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Thought for Today: Tuesday October 04:
YHVH Loves you with an everlasting Love. The human mind cannot comprehend His constancy. Our emotions flicker and falter in the face of varying circumstances and we tend to project our fickle feelings onto YHVH. Thus, we do not benefit fully from His unfailing Love. We need to look beyond the flux of circumstances and discover Him gazing lovingly back at us. This awareness of His Presence strengthens us as we receive and respond to His Love. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. So, let His Love flow into you continually as it does for me. Our need for Him is as constant as the outflow of His Love to us.
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The story of Isaac blessing Jacob and Esau (Genesis 27) has a number of connections to #yomkippur.
For example, why did Rebekah say to get two goats in v9 when no one can eat two goats, let alone a sick old man? Because Jacob and Esau are a foreshadowing of the two goats of Yom Kippur and of much, much more.
http://soilfromstone.blogspot.....com/2016/10/the-bles
Our hope in the soon return of Yeshua is becoming the target of the enemy. This remind me of Matt 10:22 - "And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved."
We should pray for one another to stand strong and endure to the end as many will fall away.
Too much inflation? Prices to high? All caused because the gumment can't curb spending. Simple fix, put more people out of work! Problem solved. Gotta love the (not actually federal) Federal Reserve.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f....ed-interest-rate-hik
OVERCOMING PERSONAL STAGNATION – PART 2
4 – Key to Inspiration:
If there is not something that gives me that spark, that stimulation to move forward with my life, then it is not going to happen. I need something that will inspire me to grow into the person YHVH created me to be. [Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near.] -- Hebrews 10:24-25. Have you ever thought about this? Looking around at your fellow believers, or here on TTN, can you think of any ways to encourage them to [outbursts of love and good deeds?] Has it ever even crossed your mind? According to this passage, our inspiration not only comes from YHVH, but from each other and if we are not keeping company that inspires, we have a problem.
Cultivate Stimulating Relationships:
One of the best way to experience growth is to find someone that is ahead of you on the spiritual path and make friends with them. Ask them to teach you, to mentor you, to help you to grow in your faith. [Whoever walks with the wise will become wise; whoever walks with fools will suffer harm.] -- Proverbs 13:20. You make your own choice as to who you will spend your time with. If you choose those who are mature in their faith, you will mature in your faith. If you choose those who are weak in their faith or who have no faith at all, your personal condition will be affected by that. Sometimes you don’t have someone readily available, go out and buy a book from someone who has mastered the area that you need to grow in and learn from them. Get internet programs from others who are ahead of you and learn from them. There are hundreds of people and resources available to help you in this area of inspiration and when you are inspired to grow, you will grow.
Take time to go through every article here on TTN! There are excellent articles; and make friends. Not to make a name for yourself but with the idea to learn.
5 – Key to Change:
I am sure you have heard this definition of insanity: [Doing the same thing today as I did yesterday but expecting different results]. I was involved with a church once that could not figure out why they were not experiencing any growth. They had not experienced any growth for years and years. When I asked what they had changed to stimulate growth, they said that they were afraid to make any changes because they might lose people. Many of us are that way in our own lives we make no changes because we are afraid of the risks involved, yet we are experiencing no personal growth.
Choose to Become Progressive Risk-Takers!
Now if I know the exact result of a particular action, I am not taking a risk. If I know that investing money in my savings account will give me 5% interest and that the money is insured, I am not taking a risk putting my money there. But let us say I have the opportunity to invest in an African Diamond Mine that has the chance to hit it big or I could lose it all; that is risky. When it comes to our faith walk, we need to be willing to step out beyond what we have experienced as tried and true and what we are comfortable with. This word [risk] has some correlation with the biblical word [faith.] If YHVH wants us to do it, it is not risky in the sense of the diamond mine, but it is risky in the sense that we are being stretched beyond what is comfortable for us. [It is impossible to please YHVH without faith. Anyone who wants to come to Him must believe that there is a YHVH and that He rewards those who sincerely seek Him.] -- Hebrews 11:6. We cannot please YHVH with no faith, and His reward only comes to those who move in faith. Until we begin to place our faith in YHVH, which is trusting Him in those areas that are unseen, we will remain victims of personal stagnation. What needs to happen is that we begin to take risks in our relationships, in our ministry areas, here on TTN and in our time when it comes to giving to YHVH. To risk in relationship means that I will go out of my way, at the risk of looking like a fool, to establish relationships with the unbelievers or with people who are different than me. I risk in ministry by stretching my Elohiym-given gifts and abilities by serving in ways that I never have before. I risk financially in the sense that I trust that YHVH will bless me when I move from giving 10 pounds a week, to giving Him 10% or more of my whole existence for His work. I am changing the way I do life, by getting off the bench and getting into the game and the game has to involve some level of risk, if I am going to experience growth.
6 – Key to Character:
Every day as I am growing in Moshiach through the process He has given, focused on the goal of becoming like Him, I am developing my character. One of the most significant ways my character is developed is by the way I deal with the trials that come into my life. [Dear brothers and sisters, whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy. For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.] -- James 1:2-4. When James describes using our trials as an [opportunity for joy] he is talking about making a choice and exhibiting an appropriate attitude toward life. The choice consists of how we view our trials, and the joy is the resulting attitude of making the right choice. When we look at our trials as an opportunity for growth, rather than simply a burden to bear, we are given the gift from YHVH of strong character.
Leverage Life’s Hardships:
While I know it is easier said than done, I need to take whatever trial life has dealt me and see what possible good can be derived from it. For instance, a person might say: [This cancer that has invaded my body has given me the ability to minister to others in similar circumstances.] or [The death of my spouse has allowed me to better understand the grief the Father felt when His Son was nailed to the Cross.] or [This financial setback has shown me the importance of good stewardship.] The list is unending, but the principle is that our character grows when we respond to hardships in the right way and our lives are enriched as a result.
7 – Key to Guidance:
I have saved this one for last, because without it the others will not be able to produce their full effect. In every area of life, we need the guidance that can only come to us from YHVH.
Make Time For Solitude and Silence!
I know how difficult this is in the culture we live in; this is something I have to force myself to do. We need that time, it is so important, when we are by ourselves with YHVH in the silence of the moment, when we allow Him to speak to our soul. [Yeshua often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.] -- Luke 5:16. Yeshua had to get away from His friends, from His family and from the crowds, so that He could spend some time alone with YHVH in prayer. If Yeshua needed this, how much more so do we need to? It is not a matter of reading theological journals or memorizing the entire Bible, most of the time what is most necessary is that we just stand before YHVH, all by ourselves and in the solitude of the moment we speak to Him and He speaks to us. The guidance that He offers to us is the one key that pulls everything else together; if you are looking for the answer to overcoming the stagnation of life, this is the most important key of all. As usual, there is a choice that we have to make, we can either keep living the way that we always have and if we are not there already, eventually we will end up living a life of personal stagnation or we can decide that today is the day that we are going to begin living life to its fullest and with YHVH’s help we will overcome whatever it is that has been holding us back. I hope and pray that whatever the choice you make, you will be inspired by Ruach HaKodesh to make the right choice.
OVERCOMING PERSONAL STAGNATION – PART 1
I have two cups of water; one I just poured from the faucet, the other I filled up from the stagnant water from a pond outside. Which one would you like to take a drink from? Water stagnates when it’s not flowing. When water stands still for a period of time, it becomes contaminated with bacteria and loses all of its freshness. But water that flows through a mountain stream is pure, fresh and inviting. Our lives can be like water; depending upon certain choices we make, we can live fresh, inviting and full-flowing lives or we can live lives that have been overcome by personal stagnation. And personal stagnation leads to boredom, a lack of purpose and for those of us who are Moshiach followers, it can make our faith itself seem downright dull. Maybe you have been a believer for long, you are either suffering from stagnation now, have in the past or are going to in the future. Let us take a look how to overcome stagnation:
7 Keys to Growth:
I could probably come up with 30 keys if I had to, because there are many ways to stimulate your life and get back your excitement in the believers life but let me give you what I think are the top and for now.
1 – Key to Motivation:
The biggest problem that most of us have is not that we have quit believing, not that we are caught up in some terrible sin, but we are just not motivated anymore.
Live Daily With The End in View:
I cannot hit the bullseye if I am not aiming for it. And so many of us have no target to aim for, we are just stumbling along through life, hoping that by chance we will get it right. [But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.] -- Matthews 5:48. Now, how does perfection sound as something to aim for? It sounds unreachable. But the word translated [perfect] literally means [fully grown] or [ripe.] Yeshua is speaking of a process here, of aiming for something, of having a goal and taking the steps necessary to reach it. He uses the Heavenly Father as the example; YHVH is the target we need to aim for, and we do that by living a life in imitation of Yeshua Moshiach. Now I know that in this life I am never going to be as fully grown or perfect as YHVH is, but I do know that if I have this as my goal, I will continue to grow closer to it with each passing day. It causes me to live each day with the end in view, to be focused, not just on the moment, but on the big picture of my life and it motivates me to grow.
2 – Key to Overcome Apathy:
In 2004, the Boston Public Library opened a new exhibit to commemorate the 85th anniversary of a strange event. Boston's [Great Molasses Flood] killed 21 people and injured 150. On January 15, 1919, an enormous steel vat, containing 2.3 million gallons of molten molasses, burst. Hot, sticky waves of syrup thirty feet tall, destroyed buildings, crushed freight cars, wagons, automobiles, and drowned people. The enormous tank, 50 feet high and 240 feet around had been poorly designed. Company officials reacted to the constant leaks by repainting the tank to match the leaking molasses. [Out of sight, out of mind!] They knew the molasses vat was dangerous but didn't do anything about it. We do something very similar in our faith lives; it is so easy to become apathetic about different problems that we have that need fixing and just ignore them or paint them over with a thin veneer of religious activity. And over time, as our problems grow and as they remain unresolved, we find ourselves swimming in the pool of spiritual stagnation.
Make a Personal Commitment to Grow:
There is a decision involved here: One that doesn’t just talk, but acts. And it is a decision that will lead us away from apathy, into victory. [If any of you wants to be My follower, you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross daily, and follow Me. If you try to keep your life for yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for Me, you will find true life. And how do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose or forfeit your own soul in the process?] -- Luke 9:23-25. Yeshua is asking for a personal commitment here, and it is a big one; [put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross daily, and follow Me.] And He gives us the consequences of that commitment; keep your life and lose it or give up your life for Him and find true life. The negative here is this: If you want to live for yourself and be committed only to yourself, you will live a life of personal stagnation. The positive is: Live for Yeshua and live a life filled with meaning, purpose, celebration, victory, security and assurance. Can you remember an old game show, [Let’s Make a Deal?] The host would give the contestants an option between doors number one, two or three. The contestant had no idea what was behind the doors; it might be a new bedroom suite, a vacation or a bag of dog food. The contestant committed to one of the doors but had no idea what he would get. Following Yeshua is not [Let us make a deal.] Yeshua says if you choose Me, you will experience true life, but if you choose yourself, your life will be lost. [Spend your time and energy in training yourself for spiritual fitness.] -- 1 Timothy 4:7b. There is a decision to be made here, a commitment to go into training for growth. Have you driven a stake in the ground and said: [I am going to grow; I am going to commit myself to this process.] Until you do, growth will not occur.
3 – Key to Progress:
So many of us think that we would leave personal stagnation behind if we could just find the right seminar, the right book or the right event. And so we go to an event, get a book or something similar and for a couple of weeks we’re all pumped up and then stagnation returns. While many of these events and books are helpful, they really are not the key. Here is what we need to do:
Value Process More Than Event:
It is not a onetime fix that is going to solve the problem, it is a series of things that we purposely do and get involved in that eventually leads to growth. It is the process of growth that needs to be experienced and honoured, rather than each individual event that is a part of the process. The writer to the Hebrews was talking about the need for spiritual maturity and he makes this analogy: [A person who is living on milk isn't very far along in the believer’s life and doesn't know much about doing what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves to recognize the difference between right and wrong and then do what is right.] -- Hebrews 5:13-14. Notice this phrase: [Who have trained themselves…] He is speaking of a process of training for growth that is initiated by the one being trained. The process is not a seminar, a quiet time or reading a book, it is the cumulative value of those things over a period of time. The secret to your future is not found in the events you attend, but in what you do in your daily routine. Day by day, if you are in YHVH’s Word, if you are praying, if you are being stretched by others and if you are in fellowship, over time those things add up to a great amount of progress in the believer’s life. Too many of us ignore the daily routine and look instead for the one-shot spiritual wonders or events to propel our lives into spiritual success. But true success comes in the way we fill our daily lives.
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