In this approach to Pesach (Passover) we may need to sit back in reflection and contemplate where we are AND WHO HE IS!
YHWH Elohim will never ever change, so what He laid down at the Creation, what HE decided to be the times of the seasons, and other foundations will prevail until at least the New Heaven and the New Earth are constituted (Is. 65:17; Is. 66:22-24; 2 Pet. 3:11-18; Rev. 21:1-3 - and HE Will dwell in our midst again just as in The Garden and in the Wilderness).
Brethren, we may need to all to stop here and contemplate this paramount fact before we go any further -
SALVATION AND SANCTIFICATION IS IMMENSELY PERSONAL AND HAS NOTHING WHAT-SO-EVER TO DO WITH ANY BODY ELSE! (Ecc. 12:13-14; Mat. 16:23; John 21:20-25; Phil. 2:12-18).
You see dear brethren TRUE FAITH is not a list of rules and regulations which we try to live by and force others to live accordingly - TRUE FAITH IS TOTAL LOVE THROUGH OBEDIENCE AND COMMITMENT TO DIVINELY ORCHESTRATED ACTS INSTITUTED AND DIRECTED BY YHWH ELOHIM AND HIS WORD, YESHUA: TRUE FAITH IS NEVER BLIND OBEDIENCE AND COMMITMENT TO ANY OTHER PERSON, SYSTEM OR INSTITUTION WITHOUT FIRST SEEKING COUNCIL FROM YESHUA!
True Faith can only be exercised by those washed in The Blood of the Lamb AND WHO THEN WILLINGLY COMMIT THEMSELVES TO HIS DIVINE WORKS AND DIRECTION IN THEIR LIVES.
True Faith WILL NEVER MAKE SENSE TO THOSE IN THE WORLD OR EVEN THOSE BELIEVERS CHOOSING TO SIT ON THE FENCE - HERE IS A TRUTH, TRUE FAITH (TOTAL OBEDIENCE AND COMMITMENT TO DIVINELY ORCHESTRATED ACTS) WILL MOST PROBABLY NOT EVEN MAKE SENSE TO THE ONE CARRYING OUT SUCH ACTS - HE/SHE WILL JUST BE A SHEEP FOLLOWING IT'S MASTER SHEPHERD AND TRUSTING THAT OUR SHEPHERD WILL LEAD US INTO ALL TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS! Heb. 11; John 10:22-30.
TRUE FAITH IS INTIMATE & SEEMINGLY SELF DESTRUCTIVE BECAUSE TRUE FAITH LEADS TO THE DISCOVERING AND BUILDING OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN HERE ON EARTH WITH EVERYTHING BUT HUMAN PATTERNS AND SYSTEMS!
TRUE FAITH LEADS TO THE DEATH OF SELF (NOT OTHERS - THEY ARE NOT OUR PROBLEM) SO THAT WE CAN BECOME MORE LIKE YESHUA, DEPENDING ENTIRELY ON HIS FATHER FOR ALL OUR NEEDS AND IN THE PROCESS GRADUALLY DEPENDING LESS ON THIS DEAD WORLD WE STILL WALK IN RIGHT NOW - THIS AGAIN IS SANCTIFICATION! Mat. 6:25-34.
True Faith will be tested in the fires of affliction to refine it as silver and gold: True Faith is to trust in WHAT YHWH ELOHIM HAS TOLD US ESPECIALLY WHEN THE FIRES ARE AT THEIR HOTTEST AND SEEMINGLY MOST DANGEROUS. 1 Pet. 1:6-11 - NB. The Spirit of Messiah was IN THE PROPHETS OF OLD - THEY WERE BORN AGAIN; Dan 3; Dan. 6.
True Faith WILL SEPARATE THE BRIDE FROM THE BELIEVER because only True Faith can qualify us to be the Bride and without it WE CANNOT PLEASE YHWH ELOHIM! Deut. 8:2-3; Mat. 25:1-12; Heb. 11:6
Many, if not most, of the situations we are being confronted with at this time may seem harrowing, unfair, impossible, EVEN DOWNRIGHT CONFUSING and quite frankly just like Peter in John 21, others may seem to have a much better deal than we are experiencing at this moment, or in this season of our lives.
True Faith WILL SEPARATE THE BRIDE FROM THE BELIEVER because only True Faith can qualify us to be the Bride and without it WE CANNOT PLEASE YHWH ELOHIM! Deut. 8:2-3; Mat. 25:1-12; Heb. 11:6
Many, if not most, of the situations we are being confronted with at this time may seem harrowing, unfair, impossible, EVEN DOWNRIGHT CONFUSING and quite frankly just like Peter in John 21, others may seem to have a much better deal than we are experiencing at this moment, or in this season of our lives.
It makes no matter where we as believers in Messiah Yeshua may be right now, I pray that we may find ourselves in a quiet harbour protected from the storms of life, but the Truth is most are not there!
How can I make such a statement?
Well obviously I have contact with other believers and I know of their present circumstances; BUT more specifically I make this statement based on the fact of the season we are now entering.
We are entering the Pesach (Passover) period, the beginning of the new cycle of growth and just as Brother Judah in Yisrael will pruning, planting, plowing so as to prepare his fields for the coming summer, SO YHWH ABBA IS ALSO TENDING AND KEEPING HIS GARDEN IN PREPARATION FOR THIS TIME OF GROWTH, JUST AS HE INSTRUCTED ADAM TO DO. Gen. 2:15
ABBA IS PRUNING HIS VINE, CUTTING BACK AND GRAFTING INTO HIS CULTIVATED OLIVE TREE. John 15:1-17; Rom. 11:11ff
Brethren, if you are willing to accept it, those who have the Seed of Messiah Yeshua in them ARE NOW BEING PREPARED FOR THE NEW SEASON OF GROWTH as we enter a new spring period.
This is nothing new, just renewed circumstances that all of the Biblical Characters of YHWH Elohim needed to face in their walk with YHWH Elohim from Adam to the very last person who will be brought back into His Kingdom, His Garden!
Oh dear brethren, even our Yeshua had to suffer persecution, rejection and even death on a Stake to prove His Obedience to His Abba YHWH and to then qualify as the High Priest in the eternal order of Melchizedek. Heb. 5:5-10
This is nothing new, just renewed circumstances that all of the Biblical Characters of YHWH Elohim needed to face in their walk with YHWH Elohim from Adam to the very last person who will be brought back into His Kingdom, His Garden!
Oh dear brethren, even our Yeshua had to suffer persecution, rejection and even death on a Stake to prove His Obedience to His Abba YHWH and to then qualify as the High Priest in the eternal order of Melchizedek. Heb. 5:5-10
A brother in Messiah living in Ireland* sent a mail to me this morning which so beautifully summed up what I wished to share with you all by quoting:-
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Cor. 12:9-10 ESV
It was NOT RULES OF MAN BUT Yeshua's Commitment and Love for His Body through the Love of The Father for His Children WHICH KEPT YESHUA ON THE STAKE, THE CROSS, THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH, MAKING HIM DESPISED AND REJECTED BY HIS CREATION - IT PLEASED THE FATHER TO BRUISE OUR YESHUA - BECAUSE OF THE SIN OF MAN!
So are we, incomplete and fallible man that we still are, who claim to have died with Yeshua and been raised to His Eternal Inheritance, prepared to stay on that Cross with HIM THROUGH LOVE AND OBEDIENCE TO HIM TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITIES OR NOT?
That each of us will need to answer individually - it is not a "team effort" BUT THERE ARE THOSE THAT HE WILL RAISE UP TO HELP AS HE SEES FIT - TO GIVE US ALL WE SHALL NEED TO ACHIEVE THE TASK AT HAND.
So to those of us who are seemingly confused and not hearing His clear and sure voice right now - here is an answer to your dilemmas:
TRUST IN THE NAME OF YHWH YOUR ELOHIM AND BELIEVE THAT HE IS TRANSFORMING YOU AND I AND ALL WHO WILL FOLLOW INTO THE LIKENESS OF HIS SON, OUR SAVIOUR YESHUA; HE IS IN THE PROCESS OF RECONCILING THE WILLING TO HIM AND HIS KINGDOM RULES. Is. 50:10-11; Phil. 1:6
HE IS MAKING US TO BE A LIGHT AND SALT UNTO THE DYING WORLD, DO NOT HIDE THAT LIGHT UNDER A BUCKET, OR RENDER YOUR SALT USELESS. Mat. 5:13-16
I am sure most reading this blog will agree that we are running out of ideas fast, and should by now be realising that our ways and thoughts DO NOT ALIGN WITH HIS, AND THAT WE JUST CANNOT CARRY THIS LOAD ANYMORE: IT MAY BE BECOMING MORE AND MORE OBVIOUS THAT THE ONLY WAY WE WILL WALK THIS PATH IS TO REMAIN AT PEACE IN HIS PRESENCE, and to that end we have HIS promises that HE will never leave us as orphans or allow us to be tried above what we can bear, and within these trial HE will show us a way out (Is. 55:8ff; John 14:18; 1 Cor. 10:12-14)
But there is power in the confessions and prayers of the Righteous and armed with that weapon I may have a valuable key which could help us massively now and forever - it is a prayer that I received just the other day from a very dear brother in Messiah Yeshua who lives in the USA*. James 5:16-18.
“Abba Father, it is my desire to follow You wherever You lead me. I am honored to be your servant and take my stand today against the adversary and his schemes against me, my family, and your call for me. Father, as I take up each piece of the armor You have so graciously provided me, please secure all of it in place on me.
I take up the shield of faith and extend it over myself. It extinguishes all the fiery darts of attack of the evil one.
I put on the helmet of salvation, which protects my mind from the enemy’s attacks. With it, I have the mind of Messiah.
I put on the breastplate of righteousness of Elohim. In Messiah, every foothold of evil has been washed away and I am clothed in righteousness!
I gird my loins with the belt of truth. Your word, O Elohim, is truth. Father, sanctify me according to Your Word and remind me through the Ruach Ha Kodesh of the Truth that destroys the lies of sin.
I bind on my feet the preparation of the Gospel of peace. I walk with You daily. I rejoice in your Good News for me and for the whole world! I have peace with YHWH through Yeshua’s sacrifice. I walk in my inheritance as an adopted son/daughter of Elohim and have authority over evil in Yeshua’s name.
I will use the sword of the Spirit by speaking the Word of Elohim as it applies to whatever situation I may face today. Father, please remind me of Your Word by your Ruach Ha Kodesh, knowing ‘The Word’ (Yeshua Messiah) and the Spirit (You, Abba) ALWAYS work together.
I will continue to pray in the Spirit throughout the day, and intercede for all Your people as the Ruach Ha Kodesh prompts me. I believe that the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit) is interceding on my behalf according to my prayers.
Thank-you Abba for loving me enough to provide me with all Your armor. Please surround me with Your hedge of protection as I move forward on the spiritual battlefield today. I praise and worship You now and forever. You are my Elohim. I am Your servant. May everything I do and say today bring glory to You and You alone. Amein.” Eph. 6:10-20
May this blog from a fellow brother and sojourner in Messiah Yeshua be a blessing to you one and all. Please again prayerfully and cautiously read what I have penned here, because I too am just trying to find my way home!
Shalom
Bo'az
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