Life is good. Yahweh God is good. He is what makes life good. Otherwise, there really isn't much this world has to offer to me. I see what is happening all around me. Things are coming to a head and we had all better be ready. I mean ready in the spiritual sense because I really don't believe there is much we can do in the physical.
This world is running on a plan. Evil has a plan, and it will appear to work for awhile. Then it will fail. Yahweh God, who made all things, will always be the ultimate victor. He is more powerful than anyone, or anything, on this earth. Count on it! I eagerly await Yeshua/Jesus' return.
My family wants me to reconnect with them. Call "home". Check in. It is not going to happen. If it does, it will be on my terms, not theirs. Until Yahweh God makes it very clear that I am to call them, I won't. Period. End of subject.
I have just gone through about a month of reconnect programming being triggered with several days this week being the strongest. Well, it did not work. Yahweh God is protecting me. He has shown me His protection, even to the point of sending angels (seen by someone else).
The one time I did get accessed, by a local therapist, it was because I was confused about what I was hearing inside. I saw the danger signs but did not properly interpret them. Still, He was there with me. He allowed me to realize what happened and taught me through it. I am wiser now. He turned it around for my good. Nothing happens without His either causing it or allowing it. I choose to trust Him for whatever happens...good or bad.
Several times He has clearly given me directions to keep me safe. I will keep on listening to Him and learning to hear Him better. If I am taken, He will use it somehow for my ultimate good, like teaching me. He will show Himself strong in me.
I will NOT fear!
I called someone and asked him to pray for me as I went into the dentist. I am so thankful that I did. It actually went better than it has before. I also talked to my system and explained that all was OK. I am sure that probably helped, too.
Yahweh God is there for me. He always has been, although I have not always been able to see it until afterward.
Which brings me to something else. He has been showing me some things lately. One of the things which He has shown me from time to time is that there are people who are praying against me. The cult is very diligent in praying for its enemies...probably way more diligent than Yahweh's people are about praying for ours. It will not work to pray against me. That is not a challenge...it is simply a statement of fact.
Prayers against someone are basically curses. It says in God's Word that an undeserved curse is like a bird flitting around that cannot come to rest. I try to live at peace with others...to do nothing that would cause me to deserve a curse. However, all of us, because of the wickedness in our own hearts, deserves to be ultimately cursed. None of us can claim perfect goodness. All we can claim is that we are "better than" this one or that one. Yet, we are all wicked on some level...even if it is hidden in our hearts and not seen in our actions.
That is one reason that I am so grateful for what Yeshua/Jesus already did for me. He suffered and died for all of the wicked things I have ever done or ever will do. He became cursed for me. All of the curses that I deserve He took. Wow!
So, the upshot is this. I am His and no one can cause a curse to come upon me or upon my family. The next part is also important. Whenever I become aware of prayers being offered up against me or against my family I pray for the people doing the praying. I pray for their eyes to be opened to the truth. I pray for the Adversary to be bound up away from them. I pray for them to become free!
I hate doing hard things. But I am willing to do them and, with Yahweh God's help, I do actually do them. Some seem to think, though, that my doing of hard things must mean that I have a heart of stone. That I have no feelings. Or that I do not care about others.
Well, one thing I have learned is that I cannot change others' perspectives. Nope. It is just not possible. I can speak the truth as best I can; but ultimately, they will believe what they choose to believe. Sadly, that may be based more upon what is convenient and less upon the actual truth.
Truthfully, that hurts! It hurts to be shut out by those I love. It hurts to be pushed away from someone I was loyal to...someone I defended...someone I stood up for.
It also hurts to try and communicate with someone and have them respond to things I never wrote while ignoring some of the things I did write. It hurts to be accused of doing the very things that person is doing to me. It also hurts to have someone I trust write things to me that seem almost as if they are deliberately trying to trigger me. And it hurts to be pushed away by someone I stood up for and remained loyal to.
Why do all these things hurt? Well...some of it is how I feel myself. I won't deny that. However, there is something much bigger going on. Each one's behavior reflects things they are experiencing and going through. So, I also hurt for them. Yeah, there is a part of me that wants to be angry for myself...oh poor me. But what I am experiencing is nothing compared to what they must be having to live with.
Each one of us is the way we are for a reason. Good things have happened. Bad things have happened. They all impact us. They all contribute to us being the way we are...to our reacting to things the way we react. So...are we just automatons? Is there no hope of being changed? Of being able to see truth and learn new ways to respond to things? I believe there IS hope.
For me, the key to being changed is to allow Yahweh God to change me. I cannot change myself. I can make decisions to change. I can take steps in that direction. I can even accomplish quite a bit at times. However, there are some things that I simply cannot change.
The really deep, hard things...I must have help with. I must have Yahweh's help. He sent me His Son, Yeshua/Jesus, as my first line of help. Then He sent His Spirit to live within me as another help...a huge help. He also sends me the information I need and the people to walk alongside of me...to help support me.
Ultimately, though, He is the One who changes me. I must co-operate...but He does the changing. He does for me what I am unable to do for myself. He is the helper of the helpless and there are so many areas in which I am helpless.
Yahweh God is my only real hope.
One thing I know...there is a God...and I am not Him. Boy...aren't you glad about that!? I would make a very poor god with all my imperfections. By definition...God has to be perfect! I mean...hey...He would not be much of a god if He were not, right?
Well, I guess I do know more than one thing. I also know that His name is Yahweh and that He has revealed Himself to us in many ways...through His creation...through His written word...through His people...through His Son, Yeshua/Jesus.
I also know that He sent His Spirit to dwell within those who desire to be His sons and daughters...those who accept what Yeshua did to help us to regain a heart connection with Him that was lost through what Adam and Eve did in the beginning.
I know that Yeshua taught that He was the only way to our heavenly Abba/Father. The ONLY way! It is not a teaching of Christianity...which is mere religion. It is a teaching by Yeshua Himself. You cannot have a better authority on Yeshua than Yeshua...unless, of course, it is His Father. His Father did say in a voice that we humans could hear that Yeshua was His Son and that He was very pleased with Him. I sure don't think He would be pleased if Yeshua lied about His purpose. Besides, if there are other ways to the Abba/Father, then His suffering and death were a total waste...which would basically make Yeshua quite the loser! He certainly would not be someone to follow or emulate.
I know...there are those who claim the bible has been adulterated...changed. I won't deny that attempts have been made. However, too many scholars over too many years have been keeping a close eye on it. Plus, God...the author of the book...is certainly big enough to make sure that His word is preserved enough for us to have the truth. You would have to change a huge amount of it to nullify its message...a message which actually starts back in the very first book...Genesis.
When you are dealing with the old portion of the book...the Old Testament, the Old Covenant...then you are also dealing with a culture of people who were so methodical about preserving the integrity of the book that they actually threw away and destroyed any copies that were not perfectly copied. They even checked to make sure there were the same number of words on a page and the same number of letters! Making sure that the copies were preserved was a sacred responsibility that they took VERY seriously!
No, there is truth in the Bible. There is truth in Yeshua's claim to be the only way. If I am wrong, I lose nothing in the end. But if I am right...those who refuse to believe will be in a bit of a spot. We are talking about an eternal destination here. Those who accept who He is and what He has done and live by His Spirit will be with Him forever. Those who reject that...well, He tells us about that, too.
We each make the choice...to accept or reject. I have made my choice. No one sends anyone to heaven or hell. It is the result of the choice WE each make regarding the Son of God...Yeshua/Jesus. We choose.
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