{"id":2783,"date":"2018-08-03T18:10:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2018-08-03T18:10:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T23:10:40","slug":"friend-aramaic-racham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/03\/friend-aramaic-racham\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend-Aramaic-Racham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As I was talking to my Papa God this morning and praising Him for Who He is\u2026<\/p>\n

Not only is He my Heavenly Father and the creator of ALL things in heaven and earth\u2026<\/p>\n

Not only is He my savior, redeemer, healer, hope, peace and more\u2026<\/p>\n

He pointed something out to me…<\/p>\n

He showed me that in the word Friend; is the word end<\/em>\u2026His friendship with me Will Never End<\/em>\u2026BFF\u2019s always\u2026<\/p>\n

He is faithful and kind and gentle\u2026He is Love and He is good\u2026He is powerful and bold make no mistake\u2026He calls gently to us to follow Him\u2026 not to hurt us but to complete us\u2026<\/p>\n

Praise God\u2026not only is He King\u2026but He is my friend<\/em>\u2026and I am His friend<\/em>!<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not some far off relation or President I will never meet or ever be able to talk to\u2026<\/p>\n

He isn\u2019t a famous person who has to run from the paparazzi and doesn\u2019t let anyone close\u2026Although He is famous\u2026<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t hide from us\u2026<\/p>\n

He isn\u2019t a diplomat or political figure\u2026but he governs all the earth\u2026His motives are pure and righteous\u2026<\/p>\n

He isn\u2019t some rich and famous person who is surrounded by guards protecting him from the crowds\u2026but He is, surrounded by angel armies whose wealth is limitless\u2026<\/p>\n

Jesus goes out of his way to be known to us personally\u2026<\/p>\n

He wants to know us\u2026and He wants us to know Him\u2026<\/p>\n

He is a \u201cfri\u2019end<\/em>\u201d whose relationship with us will never end!<\/em><\/p>\n

In the New Testament\u2026there isn\u2019t a word in the Greek for friend\u2026<\/em>however Jesus spoke Aramaic and uses the word racham, <\/em>so in John 15:15 when Jesus called them friends (racham<\/em>)\u2026 it is agape (love) on steroids!!!<\/p>\n

And this is what God was saying to me this morning about friend\u2026 (Jesus) He says: \u201cHenceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you my dearest cherished beloved who has captured my heart<\/strong>.\u201d (Chaim Bentorah)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I can say with all my heart that Jesus is MY RACHAM\u2026DEAREST CHERISHED BELOVED WHO HAS CAPTURED MY HEART!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

We are His racham…dearest cherished beloved who has captured His heart!!<\/em><\/p>\n

~Marla Shaw O’Neill August 3, 2018<\/p>\n

John 15:15 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) <\/em><\/strong>I no longer call you slaves, because a slave doesn\u2019t know what his master is about; but I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.<\/em><\/p>\n

ARAMAIC WORD STUDY \u2013 FRIEND \u2013 RACHAM\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u05e8\u05d7\u05e1\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To be fair the Greek uses the word <\/em>phileous<\/em> which means a friend; it is a lesser love than <\/em>agape<\/em>.\u00a0 But then are we to say that <\/em>agape<\/em> is the word in John 3:16, but he only <\/em>phileous<\/em> his disciples? \u00a0 Jesus spoke Aramaic and the word used in the Aramaic Bible is <\/em>racham<\/em>.\u00a0 In its Semitic root, it means the womb or more specifically the love a mother has for a child in her womb<\/u>.\u00a0 A child in the mother\u2019s womb is little more than a friend.\u00a0 There is not a word in the Greek for racham;\u00a0it is <\/em>agape<\/em> love on steroids.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let me put it into context.\u00a0 Imagine getting a notification from your local politician who instead of calling you \u201cmy friend\u201d starts with: \u201cMy dearest cherished beloved who has captured my heart.\u201d \u00a0 We would say that is a bit pretentious.\u00a0 Yet that is racham and what Jesus is saying when He says: \u201cHenceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you my dearest cherished beloved who has captured my heart.\u201d (~Chaim Bentorah)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I was talking to my Papa God this morning and praising Him for Who He is\u2026 Not only is He my Heavenly Father and the creator of ALL things in heaven and earth\u2026 Not only is He my savior, redeemer, healer, hope, peace and more\u2026 He pointed something out to me… He showed me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-IT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}