Author: songofmary

~My Dear LORD, My God, My YHWH~

Originally posted on August 8, 2013

I give myself to You, my perfect Love

My Creator, who has always known me and

Still loved me.

Who has given me the most beautiful

Gifts in the world-my children;

Knowing that I needed them to feel whole.

You know everything I need and You

Want me to have all.

But You also require my steadfast devotion.

You demand my loyalty, and my love.

It pleases You for me to know this.

You not only want to give me spiritual respite,

You want to give me physical pleasure!

You truly are my Lover, my Master, my Confidante!

To You I entrust my most sacred

Yearnings and desires and needs and body.

And You respond to me, YHWH.

You have been transformed for me today

Into a new LORD.  The only LORD of my soul.

I am Yours, YHWH.

And You are mine.

~My whole heart, Mary [written 12/11/12]~

Lavender Harvest

Originally posted on August 4, 2013

Lavandula is most recognized for its relaxation effects making its oil especially good for breathing before bed, or applying on the upper lip.  It is touted as an aphrodisiac, especially to arouse men; and is also noted as good anti-inflammatory agent when applied to skin excoriations, irritations, or rashes.  As with most essential oils, it is also antiseptic.  Plus, it smells heavenly.

Thank you, LORD, for such a beautiful and calming fragrance.

My Saturday Nights~

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Originally posted on August 3, 2013

Spent studying the word of God with theological books from my local used book seller or my bible, and journaling about it. My journal eventually turned into this blog!

Velvet and Batik Essential Oil Satchel

Originally posted on August 3, 2013

Finally needed a better way to transport my oils, since I take them everywhere with me. Using some fabric I found laying around.

I love that the deep red velvet is nestled in auras of blue and purple. The only color missing is gold! ;)

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Biblical circumcision is NOTHING LIKE MEDICAL CIRCUMCISION!!

Originally posted on July 28, 2013

Please do not confuse, as most everyone does, current medical circumcision with spiritual circumcision!!  They are very dissimilar.  Medical medicine is basically atheistic and allopathic, where man places himself and science above God’s wisdom.  It is barbaric and traumatizing and should never be done.  It is better NOT to circumcise your son than to circumcise him via modern methods!

Spiritual circumcision with a Rabbi, or a trained Priest, is much gentler and humane, done with prayer in the presence of the Holy Spirit, in fulfillment of the demand God made to Abraham in exchange for all He gave His chosen people, those who worshiped Him and obeyed his commands and statutes.

God’s Realm makes a circle…As Revealed to Us in the Gold Lampstand and Other Places in the Bible

I am doing a bible study of the Old Testament and I had an exciting revelation yesterday about the gold lampstand, first mentioned in Exodus Chapter 25:31-40.  Evidently this is the ‘menorah’ in Hebrew, and a national symbol of Israel.

What I discovered as I was drawing out what this gold lampstand would look like if one followed accurately the depiction given by Moses (which is not depicted accurately in the typical modern-day menorah, as far as I can figure), is that there is 1 lampstand made of 1 piece (the entire light hammered out of one piece of gold–this is very important), 7 lamps, 22 bowls (a bowl in ancient lamps was where olive oil was placed), and 3 knobs (knops in KJV, which means decorative joint).

I know from my delvings in numerology that 22 is a master number.  I looked it up again and found that mathematically it is important because 22 divided by 7 is pi.  Pi π is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and is approximately equal to 3.14159.

God is showing Moses (or me?), that if we walk with Him, we will make a circle.  He will make our paths straight:

Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to Him,
    and He will make your paths straight.  ~Proverbs 3:5-6

The straightest path to the central truth of God is the radius of a circle, meaning we each form an outer point on the circle, with God being the center point!  At first I thought God’s symbol was the circle, but I was wrong.  God has no symbol.  He is simply the center of our lives and world, or should be.  If we choose to live pagan lives, we will indeed end up with some sort of celtic knot, winding around, never having a focus, nor finding The Way.  Or a mandala, as Jung has asserted.

Praise You, Father Abba, for revealing this to me.

 

My Vow to be God’s~

Originally posted on July 23, 2013

One morning recently, when my entire family was on vacation, I awoke with a strong feeling that God was leading me to shave my head. I had been wanting to for many months, probably as part of a renewal rebirthing that I have been undergoing this past year, especially. The other two times I tried, I couldn’t go through with it, I just wasn’t ready-I haven’t had short hair since I was a child, and even then it wasn’t that short.  But with God leading me, I knew it was time.

This is what I used to look like:

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Then I saw in the bible that the Nazarites did this, and likely Jesus as well, so I feel warmed I have been led by His Holy Greatness to partake of an ancient ritual to honor Him and please Him, and to show Him there is nothing I won’t sacrifice to Him. As per the bible,

“When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to the LORD, he shall separate himself from wine and similar drink; he shall drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from similar drink; neither shall he drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.  All the days of his separation as a Nazarite he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.  All the days of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the LORD, he shall be holy.  Then he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow…All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the LORD.” ~Numbers 6:2-8.

My Sacred Place~

Originally posted on July 21, 2013

My Sacred Place~

I yearn to live here and become a recluse, just me and our LORD, meditating, reading His Word, praying, and living naturally in the beautiful world He gave us;
But I know He has other things in store for me, that require my being amongst people. 🙂

Breakfast at Mary’s~

Originally posted on July 15, 2013

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Huckleberries. From my own Garden of Eden. Praise and thank You, LORD.

LOVE Church Beliefs~

These are the basic beliefs the LORD God has instilled within me as His Truth, and where He desires to re-infuse Christianity with His holy message.

❤  GOD’S LOVE extends along a continuum with compassion at one end and warrior at the other end; He can nurture a babe, yet smite an army.  ”The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and fouth generation.” ~Exodus 34: 6-7.

❤  His Covenant is The Ten Commandments, which are encompassed by, but not surpassed by, The Great Commandments.

❤  He demands that we follow all His Law as laid out in the whole Bible, but the most important thing is faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

❤  Yeshua is the divine Messiah as foretold in the word of God preceding Christ Jesus; a redeemer of man via his crucifixion as the perfect lamb of God, the ultimate sin offering; a high priest; and a teacher of the true essence of agape love.

❤  God is the only true Healer, but we have been given the gift of healing and the mission to do so by His grace, in Jesus’ holy name.

❤  Hell exists in the earth but is only accessible by those God sends there.  In this place, those souls sent to Hell will be given a final chance to repent and accept God’s love, whereby they will be lifted up into Heaven in the final days.  Otherwise they will be finally cast into the Lake of Fire forevermore.

❤  Heaven is where God resides.

❤  There have been many prophets and teachers of God, reaching various levels of enlightenment or Godliness.

❤  Man is made in the image of God, and God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent.

❤  God’s Word via the 66 books of the Bible is perfect and it aligns with His One Perfect Truth, and it is our task to study and understand it wholly.

❤  God is transcendent and immanent.

❤  There is Divine Will and free will, with Divine Will being our perfect path.

❤  Love for God, faith in God, and obedience to God, brings us into God’s Realm which guards us.  Illustrated by the circle of God’s Realm, enclosing the cross of Jesus, surrounded by the pomegranates of the Law; as expressed in the command in the Torah to love the LORD your God, to hold fast to Him [have the faith of Jesus], and to walk in all His ways [the obedience of the Law].

❤  God’s Word and His Holy Spirit guide and guard one’s love, faith, and obedience to God, and brings us into God’s LOVE Realm.

❤  If you draw closer to God, and become born again of the Spirit through the acceptance of Jesus Christ Lord Messiah, God WILL change you,and you will become more like Him.

❤  There is a Hierarchy of Holiness where His chosen ones will become more like Him, and can achieve the highest level of glorification in Heaven, near Him, as the saints do.

❤  If we all lived in God’s LOVE Realm, there would be Heaven on earth.