The David Cave ✝️

Hello friends! Happy Valentine's Day and welcome to the Cave! I have a question for you guys today and please remember the guidelines for the community when answering!: 
          
          I had a conversation with my roommate this morning about gender roles, patriarchy, feminism, and other related topics. As a result, I am planning to start working on my next Uncomfy Study on Gender Roles. 
          
          Are there any concerns or questions that you feel I should make sure I study and include in this message? Here is what will be included as of now: 
          
          - Gender Roles in the Family 
          - Gender Roles in Society 
          - Gender Roles in the Church 
          - Biblical View on Patriarchy and its Ensuing Issues
          - Biblical View on Feminism and its Ensuing Issues  
          - Biblical Response to Patriarchy and Feminism 
          
          I will be doing a separate Uncomfy Study one day on Marriage and Family, so I'm not focusing on that more than I will need to right now. And these are umbrella concepts, so ask if I will be discussing certain topics within them and point out any that you have questions about, that you think the Church needs to be educated more on, etc. 
          
          Look forward to hearing from you! 
          
          - Jay (Cave Founder) 

Hello, friends! Jay, here, and welcome to the Cave! Today I would like to encourage everyone to share their favorite encouraging Bible Verse or passage below and tell us why you find it so encouraging! 
          
          I hope all is going well for everyone! Feel free to come and rest in the Cave today and find what you may need! 
          
          - Jay (Cave Founder) 

Pine here, it's past midnight but I just remembered before going to bed, so I'm going to write a quick message and I hope it may help someone.
          
          Tonight my dear Sister in Christ gave me a very important and healing reminder, that God's Strength is made perfect in our weakness. It was 100% the Holy Spirit's prompting- she prayed for the words to say and this was exactly what I needed to hear.
          I believe many people need to hear this as well.
          
          "And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." ~2 Corinthians 12:9
          
          I've been weary, but God is strong in my life.
          
          When we're weary, during times like my past few days, the best thing to do is to come to Him.
          
          "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” ~Matthew 11:28-30
          
          The most important thing is to lean on our Lord and trust Him through it all.
          Please pray that I will lean on Him and stay close, through everything. And pray to lean on and trust Him as well, always.
          
          We have a Perfect Lord with Whom we're never alone.
          "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you." ~Isaiah 43:2
          
          "I will love You, O Lord, my strength.
          The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
          My God, my strength, in whom I will trust;
          My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold."
          ~Psalm 18:1-2
          
          So grateful, for His Mercy throughout my shortcoming, His Strength throughout my weakness and His Protection throughout my struggles.
          
          Amen.

          No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. “Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
           
          (Hebrews 12:11-13 NIV) 
          
          Hello, my fellow warriors! Jay here, to announce the Cave is active today! Come and receive whatever you need today- prayers, refreshment, or even just a listening ear. Also, check out the post I made last week. . . I forgot to make it an announcement, but I think it would make for an interesting discussion. Finally, I will continuing work on a new message that I hope to publish here today or next Wednesday! 
          
          May God bless and keep all of you! 
          
          - Jay (Cave Founder) 

Good morning, my friends! Welcome to the Cave, all who are here and weary on this day! Jay, here, if a bit of an unusual concept to think on and explore. 
          
          I was reading Exodus 13 earlier this week and came across where God gave Moses the command to the Israelites to consecrate their firstborn sons and animals to the LORD (also: when this word is in all caps, it is saying God's name: Yawheh or Jehovah). And for some reason, I was hit different by the second time God repeated the commandment here: 
          
          ‭‭Exodus‬ ‭13:12‬ ‭NIV‬‬
           "you are to give over to the Lord the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the Lord."
          
          Because right here. . . He never specified the sex of the firstborn. There was another place He didn't specify either in my paper Bible, where He said to redeem all the firstborn to Him. And I heard Him say to me, "You are consecrated to Me, too." 
          
          See. . . One of the things I have always struggled with as a female firstborn is. . . Wishing I was born a male. And hang on with me, because I know that has all kinds of connotations in today's day and age.
          
          Especially as I came to understand and grow in my spiritual giftings and callings, I found myself thinking about how much easier it would have been if I was a male. A male would have had an easier time demanding the attention and respect of the Church, a male would have an easier time fulfilling their calling through becoming a pastor or an elder. . . Everything would be easier. Plus, if I was male, my family name would have stuck more easily when I got married. . 
          
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Hey, I've just discovered this account and I just want to say thank you. We have so many siblings in Christ that just need someone to talk to or to pray for them

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10:15‭-‬18‬ ‭NIV‬‬
          [15] The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: [16] “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” [17] Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” [18] And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
          
          Hello, my fellow weary travellers and warriors! Jay here with a verse from my studies this morning. Specifically verse 18. For some reason, this verse hit me hard this morning when I had the realization: 
          
          The purpose of an offering-a sacrifice- to the Lord has changed. I no longer give an offering because who I am and what I've done. . . But because of Who He is and what He has done. 
          
          I don't have to punish myself for my sin. . . That is not an offering pleasing to Him because it is focusing on me and what I've done. What we offer. . . Should be offered in gratitude now, not shame or guilt. 
          
          Anyway, Cave is open! Feel free to reach out today! 
          
          - Jay (Cave Founder) 
          

Hello and Happy New Year, my fellow warriors! Cave founder, Jay, here after a. . . Very long time. 
          
          I want to start by saying a HUGE thank you to Pine for her previous messages, for keeping the Cave going when she could and when I. . . Wasn't able to. Her messages below are very powerful and I'm grateful that the Lord provided and cared enough about this little ministry to keep it going while I couldn't. 
          
          If anyone is in need of prayer or encouragement, feel free to reach out. The Cave will be online all day today and I will be more diligently logging in every Wednesday from this point on :) 
          
          I also want to call attention to the last work that was published called "He is Gardener". I had lots of fun writing that one and it took unexpected turns. I really encourage you read it when you have a moment. I'm also hoping to post a new message/work about the gift of discernment in the next couple days, so keep an eye out for that. 
          
          
          I hope everyone is well and God bless! Feel free to reach out. . . And find comfort in the Cave today <3 
          
          - Jay (Cave Founder) 

Hi, it's Pine. Finally remembering that it's Monday! XD I hope it's a blessed day walked closely with the Lord. :)
          
          Before we start with the rest of my message, I'd like to praise the Lord for His mercy and forgiveness as well as conviction.
          "My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world." ~ 1 John 2:1-2 How amazing is His Mercy and Sacrifice and how incredible!
          I must confess I've messed up today, I've sinned and there is no excuse. God's Grace is incredible and should never be taken for granted by us through sinning. I repent, and I hope to do better. The goal and responsibility is to avoid sin and how good it is that the Holy Spirit convicts us and leads us back to right decisions- I pray to follow His guidance more closely next time and repent of all the times I haven't listened. May we all listen promptly to His instruction, me included for sure as this is what I need to fix.
          I'm so grateful for God's Grace. How incredible that with no excuse to compensate, there is Justification in Christ. With His own blood He rescued us!
          "...To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen."  ~ Revelation 1:5-6
          How great is His Goodness, shining against the backdrop of my inadequacy, how incredible and immeasurable His Mercy!

Pine here, and I have decided that tonight I will share a recent testimony of the Lord's comfort in my life, a reminder of God's Grace; of the way He uses people in our lives and comes to help us whenever we need it most.
          
          It was just last night that I received an unexpected message from my dear Sister in Christ. The Holy Spirit had spoken to her during Church service, calling her to share a part of the sermon with me.
          
          Unbeknownst to my friend -a matter which had been between me and God alone- I had struggled the past few days, facing spiritual warfare and anxiety, mainly worries about falling away from faith, and doubts about whether I would be found to be Chosen in the day of Judgement.
          
          The sermon was actually about our security in Christ, and focused on the Time of the Rapture and Judgement, when Christ will confess us as His Own before His Father, with descriptions of His Grace that was comforting to think about. At one point he said Christ would declare that we're worthy BECAUSE we're in Him. Earlier, when I'd worried about being unworthy of Salvation Jesus, as I prayed, had reassured me of the same thing- it's His Worth, not mine.
          A lot of the things spoken of were reminders I needed to hear in that exact time in my life- and I truly believe God used my friend to get through to me.
          
          ~Pine (continued in replies)