Recently, I have come to an understanding of what it means to have a relationship with Elohim, verses only a religion. A relationship, is not a series of beliefs. It is defined as: The way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected.The state of being connected by blood or marriage. A religion, on the other hand, is defined as: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal Diety. Details of belief as taught or discussed.
What Elohim desires, is a personal RELATIONSHIP with each one of us. This has pretty much nothing to do with our beliefs - it has everything to do with our coming to know the savior in a personal and intamate relationship. Often in scripture, we see the relationship HE desires with us, as being that of a Bride, and bridegroom. So, how does one get from point A. to point B.? Point A. being becoming a believer, to point B. being considered a bride? We have a series of relationship levels that we go through. First, we come to an understanding that we need something more than ourselves to live a moral life. We get an understanding of what morals are by reading the "law" and we see that in and of ourselves it is impossible to keep that law. We need something else, to give us the strength. This, leads us to humility. Humility, is recongnising that we can't do this alone. It is at that point, where we reach out to a savior. Our savior, is Yah'Shua. We understand that he paid the penalty for our law breaking, and we accept that he paid the penalty on our behalf. This is step one. Step two. We now have been set free of the penalty. Now what? Now, we begin to learn what it takes to obey the law, and Repent for each law we have broken. As we learn, we come to know more and more laws we have broken, and we live out a series of repenace, until we have the fullness of the law written on our hearts. This is the doing of the holy spirit, who works in our hearts to teach and convict. Each time we are convicted, we repent. Each time we repent, we learn not to repeat the same sin again. This is the school master concept, as each time we see our sin, are convicted and repent, we are brought closer to knowing Y'shua. In this step, we are children. Our heavenly father leads and guides us, teaching us his truth, helping us in his spirit to understand the truth. As we understand more, we go from being born, to being children. We grow. Step three. Spiritual teenagers. This is where we "rebell" against "religion", \man's church doctrines, and seek to find out for ourselves what we should and should not beleive. We dont want to be spoon fed from the pulpit anymore. Now, we open the scripture for ourselves. We test what we have been taught as spiritual children, against what the bible teaches. Is it true? is it a lie? we go through a series of tests. Trials. We reach out for our heavenly father, and say "abba, teach us truth" At this stage, we are coming to maturity. Seeking out a relationship with Elohim, that is more than just religion. We get to know Elohim as friends, as chidren. We come to understand, that we need His spirit to teach us truth in greater depths. We Understand that we are no longer needing to be fed by pastors. We graduate from milk, to the bread of the word at this stage. Step four. Spiritual young adults. At this stage, as young men and women, we begin to see visions. Our spiritual gifts start to manifest themselves. We begin to see Yah'shua as more than "father" - we see him as friend. We hear the call going out to the bride. We are the watchmen on the wall. Our place is in prophesy. As young men, we are the watchers on the wall. We are the ones looking out for the messiah to come, seeking to see him. At this stage we come to know him for ourselves. We have had our bar/bat mitzvahs and have been taught by the spirit of the law. Now, we learn to live the law in order to be pleasing to our savior. It is no longer something we MUST do, to advoid sin. It is something we do because we WANT to please Elohim. At this point, many choose to leave the churches, seeking after spiritual MEAT as it is more satisfying. Step five. Now we are the virgins. We come to know Y'shua as a lover. We are wooed by him. He begins to take us from our visions, and spiritual gifts, and lead us to deeper relationship. We no longer know ABOUT yahshua, we begin to know him. We begin to see him as the shulamite, in the song of solomon. He begins to share his secrets with us. He gives us revelations about himself. We begin to understand more of what it means to have a relaitonship. We are fed, and rather than the law, we begin to understand the atributes of the savior. We begin to understand the completeness of the law and yahshua together. We begin to taste spiritual fruit of love, joy, peace, gentleness, meekness, kindness, temperance, and patience. Our relationship becomes one of secrecy. Step six: Now, we are his betrothed. We understand how the law comes together with the spirit to produce life in him. We have known Yahshua now for some time. Now, we are introduced to the FATHER. We begin to understand the relaitonship of the Father, and the son. In the temple, we are at the mercy seat. We begin to see the relationship of the son, and the father and learn to imitate it. We are anxiously awaiting his return... Yah'shua becomes precious to us. We are able to give up the things of this flesh, and begin to walk hand in hand with the savior in spirit. Our revelations of relationship continue, but our revelations take on a more spiritual aspect. We learn how to walk in spirit. Step Seven: Complete. We are one with the savior as his bride. We walk together with HIM before the father as ONE. We walk as He walked, and now our relationship begins to grow with the father as we now are one with the word. We wait for his coming, and walk in completeness of spirit. We sleep, and have dreams of our walk in heaven. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Blessings, RACHAEL LYNN as revealed to me by the RUACH HA KODESH.
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