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Today, while scrolling through my Facebook memories, this post from John Parsons of Hebrew for Christians, stood out among the rest. It was originally shared by John on 24 January 2022, but I shared it as a memory last year saying, "This concept of "Waiting on the LORD" has been placed in my heart." Interesting since this year (2025) my #oneword is "wait". Considering this, I took the time to reread his post. It is easy enough to hurry past words of Scripture without slowing down to reflect on what is being said. For instance, in our Torah portion for this week (i.e., Mishpatim) we read: “The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction” (Exod. 24:12). The Hebrew words veheyei sham (וֶהְיֵה־שָׁם), usually translated as “and wait there,” can also be translated as “and be there.” But why -- if every jot and tittle...

*This morning, 1.20.2025, as I was lying in bed between Jared’s snooze alarms going off, half awake, half asleep, the Holy Spirit simply whispered, Matthew 15. So that’s where I began my morning. After reading the entire chapter once through, my heart settled in on the below portion in regard to the concept of persistent prayer in the face of silence and even apparent denial.  Matthew 15:21-28 21 And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon . (Matthew 11:21 - Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon , they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes). Tyre and Sidon are not Jewish communities. They’re Phoenician cities in modern day Lebanon. They were predominantly Gentile regions. 22 And behold a Canaanite woman from that region ( Tyre and Sidon ) came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David , my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.” Notic...