The INTERCESSOR+ ... Pre-PASCHA Meditations.... Ephesians 1:16

Take the Name of Y'SHU+ with you !

PRE-PASCHA MEDITATIONS

A note to Syriac or Aramaic Followers of Y'SHU+: 

The time to stand united has come; the WHOLE House of Israel… yes, the WHOLE House… is coming under persecution world-wide, both the natural and the grafted-in branches. 

It is time to lay aside differences and seek The LORD in repentance, on our face.  It is clear that the 10 kings of Revelation 17 are actively pushing their agenda to eliminate all those who hinder their program.

Followers of Y’SHU+ the M’SHIKHA are the only ones on the face of this earth who can, through their obedience and their prayers, hinder their efforts.  The satan knows this, thus the persecution of the Whole House of Israel.

Also note:  I have used the form, Y’SHU+ the M’SHIKHA through-out, as found in the Peshitta, instead of the Jewish form of Y’SHUA+ haMOSHIYACH.

   

Meditations  for  the Pre-Pascha Season

(The Passover Season, 2016)

Now is My+ soul troubled;

and what shall I+ say ...

FATHER,

save ME+

from this hour ?

but for this cause

came I+ unto this hour.

FATHER,

Glorify Thy Name.

Then came there a Voice from Heaven, saying,

I have both glorified IT,

and will glorify IT again.

John12:27-28

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Meditation Verse 

Ephesians 1:16

[ I, Paul ]

Cease not to give thanks for you,

making mention of you

in my prayers;

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Now, from the Syriac / Aramaic translations of Dr’s. Etheridge, Murdock, and Lamsa, courtesy of Dukhrana.com :

- ܠܳܐ ܡܶܫܬ݁ܰܠܶܐ ܐ݈ܢܳܐ ܠܡܰܘܕ݁ܳܝܽܘ ܥܰܠ ܐܰܦ݁ܰܝܟ݁ܽܘܢ ܘܰܠܡܶܥ݈ܗܰܕ݂ܟ݂ܽܘܢ ܒ݁ܰܨܠܰܘܳܬ݂ܝ

Ephesians 1:16 - have not ceased to give thanks on your behalf, and to remember you in my prayers;

Ephesians 1:16 - cease not to give thanks on your account, and to remember you in my prayers;

Ephesians 1:16 - Never cease to give thanks for your sakes and to mention you in my prayers;

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Meditation

Our dear Brother and Apostle Paul !

What made his prayers SO EFFECTIVE ? Let’s look at his life remembering this:

EVERY OBEDIENCE BRINGS

A FURTHER ANOINTING.

2 Corinthians 11 relates some ... just some... of his sacrifices for the New-Born Church.  Verses 23 to 28 --- five short verses --- records a LIFE-TIME of suffering.

Are they ministers of the M'SHIKHA+?

(I speak as a fool) I am more;

in labors more abundant,

in stripes above measure,

in prisons more frequent,

in deaths oft.

Of the Jews

five times

received I forty stripes save one.

Thrice was I beaten with rods,

once was I stoned,

thrice I suffered shipwreck,

a night and a day I have been in the deep;

In journeyings often,

in perils of waters,

in perils of robbers,

in perils by mine own countrymen,

in perils by the heathen,

in perils in the city,

in perils in the wilderness,

in perils in the sea,

in perils among false brethren;

In weariness and painfulness,

in watchings often,

in hunger and thirst,

in fastings often,

in cold and nakedness.

 Beside those things that are without,

that which cometh upon me daily,

the care of all the churches.

We see this same Apostle who had been transported into the Third Heaven and heard unspeakable words that were "unlawful for man to utter" ...

saying this: 

 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

For I could wish that myself

were accursed from the  M'SHIKHA+

for my brethren,

my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Romans 9:2-3

Thus we see this great Apostle and mighty Confessor of The LORD Y'SHU+ the  M'SHIKHA+ not only "simply prayed for "... but he ALSO  made intercession for the other followers of Y'SHU+.

What is intercession?

How does INTERCESSION differ

from supplications

and other prayers ?

It is what Our LORD Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+ did for each one of us: 

HE+ came

between

the satan and us.

HE+ intervened --- placed HIMSELF+ between the destroyer and us, his victim  --- and protected us from destruction by the satan.

HE+ took the satan's blows, meant for us. The LORD Y'SHU+ fought the devil and won.

The LORD Y'SHU+ came as a man but lived in unity with His+ Heavenly FATHER, pleasing HIM in all things.

As the SECOND ADAM+ , Y'SHU+ fought the devil ... and beat him FOR US.

His+ Divine intercession entails more than supplications and requests to Our FATHER for us.

It is interVENTION.

Y'SHU+ INTERVENES --- placing Himself+ directly between us and the satan. Furthermore,   the  M'SHIKHA+ ever liveth to make intercession for us... which takes effect when we submit our lives unto HIM+.

Hebrews 7:25

Wherefore HE+ is able also

to save them to the uttermost

that come unto GOD

by HIM+,

seeing HE+ ever liveth

to make intercession for them.

HE+ not only delivered the victims from the satan's domain once

"taking captivity captive"

at the Resurrection,

but HE+ is living -- abiding, staying, remaining constant forever --- in that VICTORY, winning  over the satan  daily in the  battles, traps, and wiles the devil sets for our souls.

The satan loses and loses and loses... over and over again ... because of HIS+ INTERCESSION, the intervention, of our LORD Y'SHU+ on our behalf.

The Apostle Paul knew how to intercede.  He knew how to make supplication to Our Heavenly FATHER for the New-Born Church.

But also...

that dear Apostle did not hold himself back from all manner of suffering for the sake of the church.

He wrestled with the evil spirits IN THE NAME OF Y'SHU+ the  M'SHIKHA+ in order to deliver the brethren from the satan's grip.

Remember Acts 19 and the sons of Sceva ?

19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Y'SHU+, saying, We adjure you by Y'SHU+ Whom+ Paul preacheth.  And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.

Acts 19:15

And the evil spirit answered and said,

Y'SHU+ I know,

and Paul I know;

but

who are ye?

That was the real question then.

Here is the real question today:

Who are we ...

to the evil spirits, when we pray ?

Are we so in unity with the Will of Our LORD Y'SHU+, with the Blessed RUACH ha  KADOSH, and our Heavenly FATHER ...

that the evil spirits

tremble when we pray   ?

Have we the commitment to turn away from self indulgence ... in all the little ways we employ... to do like the Apostle Paul and bring our bodies into subjection daily ? (1 Corinthians 9:27 ) 

Are we willing and able to  endure suffering for the sake of wrestling individuals from the grip of the satan ?

Are we as certain that The LORD Y'SHU+ will honor our suffering for the Kingdom of GOD as was this Apostle who followed Y'SHU+'s example?

The Apostle Paul did not cease to give thanks for the Brethren.

Nor...

did he cease to labor and embrace suffering for the New-Born Church. 

What a good example !

Our LORD Y'SHU+ is the Great Intercessor+. Our Brother and Apostle Paul simply followed The LORD'S example in his heart, in his life ... and in his daily dying to himself.

That, dear brethren,

is how we resist the devil .

REMEMBER:

EVERY OBEDIENCE BRINGS

A FURTHER ANOINTING.

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Let us pray:

Thank YOU+, LORD the  M'SHIKHA+, for going to the Cross, coming between me and the satan, for my deliverance.

Forgive me for forsaking the Cross when it is uncomfortable. Help me to embrace the Obediences YOU have called me to embrace.

Help me, O LORD, to embrace true intercessory prayer. Strengthen me to die daily to my flesh for the sake of Your Kingdom.

And in that death to Self, help me, LORD, not to be afraid. Help me to entrust my happiness and my well-being unto YOU, my LORD and my KING+.

For the sake of Your Holy SON+, the LAMB+ of GOD Who+ takes away the sin of the world, I offer You my life through Y'SHU+ the  M'SHIKHA+ my LORD. 

Amen.

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Worthy is the LAMB+.

Worthy is The LAMB+

that was slain.

Worthy is the LAMB+,

slain

from the foundation

of the earth.

Revelation 13:8

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PRAISE and THANKSGIVING

be to The FATHER,

and to His Beloved SON+

Y’SHU+ the M’SHIKHA,

and to

the Blessed RUACH haKADOSH.

ONE GOD:

FATHER,

SON+,

and RUACH ha KADOSH,

both now and forever,

world without end.

Amen.

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