Here we go, the long version: Josh and I (Joanna) with our three kids, Channing, Alan, and Jewel currently live in the beautiful prairie land of North Dakota, USA. Josh was born and raised in Nebraska under the teaching of the Word by his parents. After graduating from highschool and finding himself in utter darkness, he cried out to God in desperation and was finally heard by Him in the same hour that a hundred+ people were praying for him during the Workers and Elders conference in Oct, 2000. I grew up in northern Minnesota, also in a home centered around the Word of God. I sought to know God with my whole heart from the very beginning, and He personally revealed Himself to me at a young age, and has only continued to do so. Josh and I met while working at a children's Bible camp in 2003. Josh knew after that week at camp that I was "the one," and we were married the following year. We settled together originally in St Louis, MO where we spent the next seven ye...
We have also a more ✶ S U R E W O R D O F P R O P H E S Y ✶ whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts... 2 Pet 1:19 A study of the Word of God has one effect: a light begins to shine in a dark place; the sun/day star arises in our hearts; the eyes of our hearts are enlightened (Eph 1:18). Apart from this one effect, the study is vanity. To study is to dig deep (Lk 6:48) and to seek with all your heart (2Ch 31:21, Jer 29:13). And when the sun begins to peek over the horizon, the study is fueled and intensified. "Where is He that is born KING OF THE JEWS? for we have seen His star in the east, and are come to [love/know/worship] Him." Mat 2:2 WHEN THE TREASURE IS FOUND, however, then what??? "...when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field." Mat 13:44 "Whe...