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How good and pleasant it is when Yah's people live together in UNITY! Psalm 133:1 #Unity In Christ

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Romans 11:36 says, "For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen".

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FE faithexchange - Very Few Fathers written by Dan Stratton

This book is a profound and heartfelt message from a father to his son, offering wisdom and guidance for life's journey.

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Presenting ourselves presently

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Luke 6 & 7

We had an amazing turnout Wednesday Night. Who was here Wednesday Night?  Show me your hands. Today, we are here and some of our key leaders are elsewhere due to obligations - mainly due to blessings that have come their way -- I speak of Taharqa, Angela and Sam - whom we have come to enjoy as our praise and worship leaders.  Still, our team flourishes under the anointing as our team continues to grow in grace and in the anointing.  Glauco, Judi, Andrea, Chris, Eric, Martin and I love serving you and I ask that the rest of you step forward, stirring up the gift in you as many of us are going to be asked to go as we grow in the coming days. This afternoon, we will be holding a Master Class -- immediately following our regular church service we will be treated to a meal, prepared by one of our newer members, Van Sanders and a team of devoted volunteers.  Please stay and partake.  Fellowship.  Make a new friend.  Then stay and participate as we share with you the purest imitation of Yahshua's ministry that we have been able to discover -- we call it My Deeper Life.  Listen as we ask, "How May We Serve You?"  This is not a rhetorical question.  We are trained to wait for the answer. We have been given tools to serve those that Yahshua connects us to as friends.  This Tuesday night we will gather on a conference call which is one of the tools that we use.  The call in number is 712-432-3100 and the conference code is 473379.  Every day from 7:45 to 9:15 -- the call in number is 712-432-3100 and the conference code is 889559.  Another tool that we use. These three tools are tools to help us stay in rhythm.  You see a house divided against itself cannot stand.  We are endeavoring to be together.  We are trying to learn to enjoy being unified in thought, speech and deed.  It is not enough to be together.  We must learn to enjoy being together.  Mishpocah = Family and Moschiach -- Anointed Ones -- are very similar in their walk in the earth.  We believe therefore we speak.  Being together and fellowshipping together gives even the more timid amongst us confidence that we might not normally possess. We also have a tool that you might want to pick up in our book store called the My Deeper Life Handbook.  It sells for $25.  I guarantee that you will be happy that you purchased it.  Also, Very Few Fathers ($10) is a worthwhile read as well.  We Win, Let's Play will position you for the Victorious Mindset that every believer must have. I encourage each of you to make these part of your libraries. I welcome you to Faith Exchange. Now that you are here, you will notice right away that we are not your typical Christian Church.  There are no crosses.  You will see a Menorah.  You will also hear some Hebrew used.  You will hear Yahuah and Yahshua as well as Yahweh and Jesus.  You will also hear the Hebrew language referred to repeatedly and the importance of the remembering that the Word of God is alive.  Also that Yahshua is Yahuah or Jesus is Lord or Jesus is God.  Don't be frightened.  We are not a cult.  Quite the contrary.  We are true followers of Yahshua - true followers of the bible, the Holy Spirit and servants/sons of the One True Yah. Scripture teaches you to Ask, Seek and to Knock - so I encourage you to do that from  your first visit.  You will find me approachable.  But if you would rather ask someone from the congregation please do so.  You can reach me at [email protected].  You can find me on facebook as Dan Stratton.  You can also call my assistant Rachel at 201-370-7709. Our website is www.faithexchange.org   Much of our latest teaching is available there.  I am sure that you will enjoy it. Our services are Sundays and Wednesdays.  10:30 and 7:30 respectively.  We also have a noon hour service for prayer on Wednesdays. How may we serve you?

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The ABC's of Creation -- the DNA of the Universe.

Believers are to be like trees planted by living rivers. These trees should bear fruit in every season providing shade, refreshment, nourishment, rest and life to all that come to that place. As I picture the scene, I can't help but notice that there is also a path set out from the tree that is the easiest path of all, but that path requires trust. Yahshua says, "Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy burdened, and I shall give you rest." He also says, "Eat my body and drink my blood." "My words, they are spirit and they are life." It is difficult for men to see themselves as spirits. It is difficult to read the bible and to see trees as the products of seeds, root systems, shoots, trunks, limbs, leaves and then fruit. Each of which is made up of letters which only represent sounds, sounds being recordings of what has already happened a record of the past -- but a spirit man goes forward -- he is a word man -- a sound man -- in a sound mind -- speaking -- giving life -- his tree gives life -- his river goes one way -- the righteous way -- the only life-giving way -- the good way -- the risen way -- but if you must stop to write it down -- go ahead, because I am already out on the river -- on the current of the living water -- walking -- believing -- knowing trusting - for He has bid me to come and I didn't hesitate -- sorry -- I love you -- I really do -- Follow Me -- Follow me -- follow me - follow me -- the road is narrow -- but it is easy -- and it is straight. Alef, Bet, Gimel, Dalet, Heh, Vav, Zayin, Chet, Tet, Yud, Kaf, Lamed, Mem, Nun, Samech, Peh, Ayin, Tzaddik, Kof, Reish, Shin, Tov, The ABC's of Creation -- the DNA of the Universe.

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I woke up this morning and found myself stationary for a moment having to do the perfunctory purging. Seeing that I was separated from my Bible which I really wanted to read, I reached for the closest thing which was the October issue of marie claire, lower case of course, like facebook. As I always do, I just open these books, for they are encyclopedias of ads to the middle and start paging through. Did you know that Janelle Mona'e is from Kansas and that she will be on Saturday Night Live in the coming couple of weeks. It was just last night that I had barely heard of her and now I know what she looks like and what her parents names are. I don't think she wears ruby slippers, being from Kansas, but she has been called a star. And in the same magazine, I read about a story from a female writer who wrote about learning how to use a chain saw and how it showed her how closed up her thinking was. She talked about her feeling superior to those women who loved power tools and as she thought about it, she felt superior to a lot of people who did things that she didn't want to do. Interesting she thought, until after learning to take down small trees with the pull of a cord and a few well placed strokes, she had actually done something powerful and necessary. Yesterday, I couldn't get myself to watch football as I read the entire book of Ecclesiastes and with Vanity and Vexation booming in my ears, it was difficult to care whether Missouri beat Georgia, which they did by the way or Michigan beat, funny -- I can't remember who they played. Yale did lose to Dartmouth 20-13 and this isn't good for the Bulldog's hopes of an Ivy League Title, but I digress. So, as I flipped the channels, I came to PBS. Tom Moyer was interviewing a man. I still don't know his name. He spoke of the gospels with humility and he spoke of the issues of the day with clarity and poignancy - reminding both young and old to slow down to find significance. He reminded us to care about what we should and could care about -- that which was closest to us. He said that we should take great care for our homes and the land surrounding our homes. We should treat animals well, even the animals we must slaughter to eat, giving homage to God - remembering that it was He who crafted the system. Next year I will be born - again 30 years October 21. From that day I began to share the gospel as I began to separate myself awkwardly and sometimes needlessly from people and things that I thought were unnecessary or unfruitful. I began my journey and am still on that journey. Today, I see the gospel everywhere. I hear the good news in my kitchen now as my dogs snore at my feet and the clock ticks above my head, the second hand moving clumsily but steadily, clockwise for sure. As you can see, even I like to tell a joke in the middle of my writing, as I write for you and me -- for Him and me and you and Him and me and you. In Proverbs 2 -- which I can't seem to get out of my mind these days there is an exhortation. It tells us to incline our ear. In Mark 1, the scribe writes, "The time is fulfilled, the Kingdom is at hand, Repent and believe the gospel!" The Angel Gabriel tells Zachariah that his "son shall have the spirit of Elijah, that he shall cause the hearts of the fathers to turn to the children, to turn the disobedient back to the wise and that he shall prepare a people to serve Yahuah." The twin towers are gone. There is one tower in it's place. Just this past week they placed a minaret on top of it. A minaret is what is used in Mecca, where the Imam goes to the graduated balconies calling the faithful worshippers of Allah to prayer, five times a day. Yahusha told us to let the wheat and the tares grow together. That His Father would separate them, and He will, but that doesn't mean that the evil one is not here, mocking us and mocking HIm in the meantime. In the book of Genesis, Yah tells the serpent. The seed of the woman shall crush your head. The seed of the woman and the seed of Satan have always been separate, as depicted in the twin towers. In DNA there is a straight set of 23 and a coiled set. My one dog is gurgling right now. He doesn't sound much like a dog -- weird? I tell you all of this, to let you know that I am not asleep to what is going on around me. I am aware of the silliness everywhere. Our president wears a ring that is inscripted -- no God but Allah. I cannot walk with a man who denies Yahusha. I cannot deny Yahusha. Sometimes I get a little tired of saying the same things over and over again, but truth is truth and right is right. The answer to every question is still a person and Yahusha is the answer. However, the Yahusha in the Bible must become The Yahusha in your heart, hands, eyes, back and feet. Most importantly, He must be Yahusha of your mouth. His Word must become your word. Satan, as a roaring lion is seeking whom he may devour. Wisdom is also crying in the streets. Whose voice will you hear? Whose voice are you hearing now? When someone tells you to read your Bible a certain way, what do you do? When someone tells you to adhere to a certain rhythmic protocol, what do you do? Do you listen and do? Do you wait to see what will happen or do you simply disregard those words? The book of Ecclesiastes is clear. Repercussions for bad habits are seldom immediate, but they are severe. I love you my friends. It is now 6:43 a.m. My coffee tastes real good. It is still dark outside. Miley Cyrus is looking up at me from the cover of Bazaar. "Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing; and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him, for he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?" My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if you criest after knowledge, and liftest up THY voice for understanding; if YOU seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures; tehn shalt you understand the fear of YHVH, and find the knowledge of Elohim. For YHVH (is the only one who) giveth wisdom; out of His mouth comes knowledge and understanding. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is buckler to them that walk uprightly. He keepeth the path of judgment, and preserveth the way of His saints. Then shalt THOU understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity, yea, every good path.