Good Old Dan

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I’ve read every single page of the Bible twelve times. I answer your questions about it for free every day at https://t.co/KXIMA40l9u

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"daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole." mark 5:34

she bled for 12 years. touched his garment without permission in a crowd.

jesus stopped everything to find her. he didn't say "woman." he said daughter.

that's identity, not just healing.

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@itsme_urstruly Some people collect facts. Others collect understanding. The intellectually omnivorous person sees connections where others see separate subjects. They understand that reality is one interconnected story told through many different disciplines.

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@Pontifex Scripture consistently teaches that people are more important than profit.

“Whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” 1 John 3:17

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Nobody talks about how "satisfieth" in Psalm 107:9 is the Hebrew word "saba."

Saba means saturated. Filled to overflowing. Like a sponge that can't hold another drop.

God doesn't portion out just enough to get by. He drenches the hungry soul.

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“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:23

One of the most overlooked forms of self-respect is the willingness to leave. Not out of anger. Not out of pride. But because your values matter more than your comfort. You cannot control others. You can control your presence.

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@Pergament_F The danger is not merely rejecting truth. It’s becoming proud because you think you possess it. Wisdom requires both courage and humility. Courage to speak the truth. Humility to recognize you may not see all of it.

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@jackmoses777 The future is shaped less by what you imagine once and more by what you repeatedly do.

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One of the most humbling realities of fatherhood is realizing that our children will remember far more than our words.

They will remember our example. The way we love. The way we repent. The way we sacrifice. The way we treat their mother. The way we respond to hardship. In many ways, fatherhood is lived theology.

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@AlexHormozi maturity is realizing that being respected by the right people matters more than being liked by everyone

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@bluewmist You don’t need a grand ambition. But you do need a direction. A ship without a destination doesn’t enjoy freedom. It merely drifts.

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@ethrealuniq Comparison is one of the fastest ways to lose gratitude. God is writing different stories on different timelines.

“Let every man prove his own work… then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.” Galatians 6:4

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@theralkia Every earthly treasure eventually loses its shine. The soul was made for something eternal.

“Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.” Psalm 73:25

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@PeterDiamandis The future may indeed be abundant. But abundance without wisdom can become a curse as easily as a blessing. The challenge has never been merely creating wealth. It has been stewarding it well.

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@hexesandspell A calm spirit is a tremendous strength.

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. Proverbs 16:32

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"He will fulfil the desire of those who fear him."
- Psalm 145:19 (KJV)

There's a word in this verse that trips people up. Fear.

Because the same God who says "fear me" also says "fear not." Over and over. Isaiah 41:10. Joshua 1:9. Luke 12:32. Dozens of times, God tells His people to stop being afraid.

So which is it? Should we fear Him or not?

This is one of the most common contradictions people point to in Scripture. And it falls apart completely when you look at the Hebrew.

The word for "fear" in Psalm 145:19 is yare (יָרֵא). It means reverence. Awe. Weight. It's the posture of someone standing before something so immense, so holy, so far beyond them that the only honest response is to bow. It's what you feel when you look at the ocean during a storm and realize you are very, very small.

Yare is the word used in Proverbs 1:7: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge." Knowledge doesn't begin with terror. It begins with a right estimation of who God is and who you are.

Now look at the other side. When God says "fear not" in Isaiah 41:10, the concept being addressed is closer to the Hebrew word pachad (פַּחַד). Pachad means dread. Panic. The kind of fear that grips your chest at 3am when you can't stop thinking about what might go wrong. It's the fear of circumstances, of enemies, of the unknown.

Pachad is what Isaac felt in Genesis 31:42. It's the terror of a man surrounded by things he cannot control.

Two completely different fears. Two completely different words. One God is telling you to cultivate. The other He is telling you to let go of.

And here's where it comes together.

When yare is in its proper place, pachad has no room to operate. When your reverence for God is bigger than your dread of the world, the world loses its grip on you. You stop lying awake calculating outcomes because you already know who holds the outcome.

This is why David could write Psalm 27:1: "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?"

David had enemies. Real ones. Men who wanted him dead. He wasn't pretending danger didn't exist. He was saying his yare for God had swallowed his pachad of men.

So when Psalm 145:19 says God fulfills the desire of those who fear Him, it's saying something specific: God responds to the person whose life is oriented around reverence. The person who treats God as God. Who doesn't try to shrink Him down to a manageable idea or a weekend routine.

That person's desires get fulfilled. Because that person's desires have been shaped by the very thing they revere.

Fear God properly, and you stop fearing everything else.

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@DavidFischer Satan quoted Scripture to Jesus. The problem wasn’t that he used Scripture. It was that he ignored the rest of it.

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The issue isn’t whether modern churches are good or bad. The issue is whether we’ve added layers of tradition that we now treat as if they were biblical commands.

Many believers assume:

Church = building.
Pastor = CEO.
Worship = singing.
Ministry = staff.

Yet the New Testament’s emphasis is often broader and more relational than our modern assumptions.

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@Marvel0usJesus You may never see the full impact of your work. Someone else may harvest what you planted. That’s okay. The reward comes from faithfulness, not recognition.

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@CodingIncloud_ A rich man can be poor. A poor man can be rich. It depends on what he possesses that money cannot buy.

“A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” Luke 12:15

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@greglaurie Love without correction is not biblical fatherhood.

“Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.” Hebrews 12:6

Good fathers don’t avoid hard conversations. They have them.