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Thought For The Day (August 24, 2012): Pursuing The Revelation Of JESUS CHRIST In The Shabbat-Shalom Of YHWH

The reality and actuality of JESUS CHRIST is an inward revelation from the FATHER-Heart of YHWH – actualized through consistent and persevering prayer.

[Tongues are a powerful tool in actualizing the Mystery of MESSIAH in our inward parts – see 1 Cor 14:2 + Col 1:26-28.]

Ephesians 1:17-19a (NASB) instructs us on the need to actually pray for the revelation of JESUS CHRIST: < that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. >

2 Corinthians 4:6-7 (NKJV) speaks of the revelation of YESHUA MASHIAH as treasure in our hearts so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of GOD and not of ourselves: < For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. >

The inward revelation of JESUS CHRIST makes us each an Epistle of CHRIST. 2 Corinthians 3:3 (NKJV) reads: < clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. >

In CHRIST JESUS, we are empowered to do all things. Philippians 4:13 (NKJV) reads: < I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. >

By CHRIST JESUS, GOD will supply all our need according to the riches of His Glory. Philippians 4:19 (NKJV) reads: < And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. >

As growing Epistles of CHRIST, we are to develop our capacity to do things in thought, word, deed and relationship, in CHRIST JESUS and by CHRIST JESUS, through the HOLY SPIRIT.

And, in the actualization of our every capacity to function in CHRIST JESUS and by CHRIST JESUS, in our inward parts, we are created as unique vessels, in accordance with the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.

The yoke of lawlessness that afflicts all of us (through the flesh) can only be broken as we actualize the realities of Scripture through the Spirit and Life of JESUS CHRIST; with every reality of the Word being established in us in the faith of JESUS CHRIST and, with every reality of the Word being brought to fulfillment in us in the love of JESUS CHRIST.

The antidote to lawlessness (which is the spirit of this age, the spirit of the anti-CHRIST), which is increasingly besetting the Church, is the actual communication of the Nature and Character of YESHUA MASHIAH into the fabric of our being, by the HOLY SPIRIT.

The actual communication of the Nature and Character of YESHUA MASHIAH into the fabric of our being, by the HOLY SPIRIT, is what will yield the Fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT in each one of us.

Actualizing freedom from the Law of Sin and Death – by living by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (see Rom 8:2, 1-4) – is the exclusive basis for actualizing our prophetic potential which stand in the many-faceted promises of YHWH.

Our prophetic potential is described in 2 Corinthians 1:20 (NASB) as follows: < For as many as are the promises of God, in Him (in JESUS CHRIST) they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us. >

Our prophetic potential in JESUS CHRIST is also described by 2 Peter 1:19 (NASB): < So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. >

The practical reality of operating, free from the Law of Sin and Death, is the actuality of the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH in our heart. Here’s why this is so.

The ‘Shabbat’ speaks of the Sabbath rest YESHUA has opened to us, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in His Witness of Spirit, Water and Blood alive within us in a new birth (see Rom 8:2 + 1 John 5:7-10a, NKJV). Hence Hebrews 4:9-10 declares: < So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. >

The ‘Shalom’ speaks of the peace that stands in the atoning power of the Blood of the LAMB (see John14:27; Col 1:19-20).

The Shabbat-Shalom in our hearts is the practical reality or, the spiritual environment, of operating by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, in the fulfillment of the Law (Rom 8:2, 1-4).

The Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH [YHWH M’KADDESH (Ex 31:13) and YHWH-SHALOM (Judg 6:23-24)] is the basis of actualizing and developing the prophetic into our being and through our being as we unfold as Ministers (Servants) of CHRIST, stewards of the Mysteries of GOD (see 1 Cor 4:1).

The Sabbath Day Law (Ex 31:12-18) is fulfilled in the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH in our hearts through the Witness of YESHUA in Spirit, Water and Blood, energized and quickened in our inward parts by the HOLY SPIRIT.

The Shabbat-Shalom is an operating state in YHWH (by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS) where we have ceased from our works of the flesh (see Heb 4:9-10) and, we have embraced capacities of function from GOD – in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT, in the faith conviction of having been set free from the Law of Sin and Death (Rom 8:2, 1-4). Amen!

All the Gifts, the 5-fold Gifts (Eph 4:11-12); the Gifts of the HOLY SPIRIT (1 Cor 12); the Ministry Gifts of the Believer (Rom 12:1-18)
must be developed and operated in the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH, actualized by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, in the faithful and true Witness of JESUS CHRIST – in Spirit, Water and Blood. Amen!

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Thought For The Day (August 22, 2012): Developing Our Faith Confession

The fact that our words are a matter of life and death is clearly proclaimed by Deuteronomy 30:14-15 (NKJV), < But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil >.

The fact that our words define our spiritual state is proclaimed in James 3:2, < For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. >

Every time we speak our words carry a confession of ‘our faith’. There is a faith form that declares (usually by implication) that YESHUA is LORD and there is a faith form that denies (usually by implication) YESHUA as LORD.Everything we speak will either testify to YESHUA being LORD or, we deny that HE is LORD (by the implications of our wrong words).
We all understand that it is important that we speak right.If our words stand in obedience to JESUS CHRIST, declaring the fact that He is LORD, then our words have the potential to actualize the Righteousness of GOD and communicate the power of His salvation.
Romans 10:10 (NKJV) declares this reality in no uncertain terms: < For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. >

So we must fight to speak right.

It is a spiritual battle that we must continuously wage – by faith; repenting when we fail; always ensuring that we are under the atoning power of the Blood through His Shalom (Peace) in our inward parts (see John 14:27; Col 1:19-20).

YHWH has given us the HOLY SPIRIT. And, YHWH has given us the Witness of JESUS CHRIST in Spirit, Water and Blood (see 1 John 5:10a, 7-8, NKJV).

By the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, YHWH has also given us His Shabbat-Shalom so that our inward man can be in a (operational / functional) state of rest in Him (Ps 46:10-11; Heb 4:9-10) behind the veil (Heb 6:19).

YHWH has given us His Shabbat-Shalom (Heb 4:9-10) in CHRIST JESUS, which we access by the HOLY SPIRIT (Rom 8:2), through the Witness of JESUS CHRIST in Spirit, Water and Blood (1 John 5:10a, 8, NKJV).

And, this potential of operating in the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH, in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT, is resident in every born-again Christian.

Everyday, before we start the day, we can position ourselves behind the veil (Heb 6:19-20), through prayer by the HOLY SPIRIT. The evidence of standing behind the veil is the Shabbat-Shalom Witness in our inward parts – vis a vis ‘our belly’.

[Tongues are a powerful tool to facilitate prayer by the HOLY SPIRIT to actualize YHWH’s Shabbat Shalom.]

Prayer by the HOLY SPIRIT energizes our inward parts in CHRIST JESUS, in Spirit, Water and Blood – to actualize this Shabbat Shalom.

Everything in Christian ministry should flow in a Shabbat Shalom.

The Shabbat Shalom expresses the spiritual medium through which the works of YHWH manifest – by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS.

Spirit, Water and Blood expresses the power that works within us – by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (Rom 8:2, 1-4) – so that we can receive exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think (Eph 3:20); given the fact that YESHUA upholds all things (for fulfillment in the FATHER’s will) by the (Rhema) Word of His Power (Heb 1:3b).

His power works within us, according to our faith in ADONAI YESHUA.

In Luke 6:45 (NASB), the LORD JESUS instructs us as follows: < “The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.” >

The good treasure that every Christian carries by faith is described in 2 Cor 4:6-7 (NKJV), < For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves >.

In and through the Witness of JESUS CHRIST alive in us; by the HOLY SPIRIT; we can ensure that our state of being lives in the treasure of the fullness of CHRIST JESUS (John 1:16-17, NKJV / NASB / KJV) within us.

In this reality is our destiny to be actual ministers of CHRIST, who are stewards of the Mysteries of GOD (1 Cor 4:1).

CHRIST in us is the hope of Glory – today (see Col 1:26-27; Heb 4:9-10; Mark 2:27-28; Heb 1:3b) and every day – forever.

This is functional reality that we must possess by our faith confession, in mouth and heart, through the Witness of the Cross (in Spirit, Water and Blood) that stands by the SPIRIT between our mouth and heart! Amen!

This is the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of GOD alive in us by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS.

YESHUA stands as the Apostle and High Priest of our confession so that: (1) every high mountain of sin and death can be uprooted and destroyed; and, (2) every promise of YHWH given to us in CHRIST JESUS will be manifested through us to the FATHER’s glory.

As Colossians 3:17 declares: < Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. >

Be blessed to be a blessing! Brethren, develop your faith confession by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Your faith confession will ultimately become the conduit (the witness) of your ministry! Amen!

 

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Thought For The Day (August 20, 2012): The Word Of GOD Stands Forever In A Progressive Fulfillment

Developing our Christian walk in a correct understanding of GOD’s Word is crucial to our creation (Eph 2:10) and our well-being.

GOD’s Word is prophetic and it is designed for fulfillment. And, there is a profound dynamic of personal fulfillment that the Scripture carries, which the HOLY SPIRIT has come to bring into fulfillment.

o Jer 1:11-12 < Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.” >

o Luke 24:44-45 < Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. >

o In John 14:16-17, 26, YESHUA declares: < And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever — the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. …. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. >

There are personal, corporate (the Israel, the Church and the Nations) and cosmic implications to the fulfillment of GOD’s Word. However, all forms of fulfillment involve YESHUA and His Testimony.

o Colossians 1:15-20 points to YESHUA being at the heart 0f all fulfillment with clarity: < He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. >

All fulfillment in YESHUA involves the active ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT. And, all fulfillment involves the FATHER’s will being achieved.

o In John 16:13-15, YESHUA declares: < However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you. >

This is why Scripture declares that the Testimony of JESUS is the Spirit of Prophecy (Rev 19:10c).

The Spirit of Prophecy is the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST (1 Cor 15:45c + Phil 1;19c). The Spirit of Prophecy is also the Spirit of the SON (Gal 4:6).

The HOLY SPIRIT communicates YESHUA’s Testimony – His Words – in, and by, and through, YESHUA’s Spirit and YESHUA’s Life!

o In John 6:63 YESHUA declares: < “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words (Gk: rhema – the quickened words) that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.” >

o In Luke 21:33 YESHUA declares: < “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words (Gk: logos) will not pass away.” >

All personal fulfillment arises out of the Epistle of CHRIST perfected and completed into our heart – in a progression – by the HOLY SPIRIT.

o 2 Cor 3:3 (NKJV) reads: < clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. >

o 2 Cor 4:6-7 (NKJV) reads: < For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. >

All fulfillment flows out of the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets in the Person of JESUS CHRIST.

o In Matthew 5:17-18 YESHUA declares: < “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. >

The fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets is communicated into us and through us, through the Testimony of JESUS that forms the Epistle of CHRIST personal to our life and being in eternity.

It is crucial for us to read and understand the Scriptures by the Testimony of JESUS – and not merely as Law and Principle.

Every aspect of the Law and every principle in the Scriptures have their fulfillment only in the Spirit and Life of YESHUA, the faith and love of YESHUA, the Nature and Character of YESHUA, the Witness and Testimony of YESHUA communicated into our being by the HOLY SPIRIT. Amen!

Read and digest the Scriptures through the Testimony of YESHUA, brethren and, you will actualize eternity in your hearts through Blood Covenant. Amen!

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Thought For The Day (August 19, 2012): Operating The Gifts Through The Witness


The Witness of JESUS CHRIST – in Spirit, Water and Blood – is resident in every born-again Christian (1 John 5:10a, 8, NKJV).

In 1 John 5:10a (NKJV), the Witness of JESUS CHRIST is called ‘the Witness’ and the Witness operates by the HOLY SPIRIT in Spirit, Water and Blood (Romans 8:2, 1-4).

All of the Gifts of the HOLY SPIRIT (1 Cor 12:3-11) operate through the Witness in us, in conjunction with the outpourings of the HOLY SPIRIT that come upon us during prayer, worship and ministry.

The Witness within functions in Spirit, Water and Blood and we should be functioning in the Gifts of the HOLY SPIRIT in this dynamic of the Witness of JESUS CHRIST alive in us rather than by our spirits (Isaiah 64:6).

The Witness within us is fully enabled in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT (Rom 8:2), so that we are actually operating in YESHUA’s Witness and not merely by our spirit.

The ‘Spirit’ dynamic in the Witness is the capacity to operate the Gifts by the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST (1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 1:19c).

The dynamic of ‘Water’ in the Witness is the capacity to operate the Gifts in the Voice of GOD and in the Voice of His Word (Eze 1:24b; Rev 1:15c; Ps 23:2c).

The dynamic of ‘Blood’ in the Witness is the capacity to operate the Gifts in Blood Covenant relationship with our Head (Luke 22:20; 2 Cor 3:16; 1 Cor 4:1a).

The Vocal Gifts (Tongues, Prophecy and Interpretation), the Revelatory Gifts (Knowledge, Wisdom and Discernment) and the Power Gifts (Healing, Faith and Miracles) are all meant to operate in Spirit, Water and Blood – because this is ‘the Witness’.

Functioning in Spirit, Water and Blood is the power that works within us (1 Cor 1:18; Eph 3:20; Heb 1:3b). This is the reality of the inward anointing expressing CHRIST in us, by the HOLY SPIRIT – in fully functional terms.

[All of the 5-fold should operate in YESHUA’s Witness given the fact that He is the Apostle, the Prophet, the Evangelist, the Pastor and the Teacher of the Body; since it’s His Body!]

In the inward anointing – in the power that works within us – we actualize the reality that we can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us (Phil 4:13, NKJV) and, we actualize the fact that the riches in Glory (from the FATHER, by the SPIRIT – John 16:15) operate by CHRIST JESUS (Phil 4:19, NKJV) in us and through us.

Tongues are the fundamental spiritual gift that activate and energizes the Witness of JESUS CHRIST within us – by the HOLY SPIRIT.

The Gift of Prophecy will be quickened when the Witness is energized through tongues by the HOLY SPIRIT (1 Cor 14:1-6).

[The Witness can also be energized through worship expressed in both prayer and song. So we are not saying that the Gifts can’t be operated without tongues. But tongues are an effective and powerful tool when used properly through the Witness.]

Through Tongues, the Gift of Interpretation will also open, most often in conjunction with the Revelatory Gifts.

The Power Gifts are also effectively energized through tongues.

All of the Gifts also operate in conjunction with the anointing upon especially during mass ministry. Worship, prayer and preaching are environments in which the Gifts flow. GBU.

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Thought For The Day (August 18, 2012): The Blessing That Is The WORD Of GOD

In a world where everything is transitory, the WORD of GOD manifests the eternal, the abiding and the indestructible, to our heart …. HE is the revelation that only YHWH can give us.

As 1 Corinthians 2:7, 9 (NASB) declares: < … we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory … just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.” >

 John 1:14 (NASB) reads: < And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. >

John 1:18 (NASB) reads: < No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God (NKJV: Son) who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. >

John 1:16-17 reads: < For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. >

John 3:16-17 reads: < “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. >

Colossians 2:10a reads: < and in Him you have been made complete … >

Colossians 1:17-23 reads: < He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven. And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach– if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven >.

Ephesians 1:3-11 reads: < Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will >.

Ephesians 1:17-23 reads: < that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. >

Ephesians 3:14-21 reads: < For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. >

Absolutely everything YHWH has for us is defined in CHRIST JESUS.

The HOLY SPIRIT’s fundamental ministry is to glorify JESUS CHRIST by bringing what is of JESUS CHRIST into being within us and to communicate YESHUA’s fullness through us, to the FATHER’s glory.

As YESHUA explains in John 16:13-15 < “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.” >

YESHUA is the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of GOD! Amen!

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Thought For The Day (August 17, 2012): Abiding In The Mount Of The LORD (YHWH)

Psalm 15:1-2 (NASB) points to the prophetic reality, by which we abide in the Mount of the LORD: < O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy hill? He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, And speaks truth in his heart. >

This prophetic reality of position and function is opened to us in the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets (Matt 5:17).

Psalm 91:1 (KJV) points to us being tabernacled in the Secret Place of the MOST HIGH GOD, under the shadow of the ALMIGHTY: < He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. >

Hebrews 10:19-20 (KJV) speaks of a new and living Way that GOD has opened to us in the Veil of YESHUA’s Flesh, through Blood (Blood Covenant Witness): < Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. >
Abiding in the Mount of YHWH involves a heart of flesh that is the Epistle of CHRIST.
2 Corinthians 3:3 (NKJV) reads: < clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone [see Ex 31:18; 32:16] but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. >

Abiding in the Mount of YHWH involves a Witness in Spirit, Water and Blood (“a new and living Way”) quickened by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS.

Tongues – operated by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS – are an effective, prophetic, prayer tool to actualize this operating reality in our inward parts.

In this Witness of JESUS CHRIST alive in us through a growing, heart of flesh, we can ascend into the Mount of YHWH where it will be Provided (Gen 22:14; Ps 24:3-4, NKJV/NASB) by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (Rom 8:2), through the living dynamic of YESHUA’s Witness in Spirit, Water and Blood (1 John 5:10a, 8).

Genesis 22:14 (NKJV) reads: < And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide (YHWH-JIREH); as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.” >

Psalm 24:3-4 (NKJV) reads: < Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the LORD, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. >

Romans 8:2 (NKJV) reads: < For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. >

1 John 5:10a, 8 (NKJV) reads: < He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself … And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one. >

Hebrews 12:22-24 describes the operating environment in the Mount Zion, available to those who are part of the Church of the first-born enrolled in heaven, through faith in JESUS CHRIST, energized and expressed in Spirit, Water and Blood, through the Veil of YESHUA’s flesh: < But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. > Amen (see Rev 3:14b)!

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Thought For The Day (August 16, 2012): We Have A Heart Problem

Mark 7:14-23 (NASB) reads:
14 After He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:
15 there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.
16 [“If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”]
17 When he had left the crowd and en
tered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.
18 And He *said to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,
19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?” (Thus He declared all foods clean.)
20 And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.
21 “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
22 deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.
23 “All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man.”

Jeremiah 17:9 (NASB) reads: < “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? “I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds. >

YHWH’s solution for the human heart flows from Ezekiel 36:25-27 (NASB) which declares a solution through a new birth involving a new heart and a new spirit:
25 “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
26 “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
27 “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.”

From a new birth, YHWH’s solution is structured out of a construct of His Covenant in our inward parts.

Jeremiah 31:33-34 (KJV) reads:
33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
34 “They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

YHWH’s Covenant is structured through the Epistle of CHRIST formed in a heart of flesh that is the work of the HOLY SPIRIT.

YHWH has predestined the solution. And, we enter into YHWH’s solution by setting our hope on MASHIAH YESHUA (Heb 6;19; 1 John 3:3). In this manner our faith will be of the substance of JESUS CHRIST.

In a faith that is Authored and Perfected by JESUS CHRIST we have awesome potentials.

Romans 8:1-2 (NKJV) reads:
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

Ephesians 4:23-24 (NASB) reads:
23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

Tongues are an effective and powerful tool that we can use in prayer to develop our faith realities (1 Tim 3:9; 2 Cor 5:7-8).

Tongues are activated from our mouth and arise from our new born spirit/heart interface (in the area of our belly – see John 7:37-39, KJV) in the power that works within us (Eph 3:20).

Tongues operate in the Witness of JESUS CHRIST in Spirit, Water and Blood, by the HOLY SPIRIT (John 16:14).

In prayer using tongues: we can energize propositions in Scripture, in the Spirit and Life of YESHUA, by the HOLY SPIRIT.

In prayer using tongues: we can actualize realities that are of the substance and witness of YESHUA, by the HOLY SPIRIT.

In this manner we appropriate through prayer, the fullness of MASHIAH YESHUA predestined (John 1:16-17) to fill all in all (Eph 1:23) and to fill all things (Eph 4:10)!

In this manner, through prayer, we objectively pursue the reality of being created in the fullness of MASHIAH YESHUA (Eph 2:10; John 1:16-17).

The end product of prayer by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, is a growing Shabbat-Shalom in our inward parts (Heb 4:9-10, NASB).

This Shabbat-Shalom stands as a witness in the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets (Matt 5:17-18; John 14:26-27); a witness to being free from the Law of Sin and Death (Rom 8:2).

The Shabbat-Shalom gives expression to a state of being in our inward parts – reconciled with GOD.

This Shabbat-Shalom is the spiritual atmosphere in our inward parts, in which we actualize the Mystery of CHRIST and develop the capacity to function by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, in the reality of being set free from the Law of Sin and Death (see Rom 8:2).

This Shabbat-Shalom points to us operating by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, in a clean heart (Matt 5:8) set free from the Law of Sin and Death. Amen! GBU.

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Thought For The Day (August 15, 2012): It Is Time To Actualize What The FATHER Has Given Us In JESUS CHRIST

John 1:16-17 (NASB) reads: < For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God (KJV: Son) who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. >

The fullness of JESUS CHRIST “explains” the actuality of the FATHER into our state of being (see also John 17:6, 26).

This is the Mystery of CHRIST the hope of Glory that YHWH wants to manifest into the Body of MESSIAH (the Church).

Colossians 1:26-28 (NASB) reads: < … the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. >

The Mystery Of CHRIST (MESSIAH) reveals and communicates the Testimony of JESUS (YESHUA) into Epistles of CHRIST fashioned in hearts of flesh (2 Cor 3:3, NKJV) by the HOLY SPIRIT.

Tongues are a powerful spiritual tool to facilitate the communication of the Mystery of CHRIST – in substance and witness – into our inward parts.

When we pray in a (persevering) hope in all that YHWH has given us in His only begotten SON, we actualize the substance of the fullness of the SON (see Heb 11:1, NKJV; 1 John 3:3) in a heart of flesh, as the Word becomes flesh in us (see 2 Cor 3:3; Eze 36:26).

The evidence (both positional and functional) of the SON unfolds in the Witness of YESHUA being developed in us (see 1 John 5:10a; Rev 19:10c; Rev 3:14b) by the HOLY SPIRIT (see John 16:14-15; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; 4:6-7, NKJV) in the FATHER’s will (John 16:15).

The substance and witness of YESHUA is the definitive basis in which our every capacity in JESUS CHRIST (Phil 4:13, 19) is developed by the HOLY SPIRIT (John 16:14), in fulfillment of the FATHER’s will (John 16:15; 1:16-17).

1 Cor 14:2 (NKJV) reads: < For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit (SPIRIT?) he speaks mysteries. >

In the growing development of our inward functions in the substance and witness of YESHUA, 1 Cor 4:1 (NKJV) calls us servants of CHRIST, stewards of the Mysteries of GOD: < Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the Mysteries of God. >

Ministers (servants) of CHRIST are stewards of the Mysteries of GOD. Ministers of CHRIST are created (see Eph 2:10) as the Mystery of CHRIST is expounded – in substance and witness – into our inward parts according to the call of YESHUA over our lives (see Eph 1:17-23).

The fullness of JESUS CHRIST communicated into us – in substance and witness – fulfills the Law and the Prophets and gives actual expression to the Righteousness of YHWH, personal to each one of us.

In Revelation 9:10, in the days of the Voice of the 7th trumpet, we read: < … in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets. >

Colossians 2:2-3 (NKJV) declares: < that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. >

YHWH is going to perform His Word in awesome terms in this end time. Prayer and function in the Witness of JESUS CHRIST, by the HOLY SPIRIT – in Spirit, Water and Blood – is the gateway to this realization. GBU.

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Thought For The Day (August 11, 2012): Being Blessed To Be A Blessing

YHWH swore an Oath of Blessing over Abraham.

Hebrews 6:13-14 reads:
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
14 saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”

In the Seed of CHRIST implanted in us, this Oath of blessing stands over our lives. Every promise designed to manifest the blessing is developed in the growth of the Seed of CHRIST.

Galatians 3:13-16 (NKJV) reads:
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),
14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15 Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.
16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.
Hebrews 7:28 reaffirms the Oath YHWH has sworn, being opened into us through JESUS CHRIST.

Heb 7:28 (NASB) reads: < For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever. >

2 Cor 1:20 (NASB) reads: < For as many as are the promises of God, in Him (in the SON) they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us. >

The Oath of YHWH is developed in a New Covenant written into the tablets of our heart. We need to pray (ask, seek etc) the Word of the Oath into our being; simply because YHWH has ordained this reality by His own Oath, sworn in the Blood of the LAMB – for us, in the merits of the LAMB!

Jeremiah 31:33-34 (KJV) reads: < But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. >

Brethren, we are predestined to actualize the Oath of Covenant personalized in each one of us, for expression in our lives in eternity.

We are each an asset in GOD; predestined for development in the fullness of YESHUA, by the HOLY SPIRIT (John 1:16-17; Rom 8:2).

All of YHWH’s blessings in the eternal and the abiding stand only in the Oath of YHWH’s Covenant sworn in the Blood of the LAMB.

YHWH cannot bless us in our emotions. He can only bless us in the Truth communicated in the Testimony of JESUS.

Read the Word, brethren. Appropriate the Word through prayer. Choose to live the Word in your thoughts, your words, your deeds and, in your relationships.

Repent when you fail and pursue the change because our transformation in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT, stands by the Oath of YHWH sworn in the Blood of the LAMB (Heb 10:14).

That is: it is impossible for us to fail, if we stand on the Word in the understanding that YHWH has sworn the fulfillment of that Word into us by Blood Covenant Oath in MASHIAH YESHUA!

YHWH has sent the HOLY SPIRIT to be with us and to be in us to ensure this fulfillment.

We can’t fail.

The only reason we fail is written in the Prophets. Hosea 4:6a reads: < My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge … >.

Brethren, persevere in the Word, by the SPIRIT and be blessed to be a blessing – always. Amen!

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Thought For The Day (August 10, 2012): Being Washed In Renewal And Regeneration By The HOLY SPIRIT, In CHRIST JESUS

Titus 3:5 (NASB) reads: < He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit >.

The washing of renewal (which makes the old brand new) and regeneration (which makes what is dead in sin to be brought to life) takes place through the quickened (rhema) Word of GOD.

Ephesians 5:25-27 (NASB) reads: < ….. Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. >
So, renewal and regeneration by the HOLY SPIRIT, gives actual expression to CHRIST JESUS sanctifying the Church, so that the Church (His Body) will be glorious “having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless”!

Tongues can be used to energize the Word of GOD by the HOLY SPIRIT, in and by and through the Witness of JESUS CHRIST alive in us – in Spirit, Water and Blood – so that we can progressively experience renewal and regeneration, by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (see Rom 8:2)!

Renewal and regeneration is evidenced in actual change that YESHUA orchestrates by the SPIRIT into our inward parts as we choose to persevere in prayer, by praying the Word so that it will be performed by YHWH (Jer 1:11-12).

The Rhema Word quickened by the HOLY SPIRIT, through the use of tongues, energizes realities that are of the Spirit and Life of YESHUA into our inward parts.

In John 6:63 YESHUA declares: < “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.” >

What is energized in the Spirit and Life of YESHUA changes us; equipping us to do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us (Phil 4:13, 19).

It is time to objectively prepare to be a Bride for the LAMB.

YESHUA wants to wash us using His Rhema Word (see also Heb 1:3b) so that we will be spotless and blameless through a washing of renewal and regeneration by the HOLY SPIRIT! Amen!

Be warned however, that tongues must be used to energize the Word of GOD and not human desire and ambition.

If we use tongues incorrectly we will open the Mystery of Lawlessness and the spirit of error (1 John 4:6) will operate instead of the HOLY SPIRIT. See 2 Thessalonians 2:7a and Matthew 7:21-23.

In 2 Thessalonians 2:7a we are instructed: < For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work … >.
In Matthew 7:21-23, YESHUA warns us: < “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.'” >