Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Battleground Land
Our Father is very generous in teaching us about life, if we let Him. By that I mean if we will take time to communicate with Him, and listen, we can hear what He has to say. This introduction today is an attempt to bring out our need for change, specifically in the way we think. For those of us plagued by challenging childhoods, our minds may have run unteathered for a long time. Our thoughts may have beaten us up for years.
Wouldn’t it be great not to be hammered in our thoughts everyday? If you as a reader do not experience any of this, keep reading because I assure you that you do know people that do that could use your encouragement. How can we help; how can we break this pattern? It is simple and yet can be difficult.
Change what you hear, which will help you change what you say, which will help give you power over what you do, then repeat that pattern. How do we know this works? It is a pattern that is repeated over and over again in scripture. First, thinking is important.
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.
What is in the mind is the person, or will be. How do we change the thinking?
Deuteronomy 30:11 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 see here in verse 13 something important that might be overlooked. the last part says “…that we may hear it, and do it…” which plainly tells us that what we hear we can and probably will do. Makes a person want to rethink the music and video we hear and see, right? The next part is really so powerful. It answers the question about where can we get this word that we might hear it and do it. We get it from our own mouth! The words coming out of our mouth we will hear more deeply, and it is our own words which we will do and/or experience. Before we run off talking about driving a Vette and having a million dollars in our account, we should look for qualifiers. The qualifier is in verse 11. We are to be following the commandment of our Father. It is this commandment that has the blessing. What blessing? Just about everything you can think of as a blessing is covered by the blessings of following the commandments. Here is an example.
Deuteronomy 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
7 The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
8 The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
9 The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.
11 And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
12 The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13 And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
And if that was not enough, there is one more that I really enjoy.
Deuteronomy 8:18 But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Today, let us begin to create support systems for ourselves that help us say and hear, then do, that which the Father has commanded.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King! Bless the name Yahuah! You are worthy of our praise and more. Let us be instruments of Your restoration of Your will and kingdom in this earth. Restore us, Father. Send us now Your overwhelming provision such that we do not have room to hold it all and it overflows to others. Forgive us our sins. Heal us up inside, and wipe out the past bad memories. Deliver us from the one that steals and destroys. Crush that work. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundredfold that which has been taken or held back. We ask all these things in the Name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.