Welcome to Shalom Chayil!

As far as investments go, the best return for your dollar is in God’s fields.

Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. 16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. 17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. 18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. 19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Phil 4:15-19 (KJV)

Paul was teaching a principle that runs throughout the entire scripture: the law of sowing and reaping. Yes, many have used it as a gimmick promising people if they will only give to “their ministries” God will give back to them. The law works. It’s the field that may or may not produce.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Gen 1:11-12 (KJV)

God established the law of sowing and reaping at the beginning of creation. Many have tried it and found it did not work. Most likely that is because the whole law was not taught, but only bits and pieces. One must have and understand the entire law to work it.

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:31-32 (KJV)

The laws of creation work. We know that gravity always causes an object to fall to the lowest point. We know that electricity channeled correctly produces power. We know that fire burns. We know that the wind though invisible to the physical eye, if strong enough, destroys whole areas of a given place. We’ve seen these things time and again.

What we have not seen for ourselves is the law of sowing and reaping work on a large scale.

Everything is a seed. A word is a seed. A thought is a seed. A look is a seed. Money is a seed. A smile is a seed.

You receive seed every day of your life!

You decide whether you will receive the seed and give it room to grow! When someone smiles at you you choose how you will respond. You choose whether you will allow that seed to affect the mood you are in at that moment. Every word you hear is a seed! You choose how you will let the words you hear affect you. If someone speaks an angry word to you you choose whether you will react in kind or respond in love.

Words spoken to us from the moment of conception have produced either good or bad fruit in our unconscious mind. Some of the words are weeds and choke out the truth we hear now. We may not even know words that were sown in our lives way back when are choking out the truth we hear now and preventing us from reaping a good harvest!

It’s critical to challenge all we have formerly embraced to compare it to God’s word. If our former beliefs do not agree with God’s word, we need to pull those weeds! And sow good seed to bring forth fruit unto righteousness.

For instance, what is your idea of a good Christian? Is it yourself? Is it someone you know who always seems kind and good to you? Is it “being nice” to everyone and never getting angry?

The term Christian means “little Christ”. When we look in the book of Acts we find “And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.”Acts 11:26 The disciples were first called Christians. What is a disciple?  According to Greek Strong’s number 3101 a disciple is: a learner, ie pupil, disciple.  The root of the word is to learn, understand.

God is more than eager to give us understanding! The old myth that God’s ways are mysterious is just that, a myth. Those that were too lazy to learn to wait on the Lord for understanding purported the myth.

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. 16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. Gen 41:15-16 (KJV)

1Ch 28:19  All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.

God commanded the Israelites to understand!

Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. Deut 9:3 (KJV)

Yet for years we have heard, God is mysterious we can’t understand His ways and merely accepted it as truth. It’s not truth. It’s a lie from the pit of hell so the father of lies can control us with fear and ignorance and lack of knowledge and understanding.

God tells us: And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, Ex 31:3 (KJV)

Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. Deut 1:13 (KJV)

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you. 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. Deut 4:3-10 (KJV)

Do we wait on the Lord for understanding?

Do we follow God’s word?

Do we teach our children God’s pure word? Or do we hear things and assume they’re true just because they sound reasonable and confirm our ideas or experiences?

God guarantees in His word when we do His commands He will take sickness away from us and bless our bread and our water. And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. Ex 23:25 (KJV)

Do we believe this? Do we hear it preached in our pulpits? Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee. 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. Deut 7:12-20 (KJV)

What do we hear preached? Works? In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. 9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. 10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; 11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)  Romans 9:7-11 (KJV)

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Gal 2:16 (KJV)

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. Titus 3:5-8 (KJV)

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Eph 2:8-10 (KJV)

This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. John 6:29 (KJV)

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed  John 6:27 (KJV)

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. Col 1:9-20 (KJV)

God cares and desires that we understand His ways. That’s what He gave us His Word and His Spirit for!

We need both.

I never pictured my life as it is. I never dreamed I was God’s own daughter called, chosen appointed to heal the sick, raise the dead, set the captive free, never in a million years would I have chosen this path.

But as Paul wrote: 1Co 9:16  For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

We’re living in a different season. But the gospel is still relevant to the times in which we now live. We are much closer to the return of Christ than when the Epistles to the churches in Asia were written. But they still apply even more so now. Our Redeemer King is ready to put His feet on the mountain in Jerusalem at any moment! We are exhorted to be looking for HIS soon return!

Paul Exhorted young Timothy: 2Ti 4:1  I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

Ears that want to hear only what they want to hear. Ears that judge the word according to their ideas. Ears that pick and choose as if God’s word is a buffet one may eat from disregarding what one deems unpalatable to the flesh. My life has been a lonely one from the start. Abused during my childhood and banished to my room most of the time for no reason at all, I learned to content myself being alone. Now I have Christ, Father and Spirit so I am not alone! I also know Mercy, Grace, Peace, Righteousness, Truth, Joy, Love, and other friends quite well! Therefor I do not need to concern myself with the soulish approval of man, neither heathen nor “self styled ‘Christian’”. I rejoice in being a modern John the Baptist, and Elijah! A Joshua..Joseph, Daniel all who were solitary figures in the history of the heroes of faith.

Gal 2:19  For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Gal 5:24  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

There’s no easy way to crucify the flesh! God commanded Saul to kill all of the Amelikites but he disobeyed because of the people and lost his kingdom. When we fail to crucify our flesh it crucifies us!

1Co 7:23  Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

Luk 17:22  And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them. For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

Luk 17:30  Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

1Jn 3:2  Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.  These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

1Pe 1:22  Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col 1:26-29 (KJV)

If Christ is indeed IN US and we IN HIM how can we sit idly by and not obey His Word? How can we ignore HIS commands: Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Isaiah 58:6-7 (KJV)

It’s not as though we just do it to do it! We have HIS guarantee when we do:

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. 9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: 11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

and of keeping the sabbath

13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Isaiah 58:8-14 (KJV)

Then we will KNOW HEAVEN ON EARTH!

I  ride on the high places of the earth! Yeshua came during my waiting on the LORD and lifted me up with him on His White horse and we rode in the heavenlies. For those of you who don’t understand “vision” and “perception” in the Spirit it is supposed to be the norm among Christians and disciples. But we always need a leader to lead the people in..

I am called as a Joshua to lead God’s appointed, chosen up out of Egypt, natural thinking into the PROMISED LAND of hearing and seeing in the SPIRIT. That’s my calling for this season. I will obey regardless of who likes it or who does not like it, regardless of who will choose to follow or who will not. My personality is strong because I have to stand against principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness IN CHRIST. And a wimp cannot withstand the powers of darkness…

Therefore, I may seem to be a bit lacking in mercy, but I assure you, I am quite well acquainted with her.

Our brothers and sisters are out there in the streets waiting for help from those of us to whom God has GIVEN  assistance in the war against hell. They are the troops on the front lines who suffered things we can’t even imagine. And we will sit idly by and allow them to die?

I think not!

I don’t want to face MY Savior and Lord and theirs and fumble around for an excuse as to why I “couldn’t” help them.

Like me or not, that is where it is at! And I will not apologize. If I lose friends, so be it.

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 1 John 3:13-19 (KJV)

And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? 34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! 35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. Mark 3:33-35 (KJV)

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. 10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago. 11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. 12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: 14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: 15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack. 2 Cor 8:9-15 (KJV)

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Matt 7:21 (KJV)