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Empire of Dirt
Empire of Dirt
(#172 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“For what has a man profited if he gains the whole world, yet loses his own soul? For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26)
It’s not the effects of worldly profitability that brings the potential curse, but rather, the mind that seeks out worldly wisdom in order to gain the effects. Worldly wisdom is, and will always be, that which is scoffed at by the true sons and daughters. Yahweh Himself laughs at the folly of such an endeavor (Psalm 37:13).
You have begun to register a prevailing pattern into your conscience, one that keeps you on the narrow path. Within comes first and then without! “Everything is a thought first, and then the physical manifestation comes!” Your mind-life produces your physical world. It is the power to create, and yet, you must look at what you have created. If you were to ask, “Does my physical life and all of its possessions fill my soul?” you should be able to answer, “Why yes, of course!” Yahshua Himself would have said such. He knew that His earthy afflictions, and how He would handle them, were a sign of His mental position.
And so Yahshua has asked you, “What have you given in exchange for your life? What have you possessed (mentally grasped and held) within, and what has it produced without?” Life itself is the entirety of your conscious activity, and it was intended to be abundant at all times (John 10:10). Your life was meant to be abundant in the way of peace, joy, love, faith, power, praise, and the ability to transfer these into the minds of others. “You are My witnesses,” say’s Yahweh (Isaiah 43:10)! You are intended to reproduce Yahweh, through His Son, by His Ruach, into the consciousness of those around you. You are so much more than a fish on your bumper and a “WWJD” on your wrist.
Life is in the mind loved one, and these writers would be hard pressed to believe that you could actually say that your physical world proves that you have become completely engrossed in the life Yahweh intended for you. Yes, this is a judgment call, and it is one you should have already willingly embraced as your own personal litmus test, measuring your chief priorities of life. Set aside your empire of dirt and learn of the Kingdom of Yahweh. It is THE Kingdom of transformed minds!
New Wineskins
New Wineskins
(#171 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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Throughout the 16 attributes of love, you have been reminded again and again that you cannot fail at any of them and still succeed at love. You have also been shown that there is NO SUCH THING as human love. All love is from Yahweh; all else is an imposter. Each of the devotions ended with the same verses from John: I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another… (John 13:34-35)
It’s time to unveil what is “new” about this new commandment to love! In a later letter, John sheds some revelation on this “new” thing.
1 John 2:3-8
Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the LOVE of Yahweh is PERFECTED IN HIM. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
Brethren, I write NO NEW COMMANDMENT to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. [The Old commandment was the simple reminder that the LOVE of Yahweh is perfected in you when you obey Him]. Again, A NEW COMMANDMENT I write to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. [The new commandment is that you COULD NEVER LOVE UNTIL YAHSHUA SHOWS YOU HOW! And more so, you cannot love until His Spirit invades your mind [heart] and roots out every last bit of you (self, ego)].
“What does that look like; when will that be?” you might ask.
· When the Messiah is formed in you (Galatians 4:19)
· The Messiah in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27)
· When you have the Mind of the Messiah (1 Corinthians 2:16)
Loved one, we are approaching the season when the declaration of Isaiah the prophet will be fulfilled. It is happening in you even now! “I have made you hear NEW THINGS from this time, even HIDDEN THINGS, and you did not know them. THEY ARE CREATED NOW and not from the beginning; and before this day you have not heard them, lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’” (Isaiah 48:6-7)
The culmination of this process is Galatians 2:20 when it is finally the Messiah who lives in you and not you who lives! No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” (Matthew 9:16-17)
Wine in the Hebrew means “vitality or spiritual essence;” and skin means “that which contains.” New wineskins means new vitality contained within! New love contained within! The Messiah formed in you; the hope of glory; the mind of the Messiah. All things will be made new loved one. All things made new!
Love’s Attributes (16) Love Never Fails
Love’s Attributes (16)
(#170 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love never fails!” (1 Corinthians 13:7)
Love never fails, and therefore, Yahweh never fails!
This final pillar of love is the one upon which all others lean. In Hebrew reckoning, sixteen (one-six) is seven, and seven is “completion.” The true and complete essence of love, the only love, is that it never fails.
And so now, or once again, shall we say, we face the crux of the matter. We could sum it up with a simple question. “Have you told someone that you love them, and yet failed at any one of the sixteen attributes of love?” The sixteenth itself leaves no room for failure, and so the answer to the question for everyone becomes obvious. We teach others that love can fail because we profess to love them, while at the same time we are failing them. It is imperative you grasp the magnitude of this, thus we will repeat it! We teach others that love can fail because we profess to love them, while at the same time we are failing them. The effect of our fatal error is that we all mature with a sinking mindset about what love is, and then we sail that brokenness right into our relation-ship with the only One who ever truly loved.
Does it seem so difficult to understand why all of us have such a hard time trusting Yahweh? We spend our lives (conscious awareness) believing that our broken standard of idolatrous “love” is the real thing, only to have failed at love at every level. And because this love has always been unfulfilling in some way, our preconceived subconscious and conscious thoughts are that Yahweh’s love will also fail us. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that “His love will not be any different than everything else we called love, all of which have failed us in the past.”
We have never been, nor have we known a love that never fails, so the perception of it is far beyond us. To bring it closer, we must come face-to-face with our years of desecration of His love. “Father, forgive me for high-jacking Your created truth of love, and trying to use it to fit my own personal standards of love. I confess that I have never loved, nor have I learned to receive Your perfect love. Will You help me learn to be a true lover, so I can first love You Father, and then love others?” This is the prayer that will transform your own image of love into His image of love. This prayer of repentance, deeply embraced in your renewing conscience, will remove the flaming sword from the Tree of Life, and give you access once again to the abundant life that was always intended for the children of Yahweh! You are His child, His child whom He loves beyond your ability to perceive. And He is coming soon! If you have not experienced love by then, you will. But heed this admonishment; when you reflect on your life, you will consider every single moment that you did not live in true love wasted!
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (15) Love endures all things
Love’s Attributes (15)
(#169 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love endures all things!” (1 Corinthians 13:7)
Love endures all things, and therefore, Yahweh endures all things!
To dwell or to remain, that is the picture endurance paints in word art. This is the embodiment of, “I shall never leave you, nor forsake you.” (Deuteronomy 4:31) Because Yahweh’s decision to love the unlovable is a unilateral Covenant (Yahweh alone vows to it), then the decision to remain with you during your shedding of the self is meant to be a comfort of Heavenly proportions. For those who make the conscious decision to come under the 1 Corinthians 6:19 command that “your life is not your own,” the work of sanctification then roots out the deepest layers of the ego. Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your rolling waves and breakers have gone over me. (Psalm 42:7) Within this deep washing, resentment towards Yahweh comes first, and then as the cleansing continues, a deep abhorrence for all that you once stood for. You begin to despise your own carnality and are amazed at just how much depravity really exists within you.
From, “Why are You not helping me,” to “I cannot believe You even loved me and chose to save me.” This is proof of the handing over of the carnal intellect, and submitting to the transference of His perfected mind implanted in you.
His Love endures all your resistance to love, until you receive His love, and then become love. This is what your salvation is, a perfect mind of love.
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (13) Love Believes all things
Love’s Attributes (13)
(#167 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love believes all things!” (1 Corinthians 13:7)
Love believes all things, and therefore, Yahweh believes all things!
It’s elementary really. Love believes all things that Yahweh says! This is never a license to conjure up personal hopes and desires as, “your life is not your own!” (1 Corinthians 6:19) It is the mature believer who comes to the conscious revelation that it is easy for man to receive the hope of the blessings; but the wise follower also receives the path to the blessings. The path of obedience (complete mind discipline) and removal of the ego (opposition to the mind of Messiah).
Do you believe that suffering furthers perfection? (James 1:4) Do you believe Yahweh’s rod is a tool of righteousness? Do you believe that life on earth, as it is today, will never be the Kingdom that Yahweh demands allegiance towards? Do you believe Yahshua’s death actually guarantees yours?
If so, we step further into love’s realm. Once we believe “all” things Yahweh says, then we believe we will be transformed into His likeness. Is this not the end goal of His love, to be One with Yahweh?
Son’s and daughter’s believe that what Yahweh claims to be truth, is truth, and what Yahweh says is a lie, is just that. They entertain no carnal fantasies about earth life, and particularly, earth love, just simple truths leading to One love. This is the way, walk in it!
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (12) Love does not betray
Love’s Attributes (12)
(#166 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love does not betray!” (1 Corinthians 3:7)
Love does not betray, and therefore, Yahweh does not betray!
Betrayal, the twelfth pillar of love’s opposite, embodies the very deception that is at the root of “false” beliefs about love. How is that? Because to betray is to forsake love itself. You have learned to justify such behavior by erroneously categorizing love into individual types such as, friendly love, intimate love, and brotherly love. This is a delusion as there is only one love, and it is defined solely by its Creator, Yahweh! If you are willing to accept it, redefining love is really an attempt to justify watering down Yahweh’s love into some imposter like “human love” or “natural love”. Any diluted and cheapened version of love will always lead to failure.
How so?
Anything that claims to be love, yet fails at any of the sixteen pillars (attributes) of love is a sham. Your willingness to dilute love because of your unwillingness to accept Yahweh’s standard of love will only keep you from experiencing the purity of His love. This compromise is a delusion; and this delusion is the ultimate betrayal and is why betrayal itself embodies the great deception.
“What can you do to remedy this delusion?” You confess your rebellion to Yahweh, of course. “I am an imposter Yahweh. I’ve attempted to redefine love so it fits my standards and makes me ‘feel’ like I am doing what You desire.” Repentance will then release His love over you, so you can then give it away to others. Repentance is the path back to knowing His true love.
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (11) Love rejoices in the truth
Love’s Attributes (11)
(#165 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love rejoices in the truth!” (1 Corinthians 13:6)
Love rejoices in the truth, and therefore, Yahweh rejoices in the truth!
And Pilate, representing personal will, said to Yahshua, who represents mind salvation offered to men, “What is truth?” (John 18:38) Is this not the foremost question? For if it is knowing the truth that sets you free (John 8:32), then it is imperative you know it!
The Hebraic origin of truth describes this: stability, trustworthiness, certainty, to build, support, and foster. Truth takes us from the foundation (beginning phase of spiritual perception) to the mountaintop (exalted consciousness). This truth of Yahweh is a journey.
Yahshua is the example of a life lived in and by the truth. We also know that He was set free and set the standard for those who would also be given the chance to find this perfect freedom within. “Whomever the Son sets free is free indeed.” (John 8:36)
“And whoever does not carry his yoke [mind stake], and walk [in truth] after Me [the mind saver], cannot be My disciple.” (Luke 14:27) The “self” cannot comprehend Holy truth, and it is this personal will that must be nailed to the stake daily. The torture stake is the meeting place of the Spiritual and the carnal. We have been given the pattern; do not attempt to perceive truth with your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5). You must daily, hourly, and even moment by moment, eradicate any desire of the “self” that attempts to hinder the Truth.
“Not my will, but Your will” (Luke 22:42) is the pinnacle of truth, and therefore a Holy pillar of love.
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (10) Love does not rejoice in iniquity
Love’s Attributes (10)
(#164 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
“Love does not rejoice in iniquity!” (1 Corinthians 13:6)
Love does not rejoice in iniquity, and therefore, Yahweh does not rejoice in iniquity!
A perverted mind: this is iniquity’s seed. These are the thoughts that some might label the “closet sins.” These iniquities leave us naked and afraid, and yet, we reject the Messiah’s wholeness in these most depraved areas of our subconscious, which then insidiously forms our conscious thought patterns.
And what about the rejoicing? Certainly, blatant debauchery and personal pride are often among those things in which we exalt in error, but the closet sins? Rejoice in the closet sins? Is it not the epitome of self-righteous pride to pretend Yahweh not only ignores the deep perversions, but that He actually forgets them? And is not self-righteous pride the ultimate in vainglory; rejoicing in carnality?
Come clean loved one! All sixty-six books and letters (mind documents) written by Yahweh tell you who you really are. Once you simply acknowledge the truth as He has revealed it, the healing begins. You are sick! Cry out for the Master Healer and learn of another chief pattern; be renewed! Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (Romans 12:2) Simply acknowledge that all Yahweh says about the “natural you” is true. And with this acknowledgement we cry out, “Change me Father!” This is how we remove the closet sins!
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (9) Love thinks no evil
Love’s Attributes (9)
(#163 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love thinks no evil!” (1 Corinthians 13:5)
Love thinks no evil, and therefore, Yahweh thinks no evil!
Evil, bad, spoiled, and afflicted, again as we delve into Hebrew origins, we are quick to find evil’s true meaning. If afflicted, afflicted where? In the conscience of course, in processes of thought! Therefore, if the mind is evil in thought, the mind is afflicted.
Evil is a fruit of a different kind; it rots from its core outward, from the center of consciousness out into the physical realm. We can see that it first destroys the one thinking evil and then it taints all that it comes in contact with. And even as they did not like to retain the Almighty in their knowledge, the Mighty One gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting. (Romans 1:28)
This ninth attribute of love is dealt with using much patience and faith, and this in Yahweh alone. If man could not, nor would ever choose righteousness, right thinking (Romans 3:10), then it only stands as holy truth that every thought produced from the “self” is evil. (Ecclesiastes 8:11) Be of good cheer loved one, as Yahshua the Messiah has provided a way for your mind to be redeemed. Shedding the blood (life force) of the “self”, He has shown the pattern, the narrow path, for the removal of all evil in conscience. For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. (Hebrews 10:2) “How does that happen?” you ask. “Your thoughts are not your own,” of course (John 12:49)! The pattern is to learn obedience to Yahweh’s commands alone, forsaking some supposed “free will” choice to do good. Obedience removes the evil within loved one. Obey and let Yahweh cleanse!
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (8) Love is not provoked
Love’s Attributes (8)
(#162 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love is not provoked!” (1 Corinthians 13:5)
Love is not provoked, and therefore, Yahweh is not provoked!
From its origination in Hebrew and the context of different words dealing with provocation, it is always love’s enemy that does the provoking. And though love is never hindered by it, identifying the provoker is the key.
So what are love’s enemies? Hate, pride, resentment, selfishness, greed, and on and on it goes. And, from where do these enemies derive? That’s right, from none other than the ego of man. But be of good cheer loved one, as love is not provoked. It will never be defeated by the vain conditions of the mind of man.
And this eighth attribute of love, or pillar as we gain a mental picture, speaks as the previous seven; it mocks any offense, as love itself is unoffendable. Again, love is complete as it is. Created by Yahweh as a revelation of His essence, love is filled with the power of Yahweh, the power to attain to the exact purpose of its existence. Ask yourself, “Was man created for love, or was love created for man?” How you answer this says much, and you would do well to seek His face and receive His answer.
Remember loved one, when scripture reveals that Yahweh is not provoked, it is never that love has felt the need to be anything other than what it already is. The provoking is illustrated to show you how the ego is always in opposition to the truth about love, ever straining to compromise it with intellectual and emotional rationalization!
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)