):
at the foot of the cross, when you allow the
pasithroism of peace to fill you and your community.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Then you share.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Listen to this in the holiness of God. Share in
the holiness of God, and in that sharing.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Verse eleven says that there.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Is a product, a product that is delivered. It produces
a harvest. It produces a harvest of what.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Peace. The penitent path.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Is a pacidurism, a gentle breeze, waving the leaves so
that you can smell the needles the pine, fill your
lungs with the fresh air. A pacideurism of peace. And
(14:44):
when you submit, When you submit, you share in the
holiness of God, producing a harvest of peace. Finally, the
gospel reading is so simple. Turn with me to the
(15:06):
Book of Matthew. The fourth chapter, one verse, verse seventeen.
Jesus instructs us Jesus who carries our burdens, Nassah, who
lifts up our burdens, takes them off of us.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Cleanses Us, makes us new and carries our burdens. Jesus
tells us to do something so that this can happen.
Jesus tells us that's right.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Repent, repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
The penitent path is a pasithiurism of peace.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
When you willingly ah bah, when you willingly submit to
God God, then nassah, God will alleviate, God will lift up, God.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Will carry.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Your sin, your burdens, and God will surround you.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
With songs of Yeshuah deliverance, and God will surround you
with unfailing love.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
And then you will share in God's holiness. You will
share in God's holiness. And there is a product there.
What is that product? What is produced? A harvest? That's right,
I heard it, a harvest of peace. That that is
(17:08):
the journey of the cross. These past two weeks, I
have experienced and been.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
A witness to.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
High anxiety individuals, a youth, a young adult, and a
young at heart.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And every time I was a.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Witness to this high anxiety, this inability to call and
self down, this place of fear, this place of despair,
this place of heart palpitating anxiousness, I thought of last.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
Wednesday, not this past Wednesday, but the Wednesday before, And.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I thought to myself, during a time of high anxiety
that could have been high anxiety for me, what did
I do? A couple of wednesdays ago, I experienced a
storm like.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No other in our new homestead.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It began with rain and these very dark clouds, and
then all of my power went out. And many of
you know, I also have a corporate job that I do,
and so I had my hot spots because my internet
was gone. I had my hotspots looked up to my
laptop and my laptop battery was just dying and dying.
I tried to take as many meetings as I could.
(19:00):
I had to try and do all this work. And
then finally everything was dead except a couple of USB
lights that I had, and I thought to myself, well,
maybe I should go out in the storm and try
to get to the library or try to get to
someplace that had the internet.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
And then I looked outside and.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
All around the homestead there was ice that had built
up from this rain.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And then it started.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Hailing, and then it started raining again, and I thought,
you know.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I'm not going out in that which is not.
Speaker 11 (19:41):
And I decided.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That I had worked enough that morning, and I would sit.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
In a place of shelter as it was saying because
the alarms were going off.
Speaker 11 (19:55):
And read and I read, and I was in a
place of peace.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
And I thought to myself, how could I take that
same peace and provide it to others. And I thought
of a prescription for peace, and the first thing that
came to me was being outside. One of the things
I tell my community at work, my teams at work
(20:28):
as ten and to get outside ten and too, don't
just sit in front of your computer.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Get up, get outside and experience.
Speaker 12 (20:37):
A pacitheurism, a pacitheurism on your face, a paciiteurism of.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Peace. By walking in nature.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I encourage my teams, I encourage the people I know
to meditate. I remember when I first tried to meditate,
Remember when saw chapter one, Verse one.
Speaker 13 (21:03):
Says meditate on God's day and night right. I remember
I couldn't sit for one minute in peace. My mind
was just reeling.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
And then finally I made it to five minutes. And
then I made it to ten minutes, but it took forever.
It's just ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
My mind was just going and finally I would experience
this peace. You are a physical being, and that means
when you're anxious, tension can get all up in your body.
And so this mental state of meditating allowed me to
find that peace.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And it took forever to get up to Now I'm
at thirty one minutes.
Speaker 11 (21:52):
Thirty one minutes of peace, calming peace.
Speaker 12 (21:57):
And so I.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Prescribe that get out in nature ten to take some
time thirty minutes, five minutes, one minute to just sit and.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Be at peace.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And then of course my precedence for going into environments
that could create create very much tension for me. And
this is the remedy. You see, we can have a prescription, right,
and a prescription doesn't necessarily heal you. It kind of
sometimes is a topical for you. And that's to create
(22:32):
a space at ten and two, get outdoors, feel that
pacifism and peace. That's that prescription, right, meditate, that's that prescription.
But the remedy, the remedy for me, the remedy for you.
If you're listening, this day is the journey of the Cross.
It is to do exactly what Isaiah told us to do.
(22:57):
If you are willing to submit your your self, your
transgressions and all that you have to our Lord God,
because God Nassah will lift them up off of you,
carry them, erase them, and they will be completely destroyed
for you.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It is when you submit that you can be surrounded.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
By that piece, no matter if there is horns going
off in the background, ice forming on your home, rain
that can knock you out, hail the size of golf balls.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
You will be surrounded by songs of deliverance, with unfailing,
unfailing love. And of course, Paul tells us.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Paul tells us that when this happens, we release our sins,
our transgressions, our burdens at the foot of the cross.
When we do that, we share in the holiness of
God Almighty.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
And produce a harvest of peace.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
The penitent path is a passive eurism of peace. It
is the journey of the Cross. May the peace of
our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all ways.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Share that.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
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Speaker 12 (25:05):
Once again, like you always say, keep God first, stay
focused in peace.
The following content is provided by a I Am Refocused
Radio contributor, Pastor Vera McEwen with Love God Ministries. We'll
be sharing today's message and now here is your host,
Pastor Vera McEwen.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
The penitent path, the penitent path is the journey of
the cross. Repeat that with me. The penitent path is
the journey of the cross.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We are journeying into the time of penitents, repentance. And
of course.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The course is that course of the cross that Jesus walked,
the path that Jesus took.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So that we could be free of all our sin.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The penitent path is the journey of the Cross. Today,
I'd like to teach you a word. It's a word
that we have in English, but it is from our
(01:44):
Greek culture and community.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The word is syth you rism.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Say that with me, sith you rism, sith you rism. Now,
like the word psalm, it has a P in front
of it, so if you were to pronounce it in
the Greek, it would be pacifiism. So scithiurism becomes pcidurism.
(02:18):
I will be using the Greek form of the word
throughout this message. What does pacifiurism mean it means, and
I'd like for you to close your eyes. Pacifiurism means
(02:42):
the sound, the whisper of the gentle breeze that ruffles
the leaves in the trees. Pacidurism is that wind that
caresses the face when you're in the wilderness. Pasidiurism is
(03:11):
that smell in the wind that is picked up from
the pine needles that are baking in the sun.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
As they move through.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
And to you, Pacidurism is supposed to be this calming wind,
this whisper.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That brings about peace.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
The path of penticns is a pacidurism of peace. It
is a whisper, a wind, a calming sensation, a breath
whisper on your face.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Of peace.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Turn with me to our first reading of the day,
Isaiah Chapter one, and we're going to hone in on
this willingness that is spoken by Isaiah in the very
last scripture reading verse nineteen. Now, we were to listen
(04:33):
to verse sixteen and eighteen, but I want to hone
in on verse nineteen as well, because Isaiah tells us
in verses sixteen through eighteen of chapter one to wash ourselves,
(04:53):
to cleanse ourselves get rid of all of our sin,
our transgression, by seeking justice, defending the oppressed, standing up
for the fatherless and the motherless, the orphan, and of
(05:16):
course taking up the cause of the widow.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And Isaiah says.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Through this, our sins that were scarlet, when we submit
and confess who we are to God, are cleansed, and
they shall be like snow, like wool.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
So bright.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And then verse nineteen says, and if you are willing,
if you willingly, and the word willing.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Is abba abba. The word willing is abba. If you
are willing, it means to be willing abba.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
If you are willing to be obedient, if you are
willing to place your sins on the feet of the cross.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
If you are willing, If you are willing, then you
will eat the good things of the land.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The penitent path is a pacidurism of peace.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And if you are willing, Abba, if you are willing,
then that pacidurism.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Of peace be all good.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Things for you in the land.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Turn with me to Psalm thirty two.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
We're gonna hone in on verses five, six seven, And
of course verse ten, I love, I love what God does.
When we come to God with our sins and ask
for forgiveness. Would we lay our burden at the foot
of the cross. Would we take that path of penitence,
(07:38):
that journey to the foot of the cross. I love
what God does you see when we ask for forgiveness.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Verse five says, when.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
We ask for forgiveness, God does something more than just forgive.
Verse five says, then I will knowledge my sin to you.
I will show up as who I am and be
penitent to you God. And did not cover my iniquity,
I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Is what the Psalm says.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And you, God, you Lord, forgave me. The word forgave
is the word nasa in Hebrew.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And I love this word.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
When I was learning Hebrew, I memorized it because of Nasa.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
The word means to lift up.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
So when God forgives you your sins, God literally lifts
them up.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Nassah lifts them up.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Off your back like a burden, so that you can
stand up straight and be clean and new. It means
to alleviate. It's like God erases all your sins.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
They are no more.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It means to carry, and this brings us to the
cross right the cross that Jesus carries is our burden,
and we are to may those sins, those transgressions at
the burden at the bottom, at the foot.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Of the cross. The penitent path is a pacipiism of peace.
You see. Why do I know that?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Because it says in verse six, Therefore, let all the
faithful prey that means you braylan, that means you dante,
that means you doors.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Let all of us pray while we may be found.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Surely rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.
And I love this. Why why do the storms not
reach us? Why are we lifted up?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Nassah? Why is that? It is because God is our
hiding place. When we look at verse seven, it says
you are my hiding place.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You will protect me that secouth, You will surround me
with your glorious wings. So not only will God lift
up your burden. Not only will God carry your burden
when you place them at the foot of the cross. God,
(10:47):
God will surround you, gather you in with songs of deliverance.
And we know what the differences, right, yes, you songs
of deliverance. Now let me drop down to verse ten,
(11:12):
because not only will God forgive you.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Nassah, alleviate, lift up.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Carry your sins, your burdens, take him all away.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Not only that, when.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You are penitent, there's this peace that comes upon you.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's a whispering.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Peace, a pasithiism of peace, because God, it says in
verse ten, will surround.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
You with unfailing love, unfailing love.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Hastdo custen unfailing love.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
The pentitent path is a psirism of peace, and offering
to carry your nassa, burdens, your sins, your transgressions.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Alleviate, and so that you can be surrounded, gathered in,
surrounded by the songs of Yeshia, the songs of deliverance, surrounded.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
By God's has said love everlasting. Now turn with me
to Hebrews chapter twelve.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
We're gonna hone in on verse nine through eleven.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
In Hebrew Paul's writes to us that we must submit,
that's that repentance, repent and be saved. That we must submit,
that we must be penitent. And he goes on to say,
because when you are penitent, when you place your burdens
(13:22):
at the foot of the cross, when you allow the
pasithroism of peace to fill you and your community.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Then you share.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Listen to this in the holiness of God. Share in
the holiness of God, and in that sharing.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Verse eleven says that there.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Is a product, a product that is delivered. It produces
a harvest. It produces a harvest of what.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Peace. The penitent path.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Is a pacidurism, a gentle breeze, waving the leaves so
that you can smell the needles the pine, fill your
lungs with the fresh air. A pacideurism of peace. And
(14:44):
when you submit, When you submit, you share in the
holiness of God, producing a harvest of peace. Finally, the
gospel reading is so simple. Turn with me to the
(15:06):
Book of Matthew. The fourth chapter, one verse, verse seventeen.
Jesus instructs us Jesus who carries our burdens, Nassah, who
lifts up our burdens, takes them off of us.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Cleanses Us, makes us new and carries our burdens. Jesus
tells us to do something so that this can happen.
Jesus tells us that's right.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Repent, repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
The penitent path is a pasithiurism of peace.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
When you willingly ah bah, when you willingly submit to
God God, then nassah, God will alleviate, God will lift up, God.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Will carry.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Your sin, your burdens, and God will surround you.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
With songs of Yeshuah deliverance, and God will surround you
with unfailing love.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
And then you will share in God's holiness. You will
share in God's holiness. And there is a product there.
What is that product? What is produced? A harvest? That's right,
I heard it, a harvest of peace. That that is
(17:08):
the journey of the cross. These past two weeks, I
have experienced and been.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
A witness to.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
High anxiety individuals, a youth, a young adult, and a
young at heart.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And every time I was a.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Witness to this high anxiety, this inability to call and
self down, this place of fear, this place of despair,
this place of heart palpitating anxiousness, I thought of last.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
Wednesday, not this past Wednesday, but the Wednesday before, And.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I thought to myself, during a time of high anxiety
that could have been high anxiety for me, what did
I do? A couple of wednesdays ago, I experienced a
storm like.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No other in our new homestead.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It began with rain and these very dark clouds, and
then all of my power went out. And many of
you know, I also have a corporate job that I do,
and so I had my hot spots because my internet
was gone. I had my hotspots looked up to my
laptop and my laptop battery was just dying and dying.
I tried to take as many meetings as I could.
(19:00):
I had to try and do all this work. And
then finally everything was dead except a couple of USB
lights that I had, and I thought to myself, well,
maybe I should go out in the storm and try
to get to the library or try to get to
someplace that had the internet.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
And then I looked outside and.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
All around the homestead there was ice that had built
up from this rain.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And then it started.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Hailing, and then it started raining again, and I thought,
you know.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I'm not going out in that which is not.
Speaker 11 (19:41):
And I decided.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That I had worked enough that morning, and I would sit.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
In a place of shelter as it was saying because
the alarms were going off.
Speaker 11 (19:55):
And read and I read, and I was in a
place of peace.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
And I thought to myself, how could I take that
same peace and provide it to others. And I thought
of a prescription for peace, and the first thing that
came to me was being outside. One of the things
I tell my community at work, my teams at work
(20:28):
as ten and to get outside ten and too, don't
just sit in front of your computer.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Get up, get outside and experience.
Speaker 12 (20:37):
A pacitheurism, a pacitheurism on your face, a paciiteurism of.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Peace. By walking in nature.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I encourage my teams, I encourage the people I know
to meditate. I remember when I first tried to meditate,
Remember when saw chapter one, Verse one.
Speaker 13 (21:03):
Says meditate on God's day and night right. I remember
I couldn't sit for one minute in peace. My mind
was just reeling.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
And then finally I made it to five minutes. And
then I made it to ten minutes, but it took forever.
It's just ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
My mind was just going and finally I would experience
this peace. You are a physical being, and that means
when you're anxious, tension can get all up in your body.
And so this mental state of meditating allowed me to
find that peace.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And it took forever to get up to Now I'm
at thirty one minutes.
Speaker 11 (21:52):
Thirty one minutes of peace, calming peace.
Speaker 12 (21:57):
And so I.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Prescribe that get out in nature ten to take some
time thirty minutes, five minutes, one minute to just sit and.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Be at peace.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And then of course my precedence for going into environments
that could create create very much tension for me. And
this is the remedy. You see, we can have a prescription, right,
and a prescription doesn't necessarily heal you. It kind of
sometimes is a topical for you. And that's to create
(22:32):
a space at ten and two, get outdoors, feel that
pacifism and peace. That's that prescription, right, meditate, that's that prescription.
But the remedy, the remedy for me, the remedy for you.
If you're listening, this day is the journey of the Cross.
It is to do exactly what Isaiah told us to do.
(22:57):
If you are willing to submit your your self, your
transgressions and all that you have to our Lord God,
because God Nassah will lift them up off of you,
carry them, erase them, and they will be completely destroyed
for you.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It is when you submit that you can be surrounded.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
By that piece, no matter if there is horns going
off in the background, ice forming on your home, rain
that can knock you out, hail the size of golf balls.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
You will be surrounded by songs of deliverance, with unfailing,
unfailing love. And of course, Paul tells us.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Paul tells us that when this happens, we release our sins,
our transgressions, our burdens at the foot of the cross.
When we do that, we share in the holiness of
God Almighty.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
And produce a harvest of peace.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
The penitent path is a passive eurism of peace. It
is the journey of the Cross. May the peace of
our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all ways.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Share that.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Refocus Radio make sure you go to im refocus radio
dot com to listen to today's episode.
Speaker 12 (25:05):
Once again, like you always say, keep God first, stay
focused in peace.
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