The Adonai's Crescent

Living a life of Praise honours Yhwh and brings favour. Reference: Ps 100 Ever wonder how to handle life’s toughest challenges with grace? Psalm 100 offers a powerful answer, inviting us to “enter His gates with Thanksgiving and His courts with Praise .” It’s not just about singing in church—it’s about making gratitude and Praise a way of life. Amen. At its heart, Psalm 100 is a song of joyful surrender. It commands us to "serve the Lord with gladness" and to "know that the Lord, He is God" . But why should we be thankful? The psalm provides the rock-solid foundation for our Praise: He made us, we are His people, His steadfast love endures forever . This recognition of our dependence on Him is key. The Bible shows us that this posture of thanksgiving is the secret to receiving God's favour. Consider Abraham's servant, who when he saw God's provision for Isaac's wife, "bowed down his head and worshipped the Lord" . His immediate gratitude re...

From His fullness - Pleroma Reference: Jn 1:16 - "For from His fullness (plērōma) we have all received, Grace upon Grace. One of the great truths from the Bible is that Jesus has everything we need. Awareness, access, and alignment are the key elements to understanding this passage. If I’m not aware of who God is and what He does for all of us, and that Jesus holds it all, then I won’t bother asking the right things at the right time, in right ways; I’ll end up wandering into unknown territory and uncertain paths. If I’m not aligned with Him through obedience, operating on His wavelength through praise and worship, then awareness alone isn’t useful—it’s like knowing something but not applying it from the right perspective. But if we are both aware and aligned, then access is granted and opened; it seems we won’t need to struggle to gain entry into the fullness and completeness of God’s nature revealed through Jesus Christ. This isn’t transactional , like “do this and you’ll be pai...

τηρήσετε (tērēsete)- you will guard, keep watch over Reference: John 14:15 — "If you love me, keep my commandments" — sits at a hinge point in Jesus's Farewell discourse, right before HE promises the Holy Spirit (the "Advocate"/Paraclete). Root verb: τηρέω (tēreō) — not the more common Greek word for "obey" (peithomai/hypakouō, meaning to submit to authority), but a word that literally means "to guard," "to watch over," "to keep watch". It's the word used for a guard keeping watch at a post, or someone safeguarding a treasure. Love is defined by obedience, not sentiment. Jesus doesn't say "if you love me, feel devoted to me" — he ties love to concrete action. In John's Gospel, love is verifiable; it shows up in behaviour, not just emotion. The Greek verb for "keep" (tērēsete) is future tense and follows a conditional — love isn't presented as a prerequisite for a transaction ("obey...