Why Does Bear Make His Prayers 1st Person?
Posted on: August 3, 2010 by: admin
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WHY THE PRAYERS ARE FIRST PERSON
John 12:48 in the King James version reads:
He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him–the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
The Amplified version reads:
Anyone who rejects Me and persistently sets Me at naught, refusing to accept My teachings, has his judge [however]; for the [very] message that I have spoken will itself judge and convict him at the last day.
As a result of saying my Psalm 119 prayers I have more a more intimate understanding of verse 130 from the Amplified version:
The entrance and unfolding of Your Words give light; their unfolding gives under-standing, discernment, and comprehension to the simple.
What I got is this. If a table cloth is folded up it appears smaller than it really is. When you unfold the table cloth you find out how big it really is. This is sort of analogous with Jahuwah’s Word; there is always more there than there appears to be at first glance. Now, if the table cloth is made out of the right kind of material, when you are unfolding it it will generate static electricity/energy/light. The light that comes from the unfolding of Jahuwah’s Word takes the form of “understanding, discernment, and comprehension.” That is something we all need more of.
There a couple ways I’ve uncovered to unfold Jah’s Word; one of them is to mutter it out loud; the other is to sit and look up each word in the concordance looking for additional understanding that was not conveyed in the words selected by the translators. As I was saying John 12:48 as part of my John prayers I took an interest in the phrase, “Anyone who rejects Me and persistently sets Me at naught…” and I went to www.blueletterbible.org to look each and every word in John 12:48 in the concordance there. I incorporated these extra words into John 12:48 and came up with my own amplified version:
He that thwarts the efficacy of, nullifies, makes void, or frustrates Me, and fails to lay hold of, to take upon himself in order to use, and make it his own and claim it so as not to let go; whoever fails to associate with me as my companion or attendant giving me access to himself by striving to obtain and appropriate to himself what I have uttered by My living voice (rhema), hath one that separates as the separating of the goats from the sheep by a shepard, picks out, selects, or chooses him: the declarations, decrees, maxims, mandates, orders, moral precepts, instructions and sayings (logos) that I have spoken in order to declare My mind and disclose My thoughts, the same shall separate, pick out, select, choose, approve, and pronounce an opinion concerning whether he was right or wrong, as is my prerogative as a king, in the last day.
Pay attention to this phrase with respect to why the prayers I write are first person, “He that thwarts the efficacy of, nullifies, makes void, or frustrates Me, and fails to lay hold of, to take upon himself in order to use, and make it his own and claim it so as not to let go…” We can thwart the efficacy of, nullify, make void, or frustrate Jah’s Word and Jahuwah himself by failing to give it a voice. We need to let it come out of our mouth. When we say the prayers in the first person we lay hold of Jahuwah’s promises, take upon ourselves in order to use, make them our own and claim them so as not to let go. Maybe the so called “name it and claim” people weren’t so far off. When we say Jah’s Word throughout the day as much as we can we associate with Him (John 1:14 says that Jahshuwah was the Word that was made flesh and dwelt among us) as His companion or attendant. Jahuwah/Jahshuwah is in that Word! When we say Jah’s Word over and over we are giving Jahshuwah access to ourselves by striving to obtain and appropriate to ourselves what He has uttered by His living voice (rhema). Jahuwah wants us to have those promises and He has shown us how to appropriate them to ourselves. There is no other way to obtain them!
We can know by the remainder of the passage that what:
…separates as the separating of the goats from the sheep by a shepard, picks out, selects, or chooses him: the declarations, decrees, maxims, mandates, orders, moral precepts, instructions and sayings (logos) that I have spoken in order to declare My mind and disclose My thoughts, the same shall separate, pick out, select, choose, approve, and pronounce an opinion concerning whether he was right or wrong, as is my prerogative as a king, in the last day.
If we have been saying the right thing, Jahuwah’s Word, and giving Him access to our thoughts; attempting to appropriate unto ourselves His promises, we will be separated with the sheep and be approved as correct; if we have not, we will be separated with the goats and will be declared to be wrong. Remember, Joshua 1:8 says:
Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate (put forth, speak, sing, study & ponder) on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. (Emphasis mine)
Part of being one of the sheep is speaking the Word every chance we get. If you are not doing that, you may be one of the goats. I guarantee you that if you are not speaking Jah’s Word…you will not be a doer of the Word! In fact, if you are not speaking it every chance you get, you are already not a doer of the Word because a big part of that is speaking Jah’s Word. My prayer for John 12:48 ended up looking like this:
I don’t thwart the efficacy of, nullify, make void, or frustrate Jahshuwah, I lay hold of, take upon myself in order to use, and make His promises my own and claim them so as to not to let them go; I associate with Jahshuwah as His companion or attendant giving Him access to myself by striving to obtain and appropriating to myself what He has uttered by His living voice (rhema), Jahshuwah separates, picks out, selects, or chooses me: the declarations, decrees, maxims, mandates, orders, moral precepts, instructions and sayings (logos) that He has spoken in order to declare His mind and disclose His thoughts, the same shall separate, pick out, select, choose, approve, and pronounce an opinion concerning whether I was right or wrong, as is His prerogative as a king, in the last day.
As you can see, I took all the negative stuff and turned it into a positive; I made Jah’s Word into a decree. I am only going to say what I want to end up with; I want to end up with the life part of the power of my tongue; that is the fruit I want to eat.
