Questor
Messianic Gentile
[SIZE=9pt]Levi, on 01 Jun 2013 - 07:20 AM, said:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]I see this heavily within my own generation and it started in public school where we are indoctrinated into a progressive mindset (more like progressive sin). What seems natural is in complete conflict with what the Bible has to say. I find it difficult to stay focused on the ways of God, it takes great effort.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Indeed it does, Levi, particularly if you rub shoulders with all the worldly ones a great deal. One thing that can help is to separate yourself from those that will not consider Yah’shua. Bad company is a great trial to us all, not because we don’t want to help all those around us that seem lost, but because preaching the Gospel in words is not received at all well, and their company is oppressive to us. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Instead, you must walk out your witness…not saying what Yah’shua would have them do, but hearing in your own heart each day what the Spirit leads you to do in loving kindness for all the lost ones around you. The greatest kindness you can do is to walk the straight and narrow as quietly, calmly, and confidently as you can, praying for help whenever you feel like you cannot do it. Yah’shua will enable you to pick yourself up every time you fall, and in His mercy and Grace, He is not concerned that you cannot learn to be perfect all in one day, or year, or decade, or indeed, until you are in the incorruptible new body we will one day have.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]You can pray for His intervention, to help you by changing you, because you cannot change yourself. He will surely do so, bit by bit.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]And you can worship Him, in song and words under your breath, disturbing no one but pouring out your heart to our Adonai, for with worship of Yah’shua comes much favor and grace simply within the worship…your heart is lightened, and your way made just a little easier because you are meeting the difficulties of the day in an attitude of valuing Yah’shua no matter what you are having trouble with.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]The other thing you can do to help yourself, is to pray for those around you as you would pray for yourself, sowing words of intervention that those around you might receive grace and favor, and be called to Yah’shua, for that which you sow, you will reap.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Levi, doing all of this is not immediately learned…you need to make notes, and look at them several times a day, and practice them…I set alarms on my cell phone so I am reminded many times a day, and put more on my computer task scheduler.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Once you have the habit of stopping for a moment to praise the Lord and ask Yah’shua for help, it simply snowballs from there, getting easier and easier. And the more you pray for those around you, and for yourself, the more your prayers are answered. The more you praise Him under your breath, repeating the praises of Adonai in word and song, the better you will feel, and the easier your way will be made by the one you praise. And the best praise of Yah’shua is thanking Him for what He did for you, thanking Him, for every little detail and pleasure of your life, for every gift and tender mercy you see and enjoy,for every pleasure and comfort, until all your day is one long, softly sung or stated prayer.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Due to this strong delusion how do we know for sure we ourselves are not deluded? Or the people we see as wise, how do we know they aren't deluded, too?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Check your Bible...always, check your Bible. If what you have heard or seen does not match up with Scripture, then you must turn away from it. Be very wary, for this is already a problem, and will get worse and worse. Read and memorise the Scriptures...it is your best protection, for the Ruach haKodesh will bring up the words in times of trouble, and remind you of what you have read. And if you feel a definite 'I don't want to!' in the pit of your stomach about any secular matter, that is the Holy One saying Beware! And when it comes to what you are 'taught' in school, you must offset it with the truth...real history in real, non-school books is the only way you will learn any truth. The media, and all the big Blogs are all propaganda, so balance American propaganda with European, Middle Eastern, Russian and Asian propaganda...only then can you get at any of the truth. And never believe what you are told until you have checked out the truth for yourself...the Internet is great for fact checking, and you have your Bible and the Holy Spirit to guide your in all other things.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Levi, on 01 Jun 2013 - 07:33 AM, said:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]How do we know we are experiencing an eternal type of life?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]We do not experience eternity now, Levi, but we do experience the connection that we have with the Holy Spirit, and with practice in listening, and asking Yah'shua for help through the Holy Spirit when we are feeling confused or lost, we are comforted. In this, also, the Psalms in the Scripture, and songs and worship can very quickly get us turned in the right way, and walking as we should. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Do you mean signs and wonders?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]There is little need for the miraculous in day to day living with Yah'shua as your Savior, and Yah'shua himself said that signs are sought for by an evil and adulterous (spiritually) generation. But Signs and Wonders you will receive in due time, for the Holy Spirit is being poured out on Believers in larger and larger measures as we approach the return of Yah'shua. It isn't something to seek, exactly, and seems oddly tame when they occur...so impossible, and yet so real. Often it's a lot like watching a video happening in the middle of the air where there can be no such thing! For us, the idea of seeing and hearing a 'Virtual' world is not foreign, but it scared the Prophets to death! Demon attacks are on your mind, and sometimes on your electronics, but they can do you no harm...just trick and confuse you. When confused, sing praises, or read your Bible...works every time![/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Seek the face of YHVH, and His desires for you, not His hand, and His blessings will cascade over you, spiritually and physically.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Christ does overcome sin.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Yah'shua does more than overcome sin...He became all of our sins, and rottenness, our sickening deceit, and petty hatreds, our whiny, dirty, miserable human selves that we might be pure and righteous in Him. It is done, once and for all, and YHVH has promised to remember our sins no more. Certainly we continue to sin...we cannot avoid it, only lessen it with the help of the Holy One, but because of Yah'shua, we receive mercy, and grace, and all blessing, now, and in the Kingdom., and YHVH refuses to see our sin anymore. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]We are YHVH's children, and to be schooled and disciplined to make us better, but no longer punished, not even by yourself. Above all, when you ask forgiveness for blowing it again, forgive yourself as well, out loud! We are no longer under condemnation, and should not feel it, except momentarily when we do blow it. Then Yah'shua's mercy flows over us, and we exist in a constantly renewed state of forgiveness.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]The Holy Spirit in us helps us to guard our minds and hearts against the lure of sin, and we gradually leave off doing a great deal of it, but we are not condemned by it anymore, because we are under Grace, and not Law. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]What Law there is, is that of Yah'shua, and is more than all of the Mosaic covenant, because it is not just what we do, but what we think and feel as well that is being changed because of the Law of Love being written on our hearts and minds. It does not mean more laws to keep, but keeping all of YHVH's desire for our behavior first. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]It is a long time of learning...do not beat yourself up for what you have not yet overcome...Yah'shua has begun a work in you that He will finish. Anything you hate about yourself, or others, merely ask Him to change it, and He will, perhaps not at once, for He does different things in different orders for everyone as He see's the need, but it will get changed, and one day you will find yourself astonished that somehow you stopped doing something that you hated yourself for doing.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]We cannot change ourselves…Only Yah’shua through the Holy Spirit can do so.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Q[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]I see this heavily within my own generation and it started in public school where we are indoctrinated into a progressive mindset (more like progressive sin). What seems natural is in complete conflict with what the Bible has to say. I find it difficult to stay focused on the ways of God, it takes great effort.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Indeed it does, Levi, particularly if you rub shoulders with all the worldly ones a great deal. One thing that can help is to separate yourself from those that will not consider Yah’shua. Bad company is a great trial to us all, not because we don’t want to help all those around us that seem lost, but because preaching the Gospel in words is not received at all well, and their company is oppressive to us. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Instead, you must walk out your witness…not saying what Yah’shua would have them do, but hearing in your own heart each day what the Spirit leads you to do in loving kindness for all the lost ones around you. The greatest kindness you can do is to walk the straight and narrow as quietly, calmly, and confidently as you can, praying for help whenever you feel like you cannot do it. Yah’shua will enable you to pick yourself up every time you fall, and in His mercy and Grace, He is not concerned that you cannot learn to be perfect all in one day, or year, or decade, or indeed, until you are in the incorruptible new body we will one day have.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]You can pray for His intervention, to help you by changing you, because you cannot change yourself. He will surely do so, bit by bit.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]And you can worship Him, in song and words under your breath, disturbing no one but pouring out your heart to our Adonai, for with worship of Yah’shua comes much favor and grace simply within the worship…your heart is lightened, and your way made just a little easier because you are meeting the difficulties of the day in an attitude of valuing Yah’shua no matter what you are having trouble with.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]The other thing you can do to help yourself, is to pray for those around you as you would pray for yourself, sowing words of intervention that those around you might receive grace and favor, and be called to Yah’shua, for that which you sow, you will reap.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Levi, doing all of this is not immediately learned…you need to make notes, and look at them several times a day, and practice them…I set alarms on my cell phone so I am reminded many times a day, and put more on my computer task scheduler.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Once you have the habit of stopping for a moment to praise the Lord and ask Yah’shua for help, it simply snowballs from there, getting easier and easier. And the more you pray for those around you, and for yourself, the more your prayers are answered. The more you praise Him under your breath, repeating the praises of Adonai in word and song, the better you will feel, and the easier your way will be made by the one you praise. And the best praise of Yah’shua is thanking Him for what He did for you, thanking Him, for every little detail and pleasure of your life, for every gift and tender mercy you see and enjoy,for every pleasure and comfort, until all your day is one long, softly sung or stated prayer.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Due to this strong delusion how do we know for sure we ourselves are not deluded? Or the people we see as wise, how do we know they aren't deluded, too?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Check your Bible...always, check your Bible. If what you have heard or seen does not match up with Scripture, then you must turn away from it. Be very wary, for this is already a problem, and will get worse and worse. Read and memorise the Scriptures...it is your best protection, for the Ruach haKodesh will bring up the words in times of trouble, and remind you of what you have read. And if you feel a definite 'I don't want to!' in the pit of your stomach about any secular matter, that is the Holy One saying Beware! And when it comes to what you are 'taught' in school, you must offset it with the truth...real history in real, non-school books is the only way you will learn any truth. The media, and all the big Blogs are all propaganda, so balance American propaganda with European, Middle Eastern, Russian and Asian propaganda...only then can you get at any of the truth. And never believe what you are told until you have checked out the truth for yourself...the Internet is great for fact checking, and you have your Bible and the Holy Spirit to guide your in all other things.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Levi, on 01 Jun 2013 - 07:33 AM, said:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]How do we know we are experiencing an eternal type of life?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]We do not experience eternity now, Levi, but we do experience the connection that we have with the Holy Spirit, and with practice in listening, and asking Yah'shua for help through the Holy Spirit when we are feeling confused or lost, we are comforted. In this, also, the Psalms in the Scripture, and songs and worship can very quickly get us turned in the right way, and walking as we should. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Do you mean signs and wonders?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]There is little need for the miraculous in day to day living with Yah'shua as your Savior, and Yah'shua himself said that signs are sought for by an evil and adulterous (spiritually) generation. But Signs and Wonders you will receive in due time, for the Holy Spirit is being poured out on Believers in larger and larger measures as we approach the return of Yah'shua. It isn't something to seek, exactly, and seems oddly tame when they occur...so impossible, and yet so real. Often it's a lot like watching a video happening in the middle of the air where there can be no such thing! For us, the idea of seeing and hearing a 'Virtual' world is not foreign, but it scared the Prophets to death! Demon attacks are on your mind, and sometimes on your electronics, but they can do you no harm...just trick and confuse you. When confused, sing praises, or read your Bible...works every time![/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Seek the face of YHVH, and His desires for you, not His hand, and His blessings will cascade over you, spiritually and physically.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Christ does overcome sin.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Yah'shua does more than overcome sin...He became all of our sins, and rottenness, our sickening deceit, and petty hatreds, our whiny, dirty, miserable human selves that we might be pure and righteous in Him. It is done, once and for all, and YHVH has promised to remember our sins no more. Certainly we continue to sin...we cannot avoid it, only lessen it with the help of the Holy One, but because of Yah'shua, we receive mercy, and grace, and all blessing, now, and in the Kingdom., and YHVH refuses to see our sin anymore. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]We are YHVH's children, and to be schooled and disciplined to make us better, but no longer punished, not even by yourself. Above all, when you ask forgiveness for blowing it again, forgive yourself as well, out loud! We are no longer under condemnation, and should not feel it, except momentarily when we do blow it. Then Yah'shua's mercy flows over us, and we exist in a constantly renewed state of forgiveness.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]The Holy Spirit in us helps us to guard our minds and hearts against the lure of sin, and we gradually leave off doing a great deal of it, but we are not condemned by it anymore, because we are under Grace, and not Law. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]What Law there is, is that of Yah'shua, and is more than all of the Mosaic covenant, because it is not just what we do, but what we think and feel as well that is being changed because of the Law of Love being written on our hearts and minds. It does not mean more laws to keep, but keeping all of YHVH's desire for our behavior first. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]It is a long time of learning...do not beat yourself up for what you have not yet overcome...Yah'shua has begun a work in you that He will finish. Anything you hate about yourself, or others, merely ask Him to change it, and He will, perhaps not at once, for He does different things in different orders for everyone as He see's the need, but it will get changed, and one day you will find yourself astonished that somehow you stopped doing something that you hated yourself for doing.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]We cannot change ourselves…Only Yah’shua through the Holy Spirit can do so.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Q[/SIZE]
