Yom Shlishi, Av 17, 6003 – July 31, 2018
Imagining The Future
We have a belief system in place, regardless of whether or not we believe in God, our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus), His death and resurrection, etc. Our belief system is really what we expect to happen to us and for us. Those who reject scripture have their own beliefs about life. Those that accept scripture have their own beliefs about life. A question for us as believers in God, what do we really believe? Do we believe based on experience solely? If so, then we will speak and “live into” that belief. The future we imagine is the past we have already lived, only with more time added to it, engrounding our beliefs even further. Or we can take scripture, and consider what it would mean for it to be true. We can imagine what those scriptures would look like to be true in our own lives. We can pray and ask our Father for wisdom regarding that manifestation in our lives. We can spend time dwelling on that manifestation. Then we can imagine that future. We will begin to expect that future to come to pass. When that gets into our heart, we will know, because it will begin to come out of our mouth. We will act like it is coming true and take those appropriate actions.
One of the actions we are told to be doing is to build one another up. We need to see what the scriptures have to say in this regard, and then do them.
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
We can give ourselves to something. In fact, wee will because that is a part of life. But we can choose what it is that we will give ourselves to today. We cannot be concerned about tomorrow. We must move forward with today. We can do this today.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. Praise the name YAH. Let Your kingdom come here in the hearts and minds of mankind. Let Your will be done here perfectly as it is in heaven. Send us Your overwhelming provision that we might overflow to those around us. Deliver us from the evil here. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. 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 and caring for us. Restore Your people Father, better than ever. Restore unto Your people all that has been eaten by the worms of life. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold all that has been taken or held back in any way from Your people of that which is good, and the more besides. Send in quickly the $423,923,962.53 that we might use it to promote the kingdom of God in the hearts and minds of mankind here. Give us the wisdom to walk like our Messiah walked in love and forgiveness. We ask all these things of You, Father, in the name YAH Yeshuah HaMashiak. Amen.