My True Realities

Philippians 4:11-13 reads:  "Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content:  I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." I have always heard the last of these verses quoted by people who are going through a hard time or about to embark on a journey of faith. "I can do all things through Christ!" they confidently declare, even so bracing for the impact that they are sure are going to take them to the brink of death if not actually through it. There is such great faith to this, and yet there are still greater layers.  This is the kind of faith that I spoke about in  this post , which involves a very painful process that we endure because we know that the Promise is worth it and on the other side, we will be glad that we made this choi...

Sometimes we grow to a point with Yahweh where He is able to reveal more of His Heart to us, yet we are still not aware of the fullness... It is in this time that we may not be able to reconcile things that He shows us. They seem dichotomous, and though taken individually, both are clearly His Truth, putting them together can cause much confusion. It is simply a resetting of the mind, a time of Veiling and even illusion. Yet, even in this Yahweh is all that there is, and it is here that we can trust Him greatly. This may be a very short post. I am in this place right now, the Veil so close that I can hardly see anything as my mind grapples with two things that seem to be the opposite. It is time to join the opposites and dis-join the things that were not to be joined that way in my mind. My mind is like a flame staring straight at the edge of a wall. The wall is not facing me so that its flat point is at my face. Rather, it is a line in front of me. My mind flickers from side to ...

The Old Testament is full of feast days, rituals, laws, and prophecies that point toward the coming Messiah. For centuries, the Jews practiced these laws and followed these rituals diligently, eagerly anticipating the Messiah-King who was to come. Yet, when He came, they did not recognize Him. There are so many obvious references to Yahshua in the Psalms and prophetic books of the Old Testament. (Micah 5:2, Isaiah 9, Zechariah 12:10, Psalm 2, Psalm 110). The Passover feast clearly foretells slaying the Lamb for the innocent. The feast of Tabernacles foreshadows the dwelling that we enjoy with Yahweh as we are His Temples now. Yet, because the Messiah did not look exactly as they had imagined Him to look, He was unrecognized. There is another reason that Yahshua was not received as Messiah. Sometimes, when people get so used to setting their prophetic word out in front of them, of seeing it as a futuristic event of "someday when," they cannot see it when it is present wi...