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YAHWEH HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE

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Friday December 2, 2022

YAHWEH HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jeremiah 29:11 [KJV]

In Jeremiah 1:5, Yahweh says ‘Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.’ Yahweh has a specific plan for you. Yahweh has a general plan for all of us His creation but also for us individually, He has a specific assignment. This is crucial because life becomes a frustration without taking delivery of the plan of Yahweh for our individual lives. So many people are frustrated even with fat bank accounts and all that money could buy. We have seen people parking their cars and going into the bush to commit suicide. So frustration is not just about not affording this world’s comfort. There is a plan for your life, if you are not functioning in that plan, there will be a hollow in your heart that can sometimes drive people to insanity of behaviour. Yahweh is stirring you up to seek Him for the unfolding of His plan for you. Whatever you are not looking for, you may not find.

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (6): IT IS WITHOUT PARTIALITY

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Thursday November 24, 2022

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (6): IT IS WITHOUT PARTIALITY

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, …
James 3:17 (KJV)

Acting without partiality is a hard thing to do, but it is a godly thing and therefore worth doing. Part of growing to have the “wisdom that is from above” involves setting aside our automatic human reactions to situations and replacing them with how Yahweh would react. Before we start looking at how we’re to be impartial, it’s important to note that Yahweh doesn’t show partiality regarding whom He blesses with wisdom. James writes, “if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” If you meet the basic requirements — seek Elohim and ask in faith (see James 1:5-6) — then Elohim will give wisdom regardless of your age, background, ethnicity, status, ability, etc. He is not a “respecter of persons” who shows favouritism or twists His rules based on who someone is (see Deut. 10:17; 2 Chronicles 19:7; Acts 10:34). This is very grave when we consider what I Peter 1:15-17 says, “15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation? 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy? for I am holy. 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:” You only endear yourself to the Lord when you work according His Word.

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (4): IT IS FULL OF MERCY

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Tuesday November 22, 2022

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (4): IT IS FULL OF MERCY

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy …
James 3:17 (KJV)

Mercy is defined as that aspect of Yahweh’s character in which He does not give people what they deserve. Mercy is a disposition to be kind and forgiving. It is the feeling that motivates compassion. It is the force that alleviates distress and shows great kindness towards the distressed. When you are full of mercy, you pity those who are afflicted and those who afflict and offend you. When you are full of mercy, your default response to those who hurt you is pity not vengeance. This means that vengeful, get-even spirit is not divine Wisdom but earthly, sensual and devilish wisdom. When you are full of mercy, you are patient with people’s quirks. There are just people that behave odd and oppose everything. When you are full of mercy, you exercise a lot of patience with people’s quirks. What person in your life has irritating quirks? How can you practice patience with that person this today and this week? Colossians 3:12 admonishes to ‘Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;’ The bowel is the inner most being of a person which is often considered by Hebrews as the seat of the tenderer affections, especially kindness, benevolence, and compassion. This is telling us that our mercy should flow from our innermost being and not a fake camouflage. That when you see someone in trouble, something should well up from your depth to show mercy to the person.

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (2): IT IS PEACEABLE

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Sunday November 20, 2022

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (2): IT IS PEACEABLE

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable,…
James 3:17 (KJV)

The wisdom from above also ensures that you enjoy supernatural rest. It releases to you peace of mind, peace in your body, peace in your place of work, peace everywhere! Kenneth Hagin tells the story of a time during the second world war, when everyone would run into a tunnel for refuge during bombings. But, there was this old woman who was not seen in the tunnel. Fearing she had been killed, the others were astonished when they saw her a few days later just having a nice time. So, they asked her, “Where were you during the bombing? Why didn’t we see you?” And she answered, “There is Somebody keeping me, who neither sleeps nor slumbers. So there’s no reason why two of us should be awake!” Some people probably got killed while they were running around, but she was at peace! That’s supernatural wisdom giving the enemy a knock out! When peace becomes established in your heart, you give Yahweh room to intervene in your life and situation. That was the principle the Lord Yahushua, the wisdom of Yahweh, operated by when He was fast asleep on a pillow in the midst of a raging storm! Mark 4:37-39 says, “37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. 38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? 39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” He understood that except He was at rest, divine intervention was not in view. Exodus 14:14 says, “The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.”

WISDOM BRINGS YOU TO KNOW YOUR PURPOSE

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Thursday November 3, 2022

WISDOM BRINGS YOU TO KNOW YOUR PURPOSE

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jeremiah 1:5 (AMPC)

Purpose is the original intention for the creation of a thing. Purpose is the reason for the making of a thing. Purpose is the thought in the mind of the manufacturer that necessitated the making of a thing. Nothing that is created is without a purpose. But the purpose of a thing cannot be known from the thing. You cannot ask a mobile phone for instance, “what is your purpose?” It does not know its purpose. Purpose is only known from the maker or manufacturer of a product. That is the reason, every manufacturer accompanies their product with a manual that describes the purpose, functions and maintenance of its product. If you want to know the purpose, functions and how to maintain the mobile phone, it behoves on you to consult the manufacturer’s manual. So many people carry mobile phones that are laden with extraordinary functions beyond texting, calling and receiving calls, but are not making use of those functions because they are ignorant that those functions exist in those phones they are using. Man is a product of Yahweh. Genesis 1:27 says, ‘So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.’ Beloved, you are not a biological accident. No matter, how you came, you are a product of pre-ordination of Yahweh. He picked you, out of the millions competing spermatozoa released. You are not an accident.

HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (7): BY GIVING YOU PEACE

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Saturday October 22, 2022

HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (7): BY GIVING YOU PEACE

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
Psalms 119:165 (KJV)

There are few things that are as valuable in life as peace. Peace is a stress-free state of security and calmness that comes when there’s no fighting or war, everything coexisting in perfect harmony and freedom. Peace is a state where there is no war or fighting within or without you. It is coming to a place of perfect rest and tranquillity in your spirit-man. So many people are at war within. They have the good things of life and live in good places and environment yet there is war within, no peace. The worst case of existence is lack of peace existence. That is the reason for suicide. The worst part of it is that there is nothing physical that can give or guarantee you peace within. Peace within comes first from surrendering your heart to the Lord Yahushua, reconciling with the Father through the Lord Yahushua. Then that state of peace is established by taking your seat in the Word. When you are in the Word, no devil can offend you, nothing can upset your heart. The world may be in turmoil; your environment may be on fire but within there is absolute peace and tranquillity. Peace is a state of living without a guilty conscience. Peace is a state of living without your heart skipping at the thoughts of things.

THE WORD IS REAL

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Monday October 3, 2022

THE WORD IS REAL

It is the spirit that quickeneth? the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63 (KJV)

The Word of Yahweh is a spiritual reality. When we say that something is a reality, it means that it is in the state of being actual or real. It means that the state of that thing as it really is rather than as you might want it to be. The Word of Yahweh is a spiritual reality means that the Word is real and an actual person even though it is only related with spiritually. That you do not see it does not in any way reduce or negate its reality. This is critical because you cannot try to understand the Word like you do Physics or Chemistry or any other subject. It takes being in the spirit and being spiritually minded to experience the Word. That is exactly what our opening text is saying that until the Holy Spirit quickens the Word for you, it would remain a story to you. The Word is Spirit and Life and until one is in the spirit, you cannot profit from the Word. At new birth, you have the Holy Spirit in you. It is called the Spirit within. John 14:17 says, ‘Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.’ The work of the Spirit within is to change you into the image of HaMashiach by conforming your character and lifestyle to the image of the Son of Yahweh. As you study the Word, the Spirit within, brings the understanding that makes your life outstanding.

WHAT IS THE WORD?

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Sunday October 2, 2022

WHAT IS THE WORD?

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Joshua 1:8 [KJV]

The Word of Yahweh is what our text calls “this book of the Law”. The Word of Yahweh is the revelations of Yahweh to holy men and women as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (see II Peter 1:21). The Word of Yahweh is the Bible as it is today. The Bible is the record of Yahweh’s dealing with people which reveal His person, attributes, nature, likes and dislikes. Our Yahweh is not a god that does not speak. He speaks and has shown us how to know Him. He commanded the people of old to write down His dealings with them so that it will serve as examples and instruction for the generation next. I Corinthians 10:11 says, “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” Because our Yahweh is unchanging like shifting shadows, who He was yesterday, is who He is today and is who He is going to be tomorrow (see Hebrews 13:8). This means that if you know how he responded to someone yesterday, and you are interested in that order of response, you can replicate it in your own life as you respond just like that person you read about (see Mark 13:37).

AWESOMENESS OF PRAISE (9): SUPERNATURAL LIFTING

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Saturday September 17, 2022

AWESOMENESS OF PRAISE (9): SUPERNATURAL LIFTING

1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord. 7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
Psalms 113:1, 7 (KJV)

There is a lifting up; a raising up when praise goes up to the Lord. Psalms 134:2 says, ‘Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.’ The lifting up of the hands in praise is very symbolic. Just like a child when his father arrives from work or journey, is overjoyed to see him and runs to him, lifting up his/her hands gives the father an opportunity to lift the child up; lifting up our hands in praise is giving the Lord the opportunity to raise us up and that is exactly what our opening text is saying. As you praise the Lord, He lifts and raises you from any place that makes your life uncomfortable. Not just that, He places you in places that is humanly unimaginable, among the nobles of the earth (see Psalms 113:8). Psalms 141:2 says something striking, ‘Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.’ The lifting up of our hands in praise is as the evening sacrifice which produces sweet savour to the Lord, who in turn lifts you and places you where the mind of man cannot imagine. Yadah is praising Yahweh with extended hands in adoration. When you yadah the Lord, you give Him the opportunity to turn you into a wonder in your world. Sometimes, the lifting can be instant, other times, it can be in the process of time, you discover you are way beyond whatever efforts, connection and perspiration can achieve. Praising the Lord engenders a supernatural raise in life.

AWESOMENESS OF PRAISE (6): MIRACLE-FILLED EXISTENCE

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Wednesday September 14, 2022

AWESOMENESS OF PRAISE (6): MIRACLE-FILLED EXISTENCE

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
Psalms 103:1,7 (KJV)

Firstly, let us understand that to ‘bless the Lord’ means to thank Him. In 1 Corinthians 14:16, the word says, ‘Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?’ Here to ‘bless with the spirit’ was equated with at your ‘giving of thanks’. So, how do we bless the Lord? By giving Him thanks and with our opening verse by kneeling before Him (Barak). When we give Yahweh thanks, it unleashes His acts. It secures existence in the realm of the miraculous as a lifestyle. When you let praise happen, Yahweh makes known His ways to you, giving you direction. Most of the time, He speaks to you in the heat of praise; then His acts (diverse miracles) take place. Your surest access to miracles is knowing what to do to have them. There is a gift o