Fear No Fear

(All scripture from Lexham English Bible, Copyright 2012 Logos Bible Software)

who satisfies your life with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Psalm 103:5

Solomon knew the principle of how to be satisfied. “A person of blessing will be enriched, and he who gives water also will be refreshed” (Proverbs 11:25). the Complete Jewish Bible translates it as: “The person who blesses others will prosper; he who satisfies others will be satisfied himself.” Which is the RESULT of having a heart of gratitude toward Adonai. We get satisfied with good. Thanksgiving, then, is all about BLESSING. Us blessing Adonai and Adonai blessing us. Adonai really is a GOOD God and cannot HELP but want to share Himself with us. The thing is, WE have no idea what is truly on the menu. We don’t REALISE what is possible with Adonai. That is one of the reasons He set up this idea of service. It isn’t only meant to showcase the possibilities of being humble (something we ALL need). One of the other things it does is show us what WE can have in Him.

Imagine being a server at a restaurant. It’s your first day. You’ve learned the menu, but you’re still a little shaky on it. You know the specials for the day. You can handle things if they don’t get too crazy. Your first customer shows up and you go to take their order. They order something you’ve never even HEARD of. You check with the kitchen and yes, they CAN make it and you DO sell it. This happens every time this customer comes in. Again and again. Soon you have a second menu in your heard made up of DOZENS and DOZENS of things you had never heard of and didn’t know were possible to order. It not only makes YOUR mealtimes at the restaurant more interesting, you start recommending things to other customers. Everything opens up and the possibilities are near-endless. That’s what thanksgiving is like.

True worship isn’t the singing. It isn’t the words of praise. It isn’t even the attitude of praise. True worship is when we have a submitted spirit, we LISTEN, and then we APPLY what Adonai says to us. True worship is conforming to who He is. It is changing OUR thinking into HIS thinking. True worship is about transformation. We get there because we have taken the time to prepare our hearts with the praise, the singing, the words acknowledging who He is and what He is. Think about Jesus’ prayer (Matthew 6:9-13). Jesus acknowledged who His Father was, worshipped His name, submitted to His will, thanked Him for needs met, asked for guidance, and acknowledged the Father’s Way was the ONLY Way to have a life of real success. Eighty percent of the prayer was worship, ten percent was asking – but asking for what the FATHER deemed as our needs, and then ten percent was agreeing to comply with the Father’s thinking. The percentages are broad estimates, but you can see the balance of praise to asking to obedience.

We will be satisfied with what we know is possible. You cannot be satisfied with a full fridge of groceries if you don’t know it’s possible. You cannot be satisfied with a new vehicle if you do not know it’s possible. If all you know is scraps and used vehicles, that is all you will look for and all you will be satisfied with. There will be no hunger for anything more because you don’t know it is available. What’s the stereotype for successful advertising? You watch an ad and declare ‘that’s the thing I never knew I always wanted’. We can have a vague sense that there is more to life. More available. But if we never see it, we will never KNOW it. If we don’t KNOW it, we cannot be satisfied with it. Part of thanksgiving is learning that we CAN BE RENEWED even as we go. Like eagles.

One of the great lies of religious thinking is that you have to take off your meat suit to get satisfied in Adonai. That you need to be walking the streets of Heaven before you are truly blessed. That down here we lose, up there we win. It’s horrible thinking that robs you of everything that is available to you in and through Jesus. Don’t mistake me. There is a fullness and completeness we CANNOT reach until all parts of us are transformed into glory (spirit, soul, AND body). Our spirit is transformed right now into what it will always be (Ephesians 1:3). When we begin to draw on what it has access to, we start to see it operate in our lives here. That’s the battle of the soul (mind, personality, and heart). That’s the territory where we need to pull down the devil’s strongholds and put up Jesus’ Word. Our bodies are made of fallen material and will always go with the easiest, laziest, most selfish path. The habits of broken thinking. But Ruach HaKodesh renews this body from the inside out (2 Corinthians 4:16). The Father gives it life (Romans 8:11). We are not subject to the same ‘rules’ we were when we were lost. We are a NEW CREATURE, one third Ruach HaKodesh! We get NEW attitudes, NEW thinking, and NEW possibilities (Ephesians 4:23). We won’t reach the end of that process until we’re before the Throne or Jesus comes back, but we are on the journey RIGHT NOW.

“By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as that one is, so also are we in this world” (1 John 4:17). If we don’t know what is available to us, we will not be thankful for it. We will not have a heart full of gratitude for it. We won’t be seeking it. We won’t be hungry for it. We’ll coast along with the bare minimum with substandard feathers which are getting older by the day and impacting our ability to fly and function as we should. We need to get our eyes on what is possible in Jesus, study it out, and get the Word about it inside ourselves. We need to have Ruach HaKodesh remind us about it. Get ourselves stirred up under His guidance. Get excited and eager. Get hopeful expectation surging through our minds and bodies. Seek the renewal that He says is possible, and be GRATEFUL that it is available and that it WILL come to pass.

When we get really excited, we can’t HELP but praise Adonai. When I look around my home at all the things we have, all the opportunities that have come our way, and even that we are here in this place, I feel a surge of gratitude toward Adonai about it. Look what Jesus has done! I have NOTHING He didn’t bring my way. And we’re not done! We’ll get into a better and better position. When this stuff and this place is ready to bless someone else, we’re moving up to the next step. It’s a continual process and we’re excited to be a part of it. I can’t think about that without praising Adonai. Who KNOWS what I will be shown tomorrow. Or the next day. Or the next. As I renew my thinking with His Word (Romans 12:2) there is NO LIMIT to the possibilities available. Adonai is MORE THAN ENOUGH in every aspect of my life. I am grateful for Him and for what He does and for the future He’ll show me. Aren’t you? Get into the Word and start seeing it. The BLESSING of Adonai is an amazing thing. The covenant we get to be a part of is an amazing thing. Only Adonai could have done this! Praise Him for it. Ask Ruach HaKodesh to remind you of all Jesus has said about you in the Word. As you see more and more of the menu that is available to you, praise Him for each and every item. Get renewed. Piece by piece. Day by day. Get renewed.

Daily Affirmation of the Goodness of Elohim: 2 Corinthians 3:18

“And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory into glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” We all have the ability and the covenant right to see who we are able to become in Jesus. It is like looking in a mirror and seeing what Adonai sees. This is the glory of Adonai that is living inside us. See the grace He has given us. See what we can become through Jesus. It isn’t far off. It’s RIGHT THERE. We have the covenant RIGHT to transform from who we were to the glory of Adonai in Messiah Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21). But to see it, we need to turn the lights on. A mirror is NO GOOD in the dark. We can pray to help us turn the lights on (Ephesians 1:18). We can shine the Word on it to turn the lights on (Romans 12:2). We CAN look at that mirror (James 1:23) because Jesus put it there and Ruach HaKodesh holds it up. We can see the glory of Him in us, and through that transformational experience, the world around us will start to see Him in us as well (Philippians 1:6). We’ll start to glow with His glory and shine like lights in the darkness (Matthew 5:14). WE won’t be glorified, but JESUS will be glorified as people see His glory written all over our faces, actions, and words. When we become more and more like Him. He will draw them to Himself and we get to cooperate with that process. Isn’t that awesome? What a GOOD God!

Your Daily Confession of Elohim’s Goodness:

I taste and see that Yahweh is good; I am blessed because I take refuge in Him.

Psalm 34:8