By

Yves Perriard http://www.healingallnations.org/

In this rather long article, I would like to show you that periods of involuntary isolation are usually divided into 4 stages. It can be helpful to precisely identify them, so that we have hope and perspective of what we should feel and do.

1) Stripping and breaking

We are typically led into desert times by surprise, or by...

progressive shocks that get us deeper and deeper down into what seems like "the valley of the shadow of death". Positions, possessions or securities are usually lost in a way that we never expected, such that shame, anger and confusion are feelings which are not uncommon at this early stage. There can be various painful means that force us to enter desert times: a severe sickness... the loss of someone or a secure job, or even persecution...

One way that makes it particularly painful and confusing is after we did something righteous, we end up being treated unfairly. For instance we wanted to improve things within our church, our job or our family, and we end up being criticized, misunderstood or even rejected.  Moses, for example, tried to do something for God and he got "rewarded" with the unfair treatment of being led into a long desert time.  The same happened to Elijah after he spoke to Ahab, as well as Joseph when he shared his dream.

2) Struggling to find God and ourselves

The second phase determines whether we simply have a life crisis that will eventually pass, or we have entered a desert time.

The way to find out is through the following 3 signs:

1 - The first one is that after spending enough time to forcefully change our situation, with every possible wisdom and discipline, we eventually realize that we are "stuck". Nothing has really changed, and we have absolutely no perspective of when it will ever finish. We have been put aside, isolated, most people cannot really relate to what is happening to us, and our professional situation is definitively not what we had chosen. Worse, we start to have this nagging feeling that God Himself had a plan to bring us into this dry and isolate place where no one will want to join us (isn't that what deserts are?). As it is written: "the Spirit led Jesus into the desert" (Matt. 4:1).

2 - The second sign of a desert is that we are being tested in how we see ourselves. For instance, the three times that Jesus was tempted in the desert always had to do with his identity ("if you are truly the Son of God...."). The reason that we go through an identity crisis is that before we entered our desert time, our whole person was tied and shaped by an environment and responsibility; once those have been removed, we have a hard time to know who we are.

3 - The third and most evident characteristic that we have entered a desert time is the confusing feeling that God is somehow silent.

He does not seem to hear our prayers, and worse, we cannot really recognize His familiar voice. In the worst cases, some Christians start to even battle with the emotions of loneliness, depression and "spiritual cynicism" that are so very precisely described in the third chapter of Lamentations:

"I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. God has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light; indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long. He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones. He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead. He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains. Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer. He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked. Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding, he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help. He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows. He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver. I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long. He has filled me with bitter herbs and sated me with gall. He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust. I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. So I say, "My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord." I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me."

Of course, the primary reason that we cannot HEAR God is that we cannot SEE ourselves clearly. Since we do not know any more who we really are, we cannot hear God in the same way as before, such that He seems to be silent. In other words, because our identity is being changed, so is the way in which we perceive God.

During that confusing period, many Christians are forced to ask

themselves: "What has God really created me for? Who am I now that no one recognizes me any more for what I used to be?" In essence, we struggle with the following question: "Who am I now that I have no past and no future, and how much God means to me in all this?"

3) Finding genuine intimacy and peace with God

There comes a point when eventually our mourning and bitterness must cease. We can either keep on with the depressive feelings of the second phase, or we can cry out to God until we find enduring peace and real intimacy with Him. We cannot remove ourselves from the desert, but we can choose our attitude in it.

This, in turn, determines how long we will stay in it.  For instance, most Israelites were meant to go through a short time of wilderness after Egypt, but because they chose idolatry, bitterness and unbelief, their desert became a long process of 40 years and most of them never entered the Promised Land. Deserts are not meant to kill us spiritually, but to prepare us for a better stage in life. They cannot be shortened, but our attitude can make them longer.

This is when we must choose to seek God with a different attitude.

This is the kind of situation where we have absolutely no other choice. Either God is nowhere, or God is now here! We desperately need God, and a quick fix through Him will not do it.

However long it may take, we must press on through surrender, prayer, worship, fasting or whatever "breakthrough" that works for us, until we finally start to perceive His voice and find real peace. 

Now, it is very important that if we are going to seek God, we seek him with the right motivations. Often, even unconsciously, we pursue Him for the following 2 wrong reasons:

1 - The first wrong motivation is to seek Him so that He gives us a precise plan of action of what to do for Him. The reason is that unconsciously we want to do something so at to redefine our lost identity. In itself there is nothing wrong to build our self-esteem through some activity, but there is a danger that we miss the whole point of the desert. During such times God wants us to slow down, take a lot of time in prayer and discover who we really are as we discover who He really is. At this point in our lives, our being matters more than all our doing. God wants to transform the way we see ourselves through Him. He does this by revealing all the prideful and egocentric motivations we had in our "former life", to show us that He does not see us through our jobs, our positions or even through all the people we loved. In the desert, God does not see us as "the prince of Egypt", as "the preferred son of Jacob", or as "the prophet of Israel". He sees us as we really are - sinners who do not need to prove ourselves to Him or to others.

At the same time, we are not just sinners, but dearly beloved children of His, who have a priceless value to Him. The more we understand this paradox of our identity, the deeper we are being transformed. It is precisely because in desert we have nothing to show for ourselves that we can understand our true value before God. It is a time when our self-esteem cannot be defined by our accomplishments, and therefore we must find it in our intimacy with God.

2 - The second wrong motivation we have in seeking God may be the fact that we seek more temporal and earthly answers than God Himself. Unconsciously, we seek Him to get back the job, the house, the mate, the ministry or the situation that we have lost.

Now, there is nothing wrong with seeking such blessings, but there is always a danger that they become more important than God Himself. Idolatry is never a danger with bad things, but with good ones. We get so much blessed by God that we forget Him and become self-centered and self-deceived. Desert times are meant to bring us back to seek God just for Himself, beyond all that He can give us: the Giver is more important than all His gifts.

When a human being has reached the point that God's presence matters more than all other blessings, pleasure and securities in this life, then such a person is truly blessed. This is why Christians who have endured long times of prison with God usually come out with an authority, a peace and a love that cannot be explained in human terms. This is why God allows even his best people to be thrown in prisons. From time to time the reset button of isolation-desert times needs to be pushed, so that we see life through the Giver rather than through His gifts.

The most obvious sign that we are "successfully" going through the third stage is the sense of peace and surrender that characterizes us. If we can genuinely say to God: "however long you want me to stay in that unchangeable situation, I trust you and praise you for this, because your presence matters more than anything else in my life", than peace will certainly rule in our hearts.

Another sign is that we become transparent and humble. We do not have any more to prove ourselves to anyone.

Another encouraging sign is the miraculous favor of God for our physical needs as we learn to supernaturally depend on God. For instance, Jesus was served by the angels and Elijah was fed by the ravens.

Directly related to this is the ability to walk in the supernatural.

Joseph became an expert at giving interpretation of dreams, Moses had his burning bush experience and miraculous signs, and Elijah was raising the dead and multiplying flour and oil.

4) Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and patiently exiting.

At the beginning of this final stage, God usually gives us some signs in advance that our situation will end, in order to encourage us. It can be a supernatural revelation, a dream or an intuition that shows us that things will take a different turn, or it can be through people or conditions that give us a clear confirmation of what is already in our hearts. Usually, if we have fully surrendered and not put false hopes in people or circumstances (as we used to do in the early stages of our desert times), then we can recognize God's voice for ourselves. It is very important in this final phase that we keep on with the same attitude of trust and peace that we had in the third stage, by not forcing out the final outcome. Often, when we see the light at the end of the tunnel, we can be tempted to speed up the final process, instead of having the patience to wait on God. He has the perfect timing, and sometimes this final stage of the whole process may take longer than we hoped.

The reason we do not have to speed up things is that desert times usually finish with dramatic turn-around: After 14 years the slave Joseph becomes prime minister overnight; after 40 years the long forgotten Moses suddenly comes back and within days two nations are completely shaken; after 3-4 years Elijah radically revolutionizes everything in one day at Mt Carmel; after 30 years, Jesus, who is not known before, ends up his desert and starts his ministry with a spectacular demonstration of miraculous power.

God may keep us a long time in the waiting, but when He moves, it is fast and with power!

The way I described each sequence may not be as "extreme" for some of us, but they still include the following characteristics:

Summary of the 4 phases:

In the first phase, we are progressively or suddenly being removed from our secure environment and role.

This leads us in the second phase in which we experience some "dark night of the soul" as we struggle to find God and our real identity through Him.

The third phase begins by a desperate seeking of God until we finally find surrender, peace and genuine intimacy with God.

In the final stage, we receive early on encouraging signs that the whole process of isolation will eventually finish.

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For many years I have battled with an issue that few believers understand and one that those who do have some revelation on generally understand incorrectly – the matter of harmony versus division and hindrance in a spiritual house, primarily with reference to the one-flesh house between a man and his woman or women.

The principle applies to any man and his woman {wife} or women {wives}.  It is used by Satanists and those not following Yah to great positive effect and it is obstructed by the forces of darkness in those who believe in Yah to great negative effect.

I continue to be contacted by men who have a revelation of the true names, the true Sabbath, the true nature of the book {bible}, the true nature of Yahooshua {Jesus}, etc and who are in desperate financial straits.

This article is directed primarily at you.  If you are really seeking to serve Yah AND are in great financial lack this article is for you.

One of the verses believers love to quote is Matthew 18:19 "Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven." KJV

This agreement is generally taken as a casual "We agree? Right?" sort of thing along the lines of "we agree so that settles it, Yah must do it".

Fact is that is NOT what the word translated "agree" means.

The word translated agree is, in fact, the Greek word "sumphoneo" which is also the source word for "symphony", see below:

AGREE, AGREEMENT

A. Verbs.

1. sumphoneo (‎sumfwne/w‎, NT:4856), lit., "to sound together" (sun, "together," phone, "a sound"), i. e., "to be in accord, primarily of musical instruments," is used in the NT of the "agreement" (a) of persons concerning a matter, Matt 18:19; 20:2,13; Acts 5:9; (b) of the writers of Scripture, Acts 15:15; (c) of things that are said to be congruous in their nature, Luke 5:36.

Note: Cf. sumphonesis, "concord," 2 Cor 6:15,#, and sumphonia, "music," Luke 15:25. from Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words, Copyright © 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers.

Sumphoneo captures a concept of two people who agree absolutely about something who pray the SAME prayer, to the same tune (heart attitude), with the same words, in harmonized key – in other words a prayer that RESONATES with Yah because of the DEEP ALIGNMENT of those praying and which therefore move Yah to action.

This sort of concerted, harmonized prayer by two people very seldom occurs.

This passage has a particular bearing on the prayers of a single house, a man and the woman or women that are one-flesh with him.

Before discussing this in detail I must stress that you should read the article some months ago relating to the one-flesh bond and resolve all illegal one-flesh bonds, pray for cutting off of one-flesh bonds with ex-husbands and ex-wives or lovers, etc bearing in mind that the cutting of a one-flesh bond is an act of Grace by Yah and the prayer will ONLY be granted if it is viewed as legal in the Court of Heaven.

While a man has one-flesh bonds with women who are not rightly in covenant with him or where he is joined to a woman who has one-flesh bonds with other men the principles addressed in this article in terms of harmony will NOT WORK – but the divided house WILL work.

Clean up your one-flesh house first, then seek harmony within the resulting clean and righteous one-flesh house.

The opposite of harmony is division.

In Mark 3:25 it is written "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." KJV

Notice the absolute word "cannot", it is not about maybe it is about CANNOT.

So, IF you have dealt with all your inappropriate one flesh bonds AND you have dealt with all major sin, which means that your teaching {doctrine} is right in all major areas, specifically relating to compliance with the Ten Commandments AND if you are working hard and marketing hard and you are industrious and produce quality work and there is still no money then the last place to look is "a house divided against itself CANNOT stand".

After eighteen years of experience with this and eighteen years observation and revelation of it I have to state categorically that if you are a man joined to one or more women AND you have really dealt with all external one-flesh bonds AND all major sin then it is almost certain (with a certainty Yah says of greater than 98%) that your woman or women are NOT in harmony with you.

Thus you need to understand what "harmony / symphony" is and you need to do whatever you need to do to achieve harmony in your house on a sustainable basis.  As long as you fail in this endeavour you will be in lack – it is as simple as that!

Conversely if / when your woman or women come into harmony with you you WILL PROSPER – the shift can be dramatic and nearly instant.  On one occasion, as I was learning about this, within 24 hours of an illegal one-flesh bond being cut I obtained an order worth US$61,000 that had been eluding me for nearly a year!

Note that in this age amongst those whose roots are in Christianity it is virtually impossible for more than one woman to be in harmony with one man.  I have tried it, Yah asked me to covenant with seven women and it nearly destroyed me until I eventually asked to be released from that assignment and from those women and to be permitted to enter into monogamy.

Even in monogamy harmony is NOT EASY!

It requires considerable concerted effort and that will be the primary focus of the remainder of this article – harmony in a monogamous union.

It is vital to understand that harmony and division are a powerful factor BEYOND SIN!

What do I mean by beyond sin?

I mean that even if you have dealt with all sin in your house and there is NO OTHER BASIS for the forces of darkness to keep you in lack, keep you from Yah's promises, etc you will STILL be in lack if your house is divided.

Furthermore, harmony and division operate BEYOND FAITH!

What do I mean by beyond faith?

I mean that even if you both have GREAT FAITH, have a deep revelation of Yah's provision, that He WILL supply ALL your need according to HIS riches in Glory by the anointing that was upon Yahooshua (the anointing on you) and your house is divided you will STILL be in lack.

Conversely, if you have real resonating aligned harmony and you are in DEEP SIN, are serving Satan and have NO FAITH you will still prosper!

This factor is intensely powerful!

The phenomenon of sumphoneo or harmony has a spiritual dimension to it, a dimension which in my experience is "as hard as concrete" AND which is immediately visible in the spirit realm.

A man and woman who are in sumphoneo will, in the spirit have their spirits perfectly lined up next to one another pointing in exactly the same direction, singing exactly the same tune with the same words to a harmonized beat – they will be resonating together in a way that the entire spirit realm can see – like two magnets perfectly lined up together so that they magnify the magnetic field around them in an exponential way – the phenomenon of "one can put a thousand to flight but two can put ten thousand to flight" (as opposed to "two can put two thousand to flight") will be immediately apparent.

Thus, a man and woman can THINK they are aligned but the spirit realm can see the truth.

A woman who is pulling in a direction different to her man will be seen in the spirit realm to be in opposition, misalignment, out of synch, … with him no matter what she says.

This gives the forces of darkness a licence to take that couple apart financially irrespective of sin or faith or other factors.

The application to the Court of Heaven is very simple "the house is divided therefore we seek leave to cause the house to fall by attacking its finances" is the charge to be brought before the Court and, except in the case of young and inexperienced believers the Court will always grant the request.  Once this petition is granted the Spirit of Yah has to STAND BACK and stop trying to bless the house financially!

So, if you are a man joined to a woman or women and there is lack, THIS is the place to look!

Man, do all that you can to make it easy for your woman to submit to you and be in harmony with you – cut out unacceptable behaviour, be considerate, demonstrate concern and care for your woman, treat her as the weaker vessel, be tender towards her, do NOT go chasing after wild and weird doctrines.

Woman, do all you have to do to come into alignment – see below.

What is hindrance?

Hindrance and hindering spirits are the mechanism that the forces of darkness use to give effect to the judgment to cause the divided house to fall.

Hindering spirits deploy in every area where you may receive finances, clients, donors, friends, family, etc.

A hindering spirit will cause things to go wrong so that money that has been promised by a donor gets delayed or used up for other purposes.

They will cause a client who is enthusiastic about your services and promises to place an order to get distracted or have things happen that cause them to either delay the order or never place it.

People get to understand that "there is something wrong with …, everything associated with them seems difficult, slow, there are always problems" and they stop doing business with you or stop associating with you.

People who promise to pay you by a certain date find that something happens to delay the payment, a signatory is taken ill, called out to an unexpected meeting, has to leave early, etc and suddenly money that seemed guaranteed is delayed.

These are but a few examples.

When your finances and affairs are being hindered it is like running in thick mud, you put in huge amounts of effort and go nowhere or go backwards.

You cry out to Father, pray prayers of faith, make faith confessions, give offerings, tithe, but the orders and the money do not come in or they are delayed or they are reduced, there is never enough, you are constantly making arrangements with creditors, unable to buy promised gifts, downgrading your financial expectations.

Then, if you come into some degree of alignment things can change overnight and orders can come in, money can come in, things just FLOW all of a sudden and then it can flip over to division and loss just as quickly again if you do not understand what is happening and do not manage it effectively.

The important thing to realize is that like sumphoneo (harmony) hindrance works for anyone but it is concentrated on those who are really seeking to serve Yah.

Remember that it is written that those who are teachers are subject to a harsher judgment.  Thus, those who are truly seeking to serve Yah, that means with the true names, NOT worshipping Yahooshua, observing the true Sabbath, NOT worshipping the book, etc WILL be more closely scrutinized and are much more likely to be subject to hindrance than run-of-the-mill pagan Christian believers who worship Jesus, use the wrong names, worship the book and observe Sunday as Sabbath, observe Christmas, etc.

Thus, if you have come out of the latter condition into the former state EXPECT that you will be judged more severely and that the forces of darkness will pull out all the stops to prevent you prospering – they want you to be so busy battling to survive that you cannot share what Yah has given you to share let along achieve the things that Yah has called you to achieve.

Throughout hindrance be prepared to keep your head down working on what Yah has called you to do!

It takes a LOT OF EFFORT and a large number of demons and fallen messengers to obstruct the finances of someone who is actively serving Yah AND actively engaging in whatever activities Yah has appointed for them to engage in in order to provide finances for their work.

There is a whole communication mechanism that the forces of darkness need to set up in order to obstruct your finances, the more people you market to the more demons and fallen messengers who are tied up hindering your finances and the more the finances will flow ONCE you break hindrance by coming into harmony.

Fundamental to understanding and achieving harmony (sumphoneo) in a family {marriage} setting is to establish the correct order in the home.

It is clearly stated that the man is the head of the woman and that the woman is under the covering of the man and should submit in EVERYTHING just as Yahooshua submitted to those who unjustly arrested him, abused him, tormented him, tortured him and executed  him (1 Peter 2 and 3, Ephesians 5).

The man is told to love his woman as Yahooshua loved the body of believers and gave his life for them.  So the man must lay down his life for his woman and make sacrifices for her and the woman must submit in everything.

This is fundamental, it establishes a critical but little known principle – the man will be judged for all he tells his woman to do, all he teaches, her, etc and she will be judged on whether she submitted in EVERYTHING – which means that if her husband tells her to go into prostitution, she submits, if her husband tells her to worship Satan, she submits BUT in submitting to her husband she prays to Yah to the effect that "Father, you have said I  must submit to my man in everything and therefore I will do this because my man has instructed me to do it.  I ask you to help me and to turn him from his sin so that he is not found wanting on the Day of Judgment.  Until you turn him from his sin or release me from the union I choose to obey your commandment to submit in everything".

An essential element of this component is that this means that the woman must come fully under the teachings of her man no matter what she believes to be truth – she is NOT the judge of his doctrine, she must submit in everything INCLUDING doctrine.

The more the man aligns with Yah the easier it will be for a woman who truly loves Yah to submit to her man.  The more the man deviates from his service of Yah the more difficult it will be for a woman who truly loves Yah to submit to that man.

For this reason it is vital that a woman makes absolutely sure that she is joining herself to the right man BEFORE she consummates her covenant with that man.

As I have noted above, submit in everything includes submission in all matters of doctrine (teaching).

For this reason a believing woman should be sure she is comfortable with her man's doctrine BEFORE they consummate.  

Once they have consummated and she finds there is a problem the commandment STILL says SUBMIT IN EVERYTHING!

In practice it takes a strong woman with willpower to submit to her man in everything or a weak man who will submit to his woman in order to avoid conflict.

Submission is NOT for sissy's.

Submission is an essential element of command and control in the Army, that is why strong men become military commanders, they discipline their will in order to submit to their commanders.  Submission in covenant union {marriage} is the same, a strong woman exerts her will strongly to align with her man no matter how hard it is.

The stronger the one-flesh bond, in other words, the better the sex, in the union the easier it is to be in harmony, the more the prayers will be sumphoneo and the stronger the effect will be.

Conclusion

The core aspects of harmony versus division and hindrance have been outlined.

I pray that for all of you who are in covenant unions {marriages} who have been battling with finances that this will give you the pointers you need to break the hold of lack on your finances.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

Attached please find an article by Samuel Doctorian which gives an account of a vision of messengers {angels} that portrays massive destruction on the earth.

It is my understanding that most of this will be in the spiritual realm although, if the previous article is correct, then it could be of the physical realm.

Note that messengers can manifest with or without their wings.

Conclusion

Whether we expect spiritual turmoil or physical turmoil or both the bottom line is that right now we need to get MUCH CLOSER to Daddy Yah.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

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I have written before about the level of falling away that is taking place and continue to be surprised by the extent to which those who have walked closely with Father and are strongly anointed are also in bondage to false teachings {doctrines} which Satan's hordes are using to tear them away from Yah.

It is written in 1 Corinthians 10:12 "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." KJV

In other words, when you become confident of your relationship with Yah and think that you are established take heed of your walk lest you fall.

In the Final Quest this point is made a number of times.

We can fall from any level on Yah's Mountain, no matter how close to Yah we may be pride, self-confidence, carelessness, etc can cause us to fall and be taken prisoner by the enemy.

And the enemy is in the large mass of people who have fallen to the false teachings, traditions, etc that are discussed on this mailing list.

Keep in mind that Yah has said that the person with the strongest anointing on the planet today has only half the anointing that was upon Yahooshua {Jesus}, we are in a very bad state today!

It is vital for us to pray constantly for Yah to judge us severely and correct us harshly that we may serve Him more perfectly, ask that He show us the level of our present deception and how to correct it, etc.

Constantly check up on what we believe and how we behave and course correct as necessary.

Our goal must be to draw closer to Yah and NOT to fall.

Conclusion

Please do NOT become over confident in your relationship with Yah or in your perception of your standing with Him.

The enemy will use pride and every evil thing to take you out at the first possible opportunity.

Father, I ask that you will blow away by your Spirit all in this document that is NOT according to your will and your ways, please blow away all lies and deception and leave only that which is from you, I ask this in the name of Yahooshua.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

One of the challenges that flow from a lack of understanding of the anointing is a belief that if a person is strongly anointed they cannot have error.

This is the same mistake that has people believe that the anointed ones who wrote the book {bible} or who are reported on in the book never sinned and never made mistakes.

Inspection of the book reveals otherwise, Moshe {Moses} struck the rock instead of speaking to it despite clear instruction by Yah and was heavily penalized.

King David committed adultery with Bathsheba.

King Saul went completely off the rails.

Noah got drunk and fell asleep naked where his son could see him.

Shaul {Paul} went up to Jerusalem despite the fact that Yah repeatedly told him through other anointed spokesmen {prophets} NOT to go.

etc

The same applies to the book itself, much is inspired but there are errors and nowhere does the book claim to be complete or without errors yet many anointed one's today believe the lie that the book is the "inerrant word of God" and then under estimate their own anointing and devalue their calling by believing that somehow they cannot be up to the same standard as the anointed one's in the book.

And then the people around them make the same mistake.

And, just because a person is highly anointed and doing major works, even works comparable to those of Yahooshua, does NOT mean that their every word is from Yah and without error.

So, as before I adjure you to "seek truth NOT error", look for the truth that all those you meet have and do NOT get fussed about the error.

And, just because a person has a deep relationship with Yah, performs mighty works through the Spirit of Yah, etc do NOT believe everything they tell you – test it yourself, pray about it yourself.

Remember, if you have truly believed through the covenant made by Yahooshua you also are an anointed one and have the Spirit of Yah to guide you to whatever extent you have permitted Him to take control of your life.

So YOU are responsible for your own walk and for hearing Yah in your own life and for corroborating what you hear and read from others with what Yah is saying to you.

It is a huge privilege AND a huge challenge to serve Yah and be one of His anointed one's.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

I have a vision of life and eternity that is summarized by seven critical success factors for life and crowned by a vision of myself and my woman sitting next to each other on high thrones in heaven for eternity.

I thought you might find them of interest as I hold that these are reasonably fundamental.

The seven critical success factors for life together with relative importance assigned by me are:

Service to the Almighty directed at being found to be good and faithful servants and overcomers on the Day of Judgment thereby qualifying to sit on high thrones for eternity as discussed in more detail in the eBook  1A1.04.03.01 "Where Will You Spend Eternity?" – on www.ETIMin.org website under "Important Documents".

This includes that we live life according to the principles of life which include:

a.  Love Yah the eternally self-existing (the Almighty) with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.

b.  Walk by faith.

c.  Love your neighbour, your enemies and yourself, includes pray for those who despitefully use you, bless those who curse you, turn the other cheek and go the extra mile.

d.  Commit yourself and your ways to the Almighty including obedience to the Ten Commandments.

e.  Willing to learn, to change and to grow.

f.  Deep knowledge of and application of the covenants with particular emphasis on the covenant made by and through Yahooshua.

g.  Build an enduring, sure house - husband leads and wife submits in everything.

Make a difference in the world through the ministry given to you and through your business activities – keep in mind that ALL believers are in ministry, you have a ministry, whether you know it or not.

If you do not know what your ministry is then you need to start seeking Yah for guidance.

Achieve your potential as man or woman on this earth.

A rich and fulfilling marriage which includes passionate sexual love making and unconditional love, intense oneness and harmony.  Unless you are very clear that you have been called to celibacy (man). May not be achievable if you are a single believing woman – there are approximately seven times more women than men in the remnant.

All children of the marriage partners grow up in accordance with these seven critical success factors.

The family experience the richness of creation including travel, nature, cultures, food, etc.

The family enjoy the fullness of what exists including material things, finances, houses, cars, furniture, etc

Factors (2) to (7) are secondary to factor (1). It is my profound belief that achievement of factor (1) will lead to achievement of all the other factors IF you do the spiritual work and discipline that is necessary for this to happen.

Focus on the other factors in the absence of effective achievement in terms of factor (1) will be of no value on the Day of Judgment.

Conclusion

Living life this way is a huge challenge for all of us.

I am firmly convinced that those who manage to live life in accordance with these criteria WILL find themselves blessed on the Day of Judgment.

If you turn these on their head and concentrate on the material things at the end of the list you WILL find that you have missed the mark seriously with Yah.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.

ROMANS 10:10

ARE YOU THINKING RIGHT ? .. ARE YOU BELIEVING RIGHT ? .. ARE YOU CONFESSING RIGHT ? ..

Three rather simple questions .. but questions that should be carefully thought about before they are answered because your answers are the very keys that you require to open the door into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ ..

MAKE SURE IT’S RIGHT .. Right Thinking .. Right Believing .. and Right Confessing

O.K. so why is it of such vital importance that you have these things right in your life ? .. The reason is this .. what you think and what you believe will always affect what you say, which is your confession ..

Thinking, Believing and Confessing are three areas in your life that are very closely linked together ..

So if your thinking is right .. then your believing will also be right because the things that you find yourself meditating over will ultimately become deeply rooted in your heart and you will begin to believe those things that you have been meditating over .. and if your believing is right .. then automatically your confession and the things you say will also be right ..

BUT if any one of the three .. “your thinking, your believing or your confessing” .. is wrong then unfortunately all three of them will be wrong ..

Now our gracious God knew that we would all need a little help and guidance concerning these areas in our lives and so naturally He gave us the solution ..

God provided us with His precious Word .. and it is His true and perfect Word that will help you to get your thinking straightened out and back on track .. because when you begin to meditate on and think in line with God’s Word .. His Word will become established and rooted in your heart and this will cause you to change what you believe and how you believe .. and of course if what you are believing is perfect and true then the words of your mouth will always speak what is right ..

Scripture from Romans tells us that .. “with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation” .. which gives us a clear indication of the true power of confession according to God’s Word ..

But do we as God’s children really, really grasp the true place of importance that confessions .. “right confessions” .. hold in the grand scheme of our lives ? ..

Somehow it seems that through the years we have successfully managed to underrate and play down the true value of “right confessions” ..

Sadly when the word confession is mentioned  .. far to many of us automatically go to the mindset of confessing sins .. confessing weaknesses .. confessing inabilities .. confessing failures .. confessing guilt .. we move straight into the negative side of confession .. BUT .. there is a positive side .. and why we have chosen to remain so focused on the negative side of confession is a true mystery because God’s Word has so much more to say about the positive side of confessions than it does about the negative side ..

If you were to look up the word “confess” in the dictionary some of the definitions you would find are : to acknowledge; to declare; to make known; to acknowledge faith in .. and yes you will also find definitions such as : come clean; plead guilty and confession of ones faults ..

But it is important for you to remember that one definition does say .. to confess is to acknowledge and declare your faith .. or .. to acknowledge faith in God’s Word ..

If you carry on making the choice to live your life purely based on one side of the definition of confession .. the negative side .. constantly confessing your guilt, your troubles, your irritations, your doubts, your fears, your failures, your weaknesses .. then that is all you will ever confess .. and this will cause your life as a child of God’s to be extremely unbalanced .. you will end up growing nothing but weakness, failure and sin consciousness in your spirit ..

Do you know that Christianity is very often referred to as “The Great Confession” !!

O.K. so now that we are all familiar with the word Confession .. are we one-hundred percent sure of what exactly it means .. well it is simple really .. Confessing is actually three basic things .. To confess is to state something you believe .. To confess is to declare something that you know is true .. To confess is to proclaim a truth that you have wholeheartedly accepted ..

So from this moment on you never again have to wonder what you are supposed to be confessing .. your confession should always centre around some very basic principal truths ..

What God has done for you through Jesus Christ in His plan for your salvation ..

What God has done for you through His Word ..  

What God has done for you by filling your spirit with the presence of His Holy Spirit ..

Who you are and what you mean to God your Father in Christ Jesus ..

What Jesus is doing for you right now, as He sits at the right hand of His Father where He constantly intercedes and pleads for you .. 

What God can achieve through you and what His Word can achieve through you as you proclaim and declare it ..

We have been blessed with the highest honour of loving our faithful God .. and not because of anything that we have ever managed to achieve .. we can love Him purely because He loved us first .. WOW !!

We love Him, because He first loved us .. ( 1 John 4:19 )

Knowing something that amazing should surely be enough motivation for you to change the words that freely flow out of your mouth .. it is time  for “right confessing” .. leave the negativity alone because you are the only one who keeps punishing yourself with it .. in God’s eyes the precious blood of the Lamb has taken care of it and “It is finished” ..

God loves you .. unconditionally .. and Jesus Christ has ensured once and for all that you are God’s beloved .. you are God’s child .. He has chosen you .. He loves you .. and He delights in you .. BUT .. you have to think it .. you have to believe it .. and you have to confess it ..

You know God did not sit back one day and decide to speak out His precious Word because He was bored and thought it might be funny to tease and tempt His children with a whole lot of meaningless promises and blessings ..

IN FACT ...

God’s Word is the most magnificent love story .. and the best part about it is that every word that you read was put there especially for you .. every guarantee, every promise, every blessing .. is yours !! .. in and through Jesus Christ

You have to know how important you are to God .. and He has taken the time in His Word to tell you ..

SO WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU HAVE “IN CHRIST” ? ..

Therefore, if anyone is “in Christ”, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come .. ( 2 Corinthians 5:17 )

There is therefore no condemnation for those who are “in Christ” .. ( Romans 8:1)

As you share the faith you have in common with others, I pray that you may come to have a complete knowledge of every blessing we have “in Christ” .. ( Philemon 1:6 )

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us “in Christ” with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places .. ( Ephesians 1:3 )

We know that we live “in him” and he lives in us because he has given us his Spirit. .. ( 1 John 4:13 )

May God, the source of hope, fill you with joy and peace through your faith “in him”. Then you will overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. .. ( Romans 15:13 )

But whoever obeys what Christ says is the kind of person in whom God's love is perfected. That's how we know we are “in Christ”. .. ( 1 John 2:5 )

These are just a few of the many, many Scriptures that God has given to you .. to let you know that there is nothing more important in His world than you ..

God has already done His part in this “partnership” that you have with Him .. now it is up to you ..

God is not like people. He tells no lies. He is not like humans. He doesn't change his mind. When he says something, he does it. When he makes a promise, he keeps it. .. ( Numbers 23:19 )

You know that God is not a Father that lies and changes His mind .. so everything that He has said about you .. every promise that He has made you .. every blessing He has guaranteed you .. is already yours for the taking ..

And all you have to do is THINK RIGHT .. BELIEVE RIGHT .. and CONFESS RIGHT !!

MAKE IT YOUR INTENTION TO PURSUE ONLY WHAT IS HONOURABLE, WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS TRUE .. AND THE RESULT WILL BE A LIFE GRANDER THAN YOU COULD EVER HAVE IMAGINED.

Violet Brink 

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