Foreword: Kin
This is a very specific year in the Lord for inspection.
While it happens each year during this period, this year will be more intense
for those really desiring to follow the Lord with their whole heart. He
wants to reveal to us areas that are holding us back or that He does not have...
The response to His call this year will determine the level He will be able to
trust us with in the coming days. This will take some time and prayerful
consideration... He is talking about things in our heart, attitudes, idols,
things we have never addressed and He wants to sit on the Throne in that area of
our hearts.
He began talking to us about this during "Between the Straits" this year, this
has happened for several years now. He's giving us the opportunity to let
Him be Lord over every area of our lives. The way He brought it to us this
year is so multifaceted, it is almost incomprehensible. Only He can walk us
through this. "we have never been this way before".
The Biblical Month of Elul begins this year (2010) on Aug 10th at 6 PM. This
marks 40 days before the final Day - Yom Kippur. I encourage you this
year, to throw down the idol of busy-ness, and take time before the Lord.
This is crucial for what is coming.
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Here’s
an additional article that is the heart of the Lord for this year, by
Debbie
I saw the
Lord holding up a bright lantern light in His hand walking and searching
through dark cavern tunnels.
I asked Him, “What are You doing?”
I am searching the deep
recesses of your heart looking for the hidden things.
I am
bringing and calling you into a serious season of repentance, not just a
hit and miss repentance but a real repentance where you let My eyes of
Light and Truth pierce through you going down into the hidden recesses
of your heart finding every hidden thing, every place where there is not
light, every place where darkness prevails.
Do you desire Me to such a degree that you
would long for Me to complete this work of grace in you?
All of this was said in the middle of us
studying in-depth the book of Deuteronomy.
Did you know that Jesus quoted from this
book more than any other?
If He did that, then the words spoken in
Deuteronomy must be very important.
This book is the foundation giving us
direction for things to go well for us.
There were the words from Deuteronomy 27:26
A curse on
anyone who does not confirm the words of this Torah by putting them into
practice. (Complete Jewish Bible)
“I don’t want this curse,” I spoke to the Lord.
Here was His response:
The curse is this –
All of these blessings can be yours but because of your choice, you
choose to live below the standard.
You
are cursed because you cannot receive all of the blessings offered.
They are there for you, but you choose to
not walk in that place; therefore, that is a cursed place for you.
My Word says that a curse without a cause
cannot alight so in all of the places where you have chosen to not put
My Word into
practice, where you have chosen to turn away
from My Word that I have ordered for you, every place where you have
chosen to go to the right or to the left, every place where you have
chosen to follow after other gods and serve them, that place cannot
receive light, truth (blessing) because you are
choosing
to walk in
darkness in those areas thereby keeping yourself from receiving
ALL that I have for you.
You are choosing your own destiny.
The judgment is the curse. The curse is that
you love darkness rather than light.
John 3:19-21
“Now
this is the judgment (condemnation in other translations):
the Light has come into the world, but
people loved the darkness rather than the light.
Why?
Because their actions were wicked.
For everyone who does evil things hates the
light and avoids it, so that his actions won’t be exposed.
But everyone who does what is true comes to
the Light, so that all may see that his actions are accomplished through
God.”
So instead of truth, you
get the spirit of delusion. “ II Thes. 2:11
On the other hand, if I am LORD of ALL of
you, all of your areas because you choose to only follow Me, you choose
to not go to the right or to the left, you choose to not turn away from
My Words, My instruction, My Torah, you choose to
“confirm My Word by putting it
into practice,” you choose to walk in ALL my ways, to bow your knee
in ALL things, then there is no mixture and I will pour out My blessings
in abundance over you.
“To a people without mixture I will pour out
My power without measure.
(last sentence given by
God to Bobby Conner)
Deuteronomy 28:1
If
you listen to what the LORD your God says, observing and obeying all His
commandments which I am giving you today, the LORD your God will raise
you high above all the nations on earth:
and all the following blessings will be
yours in abundance- if you will do what the LORD your God says.
For each of us this is a season to “Come clean,”
I heard the Lord say.
No more pretenses.
It is reality time. Listen to the Lord’s words from John 8:31-41.
So Yeshua (Jesus)
said to the Judeans who had trusted Him.
If you obey what I say, then you are really
my disciples, you will know the
truth, and the truth will set you free.
They answered, “We are
the seed of Abraham and have never been slaves to anyone, so what do You
mean by saying, “You will be set free?”…
(Yeshua replied) I
know you are the seed of Abraham.
Yet you are out to kill me, because what I
am saying makes not headway in you.
I say what My Father has shown Me; you do
what your father has told you!”
They answered Him, “Our
father is Abraham.”
Yeshua replied, “If
you are children of Abraham, then do the things Abraham did!
As it is you are out to kill Me, a Man Who
has told you the truth I heard from God.
Abraham did nothing like that !
You are doing the things your father does.”
“We are not
illegitimate children!”
they said to Him.
“We have only one father – God!”
Yeshua replied to
them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me; because I came out
from God; and now I have arrived here.
I did not come on My own; He sent Me.
Why don’t you understand what I am saying?
Because you can’t bear to listen to My
message.
You belong to your father, Satan, and you
want to carry out your father’s desires.
From the start he was a murderer, and he has
never stood by the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he tells a lie, he is speaking in
character; because he is a liar – indeed, the inventor of the lie!
But as for Me, because I tell the truth you
don’t believe Me.
Which one of you can show Me where I’m
wrong?
If I’m telling the truth, why don’t you
believe Me?
Whoever belongs to God, listens to what God
says:
the reason you don’t listen is that you don’t
belong to God.”
If you are a true son of Abraham, then you are
really a disciple of Yeshua and you seek Him out and allow Him to seek
you out so that you can do what He says.
True sons of Abraham, sons of The Father,
don’t run from or reject The Truth that comes from The Father whether it
is being spoken by Father God or by Yeshua, Who is speaking what He
hears Father say.
He is longing for us to allow Him to bless
us abundantly, but we have to be willing to hear the Truth about
ourselves that He needs to tell us.
He will say it in love, not in condemnation
because He desires to bless us.
I saw it like this:
Picture a large reservoir of water, an
abundance of water (symbolizing His blessings for us).
Holding the water back are flood gates;
however, only 3 or 4 of 24 flood gates were open for the water to come
through.
Blessings are coming through to us, but not
in abundance.
The more we allow Him in love to examine and
search us out, the more flood gates can be opened enabling more
blessings to come into our lives.
He desires ALL the flood gates to be open so
that the blessings will be ours in abundance.
I had told the Lord that I wanted the blessing of
Abraham.
(see Gal. 3:14)
He told me there was a blessing greater than
that of Abraham and that was The Father’s Blessing.
He is a loving Father Who delights in His
children.
He is eager for ALL the flood gates to be
open so He can give us blessings in abundance.
So let’s let Him have His desire.
Father, I come to You now in the Name of Your Son,
Yeshua (Jesus).
Show me every area of my life where You are
not Lord.
Show me every place and time where I am
turning away from Your Words.
Show me every area where I am turning to the
right or to the left.
Show me every area where I am following
after other gods and serving them.
I ask You for grace to love You and follow
You unreservedly.
Father, Open the eyes of my heart to receive Your
Truth.
Give me eyes to see, ears to hear, and a
heart to receive Your Truth.
I ask for mercy and grace to see and hear
The Truth.
Father, deliver me from deception.
I don’t want to be deceived.
In Yeshua’s Name I pray.
Amen. May the testimony the LORD spoke of Caleb and Joshua
be ours from Numbers 32:11,12
None of the people aged
twenty or more who came out of Egypt will see the land I swore to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they haven’t followed Me
unreservedly—except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua
the son of Nun, because they have followed ADONAI (the LORD)
unreservedly.
T’Shuva means to turn, to reverse
oneself, to walk the other way. Repentance and restoration. Several words and
phases that come to mind when talking about this period of time: Repent,
Return, Preparation, Prepare the Way for The L-rd
This is a rehearsal for the Body of Messiah to prepare for the Day of the L-rd -
how do you prepare? By repenting
and drawing near to the L-rd. Letting the L-rd restore you.
The Rabbi’s of ancient times saw Elul as this time being devoted to the Bride -
In Hebrew ELUL is made up of four letters
If you are wise you will use this time to, as His bride to be cleansed – we are
tarnished through the sins we do, and the things we should do that we don’t,
through things that are put on us and the things we inherit.
The gift of Elul (this time) is given to begin removing from your heart
those things that have piled up during the year, or if you have never experience
this to remove the filth that has been piled up for many years.
Yeshua gives us the picture – You know I am coming – it is throughout all of
the Scripture – Song of Songs is our love story - how I will love you…. He tells
us in Matthew 25:1-13 part
of a wedding party will not be ready…
Here are the main scriptures used to encourage repentance (Teshuva - returning):
Numbers
5:5-7
YHVH said to Moses, "Say to
the Israelites: 'When a man or woman wrongs another in any way and so is
unfaithful to YHVH, that person is guilty
And must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution
for his wrong, add one fifth to it and give it all to the person he has wronged.
Deuteronomy
30:1-6
When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you
and you take them to heart wherever YHVH your G-d disperses you among the
nations, And when you and your
children return to YHVH your God and obey him with all your heart and with all
your soul according to everything I command you today,
Then YHVH your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you
and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.
Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the
heavens, from there YHVH your God will gather you and bring you back.
He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will
take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your
fathers. YHVH your God will
circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love
him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.
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