Every now and then I come across a word that I really, really like.
I like certain words for certain specific reasons.
These words then become my special words. Words I treasure.
They end up in my reserved place for special words …
However, for that particular word to become one of my special words, it must comply. It must have certain unique qualities.
Klēronomos?
In the Greco-Roman world the word klēronomos is a legal term.
Klēronomos is found on ancient inscriptions that refer to a son after he succeeded to the inheritance of his father and became the representative of his father, undertaking all the duties and obligations of his father.
What many people don't know is that I am also a propagandist for open-faced-freedom.
Subsequent to my previous post (this one), I will in this post get to learn and document myself as a reckless, zealous proponent of the unadulterated Gospel of freedom …
I will do so open-faced! Anakalyptō!
Feasts.
Towards the end of each year the season of feasts arrives in many cultures around the world.
It is inevitable and the highlight for many people each year.
Yet, no one is concerned over its origin and birthplace.
In a confused world, what are we celebrating?
Look at the feasts of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Muharram, Dasara, Mawlid an Nabi, Christmas, Diwali, Muharram, Ashura, Rohatsu and many others.
They all celebrate something or someone. As a feast-goer we need to get behind the facts if we aim to celebrate well in all the rituals and customs.
We speak to God on many matters. Even trivial ones, sometimes. And we ask many questions. Even stupid ones, sometimes.
But Abba always answers.
We tend to talk about current matters.
Sometimes we speak to God on pressing matters that lay heavily on our hearts as well.
What is this James and pirating all about?
And pirating is to attempt to attack with a purpose to unjustly profit. It is to rob and plunder which belongs to someone else.
I titled this post “Pirate of the soul” because of something James said in James 1, but I felt that I should remind myself of who exactly James is and what the significance of his name is before getting into the whole pirate thing.
Do we know James?
Here is the story
We have heard so many stories of people who plainly accepted sickness and set-back circumstances that they have been struck with, saying that it is a burden they have to carry …
Why?
Passion.
Right.
Where to start?
I could google search …
… or use e-Sword …
And I did.
Earlier this week I started writing a post on John and Jesus … mostly about Jesus, but also about John.
My blog post was birthed from a place of intimacy reading John 15 and 16. It touched me deeply. I was awakened to the fact that the Gospel of John was different from the others in that John is the disciple who refers to himself as the disciple that Jesus loved. John talks more about life compared to the others that talk about the kingdom (but synonymizing them). John talks more about the cloak of the Spirit Who abides as the Comforter, the Aide-memoire of Jesus instead of the mere spirit referred to by the others.
I started writing on how this is the Gospel where Jesus categorically prepared those who loved Him to what was going to happen to Him, the most significant event ever in HIS-STORY.
The unforeseen
My post was at an advanced stage, and the emotions and precious revelations that came to me spilled out on the screen until the unforeseen happened.
by what we say,
by what we do,
by what we pay,
by what we offer,
by what we confess,
by what we give,
by what we do right,
by how well we repent,
by what we align ourselves to or how good we do these prescripts of religion.
The Gospel is straightforward
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And the name of the song is “Goodness of God”.
It is a Grace song that flies in the face of traditional doctrine and religion alike.
We prayed. We observed.
Years ago as we started the hospital ministry, we discovered that most people have a distorted and destructive self image, caused by a corrupted idea and who they really are.
Some even decided to move away from any intimacy with God all together.
Yet, others have chosen to stay incarcerated, stuck in the chains and shackles of religion embracing its sorcery, the deception and defrauding of the open Truth.
Stuck.
The damage is real.
God in us.
God present.
… and then, looking at what is preached, I wonder … who is this God?
Is it the same God that Isaiah prophesied in Isaiah 7:14?
Is it the same God quoted in Matthew 1:23 and Luke 1:35 when the prophecy was about to be fulfilled?
Is it the same God who promised never to leave nor forsake us in Hebrews 13:5?
Let me be the 1st one to admit that I cannot pray a near perfect prayer.
In my pre-relationship days I tried. Moving from the conservative protestant to the Pentecostal and Charismatic denominations, I also moved from praying in one way as taught to praying in another way as taught by man.
Most of us do not realize that we pray according to what we were taught and the examples that we got and are still getting. Our prayers are learned behavior emanating from mostly indoctrinated and conditioned thinking and conduct.
Praying is not what we think
Violent screams pierced the dark early morning
The other night we were woken at 3am in the morning by the petrified screams and shouting of a woman in the neighbourhood. On our social media groups we shortly discovered that there was an armed house robbery in the street just behind us.
We did not hear the shots fired … only the screams that went on and on for what seemed to have been several minutes.
These are some of the shocking realities when you live in a country where human rights are violated all the time and with no regard for human life, neighbourly love or well-being of others.
Why am I writing this post?
