Nothing Can Separate Us 10/1 Tuesday Truth

Romans 8:38-39: ... "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
He enumerates everything that can come to a man or a woman, every calamity that can possibly come in our earth walk, and tells us that none can separate us from the love of our Father.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Rosh Hashanah -- Feast of Trumpets 9/30 Monday Meditation

I'm going to take a one-day break from E.W. Kenyon to teach a little about a biblical festival.

The Old Testament Feast of Trumpets (aka Rosh Hashanah) begins at sunset, Sunday, Sept. 29 and continues for two days.  It is also known as Jewish New Year (ushering in the year 5780), although that connection is not found in the Bible and wasn't made until after AD 200.

The Feast of Trumpets is the most mysterious festival.  God's commend was: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation" (Lev. 23:24).  No explanation!  It was called "The Day That No Man Knows" because no one knew the reason for the command.  It was also called "The Day and the Hour That No Man Knows" because they didn't know exactly when the first sliver of the new moon would appear.  (It is the only festival that starts on a new moon.)

The Hebrews would have had no way of understanding that the feast points to the Second Coming of Messiah because He hadn't come for the first time yet.  Jesus was referring to this when He said,  “But of that day and hour no one knows" (Matt. 24:36).  If the fall festival are fulfilled literally, as the spring festivals were at Jesus's first coming, Jesus may return on Rosh Hashanah.  

The spring and fall holy days were all foreshadowings of Jesus, so they still have meaning for Christians today.  

Here is an additional article if you care to know more:

Jewish tradition teaches that God created the world on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei. ​["In the beginning" (Genesis 1:1) spelled backwards in Hebrew, is "On the first of Tishrei"] This Jewish New Year is called Rosh Hashanah (Roshe Hah-SHAH-nah), which means “head of the year.” This year, Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on September 29 and ends at sundown September 30.

This date is also the day God appointed as the Feast of Trumpets, or in Hebrew, Yom Teruah (Yohm Tare-OO-ah). The two holidays combine to begin the Fall Feasts of the Jewish year.

The Rabbis teach that at Rosh Hashanah, God pronounces judgment on each of His people for the coming year and that He seals that judgment on Yom Kippur (Yohm Ki-POUR), or the Day of Atonement.

Therefore, Rosh Hashanah and the days leading up to it are a time for self-examination and repentance as Jewish people seek God’s forgiveness and favor for the coming year. The 10 days after Rosh Hashanah are known as the Days of Awe when we intensify our reflection and focus on repentance and making amends with others. The Rabbis teach that during this time, God may yet alter what was to be an unfavorable decree on someone and grant a good year ahead.

As Messianic Jews, we know that God has sealed Believers in Yeshua with the Ruach HaKodesh (ROO-akh Ha-ko-DESH), the Holy Spirit, sealing us until the time of the Messiah’s return in glory (Ephesians 1:13-14).

Jewish people celebrate Creation and the start of a new year in synagogue services with special liturgy, prayers and blessings. Because the New Year falls on the Feast of Trumpets, services also include 100 blasts of the shofar (SHO-far), a trumpet made from an animal horn. Family celebrations include special meals and sweet foods to symbolize the hope of a sweet new year. Apples dipped in honey are a traditional treat. Holiday greetings include “A Good and Sweet Year!” and “For a Good Year!”

Messianic Jews also recognize that there is a prophetic aspect to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Teruah. All the Jewish Feasts that God ordained in Leviticus chapter 23 in some way serve as pictures of the coming Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus). The Spring Feasts of Passover, First Fruits and the Feast of Weeks contain prophetic images of Yeshua’s first coming – specifically, His death, resurrection and the giving of the Holy Spirit.

The Fall Feasts hold foreshadows of events related to His second coming – the prophesied last trumpet call, His final judgments on the earth, the redemption of Israel as they recognize their Messiah, and the coming Messianic age when Yeshua will reign as the Son of David over all the Earth . The Feast of Trumpets is often associated with the initiation of the Messianic Age and the raising of the dead in Messiah.

May your new year be blessed with sweet and good things from God’s hand.

Satisfied With Going to Church 9/27 Friday Faith

Facebook Memories reminded me of this quote from a year ago, which is one of my all-time favorite faith quotes.  So I'm going to end the week with this blast from the past:

The reason the world today is not seeing this is because Christian people are not filled with the Spirit of Christ. They are satisfied with going to church, occasionally reading the Bible, and sometimes praying. Beloved, if God lays hold of you by the Spirit, you will find that there is an end to everything in the old life. All the old things will have passed away, and all things will have become new -- all things are of God. You will see that as you are wholly yielded to God, your whole being will be transformed by the Spirit's indwelling. He will take you in hand so that you may become a vessel unto honor.

--Smith Wigglesworth

His Blood Avails 9/26 Thursday Thoughts

"And the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin."
That is effective as long as we are in fellowship.
The correct meaning of the word "sin" is "missing the mark."
As long as I am in fellowship with Him, I may miss the mark again and again, but His blood avails for me.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Breaking Fellowship 9/25 Wednesday Wisdom

When we break fellowship with the Father by refusing to do His will, and step out of love, we walk in darkness.  That minute the Bible stops being a living message to us...
All bitterness and criticism and unkindness is the product of broken fellowship.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Father, Forgive Me 9/24 Tuesday Truth

(continued from Monday)  I look up to the Father and say, "Father, forgive me for doing that thing."  And the moment I do, He forgives me. It is wiped out as though it had never been.  The instant that I confess it and tell the Father of it, Jesus says, "Lay that to My account."
Notice that the Father has no memory of your past mistakes and failures.  You must forget them too.

--E. W. Kenyon

Our Righteous Advocate 9/23 Monday Meditation

"My little children, these things I write unto you that ye may not sin.  And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."  [I John 2:1]
I think that that is one of the most marvelous statements in the whole of the Epistles.  Seated at the Father's right hand is our righteous Advocate; and the minute that I break fellowship, He is there in fellowship with the Father.  I lose my sense of righteousness.  He is the Righteous One.  He is there, in the Presence of the Father, to plead my case.  (to be continued)

--E. W. Kenyon

Fellowship Can Be Broken 9/20 Friday Faith

Fellowship can be broken because I willfully fail to do His will.  I step out of light into darkness.  I stop practicing love; and when I do that, I step over into darkness, want -- into Satan's territory.  I am filled with restlessness.
Joy is gone.  My fellowship with the Father is gone.
If I say that I have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, I lie and do not the truth.
"But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another (and with the Father), and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin."

-- E.W. Kenyon

Faith and Fellowship 9/19 Thursday Thoughts

Faith cannot grow without rich fellowship with the Father.  I don't care how much knowledge one has of the Word, if his fellowship is broken, his faith is crippled.  The adversary takes advantage of him and holds him to bondage.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Power in Our Fellowship 9/18 Wednesday Wisdom

(continued from Tuesday)  You may be a child of God, and have all the knowledge and the riches that belong to that marvelous relationship; but if you have no fellowship with the Father there is no joy in your life.  It is an empty, dry thing.  The power of our ministry lies in our fellowship...
Now what is that fellowship?  It is that sweet communion between your spirit and the Father.  It is that glad richness that comes through the unveiling of the Word to your spirit.
It is the quiet assurance that fills your heart with an unspeakable, irrepressible joy.

(to be continued)  -- E. W. Kenyon

Joy in Our Spirits 9/17 Tuesday Truth

One day I saw that the secret of Christianity, the secret of evangelism, was that we were to have joy in our spirits.
You remember Acts 13:52, "And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit."
I Peter 1:8 tells us that it is joy unspeakable and full of glory.
That didn't mean much to me until the Spirit unveiled it to me.  Then I saw the secret of this new thing that was to come with the New Creation.
"My joy I give unto you."  This is something indescribable that fills our spirits.
What does joy grow out of?  What is the secret?
I Corinthians 1:9, "God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord."
Fellowship is the secret, it is the thing that gives joy.  When the fellowship is broken, the joy dies.

(to be continued)  -- E. W. Kenyon

The Love Law 9/16 Monday Meditation

John 15:10, 11, "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."
Then we see in the ninth verse another secret, "Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love."
We are to walk in love and live love, and to keep His commandments.
John 12:34, 25 shows us that the Law of the New Creation, the law that governs the New Creation, is the love law.  We are to love one another even as He has loved us.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Your Body the Home of God 9/13 Friday Faith

Now you may have Righteousness; you may have Eternal Life.  You may have the consciousness of sonship.  You may have the great mighty Spirit come and make His home in your body, because that is the ultimate of the New Creation.
You see, you are recreated so that your body might become the home of God.
You remember I Corinthians 6:19-20, "Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?  For ye were bought with a price:  glorify God therefore in your body."

-- E. W. Kenyon

A New Nature In Us 9/12 Thursday Thoughts

That new creation is the product of God Himself.  He, through the Spirit, has given birth to a New Nature in us.
The old nature of failure, of sin consciousness, that was ruled by the adversary and was a part of the adversary, has stopped being.  A New Nature has taken its place.  We are now the very sons and daughters of God Almighty.
Romans 8:14-16 is a reality.  "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are (or have become) the sons of God."

- E. W. Kenyon

God's Nature Is Life 9/11 Wednesday Wisdom

God's Nature is Life.  Its first manifestations are Love, Joy, and Peace.
Satan's nature is spiritual death.  Its first manifestations are hatred, murder and deceit.  His whole realm is called darkness.
Colossians 1:13, "Who delivered us out of the power (authority) of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love."
Notice the contrast.  You have come out of the realm of Satan (spiritual death, hatred, and murder) into the realm of Life, of Light and Joy.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Make His Heart Glad 9/10 Tuesday Truth

I want to know Him.  I want to please Him.  I want to make His heart glad as that first Son did.  What a beautiful life it is.
It is not struggling to be righteous.  It is just struggling to make His heart glad.

-- E. W. Kenyon

You Are His Child 9/9 Monday Meditation

This is your relationship as a child of God.  You are in the Father, and the Father is in you.  That is, He has imparted His Life to you.  His very Nature has been given to you.  You are as much His child as Jesus was.
When your heart can take this in, He will become more to you, and you will realize something of what we are to Him.

--E. W. Kenyon

His Father Heart 9/6 Friday Faith

The Jews called Him God, and Jesus called Him Father.  The Church today calls Him God.  How few ever intelligently call Him Father.  How lonesome He must be. He is a Father God with a Father heart, and His people call Him God -- just "Mr. God," like they should speak of a neighbor.  Let us learn the secret of His Father heart.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Be a Father-Pleaser 9/5 Thursday Thoughts

Notice, "I do nothing of myself."  "I teach nothing of myself.  I teach what the Father taught me.  The Father is with me.  He hath not left me alone."
Why?  Because He [Jesus] was the Father-pleaser.
Do you know that every one of us can be that?  What a change it would make in life, wouldn't it?

-- E. W. Kenyon 

Trust Absolutely 9/4 Wednesday Wisdom

"My God shall supply every need of yours" (Philippians 4:19).
You want to learn to trust that absolutely. You want to trust Philippians 4:13:  "I can do all things in Him who strengtheneth me."  That must become a part of your very being.

-- E. W. Kenyon

The Love Nature 9/3 Tuesday Truth

Now that you have confessed the Lordship of the Master, it means that you have confessed the Lordship of His Word.  It governs your life.
You confess the Lordship of Love, that new kind of Love that has been shed abroad in your hearts by the Holy Spirit.  (Romans 5:5.)
You see, when you receive Eternal Life you receive the Nature of the Father; and the Father is Love.  You receive the Love Nature.  Now you let that Love Nature dominate and rule you.

- E. W. Kenyon

No Reason to be a Weakling 9/2 Monday Meditation

I Corinthians 2:14, "Thanks be unto God who always leadeth me in triumph in Christ."
That should be the song on the lips of every believer.  There isn't any reason for your being a weakling.  There is no reason for it whatever.  The strength and ability of God are yours. 

-- E. W. Kenyon