I started this blog in an effort to share with everyone (brothers and sisters in Messiah) what has been in my heart and mind in dealing with preparedness. Sometimes preparedness can become a way of life and consume our beings, to a point where we cannot do what our Heavenly Father teaches us to do.
The past months I have been dormant in the blog-o-sphere. I have spent time studying and praying and I have been waiting for the direction the Father wants my family and I to take.
I have come to an understanding that I want to share with you at this time.
Preparedness in a Believer's life is to be more than acquiring food stores, guns and ammo, BOB bags and physical materials. These are good and useful, but without Faith in the Father we will perish in the wilderness. The Children of Israel had to learn this before entering the promise land and so must we. We as Believer's in Yeshua need to heed the words that were laid at the feet of the disciples.
Yeshua spoke about the rich land owner who wanted to store more grain and started to build a bigger better storage and Our Father told him that his life would being taken that night. When we proceed to obtain more material goods and think 'now we need a bigger store house' or land for them, we are not waiting and listening for the Voice of the Father.
I titled this post A long wait..... For a purpose to explain the journey I am on with YHVH. In many ways we all have this journey, just not at the same time or the same portion of the path. When you are a parent and a spouse it becomes vitally important to have waiting periods for other members of your family, to be in the same portion of the path before you move forward as a unit.
Over the past year I have prayed over and for my daughter to grow and mature in her walk and faith. I am seeing that come to bear fruit. Sometimes I sit back and think is this the same little girl I carried on my shoulders for ice cream and swimming.
Praise to YHVH for His Work in her heart! I also have had time to see my beautiful bride grow in her spirit and heart to yearn for the Father's hand in her life. As a musician gracefully moving their hands over the strings of an instrument, I have come to see the works that the Father has done in her. Praise to YHVH for giving me a loving help meet! As this was going on in their hearts and lives I waited for YHVH to teach me also.
Back to preparedness..... Waiting on the Father to prepare you can give you the best results of growth, in smaller chunks, that may seem slow and tedious, but more rewarding than being moved all at once. An example I praise the Father for is the ability to spend ample time in prayer in the morning. I use to take 5-10 minute for prayer, keeping short and sweet. Do not get me wrong, those can be rewarding and for most are good, however I felt the hand of the Father move me into deeper prayer.
Deeper, quieter time to speak my heart. As my daughter went through a growing period from her multiple surgeries for a hip injury, I leaned more on YHVH, because I had to come to realization that I could not take on all her battles for her. It was tough to learn. I had to wait on the Father to work....and guess what? HE did and even more than I can ever imagine.... Praises to the Father!!!!!
In your effort to prepare for what is coming, do not forget that waiting on The Father to move you can give you the most growth, physically and spiritually.
A long wait.... is good....
Shalom,
Steve
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A Shofar Call to all Men
Recently, I heard a question that sent a shiver down my back. Where are the men in America? The ones who are willing to step into the gaps and be the leaders of our homes, our families and our nation. Whether America is doomed to fall or not is not the question. All nations are going to bow before Our Creator and His Son Yeshua. So yes America is going to fall but we are to be men of courage and pray for our nation.
Daniel and and other men of the Scriptures prayed for even their captures and the Father blessed them. He used these men to show others that commitment to Our Father is the most powerful weapon Ha Satan faces.
Our Nation has lost its soul and needs men of courage, men of prayer to lead the way. No matter what the ruler of this realm says or does to stop us. The question of where the men are in America is one we need to look in the pages of our recent history.
The leaders of today are looking to the last 50 years in history to see their role models.
Demasculinized role models of child like behaviors and whining sports figures are the role models of today's youth. Not many young men of today look up to the role models that the Father has given them. Grandpa and Dad .
Proverbs 22:6 tells us that we are to train up a child in the way he should go. This is not a verse for the state run schools - it is for us as parents (especially men). Men now a days are being told that we can not be in the roles that we were designed for. Gone are the days when men actually trained to be biblical men. Men of courage and men of honor. When I say this I mean in the likeness of Yeshua..
He was not weak nor was he timid. Read the scriptures. He turned over the money changers tables and challenged the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin of the day on their erroneous teachings. He even taught his disciples accordingly in Luke 22:35-38. Does this sound like a wimp? The way the world paints Him. Again where are the men?
The society of America is deprived of deeply rooted spiritual men of prayer. The more a man is deeply rooted in prayer the more he is in the will of the Father. Our example of deep prayer is Yeshua Himself in the Garden. He made His petition at the Father's feet and in much agony He prayed and sweat turned to blood. I personally have not reached that point in my prayer life that I was in so intense focus that my own sweat turned to blood.
What would happen if we, as men, rose up to be in prayer like Elijah, Daniel or David. David did obeisance before the Father. This was a man after Yah's own heart. What a statement that would make to our families? To our sons?
An example better than any Sports figure. We, as men , should rise up to bow down to our Creator, Abba - Father. Where are the men?
Are you a man that desires Yah's own heart? Are you a man of prayer? Are you a man of action or a man of in-action? Can you stand in the gaps and watch the night? Being ready to prayerfully do battle for our Father, our Families, and our Nation? Then start each day with the Father in prayer and with your family? If you need pray for yourself and want another pray warrior to help, let me know.
Shalom,
Steve
Daniel and and other men of the Scriptures prayed for even their captures and the Father blessed them. He used these men to show others that commitment to Our Father is the most powerful weapon Ha Satan faces.
Our Nation has lost its soul and needs men of courage, men of prayer to lead the way. No matter what the ruler of this realm says or does to stop us. The question of where the men are in America is one we need to look in the pages of our recent history.
The leaders of today are looking to the last 50 years in history to see their role models.
Demasculinized role models of child like behaviors and whining sports figures are the role models of today's youth. Not many young men of today look up to the role models that the Father has given them. Grandpa and Dad .
Proverbs 22:6 tells us that we are to train up a child in the way he should go. This is not a verse for the state run schools - it is for us as parents (especially men). Men now a days are being told that we can not be in the roles that we were designed for. Gone are the days when men actually trained to be biblical men. Men of courage and men of honor. When I say this I mean in the likeness of Yeshua..
He was not weak nor was he timid. Read the scriptures. He turned over the money changers tables and challenged the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin of the day on their erroneous teachings. He even taught his disciples accordingly in Luke 22:35-38. Does this sound like a wimp? The way the world paints Him. Again where are the men?
The society of America is deprived of deeply rooted spiritual men of prayer. The more a man is deeply rooted in prayer the more he is in the will of the Father. Our example of deep prayer is Yeshua Himself in the Garden. He made His petition at the Father's feet and in much agony He prayed and sweat turned to blood. I personally have not reached that point in my prayer life that I was in so intense focus that my own sweat turned to blood.
What would happen if we, as men, rose up to be in prayer like Elijah, Daniel or David. David did obeisance before the Father. This was a man after Yah's own heart. What a statement that would make to our families? To our sons?
An example better than any Sports figure. We, as men , should rise up to bow down to our Creator, Abba - Father. Where are the men?
Are you a man that desires Yah's own heart? Are you a man of prayer? Are you a man of action or a man of in-action? Can you stand in the gaps and watch the night? Being ready to prayerfully do battle for our Father, our Families, and our Nation? Then start each day with the Father in prayer and with your family? If you need pray for yourself and want another pray warrior to help, let me know.
Shalom,
Steve
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