KNOW YOUR SOURCE

Psalm chapter 139






Today we are walking in: Know Your Source










Job 21:14


Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge H1847 of thy ways.




KNOWLEDGE



Today we look to the word-KNOWLEDGE- H847 da'ath--knowledge, perception, skill, discernment





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


Genesis 2:9


And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.


Exodus 31:3


And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom,and in understanding, and in knowledge, H1847 andin all manner of workmanship,


Leviticus 4:8


Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.




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


Nehemiah 10:28

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;





Isaiah 33:6


And wisdom and knowledge H1847 shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.





Jeremiah 3:15


And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.






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



Job 34:2


Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.



Psalm 119:66


Teach me good judgment and knowledge: H1847 for I have believed thy commandments.


Proverbs 1:7


The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.







Know Your Source
Your ability depends on your response to Yah’s ability.


The basic principles that apply to the potential of all things also apply to your potential. Yah, your Source/Creator, is the Definer of your potential. Because you came from Yah and share His essence and components, your value and potential are known to Him alone.


ONLY YAH KNOWS YOUR VALUE AND POTENTIAL


Throughout the history of mankind, Yah has sought to overcome the blindness that sin has brought to our lives. He watches with sadness as His creations discount their potential and doubt their worth. He cries with and for them as they stumble along, missing the many ways He affirms and confirms the valuable persons He created them to be.


The boundaries of what Yah can accomplish through you were set long before you were born. He planned your days before you had lived even one of them (see Psalm 139:16). Yah wants you to see yourself and your abilities the way He sees you. He puts great value on you and eagerly encourages each step you take toward using even a small part of your talents and abilities. Yah believes in you. The Bible has much to say about your personal worth and your unique capabilities.


Yah’s Word on Your Value


The Bible is the story of Yah’s interaction with man. It contains many promises from Yah to His people, as well as the demands Yah makes on those who would live in fellowship with Him. The Bible also reveals how Yah sees human beings and their capabilities. Yah, by sending His Son, shows us the value He places on us. His willingness to send Yahusha to die for our sins is the proof of how much we are worth.


When you go to the store to buy a product, you don’t put a value on that product. The value of the merchandise was established long before you chose to buy it. When the courtroom of the universe demanded a price for humanity, the value that was placed on the human soul was equal to the death of Yah. I didn’t say the value of the death of Yah was equal to the human soul. I said that the human soul was equal to the value of the death of Yah. In other words, Yah said, “Whatever it costs to restore the fellowship between men and women and Myself, that’s the price I will pay.” It’s not what is paid that gives value to an item, but what it costs.


It’s not what is paid that gives value to an item, but what it costs.


Do you understand how much you are worth? You are equal to the value of your Source. You are as valuable as the Yah you came from! Stop feeling bad about other people’s estimations of your value. You are special. You are worth feeling good about. Yah’s word on your potential is the only evaluation that counts. You are not what your teacher or your spouse or your children or your boss say about you. You are as valuable and capable as Yah says you are. If you are going to release your full potential, you must understand and accept the value Yah places upon you and the confidence He has in your abilities.


Yah’s Word on Your Potential


Even as Yah is the One who set your value, so too He is the only One who is qualified to determine the extent of your potential. The possibilities that lie within you are dependent upon Yah, because the potential of a thing is always determined by the source from which it came. Even as the potential of a wooden table is determined by the strength of the tree from which it was made, so your potential is determined by Yah, because you came out of Yah. Yah’s Word contains numerous statements that clearly define His evaluation of your potential.


YOU ARE IN YAH’S CLASS BECAUSE YOU ARE SPIRIT


Do you remember the process by which Yah created the world? Yah first planned what He wanted to create; then He decided what He wanted it to be made from; then He spoke to what He wanted it made from; what He spoke came forth from what He spoke to. When Yah wanted animals, for example, He spoke to the dirt because that’s what He wanted animals to be made of. Obviously, Yah did not want you and me to be made of dirt or water or the gases of the air, because He did not speak to the ground or the water or the air. He, who is Spirit, spoke to Himself:


Then Yah said, “Let Us make man in Our image...” (Genesis 1:26).


The source to which Yah spoke when He created man reveals that Yah wanted us to be like He is.


Now if we further examine the stories of man’s creation as recorded in Genesis chapters one and two, we discover that Yah used two kinds of operations when He called the world into being. He made things and He created things. The Hebrew word for “make” is asha, which means “to form out of something that is already there.” Brera, the Hebrew word for “create,” means “to form out of nothing.” It is interesting, then, that Genesis 1:26 says, “Let Us make man in Our image... ” and the following verse says, “So Yah created man in His own image...” The creation of man thus involved two different operations. Yah created man out of nothing, which is Himself, then formed man’s house from the dust of the ground. After man’s house was completed, Yah took what He had created and put it inside what He had made. Therefore, man came out of Yah and is spirit even as Yah is Spirit. The house, which is your body, will decay and return to the ground from which it came. Your spirit, which is your true essence, will live forever because spirits cannot die. You share Yah’s eternal Spirit, with all the dreams, aspirations, and desires He contains.


YOU CAN OPERATE LIKE YAH OPERATES


Yah also created us to operate like He does:
Then Yah said, “Let Us make man in Our image, in Our likeness...”
(Genesis 1:26).


The Hebrew word translated into the English word likeness means “to operate like,” not “to look like.” Yah’s original design for man requires that we function like Yah.
Adam and Eve’s fall from their initial relationship with Yah blinded them to their natural mode of operation. Since then, men and women have had difficulty figuring out how they are supposed to act. Instead of cooperating with Yah, we live in opposition to Him, following the influences of satanic forces.


How does Yah operate?


Yah operates by faith. The light in the darkness was not visible before Yah called it forth, but He believed that light was present in the darkness and, by faith, He spoke it into view. Faith isn’t a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something.
Faith isn’t a jump in the dark.
It is a walk in the light.


Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something.
Yah made and fashioned you to operate by faith. He designed you to believe the invisible into becoming visible. You may not see what Yah is calling forth from your life, but Yah asks you to believe it is there. He created you to operate like He does. If you aren’t functioning like Yah, you are malfunctioning. The manual says, “The just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17b), and “everything that does not come from faith is sin [missing the Manufacturer’s standards and expectations]” (Romans 14:23b).


YOU CAN DOMINATE, RULE, AND SUBDUE THE EARTH


Yah’s perspective on our potential also says that we have the power to dominate and subdue the earth.


Then Yah said, “Let Us make man in Our image, in Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground” (Genesis 1:26).


Now what does it mean to be a dominator of the earth? It means that the earth should not rule or control us. If you are addicted to cigarettes, you are being controlled by a leaf. If you are ruled by alcohol, you are being controlled by grain. Leaves and grain are the earth. Yah created you to dominate the earth, not the earth to dominate you. If you are being controlled by any habit, you are submitting to the very things Yah commands you to dominate.


The apostle Paul confirms Yah’s intent for man when he writes:


I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize (1 Corinthians 9:27).


He’s telling you to use your head. There are things in the earth that will rule you if you allow them to take control of your physical body. He further states this principle in First Corinthians 6:12:


“Everything is permissible for me”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”—but I will not be mastered by anything. Yah’s given you the potential to dominate the earth. You have the power to
beat whatever habit is ruling you. It’s there whether you use it or not. Your ability to release the full purpose for which Yah created you is dependent on your decision to use the potential Yah gave you to control those things that seek to entrap and subdue you. It’s up to you whether you exercise the power Yah built into you.


YOU CAN BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY


Yah gave every human being the potential to be fruitful and to reproduce after their kind.


Yah blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground (Genesis 1:28).


While it is true that Yah gave us the ability to have children, the potential Yah is talking about here is much more than the capacity to have babies. He has given men and women the potential to reproduce what they are. We are producing the next generation.


What kind of children are you producing? Yah has given you the power to influence them either for good or for evil. Will the next generation be cussing, alcoholic, illiterate people? Or will they be righteous and upright, seeking the Most High and obeying His commandments? You have the capacity to produce children that mirror your life.


YOU CAN PLAN TO DO AND BE ANYTHING


Yah has also given human beings the capacity to imagine and plan and believe anything into reality. That’s an awesome potential. The Bible reveals this power in the story of the building of the tower of Babel:


The Most High said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them” (Genesis 11:6).
In other words, Yah says, “If I don’t interfere, man will be able to do anything he thinks about and plans.”


Yah did interfere in the building of that tower, but He didn’t stop the people from thinking. He stopped them from understanding one another. You have the potential to think, to imagine, to plan, and to put your plan into action. Anything you carry through from thought to action is within your power to accomplish.


YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH IMPOSSIBILITIES


Consistent with man’s ability to make plans and bring them to completion is his power to believe impossibilities into possibilities. Yahusha said to the father of a demon-possessed boy:


Everything is possible for him who believes (Mark 9:23).
This ability is an extension of man’s potential to operate like Yah.


The Gospel of Matthew tells a story of faith in which one of Yahusha’ disciples, for a moment, accomplished the impossible. Peter, with the other disciples, was in a boat on the Sea of Galilee when Yahusha came to them, walking on the water. The disciples, thinking it was a ghost, cried out in fear. After Yahusha had identified Himself, impetuous Peter replied, “Most High, if it’s You. tell me to come to You on the water” (Matthew 14:28).


Now you and I know that the physical laws of nature should have prevented Peter from walking to Yahusha. But the laws of faith are different. When Yahusha told him to come, Peter got out of the boat and went toward Yahusha. Only when he became fearful of the wind and the waves did he begin to sink. “Immediately Yahusha reached out His hand and caught him. ‘You of little faith,’ He said, ‘why did you doubt?’” (Matthew 14:31).


If you are a man or woman of faith, you have the awesome power to operate by the laws of faith. Impossibilities become possibilities when you use this potential.


YOU CAN INFLUENCE THINGS ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN


Man’s tremendous potential also includes the capacity to influence both physical and spiritual things. This capacity is a colossal power that we seldom use. Yahusha pointed to this power when He told Peter (after Peter had confessed, “You are the Hamachiach, the Son of the living Yah” [Matthew 16:16]):


Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by My Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My Ecclesia, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven (Matthew 16:17-19).


Yahusha is encouraging us to look beyond the physical circumstances of our lives to the spiritual dimension. If you are dealing with just the physical aspects of your life, you are missing the real thing. Look beyond the problems in your job or with your spouse or in your ministry to the spiritual realities that underlie them. Say in the natural what you want to happen in the spiritual. The power to affect both realms is yours. You hold the keys to your effective participation in Yah’s Kingdom, because all authority in heaven and on earth belongs to Yahusha (see Matthew 28:18), and He has shared that power with you.


If you are dealing with just the physical aspects of your life, you are missing the real thing.


YOU CAN RECEIVE WHATEVER YOU ASK


During His time on earth, Yahusha gave His disciples a blank check. He promised them that they could receive whatever they requested.


Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours (Mark 11:24).


If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be My disciples (John 15:7-8).


Yahusha cautioned His disciples that the evidence of fruit in their lives would be the indicator that they were His disciples. He also established the key to bearing fruit as their willingness to remain in touch with Him. Insofar as you remain in touch with your Creator/Source, you have the power to ask whatever you wish and to receive what you request. That’s Yah’s promise concerning your potential. He’s waiting to give you whatever you request, so long as you sink your roots deep into His Word and allow His words to influence and direct your entire life.


YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DO GREATER WORKS THAN YAHUSHA DID


During His last days on earth, Yahusha spent much time with His disciples teaching them, praying for them, and encouraging them to live in His power. As He spoke of His return to the Father, Yahusha assured His disciples that they would continue the work He had begun because they would receive the same power they had witnessed in His ministry (see Acts 1:8).


Believe Me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask Me for anything in My name, and I will do it (John 14:11-14).


We usually measure those works in terms of the height of the water we will walk on or the number of people we will feed from a few groceries. That is, we interpret Yahusha’ words to mean that we will do more works, when that was not His intent.


Yahusha was one man in one body with the Spirit of Yah living inside Him. His ministry consisted of that which He could accomplish as one person, in a specific geographic area, at a certain point in history. After Yahusha’ death and His return to the Father, the Spirit of Yah was freed to fill millions of people, not just one. The Book of Acts tells the story of the Spirit’s outpouring on the early Church.


When Yahusha foretold that His disciples would do greater works than He had done, He was talking about the baptism of the Ruach HaQadesh and the power that outpouring would bring into their lives. If you have received Yahusha as your Savior, and the Ruach HaQadesh is operative in your life, you have the potential to share in the ministry’s commission to do greater works than Yahusha did. Therefore, the greater works did not refer to greater in quality, but in quantity and dimension. These works were no longer limited to one body or one geographical location, but became worldwide. What potential!


YOUR POTENTIAL IS DEPENDENT UPON Yah


Some people believe that Yah is afraid we’re going to take His job. When we start talking about what we’re going to do for Yah or what we’re going to dream, some people say, “You’d better not think bigger than Yah.” Well, you can never be bigger than your Source. You can’t think or plan or imagine something greater than Yah, because Yah is the source of your imagination. He leaked part of His potential into you when He pulled you out of Himself. It’s like owning a Sony video cassette recorder with multiple features. It cannot fulfill its purpose or potential until it is plugged into an electrical source. So it is for every man. We must plug into our Source.


It is imperative, then, that you understand the characteristics and qualities of Yah, as well as the provisions He has made to enable you to fulfill the purpose for which He created you. Your ability to release your potential is directly related to your knowledge of Yah and your willingness to stay within the parameters He has established for your relationship with Him.


YOU MUST KNOW THE QUALITIES AND THE NATURE OF YAH


Quality is the degree of excellence or the essence of standard that makes one product better than another. The quality of a product can be no better than the qualities of the product’s source. You can’t use rotten apples to make a delicious apple pie. The pie will reveal the decay in the apples.


The quality of a product can also be defined as the characteristic attributes or elements that determine the product’s basic nature. Those qualities arise out of the basic nature of the product’s source. Or to say it another way, those things that occur naturally in a product also occur naturally in that from which the product was made.


The standards of Yah are the standards by which your excellence is judged, because you came out of Yah. Likewise, the characteristics that describe Yah’s basic nature also describe your basic nature. If you want to know what the standards for your life are, check Yah’s standards. If you want to know what characteristics occur in you naturally, ascertain Yah’s inherent qualities. If Yah acts by a certain standard or exhibits a certain quality, that standard or quality is part of your life as well.


For example, Yah has the quality of faithfulness. Therefore, you have the ability to be faithful. Because Yah is unconditional love, you have the characteristic of love somewhere under all your hatred. Because Yah is merciful and long-suffering, you can be merciful and long-suffering. All the essential qualities that determine who Yah is and how He acts also determine who you are and how you were designed to act. Your potential is wrapped up in Yah because His qualities establish yours. Only when you understand and accept the nature and qualities of Yah can you begin to understand and accept your nature and qualities.


One of the greatest indicators of your quality and standards is expressed in Yah’s commandments. Whatever He demands of you He knows is inside you. That’s why the manual says that His “commandments are not grievous” (see 1 John 5:3).


YOU MUST KNOW YAH’S LAWS AND OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS


In the second chapter of Genesis, Yah set a law about Adam’s relationship with the trees of the garden: “.if you eat from [the tree of the knowledge of good and evil] you will surely die” (Genesis 2:17). Because of this law, Yah also gave Adam a command: “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...” (Genesis 2:16-17). When Adam disobeyed Yah, he brought upon himself the reality of the law Yah had set. He died.


Now the Book of Genesis makes it clear that Adam didn’t die physically at the moment of his disobedience. He lived to be 930 years old. Adam’s disobedience caused his spiritual death.


The death of an old tree is a good word picture to describe the nature of Adam’s death. When a large tree is blown down by a hurricane, the tree may lay there for weeks. Although the roots of the tree are torn from the ground and exposed to the air, the tree’s leaves do not turn brown as soon as the tree is brought down by the wind. The little sap that was in the roots continues to move up the trunk, out the branches and into the leaves. When the sap is gone, the leaves turn brown. But the reality of that tree’s death occurred when it fell, not when the leaves showed the evidence of its death.


Adam walked around with green leaves but no roots for many years. He was dead long before his body showed the evidence of his death. All people share Adam’s death. Unless your life becomes rerooted in Yah through the salvation offered in Yahusha Hamachiach, you are going to die an eternal death. That’s the law of Yah.


The laws of Yah are many and they carry with them natural results. His commandments are given for our good because they caution us not to disregard Yah’s laws. When Adam broke Yah’s commandment, he experienced the natural results of Yah’s law.


Obedience to Yah’s commandments brings His blessings. The 28th chapter of Deuteronomy—in the words of Moses to the children of Israel—promises Yah’s blessings for those who obey His commandments:


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


Your potential is limitless so long as you comprehend Yah’s laws and purpose in your heart to obey His commandments.


YOU MUST UNDERSTAND YAH’S POTENTIAL


Daniel 11:32 promises that “the people that know their Yah shall be strong, and do exploits” (KJV). This is true because your potential is related to Yah’s potential, and Yah is omnipotent. The combination of omni (meaning “always or all full of”) and potent (meaning “power on reserve”—from which we get the word potential) declares that Yah is always full of power. Or to say it another way, all potential is in Yah. Thus, people who understand that Yah contains all the things that He’s asking them to do are not afraid to do big things. It’s not what you know but who you know that enables you to do great things with Yah.


Yah is Yah whether you choose to use His potential or not. Your decision to live with Him or without Him does not affect who He is or what He can do. He is not diminished when you choose to replace Him with other sources. Yah still has the stuff you need to fulfill your potential.


Yah is Yah whether you choose to use His potential or not.


When you combine the knowledge of Yah’s omnipotence with the knowledge of who you are in Yah, you can resist all things that seek to overcome you and to wipe out your potential. You can be strong and do great exploits. Yah is the Source of your potential. He waits to draw from His vast store to enable you to accomplish all that He demands of you.


YOU MUST HAVE FAITH IN YAH


If I give you a tree as a gift and I tell you it is an avocado tree, you will tell every person who asks you what kind of tree is in your front yard that it’s an avocado tree. Now you haven’t picked any avocados from that tree, but you still dare to say it’s an avocado tree. Why? Because you have faith in me that the tree is what I say it is. You believe that somewhere in that tree there are many avocados. Faith is simply believing and acting on the words and integrity of another. Faith in Yah is to believe and act on what He says.


The words of Yahusha as recorded in the Gospel of Mark admonish us to have faith in Yah.


“Have faith in Yah,” Yahusha answered. “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him” (Mark 11:22- 23).


What Yahusha is really saying is, “Have the Yah kind of faith.” Don’t put your faith in your own faith or in the faith of other people or in the mountains or in anything that you expect to happen because of your faith. Put your faith in Yah, because it’s your faith in Him that will accomplish the moving of mountains. You can’t speak to the mountain and expect it to move unless you are connected to Yah. Apart from Him you don’t have the power to complete such monumental tasks.


YOU MUST STAY ATTACHED TO YAH


The Book of Colossians describes Yahusha as “the image of the invisible Yah, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible... ” (Colossians 1:1516). Hebrews 1:3 tells us that “the Son is the radiance of Yah’s glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word.” The King James Version of this verse says that Yahusha upholds all things “by the word of His power...” Not the power of His word, but the word of His power. Yah’s power is released in you when you stay alive with His word.


When Yah created plants, He called them forth from the soil, thereby establishing the law that plants must live off the soil. If a plant violates that word, it dies. Thus, Yah keeps that plant alive by the power of His word. As long as the plant abides by the law Yah set at creation, it flourishes and grows. If, however, the plant chooses to disregard that law, death is inevitable.


The same is true in our lives. By taking us out of Himself, Yah decreed that our lives must be maintained by Him. As long as we obey Yah’s requirement, His power is released within us and we know abundant life. That is why the writer to the Hebrews describes Yahusha as the “Word of Yah’s power.” There’s power in Yah’s word if we keep it. Yahusha, through His obedience unto death, released for us the power of Yah’s word that brings eternal life.


Yahusha looks at this same power from a different perspective when, in the fifteenth chapter of John, He describes Himself as the vine and His disciples as the branches. He used the word picture of the vine because it is the only plant that doesn’t have life in its branches. If you clip a branch from a rose bush or a lemon tree, plant it in the soil and give it the proper care, the branch will root and start a new plant. This is not true for the grape vine. There is no life in the branch of a vine. No matter how rich and green it looks, a branch apart from the vine will wither and die.


No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me (John 15:4).


If you cut yourself off from Yah, your potential is aborted. No matter how hard you try to plant yourself in other organizations and activities, Yah says, “You are dead.” Even if you plant yourself in religion, you are dead unless you know Yah and draw your nutrients from Him.


Our need for Yah is not an alternative or an option. Like the plants and the animals, which cannot be maintained without the soil, and the fish, which cannot live outside the water, we cannot flourish and bear fruit apart from Yah. When Yahusha says in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth and the life.,” He isn’t trying to convince us that He’s the best way. He didn’t use that word. Life rooted in Yah is a necessity. There is no option. Although you can say to a plant, “You can either stay in the soil or get out of the pot and sit on the windowsill,” the plant doesn’t really have a choice. If the plant chooses the windowsill, it will die.


There is no alternative to the soil for the plant to meet its basic needs. So it is with human beings and Yah.


If you stay within Yah’s word, His word takes root in your heart and becomes established. His power is released as you stay alive with His word. If, however, you pull yourself out of Yah, you shut down your productivity and forfeit the blessings Yah wants to give you. You become as limited as the books, people, education, etc. that are feeding your thought patterns.


Do you want joy? Go to Yah. Do you need peace? Set your roots firmly in the Word and power of Yah. Do you need help to control your temper? Spend time with Yah. Yahusha promises: “.with Yah all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26). Yah is the soil you unconditionally need.


YOU MUST COOPERATE WITH THE RUACH HAQADESH


Yah’s potential is far greater than anything we can ask Him to do. Everything that is visible came out of Yah. Everything that we yet will see is still within Him. Because we came out of Yah, that same potential is available to us. But there’s a catch. Yah’s power must be at work within us before we can tap that power.


Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the ministry and in Hamachiach Yahusha throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen (Ephesians 3:20-21).


When Yahusha told His disciples that He was going away, He promised them that the Ruach HaQadesh would come to be with them forever (see John 14:16). Moments before His ascension to Heaven, Yahusha also promised that the power of the Ruach HaQadesh (see Acts 1:8) would equip His followers to be His messengers.


Is the Ruach HaQadesh present in your life? Are you flowing in a consistent, empowering relationship that undergirds your every thought, dream, and plan? Or are you trying to do great things without the power of the Spirit?


We may see a skyscraper or a space shuttle or a fancy computer and say, “That’s something else. Man is really working here.” But the Spirit says, “That’s nothing compared to what man could do. That’s what man is doing without Me. I want you to do something people cannot do unless they have Me. I want you to build people. I have the stuff to empower you to help people build new foundations and open new windows through which to see life. I want to give you a view from the top of life so you can see the way Yah sees.” Wow! What power! That’s the power that must be working inside you if you are going to do great things for Yah.


Your cooperation with the work of the Ruach HaQadesh is the means by which Yah reveals the stuff He took from Himself and gave to you. When you are in tune with the Ruach HaQadesh, you can do things this world has never seen. The power’s there. It’s up to you whether you make the connection that releases the power. If that power isn’t working in you, your potential is being wasted.


YOU MUST USE HAMACHIACH’S STRENGTH


In Philippians 4:13 Paul says,


I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.
You cannot do all things. You can only do all things through Hamachiach, who gives you the ability. Even though you may shout to everybody, “I can do all things,” Yah is asking you, “Are you with Hamachiach?” Because if you’re not, your plans, dreams, and imaginations will amount to nothing. Without Hamachiach your efforts are futile and the result is frustration.


Romans 8:31 gives me great encouragement: “If Yah is for us, who can be against us?” Now the word for is really the Greek word with. So let’s put it this way: “If Yah is with me, who can be against me?” The implication is that if Yah has given you something to do and He is with you, nothing or no one is going to stop you from accomplishing what


Yah wants you to do. I don’t care who the person is or how much influence he has, if Yah is with you, it’s not important who is coming against you.


If you are going to release your potential, you must live each day checking out who’s with you instead of who’s against you. You may be experiencing political victimization, pressure from your boss or your spouse or your parents, or unfair treatment from your family or your employer, but these influences are not the most important factors in your life. You can spend the rest of your life fighting the many people and circumstances that come against you, or you can focus on Yah’s presence and treat them as a temporary inconvenience. If Yah is with you, those who accuse or harass you have no power over you.


This week can be a good one because your protection relies not on how much power your accusers have but on how much power Hamachiach has. Yahusha promises you peace and victory if you rely on His strength:
In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world (John 16:33).


Yah is your Source. Without a relationship with Yah through His Son Yahusha, you will forfeit your potential. If you haven’t received Yahusha as your Most High and Savior, I invite you to pray the following prayer with me in faith:


Dear Heavenly Father,


I understand and accept the truth that You are my Source and the Manufacturer of my life. I acknowledge that I need You just as the plant needs the soil from which it came. I, therefore, submit myself to Your authorized dealers, the Most High Yahusha Hamachiach and the Ruach HaQadesh, and receive forgiveness of all my sins. I accept Your promise of the Ruach HaQadesh right now and rejoice that I can be reconciled and restored to the Manufacturer of my life with the full guarantee of eternal life and the unlimited release of my potential. Thank you, Father.
In the name of Yahusha, My Most High.


PRINCIPLES


1. Yah believes in you and your abilities.


2. You are as valuable and capable as Yah says you are.


3. You have Yah’s nature and qualities.


4. You can accomplish anything that you carry through from thought to action.


5. You can’t think, plan or imagine something greater than Yah, because Yah is the Source of your imagination.


6. If you pull yourself out of Yah, you are dead. He is the soil you unconditionally need.