Fear No Fear

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

“For this reason I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand,“

Matthew 13:13

Humans have a habit. It is NOT a good habit. We discover what we perceive is a problem. We call up the people we feel are responsible (usually some sort of customer service line). We tell them our woes. We tell them we need a solution. And then… we ignore what they are saying to us about the solution that exists. That’s the bad habit. We hear, without hearing. See without seeing. What it is is that we want OUR solution. We want everything to land in OUR favour, regardless of whether it is right, fair, good, or reasonable. When the solution is clearly not what we want to hear, we raise our voices. We argue. We fight. We ‘do what we need to do’. We close our ears and we try to force whomever we are dealing with to do things OUR way. We do it with human beings. And we TRY to do it with Adonai.

We don’t want prosperity to mean we are satisfied with our situation. We want it to mean millions in the bank, nice cars, big homes, great clothes, and no work. We don’t want moving up in ministry to mean more years as a worship leader or janitor or parking lot attendant. We want to be heads of the ministry, the ones making decisions, the guides. Not the people in the trenches. We don’t want Adonai’s hand on our business to mean more work, but less work for bigger recompense. We want the check in the mail, not the chance to babysit someone’s kids. We want the tickets to the dream vacation to be won in a contest, not because of gifted and frugal financial decisions. We want to win the lottery, not save and spend only what we have on hand. It’s not that we want Adonai to enroll us in a get-rich-quick scheme, but we want to be rich and quickly. While it might be nice to get it all given to us, that doesn’t teach us discipline. And we need discipline to REMAIN affluent – whether it’s money, relationships, ministry, emotional, our portfolio, or anything.

Adonai is righteous. Jesus is pure. And Ruach HaKodesh is the clarion call pointing toward them with His nature which is also theirs. Since Ruach HaKodesh lives inside of us, His character is available to us. His Fruit (Galatians 5:22-23) is ALWAYS available to us. We have the option to take of His Fruit and use it while we are ALSO developing that Fruit ourselves through the Word – letting it transform our thinking and everything we base on that thinking (Romans 12:2). It is ONLY through a real relationship with Ruach HaKodesh that we can start doing the important thing: actively listening. Listening to what He says, repeating to Him what we THINK He said, and studying out what He said in the Word (which He NEVER contradicts). This is important because of where we are supposed to be standing.

We are NOT praying to get Adonai to do what WE want. We are bringing our requests to our Father who WILL meet our needs, KNOWS what we need, and has SOLUTIONS to ANYTHING that might come up. We are praying to bring our requests and then LISTEN so that we hear His will. We need to hear it because we are meant to align with HIM. WE are the cooperators, not Adonai. WE are the ones who need to be renewed. WE are the ones who need to humbly submit. WE change, WE move, WE adapt, WE align. We are the lesser, He is the greater. And it isn’t some despotic dictator situation. Adonai is GOD. He is CREATOR. We’re dirt. We’re the created. We are so far below, it takes JESUS and His covenant to get us up to where we are meant to be: seated with Jesus. We are the BODY, not the brains. Even a cursory investigation of His righteousness shows the absolute properness of our submitted position.

We need Ruach HaKodesh to help us. To help us hear and to help us understand. To help us take what He says and engage it in our lives. He is our guide. He is our teacher. He is our helper. He is our comforter. He is the one who can teach us to keep our mouths shut after we ask a question. He is the one who can train us in how to not jump back in. He is the one who can help us fashion our requests to be in alignment with Adonai’s will, and not an attempt to yank Him onto our track. Ruach HaKodesh is the best friend and co-worker we could hope for as we look to seek Jesus’ face and walk according to the Father’s will.

Daily Affirmation of the Goodness of Elohim: James 1:22-24

“But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at his own face in a mirror, for he looks at himself and goes away and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.”  I have been the same height since I was about seven years old – from MY point of view. Obviously there has been a shift of height. A definite difference between a child and a grown man. But I don’t see it that way because I’m not really looking at myself. I have NEVER really looked at myself. I can look down and my proportions have been the same since I was seven. Same ratio of torso to leg to arm. When I am not actively looking in a mirror (where I see the changes), I default to my inner version of me. This is exactly what happens when we don’t APPLY the Word to our lives. When we don’t seek to put into practise what we find in the Word. It is the application of the Word to our thoughts, words, and actions that triggers the renewal and rearrangement of our Selves. It’s like fertilizer on a plant. It triggers changes that would never really happen at that moment without it. But with us, they are changes that would NEVER happen without the Word. That’s why Ruach HaKodesh narrated the Word. Why He had those men write it down. So that we COULD be transformed. So that we COULD change. So that we COULD become all that Adonai wants us to be. They created a way for us to bypass our default because they knew how great we could truly become in Jesus. 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