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Christ Tests Believer’s Faith by Leaving

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I don’t know about you, but, I’ve had some seriously heavy nightmares similar to this scripture. One nightmare goes like this:

In the dead of sleep; my soul was awakend as I lay frozen and helpless asleep. The awakening came from a demon chasing me to capture me. My spirit was dreadfully fleeing the demon with him on my heels. He was shrieking and wailing after me. I screamed in dread of being caught. All of a sudden my physcial awoke in mortifying fright. I prayed aloud “In Jesus’ name leave this place satan, you are not welcome here.” I prayed that prayer over and over again. I was very afraid to fall back to sleep.

Have you ever had nightmares with demons after you? If so, what did you do and how did things turn out?

Today’s message is this:

It was difficult to the Old Testament church to find Christ in the rituals of the law; the guardians of that church did not give much help to those who desired Him.

The night is cold, dark, and sleepy, and of faint fears involving spiritual things. At first, when nervous, some weak attempts are made to reach the hope of fellowship with Christ. This proves to be pointless; the believer’s diligence is then stirred greatly.

A promise is given to the ones who seek for men’s souls.

Instant contentment isn’t found. We must not rest by any means, but by faith, appeal directly to Christ. Grasping onto Christ, and not letting him go, expresses sincerely abiding in Him.

What occurs is a humble, faithful requests by prayer, with a cheerful practice of faith in His promises. Provided that the faith of believers is maintained in Christ, He won’t be upset at their sincere requests, yes, He is thoroughly satisfied with it.

The believer wants to make others known of his Saviour. Anywhere we find Christ, we need to take Him with us, especially in our hearts; and we should challenge ourselves and each other, to beware of grieving our Divine Comforter and encouraging the separation of the Beloved Christ. He leaves His Holy Spirit as our Comforter. The Holy Trinity is Yahweh, Son/Christ, and the Holy Spirit… the three are One! So, Christ is still with us, of the Spirit. As is, Yahweh. You can call on any of them to reach all of them.

How mind-blowing and awesome is that?!?! Today, we have access to The Trinity. We have the knowledge because of His word. It’s alive and living. We can seek fellowship with Him. Hide the Word in your hearts. Once you have it, and Jesus in your hearts, nobody can take that away, nor separate you from Yahweh.

What is your fellowship with Christ like? Comment and bless others as well as yourself.

Fellowship with Christ

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The body of Christ is very pleased to have sweet fellowship with Christ. We hear Him. He runs quickly to meet His followers, the ones who love Him, with His promises. He will return soon with immeasurable loving-kindness.

Christ invites new believers to get up from their lazy ways and pride to come and have fellowship with Him.

All these promising symbols and signs of Divine favor are reasons to our spirit to follow Christ more completely.

What a profound visual of Christ rushing to meet His love, the Body of Christ, the church.

What does your fellowship with Christ look like? Do you anticipate His return? He loves us so much He willingly gave His life to save us so that we are able to fellowship with Him.

Comment and bless others as you bless yourself.

Christ’s Love Affair – Part 2

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The Bridegroom gives high praises of his wife. The Bridegroom is Christ. His wife is the church body [believers].

In the verses prior it says this:

9 You, my love, excite men as a mare excites the stallions of Pharaoh’s chariots. 10 Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks and falls along your neck like jewels. 11 But we will make for you a chain of gold with ornaments of silver.

The parallel to this means that Christ’s believers excite Him. It compares to the love between husband and wife.

The grace received from Christ’s fullness jumps about excitedly of faith, affection, and gratitude. However, Christ is most beloved to them. V. 14, [My lover is like the wild flowers that bloom in the vineyards at Engedi.], signifies “atonement or propitiation.” Christ is precious to all believers because He is the propitiation for their sins. Believers decide to allow Him to dwell in their hearts through all of the trials of their life. Christ takes joy in the good work that his grace has worked out in the souls of believers. This should join everyone who is made holy, to be truly thankful for that grace that has made them right, who by nature were damaged. The spouse (the believer) has a humble, innocent eye, finding simplicity and godly character; hearts well-informed and lead by the Holy Spirit, the blessed Dove. The church shows her value for Christ.

The believer expresses praise of the sacred commands in that true believers have fellowship with Christ. Whether the believer is in the courts of Yahweh, or in privacy; whether following his daily activity, or restricted to a sickbed, or even in a jail, a feeling of the divine presence will turn the place into a place of joy. So the soul, daily having fellowship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, enjoys an inspired hope of an honorable, clean, and unchanging legacy in Heaven for Eternity.

The ones who do so may come to him boldly, and can humbly appeal to him. Christ has a peace for them. The souls who love Jesus Christ, sincerely want to share in the benefit of his flock [fellowship/discipleship]. Turning away from Christ is what gracious souls fear more than anything else. Yahweh can and will answer prayer.

So, boldly go before Yahweh, praising and worshiping Him with all your soul, mind, and body. No matter your circumstance. He is waiting for you.

What was a time that you expressed an unfettered praise and worship to Christ? Comment and let’s chat.

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Christ’s Love

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Today’s starts a new series in the Book, Song of Songs.

Throughout history, many have interpreted this scripture literally to be a love affair between a man and wife. It’s a nice sentiment. However, there’s a deeper message within its words.

I’ll do my best to break it down and share its message. Feel free to comment your thoughts and ideas to add to mine.

So, v.1-6, in the image above. What does it mean?

The message is an allegory. Which means this, a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning; a metaphor, or symbol of something.

What metaphor is this message giving us?

It’s a message; a word picture, of Christ’s love for His church; the body.

To quote Matthew Henry:

“Christ’s love is more valuable and desirable than the best this world can give.”

  • The KING, Christ, the spouse of the believing (the church body)
  • The kisses of his mouth mean the confidence of forgiveness among believers are honored, filling them with peace and joy in believing, and causing them to overflow in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
  • Loving people take most joy in loving Christ and being loved by him.
  • The name of Christ isn’t presently like ointment sealed up, but like ointment poured out; which indicates the liberty and fullness of going forward in His grace by the gospel. Those that he has delivered and blessed, here are the virgins that love Christ, and follow Him wherever He goes, (Revelation 14:4).
  • The more clearly we recognize Christ’s glory, the more reasonable will we be that we are unable to follow him well, and at the same time be more enthusiastic about doing it. Observe the quick answer given to this prayer. Those who wait at Wisdom’s gate will be led into truth and comfort. And being brought into this chamber, our griefs will vanish. We have no joy but in Christ, and for this we are bound to him. We will remember to give thanks for your love; it will make more permanent impressions in us than anything in this world. Neither is any love acceptable to Christ but love in honesty, (Ephesians 6:24).
  • The daughters of Jerusalem may mean teachers not yet verified in the faith. The wife was black as the tents of the wandering Arabs but beautiful as the magnificent curtains in the mansions of Solomon. The believer is black, as being polluted and sinful by nature, but attractive, as renewed by Divine grace to the holy image of Yahweh. The believer is still damaged with remnants of sin, but attractive as accepted in Christ. The believer is frequently vulgar and wicked in the respect of people, but great in the sight of Yahweh. The blackness was due to the harsh practice that had been endured.
  • The people of the church, but not of Yahweh, were mad with her. They had made her endure difficulties, which caused her to overlook the care of her soul. Therefore, under the image of a weak female, made the preferred wife of a prince, we are directed to observe the events in which the love of Christ is typical to finding its recipients. They were wretched slaves of sin, at work, or in grief, overworked and heavy burdened, but how great the change when the love of Christ is shown to their souls!

Christ’s love is so absolutely mind blowing awesome! It’s so amazing how this story is a symbol of Christ’s love for His children.

The symbol of love! He loves us so much He willing gave His life for us at Calvary and was crucified, then rose to live again. He took our sins upon himself so that we would have life and life more abundant in Him. (This is NOT a message of health, wealth, and prosperity.)

Where do you stand in this story of love? Comment your story, briefly, and bless others as you’re blessed in the telling.

This is part 1 of the series: Christ’s love through Song of Songs.

The Enemy

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Contrary to popular demands in the world, Children of Yahweh are not to be mean and hateful to our enemies.

Here’s what Jesus said:

Matthew 5:43-44 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemies.’ But I say to you, love your enemies. Pray for those who hurt you.

If you’ve spent any time in the Book of Proverbs you know Yahweh throws the hammer down. He truly wants unity and harmony in His creation, us, humans.

If we’re hatin’ up on everyone and his enemy there isn’t going to be unity and harmony. There will be chaos and contention among the villagers.

My challenge to you today is to stop hating and start loving. Oh, you say you don’t hate anyone? Really? Ruminate on that for a bit and then come back and comment that you have zero hate in your heart. Even I have some hate buried in my heart. If you say you don’t… I don’t believe it. I call you to the carpet on it. I see all those posts on social media. There are the passive-aggressive haters. Which is usually the ones who murmur under their breath but never really take any action. It’s all in their hearts and minds. Then, there are the all-out aggressive haters. They’re the protestors and war mongers. Then there are the temper tantrum throwers. Some of them are protestors. Some of them go at it a bit differently so they have all the attention.

Yahweh is not happy with this behavior. It is infantile. We’re all acting like babies. We need to grow up, spiritually and mentally. We need to surrender to Yahweh and let Him be the Pilot. He is still on the Throne of Grace. We need to fall to our knees and repent seeking forgiveness and get back on the right track with Yahweh.

Who’s with me? Comment and let me know that you’re standing up with Yahweh, not man. If any hate comments are made they will be deleted.

Brokenness

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There’s always, always, at least one, who pushes buttons and boundaries. Isn’t there? I know I did when I was a kid. I paid the price for it, too.

Well, the Pharisees and Sadducees were no different back then. They wanted to know their boundaries.

They wanted to know what was most important. So, they asked Jesus as much. In today’s scripture, the question is this: which command is the most important? The answer: Jesus said: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and most important command.”

In our brokenness, we struggle with so much in life. We even struggle spiritually.

We seem to live in our brokenness. We carry it on our chest like a badge. As if it’s an honor to be a victim.

Friends, I’m here to share with you that we don’t have to live in this brokenness. We have the victory through Jesus’ blood. We can claim it. I do! I claim victory over my brokenness.

We need to allow the Holy Spirit to fill us to overflowing with that victory to praise, honor, glorify, and love Yahweh with all our soul, all our mind, and all our heart.

That’s not to say we won’t face trials and opposition in life, because, we will. It’s when we allow Yahweh to have control and surrender fully to Him that we find peace knowing that He will bring us through to the other side.

Where do you find yourself today? Are you stuck in brokenness? If so, allow Yahweh to work in that brokenness to bring you to a place of healing and peace. Please comment your story and bless others in blessing yourself.

Be A Blessing

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Human nature is to hold a grudge and get revenge. That’s from satan. Yahweh’s character is the opposite. Forgiving and loving and giving blessings.

We’re called to be like Jesus. Is he vengeful and spiteful? By no means.

We know from experience that when we are spiteful and vengeful it never ends well. It full of chaos and evil.

In the scripture, He reminds us that all of us should be in agreement and understanding each other, loving each other as family, being kind and humble.

We’re called to do this so that we’ll receive a blessing. Yahweh sees the good and listens to our prayers. He will not entertain the prayers of the evil.

All one has to do is see the news around the world and notice evil. Yes, there’s good too. The thing is, though, that the evil outweighs the good.

We must be the example to the world to turn that evil around. We must!

What will you do to receive Yahweh’s blessing? We all have a little bit of bad in us that we can change. Even me. Yes, even me! It can be as abstract as our attitudes.

Comment your experience and answer the question. Let’s bless others and also in return be blessed.

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God Imitators

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The character that we bear of God’s children obliges us to resemble Him, especially in His love and goodness, in His mercy and readiness to forgive.

As the sacrifice of Christ was satisfyingly effective with God, so His example should be prevailing with us, and we should carefully copy it.

There’s no room for evildoing! You don’t do evildoing, you say? Are you sure of that?

Let’s do a quick mental check:

  • Expressing a bad attitude
  • Hoping for someone else’s bad fortune
  • Plotting revenge

Need I go on?

Over the years I’ve noticed a trend in people expressing their minds about how they believe so and so deserves to get a taste of their own medicine. That kind of thinking is sinful. Yahweh isn’t particularly excited that we’re thinking, talking, nor acting on this attitude. It’s clear in His word!

Yes, on occasion I’ve fallen prey to that thinking. I’m not immune to sin. Shocker, I know! None of us is immune to sin. We’re born into it. Yahweh’s word tells us we are. Go see for yourselves. I encourage you to pour over and delve into His word. Learn what it says. Be imitators of HIM! Not imitators of the world.

Are you an imitator of Yahweh? If so, comment your experience. Let’s talk.

Supreme Love

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Trust is the supreme expression of love. Therefore, it may mean more to Yahweh when we say, “I trust you,” than when we say, “I love you.”

Yahweh not only provides the rules and guidelines but comes with us personally each day to strengthen us so that we can live according to those rules. All we must do is trust Him, invite Him, and respond to His direction.

Wait patiently and He will fulfill His promises.

It’s in the waiting patiently that we are blessed and in turn, bless others.

I challenge each of you to patiently wait on the promises of Yahweh to be fulfilled.

Will you join me? Leave a comment and let me know you accept the challenge.

Don’t Love The World

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Luke_14_26-33Jesus Christ has left principles and guidelines to govern every Christian home; and if we really love Him, we will keep His commandments.

We literally are required to love Yahweh more than anything else. Anything else is rejecting Yahweh.

When you reject Yahweh life will be miserable beyond expression. If you say you love Yahweh, but your life says different, then it’s a lie.

Yahweh must come first! Do you give of your firsts to Yahweh? If not, why? This world is temporary! It will go away at some point. What will you say to Yahweh when you meet Him at Judgment? How will you answer Him when He asks you what you’ve done with Jesus in your life?

I personally struggle with worldly vs heavenly. Satan, the enemy, is constantly yipping (condemning me) at my heals like an annoying dog barking for attention, telling me lies to coerce me to his way. It’s compelling. He makes it looks so pretty and attractive that it is hard to resist. The worst part? The complacency virus. It has infected all of human life.

The only way to beat complacency is to get busy with the work of Yahweh and building your relationship with Him.

How? You ask?

First, stop believing satan’s lies. Second, get in The Word of Yahweh and read, pray, and live for Yahweh. Last, but not least, get into fellowship with Christ’s body. Surround yourself with Godly people who can feed you and help nurture you in Yahweh.

Comment and let me know that you will, with Yahweh by your side, fight the enemy, because the victory is ours. The battle’s already won!