Are we supposed to only be thankful one day out of the year? What exactly are we being taught? What are we co-signing to? Are we supposed to lead or follow? Who and what are our examples? Seek out truth and find out the origins of what is celebrated. Are we brave enough to research on our own or do we feel more comfortable staying in what we learned in ignorance? Ask questions! Growth is in learning what the truth is and changing your life for the betterment of generations to come. Sometimes accountability isn’t favorable to the masses. The consequences of knowing what the truth of the matter may separate you from what you think life is. Your normal may be a lie to benefit a dishonest and greedy society or leadership. In enjoying the up and coming holidays remember to search your heart, the scriptures and the origins of what unites us, it just may be a disappointment. Fear not…God will not be mocked. I love you all with the love of Christ, examine the evidence.
Many are called but few are chosen, when you hear the call will you answer? I have answered and now my life will never be the same. I am displaced and it’s okay because I trust my Power. His sheep hear His voice and another they will not follow. I am forever changed and my life is not my own. In fact I have gone around the same mountains many times because I just couldn’t get it right. It was frustrating and discouraging but necessary and now I am free.
Now ask yourself what is freedom to you? Are you willing to walk away from everything you deemed yours to follow the Mighty One of Ysolele/Israel? In the new testament there was a rich young man who could not bare to leave all he had. It can be hard to deny yourself, pick up your burdens and follow YissaYah/Jesus. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. How strong are you? Is your walk for you or for the glory of the Most High? Are you willing to be a light on a hill or will your lamp go out because you don’t have enough oil to continue the walk? Are you listening to the set-apart-spirit/holy spirit or are you leaning to your own understanding?
When you are serious about the love you have for the Creator, His Son and His people then and only then will he be able to use you. Old things will pass away and new things will arise, even your understanding of the scriptures and your perceptions of who God is will change. Change is inevitable when you are being taken on a journey that you normally wouldn’t sign up for but in being used, you accept it and move on. This walk is about changing the hearts of men so that eventually the Father will get the glory. In unveiling who He is in your life I suggest you submit because your very life depends on you answering the call. Just know that rather you welcome the change or not, it will come…so choose this day who you will serve!
Annissia Washington: Author of “Seeking to be Chosen” and “Narcissist in the Bible” on Amazon Kindle/Barnes & Noble
Some of our favorite foods are forbidden by the laws of God. Most seafoods, pork and even certain birds and other beasts are unclean to biblical Israel and will be held against us if we choose to indulge in them. These verses are plain and clear on our dietary covenant…
Leviticus 11 King James Version (KJV)
11 And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron,
saying unto them,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the
beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and
cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the
cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud,
but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not
the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not
the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be
clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to
you.
8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye
not touch; they are unclean to you.
9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters:
whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers,
them shall ye eat.
10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in
the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in
the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not
eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that
shall be an abomination unto you.
13 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination
among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle,
and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
15 Every raven after his kind;
16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the
hawk after his kind,
17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing,
and the bat.
20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an
abomination unto you.
21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that
goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the
earth;
22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind,
and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the
grasshopper after his kind.
23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
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24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the
carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
25 And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall
wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
26 The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and
is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that
toucheth them shall be unclean.
27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of
beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their
carcase shall be unclean until the even.
28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping
things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise
after his kind,
30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the
snail, and the mole.
31 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever
doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth
fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or
skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be
put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be
cleansed.
33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth,
whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.
34 Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water
cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel
shall be unclean.
35 And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase
falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be
broken down: for they are unclean and shall be unclean unto you.
36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of
water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
37 And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed
which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
38 But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of
their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that
toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
40 And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon
all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep
upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping
thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that
ye should be defiled thereby.
44 For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore
sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye
defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
45 For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of
the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of
every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that
creepeth upon the earth:
47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean,
and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
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