Life Can Be Fragile
August 30rd, 2026
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Carole Hulslander
Romans 12:11
“Do not be lagging in zeal; be fervent in spirit. Keep serving the Lord, 12 rejoicing in hope, enduring in distress, persisting in prayer,”
Psalms 71:14-16
“But I—I will hope continually and will praise YOU more and more. My mouth will recount YOUR justice and YOUR salvation all day, though I do not know the sum of them. I come because of the mighty deeds of YWHW my ADONAI. I will remember YOUR righteousness—YOURS alone.”
Psalms 42:6-8
Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why are you murmuring within me?
Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him,
for the salvation of His presence.
My God, my soul is downcast within me! Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and from the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mitzar. Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls. All Your waves and breakers have swept over me.
Psalms 42:9
By day Adonai commands His love,
and at night His song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 119:49-50
Remember the word to Your servant,
on which You have made me hope.
My comfort in my affliction is this:
Your word has kept me alive.
Psalms 62:5-7
“For YHWH alone my soul waits in silence, for my HOPE is from HIM. HE only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. On YHWH rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is YHWH.”
1 Kings 24-25
- “And also concerning Jezebel the ADONAI says: ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’
- “Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country.”
- There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the ADONAI, urged on by Jezebel his wife.
Mark 7
Matthew 15
A woman A Gentile A Syrophoenician; related to Jezebel. All this translated into no hope for her……
Mark 7:24 -26
Yeshua got up and left from there to the region of Tyre. When HE had entered a house, HE didn’t want anyone to know; but HE couldn’t escape notice. A woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about HIM. She came immediately and fell at HIS feet. The woman was a Greek, from Syrophoenicia. And she kept begging Yeshua to drive the demon out of her daughter.
Mark 7: 27-30
““27 HE was telling her, “First let the children get their fill, for it’s not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
28 “Yes, Master,” she said to HIM, “but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
29 Then HE said to her, “Because of this word, go your way! The demon has left your daughter.” 30 She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone..“”
Romans 15:11-12
And again,
“Praise Adonai all you Gentiles and let all the peoples praise Him.” And again, Isaiah says, “There shall be a shoot of Jesse and the One who arises to rule the Gentiles, in Him shall the Gentiles hope.”