Glorious Promotion

Yet another while since I had last wrote but now even as I sit here during the wake service of one of our ministry's sister from Melaka, I begin to ponder what exactly is Yahweh trying to speak unto us through it all. I'm not necessarily grieved with her promotion, I hardly knew her but yet I have this consolation that she is right now in the place where we who believe in the Lord Yeshua Messiah desire to be. That in itself should be a mighty comfort to her family and friends.

But I begin to ponder that is this truly what Elohim desires to do? With what He has been speaking to me, I just wonder is it true?

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

To me, with all the glorious entering of eternal rest for our beloved friends and family in this short year which is already drawing to a close, this is nothing short but a word from Yahweh unto us. And if not unto us then unto me. I do not question what Elohim does, He gives and He takes away and it would be foolishness on our part if we only accepted from His hand opened to us His blessings and not His challenges poised to us. Yeshua calls us to walk with Him with a silver spoon in the mouth and also when the cross is looming before us.

[Ecc 7:14] In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: Elohim also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

[Job 2:10] But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of Elohim, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

To me, and this is my own personal opinion Yahweh is removing the past so that the present may manifest the glory of Messiah. Many times we glory in the past, we retain memories of good times long past by and that includes even the workings of Elohim in our lives. However, as such the Holy Spirit has been teaching me that clinging onto the past however good it may be is detrimental for our continual walk with Messiah Yeshua. Many a times we always remember the former things even when Yahweh told us not to remember them. And to me, that includes the wonders of Elohim that He has wrought in and through each of us.

[Isa 43:18-19] Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

[Isa 65:17] For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

But we still do remember. I praise Yeshua that sometimes even forgetfulness becomes a blessing amidst controversy. After all, Joseph named Manasseh after Yahweh had caused him to forget all his labour and toil thus far when he had become prime minister.

[Gen 41:51] And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For Elohim, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

I'm not saying remembering the works of Yahweh are bad in such regards, however having a fixated mind on past things surely is a bad hindrance to our walk which must continue on else we be swept away in floods of dissipation. There is one thing that Elohim wants us to remember when we look in the past:

[Isa 46:9] Remember the former things of old: for I am Elohim, and there is none else; I am Elohim, and there is none like Me,

When we look back, do we see Yeshua? Or do we like the people of His times see the works of His hands and not behold the beauty of His countenance? Are we fixated on past works which will hinder the working of the Holy Spirit in ways we cannot imagine? When we keep looking back in many ways to me it shows that you are convinced in your mind that Yahweh has already given you the best He can give and what is to come cannot compare to yesterday or yesteryear. That in itself is unbelief in many ways. When we look back our eyes must look unto Him always lest we become fixated on the gifts instead of the Giver of said gifts.
Such is now I believe, that Elohim is removing the past so that the present may come and come with its full manifestation of the sons of Elohim. We desire to see the days of Elijah, of Ezekiel, of David. What I want to see are the days of my Lord Yeshua. With just one Son of Elohim, the entire world changed one way or nother, and now He desires to transform many of us into sons of Elohim for this present age. Are we ready to receive the present outpouring or is old wine still better than the new?

[Luk 5:37-39] And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

-Monday, 23rd October 2017, 2 years 1 month 16 days, 2144