Joshua 5:9 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal to this day. The meaning of the name Gilgal is “rolling.” The Hebrew word Gilgal means a wheel or circle, or something that rolls. At Gilgal there was something...
Category: Spiritual Guidance
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07 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 3
Mark 10:48 Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Shame leaves us psychologically shattered and physiologically paralyzed. Shoulders drop, eyes lower in order to avoid any eye contact with people who stigmatize and confidence level plummets to rock bottom. For...
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06 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 2
John 8:3 the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. The neurobiological effects of shame are found in the frontal lobe of the brain that activates the sympathetic nervous system generating the flight/fight/freeze response. Shame is a powerful force that would make us...
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05 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 1
Luke 22:62 Peter left the courtyard, weeping bitterly. Peter was plagued by guilt and tormented by shame after he denied Jesus three times. The stigmatized right hand man of Jesus went and hid himself in shame. He was the only one found at the courtyard of Caiaphas, the High Priest, after Jesus was arrested but...
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04 June 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 7
Acts 28:3 Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. Paul rattled the pile of brushwood and out came a viper from the cold sticks and clung onto his hand with its fangs. Snakes and vipers curl...
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03 June 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 6
Mark 3:5 He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. The Sabbath starts before sunset on Friday and ends an hour after sunset on Saturday, so it lasts for about 25...
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02 June 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 5
Luke 19:7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.” Jesus rattled the crowd when He announced that He was going to dine with a corrupt tax-collector Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus, the tax collector, was intrigued by the compassion of Jesus and he wanted to see...
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01 June 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 4
Daniel 5:5 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. King Belshazzar, the Babylonian King, held a great banquet for a thousand nobles. The palace turned into the dance clubs of Las...
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31 May 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 4
Mark 2:8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? There was a revival meeting going on in Capernaum. Bible scholars believe that the venue was the house of Peter. The place was packed and there...
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30 May 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 3
Exodus 3:2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. God will rattle the ordinary to accomplish the extraordinary. He will rattle our mundane routine to execute a marvelous miracle. The Lord...