This coming week, October 9-15 (14-20 Tishrei 6783), the Bible reading plan covers the portion Sukkot I.

09 Oct Numbers 29:7-11 Zechariah 1:1-3:10 Rev 10:1-11:19 Psalm 150:1-6
10 Oct Leviticus 22:23-23:44 Zechariah 4:1-6:15 Rev 12:1-17 Proverbs 31:1-9
11 Oct Numbers 29:12-16 1 Kings 8:2-21 Rev 13:1-18 Proverbs 31:10-31
12 Oct Numbers 29:17-25 Zechariah 7:1-8:23 Rev 14:1-15:8 Song of Songs 1:1-17
13 Oct Numbers 29:20-28 Zechariah 9:1-11:17 Rev 16:1-21 Song of Songs 2:1-17
14 Oct Numbers 29:23-31 Zechariah 12:1-14:21 Rev 17:1-18 Song of Songs 3:1-11
15 Oct Exodus 33:12-34:26 Ezekiel 38:18-39:16 Rev 18:1-19:10 Song of Songs 4:1-16

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This coming week, October 9-15 (14-20 Tishrei 6783), the Bible reading plan covers the portion Sukkot I. 09 Oct Numbers 29:7-11 Zechariah 1:1-3:10 Rev 10:1-11:19 Psalm 150:1-610 Oct Leviticus 22:23-23:44 Zechariah 4:1-6:15 Rev 12:1-17 Proverbs 31:1-9

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Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Matthew 11:11

#yeshua was born of a woman and he was definitely greater than John, so I think his intent was that John was the greatest of all prophets.

• John was greatest among the prophets because he was closest in time to that which he prophesied, the coming of the Messiah. "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."
• The least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than John in two respects: He has witnessed with his own eyes the fulfillment of the greatest prophecies and he has stepped beyond anticipating the Kingdom into being an active citizen of the Kingdom.

POSSESSING YOUR FUTURE – PART 2

Some Background:

The children of Israel have been wandering in the desert for forty years. They are standing at the edge of the Jordan River, ready to cross over into the new land, knowing that the moment they cross that river it is an act of aggression, the moment they cross over where there are already seven other nations living it is an act of war. They will be throwing down the gauntlet the moment they get to the other side. On the other side of the river there were seven nations, every one of them larger and stronger than the Israelite nation. Israel did not have any army. They had been in slavery for 400 years. They are going to cross the river and enter into who knows how long a period of battle and war. Now you know why YHVH is saying: [Be strong and courageous]. Now what gave Joshua the confidence to move ahead? [I Command you -- be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For Adonai your Elohiym is with you wherever you go.] -- Joshua 1:9. What gave Joshua his confidence to move ahead? YHVH said, [Remember who you are doing this for. You represent the King of Kings. You are on assignment from Almighty YHVH. Who do you think told you to do this? If I told you to do it, I am going to be with you.] That's the nice thing about being in YHVH's will, when He tells you to do something; He gives you the power and ability to do it. YHVH has never sponsored a failure, in fact, YHVH says: [I am going to be with you; now step out in faith!] If you have your Bible with you, circle the words [afraid] and [discouraged]. These are the two enemies that will prevent you from possessing your future. These are the two things that will keep you from becoming all YHVH wants you to be; fear and discouragement. Fear keeps us from getting started, [I do not even want to try -- I could never do that.] Discouragement keeps us from continuing, from finishing. Fear and discouragement keep us from making our lives count; they keep us from being all YHVH wants us to be. But YHVH says, [Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged! I am with you.] That is the bottom line: It is fear that keeps us in the desert, when we should be living in the Promised Land. The thing I like about Joshua is he was a man of courage. Courage is when you move ahead in spite of your fear and you witness to that person at work, you make that assignment, try that project or go after that dream. You do it in spite of your fear. A lot of people have courage, we have been seeing it displayed many times here on TTN. We have seen obstacles that look like they cannot be overcome and sometimes we have experienced fear, but we know that YHVH is with us saying, [Be strong and courageous, I am with you, I will see you through, just step out in faith.] I have seen it displayed in some of my friends on here, personal lives as you have faced illness, disappointment and things that just seemed to pull you down. Yet you have been strong and courageous realizing that YHVH is with you and that He will see you through, you have just got to step out in faith. I think what I admire most about Joshua was that he was a man of conviction. He was willing to stand alone for what was right, he was willing to go against popular opinion and he was willing to do the unexpected, the unusual and the [not normal] thing. Even when society said, [Do this!] he said, [No, that is not the way to do it.] He was a man of conviction. The Bible said that 40 years earlier.

Moses had chosen 12 spies and they had gone into the Promised Land to spy out the land and they came back. Ten of the spies said, [No way! We cannot do it! They are powerful and strong. They are like giants. They will eat us up. We were like grasshoppers in their sight.] And everybody said, [Yes, that is right! We cannot do it.] But there were two men who stood out in the crowd, two men who understood this lesson about possessing your future, two men who said, [We can!] It was Joshua and Caleb. They said [We can do it! We can take them on! They are like bread ready to be eaten up. Let us take them on!] It is interesting, forty years later, YHVH had to let the entire adult population die off and only two of those original people got to go into the Promised Land, Caleb and Joshua. Some of you are saying, [I do not know why I should step out on faith. It is pretty comfortable right where I am. I like my life as it is. Why should I shake it up? I am getting older.] Joshua was 80 years old when YHVH called him to cross the Jordan River and go into battle for the next 25 years. It is never too late to say [Yes!] to YHVH. Nobody remembers the people who say [It cannot be done!] We only remember the people who say, [It can! With YHVH, it can be done!] Nobody remembers the negatives, the people who say it cannot be done; the 10 spies, nobody even recognize their names. But everybody remembers the people who said, [We are going to step out in faith. We are going to go for it. We are going to make our lives count.] That is what Joshua did. It is interesting to me that the name Joshua means Deliverer / Saviour. He was the deliverer for his people, He delivered them into the Promised Land and he beat off all seven opposing nations and 31 different kings. Thousands of years later YHVH told Mary to Name her boy Joshua. Yeshua is a name that means the same thing as Joshua in Hebrew. Yeshua was named after Joshua because he too, would be a deliverer. YHVH said just like that great deliverer of old I am sending a New Deliverer to the world. What is the parallel? The parallel is that the other Joshua (Yeshua) wants to take possession of your life. Just like the first Joshua was to take possession of the land, Yeshua wants to take possession of your life. You can do it by stepping out in faith and trusting in Him today. Or maybe you have already taken that initial faith step, but now you want to possess your future, you can do it by setting up a plan; staying in the Word and stepping out in faith.

POSSESSING YOUR FUTURE – PART 1

Jeanne Calment was the oldest living human whose age can be verified. On her 120th birthday, she was asked to describe her vision for the future. [Very brief,] she said. We can understand Mrs. Calment’s view of the future; she is in a unique situation and knows that there is not much time left for her on earth. But what about the rest of us? What is our vision of the future? What does the future hold ourselves, for our families and for our church, gatherings, prayer groups or social media? If I were to ask you about your future, your plans, goals and dreams, what would you be able to share with me about it? The fact is that most people just accept whatever is handed to them and do not really have any focus toward possessing their future at all. Let us look at someone that stands as an example of how to possess your future, his name is Joshua. Joshua was the man chosen by YHVH to lead His people into the Promised Land. They had wandered in the wilderness for 40 years but now they are ready to cross the Jordan River and possess the land. YHVH had told Joshua something along these lines: [Joshua, you have got a tremendous future ahead of you. I am going to do great things in your life. But there is a dynamic at work here: I’ll give you everything I've promised and more. But it is going to be a fight. I am going to fulfil My promise, but you have to be willing to possess it.] I think that YHVH says something very similar to us. He says: [I have great things I want to do in your life, things you have not even dreamed of. All your past is prologue; all your best days are ahead of you. But it is going to be a battle. You must possess your future.] How do we do that? How do we possess our future? By doing the same three things that YHVH told Joshua to do in possessing his future. In Joshua 1, YHVH gives Joshua a talk. He says: [I know you are going to be in battles for the next 20 years so I want to encourage you. I want you to do 3 things and these 3 things will bring success to your life.] It is YHVH’s strategy for success, His strategy for possessing the future.

1 – Set Up A Plan:
You need a plan for your future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life. [Now that My servant Moses is dead, you must lead My people across the Jordan River into the land I am giving them. I promise you what I promised Moses: `Everywhere you go, you will be on land I have given you.] -- Joshua 1:2-3. What is Joshua's response? [Go through the camp and tell the people to get their provisions ready. In three days, you will cross the Jordan River and take possession of the land Adonai your YHVH has given you.] -- Joshua 1:11. Joshua had a plan; he is ready to act on YHVH’s promise. The future belongs to the person who prepares for it. While we do not have all the details, Joshua had been preparing all of his life for the leadership position YHVH had placed him in. This was not something that was given to him in a [spur of the moment] kind of fashion; Joshua had a plan for leadership. You have got to have a plan! A national survey found that 27% of all people have given no thought at all to their future, 60% have given some thought to the future {usually only in the area of finances}, 10% have a fairly good idea of where they are headed, and only 3% of our population have written down goals. This is interesting because the same survey also revealed that 27% of our population are welfare recipients, 60% of our population are barely making ends meet, 10% of the population is well off and 3% of the population is highly successful. The exact same numbers! What is interesting to me is that the only discernable difference in this survey that they could find was that those that were highly successful had written down their plans and goals. They were out achieving the others 10 to 1. The point is that successful people plan for the future. Do you do that? Are you making plans? Have you given any thought of what's going to happen next year in your spiritual life, family life or career? Or do you just drift through life. If you want to be successful you have to have a plan.

2 – Stay In The Word:
YHVH says to Joshua, [You are going to be in the battles for the next 25 years, you are going to be fighting.] The Bible is your instruction manual for conflict. It is the manual for the battles of life. [Be strong and courageous, for you will lead My people to possess all the land I swore to give their ancestors. Be strong and very courageous. OBEY all the LAWS Moses gave you. Do not turn away from them, and you will be successful in everything you do.] -- Joshua 1:6-7. [Don’t turn away from the Law I have written]. He is saying do not get side-tracked. Have you noticed how easy it is to get side-tracked today, as a believer? To get off into other things that just are not important? I see so many people getting excited for Adonai, give their lives to Moshiach, start out great and then they get side-tracked, sometimes by very good things. All of a sudden, they get side-tracked by their career and that takes on more importance. Or they get side-tracked by sports, a hobby, a financial difficulty, an illness, having more children or whatever. And somehow in the process they lose their focus on the Word of YHVH. One of the greatest promises in the Bible is: [Study this Book of the Law continually. Meditate on it day and night so you may be sure to obey all that is written in it. Only then will you succeed.] -- Joshua 1:8. In verses 7 and 8, success is promised twice. YHVH says: [Do not turn away from the Law. Stay with the Law and you will be successful]. Here He says: [Keep your mind saturated with the Word of YHVH and you will be successful.] The point is this: YHVH's promise of success has absolutely nothing to do with your ability. YHVH's promise of success in your life has everything to do with your commitment to His Word. How do you stay in the Word? Three ways:

A -- Study it: [Study this Book of the Law continually] -- verse 8a
B -- Think it: [Meditate on it day and night] -- verse 8b
C -- Live it: [Obey all that is written in it] -- verse 8c.

What does it mean to stay in the Word? It means I study it; I think it and I live it. If I do those things, YHVH says, blank check, [you will succeed.] YHVH says, [You obey the premise, I will fulfil the promise.] Study the Word, think about the Word, live the Word and watch YHVH bless your life. This applies not just to Joshua; it applies to you too. [All Scripture is inspired by YHVH and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens us out and teaches us to do what is right. It is YHVH's way of preparing us in every way, fully equipped for every good thing YHVH wants us to do.] -- 2 Timothy 3:16-17. YHVH's Word [straightens us out], it shows us the path to walk on and how to walk on it. It warns us when we get off the path and it shows us how to get back on the path. It is good for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction in righteousness that the man of YHVH may be thoroughly furnished unto every good work. The Bible says that YHVH's Word is your soul food. You need to set up a plan and you need to stay in the Word if you are going to possess your future. You know, I imagine Joshua was a pretty busy man. He is the leader of an entire nation and he does not have a whole lot of extra time on his hands. But he made time to read the Bible and to pray. Evaluate yourself on this one: Write this down, estimate the amount of time you spend reading and studying the Bible each day. Now compare that to how much time you spend every day watching television. If you want to be successful, if you want to possess your future, you have to set up a plan and you have to stay in the Word.

3 – Step Out In Faith:
I like the words [step out] because faith is an action. A lot of people think faith is just something you believe, but faith is much more than mental assent. I can believe a plane will fly but it does not mean anything until I get on board. Until I take the step of faith and get on board it means nothing. People say: [I believe in Yeshua.] So what? So does the devil. Faith means to commit yourself to what you believe in. You must step out in faith because faith is an action. Three times in this passage there is a phrase, [be strong and courageous], -- verses 6, 7 and 9. Why is it necessary for YHVH to tell him that three times? Because YHVH knows that there are going to be a lot of things in Joshua’s life that will distract him, discourage him and depress him, but he can be strong and courageous because YHVH will be with him every step of the way. Now it is up to him and us to step out in faith!

Praise Yahweh we finally got this one done and out!

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