Vol. H-0007 No. H-0005 May 2002

CHOOSING DESTINY

​Choosing destiny is to choose God’s heart and desire, for He does have a great plan for your life...Himself! There is no greater destiny than the intimate relationship with God the Father through His Son Yeshua and the Holy Spirit. There will be wonderful side benefits to your destiny, but never let go of the true meaning of it...God Himself. He desires to be our thoughts, words, actions...our everything. God is constantly calling us up and out of ourselves into Himself. Why is this? It goes back to the Garden of Eden. When God created Adam he was perfect in every way. Adam was the very breath of God and created in His image/reflection. He was in complete relationship with God and there was no sin in him. He was in perfect harmony with God, himself, the animals, plant life, the rhythm of the Earth, everything was flowing just as God intended it to flow. When sin entered the garden and took up residence in the serpent, mankind was tempted to believe the lie...that God cannot be trusted...and...you can become as God. When Adam and Eve indeed believed this lie and ate what God had told Adam not to eat, their perfect life in God became ruined. The intimate relationship changed instantly and they were separated from God in their hearts.

This state of sin has remained ever since and when you read the account you discover again that everything was effected. The Earth, animals, Adam and Eve individually, in their relationship with each other and with their Creator. Everything changed except God’s desire to have a human family. God never intended for His Creation to know anything but Himself and to be in perfect harmony with Him and all that He had created. This state of sin/rebellion against God is one of the things that we have to face and deal with as we move toward our new and deeper life in God. We must understand that satan hates God and hates everything God has made and called good. That includes us. Yeshua was greatly grieved that His creation did not see their own sin/rebellion against God, nor see the original plan for mankind; joy and fulfillment in God Himself. John 3: 19 says,"This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil...”  Even though Yeshua was grieved, He knew Father’s plan. John 8: 12 says,"I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."

Satan we are told in John 10:10, desires to kill, steal and destroy everything that is of God. Who do you think was behind the Crusades and World War II and Hitler and the attempted extinction of the Jews. Hitler was a great follower of the occult in every area of his life. Satan is behind the death and destruction in Israel today: the land, the people, the tearing down of the Holy Temple area, etc. Satan is the one scripture tells us is behind the rise of the anti-Christ and all the end time horror. He is trying to completely eliminate the people of God. We know through the Word of God that he will not succeed and that Yeshua will return, take on satan and the anti-Christ and win. (Read Daniel, Revelation, and other places in the Old and New Testament for further study.) Scripture also tells us that through Yeshua’s death on the cross and His resurrection He has reconciled us back to God and we are new creations. (Romans 5:10 and 2 Cor. 5:17) This is fact. This is one of the facts that satan is trying so hard in our generation to wipe out of our lives. He does not have the power to do this, unless we give him the power by our choices. We must believe God and His Word. We must know God and His Word through a personal and consumed passion for Him.  It is a fact that must be worked out in our daily lives. One of the greatest failures in the church is that no one seems to be teaching how to walk in the newness of God. We do not have all the answers, but as we ourselves move deeper into Yeshua and our destiny we will share all that He gives us.

Everyone must choose to believe God by faith, and then put that faith into action by the choices we make each day to walk by God’s Laws and Word by the power of Yeshua’s life in us. In other words, we must each choose to re-learn how we think and no longer believe the lie that satan planted in the garden. The New Testament tells us in Gal. 2: 20 "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the {life} which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me...” The scriptures also tell us in John 3:6 “That which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” How can we truly know this? "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?"Numbers 23:19

 Believe it!! This new life that we are given by God through His Son’s sacrifice is actually a return to the life that Adam lived in the garden with God before the fall. We are returned to the original state with God, completely cleaned and new in His eyes.

This is tremendous news to our souls. We are brand new. Re-born on the day that we accept Yeshua as our Lord and Savior. Yet there are things in us even years after our new birth that are not new at all. It is the same old stuff that causes us to be hurt, angry, rejected, depressed, lonely, feeling unloved, unwanted, unaccepted, lashing out at others, etc. Because we have not truly believed God and His word to us, we have not dwelt with the things in our lives that have hurt us and hampered us from becoming all God wants us to be. The lie is what is being lived out in our lives, not what God says and knows to be true for us. Our actions still say that we believe that we must do things ourselves. We do not trust God for things in our lives beyond our salvation. And this is a wrong decision on our parts. Having this information, how do we move forward toward our destiny in God?  An important thing to note is that destiny is God’s idea, not man’s. True destiny is like true reality....It is only found in God for only God is Truth and Reality. We perceive in our daily lives that we are living in truth and reality, but in fact, we deal mostly in untruth and in unreality in our own lives and in our relationships with others and with God. Because of all the hurts and things in our lives that have not been dwelt with, we cannot perceive reality because of the blocks that are in our hearts, minds and emotions. We are seeing what we think/believe is truth through hurt feelings, dead dreams, voices from the past telling us untruths about ourselves based on untruths about themselves. Again the garden of Eden effect in the life of mankind. Truth and Reality can’t get through. We must learn to think for ourselves in and with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and we must decide to study for ourselves the Word of God. All of these things must be dwelt with in the loving presence of our Lord Yeshua before we can truly know His Reality in us. The first time that I agreed with God was the day that I was born again from above and agreed with Him that I needed desperately to have a Savior. I came to understand the truth that I could not save myself and that God had provided His perfect sacrifice that I could not provide for myself. This fact put me, and all others who have accepted God’s Gift of Salvation, on a pathway for truth in the rest of my life. It has taken me time to understand this but I know that I know this now and no one can take it away.  It is a revelation of God that belongs to me just as your own personal revelations from God belong to you.

Another part of dealing with the false realities in us is that we must look at the fact that wanting God’s destiny in our lives...our full potential in Him...His full and complete Life living out of us...is going to cost us everything that we have in our lives that is not God. Looking at truth hurts. It is much easier to do the blame game like Adam in the garden when he told God that the reason he did what he did was because of the “woman that You gave me.”Gen. 3:12 In truth, no matter what others have done to you or me, no matter what doubts and fears I have about anything, I must take responsibility for my own choices and decisions in my life before God. It is very important to let the Spirit of God show you this truth within yourself. We must all come to the place where there are NO MORE EXCUSES!! We must also realize that others do not have this revelation and they are dealing out of their hurts, doubts, etc. Satan wants very much for all of humanity to continue to blame each other, for this serves his purpose of tearing us apart internally, externally, from ourselves, each other and from God. It effects everything and satan knows this. Once you really have this revelation for yourself, you can stand in it and not be pulled into the blame game any longer. You will also begin to see others through Yeshua’s eyes...The eyes of Truth with understanding and compassion.

"Christ in you (the hope of fulfilling all of God's intention for your life) will be intrinsically different from Christ in others. Not that He is different, for He never changes--but rather that He has made each one of us unique. His power alone gives that uniqueness full expression." Stepping Into Greatness by Dr. Mark Chironna God is so interested in His children receiving the truth, that He does not want any part of us to be independent of Him. He wants to be our thoughts (the mind of Yeshua)...our feelings (true emotions that are no long junked up with the old stuff)...our actions (true Yeshua actions only) and where we go.  We are all in a fight and most of us don’t even know there is a war. The war is between good and evil...God, satan and our flesh man. We must always remember that our flesh is hostile to God. Romans 8:7 declares: “because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able {to do so,}”.  It is not born again.  It is our spirits that are born again. The flesh part of us...mind, will, emotions and our physical man must be trained...made to obey God through the desire of our spirits and the choices of our wills. We must also remember that the kingdom of God is within each child of God and that is where the resources are to wage the good fight of faith. Inside us...at our core...is Yeshua,  the hope of glory and He desires to flow out of us as rivers of water. Water to bring about a harvest into the kingdom as He is lifted up and praised and worshiped in honest love and joy. In order for any of us to truly worship the King of kings, and the Lord of lords, we must let go of everything that is not of Him and worship Him in truth and in spirit: in our hearts!

How many of us are guilty of wanting someone else to do our thinking for us?  Too many...actually most of humanity. There are several reasons for this. One is that we are too lazy to get into the Word of God for ourselves and dig out the nuggets of truth He has for us. Another is that many people believe the lie that a minister or pastor must give out the word of God. Others do not want to get close to God on a personal level. They may or may not realize that the reason is simple. If I hear a word from God for myself, then I am accountable before God for it. If I hear it through another man, I can choose whether it is really God or not and I am not responsible for it. Wrong!!!  Scripture tells us in the Old Testament that this is what Israel did when God invited them to hear from Him. They told Moses to go up the mountain and get the word of the Lord and then they would follow it. Exodus 20:18-21 It did not work out that way though. Every child of God must receive from God on a personal level and that starts years before any of us are born again. God is always drawing to Himself. What He is waiting for now is for us to really want Him and need Him and draw near to Him.  Please understand I do not mean lip service. I am talking about genuine longing to be in God’s presence and a deep knowing from God Himself that He will come. That takes time, energy, desire. God has already put the desire into you. It is up to you to awaken it and move into a new and deeper relationship with Him. No matter the hurts, fears, broken relationships, etc., God will meet you where you are. Actually, He is already there waiting for you. You will not be able to move into your complete destiny in God without sacrificing your own flesh life. God and death cannot dwell in the same place. We make room for God in our hearts by letting Him heal all the death and hurt and doubts and shadows of our past and when He cleans each area ask Him to fill each one of those places with Himself. Do not just let those areas sit. Please read Matthew 12:43-45 for yourself. It is vital that you understand that the empty and cleaned out place in you must be filled by God so that satan cannot return. Ask Him to fill each one with His Life...the Holy Sprit is a gentleman and He will not move in until you ask Him to.

It is vital that we all know deep within us that God is the only one who is adequate to bring us to a place of knowing...seeing for ourselves the truth... about our hurts, fears, doubts, shadows, etc. and then helping us agree with Him that we want these areas handled in our lives and cleaned up and made new in the Son of God. Read the story of the potter in Isa. 29. God has the right to make whatever He chooses for His purposes. We must learn to trust God the Father through the life of the Son and the Spirit of God in us and let God have His way with us. This is what free will is all about: choosing to put yourself in His hands as the Potter and knowing that the finished work is the complete life of Yeshua in our lives. No matter what the circumstances are that get you there.

The time for God’s favor is here for all of His people. God is always ready to give out His favor to His children and all we must do is desire to receive of Him. It is time for us to believe God and receive from Him all that we need. Have you ever thought about the fact that Yeshua died so that all of us can become the completed work that God began in the garden of Eden.  Yeshua said on the cross "It is finished.” John 19:30 Everything that needs to be done Yeshua has already done. Our part is to let Him show us the areas in our lives that need to change, be cleaned up, covered with His Blood and made new. We must all repent for our part in our own lives and others where we are to blame and then forgive all those who have judged us, hurt us, blamed us, caused us to feel small, or believe the lies with which satan and the flesh are constantly assailing us. This process, and it is a process, is the freeing of the human spirit, soul and body from the sin/rebellion of the garden... completely freeing us to be all we can be in Yeshua. It is the laying down the right to yourself that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil has always caused you to believe you had. Our selfishness runs deep in us and only God can show us what and where it is and by our permission to Him rout it out forever and fill us with His goodness, mercy, love, truth, grace, and all else God has for us.

Coming full circle let me close with this thought. We cannot give away what we ourselves do not posses. Dead churches and synagogues come from dead people. God is Life!! There is no death in God. Death is the result of sin. We must remember that Yeshua “gave up His life” into the Fathers hands to be the sacrifice for the sin of the world.  He did this as a man, the Son of Man.  John 10:17 says: "For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.”

There was no sin in Yeshua and if HE had not chosen to give up His life to God the Father, we would all still be in sin and in a separated state from God.  God the Father and His Son Yeshua were in complete agreement about the salvation of Their Creation. The way that we use the full Life and Power of God in our lives is to believe that we have it within us and ask Yeshua to teach us how to use that Power.

This is letting His truth out, His wisdom out...all of Him at His pleasure, out on a dying world. The scripture says: "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself." John 12:32 We must remember that God is the One who is doing the work, we agree with Him with our obedience and the releasing of our lives completely into His rule for the Glory of the Father in heaven.

From the Bridegroom

April 25, 1995 Word about Joseph

Joseph's dream to him I did impart He was open to hear Me in his heart.

His silence he did not keep and it was told That Joseph was young and brash and bold.

I taught him well in the most trying of ways He didn't understand until the completing of his days. He then understood that My hand was upon him to preserve My remnant--it was for them. And when your path seems strange to you Remember that to My word I am true.

I am unchanging in the work of My heart. 

It is to My children My will I wish to impart. The souls of many are turned against Me. Some of them don't understand what they are doing. Others don't care but think they understand the finalness of time. Is destruction the only wake-up call people can or will understand.  I fear they have made an eternal misunderstanding in their souls. Yeshua weeps for those who reject Us--just as He wept over Jerusalem. The only difference is that He wept on earth and now He weeps on the throne of mercy and grace. I over floweth the rivers of living water but no one wants to drink. Their cup will surely be spilled by the hand of the adversary of their soul and spirit. All of you make eternal shaping decisions everyday. Man's destiny cannot be brought to life like clicking an icon of desire. The moment you think I am not making final decisions yet, is the moment life is lost. The degree to which you can see Me is the degree to which you are willing to turn away from self. I am to be your thoughts, your deeds, your spoken words. The life of your existence ...I love you so thoroughly that your heart beats within My heart, your breath is My breath. The intercoursing of our spirit is held in the desire of My heart for we cannot be separated. The penetration of your love to Me is the substance of My love extended. You are needful of everything I am.....as the penetration of My love to you is the substance of your life. Without My love you do not possess life. You are only deceived by an illusion of your own imagination--the imagination of the master deceiver--you like to think that satan is just the delusion of some misguided author of scripture. Not so---no human soul is capable of such evil without the infection and contamination of evil itself. The road is ever narrow and the end is ever eternal. My Word, My Will--is the final and only say on life or death or eternal life. If your heart is not in Mine then you do not possess Me. Lose yourself in the Master Creator--for life can be found in none else. I long to share My heart with your heart.”