Who Was Jerubbaal and What Was He Wearing? Part 2

We left the last post at the point where

we could see by the scripture

that through the angel,

YeHoVeH had prophetically called Gideon

mighty man

and then like a garment

He put on Gideon!

Also translated as a

Man of valor.

So we could conclude that if He is in us…

He is wearing us too!

Jesus/Yeshua ‘put on’ the Spirit of His Father

at the time of His immersion and maybe

even more at His transfiguration?

And according to

Romans 13:14

we are to do the same 

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,

and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

As Yeshua Messiah in us the hope of Glory

He is wearing us too.

Our outer garments are not to be those of the beast systems fashions and trends…

really why do we even care?

Why do we want to look like the world?

why do we want to be mistaken for a worldly person?

Provers 31 warns us that

Favour is deceitful, and beauty vain!

so this is vanity and worthless

we are too much caught up in what the world

and its ungodly systems dictate by

social and main stream media…

Family, don’t let’s be caught in the enemies snares and traps;

those hunters are out there and very seductive and cunning.

We are too easily swayed into a sense of false security

and instead we are to be as wise as serpents,

who are always aware if their surroundings;

and gentle as doves and to

and dress in a manner

worthy of our election and

calling in holiness, clothed with humility.

Also we are to wear our spiritual clothes in

humility and obedience.

He has bought and paid for our clothing for us,

but these clothes are even more beautiful

than the lilies of the field

and they will never wear out.

When we put Messiah on,

He is our garment of salvation.

He is our robe of righteousness

He is our garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

We are clothed in glory, honor and light apart from the armor provided in

Eph 6:11-18 that should remain on place at all times.

The only offensive weapon is

the sword of the spirit which is

His words coming out of our mouths.

Described as the armor of light.

So let us put aside the deeds of darkness

and put on

the armor of light. Rom. 13:11

Galatians 3:27, Eph. 4:24, Col. 3:10-12; Romans 8:29.

In Matt. 3:16 clearly recorded the spirit of His Father/ Yehoveh, coming upon Him so it would seem He put on Yeshua/Jesus.

In Ps. 22

There was a prophetic description of the moments on the cross which were fulfilled according to Matt 27:46 when Yeshua/Jesus quotes the Psalm

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

There was a brief time when

Our Heavenly Father left Him on the cross.

Literally His Father was not wearing Him for those moments

– no wonder He felt it.

The robe of righteousness is our wedding garment

and He clothes us with it.

He was filled with YeHoVeH

His Father wore Him!

I and the Father are one

if you have seen me you have seen the Father

I in you and you in Me

It makes one wonder whether in Revelation

if John knew who He was talking to?

I and the Father are one

We are to seek Him early before the day begins.

In Hebrew terms it is as the dusk falls in the evening!

Genesis 1:3-5

and this is where we are to be sure that we have

put on the Lord

Ps 27:8

and will wear Him throughout the night and the day.

The same way we put on clothes suitable to the task ahead, so the sooner we affirm that we have put the Lord on by communicating with Him, the better prepared we are for whatever the day brings.

Like the Eph. 6 armor –

don’t ever take it off –

and we should never remove our robe of righteousness

we must wear it at all times

together with our garment of salvation.

Without the helmet in place, to garrison guard and keep our minds on Messiah, we are not in the best position to co ordinate and direct the rest of the armor.

Our brain and mind must be in the helmet and protected by it.

This is the most likely location of our spirit and of His Ruach dwelling in us.

Which enables us to walk in the spirit and

not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

In a practical way, it’s eventually to have His mind,

the mind of Jesus/Yeshua;

to think His thoughts

by asking His spirit of Holiness

to control our thinking and

thereby renewing our minds

as our thoughts are transformed to His.

Whose mind is stayed on Him

and here is true shalom/peace

Is 26:3

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, 

whose mind is stayed on thee:

because he trusteth in thee. 

So what are we wearing today?

Clothed in humility, harmony and wholeness.

1 Peter 5:5-6 

Being a disciple means being clothed in Messiah/Christ as Paul says in Galatians 3:26 and Romans 13:14:

Every one of you that has been baptized

has been clothed in Christ and

Let your armor be the Lord Jesus Christ.

This being clothed in Christ is much more than wearing a cloak that covers our wretchedness.

It is referring to a complete transformation

that allows us to say Gal. 2:20 with Paul:

I have been crucified with Messiah/Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.

To be clothed with humility means you have put on

Messiah/Christ and leave Him on:

Are we a worldly fashion statement based on and reflecting satans’ kingdom; or are we the image and likeness of our Heavenly Father? And if we are like Gideon – as the Lord put him on – we too will be the mighty people of valor.

If He is in us, it is His light that shines out through us,

to a world in darkness and

we indeed will be the vessels of honor.

“chayil” (English) pronounced khah’-yil

 in Hebrew is

Strong’s Hebrew: 2428. חָ֫יִל (chayil) — strength …

chayil: strength, efficiency, wealth, army.

Original Word: חַיִל.

Transliteration: chayil.

Phonetic Spelling: (khah’-yil)

Definition: strength, efficiency, wealth, army. 

הֶחָֽיִל

חָֽיִל

 

Hebrew Word for Valor

ha-ḥa-yil, of valor

a mighty man of valor”? 

גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י

gib-bō-w-rê

What does it mean? 

 this phrase appears for the first time in Joshua 1:14 

Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them. 

Our dictionary today states that

valor is

great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle. 

The conventional Hebrew means more of a force,

especially of an army,

but can also mean a force of might, power, riches, or virtue. 

Here the mighty men of valor are the armed men of the army of Israel. 

Is there anything about these men in the picture letters in Chayil?

Chayil is spelled

Chet, Yood, Lamed.

חָֽיִל

Reading from right to left above: 

Chet

is the

picture of the fence

and indicates a place of protection,

a sanctuary, or a place of security. 

Yood

is the picture of the hand or arm

and points to a mighty deed. 

Lamed

is the picture of the shepherd’s staff

and demonstrates the voice of authority or control.

It could be said that in the paleo pictograph letters of

Chayil/valor

these warriors in Israels army were…

Lamed, under strong leadership

Yood, performing a mighty work,

and

Chet, providing a place of protection, a sanctuary for their people, especially for their wives and little ones. 

Does our Heavenly Father view us like the warriors of Chayil/valor?

Gideon in Judges 6:11

Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites, and the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. 

We already read that Gideon was hidden from his enemies in a winepress threshing wheat when YeHoVeH’s angel appears to him and calls him

a mighty man of valor. 

Gideon didn’t see himself that way and in verse 15 he replies:

And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel?  Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh,

and I am the least in my father’s house.

the reply in verse 16 is an indication of how our Heavenly Father sees us even when we are hiding from our enemies, feeling totally unworthy because we are afraid and anxious:  

And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. 

In the fifth book of the Torah,

Deuteronomy 8:18,

Moses used this word differently

הֶחָֽיִל׃
he-ḥā-yil.

הֶחָֽיִל

Chayil

Moses writes:

But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God:

for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth,

that he may establish his covenant

which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. 

The word translated

wealth here,

is

Chayil. 

Here again it is to show that, the Chayil –

the force of might, power, or riches

comes from Our Heavenly Father YaHoVeH

and is provided to us for serving His purposes.

It is important we remember that.

These references all point to mighty men of valor.

We know we are neither male nor female in the spirit.

Gal.3:28

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But is there such a thing as

a woman of valor,

a woman of Chayil?

In Proverbs 31:10,  Solomon writes

Who can find a virtuous woman?

For her price is far above rubies.

Here the word in

the virtuous woman

in Hebrew is

הֶחָֽיִל  

pronounced kyell

Chayil,

the woman of valor,

the force for virtue. 

Solomon says about her that she is invaluable.

Why?

Solomon gives a long list of her accomplishments and her character, and in verse 29 and 30: 

Many daughters have done virtuously,

but thou excellest them all. 

Favour is deceitful, and beauty vain!

but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.  

The word

well/ virtuously is Chayil/hayil

so we find the

outstanding woman of valor

begins with the fear of the LORD.

This kind of fear is reverence,

not terror as in being afraid.

She follows His voice of authority

and does a mighty work

to provide a sanctuary for her family!

The numbers represented by the letters in chayil

seem to show a connection to Jesus/Yeshua. 

The letter Chet is also the number 8

which is a new beginning. 

 

The letter Yood is the number 10

and stands for something ordained in Heaven. 

 

The letter Lamed is also the number 30

and points to the blood of Messiah and His sacrifice.

So the numbers could be telling us that

Our Heavenly Father will give us a new beginning

that was ordained in Heaven

and that was made possible

through the blood sacrifice of Yeshua Ha-Mashiach.

The result being that We have

freedom from sin through His blood sacrifice

and the promise of a new beginning with Him.

There is one more place where the scripture uses the word Chayil. In Habakkuk 3:19 His Word speaks this truth: 

The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.  

The word strength is again Chayil or valor;

so the meaning of the pictographs could apply once again as

Our Heavenly Father/ The LORD God, or Yahweh/YeHoVeH Adonai,

is our ultimate man of valor.

He is the voice of authority who by the

mighty work of

His blood sacrifice

provided an eternal place of sanctuary for us

with Him in Heaven. 

When we place our trust in Him, He sees us as He saw Gideon hiding in the winepress;

the Creator of the universe the source of Faith

calling those things that were not as though they were

and describing the woman in Proverbs 31:

Chayil, mighty men and women – people of valor.

 

Can we be clothed with humility and strong at the same time?

Yes because

we are told in

Eph. 6:10.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the the wiles of the devil.

It’s the power of

His might

not our own.

Is God wearing us?

If not why not?

And if He is…

then as David said,

of whom shall we be afraid?

Ps. 27:1 Jehovah is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?

Ps. 31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: all ye that hope in the Lord. 

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer;

I have overcome the world.

Reading the accounts of Gideon shows us he was an excellent example of modesty in action.

When the Angel of the Lord first came to him he readily acknowledged his background and abilities in a modest manner. Then after he accepted the will and plan of the Lord, Gideon made certain he understood thoroughly what he had to do and constantly looked to the Lord for guidance for each step of the way.

Gideon became

bold and courageous

acting with shrewdness and caution

when

the Lord put him on.

Furthermore, Gideon didn’t use this opportunity to self promote or gain any personal advantage and as soon as he was able, he happily resumed his former place in life.

These are great lessons for us and when we walk with God we should always be ready to

Now we know who Jerubbaal was and

Who He Was Wearing!

When the Father is wearing us-

anyone become a mighty person of valor.

It’s time to

May His true Shalom/Peace

rest upon each one in Jesus/Yeshuas’ Name.

‘Mishpachah’ ‘Family’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa

you are greatly loved and prayed for daily..

NOT SURE if you are part of His Family?

YOU CAN BE..

Say the following and mean it from your heart…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He came in the flesh and He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life.

Because your word is truth, I say that I am now forgiven and born again in my spirit and by faith I am washed clean with the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.

Who Was Jerubbaal and What Was He Wearing?

In Judges 6:11 a man called Joash the Abiezrite

calls his son Jerubbaal, meaning:

Let Baal Contend Against Him,

or, let Baal show increase;

The Lord Contends; Baal Contends.

JERUBBAAL jĕr’ ə bāl יְרֻבַּ֣עַל,

jer-u-ba’-al, je-rub’-a-al  yerubba`al,

ירבעל

Why did he do that?

The son of Joash the Abiezrite was Gideon, the fifth judge of Israel

And the name Jerubaal was given to Gideon when he destroyed his father’s Baal altar at Ophrah. 

The name

Jerubbaal

is a combination of two Hebrew words:

the first is

riyb or rub,

which means literally

to grapple

and holds the figurative meaning

to wrangle

or

to hold a controversy.

From (1) the verb ריב (rib), to contend,

ריב

This very common verb ריב (rib) means

to strive or contend

and ranges from

a mere bickering to full scale combat.

Noun ריב (rib) means

strife, dispute or plea.

Noun יריב (yarib) denotes

an opponent or adversary.

Noun מריבה (meriba) refers to

a place or agent of strife or contention.

and

The second is the proper noun

Baal, the name of the Phoenician god

that Gideon contended against.

the verb בעל – ba’al, to be lord. 

The verb ba’al

בעל

means to exercise dominion over;

to own, control or be lord over.

The noun ba’al means

lord, master and even husband,

and its feminine counterpart

ba’ala

means mistress or landlady.

Jerubbaal/Gideon, had seventy sons by several wives, and he had one son, named Abimelech, by his servant girl, or his concubine. Gideon, as one of the judges in Israel, was a true servant leader, as were all of the judges of Israel, in those days.

גדעון

Gidon: a judge of Israel.

Original Word: גִּדְעוֹן.

Part of Speech:

Proper Name Masculine.

Transliteration: Gidon.

Phonetic Spelling: (ghid-ohn’) 

The name Gideon comes from the Hebrew verb

גדע 

gada’ 

meaning

to hew down or cut off: 

mostly of religious regalia and holy trees. 

There are no nouns formed from this verb,

suggesting that whatever was cut off,

was no longer discussed and

even cut off from speech itself.

The waw/vav-nun/noon extension

of the name Gideon

denotes a personification of the verb:

he who does what the verb means.

His name is connected with his occupation, that is,

he was a Hacker 

or 

One Who Hewed Down the enemy.

Now we know why computer hackers are so named!

GIDEON

גדעון

Gimmel Daleth Ayin Vav Nun

Strong’s Hebrew: 1439. גִּדְעוֹן (Gidon) — a judge of Isr.

Strong’s Greek: 1066. Γεδεών (Gedeón) — Gideon, an Israelite

Transliteration: Gedeón. Phonetic Spelling: (ghed-eh-own’) Definition: Gideon, an Israelite. Usage:Gideon, one of the Judges of Israel. 

The account in Judges tells us that when Israel was experiencing invasive attacks for 7 years by the Midianites, an angel of YeHoVeH  appeared to Gideon.

 

When the angel of the Lord first met Gideon he was hiding out in a winepress threshing wheat – Judges 6:11.

You don’t thresh wheat in a winepress.

The threshing floor stood in the open,

the winepress was usually below ground or in a low area,

a place where someone could easily hide

which Scripture tells us Gideon was actually doing, hiding or fleeing.

The word in Hebrew is

lenis or lehanis

from the root

word nos or nus 

(noos)

which means

to flee or disappear. נוּס

Strong’s Hebrew: 5127. נוּס (nus) — to flee, escape

At that time, the Midianites were in control in Israel who had no standing army, There was no one to lead an army against the Midianites who were a well armed band of mercenaries who would suddenly appear and raid the Israelites homes killing everyone in that town or city and take what they wanted and destroying the crops on the land, It was a horrible time for the children of Israel and they lived in perpetual fear of an enemy attack that would come without warning. This scenario could be likened to the nations in the world today Many are living in constant fear of attack from both a seen and an unseen enemy such as a virus.

As is the case in most places where people have faith in the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob/Israel, some were on their knees, some interceding by weeping and petitioning in prayer. However, Gideon was not praying, his attitude needed an adjustment because, when the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and announced he was a great and mighty warrior (verse 12) his response was to ask why has God forsaken us, why are we being tormented by these Midianites, where are all the miracles, the promises of God? Many are asking that question today and God is answering, we just need to listen and pay more attention to what He is saying. First, the angel of the Lord said that God had called him to deliver Israel and that He would be with Gideon and would empower him (verse 14). Gideon’s response was not exactly full of faith! (verse 15). The second time the Angel of the Lord reassures him in verse 16.

This was still not enough for Gideon and he asks for a sign in verse 17. Gideon prepared an offering and the Angel of the Lord touched it with his staff and immediately it burst into flames.

Gideon was so impressed that he became fearful that he had just seen God Himself and might die. Due to the belief that if anyone saw God they would die or you were dead. However Gideon now had enough confidence to confront the Midianites pagan god and tear down the idol of the and offer a sacrifice to God on the same place.

Judges 6:11-24

The angel of the LORD came and sat down – under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite,

where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites

and instructed him to cut down the altar of Baal that same night

and to destroy the nearby

image of Asherah, אשרה אשירה

plural, אשרים or Asherim

 a primary Canaanite goddess namely אשרות or Asheroth.

Judges 3:7, & Judges 6:25.  

In the Bible, Asherah is mostly associated with

sacred trees or poles Exodus 34:13, Judges 6:25.

When the people who lived there found their shrines destroyed the next day, it didn’t take them long to find out who had done it.

They went to Joash and demanded that he surrender his son Gideon, because they wanted to execute him.

Joash responded by saying that if Baal wants his revenge, they would be foolish to ruin his pleasure by killing Gideon before their god could get him. He cleverly challenged them by saying that if Baal was truly a god, Baal would contend with Gideon, and if he were not, then Gideon would contend with Baal!

This is why Joash named his son Jerubbaal.

The people were not worshipping the one true God and their false gods and idols had to be removed before they could have victory over their enemies.

This is true for believers in Yeshua today we are to tear down any altars we have made to anything or anyone else in our lives. Putting our Heavenly father first place in everything we do is essential in walking a victorious life by His spirit.

After that Gideon goes after the Midianites and the other members of the Eastern Coalition. 32,000 men from Israel joined up for the battle, after God instructs Gideon to separate out the chosen ones only 300 remain.

He gives the 300 each a trumpet, a pitcher and a torch and at midnight they attack because of their unusual approach it caused the Midianites to stampede. As they fled, Gideon summoned the entire Israeli army and they pursued them, killing their leaders and 120,000 swordsmen.

Judges 7:15, 20: The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, “A sword of the LORD and of Gideon!”

After Gideon’s victory over Midian, Israel remains undisturbed for 40 years. When Gideon dies, his son Abimelech  takes the office of Judge of Israel.

Gideon had 72 sons, namely Abimelech, the seventy brothers he killed, and Jotham who got away.

Paul mentions Gideon in his letter to the Hebrews 11:32

calling him a hero of the faith spelled Γεδεων, Gedeon

There is much more to the story of Gideon but for the purpose of this post there are 2 points one is in 6:34 where

Judges 6:34 So the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, who

Came upon

Strong’s 3847: Wrap around,

to put on a, garment,

clothe Gideon, גִּדְע֑וֹן (giḏ·‘ō·wn)

Noun – proper – masculine singular

Strong’s 1439: Gideon — 

a judge of Israel and he blew וַיִּתְקַע֙ (way·yiṯ·qa‘) 

God Put On Gideon!

Strong’s Hebrew: 3847. לָבַשׁ (labash or labesh) — to put on

law-bash’, law-bashe’

 to dress, wear, clothe, put on clothing, be clothed

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to put on clothes, be clothed, wear

1a2) to put on, be clothed with (figuratively)

1b) (Pual) to be fully clothed

1c) (Hiphil) to clothe, array with, dress

2304) sbl (לבסה LBSh) AC: Clothe CO: Clothing AB: ?

  1. V)sbl(לבסה LBSh) – Clothe: To put on clothing. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (115): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Pual) clothe, put, array, wear, arm, came, apparel, upon – Strongs: H3847 (לָבֵשׁ), H3848 (לְבַשׁ) 

  2. dm)sfbl(לבוסה LBWSh) – Clothing: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (34): clothing, garment, apparel, vesture, clothed, put, raiment, vestment – Strongs: H3830 (לְבֻשׁ), H3831 (לְבוּשׁ) 

adm) sfblm (מלבוסה MLBWSh) – Clothing: KJV (8): apparel, raiment, vestment – Strongs: H4403 (מַלְבֻּשׁ) 

icf2) tsfblt (תלבוסהת TLBWShT) – Clothing: KJV (1): clothing – Strongs: H8516 (תִּלְבֹּשֶׁת)

It has to be noted that in the Hebrew it is written

which is very interesting!

And second,

the angel called him a mighty man of valor

or a valiant warrior

we saw him hiding in fear in the threshing floor

yet the angel spoke of him as a man of valor

what is this word

in Hebrew?

Mighty man or masterful man

is

גִּבּ֥וֹר

gibbowr or gib·bōr

Strongs 1368

And

of Valor

הֶחָֽיִל

he·ḥā·yil. Or chayil

Strongs 2428

He ha yil gib bo w rim me ka Yahweh

יְהוָ֥ה עִמְּךָ֖ גִּבּ֥וֹר הֶחָֽיִל

Gideon was filled with fear and even after five miracles he still needed help to overcome his fears. But there is a reason that He delivered a nation, that God gave him a wonderful victory and restored his land:

 

He was obedient.

He prayed,

he called out to God

and ultimately let God take charge

so that the world could see this deliverance

was from God and God alone.

echil gbur

masterful man of the valor

translated as

mighty man of valor

If as the scripture says

He

meaning God

put on Gideon

then it would seem clear that His Ruach haKodesh

filled Gideons spirit;

both his inner man as well as his physical body.

Reading it one more time

God PUT ON and wrapped Himself in Gideon!

And as the meanings above say,

like He was putting on a garment of clothing

which really seems like

God was wearing Gideon!

Hebrew for PUT ON…

Our bodies cannot function without us inside them so as we are born again by His spirit the scripture tells us Yeshua said,

I and My Father will come to live abide IN you!

If He is inside us then He is wearing us too!

With this thought a inexplicable spiritual reality and His ways not being our ways shouldn’t we then be walking in all manner of holiness.

Christ in us the hope of glory! So when we think are we wearing God as His representative

or is it that like Gideon,

He is wearing us.

This gives another aspect of the things Yeshua said about not being concerned or anxious about what we shall wear, our physique, what we look like or following the fashion.

Fashion is nothing more than the worlds attempt at beautifying the flesh.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. Romans 7:18

and this is a liberating message. Gender,skin tone, shape size weak strong, its all physical and temporary. We will not be taking these bodies with us.

The new ones we are promised may not be exactly as we are now for even Mary did not recognize Messiah in His glorified form outside the tomb until He called her by name (Jn 20:14-16).

This flesh will die, it’s not acceptable in any form to the Father; flesh is full of decay as a result of sin. We must look beyond what our senses say and walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. Yes be a good steward of your mode of transportation and means to fulfill the Lords will for our lives. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness and we need to feed it healthy food just as we feed our spirits on His life giving word.

We are filled with His Ruach which is joined to our own.

YaHoVeH PUT ON Gideon.

He had prophetically called him mighty man

and then like a garment He put Gideon on!

Conclusion in Part 2

May His true Shalom/Peace

rest upon each one in Jesus/Yeshuas’ Name.

‘Mishpachah’ ‘Family’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa

you are greatly loved and prayed for daily..

NOT SURE if you are part of His Family?

YOU CAN BE..

Say the following and mean it from your heart…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He came in the flesh and He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life.

Because your word is truth, I say that I am now forgiven and born again in my spirit and by faith I am washed clean with the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.

Fishers and Hunters

Jeremiah 16:16-17

“Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.”

 I will send for many fishers . . .

The words refer to the threat, not to the promise.

The fishers,

as in Amos 4:2; Habakkuk 1:15,

are the invading nations, surrounding Judah and Jerusalem

as with a drag-net, and allowing none to escape.

לְדַוָּגִ֥ים

דַּיָּג, dayyāg 

a fisherman

Biblical Pronunciation: da-YAWɡ

Transliteration: dayyāg

hunters

צַיָּדִ֔ים

צַיָּד,

ṣayyād

A huntsman

Biblical Pronunciation: tsa-YAWD

Transliteration: ṣayyād

Hunters – sayyadim

צַיָּדִ֔ים

is another aspect of the same thought so far as can be traced, it points to the distinction between them, “to the work of the irregular skirmisher as the former image did to that of the main body of the army: men might take refuge, as hunted beasts might do, in the caves of the rocks, but they should be driven forth even from these.”

It is common with the sacred writers to represent

enemies and oppressors

under the metaphors of 

fishers and hunters, 

because they use all the methods of

open force and

secret stratagem

to make men their prey.

The scattering of the people is to be like that of

hunted animals,

of which but few escape.

The ancient method of hunting being to enclose a large space with beaters and nets, and so drive everything within it to some place where it was destroyed.

The destruction of the whole male population was one of the horrible customs of ancient warfare, and

in Herodotus

the process is called 

sweeping the country with a

drag-net.

(and allowing none to escape)

The same authority tells us that this method could only be effectually carried out on an island.

Literally, understood, the fishers are the main armies who, in the towns and fortresses, capture the people in crowds as in a net, while the hunters are the light-armed troops, who pursue the fugitives over the whole country, and drive them out of their hiding places as hunters track out their game.

The application of the words either,

to the gathering of the people after their dispersion

or

to the later work of the preachers of the Gospel

has its source in Jesus/Yeshua’s words recorded in 

Matthew 4:19.

I will make you fishers of men.

It is possible that those words may have been suggested by those of Jeremiah, the same image being used, as in the parable of Matthew 13:47,

to describe the blessing

which had previously presented its darker aspect

of punishment.

Looking a little closer at verse 19.

I will make you fishers of men.

This statement of Jeremiah seems to be very prophetic as regards this new testament scripture.

The fishers/fishermen

catch the fish

in nets

or

with a baited hook.

but neither

the net

nor the hook

kill the fish.

They are caught alive.

This is certainly a picture of the Fathers

grace and mercy

…though we the fish

are dead spiritually in our sins…

we are caught alive

by a fisherman of the Lord.

Somebody told us about the saving power of God through Yeshua,

and that as Jesus/Yeshua said

you must be born again.

We were fished

by those who were made into

fishers of men themselves.

Then in turn, as like begets like,

we are the fishers, who in turn make fishers.

These fishers catch mens souls but unlike Nimrod

they point the WAY

to salvation

through the blood sacrifice of Yeshua/Jesus,

the Master fisher of men.

This is how we follow Him.

Preaching and teaching that the spiritual kingdom of God is here.

WHY?

Because He brought it with Him.

He said

It is at hand,

meaning: it is here – now.

It is within us because He is within us

and so, we also carry the kingdom with us.

Next Jeremiah prophesies that:

later I shall send for many hunters.

Hunters are different from fishermen

in that whatever prey they pursue they kill.

Hunters lay in wait, they stalk,

they lay traps and set snares;

to disable, maim and kill the focus of their hunt.

Using camouflage to deceive and trick.

Sounds like the adversary, the tactics of the devil.

They have no intention to take them alive but God sends these.

Why?

Because His eyes are upon all our ways and they are not hidden from Him and He will pay back their iniquity and their sin Double because they defiled the land and made gods for themselves.

Chp 17:5 the warning which cannot be separated from the previous verses;

(The chapter distinction should not be a stopping place, it is not so in the original scrolls as there is no punctuation as we know it.)

Verse 5 this is part of why He sends the hunters, those who made flesh their arm and their trust is in man.

Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is the arm of the Lord,

we are to trust in God through Jesus/Yeshua His Messiah

17:7 The one who trusts in the Lord this one is blessed.

The first hunter was Nimrod.

נִמְרוֹד

Phonetic Spelling: nim-rode’

Strong’s Hebrew: 5248. נִמְרוֹד (Nimrod) 

He was a descendant of Cain who was inclined to depend on himself and his own efforts; and became the first to kill in a downward spiral of jealousy, leading to hate and eventually murder.

Nimrod is described in

Genesis 10:8–12 as

the first on earth to be a mighty man.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.

Nimrod established a great kingdom that included 

Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

A mighty hunter before the Lord:

It means

against the Lord/ in opposition to..

and he hunted mens souls.

In coming against the Lord, he built the famed tower of babel

which was the reason YeHoVeH came down and confused their languages to stop the progress of their plans.

ציד

Tsayid  hunter venison , hunter , victuals , provision , hunting , catch , food , hunting

Tsayad – hunter.

Other scriptures with hunter:

Ps. 91:3 he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter and from the destructive plague.

Prov. 6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Lam. 1:6 ו Vav All her splendor has vanished from Daughter Zion. Her leaders are like stags that find no pasture; they walk away exhausted before the hunter.

There are hunters who hunt for meat for food;

there are those who hunt for sport and

those who hunt for mens souls.

As Solomon said there is nothing new under the sun…

the same is true today; as predatory individuals stalk, hunt, trap and snare others, especially the most vulnerable, for their own ungodly lusts and desires.

There is not much anywhere in the scriptures that supports or applauds hunters.

Along with Nimrod there was another famous hunter, Esau.

And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents

His story does not end well either!

But are there for our education and as warnings, to beware of the things of the flesh life that can cause us to fall away from our Heavenly Father; and their inevitable consequences.

Fishers are not as aggressive in their active pursuit of prey and many will return their prize to the waters they came from. Releasing them if they are not fishing for food to sustain self and family.

Mentioned in

Ezekiel 47:10
Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

Hooks catch ones,

nets catch many

at one casting.

The analogy that Jesus/Yeshua uses is for both as in:

leave the 99 and seek the ONE. 

Matthew 18:12 & Luke 15:4

Also the 2 instances of the

casting of the net

and

catching the fish.

One was at the start of His ministry

when calling the disciples to become

fishers of men

and the

2nd was after His resurrection.

Both times the nets were filled to over capacity.

The First Disciples

Luke 5:4-7
…3Jesus got into the boat belonging to Simon and asked him to put out a little from shore. And sitting down, He taught the people from the boat. 4 WhenJesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” 5“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”…

Jesus Appears by the Sea of Tiberias

after His Resurrection

…5 So He called out to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” “No,” they answered. 6 He told them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it there, and they were unable to haul it in because of the great number of fish. 7Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it) and jumped into the sea.…

Fishers of men were what He called them to become and as they were obedient to His instructions the results were miraculous.

This shows us that as we too are obedient to His instructions we will see Him work miracles through us.

Mark 16:20. “And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.”

Humanity is flailing around in the oceans of life,

tossed to and fro by winds of doctrine.

Tossed about like a wave “by every wind of doctrine”. It is “doctrines“, in great part, which have broken up unity. By the sleight of men. Their tricks. Cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive. Craft and cunning, employed by teachers of false doctrine in order to deceive. Ephesians 4:14

 

The seas of the worlds systems have them caught in tides of both confusion and controlled directions.

We must be ready to fish with both hooks and nets,

to haul in the harvest of souls

before the predators hunting them get to them first.

 

The call of God to each of His children never changes, it is to make disciples of all nations. Being a fisher of those disciples begins with casting the net in faith and obedience

and baiting the hook

with the bread of life

of which also the crumbs

are sufficient to bring deliverance

and salvation…

the sweet smelling savor to those perishing. 

The one whose

hope is in the Lord…

this one is like the tree planted by the waters.

Yeshua/Jesus the Tree of Life and

the life giving water source.

He is the fountain of living waters…

fish live in water;

not on the mountains, hills, or holes in the rocks.

We are fish and the symbol was used back then and still is today.

WE are the fish thriving in the living waters.

Pulled from the sea of humanity and from the fast flowing rivers of the worlds ways… we are not of those who hide ourselves in the mountains and in the holes of the rocks.

We are not the hunters, the predators.

We are the fish

and the

fishers of men.

We need to continually remind ourselves that all Jesus/Yeshua quoted from, was the Torah and Prophets and Writings. The New Testament writings did not exist at that time, nor in the apostles days. Yes, we need to study what we call the Old Testament or none of the New makes sense.

Yeshua/Jesus’ message echoed the call of the prophets

to repent and turn to the lord.

We swim upstream against the flowing tide

of iniquity, sin and ungodliness;

which carries the multitudes

towards an eternity

without our Heavenly Fathers presence.

We are to reach out

snatching them from the fires of judgment.

Jude 1:23

Today is the day of salvation,

together let’s cast that net

lets be the fisher we were called to be

and that fisherman/disciple He promised to make us into.

2 Timothy 4:2 KJV: Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

Acts 1:6 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Speak that word in season,

give that tract.

Cast the net

and be part of

gathering His harvest.

May His true Shalom/Peace

rest upon each one in Jesus/Yeshuas’ Name.

‘Mishpachah’ ‘Family’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa Mish-pa-KHa

you are greatly loved and prayed for daily..

NOT SURE if you are part of His Family?

YOU CAN BE..

Say the following and mean it from your heart…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He came in the flesh and He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life.

Because your word is truth, I say that I am now forgiven and born again in my spirit and by faith I am washed clean with the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.

Bringing Forth Treasures Old and New – Part 2

Continued from part one at:

https://www.minimannamoments.com/bringing-forth-treasures-old-new/

We were looking at the actIONs of the apostles and the attributes noted in the scriptures which identified them as: little christs/christians/disciples/apostles.

These are words that should also describe us, and be evident in our lives for the world to see as we follow Messiah Yeshua/Jesus.

obedience

grace

power

boldness

and

glory.

Resuming at

Grace which

we understand as His favor.

Strong’s Hebrew: 2580. חֵן (chen) — favor, grace

Phonetic Spelling: (khane) חֵן

favor, gracious, pleasant, precious, well-favored From chanan; graciousness, i.e. Subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty) — favour, grace(-ious), pleasant, precious, (well-)favoured. 

In Hebrew, chet or chen,

also the place of His presence.

click links for much more on grace

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-season-of-our-hiding/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/back-to-the-future-past-part-2-plus-who-was-eating-bread-on-day-6/

Chet/Chen is represented by the fence and describes a protected garden (Eden), private place, an inner room or a sanctuary…

Recall the pictograph depicting grace as a place, the place of our hiding and the womb where we are conceived and develop before birth. We are in His grace now also and in ‘a womb’ waiting to be reborn into a new resurrected glorified body; then we know we shall be like Him.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:19

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is. 1John 3:2

And we will become aware of a new desire in our hearts placed there by our Fathers’ Spirit.

A new direction maybe?

New instructions?

New Fire for His Word?

and the Lord He gives the increase.

Hearing about Him is insufficient.

Reading about Him is not enough.

Thinking we know is not fullness.

We have to be doers,

this is ACTions of the sent ones.

Not readers, talkers and thinkers, but doers of His word.

Just reading will not benefit, especially speed reading! We have to take it in, like real food, chew it and digest it for it to give any benefit of its’ nutrients into our bodies; both physical and spiritual.

We are told to Consider Our Ways in Haggai 1:5-7 

Not Make Excuses.

The people were saying, and giving reasons not to act.

“ The time has not come, even the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt ” (Haggai 1:2).

We Must Get Our Priorities in Order.

The people said that it was not time to rebuild the temple

(Haggai 1:2). …

Remember Our Dependence Upon God. …

Obey the Word of God… Not what people are saying!

5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts;Consider your ways.

Acts 5:36 and 2:39

The CALL is by His spirit and we have the choice to accept or refuse it.

By doing nothing we have refused and usually go on to live a life just like our peers saying to ourselves, ‘this is Gods’ plan for me’…is it because its an easier more comfortable and familiar way?? Four decades ago our Heavenly Fathers’ call came to this life and the message He gave for this servant to share has not changed… Repent… Turn around …come out from the world be saved, delivered, healed, filled with His spirit and make disciples; teaching them to do the same.

Strong’s Hebrew: 7121. קָרָא (qara) — to call, proclaim, read

Imagine, if we, all of our generation had done this, just think how many would be in the Kingdom today…but we always think it’s someone else’s job… we just want to live a nice, comfortable life….BUT… It’s not too late, we have today to share freely what we freely received.

The mission field of a ready harvest is right where you are…

We are not man appointed (vs. 38, 39) and if it’s not by His Spirit, it will fail.

The anointing of His spirit of holiness

by His grace brings the power

manifest through boldness

to witness and to DO

what God has called us to do in His Word.

Obedience in the name of Yeshua/Jesus and by His power we work the works of Him who sent us Yeshua/Jesus.

And by His power to destroy the works of the devil… this is what the power is for and why He came. 

1 John 3:8 For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Acts 4:13 Holy BOLDNESS it was obvious they’d been with Yeshua/Jesus…. do people see that in us?

5:29 Obey God rather than man OBEDIENCE

29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.

Then Peter . . . answered.

1 that God must be obeyed rather than earthly rulers;

2 God raised up Jesus whom they hanged on the cross;

3 exalted him to his right hand;

4 to be a Prince and Savior, to grant Israel the opportunity to repent, and to obtain forgiveness;

5 that they were witnesses of these facts, and so was the Holy Spirit.

To Hear and Obey

are the essence of the

shema

with which they were all familiar.

6:6,7 Brought INCREASE and BLESSING 6 whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid hands on them. 7 Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.

6:10 7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. 8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. 9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen 10And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

the POWER of His Spirit of Holiness is IRRESISTIBLE brings anointing /POWER

 

BOLDNESS attracts GLORY/anointing.

Prov. 28:1+12

The Boldness of the Righteous. 

1 The ungodly man flees when no one pursues: but the righteous is confident as a lion

The righteous are bold as lions.

וְ֝צַדִּיקִ֗ים but the righteous wə·ṣad·dî·qîm

כִּכְפִ֥יר as a lion kiḵ·p̄îr

יִבְטָֽח are bold yiḇ·ṭāḥ.

Proverbs 28:1 doesn’t have in mind that kind of boldness when it says the righteous have it and the wicked don’t. The boldness here is the boldness required for a just/righteous cause. What is it about the wicked that makes them so often flee (in the presence of justice) when no one is pursuing?

Could it be that..

When the righteous 
צַ֭דִּיקִים (ṣad·dî·qîm)

triumph, 
בַּעֲלֹ֣ץ (ba·‘ă·lōṣ)

there is great 
רַבָּ֣ה (rab·bāh)

glory, 
תִפְאָ֑רֶת (ṯip̄·’ā·reṯ)

https://biblehub.com/strongs/proverbs/28-12.htm

Because of the anointing

Strong’s Hebrew: 4886. מָשַׁח (mashach) — to smear, anoint

מְשִׁיחָה. More Hebrew words for anointing. noun מְשִׁיחָה. unction, band, cord, strand, thread

The high priest’s anointment is otherwise designated by the verb kadesh ( qaddesh; “to sanctify”). Indeed, the anointment “sanctifies” the high priest by removing him from the realm of the profane and empowering him to operate in the realm of the sacred, i.e., to handle the holy items.

Thus the Hebrew word mâshach that means to rub with oil also, by implication, means to consecrate. Mâshîyach (a derivative) is translated into the English adjective ‘anointed’ and thus means a consecrated person or thing.

Anointing stands for greatness (Sifre, Num. 117; Yer. Bik. ii. 64 d ): consequently, “Touch not mine anointed” signifies “my great ones.” All the vessels of the tabernacle, also, were consecrated with the sacred oil for all time to come (Num. R. xii.). 

Strong’s Greek: 5545. χρῖσμα (chrisma) — an anointing, unction

From chrio; an unguent or smearing, i.e. (figuratively) the special endowment (“chrism”) of the Holy Spirit — anointing, unction.

The sick were healed, miracles were wrought, demons cast out…

Boldness with great power and grace and obedience

they were told to leave serving tables and give themselves to prayer.

We too must put the Word first place!

Josh 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Acts 6:4 4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

Our Heavenly Father has a due time and season.

Be ready to do, or to stop doing, that which He is telling you.

Be open to change, to move on and serve in a deeper way.

Be a doer of His Word – not a hearer only…

ACTS of the apostles and disciples they ACTED.

 מעשי השליחים

The Apostles were Hebrews.

Born and raised Jewish/Hebrew 

so they were taught the language of their families. When Messiah appeared to Paul on the Damascus road, he said that Yeshua/Jesus spoke to him in Hebrew.

Acts 21, it is written about Paul, “He spoke to them in the Hebrew language.” And on his way to Damascus, Paul says, Jesus spoke to him in Hebrew: “I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’”

His Holy Spirit is a gift.

Acts 2:38 39 it’s a promise

Ps 75:6 obedience,

faithfulness and

steadfastness

bring promotion

Streadfastnesss

Strong’s Hebrew: 530. אֱמוּנָה, (emunah)

— firmness איתנות איתנה

faithful set office, stability, steady,

What Does The Word ‘Steadfast’ Mean In Hebrew?

aman-

to be firm, faithful, true, to trust; have belief; to believe.

This word indicates that a subject is lasting or enduring. Also, it signifies being firm or trustworthy.

 I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place, And he will become a glorious throne to his father’s house!! Is.22:23-25

peg – vav – hook.

HA SH’KHINAH {SHEKINAH}

is Hebrew for

GOD’S ABIDING, DIVINE PRESENCE.

Additionally, ABBA YAH means FATHER YAH.

Holy Spirit of Promise

Ruach HaKodesh ka’sher dibber

(ROO-akh hak-KOH-desh ka-a-SHER deeb-BEIR)

Holy Spirit Of Promise (Eph. 1:13).

spirit of Holiness –

Hebrew: רוח הקודש ‎,

Ruach HaKodesh

 

Dedication 

הַקדָשָׁה

sanctification

inscription, beatification, consecration,

Strong’s Hebrew: 2598. חֲנֻכָּה (chanukkah) — dedication …

chanukkah: dedication, consecration.

Patience – סבלנות

Patience has another word in Hebrew which is also biblical:

E•rech Ru•ach (literally, ‘long breath’).

 

It appears once in the Bible as an important gift of the spirit:

“Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit”.

persistence

 התמדה

also

Strong’s Hebrew: 8280. שָׂרָה (saw – rah) — to persist, exert …

to persist, exert oneself, persevere.

Original Word: שָׂרָה. 

 

These are rewarded by the Lord

We need this same anointing now and its as available to us today as it was 2000+ years ago.

WHY?

It’s to work the works of Yeshua/Jesus and by so doing, destroy the works of the devil; which is why He came.

All we have to do is ask and receive

because we are to work while it is still day

for the night is coming

and very soon

when no man can work.

John 9:4

Grace

Boldness

Obedience

Power

Glory

Yeshua/Jesus told them in His own words when the promise of the power was given in v8;

to receive the power

to be witnesses

unto Him

not

for Him

but of Him about Him.

Gk. dunamis – authority

We can read in the following verses:

The call is by His spirit v. 39 43

signs and wonders done 3:7

vs 42 43 means 100% commitment

47 praising God

3:12 not by our own power or holiness

4:7 by what power

4:12 bold declaration by Peter vs. 13 & 29 & 19 

Acts 4:13: “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and”
Acts 4:29: “unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,”
Acts 4:31: “the word of God with boldness.“

v. 5:29 obey God not man

boldness with actions

v.v31 spoke the word of God with boldness

v.v33 great power they gave witness of the resurrection

and great grace was upon them

v. 5:12 power also manifests in unity of one accord

v. 15 Peters’ ‘shadow’/anointing.

The door of grace is closing, the end of the opportunity for salvation is coming close and then it’s over.

Choose today… will we be counted in that number?

6:8 Stephen was one of His Disciples,

he was full of faith and power;

he did great wonders and miracles

and loved not his life unto physical death.

Most significantly…Jesus/Yeshua stood up for him as he transitioned.

Deliverance brings Joy.

8:8 6-8

In the cities where they ministered. 9:27 and 29

 

Boldness in v.34 Aeneas had palsy and was raised up.

40 Tabitha was raised from dead.

10:38 anointed with His Holy Spirit POWER there were

healings,

deliverances

and salvations.

Their obedience and His grace brought power from their boldness, giving glory to the Father in Jesus/Yeshuas Name.

Boldness, Power, Grace, Glory, Obedience,

they are essential

ingredients for a walk/halak bearing much fruit.

The GRACE of His Spirit of Holiness infused them with the BOLDNESS to preach in POWER and demonstration bringing GLORY to the father by their OBEDIENCE.

The BOLDNESS came through the GLORY

and the POWER of His spirit of GRACE,

anointing them

to be OBEDIENT to their CALLing.

10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth.

Let’s shake ourselves out of complacency;

let’s deliver ourselves from the spirit of entitlement which gives us ‘self time’ we think we deserve.

Procrastination will kill the anointing of the spirit of God in us.

They were all

changed

unto

obedient, bold, witnesses,

full of grace, power and truth

bringing glory to the Father...

we can be too…simply accept His call and

receive ALL that He has for you…

These words may assist you..

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua. I truly desire to be obedient to your call on my life, so I lay down my life right now and dedicate the remaining time you grant me on this earth to work in and for your Kingdom. I desire to work the works of Jesus/Yeshua and be a witness unto Him and humbly ask for You to equip me, in order to fulfill that which You have for me to do. Forgive me for procrastinating and putting off what I know has been in my heart. Strengthen me to make the step of faith that I need to take to be right in the center of Your will for me. Thank you for doing abundantly above all I can ask or even think and showing me the direction to take so I too can be changed. Thank you for the grace to be obedient so that the boldness and power of Your Spirit can bring glory to your Name through my life.

May His true Shalom/Peace

rest upon each one in Jesus/Yeshuas’ Name.

‘Mishpachah’ ‘Family’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa Mish-pa-KHa

you are greatly loved and prayed for daily..

NOT SURE if you are part of His Family?

YOU CAN BE..

Say the following and mean it from your heart…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He came in the flesh and He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life.

Because your word is truth, I say that I am now forgiven and born again in my spirit and by faith I am washed clean with the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.