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Jonas Park is the son of, Jerry Park, a friend of mine.  His first CD will be released next week and I invite you to visit the link below.
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The Voice, The Unction

I have included the original source that was given when I read this account in social media.  It was posted to The United Pentecostal Church site, submitted by Anita Sargeant.  When we hear The Voice or feel the unction of the Ruach HaKodesh [Holy Spirit] we don't have to know the "why," to be obedient. 

At times when God moves on us through the Gifts of the Spirit we do not understand why we feel compelled to do a certain thing. It makes no logical sense. Here is an example from Sister Nona Freeman: 

“A week or so later, an irresponsible urge became an insistent voice, ‘Go stand on the front porch!’ 

“’No self-respecting house wife would waste time standing on her front porch at ten o’clock in the morning, with dishes to wash and beds to make,’ I chided the unreasonable inclination; ‘and what could be important about our minuscule porch, little more than an enlarged step?’

“The voice ignored my reasoning and like a broken record insisted until it propelled me to the front door and out onto the porch. After standing there for two or three minutes feeling more foolish by the second, I saw a car slowly approaching and recognized the driver—O.C. Taylor. I smiled and waved to him with surprising enthusiasm; he responded with a slight nod of the head. I continued to wave until the car went out of sight.

“Back in the kitchen I wondered out loud, ‘Now what was that all about?’ I didn’t really expect an answer and tackled the house cleaning eagerly to erase the whole affair from my mind.

“Many years later, when we made a visit to Rosepine (Louisiana) a smiling O.C. came to greet me and asked a question that recalled the incident vividly.

“’Sister Freeman, do you remember when I drove by the parsonage one morning about 10 o’clock and saw you standing on your porch?’ He did not pause for a reply. ‘You smiled and waved at me as though I was the most important person in the world. Why?’

“’All I know is the Lord interrupted my dish washing and told me to go stand on the porch that morning. He impressed me to smile and wave when you drove by.’

“’What you do not know is I was on my way to the gravel pit with my gun beside me on the front seat.’ O.C. dropped his head and when he looked up again I saw tears in his eyes. ‘Everything had gone wrong for me. I decided I had nothing to live for and nobody cared whether I lived or died. I planned to blow my brains out at the gravel pit—then I saw you—you acted like you cared. I didn’t go to the gravel pit; I went to see a man about a job and he hired me. Now I am serving the Lord and for a long time I’ve been wanting to say ‘Thanks for caring.’”

Story taken from the book: “Beloved Wide Spot” by Nona Freeman

Following

                                             by Jim Shirley

The Torah is the same Path that Yeshua followed. It is the same path that Yeshua led his original followers. I have said this over and over ... Yeshua was a Torah observant, tallit wearing, synagogue attending, Sabbath and feast-keeping, kosher Jew who observed the seven commanded holy days. Most will agree with me on that. Fact is Most of the Christian Church teach that The Torah is NOT for them. In doing so they have disenfranchised their members and have led them down the broad path instead of the narrow path. Matthew 7:13 "Enter through the narrow gate." The Narrow and Wide Gates - “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction". We all need to return to Our Biblical Roots, we need the Truth of a purer understanding of Our faith. His Word is Truth, Man has distorted and destroyed His Truth. Many are still asleep, now is the time to wake up. Everyone is walking some road to some destination, even if you seem to be sitting still. You may not be moving in space, but you are nonetheless moving in time, and you will one day reach an inevitable destination, the grave. The only question in that case is whether you will arrive with anything to show for it. Everyone choose either the wide path or the narrow path. Which do you choose? Some think the journey is just for sight-seeing, so it doesn't much matter where they may ultimately be headed. Some just simply have no clue and follow the masses. Why does it matter? Yeshua says in His own words that you are going to find out one day, and then it will be too late. The straight and narrow path is the path of every Torah Believer. It is not a burden another has laid upon you. It is the burden of your own greatness and giftedness that you may sometimes feel like shirking. And that always remains an option. You can always slough off your destiny and join the mediocre crowd heedlessly careening down the path of least resistance. There are also those who want to be on both paths ... no matter how many times they hear the truth they continue to play on both roads. Even though it may seem like you have all the time in the world to change direction, as indeed you may, the way things go, it will become much too difficult to disentangle yourself from all the associations and commitments you will accumulate along the way you have chosen. You just can't realistically go back and start over, much less walk both paths at the same time. There's not enough of you to go around. You have to choose one path to be able to go on any path at all.

No Old, No New Testament

I saw this on a Brother's wall, and found it deeply profound.  As we all know, the origin of some articles and notes on social media are difficult to trace to the original author.  This is valuable information, but at this time the author is unknown.  The Goshen Gazette claims no right of authorship nor is there any intent of copyright infringement.

                                                

>>>Most Bibles have a page that says "New Testament" between Malachi and Matthew. Mine doesn't because I ripped it out because it's heresy!!! No where does the Bible itself call the books of Genesis to Malachi the "Old Testament". And nowhere does it call the books of Matthew to Revelation the "New Testament."

I think this is a big deal because it's a lie and it's messed up a lot of Christians. Any time believers dismiss stuff from the Hebrew Scriptures with the mantra "oh that's the Old Testament", you see that lie at work. It has contributed to replacement theology. It's one of the reasons the first four-fifths of many Bibles are collecting dust.

When people say and do stuff like this, it's because they've believed the lie of the "Old Testament". They don't realize that Genesis to Malachi is actually a series of covenants, i.e. testaments, all building on each other. They don't understand that according to Paul in Ephesians 2, they're members of at least one of them - he says non-Jewish believers have become members of the covenants of promise. Notice the plural there! They don't read these stories as their own stories - as the stories of the people they have been grafted into. They're just the *Old* Testament.

Calling the writings of Yeshua's apostles the "New Testament" is a lie, too. The new covenant, which was described in detail by the prophets of Israel and involves the Torah being written on your heart, isn't the books of Matthew to Revelation. The new covenant is a person! Isaiah 42:6 and 49:8 actually say that Yeshua IS the covenant. And he said the new covenant is in his blood which was shed for you and me.

As an aside if you're curious where these misleading terms came from, you can thank Marcion - who was kicked out of the church and branded a heretic in the mid-100s, but whose ghost lives on in pop theology today - for your Old and New Testament pages. You might have fun reading about him.

So what can we do about this? Well, for one thing, quit calling them the Old and New Testaments all the time. Learn to call the Old Testament the Hebrew Scriptures, or the Tanach as they're called by the Jewish people. You could also call the New Testament the Apostolic Writings, or something similar. You could also go a little crazy like me and tear those two pages out of your Bible. Symbolically, of course. And, most importantly, you can help correct people's misunderstandings on the issue. Because those two pages aren't really the problem, they're a symptom of something deeper. And now you know the rest of the story.......

Recipes for Passover and Week of Matzah

These recipes have been kindly contributed by Ann Nielsen.  

Matzah Recipe Original recipe makes 8 matzah breads

1 tsp all purpose flour for dusting        1 c  all purpose flour           1/3 c water or more if needed    ½ tsp kosher salt (opt)   1 tsp olive oil or as needed

Move an oven rack near the top of oven and preheat oven to 475 degrees F (245 degrees C). Preheat a heavy baking sheet in the oven. Dust a clean work surface and a rolling pin with 1 teaspoon flour, or as needed. Place 1 cup of flour into a mixing bowl; set a timer for about 16 minutes (18 minutes maximum). Start the timer; pour the water, about 1 tablespoon at a time, into the flour. Stir the water and flour together with a fork until the dough forms a rough ball, remove the dough to the prepared work surface, knead rapidly and firmly until smooth, about 30 seconds to 1 minute. Divide the dough into four equal pieces; cut each piece in half again to get 8 pieces total. Swiftly roll each piece into a ball. Roll each piece of dough out into a 5-inch pancake, dusting the top and rolling pin with flour as needed. Gradually roll the pancakes out to a size of about 8 inches, increasing the size of each by about 1 inch, then letting the dough rest for a few seconds before rolling again to the finished size. Roll from the center out. The bread rounds should be very thin. Using a fork, quickly pierce each bread about 25 times, all over, to prevent rising. The holes should go completely through the bread. Flip the bread over, and pierce each piece another 25 times with the fork. With at least 5 minutes left on the timer, remove the hot baking sheet from the preheated oven, and place the rounds onto the baking sheet. Place the baking sheet onto the rack near the top of the oven, and bake for 2 minutes; turn the breads over and bake an additional 2 minutes, until the matzot are lightly browned and crisp. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Lightly anoint each matzah with olive oil, using a brush, and sprinkle generously with salt.  Done  in 28 mins  Footnotes *Making matzah breads kosher for Passover requires using special Passover flour that has been guarded from contact with liquids. The cook is allowed no longer than 18 minutes from the point they combine the flour and water to when they remove the matzah from the oven in order for it to be considered fit for Passover. Of course, non-kosher cooks may bake at a more leisurely pace if desired.

Ashkenazic Haroset         8 servings 

¾ to 1 cup of walnuts   2-3 tbsp of sugar          2-3 large apples peeled, halved and cored           1 tsp ground cinnamon`   2-4 sweet red wine 

Grind walnuts with 2 tbsp in a food processor until fairly fine, leaving a few small chunks transfer to a bowl Grate apple on large holes of a grater Add to nut mixture Stir in cinnamon Gradually stir in enough wine to make a thick spread Add more sugar if desired Spoon into serving bowl serve at room temp or cold as

Spread with matzos.

Sephardic Haroset                8 servings

8 oz pitted dates coarsely chopped`     ½ c of almonds, coarsely chopped     1 sweet apple peeled, halved and cored           1 tsp of cinnamon     2-4 tbsp of sweet wine

½ toasted pine nuts (optional)

Halve dates remove any pit pieces, mix in bowl with almonds, Grate apple on large holes of a grater, then stir in enough wine to make a thin spread. Spoon into serving apple, garnish with pine nuts Serve at room temp or cold as a spread with matzos

Grated Potato Kugel 6-8 servings

2-3 tbspn of oil        2 large onions chopped,     2 lbs baking potato peeled     3 large eggs, beaten     1 tsp salt   ½ tsp pepper  ¼ matzo meal

Preheat oven to 350 F  Oil in skillet add onion, and sauté over medium low heat about 10 mins or till golden brown, put in bowl Coarsely grate potatoes put in

Large strainer and squeeze out excess liquid add to onions then add the eggs, salt, pepper, and matzo meal  Generously grease a 7 c baking dish Heat in over

For 3 mins remove carefully spoon potato mixture into baking dish  Sprinkle with remaining tbsp of oil Bake 1 hr or until kugel is browned and set.

From the Thread on the FDA

                                                  by Ron Haley

There is evil afoot with the FDA, and they have most certainly lost their collective minds.

If a farmer wishes to produce Organic produce, he must jump through hoops to prove that he is producing food in the manner that it has almost always been produced, employing the natural methods, using natural fertilizers and other nutrients, etc. Then he is required to place special markings on his product to prove that he has done all of this.

Now, look at the other side of this lopsided equation. Monsanto and the rest of the money hungry GMO producing companies of the world, may hack the heck out of the natural foods that they, in their minds, must believe our Creator messed up on. They can rip out portions of the DNA, whatever they determine are the offending genes, and then splice into the empty place, genes from animals, other plants, and probably artificially altered genes, to "improve" the produce that they must consider God did a bad job of creating. They may then put these Frankenfoods on the market without a single indication of what they've done to it. You have no idea what you are getting at the market, when it comes to GMO foods. Doesn't quite seem fair now, does it?