Posts in this category focus on God’s Word, dig into its meaning, and apply it to our lives. God’s Word is living! Let’s dig to find the strong roots that are able to grow us to enable us to flourish!
A verbal jab was thrown and knocked another square in the jaw. The one who threw it wanted to get a laugh from those around you all and certainly achieved it…at the other person’s expense! Then, you looked at the one on the receiving… Continue Reading “Self-Promotion: Turning the Tide”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Ambassador, Ambition, Authority, Be Humble, Boast, Body's Appetite for Physical Needs, Crave, Desires, Fabricated, Getting Ahead, Hate, Lead Others in Thoughts, Lead the Way, Manipulated, Persuade Someone, Pride, Raise Others Higher, Rival, See Others as Superior, Self-Promotion, Selfish Ambition, Upper Hand
Posted on February 16, 2021
by Michelle Taylor Baum
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He had just left for a two-week long missions trip to another continent. The weeks leading up to my husband’s departure were excruciating, internally. There was SO much spiritual warfare going on; I could feel it, like a thick, heavy fog settling in. I… Continue Reading “Blessings: You Get and You Give”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: A Wonder, Adoration, Adore God, Agenda, Are Giving, At God's Feet, At Home, Bent Knees in Submission, Bent Knees in Worship, Bless, Bless God, Blessings, Blessings of God, Camp, Control, Controlled Energy, Dan, Decisive, Depend on God, Dependency on God, Don't Make Sense, Don't Seem Fair, Don't Seem Right, Encampment, Eshtaol, Experience, Foreshadowing, Getting, Given, God Showing Himself, God's Spirit, Hebrew, Honor, Honor God, Isn't Clear, Journey, Judgment, King of Kings, Kneel, Lay Down Agenda, Lay Down Control, Lay Down Pride, Leaving Home, Location, Melted, Move, Moved, One True God, Opportunities, Philistines, Place of Trust, Point of Dependency, Power of God, Praise, Praise God, Presence of God, Pride, Purpose, Push, Push in a Specific Direction, Received, Right Timing, Ropes, Rushing Upon, Samson's Dad, Say the Words, Snapped in Two, Spirit of God, Story, Supernatural, Thread, Tied, To My Knees, Tribe, Tribe of Dan, Trust, Urge to Do Something Specific, Vanished, Wage a War, Warnings, Worship, Worship God, Zorah
Posted on February 8, 2021
by Michelle Taylor Baum
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The soft whine entered my ears, waking me from a restful sleep. I heard our puppy, letting me know he needed to go out. I looked down at him, and it almost knocked me back! It was positively visible how much taller he had… Continue Reading “Wow! He’s Grown!”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: A Wonder, Accept Jesus as Our Sin Sacrifice, Allow, Amazing, Angel of the LORD, Available, Be Glad in God, Be Magnified, Become Great, Become Strong, Bind, Bound, Boy, Broaden, Celebrate with Praises, Chains, Child, Child of God, Controlled Energy, Conversation, Decisive, Deepen, Deliver Israel, Depend on God, Depend on Self, Depend Solely on God, Depend Solely on God's Mighty Power, Disobedience, Distracting Me, Do What Is Right in God's Eyes, Expose My Sin, Father, Fire, Foreshadowing, Forgiveness, Freeing, Friend, Fruitful Life, Fun, Gadal, Glory, God Always Keeps His Promises, God Kept His Promise, God Removed the Scales from My Eyes, God Speaks with Man, God's Graciousness, God's Name, God's Timing, Godel, Graciously Guide, Great, Great is the LORD, Greatness, Grew, Grew Up, Growing, Growing Pains, Grown, Hebrew, His Magnificence, Increase Knowledge, Intensify, Intensify Who God Is, Intentional, Jesus Christ, Jesus' Names, Judges, Knowledge of God, Lead Me Back to My Purpose, Led to Obedience, Life, Lives, Love God's Salvation, Loving God, Magnify the LORD, Make Bigger, Make God Big, Make Strong, Manoah, Manoah's Wife, Melt Off My Chains (Sin), Melted, Mighty God, Mighty Power, Needs Correction, Noun, Offered an Ear, Offered Time, Offered Wisdom from God, Payment for My Sin, People, Philistines, Physical Strength, Power, Powerfully Showed Up, Pride, Promise, Psalm, Puppy, Purpose, Rejoice, Rely on Physical Strength, Remember, Repentance, Repenting, Responsibility, Revealed, Rope, Ropes, Samson, Seek God, Serve, Show God's Power, Showed Up, Situation, Snapped in Two, Spirit of God, Spiritual Growth, Strong Man, Supernatural, Symbol of Strength, Taller, Temptation, The LORD, The LORD Be Magnified, The LORD Drew Near, The LORD Left, Trusted Friend, Twist a Cord, Vanished, Verb, Voice, War of Judgment, Wonderful, Words, Yahweh
For those of you who know us and are jumping to conclusions in your mind,…No, we’re NOT pregnant!! We’re, actually, going to talk about a name given to a particular baby boy and the name’s meaning. Naming a child is always a big deal.… Continue Reading “It’s a Boy!! What’s His Name?!?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, A Wonder, Agitating, Angel of the LORD, Angels, Attributes, Baby Boy, Beaming, Birth, Boy, By the Help of Faith, Celebrate, Celebrate with Family, Celebrate with Friends, Chamber, Child, Christmas Tradition, Coming of Jesus, Community, Completes Necessary Process, Created, Cried, Dedicated to God, Dedication, Defender, Deliver Israel, Deliverer, Deliverer of Israel, Designed, Desires, Destroy, Devoted, Devoted to, Didn't Share Answer, Didn't Work, Directed by God, Don't Delay, Faithful, Favor, Followers, Followers of Jesus, Future, Glorify, Glorify the Father, Glory, God the Father, God's Judgment, God's Power, God's Purpose, Good, Grandchild, Groom, Hebrews, Helper, Honor, Human Body, In His Eyes, Increase Knowledge, Increased Knowledge, Integrity, Intentional, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus' Faithfulness, Jesus' Light, Judge, Judges, Kids, Legacy, Life, Light, Light of Life, Light of the World, Live, Live with Integrity, Lives, Made Strong in Weakness, Magnified, Magnifies, Magnify, Magnify Jesus, Magnify the LORD, Magnitude, Manoah, Manoah's Wife, Marriage, Marriage Feast, Matthew, Name, Name Meaning, Names, Naming, Naming a Child, One Judge, Overcame, Parents, Personality, Philippians, Philistine Woman, Philistines, Pleased, Power, Power of Jesus, Prayer, Pregnant, Promise, Promise of a Child, Promised Son, Protector, Psalm, Purpose, Purposeful, Reflected, Riddle, Right for Him, Rises, Run His Course, Salvation, Same Directions, Samson, Save, Service, Sets, Seven Days, Shield, Shine Light, Shine Light in the Darknesss, Shine the Light of Jesus, Son, Son of God, Spent Time Together, Stay Home, Story of Jesus' Birth, Strength, Strength of Jesus, Strengthens, Strong Man, Sun, Temperament, Tent, Wasn't Commanded, Weakness, Weren't Commanded, Wife, Womb, Wonder, Worshiped
Posted on January 30, 2021
by Michelle Taylor Baum
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“If you do well, will you not be accepted?…” Genesis 4:7a NKJV Have you ever looked at what you’ve done and felt like you didn’t measure up? Truth is, we all have, ’cause truth is, we all don’t measure up…to God’s standards. Thank the… Continue Reading “What or Whom Do We Fear?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Accept Jesus as Our Sin Sacrifice, Acceptance, Accepted, Afraid, Amazing Faith, Believe a Lie, Bridged the Gap, Burnt Offering, Buy a Lie, Christ, Christ's Sacrifice, Communicate with the LORD, Comparison, Confidence, Confirm, Created, Decision, Die, Don't Measure Up, Drew His Attention To, Emotionally, Excitement, Face to Face with God, Faith, Faith in God, Father, Favored, Fear, Focus, Focused, Forgiven, Forgiveness, From the Heart, Gave Freely, Genesis, Glory, God's Favor, God's Goodness, God's Graciousness, God's Holiness, God's Love, God's Power, God's Presence, God's Standards, Godly Fear, Goodness, Grace, Grain Offering, Have a Relationship with the LORD, Heard, His Ultimate Work, Holiness, Insights, Jesus, Judges, Lie, Life Decisions, Light, Listening, Live, Live in Confidence, Live Out Jesus' Character, Look at Decisions as a Whole, Look at Jesus, LORD, Love, Made Right with God, Manoah, Manoah's Wife, Measure Your Worth, Miss, Missed Him, Not Worth Much, Offerings, Others-Focused, Physically, Pleased, Prepares, Pride, Proves Your Worth, Receive the Father's Forgiveness, Reply, Respect, Respected God, Respond, Right, Right Decisions, See Me, See My Face, Separated, Serve God, Served Well, Shared, Show, Show and Tell, Show Thankfulness to God, Showcases God, Shown, Spirit of God, Spiritually, Tell, Thank, Thankfulness to the LORD, Thoughts, Told, Truth, Unforgiveable, Unholy Actions, Value, Vantage Point, Weight, Weren't Commanded, Whole Truth, YHWH, Your Actions
Posted on January 18, 2021
by Michelle Taylor Baum
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I looked up in the sky as I drove out of the school parking lot one morning this past week. It was beautiful, filled with light blues and variegated pinks. Sugary stretched clouds were pulled across the sky. It was the most perfect cotton… Continue Reading “Wonder–Going Up?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: A Wonder, Accomplishes His Will, Active, Addition, Angel of the LORD, Aroma, Ascended, Ascended in the Flame, Bowing Down, Burn, Burnt Offering, Can No Longer See Him, Can't Do Anything, Can't Move, Child, Clouds, Communicate, Communicate Our Dedication to God, Communicate with the LORD, Communicates with Us, Communicating, Consumed, David Copperfield, Did, Doing Nothing, Doing the Action, Exchange, Extraordinary, Faces Down, Fell on the Ground, Fell on Their Faces, Fire, Flame, Flame/Smoke, Focus, Goat, God Showing Himself, God's Hand at Work, God's Presence, Goes up in a Flame, Goes up in the Air, Going Up, Grain Offering, Handing it Over, Have a Relationship with the LORD, Hear God More Clearly, Hebrew, Immobile Gods, Jaw-Dropping, Leviticus, Lift Their Faces, Manoah, Manoah's Wife, Not a One-Way Street, Not Coming On, Offer, Offer a Goat, Offer it to the LORD, Offering, One-Sided, Performed, Performing, Pleasing, Prepare, Preparing, Present, Razor, Relationships, Respect, Respected God, Responding, See Him, Seen God, Service to God, Shall Come, Show, Sky, Smoke, Soothing, Submit to God, The LORD God, To Go Up, To the LORD, Watching, Welcoming His Presence, Went Up, What He Can Do, Where is God, Wonder, Wonder-Working God, Wondrous, Works on Our Behalf
I had no idea what it was. All I saw was brown to my left, felt something powerful hit the driver’s side front of my car, saw a dark shadow right in front of me, and my car came to an immediate stop from… Continue Reading “Wonder–The Additional Offering”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Actions, Addition, Angel of the LORD, Beautiful, Blood Requirement, Bread, Burnt by Fire on the Altar, Burnt Offering, Car Accident, Choose, Christ's Sacrifice, Creation, Death and Resurrection of Jesus, Dedicate, Dedicated to God, Dedicating Oneself to Worshipping the LORD, Dedication, Deer, Designed, Desire, Devoted, Fellowship with God the Father, Fighting, Focus, Foreshadowing, Freely Offered His Blood for Our Sins His Boodl, Glory, God's Care, God's Hand of Protection, God's Purpose, Grain Offering, Gratitude, Hanging On, Hear the Message, Hearing, Heart-Felt Offering, Honor, Judges, Leviticus, Life, Lives, Loves, Manoah, Manoah's Wife, Memorial, Memorial Portion, Met Physical Needs, Most Holy Offering, No Blood, Offer a Burnt Offering, Offer a Goat, Offer it to the LORD, Offering, Offerings to the LORD Made by Fire, Oil, Overwhelmed, Peace, Pendulum Shift, Perform the Offerings, Perform the Sacrifices, Priest, Private Conversation, Privately, Publicly, Pure, Purpose, Quiet Fulfillment, Quieting, Relationship, Relationship with the Father, Remember, Remembrance, Reminder, Restful, Shared, Soothing, Soothing Sound, Spa, Sweet Aroma, Thankful, Thankfulness, Thankfulness to the LORD, Thanks, To the LORD, Touched, Wonder
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