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Broken Hallelujah

Greetings in the Lord! You know it's funny the ways the Lord chooses to speak to people; it's probably as individual as people themselves. As for me, the Lord will quite often use modern pop or rock songs to convey His messages. Yeah, He gives Scripture to go with it, but the song usually gives the heart of the word and tends to pack an altogether different kind of punch. Music can be so powerful that way anyway, but when you hear His voice in it, well, it's awesome. Like take the song " Hallelujah " by Leonard Cohen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSJbYWPEaxw&ob=av2e Last night the Holy Spirit sang the familiar word--I recognized the song in four notes! (even though I think I've only heard the whole song maybe once or twice before). It has that kind of melody that grabs you. So I listened to the song again and Googled the lyrics. Even though there seems to be some question over the meaning of those lyrics, I discerned the meaning the Holy Spi

The Writing is on the Wall

Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from Daniel 5 and is another word about President Assad of Syria. In this story from Daniel 5, we read about King Belshazzar, son of King Nebuchadnezzar, who was having a great banquet one night with his nobles and family. During the evening of drinking and toasting their gods of gold, silver, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand, a strange and fearful thing happened, a hand appeared and wrote on the wall: MENE , MENE , TEKEL , PARSIN Eventually Daniel was summoned to tell the king what the words meant, as none of the king's other wise men could decipher it. So Daniel enlightened the king with its meaning, but first prefaced it by reminding King Belshazzar of what had happened to his father, King Nebuchadnezzar during his reign--the Lord had greatly humbled him because his heart had grown exceedingly proud and calloused. "Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to death; those he wanted to spare, he sp