MV Lvl 4 or 5: Rev. 6:12-17

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Devotional, Memory Verse, Prophecy, The Great Tribulation, This Side of the Whirlwind

Okay, here’s one you’ll need to decide what level it deserves… level 4 or level 5.

MV Level 4, maybe even a soft 5

Revelation 6:12-17

12) I looked when He had opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became as black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon be like blood.

MV 4: Colossians 1:9-14

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Memory Verse

Colossians 1:9-14

Hey Whirlwind Fans.

I don’t know about you… but I found this Memory-Verse difficult. It took me weeks to get it under my belt –
BUT – that’s okay because it is beautiful when you digest it.

I’m currently working on verses 15-23. Wish me hard work.

So here’s Colossians 1:9-14

(Because of their great faith and love for the Body of Christ)

9) For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray from you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

10) that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

11) strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy;

12) giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers n the inheritance of the His holy people in the kingdom of light.

13) (For) He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

14) In whom we have redemption through His (shed) blood, the forgiveness of sins.

Wow! Isn’t that beautiful.

Well, have fun with this one… for I know I did.

God bless and have a great day!

Bunny and the Unicorn Pt 2

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Children's Stories, Clean Cut, FYA, Short Story

Bunny and the Unicorn pt2

Gramma’ Pam turns to the little-ones, “Young adventurers, today we will travel to a place far from home, a place called, the Land of Giggles. We learned about the Land of Giggles from Buddy, a Fuzzle, who had been badly injured here in the Land of Humans. Sadly, Buddy was badly treated when he traveled through the high-country of the great Northwest. For this reason, Buddy doesn’t like to come to the Land of Humans, or Land of Men. Not anymore. Too many bad memories, Buddy says.

Happy Steve suddenly interrupted, “You know, Gramma’ Pam, many of our readers and listeners may not have heard their home referred to as the Land of Humans.  For that matter, they likely never heard about the Land of Giggles or even Fuzzles. Isn’t that amazing?  Would you please share a little information on Buddy and his homeland?”

MV 2 Hebrews 5:13-14

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MV Memory Verse

Memory Verse Level 2

For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (Hebrews 5:13-14 NKJV)

Here are a couple BIG questions:

1. How long have you called yourself a Christian?
2. How long have you owned a Bible?
3. How much of God’s Word do you really know?
4. More importantly, how much of God’s Word to you understand?
5. Good or bad, who is at fault?

How often have you run into Believers who can quote chapter and verse from their Bibles?

I don’t know with certainty if this talent was once common, BUT in the past I imagine it was once the case.

True-Life 44: The Book

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Faith, True Life

Who knows the mind of God? Many years ago, possibly the Year of our Lord -1985, I was inspired to write the song, “The Book.” As you can imagine, it related to the Bible and how the Bible is THE Book of the ages and the only real way to Life in Christ Jesus. At any rate… the following evening, Wednesday, we had an unexpected guest-speaker show up for our Full-Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International gathering, a meeting which took place at the Korenana Restaurant, Sierra Vista – Arizona. It was no great surprise that I was expected to bring a music piece or two.  I was excited about my new song, so I played “The Book”.

This Side of the Whirlwind’s: Bunny and the Unicorn Pt1

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For Your Amusement, Fuzzleworths, Short Story

Bunny and the Unicorn

(Part 1, An ongoing children’s adventure)

A sampler:

“Hello my merry friends.  I am Happy Steve of the Harrel clan, a friend to both young and old, Fuzzle and human alike. Today we share our first exciting tale.  A tale many might say tis true!  Whether True-Tale or Tall-Tale none know for sure.

Today, Gramma’ Pam will be joining us on our rousing adventure of, “Bunny and the Unicorn.”

My Friends, do not be deceived by the friendly sounding nature of our story. Bunny and the Unicorn is a dangerous adventure, a journey requiring both laughter and courage; powerful magic and giggly, giggles.  There will be floods of terribly damp and sticky tears mixed in with your ever-shivering shivers so chillingly deep that we might not be able to stop squealing from the chuckles in our tickle-bones.  Really!

For this reason, my friends, we must prepare for wonders beyond all imaginings. True mysteries inspired by wild and wonderfully crawly things – both seen and unseen. 

“Bunny and the Unicorn” is a living adventure, a Tall-Tale which all may encounter this very day – on this – our most telling of Fuzzlily-Joyful-Journeys.

Little ones, “Bunny and the Unicorn” is a shadowy story, one handed down long before the age of Giants and Glimmerings; a legend, first told by many of our ancestors known and unknown.  We will see you there!

NOW, prepare yourselves – for the adventure BEGINS!

This Side of the Whirlwind: Salane

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SH Music

A little Japanese piece for our Japanese listeners and Readers

01 Salani.mp3

Here's a little musical piece for our Japanese readers and listeners.
Enjoy!

Salane https://t.co/2zN7wP3VDX

— Steven R. Harrel (@TSWhirlwind) August 19, 2021

The Night Watch 16: Soulful Encounters

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Short Story, The Night Watch, TSWW

(An Ongoing Saga by Steven R. Harrel)

(Taken from concepts found in “This Side of the Whirlwind”)

May 1985

The sun slowly cut in over the distant mountain scape bringing the first wink of sunlight to their tent. A light rain had pelted their canvas the entire night, gently dropping the Monsoon’s essential bounty across the central palisades of the Mogollon Rim of the White Mountains, Arizona.

An hour or so into the morning, TS and his brother, Wayne, descended into one of the many steep-sided narrow canyons which decorated this section of the Mogollon Rim. Today’s journey marked another installment in their ambitious quest to hike every valley and ravine the White Mountains had to offer.  Currently, they were climbing through the very heart of Arizona’s beautiful and verdant pine country.

TS bellowed into the canyon’s mountain-scape reveling in the freedom and splendor surrounding them as well as a little self-adulation for the excellence of his resounding echoes. “What a beautiful day for adventures; wouldn’t you say, little brother?”

This Side of the Whirlwind: MV Level 3

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Memory Verse

MV Level 3

Habakuk 3:17-19
Though the fig tree may not blossom,
Nor fruit be on the vines;
Though the labor of the olive may fail,
And the fields yield no food;
Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,
And there be no herd in the stalls —

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will joy in the God of my salvation.
The Lord God is my strength;
He will make my feet like deer’s feet,
And He will make me walk on my high hills. (or high mountains)

Where you do stand when it comes to rejoicing in the Lord WHEN everything is falling to ashes in your life?

This is where we are.

That is where we live in Christ.

Bonus verse:

Rejoice in the Lord always, and AGAIN I say rejoice! (Philippians 4:4)

This Side of the Whirlwind: Receiving a Prophetic Utterance

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Hearing God's Voice, Love, School of the Prophets

Receiving a Prophetic Utterance

1. How do we know a WORD spoken by a person/prophet is from our Creator/God?
2. Is a prophecy given by God required to come to pass?
3. What do we do about a prophecy – when we are given one or learn of one which applies to the “End of Days” and therefore applies to us?

(When the words: prophecy, Word of Knowledge or Vision are employed in this Post the author is referring to a genuine supernatural Word from the Lord by one manifestation or another.)

1)

From the Old Testament – Deuteronomy 18:21-22

The Question:

You may say to yourselves “How can we know when a message (Word from the Lord) has not been spoken by God?” (Deuteronomy 18:21)

Biblical Answer: