Friday, February 19, 2016
TM
February
20, 2016
Shabbat
Shalom Loved One!
You are much loved!
He is watching over His word to perform it; not our additions and
subtractions such as adding our own pagan feast dates (Moedim- His appointed times
with us), or removing His commanded Feasts from our worship. What we speak must
line up with His word that is forever settled in Heaven.
Much is on my mind concerning who we are and who among us
will determine to become as He is. We are all aware that the seasons of these
end-times seem to be accelerating. The question we should all address is; WHAT
ARE WE DOING TO BECOME WHO WE WERE MADE TO BE? That is, we all have a calling-
but are we making ourselves ready to be His Bride without---WITHOUT- spot or
blemish?
I am reading a book just now by Anna Mendez Ferrell- whom
I have great respect for as I have met her- that addresses INIQUITIES. Most of
us know that iniquities are roots of sin behavior and have to do with
generational curses passed down for many generations. These are not judgments
for sin, but the sin of our own, and those of our bloodlines upward open
avenues or maybe better called demonic doors of attack to place the same sin on
us—and most of us have been at least partially blocked from really overcoming
and attaining the intimacy of KNOWING HIM as He wants us to. A look at King
David’s life and the Psalms is eye opening, as he recognizes his iniquities and
determines and calls out for help.
Psalms_38:4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a
heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psalms_40:12
For innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am
not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; Therefore my
heart fails me.
Psalms_51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and
blot out all my iniquities.
Psalms_64:6 They devise iniquities: "We have
perfected a shrewd scheme." both the inward thought and the heart of man
are deep.
Psalms_65:3 Iniquities prevail against me; as for our transgressions, you will provide
atonement for them.
Psalms_79:8 Oh, do not remember former iniquities against us!
Let your tender mercies come speedily to meet us, for we have been brought very
low.
Psalms_90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our
secret sins in the light of your
countenance.
Psalms_103:3 Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all
your diseases,
Psalms_103:10 He has not dealt with us according
to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities.
Psalms_107:17 Fools, because of their
transgression, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
So generational curses of iniquities is likely the very
thing blocking many of us from moving forward—it seems sometimes we just have
no more hunger or thirst for Him- we are blocked somehow of desire to move
deeper into Him. The author of the book shared that she always had a difficult
time and was continually losing her money (Even
her inheritance) that she knew was rightfully hers. So, she made a very
wise move that we each should consider also. She asked the Father to reveal why
this continued to happen in her life and why she could not overcome. Yes – she sought
Him with ALL her heart and desire!
She was given a dream that night and saw an event happen
in her grandfather’s life. He was a businessman and cheated his partner out
wrongfully and she heard the partner tell him- “You and your descendants will
be cursed for ever for this!” So she acknowledged her own shortcomings in
repentance and placed the blood of the Lamb between her grandfather’s sin and her
bloodline downward! She shares that it seemed the windows of heaven began to pour
on her and never again did she experience lack from that day forward! I
encourage you to do likewise- take a paper and look at the results of sin in your
lineage. Divorces, lack, sickness, disease, hate, bitterness, fornication,
adultery, etc. and deal with these as some have likely been attached to our
lives also. We must ask and SPECIFICALLY hear and address these iniquities that
we may make ourselves ready! Our loving heavenly Father will give us strategies-
if we will but ask and receive! He stands at the door and knocks on our hearts-
will we listen and allow Him to help us?
Matthew 6:14 “For if you forgive
men their trespasses, your heavenly Father shall also forgive you.
Matthew 6:15 “But if
you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither shall your Father forgive your
trespasses. Matthew 6:16 “And when you fast, (NOT IF) do not be
sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces so that they
appear to be fasting to men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. Matthew 6:17 “But you, when
you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, Matthew
6:18 so that you do not appear to men to be
fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who
sees in secret shall reward you openly. Matthew
6:19 “Do
not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and
where thieves break in and steal, Matthew 6:20 but lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where
thieves do not break in and steal. Matthew 6:21
“For where your treasure is, there your heart shall be
also. Matthew 6:22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is
good, all your body shall be enlightened. Matthew
6:23 “But if your eye is evil, 1
all your body shall be darkened. If, then, the light
that is within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Footnote: 1 this is a Heḇrew idiom – a good eye means to be generous, while an
evil eye means to be stingy. Matthew
6:24 “No
one is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the
other, or else he shall cleave to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.1 Footnote: 1
Personification of wealth. Matthew 6:25
“Because of this I say to you, do not worry about your
life, what you shall eat or drink, or about your body, what you shall put on.
Is not life more than the food and the body more than the clothing? Matthew 6:26 “Look at the
birds of the heaven, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into storehouses,
yet your heavenly Father does feed them. Are you not worth more than they? Matthew 6:27 “And which of you
by worrying is able to add one cubit to his life’s span? Matthew 6:28 “So why do you
worry about clothing? Note well the lilies of the field, how they grow. They
neither toil nor spin, Matthew 6:29 and I say to you that even Shelomoh in all his esteem was not
dressed like one of these. Matthew 6:30 “But if Elohim so
clothes the grass of the field, which exists today, and tomorrow is thrown into
the furnace, how much more you, O you of little belief? Matthew 6:31 “Do not worry
then, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we
wear?’ Matthew 6:32 “For all these the gentiles seek for. And your heavenly
Father knows that you need all these. Matthew 6:33 “But seek first the reign of Elohim, and His righteousness,
and all these matters shall be added to you. Matthew 6:34 “Do not, then, worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow shall have its own
worries. Each day has enough evil of itself.
Loved
Ones- Many have been in a “need to fast” time, and as usual there is always a
very good reason we are being urged by the Ruach HaKodesh to fast and pray.
Those of us who have been around a while realize—trouble’s brewing just ahead—and
if we ignore His urging to fast and pray- we are NOT WISE!
So
consider what the benefits are of fasting and praying. Remember with me all
offerings are only acceptable when they cost us something- afflicting our souls
do this.
The awesome truth of the spiritual benefit of
prayer and fasting: It rids us of our unbelief!
(I will try and explain fully with scripture
guarantees next week)
Judgment and destruction is how
Daniel 9 clearly states how YHWH confirms HIS covenant with His people. Obviously
for OBEDIENCE He confirms His covenant with BLESSINGS! It is then a COVENANT OF KINDNESS! However, the
rounding up of Americans to FEMA death camps or spraying us with plagues via
chemtrails might be His judgment which may have already started. Judgment IS
for disobedience as a people. Remember with me among many other rebellious acts
we have done- that keeping HIS Sabbath is a SIGN forever between Him and His
grafted in people:
(Exodus 31:15) ‘Six days
work is to be done; and the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, set-apart to יהוה. Everyone doing work on the Sabbath day shall certainly be put
to death. (Exodus 31:16) ‘The children of Yisra’ĕl shall guard the
Sabbath and observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting
covenant. (Exodus 31:17) ‘Between Me and the
children of Yisra’ĕl it is a sign forever. In six days יהוה made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He
rested and was refreshed.’ ” The
CONFIRMATION OF THE COVENANT is of great import as this is what starts the
final 42 months before the LAST TRUMP. Currently, I see judgment confirming
Messiah’s covenant stated in Daniel 9:27 below as general and vast but could certainly include the
Zechariah 5 thermonuclear war. We must decide for ourselves of course. I for one
would certainly prefer having an additional time to repent!
REPENTING and asking for forgiveness; note who the
covenant is for…BLESSING OR CURSE?
Daniel 9:4 And I prayed to יהוה
my Elohim, and made confession, and said, “O יהוה,
great and awesome Ěl, guarding the
covenant and the kindness to those who love Him, and to those who guard His
commands. Daniel 9:5 “We
have sinned and done crookedness; did wrong and rebelled- to turn aside from
your commands and from your right-rulings. Daniel
9:6 “And we have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke
in Your Name to our sovereigns, our heads, and our fathers, and to all the
people of the land. Daniel 9:7 “O יהוה, to You is the righteousness, and to us
the shame of face, as it is this day – to the men of Yehuḏah, to the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim and all Yisra’ĕl, those near and those far off in all the lands to which you have
driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against you.
Daniel 9:8 “O Master to us is the shame of
face, to our sovereigns, to our heads, and to our fathers, because we have
sinned against you. Daniel 9:9 “To יהוה our Elohim are the compassions and
forgiveness’s, for we have rebelled against Him. Daniel
9:10 “And we have not obeyed the voice of
יהוה our Elohim, to walk in His Torot,
which He set before us through His servants the prophets. Daniel 9:11 “And all
Yisra’ĕl- we have transgressed Your Torah, and turned aside, so as not to obey
your voice. So the curse and
the oath written in the Torah of Mosheh the servant of Elohim have been poured
out on us, for we have sinned against Him.
He still desires intimacy and that comes from
WILLING obedience as that is the only sacrifice that is
acceptable to Him! A heart to obey will always receive more
instructions whereas a heart in rebellion will be cut off and allowed to
stumble until REPENTANCE comes!
Yahshua reminds us: (John 14:20) “In
that day (Comment:
Hebrew idiom for Day of the Lord) you shall know that I am in My Father and you in me, and I in
you. (John 14:21) “He
who possesses my commands and guards (does) them; it is he who
loves me. And he who loves me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love him
and manifest myself to him.” Then we read 1 John: (1 John 2:15) Do not love the
world or that which is in the world. If
anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.1 Footnote: 1 James 4:4. (1 John 2:16) Because all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the
world. (1 John 2:17) And the world passes
away, and the lust of it, but the one doing the desire of Elohim remains
forever.
Loved
One- we are manifesting as the sons and daughters of the Creator as we learn to
yield and obey. It is
called She’mah (HEAR AND OBEY) O’
Israel! May our loving Creator give us the ears to hear Him and the courage to
obey Him!
(1 John 3:1) See what love the Father has given us, that
we should be called children of Elohim! For this reason the world does not know
us, because it did not know Him. (1 John 3:2) Beloved ones, now we are children of Elohim.
And it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is
revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. (1 John 3:3)
And everyone having this expectation in Him cleanses himself, as He is
clean. (1 John 3:4) Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is
lawlessness. (1 John 3:5)
And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him
there is no sin. (1 John 3:6) Everyone staying in Him does not sin. Everyone sinning has neither seen Him nor known Him.1
Footnote: 1 See 2:4 & 3 John v. 11. (1 John 3:7)
Little children, let no one lead you astray. The
one doing righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.1
Footnote: 1See 2:29. (1 John 3:8)
The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of Elohim was manifested: to destroy the works of the devil.1 Footnote: 1 See Titus 2:14. (1 John 3:9)
Everyone having been born of Elohim does not sin, because His seed stays
in him, and he is powerless to sin, because he has been born of Elohim.
“DOING” the Gospel is not only guarding our
tongues to agree with YHWH’s words but keeping ourselves pure and undefiled
from the world and its systems and culture of whoredoms which contain pagan
traditions. Obedience to Torah is FREEDOM!
PURE RELIGION and undefiled is this- take care of widows
and orphans and keep ourselves from being polluted (naturally) by the world and its culture! (James
1:21) Therefore
put away all filthiness and overflow of evil, and receive with meekness the
implanted Word, 1 which
is able to save your lives. Footnote: 1 See
Matthew 13:4-23. (James 1:22) And become
doers of the Word, and not hearers only,
1 deceiving yourselves. Footnote: 1 See Matthew 7:24-27, Luke 6:46-49,
Luke 8:21, Romans 2:13, Hebrews 4:11, Revelation 22:14. (James 1:23) If anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a
doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror, (James 1:24) for he looks at himself, and goes away,
and immediately forgets what he was like. (James 1:25) But he that looked
into the perfect Torah, that of freedom, 1 and continues in
it, not becoming a hearer that forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall
be blessed in his doing of the Torah. Footnote: 1 See 2:12. (James
1:26) If anyone among you thinks he is
religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this
one’s religion is worthless. (James
1:27) Clean and undefiled religion before the
Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and
to keep oneself unstained (Unpolluted) from the world.
Really want to know the will of YHWH for your life? Do we really want
to know? Here’s how; offer our bodies as a living sacrifice- that is fast and
pray and READ and MEDITATE on His Word- yes Torah, the prophets and the Renewed
Covenant!
(Romans 12:1) I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through
the compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart,
well-pleasing to Elohim – your reasonable worship. (Romans
12:2) And do not be conformed to this world (Pollution
and defiled), but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, (Meditating on the Word) so that you
prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect desire of Elohim.
(His will)
This Weeks Torah Scriptures: Re’eh See/Behold
Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17; Isaiah
54:11-55:11; 1 John 4:1-6; 2 Kings Chapters 4, 5, and 6
Blessings
or Curses from Obedience or Disobedience- We get to choose!
(Keep in mind it is
not legalism to obey YHWH- that’s called obedience and brings forth blessings-
it is legalism to obey man’s added rules and traditions- which Yahshua says
makes the word of none effect!)
(Deuteronomy 11:26)
‘See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: (Deuteronomy 11:27) the blessing, when you obey the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I command you
today; (Deuteronomy
11:28) and the curse, if you do
not obey the commands of יהוה your Elohim,
but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other mighty
ones which you have not known. (Deuteronomy 11:29) ‘And it shall be, when יהוה
your Elohim has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you
shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ěyḇal. (Deuteronomy 11:30) ‘Are they not beyond the Yardĕn,
toward the setting sun, in the land of the Kenaʽanites who dwell in the desert
plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh? (Deuteronomy 11:31)
‘For you are passing over the Yardĕn to go in to possess the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and you shall
possess it and dwell in it, (Deuteronomy 11:32) and shall guard to do all the laws and
right-rulings which I am setting before you today.’ (Deuteronomy 12:1)
“These are the laws and right-rulings which you guard to do in the land
which יהוה Elohim of your fathers is giving you to
possess, all the days that you live on the soil. (Deuteronomy
12:2) “Completely destroy all the
places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their mighty ones,
on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. (Deuteronomy 12:3)
“And you shall break down their altars, and smash their pillars, and
burn their Ashĕrim with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their
mighty ones and shall destroy their name 1
out of that place. Footnote: 1 The names of
the gentile deities (mighty ones). (Deuteronomy 12:4)
“Do not do so to יהוה your Elohim, (Deuteronomy 12:5)
but seek the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses,
out of all your tribes, to put His Name there, for His Dwelling Place, and
there you shall enter. (Deuteronomy 12:6) “And there you shall take your burnt
offerings, and your offerings, and your tithes, and the contributions of your
hand, and your vowed offerings, and your voluntary offerings, and the
firstlings of your herd and of your flock.(Deuteronomy
12:7) “And there you shall eat
before יהוה your Elohim, and shall rejoice in all that
you put your hand to, you and your households, in which יהוה
your Elohim has blessed you. (Deuteronomy 12:8) “Do not do as we are doing here today
– each one doing whatever is right in his own eyes 1.
Footnote: 1 See Judges 17:6 & 21:25. (Deuteronomy 12:9)
“Because you have not yet entered the rest and the inheritance which יהוה your Elohim is giving you. (Deuteronomy 12:10)
“But you shall pass over the Yardĕn, and shall dwell in the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to inherit, and
He shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and you shall dwell
in safety. (Deuteronomy 12:11) “And it shall be that unto the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell
there, there you are to bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and
your offerings, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and all
your choice offerings which you vow to יהוה.
(Deuteronomy 12:12) “And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim, you and your sons and your daughters, and your
male servants and your female servants, and the Lĕwite who is within your
gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Do not eat blood!
(Deuteronomy 12:13) “Guard yourself
that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see, (Deuteronomy 12:14) except in the place which יהוה chooses, in one of your tribes, there you
are to offer your burnt offerings, and there you are to do all that I command
you. (Deuteronomy 12:15) “Only, whatever your being desires you shall slaughter
and eat, according to the blessing of יהוה
your Elohim which He has given you, within all your gates. The unclean and the
clean do eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike. (Deuteronomy
12:16) “Only, the blood you do not eat, pour it on the earth like
water. (Deuteronomy 12:17) “You are not allowed to eat within your gates
the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or of the
firstlings of your herd or your flock, or of any of your offerings which you
vow, or of your voluntary offerings, or of the contribution of your hand. (Deuteronomy 12:18)
“But eat them before יהוה your Elohim, in the
place which יהוה your Elohim chooses,
you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female
servant, and the Lĕwite who is within your gates. And you shall rejoice before יהוה
