The Living Word in Your Lips 11/1 Friday Faith

Just as you walk in Love, live Love, breathe Love, now you walk in the conscious authority and ability of that Word in your life.  You see, it is the living Word in your lips that heals sick folks, that saves lost men, that puts courage and strength into the faint-hearted...  You say to yourself, "The Word of God in my lips is as effectual as it was in the lips of Peter or John, because it is the Word of my Father that I am using."

--E. W. Kenyon

Become So Strong in the Word 10/31 Thursday Thoughts

You see, you become so strong in the Word that you dominate the circumstances around you.  You understand that faith is not the product of sense evidences, but faith is something that grows out of your spirit that has walked in the Word, lived in the Word, and in which the Word has lived and dominated, until it becomes utterly one with the Word.

-- E. W. Kenyon

This Victory Becomes Ours 10/30 Wednesday Wisdom

It is Jesus' combat with the adversary for us before He arose from the dead.  He was our substitute, and His combat with the adversary was our combat.  He defeated Satan, stripped him of his authority before He arose from the dead.  This victory becomes ours when we remember that the adversary that is combating us is conquered, that he is our subject instead of our master.  Then we should say, "In Jesus' Name, demon, you leave me," and he must go.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Our Spirits Can Become God-Minded 10/29 Tuesday Truth

Our spirits can be so developed, so strengthened, that we will become God-minded, Word-minded.  In the morning our minds unconsciously go to Him for guidance and wisdom for the day.  We have exercised ourselves in the Word until our whole being is saturated with it.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Meditating in the Word 10/28 Monday Meditation

The man who controls his meditation will control his conduct and control his speech.  When we learn the secret of meditating in the Word, yielding our minds over to the Word,... our meditation will be sweet unto Him, and we will rejoice in Jehovah.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Doing the Word 10/25 Friday Faith

Committing the Word to memory does not do it; learning the history of the books of the Bible does not do it; learning the Hebrew and the Greek words will not do it.  Only one thing will do:  my doing the Word, practicing it, living it in my daily life, trusting in it, acting on it. 

-- E. W. Kenyon

Build Up Your Wisdom Life 10/24 Thursday Thoughts

Just as we have exercised ourselves physically to build up muscle, as we have exercised mentally to build up memory and store our minds with facts and data, so we now should build up our Love life, build up our wisdom life, build up our creative energy.
How? By feeding on the Word of God.  The Word is God's wisdom, God's ability, God's very Life.  As I feed on it, it cultivates, strengthens, and builds up my spirit.  It builds faith into me.  It builds God's ability into me.  It builds into me every attractive thing that you saw in Jesus' life.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Born of God 10/23 Wednesday Wisdom

I John 3:2, "Beloved, now are we the sons of god."
John 1:13, "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."
This should forever settle the question of whether there is anything that an unsaved man can do to give to himself the New Birth outside of his acceptance of Christ as his Savior and Lord.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Our Chief Difficulty 10/22 Tuesday Truth

Our chief difficulty has been the sense of unworthiness which has robbed us of faith and fellowship with the Father.
This is due to our ignorance of what we are in Christ, and of what the New Birth means to the Father, and may mean to us.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Recreated 10/21 Monday Meditation

Ephesians 2:10, "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus."
When you know that you have been recreated by God Himself, you know that the work is satisfactory to the Author of the work.
It gives you a real foundation for faith.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Christianity Is a Relationship 10/18 Friday Faith

Christianity is a relationship between the Father and His Family.
It is not a religion.
It is not having your sins forgiven.
It is not joining the church.
It is being made a New Creation in Christ; it is being born from above.
It is receiving the Nature and Life of God.
It is being united with Christ.

--E. W. Kenyon

Revealed to Our Spirits 10/17 Thursday Thoughts

We ought to understand that the Father does not reveal Himself to our reasoning faculties but to our spirits.
Our reasoning faculties can only apprehend the things that the five senses convey to them.
Outside of that, the reasoning faculties are unfruitful.
When our spirits are recreated they receive Eternal Life.
We can know the Father.  We can enjoy fellowship with Him through His w=Word.  We have become so utterly identified with Him, so utterly one with Him, that the "vine and the branch" is the only suitable illustration of this new and beautiful relationship.

- E. W. Kenyon

Recreated by Love 10/16 Wednesday Wisdom

We have become New Creations.  We have been recreated by Love.  Love has been imparted to our spirits.
God is Love, and God's nature is Love; but God is also Life, the Author of Life.
So He has imparted to us His Life Nature, His Love Nature.
God has imparted His Nature to us, making us New Creations.
That Nature is Righteousness.  It is Holiness.  It is Reality.  It is Love.
It has been imparted to us.

-- E. W. Kenyon

A New Creation Comes Into Being 10/15 Tuesday Truth

II Corinthians 5:17, "Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold they are become new."
His old sin consciousness, his old fallen life, his old sin life, and his old evil habits that grow out of Spiritual death, have passed away.
He is a new Creation.  He is a New Being.
The Father has no memory of his past life.  He is a new-born babe.
His old past life has stopped being in the Mind of the Father.
A New Creation has come into being through grace. 

-- E. W. Kenyon

Sukkot -- The Feast of Tabernacles 10/14 Monday Meditation

Sukkot, or The Feast of Tabernacles, begins at sundown Sunday evening, Oct. 13, 2019, and continues for seven days.  It is the seventh and final festival, in the seventh month, lasts seven days, and required 70 sacrifices.  This festival commemorates the 40 years that the Hebrew people wandered in the wilderness and lived in booths (tabernacles), or flimsy temporary dwellings.  During this festival Jewish families each build and decorate a sukkah outdoors and spend a lot of time in it.  It is a joyful festival, and it is the only festival in which God commanded joy.  For Christian believers today, it represents our earthly temporary home and the joyful anticipation of the spiritual rest in the heavenly Kingdom.
For those who study the Scriptures in the light of the Hebrew culture, there are several clues that Jesus may have been born during Sukkot. 
It was during this festival (John 7:37), during the elaborate water-pouring ceremony, that Jesus announced that He is the Living Water (John 7:37-39)  It was at this festival, with its nighttime illumination ceremony, that Jesus said that He is the Light of the World (John 8:12; 9:5).
The Pilgrim fathers probably patterned the first Thanksgiving in part after the Feast of Tabernacles.

His Ability Is Our Ability 10/11 Friday Faith

Ephesians 1:19-23, "And what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places."
That ability is our ability.  That ability is the Spirit's, Who dwells within you, and in that Name that He has given us to use in our daily conflict with the enemy.

-- E.W. Kenyon

His Ability at Work Within Us 10/10 Thursday Thoughts

(The first sentence ties in to what Yom Kippur foreshadowed.)

Then He took His own blood and carried it into the heavenly Holy of Holies and sealed our Redemption.  Having accomplished this, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Ephesians 2:5,6 says that we are seated together with Him.  He is the Head of the Body.  We are the members.
John 15:5 tells us that He is the Vine and we are the branches.
Philippians 3:10 is Paul's marvelous prayer:  "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection."
For it is that ability that was manifest in His resurrection.  It is that ability that is at work within us.

--E. W. Kenyon

Yom Kippur -- The Day of Atonement 10/9 Wednesday Wisdom

Yom Kippur -- The Day of Atonement -- the second of the fall festivals of the Old Testament, begins Tuesday, Oct. 8 at sunset and ends Wednesday, Oct. 9 at sunset this year.  This is the holiest day of the Jewish year.  It is the only commanded day of fasting in the Bible.  It is the only day of the year that the High Priest, himself having gone through numerous purification ceremonies, went into the Holy of Holies to offer sacrifice for the sins of the people, and the scapegoat was sent into the wilderness to carry away the people's sins.  It was a foreshadowing of that day when Jesus our High Priest would sacrifice Himself as a final substitute for our sins. 
If you would like to read more, here is an article about Yom Kippur.

It’s not a day for saying, “Happy Holiday.” Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement – is a serious and solemn day. It is the holiest day of the Jewish year, and its observance includes “afflicting oneself” with fasting. The customary greeting on Yom Kippur is “May you have an easy fast.”

It may sound heavy and somber, but on the holy day of Yom Kippur, one can also find hope.

In ancient Israel, Yom Kippur was the one day of the year on which the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies. This was the innermost area of the Temple separated by a thick curtain and housing the Ark of the Covenant. It was also the place where God’s presence dwelled.

The High Priest brought a smoking pan of incense into the Holy of Holies, and he sprinkled the blood of a bull and a goat onto the Mercy Seat of the Ark. Through the blood, he first made atonement for his own sins and then for all Israel’s. After this, Israel’s sins were symbolically placed on the head of a second goat, called the scapegoat, which was then led outside the camp and abandoned. It was a picture of purging Israel of her sins.

Today, according to the biblical commands, Jewish people attend synagogue services and do no work on Yom Kippur.* God ordained it as a day to afflict oneself, so we fast for 25 hours from food, water and certain pleasures and luxuries.

Rabbis teach that on Yom Kippur, God seals (makes final) the judgments that He made at Rosh Hashanah on individuals for the coming year. Yom Kippur ends an annual period of reflection in which, for 40 days, the focus of Jewish hearts is on repentance and seeking God’s favor for the year ahead. With no Temple, this spiritual work of the heart replaces the biblically ordained sacrifices of Yom Kippur.

The season begins with the Jewish month of Elul (in August and September on the Gregorian calendar) leading up to the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Charitable giving and mending relationships are heightened pursuits at this time of year.

The hope of Yom Kippur is found in the covering of sin and a restored relationship with God. King David, in Psalm 32, describes the weight of his unconfessed sin, saying that its heaviness drained him of strength. When he confessed to God, God forgave him and his burden was lifted.

“Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said: ‘I confess my transgressions to Adonai,’ and You forgave the guilt of my sin.” 
––Psalm 32:5

In Psalm 51, considered by many to be Psalm 32’s companion, David asks God to wash him, making him white as snow. He begs for a clean heart, restoration and forgiveness. “Then my tongue will sing for joy of Your righteousness,” he says. (Psalm 51:9, 12, 16).

Repentance and forgiveness usher in a renewed relationship with God. This is Yom Kippur’s hope.

As Messianic Jews, we recognize the fulfillment of hope given to us eternally through Messiah Yeshua (Jesus). Yeshua entered the heavenly Holy of Holies with His own blood, serving as both High Priest and sacrifice, to completely atone for our sin.

“We have this hope as an anchor of the soul, both firm and steady––a hope that enters the inner place behind the curtain.”
––Hebrews 6:19

We have been “set right by His grace” and possess “the confident hope of eternal life” through Yeshua our Savior (Titus 3:4–7). God has sealed our names in the Book of Life and given us the Holy Spirit as a pledge affirming this (Ephesians 1:13, 4:30). And when Yeshua died, the Temple curtain closing off the place where God’s presence dwelled ripped in two from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51).

Yom Kippur highlights the hope offered to all in Yeshua. For Messianic Jews, Yom Kippur is a solemn day to acknowledge the high cost of our sin and stand before God in humble gratitude for this gift and the provision of forgiveness, cleansing and eternal life through Messiah Yeshua.

This year, Yom Kippur begins at sunset on Tuesday, October 8 and ends at sundown Wednesday, October 9.

*See Leviticus chapter 16 and 23:26–32 and Numbers 29:7–11 for the biblical instructions for Yom Kippur.

Joy is a Fruit of Faith 10/4 Friday Faith

I will not be posting for Monday or Tuesday as I will be on vacation.

Joy is something that only believers have.  The world may have happiness.   They find that in their surroundings, their environment.  But joy is a fruit of faith.  It is a fruit that comes from the recreated spirit.

-- E. W. Kenyon

My Peace 10/3 Thursday Thoughts

I will be on vacation and will not be posting Monday or Tuesday, October 7-8.

"My peace I give unto you."
It is not the world's peace.  It is not the peace of mind, but it is the peace of the heart.  It is a heart peace.
Isaiah 26:3 is a prophecy of the church, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind (imagination) is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee."

-- E. W. Kenyon

Three Great Words 10/2 Tuesday Truth

There are three great words that describe the condition of the believer who is taking advantage of his privileges in Christ -- rest, peace, and joy.  These three words are the fruit of full-grown faith.
John 14:27:  "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful."

-- E. W. Kenyon