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This isn't following my usual Hebrew study, but thought I'd post this here too, as it's an important note.
Insight on Accountability
Tonight I had a revelation.
When a person attempts to hold a friend accountable, without forgiving first, it can come across as judgement, condemnation or accusation.
When a person forgives their friend first, and then holds friend accountable if the Lord leads them to, it can be accepted in love and for the benefit of friend. Also, there’s a release of the pressure to make sure they know their wrong.
When we harbor bitterness, it's like a ship in a harbor. We've taken it in and are protecting it while it eats away at us. Why do we befriend such a destructive visitor??
I believe the Lord wants us to forgive. Unforgiveness will say, well, the person needs to recognize their wrong first, and ask for forgiveness. And that if we forgive before there's an apology, or at least some form or repentantance, then we're condoning their wrongful behavior.
The truth is that Unforgiveness wants to keep you captive and weighed down with a burden you weren't meant to carry.
Here's the deal. It's the Lords job. It's His job to bring us to conviction. It's His job to bring us to repentance. And His example is FORGIVENESS. Even on the cross he forgave before they knew they were in sin... while they were killing him.
Love lays down the 'right' to hold a grudge, or offense. Love forgives when it doesn't seem fair, or that they're ever going to change. When we keep unforgiveness, it prevents us from walking in love towards that person. And taints conversations with accusation and rejection. Unforgiveness is hard at work, building walls and hoops to jump through for acceptance. Forgiveness loves and provides opportunity for the Lord to work in our lives and our friends lives.
If we're praying for each other, that the Lord will bring conviction, or repentance, or change in our friends lives, but we haven't forgiven them ourselves, we're walking in a form of hypocrisy. It's double mindedness. The Lord would say, forgive and move out of the way so He can do His work. Plus, when we forgive, we are an expression of the Lords heart towards them.
This goes for how we treat ourselves too. How many times have we asked God to forgive us, but then we don't let ourselves off the hook?? That's Self Unforgiveness/ Self Bitterness and Guilt. I don't believe the Lord ever commanded us to withhold forgiveness, or to continue in guilt... ever.
Guilt is a heavy burden, weather we're carrying an accusation of the guilt of another by withholding forgiveness, or our own, it's time to let it go. Forgive. This is the Lord's Yoke. It's easy and His Burden is Light.
As we walk in forgiveness, we are more able to love. This is why it's so hard to love some people. There's usually some form of 'offense' or 'unforgiveness'. Again, I say it's time to forgive. Take it as a challenge and see how much better you feel and how much easier it is to learn to love that person, even if that person is yourself.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
And now abideth faith, hope and charity...
A friend of mine mentioned that she is feeling distant from the Lord. Her question was how can she revive her relationship with the Lord. Should she praise, fast, or what?? While considering what I'd answer to that question, I found that my heart pausing on
1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
This scripture is in the New Testament, so it's translation if from Greek. Let's look at Abide, Faith, Hope and Charity in Hebrew just for fun, comparing Hebrew words with the closest meaning to the Greek words in this verse.
First to Abide: The word abideth above is:
Greek Strong's Number: 3306—Greek Word: μένω
Transliteration: menō—
a primary verb; to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy) :- abide, continue, dwell, endure, be present, remain, stand, tarry (for), × thine own
The closest Hebrew meaning for this word Abideth that I could find is:
Hebrew Strong's Number: 3427 Hebrew Word: יָשַׁב
Transliteration: — yāshab
a primitive root; properly to sit down (specifically as judge, in ambush, in quiet); by implication to dwell, to remain; causative to settle, to marry :- (make to) abide (-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell (-ing), ease self, endure, establish, × fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit (-ant), make to keep [house], lurking, × marry (-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set (-tle), (down-) sit (-down, still, -ting down, -ting [place] -uate), take, tarry.—Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary
Written out with word picture meanings it looks like this:
יָ Yood ~to work, make, a deed done
שַׁ Shin ~to devour, to consume, to destroy, something sharp
ב Bet ~a physical house or building, a body (house) of someone or something, family/household, Inside/within or amid.
What is neat is this word is connected to the word
Hebrew Strong's Number: 7673 Hebrew Word: שָׁבַת
Transliteration: shābat
שָׁ Shin ~to devour, consume, to destroy, something sharp
בַ Bet ~a physical house or building, a body (house) of someone or something, family/household, Inside/within or amid.
ת Tav ~Ownership, to seal, to make a covenant, to join two things together, to make a sign
I'd put shābat together this way:
To consume the home/person making covenant, sealing, and joining two things together. This is what the Lord desires of us when we rest in HIM. A time when we come away from business and be consumed by him within. Letting him cause all of who we are to rest and be at peace as He makes himself known to us and therefor he becomes a sign to others through us as He shines in us. Shabat is at times translated as Rest, it is also meant to be our day of rest.
So to come back to this word יָשַׁב or yāshab or abide
יָ Yood ~to work, make, a deed done
שַׁ Shin ~to devour, to consume, to destroy, something sharp
ב Bet ~a physical house or building, a body (house) of someone or something, family/household, Inside/within or amid.
This could be: The work of or completion of being consumed either in the home/person or within. Or To make consumed within. If we are abiding in the Lord then it's a blessing! If we are abiding in sin, it might be to make to devour/destroy the house/body/within. It is so important that we are taking every thought captive and chosing where we are abiding and what abides within us! :)
Now if you consider these scriptures it's pretty awesome!
John 12:46 (KJV) 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
John 15:4 (KJV) 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
John 15:10 (KJV) 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
I'll add to this in the following posts titled Faith, Hope, and Charity. :D
Blessings!
1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
This scripture is in the New Testament, so it's translation if from Greek. Let's look at Abide, Faith, Hope and Charity in Hebrew just for fun, comparing Hebrew words with the closest meaning to the Greek words in this verse.
First to Abide: The word abideth above is:
Greek Strong's Number: 3306—Greek Word: μένω
Transliteration: menō—
a primary verb; to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy) :- abide, continue, dwell, endure, be present, remain, stand, tarry (for), × thine own
The closest Hebrew meaning for this word Abideth that I could find is:
Hebrew Strong's Number: 3427 Hebrew Word: יָשַׁב
Transliteration: — yāshab
a primitive root; properly to sit down (specifically as judge, in ambush, in quiet); by implication to dwell, to remain; causative to settle, to marry :- (make to) abide (-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell (-ing), ease self, endure, establish, × fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit (-ant), make to keep [house], lurking, × marry (-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set (-tle), (down-) sit (-down, still, -ting down, -ting [place] -uate), take, tarry.—Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary
Written out with word picture meanings it looks like this:
יָ Yood ~to work, make, a deed done
שַׁ Shin ~to devour, to consume, to destroy, something sharp
ב Bet ~a physical house or building, a body (house) of someone or something, family/household, Inside/within or amid.
What is neat is this word is connected to the word
Hebrew Strong's Number: 7673 Hebrew Word: שָׁבַת
Transliteration: shābat
שָׁ Shin ~to devour, consume, to destroy, something sharp
בַ Bet ~a physical house or building, a body (house) of someone or something, family/household, Inside/within or amid.
ת Tav ~Ownership, to seal, to make a covenant, to join two things together, to make a sign
I'd put shābat together this way:
To consume the home/person making covenant, sealing, and joining two things together. This is what the Lord desires of us when we rest in HIM. A time when we come away from business and be consumed by him within. Letting him cause all of who we are to rest and be at peace as He makes himself known to us and therefor he becomes a sign to others through us as He shines in us. Shabat is at times translated as Rest, it is also meant to be our day of rest.
So to come back to this word יָשַׁב or yāshab or abide
יָ Yood ~to work, make, a deed done
שַׁ Shin ~to devour, to consume, to destroy, something sharp
ב Bet ~a physical house or building, a body (house) of someone or something, family/household, Inside/within or amid.
This could be: The work of or completion of being consumed either in the home/person or within. Or To make consumed within. If we are abiding in the Lord then it's a blessing! If we are abiding in sin, it might be to make to devour/destroy the house/body/within. It is so important that we are taking every thought captive and chosing where we are abiding and what abides within us! :)
Now if you consider these scriptures it's pretty awesome!
John 12:46 (KJV) 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
John 15:4 (KJV) 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
John 15:10 (KJV) 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
I'll add to this in the following posts titled Faith, Hope, and Charity. :D
Blessings!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Yeshua in the Old Testament
I was eight when I became a Christian. I remember the day I asked Jesus into my heart at VBS at a United Methodist church in a town next to our home town. As an elementary student I prayed to Jesus, actually I prayed to Jesus for everything until about 3 1/2 years ago.
It was at that time I learned about the Father. I didn't know that Jesus actually said in the New Testament not to ask anything of him, but to ask the Father.
John 16:23 (KJV) 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
Wow. That was a huge revelation. So for a year or so I spent all of my time fellowshipping with the Father (Papa God as I affectionately call Him) After that year I started really yearning within my spirit as something was missing. It was then that the parable of the vine and branches started really resounding in my spirit.
John 15:1-8 (KJV) 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
What I found was that I had been striving to remain with the Father apart from Jesus. …anyhow, again my heart was considering where does Jesus fit in with my faith, and what about my new found relationship with the Father?.
I’ve been chewing on this for a couple of years, in faith, walking with much love for my God. During the past year I've been drawn to the Hebrew origins of words. What an amazing journey this has been.
Just last night I was lying in bed considering some Hebrew words I’ve been looking at. This is one of the words for Lord in Hebrew;
Hebrew Strong's Number: 3068
Hebrew Word: יהוה
Transliteration: yhwh
It’s also translated Jehova, it looks a lot like Yahweh to me! So, as I was laying there it struck me that it looks quite a bit like Yeshua! So I decided to look at that in the morning! J
First I’d like to share what יהוה breaks down into with Hebrew Word Pictures. Hebrew reads from right to left, so I’ve found it helpful to list it top to bottom and break down the meaning of each letter.
Letter name, literal picture, symbolic meaning
י Yood or Yud, closed hand, to work/to make/ a deed done
ה Hey, Behold, The revelation of the heart of
ו Vav, Nail/Peg, joining together/ making secure/ becoming bound (nailed to)
ה Hey, Behold, at the end of word means What comes from.
So, when I read this I see:
What comes from the revelation of the heart of a deed done/the work of joining together and making secure.
This sounds like my Savior in person, revealed.
When I went online to look up how to spell Jesus or Yeshua in Hebrew I found this:
Hebrew Strong's Number: 3444
Hebrew Word: יְשׁוּעָה
Transliteration: yeshû‘â
This is a combination of …. Drum roll please….
Hebrew Strong's Number: 3068
Hebrew Word: יהוה
Transliteration: yhwh
And
Hebrew Strong's Number: 3467
Hebrew Word: יָשַׁע
Transliteration: yāsha‘
I’ll let you look those up for fun.
What is amazing is that Yeshua is all over the Old Testament! That word יְשׁוּעָה or Hebrew Strongs 3444 is most often translated as Salvation.
This means that when Jesus came, and the Angel of the Lord told Mary that his name was to be Yeshua, anyone that knew Torah (the Old Testament) knew it meant Salvation!! Amazing.
Here is a list of scriptures with H3444 in them:
Ge 49:18, Ex 14:13, Ex 15:2, Dt 32:15, 1Sa 2:1, 1Sa 14:45, 2Sa 10:11, 2Sa 22:51, 1Ch 16:23, 2Ch 20:17, Job 13:16, Job 30:15, Ps 3:2, Ps 3:8, Ps 9:14, Ps 13:5, Ps 14:7, Ps 18:50, Ps 20:5, Ps 21:1, Ps 21:5, Ps 22:1, Ps 28:8, Ps 35:3, Ps 35:9, Ps 42:5, Ps 42:11, Ps 43:5, Ps 44:4, Ps 53:6, Ps 62:1, Ps 62:2, Ps 62:6, Ps 67:2, Ps 68:19, Ps 69:29, Ps 70:4, Ps 74:12, Ps 78:22, Ps 80:2, Ps 88:1, Ps 89:26, Ps 91:16, Ps 96:2, Ps 98:2, Ps 98:3, Ps 106:4, Ps 116:13, Ps 118:14, Ps 118:15, Ps 118:21, Ps 119:123, Ps 119:155, Ps 119:166, Ps 119:174, Ps 140:7, Ps 149:4, Isa 12:2, Isa 12:3, Isa 25:9, Isa 26:1, Isa 26:18, Isa 33:2, Isa 33:6, Isa 49:6, Isa 49:8, Isa 51:6, Isa 51:8, Isa 52:7, Isa 52:10, Isa 56:1, Isa 59:11, Isa 59:17, Isa 60:18, Isa 62:1, Jnh 2:9, Hab 3:8
I’d like to open up a couple of my favorites from the list. Then it’s time to call it a night.
Psalms 62:1-2 (KJV) 1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation (or Yeshua). 2 He only is my rock and my salvation (or Yeshua); he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
Psalms 78:22 (KJV) 22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation (or Yeshua):
Genesis 49:18 (KJV) 18 I have waited for thy salvation (or Yeshua), O LORD.
ooo and:
Psalms 20:5-9 (KJV) 5 We will rejoice in thy salvation (or Yeshua), and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions. 6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. 9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
With some practice, I am hoping to get better at this blogging thing and be more able to bring a clear Word. Hope this is a blessing to others as it is to me! :D
It was at that time I learned about the Father. I didn't know that Jesus actually said in the New Testament not to ask anything of him, but to ask the Father.
John 16:23 (KJV) 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
Wow. That was a huge revelation. So for a year or so I spent all of my time fellowshipping with the Father (Papa God as I affectionately call Him) After that year I started really yearning within my spirit as something was missing. It was then that the parable of the vine and branches started really resounding in my spirit.
John 15:1-8 (KJV) 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
What I found was that I had been striving to remain with the Father apart from Jesus. …anyhow, again my heart was considering where does Jesus fit in with my faith, and what about my new found relationship with the Father?.
I’ve been chewing on this for a couple of years, in faith, walking with much love for my God. During the past year I've been drawn to the Hebrew origins of words. What an amazing journey this has been.
Just last night I was lying in bed considering some Hebrew words I’ve been looking at. This is one of the words for Lord in Hebrew;
Hebrew Strong's Number: 3068
Hebrew Word: יהוה
Transliteration: yhwh
It’s also translated Jehova, it looks a lot like Yahweh to me! So, as I was laying there it struck me that it looks quite a bit like Yeshua! So I decided to look at that in the morning! J
First I’d like to share what יהוה breaks down into with Hebrew Word Pictures. Hebrew reads from right to left, so I’ve found it helpful to list it top to bottom and break down the meaning of each letter.
Letter name, literal picture, symbolic meaning
י Yood or Yud, closed hand, to work/to make/ a deed done
ה Hey, Behold, The revelation of the heart of
ו Vav, Nail/Peg, joining together/ making secure/ becoming bound (nailed to)
ה Hey, Behold, at the end of word means What comes from.
So, when I read this I see:
What comes from the revelation of the heart of a deed done/the work of joining together and making secure.
This sounds like my Savior in person, revealed.
When I went online to look up how to spell Jesus or Yeshua in Hebrew I found this:
Hebrew Strong's Number: 3444
Hebrew Word: יְשׁוּעָה
Transliteration: yeshû‘â
This is a combination of …. Drum roll please….
Hebrew Strong's Number: 3068
Hebrew Word: יהוה
Transliteration: yhwh
And
Hebrew Strong's Number: 3467
Hebrew Word: יָשַׁע
Transliteration: yāsha‘
I’ll let you look those up for fun.
What is amazing is that Yeshua is all over the Old Testament! That word יְשׁוּעָה or Hebrew Strongs 3444 is most often translated as Salvation.
This means that when Jesus came, and the Angel of the Lord told Mary that his name was to be Yeshua, anyone that knew Torah (the Old Testament) knew it meant Salvation!! Amazing.
Here is a list of scriptures with H3444 in them:
Ge 49:18, Ex 14:13, Ex 15:2, Dt 32:15, 1Sa 2:1, 1Sa 14:45, 2Sa 10:11, 2Sa 22:51, 1Ch 16:23, 2Ch 20:17, Job 13:16, Job 30:15, Ps 3:2, Ps 3:8, Ps 9:14, Ps 13:5, Ps 14:7, Ps 18:50, Ps 20:5, Ps 21:1, Ps 21:5, Ps 22:1, Ps 28:8, Ps 35:3, Ps 35:9, Ps 42:5, Ps 42:11, Ps 43:5, Ps 44:4, Ps 53:6, Ps 62:1, Ps 62:2, Ps 62:6, Ps 67:2, Ps 68:19, Ps 69:29, Ps 70:4, Ps 74:12, Ps 78:22, Ps 80:2, Ps 88:1, Ps 89:26, Ps 91:16, Ps 96:2, Ps 98:2, Ps 98:3, Ps 106:4, Ps 116:13, Ps 118:14, Ps 118:15, Ps 118:21, Ps 119:123, Ps 119:155, Ps 119:166, Ps 119:174, Ps 140:7, Ps 149:4, Isa 12:2, Isa 12:3, Isa 25:9, Isa 26:1, Isa 26:18, Isa 33:2, Isa 33:6, Isa 49:6, Isa 49:8, Isa 51:6, Isa 51:8, Isa 52:7, Isa 52:10, Isa 56:1, Isa 59:11, Isa 59:17, Isa 60:18, Isa 62:1, Jnh 2:9, Hab 3:8
I’d like to open up a couple of my favorites from the list. Then it’s time to call it a night.
Psalms 62:1-2 (KJV) 1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation (or Yeshua). 2 He only is my rock and my salvation (or Yeshua); he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
Psalms 78:22 (KJV) 22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation (or Yeshua):
Genesis 49:18 (KJV) 18 I have waited for thy salvation (or Yeshua), O LORD.
ooo and:
Psalms 20:5-9 (KJV) 5 We will rejoice in thy salvation (or Yeshua), and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions. 6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. 9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
With some practice, I am hoping to get better at this blogging thing and be more able to bring a clear Word. Hope this is a blessing to others as it is to me! :D
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