The desire of our hearts and sole purpose of our lives is that God is glorified in and through us. But that can only happen when we are  living in the unity of love with God. God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit exist in true communion and, through Jesus, we are invited to join Them, participating in the communion in which They exist. This is ours to discover, experience, explore and to grow in, fulfilling Jesus' prayer to His Father in John 17: 21-23.

Communing with & Participating in God

فاهم 87 | مشاهد رحمة الله في الدنيا | مع الشيخ. محمد سعد الشرقاوي

مشاعر العمرة | سائر | مع د.أحمد جلال

بودكاست | فضيلة الشيخ مصطفى العدوي والدكتور زياد عماشة

Leçon 8 : Questionnaire Des Jeunes Adultes, Mardi 18 Août 2026, InVestiguer

InVestiguer — Réprimande, remords et repentance
Matthieu 26.57–27.10

Cette section nous place devant trois réactions radicalement différentes face à Jésus et face au péché : celle des chefs religieux, celle de Pierre et celle de Judas. Les textes complémentaires permettent de mieux comprendre non seulement les événements, mais surtout ce qui se passe dans le cœur de chacun.

Une question peut accompagner toute l’étude :

Que faisons-nous lorsque la vérité sur nous-mêmes nous est révélée ?

1. Les récits parallèles dans les Évangiles
Marc 14.53-72 — Pierre : de l’assurance à l’effondrement

Marc apporte plusieurs détails particulièrement saisissants.

Pendant le procès de Jésus, les responsables religieux cherchent des témoignages contre lui afin de le faire mourir. Plusieurs témoignages sont présentés, mais ils ne concordent pas.

Le contraste est frappant : Jésus est jugé, mais ceux qui le jugent ont déjà décidé du verdict.

Pendant ce temps, Pierre se trouve dans la cour.

Quelques heures auparavant, il avait affirmé :

« Quand il me faudrait mourir avec toi, je ne te renierai pas. »
— Marc 14.31

Mais maintenant, confronté à la peur, il nie successivement connaître Jésus.

Que nous apprend Marc ?

Il nous montre notamment le danger de surestimer notre propre force spirituelle.

Pierre aimait réellement Jésus. Son problème n’était pas l’absence d’amour. Son problème était qu’il croyait être suffisamment fort pour rester fidèle par lui-même.

Puis le coq chante.

Pierre se souvient des paroles de Jésus et s’effondre.

Le reniement révèle à Pierre ce qu’il ne connaissait pas encore suffisamment : son propre cœur.

C’est douloureux, mais cette prise de conscience ouvrira la voie à sa restauration.

2. Luc 22.54-71 — Le regard de Jésus

Luc nous donne probablement l’un des détails les plus bouleversants de toute cette scène.

Après le troisième reniement :

« Le Seigneur, s’étant retourné, regarda Pierre. »
— Luc 22.61

Imaginez cet instant.

Pierre vient de dire qu’il ne connaît pas Jésus.

Puis leurs regards se croisent.

Que Pierre voit-il dans les yeux du Christ ?

Le texte ne le précise pas. Mais nous savons ce que produit ce regard :

« Pierre sortit, et pleura amèrement. »

Il ne cherche plus d’excuse.

Il ne dit pas :

« J’étais sous pression. »

« J’avais peur. »

« Tout le monde aurait fait la même chose. »

Il pleure.

C’est ici que commence la différence entre Pierre et Judas.

Tous les deux vont connaître le remords.

Tous les deux comprendront qu’ils ont gravement péché.

Mais le remords ne suffit pas.

La véritable question est :

Que vais-je faire maintenant que je sais que j’ai péché ?

Pierre finira par revenir à Jésus.

Judas, lui, s’enfermera dans son désespoir.

3. Jean 18.12-27 — Jésus et Pierre : deux attitudes opposées

Jean place presque côte à côte l’interrogatoire de Jésus et le reniement de Pierre.

C’est très instructif.

Jésus est interrogé.

Il reste maître de lui-même.

Pierre est interrogé.

Il s’effondre.









Leçon 8 : Questionnaire Des Jeunes Adultes, Mardi 18 Août 2026, InVestiguer

"I didn't come to talk, I came to fight."

Genesis 32. Jacob is alone the night before he has to face the brother he cheated out of everything — and Esau is coming with four hundred men. Jacob sends his family and everything he owns across the river. He stays behind alone.

In the dark, a man comes and wrestles him. The text doesn't say who started it. They fight until daybreak, evenly matched, neither one winning.

That is not an accident. God came down and held Himself to a man's strength, on purpose. Not to give Jacob a chance of winning — Jacob never had one — but to give him the fight itself. The Hebrew word for this wrestling is ye'aveq, from avaq — dust. It means to grapple in the dirt. The Almighty went down into the dust with him, at his level, at his strength, and let a man fight Him — because that was what it would take to get this one man to come to his senses.

Then the text says the stranger saw He could not prevail against him. Read that carefully. Not that He lacked the power. He could not get Jacob to yield — Jacob would not stop fighting on his own terms.

So He touches him. The Hebrew says touched, not struck. And the hip goes out of joint — not broken, dislocated. That distinction matters. It is not damage. It is being snapped out of something. Jacob had been running his whole life on a mechanism that worked and was destroying him: take it by strength, take it by cunning, trust nobody. One touch, and the leg he stood on comes apart.

And here is the part most people miss. A dislocated hip should end a fight. Jacob grips harder instead — because that one touch told him who he had been fighting all night. Everything changes with it. Esau is coming in a few hours, and the only thing that can carry him through that morning is a blessing from the One holding him right now. Let go, and it walks away with the dawn. So he says it: "I will not let You go unless You bless me." He came to win. Now he is holding on not to lose Him.

Then Jacob asks for a name.

He is refused, with a question: "Why do you ask my name?" No answer follows — because Jacob already has it. Three verses later he names the place Peniel — pene-El, the face of God — and says he saw God face to face and lived. He knew who had been holding him all night. The question given back to him is not evasion. It is: you know. You have known since I touched you.

What Jacob receives instead is a name of his own. He came into that night as Jacob, "the one who grasps the heel," the second-born who took what wasn't his. He leaves as Israel: "he who wrestles with God." The One who kept His own name hidden is the One with the authority to give a new one.

Then the man is gone, the sun comes up, and Jacob limps out to meet his brother alone.

Esau runs to him. Embraces him. Falls on his neck, and they both weep. No fight. No army. And Jacob says to him: "To see your face is like seeing the face of God."

The same words. Twice in one morning.

He prepared for war and walked into a peace he did not engineer, could not have won, and never saw coming. He got there limping — leaning on Someone else for the first time in his life.

❇️Genesis 32 and 33. Read it for yourself — it's better than anything I can fit into three minutes of music. I had to wrestle with this scripture for a long time before I understood it. All of it written while limping myself, hip pain for months now. I noticed the irony.

Mproxyz

Limp Into The Morning

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August 16, 2026 - During Those Days - Dr. Austin Carty

(وَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرَىٰ تَنفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ)
🤍مسلم يسعي إلي نشر الوعي
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﷽﴿ قُلْ هَٰذِهِ سَبِيلِي أَدْعُو إِلَى اللَّهِ ۚ عَلَىٰ بَصِيرَةٍ أَنَا وَمَنِ اتَّبَعَنِي ۖ وَسُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَمَا أَنَا مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ﴾🤍

-لا يُشترط في الناصح أن يكون في حالةٍ طُهرٍ ملائكية، وإنما ينصح العُصاةُ بعضهم بعضًا، ويتحاملون على ضعفهم، فيأخذ بعضهم على يد بعض، فينجون جميعًا.

لا تكفوا عن إنكار المنكر، ذكِّروا أنفسكم وغيركم؛ لعلّ الله يجعلكم سببًا في هداية أحدهم، فينجو وتنجون جميعًا.)🌸

‏عن أنس بن مالك قال قال رسول الله ﷺ : - " إذا أرادَ اللَّهُ بعبدٍ خيرًا استعملَهُ . فقيلَ: كيفَ يستعملُهُ يا رسولَ اللَّهِ ؟ قالَ: يوفِّقُهُ لعملٍ صالحٍ قبلَ الموتِ " أخرجه الترمذي

From atheist to agnostic to a Believer — in 2023 I called out to the universe for help. God answered, and every path led to Jesus. ☧

🎚️🕊️🎣🌱

So much of the industry runs on self-worship, sensuality, excess, and spiritual emptiness — dressed up to sound holy and irresistible. I point it back to God — sometimes as dark-sounding music with light inside, sometimes as open worship. Either way it's holy music in the unlikeliest forms: multilingual and genre-fluid, the same message, carried into unexpected rooms.

Lyrics are mine. The sound is built with AI and studio production — generated, recorded, layered, and mastered — a new instrument for a timeless purpose.

Some of these songs are my testimony; all of them are an invitation — for anyone who's ever searched, questioned, hoped, or felt the pull of something greater. If they meet you where you are, they've done what they were meant to do.

© 2026 Lyrics written by Mproxyz. All rights reserved.

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