Drawing Water

It's been a while yet again but here we are at the halfway point of the year 2017. It felt like mere days when in fact it has already been 5 full months gone by. Every year that comes goes with even quicker pacing than the last. It just means that the Lord Yeshua is coming again real soon and that He is cutting His work short in righteousness.

[Rom 9:28] For He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will יהוה make upon the earth.

Nonetheless we as His people ought to prepare ourselves to meet with Him. Over the course of this week I've noticed something quite thought provoking: my seniors are tired. And I don't mean a lack of sleep even though some of their faces are just like that, they are physically and spiritually tired. Just yesterday as I was on worship together with Danti I could so easily sense that almost if not all of my seniors present were absentmindedly present. Meaning that their bodies were here but they themselves were probably elsewhere and I'd reckon the elsewhere was work based. I just find that as Pastor Jean and the team went off to Singapore for yet another Harp and Bowl seminar, that we have become short handed. But not really short handed per se but I'll come back to that some other time. What point I'm making right now is that my seniors are reaching the end of the rope for themselves. They find strength failing, work ever increasing, and 24 becomes not enough for many of them. Of course, that might not be the case for all but for some of them as I have been observing.

Where does our strength lie? Where or rather Whom do we draw strength from? From Messiah or from myself? Isn't that why we have become ever so tired and find our walk becoming so monotonous? We don't know stillness of heart and that's why we can't hold onto anything that we grasp upon.

[Job 20:20] Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

The belly in the King James speaks of the heart. Anyways, I find that people trudge to the house of Elohim and suffer through many a times of worship and prayer. That ought not to be the case, Yahweh only accepts the sacrifice if it is first out of a cheerful heart or in another word, an offering where we willingly give it.

[Exo 25:2] Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring Me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take My offering.

Isn't that clear enough? His offering is an offering where a man gives it willingly with his heart. But we don't see that, we see worship and ministering to Him as part of ministry duties and that's why the breakthroughs pass us by by the droves. We don't know how to allow the Holy Spirit to take over especially during the time to minister to Him. Because it is by the Spirit we draw near and it is by the Spirit that we are able to keep the good thing belonging to us.

[Heb 10:19] Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Yeshua,

[Eph 2:18] For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

[2Ti 1:13-14] Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Yeshua the Messiah. That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.

We bring out burdens to Him when, and in my opinion should have done before we come to minister to Him. During our times of worship we are so bogged down by many things and that's why we can't experience what the Holy Spirit is working in and through each and everyone of us. We bring our issues and in another sense, we bring ourselves into the presence of Elohim when in fact when we come before Him it should be time to put on the Lord Yeshua. All that we have gone through and faced we leave at the door of the house of Elohim and we enter having nothing. Because when we are purged from the old leaven then we can become a new lump altogether.

[1Co 5:7] Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even the Messiah our Passover is sacrificed for us:

And when we experience the newness of the life of Yeshua, a little leaven leavens the whole lump. It's much more than we can imagine. I do hope the readers can understand what I'm trying to convey here. Whatever we have gone through, though we may find ourselves lacking in many regards; as long as we learn to leave ourselves at the door of Elohim's house and enter with nothing but the Lord Yeshua put on then we can experience what Paul blessed the Philippians to receive.

[Phi 4:19] But my Elohim shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by the Messiah Yeshua.

The Book of Psalms also expressively speaks about the people of Elohim being abundantly satisfied in His house. But the only way they can be satisfied is if they first know Him personally first.

[Psa 36:7-10] How excellent is Thy lovingkindness, O Elohim! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures. For with Thee is the fountain of life: in Thy light shall we see light. O continue Thy lovingkindness unto them that know Thee; and Thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

[Psa 46:10] Be still, and know that I am Elohim: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

[Psa 65:4] Blessed is the man whom Thou choosest, and causest to approach unto Thee, that he may dwell in Thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of Thy house, even of Thy holy temple.

We have been brought near to be able to experience Yeshua all the more now than ever. But do we see that? Do we see it as yet another opportunity to draw strength, to draw water from the Dayspring Himself? Or do we see yet another duty we must perform not because we want to but because we need to?

-Friday, 2nd June 2017, 1 year 8 months 26 days, 0146