Maximum Performance According To His Law!!

1 John 5

We are walking in today:  Maximum Performance According To His Law!!

Witness refuse throughout the Bible:  H3988 ma'ac--to reject, despise, refuse, abhor, cast away, contemn, disdain, become loathesome, melt away, reject

 Psalm 118:22 The stone which the builders refused H3988 is become the head stone of the corner.

The Torah testifies...............
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The prophets proclaim..................
 1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused H3988 him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh
on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

The writings bear witness...........................
 Proverbs 15:32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth H3988 his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

Ezekiel 5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused H3988 my judgments
and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

Read the Fine Print

Nothing can function at its maximum performance if it violates The Most High’s laws or the laws laid down by the manufacturer. These laws set the boundaries or limitations within which all things must operate.

There is no recourse. The pre-established consequences always follow the failure to fulfill the law’s obligations.

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Books and television shows may tell us that we are free to sleep around, but they don’t caution us about the guilt and the misery that come from such actions. Pro-choice groups may persuade us that we are free to abort our babies, but they do not warn us of the severe depression and never-ending sense of loss that plague many women following an abortion. Cigarette ads may portray healthy, laughing men and women puffing away on the particular brand that tastes best and gives the most satisfying high, but they do not show the hospital rooms, cancer treatment centers, and doctors’ offices filled with smokers suffering from lung cancer and emphysema. Too often we resist obeying rules and living within a given set of laws, stipulations, and regulations because we see them as having a negative rather than a positive impact on our lives. The Scriptures are clear that The Most High’s laws are good. They are given for our benefit.

This is love for The Most High: to obey His commands. And His commands are not burdensome... (1 John 5:3).

If you fully obey the Lord your The Most High and carefully follow all His commands I give you today, the Lord your The Most High will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessing will come upon you if you obey the Lord your The Most High (Deuteronomy 28:1-2).

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path (Psalm 119:105).

Every commandment of negative orientation can be restated in a positive manner. “You shalt not misuse the name of the Lord your The Most High” (Exodus 20:7a) could be rephrased, “Worship only Me.” “You shall not steal” (Exodus 20:15) might be reworded, “Leave other people’s possessions alone.” “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor” (Exodus 20:16) could be, “Tell the truth.”

Unfortunately, mankind has difficulty obeying The Most High’s commandments. Therefore, The Most High sets forth His commandments as prohibitions that set boundaries within which we must operate. He relates to us at the point of our sin and endeavors to move us beyond our failure and disobedience by giving us very specific guidelines and directions. Because Cain had already killed Abel, for example, The Most High said, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13) instead of “Honor and safeguard your neighbor’s life.” This same phenomenon is evident in the disciplining of a child.

Although the parent may tell the newly-mobile child “You may play only with your toys,” she inevitably must add “Do not touch the stereo, the television, the magazines on the coffee table, etc.” Do not touch...do not touch...do not touch. It is these negative statements that clearly define the child’s boundaries and help him learn what is acceptable behavior and what is not.

So it is in your relationship with The Most High. Through thou shalt nots The Most High delineates the limits within which you can live a healthy, happy, productive life. They are His means of helping you. He does not intend to unnecessarily harm, restrict, or bind you. The Most High created you to fulfill your potential, but you must accept the principles and laws that govern it. That’s the bottom line.

Misconception of Law

The limitless ability The Most High has given us to do all we can think, to accomplish all we can imagine, to fulfill every aspiration we entertain cannot survive unless we obey The Most High’s laws and live within His limitations. To encourage an accepting attitude toward The Most High’s laws and commandments, let us examine some of the misconceptions that surround the concept of law. Our potential cannot survive unless we obey The Most High’s laws and live within His limitations.

Misconception—Laws Restrict Us
All parents have heard the complaint, “You just don’t want me to have any fun,” when they put a restriction upon their children’s activities. Whether it is a curfew, a rule about calling home, or a standard that requires the child to avoid being at a friend’s home if the friend’s parents are not there, the child sees the rules and requirements as the parents’ desire to withhold from him the enjoyable things of youth.

Very often we transfer this same attitude into our relationship with The Most High. We see The Most High’s thou shalt nots as His means of taking the fun out of life. Then His laws appear to be restrictive instruments that limit our freedom to do what we want, when we want, where we want, with whom we want.

Misconception—Laws Inhibit Us
The misconception that law inhibits or restrains us also distorts our understanding of the purpose of law. This perception is readily evident in the attitude of the employee who feels that the obligation to punch a time clock cramps her preferred style of arriving at work five or ten minutes after the designated starting time and making up that time at the end of the day. Or perhaps a young couple believes that an apartment house’s rule to rent only to married couples inhibits their freedom to live together. Or, yet again, a club that makes much of its income from a daily happy hour may consider an ordinance that holds establishments responsible for accidents involving their patrons unnecessarily prohibitive.

Misconception—Laws Bind Us
Some laws appear to bind us and we, therefore, find them to be irritating. Traffic laws are good examples of these laws. One day as I rode in the car with my son, says Dr. Munroe, I tried to beat a yellow light because I was a little late. As the light changed, my son said, “Daddy, the light is changing.” Just as I pressed the accelerator to make the

light, he spoke again, “Daddy, you’ve got to stop,” and then “Thou goest too fast, O Dad.” Because I had taught him to stop at red lights, I slammed on the brakes and we came to a halt with a terrible screech. The law concerning red lights was particularly binding to me that day.

Misconception—Laws Rob Us
The belief that laws prevent us from receiving the best things of life is also a false understanding of the nature of law. This perception often occurs when something we want defies a given law, but we want it anyway. A young girl, a citizen of the kingdom who wants to marry a nice-looking, well-behaved guy who isn’t saved thinks The Most High is unfair when He says not to be yoked with unbelievers (see 2 Cor. 6:14). A young businessman perceives himself to have been robbed when his partner is unwilling to use dishonestly obtained information to make a killing on the stock market. A single mother struggles between giving her tithe to The Most High and spending the money on a much-deserved weekend away from the kids.

All these misconceptions convince us that laws and regulations are encumbrances and burdens that prevent us from enjoying life to the fullest. In truth, laws are provided for our benefit.

The Benefits of Law
If, then, laws are given to help us and to make life more enjoyable, how do they accomplish their purpose? What reliable benefits do they offer?

Benefit—Laws Protect
The child who lives with no rules and restrictions is much more likely to get hurt or to end up in trouble than the child who lives within a structure of parental guidance. Because he has no boundaries or guidelines against which he can judge his actions, he may make decisions that jeopardize his safety and well-being. The rule “no playing on the kitchen floor when Mom is making dinner,” for example, protects a young child from being scalded. If he is not taught this rule, the child may not even know that he is in danger.

Likewise, the restriction “no swimming alone” protects against drowning. In a similar manner, traffic signs such as stop, yield, slow, and detour have all been established not to restrict, but to protect us and others. Laws protect us. They alert us to possible danger. Laws alert us to possible danger.

Benefit—Laws Assist
Laws also give us assistance. Can you imagine the confusion if everyone addressed their letters however they wished? Some people might put the address of the sender in the upper left corner, but others might put the address of the recipient there. Or one community might have the tradition of putting the stamp on the back of the envelope, while every other community places it on the front. Postal regulations aid the efficient handling of mail so letters go to the sender’s intended recipient. Instead of restraining us, laws provide assistance so we can accomplish what we intend.

Benefit—Laws Allow for Full Expression
Laws also allow us to express ourselves completely within the context of community. Consider what would happen if you bought a house in a nice neighborhood to raise your children in a safe, non-violent environment only to have your neighbor open an adults-only bookstore. The traffic on your formerly quiet street now quadruples and your children are exposed to unhealthy materials as people come from the shop leafing through pornographic literature.

One night a patron is shot in front of your house by his wife, who is enraged by his attitudes and his actions toward her after he has been looking at his girlie magazines. Suddenly, your nice neighborhood is no longer safe. Civil laws help to control what is and is not permitted within a community so that all may enjoy the environment they desire.

Although these laws may irritate us because they compel us to act in a certain manner, they permit us to enjoy personal preferences within our personal space. Consider, for example, the following situation. A resident in an apartment complex enjoys listening to classical music, but the young man in the next apartment blares his rock music so loud that it rocks his neighbor’s walls and drowns out her music.

If you are the young man who prefers loud rock music, the rules of the apartment complex that control noise appear to be restrictive and binding. For the person in the neighboring apartment, however, the regulations permit her to enjoy her own taste in music. Laws allow each person to enjoy his individual preferences so long as he does not infringe on the freedom of others to do the same.

Benefit—Laws Maximize Potential
Laws help us to do and be our best. The very laws that restrict negative behavior also encourage and uphold positive attitudes and actions. The classroom rule, for example, that makes the entire class responsible for monitoring cheating and gives a failing grade to any-

one who copies from another student’s paper also encourages excellence because it exerts peer pressure for honesty and guarantees that each person will be graded by his or her own efforts. Thus, the law both sets consequences for negative behavior and rewards those who work hard and do their best. The very laws that restrict negative behavior also encourage and uphold positive attitudes and actions.

The Bible clearly shows that laws do not restrict positive thoughts and behavior:
...live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you...that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of The Most High. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:16-23).

Since the violation of law destroys potential, and obedience to law fulfills potential, law encourages the releasing and the maximizing of potential. Law encourages the releasing and the maximizing of potential.

Benefit–Law Secures Purpose and Function

Finally, law allows us to function within The Most High’s general design for human life, and the plans and purposes He sets for our individual lives.

The blessing of the Most High brings wealth, and He adds no trouble to it (Proverbs 10:22). Achieving purpose with The Most High’s blessing never brings sorrow.

Those, however, who try to fulfill their potential outside His purposes often experience multiplied sorrow. A businessman, for example, who builds his business without The Most High’s guidance and direction may attain the same wealth as a man who submitted his dreams and plans to The Most High’s will, but his position outside The Most High’s plan does not provide the freedom from worry that the other businessman enjoys. Those who must rely only on themselves to protect their gain often become ill from worrying. There is no joy in that kind of wealth. When the Most High blesses a person with prosperity, He both protects what He has given and He serves as a resource to the recipient. Man needs spiritual resources as surely as he needs physical and material assets.

Your Potential Needs the Benefit of The Most High’s Law

Potential without law is dangerous. Even as breaker switches cut off electricity when an electrical appliance malfunctions and a free flow of electricity is possible, so The Most High shuts us down when we operate outside His laws. This is His safeguard to keep us from self-destructing.
Potential without law is dangerous.

Many people throughout history have harmed themselves and others because they tried to fulfill their potential outside The Most High’s specifications. Adolf Hitler, for example, was a gifted leader. Using his leadership skills, he came up through the ranks of government until he was legally elected the chancellor of Germany. Once he achieved that position, something went wrong. He violated the rules of leadership.

Power is always given to work through the vehicle of servanthood. When we are in a position of authority, we have the responsibility to serve those under us. Hitler violated that law and made himself a dictator. Instead of using his power to serve and bless the country he ruled, he placed himself above the law and forced people to do his bidding.

Hitler also broke the laws of human dignity and equality because he created and enforced policies that treated all people who were not of Aryan descent, with blond hair and blue eyes, as subhumans and half-humans who were created to serve the perfect race. Many Jews and other non-Aryan peoples were victims of Hitler’s beliefs and policies. Eventually he brought death to himself and those who shared his convictions.

Potential is always given to bless, never to harm. If your potential is hurting someone or something, you’d better look carefully at your attitudes and actions. You are probably using your gifts and talents outside their The Most High-given specifications.

Potential Dies When Laws Are Broken
The experience of Hitler and many other people confirms that the violation of the boundaries that delimit potential sets off serious consequences and exposes the violator to potential-threatening circumstances. This is true because violating the specifications set forth by The Most High for the use of potential removes protection, hinders fulfillment, and interrupts performance.

Let’s say, for example, that you are a young executive in a local bank. You have worked for the bank for five years, developing a good working knowledge of the banking industry and building a solid reputation for honesty and integrity. Your goal is to become the manager of the main branch.

Your spouse constantly complains that you don’t earn enough until one day, in desperation, you take $2,000 from the bank safe and give it to your spouse. Several things happen when you do this.

First, you lose the protection of your good reputation. Until now, people have trusted not only your integrity but also the soundness of your decisions. Second, you forfeit the opportunity to rise to the position of branch manager. Third, you interrupt your career because not only the bank you worked for but other employers as well cannot trust you. This one act of disregarding the commandment “You shall not steal” (Exodus 20:15) destroys your potential to become a competent, respected banker.

Yeshua came to recover the spirit of The Most High’s laws so we can recognize them as the blessings they are, and to show us the power that belongs to those who live within their The Most High-given specifications.

Only by the power of the Holy Spirit can we live within The Most High’s laws of limitation and, thereby, maximize our potential. Laws and limitations established by a manufacturer for a product are always given to protect and maximize the product’s potential and performance, not to restrict it.

Flipping a switch is a helpful way to use electricity. Sticking your finger in a socket is not. Even as you cannot live if you ignore the precautions that govern the safe use of electricity, so you cannot experience the full, abundant life Yeshua promises if you disregard the specifications that limit the use of your potential. You must abide by The Most High’s specifications to enjoy the totality of who you are. His laws and commandments are the security that guarantees you will receive all He planned and purposed for your life.

A man without The Most High is potential without purpose.
A man without The Most High is power without conduction.
A man without The Most High is life without living.
A man without The Most High is ability without responsibility.
That’s a dangerous man. That’s a live wire.


Principles

1. Freedom always has a price. What frees one person may enslave another.
2. Lawlessness defies the standards that govern society. It shows no responsibility toward anyone or anything.
3. Lawlessness results in the loss of existing freedoms, in slavery, and in death.
4. Laws set norms or standards and govern or regulate behavior.
5. Commandments express the will of an authority relative to a law.
6. Demands specify behavior in a specific situation based on previously defined laws and commandments.
7. Violating laws and commandments aborts potential and brings inevitable consequences.
8. Laws and commandments benefit us and have a positive impact on our lives.
Shema selah the laws of the Most High is our guard rail, our boundary of protection that we would be able to maximize our potential!!!

In This Season of Wisdom--We Must Make Our Petitions Known To The Most High!!!

1 John 5

We are walking in today:  In This Season of Wisdom--We Must Make Our Petitions Known To The Most High!!!


1 John 5  (KJV)

1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Shema Selah let us pause and consider fully what this scripture is telling us!!  

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Instruction From Abba To Direct Us!!!

1 John 3

We are walking in today:  Instruction From Abba To Direct Us!!!

Witness correct throughout the Bible:   H3256 yacar--to chasten, discipline, instruct, admonish, to teach, correct

Psalm 94:10 He that chastiseth H3256 the heathen, shall not he correct?  he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

The Torah testifies...............
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The prophets proclaim..................
 Jeremiah 10:24 O LORD, correct H3256 me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

The writings bear witness...........................
 Proverbs 29:17 Correct H3256 thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Jeremiah 46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct H3256 thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

Understand and Obey the Laws of Limitation

Freedom without law is anarchy. Liberty without responsibility is irresponsibility.

The morning sun shimmered brightly on the choppy waves of the bay as a small motor boat moved slowly over the water. Perhaps 200 yards away, 14 swimmers plied through the chilly waters. Twenty men and women had begun the race that morning, but six had been pulled from the water into one of the many boats that lined the course. Exhaustion, muscle cramps, or some other malady had taken them from the race even before the swimmers had reached the mid-way point.

Just now the swimmers were bunched more closely than they had been for some time. As the far shore came into sight the competitors appeared to reach into their resources and pull with greater power and precision. Between them and the beach lay their greatest test, an area of swift-moving currents that had carried many a swimmer far toward the sea before he had been rescued or finally had given up and drowned.

Of the 14 swimmers in the water, 13 had swum the bay before. They knew from experience the dangers of the currents. Although those who watched from the boats kept an eye on the veterans, it was the one rookie swimmer they watched most closely. Just now he was in the lead, several hundred yards ahead of the pack.

Would he heed the warnings and follow the instructions he had been given to swim up the coast a piece before attempting to cross the swift-moving channel? If he did, he would win the race easily. If he did not, thinking that he didn’t want to waste the time to swim parallel to the shore, or that he was strong enough to meet the currents head on, they were ready to move quickly to rescue him. All watched anxiously to see what he would do.

As the rookie neared the buoys that marked the swift-running water, it appeared for a moment that he would stay within the marked course and swim upstream. He had not moved more than 20 yards, however, when he turned and swam directly toward the shore. Instantly, motors sprang to life and two boats sped across the water to the now-struggling swimmer. These were Coast Guard boats manned by experienced rescuers.

Later that afternoon when all the swimmers had reached the beach—including the rookie, who had been brought in by a Coast Guard cutter—the winner of the race approached the young man who had nearly drowned. “Why did you change your mind?” he asked. “The officials told me that you started to follow the path marked out for us, but then you suddenly veered toward the shore.”

“Those 20 yards that I swam upstream against the current were so easy that I thought all the fuss about that channel was just so much hype. So I decided to cut through it to win the race by a large margin. I soon realized that not only wouldn’t I win the race, I wouldn’t even finish it. For an instant I felt so dumb for throwing away the race, but then I realized that I had jeopardized my life as well. I’ll never try this again.”

Oh, I think you should enter the race again next year,” said the veteran racer. “You’re a magnificent distance swimmer. Just follow the rules the next time and you’ll find that the crossing point determined by the race organizers is challenging, but not life-threatening. Each year that point is different because the currents constantly change, so we all have to follow the prescribed course. One year we didn’t race at all because the officials couldn’t find a safe place to cross the channel. I wanted to talk them into sponsoring the race anyway, but I knew that would be foolish. Most likely no one would have finished anyway. Well, I hope to see you next year. It’s about time someone beat me. For a while I thought this would be the year.”

How sad! Although the rookie swimmer had the potential to beat the veteran, he lost the race, and nearly his life, because he chose to veer from the assigned course. He exercised his freedom to go his own way. This grasping for freedom is a universal tendency. To maximize your potential, you must understand the concept of freedom and the principle of law.

We Want to Be Free

The cry “We want to be free!” has swept our world in remarkable and frightening ways within the past decades. Particularly in Eastern Europe, the desire for freedom has brought sweeping revolutions, toppling governments and power structures that have repressed and oppressed many peoples. This same yearning for freedom prompts pregnant women to abort their babies, children to take their parents to court, and students to seek greater control over the measures of discipline used in their schools.

Freedom! It sounds so good. Everybody wants freedom. Ethnic groups, social groups, religious groups. Children, youth, adults. All want the right to determine their own lives and to make their decisions without guidance or interference from anyone else.

It should not surprise us, then, that many common phrases express this craving for freedom: Freedom of the press, Freedom of choice, Freedom of religion, Freedom of speech. All reveal the universal longing to be unencumbered by the dictates and the decisions of others.

Nothing Is Free

Is this truly possible? Can we be entirely free? No, I don’t think so. Nothing is free. Although advertising tries to convince us that we are getting something for nothing—buy one, get one free—we are still paying for the product the advertiser claims is free. In a similar manner, the cost of sweepstakes and prizes given to entice consumers to buy a particular product or to subscribe to a certain periodical is built into the company’s price structure somewhere along the way. We cannot get something for nothing. Nothing is free. We cannot get something for nothing.

This axiom is also true in relationships. We cannot be entirely free to do what we want, when we want, where we want, how we want, and with whom we want. Freedom always has a price because the actions of one person restricts and influences the freedom of another. The woman who aborts her baby takes away the baby’s freedom to live, and the student who slaps the teacher who reprimands her takes away the teacher’s freedom to keep order in his classroom. Freedom without responsibility cannot be freedom for all who are involved.

The Consequences of Freedom Without Responsibility
Lawlessness is the freedom to do whatever we want, when we want, with whom we want, with no one telling us to stop. In essence, we defy the standards that govern society to become a law unto ourselves with no sense of responsibility toward anything or anyone. For example, you may choose the freedom to smoke marijuana behind your house at three o’clock in the morning. You know you are breaking the law, but you choose to disregard the law and to exercise your freedom to do as you please. Lawlessness always results in slavery, death, and the loss of preexisting freedoms. Adam and Eve’s experience in the garden verifies this truth. Freedom without law is bondage.

The Loss of Freedom
When The Most High created the man and the woman and placed them in the garden, He gave them the following instructions:
You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die (Genesis 2:16-17).
They were free to eat from any tree in the garden, but one.

When the serpent convinced the man and the woman to eat from this one tree, The Most High put them out of the garden and they lost the freedom to eat from the garden’s other trees. Their desire to be freed from The Most High’s restrictions cost them the freedom He had given them to eat from the other trees in the garden. Thus, the first penalty of freedom without responsibility is the loss of existing freedoms.

This proves to be true in all life. The teenager who stays out past his curfew loses his privilege to use the family car. The mechanic who charges exorbitant rates loses the customers he is in business to serve. The worker who takes 30 minutes for a 10-minute break loses the freedom to leave her desk without punching the time clock. The politician who forgets his campaign promises and breaks faith with the people who put him in office loses his reelection bid and the opportunity to serve his constituents.

Slavery
Slavery is a second consequence of freedom without responsibility. When the man and the woman disobeyed The Most High and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they became slaves to evil.

Before their rebellion against The Most High, Adam and Eve knew only good because their knowledge came from their relationship with The Most High, who is good. In the moment of sin, their spirits became separated from The Most High’s Spirit and they became slaves of rebellion, the root of all sin. They could no longer see and do what The Most High requires. This loss of the ability to see and do what is right is always a result of choosing to place oneself above the law.

Thus, the teenager who regularly stays out past his curfew comes to expect that this is his right, the mechanic who charges exorbitant rates loses sight of fairness, the worker who takes an extended break assumes the company owes her this, and the politician who breaks faith with

those who elected him fails to see the error of his ways. Each becomes so enmeshed in his rebellious attitudes and actions that he can no longer see the wrong of his actions. Death inevitably follows.

Death
The third consequence of freedom without responsibility is death. Notice that The Most High connected the violation of the boundary around the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with death: “...for when you eat of it you will surely die” (Genesis 2:16). Disobedience to law always results in death.

The teenager who indulges in late hours will eventually see the death of his parents’ trust. The mechanic who takes whatever he can get will soon experience bankruptcy and the death of his business.

Likewise, the worker who extends her break and the politician who neglects to fulfill his promises will suffer the death of their dreams for advancement and recognition. Death is the inevitable result of freedom grasped at the expense of obedience to law.

Death is the inevitable result of freedom grasped at the expense of obedience to law.

The Nature of Law, Commands, and Demands
Merriam Webster’s dictionary (10th Collegiate, 1994) defines law as “a binding custom or practice of a community: a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority; a rule or order that is advisable or obligatory to observe.” It further observes that law “implies imposition by a sovereign authority and the obligation of obedience on the part of all subject to that authority.” Thus, a law regulates and governs the behavior of someone or something.

A command is an “order given” or an authoritative directive. It “stresses the official exercise of authority” and expresses the will of the authority based upon the established rules and regulations that govern the group. Thus, a commandment specifies behavior relative to a law.

A demand is “the act of asking with authority.” It is based on the recognized authority of the one who asks, and it builds upon a previous command or commandment. Thus, a demand assumes that the requester has the right to make the request, and it specifies behavior in a specific instance or circumstance.

Let’s use family life to illustrate these principles. As the head of the home, the father may establish the law that the privacy of each individual is ensured. This is a given within the structure of the family.

Then he may issue the command that all members of the family should knock on a closed bedroom door and wait for the bidding “come in” before entering that room. This is his mandate or commandment relative to the principle of ensuring the privacy of each individual. Finally, when a daughter in the household is upset because her brother constantly enters her room when she is on the phone, the father may demand that the son knock on his sister’s door and wait for her response.

Law Provides Direction for Daily Life
The Most High has established many laws that influence our lives. Some of these govern the physical world in which we live; others control our relationships within the human family and with The Most High Himself. For example, The Most High has established marriage as the structure in which sexual relationships should be enjoyed and children should be raised. That is His law. “You shall not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14) is one of His commandments built on that law. Hence, when

The Most High demands that you should not gratify your physical desires by engaging in intercourse outside the marriage relationship, He is applying to daily life the law He established at creation and the commandment He gave at Mount Sinai. He is specifying how we should behave in a given situation.

The Most High’s demands are always based on His laws and commandments. He is not capricious, nor is He out to destroy our pleasure. He knows that we cannot fulfill our potential outside His laws, so He gives us commandments relative to those laws and He makes demands on us that apply His commandments to our situation. If we resist His demands, we bring upon ourselves the natural consequences of His laws. The law of love is a good example of this principle.

The Most High created us to be loved by Him and to love Him and others in return. Love is an innate quality of His nature and of ours. The commandments “Love each other as I have loved you” (John 15:12), and “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44b) direct our efforts to understand and apply that law of love to our lives. When we disregard this law, we bear the consequences of loneliness, alienation, and internal turmoil that naturally come to those who fail to love.

We cannot choose whether or not these consequences will come to us, since they are inseparable from the law. Our only choice is whether or not we will love. Thus, we see that The Most High’s commandment to love, like all His commandments, is given for our good. Those who obey it are spared the pain that irrevocably assails those who fail to love. The Most High’s commandments are given for our good.

The effects of The Most High’s laws cannot be avoided. They are constant and unchangeable, even as He is. Yet, you control the impact of The Most High’s laws on your life because the decision to obey or disobey The Most High’s commandments and demands is wholly yours. In this manner, you control your destiny.

Shema selah we have to use our freedom to choose the realm of life the Most High intended for us from the beginning and to walk in love!!

The Most High Gave Us His Word For All Generations!!!!!

Proverbs 13


We are walking in today: The Most High Gave Us His Word For All Generations!!!!!

Witness generation throughout the Bible:  H1755 dowr-- period, generation, habitation, dwelling, dwelling-place, habitation.

Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, H1755 and Noah walked with God.


The Torah testifies...............

Exodus 3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent
me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all H1755 generations. H1755

The prophets proclaim..................
Isaiah 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations H1755 of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?


The writings bear witness...........................
Joshua 22:27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations H1755 after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to
come, Ye have no part in the LORD.

Joel 3:20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation H1755 to generation. H1755

Your Potential and the Next Generation
To live for today is shortsighted; to live for tomorrow is vision.

Just as a seed has a forest within it, so we contain much more than is evident at birth. Everything is designed by The Most High not only to reproduce itself but also to transfer its life and treasure to the next generation. Potential is not fully maximized until it reproduces itself in the following generation.

An old Chinese proverb that states, “the end of a thing is greater than its beginning,” rings true for our lives. King Solomon concurred with this truth: “The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong...” (Ecclesiastes 9:11b). Every individual is therefore responsible to live to the fullest for the sake of the following generations. King Solomon states it this way: “A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children” (Proverbs 13:22a).

A Seedless Life
I will never forget the day I first discovered seedless fruit, says Dr. Munroe. One of the pleasures I enjoy within my very busy schedule is accompanying my wife to the food store, which gives us time to plan our family meals and discover new items together.

On one of these occasions, as we approached the produce section, I was intrigued to see a large sign introducing seedless grapes and oranges. At first I rejoiced at the prospect of being able to enjoy grapes for the first time without the inconvenience of having to eject the seeds. (No doubt this newly produced hybrid was developed in response to the market demand for fruit that could be enjoyed without the discomfort of seeds.) So I quickly picked up two pounds of red and white grapes and a bag of oranges, looking forward to eating them.

My impatience to experience the thrill of seedless grapes prompted me to place the bag of grapes beside me in the car so I could enjoy them while I was driving home. What a pleasure, to sink my teeth into fresh, juicy, sweet grapes without having to worry about seeds. It was like a dream come true. Soon after we had arrived home, I sliced into an orange and stood amazed at the fact of a seed-less fruit. Again I experienced a new pleasure, sucking the juice from a seedless ripe orange.

Later that day I returned to the kitchen to enjoy the rest of my new discovery and to marvel at this feat of botanical science. Suddenly, in the midst of my pleasure, I was startled by this thought: “If these grapes and oranges have no seeds, how can they reproduce another generation of fruit?” After all, the life and power is in the seed, not the fruit. Immediately I realized that I was enjoying momentary pleasure at the expense of generational reproduction. The fruit was beautiful, ripe, sweet, juicy, and pleasing to eat, but it lacked the potential to transfer its uniqueness to another generation. In reality the tree is not in the fruit but in the seed. Life and power is in the seed, not the fruit.

The Most High created seeds to guarantee the fulfillment of future generations. Every plant, animal, bird, reptile, and insect possesses within itself the ability and potential to reproduce itself and to continue the propagation of its species. Consider then the prospect if every seed decided to germinate, develop into a beautiful tree, and have juicy, sweet, seedless fruit. What would be the result? A natural tragedy!

Chaos would ensue and ultimately the genocide of mankind would follow as oxygen disappeared from the atmosphere for the lack of trees.

Please note that the seed in this example did fulfill part of its purpose. It germinated, grew, developed, and even bore fruit. Yet the totality of its potential was not fulfilled because it did not extend itself to the maximum potential of releasing seeds. Because the seed failed to reproduce itself, the next generation of trees was robbed of life, consequently affecting the entire human race and all creation.

This is the impact when one element in nature withholds its true potential and refuses to maximize itself. Tragically, there are millions of people who exist in “seedless lives.”

They are conceived, grow, develop; they dress up, smell good, and look good; and they even pretend to be happy. Yet everything they are dies with them because they fail to pass on everything The Most High gave them. They have no sense of generational responsibility. They have no idea of their duty to the future. No man is born to live or die to himself. When a seed maximizes its potential, it not only feeds the next generation but also guarantees it through the seeds in the fruit. No man is born to live or die to himself.

The Most High gave you the wealth of your potential—your gifts, talents, abilities, energies, creativity, ideas, aspirations, and dreams—for the blessing of others. You bear the responsibility for activating, releasing, and maximizing this potential as a deposit for the next generation.

The School That Was Almost Killed
Several years ago I was invited to speak at a church conference in Gary, Indiana, says Dr. Munroe, on the topic of discovering your purpose in life.

Before I was introduced, the host invited a gentleman to share briefly on the establishment of an educational institution that had distinguished itself in that community. An unassuming, middle-aged gentleman stepped forward and began to share a story that pierced my soul. He told of how his mother had failed in an attempt to abort him as an unborn child, and he had ended up living in foster homes all over the city for many years. He emphasized how he had dreamed of providing an environment in which young people could grow and learn so that they would not have to suffer what he had experienced. He introduced to the audience the school he had founded and established—a school that had become one of the leading academic institutions for high school students in that city.

Imagine if his mother had been successful. She would have killed a school. Despite his past and his less-than-ideal heritage, this dreamer rose above his circumstances and maximized his potential, which is now benefiting generations to come.

The prophet Elijah also exemplifies the importance of living to the fullest and refusing to settle for present circumstances. As recorded in the Book of First Kings, Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal and challenged them to a contest to prove that Ahayah asher Ahayah is the true The Most High. The test was to build an altar and call on The Most High to send fire from the heavens to consume the sacrifice. After much prayer and dancing by the prophets of Baal, there was no response or results.

Then Elijah began to call on the Lord The Most High, and fire fell and consumed the sacrifice. Afterward, he commanded the people to seize the prophets of Baal, and all were destroyed. When Queen Jezebel, a worshiper of Baal, heard this news, she sent a message to Elijah, threatening his life.

Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day’s journey into the desert. He came to a broom tree, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors” (1 Kings 19:3-4).

After all his great accomplishments and achievements, this distinguished prophet had a death wish with suicidal tendencies. The Most High was not persuaded. He intervened and showed Elijah that he had much more to accomplish before his full potential and purpose would be maximized. Then The Most High instructed Elijah to anoint the next kings over Aram and Israel, and more significantly, to anoint Elisha to succeed him as prophet.

Just suppose Elijah had died when he wanted to quit. His successor, Elisha, who performed twice as many miracles as Elijah, would not have discovered his purpose and fulfilled his potential. It is imperative, therefore, that we never settle for the average of our circumstances because there are thousands of “Elishas” waiting on our obedience to fulfill their lives.

Maximizing Potential Is Dying Empty
As I have stated in my previous books, says Dr. Munroe the wealthiest place on this planet is not the gold mines, diamond mines, oil wells, or silver mines of the earth, but the cemetery. Why? Because buried in the graveyard are dreams and visions that were never fulfilled, books that were never written, paintings that were never painted, songs that were never sung, and ideas that died as ideas. What a tragedy, the wealth of the cemetery.

I wonder how many thousands, perhaps millions, of people will be poorer because they cannot benefit from the awesome wealth of the treasure of your potential: the books you have neglected to write, the songs you have failed to compose, or the inventions you continue to postpone. Perhaps there are millions who need the ministry or business you have yet to establish. You must maximize your life for the sake of the future. The next generation needs your potential.
The next generation needs your potential.

Think of the many inventions, books, songs, works of art, and other great accomplishments others in past generations have left for you and for me to enjoy. Just as their treasure has become our blessing, so our potential should become the blessing of the next generation. The apostle Paul in his letter to his young friend Timothy describes his life as a drink offering that was poured out for others.

For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith (2 Timothy 4:6-7).

What a sense of destiny, purpose, and accomplishment is contained in these words. There is no hint of regret or remorse, only confidence and personal satisfaction.

Millions of the world’s population, both now and in generations passed, have poured out some of their potential, accomplished some of their dreams, and achieved some of their goals. Still, because they have refused to maximize their lives, their cup holds a portion of their purpose, stagnating into depression, regret, and death.

I admonish you, decide today to act on the rest of your sleeping dream. Commit yourself to the goal of dying empty. Yeshua Christ our Lord, at the end of His earthly assignment, gave evidence of His success in maximizing His life by fulfilling all The Most High’s will for Him on earth. As He journeyed to the place of crucifixion, many people followed Him, mourning and wailing. Seeing them, Yeshua said:
Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me; weep for yourselves and for your children (Luke 23:28).

The implication is evident: “I have completed My assignment, stayed through My course, and finished My task. I have emptied Myself of all My potential. Now it is your turn.”

Don’t Be a Generational Thief
First discover what you were born to be, then do it. Fulfill your own personal purpose for the glory of The Most High. Your obedience to The Most High’s will and purpose for your life is a personal decision, but not a private one. The Most High has designed the universe in such a way that the purposes of all mankind are interdependent; your purpose affects millions.

Maximizing your potential is, therefore, necessary and critical. Your sphere of influence is much greater than your private world.  Your sphere of influence is much greater than your private world.

Suppose Mary had aborted Yeshua, or Andrew had failed to introduce Peter to Yeshua. What if Abraham had not left the Land of Ur, or Joseph had refused to go to Egypt. Or let’s assume that Ananias had not prayed for Saul who became Paul, or that the little boy had refused to give Yeshua his lunch. How different the biblical record might read! These examples show that although our obedience is always a personal decision, it is never a private matter.

Don’t rob the next generation of your contribution to the destiny of mankind. Maximize yourself for The Most High’s glory. Remember, he who plants a tree plans for prosperity. “The wise man saves for the future, but the foolish man spends whatever he gets” (see Proverbs 21:20).

Principle
1. The life and power to reproduce is in the seed.
2. You rob your children when you withhold your potential.
3. You must maximize your life for the benefit of the next generation.
4. Potential is not fully maximized until it reproduces itself in the next generation.
5. Obeying The Most High’s will for your life and fulfilling His purpose is a personal decision, but not a private one because your sphere of influence is much greater than your private world.

Shema selah we have to plant the seeds that have been planting within for the betterment of the world!! 

Weekend Meditation--The Most High Gives Us His Potential

2 Corinthians 8


We are walking in today: Weekend Meditation--The Most High Gives Us His Potential

Witness give throughout the Bible:   H5414 nathan-- to give, grant, permit, ascribe, dedicate, pay wages, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, report

Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given H5414 you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

The Torah testifies...............

Deuteronomy 3:18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given H5414 you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.

The prophets proclaim..................

Isaiah 40:29 He giveth H5414 power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

The writings bear witness...........................

Psalms 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give H5414 grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Zechariah 8:12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give H5414 her fruit, and the ground shall give H5414 her increase, and the heavens shall give H5414 their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.


The Most High Is a Giver
The Most High is constantly releasing seeds into the soil of your life. He is a giver and He created you to be like Him. The foundation of The Most High’s giving nature is revealed in His purpose for creating men and women.

The Most High made Adam and Eve so He would have someone to love and bless—more children like HaMaschich, His Incarnate Son. Although The Most High possessed all He had created, those things were useless to Him until He created man to release their potential by using His creations and, thereby, showing off His fullness.

In essence, The Most High, who is love, created man to fulfill His potential to love. Love is worthless until it is given away. It must have an object to be fulfilled. Therefore, The Most High needed something on which He could lavish His love, something that could understand and appreciate what He had to give. Of all The Most High’s creatures, only men and women share The Most High’s Spirit and, thus, can appreciate His love. You are the object of The Most High’s love. Because love can be fulfilled only when the receiver of love is like the giver, He created you like Himself, to be loved by Him and to love as He loves.

The Mutuality of Giving
Think about the last time you bought a card or a gift for a spouse or a close friend. Much of the pleasure in giving the gift is found in choosing something that will delight the one to whom you are giving it. The gift’s meaning is found in the shared love of the giver and the recipient.

This is the meaning of Yeshua’ words:
Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces (Matthew 7:6).

A pet cannot appreciate a diamond ring, but your sweetheart will. Why? She understands the thoughts and the feelings that both prompted the gift and are revealed in it. The one who receives a gift must understand and appreciate the giver before the gift can have meaning. Through giving love is released.

You have been physically birthed by the giving of your parents and spiritually birthed by the giving of HaMaschich. Even as your parents gave the seed of their bodies to release their potential to produce another human being, so Yeshua HaMaschich gave the seed that brings new life by releasing His potential to be a Savior. Their giving brings you life and the opportunity to continue the cycle of giving. Joy is found in participating in the pattern of giving, receiving, and giving again.

This pattern of releasing potential by giving and receiving is particularly visible in the biblical concept of a blessing.

Blessed to Be a Blessing
The giving of a blessing is an important image in Scripture. Whether it is The Most High, a father, or some other person giving the blessing, it is a gift that exposes possibilities and releases power. The Most High

blessed Adam and Eve (see Genesis 1:28), and Noah and his sons (see Genesis 9:1), by calling forth from them the potential to be fruitful, to increase in number, and to fill the earth. Likewise, He blessed Sarah, the wife of Abraham, when He released the possibility that she would be a mother (see Genesis 17:15-16). Isaac passed the power to be the lord of the family on to Jacob when he blessed him (see Genesis 27:27-29). Jacob in turn blessed each of his sons, unveiling the future of each one (see Genesis 49). In each case, the blessing confirmed what The Most High had already purposed for the one who received the blessing.

Blessings are never given solely for the benefit of the one who receives them. That means all The Most High has given you—your clothes, food, house, car, bike, education, intelligence, personality, etc.—are given to you so you can maximize them by sharing them. You cannot release the full potential of anything if you do not share it.

Blessings are never given solely for the benefit of the one who receives them. Abraham not only received a blessing from The Most High; he was also made a blessing to others: I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you (Genesis 12:2-3).

The same was true for Abraham’s wife, Sarah (see Genesis 17:16), his son Isaac (see Genesis 26:4), and his grandson Jacob (see Genesis 28:14). The Most High’s blessing also worked through Jacob’s son Joseph, who preserved The Most High’s people through a severe famine. Each passed on The Most High’s blessings so others could be blessed. The Most High operates from this perspective: “I’m going to share with you so you will be blessed by My sharing and you, in turn, will bless others by your sharing.” He gives to you so you can share His potential by being motivated to pass on all He gives you. Therefore, the task of humanity is to emulate the attitude of The Most High by drawing from each person all he or she possesses. You exist to pull things from me, and I exist to pull things from you.

The Most High finds joy in giving to you so you can give to others. He blesses you to bless another. No matter what your circumstances are, there is some way you can share your potential with others. If you are homebound, give yourself through prayer or the ministry of encouragement through cards, letters, and phone calls. Or perhaps you are retired with few financial resources but much time. Pour yourself into a child.

Whatever your blessings, find some way to share them. This is The Most High’s intention for giving them to you. Your gifts may be different from mine, but their value is equal if we serve the same Lord with the same Spirit (see 1 Corinthians 12:1-7). Your gifts are for me and my gifts are for you. Together we can bless the world. This is how potential is released.

Receiving Without Giving Results in Destruction
True joy is found not in what you accomplish but in who benefits from your success. Dying to yourself and giving for me and others will reap for you the joy of seeing your efforts reproduced many times over in us. Your sharing will give life to many.

If, however, you refuse to share, you will destroy both The Most High’s joy in giving to you and your joy in passing on what He gives. You will also forfeit His blessings because those who wish to receive from the abundance of The Most High must use wisely all He gives. This is true because selfishness concerns itself only with its own prosperity and well-being. It lacks interest in the concerns and needs of others.

You cannot emulate the giving nature of The Most High if you retain all you have for your own wants and needs; neither can your bucket draw from the deep waters in me. Such selfishness kills potential and lessens the likelihood that you will be blessed by my potential.

True wisdom is understanding this interdependence: “The purposes of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out” (Proverbs 20:5). This cannot occur, however, if we are consumed by thoughts of ourselves.

Selfishness Destroys Personal Happiness and Satisfaction
You were created to give. When you lavish your potential on yourself, your potential and all you accomplish by using it lose their meaning. King Solomon learned this when he went through life doing one thing after another for himself.

“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?

I undertook great projects.... I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. I made reservoirs.... I bought male and female slaves.... I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. I amassed silver and gold for myself....I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless....So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it was meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to one who comes after me. Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear The Most High and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For The Most High will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil (Ecclesiastes 1:2-3; 2:4-8, 10-11,17-18; 12:13-14).

Work and effort that focus on self are meaningless. It doesn’t matter what you accomplish, none of it will bring you satisfaction unless you give from what you have. Nor will your accumulated riches bring you happiness, for they are useless and meaningless if you don’t understand and seek to fulfill The Most High’s purpose for giving them to you.

Work and effort that focus on self are meaningless.

You must share what you earn before it can bring you pleasure and satisfaction because sharing ensures that the blessings you have received will be passed on and others will also be blessed. This basic principle of sharing is foundational for maximizing your potential.

If you refuse to share, your potential will kill you because you cannot enjoy freedom in your conscience when you are acting against your natural design to give. Pleasure will end, but conscience abides until it has completed its assignment. It works on you until you acknowledge

the error of your ways. Only by releasing all The Most High has given you can you have a pure and holy conscience before Him and find meaning in life. Pursuing selfish pleasure always destroys the one who seeks it. In a similar manner, un-shared potential consumes the person who seeks to hold it tightly for selfish gain.

Selfishness Destroys the Joy of Giving

First, selfishness destroys The Most High’s pleasure in watching you pass on all He has given you. Near the end of His life, Yeshua reminded His disciples that they could not accomplish anything apart from Him. The same is true for our lives. Even as Yeshua remained in fellowship and conversation with The Most High throughout His life, so we must abide in Him.

Without this consistent association with The Most High, our fruitfulness suffers and we become no more than a branch to be thrown into the fire. The power of potential is gone. (See John 15.)

This absence of power hurts both the person who has withdrawn from The Most High and The Most High Himself. He created us to bear fruit that reflects His nature and glory. When we neglect to fulfill this purpose, we grieve the heart of The Most High.

The Most High’s pleasure in Yeshua was evident when He spoke from a cloud at the time of Yeshua’ baptism and again on the mountain of transfiguration (see Matthew 3:17 and 17:5). The source of His pleasure was Yeshua’ willingness to fulfill the purpose for which He had been sent into the world and to release His potential. By Myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and My judgment

is just, for I seek not to please Myself but Him who sent Me (John 5:30).

He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him (John 7:18).

The one who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him (John 8:29).

I have brought You glory on earth by completing the work You gave Me to do. And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world began. I have revealed You to those whom You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me and they have obeyed Your word.... All I have is Yours, and all You have is Mine. And glory has come to Me through them.... I am coming to You now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of My joy within them (John 17:4-6,10,13).

What was this full measure of joy that Yeshua knew? Let us fix our eyes on Yeshua, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of The Most High (Hebrews 12:2).

Obedience. Yeshua found joy in doing what The Most High asked of Him. The path of sorrows certainly did not bring Him happiness while He walked it, but He looked beyond the pain and shame to the reward of reclaiming His rightful place at the right hand of The Most High.

This is also the source of The Most High’s pleasure in us. As we obediently share all that The Most High has given us for the world, we will find that He delights in us. If, however, we decline to fulfill His plans and purposes and refuse to allow His nature and likeness to govern our thoughts and actions, we destroy the fullness of joy we could have brought Him had we sought His purposes and obeyed His principles.

Secondly, selfishness destroys the joy of giving. When we hoard and hide what we receive from The Most High, we deny ourselves the delights of passing on The Most High’s gifts. The second letter of the apostle Paul to the church at Corinth reveals this delight.

Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability.

Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints....So we urged Titus, since he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part. But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us—see that you also excel in this grace of giving (2 Corinthians 8:2-4,6-7).

The Macedonian churches understood that sharing is a privilege to be sought and enjoyed. Therefore, they gave even when they had little. We do well to learn this same lesson. It is not the magnitude of our gift but simply the act of sharing that produces joy. When we refuse to share we deny ourselves this benefit.

Third, selfishness destroys the joy of seeing others share what we have given them. The apostle Paul also speaks of this joy.

In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of HaMaschich Yeshua (Philippians 1:4-6).

Partnership speaks of sharing. When we fail to share our potential, this partnership is forfeited and the fruit for which we were chosen and appointed is lost.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in My name (John 15:16).

The Most High mourns for this loss because the loss of potential limits His activity on earth and destroys the joy of sharing—for The Most High, for ourselves, and for those with whom we might have shared. Selfishness always destroys the joy of giving.

Selfishness Destroys the Gift
The Most High is often hurt because people are pregnant with great treasure but they keep it to themselves. Say, for example, that you are a medical researcher who discovers a cure for leukemia. Instead of sharing the results of your research with others, you carefully guard your secret knowledge so no one else can take credit for your discovery. Meanwhile, many people needlessly die. In time, your The Most High-given talent to heal will be destroyed. Because you are so concerned that someone may receive the recognition you deserve, you will lose the desire to study and to receive new medical insights. Your selfishness in keeping the treasure to yourself ultimately destroys the very gift that is the source of your wealth. Potential that is not shared self-destructs.

Selfishness Stops the Flow of The Most High’s Blessings
Finally, selfishness destroys the cycle of giving initiated by The Most High. Very often you have not because you lavish upon yourself all you have received. The Most High will give you all things if you ask to receive so you may pass it on to others. I’m blessed because I have a passion to pass on to you all that The Most High has given to me.

The Most High expects you to pass on to another all He has poured into you. Get rid of it. Make room for more of the vast quantity He has prepared to pour into you. You hold up The Most High’s plans and purposes when you cling to your blessings, and you cap off your potential when you refuse to share all you have received. Yeshua said:

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you (Luke 6:38).

The Most High expects you to pass on to another all He has poured into you. Some of you are blessed with tremendous talents, gifts, and knowledge. I wonder what is happening to them. Flow with your The Most High-given abilities. Use them to bless others and to glorify The Most High. Don’t worry if your gifts and talents aren’t as grand as you’d like. Use them to benefit others, and you will see them grow. Sharing all The Most High has given you is a must if you want to maximize your potential.

Principles

1. Potential cannot be maximized and fulfilled unless it is shared.

2. The Most High shares with you so you can share with others.

3. Isolation is not good because it prevents sharing.

4. You must share your potential within the limits of The Most High’s laws.

5. Giving transforms and reveals potential.

6. The Most High’s blessings in your life expose His power within you and the possibilities that are your potential.

7. The selfish retention of The Most High’s gifts destroys:

• The Most High’s joy in giving,

• your personal happiness and fulfillment,

• your joy in giving to others,

• your joy in watching others share what they have received from you,

• the gifts that are given,

• the continuing evidence in your life of The Most High’s blessings.

8. Giving your potential to others is a basic key to maximizing all that The Most High has given you for your blessing and the benefit of others.

Shema selah only in the gift you have received being given are you living in the Most High's purpose for what you have been blessed with to bless others! 

Potential Is Fulfilled When It Is Released!!!

Acts 20


We are walking in today:  Potential Is Fulfilled When It Is Released!!!

The Most High Shares His Potential

The Most High’s nature is built around sharing and giving. Before the world was created, everything existed in Him. All that we have seen, now see, and yet will see comes from Him. The Most High could have kept all this stuff inside Him, but it wouldn’t have benefited Him there. He had to release it through creativity before the beauty and power of His potential could be revealed.

Everything The Most High called into being He gave a purpose that meshes with the larger purpose of the world. Every animal, bird, fish, insect, reptile, plant, and tree is connected to the whole of creation. If one species becomes extinct, its death disrupts and impacts the entire ecosystem. In essence, each part of The Most High’s world in some way balances and enriches the rest.

You Share The Most High’s Potential

Human beings are The Most High’s crowning creative act. The treasure He put in us He took from Himself. He chose to give us part of His potential so we could use it for Him. The Most High could have run the world by Himself, but He brought us into His plan so we could bring glory to Him by revealing all He is. He doesn’t need our involvement to accomplish all He is capable of doing and being, but He wants us to enjoy the blessing of participating in His purpose. Your gifts, talents, and abilities are your share of the endowment The Most High gives to mankind to bless all creation.

As a parent enjoys watching a child learn new things, The Most High finds satisfaction in watching you discover and use your potential. In essence, you show forth The Most High’s nature and reveal His potency when you fulfill your potential Your purpose is equal to your potential, and your potential is equal to your purpose. The more you understand your purpose, the more you will discover what you can do.

The Most High finds satisfaction in watching you discover and use your potential.

Thus, The Most High gets excited when you take authority over your bad habits. He enjoys watching you discover and use the deposit of His power and wisdom within you. Sometimes it would be easier for The Most High to just snap His fingers and take over, but then He’d lose the joy of watching you order your life and the pleasure of seeing you expose His potential.

The other day, my wife and I were sitting at the table where our little girl was doing her homework. She had to spell some words and find the words that rhymed. I was so tempted to give her all the answers because I knew them right away. I held back because I knew I would rob her of the pleasure of producing her own potential.

The Most High works with you in the same way. There are some things He’d like to do for you, but He’s holding back so you can enjoy your success when you do them yourself. You say, “The Most High, change this situation,” and The Most High responds, “Well, I could, but there’s something you could learn about what you are capable of doing and being, so no, I won’t take over and do it for you.”

Just as I tell my daughter, “You figure it out,” when she asks me, “Daddy, what’s this?” so The Most High allows you to work things out for yourself. He’s proud of you when you succeed, just like I’m proud of my daughter when she successfully completes her homework. I produced her as part of my responsibility, now I find pleasure in seeing her use what I shared with her. The Most High finds the same pleasure in you. He has shared His potential with you, now He wants to enjoy the benefits of that gift. His joy overflows when you release all He has given you.

Potential Is Never Given for Itself

When I was in college, says Dr. Myles Munroe, I went on a tour of Europe. After several days, I lost interest in all I was seeing because my fiancée, who is now my wife, was not there to share it with me. On that trip I learned the truth of this principle: Potential is never given for itself. Whatever The Most High gives to you, He gives for others. Even as a solitary instrument cannot produce the majestic music of a symphonic orchestra, so human beings cannot glorify their Creator in isolation. I need your potential to maximize mine, and you need my potential to maximize yours. All we have been given is meant to be shared.

Isolation Is Not Good

After man had finished naming all the animals and no suitable helper for him was found among them, The Most High performed another significant act of creation. Why? “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18).

The Most High did not make woman because man asked for a wife, nor because a helper for man was a good idea. Man needed a companion because he could not realize his potential without sharing it with someone. His solitary existence was not good. To be solitary or alone is not the same as being single. To be alone is to be isolated and cut off from others. Communication is impossible because you have no one like yourself to share with. This is what The Most High says is not good.

To be single is to be unmarried. Marriage is not a requirement or a prerequisite for the fulfillment of your potential. You do not necessarily need a husband or a wife. What you do need, however, is someone with whom you can share your potential. This is true because your personal satisfaction is connected to your fulfilling The Most High’s purpose for your life, and your purpose cannot be achieved in isolation.

You need those people who will call forth your potential and into whom you can pour your life. You may be wired to be single, but you are not designed to live isolated and alone.

You need someone with whom you can share your potential.

A Word of Caution

You must be careful, however, when, how, and with whom you share your potential. Even as isolation is not good for personal fulfillment and the maximizing of potential, so sharing your hidden wealth in a manner that transgresses The Most High’s laws of limitation is not good. All your natural abilities, all the gifts you have cultivated, and all the knowledge you have accumulated are yours to share within the context of The Most High’s principles, plans, and purposes. The Most High created everything to fulfill its potential within the limitations of certain laws.

In other words, He specified the boundaries within which all things can perform to their maximum capabilities. For example, The Most High created you to serve only Him. The context of living in an obedient relationship with Him is the only means of ensuring your happiness and fulfillment. Therefore, The Most High commands you:

You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol.... You shall not bow down to them or worship them (Exodus 20:3-5).

His command seeks to safeguard your ideal environment because He knows that you cannot satisfy your spiritual potential if you worship or bow down to something or someone else.

In a similar manner, The Most High set a physical context within which your potential may be shared. This physical context is the relationship originally enjoyed by Adam and Eve when Eve was given to Adam to be his helpmeet. This The Most High-given requirement for sharing physical potential is made visible in His command: “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28).

Neither two males nor two females can produce a baby because man’s potential is fulfilled by sharing it with a woman, and woman’s is fulfilled by sharing it with a man. For their potential to be fruitful, men and women must share their physical potential within the context of a male-female relationship that is within the bonds of marriage.

What is known today as an alternative lifestyle is truly the abuse of natural destiny and the violation of human nature because it prevents this fulfillment of purpose. Woman was created to receive, and man was created to give. Thus, their shared potentials complement each other. A man cannot be fruitful without a woman, nor can a woman be fruitful without a man. Two givers or two receivers cannot work together to produce fruit. Be careful that you share your physical potential with the right person.

Your soulical potential is fulfilled by sharing it within the context of the family. Here a child learns to give and receive love and affection. Very often psychological and emotional problems arise when love is not felt and expressed in the formative years. If a boy never feels loved by his mother, he may become confused later in life if a male starts meeting some of those needs. Then his ability to give and receive affection, affirmation, and attention seeks to be fulfilled in the wrong context.

Men can enjoy deep and lasting friendships with men, but they must be careful what they share within that relationship. Certain things are good to share; others are not. The same is true of friendships between women. The Most High intends that you will fulfill your basic soulical potential within the context of the family.

Potential Is Fulfilled When It Is Released

Potential is fulfilled only when it is given to others. You cannot enjoy or fulfill your potential if you keep it to yourself. Everything The Most High gave you, He gave for me and everyone else. He blesses you with additional gifts when you use the blessings you have already received to bless others. In other words, fruitfulness is always given to make you a blessing to others. You are blessed when you take what you have and give it away. This is true because sharing your potential both reveals hidden possibilities and releases additional gifts.

Everything The Most High gave you, He gave for me and everyone else.

A seed produces nothing if it does not surrender its potential to the soil. If it says, “I’m going to keep what I have,” its potential to produce a tree is lost. Only as the seed relinquishes its outer shell and puts down roots that permit it to receive nourishment from the soil can it release its potential to be a tree. Through self-giving, the seed is transformed and gives birth to new possibilities. Then the tree, having been blessed by the gift of the seed, begins to push out blossoms, showing forth some of its fruit. In time, it yields fruit with more seed that can continue the cycle of giving. If anything along the way chooses to withhold its potential—be it the seed, the tree, or the fruit—the cycle is broken and much potential is lost.

This same truth is evident in the music of an orchestra. The instruments’ potential to produce music cannot be fulfilled until the individual notes are released by the players. If even one player refuses to release what he possesses, the loss extends far beyond the one who withholds his contribution because the withheld potential of one affects the potential of all. Indeed, the music either remains hidden and dormant or it emerges misshapen and incomplete. All suffer loss—musicians and music—if even one person or one instrument refuses to cooperate. Only as all give of what they possess can the potential of the music be released.

Giving Exposes Potential

Treasures that are hidden and locked up benefit no one. Say, for example, that your grandmother gave you a beautiful necklace that she wore as a bride. If you keep it locked in a safe and never wear it, its beauty is wasted.

Or perhaps you have wedding gifts of beautiful china, sterling silver, and fine crystal that you have never used to serve a meal. You’re wasting the potential of those dishes. They cannot do what they are supposed to do sitting on a shelf. People bought them for you to use. Treasure is useless unless you expose it. Potential can never be attained if it has no opportunity to give. I am gonna say that one again, potential can never be attained if it has no opportunity to give.

This was the power of John F. Kennedy’s words, spoken at his inauguration to be the president of the United States: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” Kennedy’s words prompt us to focus on what we can give instead of what we can get. It is through our giving that we discover what we can do and be.

This was also the wisdom shared by the apostle Paul, “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35). Releasing what you have received benefits you and others. Holding on to a treasure forfeits the blessing inherit in the treasure, and no one profits from it. Like the seed, you must release what The Most High has stored in you for the world. You do this by releasing seeds into the soil of the lives of others.

Shema Selah what is the potential that the Most High has put inside of you, to share with the world??? 

LOVE IS...According To The Word Of The Most High!

1 Corinthians 13

We are walking in today: LOVE IS...According To The Word Of The Most High!

1 Corinthians 13 (HCSB)
Love: The Superior Way

1 If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not conceited, 5 does not act improperly, is not selfish, is not provoked, and does not keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things.
12 For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known. 13 Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.


Fiveamprayer we will learn how to walk in love during this season of wisdom!!  The Most High comes to let us know that we can only forgive truly in love!!  That we are not to keep a record of wrongs!! It is only by love that you can truly walk in His commandments--walking in love fully and completely will have you walking in all 613 commandment in His Torah!!!
Shema Selah now we will learn what LOVE IS, not according to man's definition but what the Most High has already given us in HIS word!!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd2TP5xVB4M

Weekend Meditation--The Two Aspects of the Most High's Grace!!

2 Corinthians 12

We are walking in today:  Weekend Meditation--The Two Aspects of the Most High's Grace!!


What Would Yahushua Do?
Fiveamprayer, what do you think? If Messiah is living in you, would He obey the Commandments of the Father any less (while living in you today) than He did when He walked on the earth almost 2,000 years ago? Let us remember — Yahushua is the same yesterday, and today, and for ever (Hebrews 13:8). Therefore He desires to walk 'in us' today — in the same degree of obedience as when He walked on the earth! He kept the Commandments of the Father as He walked in those days — all of them! We must ask ourselves, "Are we allowing Yahushua to do the same today, as He lives in us?"


Fiveamprayer, what would we do if we knew there was something in our life that was preventing us from walking with the Master — from really knowing Him? Wouldn't we have a desire to find out, so that we could eliminate that thing? Surely all that have come to Yahushua He will not cast out. Yet today, in this present generation, there is a grievous cancer within the Body of Messiah.


The condition of the Body of Messiah in general can be described in the following way. Our New Master has set us free, but we have allowed the old master (satan) to re-shackle us back into bondage, simply because we have not been fully yoked to the New Master. Notice what Yahushua is saying to us today, in our generation:

"...Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition." (Matthew 15:6)

"...laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men...ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition...making the word of God of none effect through your tradition..." (Mark 7:8,9,13)

According to the above Scripture verses, it is Traditions and Doctrines of Men that prevent Messiah Yahushua from fully living out His life of obedience in His people. Just as it was true for the Pharisees in Yahushua's day, so it is true for us today.


Fiveamprayer, we must remember that under the Grace of the New Covenant, we are under no obligation to keep any of the things that please or delight the Father. The only motive for any New Testament action is our love for our Father — and our desire to avoid what Father hates, and to do what pleases Father — and to choose that in which Father delights (Isaiah 66:4).


So it was with Yahushua. You would not have seen Yahushua keeping the Father's Commandments out of a sense of duty or obligation, also called legalism. You would have seen Him, however, doing the mystery of the will of the Father — because he had been instructed by the Law [Torah], and because He loved His Father, and desired to abide by Father's House Rules! (Romans 2:18).


Again, we must be reminded that under the New Covenant we are under no obligation of any kind, even to obedience. This is the Grace nature of the New Covenant — we all have a choice of what we do, and The Most High simply urges us to repent, and choose life. There is a thin line between the yoke of bondage to a letter of death (legalism) and the yoke of bondage to the Master — the bond(age) of love. In many ways the two appear the same. In this regard Yahushua has reminded us, "If ye love me, keep My Commandments..." (John 14:15).


Yahushua spoke those words long before there was any written New Testament. Therefore, the idea of New Testament Saints keeping Yahushua's Commandments was easily understood by His disciples in that day to mean keeping the Commandments of The Most High — as written in the Law and the Prophets — what we call today the 'Old' Testament, or Father's House Rules for His children.


In any doctrinal matters or questions, we must ask ourselves, "What would Yahushua do?" In what ways would Yahushua have kept the Commandments today? Let us be assured of this one thing: In every way we see Yahushua in Scripture keeping the Commandments of the Father, He desires to do likewise living in us Today.


Many pastors and Bible teachers tell us today, that because of various and sundry theological reasons, we as Believers today are not supposed to do a particular thing. Many Bible scholars today are teaching that various doctrines or practices are only for a certain group, or a certain era, and not for Today's New Testament Saints in a 'Time' of Grace. To that we should respond in our hearts, "What would Yahushua do?"

Messiah In You
Fiveamprayer, there are many Doctrines of Men that we have accepted as 'truth' that are actually hindering and preventing "Messiah living within us" from His own obedience to the Father. The Grace of The Most High is present, waiting to enable us, as soon as our doctrines will allow us to obey. Yet many of us are still living our spiritual life as the disobedient son in the parable of Matthew 21, by not keeping the commandments of the Father. We continue to refuse to keep all His Commandments, simply because we have been taught serious error concerning matters of grace and of the New Covenant.


However, a real adventure begins after we discover, for ourselves — that it was Yahushua that gave the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai [He calls these 'MY' Commandments!] — and after we repent of disobedience, as did the first son in the Matthew 21 parable!


Fiveamprayer, we should be undergoing our full preparation for coming into the presence of THE KING! We should choose to allow ourselves to become equally yoked [the yoke of bondage to Yahushua] through our daily repentance, and full obedience to His Commandments. We must ask ourselves — why did the apostle Paul on many occasions call himself a 'bond' slave or servant of Yahushua? What is significant about the bond(age) of love? Paul reminds us also that we were reconciled by Yahushua's death, but much more we are saved by his life (Romans 5:9-10). According to Paul in this passage, our abiding, daily life of walking with Messiah, with "Messiah in us," is much more to be considered, than simply our reconciliation — our forgiveness!


Like the Israelites, we have been brought out of Egypt by the Blood of the Lamb of The Most High. The Israelites had been brought out, but failed to enter in because of disobedience. Yet we must still enter in to the Promised Land by obedience — by "Messiah in us" living out His own obedience within us! Let us recall this passage:

"...To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:" (Colossians 1:27-28)

Thus we see in the above passage "Messiah in us" is our only hope of being presented perfect, and our only hope of [entering into] Glory! For two thousand years the 'Come-out' ministries have ministered the grace of salvation to the Believers. Today there is very small number of 'Enter-in' ministries, who are to locate the very small remnant of Overcomers, and prepare them to overcome, even as did Joshua and Caleb, who alone were able to enter in!


Fiveamprayer, we who hope to enter in, must focus all our energies into seeking Yahushua, and learning the Fear of The Most High, that we might say, with Paul, "...Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Messiah liveth in me...." Paul came to the place in His walk with Yahushua that he exhibited "Messiah in him."


Let us also be followers together of Paul, as we have Paul for an example. Let us seek to take Yahushua's yoke upon us, and learn of Him. We shall then be prepared to be Awakened to Righteousness, even as a tree is awakened in Spring, ready to bring forth fruit.


For those who hope to enter in, we must choose to focus our full attention on those things in our lives that The Most High reveals to us, first in matters of obedience, then in matters of pleasing and delighting Him. If you and I are not walking as Yahushua did while He walked on the earth, from the same motives He had ["walk as He walked," as John puts it (1 John 2:6)], then according to John we are not yet abiding in Him, even though we think or say we are. Thus we are under the same warning that Queen Vashti was under (See Esther 1:12).


Fiveamprayer, The Most High is building His Habitation, the Mountain of The Most High. The building process requires not only his grace of forgiveness from above, but also His enabling grace from within — from the Master Yahushua Messiah living within us.


Truly it is grace-grace, in both its aspects, that will very soon bring us into His presence!
Shema Selah what is it that you obedience will have you to choose???