YAHWEH'S BLESSINGS shall OVERTAKE you - 8 May 2019 (The Fountain of Living Waters) by Celia Joy Martins
YAHWEH'S INSTRUCTIONS:
Deut. 28:2 "AND ALL the BLESSINGS SHALL COME UPON you and OVERTAKE you IF you HEED the VOICE (WORD) of YAHWEH (the Lord) your YAH (God)."
HIS VOICE IS HIS WORD:
In Deut. 28:1-2 YAHWEH tells the Israelites and EACH ONE of US TODAY [as the "SPIRITUAL ISRAEL" - all who BELIEVES in HIM] - that IF we will LISTEN and STUDY HIS WORD DILIGENTLY - being SINCERE and WATCHFUL to DO ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS - THEN - HIS BLESSINGS and HIS FAVOR will OVERTAKE us.
Yahweh did not say that we would RECEIVE BLESSINGS, no He said it will RUN AFTER US and OVERTAKE us ... for He has ALREADY made the DECISION to BLESS His CHILDREN ... He EVEN SENT His SON to RATIFY and ESTABLISH His COVENANT ANEW ... MAKING a WAY for mankind to RETURN to Him AGAIN.
ALL of MANKIND HAD LOST THEIR WAY - YAHWEH had to START AFRESH:
When Messiah walked the face of the earth ... ALL of MANKIND had been LOST IN THEIR WAYS. YAHWEH - through HIS SON - had to START AFRESH.
CHOSEN by the Father:
When Messiah started His MINISTRY on EARTH - He chose His followers - those the Father gave Him - knowing that they would immediately FOLLOW Him as is stated in Matthew 4:18.
AT ONCE they LEFT EVERYTHING and FOLLOWED Him:
Matt. 4:18-19 "As He (Yahshua) walked by the Sea of Galilee, He noticed two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, throwing a dragnet into the sea, for they were fishermen. And He said to them, COME AFTER Me [as disciples - letting Me be your Guide], FOLLOW Me, and I will make you fishers of men!
:20 AT ONCE they LEFT THEIR NETS and BECAME HIS DISCIPLES [sided with His party and FOLLOWED Him].
:21 And going on further from there He noticed two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets and putting them right; and HE CALLED THEM.
:22 AT ONCE they LEFT THE BOAT AND THEIR FATHER and JOINED YAHSHUA as DICIPLE [sided with His party and FOLLOWED Him]."
During Messiah's prayer to His Father, He prayed:
John 17:5 "And now, Father, Glorify Me along with Yourself and RESTORY Me to SUCH MAJESTY and HONOR in YOUR PRESENCE as I HAD WITH YOU BEFORE the WORLD EXISTED.
THOSE WHO WAS GIVEN to HIM:
:6 I HAVE MANIFESTED YOUR NAME [I have REVEALED Your very Self, Your REAL Self] to the people WHOM You HAVE GIVEN Me OUT of the WORLD. THEY WERE YOURS, and YOU GAVE THEM to Me, and THEY have OBEYED and KEPT Your WORD. :7 Now at LAST THEY KNOW and UNDERSTAND that ALL YOU HAVE GIVE Me BELONGS to You [is REALLY and TRULY YOURS.]
:9 I AM PRAYING for THEM, I am NOT PRAYING (requesting) for the WORLD, but for THOSE YOU HAVE GIVEN Me, for they BELONG to You.
:11 ... HOLY FATHER, KEEP in YOUR NAME [in the KNOWLEDGE of Yourself] THOSE WHOM You HAVE GIVEN Me, that they MAY be ONE as WE ARE ONE.
:12 While I was WITH THEM, I KEPT AND PRESERVED THEM in YOUR NAME [in the KNOWLEDGE AND WORSHIP of You]. THOSE YOU HAVE GIVEN Me I GUARDED and PROTECTED and NOT ONE OF THEM HAS PERISHED or IS LOST EXCEPT the SON of PERDITION [JUDAS ISCARIOT - the ONE WHO IS NOW DOOMED to DESTRUCTION, DESTINED to be LOST] that the Scripture might be fulfilled."
Abba's BLESSINGS are a PROMISE with CONDITIONS ATTACHED to IT:
The BLESSINGS GIVEN to us as a CONDITION of us being OBEDIENT to HIS WORD are NOT RANDOM and UNPREDICTABLE. It is NOT something that we can do nothing about - it is a CHOICE that is BEFORE us. A CHOICE that means LIFE or DEATH - HEAVEN or HELL.
THE CHOICE:
1. RECEIVE (eternal) LIFE and BLESSINGS on earth -
or
2. RECEIVE (eternal) DEATH (in hell) and ADVERSITY (CURSES) on earth:
Deut. 30:15-20 "See, I have SET BEFORE you TODAY LIFE and PROSPERITY, and DEATH and ADVERSITY;
In that I COMMAND you today
to LOVE YAHWEH your YAH,
to WALK in HIS WAYS and to
KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS and
HIS STATUTES and
HIS JUDGMENTS,
that you may LIVE AND MULTIPLY and that YAHWEH your YAH MAY
BLESS YOU ...
I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH to WITNESS AGAINST YOU TODAY,
that I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU
LIFE and DEATH,
the BLESSINGS and the CURSE.
SO CHOOSE LIFE
in ORDER THAT YOU MAY LIVE,
YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS,
by LOVING YAHWEH your YAH,
by OBEYING HIS VOICE,
and by HOLDING FAST to HIM;
FOR THIS is YOUR LIFE
and the LENGTH of YOUR DAYS."
MAKING the RIGHT CHOICE:
LOVING our heavenly Father WHOLEHEARTEDLY, HEEDING AND DOING HIS WORD - HIS COMMANDS and COMMANDMENTS - then HE WILL BLESS us ... Deut. 28:2 "And ALL THESE BLESSINGS shall COME UPON you and OVERTAKE you IF YOU HEED the VOICE (HIS WORD) of YAHWEH (the Lord) your YAH (God).
BE A BLESSING:
Deut. 28:3 "BLESSED shall you be in the CITY and in the FIELD"
We and everything we OWN will be BLESSED and FRUITFUL:
Deut. 28:4 "BLESSED shall be the FRUIT of your body and the FRUIT of your GROUND and the FRUIT of your BEASTS, the INCREASE of your CATTLE and the YOUNG of your FLOCK. :5 BLESSED shall be your BASKET and your KNEADING TROUGH."
BLESSED everywhere we GO:
Deut. 28:6 "BLESSED shall YOU be WHEN you COME IN and BLESSED shall you BE when you GO OUT."
VICTORY OVER our ENEMIES - OUR ENEMIES WILL FLEE FROM us:
Deut. 28:7 "Yahweh shall CAUSE your ENEMIES WHO RISE UP AGAINST you to be DEFEATED BEFORE your FACE; they SHALL COME OUT AGAINST you ONE WAY and FLEE BEFORE you SEVEN WAYS."
BLESSED in ALL we UNDERTAKE:
Deut. 28:8 "Yahweh shall COMMAND the BLESSING UPON you in your STOREHOUSE and in ALL that YOU OVERTAKE ..."
BE ESTABLISHED as HIS OWN - IF WE WALK IN HIS WAYS:
Deut. 28:9 "Yahweh will ESTABLISH YOU as a PEOPLE HOLY to Himself, as HE SWORN to you, IF
you KEEP the COMMANDMENTS of YAHWEH your YAH and WALK IN HIS WAYS."
OTHERS WILL SEE that WE BELONG to HIM:
Deut. 28:10 "And ALL the people of the earth shall SEE that you ARE CALLED by the NAME (and IN THE PRESENCE of) YAHWEH and they SHALL BE AFRAID of you."
RAIN in its SEASON - BREAKTHROUGHS:
Deut. 28:12 "Yahweh shall OPEN to you His good treasury, the HEAVENS, to GIVE the RAIN of your LAND in ITS SEASON and to BLESS ALL THE WORK of your HANDS; and you shall LEND to MANY NATIONS, but you SHALL NOT BORROW."
ALWAYS be ABOVE and NOT BELOW - the HEAD NOT the TAIL:
Deut. 28:13 "And Yahweh shall MAKE you the HEAD and NOT the TAIL; and you shall be ABOVE ONLY, and you shall NOT be BENEATH, if you HEED the COMMANDMENTS of YAHWEH your YAH which I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY and ARE WATCHFUL to DO THEM."
SADLY TODAY in the MODERN CHRISTIAN WORLD, with RELIGION that HAS BEEN PASSED on to us from GENERATION to GENERATION, we are LOST in our CHRISTIAN INHERITANCE.
We have PUT the CHURCH - (an INVENTION of CONSTANTINE) - in YAHWEH'S PLACE. The CHURCH has BECOME our GOD for we RELY and TRUST the CHURCH and its DENOMINATIONAL MINISTER of FAITH - the DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS - to TEACH us HIS WAYS - relying on their PERCEPTIONS and INTERPRETATIONS to LEAD us to HEAVEN.
"JESUS LOVES YOU":
SIN is NOT PREACHED - TRANSGRESSIONS against YAHWEH is NOT PREACHED - it is ALL ABOUT "JESUS LOVES you" - they say.
Scripture tells us in 1 John 3:4 that SIN is the TRANSGRESSION of the LAW.
"EVERYONE who COMMITS (PRACTICES) SIN is GUILTY of LAWLESSNES (the BREAKING, VILATION of YAH'S LAW by TRANSGRESSION or NEGLECT - being UNRESTRAINED and UNREGULATED by HIS COMMANDS and HIS WILL) (AMP).
LIVING HABITUALLY IN OBEDIENCE to YAH:
1 John 3:6 "No one who ABIDES IN Him (who LIVES and REMAINS in COMMUNION with and in OBEDIENCE to Him - DELIBERATELY, KNOWINGLY and HABITUALLY] COMMITS (PRACTICES) SIN ..."
ANYONE PRACTICING SIN or LIVING in a HABITUAL SINFUL LIFESTYLE - DO NOT UNDERSTOOD YAH or HAVE A RELATIONSHIP with HIM:
1 John 3: 6b "... NO ONE WHO HABITUALLY SINS HAS EITHER SEEN or KNOWN Him (RECOGNIZED, PERCEIVED or UNDERSTOOD Him or
HAS HAD ANY EXPERIENTIAL ACQUAINTANCE with Him)." (AMP).
TRANSGRESSION DEFINED:
Transgression according to the Original Hebrew Word "PASA or PESA" (H6586 and H6588) means TO BREAK AWAY (from JUST AUTHORITY) i.e. TRESSPASS, APOSTATIZE, QUARREL (offend, REBEL, REVOLT, TRANSGRESS (DISOBEDIENCE, MISDEMEANOR, OFFENSE, CRIME, SIN, MISBEHAVIOR, WRONGDOING).
IT IS ALSO for the SAKE of our CHILDREN:
To LIVE in DISOBEDIENCE to the LAWS and the COMMANDMENTS of YAHWEH is to FORFEIT HIS BLESSINGS in our LIVES [and in the LIVES of OUR CHILDREN] and BESTOWING CURSES UPON OURSELVES [and ON OUR CHILDREN].
Joshua 24:15 "CHOOSE for YOURSELVES THIS DAY WHOM you WILL SERVE ... but as for ME AND MY HOUSE, WE WILL SERVE YAHWEH (the Lord)."
Help us ABBA to MAKE the RIGHT CHOICE TODAY ... to TURN OUR BACK on our SINS, to REPENT of it - to LAY DOWN the MANY OTHER "GODS" in our LIVES TODAY ... to FOLLOW YOU AND ONLY YOU. Help us Father to GIVE YOU the FIRST PLACE in our LIVES - to MAKE A WHOLEHEARTED CHOICE for YOU - to FOLLOW YOUR COMMANDMENTS - YOUR LAWS and to BE YOUR OWN. In Yahshua Messiah's name. Amen.