Why Do I Feel So Far From God?

Why Do I Feel So Far From God?

Why Do I Feel So Far From God? Nine of the Ten Commandments leave evidence. One of them doesn't. That one is last for a reason, and it's why Israel backed away from the mountain instead of running toward it. They had just heard a law that reached somewhere their hands couldn't follow, and they understood what that meant about them. So they asked for someone to stand in between. Most of us read these ten as a scorecard. Keep enough of them, stay on the right side of the line, hope the math works out. The text refuses that reading before it even starts. Before God says a single "you shall," He says what He has already done. Rescue first. It's always rescue first. We're in Exodus 20 today, in the Hebrew, in the covenant world these words were actually spoken into. And we're following the question Israel asked at that mountain all the way to the answer God sent. If you've been trying to close the distance on your own, start here. Subscribe and tap the bell so you never miss a morning: https://www.youtube.com/@DrShawnMichaelGreener-kg3sv/streams [https://www.youtube.com/@DrShawnMichaelGreener-kg3sv/streams] Website and full archive: https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com [https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com] Get my second book:  True Word, Faith for LIFE! https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com [https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com/store/true-word-faith-for-life-the-book/ ] Bibles lovingly restored by MooseWorks Bible Rebinding by Melissa: Heirloom-quality leather rebinding for the Bible you actually use. https://www.etsy.com/shop/MooseWorksbyMelissa  [https://www.etsy.com/shop/MooseWorksbyMelissa ] Music licensed through Audiio and Melodie. Song #89468 / Sand Drawing Credit: Judah Earl / Musicbed.com License: Standard - YouTube/Podcast Term: Beginning July 19, 2026 - Perpetual Archival Rights Territory: Worldwide © 2026 Dr. Shawn M. Greener. All Rights Reserved. Send Dr. Shawn a Message. Please leave your contact information if you’d like a reply! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2390132/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.paypal.me/drshawngreener] Thank you so much for listening!  Please subscribe to the True Word, Faith for LIFE! YouTube channel, please click this link.  Thank you again! Shawn https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1sLYz6J4FTUFwR5yjReMw [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1sLYz6J4FTUFwR5yjReMw]

Too Close To Touch!

God doesn't open this chapter with a demand. He opens it with a memory. I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to Myself. The Hebrew word is nesher, the bird that carries its young on its back rather than in its talons, on the very surface that takes the blow first. And the destination was never the mountain. It was Him. Then He says segullah over a nation that three months earlier was making bricks without straw. In the ancient Near East that was the private treasure of a king, his own hoard, not the treasury of the state. And only after all of that grace does He say, if you will obey My voice. In this episode, Dr. Shawn Greener works through nesher and segullah and goy qadosh, why the order of grace and obedience is the whole argument of the chapter, why the boundaries around the mountain were never the goal, and why the God who carries you on His back and the God who makes the mountain tremble are one God and not two. He did not carry you out of Egypt to leave you at the bottom of a mountain. New here? This is a daily, chronological, verse-by-verse walk through the whole of Scripture, rooted in the Hebrew language and the Ancient Near Eastern world, centered on Yeshua. Subscribe and turn on the bell so you don't miss tomorrow, when God speaks ten words out of the fire and every person there begs Him to stop. Bibles lovingly restored by MooseWorks Bible Rebinding by Melissa: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MooseWorksbyMelissa  [https://www.etsy.com/shop/MooseWorksbyMelissa ] Music licensed through Audiio and Melodie.  The book: https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com/store/true-word-faith-for-life-the-book/ [https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com/store/true-word-faith-for-life-the-book/ ]© 2026 Dr. Shawn M. Greener. All Rights Reserved. #Exodus19 #Sinai #BibleStudy #Yeshua #Grace Send Dr. Shawn a Message. Please leave your contact information if you’d like a reply! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2390132/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.paypal.me/drshawngreener] Thank you so much for listening!  Please subscribe to the True Word, Faith for LIFE! YouTube channel, please click this link.  Thank you again! Shawn https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1sLYz6J4FTUFwR5yjReMw [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1sLYz6J4FTUFwR5yjReMw]

Ran Out? He's Already There!

The Week Your Own Strength Ran Out Song, water, bread, strength, capacity. Five days, five places a freed people hit the end of themselves in the wilderness. And every single time, God was already standing there holding exactly what they'd run out of. My book, True Word, Faith for LIFE!, is available now: https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com/store/true-word-faith-for-life-the-book/ [https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com/store/true-word-faith-for-life-the-book/] Just prayed that prayer?  Let us know, we want to walk with you from here: TrueWordFaithforLife.com/contact  Bibles lovingly restored by MooseWorks Bible Rebinding by Melissa: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MooseWorksbyMelissa [https://www.etsy.com/shop/MooseWorksbyMelissa]  Music licensed through Audiio and Melodie. Song #89468 / Sand DrawingCredit Judah Earl / Musicbed.com License Standard - YouTube/PodcastTerm Beginning July 19, 2026 - Perpetual Archival Rights Territory Worldwide © 2026 Dr. Shawn M. Greener. All Rights Reserved. Send Dr. Shawn a Message. Please leave your contact information if you’d like a reply! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2390132/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.paypal.me/drshawngreener] Thank you so much for listening!  Please subscribe to the True Word, Faith for LIFE! YouTube channel, please click this link.  Thank you again! Shawn https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1sLYz6J4FTUFwR5yjReMw [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1sLYz6J4FTUFwR5yjReMw]

Still Carrying it Alone?

Are You Trying to Carry This Alone? Moses is sitting as judge over an entire nation, alone, from morning until evening. It takes an outsider, someone who'd never carried what he was carrying, to say the thing nobody else would. 00:00 Are you carrying this alone 00:52 Welcome 01:57 An outsider tells Moses the truth 06:36 Why the correction mattered 09:17 The line that never seems to end 11:44 The burden that was never yours alone 14:20 What to do this week 15:00 The choice in front of you 15:58 Prayer 16:55 A prayer to meet God today 18:02 New here? Start at Day 1 18:21 Closing 18:52 Share this 19:15 Blessing My book, True Word, Faith for LIFE!, is available now: https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com/store/true-word-faith-for-life-the-book/ [https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com/store/true-word-faith-for-life-the-book/] Just prayed that prayer? Let us know, we want to walk with you from here: TrueWordFaithforLife.com/contact Bible rebinding by Melissa, MooseWorks Bible Rebinding (Etsy): https://www.etsy.com/shop/MooseworksBibles [https://www.etsy.com/shop/MooseworksBibles] Music: Audiio and Melodie © 2026 Dr. Shawn M. Greener. All Rights Reserved. Send Dr. Shawn a Message. Please leave your contact information if you’d like a reply! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2390132/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.paypal.me/drshawngreener] Thank you so much for listening!  Please subscribe to the True Word, Faith for LIFE! YouTube channel, please click this link.  Thank you again! Shawn https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1sLYz6J4FTUFwR5yjReMw [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1sLYz6J4FTUFwR5yjReMw]

Who's Holding Up Your Arms?

Who's Holding Up Your Arms? Two crises in one chapter: a thirsty nation ready to stone Moses, and an enemy army that can only be beaten by arms too tired to stay raised on their own. 00:00 Your arms are shaking 00:58 Welcome 01:55 A rock, a battle, and tired hands 05:54 What God's positioning reveals 09:06 Who's actually holding you up 12:22 The Rock and the endless intercession 15:16 What to do this week 15:59 The choice in front of you 16:52 Prayer 17:55 A prayer to meet God today 19:03 New here? Start at Day 1 19:22 Closing 19:55 Share this 20:15 Blessing My book, True Word, Faith for LIFE!, is available now: https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com/store/true-word-faith-for-life-the-book/ [https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com/store/true-word-faith-for-life-the-book/] Just prayed that prayer? Let us know, we want to walk with you from here: TrueWordFaithforLife.com/contact Bible rebinding by Melissa, MooseWorks Bible Rebinding (Etsy): https://www.etsy.com/shop/MooseworksBibles [https://www.etsy.com/shop/MooseworksBibles] Music: Audiio and Melodie © 2026 Dr. Shawn M. Greener. All Rights Reserved. Send Dr. Shawn a Message. Please leave your contact information if you’d like a reply! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2390132/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.paypal.me/drshawngreener] Thank you so much for listening!  Please subscribe to the True Word, Faith for LIFE! YouTube channel, please click this link.  Thank you again! Shawn https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1sLYz6J4FTUFwR5yjReMw [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1sLYz6J4FTUFwR5yjReMw]