Joanne B. Holstein is a Becker Bible Studies teacher and author of Guided Bible Studies for Hungry Christians. She has received her Master of Science degree in Psychology/Christian Counseling with honors from Liberty University. She is well-known as a counselor to Christian faithful who are struggling with tremendous burden in these difficult times. She is a leading authority on the history of development of the Christian churches and the practices and beliefs of world religions and cults.
The center of the Tribe of Israel is Jacob. One has to understand the story of Jacob in order to understand the twelve Tribes of Israel. This is the account of Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel by the LORD GOD.
“Forgiveness is an act that joins moral truth, forbearance, compassion, and commitment to repair torn human relationships by releasing anger, fear, and the desire for revenge. "
Holy Monday is the day Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out those that sold and bought in the temple. Jesus reminds us all that the church, His church is to be called the house of prayer. This lesson also teaches adults need to have the innocents and the honesty of children to give perfect praise to the LORD all the time not just Holy Week.
The lesson of Moses and the burning bush teaches that when the LORD God says He will help us, He will help us. We need to put our trust in God and know that He will be with us when we rely on Him during the good times and the hard times. Even when we don’t believe we can do something, with His help we can do anything.
The whole goal for forgiveness is to restore a relationship to good will and trust with that person who has hurt you. When there is forgiveness there is no longer the motivated desire to protect ourselves. There is a motivation to heal that relationship. Forgiveness gives the desire to think good thoughts about our spouse, have a positive rather than negative remembrance of the spouse.
The ideal is to have a relationship between husband and wife and the LORD God. This is a covenant between and it calls both man and woman to submit to yield their lives to the LORD God and to one another as a sign of the covenant bond. Being a wife, it is not a matter of being a door mat to your husbands it is a matter of being a loving partner to him.
Husbands are to be loving, considerate and caring for the wives and wives are to be loving, considerate and caring toward the husbands. It isn’t supposed to be a battle to award a medal to whoever is the stronger sex, or who can manipulate better using the harshest methods.