Coffee, Journaling, Prayer

Jeremiah 49:35-39: Read 06.16.2025.Mon. Links: https://coffeejournalingprayer.blogspot.com/2025/06/are-we-living-days-of-jeremiah-4935-39.html

Are we? Are we seeing biblical prophecy fulfilled in our world right now? Stay tuned.

Glory!  I was in the middle of journaling this: https://coffeejournalingprayer.blogspot.com/2025/06/1-kings-17.html ... when a missile attack was conducted by Iran. I didn't type this, but thought it about thwarting the attack of the enemy: That the missiles are stopped and if not, that they landed in empty fields, and save Israel some ammunition/defense supplies (not sure what to call it). Well, the prayers worked, hallelujah! The three landed in areas of open land.  And 1 Kings 17:1 that points out how He's Adonai God of Israel and lives! Thank You, Lord, for the answered prayer! Prayer: Father, Maker of the Universe, help people all across the world notice how well You are taking care of Your people, Israel. You live and answer prayer! And You are real. To You alone be the glory, honor, and praise. 

1 Kings 16: Read 06.15.2025.Sun. King Ahab is in this chapter. He is the one who did more evil than everyone that lived before him. The word used here is actually: "All." He did more evil than everyone, all people, before him. I cannot imagine to have that said of me... and to have it in the Bible where it will be read for thousands of years by billions of people. I also cannot help but take notice how no one before him was as evil as he. Have we had people more evil than him since? And if so, how many? Are any living now? Prayer: Adonai, Most High, Eternal One, if there is anyone evil like Ahab today, expose them.  Prayer: Lord, tell us who You consider evil in this world and help us to pray about them. Prayer: If there is anything evil in us, expose it and eliminate it. 1 Kings 16:34 mentions setting up gates. Links: https://coffeejournalingprayer.blogspot.com/2025/06/elijah.html

Elijah first appears in 1 Kings 17:1 in the Word. He lives in Gilead and is a Tishbite. 1 Kings 17 opens in the middle of a scene. Things are in motion and taking place. Elijah is addressing King Ahab, King of Israel. Who is Ahab? We learn in 1 Kings 16 how he was the most evil man to that point in history. This is the man Elijah addressed here in 1 Kings 17.  Links: https://coffeejournalingprayer.blogspot.com/2025/06/1-kings-16.html https://coffeejournalingprayer.blogspot.com/2025/06/1-kings-17.html https://coffeejournalingprayer.blogspot.com/2025/06/1-kings-18.html https://coffeejournalingprayer.blogspot.com/2025/06/1-kings-19.html

How many times am I going to get sidetracked? Not stay on task? Not do what Adonai tells me to do? Too many times is the answer. This has been my life. So much so that it's a lifestyle. And this means, I sin.  Falling short of the will of God is sin. Not doing what He says is a sin.  I hope to stay on task this time. He has asked me to pray and to use the Word to pray. Hence, I am to pray through His Word, the Bible. Only it is more than that. As I read through the Bible in a year, whatever that day's reading is, I am supposed to use it to pray for whatever He ahs put on my heart. I hope to do this and stick with it. This means this is what I will focus on in this blog journal.  Prayer: Abba, help me do what You say.

 Colossians 2: Read 06.16.2025.Mon

1 Kings 17: Read 06.16.2025.Mon. A chapter about Elijah, King Ahab of Israel, Adonai, no rain, ravens, a widow, and the resurrection of her son.  It's a chapter where according to people and earthly standards, many unusual things happen here and are instructed by Adonai. (For example: Ravens feeding Elijah for three years or so.) Elijah first appears in this chapter and in 1 Kings 17:1. In verse 1, we learn a great deal about Elijah (see the link below). But we also learn something important here. Of all the names and characteristics of Adonai that Elijah could use, he uses one that was very important in this scene, but is also important today: Adonai God of Israel. And Elijah tops that. He says how Adonai God of Israel lives. Present tense. Active tense. Adonai lives. This reminds me of a showdown in the wild west. I hear the music in the background: Duh-duh-DUH! Let's not overlook how significant those words are today. Adonai is the God of Israel. This was true then, in this ...

  1 Kings 19: Read 06.16.2025.Mon.

  1 Kings 18: Read 06.16.2025.Mon.

I learned long ago that when I wake in the middle of the night, even if it is to go down the hall, there is a reason why it happened at that specific time. Adonai (God) wakes us to spend time with us and so we can pray. For well over a decade, the waking throughout the night has been caused in part by hormones, I realize. Nonetheless, it is still a call to prayer and drawing near. No matter the reason we wake, it is perfect time to draw near to the Lord and to pray. The question is: Do we heed the call? And if we do, do we fall asleep during the prayer watch we were assigned? Sometimes, I think it's for a quick arrow prayer or popcorn prayer, short and simple.  Other times, I think God wants us to bring immediate, powerful prayer for an extended period of time. It's like much is riding on it, even if we have no clue what it is specifically. Waking in the middle of the night is always a divine appointment. Do we wake, roll over, check the clock and go back to sleep? Or do we add...

The last I blog journaled was on Friday. The moment I said what I said in two blog posts (journal entries), I looked at news coming out of Israel and that's when things got quiet intense for a while. I got together and sent texts with a couple of friends and fellow prayer warriors and we began to pray for Israel and everything that transpired.  I will not lie. It was an intense couple of hours watching the apps on our cells that allows us to see everything we want to see. But I was again reminded how powerful prayer is. Adonai answered our prayers (in which I am grafted in, so I am part of Israel, along with other Jews and Gentiles of the One New Man, see Ruth 1:16-17; Genesis 12:3; Isaiah 49:6; Ephesians 2; Genesis 22:18; Isaiah 56:7; Ephesians 1:22-23; Galatians 3:29; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 9-11; etc. Let us keep praying for Israel. Written on June 15, 2025, Sun. Links: https://coffeejournalingprayer.blogspot.com/2025/06/nonstop-news-today-israel.html https://coffeejourn...

Ever since my last journal entry, things have been intense, hard, and rapidly moving in Israel. Hence, it's been constant prayer asking for God to bless and protect His people and land, and to thwart all that attacks of Israel's enemies. The battle has been relentless and ongoing, physically and spiritually. The latter, though, is the most intense and can be the most draining and exhausting for a prayer warrior. It's tough being here and not being there to walk with them. And feeling helpless since we are so far away. I cannot imagine what it's like living in Israel right now. What I am experiencing is nothing. It's our obligation as their brothers and sisters to have their backs in every form of prayer. I won't lie. I never knew how prayer fatigue or exhaustion were possible when you put everything you can into prayer and do so for an extended period of time. But it's possible and real. I am feeling it. Sleep has been sketchy and I certainly haven't sle...

The counterattack from Iran has begun. Adonai, protect Israel. Guide them. Help their technology and military work well. 215 p.m.

2025 marks the second time I have read this specific plan for reading the Bible through in a year.  Thankfully, I have been able to keep up with the reading. (More on this later.) To Him be the glory.

The news and social media are facts of lives in 2025. They both exist. And they are both faulty. And they both have some benefits. I find it interesting trying to pick my way through the truth, lies, deceptions, distractions, and manipulation.  Then to make matters worse, people that report things on the news and social media do so at different speeds. This only complicates matters, let's be honest. If someone reports on something before everyone else, it could be a lie or it very well could be truth. But the same goes. If something is reported on later, not taking the latest events into account that re happening real-time, then that reported information could appear false when it could be truthful. Sigh. It's a mess. And I thank God for prayer and His discernment. This is the only way to rightly handle the news and social media: Lots and lots of prayer. (Oy and aye.)

Goodness gracious. The news has been going nonstop today. My trusty sources in Israel are reporting the news constantly, and for that, I am grateful. After all, it helps me know what and how to pray. However, it also means constantly feeling on edge. Therefore, I am trying to look at the news every forty minutes or so, not more frequently. I figure the Lord knows what is going on and I can pray about what I heard last. I keep getting reports of possible drones and missiles being lobbed at Israel from Iran. (More nail biting and prayer.) So far, Adonai has swatted them all out of the air through use of His people and their military might. (Thank the Lord!) Never mind how Hezbollah has fired into Israel today, too. Watching this, and watching all the nations lob missiles and drones at Israel since October 07, 2023 is proof to me there is a God. Seriously. With how many missiles that have been fired into Israel, well over 30,000 the last I heard, we need to be honest here. The chances of ...

Today is the first time I journaled here on/in this blog journal since mid-March. The truth was, I had no idea it had been that long. I stopped because of a few different reasons. One being I didn't want to risk being taken wrongly. I didn't want to preach. I didn't want my beliefs to be a turn off. I also knew that sharing my personal thoughts could make me a target of ridicule. It's funny. The truth is, I really don't care what people think. After all, no one on this planet has a heaven or hell to offer me, as I do not them. But I remembered why I started this blog journal on July 23, 2024. There were a few reasons for that, too. I knew that I am not the only believer in Jesus/ Yeshua, and I thought that I wasn't the only one who struggled with living the best life possible in Him and understanding the Bible (The Word of God). I figured I would share my journey with anyone who read this blog and hoped you would share in your journey with me, as we are all on t...