We Fight For Right

Each day is built upon the past. Yet each day is also new. It is true that we need to make every day count. Being human, some of those days will not count for as much as we would like. But we cannot change the past, we can only change the future. We do that by addressing the present and preparing. We both fight and prepare to fight for what’s right.

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

We are fighting a spiritual battle that we can win. But we only win if we have our Father with us. He does not fight on our side, rather, we fight on His side. We are in His service and His army. If we stay in His ways, we win.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. We praise and bless the name Yahuah. Let Your kingdom be with us. Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal up our hearts and minds. Deliver us from the evil that kills and destroys. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundredfold. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Battling A Paradox

Within all of us as believers there is a war for the truth. That war oddly enough is not only battled against exterior forces, but also our own flesh. As fallen beings, we do things and say things and think things we should not. Yet we are called to be like our Messiah Yeshuah and keep trying to do better. Paul wrote of this.

Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Our best hope to be like Messiah is first to accept that we are not and will not in this life be perfect like Him, but we need still try. Then, speak life to ourselves with our own mouths. To the extent we can do this, we create the possibility that we can continue to improve each day.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. Let Your Kingdom be here. Praise the name Yahuah! Send us now Your overwhelming abundant provision. Heal our hearts and minds. Deliver us from the thief. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundredfold. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Hitting The Ball

It would be great to hit the winning home run for the home team, right? Though I do not watch much baseball, I do appreciate how it would feel to do something great. As I got older, that something great has changed. These days that something great is something great for the kingdom and for my family. But in all of these things, there is one thing required to succeed. You have to hit the ball. And the longer one lives, the more easily one can become either complacent or discouraged. It is important to step in and swing every day.

Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

We need to stay at the battle to get the victory. Bothers and sisters, don’t give up. We already are the winners because I Father has said so and made it so.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are King. We praise the name Yahuah. Let Your kingdom reign. Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us up from the inside. Deliver us from the thief. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundredfold. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Getting Clarity

First things first. That is a commonly used phrase for many things. It has different applications, but generally means that there is at least one thing that must happen before other things happen. Such is the case with our daily walk with Yahuah. We all have different experiences from the past, come from different places in life, and face different challenges daily. But whatever each of us face, we begin by waking up, immediately followed by the hum of life. The day largely depends on how that hum in our head goes, that string of “live chat” with ourselves. There is something each of us can do to fight off the enemy and take control of our thoughts.

Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

If we will do this, we set the tone for the thoughts for the day. We set ourselves up to win in the battle against the enemy!

Today, let’s begin right now by saying the scripture above (or any favorite that you might have) out loud several times, and watch how we change the world!

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. Let this world we live in reflect Your will, just as Your will rules the heavens. Send us now your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal up our hearts. Deliver us from the thief. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundredfold. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

As Though

This morning I was thinking about people having certain challenges in life, people like me and you. For many years I was terrified, or at least a little afraid, to reach out to strangers and speak to them. Thinking about that, I thought of the value of some of the different communications I can offer to people. For example, I work with people in the area of financial development, personal development, and professional development. The information in these areas is transformational to say the least. But if I do not reach out to anyone, then do I really care for them? What do the scriptures say?

Hebrews 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

If we truly believe that the people that do not know our Messiah are in bondage to the enemy, how can we say nothing? If we truly believe that what we have something great to offer, do we care enough for those in need to share hope with them? These are the words in my head today.

Today, let’s give others hope and destroy the works of the enemy!

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. Praise the name Yahuah! Send us today Your overwhelming blessing of abundant provision, the bread of this world and the Bread of Life. Forgive us our sins. Heal us inside and out. Deliver us from the thief that steals and destroys. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundredfold both spiritual and physical that which has been stolen. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Not Flesh And Blood

It is challenging in this world not to be distracted by all that we see and hear around us. There are plenty of “wrongs” for us to get caught up in objecting to as we observe the happenings around us. Yes, there are people in positions of “power” that seem to be not as good as we would like. Yes, there can be seeming injustices that take place in our world. But if we focus on what we can see, we will miss the true enemy that we cannot see. If we want to battle and win, then we must correct our focus.

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

This is our calling and these are our weapons. We do need to oppose evil, but we need to oppose it on a spiritual plain.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are worthy. You alone are King. We praise the name Yahoo! Send us now Your overwhelming provision. forgive us our sins. Heal up our hearts. Deliver us from the thief. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Power In Thinking

Recently our Father helped me to find an answer to a question that I had been asking Him. I have heard many people talk about visioning in the mind what we want to have or to have happen. For me, there seemed to be a difference between the strength of different things I can “see” through imagination in my mind. There have been times when the things I imagine have a greater clarity or almost 3D like quality. Other times they are “flat” more like forced fleeting pictures. It has been easy for me to pray for the former with conviction. The latter not so much. The challenge for me comes in wanting to please the Father and pray for what He wants me to pray for with faith. Last evening He showed me a way to add strength to those things I ask in prayer.

When evil thoughts come in any form, they can be intense. For me they usually come with strong emotion or even mental pictures. When this happened and I was trying to fight it off, I imagined one of the things I had been praying for happening in my mind. Suddenly that image of good took over the negative image but had the same “strength” of vision and force. This morning I have been trying to do this as well, and so far it is successful. I am not saying that these prayers will come to pass. I am still working on these prayers. What I am saying for sure is I can get rid of the evil and overtake it with good if I do this substitution at the moment of the evil that comes against my mind. Certainly using this to add power to that which is good will not be a bad thing, and I can escape the grips of evil.

Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

There is one more thing I do know so far. We must add to this thinking the words from our mouth.

Deuteronomy 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. We praise the name Yahuah! Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us and deliver us. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundredfold. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Staying In The Battle

It is an interesting thing about how we make our way through our Christian walk. As believers, we are like other humans in that we simply place one day upon another. By that I mean we are all subject to the passing of time. We would hope to be stacking nothing but days of perfect obedience one upon another. The reality is that we do not always follow our Father as we should, and we stumble and fall. Those days are in the stack, too. And when we look at that stack of good and bad, we can find ourselves lamenting the bad days. For some time I have wrestled with the theology of this, and the best I can come up with is to say that we do need to have real sorrow for our sin to experience repentance. Repentance is turning from one thing to another. If we have true sorrow and seek forgiveness, our Father will turn to us and grant it. To turn to re-examine the past sin is to give it opportunity again in our lives to grow in some cases, I suggest. It seems a far better use of our time to work towards assuring what we stack today is worthy of the calling on our lives, and that we pray for tomorrow to be holy to our Father.

Psalms 4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
3 But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.
4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Today, let us ask our Father to help us to make today one of the good days.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are our mighty King. Praise the name Yahuah. Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us for our sins. Cleanse us from our sins, past and present, and help us to turn to You. Heal up our hearts and minds. Deliver us from the evil that steals and destroys. Restore to Your people one hundred times one hundredfold. Amen.

Dare To Win

Thinking of the children of Israel in captivity in Egypt, they were slaves for generations. Not only slaves, but to cruel task masters that at one point killed all the baby boys of a certain age. By the time Moses returned to set them free, their mind must have been very conditioned to losing. It would have been miserable, and they would have been used to it, for generations.

Exodus 6:1 Then the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:
3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them.
4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.
9And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Certainly it is easy to understand how they might be afraid. They might not want to take a chance on winning, on freedom. They might not know what it was. And they would only have stories of distant relatives that were free. In many ways, that is us here in the United States, right? We are not four hundred years old yet, but over time we are less and less free. Even if one owns their own property, taxes on the land must be paid or they take it from you. A small thing, but then their is the debt. Yes the country has debt, but what about the people. Most live in great debt that they were encouraged to take on themselves – willing bondage.

Proverbs 22:7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

It is still possible to get closer to freedom. There is a way out. First, pray and as Yahuah our Father to get you out. Determine what that would be for you. Write it down and say it out loud. Then learn about ways to make that happen. One such source is here (click this link). This site describes many tools to help. My personal favorite is the one called Total Access. And you can even have your own.

God always makes a way, even when we think there is no way.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. We bless the name Yahuah! Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal up our hearts and our minds. Deliver us from the thief. Restore to Your people one hundred times one hundredfold. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Rising To Battle

It is easy for many of us, in the United States at least, to wake up each morning and go through our daily routine. There is nothing wrong with that routine. It is good, however, if somewhere in that routine, preferably at the beginning, we spend some time with our Father the King.

I have a friend that was telling me that for months when he got up, he would first spend time praying and journaling to the Father (yes, he also had coffee). He said when times arose and he would miss a day he could tell. Then through a series of events, he missed a week. When he went back to his journal he was stunned! he had no idea how much time had passed. He said at that point he noticed how easy it was to put off writing till later in the day, which easily led to the next day. He was determined to get back to his first thing in the morning practice. When he did, he noticed how his life improved. All because he spent time with the Father. I believe the scriptures support the idea that our Father waits for us to wake up each morning after watching over us each night, just to spend time with us.

Lamentations 3:22 It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

Today, as we rise to the battle, let’s remember that our Father is with us and on our side, each and every day.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are our King. Only You are worthy to be praised and honored. Bless the name Yahuah! Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal our hearts and minds. Thank You for the work You are doing with us today. Deliver us from the destroyer. Restore to us one hundred times one hundredfold, and hundreds of hundreds, that which has been taken from us. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.