There are a number of ways to maximize the anointing in your life. Simple and straightforward to explain, yet difficult to accomplish without a strong commitment to self-discipline.
For anyone that wants to increase the anointing over their life, they will have to equally increase their determination to die to self.
And therein lies the rub…
For those who have been in my classes, you will have heard me speak often of my bootcamp training days in the anointing (which really never stops). The biggest challenge for me was “not kicking against the pricks.” Of course, dying to self is the critical first step we all must accept, in order to place ourselves in a position to walk in the anointing.
The Yoke Shall Be Destroyed Because of The Anointing… Isaiah 10:27
I would think that most of our Pastors have labored to teach us the meaning of Isaiah’s message—learning to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit.
I’m fortunate enough to have had a grandfather who owned a farm, and I can remember him caring for the animals. Leading his ox by the plow took minimal strength from my grandfather, because his ox was so adapted to the work, he practically led himself.
Obedience is a fundamental standard for qualification.
It was only when I relinquished the reigns, that the anointing was able to flow in my life. In fact, this particular spiritual character flaw is the gage I use to assess whether or not I am resisting the WORD. Being willful and resisting instruction will cause us to miss out completely on what GOD is doing.
When I see my flesh getting in the way, I just stop and obey… I simply do, whatever it is I’m trying to resist doing. When I’m paying close attention, I can catch myself and stop myself from engaging in small infractions… which in turn, prevent disobedience from escalating.
Walking in the anointing means not resisting the small directional adjustments the LORD wants to make in our walk.
Quickly Repent and Keep Moving Forward…
We each know when we are being willful, headstrong, defiant, difficult, etc. Just stop. Ask GOD for a better way. We each know enough of GOD’s Word, in order to be able to respond in a more excellent way, or at the very least, recognize the type of behavior that displeases GOD and stop.
Whenever we do what is personally difficult, but spiritually better for us and another person, that’s a small adjustment worthy of our time to make, in which we can then give honor GOD. In taking this simple small step in dying to self, you will protect the anointing on your life and on the lives of others.
Our Primary Objective, is Not to Grieve the Spirit of GOD.
Our relationship with GOD becomes the principle thing. What are we willing to do to please GOD and to preserve the flow of the anointing in our lives?
GOD calls those who serve Him, His personal possession (Ex 30:31 KJV).
Have you set yourself aside for His personal use? This would mean that we use all of our GOD given talents and abilities for Kingdom purposes.
How can you serve the Kingdom of Heaven and lift the level of holiness?
Both our strengths and our weaknesses can be used for Heavens purpose. Our strengths can be used to advance the Kingdom of Heaven, our weaknesses will help us to rely on the Spirit of GOD.
Just a few more small measures we can take, to draw closer to GOD.
Bless the LORD, Oh MY Soul. LORD You Are Very Great. You are clothe with honor and majesty!
You cover yourself with light as with a garment, and shed light on us…so we can be Your Light on earth! How much You trust us with Your Light.
LORD, just as you have set a boundary that the waters can not pass over, that they not cover the earth again…
The sun does not rise or set, except by Your Word. It shall stay its course,
The moon shall rise and set, there shall be no deviation from its path, the clouds shall be your chariot, You shall walk upon the wings of the wind, You make the angels spirits and a flaming fire, the foundations of the earth shall not be moved…
This far and no further….
At one time the waters stood above the mountains. At Your rebuke they fled, and the thunder hasted away. You appointed the moon for seasons, and the sun knows when to go down…
You hide Your Face and we are troubled…You take away our breath and we die and return to dust… You send forth your spirit and we are created, and recreated, born and born again.
At Your thought, the world renews itself and gives us a home on earth that sustains us.
Now LORD, we have given our leaders enough time, we have looked to them for guidance and found none.. we have waited for their science to solve our pandemic… they asked for 2 years, or 18 months for vaccines so that they can bring this epic-epidemic to an end.
Clearly, they have no solutions…we are to wash our hands and wear a mask. It’s the least we can do, and the best they can offer and I completely understand…they are out of their depth. We have funded WHO’s and CDC’s for decades and the world stands spellbound in the hands of men.
Don’t Let Us Fall Into The Hands of Man ….
Science does need time and good people are working diligently to bring us a solution. Countries are jockeying for position, “Who shall be first with a cure”, as if its a competition. Some are even dismissing the efforts of other countries, saying they don’t have the brain power, wisdom, skill or science to produce a cure. Once again, racial bias wants to dominate and determine not only, who lives and who dies, but what color can find a cure. Some are more concerned with the color of the cure than saving many people alive!
But You Oh LORD, are a shield for us, our glory and the lifter up of our heads…
The world needs more time…
But You LORD, can make an end in a day!
Just as you have set the boundaries for the elements, the world, the sun, the moon and the stars, just as You have set the boundaries for the waters, on earth and in Heaven,
Agree with us tonight LORD… set the boundaries for this pandemic,
Dispatch your angels to set every cell of they virus on fire…. we curse every molecule to its root!
We decree and declare, that covid must die… we declare divine reversal..
The world needs 12-18 more months to attempt a best solution,
All we need is a Word from the LORD… All we need is strong agreement.
All we need is 2 or more in complete agreement, steadfast in prayer, consecrated, dedicated believers.
There are nearly 9 billion people on earth. There must be 2 who agree, and will not come into ungodly agreement with a plague. Who will not give it any quarter, any room for expansion.. who will hear every news report and forecast and cast those words down into the pit, like vain imaginations, and every high thought that sought to exalt itself above the knowledge of the Most High GOD!
There must be 2 Witnesses to the Power of GOD in their lives and who can speak that same anointing onto the world! There must be someone healed from the incurable, the impossible, the diabolical. There must be at least two people that can stand with us and shout, this far and no further!
Who will agree with me and call this thing illegal, its reign of terror over, its assignment cursed to the root!
Our sons and daughters and children’s grandchildren shall live. Our parents and grandparents shall not be susceptible, we bind this predator off of their homes, their lives, we decree and declare they shall be still, they shall abide under the protection of the Most High GOD, Everyone assigned in their lives shall proceed with great care and wisdom concerning their care, their lives, their handling…
Nothing by no means shall harm them. Enough!
This thing seeks our lives, to attach itself to our lungs and suffocate.
We decree that covid must die, we suffocate covid with prayer, fasting and consecration, with our faith and trust in GOD.
We suffocate and destroy every assignment of the enemy by faith in the WORD of GOD that proceeds out of our mouth. With every thing the enemy finds foolish in our prayers, we say, “Watch, and see how the LORD, GOD, ALMIGHTY, comes for our word in prayer to perform it! We have seen the Goodness of GOD in the Land of the Living and we shall see His Goodness over and over again!
We draw a line in the spirit realm and everyone under the covering of our prayers, on our prayer list, on our hearts and minds, shall be covered, included, blessed and highly favored!
While praying this prayer, I hear the teaching from 1 Samuel 18 when Elijah said that the GOD who answers by fire, let Him be GOD.
24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
I’m hearing Zechariah 4:2-3, when the angel woke him out of his sleep and asked him, “What sets thou?”
And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
By Your WORD, I ask for healing of the earth, the atmosphere and Your People… All the souls that you have given us to care for. I ask for healing in our every breath. Cleanse us LORD, as You cleanse from all unrighteousness. I ask that You agree with me, with us…with Your People. We put You in remembrance of Your Word, LORD, ask that covid cross no more boundaries.
covid must turn and die.
(Isaiah 43:26. “Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.”)
Zechariah 4:
10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
We plead for the souls LORD, together, with One heart, one mind and one spirit. All we can offer is prayer, we have no science but The Lord of Host. Who is near and not 12 or 18 months away. ALL OF OUR CONFIDENCE IS IN YOU!
Send us two anointed ones, and even more LORD, that will stand by this prayer, as with the LORD of the whole earthand the GOD who answers by fire, He is GOD!
Another Black Panther has passed away. Once again, we weren’t ready. I know, It wasn’t your plan to leave us…. but still I felt a little cheated someway
News of our loss of you, came from across the room, it came like a bolt of lightning
I guess it had to snatch me out of hiding, where I’ve been secretly abiding, in a place I was not inviting -the world
So I’m reeling, because I’m seeing and hearing and feeling, another Panther dies, another light rising, another knight fighting for his life,
Another loss that will be forever with us, another side of grief that keeps us longing for the end of death, which is illegal by the way, That’s why we fight it everyday, it wasn’t supposed to happen this way, We were meant to live.
We wanted to pray for you, to place a command before Heaven for you, It’s what we were created to do, because GOD told us to,
He said, ” Concerning my sons and concerning the works of my hands, command ye me”
We would have commanded long life, we would have reached into the past with our prayers and bound all sickness and disease, we would have prayed until we had the release
Prayed… until your body remembered its first estate, until Heaven was opened by the sound of our faith
Prayed… until the future made room for our gift… your life was another one of our gifts!
We would have persuaded, negotiated, commanded it!
More time to see you reviving, thriving, living and not dying
More time for you to bring us close while you create, and motivate,
More time for you to bless and be a blessing,
More time for you to edify and encourage,
For all that you gave, we should have given, we should have nourished
Your soul, through prayer, with fasting and courage
To believe that nothing shall be impossible, because we believe
For every spirit you lifted, whether scripted or unscripted
We give thanks to GOD, that your gifts were shared with each one of us
We give thanks that your spirit existed, that we couldn’t resist it
To All the Black Panthers out there, I bless GOD for your life
I want you to live and not die,
I want you to thrive and strive, for much more than to survive
There’s so much goodness in you, that chases your greatness
In the final scene, on the this world screen
The Panther is not the enemy of the Panther,
Wakanda Forever!
For My Grandson…Because Judah roars for the Black Panther
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We are steadily trying to obtain and maintain a place of consecration. Yet, in the midst of our focus on these priorities, we are constantly bombarded by more bad news…..,more wickedness, more injustice, more killings, baseless hatred and injustice is relentless. Evil invades our space.
Yet, we will persist and stand against it until the wicked devices our enemies are brought down.
August 28th: TODAY WE ARE READING & PRAYINGPSALMS 98-104
We will not be discouraged, we will not give up, we will not relent, we will pursue mercy and justice with every fiber of our being.
We who love the Lord and hate evil: GOD preserveth the souls of his saints; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
We will rejoice in the Lord, and give thanks at the remembrance of His Holiness.
We Will Sing Over The Nations… Until Justice Flows Through the Streets for Everyone!
Psalm 98
The right hand of GOD will gives us the victory! GOD will do marvelous things in our eyes, in this generation, for our sons and daughters, for our friends and neighbors, in my lifetime
The world will sing a new song, not one of death, destructions and hate. We shall sing of justice, mercy , love and truth.
We shall sing of the salvation of the LORD, how our brothers and sister saved from harm, the innocent, not proven guilty in the courts, shall not be tried and executed in the streets no longer.
The LORD has made known His Salvation, His Yeshua. His righteousness He has openly shown in the sight of the heathen.
He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel and the seed of Abraham: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
6With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: and we are His Ambassadors in the earth.
But our report to the LORD is grim.
Your people go without shelter, health care and food. Some are being shot down in the streets in front of their children, their spouses, their neighbors. The courts heap on financial burdens and perpetuate cycles of desperation, execution or imprisonment. The sick have little or no resources, some have no place to heal or recover, poverty and plague move against us.
Poor leadership strangles the voices of righteous leaders, who sought to pursue their own gain, their own survival, while they use corrupt and legitimate authority of this earth to stifle, miseducate, and misdirect the public, who are too tired, too confused, too helpless, too hopeless, too distraught, too unbelieving or too believing for their own good. Perhaps, some are just too apathetic to manage their own government. Are they too fearful? or too complacent, too comfortable with corruption and compromise?
Those that had held their peace for so long, were detained at home by sickness and disease, which caused us to be home while Rome was burning, and they took to the streets in protest. Some to say, enough is enough. Some to say, they were being choked by baseless hatred and bigotry, so much so they could not longer breath. Some to say, I support this fight, it’s my fight. I choose to be a part of the solution, I refuse to stand by and just watch unrighteousness continue… and some to take aim and strike and stab under the cloak of darkness, to fuel hate and bitterness, to tear down and destroy– taking advantage of cries for justice to further their own ambitions to kill, steal and destroy.
Justice has been exchanged for prejudice, bias, and hate. Righteousness has been exchanged for corruption, integrity for perversion, decency for depravity.
The righteous feel outnumbered and overwhelmed. Some feel that prayer can not handle the weight of all of the suffering. Some feel that justice is overpowered by kindness, mercy, faith, love are not the weapons that we can use against this strain of evil. Some claim that love is but a mat used to welcome the oppressors and give them license for dishonesty, duplicity and guile.
Despite all this, we have seen good too, in the land of the living, LORD. We have witnessed genuine caring, compassion… intentional efforts to show love for another. The world is crying out for justice and mercy and peace… and our cries have created a shift toward thoughtfulness, consideration, reflection…
With righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
Psalm 99:7-8
We will keep Your Testimonies, and the Word that you gave us.
You always answer us Lord and this will be no different, as we enter your gates with thanksgiving.
Ps 101: 6, 8
Your eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with You.
Remove the wicked from our land, cut off all the wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
Ps 102:1-2, 7, 15, 19,
Hear our prayer LORD, and let our cry come unto thee… Hide not Your face from us in the day when we are in trouble, incline thine ear unto us. in the day when we call, answer us speedily.
We stand the watch LORD, as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
The wicked come before us and fear the Name the LORD, and all the kings of the earth fear thy glory. Send Your Name before all the wicked of the earth that mean us harm and our children and neighbors harm.
Look down from Your Sanctuary, from Heaven and behold the earth. Hear the groaning of the prisoners and the innocents, and loose those that are appointed to death. Send angels to protect them from those that seek and/or take pleasure in seeking their life.
We are but the dust that you created from the beginning,
Psalm 103: 14-15
A flower in Your field… Yet, We Shall Flourish. We choose to rise to the full measure, and the full stature of Yeshua, Our LORD.
The children of your servants shall continue in the path of righteousness, and our seed shall be established before You.
We call forth repair, restoration, recovery, rectification, and restitution for Your People and their children’s children–generational protection and blessings,
Save their seed, restore justice to the land, protect us LORD, defend our right to pass through the Kings Forest.
In Pirkei Avos (Ethics of Our Fathers), we are provided a timeless collection of wisdom teachings and sayings from the Rabbi’s and Sages. Teachings that are rooted in the torah and elevated for the refinement of our spiritual being.
In Chapter 5 of Pirkei Avos there is a brief anecdote that I would like to share, which places students in one of four categories.
Ch 5.18 describes four types of students who sit before the sages: A sponge, a funnel, a strainer and a sieve: a sponge, which absorbs [remembers] everything; a funnel, which lets all the information in and just as soon as it enters, they instantly allow all the information to run out [retaining nothing]; a strainer, which lets the wine flow through retaining the sediment (the minor points) and misses all the major, weightier points of the message or teaching; and a sieve, which allows the flour dust to pass through and retains the fine flour.
The sieve has the ability to filter out the sedimentary parts and bits, retaining only the finest flour.
The sponge soaks up everything and remembers, but is unable to process the finer points and put them into action. The funnel will say, “That was a powerful teaching, get the CD”. While they heard the teaching and were fully engaged, they are unable to transmit what they learned.
The strainer collects what they believe are the weightier parts of the teaching, but in the end, they missed the wine and captured the sediment.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law; judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Matthew 23:23
I am believing that you will be like the sieve, in every facet of your lives. Possessing the ability to recognize the weightier matters in torah, in business, in personal relationships, in every place you need to excel and take dominion (the good kind). I pray that you retain the finer points and replicate and transmit what you have learned to others, for the benefit of man and the Kingdom of Heaven.
In Genesis 2:7, “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
Man (Adam) was created from the finest dust particles in the earth… Not the common dust of the ground, but stardust, the stuff of the cosmos–all the elements of creation that exist in the earth and our universe.
May you be always the student, who hails from the lineage of Adam, made of the finest particles of the universe, increase in discernment, spiritual reasoning, insight, knowing what to keep and what to cast off, recognizing and retaining the finest flour of which you yourself were created!
But Who Can Resist an Old Fashioned Book in the Hand!
This priceless collection of teachings on honesty, morality, ethical teachings, is quick and easy to read and re-read and refer to as a good companion to Torah Study. There are many treasures to be found, such as it’s focus on character improvement and self-refinement.
In Song of Solomon 6:3, we have the beautiful verse, ah’knee luh-doe’dee vuh’doe’dee lee
meaning: I am of My Beloved and My Beloved is Mine
This Month on the Biblical Calendar is called ELUL…
ELUL, is written with four Hebrew Letters, aleph (A) – lamed (L)- vav (U)- lamed (L) (The Aleph carries an E sound). Ref: see the snapshot of Song 6:3 above, the first letter starting form the right is the Hebrew letter aleph).
Much like using an Internet acronym or text abbreviation, ELUL is a type of Hebrew acronym for the words: Ah’nee Luh-doe’dee Vuh’doe’dee Lee
The 1st letters in each Hebrew word in that phrase spell the name of the Biblical Month we are in right now… The Month of Elul
This offers us a beautiful picture with prophetic symbolism. In this we can see the connection to GOD in prayer that resides in this Month, devoting time in prayer and study, to the lover of our soul. An personal time of relationship and fellowship with GOD.
ELUL is the month on the Biblical Calendar dedicated to the search we conduct within our own soul to cleanse out all the clutter and evaluate our own actions so that we can come before GOD in earnest and rededicate ourselves to Him.
So, every time you hear yourself pronounce the word, ELUL (which I have plastered all over this BLOG, you are engaging in sweet prophetic shorthand saying, “I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine!
I present all my prayers to you LORD, as the First Fruits of my lips this Harvest Season…May they be accepted by You, as the Finest Fruits of my garden that I have in my heart to Present before My Beloved King! AMEN.
And…Praying 7 Psalms a Day; Read them 1st and Confess the words over your life and those you are covering during the month, and into 2021. PRAYING THROUGH THE PSALMS THROUGH THE MONTH OF ELUL:
Week 1. “Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.” Psalms 141: 2-3
PSALMS 43-49 THURSDAY AUGUST 20
PSALMS 50-56 FRIDAY AUGUST 21
PSALMS 57-63 SATURDAY AUGUST 22
PSALMS 64-70 SUNDAY AUGUST 23
PSALMS 70-76 MONDAY AUGUST 24
PSALMS 77-83 TUESDAY AUGUST 25
PSALMS 84-90 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26
WEEK 2. “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints” Ephesians 6:18 KJV
PSALMS 91-98 THURSDAY AUGUST 27
PSALMS 99-105 FRIDAY AUGUST 28
PSALMS 106-113 SATURDAY AUGUST 29
PSALMS 114-120 SUNDAY AUGUST 30
PSALMS 121-127 MONDAY AUGUST 31
PSALMS 128-134. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1
PSALMS 135-142 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2
WEEK 3.“Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.” Jeremiah 29:12 KJV
PSALMS 143-150 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3
PSALMS 1-7 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4
PSALMS 8-14 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5
PSALMS 15-21 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6
PSALMS 22-28 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7
PSALMS 29-35 TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8
PSALMS 36-42 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9
WEEK 4. “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14
How do you strengthen the weak hands? What makes your hands weak?
17 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
4 And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
5 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?
8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
16 For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
GOD, led the Children of Israel out by their Armies…
Scripture does not specifically list the tribes in the marching orders until we get to the Book of Numbers, chapter 10. Yet, scripture does provide us an enormous amount of information that we can draw from to obtain a larger view. Scripture uses the same language in teaching us that they were led out by their armies.
When Joseph presented five of his brothers to Pharaoh (Gen 47:2), we can deduce that he presented his eldest brothers to Pharaoh first; Rueben, Simeon, Judah, Dan and Nephtali, (Levi had dedicated his household to the Priesthood).
When we consider the prophecy and blessings Jacob spoke over his sons, noting both their strengths and their weaknesses, it is Judah that arises as the most qualified to operate in power, authority and with the highest integrity as rulers over Pharaoh’s cattle.
This is extremely important to understand because Judah continued in their posts as the most highly skilled warriors.
Later, when the children of Israel succumb to the temptations of their neighbors lifestyles, and become slaves, it is only Judah and Levi that the warriors and the Priest that remain strong enough to remember who they were before 430 years in slavery.
In fact, it is only Levi that remained exempt from slavery, dwelling in Goshen. (While this is a teaching for another time, suffice it to say, that this was only because they remained “dwelling in their tents”). It was the anointing…the fact that they drew near to GOD…that protected them.
The anointing was present because of their separation and consecration. This is what preserved them and kept them out of the enemies hands.
Send Judah First…
Also, remember when the children of Israel left Egypt, they were 600K on foot, plus the numbers of the mixed multitude (Exodus 12:37). Nearly 1 million souls estimated.
“But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed (left like an army ready for battle) out of the land of Egypt.” Exodus 13:18
Exodus 12:51 reminds us that, “the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.”
The Book of Numbers, Chapter 10, provides information on the formation of the Tribes (in their ranks and orders) as they left Mt. Sinai, confirming Judah was assigned the lead position.
13 “And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 14In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.”
Dan was the Rear Guard…
25 “And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.”
You will recall, it was the tribe of Judah that guarded the cattle and all of the treasures and goods of Pharaoh.
Although the children of Israel were slaves in Egypt, Judah were still warriors.
Attacking from behind meant you did’nt have to fight Judah. (One tactical advantage).
Actually, even the Egyptians forces strategy was to attack from behind and drive them into the sea. GOD flipped the script, of course.
Remember, their ranks and orders from which they marched out of Egypt.
The Tribe of Dan was their rear guard. Judah was in the forefront.
By this time, EVERYONE had heard of what the GOD of Israel had done to the Egyptians, Everyone!
The GOD of Israel was internationally known.
The Spiritual Audacity of Amalek…
Of all the possible nations that could have come out against them to prove their might, prove they were better than the Egyptians, prove they were better than Israel, prove they did not fear the GOD of Israel…
It was family! Amalek, grandson of Esau, great Nephew of Jacob that came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Amalek came against the children of Israel when no other nation would dare.
We tend to read the scripture as if no other nations were around. Egypt was a resource for every nation around them, keeping many people alive through the famine. There’s a high probability that the nation of Amalek was even fed in the famine by the wisdom of Joseph.
Pull out your Bible Maps again. Notice that Amalek is occupying the territory that will belong to the Children of Israel, once they remember who they are in GOD!
Amalek has been living it up while the children of Israel were in captivity! They are occupying land GOD never gave them. GOD made it clear that Esau was to serve Jacob, not the other way around.
If the children of Israel make it to Sinai and receive their prophetic Word and the blessings of GOD, their next move is to come for the land GOD gave them.
The children of Israel remembered their names (Exodus 1:1). This was practically the only virtue they had left when in captivity.
What they had forgotten was, their spiritual identity, their prophecy, their ability to decree and declare a thing… they forgot how to call out in prayer, they forgot about the power of agreement, they forgot about their strength in unity…
They forgot how to operate in the power of GOD!
Your Prophecy is The Enemy’s Biggest Threat!
This is the enemy’s dilemma. “If you remember who you are, you will know that I am illegally possessing your land. If you ever get your mind back, and remember who you are in GOD, I will have to vacate your territory!”
Amalek is like that kindred spirit, that familiar spirit, that knows exactly who you are, while you may be oblivious to who they truly are! You don’t see their jealousy, their envy, their flat out audacity to provoke GOD, while they try and keep you from everything that GOD has for you.
Scripture is calling the place, Rephidim… to clue us in to the fact that this fight with Amalek is due to a lazy spiritual condition…lack of prayer which causes a weakening of the hands.
Your hands are not just a symbol of strength in prayer…
Your Hands Contain Your Strength in Prayer.
Lack of prayer leads to bickering, bitterness, argumentation, anger, contention, strife… the works!
lack of prayer – Weakens the Hands… How do I know?
9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
yad = hand
11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
held up = room (H7311) to exalt, to be high, rise up
let down = noo-akh (H5117) to rest, allow to settle
prevailed = gaw-bar (H1396) to be strong or mighty, to be magnified, strengthened, to be made firm…
Raising our hands up..only looks like a surrender in the natural. In the spirit, we are pulling down strength… we are reaching up and pulling down the glory of GOD.
When we raise our hands, we are exalting GOD, in the midst of being raised and lifted up!
When we lower our hands, and keep them down at our side, we are allowing our enemies the opportunity to rest, gather their strength–against us! allowing them to settle in our land and in our territory.
In the words of Rev. Rita, “That’s not good!”
12 But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
heavy = כָּבֵד kaw-vade (H3515)
from the root word כָּבַד kaw-vad (H3513) to become fierce, filled with glory, glorified, filled with honor, weighty (with glory), rich, respected,
Moses hands became filled with the Glory. Moses hands became Fierce! Moses hands became filled with the weight of the Glory!
Moses hands became filled with glory, honor, respect, filled with the abundance of GOD!
Are you seeing what happened with Moses’ Hands?
All we need to know at this point is….
Do you want Your Hands filled with the Weight of the Glory!
12 But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
steady = emunah (H530) em-moo-naw firm, steadfast
from the Hebrew root word אָמַן aman (H539) trust, faith, firm, support, belief
ref: (H540) אֲמַן trust
ref: (H541) אָמַן trust, see Isaiah 30:21 (appears only 1x in scripture) “And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand (aw-man), and when ye turn to the left.”
“Moses Hands Became Filled with Faith & Trust…”
Moses hands became firm, steadfast, filled with faith and trust in GOD
12 But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
AMEN.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
discomfited = khaw-lash (H2522) to become weak, to prostrate oneself, to be overwhelmed
appears only 3x in scripture, Isaiah 14:12, Job 14:10
ref: use in Job 14:10 = to waste away
Did You See What Just happened?
Amalek became weak and overwhelmed through the power of Moses’ prayer!
and let’s make note of the significance of the agreement of Hur and Caleb… as well.
14 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
–Write this in Your Book!
14 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Rehearse this in Your Ears!
How do you think Lucifer weakens the nations?
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!” Isaiah 14:12
This happens whenever we listen to the voice that tells us not to pray!
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:
16 For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
All of their moaning, and complaining brought them into a place of dryness and desolation. A place where they will never find the anointing.
Strengthening the Weak Hands is a Priority: Isaiah 35:3-5, Job 4:3-4, Zeph 3:16, Heb 12:12
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