Greetings! Happy Rosh Chodesh!
The new moon was sighted tonight over Jerusalem by 2 or more witnesses. So, we are entering the new month of Iyar, the second month on the festival calendar at sunset -no matter where you are in the world.
Are you counting the “omer?” – Counting the days to Pentecost/Shavu’ot? The fourth Festival of Messiah’s ministry is near. It was Messiah who baptized the 120 disciples in the upper room with His Father’s Spirit. It is He who, as natural progression of events for “set-apartness,” who baptizes us individuals in the Spirit of Yahuwah – who is spirit, who is The Spirit, after a true new birth, when we ask Him to do so. It’s just normalcy in preparation for entrance into the Kingdom.
We have a three-part salvation, just like a 3-part life on earth. 1) birth 2) growth, maturity, accomplishments 3) passing into eternity. The 3 Festivals of Passover picture our true new birth. The fifth festival event in Acts 2, 8, 9, 19, etc. is necessary for the set-apart process of mind, emotions, and transformation so that the spirit and soul unite. We we go, we rejoice that Messiah died for us and rose again so that we can enter into the fifth festival with our body becoming the Temple of Yahuwah – not a temple made by hands like Solomon’s or Herod’s, but a temple within our re-born spirit (John 7:37-39) where He speaks to us and we hear and our submitted mind obeys.
What a life of living above all the abilities of the enemy! We’re now in warfare mode, and the greatest of all battle is done in praise and worship.
Here is the link to a song about fighting battles in praise and worship:
Abba fights for us as we give Him our lives to use for His service. We know Father and Son and They know us. (Revelation 12:11). We fight by our declarations of what He has done for us. I just know what works and what doesn’t; I just know His nature, ways, and thinking, and what isn’t His. Wisdom saves us a lot of trouble.
I just podcasted an article that I posted yesterday – a podcast to fire you up to excitement in the Presence of Yahuwah: “Faith and Worship Bring Victory Over All the Ability of the Enemy.” It is posted as 51.0 under the Mikvah of the Spirit. The Podcast is CCCLXVIII. Moving right along in the plans of Yahuwah! Enjoy Iyar!!!
Blessings, Yedidah
May 2, 2022