Yom Shabbat, Tishri 5 – September 15, 2018
Spreading The Word
We are charged with spreading the word about how God is with us. We must choose to believe that He is on our side and that He will always cause us to triumph. If we can do that, we can experience our Father in a way that we were meant to experience Him. We can experience Him in truth. And, we can experience His rest. Above all else, we need His rest, both now and in eternity.
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.
In verse eight it speaks of a rest that is a settling, to take rest, or to be lead to a place of rest. In verse nine it is a different word. It is the word for “Sabbath” and is translated that way in other places. What it seems to say here is that the promised land was a type of rest, but those that perished in the desert did so because they did not have the faith to trust in our Father’s deliverance. The Messiah will one day take us into the new heaven and new earth where He physically reigns, but He has not done that yet. Therefore, we live inside of the pattern of YAH (read “calendar”) that through our lives we train our hearts and minds, and the hearts and minds of others, to have the eager expectation (“hope”) of His eminent return. If we do not do this, we declare allegiance to something else, like fear, and we will live in that kingdom instead. We can choose rest and peace.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. Praise the name YAH! Let Your kingdom come here in this earth in the hearts and minds and bodies of the people here. Let Your will be done here perfectly as it is in heaven. Send us Your provision that we might overflow to those around us. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Deliver us from the evil here. Wipe away all thoughts and memories of the evil done to us or by us. In their place let there be only thoughts and memories of You and Your love for all. Restore Your people, Father, unto You. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold all the good that has been taken or held back in any way of that which is good, and the more besides. Send in quickly the $423,817,962.53 that we might use it to promote the kingdom of God in the hearts and minds and bodies of the people here. We ask all these things of You, Father, in the name YAH Yeshuah HaMashiak. Amen.