With Faith Rest Comes

Walking out our challenges with people is not always fun. Then of course, the other people might feel the same. Recently it occurred to me that when we have challenges with people, it is like any other challenge we face. We need to apply faith.

James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

If we can through faith set aside our differences, we can be at peace and rest on the Sabbath.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are our King! Bless the name Yahuah! Let us be light to a dark world. Send us now Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us inside and out. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or held back. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Where Are We Going?

This morning as I gazed out the window into the fall explosion of color, I waxed introspective. It was clear to me that there is so much struggle and strife in the land. From my youth I have been one to be very introspective, so today was no different. What was different was the belief and hope that life can be better. Not just in the sweet bye and bye, but now, here, even starting today. We alone are the ones that make it better, not of ourselves, but when we turn to our Master and Creator, Yahuah. A study of scripture yields an interesting set of insights. Our Father has prepared a place for us to thrive. It is called His path, His ways. Great blessings are there.

Proverbs 8:4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

We see that our Father has provided a path to follow, and that on that path are wisdom and understanding. If we follow after those things on His path, we will inherit substance. Life is good. And how are we to live? What is the purpose? To rescue as many as we can.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! You alone are our Master. Let us find and shine Your light in this earth. Send us today Your overwhelming abundant provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal up our hearts. Cleanse our minds. Deliver us from the very present evil. Restore unto Your people substance, one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or held back, and more besides, that all men might see Your wisdom and Your understanding are on a path You have set up. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Always Grateful

There have been times in my life when I can see I was not as thankful as I should have been. By that I mean, our Father has blessed us all, and I know He has blessed me. But even in that, even when I see that there is a plan for me for good, I have got my mind stuck in something else. Something I wanted that I did not have. That is what I am referring to when I say that I need to be always grateful, always thankful.

Psalms 107:1 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

Today, let’s be always grateful, always thankful, and count our blessings.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us shine the light of Your kingdom here. Send us today Your overwhelmingly abundant provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal our hearts and minds, and cleanse them. Deliver us from the evil here. 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, and more besides. We ask You rise up, O King, and show Your arm on our behalf that all men might know that You alone are King. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Get Back Up And Fight!

With a great and mighty God, the One and only true King of the Universe, on our side, it might be expected that we would always come out the winner in every battle in our spiritual walk. And yet, we stumble, being human. With that in mind, what should we as humans do? What can be done? Well, the truth is, the war has already been decided, God has already declared us the victor in the long haul. It is never over till it is over.

Philippians 1:2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

We can put every defeat behind us, turn every defeat into a victory, if we will just get back up and fight. We need to remember that we were created to rule the Earth. We were created as the winners. We need only return to our Father, to seek Him out and do His will, and we will once agian show up as the winners.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Help us to dust off the dust from falling, to stand and be Your lights in this place. Send us today Your overwhelming abundant provision. Forgive us our sins, and pick us back up. Heal up our hearts and minds, and renew them. Deliver us from the evil here. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold that which has been taken, or in any way restrained from Your people, and more upon more besides. Rise up, O King, and gather together Your people, pouring out to them wealth and prosperity and life beyond any one’s imagination such that all men might know that You alone have done this, that You alone are King of all. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

What Are We Building?

For some time I have been pondering this question. What exactly are we building from our thoughts, words, and actions? Equally important, or possibly more important, what should we be building? The more I consider the first couple chapters of Genesis, and the more I consider the Gospels, they seem to be telling the same story. Growing up I was taught that the God of the “Old Testament” was cruel and that only His Son, Jesus (Yeshuah) was full of mercy and grace. With a careful examination of the scriptures however, that is shown to be untrue. There was always a path to mercy and truth, and even the concept of grace was first introduced in the Old Testament.

Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

So it would seem that Yeshuah (Jesus) just came to say and do what the Father had been saying and doing all along, and people rejected it.

John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

There is more, but for now I would encourage everyone that reads this to consider the possible implications of the idea that the beginning of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament are actually the same.

If so, what are we building, and what should we be building?

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us be those that bring the glad tidings of good news, those that publish peace here on this earth. Send us now, at this moment in time, Your overwhelming abundant provision. Forgive us our sins, and help us to forgive those that have sinned against us. Heal up and cleanse our hearts and minds. Deliver us from the evil around us. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or in any way restricted from Your people, and more besides. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Adding Courage

When I think of the word, “encourage”, it makes me think of the adding of courage to someone or some situation. It could be a situation where there was only fear, or just no courage, or even possibly just more courage needed. In trying not to be too analytical, I just think of it as a need. Some is needed, therefore let’s add some. And how is that done? For me, that is done by thinking of the God that I serve. He is the one true King, the God above all gods. Scripture bears this out.

Psalms 135:5 For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

If we can remember whom we serve, we can be encouraged no matter what we face.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us serve You and be Your light in this place. Send us now, today, Your overwhelming abundant provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal and wash clean our hearts and minds. Deliver us from evil. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or in any way restricted from Your people, and more besides. We need You now, O King, to smite the enemies of Your kingdom. Do a miracle today and tomorrow here among Your people in the United States. Please help us, for we are weak. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

The Great Comfort

This morning sitting on the patio my wife and I were discussing the life of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus) and what it was that He was doing here in the Earth. It appears that a pure and set apart man showed up as different. This would make sense. He said He (Yeshuah – Jesus) kept the commandments of the Father – The Torah – and the that we should keep His (Yeshuah’s – Jesus’) commandments.

John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

Just before this He said that the thoughts and concepts He said to them made them “clean” meaning Levitically clean.

John 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

And His commandment was further explained in a simple fashion.

John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Later He explains that He was teaching the Law to them.

John 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

So we bring forth fruit by saying what our Messiah said, which is the Law, which teaches practical ways to love our fellow man. And when we do, we will do the works that Yeshuah (Jesus) did, and greater works.

John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Today, let us take comfort in the fact that Yahuah, our Father, is on our side. He will care for us. He has provided great blessing and provision in and through His word recorded in the Law and the Prophets.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. Praise the name Yahuah! Let us be Your light on this Earth. Send us Your overwhelming abundant provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal up our hearts and minds. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold that which has been taken or held back in any way from Your people, and more besides. Rise up, O King, and show us a sign for good that all men might know that You alone have done this. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Rest And Return

Today begins a long journey for my family and me. We journeyed to Florida from the Midwest and we begin the drive back today. It has been a restful and thoughtful time. We will be traveling the first of two days on the Sabbath. My wife reads the scriptures for this week aloud and we discuss them as we are driving. This morning I have been thinking about the days of the week. What would happen if we called the days of the week by the the numbers as they did in scripture? The answer is not clear to me. But it does make me wonder.

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.

Perhaps it is worth trying.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us be Your light in this Earth. Send us now this day Your overwhelming abundant provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us up inside and outside, and deliver us from the evil. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold that which has been taken or held back in any way from Your people, and more besides. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

What Can We Change?

For my family and I, it has been a fun and amazing week. We were gifted a stay in a condo in Florida and a trip to Disney World. There have been a couple times, including this morning, when I thought about what it would take to make this happen on a more regular basis. Or even at will. It also caused me to think about doing the work and the will of our Father. What is it that we can and should do? Likely that will involve changing something. That begs the questions of what to change and how. The what is what the Father is doing. That has never changed. He is trying to help us become the people that emulate Him, walk in His ways and commands, and walk in His image. We see this in the Messiah Yeshuah’s (Jesus’) actions and speech.

John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

What Yeshuah did was walk around and tell people to love mercy, keep it simple, don’t add to what the Father has already given to us, and trust that the Father is on our side, ready to heal and deliver. Then there is the how.

Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Again, our focus needs to be on moving this planet toward our Father’s will. In that way we unite ourselves with Him.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us act as You act. Send us now Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal up our hearts and minds. 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. Rise up, O King, and show Yourself strong on our behalf. Show us a sign for good that all men might know that Yahuah alone has done this. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Such A Gift

When we become believers and are reborn into our Father’s kingdom of light through repentance and the blood of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus), we are give a gift. That gift is restoration with the Father, forever. Many people focus on after they die, and the fact that we will be with Him for eternity. That is good. But what about now? The good news is that God is on our side NOW! We can experience this good news here, now, in this time, in this Earth.

Nahum 1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

We can experience the power of our Father here and now at this time in this place, wherever we are. Let us give great thanks today for such a great gift!

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Let us reflect Your light in this place at all times, by Your grace. Send us today Your overwhelming abundant provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal up our hearts and minds. Deliver us, Father, from the evil and the evil one. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundred times one hundredfold all that has been taken or held back in any way, and even more besides. Let all men know that You alone have done this. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.