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Who Touched Me?
Who touched Me?
(#176 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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And Yahshua said, “Who touched Me?” When all denied it, Kepha [Peter] and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”
But Yahshua said, “Someone touched Me; I know that power has gone out from Me.” (Luke 8:45-46)
By faith, and a touch, twelve years of suffering were instantly done away with. How many of us suffer unnecessarily? How many of us long to draw from the power of the One we call Savior? Why do we simply marvel at what is written? Why don’t we live in it instead? How many of us have longed to touch Him physically; to see Him; to listen to His voice; and to stroke His hair with oil? We long to touch Him so He might touch us.
For us today, where is the disconnect? We have been granted greater power and access to His throne after the resurrection, than the woman with the issue of blood (Hebrews 11:39-40).
Why do we marvel at what was, when we have been told what is? We have more and more! (Psalm 115:14) Revelation of mysteries is available which were not known while He walked the earth. Let a man so consider us, as servants of the Messiah and stewards of the mysteries of Yahweh. (1 Corinthians 4:1) The revelation is for your benefit! Are you a good steward? But we speak the wisdom of Yahweh in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which Yahweh ordained before the ages for our glory. (1 Corinthians 2:7) For OUR glory! Certainly, even by chance, one would have reached out to touch Him if He was “physically” present before us. We can still reach out, even now. What is it that we lack that keeps us from Him today? Why the chasm; why the disconnect?
Will you pray with me?
“Abba, why is it so? Why can’t we make it more personal? It is all unseen. Why did You make it so that we must do this all by faith? You have told us that we are greater, those of us who have not seen, yet believe (John 20:29). We accept that Father, yet, there is this longing for the tangible. A touch not only from You, but to be able to reach out and touch You, feel You, and know You. Is it wrong of us to desire this Father? Is it not natural, but rather supernatural, that we long to see You; to be healed by You; to simply know? It is Your choice Father, the ‘how’ and the ‘why,’ and as we submit to Your authority over these things, release Your perfect knowledge over us, the revelation that Your way is perfect. Show us, Abba—show us how to touch You in spiritual ways, so we too may be touched in physical ways. We long for Your presence, the presence that You tell us is already here. Help us see Father. Please come. So be it.”
Think it twice
Think it twice
(#175 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“For look, I Am beginning to bring evil upon the city which is called by My Name, and should you be entirely unpunished? You are not going unpunished, for I Am calling for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares Yahweh of hosts. (Jeremiah 25:29)
Woe to you who call Me “The Lord of Hosts,” in place of Yahweh of hosts, you who cry for help from your enemies. Do I need to remind you of My patterns before you heap judgment upon yourselves, before its time? Have I not told you that judgment begins in My house? Judgment begins with My people, My people named Israyl. Sit silent and consider your ways before you act. Are you not calling judgment upon yourself by scorning your enemy? Have I not told you to pray for those who persecute you? (Matthew 5:44) I need to remind you that when you call down for My wrath, My wrath will come. Yes loved one, it will come right to your doorstep and reveal all that is in your heart (mind). Why must you provoke My long suffering? Why do I perceive a broken child in you, yet you stand in firm defiance towards all whom might oppress you?
Humility child! Think before you pray. Think while you pray. How can the Spirit I placed in you defy My patterns? It is not possible. It cannot be. Are you so pure in your own mind that you use such harsh measures? Can you no longer relate to a consciousness that would consider sin? It is you child who will be corrected while you call down vengeance upon another.
Oh, loved one, do not misunderstand, sinlessness is the call for My perfected ones. I do strongly desire that you arrive at this place. A thought for you to consider: can one who possesses all power have any enemies who can do any harm to them? Though one may deem himself an enemy, can they have any effect on the perfected one? Think child, and ponder. Humble yourself. Many times, a man’s only enemy comes from within. Yes, judgment begins with My people. Perhaps you might offer the mercy that you will soon long for?
“For the time has come when judgment [sifting using Yahweh’s standards] must begin in the House [Temple in your conscience] of the Almighty [Yahweh], and if first with us [the redeemed minds], what will be the end of those [unredeemed minds] who do not obey the good message [perfected mind patterns] of the Mighty One [Yahweh]?” (1 Peter 4:17)
True Life
True Life
(#174 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. (2 Corinthians 5:4)
Do not be dismayed at what is missing in your life, for your life is incomplete in your earthly tent (body). Please allow your mind to expand to understand the simple realities of why you can still groan, yet endure; pressure equals growth in the Kingdom of Yahweh. Through the Messiah, you have all you need for life and holy reverence (2 Peter 1:3), but never was that intended to be the end of things. Your yearning is due to the fact that you are a spirit being trapped in an earthly tent. This will not always be; the completion of all things planned for you has yet to be unveiled.
I don’t allow for excuses; As I said, My Son proved that “My favor (grace) is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, then, I [Shaul] shall rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Messiah rests on me. (2 Corinthians 12:9)
Listen My child; My point in giving you Scripture is to increase your wisdom of Me, and of My plans for you. Do not be intimidated by the fact that even in My Son, you would still yearn for something more. Did I not tell you that I planned it this way? The impartation of My Spirit, the Spirit that abides in you, is a deposit, a pledge of what is to come (2 Corinthians 5:5). This deposit is more than enough to bring you to the fullness of righteousness (faith in action by faith in Yahshua). However, My full dose is yet to come. There is still work to do.
When My Son hands all kingdoms of the earth to Me, when He has brought to naught all rule and all authority and power (1 Corinthians 15:24), then you will experience My full measure. Until then, you play a vital part in My plan. I need you to achieve the full measure of what I have given you up to now. Faith, hope, and love; these things you must excel at before more is given. Why would I increase your portion when you fail to utilize the fullness of the portion you now have? My Son will have a perfected bride.
Perhaps you should attain to this perfection? Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Yahshua the Messiah has also laid hold of me. (Philippians 3:12) Though many of you disregard perfection as a possibility, today is a new day. Today you can realize it is much more than a possibility; it is a command loved one! (Matthew 5:48) It is the end goal, the finish line, the Kingdom of Yahweh.
The lion (fierce thoughts) and the lamb (fearful thoughts) lying (rest in conscience) together in peace (a settled mind). (Isaiah 11:6)
Me in you
Me in you
(#173 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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Listen to Me loved one. How could I not see only but the best in you? Do you realize it is My Spirit in you that I connect with? It is the Me in you that I call out to. When we fellowship, it is My very own Spirit that is in fellowship. And now, it is no longer only My Spirit but your Spirit! Those who have ears to hear, let them hear what the Spirit is saying (Revelation 2:7, 2:29, 3:22)! Think of it as Me connecting with Me within you, and you are now able to enjoy the benefits, unless, of course, you do not hear this. Only then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (Matthew 13:43)
It might make sense if you stop to realize that I do all of this for My Covenant’s sake. Like My words teach you in Deuteronomy 7, I Am a Covenant keeper. I will finish My covenanted plans for your life. I Am the author and finisher of your faith (Hebrews 12:2). Of course, I enjoin you to participate, for My Covenant guarantees good fruit with your participation, and bad fruit if not. It is when you participate that I release My gifts called joy and peace. When you lack these things, and therefore suffer, it is only because you fail to participate in the work being done. Non-participation would be as if a wonderful party was going on all around you, yet you choose to sit in in the corner alone and sulk. Everything around tell you, “Get involved, have fun,” yet you decide to stay in the same isolated place.
My words of encouragement, the reason I speak life and peace over you, are because My Son permitted it to be so. I accepted His sacrifice once and for all. What He did for you enables Me to ensure My Covenant with you. I have sealed My Spirit inside of you, and this is what is continually made to grow in you. Yes, I will continue to advance inside of you, with or without you, but beware of resistance; it can be very painful for you. I implore you to get out of the chair and come from the corner and join the party. Don’t you know by now that the party goes on into eternity? Get up! Dance, rejoice, and enjoy! I Am inside of you and I demand that you give Me glory. You can expect all of My precious gifts after that.
I have so many gifts for you My child. Rejoice, I say rejoice!
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)
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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)