Obedient Blessing is better than Disobedient Grace

Escaping grace is equal to escaping salvation. So I am not attempting to minimize grace at all. But what I am counting on is Paul's advice that we should not sin abundantly to show grace. Romans 6:1-7

Yeshua says if you love me you will obey me. It also says that HE provides well for those who HE loves. Now I am not saying that hard times will never happen. But I want my readers to really get this idea. Wouldn't it be better to seek HIS favor in this life and the next based on obedience rather than count on grace all the time for forgiveness. It is my personal goal to find His favor and blessing through obedience. Not that I don't have his favor which granted me salvation. My salvation is based on Him choosing me and not my good deeds. My good deeds based on my love for Him according to the bible may just open the door to prosperity in life. Maybe sometimes that is financial but not always. Maybe it is His blessing based on my obedience that has allowed me to be able to write this blog. And be the blessing that a few people claim that I have been through this blog. I tell you today. It is not my greatness in writing things of YHVH that you see in this blog but rather His blessing over my thoughts and hands in order to place this stuff on the net. I write this because I love you, my reader so much that I don't want you to live a life of mediocrity. Counting on living in grace alone but rather, I would like to see you living faithfully in His blessing granting you a great and peaceful joy that will bring you the happiness that you seek. Disobedience might be fun for a time. But it shall pass and you have nothing left but grace. No divine rewards will await. Your salvation may not be lost but the knowledge of know your Heavenly Father's blessings will be a memory in your mind of, I wish I had done better.

In my next blog I will talk about disobedient prayer.

Self Control Or Self Gratification.

Self Control Or Self Gratification. Why do so many people spend so little time focused on the greatest things YHVH has to offer. Many people chase speaking in tongues, or the prophetic, and some to be a great healer. As admirable as these things are most of people desire these thing for the attention they believe they will get from the peers of their church. Yeshua said that we should give in secrete. Have you ever thought about healing someone in complete secrete so they had no idea what had happened. Probably not. Showing us that the reason most seek big fancy gifts is self importance or pride. Don't get me wrong the gifts of the spirit are great and we should desire them. But I think we should leave them up to YHVH to delineate who gets what gift and when its needed. However that does not mean we should sit waiting dumbfounded for something to happen. Maybe our fast focus should be on spiritual fruit rather than spiritual gifts.
There are many fruits to talk about but I am going to focus on the one that is most neglected as far as I can tell.

When was the last time you were driving down the road and something happened in traffic? Maybe you got cut off, or the light changed just in time to mess you over in your time schedule. One time I looked down from the 18 wheeler I was driving because a car was running right beside my window and not passing me. They came up fast and then slowed at my window. They had a reason for this. You see the passenger was a reasonable looking woman that was totally nude as far as I could tell. After I got a good look they picked up the pace and moved on. My hormones went out of control because of that. Mostly because I had no idea on how to control anything in my life. Especially myself. I have been the guy who gets very angry at an inconvenient stoplight. One of the biggest areas that shows a loss of self control is sex. But I am not going to deal with that in this blog. I will be blogging it but not today. Lets look at some of the little issues of self control. Its the little ones that really ad up because they get ignored.


Col 3:23
23And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Master and not to men, 24knowing that from the Master you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Master, Messiah, you serve. 25But he who does wrong shall be repaid for the wrong which he has done, and there is no partiality.

I was walking out of a Connivence Store a little while back and saw a beautiful gal walking in. She caught my attention because she was conservatively well dressed. She was also with some children though I don't think they were hers. Close by walking up with her was another woman who looked more like the mother of the children. Quickly she caught up with the woman that I had noticed. I also saw a man that from what I could tell was probably the second woman's husband and the father of the children. Because of the time of day and the day of the week I guessed them to be 7th Day Adventists. They are very devout to a saturday Sabbath. As He fueled I pondered their home and what might be found in it. I did this partly because of where they were this lovely saturday afternoon. A C-Store. Which means money was about to be spent to cover gas and what ever else they might decide to purchase. However the bible does say that there shall be no money changing hands on the Sabbath. As I said its the small things that add up fast. I wondered could I find sponge bob in the children's toys, or videos on the shelf that were not edifying to the Creator. Would I find magazines designed for women but have soft core porn on the cover like Cosmo. How many hours does your over all home dedicate to farmville etc. There are so many things that we neglect because they seem innocent. The 7th Day Adventist actually have a lot more of this under control then most. They usually don't read romance novels and things like this that many many people who claim to be christians do.


How many of these things are in your life? I can say I have way way to many in mine. But I can also say that I am on a daily struggle and prayer for the spiritual fruit of self control.
The bible says so many wondrous things for those that keep his statutes and commands. Why do we continue with the rubbish of our lives? We continue to turn time and time again to focus what we want. Giving little or no thought to what is right in the site of YHVH.
We cry out that is just innocent little this and little that. Or scream who are you to judge me. Weigh it out for your self, are all those little innocent things that the go against that scripture worth the loss of the blessing from heaven. Should we turn away from spiritual fruit and turn toward our own lustful desires?
The bible is full of stories when Israel did exactly that. Horrible things occurred time and time again to them until they repented.
Will we be aloud a time to repent? Or destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah? I personally have been praying for an idea I call One of Ten. Ten Couples who will devoutly stand in the statutes and commands of YHVH. Who will follow this,

II Chron 7:13
“If I shut up the heavens and there is no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, 14and My people upon whom My Name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I shall hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin and heal their land. 15“Now, My eyes are open and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place

May a remnant be found in the precious country the united states of America.

Faith The Forgotten Art

Most christians claim they believe the bible to be true. But their life does not reflect it. Lets look at an example of how belief effects action.
In the deepest of the jungles of Africa there are natives. Many of these peoples live very primitive. Some of them teach their children from a young age if they kill and enemy and eat some of their brain they will harvest the power of that enemy. What do these children do when the become adults? The fulfill that belief system.

I was once asked by a non believer if your god is real why are their no christians doing miracles like what is depicted in the bible. Such as regeneration of limbs. The question cut to the quick of my belief system.
Miracles do happen today. But not like that. Why? I began my quest with this question. Why do miracles like that not happen. The bible says:

Mathew 21
18And returning to the city early in the morning, He became hungry. 19And seeing a single fig tree by the way, He came to it and found naught on it but leaves, and said to it, “Let no fruit grow on you ever again.” And immediately the fig tree withered. 20And the taught ones, seeing it, marvelled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither so soon?” 21And יהושע answering, said to them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have belief and do not doubt, you shall not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be thrown into the sea,’ it shall be done. 22“And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.”

Now this where my blog is going to take a turn for the hard. As you read the above you may have assumed of few things. Many do who I have talked to about those verses

1 Can a person really cast a mountain down into the sea?
Common answer. No because that would cause great geological issues. Does the need at that moment merit that level of Devine intervention.
2 Is the reason this does not happen because of lack of belief?
Common Answer Potentially but God would not choose to allow that to happen because he knows better than humanity. That this should not happen.
3 Did Yeshua really mean what he said or was he speaking metaphorical?
Common answer, He was being metaphorical.


Both answers are partly true and completely wrong. The geological issue is of no importance to whether it can happen or not. Yes there will be catastrophic affects. But the bible does not address that issue. In fact the bible does address the second half of the issue. Lets look at Mark to see his account of the story.
Mark 11:
12And on the next day, when they had come out from Bĕyth Anyah, He was hungry. 13And seeing at a distance a fig tree having leaves, He went to see whether He would find any fruit on it. And when He came to it, He found none but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14And יהושע, responding, said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.” And His taught ones heard it

Yeshua's motivation according this was hunger. I am going to skip the 3rd for a moment. Was Yeshua meaning that we could cast down mountains metaphorically? My answer is first a resounding NO. But also yes. Can the mountains of bills be taken away and cast into the sea based on this verse. Yes. But thats not really why I am writing this blog. Can we really cast down mountains into the sea. YES. Lets put into context. The disciples that were there saw the whole thing. He withered the fig tree. Was the fig tree metaphorical? Absolutely not. Those men with him saw the tree wither. After seeing something like that, and then hearing Yeshua's words, is there any way that they could have applied those words metaphorically? Answer only someone who wishes to cause doubt in the mind of a believer would ask such a question. And that brings us back number 2. What was the criteria for being able to accomplish something like this? Faith! How do we obtain faith?


Rom 10:
17So then belief comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Elohim


Lets not forget context of what is going on. First he was not saying Yeshua he said Elohim. This name is used more often in the OT. Second what was being talked about was scripture. What was scripture at the time? Not the New Testament. That was happening right then. What was the scripture. The Torah was the scripture of those days. So faith comes from hearing the Torah. The Torah for any who does not know is the first 5 books of the OT. Also something you need to remember is this.


James 2:
14My brothers, what use is it for anyone to say he has belief but does not have works? This belief is unable to save him. 15And if a brother or sister is naked and in need of daily food, 16but one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” but you do not give them the bodily needs, what use is it? 17So also belief, if it does not have works, is in itself dead. 18But someone might say, “You have belief, and I have works.” Show me your belief without your works, and I shall show you my belief by my works. 19You believe that Elohim is one. You do well. The demons also believe – and shudder! 20But do you wish to know, O foolish man, that the belief without the works is dead? 21Was not Aḇraham our father declared right by works when he offered Yitsḥaq his son on the altar? 22Do you see that the belief was working with his works, and by the works the belief was perfected? 23And the Scripture was filled which says, “Aḇraham believed Elohim, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.” And he was called, “Elohim’s friend.” 24You see, then, that a man is declared right by works, and not by belief alone. 25In the same way, was not Raḥaḇ the whore also declared right by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 26For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also the belief is dead without the works.


What are works? The answer is obedience. Yeshua was asked what was to be obeyed. He responded:

Mark 10:
17And as He was setting out on the way, one came running, and knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?” 18And יהושע said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One – Elohim. 19“You know the commands, ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not rob,’ ‘Respect your father and your mother.’ ”


In other words Yeshua sent the rich man to the Torah. In my personal search of finding out what is missing in my life of answered prayer I have figured out. Obedience to the Torah is key. If anyone teaches that we can count on forgiveness and that the Torah is an option and not a requirement, just remember faith comes from hearing of the Torah. Faith is the weapon we have to defeat the enemy and his attacks.
To go into this battle against YHVH's enemy with weak faith is to walk into a war low on bullets against an enemy who has full automatic weapons.
A faithful one who walks into the this battle in obedience walks in with plenty of ammunition that has the innate ability not only to kill but its also like having bullets that track down those enemies no matter where they hide.

I choose to fight in my Heavenly Fathers Battle. I choose to use the best weapons I can get my hands on. Faith mixed with obedience.
I am going to flatten some mountains not just those personal struggles. But I hope that one day. I will go out and in the name of Yeshua I will do my best to show what a obedient faithful man can do in the face of the enemy.

I Stand As One.
Genesis 18