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How committed are you?

My one goal in 2024 is to hear FATHER more clearly and fully submit to whatever HE instructs me to do in all areas.

Wisdom wrote in Proverbs chapter 3:

5  Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;

6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil.

8 It will be health to your flesh, And strength to your bones.

9 Honor the LORD with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase;

10 Then every dimension of your life will overflow with blessings from an uncontainable source of inner joy!

In other Words: Trust in the Lord completely, and do not rely on your own opinions. With all your heart rely on HIM to guide you, and HE will lead you in every decision you make. Become intimate with HIM in whatever you do, and HE will lead you wherever you go.

Who else are you willing to totally trust in all areas of your life?

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1^st Thessalonians chapter 5:

23  Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

24 He who calls you is faithful, Who also will do it.

I keep this passage on my screen panel and is the first Scripture I see in the morning.

You can copy and paste this image and personalize your screen as well.

To whom will you listen on a daily basis?

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 10:

8  But what does it say? “The Word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):

9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Words are vital! 

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 11:

3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word (rēma) of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

The word rēma means: that which is or has been uttered by the living voice, thing spoken, word; any sound produced by the voice and having definite meaning;

speech, discourse; what one has said; a series of words joined together into a sentence (a declaration of one’s mind made in words); an utterance; a saying of any sort as a message, a narrative concerning some occurrence.

FATHER spoke the world into existence.

11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.

13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”

14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “LORD, who has believed our report?”

17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word (rēma) of God.

18 But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: “Their sound has gone out to all the earth, And their words to the ends of the world.”

19 But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.”

20 But Isaiah is very bold and says: “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.”

21 But to Israel he says: “All day long I have stretched out My hands To a disobedient and contrary people.”

Israel rejected “hearing” the rēma of GOD for their hearts were dull of hearing.  Why?  They wanted to do what was in their own hearts rather than submit to what was in FATHER’S Heart for them.

It is written by THE SPIRIT in Ezekiel chapter 12:

1  The word of YAHWEH was revealed to me:

2 “Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes, but they will not see; they have ears, but they will not hear because they are bent on rebellion.  TPT

They were contentious, rebellious, contrary, and disobedient toward GOD.  They chose to go their own way.

The key to becoming a fully mature Son or Daughter is to improve our ability to hear the Word (rēma) FATHER is speaking to us individually… and obey it.  How do we increase the clarity of our ears to hear?  The more we obey HIS Word, the greater the clarity.

How do we know if we are hearing HIM?  The rēma Word will be confirmed by the Scriptures, or logos Word.  I found that I must be quiet and tune out the world in order to improve my ability to listen to HIM.  If you bombard your ears with worldly sounds, you will become dull of hearing.  Have you ever noticed that pop music concerts are extremely loud?  They want to appeal to your soul.

We have a choice to whose voice we listen to on a daily basis.

What did Enoch, Noah, and Abraham have in common?

David recorded by THE SPIRIT in Psalm chapter 34:

1  I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make its boast in the LORD; The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

3 Oh, magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His Name together.

4 I sought the LORD, and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears.

5 They looked (nāḇaṭ) to Him and were radiant, And their faces were not ashamed.

6 This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.

7 The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him, And delivers them.

8 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

9 Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.

10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

The Hebrew word nāḇaṭ means: to look, regard, to focus on, to dwell on intently, show regard to, pay attention to, consider.

If we are distracted by the world, we cannot seriously nāḇaṭ THE LORD!  Enoch did not have the Old Testament or the New Testament to read the logos Word.

Moses recorded by THE SPIRIT in Genesis chapter 5:

21  Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah.

22 After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.

23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

The name “Enoch” means “dedicated”.  The following provides a timeline:

Notice that Enoch lived during Adam’s lifetime.  Enoch would have heard stories of Adam walking with GOD during the cool of the day.  Enoch heard the rhema Word and dedicated himself to do the same.  He was sixty-five when he began to walk with GOD.

In Genesis chapter 6:

8  But Noah found grace in the Eyes of the LORD.

9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

Though Noah was born after Enoch’s departure, his grandfather would have told him the stories of his great grandfather, Enoch.  Noah chose to walk uprightly as well.  Noah was a Godly man of integrity, without fault in his generation, and he lived close to God.

Abraham was born two years after the death of Noah.  However, Shem would have told Abraham about Noah’s life as well as the details of the flood.

In Genesis chapter 12:

1  Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you.

2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

4 So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Abraham had committed himself to THE LORD as well.  In response, THE LORD spoke to him and directed his life in a similar way to that of Enoch and Noah.

The commonality of all three was a relationship with Our Heavenly Father.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 4:

1  What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh?

2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

As you and I look up and focus on our relationship with FATHER, Jesus, and The Holy Spirit, our relationship will grow.  Focusing solely on the Covenant without the relationship, we will miss the point… and the blessing.

It is all about relationship!

Is FATHER only interested in having dominion over your spirit?

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 12:

1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, Holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

FATHER wants our bodies as well as our souls!  HE sees it as our reasonable service, and if it weren’t possible, HE would not have expressed it.  Further, it is our responsibility to take action, not be passive about it.

Paul also wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1^st Thessalonians chapter 5:

23  Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

24 He Who calls you is faithful, Who also will do it.

Are we to omit our bodies when we agree to FATHER’S dominion over us?  FATHER does not just want 1/3 or 2/3’s of our being, HE wants ALL of us to represent HIM here on earth.  A mature Son or Daughter should purpose to be complete in every area without exception.  This is my quest.

Moses recorded by THE SPIRIT in Exodus chapter 34:

29  Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.

30 So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

31 Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them.

32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them as commandments all that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

34 But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded.

35 And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.

If Moses physically manifested the Glory of GOD on his face, why can’t we?  Remember, he had killed a man in his earlier years, yet he was still able to come before The LORD and walk in a temporary glorified physical state.

Mark recorded by The Holy Spirit in his Gospel Mark chapter 9:

2  Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them.

3 His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

4 And Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

5 Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”-

6 because he did not know what to say, for they were greatly afraid.

7 And a cloud came and overshadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!”

8 Suddenly, when they had looked around, they saw no one anymore, but only Jesus with themselves.

9 Now as they came down from the mountain, He commanded them that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

Jesus is our Example.  He was transfigured BEFORE He went to the cross.  Was He not subject to like passions as we are?  Even His clothes emanated the Glory.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Philippians chapter 2:

5  Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

6 Who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.

8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the Name which is above every name,

Jesus is Our Example, even in His example of glorification while on the earth.  Think about it!

Giving appropriate Honor to GOD and parents is the key to opening the promise of a long life!

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Ephesians chapter 6:

1  Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”

In Exodus 20:12, the fifth commandment of the ten commandments tells us to:

Honor (kabad) your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

This is the only command that carries a blessing with it. It is a command that contains the key that opens the door to a secure life in the Promised Land. And that key is ‘honor’.

We see this when we look at the pictographic meaning of the individual letters of the Hebrew word כבד kabad, and how together they illustrate the Hebrew concept of ‘honor’.

כבד Kabad has three letters:

כ kaf illustrating an open hand – meaning power or strength

ב bet illustrates a house, and is used throughout Hebrew to mean ‘in’ or ‘inside’, and

ד dalet illustrates a door

When put together a picture is formed that illustrates the concept of honor being the strength or power that opens the door.

There are steps to “ENTER INTO THE PROMISED LAND”:

Honoring is the fifth of the Ten Commandments. The first four commandments define a process that brings us to the Promised Land, or God’s Kingdom life. This fifth one shows how we can remain in it securely.

To enter into the Kingdom Life we must first hear the Voice of God calling us, this is defined in the First Commandment. He reaches out and reveals Himself to us as our God – the One Who has released us from our bondage to sin.

We respond to Him when we act according to the second command, where we forsake all others and declare our loyalty to Him – that He is Our God. By being in an intentional relationship with Him we experience His faithfulness towards us, and we come to trust Him. We trust His Nature, and as we trust His Name, we no longer take it in vain – so we are keeping the third commandment.

These first three commandments are a process of transformation that leads us into the fourth commandment – the sabbath rest. Our old nature is put to death, not by our own work but that of Christ in us. As we bear His Image we cease from our own labor and enter into His rest – as it is not our work that conquers sin, but His… and He has already overcome. This is what it means to keep the Sabbath Day holy.

It is at this point that, having entered into His rest, that we enter into His Kingdom Life. By submitting ourselves to Him as our Lord and King we will express a new way of living. And this new way starts with ‘honor’.

So, what is ‘honor’?

Firstly, it is not simply obedience, and it is also not Love. This is particularly striking, as nowhere in God’s word are we specifically commanded to Love our parents – although the Bible does tell us to Love our neighbor, the stranger, and God Himself.  We are however commanded to honor them.

Honor implies a recognition of authority, and is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as:

High respect, or great esteem, and

The quality of knowing and doing what is morally right.

The Hebrew word that is used for ‘honor’ is כבד kabad and it literally means ‘heavy’.

Now this may sound a little strange. However, in ancient times value and weight were connected. A simple illustration of this would be the ancient monetary unit, the shekel – the heavier the coin the higher its value.

So when we say ‘honor’ is ‘heavy’ we say that ‘honor’ is ‘value’

But the way in which the word כבד kabad is used in the fifth commandment implies that we are to do more than simply ‘honor’ or  ‘value’ our parents.

כבד Kabad is written in a form that does not just mean ‘heavy’, but rather to ‘make heavy’.

We are therefore commanded to ‘give value’ or to ‘give honor’. It is therefore not a passive act, but one which requires expression.

With this foundation in place, honoring our parents is witnessing of the respect that we have for God, and the recognition of His authority. It is respecting our source of life.

Honoring our parents starts with honoring God, and when we do so, God promises that:

1^st Samuel 2:30 Those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

This is the foundation of life, and is the key to securing the blessing that is contained in the fifth commandment. It is how we secure possession of the Promised Land.

When we give honor we express value – we identify what it is that we treasure.

Jesus tells us that where our treasure is, that is where our heart will be (Matthew 6:19).

Yes, parents are imperfect yet FATHER selected them to bring you forth into this world.