How Are We To Praise??!

Psalm 66

We are walking in today: How Are We To Praise??!

Witness shout throughout the Bible: H7321 ruwa'--to shout, raise a sound, cry out, give a blast

Ezr 3:11 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted H7321 with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

The Torah testifies...............
Leviticus 9:24 And there came a fire out from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

The prophets proclaim..................
1 Sa 4:5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted H7321 with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.

The writings bear witness...........................
Jos 6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout H7321 with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

Psa 47:1 [[To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.]] O clap your hands, all ye people; shout H7321 unto God with the voice of triumph.


How Are We to Praise The Most High?
Be the concert. Don’t just attend one.

Praising The Most High has many forms, all of which have a common denominator: Praise is always extroverted. In other words, praise can always be seen or heard. It cannot be hidden or kept silent.

Therefore, all expressions of praise must be vocal or in some other way outwardly expressed.

For the Hebrew people, this seemed to be easy. A study of the Old Testament shows that they were an emotional, expressive people. Maybe this is why The Most High liked them. They were not afraid to openly show how they felt about The Most High. Celebration and exhilaration were regularly part of their worship.

This is not, however, always the case for us. Some believers seem to prefer to sit and soak in service rather than to be active participants. Such behavior is not true praise. Just as you cannot cheer on your favorite sports team without moving around and making some noise, so you cannot praise The Most High calmly and quietly.

This is not to say that quiet times of worship are not sometimes appropriate—particularly after the presence of The Most High has become manifested among His people. Yet, praise must be declared or manifested in some way. Otherwise, it is not praise.

Unfortunately, some of us are so inhibited that we refuse to abandon ourselves to praise. We don’t want to express it in an observable manner. To avoid this outward expression is to disobey The Most High, since He specifically commands us to let the sound of our praise be heard:

Praise our The Most High, O peoples, let the sound of His praise be heard (Psalm 66:8).

Many people assume that this command refers to singing.

Singing is not, however, the only form of biblical praise that can be heard. Shouting, clapping, laughter, singing and praying in the Spirit, and playing musical instruments are all expressions of praise that can be heard. We must be careful, therefore, that we do not exclude certain forms of praise simply because we are uncomfortable with them. Rather, we should seek to understand why we are uncomfortable and to make adjustments that will challenge our comfort zone. Otherwise, how can we fully proclaim the good tidings that are ours in HaMaschiach Yeshua?

You who bring good tidings to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, “Here is your The Most High!” (Isaiah 40:9)

The King James Version uses the phrase, “lift up thy voice with strength...” in this verse. This certainly seems to indicate that our praise is to reveal a definite conviction and involvement. We are not to speak or sing in a timid manner, but with energy and assurance. When we are uncomfortable, it is difficult to be either assured or energetic. Therefore, we must challenge ourselves to go beyond the forms of praise we have always used.

This is not to say that our praise is to be showy for the sake of show. Quite the contrary is true. Our praise is to be genuine and authentic, arising out of our relationship with The Most High. Therefore, our praise can reflect no more than is truly inside. If we have no passion in our heart for The Most High, we should not be surprised when our praise lacks passion.

The absence or presence of passion for The Most High within us just naturally becomes evident in our expressions of love, adoration, and appreciation.

On the other hand, some of us may find a particular form of praise difficult because we prefer to be entertained rather than to do the praising ourselves. We love to go to concerts where there is lots of energy and excitement, but we resist showing that same level of intensity in our praise on a Sabbath morning.

Praise requires effort on our part. It is not something another person can do for us. Yes, a worship leader can make suggestions that may lead us into praise, but we must make the choice for ourselves as to whether or not we are going to praise The Most High.

Some people are also uncomfortable during times of praise because they think they are too dignified to celebrate The Most High with abandon. I remember one day after services, a young child who was content in the arms of a woman until sees her daddy and begins to kick and pull away until the woman who was holding her could not hold her any longer. Therefore, she put the child on the floor and watched her run.

People were talking and walking all around, but this little girl didn’t care who else was in the room. She had seen her daddy, and he was her sole focus. She also was unconcerned that her dress was in the air and she was showing her underwear.

Such abandonment is what the Lord wants from us. Often we become self-conscious because we are not The Most High conscious. Yes, we may be feeling poorly, or things in our life may seem to be falling apart, but this is precisely when we need to run to our Abba. He is the only One who can heal us and put us together again.

Whether we feel like it or not, we need to praise Him.

I want to make sure you understand what I just said. You need to praise The Most High, and you need to do it with your whole being. Your need is more critical than your level of comfort. Whenever you relinquish your will and praise The Most High however His Spirit leads you, you will find that His presence is the only place you want to be. It is also the only place where you can find everything you really need.

Ask anyone you know who is a praiser. He or she will soon tell you that The Most High fills those who hunger for Him, and He gives righteousness to those who thirst for it. (See Matthew 5:6.)

Biblical Forms of Praise
Every form of praise contained in the Scriptures is an expression that the service as a whole, and we as individual members, need to use. I know that some denominations, congregations, and pastors like to choose which expressions of biblical praise they will use, but this is certainly not The Most High’s intent. Our degree of comfort or the popularity of a particular form of praise does not change the fact that it is both commanded in the Bible and taught by example.

Singing
Sing to the Lord, you saints of His; praise His holy name (Psalm 30:4).

Sing for joy to The Most High our strength; shout aloud to The Most High of Jacob! (Psalm 81:1)

Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation (Psalm 95:1).

Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord (Ephesians 5:19).

Let the word of HaMaschiach dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to The Most High (Colossians 3:16).

Singing is certainly the most common form of praise practiced today. In the Scriptures, singing was part of both private and public worship, as well as of celebrations following a victory The Most High had won. Examples of these victory celebrations include the song of Moses following the drowning of Pharaoh’s army (see Ex. 15), the singing of the Israelite women after David killed Goliath (see 1 Sam. 18:6), and the song of David after The Most High delivered him from the hand of Saul (see 2 Sam. 22).

Shouting
May those who delight in my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say, “The Lord be exalted, who delights in the well-being of His servant” (Psalm 35:27).

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music (Psalm 98:4).

Shouting is a less common form of praise today than singing. Nonetheless, singing and shouting are commanded together in the Scriptures, and either word may be used to translate the same Hebrew verb, ranan. Therefore, shouting and loud singing are to be companions in our praise. Together they express joy and exultation, as is seen following the consecration of Aaron and his sons, when the fire fell from The Most High’s presence and consumed the sacrifices (see Lev. 9:24). The people’s rejoicing is described as shouting.


Making a Joyful Noise (So It Can Be Heard)
Praise our The Most High, O peoples, let the sound of His praise be heard (Psalm 66:8).

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King (Psalm 98:4-6 KJV).

There’s a place for triumphant celebration and loud worship. The Most High is not nervous, so we can make noise. Indeed, He evidently enjoys it, for the Bible includes commands that we make a joyful noise before Him. This joyful noise may be singing, shouting, or some other audible form of praise.


Laughter
When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy (Psalm 126:1-3).

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy (Job 8:21).

This form of praise is rarely used today and is even treated with suspicion by some people. Yet, the Bible tells us to rejoice with laughter. Psalm chapter 126, in particular, paints a lovely picture of laughing with delight over The Most High’s goodness in bringing His people back from exile. It is an expression of pure joy and wonder following a difficult season. The same seems to be true in Job, where joy and laughter are also used in a parallel form.

With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the Lord:

“He is good; His love to Israel endures forever” (Ezra 3:11).

I will praise The Most High’s name in song and glorify Him with thanksgiving (Psalm 69:30).

Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name (Psalm 100:4).

Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to The Most High our Abba for everything, in the name of our Lord Yeshua HaMaschiach (Ephesians 5:19-20).

Thanksgiving and praise are often used in parallel constructions in the Scriptures, as is evident in the verses quoted above. In particular, they seem to be paired in public worship. The Book of Nehemiah, where it states that the priests were to stand opposite each other and perform an antiphonal form of praise and thanksgiving (see Neh. 12:24), provides an example of this. Ezra 3:11, Psalm 69, and Ephesians 5:19-20 also seem to indicate that thanksgiving incorporated singing.


Standing
At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they still do today (Deuteronomy 10:8).

They were also to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord. They were to do the same in the evening (1 Chronicles 23:30).

And the Levites...said: “Stand up and praise the Lord your The Most High, who is from everlasting to everlasting.”

“Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise” (Nehemiah 9:5).

Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord (Psalm 134:1 KJV).

Standing is a bit more common form of praise than some are, but we need to increase our times of standing before the Lord in worship. Sometimes after we stand for a while, we become self-conscious and think we are getting tired. Even then we should remain on our feet because standing is an act of honor. We stand in worship because it shows our respect for The Most High.

Kneeling
Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker (Psalm 95:6).

For this reason I kneel before Abba (Ephesians 3:14).

That at the name of Yeshua every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Yeshua HaMaschiach is Lord, to the glory of The Most High the Abba (Philippians 2:10-11).

Kneeling is a form of both humility and honor in our praise and worship. It shows our recognition that The Most High is the Lord and we are His people. Some people still kneel for prayer, but in many denominations and congregations, kneeling is no longer practiced at all. Reinstating kneeling to our worship services would do much to restore the sense of reverence that we are sometimes missing.


Clapping Our Hands
Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to The Most High with cries of joy (Psalm 47:1).

Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy (Psalm 98:8).

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands (Isaiah 55:12).

Clapping is a show of approval and appreciation. Yet, many services don’t encourage people to clap their hands to the Lord. Those who omit clapping from their praise do themselves harm because The Most High is the One who determines how we should praise Him.

Moreover, clapping has benefits that we don’t fully understand. Studies done in Japan over the last thousand years have shown that our hands and feet contain nerves that attach to every organ in our body. When we walk, we are therefore stimulating all our organs and giving them life.

The same is true for our hands. Maybe this is why The Most High commands us to praise Him with clapping. He knows that as we clap, the nerves in our palms and fingers stimulate our whole body, bringing us life. Thus, when The Most High says, “Clap your hands,” He’s really saying, “Get life.” How like our The Most High to give us commands regarding praise that not only bring honor to Him but also benefit us in ways beyond the blessings of obedience.

If you don’t believe me, try this sometime. When you are getting drowsy in the middle of the day, or you have trouble getting up in the morning, start clapping. You will feel your whole body wake up and start to work again.

Dancing
Let them praise His name with dancing and make music to Him with tambourine and harp (Psalm 149:3).

Praise Him with tambourine and dancing, praise Him with the strings and flute (Psalm 150:4).

The Lord your The Most High is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice [joy, KJV] over you with singing (Zephaniah 3:17).

Few congregations use dance in worship, and some folks actually disapprove of it, but dancing before the Lord is scriptural. In truth, Psalm 149:3 specifically admonishes us to let people praise Him with dance. Sometimes this is the only form of praise that can adequately express the intense joy and longing that well up inside us. We know we must move physically to release our love and devotion to the Lord.

Certainly, dancing must be done decently and in order. Yet, we must be careful not to limit such expression because we do not believe in it or do not understand it. Dancing is both an acceptable and essential part of our worship.

At times, our dancing may even become boisterous as we leap and show great joy. This was surely true for Miriam and the other women in Exodus 15 who celebrated The Most High’s victory with timbrel and dance. It was also true of Yeshua when the disciples He had sent out two by two came back telling of all they had seen and done.

Luke 10:21 (KJV) says that Yeshua“rejoiced in spirit.” The Greek word that is translated here rejoice means to “jump for joy” (Strong’s, G21). In a similar manner, the word giyl (Strong’s, H1523), used in Zephaniah to speak of The Most High’s rejoicing over us, means “to spin under the influence of a violent emotion, i.e. usually rejoice.”

I wonder how often the Lord is dancing in the Spirit but we are sitting still. He is having so much fun, but He is watching us and wondering why we don’t dance too. If the joy of the Lord is truly in our heart, it will sometimes show up in our feet! I will praise You as long as I live, and in Your name I will lift up my hands (Psalm 63:4).

Lift up Your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord (Psalm 134:2).

I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing (1 Timothy 2:8).

Many of us sing about praising The Most High with uplifted hands, but we seldom do it. Yet, we see here that we are commanded to lift our hands in The Most High’s sanctuary. The sanctuary is where we come to worship. It’s The Most High’s holy dwelling place. Therefore, if The Most High says to lift holy hands, we’d better do it. If we don’t obey this command of the Lord, we can’t expect Him to keep His promises to us, since He is holy and cannot lie. Our obedience is what opens The Most High’s hands to give us what He has promised.

Therefore, our praise must meet The Most High’s requirements all the time. We can’t choose when and where we will lift our hands or do any of the other forms of praise. Obedience requires that we follow the leading of The Most High’s Spirit wherever we are and whenever He prompts us to praise.

This is what obedience is. It’s going against our own will to fulfill the will of another; it is submitting our desires to the desires of someone else. In essence, we object to our own personal wishes so we can submit to the wishes of another. Praising with uplifted hands is thus a matter of obedience, not of personal preference.

Making Music on Instruments
David and the whole house of Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines, sistrums and cymbals (2 Samuel 6:5).

Praise the Lord. Praise The Most High in His sanctuary; praise Him in His mighty heavens. Praise Him for His acts of power; praise Him for His surpassing greatness. Praise Him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise Him with the harp and lyre, praise Him with tambourine and dancing, praise Him with the strings and flute, praise Him with the clash of cymbals, praise Him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord (Psalm 150).

Psalm 150 in its entirety exhorts us to praise the Lord, and instruments are an important part of this praise. Instruments are not, however, to take over the praise and worship time. This is not The Most High’s intent. Praise through musical instruments isn’t to be offered until after we have brought our sacrifice of thanksgiving and raised our voice in praise.

How We Praise Depends on How Well We Know the One We Praise

The characteristics of our praise to the Lord depends on the depth of our relationship with Him. If we have built an intimate, lasting friendship with Him and have become perceptive praisers, we can expect that all these forms of praise will be part of our experience. Should this not yet be our practice, we can start where we are and ask The Most High to lead us into the less common forms. Those persons who sincerely desire to obey Him in praise will find that He soon answers their prayers.

In truth, the more we abandon ourselves to the work and leading of The Most High’s Spirit within us, the more we emulate the praise that is pictured in the Scriptures.

And why should we not, since praise leads us to our heart’s true home. There, as The Most High’s presence comes to us and stays with us, we discover the depths of joy and wonder reserved for those who wholly give themselves to the praise of The Most High. Our praise is no longer governed by traditions or comfort zones. Instead, we find that we need every form of worship The Most High has given us because no one form or expression can adequately reveal the love, adoration, and faith we feel inside. True praise shows forth in some observable manner our delight and our wonder that The Most High has chosen us to be His children and even now draws us close to Him.


PRINCIPLES

1. Praise takes many forms but must always be visible or audible.
2. We cannot choose which forms of praise we want to use. We need to praise The Most High with our whole being.
3. Nobody can praise The Most High for us.
4. Biblical forms of praise include:
Singing
Shouting
Making a joyful noise
Laughter
Thanksgiving
Standing
Kneeling
Clapping
Dancing
Uplifted hands
Making music on instruments

Shema Selah, thank You the Most High for our how to of Biblical praise!!! https://youtu.be/PwS7o83ZDdY

Weekend Meditation--The Most High Is Looking For You--Where Is Your Praise??

We are walking in today: Weekend Meditation--The Most High Is Looking For You--Where Is Your Praise??


2 Chronicles 7:14 King James Version (KJV) 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Shema Selah, Fiveamprayer we are to praise, uplift, extol, bless, worship and honor the Most High continually and above all for He alone is our all in all!!

https://youtu.be/PpXtHBBjmf

What Are The Characteristics Of Praise???!!

Psalms 42


We are walking in today: What Are The Characteristics Of Praise???!!

Witness thanskgiving throughout the Bible:  H8426 towdah-- confession, praise, thanksgiving; give praise to God


Lev 7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, H8426 then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving H8426 unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

The Torah testifies...............
 Lev 7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving H8426 of his peace offerings.

The prophets proclaim..................
 Amo 4:5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving H8426 with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

The writings bear witness...........................
 Psa 107:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, H8426 and declare his works with rejoicing.

Psa 116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.

Characteristics of Praise

Praise Puts The Most High in First Place

Praise is always turning our attention from ourselves to The Most High.

It’s remembering and recounting who He is and what He has done, instead of wallowing in the mire of self-absorption. Truly, we are incredibly self-centered people. Our first thought is always how something or someone is affecting us.

Praise turns our eyes from ourselves to The Most High. It focuses our thoughts on His majesty and power and invites others to do the same. Instead of gazing at our own navel, we raise our eyes and our heart to see His face and to affirm again our awe of Him, our gratitude for His love and mercy, and our absolute dependence on Him.

In essence, praise is bragging about The Most High instead of us or the idols of this world. It’s celebrating who He is and how He relates to His people. Many Christians and congregations rarely do this.

We are so self-focused that we treat praise and worship as preliminaries that we have to get through to get to the important stuff, which of course is the teaching and personal ministry that make us feel good. Sadly, we all too often treat our expressions of admiration toward The Most High as though He is of secondary importance.

I’m sure The Most High is not pleased with this behavior. Indeed, there’s no reason to have a meeting if praise and worship are not the central focus of our time together. We may call our collection of traditions, habits, and activities “worship,” but we have no hope of worshiping The Most High if we are not willing to first give Him the praise that is His due.


Praise Flows From Our Friendship With The Most High
People who praise The Most High on a regular basis do so because they have found the Lord to be so altogether lovely that they can’t stop thinking of Him and talking of Him. They have gotten close enough to Him to see His true nature and character, and they have found in Him more than everything they have ever hoped for.

You see, you can’t brag about someone you don’t know—at least your bragging cannot be truthful and sincere. Therefore, although praise may start with what you know about The Most High, it must eventually progress to what you yourself have experienced of Him.


This is when praise becomes more than a chore or a duty. You don’t have to work up your praise because it automatically bubbles up from within you. Your relationship with The Most High has confirmed for you that you are blessed at all times. He is your joy, your strength, your comfort, your peace, and on and on. Your life is anchored in Him, and His goodness to you brings His name to your thoughts and your lips repeatedly.

In other words, praise that flows from a deep relationship with The Most High is genuine and true. Your words and acts of adoration arise naturally from your heart. This does not mean that you will always feel like praising. In truth, this does not matter. When your relationship with The Most High is deep and lasting, praise comes no matter what you are experiencing because how you feel does not change who The Most High is in your life.


Praise Is a Conscious Choice
Praise is an act of your will. When you offer The Most High true praise, you make a conscious decision to commend, approve, and glorify Him. Praise, therefore, is not based on your emotions or feelings.

You don’t have to feel great—or even good or okay—to praise the Lord. Despite the many things in your life that may seem to be wrong, praise is your conscious choice because you know that The Most High is the answer to your problems. As long as He is in charge, things will get better. Your intimate fellowship with Him makes this difference. You can focus on what is right—The Most High and His goodness to you—no matter what else is wrong.

This attitude is quite evident in Psalm 42, where the psalmist laments that his life is not like it once was when he went to the house of the Lord with great joy. His body hurts. Tears are his lot now instead of music and laughter. He even fears that The Most High has forgotten him, so long has it been since he felt The Most High’s presence. Yet this hurting, despairing man makes a conscious choice. He exercises his will and chooses to remember The Most High and His goodness. Notwithstanding his misery and his sorrow, the psalmist gives himself a lecture. He says, “Soul, why are you so upset? Why are you sulking and fretting as though you have no hope? Don’t give up! Put your hope in The Most High. He has not given up, even if you have. So, stop dwelling on everything that’s wrong and start thinking about all that’s right.

Remember the friendship we’ve enjoyed with The Most High. Recall His many acts of kindness to us. The difficult place we’re in right now isn’t the end of the story. I’m still going to praise Him, my Savior and my The Most High.” (See Psalm 42.)

Perhaps you are carrying a heavy load right now. You are going through some of the toughest times humans experience.

Don’t let your troubles keep you from praising the Lord. I know that you may feel like you are facing hardships few others have had to face, or that you have lost hope that your circumstances will ever change. This is precisely the time, dear friend, that The Most High asks you to praise Him. He knows that you are hurting. He also knows that things won’t always be the way they now are. In fact, He’s waiting to act on your behalf, but He needs you to provide a dwelling place for Him, an altar in your life where He can show up. Praise is that altar.


Praise Is a Willing Sacrifice
Biblical expressions of praise often include the word will.
The Lord is my strength and my song; He has become my salvation. He is my The Most High, and I will praise Him, my father’s The Most High, and I will exalt Him (Exodus 15:2).
I will give thanks to the Lord because of His righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High (Psalm 7:17).
I will sing to the Lord, for He has been good to me (Psalm 13:6).
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to Him in song (Psalm 28:7).

Although “will” can indicate a future time, it can also speak of a conscious choice. In other words: “I am determined to praise The Most High.” This is what the Scriptures call a sacrifice or offering of praise.

I will sacrifice a freewill offering to You; I will praise Your name, O Lord, for it is good (Psalm 54:6).

Through Yeshua, therefore, let us continually offer to The Most High a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess His name (Hebrews 13:15).

Praise becomes a sacrifice when you offer your praise to The Most High just because He deserves it and asks you to do it. You may not feel like praising Him, and in truth, it may be quite difficult for you to look beyond the difficulties in your life. Yet, when you choose to open your lips and speak forth your adoration, gratitude, and thanksgiving to The Most High, you please Him.

Truly, you can always give the Lord some sacrifice. No, you probably won’t bring The Most High a lamb, a sheep, or a goat as The Most High’s people did in the Tabernacle and the Temple. This does not free you, however, from the responsibility of bringing Him a gift when you come to worship Him. Praise from an obedient heart is the gift that pleases The Most High the most. You may not have anything else to bring Him, but you can always give Him this sacrifice of praise.

Notice that Hebrews calls this “the fruit of our lips.” Fruit speaks of a harvest. Farmers will tell you that bringing in the crops is hard work. Sometimes praise requires the same effort. Instead of calling people and waiting for them to minister to you when you are having a hard time, why don’t you go ahead and have your own praise service. Sacrifice your hurt feelings, your financial problems, or your troubles with your boss or your wife or your son or daughter on the altar of praise. Make it your conscious choice to lay aside all that pulls you down or makes you afraid or causes you to feel like giving up, and open your mouth and talk to The Most High. Tell Him how wonderful He is. Tell Him how thankful you are that He is in your life. Tell Him that you are glad He is on your side. Tell Him that He is worth more to you than everything else in the world.

This sacrifice of praise won’t cost you any money, but it will cost you your self-centeredness and your natural tendency to dwell on whatever is wrong in your life. Giving The Most High your sacrifice of praise means that you choose to dwell on Him instead of yourself.

Your mouth is filled with all that is good in your life instead of everything that is bad. This sacrifice can never be forced from you by someone else. Oh, you may sing or raise your hands because someone tells you to, but outward show is not inward praise. A sacrifice of praise comes from inside you. It is your will taking control over your emotions and doing what The Most High wants and empowers you to do.

The Book of Leviticus says it this way, When you sacrifice a thank offering to the Lord, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf (Leviticus 22:29).

The King James Version ends the verse with these words: “Offer it at your own will.” The sacrifice that is pleasing to The Most High is what you give from your heart despite what you are feeling or what your circumstances are.

Somehow, you find the power in the midst of your difficulty to praise the Lord with what little strength you have. I don’t know about you, but I prefer to praise with whatever strength I have left in hard times, rather than to complain.

Praise given with whatever strength you have, however limited, is a sacrifice Pleasing to The Most High.

Complaining accomplishes nothing more than to further drain our strength. Praise brings the Lord into our thoughts, thereby lifting us above whatever is causing our struggle. Celebrating The Most High by focusing on Him instead of us is truly the essence of praise. When we do this, The Most High takes our sacrifice and blesses us.

So, don’t wait for things to go right before you start praising The Most High. Start praising the Lord, and things will go right.

After days, weeks, and even months of this sacrifice of praise, you will find that you naturally find many things for which to praise Him. After all, He is deserving of every word of commendation, confidence, approval, good report, and honor you can give Him. The more you notice Him and His benefits to you, the more He will bless you and give you more reasons to praise Him.

Praise Is an Expression of Faith
Faith without deeds (works) is dead (see Jas. 2:17). Likewise, praise that is in the heart but is not expressed is dead. Therefore, faith is the highest act of praise, and praise is the highest form of faith. Both are expressions of agreement with The Most High. When you have faith, you hold to His promises no matter what you see at the moment. When you praise Him, you proclaim what you know to be true despite the evidence to the contrary.

Think of Abraham when he tied Isaac to that altar on Mount Moriah. (See Genesis chapter 22.) I’m sure Abraham wasn’t singing, dancing, and praising The Most High in a festive way. Most likely his heart was quite heavy. Yet, the very act of placing Isaac on that altar was an act of praise. Why? Abraham was expressing his trust in The Most High and his confidence that somehow everything would come out right. After all, not only had The Most High given Isaac to Abraham and his wife, Sarah, when they were quite late in years; He had also promised that Abraham would have more descendants than the sands of the sea. Moreover, those grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren were to come through Isaac, the son of promise, not through Ishmael. So either The Most High would provide another sacrifice in the place of Isaac or He would somehow restore Isaac to Abraham after the sacrifice. In either case, Abraham was willing to trust The Most High to keep His covenant and the promises that went with it.

An attitude of faith in the midst of hard times is always at the core of sacrificial praise because it is based in the assurance that anything is possible with The Most High. What may be impossible for man is not beyond the reaches of The Most High simply because of who He is. So praise that clings to who The Most High is rather than to what we human beings see or do is a fundamental expression of faith. It is saying, “I don’t know what You are doing, why You are doing it, or how this whole thing is going to end up, but I trust You, The Most High. I know You will be faithful to me. You will never abandon me. Therefore, I’m going to obey You in as much as I understand to do. The rest is up to You. I do this because You are my The Most High and my Savior. All I All I have, am, and ever hope to be is Yours.” Such praise frees The Most High to work in our lives.


PRINCIPLES

1. To praise means to commend, to approve, to give a favorable judgment, to glorify, and to esteem.

2. Praising The Most High by commendation means that we entrust ourselves to His care and recommend that others do the same.

3. Praising The Most High by approval means that we have a favorable opinion of The Most High, which we tell Him and others.

4. Praising by giving The Most High glory means that we honor Him and express our admiration for Him.

5. Praise turns the focus of our life from us to The Most High.

6. Before we can consistently praise The Most High, we must get close enough to Him to see His true nature and character.

7. Praise is a conscious choice, an act of our will.

8. A sacrifice of praise is the praise we give The Most High from obedience despite how we feel.

Shema Selah, Fiveamprayer we have to put aside all other things and give the worth-ship and praise that is due to the King of kings, Ahayah asher Ahayah!! https://youtu.be/sGm_42P_OTo

Where Is Your Praise For The Most High?!?

Psalm 113


We are walking in today: Where Is Your Praise For The Most High?!?

Witness exalt throughout the Bible: H7311 ruwm--to rise, rise up, be high, be lofty, be exalted

Psalm 21:13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

The Torah testifies...............
 Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt H7311 him.

The prophets proclaim..................
 1 Samuel 2:10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt H7311 the horn of his anointed.

The writings bear witness...........................
 Psalm 99:5 Exalt H7311 ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.

Isaiah 25:1 O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt H7311 thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.


What Is Praise?

Praise is celebrating The Most High as our heart’s true home.

The Scriptures are filled with injunctions to praise the Lord:
Then David said to the whole assembly, “Praise the Lord your The Most High.” So they all praised the Lord, the The Most High of their fathers; they bowed low and fell prostrate before the Lord and the king (1 Chronicles 29:20).
Praise the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever (Psalm 106:1).
Praise the Lord. Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord (Psalm 113:1).
Praise the Lord, all you nations; extol Him, all you peoples (Psalm 117:1).
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord (Psalm 150:6).

If we are to obey these commands from The Most High, we must first learn what praise is. Praise includes commending; expressing approval or a favorable judgment of; and glorifying, especially by crediting with perfections (see Webster’s, “praise”).

Definitions of Praise

 Commending
To commend someone is “to entrust for care or preservation” or “to recommend as worthy of confidence or notice” (Webster’s, “commend”). Praising The Most High by commendation this means that we entrust ourselves to His care and recommend that others do the same. The Psalms of David, in particular, are filled with testimonies of the Lord’s trustworthiness, and with expressions of confidence that He will again prove Himself trustworthy.

O Lord my The Most High, in Thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me (Psalm 7:1 KJV).
Those who know Your name will trust in You, for You, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek You (Psalm 9:10).
Preserve me, O The Most High: for in Thee do I put my trust (Psalm 16:1 KJV).
Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our The Most High (Psalm 20:7).

Praise by commendation thus applies the promises of The Most High to our personal circumstances. Let’s say, for example, that a father has just lost his job and he’s concerned how he will provide for his family. Perhaps his heart is heavy and he’s feeling overwhelmed by the future. His praise of The Most High in such a situation might go something like this:

Lord The Most High, You are my provider. I praise You, for I know that You care for me and You care for my family. You are the The Most High who cares even for the sparrows, and I know that my spouse, my children, and I are worth much more to You than the sparrows are. Therefore, I choose not to worry. Instead I will boast of Your goodness to us in the past, for there have been other times, Father The Most High, when we didn’t know how we were going to pay our bills. Yet, You have always made a way, even when there seemed to be no way. Thank You for Your goodness. Thank You for Your care and provision. I know that I can trust You. I know that Your eyes are on my family and You will not forget us.

Even as You provided food for Your people as they wandered through the wilderness, today I declare by faith that You will provide for us too. You alone are my refuge. I choose not to be shaken by fear. You alone are the source of all I have and ever hope to have. I praise You because You are faithful. You are the Everlasting One. I know that You are aware of what we are going through, and I thank You in advance for what You will do for us. To Your name be the glory today, tomorrow, next week, and next month in my life. I praise You and honor You. You are my The Most High.

Expressing Approval or Favorable Judgment
To approve of someone is “to have or express a favorable opinion” of him or to show esteem (Webster’s, “approve”). Personal experience is at the heart of this expression of praise as well. Here again, the Psalms contain numerous examples of personal expressions of approval toward The Most High.

But You, O The Most High, do see trouble and grief; You consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless (Psalm 10:14).
But I will sing of Your strength, in the morning I will sing of Your love; for You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble (Psalm 59:16).
O The Most High, You are my The Most High, earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You, my body longs for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and Your glory (Psalm 63:1-2).
So you see, praise by approving is turning our thoughts toward The Most High and remembering how He has won our acclaim. It’s reciting the wonder of who He is and how He has made a difference in our life and the lives of others. Many Scriptures do this, but Psalm 23 is perhaps the most well-known passage of Scripture that is a personal recommendation for The Most High. David praises The Most High by describing Him as the Shepherd who cares for David, His sheep.

Each image from the life and work of a shepherd in some way speaks to David of The Most High’s work in his own life.

This is why Psalm 23 is such a wonderful Scripture portion to use during private praise and worship. It encourages you, the worshiper, to see and celebrate The Most High’s personal care shown in your life and to express your adoration and gratitude to The Most High for His goodness to you. To do this, you might read or recite a line from the Psalm, then praise The Most High for how it’s been true in your life. As you praise Him, you will find that you are building an impressive resumé of The Most High’s greatness, faithfulness, and love as you’ve experienced Him.

The Lord is my Shepherd.... My The Most High, You are an awesome The Most High. Even before I was born, You had a plan for my life. You are the Alpha and Omega who sees my tomorrows when I can’t face today. You are the Faithful One who seeks Your sheep even when I wander from the paths You have chosen for me. You are the Tender One who comforts me when I am sad or lonely and heals me when I am hurt. You are the Forgiving One who looks beyond my failures to what I yet can be. You are the Loving and Merciful One who loves me even when I am unlovely and does good to me despite the fact that I don’t deserve it....I shall not want...because You are always meeting my needs.
You have given me a good mind so I can learn things quickly.
You have given me a job I like and an employer who is understanding and fair. You have blessed me and my family with a warm, dry house and an abundance of food in our refrigerator and our cupboards. We have never gone hungry or lacked clothes to wear because You have provided for our needs.
Thank You for being so good to us. Thank You for providing even more than we need....

Many Scriptures that don’t use the words associated with praise—words like thank, sing, honor, or worship—can be used in this manner. Why is this? They record glimpses of someone’s favorable opinion of The Most High, glimpses that invite us to praise Him as well by expressing our approval of Him and our gratitude for His grace and mercy shown to us throughout our life. In essence, praise that approves is like writing a letter of recommendation for The Most High!

 Glorifying
To glorify someone is to “bestow honor, praise, or admiration” (Webster’s, “glorify”). In other words, giving glory to someone specifically identifies what is admirable in the person. This type of praise is also quite frequent in the Scriptures. The Most High is recognized as being good (e.g. Ps. 34:8), faithful (e.g. Ps. 33:4), righteous (e.g. Ps. 11:7), just (e.g. 2 Chron. 12:6), and merciful and forgiving (e.g. Dan. 9:9), to name a few. In addition, The Most High, His dwelling place, His law, His character, and His actions are described as being perfect and flawless:
As for The Most High, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in Him (2 Samuel 22:31).
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple (Psalm 19:7).
O Lord, You are my The Most High; I will exalt You and praise Your name, for in perfect faithfulness You have done marvelous things, things planned long ago (Isaiah 25:1).
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect (Matthew 5:48).
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows (James 1:17).

Psalm 103, in particular, is a good example of Scripture that glorifies The Most High. In this Psalm, David lists some of the many praiseworthy benefits of knowing The Most High. The Most High forgives our sin (vs. 3), heals our diseases (vs. 3), redeems our life (vs. 4), crowns us with love and compassion (vs. 4), satisfies us with good things (vs. 5), works righteousness and justice for the oppressed (vs. 6), is slow to anger (vs. 8), does not always accuse (vs. 9), does not keep His anger forever (vs. 9), does not treat us as our sin deserves (vs. 10), and removes our transgressions from us (vs. 12).

I’m sure you see how one or all of these benefits may be the basis for a praise service, whether private or public. Surely, all of us recall times when The Most High worked in our life in one or more of these ways. Praising The Most High by glorifying Him is simply recognizing and testifying to all these admirable qualities of The Most High. For example, it’s saying, “Yes, I know The Most High works for the oppressed. My boss was always belittling me in front of the rest of the crew and laughing at me when I didn’t work as fast as he thought I should. I never said anything, although I was plenty angry inside. I just asked The Most High to give me strength and to be my advocate. Yesterday I found out that my boss is being moved to another plant. The Most High is so good. He’s so good to me.” It’s saying, “The Most High has every reason to write me off forever. Many times He has helped me get clean from drugs, but I’ve always gone back—usually to a stronger addiction than He saved me from. Yet, I know He loves me, and He forgives me every time I repent. I thank Him for His goodness to me. I don’t deserve it, but that doesn’t seem to stop Him from loving me and from reaching out to me when I get myself into a mess again. He has sent so many people to me who have helped me see His love and mercy. He is one awesome The Most High. I don’t understand why, but I know He cares for me, and He hears my cries when I plead for His help. Why don’t you try Him for yourself? You’ll find that He’s faithful to you too.”

Another way we honor The Most High is to recite His names or other designations of who He is. For example: “The Lord is a warrior” (Ex. 15:3a). “The Lord is The Most High in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other” (Deut. 4:39b). “...the Lord is [my] life...” (Deut. 30:20). “...the hand of the Lord is powerful...” (Josh. 4:24). “...The Lord is Peace...” (Judg. 6:24). “The Lord is The Most High who knows, and by Him deeds are weighed” (1 Sam. 2:3b). “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer” (2 Sam. 22:2). “The Lord is King” (Ps. 10:16a). “The Lord is my light and my salvation” (Ps. 27:1a). “The Lord is the strength of His people” (Ps. 28:8a).

As we honor The Most High for who He is and for what He has done in our lives, we make room for Him to work for us and in us every day. We give Him a place to dwell in the midst of our life because we refuse to take His benefits to us for granted. We know we are sinners saved by grace, and we give Him the glory for saving us and for being there for us when we need Him.

Shema Selah we are to tell of the greatness of the Most High to ourselves, to HIM and to others!!https://youtu.be/gl8R1hAk8wE

Creating A Dwelling Place For The Most High!!!!!!!! PART 3

Hebrew 13


We are walking in today: Weekend Meditation: Creating A Dwelling Place For The Most High!!!!!!!! PART 3


Witness pure throughout the Bible: H2891 taher--to be clean, be pure (physically--of disease); to be clean ceremonially; to purify, be clean morally, made clean


Ezr 6:20
For the priests and the Levites were purified H2891 together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.


The Torah testifies...............
 Leviticus 24:2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.


The prophets proclaim..................
 2 Samuel 22:27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

The writings bear witness...........................
 Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure H2891 from my sin?

Job 4:17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure H2891 than his maker?


This way provided by The Most High is the same today as it was two thousand years ago.

There is no improved savior and no improved blood. The Savior has been, is, and always will be Yeshua HaMashiach, and His blood is the only sacrifice sufficient and acceptable to atone for our sins.

We human beings may be looking for new and improved ways to worship, but The Most High is not. He does not want experts in worship. What The Most High wants is people who will follow His instructions every time they approach Him.

This is just the way The Most High is. He isn’t looking for change, since He doesn’t change. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (see Heb. 13:8). His bottom line continues to be His passion forgetting His presence back into man’s experience. This is His plan for the entire human race because Adam carried in him all the nations of the world. Therefore, when The Most High removed Adam from His presence, He removed all the nations as well. Likewise, when Yeshua came to earth, He came to restore the Holy Spirit to all mankind. Before He could do this, however, He had to clean us up so that we could receive The Most High’s Spirit. He had to cleanse our impurity.

To say that we are impure does not mean that we are dirty, as in the filth of dirt. What it does mean is that we are impure in The Most High’s sight. What we believe, what we say, and what we do don’t
match. This is what impurity is to The Most High. Therefore, The Most High sent HaMashiach to restore a pure heart to us so that we can be integrated in thought, word, and action. Only when our heart is once more pure can we become the temple in which the Holy Spirit lives (see 1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19).

Since the Holy Spirit is The Most High, He is the key to getting us into The Most High’s presence today. He is also the only One who can teach us what The Most High requires of us now (see Jn. 14:26). Sadly, many Christians miss the joy of living with the Lord because their hopes are fixed on Heaven and what they will someday gain there. This may be the theology of the hymnbook, but it is not the theology of the Bible. The Most High’s purpose is not that we will fly away to Him someday, but that we will live in His presence today in this world. Therefore, all His work through the Old Testament and into the days of Yeshua and the Church has been to get us back into the environment where He first put us here on earth. That environment is His presence.

In essence, the issue is not where you are located, but who is located where you are. You need The Most High’s presence to function. So wherever He is, be that in Heaven or on earth, you can function
there. This makes seeking The Most High and living in His presence today in this life quite important.

Why else would The Most High create a new Heaven and a new earth?

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea (Revelation 21:1).

He’s making another environment for us that is like the atmosphere man once enjoyed in the Garden of Eden. This atmosphere will be on earth because we were created to dominate the earth, not Heaven.

Therefore, Heaven is not the fulfillment of your future. Your eternal home will be a new earth.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from The Most High, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.... I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord The Most High Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of The Most High gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp (Revelation 21 : 1-2, 22-23 ).

This new earth won’t need a sea to provide water or the sun and the moon to provide light because The Most High Himself will be our light and our life. Just as Adam and Eve enjoyed continual fellowship with The Most High in the Garden of Eden, we will wake up every morning in The Most High’s presence and go through the whole day with Him. No matter where we are, we will breathe in life.

However, you don’t have to wait for this new earth to live with The Most High. He wants to come to you right now. He wants to live in praising Him and filling your home with testimonies of how great He is and how good He has been to you. Just start bragging about The Most High from a pure heart, and He will come to you right where you are. He’ll set up His throne in your house. That’s His plan, and He’s bringing it to pass in our generation. He’s creating a new order where the power of satan is defeated in your life and in mine simply because we make room for His presence. We know that He wants us to have His presence. The only question is whether we will make room for Him to come to us.

You do this by filling your environment with praise until He comes and fills the place you have made. That’s all. There’s no more sweating, no more hard work, no more contriving to do this or that to get to The Most High. You make room for Him, and He comes. That’s it. And you do this through praise.




PRINCIPLES

1. All The Most High’s work throughout history has been to get His presence back into man’s environment.
2. Altars, sacrifices, and offerings invite The Most High’s presence to come or they commemorate where He has been.
3. The Most High’s friends are worshipers.
4. The whole purpose of the Tabernacle and the Temple was to provide a place for The Most High to live in the midst of His people.
5. The Most High’s presence is the only essential ingredient in worship.
6. The design and worship of the Tabernacle looked forward to Yeshua and the return of the Holy Spirit.
7. The Most High wants His people to follow His instructions when they come to meet with Him.
8. The Most High wants to live with you today.

Shema Selah where is your focus? An in who's presence are you entering into?? https://youtu.be/jbJQ5pdsn5Q

Creating A Dwelling Place For The Most High!!!!!!!! PART 2

Psalm 51

We walking in today:  Creating A Dwelling Place For The Most High!!!!!!!! PART 2

Witness friend throughout the Bible: H7453 rea' friend, companion, fellow, intimate

Pro 18:24 A man that hath friends H7453 must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

The Torah testifies...............
Exodus 33:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. H7453 And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.


The prophets proclaim..................
1 Samuel 30:26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, H7453 saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;

The writings bear witness...........................
Proverbs 17:17 A friend H7453 loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Pro 22:11 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. H7453

Moses
Moses was another “friend of The Most High.” As the leader of a grumbling, dissatisfied people, he often cried out to The Most High. So when The Most High told Moses to take the people up to the Promised Land, but that He would not go with them lest He destroy the people as they traveled, Moses said, “No way!” He wasn’t going anywhere unless The Most High was going with him.

Moses said to the Lord, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with Me.’ If You are pleased with me, teach me Your ways so I may know You and continue to find favor with You. Remember that this nation is Your people.” The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then Moses said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here” (Exodus 33:12-15).

What was The Most High’s response? The Most High agreed to do the very thing Moses asked because He knew Moses by name and was pleased with him.

Like Abraham before him and David after him, Moses was hungry for The Most High. He wanted to know The Most High and to find favor with Him. Not only that, he wanted to see The Most High. It wasn’t enough that The Most High spoke to him from the pillar of cloud whenever he entered the Tabernacle and that his face shown with The Most High’s glory even after he had left the Tabernacle. Moses wanted to see The Most High face to face.

The Most High knew that Moses’ request was a problem. No man in his sinful nature could see The Most High and live. But since Moses was so intent on seeing Him, and because Moses was His friend, The Most High agreed to let Moses see His glory.

What Moses saw... Wow! That must have been some close walk The Most High took past him. What else could Moses do but bow to the ground and worship. He had seen the glory of the Almighty! Now
he was more sure than ever that he didn’t want to go anywhere if The Most High was not going along. (See Exodus chapter 33.)

Temples for The Most High
The outdoor altars of Cain and Abel, of Noah, of Abraham and his descendants, and of Moses eventually gave way to the enclosed sanctuaries of the Tabernacle and the Temple, but their purpose remained the same. All were places of The Most High’s presence, and sacrifices were offered there with the belief that The Most High would accept them and be pleased with them.

In the Tabernacle and the Temple, however, the worship of The Most High became more regulated. Indeed, the building of the Tent and the Temple, as well as the praise and worship offered there, were governed by the specifications of The Most High Himself, with no room for variance.

The Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive the offering for Me from each man whose heart prompts him to give. These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze.... Then have them make a sanctuary for Me, and I will dwell among them” (Exodus 25:1-3,8).

Do you see what verse 8 says? The Most High wanted a place to live among His people so He told Moses to bring an offering. All this money was not about having a nice building with soft comfortable chairs. The Most High told Moses to gather an offering from the people because He wanted to get His presence in their midst. It wasn’t enough for Him to meet with Moses on the mountain. He wanted to live with all His people.

Building a place for The Most High is always about having the presence of The Most High in the midst of His people. In fact, a big fancy building may look like a church and may even be called a church, but in reality it is very far from being one. Why is this? Nothing is happening there.

Building a church for The Most High is not about the building or the equipment. It’s about The Most High’s presence. If The Most High’s presence is not with you, it doesn’t matter how elaborate your building is, how well educated your staff are, how well planned your worship services are, or how dynamic the preaching is. Without The Most High’s presence all you have is a big building filled with people. On the other hand, you can meet in a plain room with simple worship and an untrained preacher but have everything. The difference is in the absence or the presence of The Most High.

The Most High’s presence is the only essential ingredient in worship. Our praise and the other elements of our meetings must lead us into the presence of The Most High. If they don’t, there is no reason to do them. Oh, yes, they may be nice and may make us feel good, but the purpose of gathering is to enter the presence of the Most High. Anything that does not contribute to this is simply unnecessary clutter. The Most High’s presence in our presence is the only worthwhile end to our meetings.

This was The Most High’s entire purpose for instructing Moses to build the Tabernacle: He wanted to get close to His people. Everything The Most High told Moses to do in some way revealed the lost condition of man and unveiled The Most High’s plan to rescue man from his wrong environment by getting His presence back in man’s presence.

The Most High’s blueprint for the meeting place between Himself and man ensured that man could not just stumble or wander into His presence, lest he be consumed by The Most High because of his sin. This is why The Most High’s dwelling place was in the central part of the Tabernacle. The Most High was safeguarding His presence to keep it holy. He also gave Moses very specific instructions concerning the priests, the sacrifices and offerings, and the atonement procedures so that nothing profane would come close to Him. Each of the furnishings, bowls, plates, and other utensils were also made according to The Most High’s exact instructions, as well as the Tabernacle itself and the curtains that hung within it. Particular attention was given to the Ark of the Covenant, where The Most High would dwell between the cherubim, and to the rest of the inner chamber that was known as the Holy of Holies.

The furnishings in the Tabernacle each revealed something about The Most High’s intent concerning His people and His presence among them. In the Outer Court stood the altar of burnt offerings, where the sacrifices of the people were presented to The Most High to atone for their sins. Beyond the altar, closer to the door leading into the Tabernacle, stood the laver, where the rites of purification were done. These washings were probably intended to make the priests and the sacrifices holy. Within the tabernacle in the Inner Court, also called the Holy Place, stood the table of shewbread, on which the priest put the fresh bread of the presence every Sabbath.
This was eaten only by priests and only in the Holy Place. Frankincense was also placed on the table of shewbread. This was burnt on the altar of incense, which stood before the veil leading into the Holy of Holies, to make atonement. Across from the table of shewbread stood the golden lampstand or candlestick.

The final part of the tabernacle was the Holy of Holies where the Ark of the Covenant was kept. On the Mercy Seat above the Ark and between the cherubim that were part of the lid to the Ark was the place where The Most High would dwell. Cherubim, the protectors of The Most High’s presence, were also woven into the veil that hung between the Inner Court and the Holy of Holies. (See Exodus chapter 25 and following.) All this was part of The Most High’s plans and preparations to provide a place where He could live in the midst of His people. The same was true for the Temple in Jerusalem, when The Most High gave the plans to David and entrusted David’s son Solomon with the task of building it.

With the coming of HaMashiach, each of the furnishings in the Tabernacle was revealed to be a type of Him. The Tabernacle, the very house of The Most High, was a type of the Church, where The Most High wants to live. The table of shewbread represented the physical body of Christ and the Christ that would be incarnated in the man. The lampstand, which never went out, represented the Word of The Most High and the Holy Spirit. The altar of burnt offerings was a type of the sacrifices of praise that continually arise from The Most High’s people. The courtyard, or Outer Court, spoke of the assembling of The Most High’s people. Even the material of the priests’ clothes and the things in the Ark of the Covenant revealed part of The Most High’s plan that would be consummated in Christ. The priests’ clothes were linen, not wool, so the priests would not sweat in The Most High’s presence. (Sweat represented work. See Exodus chapters 28-29 and Ezekiel 44:17-18.)

The articles in the Ark of the Covenant were the tablets of the Ten Commandments, the rod of Aaron that budded, and a little jar of manna that was a reminder of the wilderness. All these represented important things to The Most High. The rod of Aaron represented the death we experience because of sin and the rebirth and new life that come through Christ. It also represented the burial of Yeshua HaMashiach and His resurrection. The manna represented The Most High’s grace, received through no work of man, and the tablets containing the Ten Commandments spoke of our helplessness to keep the law of The Most High and thereby be righteous before Him.

When the priests poured the blood on the top of the Ark, it covered all those things that revealed our sin and our lack of grace. Instead of seeing our sin, The Most High and the cherubim who protected His presence saw the blood. Thus, The Most High could come to dwell above the mercy seat without destroying the priest because of his sin and the sin of the people. The law that condemned us was covered by the blood of grace.

Through Yeshua, we gain access to every part of The Most High’s dwelling place. He is the sacrifice, the blood, the dwelling place, and the presence of The Most High. He is also the One whose death destroyed the veil that separated The Most High’s dwelling place from His people. Now everyone has access to The Most High everyone who accepts the gift of grace that is made available to us through the life, death, and resurrection of Yeshua.

Shema Selah, will you make a proper dwelling place for the Most High? https://youtu.be/Dd9xdPce26M

Creating A Dwelling Place For The Most High!!

Psalm 51

We are walking in today: Creating A Dwelling Place For The Most High!!

Witness dwelling throughout the Bible: H4186 mowshab--seat, assembly, dwelling-place, dwelling, dwellers; situation, location

Lev 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. H4186

The Torah testifies...............
 Lev 23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings H4186 throughout your generations.

The prophets proclaim..................
 Eze 37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, H4186 wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

The writings bear witness...........................
 1 Ch 6:54 Now these are their dwelling places H4186 throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.

Num 35:29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. H4186


The Most High’s goal throughout history has been to get man back into His presence.

The Most High is in the restoration business, and the Bible is a record of His efforts to get us back into His presence. Therefore, the stories in the Old Testament are not primarily about the patriarchs,
judges, kings, and prophets, or about the victories and defeats of The Most High’s people. Rather, the Bible can be summed up as an account of The Most High’s acts to get man back into His ideal environment. It tells of The Most High’s basic desire: “I want a place on earth where I can put My presence again because I need to rescue this malfunctioning machine called ‘man.’ ”

This work of The Most High to get man back into His ideal environment reached its climax in the life, death, and resurrection of Yeshua, The Most High’s Son. Everything Yeshua did was to get The Most High’s presence back into man’s experience. This is why He had to shed His blood.

The Most High’s temple, namely us, had become unholy, so The Most High had to cleanse us and make us holy again through the sacrificial death and the poured-out blood of His Son. Truly, we cannot be qualified to receive the presence of The Most High into our life until the blood of Yeshua cleanses us and makes way for the return of The Most High’s Spirit to our human temples. Therefore, the key to the continuing work of Yeshua in each of us is the Holy Spirit. When the Spirit is alive and well in us, He restores the presence of The Most High to our life and leads us into the holiness that was our birthright at creation.

However, long before The Most High sent Yeshua and the Holy Spirit, man attempted to bridge the gap that his sin had created between him and The Most High. These early attempts at worship begin in the Book of Genesis.

Altars for The Most High
Man’s first act of worship is recorded in Genesis chapter 4, right after the story in Genesis 3 of man’s sin and his fall from The Most High’s presence.

In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock (Genesis 4:3-4).

What were Cain and Abel doing here? They were trying to get back into touch with The Most High. They evidently knew they needed to be in communication with The Most High. This effort to get The Most High’s presence back into man’s life is evident throughout the Old Testament.

Repeatedly, The Most High’s people built altars to prepare a place for the presence of The Most High to come and offered sacrifices either to invite The Most High to come or to commemorate a time and a place where He had come.

Altars prepare a place for the presence of The Most High to come.
After the offerings given by Cain and Abel, the next record in the Bible of man’s attempt to communicate with The Most High through sacrifices and offerings is found in the story of Noah. After the flood, when Noah, his family, and all the animals had emerged from the ark, Noah built an altar and offered burnt offerings unto The Most High.

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Then The Most High blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth” (Genesis 8:21-9:1).

Please notice that The Most High is pleased with Noah’s attempts to communicate with Him. Hence, The Most High blesses Noah and his sons. Nonetheless, Noah is still a malfunctioning man. This is, perhaps, most evident in the blessing that The Most High gives to Noah, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.” This blessing is very similar to The Most High’s blessing of the first man and the first woman (see Gen. 1:28), but an important element is missing. The Most High does not command Noah to subdue the earth and to rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature. Why? Through his sin, man has lost both his right and his power to dominate the earth. He gave that right to satan, whom Yeshua refers to as the “prince of this world” (see Jn. 14:30). Therefore, although man is again communicating with The Most High, this relationship does not have the moment-by-moment intimacy of the garden fellowship that The Most High and man had enjoyed.

Friends With The Most High

Abraham
Abraham (Abram) is the next man whom the Scriptures tell us built an altar to the Lord. This follows The Most High’s appearance to him when The Most High promised Abraham that He would give the land of
Canaan to Abraham’s offspring (see Gen. 12:7). This is but the first of many altars that Abraham built to The Most High. Perhaps the most well-known altar Abraham built was the one on Mount Moriah when The Most High commanded him to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering (see Gen. 22). This story shows why Abraham was regarded by The Most High as His friend. Not only was Abraham a worshiper (as is evidenced by the number of altars he built), but so great was Abraham’s commitment to, passion for, and trust in The Most High that he gave Him even his son, the son of promise. Believing that The Most High would provide a lamb for the sacrifice, yet not knowing that at the very last minute The Most High would provide a ram to take the son’s place, Abraham bound Isaac on the altar and raised his hand to kill him. Only The Most High’s voice stopped him from giving The Most High what He had asked for.

David
As is often true in the Bible, the place of one sacrifice becomes the place of another. This time the worshiper is David. He has sinned by counting the fighting men of Israel and The Most High has shown His displeasure by sending a plague on the people. When David sees the carnage among his people, he entreats The Most High to punish him, not them, because he is the one who has sinned. The Most High, through the prophet Gad, then tells David to build an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah (later associated with Mt. Moriah where Abraham offered up Isaac; see 2 Chron. 3:1) so that the plague may stop.

This was certainly not the only time David built an altar to the Lord. As a youth tending his father’s sheep, he had learned to seek the presence of the Most High. These early experiences with The Most High influenced him so much that when faced with the choice of three years of famine, three months of fleeing from his enemies, or three days of plague, David chose the plague.

I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for His mercy is great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men (2 Samuel 24:14).

Do you see why David chose the third option? He preferred to fall into the hands of The Most High rather than the hands of men. Why would David choose The Most High over man? David knew the The Most High he had
sung to as a shepherd boy playing his harp. Now, when he is king and is faced with a difficult decision that means suffering not only for him but for his people, David draws on what he had learned during those years of private worship before he entered the public eye. He knows that The Most High is good and His mercy endures forever, so he entrusts himself and his kingdom to The Most High.

David’s lasting relationship with The Most High is also seen when he takes Bathsheba, another man’s wife, to his bed and tries to cover his sin. When the prophet Nathan confronts him, David immediately responds, “I have sinned against the Lord” (2 Sam. 12:13).

He doesn’t argue or make excuses. He accepts the truth of Nathan’s words and the justice of The Most High’s punishment.

The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt, the son born to you will die (2 Samuel 12:13-14).

Psalm 51, written during this time in David’s life, shows just how much he valued the presence of the Lord. Although he interceded for his son’s life while the child still lived, David didn’t criticize The Most High for taking him. In truth, Psalm 51 shows that David thought of a punishment far worse than the loss of his son:

Create in me a pure heart, O The Most High, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me not from Your presence or praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.

take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me (Psalm 51:10-12).

You see, David was used to having his own private worship services. He knew the joy and power of living with The Most High. He also knew what happens to a man when sin takes the presence of The Most High from his life.

As a young man, David had played his harp for King Saul when an evil spirit tormented him.This spirit came to Saul after the Lord had departed from his life because of his failure to obey The Most High. The memories of those hours with Saul surely contributed to David’s own plea that The Most High not take His Spirit from him. He knew the misery man endures when faced with the absence of The Most High. Losing the Holy Spirit and the presence of The Most High would therefore have been a punishment far greater than the death of his son.

Shema Selah will you forget about yourself and magnify HIS name and worship HIM?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6Rksr9Yms

Have You Malfunctioned In Your Worship??!!!!!!

Psalm 99

We are walking in today:  Have You Malfunctioned In Your Worship??!!!!!!

Witness blemish throughout the Bible:  H3971 m'uwm--blemish, spot, defect

Lev 21:17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, H3971 let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

The Torah testifies...............
 Lev 21:23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; H3971 that he profane not 

my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

The prophets proclaim..................  
 2 Sa 14:25 But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as  Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the

 crown of his head there was no blemish H3971 in him.

The writings bear witness...........................
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Dan 1:4 Children in whom was no blemish, H3971 H3971 but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand  in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.

Sinners Are Malfunctioning Citizens

This condition of a heart and spirit that are not right with The Most High has been man’s plight ever since the first man and woman chose disobedience over obedience. 

Adam and Eve certainly appeared to be functioning fine after they left the Garden in that they lived to be more than 900 years old. In truth, they were malfunctioning fine. Adam was still working the ground and having kids as The Most High had intended when He first created man. Nevertheless, Adam was completely malfunctioning because nothing outside its intended environment can function properly. Adam couldn’t function like he’d been designed to do because the absence of The Most High’s presence made it impossible for him to live like The Most High had planned he would live.

This is why Adam is said to have died when he sinned. Although his physical being didn’t die immediately, Adam did die spiritually in the exact moment he was cut off from The Most High’s presence because death is the absence of the presence of The Most High in a man or a woman’s life. So we see that the man The Most High had pronounced to be “very good” (see Gen. 1:31) became very wrong because he had lost his ideal environment. He was a good creation in the wrong place and thus began to malfunction (sin).
Death is the absence of The Most High’s presence in your life.

This is the whole problem with our world today. Men and women are malfunctioning (sinning) because they cannot function properly apart from The Most High. This condition of malfunction would have continued indefinitely had The Most High not intervened to rescue the human beings that He had created with His image and likeness. While we were yet unable to return to His presence because we were contaminated by sin, The Most High died for us.

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Maschiach died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But The Most High demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Maschiach died for us. Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from The Most High’s wrath through Him! For if, when we were The Most High’s enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! (Romans 5:6-10)

The Most High came to our rescue because He wants His family back. He knows that sin is the malfunctioning of a citizen, and that citizens who are in the wrong environment are incapable of functioning correctly, so He sought to restore us to our right environment.

Since The Most High’s work of restoration is a work in process, the evidence of man’s estrangement from The Most High because of his lost holiness is a constant refrain throughout the history of The Most High’s dealings with His people. Indeed, no generation escaped this slavery to sin as “again and again they put The Most High to the test [and] vexed the Holy One of Israel” until The Most High dealt with them because of their sin (see Ps. 78:41). Moses and Aaron, who lost the opportunity to lead The Most High’s people into the Promised Land because they neglected to honor the Most High’s holiness before the people, are but an example of the many who have suffered because of their unwillingness—and indeed their inability because of their separation from The Most High—to be holy as The Most High is holy.

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in Me enough to honor Me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.” These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord and where He showed Himself holy among them (Numbers 20:12-13).

Before the fall it was easy for man to get to The Most High—The Most High’s presence was where he spent every moment of every day—and to be holy as The Most High is holy—that was man’s innate nature. Once man sinned, however, things changed because he lost the right to be with The Most High every day.

Now The Most High has to deal with all our sin, iniquity, and rebellion before He can let us get near His holy place. And even when we get there, we will find cherubim and seraphim hovering around The Most High to prevent us from approaching Him before our sin is atoned for.

Restoring you to your garden home has been The Most High’s plan all along. You are valuable to The Most High despite your sin. Your only problem is that you are in a bad environment, an environment that is something other than where The Most High created you to live. So Yeshua paid the exact price you are worth. He laid down His image to buy you back because He knows that although you are a sinner, you still retain His image. In other words, your value didn’t change when your environment changed, so The Most High devised a plan to redeem you and to restore you to His presence.

The Most High WANTS HIS FAMILY BACK.
Truly every act of The Most High since man’s fall from His presence has been done to restore the relationship that man severed through sin. The entire Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi, is the story of The Most High’s efforts to put man back into the garden environment that he lost.

Please note that the Bible is the story of The Most High’s efforts, not man’s, to restore things to the way they once were. Man cannot accomplish this task alone. He cannot regain his proper environment without the help of his Creator. Truly he cannot even know what is his proper environment and how he was made to function unless The Most High provides the way to bring him back. Man cannot overcome his sin apart from his Savior.

Man’s inability to restore the communion with The Most High that was broken by sin has not stopped him from trying to reestablish this connection. The many religions of the world and the increased interest in spiritual things in our generation show just how hard man has tried and still is trying to become reconnected with The Most High. Man, when he is living apart from the presence of The Most High, knows that he is lost and empty, with no anchor or foundation for his soul. Whether or not he understands the reason for this void in his life, he feels the effects of it and often spends much time, effort, and money trying to fix his problem.

Nevertheless, none of our self-help books, spiritual exercises, or occult rituals can fulfill our spiritual need. The Most High’s prescription for our sin is the only one that works. The only way we become reconnected with The Most High is to accept His gift of salvation through Yeshua HaMaschiach to cleanse us from all sin. The only way we can stay connected is to practice His presence on a daily basis. Sadly, our refusal to accept The Most High’s prescription for sin is quite evident in our sin-filled world.

Do you know why you keep sinning? You sin because you stop, or have never started, practicing the presence of The Most High. It’s tough to sin and fellowship with The Most High at the same time. This truth is why you must practice the presence of the Most High all day long.

“How do I practice the presence of The Most High?” you may ask. “Through praise and worship” is the answer. When you are at your job, just hum a song. It’s hard to cuss, to gossip, or to complain when you’re humming a song. When someone does something to hurt you or to make things difficult for you, just start praying or singing. You can’t get angry when you are talking to The Most High and singing His praises.

This is quite different from what people used to say when I was growing up, “Look, I can put my religion on the side for a minute or I am going to put down my clergy. ” What they meant was, “I’ll stop worshiping, I’ll stop practicing the presence of The Most High for a minute so I can curse you. Then I’ll pick it back up again when I’ve finished taking care of you.” The Most High doesn’t intend that we live like this. He designed us to always be with Him. He planned that we would never have to function without Him. He wanted us to know the joy, peace, and power of living with Him: “In Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16:11b KJV). Joy and pleasures are The Most High’s gifts for His children when they stay in the environment He planned for them. So if you stay in The Most High’s presence, you will always please Him. Then you won’t have to fight anybody, because He’ll do it for you. Indeed, He will make your enemies your footstool (see Ps. 110:1).

MANUFACTURER’S PROGRAM TO PUT US, HIS PRODUCT, BACK INTO OUR IDEAL ENVIRONMENT.

Praise and worship are The Most High’s solutions to get us back into His presence. We must be clear, however, that praise and worship don’t put us back into The Most High’s presence; they bring The Most High’s presence to us. That is, they are but the means that provide the conditions that invite The Most High to come to us as He came to Adam and Eve in the cool of the day. They are the tools that set the stage for The Most High’s arrival.

All salvation history is the story of The Most High’s efforts to do just this: to reestablish the conditions where He can live with His people as He did in the garden. He is our Source and our Manufacturer. Therefore, He is the only One who knows both what He created us to do (our purpose) and where He designed us to succeed (our ideal environment). He is also the only One who can help us regain all that we lost through sin.

PRINCIPLES
1. Everything in life was created to function within a specific environment.
2. Man’s ideal environment is the presence of The Most High.
3. Man’s sin has separated him from his ideal environment.
4. Sinners are malfunctioning citizens. Therefore, all our problems stem from the fact that we have lost our ideal environment.
5. The Most High is holy. He cannot allow sin to enter His presence.
6. Salvation through Yeshua HaMaschiach is the only means by which we can return to The Most High’s presence.
7. Praise and worship are The Most High’s gifts to restore His presence to man.

Shema Selah  we must return to right worship of the Most High the King of the Universe!!!!

The Most High Is a The Most High of Principles!!!

Psalms 19

We are walking in today: The Most High Is a The Most High of Principles

Witness law throughout the Bible:  H2706 choq--statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due, prescribed task, prescribed portion, action prescribed

Exodus 18:16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes H2706 of God, and his laws.

The Torah testifies...............
 Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes H2706 and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

The prophets proclaim..................
 Nehemiah 9:14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, H2706 and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

The writings bear witness...........................
 2 Kings 17:37 And the statutes, H2706 and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.

Amos 2:4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, H2706 and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:


Truly, the creation of man was The Most High’s greatest production, and He described the man He had made as being “very good” (see Gen. 1:31). Sadly, what The Most High intended for man and man’s current experience are quite different. This difference is a result of man’s choice to disregard the principles that are an inherent part of The Most High’s creation.

The Most High Is a The Most High of Principles
Man’s ability to fulfill his purpose and to be all The Most High intended him to be is predicated on the requirement that he obey the principles The Most High established when He created human beings. Why is this true? The Most High is a The Most High of principles. Everything He created was established to operate by certain principles that guarantee its proper function. This pattern in creation includes human beings. We were created to operate by principles that The Most High established before He created us.

These principles or rules of operation for human beings are found throughout the Bible, although they are not always referred to as principles. They may also be referred to as The Most High’s laws, ordinances, precepts, statutes, commands, commandments, decrees, instructions, word, and ways. Although the meaning of each of these words carries a slightly different nuance from the others, they all carry within them the basic concept of a principle, which is a law that is established to preserve and protect a created thing and to assure its maximum performance. So each time these words occur in Scripture, the particular word used may be removed and the word principle may be inserted in its place. These varying words for The Most High’s principles can be clearly seen in Psalms 19 and 119:

The law [principles] of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes [principles] of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts [principles] of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands [principles] of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances [principles] of the Lord are sure and altogether righteous. They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb. By them is Your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward (Psalm 19:7-11).

Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law [principles] of the Lord. Blessed are they who keep His statutes [principles] and seek Him with all their heart. They do nothing wrong; they walk in His ways [principles]. You have laid down precepts [principles] that are to be fully obeyed. Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying Your decrees [principles]! Then I would not be put to shame when I consider all Your commands [principles]. I will praise You with an upright heart as I learn Your righteous laws [principles]. I will obey Your decrees [principles]; do not utterly forsake me. How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to Your word [principles]. I seek You with all my heart; do not let me stray from Your commands [principles]. I have hidden Your word [principles] in my heart that I might not sin against You. Praise be to You, O Lord; teach me Your decrees [principles]. With my lips I recount all the laws [principles] that come from Your mouth. I rejoice in following Your statutes [principles] as one rejoices in great riches. I meditate on Your precepts [principles] and consider Your ways [principles]. I delight in Your decrees [principles]; I will not neglect Your word [principles]. Do good to Your servant, and I will live; I will obey Your word [principles]. Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law [principles] (Psalm 119:1-18).

Shema Selah  we have to go back to the original prescription that we received from the Most High when He instructed Adam, Abraham and Moses!!! https://youtu.be/RKKY9PYrLxU