All posts by Kimberly

The Force Is With You!

Daily Devotional

galatians 5:16-18 imageWe have two forces at work around us. It’s spiritual warfare.

These two forces are in a constant battle vying for your attention.

What are they? I rather ask, who are they?

One is Yahweh, our Triune God [Father, Son, & Holy Spirit]. The other is satan [devil, adversary].

As scripture tells us, the Holy Spirit guides us to do what is good, right, and loving. The devil guides us to do what is wrong, evil, and unloving.

Since the fall of man [Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden] we are all born into a sinful nature. We have a bent toward sin.

When the Son, Yeshua/Jesus, came from Heaven to earth as fully human it was His lot in life to become sin for us, die at Calvary, [to be crucified], and then to be resurrected [raised back to life]. Jesus promised that Yahweh would leave us with the Holy Spirit.

But the Helper will teach you everything and will cause you to remember all that I told you. This Helper is the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name. John 14:26

When we accept Yeshua as our Savior we invite the Holy Spirit into our heart. The Holy Spirit is our guide to do what is right. Sometimes we make the choice to ignore right and do wrong.

In today’s scripture, Paul pleas with us to allow the Holy Spirit to guide us so that we’ll do what’s right, loving, and good.

Which do you choose? Choose whom you’ll serve. You can only serve one. I personally choose to allow the Holy Spirit to guide me. I hope you will too.

Do you seek prayer? Contact us today for prayer. Share in the comments how Yahweh is working in your life.

Why Should I Live Out The Fruit Of The Spirit?

Daily Devotional, , , ,

Gal 5:22-25 imageWhat’s the alternative?

Hate, evil, chaos. You name it. Everything that’s opposite to the fruit of the Spirit.

We who belong to the Messiah have nailed our sins to the cross. We have given up our old selves. We are a new life in the Spirit. Because so, we should follow the Spirit.

Have we though? Look around. What’s life like? We get stuck in sinful behaviors, attitudes, and lifestyles.

I have found myself with sinful attitudes. I’m kidding myself if I say I do not sin. We live in a fallen world. Daily, I must seek Yahweh and go to His Word to cleanse my mind.

There’s no way we can live a Godly life without Him.

God wants you to experience deep joy — not to remove you from the world around you, but to give you the strength to live and to love others in the midst of it. Come to him and take him up on his offer.  Taken from NIV The Great Rescue Bible

I find that a daily recipe for Godly living is this:

  1. Read His word.
    1. It’s so easy today.
      1. There’s digital bibles that have daily reading options.
  2. Pray to Him.
    1. It’s how you build your relationship with Him.
      1. You talk to Him like a friend sitting across the table. He loves spending time with you.
  3. Find a place to fellowship with others in Yahweh.
    1. We need it to help us be accountable to Yahweh and ourselves.
    2. Yahweh’s word tells us in:

      Matthew 18:19-20 “Also, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about something and pray for it, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. This is true because if two or three people come together in my name, I am there with them.”

  4. Worship Him!
    1. You can do this in fellowship and alone.
      1. Corporate worship – without it, one tends to drift spiritually.
      2. Personal worship – it’s when I’m on my own that helps me to worship Yahweh and turn my heart and mind towards Him.
        1. It consists of reading His word, prayer, and listening to worship/praise music. [I personally like instrumental worship. It could be full on southern gospel for you. Each person likes different types of music. My husband likes LeCrae.]

Once you get a habit in place it just happens. However, satan will try his best to distract you with everything ungodly. Ignore him!

Comment and share your experience with Yahweh! Do you need prayer. Contact us now. Our prayer warriors are waiting to pray for you.

 

True Peace

Daily Devotional, , , ,

Isaiah 48:22 imageYou’ve heard the expression “There’s no rest for the wicked.”

Yahweh’s Word is very clear on this. See scripture image: Isaiah 48:22.

Many people cry out for comfort, security, and relief, but they haven’t taken the first steps to turn away from sin and open the channels to God. They have not repented and trusted in Him. If you want true peace, seek God first. Then He will give you His peace. Quoted from Life Application Study Bible Devotion.

What is peace? What does it look like?

One definition the bible gives is this:

freedom of the mind from annoyance [nuisance], distraction, anxiety, an obsession, etc.; tranquillity; serenity.

Freedom from anxiety; from nuisance; from the mind of all unrest. Being in peace is serene and tranquil. Outside of Yahweh there is no peace.

Seek Yahweh for true peace.

Do you need peace today, and everyday? Have you surrendered, repented, and sought after Yahweh?

Drop to your knees. Speak out to Yahweh. Seek His peace. Shed all of those selfish desires and allow Him to lift you in peace.

That’s not to say there won’t be chaos all around you. The secret is taking it all to Yahweh. Don’t take it on by your own strength, because we will lose every time in our own strength. Yahweh gives us strength to go on.

I took my chaos and wickedness to Yahweh. I sought Him and still seek him now. It’s because of Him that I can go another day. His peace is everlasting.

Comment and share how Yahweh has given you peace. Are you seeking peace and need prayer? Contact us now for prayer. There’s a prayer army waiting to lift you up.

The Secret

Daily Devotional, , , ,

Colossians 1:27-29 imageOur strength as the body of Christ is from Yahweh. He wants to use us to spread the Secret, which is Christ [Yeshua], The Messiah, our Savior. He is in you, the saved. He is our only hope for glory. That’s an eternal promise from Yahweh.

With this promise and secret we preach and teach Christ to everyone so we bring them into Yahweh’s presence as a mature person in Christ. We must work and struggle with the strength of Christ. It’s most powerful!

“The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different
set of circumstances.”   – Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

Are you allowing Yahweh’s strength to work in you?

Share how Yahweh has used you in a powerful way that you could not do in your own power.

For me, when witnessing to non-believers who’ve come up against Christ, The Holy Spirit took over and used me as a vessel to say what needed to be said. Afterward, initially, I was shocked and started at what just happened. It was an amazing feeling once I let it settle in me. When I allow Him to do His work, using me, amazing things happen.

Now, it’s your turn!

Share one experience you’ve had where Yahweh used you.

We Have Every Reason To Praise

Daily Devotional, , , , , ,

Isa 61:10 imageYahweh has covered me with the clothing of salvation, and decked me out with the a robe of righteousness. Yahweh has given believers righteousness and salvation.

Yahweh is my salvation!

Lift up your hands in praise to the Almighty Savior. He sent the Messiah, Yeshua, to be sin for us to save us from an Eternity in hell.

I think of this of Nicole C. Mullens song:

Are you praising Yahweh today? Share what you have to praise Yahweh about.

Do you need prayer? Contact us for your prayer request. We have a prayer army waiting to lift you up.

Why You Need To Forgive

Daily Devotional, , , , , ,

People struggle with forgiveness!

The natural reaction is to want to punish or get revenge on the one who hurt us.

Today’s scripture tells us Yahweh is the ultimate forgiver. When we repent and accept The Messiah – Yeshua as our Savior Yahweh erases our sins and forgets them.  It’s for His own sake. Because Yahweh is unable to be in the presence of sin. Because of His very nature: He is sinless. He is perfect. He is holy. He simply will not tolerate sin. Paul warns the willfully rebellious in Romans 2:5.

But you are stubborn and refuse to change, so you are making your own punishment even greater on the day he shows his anger. On that day everyone will see God’s right judgments. — Romans 2:5

There’s 5 types of forgiveness:

  1. human forgiveness, that of people extending forgiveness toward others
  2. divine forgiveness, Yahweh’s forgiving human beings
  3. unilateral forgiveness, one sided forgiveness – See Matthew 5 below.
  4. complete forgiveness, bilateral – Yeshua gives us this when we repent and accept Him as our Savior. 1 John 1:9 tells us:

    But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins, because we can trust God to do what is right. He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done. — 1 John 1:9

  5. living in forgiveness, It includes seeking forgiveness from God through the redemptive work of Yeshua The Messiah and seeking complete forgiveness from anyone we have offended if, of course, they are available to forgive us. To live as completely forgiven is the right and joy of the committed Christian. It may involve going back to others who we have hurt through the years. It is an important aspect of moving towards the victorious Christian life.

An unforgiving spirit leads to bitterness, anger, and resentment. A heart with that type of attitude is not able to have true fellowship with Yahweh. Not holding grudges allows a state of mind that is ready and willing to forgive. Reconciliation is the goal, and if there cannot be reconciliation, a willingness to forgive must be maintained. There can be no excuse for withholding forgiveness from others.  Matthew 5 tells us:

But I tell you, if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be judged. If you say bad things to a brother or sister, you will be judged by the council. And if you call someone a fool, you will be in danger of the fire of hell.
“So when you offer your gift to God at the altar, and you remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there at the altar. Go and make peace with that person, and then come and offer your gift. — Matthew 5:22-24

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes

Do you live a victorious Christian life? The quote by Lewis B. Smedes is an eye opener. I’ve experienced this in my life. When I did my expression was, “I feel like a caged bird set free”. Picture a bird cage with the door flying open and I fly out into freedom. Is this your experience? If not, would like to experience it? Forgive! It’s liberating.

Share your story. If you’d like prayer contact us. We have a prayer army waiting to lift you up.

Yahweh’s Glory

Daily Devotional, ,

John 11:4 imageYahweh’s glory can be seen in things like love, music, heroism and so on – things belonging to God that we are carrying as His vessels.

His glory is from His attributes exhibited in us.

Yahweh’s glory, though, is constant, and as we journey through life we will see it displayed here and there, in this person or that forest, or in a story of love or heroism, fiction or nonfiction, or our own personal lives. But it all goes back to God in the end.

How are you exhibiting Yahweh’s glory? Are you glorifying Him in the way you live?

Being in His word daily, praying/talking with Him, fellowship with The Body, and praising/worshipping Him definitely puts us in the right frame of mind.

Share your story. Contact us for prayer if you need it.

Love Despite Hate

Daily Devotional, , , ,

Luke 7:37-39How many times have you seen someone doing something and felt they should not be doing that? For instance, my husband and I are members of a motorcycle ministry. We go to places and interact with some downright evil people. Sometimes if ministering to someone calls for us to go into a bar/tavern we will go in. That doesn’t mean Yahweh loves us any less. He loves us all the same.

In the scripture image we see a sinful woman down on her knees weeping on The Messiah’s feet and washing them with her hair then pouring perfume on His feet. She’s loving on Him. That shows reverence/fear of Yahweh.

We need less judging about who we’re ministering to and more praise and worship of our Almighty Yahweh.

Have you experienced this? Would you like too, if you haven’t? Let the sinful woman in scripture be your example. Just do it, wherever you are and whenever. Love Yahweh, Yeshua, and Ruach Hako’desh [Holy Spirit]. Call on HIS name!

Comment and share your story! If you would like prayer, contact us with your prayer request. We have a team of prayer warriors who will lift you and your request up to Yahweh.

Yahweh’s Gift

Daily Devotional, , ,

IMG_20160311_111356Yesterday’s title was fellowship with Jesus.

A little side note: The name Jesus was translated from ancient text and it’s the English version of His name. The Hebrew name used for Jesus is Yeshua [pronounced: Ye shoo ah]. It is the short version of Yehoshua. From here on out I’ll be using Yeshua to refer to Jesus.

Today gives more detail about the results of being in fellowship with Yeshua.

Yahweh chose us specifically to be His holy people because of His love, Agape Love. Yahweh has offered the gift of salvation through Yeshua… essentially adopting us into His family. The deal was sealed with the death and resurrection of our Messiah, Yeshua.

Some of those spiritual blessings are:

  • We are chosen
  • We are adopted
  • We are accepted in the beloved
  • We are redeemed by the blood of The Lamb [Yeshua]
  • Our sins are forgiven
  • God has given us wisdom and insight through His Word and has shown us His desire to bring all things together to glorify Christ.
  • An inheritance that is given to us through Christ. The riches of glory, the presence of God, the eternal home – these don’t even scratch the surface of all the blessings that belong to our inheritance.
  • We are sealed by the Holy Spirit. When we become Yahweh’s children, He places His mark of ownership on us, guaranteeing our eternal security. This is spoken of as the down-payment of our full redemption, to hold us until the day Christ brings us to Him.

There’s many more that could be mentioned. However, this is the basic list. You can find more about these blessings in Ephesians 1.

How do we access all of these blessings? They are readily accessible to everyone who is in Christ Yeshua. The way to be in Christ is to repent, or turn away from our sins (Acts 17:30), confessing to God that we are sinners (Proverbs 28:13; Romans 10:9). When we believe that Christ died to take our punishment and now lives to give us new life (1 Corinthians 15:3–4), He grants us forgiveness of sins and all the blessings that accompany that salvation.

Comment, share your story, request prayer, and bless others.

What Is Fellowship With Jesus

Daily Devotional, , ,

John 10:9 imageJesus uses the metaphor of being “the door”. Why?

I picture that as being a “gatekeeper”. Someone who is a guardian.

According to John 10:9 when we enter through the gatekeeper we will be saved and be able to come in and out and find pasture.

What does that mean?

When we “go in” it’s that very special place of spiritual rebirth where we are filled with The Holy Spirit. When we “go out” it’s into the world. And “find pasture” means we’ll be watched over, protected, nourished, and grow spiritually, because the Omnipresence, Omnipotence, and Omniscience of Yahweh is everywhere, no matter where we are.

With that kind of power I totally trust Yahweh to care for me. If you’ve ever been in a place where you fear for your safety you can imagine Yahweh being the force surrounding you as a protective wall, like a military fortress, only bigger and more powerful. He is Almighty!

So, what do we do to be in Yahweh’s fortress?

Three things:

  1. Seek Yahweh
    1. Pray
    2. Read The Word
  2. Be in fellowship with other believers
    1. Attend worship service
    2. Attend other fellowship events
  3. Find an accountability partner
    1. Someone who can help keep you in alignment with Yahweh

The more we’re in The Word, in prayer, and fellowship the less we will wander outside the protection of Yahweh.

Comment and share your story. It will bless someone and encourage us all.

If you’d like to request prayer you can contact us here.