Sometimes Simple Is Better

There are seasons in life when a simple message is better. Today’s message is simple. It is from the scriptures, from David.

Psalms 92 A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.
1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
5 O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.

Let us today reach out to our Messiah for restoration, as He promised so many times when He spoke.

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Let us turn to our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus) to get to our Father.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You Alone are our King. Praise the name Yahuah! We come to You in the name of Yeshuah (Jesus) Your Son, and ask that You cleanse us that we might be Your light in this world. Send us now Your provision. Forgive us our sins, and blot out our transgressions from before Your face. Heal up Your people. Do the work that only You can do. Be our King. Restore us now. In Yeshuah’s (Jesus’) name we ask all these things. Amen.

Letting Go To Rest

There are times in life when troubled emotions and feelings come crashing in. This can even happen on the Sabbath. So what do we do? There is ultimately only one thing that I have found that works. Letting go.

Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

Today, let’s all let go and rest.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You for You are King. Praise the name Yahuah! Make Your will come alive in this earth. Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us and cleanse us. Restore Your people. In Yeshuah’s (Jesus’) name. Amen.

Source Of Rest

According to scripture, we are to rest on the Sabbath.

Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

The word “rest” here in verse nine is the word in Greek for Sabbath, and it is so translated elsewhere. the point I am referring to is found verse two. Those that fell in the wilderness were preached the same good news (gospel). But there was not a death and resurrection at that point, right? The good news is that God is on our side. That is further supported by the “not mixed with faith” comment. To see this, we need to see a couple more verses, in the same letter.

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Here we see that faith is not just believing that God is, but that He is a rewarder of those that seek Him. My friend recently had what some might call a negative experience. But He had prayed diligently for years that God would be close to him and to be used of God. My friend told me that the hard things that came His way were actually the reward for diligently seeking the Father. God was actually cleaning up his life. Back to the title of this writing.

So then, our Father is the source of the rest, when we add the belief that He is and that He will reward us. We have this part in rest, namely our faith that God is on our side.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Cleanse us that we might be Your lights in this earth. Send us now Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal our hearts and minds. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or held back in any way from Your people, and the more besides. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Rest And Recovery

Today we take time to turn to the Father in prayer and praise, looking to be held in His arms. We are frail creatures, and we need love. That is built into us, I suggest, to help us find Him and to desire His love. We cannot make a go of it alone. We need help, and possibly as important, we need to help others. Somehow, if we can walk in His ways and seek to be at peace with each other, we can get to a unity that we desperately need.

Psalms 133
A Song of degrees of David.
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

It is my prayer to be at peace, with myself and all others.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us become Your lights in the darkness here. Send us today Your overwhelming abundant provision. Forgive us our sins. Send Your healing for sickness now, and revive the ill. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or held back in any way from Your people. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

What Does It Mean?

This evening for many around the world there will be a celebration of the changing of the years. As with anything we encounter scripturally and otherwise, asking the question about meaning from the title here can reveal knowledge when answered. For me, the question becomes, what calendar? In the last few years I became aware that our Father actually has a calendar he reveals in the scriptures. This Sabbath I am considering the ramifications of the different calendars, what it means to acknowledge one over the other, and so on. Here is a snippet of scripture about the calendar of our Father.

Exodus 12:1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

The most important point today is to spend time with the Father, seeking His truth and His ways.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us shine Your light in this earth. Send us today Your overwhelming abundant provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or held back in any way from Your people, and the more besides. Rise up, O King, and come to our aid now. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Revival On The Sabbath

Today as I was reading scriptures, I ran across something I had not understood before. There is a way to not only live a prosperous life, but to get back on track with the Father. Because we are human, we will stumble and fall from time to time and transgress the commandments of our Father. John has a word for this.

1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Our salvation and wholeness comes to us from the shed blood of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). At the same time, we are told that there is a walk we must walk.

Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

The question becomes, once we are saved by grace, what is it we are to do, and how are we to do it?

Matthew 22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

We see that the “what” is to first love God, and then our neighbor as ourselves. So the walking out we heard about, we need to understand better, to get the “how” answer. Notice that the Messiah says that ALL the Law and the prohets are contained in the first two commandments. We need a few more specifics from time to time. We find directions about that in Leviticus.

Leviticus 18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

We see in the fourth verse that details of how we are to walk are contained in the judgments and ordinances. In the fifth verse, “he shall live in them” refers to being revived, made healthy and prosperous (wealthy, etc.).

On this Sabbath, let us contemplate how we might best serve our Father. He has given us rest and it is so good to rest in Him.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us shine the light You have given that it may be on earth as it is in heaven. Send us today Your overwhelmingly abundant provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal our hearts and minds. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or held back in any way from Your people, and the more besides, O my King. We need Your mercy and grace, and Your deliverance from a perverse generation. Restore our health and prosperity. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Rest – A Day Off?

When we have a Sabbath, a question comes to mind. Is it a day off? The answer is clear – yes and no. While that sinks in, think of it like this. God rested on the Sabbath, and sanctified it. But what was that about really?

Genesis 1:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

God had a certain amount of work to complete. He knew what that was from the time He started it. Why not get everything done the first day? Why not take a month? We may not know the answer to that directly. But indirectly we could deduce something. Likely, God being smart enough and powerful enough to create the universe, would have a plan for when His work would end. He would have the end in mind. We have evidence of that elsewhere in scripture.

Isaiah 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

We see here that our Father has a plan. If He new He would finish in six days, then He also knew He would rest on the seventh day. This pattern was always His plan. Back to our original question It is a day off from customary work, a day to rest from that work. But He did not let go, or likely the world would fall apart. On the seventh day He spent time with His creation – particularly I suggest with us.

My point is we do not do our own pleasure on the Sabbath, but we spend time with our Father and with His creation. It is a day dedicated to our Father. When we repeat this pattern, we are in His image, and His likeness.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us be Your lights here in this earth, in Your image and likeness. Send us now Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins, and have mercy on us. Cleanse our hearts and minds, and heal us. restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or held back in any way, and more besides. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Rising Up For The Rest

In preparation for writing today, I considered the possibility of how we are tied to what is in our minds. The idea came up for me as I thought about the date that I write in my notebooks. I reference the Gregorian calendar. This calendar is know to not coincide with our Father’s calendar. So, what would it be like to only think in terms that align with scripture? I do not know, but what I do know is the framework we use sets us up for what we actually see. As an example, the days begin with the beginning of the evening, or sunset. However, we treat them as beginning in the middle of the night. All of this is to say, our Sabbath is an appointed time in scriptures. Yet we can be persuaded to think otherwise if we ponder what has been set up by men.

Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Let us remember our Father today, and rest with Him.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us serve as Your lights here in this earth. Send us now Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our transgressions of the Law (sins). Heal and cleanse our hearts and minds. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or held back from Your people in any way, and more besides. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Committed To The Rest

This Sabbath I tried to remain very committed to the rest. By that I mean taking time to be with our Father, and not doing work. For the most part, It worked out. And God seems to be honoring my efforts, failed or not. It is not because of me, but because of Him!

Psalms 127:1 Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Our Father has our back.

Nuff said.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us shine brightly for You! send us now Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us on the inside. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or held back in any way from Your people. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Relief From Darkness

This morning in prayer as I asked our Father to reveal to me something more about the Sabbath and what He wanted me to know just then. He gave me a vision of a dark malformed ball of a clump of darkness. He showed me that this was represented all the past darkness that had been in my life, rolled into a ball, and that we all have this. He told me that one purpose for the Sabbath was to set this darkness behind us.

Hebrews 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

The word in verse 9 used for rest is different from the others in the passage. It is actually the word that is translated everywhere else in scripture as “Sabbath”. So we see that we are to be people that keep the Sabbath, because it still remains. Also note that in verse 2 that the same gospel was preached to the children of Israel in the desert as was preached to those at the time of the writing of Hebrews. But, what gospel – “good news” – were the children of Israel exposed to that they did not have faith in?

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

We see that in spite of all the miracles, deliverance, and prosperity that our Father rained on them to get them out of Egypt, they did not be believe He was on their side. They did not believe He was going to reward them, but that He would kill them. They did not trust the Father. It takes that same trust in the Father to enter into a rest on the Sabbath. And the Father enters into rest on the Sabbath.

Hebrews 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

On the Sabbath, we are meant to enter into the same place that the Father is, a place of rest where we are all together. And we have a High Priest that covers us, being a man but without sin. That is our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). And with trust in our Father, we can reach the throne of grace, and obtain mercy, the mercy of setting all of our past darkness behind us.

Hebrews 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Through faith, we can receive relief from the darkness on the Sabbath.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us shine the light of Your goodness here in this place. Send us now Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Cleanse our hearts and minds. Deliver us from the darkness that is here. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or held back or constrained in anyway from Your people. We need You, my King. Save Your people from the pillaging by the enemy, taking their health and prosperity. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.