Luciana Miles
a blog.
Month: November 2022
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Reading The Word/The Torah/The Tanakh/The Bible
It is imperative that you take the time to read through the entire Bible as a whole periodically and not just broken up & chosen for you (by someone else) passages.
- When you read it as a whole, you read everything in context. (As a side effect you start to realize how much the Word is taken out of context).
- The passages that you read, whether they be in church, synagogue, the Torah readings, devotionals, etc. were all chosen by other people for you. A lot of the time, these people have/had their own agendas and biases. And sometimes they have/had their own reasons for doing what they’re doing/did or saying what they’re saying/said. Reasons other than “this is what the Father told me to do” (which is the only acceptable reason).
- In doing this, while asking the Father for wisdom & discernment as you read it, you gain a deeper understanding of not only the Father, but Yahushua, their love for you, this world, and your purpose, it’s all there.
Also, Torah means Instruction, not law. These are Instructions for life from the Father to his children. Act accordingly.
Daily Bible Readings
Ezekiel 33-36
Verse of note:
O mortal, speak to your fellow countrymen and say to them: When I bring the sword against a country, the citizens of that country take one of their number and appoint him their watchman. Suppose he sees the sword advancing against the country, and he blows the horn and warns the people. If anybody hears the sound of the horn but ignores the warning, and the sword comes and dispatches him, his blood shall be on his own head. Since he heard the sound of the horn but ignored the warning, his bloodguilt shall be upon himself; had he taken the warning, he would have saved his life. But if the watchman sees the sword advancing and does not blow the horn, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and destroys one of them, that person was destroyed for his own sins; however, I will demand a reckoning for his blood from the watchman.
Verse of note:
Now, O mortal, say to your fellow countrymen: The righteousness of the righteous shall not save him when he transgresses, nor shall the wickedness of the wicked cause him to stumble when he turns back from his wickedness. The righteous shall not survive through his righteousness when he sins. When I say of the righteous “He shall surely live,” and, relying on his righteousness, he commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but for the iniquity that he has committed he shall die. So, too, when I say to the wicked, “You shall die,” and he turns back from his sinfulness and does what is just and right—if the wicked man restores a pledge, makes good what he has taken by robbery, follows the laws of life, and does not commit iniquity—he shall live, he shall not die. None of the sins that he committed shall be remembered against him; since he does what is just and right, he shall live.
Evening edit:
Verse of note:
Say to the House of Israel: Thus said the Lord God: Not for your sake will I act, O House of Israel, but for My holy name, which you have caused to be profaned among the nations to which you have come. I will sanctify My great name which has been profaned among the nations—among whom you have caused it to be profaned. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord—declares the Lord God—when I manifest My holiness before their eyes through you. I will take you from among the nations and gather you from all the countries, and I will bring you back to your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your fetishes. And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit into you: I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh; and I will put My spirit into you. Thus I will cause you to follow My laws and faithfully to observe My rules.
emphasis mine
Everyday Salad
Apothecary
From the left: Calendula toner, Calendula tea, Magnesium oil mouthwash, Ashwagandha, Face Serum with Lavender & Carrot Seed Essential Oil, Unscented Calendula & Rose Body Oil, Cedarwood & Rosemary Conditioner.
Homemade Vegan Sausages
Homemade Vegan Ranch Dressing
Where are all the hard bristle toothbrushes?
Toothbrushes used to come in 3 different bristle “strengths”: soft, medium, and hard. Nowadays, all I mainly see is soft, and barely any medium, and hard has become nonexistent.
If medium bristles make your gums bleed, the problem is not the bristles, it’s your gums.
“Soft bristles are much easier on gums” (and much less effective at cleaning your teeth).
And keep in mind that most likely these bristles lose their strength as you use them (that’s the nature of things), so by the time you get close to the time it’s time to change your toothbrush, you’ve been brushing with a feather duster.
Daily Bible Readings
Ezekiel 25-28
Verse of note:
For thus said the Lord God: Because you clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with such utter scorn—assuredly, I will stretch out My hand against you and give you as booty to the nations; I will cut you off from among the peoples and wipe you out from among the countries and destroy you. And you shall know that I am the Lord.
Evening edit:
Verse of note:
The word of the Lord came to me: O mortal, intone a dirge over the king of Tyre and say to him: Thus said the Lord God: You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and flawless in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your adornment: Carnelian, chrysolite, and amethyst; Beryl, lapis lazuli, and jasper; Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald; And gold beautifully wrought for you, Mined for you, prepared the day you were created.
Verse of note:
You were blameless in your ways, From the day you were created Until wrongdoing was found in you. By your far-flung commerce You were filled with lawlessness And you sinned.
Verse of note:
By the greatness of your guilt, Through the dishonesty of your trading, You desecrated your sanctuaries. So I made a fire issue from you, And it has devoured you; I have reduced you to ashes on the ground, In the sight of all who behold you. All who knew you among the peoples Are appalled at your doom. You have become a horror And have ceased to be, forever.
When reading through these verses on Tyre, it made me think of Atlantis with the description of its wealth, power, location, and especially its destruction:
She shall be in the heart of the sea A place for drying nets; For I have spoken it—declares the Lord God.
When I make you a ruined city, like cities empty of inhabitants; when I bring the deep over you, and its mighty waters cover you…
But when you were wrecked on the seas, In the deep waters sank your merchandise And all the crew aboard you.
Father had some words for Tyre and the king of Tyre.
(I know some people will say that the king of Tyre is the adversary, that is not what the Bible says, it says the king of Tyre. As for the questions that this brings up, I do not have the answers).
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