Eitan

Hi!!
I like your picture. I’m not able to get on my email where we are, but my mom’s phone is working. (:
I’ve decided to write you a letter on paper every day. Then when I get back I’ll type them all out and send them to you. 🙂
How have you been?

Hi!!

I got your email two days ago. I haven’t been able to check today, or yesterday. My email only works on computers for some reason…? Maybe the same reason it doesn’t let me separate sentences and paragraphs anymore??? (:

What happened? Ooh, where to start?
I was supposed to go to a career/Bible week-long class this summer… Then The CCP…[Read more]

Hello.

How are you doing?

Last night I got to clean dishes! Which was fun because it was a way to thank our hosts. I have been reading my Bible, and reading another book Mrs. Becky (the woman of the house we’re staying at) is loaning me for our stay. It’s good, and a spin off the book of Hosea in the Bible. (I’ve also been writing) (:

Ah,…[Read more]

Whenever you’re away from home do you sleep less? I usually sleep till around seven-thirty to eight-thirty. Here, I’m waking up around six-thirty Texas time. Actually, not /around/ six-thirty; exactly six-thirty a.m. for the past two mornings. (I sleep wearing my watch.)

Just something funny. (:

This morning the ‘God is my fortress’ came back to me for some reason. (I wrote this in your letter, but will include here.) (:
I don’t exactly know what line of thought caused me think of it this way,..

God is our fortress.
Would we rather die in our Fortress when battle comes, or leave it and die later of old age anyway?
When one falls in…[Read more]

‘Tomorrow we go on a 3 days’ trip in the ”far north” of Israel’
Fun!

I think it would be good to have something to help pool in money sense being an author isn’t very reliable… I love to make lots of different voices and accents. And I think it would be fun to read audio books, and be in audio dramas for a living. (:

‘In August I have a 2 wee…[Read more]

I’m still trying to form an answer to your Christians fighting question…

I have some ideas I could say right now…but they might change so I will wait. (It’s not like you’re able to read this right now anyway.) (:
I hope you have fun.

I have the start of an answer, not quite done yet. (: It’s been the topic of your letter. Oh! and something else.

7/2/20
Dear Eitan,

I’ve been thinking about your question about disciples physically fighting… About how God told people to war throughout the Old Testament. Then He told us to turn the other cheek when people tried to start a fight. It seems almost like a contradiction, yea?

I’ve thought about this before several times and have come to shaky…[Read more]

Most of these verses are about suffering. I can find more uplifting ones if you’d like. (:

Joshua 1:9
Daniel 3:16-18
Matthew 5:10-11
Matthew 25:23
Matthew 28:20
Mark 8:35
Luke 9:23
Luke 21:12-15
John 6:35
John 16:33
John 12:24
John 13:35
Romans 8:28-39
Romans 12:1
1 Corinthians 4:10-13
Galatians 6:17
Ephesians 6:10-18
Philippians 1:21,…[Read more]

Hello. (:

And to start, thank you/you’re welcome. (: But Jesus knows I have faults. 🙁

‘Karin didn’t let us sleep for a moment, and I failed to control my anger’
Okay; I’ve done stuff late at night when my sister wouldn’t let me sleep to… I say things or /growl/ things I regret seconds later… But usually I have to much pride to tell her s…[Read more]

Wow, that was long (:

So, what do you think about fighting?

A song I like. (:

I, we, over here in the USA are truly blessed.

Hi!

‘some of your thoughts were too… radical.’

They were, weren’t they? (: It’s possible to probable I got several things wrong. You make very good and sound points. Thank you for telling me what you think, and for sharpening my iron. 

‘Missionary families’

There are two families who are dedicating their lives completly to the spreading of…[Read more]

Hi!

‘Is the Jewish family from your church?’

No. But they’ve come a few times. The patriarch of their family knows our pastor. They’re friends. 

‘And is your dad a missionary?’

No. He just keeps in contact with the two families and then tells us what’s going on with them and what they need prayer for. The other family are missionaries to the…[Read more]

‘I’ve never experienced a loss of a truly close friend’

I hope you never habe to. Tis not a good feeling. I was scared for like a week because I had texted him twice and he never answered. Today I texted him again, and he said we were good.  (: So, that’s good., so I can only imagine how you feel.

‘I want to pray for you, but I don’t know what…[Read more]

‘Oh, never mind, I found only a preview 🙁’
The Arabic songs? I’ll start looking again.

https:// maozisrael.org/ whatwedo/ music/

Maybe… For Sakhnini Brothers….

Ephesians 6:10-18

/Belt of Truth/
Truth is what’s holding our clothes on. It is where everything good and right rests. The belt the Romans wore held up their (skirt?) and their breastplate. Many things rested on truth.
If the truth was no more, then the breastplate (righteousness), would be unsteady or even fall down.

/Breastplate of…[Read more]

What do you think about verse 14 of Psalm 22? The poured out like water specifically. (:

Is it supposed to mean His blood poured out like water? Or something else?

Or is it His love, His whole being poured out for us? (Maybe all of the above?)
(:

‘all My bones are out of joint.’ What about that part? Do you think it’s referring to the beatings?

‘Where do you want to serve as a missionary?’
I don’t know exactly where yet.

‘Is it your calling for your whole life, or only for a limited time?’
I believe it will be my whole life.

‘Do you go by yourself, or with a some sort of missionary company, like OM?’
That is a very good question and I have been considering. I would go with my…[Read more]

/Shoes of the Gospel of Peace/
Wherever one goes, they are to spread the good news. One is to bring peace everywhere their feet step. At least, they are supposed to speak peace, and act peacefully.
Romans 12:18
But where the good news brings peace for eternity, it will bring division on earth.
Luke 12:50-53

/Shield of Faith/
The young man we’re…[Read more]

/Shield of Faith/ (continued)
Answers that are for God to answer. But, we are to seek the answers believing they are there, and grow in faith.
Proverbs 8:17
Proverbs 25:2
Deuteronomy 4:29
Jeremiah 29:13
Matthew 7:7
Acts 17:24-28

When people revile us for how dumb our faith in Jesus is, the shield of faith defends us. Yes, the words still hurt,…[Read more]

Thee’s, Thou’s and other fun stuff. (:

Psalm 22:4 ‘Our fathers trusted in Thee: they trusted and Thou didst deliver them.’

‘Thee’ in in this context means ‘you’ as does ‘thou’. Why have two different words for the same thing? I don’t have a certain answer. But I do have guesses. 

Literary flow is one. ‘Our fathers trusted in Thou’ doesn’t…[Read more]

Hi Eitan (:

I hope you slept well. 

‘I hope you wasn’t joking’

No, I wasn’t joking. (: 

‘King Saul, king Solomon,’

Do you believe king Saul and king Solomon are in Heaven? Abraham’s faith was counted for righteousness…where do you see faith in either of these men later in there lives? There is no mention of repentance for either of the…[Read more]

I’m back! (I like the song you sent. (: ) So much to tell! I will try to type out your letters today. I also am about to read all of yours on here. 🙂

I also looked at the pictures you took again. They are very beautiful. (: I will send you some of the ones I took. 🙂

Eitan, what do you believe your spiritual gifts are? What gifts would you like to have and why?

‘For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another…[Read more]

‘can you ask someone you trust to help me?’
My father suggests getting up earlier than the rest of your family to set aside time for God if you’re unable to during the days of vacation. I can/will ask a few others.

‘We know king Saul is in Heaven,… ‘’Tomorrow, you and your sons will be with me’’.’
Oh cool! Thanks! I never caught that before…[Read more]

I had a full answer, then it got erased… I have to go! Will send something later.

Hi! Sorry about missing yesterday/today. 🙁

‘Did you already finish the course?’

Yes.

‘If so, how was it?’

It was amazing. I learned so much. (You’ll hear more in my letters… once I’ve typed them…)

But our average day over the week went as such:

5:30-6:00 wake up and then a sermon and/or devotion. Then breakfast and then a sermon. Next…[Read more]

(No rush on all the letters…)
(:

6-28-20

Dear Eitan,
Hi! This is day one of our (my mother and I’s) trip. (: Have you ever flown? It’s amazing! (To me)

I loved the race down the runway, and the bumpy ascent. Then looking down on the clouds. It was beautiful, and I couldn’t stop smiling. We still have to change flights at another airport before going to our first destination. :)…[Read more]

7-1-20

Dear Eitan,
Have I told you about our hosts’ cats yet? I’ll say now I’m more of a dog person, and where I like cats… They just aren’t as fun or loving generally (from my point of view). They can be soft and cuddly, they chase string and specks of flight… They /are/ cute.

Their cats are quite big. The male is 21 or 24 pounds (I…[Read more]

Hello!

‘I wouldn’t have been able to digest 4 sermons a day’
I kept a whole lot of notes, and after getting home I asked my mother for a day to just go back over everything. To let it sink in and not just disappear from my mind. (Now it’s back to school.) (:

‘I’m pretty sure…that its purpose is to spread the gospel in human languages you don…[Read more]