2017 Past

New Year's Day, 2018. It was short, 2017. And perhaps this year will be even shorter still in light of the coming of the Lord Yeshua Messiah. But what this year brings is new beginnings. New, fresh things that we've yet to see and now I believe that it will come to pass. Just as last year was the time of much moulding, I believe that even with the beginning of today new things will begin to arise not just in the lives of individuals but mayhaps the entirety of the body of Messiah Himself. It most certainly is for me, even from this first day of the year I can already sense from the deep recesses of my being that it's going to be much different than the year before it. Such a prospect excites simply because it goes to show that the journey in Messiah is anything but monotonous. It is simply exhilarating to be found in His will because we will never be found unsatisfied.

Looking back for 2017 I found satisfaction of life everlasting. Many desire many things but what I wanted was quite simple to begin with: contentment with Yeshua. And that was exactly what I received and got for this past year. All that I have experienced and gone through for 2017 truly was good in the eyes of Elohim towards me and He was truly gracious in leading me through each and every single moment to where I am now. Even at this moment, I find myself lacking the words to properly describe how last year was magnificently wrought for me in Yeshua and because I found Yeshua, I found all that I need, want, and more so. It has been a good year, but nonetheless the new year brings about an even greater outpouring and blessing with it alongside its accompaniment of obstacles and challenges to breakthrough. None of these move me to mouse away, rather I am quite excited at the idea of more breakthrough at the price of overcoming.

The new day has come and with it, new things. I am content, happy. Not because I have what I need and want though I do, but because Yeshua is now with and in me that I am content. What more do I want when I can partake of fullness every single day from henceforth? However, that doesn't mean that I've been made perfect yet. There are still many areas that need the powerful hand of Messiah on me but I've given myself to Him, it shall be resolved in their due times and measures. Though I am imperfect yet He makes me perfect through my imperfections. How wonderful the Elohim I serve is that I just can't help but to speak of His praise all the day.

[Psa 50:15] And call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.

[Psa 71:8] Let my mouth be filled with Thy praise and with Thy honour all the day.

Hallelujah.

-Monday, 1st January 2018, 2 years 3 months 25 days, 0346

In With The New

The Bible Reading this year is really quite the enjoyable experience. Not to say that I didn't enjoy past years but rather that this year there really is such an excitement about me as I take the evening and early morning watches to read the Scriptures. The sense of time have long since past, having stayed in the sanctuary for the past couple of days. Having to do everything in the confines of the church really is quite the invigorating experience for me and sometimes I seem to lose track as to exactly what time of the day and the day more so we are in. Having come down to CRC here with a few others for the Bible Reading, I'm glad I did so. It was quite a breakthrough for me in the sense that once more I can begin to devour the Word of Elohim once again. I had been stuck receiving from Yahweh for a while now and it just feels so good to once again being able to read more than just a few chapters now. What an exhilaration, what a rush.

We are nearing the very near end of the Bible Reading and yet I can't help but sense that this is but the beginning of many new and exciting things to come in the Lord Yeshua Messiah. As we draw near to the close of 2017, 2018 is looking to be the beginning of a season of new things and I can't help but recall the verses regarding so.

[Isa 42:9] Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

[Isa 43:19a] Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?

[Isa 48:6] Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

[Eze 12:28] Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord YAHWEH; There shall none of My words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord YAHWEH.

The year ahead, Elohim willing looks to begin with the closing of the former paths and ways and things and the beginning of things yet not seen, either in this ministry or even in our lives. Something new, something exciting is abounding not just in Glory Place but in all the other prayer houses as well. We're growing.

-Friday, 29th December 2017, 2 years 3 months 22 days, 0513

Stronghold of Dogma

You know, looking back at the year that has passed already I'm actually really contented with how thing have transpired until this very moment in time. True, there were many a times of going up and down but ultimately I see all roads lead to the same path in Yeshua Messiah: upwards. I'm really, really satisfied with how this year turned out because it was truly beyond my expectations and because it was beyond my expectations there were many times I was simply awed at the simplicity and powerful manifestation of the Word of Elohim in my life. I am truly glad at this moment and am very expectant as to what the new year holds not just for me alone but for all of us who are in Messiah's body.

Just recently as I had a wedding dinner to attend together with my family, I stayed in CRC in the meantime. During that time, my father and I usually have our talks about our different paths of life in life and how, but it would mostly be mine; our progress in Yahweh is. Whether it is producing the fruits worthy of it or not. And during this time, the Holy Spirit spoke very clearly to me, I have strongholds in my mind. At the time, I was perplexed because I had taught that Yeshua had removed the majority of the major powers in my mind and that I was set free. It turns out we all could always be more set free. The stronghold which He revealed to me was the accumulation of the many revelations, blessings, miracles, and joys in Elohim that I had attained to during this year. When He spoke thus, clarity came to me and I understood exactly why such things can become a stronghold for me.

Many times, we each have been given a special revelation for a specific season of time and it sticks with us. It becomes a part of us, interweaving dogma. Our lives are built upon all these revelations which over the span of days, weeks, months, years Yahweh has been revealing to us and it becomes a lifestyle for us. It is a good thing to be sure but there is a flip side, sometimes we become so set in our ways that it leaves little room for greater things to be poured out unto us from heaven above. And so, by the grace of Elohim upon me He has so desired that I should be free to receive more from Him and I shall and I am. After spending a while to just tear down the strongholds in the mind in the name of Yeshua, I was set free and I am pleased to inform that whatsoever was creeping upon my mind has lifted off. It's as though it has become a clean slate for the new year ahead and it's many showers of blessings.

Of all that we have received, we must be ever willing to lay it down back at the altar when the time comes else we will not be able to progress a step further. Even the blessings, the anointings, the gifts, the joys that we have attained to must all become lost for a greater anointing to begin to flow. It is a step of glory to glory after all. We wouldn't want to be found at the base of the ladder when the time comes, no, we'd rather be climbing one ring up another and that in turn means being prepared to lose your footing on the previous step to plant yourselves on the new. Now, I am very expectant because of all the blessings Yeshua has given and shown me now I see a far greater glory which shall be revealed in me and us altogether in the year to come. Glorious day, and with such a breakthrough we can begin the Bible reading marathon together once more. A glorious day indeed. Praise Yahweh.

-Tuesday, 26th December 2017, 2 years 3 months 19 days, 0055

Offenses Aside

We're nearing the end with each day that passes. And not just the end of the year, but even the end of the age. More and more each and every single day we are beginning to see that the work of Yahweh is hastening ever so quickly in righteousness and it is time that the Word of Elohim is fulfilled in every way possible.

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

And indeed it is, it is unbelievable to me just how fast the work of the Holy Spirit is progressing in me, in us, in every single one of us. And more so now I believe that it is time to rise up.

[Dan 12:3] And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

[Mat 13:43] Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

I'm not particularly sure as to what exactly I should write in this moment of time but I can sense ever so clearly in my spirit that something is about to take place once more. Perhaps more than anything, judgement is beginning in the house of Yahweh now and the Lord Yeshua is sieving His people like wheat from chaff. They that have built up a strong foundation in Messiah will continue forth into a breakthrough unlike any such before it, but they who are just flowing together but not exactly experiencing for themselves the riches of Messiah will find the times to come challenging to say the least. It's not something to dread, but rather something to look forward to.

[1Co 3:13-15] Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

To us who really know the end, we have an assured hope in Yeshua that though we may stumble and fall, we will still be saved by His grace and mercy but through fire. There's honestly not much else for me to write, as I see the end of 2017 approaching ever so quickly I ponder to just how the Holy Spirit has led and preserved me thus far. Truly, it was simply all Him and nothing of me. Had it been me, it would surely not have turned out far greater than I could have imagined or thought of.

Perhaps the one thing that keeps ensnaring the young people, myself included are emotions more than anything else. During the Young People's Camp I've noticed that emotions ran rampant throughout. People become increasingly agitated with the contrast of personality and character with one another, sensitivity more so sky rockets to unimaginable heights. So much so, that even a slight would cause bitterness, resentment, and hatred to be fanned aflame from within. Honestly, these are the times when we must realise that emotions are not our dominant drive, the Spirit is. We have honestly been led by our noses, figuratively speaking of our emotions; for far too long.

I honestly believe that we as young people are meant to be built up like a fortress, a strong tower. Not one where our emotions turn stone cold dead, but one where it becomes dulled when faced with the onslaught of every day offenders and offences. There passes not a day for me when I would not be offended by something someone said or even by my situation. However, I've realised the needless neccesity of harbouring it because it's not worth my time and energy to peruse and pursue after such things. I've better things to expend my thoughts and energy on. I do get offended, however I realise that carrying my offense further with me in my walk with Yeshua would be detrimental not just to me but to others as well. So, I've learnt to discard them in the name of Yeshua and praise Him I am set free because of it. Seriously, praise Yeshua.

-Saturday, 23rd December 2017, 2 years 3 months 16 days, 1717

Abiding in the Vine

The Young People's Camp titled 'Living As Sons of Elohim' have just ended and majority of the young people who were in attendance have already departed with a select few staying behind until the end of this year to participate in the non stop Bible reading marathon held in the various prayer houses around Malaysia. This was an entirely different camp from the usual norm, even from the get go. Firstly of course were the young people. This time around, we had real proper young people to attend the camp. Ranging from the age of 11-23, the oldest of our participants just so happens to be our staff and helpers who are serving there. Secondly, it was held this time at Semarak Revival Centre instead of its usual Glory Place Mantin and perhaps that that there is a change in the anointing of Yahweh for the seasons and times. This camp felt so very relaxed and chilled just like a seminar, even Pastor Jean herself humouredly referred to it as such in one occasion. The atmosphere is very peaceful and many of the young people really enjoyed themselves there at the camp especially during the worship. All I can say is that this camp has been very liberating, for me and for many more so in more ways than one. Praise Yahweh.

I've experienced many things during this camp. Dreams, visions, confirmation of the Word of Elohim, revelations but all this are simply experiential to me. What is far more endearing to me is that this camp has changed me. I don't know how or when but something has indeed changed from within and from within the without changes in accordance as well. During this camp, I've felt that there was an abiding between the Lord Yeshua and myself more so during this camp that I was not able to do usually during camps, seminars, and whatnot. Usually, I'd always find such a hunger to read and read the Word whenever the anointing is present but during this camp this particular anointing was withheld from me and another one was poured out upon me. I've felt the anointing to receive.

What do we mean when we say we want to live the life of the Son of Elohim? How do we do that? What is needed? And the answer that I found is simply to receive. Though this is but a simple revelation during this camp it became so profound and real to me. All I could do was to receive. It didn't matter whether I was lifting up my hands or even just sleeping but I was absolutely conscious that I was receiving at all times from the presence of the Holy Spirit in our midst. It was all I could do. I had so wanted to read the Word and continue from where I had left off but I simply couldn't, I just had to receive and received I did. Because of that, now that the camp is over I find that there has been a shift in the atmosphere around me. It feels lighter and somewhat airy if put into physical terms but more than that, I feel free. Much more free and liberated than how I was before the camp. Not just free, but free indeed.

The road leading up from henceforth appears to be marked with many an exciting prospects. However, I fully trust in my Messiah and am confident that in Him all things will continue to work together for His good which in turn is for my good. Amen, praise Yahweh. From this Young People's Camp, I am excited. Simply from the prospect that from now on nothing is ever going to be the same again, whether we want to admit it or not. That excites me, knowing that Elohim is indeed moving us from glory to glory just as by the Spirit of Yahweh. How radiant it is tonight.

-Monday, 18th December 2017, 2 years 3 months 11 days, 2353

Season of Change

The season is changing and perhaps the change that comes with this season is one that we may not expect but in premeditation it was within our scope of vision all along. Basically, this vision is fraught with many changes to come. Whether by situations or people I believe that now is the time to set our sights upon the Lord Yeshua Messiah because should we have our sights upon anything or anyone else besides our Lord then surely we invite sorrows upon sorrows upon ourselves.

There's not much else to write except that I am quite impressed with the moving of the Holy Spirit in these last days. What a way to close this present year and begin the new one. As we move into this season of many a changes, I find that the one Person I can cling onto Who never changes is simply the Lord Yeshua Messiah. Surely as I cling onto Him as a sash clings onto the waist of a man, I am safe beyond doubt. Come what may, I know that when I'm in Him and He in me it's all good. I know He has and will and is turning, turned all situations around for the good of they that love Him, they that are the called according to His purpose. Amen.

-Thursday, 7th December 2017, 2 years 3 months, 2334

Life

I've recently been sharing together with Megan the things which Yeshua is accomplishing in each of our lives and I am amazed to know that truly despite everything we may seem to see and hear, there is stable progress and growth amongst us. Even as we shared with each other our revelations and testimonies over chicken lunch, I found that that is the most enjoyable time for me: when instead of speaking of the things under the sun, we can speak of the Son. We speak the Word and it benefits us so much, if only we knew how much so.

Anyways, I've decided to share my revelation which I have received and have been asked to jot down. The revelation of living the life of the Son of Elohim. And though I have had the privilege of sharing but a small fraction of it, I realised that what I tried to convey in such a short amount of time was not enough to give the hearers understanding. This is an extensive one because I realise beforehand that everything pertaining to Elohim connects with one another in the Scriptures. Whether Old or New Testament, everything is interwoven with one another like chains. Thus, it is of the glory of Yahweh to conceal a matter and the glory of we kings to seek it out.

[Pro 25:2] It is the glory of Elohim to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

The revelation I received is actually quite simple: Messiah fills all and is in all and is in we all.

[Rom 11:36] For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

In Him we have everything but without Him we are nothing. I likened this to a man wearing a full costume from head to toe. You see, the costume is not alive by itself but appears to have some resemblance of life because of the man inside who animates it. It is his life that gives life to the costume. Without the man, the costume is dead. And even when the man is in the costume, unless the man moves only then does the costume move. The costume does not move by itself though it has the man inside. It moves when he moves and if he doesn't move it doesn't move as well. The life of the costume is tied solely to the life of the man inside. Without the man inside, the costume has no life. The same is shared when Messiah is in us. We no longer live, we have died and though we have been resurrected with new life the new life is Yeshua's, not ours.

[Gal 2:20] I am crucified with Messiah: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Messiah liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of Elohim, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.

Without Yeshua in us we can have no life in itself and the life which we have now is not on our part to do anything. We are but vessels of His power and glory and life more so. We cannot hope to live out the life of Messiah because only the Messiah can live out His own life through us. The same is applicable that I cannot live the life my sister has, though I may copy all I want about her I cannot hope to enter the ladies wash room because I'm not a girl. We can copy and try to live out the life of the Son of Elohim but in the end there are things we will find which we cannot do. The amazing news is that He can live out His life in and through us.

[Phi 2:13] For it is Elohim which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.

Our minds must be changed and renewed to the point that we come to acknowledge that we have no part to play in the great will of Yahweh for humanity. There's nothing we add to Him and there's nothing we take from Him. Yahweh isn't greater all the more that we believe in Him, He never changes. He is always glorified and awesome and holy with or without us knowing it. The point also applies to our life of faith in His Son, Yeshua. We think that we can do many things for Him but the answer is no, we do not. All things that He wants to be done will be done with or without us present. And as we come to that mindset that truly it is not of us who plans or does anything, the burden is lifted from us.

[Rom 9:16] So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of Elohim that sheweth mercy.

Sometimes we are under bondage so many times because we take on so many problems and tasks at hand, to care for the body of Messiah when in fact Messiah Himself shall care for His own body. I believe that this is because we still think that we can do something. There's nothing I can do without Him present no matter how good or how godly it may seem. We see all these things as our own things and therefore the bondage is there because we see that this is our problems and our duties to fulfil. I've come to a point in my life where I found my walk has become increasingly lighter as the days go by because I see the problems that come my way as His problems and not mine. If it were mine, then I would have to wrack my brain to think of a solution to resolve each and every single one. But no, it's Elohim's problem and thus the resolving of each and every issue in my walk with Yeshua shall and is resolved by Him and not I.

Messiah fills all and is in all, whether good or bad. When we have a renewed mind according to Romans 12 then it is so that we may know but not do the perfect will of Elohim. Because it is not in our capabilities to fulfil the will of Elohim.
[Rom 12:2] And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of Elohim.

The works of Elohim are done by Elohim which is why they are called the works of Elohim. A renewed mind is made to prove and know the perfect will of Elohim and not to do them per se because it is no longer us who have any part to play in His master plan. His life in us fulfils His own will and purpose through us. That way from the conception of a good work or a thought to the manifestation of it Messiah fills all in all and man is nothing before Him. The only work ever mentioned to be done by the Lord Yeshua Himself was to believe on Him Whom the Father has sent.

[Joh 6:29] Yeshua answered and said unto them, This is the work of Elohim, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent.

The works which we do are foreordained and prepared by Elohim Himself, and all we have to do is but to walk in willingly into them. Not to think of more things to be done or how it can be improved, it is prepared by Yahweh and thus shall be perfected in His due time. We are simply called to walk into them so that Yeshua in us may perform and do them through us and by the doing of it He receives the glory and not us because we know that we had no part to play whatsoever except to be there to witness the work being done in and through us.

[Eph 2:10] For we are His workmanship, created in Messiah Yeshua unto good works, which Elohim hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

All we are to do is to believe, walk into it, and witness the glory of Elohim being formed. The Holy Spirit shall take over and will cause faith to beget the works testifying of said faith in and through us. Many times we ourselves think to know better in the moment of time what ought to be done because of past experiences and whatnot but that is not the case with walking in the Spirit. We have no choice but to acknowledge Him in all our ways because only He knows the way to heaven because He is Elohim.

My life is light, though the road I walk may be narrow and difficult. Because it is not I who walk it but Messiah putting me on like a costume walks that road to heaven in and through me. So then, when immense problems or many a tasks come to hand I can smirk and enter them well. Because I know, I know that the problems are not my problems but His and thus He shall resolve them in and through me and receive all the glory because of it. The tasks are not mine but Elohim's so He shall take it over marvellously as always. It's not 'What can I do to solve this?' but 'What shall Yeshua do to solve through me?'

[Pro 3:6] In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.

Do we really do that? Then shouldn't our lives be ever so free and light because He takes over? Why are we still so weighed down? Because we still see things as our things and have not committed them to Him. We are still alive carnally but when Galatians 2:20 takes its powerful work in us to manifest, then we'll begin to see that everything that we have, all the blessings, all the issues, all the ups and downs is not on us to manage because we've died and now our lives is Messiah. It's His things now, He shall deal with it in and through us and thus receive all the glory because we acknowledge Him. Praise Yahweh.

-Monday, 4th December 2017, 2 years 2 months 28 days, 2216

New Season

The season has changed once more with the entry of the final month of 2017, and this time around it appears to me that the season is one of the outflow of the power of the Holy Spirit and life of Messiah Yeshua. Inasmuch as the previous season was of learning to be led by the Spirit, the time has come for practical steps forward with what we've been endowned and enabled with from above. How quaint and awesome Yeshua really is, for the desires of my heart which pertains to Himself He has fulfilled in me and now it is at last the time for the manifestation of the sons of Elohim in spirit, soul, and body. If the previous season was one of infilling this is the season of the out flowing of what is within us because as I was discussing with my friend, David that if there is no out flowing of every water then the water stagnates and dies in the well it accumulates in.

I am now seeing that everything in my life ties together with one another and everything is one way or another coming full circle. He that declares the end from the beginning has made such a marvellous work in my life that I stand before Him humbled at how He has put together all things for my betterment. With the construction of the new sanctuary under way I have been brought into many new experiences and jobs and almost every single one of them I have no experience nor knowledge whatsoever and yet I'm not one to shy away from such things. Because I know that what I go through now though it may be as though I stumble into the dark yet I have the light of the gospel of Messiah in me, and the Spirit of the living Elohim bringing said gospel into clarity for times and seasons. Needless to say that for every unexpected situation though I may not have the answer, but I have been taught that the answer comes from above and all I need to do is first step into unknown realms to see Messiah take me over.

The days ahead are exciting, because He has brought me into new things and newer experiences. Everything is coming to full throttle in this last month I so believe and it will only accelerate even further in the months and years to come. With every new challenge lies the prospect of greater breakthrough and anointing. Perhaps the issue that we receive so little from Elohim is because we ourselves are unwilling to give ourselves completely to Him for Him to work effectively through us for His own glory. That we are so comfortable in what we do that we give no leeway for the Holy Spirit to take us on divergent courses in which some actually leads us to a deeper depth of our relationship with Yeshua and His Spirit. We mayhaps are set in our routine in and out, day after day, that because of our love of tradition we in fact nullify the work of Elohim in us. To be led by Him is to be taken to where soever and whenever He pleases and when we do surrender to that, life becomes infinitely exciting. The monotonous daily life becomes one filled with much joy and anticipation as to what Yeshua shall do for the day for, in, and through us.

This is definitely such a season for me. And as it has begun, I am excited to see where He shall lead me. Praise Yeshua, how wonderful.

-Friday, 1 December 2017, 2 years 2 months 24 days, 0124