Words Matter: Week 1/Day 3

Read: Matthew 12:33-37; Matthew 15:17-18;Luke 6:45

SOAP: Luke 6:45

S: The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

O&A: Moment of truth. What are we storing up as treasure in our hearts? “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in or steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." -Matthew 6:19-21 It continues on to speak about the eye being the lamp of the body. What we look at, listen to, participate in... it all stores up in our hearts as treasure, whether it is good or bad. We are to guard our gates, and understand that it means our eyes, our ears, and what we let into our minds, for those feed into what comes out of us (Prov 4:23).

P: Abba, beloved Father, Teach me to have better guard over what I let in, help me to establish proper boundaries for all that I do, in conversations, ministry, teaching, serving, and helping around my home. Messiah is my treasure, and I want my testimony to point to Him and not be muddled with all the cares of this world. Give me wisdom in how to react, respond, and communicate with those around me. Help me to purge the bad treasure, and to store up Your treasures in my heart. In Yeshua's name, Amein.

LGG: Jonah - Love the Loveless Week 1/Day 3

Read: Jonah 1:7-12SOAP: 1 John 2:4-6

S: One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his mitzvot, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him. But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most assuredly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him: he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk                                   just like he walked.

O&A: I once lived a life of a "believer". I believed, yet I didn't keep the mitzvot/the commandments. I was a liar, and the truth was not in me. I had to learn (the hard way, of course) that being religious is not the same as being a Yeshua follower. Verse 3 says, "This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his mitzvot." Mitzvot being commandment, meaning a prescribed rule in accordance with which a thing is done; of the precepts of Jewish tradition: universally, of the commandments of God. It amazed me that I was supposed to DO something, LIVE it out, not just SAY I was something. Yonah SAID he was a Hebrew and that he feared the LORD, but he wasn't LIVING like that. He was a liar, and the truth was not in him. The same goes for me. 


Even the men who were on the ship knew Yonah's actions had put them in grave danger. "Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them." This is the moment I can still see: I AM YONAH. Does my walk always line up with my talk? Or am I just blustering? Am I Beth, or am I God's? If I am running from God's decree, I am serving myself. If I put my desires aside and do as I am commanded, I am honoring Elohim, King of the Universe. How many times must I defy Him and be swallowed by the fish, and die to myself? (As many times as it takes to submit fully to Adonai.) (And to skip ahead here, sorry, but I don't want to forget this: When Elohim vomits Yonah out onto the shore, remember what Adonai says He will do if we are lukewarm... He will spew us out if we are neither hot nor cold.)

P: Mighty Elohim, King of the Universe, Your word says we are to keep Your mitzvot, that we are to take up our execution stake/cross DAILY and follow Yeshua. We are to constantly deny our selves so that we are free to serve You, our one Master. I thank You for the breath in my lungs this morning that I am proclaiming Your glory, honor, and power with! I thank You and praise You that no matter how faithFUL or how faithLESS I am, YOU ARE STILL IN CONTROL! YOU ARE STILL ON THE THRONE! However, I desire to serve You better, no, I desire to serve You with my BEST. (Good, better, best, never let it rest, til your good gets better, and your better gets BEST!) You are worthy of all that I have to offer, and even more. Thank You, Abba, thank You! In Yeshua's name, Amein