The Fruit of the Spirit

Matthew 7:20-27

²⁰Therefore, by their fruits ye shall know them.

 ²¹"Not every one that saith unto Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that doeth the will of My Father who is in Heaven.
   
 <sup>22</sup>Many will say to Me in that Day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name, and in Thy name have cast out devils, and in Thy name done many wonderful works?'
   
 ²³And then will I profess unto them, `I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.'
   
 ²⁴"Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon a rock.
   
 ²⁵And the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.
   
 ²⁶And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;
   
 ²⁷and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell, and great was the fall of it.

 I think James 1:22-25 fits well with Yahshua's words here as well,

²²But be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
   
 ²³For if any be a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror;
   
 ²⁴for he beholdeth himself, and then goeth his way and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
   
 ²⁵But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

 Galatians 5:16-26

¹⁶This I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
   
 ¹⁷For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
   
 ¹⁸But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
   
 ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
   
 ²⁰idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, quarreling, rivalry, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
   
 ²¹envying, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like. About these things I tell you again, as I have also told you in times past, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
   
 ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
   
 ²³meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
   
 ²⁴And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts.
   
 ²⁵If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
   
 ²⁶Let us not be desirous of vainglory, provoking one another and envying one another.

I'm reading a little booklet called, From the Inside/Out  What is Manifesting? by Henry W. Wright.
It is a good book full of hard things to hear, but in a good way because it leaves you wanting to change and not just live life in the same ole rut you have been for the past decade!  It is encouraging and facilitates change!  It shows how to become an overcomer instead of being defeated.
You cannot be defeated if you are loving someone.  You cannot be defeated if you have faith.  You cannot be defeated if you have gentleness, goodness, and temperance.  You cannot be defeated, and the promise of God is that He will defend you because you have become like Him.
We are either manifesting the kingdom of God or the kingdom of Satan, we can not manifest both at the same time.  I KNOW that there are times, sometimes DAYS even that I manifest the kingdom of Satan!  And I feel horrible...which gives me a bit of hope because I think that there are two types of people, those who fall and are convicted about it and those who fall, but are not convicted because their hearts are hardened.  I pray I will always be the first type of person!

The Feasts and Sabbath, do you know what they are?

As I study the Tenach (Old Testament) as well as the Brit Chadashah (New Testament), I see very plainly how off track mankind has become in reference to the days we celebrate. And it grieves me when Christians get very defensive about their holidays, saying, "Well that's not what it means to me.." or "We are redeeming these days for the Lord"...
Let me just dive right in for a minute and ask a question.  Is it important to obey Yahweh and seek out how HE wants us to worship Him? or is it more important to follow what the church teaches regardless of what Scripture says? 
I Samuel 15:23 says, "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.  Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king."When you know to do the truth, but do not do it, you are in idolatry of yourself because you have set yourself and what you think as higher than the thoughts of the living God who has spoken.  When you overthrow and reject what God has said, after you have known the truth, then you are in self-idolatry.  When you know to do the truth, but do not do it, you have set yourself as a god against the true and living God.
When I found out that it DOES matter to Yahweh that we keep the Sabbath,  I started to make changes right away, and although I'm not perfect or keep the Sabbath perfectly.  I'm trying, and I'm taking one step at a time to worship Him the way He has asked me to in His Torah.  Once I read this point blank in God's Word, I could not turn my back on it and say, "Well, *I* worship Him on Sunday because it's more convenient for me and that's the way the church does it." I have yet to find any Scripture verse that hands the authority over to the church to change God's Word.  And I am responsible for my own personal obedience to Yahweh.  All by myself will I have to answer to Him on Judgment day for all the times I was a hearer and not a doer of His Word, James 1:22 "But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."  Yikes!  This keeps me in a constant state of repentance to be quite honest.  sigh.


 
The other thing I'd like to address, is that Yahweh didn't ask us to redeem pagan holidays either.  He asked us to avoid even learning about them!  Take Easter and Christmas, they are more wrapped up in paganism than they are in anything that has to do with Yahweh! For example, Christians have tried to relate the Easter egg to the trinity (which I have yet to find in the Holy Scriptures...), ummm, isn't this just taking the pagan holiday rituals and trying to worship Elohim in the same way? This is called an abomination!! 
Deut. 12:30-32

³⁰take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before thee, and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, `How did these nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise.'
   
 ³¹Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hateth have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.
   
 ³²"What thing soever I command you, observe to do it. Thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it.

Yahweh, thankfully is full of grace and mercy, Grace being God's divine influence on the human heart and Mercy being the measure of time it takes to understand what Yahweh is teaching us.
He has been watching us pass these pagan traditions on down to our children for thousands of years now...how long will He continue? When will we see the truth? When will His children search His Word and change their ways to mirror His? When will we realize that all those "laws" in the Torah are for our GOOD and not our DEMISE?!  John 14:21,

He that hath My commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me; and he that loveth Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him.

It can't get any better than that!!  Do I think we should keep His commandments with a grudge? NO!  We should only keep them if we are doing it because we love Him!  Keeping His commandments shows Yahweh that we love Him and want to worship Him the way He has told us to in Leviticus!  This should not be a hard thing to do, but something that causes us to have joy.

I want to challenge you to search the Scriptures for yourself and enjoy the Feasts of the Lord instead of the pagan holidays.  You will find that they are so fulfilling!  Set up your nativity scenes and celebrate the birth of Yahshua during the Feast of Tabernacles this year!

What's in a Name?

I've been thinking lots about how important names are.  Mostly, I've been thinking about my Creator's name.  Do you know what it is?  It's YHVH, how do you say this?  Yod Hey Vav Hey...orYahweh.  God is not his name, that's who He is.  Lord is not His name, that's simply a title.  Interestingly Jesus isn't His name either! WHAT???  I know, that's what I thought too!  So I hope this brings into understanding that I'm not totally out to lunch for wanting to use my Savior's real name, Yahshua.  I honestly have no idea why the Christian church has taken out His name from most of the Bible and use the words Lord, Jesus, or God, this makes me sad to be perfectly honest.
  Here is a quote from someone on facebook that I thought made a lot of sense.

If you think the name isn't important, test that theory on your 'significant other'. In moments of love or passion, call them whatever you feel like and see what reaction you get. They'll know who you are talking to as you will be the only ones there. See how that works out for you. If they don't like it, imagine how HE feels.

Names aren't ...translated, they are transliterated. In Japan, they call me Mark, not a Japanese word.

If my name was Mr. White and I went to Spain, they would NOT call me Senior Blanco, they would call me Senior White. And everyone there would know I had an English name that means blanco.

Conversely, if my name was Senior Blanco and I came to America, y'all would NOT call me Mr. White. You would call me Mr. Blanco, though most of you wouldn't know (or care) what that means.

I find it interesting that 'they' didn't find it necessary to translate the evil one's name or a host of other vile or evil ideas or objects. The distortion seems oddly focused on pure and holy words.

It has recently been brought to my attention that YHWH didn't create the world with thought (although HE most certainly could have). HE used words to create. When we profane the words, we are profaning a tool HE created.

When we didn't know, we were forgiven, just like the children that we are. Once the truth is revealed to us, we no longer have an excuse only reasons. If those reasons are 'we didn't care' or 'we didn't feel it was important', I don't think that hand is gonna play out too well when HE returns.  by Mark Robbins

Some Prayers we are learning!

While learning about the Passover, we have decided to learn a few Hebrew prayers!  I absolutely LOVE the sound of the Hebrew language and am practicing lots to try to get the "ch" sound down pat...lol  I have a nasty speech impediment and can not do foreign languages very well...LOL  mind you I speak English quite fine, the "speech impediment" is only present when trying to roll my "r's" or making the "ch" sound as in "bach"...sigh...Anyhow, the first prayer we are learning is this one.

Before our meals:
Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha'olam,
hamotzi lechem min ha'aretz.

Which means, Thank You, God, for the blessing of bread and for the meal we will now enjoy together.

After our meals:
We are also learning this one.
Baruch Atah Adonai, hazan et hakol.

Which means, Thank You, God, Who provides our food.  Help us to share what we have, and to care for those who are hungry.

Now I'm no scholar, and I'm confused as to how such a short sentence in Hebrew can say all of that in English..sigh.  Perhaps, the English translation is the general gist of what the Hebrew words say...I WILL learn Hebrew...sigh...it's just very slow going!
I'm now off to youtube to find some of these prayers and see if they are in song format as we memorize better in song! lol
Shabbat Shalom!

Fear and Ignorance...

A Daring Prayer...

Some ramblings and a heavy heart....

So many thoughts rambling through this ole head of mine lately...which is almost too much to bear right now as I manage the house on my own with Jamie in Yellowknife for a month...we're only on day 6.  The kids all got nasty colds the day Jamie left, then I found out that Shyla and I have lice...sigh...so now that I'm behind in housework due to cuddling littles with snotty noses and spending hours picking through Shyla's hair and "trying" to pick through mine...my brain won't shut off long enough for me to try to focus on any one thing constructive.

It would be nice to be magic every once and awhile...however, I CAN at least think while doing housework, I just might forget what I'm doing though and start a whole bunch of jobs and not finish anything! sigh...
I'm going a little crazy without my man too right now...he is SUCH a stress reliever...just being able to talk with him about different thoughts and how he's been having the same thoughts, but our thoughts come from different sources usually...mine from Scripture and his from Alex Jones....lol  well at least we're mostly on the same page! haha

I've been really frustrated lately with how blind I've been in the past and how my lack of Bible reading kept me blinded.  Yes, I used to be one of those Christians that just listened to the weekly portion of Scripture and then man's idea of what it all means, and to be quite honest, people can totally misinterpret the Bible so easily just by reading it from a Greek mindset instead of a Hebrew mindset in which it was written!  It's astonishing how much more Paul's letters are making sense, when I read them from a Hebrew point of view and also taking into account the culture of that time as well!  Getting out from under man's doctrine has been the best thing I could have ever done.  I am forever grateful for being raised with the knowledge I DO have of the Bible...but sad that it's so steeped in tradition.



I respect this man as a true prophet.  He doesn't aim to please man but share what is on Yahweh's heart.  The music is annoying...but the message is awesome!