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TO GET THE YAHWEH-KIND OF FAITH (1): KNOW THE INTEGRITY OF YAHWEH’S WORD

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Friday July 15, 2022

TO GET THE YAHWEH-KIND OF FAITH (1): KNOW THE INTEGRITY OF YAHWEH’S WORD

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Psalms 138:2 (KJV)

Faith is a function of the knowledge of Yahweh. You cannot exercise faith beyond the level of revelation of the Lord Yahushua that you have. Psalm 9:2 (KJV) says, ‘And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.’ This follows that if you don’t have faith in Yahweh, it is the proof of your bankruptcy of the knowledge of Yahweh. You cannot Know Yahweh and not trust Him. One aspect of the knowledge of Yahweh that helps you to function in highest kind of faith is the knowledge of the integrity of the Word of Yahweh. When we talk about integrity, we talk about the infallibility, unbreakability and reliability of the Word of Yahweh.

The first step necessary to attain the highest kind of faith is to know the integrity of Yahweh’s Word. You must know that Yahweh’s Word is actually what it declares itself to be. The Word of Yahweh is a revelation from Yahweh to us. We should also realize that the Bible is Yahweh speaking to us now – today. The Bible is not only a Book of the past and a Book of the future, but it is a Book of the now. This Book, the Bible, is a Yahweh-breathed, a Yahweh-indwelt, and a Yahweh-inspired message. HEBREWS 4:12 (KJV) says, ‘12 For the word of God is QUICK, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.“ Moffatt’s translation reads, “For the Logos [Word] of God is a living thing. . . .” You see, “quick” means alive or living. And so the Word of Yahweh is a living thing. But it will only come alive to you and work in your life as you accept it and act upon it. Therefore, the first step to attaining the highest kind of faith is to settle on the absolute integrity of Yahweh’s Word. The Word of Yahweh should be of foremost importance in your life. Sometimes folks feel that Yahweh hasn’t spoken to them unless they have received a message in tongues or a prophecy, but Yahweh’s Word – the Bible – is Yahweh speaking to us! And tongues and interpretations or prophecy are not to be put above the holy written Word of Yahweh.

HOW TO FEED AND EXERCISE YOUR FAITH

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Thursday July 14, 2022

HOW TO FEED AND EXERCISE YOUR FAITH

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17 (KJV)

Many people wonder why they are not growing in faith. Many times, it is because they are not feeding on Yahweh’s Word. Faith will grow by feeding it and exercising it. We feed our faith by reading and meditating on the Word, and by hearing the Word of Yahweh being preached. We exercise faith by being doers of the Word, and not hearers only. James said, “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only. ..” (James 1:22). Being doers of the Word means that we act on the Word. Simply reading and meditating upon the Word will not build faith. Reading and meditating on the Word will feed your faith and build a capacity for faith, but faith must also be a part of our daily speech. In other words, the Word that you feed on has to be exercised daily. It has to become a part of your daily speech. That word has to become a part of your daily conduct and actions.

FAITH AND WORK: ANY CONFLICT?

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Tuesday July 12, 2022

FAITH AND WORK: ANY CONFLICT?

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
James 2:20 (KJV)

Romans 3:27-28 (BBE) says, ‘What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith. For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.’ Apostle Paul is saying that you don’t need the works of the law to emerge the righteousness of Yahweh in HaMashiach. That the works of the law cannot get you saved, only faith in Yahushua HaMashiach can. James 2:26 (NET) says, ‘For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.’ Apostle James is saying that if your faith in Yahushua HaMashiach does not produce good works, that your faith is dead. Now, the question is: Is there a conflict between the view of Apostle Paul and Apostle James? The answer is emphatically NO. There is no conflict whatsoever between the views of these Apostles. They are saying two different things and it is important you understand it.

Apostle Paul was addressing a false teaching that faith in Yahushua HaMashiach alone was not enough for salvation, that you must have to observe the law otherwise you couldn’t be saved. The teachers of these falsehood were insisting that new believers be circumcised and observe the law otherwise they are not saved. But the works of the law cannot save anybody. If it could, then there wouldn’t have been need for Yahushua HaMashiach to come and die. No person can be saved by observing the law. Observing the law is good because the law is the commandment of Yahweh but it is grossly impotent in securing salvation for humanity. If you want to be saved, the only way is to believe in the sacrifice of Yahushua HaMashiach and receive Him into your spirit/heart by confessing Him as Lord and Saviour. As simple as this is, it is the only way to be saved.

HOW TO ACTIVATE YOUR FAITH (2): ACT ON THE WORD

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Monday July 11, 2022

HOW TO ACTIVATE YOUR FAITH (2): ACT ON THE WORD

And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
Luke 17:14 (KJV)

Faith is not a mystery. Faith is responding in obedience to the Word of the Lord – the Bible. Stop struggling to believe; just behave the Word and you commit the one that spoke it to perform. Do you know Yahweh has exalted his Word above all His name? Psalm 138:2 says, “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.”. One of the things that cannot fail in life is the Word of Yahweh – the Bible. If you can find what is written and act on it, you can rewrite your story. As a believer, you are not helpless and powerless. Faith is the force that makes the almightiness of Yahweh available at your instance. The process of producing proofs is get what is written, activate it by speaking to yourself, devil and Yahweh, receive it by acting out your side of the deal. Every word of Yahweh gives you opportunity of a response.

Ten leprous men came to Yahushua and from a distance shouted to Him, ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.’(Luke 17:13 KJV). In His compassion, The Lord Jesus responded, ‘Go show yourselves to the priests’. What they do with that instruction was going to determine the outcome they would have from their encounter with the Lord Yahushua. Are you sick? What is that request you have been making to the Lord? The link to your manifestation is your response to the Word. The Bible says, ‘and it came to pass, that as they went, they were cleansed.’ This is something to shout about! As they went, they were cleansed. Acting on the Word, always produces what the Word talks about. When we act on Yahweh’s Word, that’s faith. And when we’re in faith, we will receive answers to prayer. If we fail to act on Yahweh’s Word, just waiting for something to come to us first before we’ll believe, we will not receive what we need from Yahweh.

HOW TO ACTIVATE YOUR FAITH (1): YOUR CONFESSION

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Sunday July 10, 2022

HOW TO ACTIVATE YOUR FAITH (1): YOUR CONFESSION

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Mark 11:23 (KJV)

There is the law of faith that you must learn today. This law of faith states that CONFESSION OF THE PROMISES OF YAHWEH COMES BEFORE POSSESSION OF THE PROMISES. We must learn this law if we are going to be successful. I boldly declare and confess Yahweh’s Word, then and only then do I possess the promised blessing or benefit. I make my lips do the work. I give the Word its place. I take sides with the Word. If I side in with the disease and pain, there is no healing for me. But I repudiate the disease and the sickness with my words, which are an expression of my faith in Yahweh’s Word. My confession gives me possession.

Faith is governed by our confession. If I say that I have been prayed for and I am waiting for Yahweh to heal me, then I am not in faith and I have repudiated my healing. Instead, my confession should be this: “The Word declares that I am healed. Based on Yahweh’s Word, I thank the Father for my healing now, not when I see my healing. And I praise Him I am healed because according to His Word it is a fact.”

Think of it this way: As humans, we are constantly affirming something. Sometimes our affirmations are disastrous. In other words, the effects of your own words upon your life have the power to defeat you. For example, if you continually say you can’t do something because you don’t have the strength, you will begin to feel your strength actually diminishing. You are left weak and full of indecision and doubt. Your efficiency is gone. An affirmation or a confession is the expression of what we believe, whether good or bad. The confession of my faith created the reality of it. Some people continually confess the wrong thing. They confess their doubt and failure. They little realize that their negative confession robs them of their ability and efficiency. They little realize that their confession can change the solid, straight road of life into a boggy, clogged mire. The confession of weakness will bind you and hold you in captivity. Talk poverty and you will have plenty of it. Confess your want or lack of money all of the time and you will always have lack. These principles of confessing work because they are in the Word.

FAITH IS DIFFERENT FROM HOPE

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Friday July 8, 2022

FAITH IS DIFFERENT FROM HOPE

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)

There is a difference between faith and hope. Hope is confident expectation of a good future or salvation. Hope is in the future. Hope never materializes because once it materializes it is no longer hope. This is very instructive and striking, never miss it. As long as you are in hope, you will never see your hope materialize because if it does, hope ceases to exist. Romans 8:24 (KJV) says, ‘For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?’ For as long as you are in the realm of hope, you will lack manifestations, because there is always tomorrow and tomorrow never comes. But faith is now. Faith is bringing hope into present reality. Thank Yahweh we do have a Blessed Hope. The Blessed Hope of the Church is the soon return of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach, the resurrection of the saved dead, the rapture of the living saints, the hope of heaven, and the hope of seeing our loved ones and friends. Thank Yahweh for that hope. We rejoice in that hope, but that’s all future tense. Jesus is coming again, whether we believe it or not. He is coming because the Word says so. The resurrection, rapture and the return of the Lord is going to take place whether we have faith in it or not.

Faith is the force that converts your hope into your present hour inheritance. Moffatt’s translation of this verse reads: “Now faith means that we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.” One modern translation of Hebrews 11:1 reads: “Faith is giving substance … to things hoped for.” What Yahweh is simply telling us is that faith is laying hold of the unseen realm of hope and bringing it into the realm of reality. Too many times when it comes to receiving the Holy Spirit or healing or an answer to prayer, many people are just simply hoping they will receive and as long as they abide in hope, frustration abounds.

But it’s not hoping that gets the job done; it’s believing.

WHAT IS YAHWEH’S REST?

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Saturday July 2, 2022

WHAT IS YAHWEH’S REST?

“Therefore I swore in My anger, Truly they shall not enter into My rest.”
Psalms 95:11 [NASB]

Yahweh promised Canaan to Abraham as an inheritance for him and his descendents forever. Genesis 15:18-21 explained this covenant “18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” At the fullness of time, He raised Moses to take Israel to Canaan from Egypt. In that journey, some people were sent to spy out the land and they brought an evil report to the camp. In Numbers 13:28-33 we read about the report they brought back. Numbers 14:1-4 explained the response of the camp to the report. The camp of Israel in the wilderness believed the report of the ten spies which declared that they be not able to take the land because the inhabitance of the land are stronger than they. This was they saying in essence that the Yahweh that brought them out of Egypt with such display of power is not able to take them into the land He promised to them. This disbelief in Yahweh and His power angered Him so much that He vowed on them, “22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:” (Numbers 14:22-23).

Now, this case of Israel may be applied to those of their posterity that lived in David’s time, when this psalm was penned; let them hear Yahweh’s voice, and not harden their hearts as their fathers did, lest, if they were stiffnecked like them, Yahweh should be provoked to forbid them the privileges of his temple at Jerusalem, of which he had said, “This is my rest.“ The rest of Yahweh is the place of His presence. It is the place He had put His name forever. The rest of Yahweh is the promised land.

Yahushua HaMashiach is the place which we have come. The Ruach HaKadosh brings us the presence of the Father in Yahushua.

JULY 2022 PROPHETIC FOCUS

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Friday July 1, 2022

JULY 2022 PROPHETIC FOCUS

For we who have believed enter that rest, …
Hebrews 4:3 [NET]

Happy New Month Beloved! Welcome to the month of July of our year of STILL WATERS, GREEN PASTURES 2022. The Still Waters is a place of rest and refreshing. Since the year started, we have been exploring different factors that engender existence in the Still Waters and Green Pastures. We just finished a thorough exposition on the Yahweh-kind of love which settled any issue that might be confronting me now causing me to function in the Still Waters and Green Pastures. We believe that you have been completely immersed in that Word on Love. No matter your level of spirituality, the character of the Yahweh-kind of love will humble you. It is no doubt you are doing well but understanding the character of the Yahweh-kind of love opens you up to a whole new horizon that you see yourself as lacking. I don’t know about anyone else, but sometimes, it looks like to me as if I have not yet started because I see myself so far away from some of the characteristics of the Yahweh’s love. I must say of a truth, there is a new spiritual awakening for me from the Word of June 2022 on the Yahweh-kind of love and I believe that it is same for anyone that followed the devotional and the Word shared in Church all of which are online on our website and accessible for free. May that awakening stay with each one of us forever and increasing in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

The Still Waters is a place of rest and rest is a function of faith. This is the disconnect in the lives of so many believers today. Hearing the Word is not enough. Hebrews 4:2 told us of people that heard the Word but it never profited them “For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.” The instrument that brings us to rest is called faith. Without faith, you can sing rest forever and never experience it. Hebrews 4:3 says, “For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.” Faith is the launcher into the rest of Yahweh. No matter what your matter is today, there remains a rest for you in that matter. But that rest is a function of faith. If rest is your desire in any sphere of life, faith is a must for you. The need for rest in life and destiny cannot be overestimated. Without rest, you would develop all manner of health issues. Without rest, you cannot function in the best of your mental capacity and capability. Without rest, life is utterly meaningless. Rest in time and ultimately in eternity is a function of faith in the Word of Yahweh.

Our prophetic focus for the Month of July 2022 therefore, is “I FUNCTION IN REST BY FAITH IN THIS STILL WATERS, GREEN PASTURES EXPERIENCE” (HEBREWS 4:3).

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TRAINING YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT (4): PROMPT OBEDIENCE

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