Brothers and sisters,

Please pray for me. I guess I am going through some sort of spiritual battle or test of faith. And I shamefully admit that I am failing miserably. I guess my faith was not as strong as I had believed and hoped. Please pray that YHWH forgive my failings, and that he please strengthen me. I need faith, truth, and....I don't know what I need, but HE does. I am again confused and in need of Him revealing truth to me. I don’t understand why it (scripture) has to be so hard to understand.

<font color="blue">Mat 13:10 And the taught ones came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
Mat 13:11 And He answering, said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, but to them it has not been given.
Mat 13:12 “For whoever possesses, to him more shall be given, and he shall have overflowingly; but whoever does not possess, even what he possesses shall be taken away from him.
Mat 13:13 “Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
Mat 13:14 “And in them the prophecy of Yeshayahu is completely filled, which says, ‘Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive,
Mat 13:15 for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them.’</font>

Maybe I am one of these folks who just cannot see it, because “it has not been given to me to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens”. Because of my thick, selfish, stubborn, heart.

Also....

<font color="blue">Heb 10:26 For if we sin purposely after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a slaughter offering for sins,
Heb 10:27 but some fearsome anticipation of judgment, and a fierce fire which is about to consume the opponents.
Heb 10:28 Anyone who has disregarded the Torah of Mosheh dies without compassion on the witness of two or three witnesses.
Heb 10:29 How much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favour?</font>

I have done this. I have sinned many times, knowing full well it was wrong, even after knowing It was against YHWH and Yeshua. Maybe this is why I cannot get a strong grasp of how to “follow Messiah”. Maybe it is too late? I have wondered this many times, and then recently thought that YHWH had revealed to me that it was not too late. But now here it is again stronger then ever. There appears to be a time when it does become too late. A place where you have fallen too far.

Please pray,

Kel

Dear wonderful and most holy Yahweh we praise thee and love thee with all out hearts. We thank thee for all your precious children on this forum and ask that you keep and guide each and every one.

We ask that you be with our dear brother Kel and that you reach out to him and steady his path and strengthen his spirit. Cover him in the blood of your dear son, our Saviour, that your grace may abound in his life.

Help him to resist the devil and he will flee from him, provide him with the whole armour of Elohim that he may be able to stand against the wiles of the evil one.

If he acknowledges his sin to You and confesses his transgressions You have promised to forgive his iniquity. Let the words of your servant David comfort and bless Kel.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pities his children, so Yahweh pities them that fear him.

Instil in Kel’s heart great fear and reference for you that he may be filled with your spirit and walk in the spirit. Chasten him in love and if need be weaken his body that the spirit may gain strength in him. Grant him faith to get through each day and give him patience to wait for understanding and knowledge.

Let him know dear Father that he is not alone and that many of the same sufferings are experienced by his brotherhood in the world. Encourage him with signs of progress in his walk with thee and let his plea go out to others who also are burden down.

We asked this for our brother Kel in Yahshua Messiah name. HalleluYah!

My precious brother

YHWH says:
Exo 34:6 And YHWH passed by before him, and proclaimed, YHWH, YHWH Elohim, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Exo 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

My brother, you are so precious, sharing in public what so many of us keep in silence. YHWH HIMself wrote that HE is merciful and gracious, also that HE is longsuffering and abundant in goodness and truth, HE gives this mercy, HE forgives iniquity and transgression AND sin! Our flesh did not become a new creation. Every one of us as YHWH's children fight against the flesh. When we walk in the spirit, we don't sin! When we walk after the flesh we do, yes every single one of us does. Do not despair then of YHWH's mercies. They are renewed every day! The apostle Sha'ul writes:

Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Rom 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Rom 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Rom 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of Elohim after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank Elohim through Yahushua Ha Moshiach our Master. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of Elohim; but with the flesh the law of sin.

You have been given faith, for to each of us has been given the measure of faith. As I am growing up in YHWH I am learning, faith comes by hearing and hearing of the Word of YHWH. When I through weakness fall into sin, I have placed my faith in my flesh, and as always my flesh fails me. When I place my faith in the ONE who can and does deliver me, than I don't walk after the flesh but after the Spirit within me, and then I do not sin. As Sha'ul just stated there is a law at work in us and like verse 23 says, we fall into captivity to sin..but rejoice as you get to verse 25, There is help! Through Yahushua our Master. We will fight this flesh, this old man until we put it off. We fight together bro! You have asked for prayer and that we do for you bro, trusting that YHWH's Spirit lead and guide you. For myself, realizing that Yahushua lives in me, I stop and ask myself can I ask HIM to join in? Knowing that HE promised never to leave or forsake me, makes me realize all the more that even if I ask HIM or not, HE is with me in all that I think, do or say. Yes HE hears what we take in our ears, HE sees what we view with our eyes, HE is always with us! Having HIM show me that, helps me so much more to deny that flesh!


Psa 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Psa 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom YHWH imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
ABBA Father, Thank you that my brother Kel is so blessed! That all his sins are covered through the blood of Yahushua. Father thank YOU that Kel is blessed also to realize that YOU do not impute iniquity, for as YOU cleanse his sins through YOUR Son, Yahushua, that in bro Kel's spirit there is no guile.

Psa 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psa 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psa 32:5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto YHWH; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

YHWH while our bro remained in silence, he groaned bitterly, HE knew he was sinning, and this caused him hurt and shame. Yet, YHWH we rejoice that YOU keep YOUR hand upon YOUR children, that we find no rest until we are right with you. Thank YOU for speaking to our heart, for enabling us to feel remorse when we are wrong in YOUR sight, that we might all confess our sins to YOU YHWH. I praise YOU Abba, that YOU forgive the iniquity of our sins, through the sacrifice YOUR Son made for us on the stake.

Psa 32:6 For this shall every one that is righteous pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Psa 32:7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Psa 32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

YHWH we praise YOU that YOU are to be found of us, that no matter the storms that we might find ourselves in the midst of, that YOU are our hiding place, YOU preserve us from trouble, YOU are our deliverance! Thank YOU YHWH, for YOUR awesome mercy, for YOUR instruction, that YOU teach us in the way we should go, that YOU guide us with YOUR eye! Abba YHWH, thank YOU for giving us faith to run to YOU, for not only giving us forgiveness, but also the strength to endure all temptation of the flesh. Thank YOU that with every temptation that comes to us, YOU also provide a way out! YHWH I ask that YOU show my bro that way, that should temptation befall him, that HE would clearly see the way out that YOU have provided. That he curse the temptation seeing it clearly as an attack from the wicked one to cause him to stumble. I praise YOU that though the righteous may fall,
Pro 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
You YHWH give us the strength to rise up again. Thank YOU YHWH that we might stand on YOUR Word, in faith, that all things are possible through Yahushua! That through HIM we are MORE than overcomers! I bless you that this is done through Yahushua our Master,
In His Name we thank YOU, HalleluYAH!

We love you achi, and YHWH has made you victorious, use the weapons HE has given you and fight the good fight of faith!

And confess:
Mic 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, YHWH shall be a light unto me.

Shalom and love in YHWH,
Your sister,
Tamar

Thank both of you so much for your words and prayers. They have truly been an encouragement and comport to me. I praise YHWH to have such awesome brothers and sisters. YHWH bless you.

Your brother,

Kel

Sorry for the late reply Kel. Somehow I missed your request. I will give you the same verses/passages that I gave "Son of Thunder" for his request since you are experiencing the same problem.

They are in no particular order. I encourage you to read and meditate on each one. It was through these words and Yahweh's grace that my joy was restored.

1 Jn.1:7,9
Heb.12:1,2, 5-11
Ph.1:6
Jn.6:37,39
Isa.54:7-10
Ps.30:4,5
2 Tim.1:12
1 Pe 1:3-5
Heb.10:12,14,17
Psa.94:12-15
Psa.107
Lam.3:1-26,31,32,40,41
Heb.7:25

Shabbat Shalom,
John

Thank you brother John. These verses truly do help and are a blessing. Thank u for posting them. Thank you all.

Kel