The Word for October 2025

This is a time of rememberance. We are the remnant called the taunting song according to Lamentations 3. We would do well to take this time to reflect in mourning & repentance for the constant disobedience which resulted in trevailing of our sins. Through this turbulence of affliction we can hope and pray to gain humility to be teachable. For the endurance is the hope of holiness that prevails throughout the time and even in the end by which Salvation saves us.

His name is Yahawashi…Selah.

Be holy for He is Holy

Lamentations 3New King James Version

The Prophet’s Anguish and Hope

3 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
²He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
³Surely He has turned His hand against me
Time and time again throughout the day.

⁴He has aged my flesh and my skin,
And broken my bones.
⁵He has besieged me
And surrounded me with bitterness and ^[a]woe.
⁶He has set me in dark places
Like the dead of long ago.

⁷He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
He has made my chain heavy.
⁸Even when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.
⁹He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.

¹⁰He has been to me a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in ^[b]ambush.
¹¹He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces;
He has made me desolate.
¹²He has bent His bow
And set me up as a target for the arrow.

¹³He has caused the ^[c]arrows of His quiver
To pierce my ^[d]loins.
¹⁴I have become the ridicule of all my people—
Their taunting song all the day.
¹⁵He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drink wormwood.

¹⁶He has also broken my teeth with gravel,
And ^[e]covered me with ashes.
¹⁷You have moved my soul far from peace;
I have forgotten ^[f]prosperity.
¹⁸And I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the Lord.”

¹⁹Remember my affliction and roaming,
The wormwood and the ^[g]gall.
²⁰My soul still remembers
And ^[h]sinks within me.
²¹This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.

²²Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
²³They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
²⁴“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I hope in Him!”

²⁵The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.
²⁶It is good that one should hope and wait quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.
²⁷It is good for a man to bear
The yoke in his youth.

²⁸Let him sit alone and keep silent,
Because God has laid it on him;
²⁹Let him put his mouth in the dust—
There may yet be hope.
³⁰Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him,
And be full of reproach.

³¹For the Lord will not cast off forever.
³²Though He causes grief,
Yet He will show compassion
According to the multitude of His mercies.
³³For He does not afflict ^[i]willingly,
Nor grieve the children of men.

³⁴To crush under one’s feet
All the prisoners of the earth,
³⁵To turn aside the justice due a man
Before the face of the Most High,
³⁶Or subvert a man in his cause—
The Lord does not approve.

³⁷Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass,
When the Lord has not commanded it?
³⁸Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That woe and well-being proceed?
³⁹Why should a living man ^[j]complain,
A man for the punishment of his sins?

⁴⁰Let us search out and examine our ways,
And turn back to the Lord;
⁴¹Let us lift our hearts and hands
To God in heaven.
⁴²We have transgressed and rebelled;
You have not pardoned.

⁴³You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain and not pitied.
⁴⁴You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
That prayer should not pass through.
⁴⁵You have made us an offscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.

⁴⁶All our enemies
Have opened their mouths against us.
⁴⁷Fear and a snare have come upon us,
Desolation and destruction.
⁴⁸My eyes overflow with rivers of water
For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁴⁹My eyes flow and do not cease,
Without interruption,
⁵⁰Till the Lord from heaven
Looks down and sees.
⁵¹My eyes bring suffering to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.

⁵²My enemies without cause
Hunted me down like a bird.
⁵³They ^[k]silenced my life in the pit
And threw ^[l]stones at me.
⁵⁴The waters flowed over my head;
I said, “I am cut off!”

⁵⁵I called on Your name, O Lord,
From the lowest pit.
⁵⁶You have heard my voice:
“Do not hide Your ear
From my sighing, from my cry for help.”
⁵⁷You drew near on the day I called on You,
And said, “Do not fear!”

⁵⁸O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul;
You have redeemed my life.
⁵⁹O Lord, You have seen ^[m]how I am wronged;
Judge my case.
⁶⁰You have seen all their vengeance,
All their schemes against me.

⁶¹You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
All their schemes against me,
⁶²The lips of my enemies
And their whispering against me all the day.
⁶³Look at their sitting down and their rising up;
I am their taunting song.

⁶⁴Repay them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.
⁶⁵Give them ^[n]a veiled heart;
Your curse be upon them!
⁶⁶In Your anger,
Pursue and destroy them
From under the heavens of the Lord.

Ephesians 4:1-6

Walk in Unity

4 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, ²with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, ³endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; ⁵one Lord, one faith, one baptism; ⁶one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.