Fear No Fear

(All scripture from the NET, netbible.org, all rights reserved)

“Indeed, a time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the Lord. “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the Lord. “I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people. People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the Lord. “For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”
Jeremiah 31:31-34 (emphasis added)

We are inside of the New Covenant. These are not days that we’re looking forward to. These are not days that we are waiting for. Adonai is writing His Word into our hearts and our minds. Our sins have been washed away and forgotten as if they never existed in the first place. We have not yet come to the FULLNESS of this promise – because WE are not Israel. The PRINCIPLE of the promise is what we walk in. Ruach HaKodesh is on us and stays on us. Jesus lives inside us. We have the Word in us in ways the Old Covenant looked forward to, but never saw with their own eyes (1 Peter 1:10-12). This New Covenant came first to the Jews, and then to the Gentiles. We (all believers whether Jew or Gentile) get to LIVE in these days. We get to EXPERIENCE these days. We will get to witness the total fulfilment of this promise with the Nation of Israel when it comes. THAT will be a day to see! Imagine what the Jews, the Children of Elohim, will be as a complete and whole NATION walking out this promise. While we wait for that day, we get to live ours. As we live, we must remember to forget.

Elohim is a God who CHOSES to forget. He is under no requirement to. I mean, nothing we do really affects Him. He is above us and beyond us in Heaven. He is not here physically on this Earth in the same way we are. He is SPIRIT and we have FLESH bodies. But scripture clearly teaches that He blots out sin and forgets it. The Law He gave Moses teaches it through the shadow and type of sacrifice. Why does He do it? “I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake; your sins I do not remember” (Isaiah 43:25). Yahweh HATES sin. “Certainly you are not a God who approves of evil; evil people cannot dwell with you” (Psalm 5:4). The eyes of Adonai see everything that happens any and everywhere (Proverbs 5:21-23). He is TOTALLY and ABSOLUTELY righteous (Psalm 145:17). He does not WANT to see sin. When we get saved, we are washed clean. So that HE does not have to see the sin that Jesus paid the price for, He removes them from His memory. He CHOOSES to separate sin so far from us that He forgets that sin He removes (Psalms 103:11-13).

Why is it that WE don’t make that same choice? “He heals the brokenhearted, and bandages their wounds” (Psalm 147:3). If He can heal our hearts, He can heal our minds and memories. Since He can physically heal us with ZERO evidence that we were in ANY way injured, there is NOTHING to make me think that He can’t do the same with our minds, memories, and/or hearts. I mean, He is either the God who Heals (Exodus 15:26) or not. If He is, then He can. “So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away—look, what is new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17). All things old have passed away and a NEW thing has been done in Jesus. This doesn’t mean we will have blanks in our memory. It means that we might memories with no sadness to them. No trauma or pain to them. And in some cases, yes, we won’t remember the things themselves. This doesn’t mean they’ll be buried, waiting to do damage to us like landmines. They will be hidden in Jesus, unable to harm, unable to inspire sadness, unable to cause depression, anxiety, or trauma of any kind in any form – mental, emotional, or physical. It is POSSIBLE for us to be completely new.

This can go as far as we are willing to let Him go. It does NOT have to stop in the mental realm. Remember, Adonai has FORGOTTEN the confessed and repented sin in your life. You are SAVED. The old you is GONE. Why do you WANT to remember the way things were? What I mean by that is this: do you want to remember how to be sick? What if ‘flu season’ comes, and you don’t remember it? What if you go through the entire period (which the world puts between October and May in North America) and DON’T get sick? What if you choose not to catch a cold? What if you choose to leave it alone this year? What if you choose to FORGET how to do it? Everything we do is about words mixed with trust and belief. If we believe we can catch a cold or a flu, if we trust the world which tells us that it is likely, then we WILL get one. It will be inevitable. But what if we forget how?

I used to throw up. I haven’t done it in years upon years. I am honestly not sure if I would remember how. Years ago when I was busy living life my way and putting Adonai in a tiny little box for church days only, I was not a nice person. I had moments, but I was fundamentally flawed. Lied a lot. Let myself get programmed by things a lot. Tended toward cheating on people. Not necessarily in big ways, but even in little ones – same infraction and just as serious, though I wouldn’t believe it at the time. But still. A cheater at heart. Loyalty didn’t much matter. Faithfulness didn’t much matter. It’s different today. I have forgotten HOW to cheat. It isn’t on the landscape. I can’t get through a dream that includes cheating. I’ll wake up quoting the Word on it. I’ll turn away from people in the dream and go another way. I have FORGOTTEN how to do the bad thing. It is ONLY because Adonai has put FAITHFULNESS before my eyes. Adonai has put FAITHFULNESS in my heart. The Word has changed me for the better as a person. It has removed things that shouldn’t be there. It has altered my internal landscape. Is there any reason at all that I shouldn’t expand that to the rest of my life?

Why can’t I forget how to swear? How to drink? How to cheat? How to get sick? How to be diseased? How to have all those symptoms? Why do I have to remember all of that? I didn’t know that in the beginning of my life. I didn’t know what ‘sick’ was. I had to be told that what I was experiencing was sickness. I had to be told that if I went out in the rain in the wrong clothes I would catch a cold. I had to be told that if I didn’t take care of myself I would be run down. I didn’t know those things. When I hit school, I had to be taught what science believed about sickness, germs, contagion, and the rest. It wasn’t intuitive (my test scores will attest to that), but I learned it. What if I had had a different dialogue? What if I had been told science wasn’t the final word? What if I had been told that the fallen world ran by one set of rules, but the Kingdom of Elohim ran by superior rules? That my trust in the Word could engage His promises in my life? What if I had – from an early age – learned that the Word trumped reality. That if I was willing to believe, trust in, and meditate upon the promises in the Word that I qualified for, I could have them in my life? I say ‘qualified’ because the promises of Adonai require me to be humbly submitted. It isn’t difficult, but if I am throwing a screaming fit about the lordship in my life I will hardly qualify for the Blessing of Adonai. Those in active rebellion won’t have the victory because they are busy slapping the hand away that holds the Blessing. But if I am humbly submitted and actively engaged with Him, why WOULDN’T I have these things in my life?

We need to remember we are new creations by forgetting the old rules. They don’t HAVE to apply to me. Jesus is actively and actually living within my body as if it was a coat He had on. If HE has no sickness in HIM, then I have no room for sickness in ME because that is where HE is. I don’t HAVE to submit to rules about contagion and carrying. I don’t HAVE to have sickness on me or in me. I can be a beacon of divine health in the face of natural outbreaks. I can be that source of health for others as well. Jesus was. He touched lepers and brought purity. He made eyeballs. He was there for Ruach HaKodesh to flow through. Legs were strengthened. Hearing was restored. Demonic influence fled. We can do those same works if we have the same humble submission He had (John 14:12). We can FORGET to be sick. We can FORGET to be anxious. We can FORGET to be depressed. We can FORGET to have cancer. We can FORGET it all. Be like Jesus. He’s forgotten it. We can too. Forget it. Don’t remember it. Fill that place with the Word and it won’t get a chance to get back in again!

Daily Affirmation Jesus IS Messiah: Isaiah 63:1-3

“Who is this who comes from Edom, dressed in bright red, coming from Bozrah? Who is this one wearing royal attire, who marches confidently because of his great strength? It is I, the one who announces vindication, and who is able to deliver!” Why are your clothes red? Why do you look like someone who has stomped on grapes in a vat? I have stomped grapes in the winepress all by myself; no one from the nations joined me. I stomped on them in my anger; I trampled them down in my rage. Their juice splashed on my garments, and stained all my clothes.” Messiah would be a vesture (clothing) dipped in blood. When Adam and Eve fell, they needed clothes. They needed to be covered. We were also sinners by our nature. We needed to be covered. Messiah would come to be those clothes. To be that covering. To be the garment dipped in blood for us all. “He is dressed in clothing dipped in blood, and he is called the Word of God” (Revelation 19:13). Who is the Word? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God” (John 1:1). “Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory—the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father” (John 1:14). Jesus was the Word become flesh. Jesus IS the Word. Jesus died, saturated with our guilty blood and shedding His for us. Jesus IS Messiah!

Your Daily Confession of Jesus/Yeshua’s Identity:

Yeshua is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Matthew 16:16b