His Prodigal Daughters

What is our calling? What is our purpose? Why am I in this season?

Join us as we go into our recent life events that has made this question a topic of discussion.

Being called to do something does not mean it's a natural “God-Given” talent. Sometimes God puts you through hard trials to build up that calling in you so you can forth into that calling.

Our primary calling is to be in a personal relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ. The Bible tells us that God has called us into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ....Our primary calling is not tied to our employment.... God values us for who we are, not for what we can produce or achieve within work. God's call to us is an eternal one that encompasses and transcends our temporal activities....

‭‭Mishlei (Pro)‬ ‭3:5‬ ‭CJB‬‬  [5] Trust in Adonai with all your heart; do not rely on your own understanding.

‭‭Messianic Jews (Heb)‬ ‭3:1‬ ‭CJB‬‬

[1] Therefore, brothers whom God has set apart, who share in the call from heaven, think carefully about Yeshua, whom we acknowledge publicly as God’s emissary and as cohen gadol.

Welcome to this 3 part series of To: The Parents of the Prodigals!

You've heard from our perspective, but now it's time to hear from our parents and loved ones perspectives. So join us as we interview these three amazing women of God and hear their side of the story.

*Note: These are raw interviews, as we like to keep them. Mistakes, mess-ups, and mishaps are what we love so much about our podcast. We are human and real people. So please join us in the laughter and rawness of reality. We are not to judge others for their mistakes. So listen with kindness!

Welcome to this 3 part series of To: The Parents of the Prodigals!

You've heard from our perspective, but now it's time to hear from our parents and loved ones perspectives. So join us as we interview these three amazing women of God and hear their side of the story.

*Note: These are raw interviews, as we like to keep them. Mistakes, mess-ups, and mishaps are what we love so much about our podcast. We are human and real people. So please join us in the laughter and rawness of reality. We are not to judge others for their mistakes. So listen with kindness!

Welcome to this 3 part series of To: The Parents of the Prodigals!

You've heard from our perspective, but now it's time to hear from our parents and loved ones perspectives. So join us as we interview these three amazing women of God and hear their side of the story.

*Note: These are raw interviews, as we like to keep them. Mistakes, mess-ups, and mishaps are what we love so much about our podcast. We are human and real people. So please join us in the laughter and rawness of reality. We are not to judge others for their mistakes. So listen with kindness!

This is our personal "letter" to the prodigals. The ones who were like us, the lost, the hurting, the struggling. You are not alone and we have been where you are. We want to share the gift that we have been given, salvation and redemption. We HAVE to tell you what has happened and what has changed our lives forever.

Notes:

Matthew 18:12-13 CJB

 “What’s your opinion? What will somebody do who has a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides and go off to find the stray? And if he happens to find it? Yes! I tell you he is happier over it than over the ninety-nine that never strayed!

Matthew 5:1-11

1 Seeing the crowds, Yeshua walked up the hill. After he sat down, his talmidim (disciples)  came to him, 

2 and he began to speak. This is what he taught them:

3 “How blessed are the poor in spirit!

    for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

4 “How blessed are those who mourn!

    for they will be comforted.

5 “How blessed are the meek!

    for they will inherit the Land![a]

6 “How blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness!

    for they will be filled.

7 “How blessed are those who show mercy!

    for they will be shown mercy.

8 “How blessed are the pure in heart!

    for they will see God.

9 “How blessed are those who make peace!

    for they will be called sons of God.

10 “How blessed are those who are persecuted

because they pursue righteousness!

    for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

11 “How blessed you are when people insult you and persecute you and tell all kinds of vicious lies about you because you follow me! 12 Rejoice, be glad, because your reward in heaven is great — they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.

Read: Luke 15:11-32 The Parable of the Lost Son

When someone bakes a cake and the cake is bad, do you blame the recipe or the baker? 

You cannot blame the recipe. You can not blame God or Yeshua just because other “Christians” were not kind to you or did not show His love. He is perfect and we are not. 

Nothing can fill the God sized hole in your heart. Only he can.

Luke 1:37 CJB

37 For with God, nothing is impossible.”

Jeremiah 32:17 CSB

17 Oh, Lord God! You yourself made the heavens and earth by your great power and with your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you!

Our tongues are powerful. They have the ability to create and destroy. Join us as we read what scripture says about our words and how we can be better at how we use them.

We are made in God's image. God spoke light and life into existence.

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1:3‬ ‭

3 Then God said, “Let there be light!” and there was light.

Proverbs 21:23

23 The one who guards his mouth and tongue keeps himself out of trouble. -- Proverbs 21:23 (CSB)

Proverbs 18:20-21

20 From the fruit of a person’s mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is filled with the product of his lips. 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. -- Proverbs 18:20-21 (CSB)

Proverbs 17:27-28

27 The one who has knowledge restrains his words, and one who keeps a cool head is a person of understanding. 28 Even a fool is considered wise when he keeps silent ​— discerning, when he seals his lips. -- Proverbs 17:27-28 (CSB)

Proverbs 15:4

4 The tongue that heals is a tree of life, but a devious tongue breaks the spirit -- Proverbs 15:4 (CSB)

1 Peter 3:10

10 For the one who wants to love life and to see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from speaking deceit, 11 and let him turn away from evil and do what is good. -- 1 Peter 3:10-11 (CSB)

Ephesians 4:29

29 No foul language should come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear. -- Ephesians 4:29 (CSB)

Psalms 52:2-9

2 Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery. 3 You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking truthfully. 4 You love any words that destroy, you treacherous tongue! 5 This is why God will bring you down forever. He will take you, ripping you out of your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

6 The righteous will see and fear, and they will derisively say about that hero,

7 “Here is the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, taking refuge in his destructive behavior.” 8 But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I trust in God’s faithful love forever and ever.

9 I will praise you forever for what you have done. In the presence of your faithful people, I will put my hope in your name, for it is good.

In scripture God says we are able to heal and move things with the power of our tongues. As children of Yeshua we should be mindful in what we speak over ourselves as well as others.

Tips on how to control our tongue:

1. Avoid speaking in anger

2. Keep it clean

3. Say nothing

4. Control your thoughts

5. Guard your heart

6. Fill your heart with the word of God

7. Pray without ceasing

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We wanted to start of this year strong and talk about what the fruits of the spirit are and how they are implemented in our everyday life.

In the New Testament book of Galatians, the fruit of the Spirit is presented by the Apostle Paul.

‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5:22‭-‬23‬ ‭TLV‬‬

[22] But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, [23] gentleness, and self-control—against such things there is no law. 

-Love

-Joy

-Peace

-Patience

-Kindness

-Goodness

-Faithfulness

-Gentleness

-Self-Control

God's protection is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Thank goodness we have a never changing God cause boy do we need protecting in this day and age! Join us as we talk about our

Notes:

Isaiah 54:17 (CSB)

 No weapon formed against you will succeed, and you will refute any accusation 

raised against you in court. This is the heritage of the Lord’s servants, and their vindication is from me.” 

Isaiah 41:10 (CSB) 

  Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will hold on to you with my righteous right hand.  

Psalms 32:7 (CSB)

 You are my hiding place;

you protect me from trouble.

You surround me with joyful shouts of deliverance.

Psalms 23:4 (CSB)

 Even when I go through the darkest valley, 

I fear no danger,

for you are with me;

your rod and your staff ​— ​they comfort me.

8 We have all kinds of troubles, but we are not crushed; we are perplexed, yet not in despair; 9 persecuted, yet not abandoned; knocked down, yet not destroyed. 10 We always carry in our bodies the dying of Yeshua, so that the life of Yeshua may be manifested in our bodies too. 11 For we who are alive are always being handed over to death for Yeshua’s sake, so that Yeshua’s life also might be manifested in our mortal bodies.

3 But the Lord is worthy of trust; he will make you firm and guard you from the Evil One. 4 Yes, united with the Lord we are confident about you, that you are doing the things we are telling you to do, and that you will keep on doing them. 5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and the perseverance which the Messiah gives.

Finally! After all the technical difficulties we faced, we were able to upload this episode! This one is a biggie, and boy were we fought. But by the grace of God and a lot of prayer, we were finally able to record and upload. This episode is very important to Bekah and I and I know.. it's kinda long. But trust me... it one you might wanna hear!

Episode Notes:

Leviticus, 20: 13. CJB

If a man goes to bed with a man as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they must be put to death; their blood is on them.

Romans 1:26-32 CJB

26 This is why God has given them up to degrading passions; so that their women exchange natural sexual relations for unnatural; 27 and likewise the men, giving up natural relations with the opposite sex, burn with passion for one another, men committing shameful acts with other men and receiving in their own persons the penalty appropriate to their perversion. 28 In other words, since they have not considered God worth knowing, God has given them up to worthless ways of thinking; so that they do improper things. 29 They are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and vice; stuffed with jealousy, murder, quarrelling, dishonesty and ill-will; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God; they are insolent, arrogant and boastful; they plan evil schemes; they disobey their parents; 31 they are brainless, faithless, heartless and ruthless. 32 They know well enough God’s righteous decree that people who do such things deserve to die; yet not only do they keep doing them, but they applaud others who do the same.

We no longer have to physically die now that we have the sacrifice of Yeshua. To turn to him is to die to self. 

Luke 9:23

Then to everyone he said, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him say ‘No’ to himself, take up his execution-stake daily and keep following me.

1 Corinthians, 6: 9-10. CJB

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males,[a] 10 no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom.

Other translations use homosexuality

KJV-  9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

In Strongs the word is in Greek. Arsenokoitēs. Translated means Sodomite. Meaning those who did as the Sodomites did. 

Sodomy-sexual intercourse involving anal or oral copulation.

I will never leave you nor forsake you Deuteronomy 31:8

God give us a free will to choose to follow him

Having homosexual feelings is not the choice, choosing to act upon our fleshly feelings instead of turning to God is the sin. We can think about murdering someone, but the murder is the sin.

Romans 12:2

2 In other words, do not let yourselves be conformed to the standards of the 'olam hazeh (the world) . Instead, keep letting yourselves be transformed by the renewing of your minds; so that you will know what God wants and will agree that what he wants is good, satisfying and able to succeed.

We should be transformed by the renewing of our mind. The more we focus on Yeshua, the more we begin to become like him. 

Today's world has made people pleasing and struggling with body image an everyday norm. God's word says this was not what he intended for His beautiful creations. Join us as we read what scripture says about this issues and how we can lean into Him for help.

People Pleasing

Ephesians 6:6 CJB- Don't obey just to win their favor, serving only when they are watching you; but serve as slaves of the Messiah, doing what God wants with all your heart. 

Galatians 1:10 CJB-  Now does that sound as if I were trying to win human approval? No! I want God’s approval! Or that I’m trying to cater to people? If I were still doing that, I would not be a servant of the Messiah.

1 Thessalonians 2:4- Instead, since God has tested us and found us fit to be entrusted with Good News, this is how we speak: not to win favor with people but with God, who tests our hearts.

Romans 12:2 CJB-  In other words, do not let yourselves be conformed to the standards of the ‘olam hazeh. Instead, keep letting yourselves be transformed by the renewing of your minds; so that you will know what God wants and will agree that what he wants is good, satisfying and able to succeed.

olam ha-zeh, (Hebrew: “this world”), in Jewish theology, presents life on earth, as opposed to ʿolam ha-ba (“the world to come”) the afterlife. 

Body Image

1 Samuel 16: Adonai said to Sh’mu’el (Samuel), “Don’t pay attention to how he looks or how tall he is, because I have rejected him. Adonai doesn’t see the way humans see — humans look at the outward appearance, but Adonai looks at the heart.”

1 Peter 3:3-4-Your beauty should not consist in externals such as fancy hairstyles, gold jewelry or what you wear; 4 rather, let it be the inner character of your heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit. In God’s sight this is of great value.

Proverbs 31:30- Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Psalm 139:14- I praise you because I am Fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

Our bodies are a divine gift. A temple. A dwelling place for the Holy Spirit