Jacobs Ladder Podcast

Your Two Testimonies Your past and your present First your past The first you can't change what happened but you can change how you think about it Do you look back with regret and sadness and feel sorry for yourself and self condemned? Or instead do you see Gods hand through it all, His faithful presence, and His plan to change you and shape you through and because of your past experiences, leadin...

We want God to Be in our lives because He is the source of all blessings Like Israel we gather and do certain things looking for the blessing of God We worship, we keep the commandments Blessings are complicated, sometimes the prosperity we seek doesn't come We often associate blessings with material vs spiritual growth Building a Life Which God Can Bless Not a believer in the law of attraction Th...

S   Change Share about separation In a spiritual war for the last 6 months Denial, negotiating attempts with God and others, counseling Come to a few conclusions It doesn't matter what portion of this situation is from my actions vs someone else, in fact it's futile and you could say to devote any energy to something you cannot control other than turning it over to Yah in prayer is foolish Where m...

S Lessons from Rocky 2   E Lessons from Rocky 2. Work Pray before work-Prayer from priest before going to fight, prayed that if he gets beat up it won't be too bad Have a sense of humor Be humble Don't see anyone's work as beneath you (carrying spit pails at gym) Don't put your work before your family Relationships Always built up Adrian and spoke well towards her and about her (heard this is impo...

S For the last 5 months I have been challenged through the RealMen300 group I'm a part of to have a consistent quiet time with God I wanted to share a few things I have learned and offer some ideas for why you should consider adding or increasing your quiet time and some ways to go about doing it. Specifically, I'd like to talk about they Why, the What, and the How of Quiet times. Let's start with...

S A couple follow-up thoughts from the last Selah Episode #90, CMAW191. In that episode I talked about God's Master Plan that including 4 steps: 1. Redemption 2. Baptism 3. Tutoring, Sanctification 4. With Freedom, choosing to whom we will be slave In Luke 3:7-14, I read this week an interesting passage about the 3rd step of sanctification.  This passage takes us to John the Baptist, where he's pr...

Brent Dusing is the CEO and founder of TruPlay, a gaming platform created to bring high-quality, fun and biblically-sound entertainment to audiences worldwide.     Over his career, Dusing has been featured on CNN, Fox News, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly and other news media.   In addition to the latest NFTs and upcoming gaming projects, the CEO...

Based on the weekly Parashat Torah reading called Shemot, which includes Ex 1-6 I'll be borowing several ideas for this Selah from a teaching on this week's Parshat reading by Roger Hadad from the Mikdash Congregation in High Point, NC. The title of Roger's teaching was Slave or Slave, You Choose, which is a great title, but I'm titling this Selah episode False Freedom. In America we're all about...

Q&A When and how did you come to faith in Christ? I've heard so much about Wheaton over the years. Tell us a little about the college as well as why you chose to go there for your Masters and about your experience there? When did you decide to be a teacher and why? Did you intentionally choose to teach in public schools vs private education? When did you decide to start writing stories about your...

S Second chances  Work and home In the area of work, I've shared with you all how I spent this past year in receiving correction at work and how I received a second chance. Fortunately God worked through me to humble myself, receive the correction, make improvements, and I've ended up a better worker and better at what I do than before, and that has been validated by the same people who were earli...

S Groundhog Day Recently watched spent 4 hours watching TV and gained some great spiritual lessons. I've been purposing to keep my screen time at a lower level to allow for other more important activities, but these were four hours well spent. The first two hours were spent watching the first two episodes of season 3 of The Chosen.  I'm not going to talk about those episodes other than to say that...

Steven  Snook  is an author, entrepreneur, inspirational and educational speaker. He served 19 years in federal prison for nonviolent drug crimes. During his incarceration he was born again and received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, becoming a minister of the gospel of Jesus to society's worst. Upon his release from prison in February, 2022, he has been a guest lecturer at colleges, including Br...

S   Prov 18:24 "A man who has  friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend  who  sticks closer than a brother"   Prov 27:7 " As  iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend."   Luke 8:21 "But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.""   Levels of relationships video   https://youtu.be/hsYL1X9IUQ4   E...

S Unity John 17:20-26 " I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who   [ j ] will believe in Me through their word;   21  that they all may be one, as   You, Father,  are  in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.   22  And the   glory which You gave Me I have given them,   that they may be one just as We are one:   23  I in them, a...

Deut 4:27-31 And the  Lord  will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the  Lord  will drive you.  28  And there you will serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.  29  But from there you will seek the  Lord  your God, and you will find  Him  if you seek Him with all your heart and with all...

S Dream job - in my recent interveiw with Ron Johnson, he said that early in his career, he concluded that his job as a customer service rep wasn't the perfect job, but it was the perfect job for him to practice imitating Christ.   I'm very thankful for my job right now for many reasons, some are natural and some are spiritual.   I feel that God has gifted me with my job.    I'm also at an age whe...

S HSE, ESG, and YHWH We're told, either directly or indirectly, that there's no place for religion or faith in the workplace, or another way of saying this is that we should be focused on our company's goals and not our own religion when we're working.  I actually heard an executive say in a Town Hall meeting with employees once "leave your religion at home." I don't know if you've noticed, but th...

By day,  Ron   Johnson  works in a customer service call center soothing angry customers and helping them resolve issues with their accounts; by night, he teaches philosophy at a local college and writes books and articles inviting readers to consider their place in the Big Picture.    Q&A: Give us a brief overview of your relationship with Christ from childhood until now. You start the book ackno...

S   Faithfulness- admin 49 yes message spoke about not just time but how well she did her job. I had 5yr anniversary, longest since first full-time job with General Mills and Real estate investor, each about 7 years. Celebrate value of sticking with someone or some organization. Also celebrated 16 yr anniversary big deal for me given had trouble committing in early years. Reminder of how faithful...

S   1-29-train, 30-50-serve, 51+ teach   E   Walmart eruption, co-worker said to me that one was employee not supposed to be o cuss while wearing the blue vest  Who do we represent, as an employee (as to the Lord), also thought about Proverbs 29:11 "A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise  man  holds them back." Fireproof scene, doesn't just happen out of nothing whether marriage or any other re...

S   Church sign Duct tape works great but 3 nails fixed everything  Bumper sticker phrases or nowadays could say Meme phrases have their place, capturing deeper meaning in simple phrase could say that about parables though that's not truly accurate, Yahusha said was to hide a meaning Engineering Sign can be modified  Deeper than it seems He fixed everything, He is fixing everything and He will fix...

S   Some random unrelated thoughts today. Links to last Torah Talk https://youtu.be/BFcQiehLYwU   Dress well, Goodwill Treasure your wife, greatest asset next to your Heavenly Father, much more important than your work and your career. Don't treat her the same way you do your co-workers.  What do I mean by that?  Well, I'm not saying you should treat your co-workers badly, of course.  As we've oft...

S   Ecclesiastes 3:1 says "To everything  there is  a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:" I heard my pastor Cam Huxford about 17 years ago at Savannah Christian church now Compassion Church preach a series on the Paradox of the Kingdom of God, of how in so many ways the Kingdom is the opposite of what we would think on our own. For example you must die in order to live and if you give...