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Nathan Dooley

Nov 10, 2023: MYSTERY OF THE DAY

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INTRODUCTION

Much like a verse of the day that other sites give (Bible Gateway, You Version, Blue Letter Bible, etc.) Time For Providence will differ by giving a mystery of the day. A mystery for investigation to solve scripture takes long hours and odd times. I prepare the mystery using a Thompson chain-reference bible—you need one in your library. The awesome thing about this practice is utilizing the chain-reference for learning how all the points of scripture are interwoven and connected.

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The time and resources you invest into this practice will not return void or unfruitful, but will cause to reap what is sown the eternal reward. In addition to your chain-reference bible, a couple important items you should have for success in solving the mysteries are a journal and pen; Scriptural Investigator’s notate the details otherwise missed by the untrained, conducting interviews with biblical names (Jesus, Moses and the prophet Elijah, even Enoch or the archangel Michael) and the Church.

Document all relevant information, think outside the perspective of your evidence board. Pull out your laptop or device, have your bible, get a journal and pen, invite a neighbor or detain a gospel believer, because below is a scripture crime you need to investigate and solve!

CRIME SCENE

The Scripture below is our lead in the investigation. What can we learn from it?

  • Romans 8:26
    26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. [ESV]

If you have a chain-reference bible, the topics below are clues.

  • Holy Spirit
    • Work of the Spirit
    • The Helper in Prayer
    • The Abiding Presence

THE MYSTERY

We are to keep the love of God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength as well as loving our neighbors as our selves. Do you keep these commandments? If you do, there is a Helper that is given, a truth you have that this world does not see or know and cannot receive.

Comment the Scripture that solves this mystery? [book chapter : verse/s].

JOURNAL

This mystery scripture is one of my favorites. It provokes me to process the meaning of a Helper being with me forever. I must investigate further…

I pray this mystery finds you well, Reader.

Hi, my name is Nathan R. Dooley, and if you’re interested in mystery, philosophy, psychology and criminal justice genres, like me, then I’m excited to have brought you this MYSTERY OF THE DAY where you will experience the verse of the day in a way like Sherlock Homes experiences a case that needs solving. There is a hope and a plan to expand this project, but just like Sherlock Holmes needed Dr. Watson, this project will need resources that provide video content as the next addition to this service, with more idea-plans uh brewing. (Lord willing).

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Nathan Dooley

Octo 16, 2023: MYSTERY OF THE DAY

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In the old testament, God spoke through a certain minor prophet around 430 B.C., and what God said through that prophet is a question for today. Do you fear God? Because if you do, look to one another, also to your neighbor, and return to God in your speech through conviction of His name! What will be written of you when you are remembered? Will it be that you feared God, or robbed Him?

What is the scripture that solves this mystery? [book chapter : verse/s].

SCRIPTURE CLUES
  • Psalm 19:14 – 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
  • Romans 12: 3 – 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think so as to be sober-minded, as God has apportioned to each a measure of faith.
  • 1 Timothy 4:15 – Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.
JOURNAL

Reader, since the composing of this post I’ve been convicted to turn to my brothers about God, asking myself personally, and them, how we are doing with regard to 1 Timothy 4:12 – Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.

  • speech
  • conduct
  • love
  • faith
  • purity

While the NIV version is not my go to I thought those points listed above were good to pose a question for self-analysis:

How are you doing in those areas?

Nathan Dooley

Have A Seat & Take A Load Off

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Around the block from our studio room is a Place Unexpected, like out of “The Chronicles of Narnia” or something, but this place is real. It’s a place where you can escape from the reality of your “wardrobe”; in this place there’s a black (alloy steel)—comfortable enough—bench where me and my wife escape to have a seat & take a load off.

The lamp post in this clip resembles the one outside our room

Allow yourself (spirit and soul) to escape the present reality and take these metaphorical steps as though each written word becomes pavement beneath your feet.

You and I are walking on sidewalk, one foot after the other alongside driveways of houses, in the distance we see three options for a direction:

1) Stay straight.
2) Go right.
3) Cross left.

Each option will have its own unique mood for your experience, meaning I’ve walked them all and only one will give you the framework you need to bless your soul (because we’re not going backwards, devoid of will, or in a loop). Go right. The path going right veers off from the familiar sight ahead into the mysterious Place Unexpected; the path leads in between houses and curves off behind them out of sight into shadow.

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