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There Won't Be Anything Normal About It

4/19/2020

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Once again we find ourselves on the journey between the Spring feasts, from Passover to Shavu'ot (Pentecost).  Every year during this time I am reminded what these 50 days are to be about.  Even as this Passover was a totally unique, God-ordained time of each family being in their own household, applying the blood of the lamb to the door posts, so now we begin the "wilderness journey" like the Israelites.  They left Egypt and life as they knew it.  We have left life as we knew it in America too. The similarities continue to bubble up in my spirit.

So, what was the purpose of the wilderness journey - that long trek on the way to the Promised Land ?  God had one very important, vital purpose for taking His people on such a long, difficult road and it is explained simply in Deuteronomy 8:2: Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

Again I see the parallel He is making right now in our journey between Passover and Pentecost.  Still prevented from experiencing life as we knew it in "Egypt," we are trying to find our way through this strange wilderness time and God is humbling us and testing us in order to know what is in our hearts.  We are not talking here about getting a Covid 19 test! We are talking about our attitudes. Do we REALLY want to go back to the "normal" we knew before this virus changed everything?  Or could we use this time to examine our hearts and truly find what needs to change?  Perhaps we can peer back into the past to see what things and activities were highest on our priority list. To what were we giving our valuable time and energy? Did it really matter? Or have we found something more meaningful in this lock-down time?  Maybe you're finding precious time with your family at the dinner table, that was never possible before.  Maybe, in the stillness, your spirit is yearning to know who God really is and you've found yourself drawn to worship you are seeing online.  Maybe your marriage is healing because you have some time to give one another.

He is testing our hearts to see whether or not we would keep His commands. And when we truly search out His commands, we can find (in Romans 13:10), that the "sum of the Torah is Love."  I wrote a song about that a number of years ago, when I was studying the Torah and my heart was so impassioned to learn how to walk as my Messiah walked. I was trying to make it really complicated, but then He showed me, through His Word, that if we REALLY approached every person and every situation with a Godly love, we wouldn't need the commandments. If you loved God with all your heart, and put no other gods before Him, would you steal or kill or commit adultery or lie?

We must not waste this 50-day wilderness journey.  We must not long to "go back to normal, " but rather look with great joy and anticipation for the fulfillment of Pentecost, when the people are filled with a supernatural outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the Bride is made ready for her Bridegroom.  And then, even after that, keep your eyes looking up, for beyond these tests, these birth pains, there IS a birth coming -- the birth OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD!  That won't be back to "normal," my friends. There won't be anything normal about it. 
Matthew 24:29-31:
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

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Will He Find Faith on the Earth?

4/15/2020

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Led by Holy Spirit, I am re-posting a blog I wrote in June of 2017. It seems even more timely now.

"...when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?"  Luke 18:8

This question that Yeshua presented to His disciples has been ruminating in my spirit for days now.  I believe it came to me when listening to several recent accounts of terrorism in Middle Eastern countries where Muslim terrorists killed Christians after they refused to speak the faith statement of Islam, thus renouncing their faith in Yeshua. They did not stutter, they did not hesitate. They refused boldly, immediately. And they were killed boldly and immediately.

Perhaps Yeshua is challenging His disciples to think about the kind of faith that will be needed on the earth when it causes their lives to be taken.  In the verses just prior to His question He says, "...will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night? Will He keep putting them off? I tell you, He will see that they get justice and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?"  Luke 18:7-8

This Scripture is all about the persistent widow who pestered the judge, asking for justice against her adversary. Even the earthly, unjust judge finally gives in and grants her request for justice, since he is weary of her bothering him.  So Yeshua makes the point that God, the Righteous Judge, will bring about perfect justice for His "chosen ones who cry out to Him day and night."

So, we may be thinking, "What kind of justice was this, Lord, when they held fast to their faith in you and then got their heads cut off?"  Let us follow it through. What happened when they refused the false creed of Islam? I tell you that what happened is that our God saw that they got justice and quickly...as He carried their spirits immediately to Himself!  In the moment that they professed true faith, they were with the Lord of Faith.

In Hebrew the word faith is emunah. This Hebrew word is defined not only as faith, but also as steadfast, established, stable. Jonathan Cahn wrote, "The more faith you have, the more steady and the more established you become."  True faith establishes us on the Rock of Yeshua, who is immovable.

Yeshua is telling us in Luke 18 that we should be like the widow, crying out to Him day and night.  You may be thinking, "Yes, I've been crying out to Him day and night for a long time, but it doesn't seem like He's hearing me."  What you are missing is that the consistent communication you have with the Lord is building relationship, trust, and faith.  You are never bothering God! As you continue to speak to Him and cry out to Him, He is writing your name and your faith in His Book of Life.  We don't cry out to one we cannot trust. We cry out, trusting that His timing and His understanding of all things in our life is perfect and complete. We cry out, believing that when it matters most, He will see that we get justice and quickly!

Pray for faith that makes you steady, strong and established in Messiah. Then if you come to a day where your faith is challenged and your life threatened by your adversary, you will not hesitate and you will not fear. You will remember your Righteous Judge who will see that you get justice and quickly!
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