Rest When You Can

As believers we are called to another rest. We can rest, if we will allow ourselves to rest. It can be difficult, because we want to DO something. But sometimes, what we are called to do is rest.

Hebrews 4:8 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.

Let us rest then, today, on the Sabbath.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. Hail to our King! Praise the name Yahuah! Send us now Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us and deliver us that we might serve You and promote Your kingdom. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Thankful For…

There is much to be thankful for today. We have so many blessings and yet often we look past them to the assumed lack in our lives. Perhaps there can be more than this, if we will but be thankful to our Father.

Psalms 145:1 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.
3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.
7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
8 The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
9 The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
10 All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are our King. Bless Your name, Yahuah! Send us this day Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us up from the inside. deliver us from the thief that is stealing and has stolen from us. Restore to You people all that has been stolen one hundred times one hundred fold, and hundreds of hundreds. Come quickly, O King, and deliver Your people now. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Body Blow, Body Blow

When I was much younger, there were various types of arcade games. Many hours were spent in the coffee shop late at night playing… pinball. Those were the early games. Then came simple video games, then more complex. I still remember one fighting game where when you punched the opponent to the body it would say “body blow” and that was considered putting a real hurt on the opponent. So why am I writing that here? Because although we fight differently in the spiritual world, we still want to put a hurt on the enemy.

Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armor 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.

We see here that if we learn to take on the whole armor of God, we can deliver those body blows to the enemy.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are King. Praise the name Yahuah! You are our only Hope. Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us up from the inside. Deliver us from the thief that is killing us and stealing from us. We need You now. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Getting The Mind Right

As believers we are faced with a reality everyday. There is one God. We are not Him. That said, we will fall short of being perfect, although we strive to be. What can we do, as believers, to move in the direction of perfection, the direction of doing things right more often than we do today? One thing that helps is getting our mind right. Perhaps you are thinking that getting our mind right is more easily said than done. Well, it is work, but it is doable. We know this from scriptures, we know that we need not fear the inability to control our thoughts.

1 Timothy 1:6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

The next comes to us from both Paul and Moses (Paul quoted Moses).

Dueteronomy 30:9 And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

We can interrupt the thoughts in our mind by with the words coming out of our mouth. If we will speak the truth of the scriptures to ourselves, then those truths will become our thoughts.

It may not seem easy, but with the help of our Father, we can get our mind right.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. We love Your kingdom and rule. Bless the name Yahuah! Send us today Your overwhelming blessing of provision such that we cannot contain it. Forgive us our sins. Heal us up inside. Deliver us from the thief that has stolen from us and continues to steal. Remove the scales from our eyes that we might see clearly how we are slaves, and take action to be free. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Go The Extra Mile

How can we, as believers, be an encouragement to those around us? Our Messiah actually spoke to this very directly.

Matthew 5:41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

Here the Messiah was talking about someone forcing us, but it would only seem obvious that we would do the same for a brother or sister who asks. The Law and the prophets are summed up in this one saying.

Matthew 22:36 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.

Let us then go the extra mile with those that believe.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. We praise the name Yahuah! Send us now You overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins, though they may be many. We need Your mercy to survive, for none is righteous in Your eyes. Heal us, and deliver us from the evil that steals and enslaves Your people. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Comfort Ye My People

We are given a ministry of reconciliation. A significant portion of that is comforting the people of our Father. He wants us to comfort one another.

Isaiah 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

If we will lead the people to the way of our Father, they will be comforted. It is not with harsh words, or anger. It is in love speaking truth. We must then trust our Father to comfort them.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. Your people need You, Father. Praise the name Yahuah! Send us now Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us from the inside. deliver us from the evil that steals from us. Help Your people now, O King! We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Healing Power

On this Sabbath I have spent time thinking on the things of life. Our Father wants us to have life abundantly. Sometimes what we experience seem contrary to what we would expect from an “abundant life” because we are just human. But our Father knows where we are, and how to move us to the next point in our lives. He can get us there. If we can remember that in the difficult times, no matter how hard it is to remember, we can make it. We need to find joy in the journey. It is that joy that is the point, perhaps, as I ponder it now. On this Sabbath, let us try to remember the joy we had at the beginning, and forget the difficulties along the way. There is no other choice that makes sense really.

John 16:23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

Today, let’s ask our Father in the name of our Messiah to grant to us a life abundant, with family, with our needs met, and with time to be in fellowship with Him, that our joy may be full.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. We need You in our lives more than we can even know. It is lonely in life without knowing that You hear us. Today we ask several things of You. Please heal the little ones, and all that have infirmity. Please send us today overwhelming provision, that there is no lack. Please heal up our broken hearts. Forgive us our sins. Deliver us from the evil that steals so readily and seemingly at will. Rise up, my King! Come to the aid of Your people. These things we ask as a part of the anything that You grant, in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Tell Yourself To March

Today I sat monitoring the students in my classroom and thought about how tired I felt. Like many people, one job is not enough to make ends meet, so I work several. The thought came to me of how we always have to keep moving forward. I could see in my minds eye troops marching in the semi-dark in the rain, rain gear on, tired, slogging forward. That has to be us. We are slogging through life. We have to keep moving forward.

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

Some days we will be tired. We may feel alone. We may feel like the soldiers marching in the rain. But we must continue to march on. It is our only hope of making it to the end. And we know we have a Father that is there for us, encouraging us and comforting us on the way.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. We are weary, and we need Your kingdom. We need to be with You. We need to walk in Your ways. We bless Your name, Yahuah! Send us now Your overwhelming blessing. Forgive us our sins. Heal up that which is broken in our hearts. Deliver us from the evil that would steal from us. We need You and Your love and mercy to survive. You are our only hope in the rain. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.

Sad And Happy

Some friends of ours have a young one that is not well. It is unknown what the malady truly is. That can be at times worse than knowing something dramatic. Our minds can work against us. In times like these I ask all my readers to pray for a child named Ari. And I am thankful that we have a healer.

Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Thank you Father for healing Your children and ours.

Prayer
Father, we exalt you. Hail to the King! We need Your kingdom. Bless the name Yahuah! Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our sins. Heal us. Deliver us from the evil that steals from us till we are naked and destitute. Come quickly to destroy the evil, and restore one hundred times one hundred fold to your people. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.