Y'shua | יֵשׁוּעַ
... a light for the revelation of the Gentiles.
And a glory to your people Israel.
Isaiah 49:6 CJB| Luke 2:32 AENT
7 Aug 2018
Through the last almost eleven years, I have heard from teachers and friends the first five quotes below. The authors will not be identified, but obviously the author of the sixth quote is Rav. Shaul (Paul). It is just ten+ years since I shockingly discovered that what I was taught was Replacement Theology. Seeking to forgive damage done to me and my family for – four generations –
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31 July 2018
This is how it always happens, divine appointments, that is. A few months ago on my Walk-‘n-Pray, I realized that a person was following me, and a quick look identified a woman. Once we hit a straight stretch with no turn offs, I figured I better alleviate any fear she may have about the person only ten feet ahead of her. I stopped, turned and extended my hand (normatively a Jewish no-no, but a business habit) and said ... read more
24 July 2018
Truly, before the rebirth of Messianic Judaism, Dad was right! But after a lifetime suffering in that double bind, I was finally free. In 2007 I discovered that The Ruach HoKodesh (Holy Spirit) was given on Shavuot1 and that Christian Pentacost Sunday2 using Easter Sunday timing was really just a false Christian replacement for Shavuot. That Shabbat I excitedly drove straight from Shul to my Father’s home to show him what I had found ... read more
26 September 2018
Since January, 2018 I have been studying and praying to understand “Communion”. 17 July 2018 I published “LISTEN-UP! “See The Spinner” 4 The Inconvenient Left Behind”. At that time I was focused on the verse: “do this as often as you drink (it), in remembrance of me.” Yes, I am correct, do the Seder in remembrance of Y’shua. But because of my anger at the Church I was blinded to 1 Corinthians 11:26. Yes, it is also correct to share in the Assembly “The Meal of Our Master Y’shua” more than once a year in the Seder. ... read more
17 July 2018
Often, but not always, Dad would lift his glass of wine and say: “Next year in Jerusalem!” I never knew the proper response, and indeed considering the silence neither did anyone else. Every year we would celebrate Easter Sunday service topped with an early afternoon feast featuring the centerpiece Easter Ham. Was that toast at the beginning or end of the meal? That I don’t remember. I just remember what was said. It’s just that, for some reason, that minor event, when it was done, was seared into my memory! ... read more
10 July 2018
So far in this life (69 years) there has only been two times where I stood on the knife edge, knowing that all has changed for all time. The first occurred at September 1968, the beginning of my second year as a Lutheran pre-theological student. Earnestly reading, studying, trying to square the holy writings of Scripture, with the writings of men, I read one sentence that sent shivers through me. At that precise moment, my life changed ... read more
3 July 2018
From the age of three to six, I lived in the French sector of Occupied Germany. One day sometime during that time frame my Mother started to hand me an orange with “ISRAEL” stamped on it in a purplish blue color, but then changing her mind she hesitated, holding it for me to see as she spoke very seriously to me, eye-to-eye. When done she handed me the orange, walking away to continue her day, but all I could do is stare at that orange. Should I eat it, or put it on the shelf in my room? ... read more
29 June 2018
Today, 6:30 am a bright and chipper 3+ year old granddaughter with her new toy encounters her Grandfather enjoying his morning coffee in the kitchen. In a short minute I realize that this is not just some toy! Set it spinning, and it just keeps going, so much so that I had to see for myself if it had some sort of power source. Nope! Now I am fully awake. We have a great time until it was time for all to meet their daily schedule. Alone in the house I went to morning prayer. ... read more
30 May 2018
Even though a soda from the soda machine was only 6 cents, one quarter a week, 25 cents allowance only stayed in my hand less than two days. Mowing lawns was hit or miss, and selling greeting cards with my buddy was lots of work and low return. At age 10, too young for a job. What to do? Then one hot Georgia day, sitting under the front awning that ran the length of our 50 foot trailer, I heard the sound of the passing newspaper delivery truck ... read more
24 May 2018
We were blessed by YAH with this house ("A House You Can't Afford") ; and prayerfully by HIS love, we create a home. As you can tell by the title of that page, money is required to be carefully managed. We are blessed in so many ways! I personally was blessed with the gift of a used high end Craftsman lawnmower. The statement with the gift was something to the effect: “This yard is too big for the push reel lawnmower that YAH gave you for the former postage stamp yard at the rental condo.” (Go In -- There!) The only thing missing was the .... read more
3 May 2018
They were so pervasive that I called them “Ed’s 1000 crazy ideas”. All of my life little creative thoughts would pop into my mind out of nowhere. It continued from childhood to this day, except now for ten years, I finally understand how and why; and I give all praise, worship and thanksgiving to YAH – Avinu Malkeinu, through Y’shua HaMashiyach Ben David, by the Supernatural Power of the Ruach HaKodesh! ... read more
27 Mar 2018
“Walking the beans”. 50+ acres. Each row half a mile. Blazing heat. August sun. By the end of the day, as above, all I could muster was incomplete sentences! Regardless of the fact that a dear Brother needed help, it was in no way my decision to walk back and forth, row after row, in this field. Never in my life have I done this kind of work, and neither was I eager to learn. Nonetheless, as I prayed and considered, loud and clear, I heard... read more
5 Mar 2018
I dearly love my Father who loved our Father – Avinu Malkeinu! My love for my father burns brightly, undimmed by his passing. Dad’s love and Trust in The Holy One of Israel through Y’shua, by the power of The Ruach was immoveable, and a personal encouragement to me. Dad was a Believer, but more than that, he lived out his total Trust. What is Believe Vs. Trust? ... read more
13 Feb 2018
Oh, how I remember those days! The mansion listed on The National Registry of Historic Places, at the pinnacle of the hill overlooking New London Harbor. My friends called me the “Harbor Master”. From my third floor home office, to see the eastern tip of Long Island 17 miles to the south across Long Island Sound; all I had to do was turn my head and look out the window ... read more
8 Feb 2018
Love! Joy! Enthusiasm! Positive Chutzpah! With such adjectives one just begins to describe the author of the following testimony. Her love for YAH, and belief in Y’shua were absolute. She absolutely exemplified and lived the concept of total “Trust”, walking out each day in the Supernatural Power of The Set Apart Ruach HaKodesh. But for me there is one word that completely describes her ... read more
"Stay! He's Running The Light!"
9 Jan 2018
I am of the opinion that there is an unwritten rule that, when the light changes to green, one must count to six and then go. Some choose the eight second rule and some the “negative two” rule. Those choosing the eight second rule try the patience while the “negative two” group are few but dangerous. Oh, sorry – “negative two” are those who choose to jump the light two seconds before it is green.... read more
1 Jan 2018
Only when Mashiyach Y’shua returns will there be real PEACE. My prayer for 2018? May we all work for peace in this, our days and work even more diligently for the return of Y’shua! Amen! ... read more
15 Dec 2017
Lobsters paid for my college education. 50 years later and keeping kosher, I just sit and quietly chuckle. They were long days and long weeks, but I was determined to get my BA degree, bought and paid for with cash with no credit. Nine hours a day, six days a week, spring and summer allowed me to set aside cash so that winter school was all study and no work. What a blessing! I was blessed with great co-workers and the business owner started calling my home in late winter to make sure I would be returning. ... read more
9 Nov 2017
Whirlwinds are quite a novelty, sucking up dust, spinning, jumping, irrationionally changing course, picking up small items, and dropping others. Just so, waking, sleeping, walking, praying, the words of Matthew whirl through my mind, and spirit. I read, re-read, pray, think, walk. Always in the background, spinning, never quite gone as I go through my day. And then we get to this last Shabbat; where a second whirwind breaks out so that in my mind and spirit two whirlwinds dance, spinning together through my prayers and thinking, waking, sleeping. Why? Why, I pray and ask? ... read more
22 Aug 2017
With great hope and a large dose of apprehension I sat on Metro North absentmidedly watching the scenery go by as all the twists and turns of this lifetime journey played out in my memory. Starting with my first memories in the French Sector of Occupied Germany (1952-55); soon to crest in New York City (2007). As we entered Grand Central Station ... read more
18 July 2017
We had a lively conversation full of laughter ranging over a a myriad of topics in just a few moments, and yet as I walked away it occurred to me that I did not even know his name! Laughter, banter, joy, happiness --- connection. What had started the conversation? How did it progress? ... read more
12 July 2017
In the days afterward, when I prayed trying to understand, instantly I see the completely clear flight deck of an aircraft carrier, but none of this has to do with ships, planes, or decks ... read more
27 June 2017
…meaning that Now FINALLY (!) after five years of constantly rumbling around in the background, like constantly tripping on something in a dark room; now is the time to write and publish. Why? I don’t ask that question ... read more
13 June 2017
Spring 5768, this was the interruption of my morning prayer for weeks and then it was gone. What did I do with it in 2008? Nothing except remember the utter terror in the eyes of those huge strong horses as they mindlessly ran seeking escape. Here we are in 5777 and again the same interruption of prayer. For five weeks now on my six mile Walk-n-Pray, I ask for it to go away—silence. Last week I heard very plainly ... read more
"Life up your arms and hold them out."
6 June 2017
Praying today is difficult. Pride. Humility. False Humility. So many things and concepts running through my head. Additionally I feel the effects of not praying as I need to do. Discouraged! Half way along I hear ... read more
The Ruach creates the Match (3 of 3)
29 May 2017
Ever since the middle of May (2012) I had known that I wanted to ask -My future wife- to marry me, but was unsure of timing. I was sure, but there is always that little thought that says to make sure that you are sure that you are sure! I was thinking sometime in the fall, maybe October, 2012 would be good, after High Holidays. Yet even that was not sure in my mind ... read more
The Ruach creates the Match (2 of 3)
29 May 2017
On either 06 or 07 February, -My future wife- and I were praying and I had a vision that stopped prayer. What was seen that evening was seen in our prayer every evening as I was in Des Moines, Iowa and is always to this day seen and is instructive. Every few evenings there was a new addition with details slowly revealed one by one ... read more
The Ruach creates the Match (1 of 3)
29 May 2017
With six weeks to wait for my apartment to become available on the JCC in Wexner Heritage Tower, I vacated my living quarters and took the bus to Des Moines, Iowa. The plan was to spend the six weeks with family and then come back. The lady I was seeing agreed that we could “talk on the phone”. ‘Talk on the phone” turned into every night for two hours, three hours, four hours and the think the record was six hours. Most importantly we were learning how to pray together ... read more
"'Listen', in My Word, how many?"
17 May 2017
A few hours ago, walking my daily six mile Walk-‘n-Pray, as I moved through the things given for which to pray, the word “Shavu’ot” kept floating in front of me like something suspended in a heads-up display. Then all of a sudden I smell hot fresh challah, just coming out of the oven. It causes me to stumble-stop, and then I resume my pace. With all of this busyness running through my spirit and mind the miles go by, but then all stops as I hear ... read more
31 Mar 2017
Even though a simple aircraft, sitting in the left seat of that little Piper Cherokee that day was daunting. A million details before take-off. As we taxi to the runway, my mind is racing with details. This is it! Square up with the runway, and full power. The instructor is reading off commands and I am complying. Concentrating, I had no idea that we were airborne until ... read more
"You're supposed to trust ME! Remember?"
7 Feb 2017
What an interesting coincedence! Really? Today I know that there is no such thing as coincedence. Today, with experience, that is my rock solid opinion, but during my six years as an atheist, I would have agreed! Yesterday as I prayed to understand what to write, I happened to find this testimony on my iPhone, written in a hurry almost three years ago, so that I would not forget ... read more
11 Jan 2017
Actually, it’s just annoying, because the replacement cost is relatively small. I mean our Creator does not expect us to bother HIM with these little things. Right? I’ve heard it said: “God does not expect us to take every-small-little-thing to HIM.” And I gues that’s true that we are most definitely not supposed to sit and do nothing! ... read more
4 Jan 2017
Five of us jammed into a two bedroom condo reminded me of the claustrophobic confines of a World War II diesel submarine. Having walked through many submarines but having never served on any such vessels, I noted that every square inch of space was employed, and some spaces served double use. Just so were we living as we prayed together daily to be shown a place to live. Then one morning during preparations for work I clearly heard ... read more
22 Dec 2016
Prayer was entered about 5:30 am with many, many seriously vexing issues. Prayer was offered for repentance against pride, arrogance, to forgive all that I could think of and lastly to be forgiven. Then prayer was offered for each issue. As I prayed a second time for each issue it was startling to see a pinwheel appear and spin. Soon there were six pinwheels, three to the left and three to the right. Each issue had its own respective pinwheel and when prayer was offered for an issue, its respective pinwheel would spin ... read more
22 Nov 2016
Before we were married, my wife and I would share Erev Shabbat with a large group; praying the Blessings, lighting the candles, starting Shabbat. It was always a great time filled with the joy of conversation and the telling of Jewish Stories from the various countries from which a person may have emigrated. The gathering would only last maybe 30-45 minutes. Meanwhile the flowers I bought each Friday would sit next to our coats waiting for us to go to our own table and Shabbat Dinner ... read more
8 Nov 2016
You know how it happens. You are walking and that puppy decides to “adopt you”. You tell it to go home, you wave your arms, and you scold it. No matter what you do it follows you. You are not responsible for its wellbeing, but you know the more it follows you the greater its chances of getting lost. Then you heave a quiet sigh of relief when you look back and it’s gone, but wait a minute it’s not gone, it’s just hanging back one hundred feet. Finally you give up, disavow responsibility and keep walking even as that puppy keeps “dogging you”. But what does a puppy have to do with a 56 year old dream? ... read more
25 Oct 2016
Shabbat starts with prayer and lately it has fallen to me to choose the music for the prayer before the Siddur Service. Usually enough music is chosen to last for fifteen or twenty minutes of quiet private prayer. By the time those who are led to public prayer are finished, an entire hour will elapse. From that point we go to the "service of the heart" in the Siddur.... read more
20 Sept 2016
My first ever Shabbat service was on Shabbat Shuvah, 3 Tishrei 5768, 15 September 2007 at Congregation Sha’ar Adonai (Chosen People Ministry) 2 W 64th St, New York City. You can read the testimony of how that wonderful event came to be here: (GO! I’ll Take Care of It!) When I came home I had to find a place to attend Shabbat, but that desire also collided head on with business ... read more
13 Sept 2016
There was a blinding flash with the intensity of the first burst from a nuclear detonation. I turned my head and tried to close my eyes and then realized that my eyes were closed! I looked back and saw intense pure white light radiating from around a man in a robe walking toward me with his hands in front, palms facing me. My only thought was “What is this?” Simultaneously I realized that the light was emanating FROM the man not around the man, and that the hands had nail holes. An indescribable peace washed through me.... read more
6 Sept 2016
In 2005 when I miraculously came to faith from atheism (testimony) I started attending a very large non-denominational Church. One Sunday there in front leading the service was a missionary completely dressed in the clothes he wore in Afghanistan. His stories were captivating, his dress totally foreign, but half way through his talk he sent electricity through me. He stood in front of 400 people and blithely said: “The Lord raised a man from the dead and his entire village became Christians.” How could this be? ... read more
24 Aug 2016
My eyes shot bolt wide open as I spoke out loud in guilt and shame: “Yes I know!” From that first command until, finally, my obedience and then healing required just shy of two years. The twists and turns of this story can all be summed up with the statement: “Be obedient, don’t try to understand; just walk the path that the Ruach is illuminating, and it’s only illuminated a few steps ahead each time.” ... read more
9 Aug 2016
…and remember, I wrote a paper about Isaiah 53 proving that Jesus is not the messiah! With that challenge on Tuesday night the Rabbi and I agreed to meet in public Thursday morning for one hour at the coffee shop on Main Street. The next morning, Wednesday, 5:00 am prayer went on and on …and on(!) as I prayed asking for direction and what to do. By noon I still had no idea, and then somewhere around 1:00 pm I heard ... read more
2 Aug 2016
No sooner had I gone to prayer but I heard The-VOICE-
“Today, wear black and white because what you will write is NOT "shades of grey.”
The 'innocent' stories such as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and others of that ilk (there are many!) are designed to teach 'innocent' children at a very young age... read more
27 July 2016
I’d like to replace my aging car and I have been praying about it for a long time. At one time restoring MG sports cars was a hobby. In the past I was always towing home ‘dead’ MGs so the motto of my shop was: “If it’s dead; it’s Ed’s”. I no longer have tools, yet the occasional clean “dead” car attracts me. On my six mile walk-n-pray I kept passing this clean car that seemed never to move. The grass growing around the wheels was a dead give-away. All I needed to do was knock on a door and ask, but I felt dissuaded from that course of action. I just said a little prayer each day as I passed it. ... read more
20 July 2016
Why am I in Columbus, Ohio? Since 7/25/11 so much has happened that I question no further. But still to this date I still am not sure WHY, and you know, that’s OK! But, there is still the battle in the mind. Do I follow the leading of the Ruach, or do I give in and follow what I want to do? ... read more
6 July 2016
One cold Sunday afternoon in January 2008, I read the entire Book of Acts, beginning to end in one sitting, for the first time in my life (I was 60) and was enthralled! It was an action adventure novel, except real, with eternal consequences! It was not even four months that I was finally “home” in my Messianic Congregation. I was expecting everything to straighten out and life would settle into the “good” lane. YAH has His plans and I had mine. They did not match! ... read more
24 May 2016
Driving in the dark of winter, on crowded urban major roads at ‘going home drive time’ is a stretch that as a salesman I have always avoided. Neither was I used to the utter blindness that cataracts cause in night driving. Nonetheless I ventured out. I had accepted a friend’s invitation to visit all the way across town. Not “counting the cost” I said yes. It was only when I started driving that I realized what I had set into motion; but ever the one not to give up, I persisted, even though welling up inside was ice cold pure fear ... read more
18 May 2016
Sometime in the years of 1952-1955 while living in the French Sector of Occupied Germany, my mother handed me an orange with “ISRAEL” stamped on it in purple-blue ink. She would not let go until she explained ISRAEL. I was in awe by the time she was done, and almost could not bear to eat the orange, preferring to sit and stare at those purple letters ... read more
10 May 2016
It had gotten dark, and the Rabbi offered to give me a ride home, which I accepted. As we entered his vehicle The-VOICE- plainly spoke saying: “Fill his tank!” As he pulled into a gas station my new friend said “We need gas.” When he got out preparing to pump the gas I said “Fill it! I’m paying.” This first afternoon started a six week stint of working with him in his Kosher Deli and then going home to be with my daughter in the evening after she got home from work. It was a great walk back and forth and wonderful days with a great person ... read more
3 May 2016
Public speaking; ah yes, what can I say? In a nutshell, I can do it when needed, but it’s not my favorite activity. When I came home from U.S. Army active duty February 1972, I sat down and set five life goals. Goal number one was: “Work one on one with people.” Not one of those goals included “public speaking” and yet time after time I was placed in the position of speaking. I will admit that “seeing the lights go on” in the eyes of a listener in the audience is tremendously gratifying. On the other hand the glassy eyed “thousand yard stare” signals zero communications. All said and done, I’m glad to stay in the audience, listening! ... read more
19 April 2016
After I had initially been through the ringer, I was blessed to meet Steve Lightle in person. He says that each time we hear The-VOICE-; it is a test. What choice are we going to make? Understand and then –maybe- do; or “Sh’ma” (hear! Do!)? The choices we make will determine our path. Are we in command of our destiny or have we placed our actual life in The Master’s hands, come what may?... read more
Event 5, "I'm Going To Be Late"
12 April 2016
I was finishing my 6 mile walk turning onto James St for the last mile and was due at 5:30 back onto High St for a ride to Bible study. Realizing that I was 30 minutes behind schedule I rushed to make up the time, but to no avail. There was no way to meet the 5:30 deadline and no way to contact my friend. I immediately took it to YAH in prayer. “Abba, I am running late and am not going to make it". I did not have any expectation or specific request. I just talk with YAH all day about everything. What happened next took me by surprise! ... read more
5 April 2016
The weather channel on my iPhone convinced me that tonight I was going to be forced to walk through a raging, dangerous storm. The hour’s ride south on the #2 High St bus allowed me many opportunities to watch the raging red part of the storm move to exactly where and when I wanted to exit the bus at the JCC on College Avenue. I noted but ignored a curious black dot moving in the middle of the raging red; chalking it up as some sort of anomaly. My focus moved to prayer lifting up my fears and the situation as I considered options ... read more
29 March 2016
Six pm, not yet Erev Shabbat, I set out for my 6 mile walk. At the 3/4 mile mark I almost reach the corner of Granville & Hamilton and see the wind blowing dirt out of the construction site. The wind and dirt are blowing so fiercely that cars can't safely navigate the huge intersection. When I arrive at the intersection and turn north onto Hamilton, I note the dark clouds. Still doggedly determined I persist on my walk, because in my human estimation, it looks like the clouds will blow over ... read more
22 March 2016
I walk 6 miles a day for exercise and prayer. Sometimes on Friday during the walk I also buy food at the grocer for Erev Shabbat dinner. Arriving at the grocer about 5 pm and pushing a shopping cart, I absentmindedly placed my hat and sunglasses in the child seat part of the cart and prepared to park next to the men's room. I heard a loud stern voice: "DON'T DO THIS!" I audibly responded: "I'm only going to be a minute." and proceeded to leave the cart in a narrow passage as I went into the men's room for less than 2 minutes. When I came back the cart with my hat and sunglasses was gone! ... read more
15 March 2016
January 2010, by the intervention of the Ruach, I quit smoking and was healed of macular degeneration, but experienced chest pain. Having smoked two packs a day most of my life, I feared lung cancer. It’s a long story, not for now, but suffice it to say that there was no money and no insurance. The macular was healed but the cataracts still needed attention. Same story. No money and no insurance! The Ruach said, “walk!”, so I did and still do ... read more
"Stand up! I am here to pray for you!"
8 March 2016
Using the local bus system, my habit was to travel to the Messianic Synagogue early and sit reading the Bible in McDonalds with a cup of coffee. That evening a woman came into McDonalds and I absentmindedly looked up. Nothing unusual, but the feeling of the Ruach traveled through my entire body causing me to "note" the woman in my memory. After the Erev Rosh Hashanah service, we all are in the social hall and I am standing in line with my friend. This same woman, whom I had never met, and have never seen again came over to me with great speed and purpose.... read more
16 February 2016
I had just finished praying the Amidah and was continuing personal prayer. All of a sudden, as I looked up I realized that I was seeing that the ceiling was gone(!), replaced by the sky, painted in the most beautiful deep blue. I was transfixed, standing there staring at that blue! Then I realized that a person was standing high in that sky out in front watching me. A person of light who never said a word; standing at the highest point toward the front holding a six foot tall knitting needle as if it were a thick shafted staff, pointing up. ... read more
10 February 2016
I woke up wide-awake today at 4 am, still vividly seeing my dream. In the darkness of my bedroom, the dream was alive, vibrant, bright and crystal clear. As I looked at it, turning it like a crystal in the sunlight, I realized that this is the third time to see this same exact dream. I woke up in the same way, from the same dream, in the summer of 2008, the winter of 2009 and now this morning (6/28/09). I rarely dream, and if I do, the dream is almost always instantly forgotten. The first time, I thought it was novel. The second time, I was perplexed ... read more
3 February 2016
As I searched my entire office, a growing sense of panic started to rise up strangling rational thought! My cell phone is GONE. Oh no! There is no money for anything, let alone a replacement cell phone! Then it hit me. As a Believer this feeling of panic should not be occurring. I immediately sat down and started to pray. I prayed for peace; for the Ruach to send me the Comforter, the “Shalom That Passes All Understanding”. As soon as I was calm and felt true shalom ... read more
28 January 2016
I could not believe what I had just heard. It was a command that sounded like a drill sergeant yelling in my ear. In obedience to YAH, I stood there on the corner waiting to be drenched and who knows, struck by lightning like my cousin? The storm overran us, water was running in the street up to the top of the curb and cars stopped driving. The wind was howling and tree branches were falling. As all this was happening I started to realize that ... read more
"Be still and know that I AM your GOD!"
19 January 2016
When we got to “also called Kefa” I interrupted the reader and said to the Instructor: “X—, Cornelius was an Army Officer!” X— looked at me blankly and said; “Yes.”; and went back to reading. I interrupted X— again most insistently; “X— Cornelius was an Army Officer!!” Now X— looked up intently and said; “YES!” For some reason that I could not understand I was overcome with emotion and blurted out; “We are supposed to be holy because YAH is holy. How can I be holy with what I have seen?” ... read more
12 January 2016
…With that the vision started. I am standing 40-60 feet in the air looking across a scrub brush covered desert. The mountains appear to be far into the distance. Below me and to my near front is a small, low, square house with a flat roof. The entire house, walls and roof, is the same shinny blue color. I look closer and am amazed to realize that the shiny blue is actually armor! Really strange! A low, square, flat roofed house covered in shinny blue armor. There are no windows and only one door facing the mountains... read more
How Fast Are We Traveling? Going Where?
5 January 2016
During morning prayer (02/23/2012) there was an extremely intense vision regarding the huge black steam locomotives that I remember while living in the French Sector of Occupied Germany (1952-55). In the vision I am back in Pirmasens Germany, standing next to the railroad tracks and can hear an extremely powerful and unique steam locomotive approaching …fast! It is evening, not quite yet turning to dark night. I am small, standing next to the tracks wearing my lederhosen and sweater. Steam locomotives emit a curious explosive sound with each cycle of the steam piston. That is usually what I hear. …but not this time! read more
When to be still. When to act.
30 December 2015
The Blue Screen of death! No, this can't be happening! Not my trusty Dell! Shut it down! Take a break! When you come back it will work. The restart after a break proves the same thing; total malfunction. This can't be happening! But it is. Now what? Ever the mechanic, I roll into symptom diagnosis and attempt repair. Is it hardware? Is it software? Then the thought hits! Oh NO! I don't have a backup! Slowly, reality seeps in like the silence of a car that will not start. But this is worse! Irreplaceable data lost forever? It just can't be! ... read more
9 December 2015
Steve makes the point that hearing The-VOICE- may one day save your life. To that I say ‘Amen”! The first time in 2011 while out on my 6 mile pray/walk and unknowingly walking into a violent storm, I heard three times: “Turn Back! Turn back NOW! Turn Back! Turn back NOW! Turn Back! Turn back NOW!” In the testimony below, because I had become accustomed to hearing and obeying The-VOICE- all I heard was “Turn Back!”. By 2014 I had learned to discern The-VOICE- and more importantly learned to instantly obey, without questioning or understanding ... read more
3 December 2015
November 2013, having just leased a condo in a four unit building I was actually looking forward to caring for the small patch of green out front and in back. I was happy because I was no longer caring for two acres! 33 years in a house with two acres, plus running a business 12 hours a day will make one happy to see the the snow fly! Sweet hibernation until spring when it all cycles around, again! Praise YAH! ... read more
25 November 2015
The above words from First Thessalonians are the last words that I spoke to my 94 year old Mother days from her passing to YAH. Being totally incapacitated she could not respond. Her passing at 4:10 PM on Shabbat 2 Kislev 5776 was release from a life of blindness and recently, total incapacitation. Praise YAH! My thoughts and prayers are with my father who lost his beloved wife of sixty seven years, and my sister who loved her Mother dearly, caring for her constantly. May the above words ring true for us who have total unwavering hope in YAH through Y’shua ... read more
10 November 2015
My daily time with ABBA in deep prayer with music is 5:00 am until …done. I seek him for the “Shalom that passes all understand”, through which all else can be accomplished. A hotel room was rejected in favor of sitting in a nice comfortable chair in the front hotel entry. The arrangement of the entry is: Four easy chairs in the middle, front doors in front of me, large couch to my left with a radio playing music, front desk to my right. Friday 5:00 am the night clerk and a young lady were sitting on the couch working on their computers. I put in my earphones, turned on music and went to prayer. In 15 minutes –THE-VOICE-, interrupted, loudly, firmly commanding ... read more
Do We Take Time To Listen and Hear?
4 November 2015
In a business career of 39 years I was constantly amazed at the ideas that would enter my head out of nowhere. Great ideas! So many ideas that I called them “Ed’s thousand crazy ideas”. I kept track of the ideas listing what I thought would be the top five. Deciding when to take a risk on the top idea would take a great deal of time. Remember, the man making those decisions was king in his own little world, an “intellectual Believer”, using prayer to enlist The Eternal to bless his world. When I became a “Born Again” Believer, (6 Aug 2005, 2:00 pm) led by the Ruach, things changed. Instead of using prayer to “get my way,” I was seeking to be obedient to the leading of the Ruach. ... read more
3 November 2015
To be a witness and testify to the things that ABBA Father does as HE raises up HIS GREAT NAME, gives me joy to my core! The body is supposed to work together for common good, as YAH raises up his Great NAME. The realization that YAH brought together three complete strangers to accomplish HIS will sends shivers through me. What would have happened if any of us had ignored the command? ... read more
8 September 2015
Bored with class, sitting in the very last seat in the back, and looking for something to do, I realized that there was a textbook with nothing on the brown paper cover. For the next four hours I colored onto the plain brown grocery bag book cover, an image of what Earth would like from far out in space. The picture to the left with the NASA image is very close to what I remember. Finished with that, I colored onto the paper the image of a hand as if it were the hand of Our Creator hovering over the Earth casting a shadow on it. I leave the hand off of this picture because to draw it would be a violation of The Second Commandment ... read more
3 September 2015
Do you know someone who easily takes offense? Do you find yourself shaping your conversations to avoid minefields, lest this person take offense? I know such a person. Me! Since becoming a born again, Ruach filled, Ruach led Believer, I have been praying and working so much by my own power, to not “take offense”! What is the root of this scourge? Roots are buried and hidden. For eight years now, deep prayer and seeking the Ruach have been the answer in my life. ... read more
Do You Think I Did That For You?
25 August 2015
On Shabbat, late summer 2008, I was telling the 20+ students in Torah Study the miraculous things that YAH had recently done in my life. One miracle on 6 August 2005 brought me back from atheism to faith. Another miracle on 6 October 2007 pushed me to Shabbat at my Messianic Jewish Congregation. During that same Shabbat a 50 year old dream that had recurred from age 8 to age 11 was fulfilled. I was so excited to tell what YAH had done! What happened next tempered my excitement, but then grew into wisdom. ... read more
Listen Up | Introduction
5 August 2015
On 7 August 2015 my Connecticut driver’s license expires. On 22 July 2015 I headed to the Columbus, Ohio Motor Vehicle office to apply for my first new Driver's License in 49 years. Every document needed except a Birth Certificate was found. My US Army document file was chosen as a stand in because those official documents listed by place of birth. Good try, but the nice lady at Motor Vehicle shook her head 'No'. A week later, at a cost of $43, the real Georgia birth certificate arrived. The next day as I gathered up all my documents in preparation for a new attempt at Motor Vehicle, I heard The-VOICE- ... read more
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