06 Sunday Aug 2017
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When the Israelites wanted a king, God chose Saul. A people called the Philistines were constantly oppressing Israel. One day Israel and the Philista gathered to wage war. But Israel had no weapons yet. Only the king and his son had swords. His son’s name was Jonathan. I find Jonathan to be a wonderful example […]
30 Friday Jun 2017
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All of the prophets from Moses to Zachariah had a message that involved bits and pieces, fragments of information on The Human Form of God and the life He would live, the things He would do, the way He would be. John The Baptist, in his ministry said that The One that all the scriptures were talking about is on the way. These men (Yeshua and John) were family, and were intimately connected, working together to ensure God’s will happened.
Jesus’ ministry and John’s ministry are very closely related. How beautiful it is that God orchestrated the life of John to fit Jesus’ agenda.
John was very confident in his ministry. He boldly and authoritatively spoke to the masses with courage: telling people that (a) Jesus is coming so (b) now is the time to repent. John spoke to the Sadducees and High Priests in a way that could have gotten him in a lot of trouble; Yet, his honest words towards them were from a place of love, helping them also to recognize their need for A Savior. If they were not acting in such a way that should have resulted in scolding, he wouldn’t have scolded them.
In contrast, John took his place as having no authority when Yeshua arrived. John The Baptizer, who was just boldly scolding the most powerful Jews around, was now completely humble and submissive.
So many people had the faith to sacrifice their lives to save us. They all served Him in that way and He is an incredible gift that every person should live for.
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15 Wednesday Mar 2017
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We can never know if a person’s actions are coming from a righteous place. We all know that the pharisees were evil. We know this now, but did they know it back then? Jesus spent a great deal of time explaining to people that they should not be like the pharisees, and that the pharisees were evil. I do not think He would have spent so much time teaching this if people already were fully aware of the pharisee’s “dead dry bones”
This applies to today as well. Many of the church leaders today are being fooled into thinking that they are holy. How can this be? How can such tender and loving people be fooled into thinking that they are holy? Because nobody can judge the heart. Satan has adjusted the way he does things over the last few thousand years.
The Word tells us that {The heart is deceitful above all things, who can know it?}
Look at this:
Just like on sesame street all of these things have something in common, but one of these things just does not belong here. Every above example is serving the purpose of finding Jesus. Some of the folks in these examples might have more self serving reasons than others, but the one that truly does not belong is the pharisees, you got it! They not only are the most self serving, but their intention was to kill Jesus. You know how that goes, they saw the power of God, were threatened by it and needed to wrestle it into submission, call it out, destroy it, make it their own so that they could serve the people! Right!? Ha ha, no no no, their intention was to serve themselves at every turn, even when they appeared to be serving others. You see, the pharisees were so far gone, that they must have at some level been aware of their evil intentions.
The problem in our generation is that Satan has tricked most of our preachers in such a way that they are not aware that what they are doing is actually hindering god’s vine (the various denominations) from being grafted to the True Vine (not a church, but God Himself). Most of us are being deceived into acting in self serving ways through seemingly innocent acts of service. The Pharisees, though, they were not deceived. They knew they were bad people. Especially after Jesus explained it to them. Nicodemus recognized this and came to Him. If Nicodemus was acting genuinely (not as a spy) then He is to be treated with utmost respect. He risked EVERYTHING to do what was right.
This is the main point of this message: the tree was the same for each group of people. If you caught any of them in the street and asked them what they were doing they would have said the same thing “I am looking for Jesus.” The root and the fruit are both very different for the Pharisees. The root for most of the other groups are a need for help. The fruit for most others is/was thankfulness and gratitude. Not for those bad boys the Pharisees. Their root was a need to stay in power. The fruit, once finding Jesus was mind games and nasty tricks. Did anybody else, except for those in control play mind games and do nasty tricks to Jesus?
Let’s Get Real For A Moment
Why do you do what you do? Why do you want what you want? Your wants and intentions (your heart) controls what you do. Where do you get these wants and desires? Even if your wants and intentions are serving your church, ask yourself “How many times have I ran people out of the church based on what I judged to be good or bad?” I want to ask you a serious and difficult question, please. Could Satan be using you to keep your church from moving closer to the kingdom of God? Tough question I know. Do not avoid it. Instead, face it head on in prayer and you will be pleasantly surprised with what happens next.
If God has sent a servant to your church, and you were part of the pack that ran that servant out, you will be held responsible for that. The shame you are trying to avoid right now will become unbearable. It will cause you to hide and to run away from Your Father, just as it is now. {The heart is deceitful above all things, who can know it?}
There is Some One who can know the heart. He can know your heart. He can adjust it and make it nearer to His own. He is much more likely to do this if you ask Him to. Yeshua (Jesus) is capable of shaping your intentions and wants and needs to meet goals that will leave you with a great inheritance in heaven. Make it a daily practice to give Jesus your heart.
Then when you must stand before The King of Kings to answer for your daily habits and the ripples you left behind based on your habits, you will be able to come before Him with fear and trembling, but boldly. You will stand before Him knowing for certain that your actions did not come from you, but that they came from Him. You will stand before Him because you will have proven to be a part of Him instead of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Faith without works is dead. If your works are not His works, even if performed within the setting of a church, you are dead brothers and sisters. Shalom and go with Him.
08 Wednesday Mar 2017
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In the last three months she had developed a clairaudiance. Dodging, bobbing and weaving so to speak, in an effort to keep her son from the guards; From the soldiers; from the wise men; and the sorcerers. It had served her well. Now, though, came the time for her to put the babe in the hands of The Lord in a tough way.
Yeshua had motivated her to do some peculiar things, especially as of recent. Never misleading her, she had learned to trust Him. This though was not an easy step. Some weren’t. It seemed to be murder. Nevertheless, the voice of God would not abate. It was clear that she must place her son in the river.
The rain was warm on the Levite woman’s brow. There was an easy mist forming in pockets as she was lead to the river’s edge. Her motivation was that of any mother’s. The idea of allowing the Egyptians to take her newborn son’s life was not an option. Was she the only one striving to keep hers?
She walked briskly, holding the babe under her garments. Drawing closer and closer to the Nile, she was nearing the place where people might see her. The Levite woman’s clothes were damp, yet they still hung over her with ease. The Levite woman looked for a good place where she could place the child. Hearing footsteps, slow and meticulously placed in the wet sand and mud: squish, drain, pop, another pop and a long squish, “Oh no” she thought. She needed a place to hide and a distraction so her movements weren’t heard. She tossed a small cobble into the air. It arced up and over the path and into the sage brush on the other side. She made a jump for a small hill next to her, not nearly enough for shelter but she landed and rolled flat with the baby in her arms at the same time that the cobble brushed through the foliage and plopped into the mud. She hugged the ground and her energy was kept low. The baby didn’t make a sound, the Egyptian passed, spooked and without a glance in her direction.
The desert was a land full of superstitions. Over the generations these superstitions had woven themselves into the very nature of the Egyptian. This, she had found was right in front of her all the time. Once she could see it was so plain. It worked to her advantage remarkably.
She was not even on alert at moments like this anymore. Her energy was very balanced. If she had been caught the Egyptians would have dealt with her in a most licentious way. God had her heart and mind. It was not easy to walk so close to Him. She was derided by the leaders, both religious and non. She was in constant warfare with herself. Against the wiles of her carnal mind: it telling her how childish this God stuff was; Yet, He prevailed when she was with Him in mind, and even when she wasn’t.
The basket she had made the day before was still there, waiting for to take it’s place in history. What was His name? She placed him in the basket. She took a moment and just sat. This was another step in her personal journey with The Creator. There was a chorus happening all around her. The falling drops on the water, in the vegetation, on the land, and over her son’s golden brown skin.
The river tugged him in as she shed her motherly tears.
A small, condensed ray raced toward the earth from the sky. The water caught in it was, for a moment, a swirl of of beautiful bright colors.
“What have I done” The Levite woman wailed. Her guts and better judgement immediately lashed out at her for being such a fool. She prayed that she be given the strength to understand and abide in God’s will. But alas it is written <For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ’s sake.>
And goes the journey of the faithful. She then remembered the situation at hand and that her options were slim to none. She remembered the construction of trust that had developed between Her husband, YHVH, and herself. She chose to allow her mind to be put at ease and she continued to morn the loss of her son.
27 Monday Feb 2017
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Today I had a really great conversation with a Muslim. He was about my age, and we had a lot in common. We both agreed to disagree on many topics, but to tell you the truth I learned from that boy, and he admitted, whether he wanted to or not, to have learned from me too.
He, on his own accord, without me doing any mental work at all, consistently brought up points that I was prepared for and was knowledgeable about. Some of them I had literally studied just hours before. The confidence this brought was key.
I believe because of some things God showed the muslim boy today through me that it will be easier, more sensible even for him to join the good guys. One of the points brought up in this conversation is this: What happened at the crucifixion seemingly causes us Christians to feel as if we are not responsible for our actions.
It is easy to fall into a Muslim’s trap when they bring up anything. They have studied themselves approved in a much greater way than the average Christian. They tend to spin a yarn that makes us look like irresponsible children and our doctrine like an unrealistic fairy tale. Once this point is made by a Muslim (and they will make that point, trust me) it is important to recognize that any Christian who has given their life to a church, a denomination or to any representation of Christ will be obliterated by the Muslim in that argument and rightly so. Why? Because those Christians have not yet experienced how God actually handles sin. To those Christians, the gospel more or less is a fairy tale. Forgive me for putting it that plainly. I have been on both sides of this and I understand how you feel.
The Bible very subtly warns us of the difference between copy catting others who have given their lives to Christ and actually giving up one’s life for Him. In Genesis we learn of Abraham walking with God. When he is in the maelstrom that was Egypt during a famine, he withholds information from his enemies in order to both save himself, his wife, and his obedience to God. He tells everybody that Sarah is his sister and moves forward trusting God will do the rest. God does, and in magnificent fashion. Abraham does it again when in the land of king Abimelech and the outcome is exactly the same.
Fast forwarding a few chapters we find Abraham’s son, Isaac in the same situation, with the same king even. Isaac’s wife is on the line because she also is beautiful like his mother, Sarah. Isaac probably thought quickly this worked for my dad and he tells the king “She is my sister.”
Uh oh. Isaac’s copy catting does not quite work, spiritually, as Abraham’s did. Withholding information and speaking something that is untrue are not the same thing. A copy catter might do well verse for verse defending their beliefs against another’s beliefs. Here is the problem with that though: If we have not truly given our lives to Yeshua, we will leave that conversation worried about some of the points the Muslim had. That will show through, subtly in our body language, the Muslim will pick up on it, and the Muslim will walk away with more faith in their religion because they noticed that they got to another Christian.
Please forgive me if that point was sort of rough. Rectifying it is between you and God. If you have had a lengthy and good relationship with Him (not your church, but Him) you understand what it feels like to no longer deal with guilt or shame. If you are not yet on that boat you can easily search your heart to avoid the worse of two outcomes for an unavoidable event: meeting Him. Is church your God, or is Jesus your God?
That was point A. Point B is more of a sword for your arsenal than an abrasive questioning of where you stand with God. Please forgive me. Muslims have taken our patriarch Abraham and twisted it to seem like He is their Father instead of ours. The father of their faith even. They are fighting for what Ishmael never had so many years ago. There are a lot of similarities in the Muslim and Christian faiths. There is a reason for this. Abraham is the father of many children. Isaac is the child that God instructed Abraham (even against Abraham’s will at points: Genesis 21:8-14) to favor. Ishmael is Abraham’s firstborn son. Ishmael is the root of the nation of Islam (Genesis 21:13 & Genesis 25:12-18). The Torah tells us that the sons and daughters of the slave women were not treated the same as Isaac. The servant women’s children were given gifts but were driven out of their home with Abraham while Abraham was alive. On the other hand, Isaac was given the inheritance (what Islam is fighting for). (all of this information can be found in Genesis Chapters 12- 26)
Christianity comes from this line: Abraham to Isaac to Jacob (called Israel). Keep in mind that most of the sons and daughters of this tribe are disobedient children of God, but children from Abraham’s inheritance none-the-less. On the other hand, Islam comes from Ishmael. Why not Abraham to Ishmael? Because there is a division between Abraham and Ishmael. The difference in the parting Ishmael took from Abraham and the parting Isaac took from Abraham is this: Ishmael was:
There is a nation that comes from Ishmael (Genesis 21:13): Islam. The nation of Israel and the sons and daughters of God comes from Abraham: Genesis 12:7 combined with Genesis 15:1-6 and is contextually accurate.
****Correction (2/28/017)***** Today I read Genesis 35, where God speaks to Israel describing to him that a nation will come from him as well. The only difference then, between the sons of Ishmael and the sons of Israel are that God intended to bless Israel with the inheritance, whereas God intended to make a nation out of both of them giving only gifts but no inheritance to Ishmael. *********
Muslims are still fighting to take over the inheritance that is not theirs. They have the option to come to faith in Yeshua, bringing them (in a roundabout way) into the inheritance that they are fighting for.
I do not think you will adequately defend the faith after reading this article. Adequately defending the faith would be more well done through prayer and reading the scripture from this angle, knowing that Muslims like to say “Islam comes from the faith of Abraham” or is “The Abrahamic faith.” They berate Christians by telling them a bunch of stuff (mostly true stuff) the Christians haven’t heard before, intending on converting them. By the time that a converted Christian finds out that the basis of their conversion was sprinkled with a lie or two, they are deeply entwined socially with Muslims and have seen how much less hypocrisy is in that church than their own and sometimes end up staying on a path that leads to destruction. Do not let them fool you!
06 Monday Feb 2017
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In China it is a sign of respect to take one’s shoes off upon entering a household. All around the world, I am sure there are folks who must produce charismatic phlegm in order to endure a friend tromping through their home with shoes on.
Why though? Why is this the case?
Here are two instances in The Bible where God commands a man to take off their sandals in His presence.
Exodus 3:5: Moses
<Then He said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”>
Joshua 5:15: Joshua
<And The Captain of the LORD’S host said unto Joshua, “Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy.” And Joshua did so.>
I am absolutely positive that the reason God requires such intense respect is not simply for formality. It is not because Our God turns up His nose snobbishly saying “I, sir, am so much better than you, that you must bow down and worship Me.”
No, no, no, that is not God. You see, man seeks to be worshiped for his own benefit. Usually. Why? Because Satan has twisted the reasons for worship from selfless to selfish.
We all know the human body is covered in absorbent material called the skin. I want you to take a guess at what the most absorbent part of the skin is. That is right, it is the sole of one’s foot.
Maybe, this is why God so lovingly commands a man standing before Him – on holy ground – to please, for your sake, soak it in. The rest of your skin has glands that produce sebum. Sebum is an oil that protects the skin from absorbing things too quickly. Not only are there no sebaceous glands on your feet’s souls, but there are no hair follicles either. Within 20 minutes of a material being placed on your foot’s bottom, traces of that material (if absorbent) can be found throughout the entire body. The bloodstream soaks it up almost immediately. In the case of our forefathers in faith, it is holy ground that is being soaked into the bloodstream and dispersing throughout all the organs, including the brain and the heart.
I doubt this guy is Christian; However, it is unclean birds that brought Elijah meat. Simon begins lying when he talks about evolution but the idea expressed in his video is still mostly right. God is using Simon to teach people to fall better into the track of what leadership is truly about. Why are things like respect and bare feet important information to good leaders? If to you it seems unrelated, pray about it and God may very well take you on a journey that will turn you into a better employee, boss, or friend than you already are.
01 Wednesday Feb 2017
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Revelation 10:10
{And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.}
Why do you think this is important enough to make it into The Bible? I have found that it reflects the nature of the way that The Word in truth is taken in by human kind.
The Parable of The Sower describes this pretty well. This description is of a truth that is laid up in the heart of a person who already has other foundational characteristics of the Word within them. When the seedling grows, (the works of the person’s faith being displayed) the person finds that the world treats them in a draconian way for their faith (the bitter part of the sweet scroll or the thorns that ignorant or prideful people unknowingly display). Because of the draconian way faith is treated sometimes (persecution), the unworthy of Him stop acting on the truth they know in their heart is right (evil, effectively choking the works part of faith out, literally slaying faith to a state of being dead. Satan wins when faith dies.)
Many sinners are polite, church going, career focused people who are good in many ways. There is nothing wrong with being successful and caring for yourself. There is a wrong way to care for yourself though.
“Many will say to me in that day Lord, Lord did we not do many things in your name? He will say to them depart from me you who practice lawlessness, I never knew you.”
What the scriptures of The Bible propose is that there is something fundamentally wrong with displaying a lack of faith in focusing on yourself (your need for food and clothing). When you focus on your needs, you are showing that you lack the faith to act according to the scripture that promises you what you need as a result of seeking Him. The Holy Scriptures that are given to us divinely, of God, through His servants give us a better way: focus on His kingdom, and He will ensure that you are being cared for as is necessary for your relationship with Him.
Ultimately, it is your relationship with Him that is being tested when you are persecuted. It is your actions (works) that will indicate where you will end up sometime after you shed your current vehicle. He wants you to be alive long enough to learn what you need to learn in order to pass from the evil world to the good kingdom. Do you not think, loved one, that He will provide everything you need for all the decades of this life to such a degree that you will pass on with an abundance of faith, ensuring you are able to stand before a Holy God? He cannot do it all for you. He plants, you grow. If you refuse to grow you will be THROWN INTO THE FIRE, with lawlessness stamped on you, forever damning you from the kingdom. If you do not hate trespasses, you are not covered. Please, trust Him.
What is important is that we remember that The Lord has commanded us to seek first the kingdom of God with the promise that all these shall be added unto us. It is an almost unnoticeable change when a person becomes a decent, church going, Yeshua focused person. Their vocabulary, actions and many other things remain the same. Now though, their hearts intention is no longer to attend a church to surround themselves with a decent crowd, but to whole heartedly serve Yeshua, The Lord.
It is time to reconsider the genuinity of your conversion. Yashua’s opinion of your worth to Him is dependant on your reaction to Him. Are you displaying Him, or some false egregore?
24 Tuesday Jan 2017
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Hi reader, I hope that today is filled with love and light. I have faith that God is blessing and calling you. That today, He will show you favor and draw you to Him. This post is a bit tangential however, such is the way of the connection of the spiritual world to the physical world.
The tongue is the tool that we use to describe to others what is going on within us. Our tongues are the edge of us, the mind is within us, and the heart is deeper. The heart is the base or root. No man can know the heart as The Lord tells us that only He can know the heart. This goes for our own hearts too! Next is the mind. The mind is a different story: man can know the mind. I would say that only a very close friend can search out another man’s mind, but a man can know his own mind pretty well with some practice. Following the mind is the tongue.
If our bodies are a ship the tongue is the rudder and the sails, the mind is the crew, and the heart is the reason for the journey.
The edge of the land is the shore or the beach. In Genesis 41:17, we learn that Pharaoh was in a dream standing on the banks of the Nile. In Exodus 2:3, Moses’ mother acted in faith by putting the child in a basket and placed the basket among the reeds by the river bank. In Exodus 14:30, we learn that after the Israelites had been saved from the Egyptians, the Israelites saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
In Exodus 6:30 Moses is presenting his limited audaciousness by making excuses for why he cannot complete the task set before him: {But Moses said to The Lord, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me.?”} By now you must have recognized that there are some words underlined. The words that are underlined are all things that represent the edge of something. In the case of river banks and seashores we are talking about physical edges. In the case of the word lips, we are talking about the edge of a man’s soul and personality: Who a man is, who they have been, and who they will become is all told on the edge of their person with their speech. In Hebrew the word for lips, speech or language, and edge are all the same word: Sephah. Each of the underlined words above are written in Hebrew as Sephah.
The first time we hear about language in The Bible is at the Tower of Babel: Genesis 11:1 {Now the whole earth was of one sephah and the same words.} In this scripture the word sephah means language. At the beginning of the story the whole world spoke one sephah. By the end of the story there were many sepheth.
We hear more about these different languages in Acts. Acts is written in Greek, though, and the word for language or tongue in Greek is glossa, which does not share the same interesting and sapid word play as sepha, shucks. Glossa means 1.) An organ of the body as of taste or speech 2.) Metaphorically speech or language 3.) Figuratively for anything resembling a tongue in shape or derivatively a person speaking a tongue other than one’s native tongue. In Acts 19:6 {When Paul laid His hands on them, The Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in glossa (a tongue not native to them).} At Pentecost The Holy Spirit caused many to have greater faith because {both Jews and Proselytes, Cretans and Arabians – we hear them telling in our own glossa (language) the mighty works of God.} Acts 2:11.
In every example of a person speaking in tongues, the person with The Holy Spirit on them is sharing truthful and coherent knowledge of God with a person who is a native to the language. The interpreter (1 Cor 14:27) is the person being spoken to (when a person speaks in English to me I interpret that language to myself).
There are examples of this in the world today: There are preachers who suddenly no longer needed a native translator as their speech became that of the listener’s. Like with Jeff John’s of Whitehorse Christian Center. The examples God has given us in reference to people speaking in tongues are here: Acts 19:6 ; Acts 10:46 ; Acts 2:11 ; Acts 2:4 ; Acts 2:3. What does this tell us about the edges of Our Savior?
We have learned that Hebrew’s word Sephah means edge, lips, speech, language or tongue. Remember when Yeshua was in a crowd and He literally stopped everything to find out who touched the hem (edge) of His garment? Does that scripture not feel like the woman sort of violated a cultural line? Yeshua acted like, and the woman reacted like what she did was over the line. This is why: In those days most people had what would be kept in banks and lock boxes in the hem of their garments: gold and silver, signet rings, deeds, all the important stuff was right on the edge of a person’s clothing.
In Numbers 15:38 God commands His children, the Israelites, to {make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations…} These tassels are worn on the edge of the garments. They are there { for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart… }
Everything about a man and his dynasty, his palace, everything he “works for”, everything his life is summed up by could be found on the hem of his garment. For Yeshua, His kingdom, His dynasty, everything He works for is defined by the law in the Torah: The commands that keep us walking in the kingdom. When Yeshua was touched by the woman on the hem of His garment, she touched Him with faith knowing that if she only touched Him her flow of blood would cease.
The very edges of Yeshua’s being can be described by The words that are recorded in The Bible. Coming close to Yeshua’s edges, many people are healed, drawn in, and spend the rest of their lives seeking to know more about Him. Yeshua’s sepheth are fantastic: whether it is looking upon the shores of the seas from the land or seeing land after a long journey, whether it is the historical accounts of things He did for people, or the words that came from His mouth, whether it’s a language He spoke or a language He created, the sepheth of Yeshua are experienced in full by becoming His servant and living within His kingdom here on earth and the life to come.
