Psalm chapter 82
Today we are walking in: The Foundation Key
Matthew 16:19
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
KEY
Today we look to the word-KEY- H4668 maphteach--key, opening instrument
The Torah testifies...............
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The prophets proclaim..................
Isaiah 22:22
And the key H4668 of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
The writings bear witness...........................
Judges 3:25
And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, H4668 and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
Chapter 5
The Foundation Key
You were created to release Yah’s potential. The source of a resource determines its potential.
Potential is determined and released by the demands made on it by its creator. These demands are based on the design and the components the manufacturer uses to create the product. Thus, when an inventor requires his invention to do something, he demands no more than the ability he built into the invention.
THE IMPACT OF SOURCE ON YOUR POTENTIAL
Yah has designed you to release and maximize your potential. But this is possible only when you are related to your Source. Why? Because the source of a product determines the components, essence, and nature of the product. Apart from its source, a product cannot know what it’s supposed to be or how it was designed to act. Yah, your Source/Creator, established before your birth who you are, how you should act, why He gave you life, and what you need to live fully and productively. Apart from Him, you will never understand or release your potential, because your potential is wrapped up in Him.
Your Source/Creator Determines Who You Are
Yah changed your name. He said, “I know you aren’t acting like My child, but you are My child. The mess you’re in is just a temporary condition. Now that your spirit and My Spirit are reconnected, I can work in you so that your behavior can catch up with your nature. Who you’ve been is not who you are.” The psalmist testifies to this reality.
[Yah] said, “You are ‘Yahs’; you are all sons of the Most High” (Psalm 82:6).
Yah doesn’t say that we are Yahs because He is trying to elevate our status. He is stating a fact. The apostle Peter, in his second letter, amplifies this concept. [Yah’s] divine power has given us everything we need for life and Yahliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires (2 Peter 1:3-4).
When Yah created human beings, He intended that we should share His divine nature. That is still His intent, even though sin has covered over that nature. Thus, Peter encourages us to live up to our divine nature, because if we operate according to Yah’s nature, we will escape all the temptations and the pressures that come against us in our daily lives. Yah designed us to be holy and good and forgiving, because they are characteristics of His nature, and we share that nature. When we reconnect with Yah, we naturally have the power to be all that He is.
Do you know what got Yahusha into trouble with the religious authorities? He was too natural! He didn’t keep all the rules and the regulations by which the Jewish leaders judged spirituality, yet He had the audacity to say, “Yah and I are tight.” Yahusha naturally lived from Yah’s perspective.
You are supposed to be naturally like your Source. Yah’s commands do not require you to live supernaturally, but naturally. If you are a Hebrew, your natural mode of operation is the same as Yah’s because you came out of Him, and the product always has the nature of its source. That’s why Yah is not impressed when you keep your body free from drugs and your mind free from impure thoughts, or when you give generously, or when you fast and pray. Yah expects you to act and think like He does because He is your Source/Creator and you are His child.
Yah’s commands do not require you to live supernaturally, but naturally.
Your Source/Creator Determines What You Can Do
What you can do is related to where you came from. Yah is serious when He says, “Without Me you can do nothing.” It’s not a matter of being spiritual, it just plain business sense. He created and made you. You came from Him. Therefore, the quality of your abilities is defined by Yah’s abilities. If you want to know what you can do, find out what Yah can do.
Yah, who is omnipotent, created you to share His potential. When He took you out of Himself, He automatically gave you the ability to be creative and imaginative. You share Yah’s potential to plan, design, and bring dreams into reality. Yah is full of more projects, ambitions, and proposals than you can imagine. He’s the Yah of the impossible. But He has tied the revelation of His potential to your dreams, aspirations, and prayers. That’s why Yah is constantly challenging you to ask Him for the impossible. The possible is no fun for Yah. He’s already done that. It’s the ideas, plans, and objectives the world hasn’t seen yet that Yah wants to do.
Yah has tied the revelation of His potential to your dreams, aspirations, and prayers.
You are the key to Yah’s creative expression. You can do anything Yah demands of you because your Creator will never demand more of you than He’s already built into you. Yah’s saying to you, “Go ahead. Imagine anything you want. There’s nothing you can imagine that I don’t already have. I need your imagination to demand it. Your potential is related to My potential, and I am omnipotent.”
Your Source/Creator Determines How You Function
Revelation is Yah’s commanding us to demand Him to do what we know no one else can do. It’s okay to ask Yah for something you’ve already seen Him do; but Yah wants to do much more than that. Yah loves faith. That’s His mode of operation. It’s also yours. Yah designed you to operate like He does. Faith is going into the realm where you demand out of Yah what’s in Him that no one has seen yet.
It’s okay to ask Yah for something you’ve already seen Him do; but Yah wants to do much more than that.
Are you in a fix no one escaped before? Do you have a problem that no one has ever resolved? Are you in a situation that completely baffles you so that you don’t know where to turn? You are the perfect candidate through which Yah can reveal His glory.
I used to walk around saying, “Well, He did it for her, so He’ll do it for me.” I don’t say that any more. I now know that Yah will do for me something He’s never done before. The richness of Yah’s potential is eternal. Nothing was created without Him.
Yah gets the glory when you make demands on Him. If you want to glorify Yah, make Him do things He hasn’t done yet. Go out on a limb and stretch your faith. That’s how He created you to function. Without faith you cannot please Yah (see Hebrews 11:6). He demands you to perform the way He does, and He operates by faith.
Your Source/Creator Determines Why You Exist
You will never know your purpose unless you figure out why Yah created you. Only Yah knows your purpose, because He determined it when He gave you life. You are not an accident. Psalm 139 describes how Yah saw your unformed body and ordained your days before you drew your first breath. He planned before you were born what He wanted you to accomplish.
The direction you need to live a satisfying and rewarding life cannot be found in your family, your teachers, your employer, your pastor, or your coworkers. They are creatures even as you are. They cannot tell you the reason you were born because they were not present when Yah put your spirit into your body. They are not privileged to Yah’s thoughts and intentions. The only way you can discover your purpose is through a relationship with the One who made you. Yah’s original desires for you shape your potential because He designed you with care to meet the demands He wants to make on you. The release of your total potential requires that you continually seek Yah as you try to understand what He had in mind when He laid out His plans for your life.
Your Source/Creator Determines the Resources You Need for Optimum Performance
Yahusha tells the story of a man who was going on a journey. Before he left home, the master called his servants to him and gave each of them a portion of his resources. When he returned, he asked each servant to give an accounting of what they had received. Although the master didn’t expect each servant to have equal resources when he returned, he did expect that they would have used and increased the property he had entrusted to them (see Matthew 25:14-30).
Yah has determined the resources you need to live a happy, productive life, because He is the only One who knows what you need to meet the demands He will place upon you. If you are constantly comparing your resources with those of other people, you will be blinded both to the richness of what Yah has entrusted to you and the tasks He wants you to accomplish using what you have. The release of your full potential demands that you examine your life carefully so you can identify both the many assets Yah has given you and the purpose for which He gave them. Yah will not entrust you with more resources until you use wisely what He’s already given you.
Yah will not entrust you with more resources until you use wisely what He’s already given you.
Your Source/Creator Determines the Conditions You
Need for Optimum Performance
Your Creator/Source is the only One who is qualified to define your optimal environment. He does so through His laws and commandments. Yah’s laws establish the elements of your ideal environment and set the necessary requirements for consistent, healthy growth. Yah’s commandments help you to maintain your environment. They serve as indicators of the state of your health and the condition of your environment. Your well-being is dependent upon your understanding of Yah’s laws and your obedience to His commandments. You can’t afford to break Yah’s commandments because disobedience brings a polluted environment, which stunts and impedes the release of your potential.
You have the potential to perform great exploits for Yah. But if you fail to maintain the environment Yah decrees, nothing will happen in your life. It doesn’t matter how much you brag about what you can do or what you would like to do, or how much you can see and dream and imagine; if Yah’s requirements aren’t met, you aren’t going to expose your true self!
Your Source/Creator Determines the Method(s) by Which You Fulfill Your
Potential (doing what you were designed to do)
Yah not only wants to share with you His plans for your life, He also wants you to understand the variety of experiences that He deems necessary for you to effectively fulfill those plans. Many people try one thing after another as they search for the meaning of their lives. They move from one job to the next, from one ministry to the next, from one town to the next, and from one spouse to the next. When the going gets a little rough, they move on to something else. They never hang in there long enough to make any progress.
Yahusha tells a story about a woman who swept her house and searched carefully until she found the coin she had lost (see Luke 15:8-10). She didn’t just sit in her chair and mourn her loss; she got up and worked until she found it. She translated her desire into a plan, and her plan into action. The release of your potential requires that you stick with something until you see it through. It’s not enough just to think about what Yah wants from your life; you have to get up and do it.
Work is the method Yah established to release His potential. The creation story tells us that Yah worked so hard creating the world that He was tired when He finished. Because you came out of Yah, work is also required of you to bring forth all the invisible jewels that lay hidden inside you. Yah established work as a priority that brings fulfillment and contentment. He designed you to work out your potential.
A LESSON FROM SONY
Sony is a Japanese company that manufactures electronics. When you buy an appliance from Sony, you will find a booklet entitled “Operating Instructions” in the top of the box. In the bag with the instruction book you will also find a small slip of paper that says, “Before disengaging or operating this machine, read these instructions carefully.” Because Sony wants you to experience the maximum enjoyment from its product, the company wants you to be thoroughly familiar with the quality and the capabilities of the machine before you use it. If you don’t read the manual first, you will never see the high quality and maximum performance that Sony built into the equipment.
The same is true of the highly sophisticated equipment Yah designed called men and women. You will never reach your optimal performance unless you first check Yah’s operating instructions. The Bible is Yah’s manual on you. You cannot operate properly until you become acquainted with everything Yah built into you.
One of the first pages in the Sony manual says “Owner’s Record” at the top. This page instructs you to locate the machine’s serial number at the rear of the tape recorder in the battery compartment and record that number in the space provided below.
The serial number of a product separates it from all other equipment of that same make and model. The day you invited Yahusha into your heart you began a journey that is uniquely yours. Your personality traits and your life experiences have influenced both that moment of decision and your life in Hamachiach since that day. No one else needed Yahusha in just the way you did. No one else can experience His presence and forgiveness in the exact way you did. Record the day you got saved in the front of your Bible. Make some notes about the difference that decision has made in your life. Then continue to check your progress by keeping a diary of your growth. Your history with Yah is unique. Keep track of your serial number.
The early pages in the book of Sony also include a list of specifications. This list details each part of the equipment and tells you what to do if a certain part needs to be replaced. These instructions always include the phrase: “If service is required, please take or send this product to an authorized dealer who will use genuine Sony parts. ”
The Bible details your specifications. Yah designed you to be filled with the Ruach HaQadesh. If you become filled with a demon spirit or some other foul spirit, you will not function in accordance with Yah’s intentions. That’s why a man without Yah is a dangerous man. He is literally insane. Even though a man’s manners may be good, if his Ruach is wrong, his behavior will eventually reflect his Ruach.
A person without Yah is dangerous.
Never confuse behavior with regeneration. Your behavior is a result of the conversion of your thinking. Regeneration is the source of that conversion. You cannot demand righteousness from an unrighteous spirit. That’s why Yah gives you his Ruach when you come back to Him. Proper behavior is impossible without the Ruach HaQadesh because your functions arise from the nature of your spirit. If you want to function by love, you have to have the Spirit who is the Source of love.
The book of Sony also contains a list of the features Sony built into the equipment. The features specified by Sony for a tape recorder might include a voice-operated recording system, an auxiliary microphone jack, a four-source power supply, and controls that determine playback speed and review functions.
Yah has created you with certain features that He has defined and clarified in His operating manual. You have a body, a soul, and a spirit. If you want to operate up to your full potential, you must carefully study how Yah designed each of these features to function. There are certain laws that govern each characteristic. If you disregard these laws, you cannot function properly.
Sony also details the precautions to be observed when you operate the equipment. These are the don’ts you must avoid if you want to enjoy the highest quality and the maximum performance from the tape recorder. The booklet may caution you not to disassemble the casing and to go to a qualified service agent if the equipment is malfunctioning. It also warns you that certain things may prevent the machine from recording.
When Yah created man, He put him in a beautiful garden and gave him authority over all that was in the garden. Then Yah gave man a precaution: “You can eat from all the trees in the garden except for this one tree. If you eat from this tree you will die.” Yah’s precaution was an act of love. He wanted to save man from the penalties of sin and death. But man violated Yah’s precaution. We are still living with the consequences of that disobedience.
If Yah gives you a precaution, don’t test it to see what will happen if you do it. Precautions always indicate the consequences of specific actions. Disobedience is always followed by the assessment of the penalty.
Finally, the operating manual describes the manufacturer’s warranty and the limitations to that warranty. The manufacturer’s warranty guarantees that you can return the product to the manufacturer for repair or replacement if the product fails during the specified warranty period. If, however, you violate the warranty limitations, Sony is no longer responsible for the equipment. You are. These limitations refer primarily to the operation, environment, and maintenance of the equipment.
Yah’s warranty includes a clause of grace. He’ll take you in your wrecked state and throw out HaSatan’s parts. Though it may take years, Yah will continue to work on your memory banks until your mind is cleaned and your life is transformed. Thank Yah for His grace. He will pay for all the costs to fix you so long as you go to the right dealer. But you can’t expect Yah to fix you if you are going to HaSatan for repair.
You can’t expect Yah to fix you if you are going to HaSatan for repair.
The last thing Sony tells you in the operating instructions is to retain the manual for future reference. In other words, don’t throw away your Bibles. You need Yah’s manual to answer the operational questions you will meet in your daily life. You can function three thousand percent better than you are now functioning, so don’t get rid of Yah’s manual. The Bible contains the answers for a fulfilling, productive life.
The omnipotent Yah is your Source/Creator. His instruction manual details the requirements, guidelines, and warnings upon which your very life depends. Yah’s life isn’t dependent on you. He’s alive without you. But your life is dependent on Him. You need Him to find true life. A relationship with Yah through Yahusha Hamachiach, His Son, is the gateway to a full and rich life. He is the foundational key to understanding and releasing your potential. Knowing Him and His intent for your life is the basis for an effective life.
PRINCIPLES
1. Yah wants you to share His divine nature.
2. You are the key to Yah’s creative expression.
3. Yah designed you to operate by faith.
4. Yah has a plan for your life.
5. You must have a relationship with your Creator to discover your purpose.
6. You have the potential to do great things for Yah.
7. Work is the method Yah established to release your potential.
8. The Bible is Yah’s manual on you.
You need to know and heed the requirements, guidelines, and warnings it contains.
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