Author: Ishaya Zephaniah

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Reflective Views

Follow bright paths, smile instantly,hold sweet day dreams effortlessly.Nurture high hopes persistently,wishes flourish abundantly. Fight for true bliss, reach constantly,take giant leaps, jump faithfully.Land on both feet consistentlyutopia forms so vibrantly. Cohabitate so peacefully,magic village flows gleefully.Every exchange moves serenely,each passing day flies endlessly. Positive expands rapidly,happiness grows infinitely.Watch open roads, shine brilliantly,feel heavenly, inherently. […]

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How to Write Every Single Day: Starting the mental habit of writing

It all starts with intention.

How to Write Every Single Day: Starting the mental habit of writing

Letting go

What would you do if you lost all your possessions?

I got to rebuild, and also reshape my mindset.

This World A Battlefield

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, … who for the joy set before him, endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2, NIV. For the joy that was set before Him, Christ endured the cross…. He died on the cross as a sacrifice for the world, and through this sacrifice comes the greatest blessing that God could bestow—the gift of the Holy Spirit. This blessing is for all who will receive Christ. The fallen world is the battlefield for the greatest conflict the heavenly universe and earthly powers have ever witnessed. It was appointed as the theater on which would be fought out the grand struggle between good and evil, between heaven and hell. Every human being acts a part in this conflict. No one can stand on neutral ground. Men must either accept or reject the world’s Redeemer. All are witnesses, either for or against Christ. Christ calls upon those who stand under His banner to engage in the conflict with Him as faithful soldiers, that they may inherit the crown of life. They have been adopted as sons and daughters of God…. The Lord Jesus has summoned the world to hear. “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” Let all listen with submissive, reverent attention. He repeats the words given Him by the One who said, “This is my beloved Son…. Hear ye him.” Who is listening to the words which are light and life to all who receive them? Will men and women consider how God regards the creatures He has made? He formed man’s mind. We do not think one noble thought that does not come from Him. He knows all the mysterious workings of the human mind, for did He not make it? God sees that sin has debased and degraded man, but He looks upon him with pity and compassion; for He sees that Satan has him in his power…. Some households have a little church in their home. Mutual love binds heart to heart, and the unity that exists among the members of the family preaches the most effectual sermon that could be preached on practical godliness. As parents faithfully do their duty in the family, restraining, correcting, advising, counseling, guiding, the father as a priest of the household, the mother as a home missionary, they are filling the sphere God would have them fill. By faithfully doing their duty in the home, they are multiplying agencies for doing good outside the home. They are becoming better fitted to labor in the church. By training their little flock discreetly, binding their children to themselves and to God, fathers and mothers become laborers together with God. The cross is erected in their home. The members of the family become members of the royal family above, children of the heavenly King (Manuscript 56, 1899). This text is from the devotional book Lift Him Up by Ellen G. White.

Souls Rescued From Satan’s Power

Souls Rescued From Satan’s Power

And the Lord said unto Satan, the Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Zechariah 3:2. Through the plan of salvation, Jesus is breaking Satan’s hold upon the human family and rescuing souls from his power. All the hatred and malignity of the archrebel is stirred as he beholds the evidence of Christ’s supremacy, and with fiendish power and cunning he works to wrest from Him the remnant of the children of men who have accepted His salvation. He leads men into skepticism, causing them to lose confidence in God and to separate from His love; he tempts them to break His law, and then he claims them as his captives and contests the right of Christ to take them from him. He knows that those who seek God earnestly for pardon and grace will obtain it; therefore he presents their sins before them to discourage them. He is constantly seeking occasion against those who are trying to obey God. Even their best and most acceptable services he seeks to make appear corrupt. By countless devices, the most subtle and the most cruel, he endeavors to secure their condemnation. Man cannot meet these charges himself. In his sin-stained garments, confessing his guilt, he stands before God. But Jesus our Advocate presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith have committed the keeping of their souls to Him. He pleads their cause and vanquishes their accuser by the mighty arguments of Calvary. His perfect obedience to God’s law, even unto the death of the cross, has given Him all power in heaven and in earth, and He claims of His Father mercy and reconciliation for guilty man. To the accuser of His people He declares: “‘The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan.’ These are the purchase of My blood, brands plucked from the burning.” Those who rely upon Him in faith receive the comforting assurance: “Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.” All that have put on the robe of Christ’s righteousness will stand before Him as chosen and faithful and true. Satan has no power to pluck them out of the hand of Christ. Not one soul that in penitence and faith has claimed His protection will Christ permit to pass under the enemy’s power. His word is pledged: “Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.” The promise given to Joshua is made to all: “If thou wilt keep my charge, … I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.” Angels of God will walk on either side of them, even in this world, and they will stand at last among the angels that surround the throne of God…. We cannot answer the charges of Satan against us. Christ alone can make an effectual plea in our behalf. He is able to silence the accuser with arguments founded not upon our merits, but on His own (Testimonies for the Church 5:470-472). This text is from the devotional book Lift Him Up by Ellen G. White.

Crowning Work Of Jesus

His Crowning Work

The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty. Exodus 34:6, 7. Those who receive Christ by faith will be looked upon by Heaven as precious pearls for which the merchant man has paid an infinite price, and the human agents who find Christ will realize that they have found a heavenly treasure. They will be anxious to sell all that they have in order to buy the field which contains this treasure. As they contemplate the love of God, as the plan of salvation opens to their view, as the mystery of Christ’s condescension becomes plainer to them, as they see the sacrifice that He made for them, they count nothing too dear to give up for His sake…. The Lord God of heaven collected all the riches of the universe, and laid them down in order to purchase the pearl of lost humanity. The Father gave all His divine resources into the hands of Christ in order that the richest blessings of heaven might be poured out upon a fallen race. God could not express greater love than He has expressed in giving the Son of His bosom to this world. This gift was given to man to convince him that God had left nothing undone that He could do, that there is nothing held in reserve, but that all heaven has been poured out in one vast gift. The present and eternal happiness of man consists in receiving God’s love, and in keeping God’s commandments. Christ is our Redeemer. He is the Word that became flesh and dwelt among us. He is the fountain in which we may be washed and cleansed from all impurity. He is the costly sacrifice that has been given for the reconciliation of man. The universe of heaven, the worlds unfallen, the fallen world, and the confederacy of evil cannot say that God could do more for the salvation of man than He has done. Never can His gift be surpassed, never can He display a richer depth of love. Calvary represents His crowning work. It is man’s part to respond to His great love, by appropriating the great salvation the blessing of the Lord has made it possible for man to obtain. We are to show our appreciation of the wonderful gift of God by becoming partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. We are to show our gratitude to God by becoming a coworker with Jesus Christ, by representing His character to the world…. The Lord looks upon souls as precious pearls…. As they lift Christ up, their eyes are anointed so that they can distinguish the relationship of Christ to the human family. They become wise, and in meekness and lowliness, as opportunity opens, they present to tried and tempted souls the sublime reality of the saving grace of God (Youth’s Instructor, October 17, 1895). This text is from the devotional book Lift Him Up by Ellen G. White.

Nature

Nature answers every question

Skip to main contentSkip to article Phytochemistry Volume 159, March 2019, Pages 108-118 Acylated pelargonidin glycosides from the red-purple flowers of Iberis umbellata L. and the red flowers of Erysimum × cheiri (L.) Crantz (Brassicaceae) Author links open overlay panelFumi Tatsuzawa Show more Share Cite https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2018.12.010 Get rights and content Abstract Five previously undescribed acylated pelargonidin 3-sophoroside-5-glucosides (pigments 2–6) were isolated from the red-purple flowers of Iberis umbellata L. ‘Candycane Rose’ and ‘Candycane Red’, in addition to a known one (pigment 1). The structures of five undescribed acylated anthocyanins were determined by chemical and spectroscopic methods to be pelargonidin 3-O-[2-O-(2-O-(“acyl-A”)-β-glucopyranosyl)-6-O-(“acyl-B”)-β-glucopyranoside]-5-O-[6-O-(malonyl)-β-glucopyranoside], in which the “acyl-A” group was either trans-sinapic (2), trans-ferulic (3), trans-sinapic (4), trans-ferulic (5), or trans-ferulic acid (6), and “acyl-B” was either glucosyl-trans-p-coumaric acid (2), glucosyl-trans-p-coumaric acid (3), trans-feruloyl-glucosyl-trans-p-coumaric acid (4), trans-feruloyl-glucosyl-trans-p-coumaric acid (5), or glucosyl-trans-feruloyl-glucosyl-trans-p-coumaric acid (6). Moreover, three previously undescribed acylated pelargonidin 3-sambubioside-5-glucosides (pigments 7, 8, and 10) and one undescribed acylated pelargonidin 3-(3X-glucosylsambubioside)-5-glucoside (pigment 9) were isolated from the red flowers of Erysimum × cheiri (L.) Crantz ‘Aurora’ as major anthocyanins. The structures of the three undescribed acylated pelargonidin 3-sambubioside-5-glucosides were determined to be pelargonidin 3-O-[2-O-(2-O-(“acyl-C”)-β-xylopyranosyl)-6-O-(“acyl-D”)-β-glucopyranoside]-5-O-(β-glucopyranoside), in which the “acyl-C” group was either non (7), non (8), or trans-p-coumaric acid (10) and “acyl-D” was either trans-p-coumaric (7), trans-ferulic (8), or trans-p-coumaric acid (10). Moreover, a previously undescribed acylated pelargonidin 3-(3X-glucosylsambubioside)-5-glucoside was identified to be pelargonidin 3-O-[2-O-(2-O-(trans-p-coumaroyl)-3-O-(β-glucopyranosyl)-β-xylopyranosyl)-6-O-(trans-p-coumaroyl)-β-glucopyranoside]-5-O-(β-glucopyranoside) (9). In addition, the distribution of anthocyanidins structural elements in 24 Brassicaceous species is compared. Graphical abstract Nine undescribed acylated pelargonidin glycosides together with one known one were isolated from the flowers of Iberis umbellata and Erysimum × cheiri. Download : Download high-res image (494KB) Download : Download full-size image Introduction Iberis umbellata L. (Brassicaceae), the common candytuft, is an annual flowering plant species, native to southern Europe that usually is cultivated as a popular annual garden plant with white, pink, red, purple, or purple-violet flowers. Erysimum × cheiri (L.) Crantz (Brassicaceae), the common wallflower, is a perennial subshrub species, native to southern Europe that usually is cultivated as a popular biennial garden plant with yellow, orange, red, or red-purple flowers. As part of the ongoing work on flower and/or root color variation due to acylated anthocyanins in olericultural and floricultural plants in the Brassicaceae, I and my co-workers previously reported the isolation of 75 acylated anthocyanins from the flowers of plants in the family Brassicaceae, including 11 acylated cyanidin 3-sophoroside-5-glucosides in the purple-violet flowers of I. umbellata cultivars and two acylated cyanidin 3-sambubioside-5-glucosides in the red and orange-red flowers of E. × cheiri cultivars (Honda et al., 2005; Ito et al., 2013; Saito et al., 1995, 1996, 2008, 2011; Tatsuzawa, 2012, 2014a, b, 2016; Tatsuzawa et al., 2006, 2007, 2008a, b, 2010a, 2012a, b, c, 2013, 2014, 2015a, b, 2016, 2018). Sophorose is a disaccharide composed of two glucopyranose residues, with the glucoside attached in β configuration at the 2 position of the reducing glucose. A sophoroside means this sugar attached with a glycosidic bond in β configuration, i.e. 2-O-β-glucopyranosyl-β-glucopyranoside. Sambubiose is a quite similar disaccharide but with the outermost glucoside replaced by a xyloside, i.e. 2-O-β-xylopyranosyl-β-glucopyranoside. In essence, a sambubioside lacks the hydroxymethyl group of C6 in glucose, but is otherwise identical to a sophoroside. Herein, I report the structural elucidation of 9 undescribed acylated pelargonidin glycosides, along with a known one, from the red-purple flowers of I. umbellata ‘Candycane Red’ and ‘Candycane Rose’ and the red flowers of E. × cheiri ‘Aurora’. Section snippets Anthocyanins in the red-purple flowers of I. umbellata By HPLC analysis of an extract from the red-purple flowers of Iberis umbellata, I identified more than 20 anthocyanin peaks. Among these peaks, six major anthocyanin peaks were isolated from the flowers of ‘Candycane Red’ (Fig. 1) and ‘Candycane Rose’ by extraction by 5% HOAc, and purified according to the procedure described previously (Saito et al., 2008). The same six pigments were found in both cultivars, but the profiles differed slightly. Percentages of total anthocyanin contents based on Discussion Anthocyanins in the form of acylated cyanidin glycosides have been isolated previously from the flowers of Iberis and Erysimum cultivars (Saito et al., 2008; Tatsuzawa et al., 2006, 2016). In the present study, six acylated pelargonidin 3-sophoroside-5-glucosides and four acylated pelargonidin 3-sambubioside-5-glucosides (including 3-(3X-glucosylsambubioside)-5-glucoside) were isolated from the red-purple flowers of I. umbellata cultivars and the red flowers of E. × cheiri cultivars. The genera General procedures Thin layer chromatography (TLC) was conducted on cellulose-coated plastic sheets (Merck, Darmstadt, Germany) using five mobile phases: BAW (n-BuOH/HOAc/H2O. 4:1:2, v/v/v), BuHCl (n-BuOH/2N HCl, 1:1, v/v, upper layer), AHW (HOAc/HCl/H2O, 15:3:82, v/v/v), 1% HCl for anthocyanins and organic acid, and BAW and ETN (EtOH/NH4OH/H2O, 16:1:3, v/v/v) for sugars with detection using UV light and the aniline hydrogen phthalate spray reagent (Harborne, 1984). Analytical high performance liquid References (51) S.J. Bloor et al. The structure of the major anthocyanin in Arabidopsis thaliana Phytochemistry (2002) J.B. Harborne Plant polyphenols – XI. The structure of acylated anthocyanins Phytochemistry (1964) T. Honda et al. Acylated anthocyanins from the violet-blue flowers of Orychophragmus violaceus Phytochemistry (2005) G. Hrazdina et al. Anthocyanins composition of Brassica oleracea cv. Red Danish Phytochemistry (1977) S. Ito et al. Acylated cyanidin 3-sambubioside-5-glucosides in the red-purple flowers of Arabis blepharophylla Hook. & Arn. (Brassicaceae) Biochem. Syst. Ecol. (2013) R. Nakabayashi et al. Metabolomics-oriented isolated and structure elucidation of 37 compounds including two anthocyanins from Arabidopsis thaliana Phytochemistry (2009) T. Otsuki et al. Acylated anthocyanins from red radish (Raphanus sativus L.) Phytochemistry (2002) N. Saito et al. Acylated cyanidin 3-sambubioside-5-glucoside in Matthiola incana Phytochemistry (1995) N. Saito et al. Acylated pelargonidin 3-sambubioside-5-glucosides in Matthiola incana Phytochemistry (1996) N. Saito et al. Tetra-acylated cyanidin 3-sophoroside-5-glucosides from the flowers of Iberis umbellata L. (Cruciferae) Phytochemistry (2008) View more references Cited by (3) Anthocyanins and anthocyanidins in the flowers of Aconitum (Ranunculaceae) 2019, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology Citation Excerpt : These two major pigments were extracted from the dried sepals of the combined taxa (IUM 19375, 19380, and 19381) with violet and violet-blue flowers (500 g) using 20% HOAc (5 L). The extract was isolated and purified using Diaion HP-20 (Nippon Rensui Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) and Sephadex™ LH-20 (GE Halthcare UK Ltd., UK) column chromatography, preparative HPLC, and paper chromatography as described previously (Tatsuzawa, 2019) and yielded 26 mg of pigment 1 and 3 mg of pigment 2. Acid hydrolysis of pigment 1 (0.5 mg) and 2 (0.5 mg) produced delphinidin (tR: 20.3 min) and p-hydroxybenzoic acid (tR: 7.6 min). 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The Modern Church Dilemma

The Voice Of The True Shepherds

The Voice of the True Shepherds.

Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? John 10:32. Jesus declared Himself to be the true shepherd, because He gave His life for the sheep. He says: “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” Jesus spoke these words in the hearing of a large concourse of people, and a deep impression was made upon the hearts of many who listened. The scribes and Pharisees were filled with jealousy because He was regarded with favor by many…. While He represented Himself as the True Shepherd, the Pharisees said, “He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?” But others distinguished the voice of the True Shepherd, and said: “These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind? … And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch. Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not…. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me…. I and my Father are one.” With what firmness and power He uttered these words. The Jews had never before heard such words from human lips, and a convicting influence attended them; for it seemed that divinity flashed through humanity as Jesus said, “I and my Father are one.” … Jesus looked upon them calmly and unshrinkingly, and said, “Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me?” The Majesty of heaven stood, calmly assured, as a god before His adversaries. Their scowling faces, their hands filled with stones, did not intimidate Him. He knew that unseen forces, legions of angels, were round about Him, and at one word from His lips they would strike with dismay the throng, should they offer to cast upon Him a single stone. He stood before them undaunted. Why did not the stones fly to the mark? It was because divinity flashed through humanity, and they received a revelation, and were convicted that His were no common claims. The hands relax and the stones fall to the ground. His words had asserted His divinity, but now His personal presence, the light of His eye, the majesty of His attitude, bore witness to the fact that He was the beloved Son of God (The Signs of the Times, November 27, 1893). This text is from the devotional book Lift Him Up by Ellen G. White.

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