Torah Trails
Rabbi Yehudah “Tochukwu” ben Shomeyr
Kristopher Shoemaker
#15 Bo
Exd. 10:1-13:16
Jer.
46:13-28
James 1:15,
I Cor. 10:13
Memory
Verses: Exd. 12:29, Jer. 46:28, Rom. 9:29
Exd. 13:1-2
Every
physical thing has a mental and spiritual equivalent. Inspiration and ideas are
the conception of the Spirit. The planning and mulling over the details of such
is gestation and taking that through and bringing forth into reality is birth. Think I`m taking things to far Well, sin has a
similar process; “When lust has conceived it brings forth sin, and sin when it
is fully grown brings forth death.” (James 1:15). The process is identical. You
have a lustful thought, you dwell on it, thinking of ways to bring it to pass,
you do it and bring it into this reality. Just as a physical body has a womb,
so too our hearts and minds have wombs.
Physically, our
firstborn is to be given and dedicated to the LORD. The same goes with
livestock and crops, so why wouldn’t what proceeds from the heart and mind be
any different?
“Whether
therefore you eat or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of
God.” I Cor. 10:31
Bottom line,
God comes first. He gets the first and the best of our everything; offspring,
livestock, crops, income and ideas and plans.
Jer.
46:27-28
When we love
and obey God and give Him our first and best of everything we can be assured
such obedience will be rewarded. Past ground and territory and authority lost
to the enemy will be returned to us we will overcome, prosper, prevail and
rule.
“Abba YHWH
Elohim, our lives are not compartmentalized and separated into the secular and
the sacred. All is sacred and You deserve to be put first in everything we say
or do. Help us Father to fully submit to You and allow You to have first place
and accept the sacrifice of all our “firsts” to You and be glorified. In Yeshua’s
Name, Amen!”
