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Your Mantle Of Glory…

The word mantle often refers to one’s calling. Scripture speaks about the mantle of Elijah that he threw over Elisha calling him to rise to the mantle of the prophet. You, too, have a mantle or calling in your life.

The word mantle in Hebrew is Adderet. It holds a secret. It comes from the word adir meaning powerful. God has called you with a powerful calling. He’ll equip you with the power to fulfill your calling. It also means excellent. He’s given you an excellent calling. You’re called to excellence. The word also means glorious. God has given you a glorious calling.

Live accordingly. It also means worthy. You’re never worthy; any more than Elisha was worthy of that mantle, but the Lord makes you worthy. The mantle is always bigger than you are right now so that you can grow into it.

You become worthy of the mantle, as you live it and walk it, you become it. God has given you a mantle; it’s glorious. Live excellently, mightily, gloriously, and worthy – for that, and nothing less, is the calling of your mantle.

For God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. Romans 11:29

Seek today to walk in the fullness of your calling – and start growing into your mantle.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Holy Grail Of Proverbs…

The movie ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ was about searching for the ‘Holy Grail,’ the cup Jesus drank from at the Last Supper and whoever drank from it received eternal life. That’s all fantasy.

But there is a way of immortality that doesn’t take a global crusade to get it. Proverbs 12:28 says, “In the way of righteousness is life and in its pathway there is no death.” The way of immortality is the way of righteousness.

The more you dwell in the Spirit, in righteousness, and in what you know is right in Jesus, the more you’ll be revived; the more the power of life and refreshing comes into your life. The way of Jesus is life. He’s called “Sar Hayim”- the Prince of Life.

So the more you turn from sin, the more you’re turning from death, the more you’re refreshed and renewed. In fact, the Gospel means fresh.

Do you want the real Holy Grail, the real way of eternal life, righteousness, and immortality? You’ll find it in the righteousness of Jesus. It’s better than the Holy Grail.

The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does. Psalm 145:17

Immerse yourself in Jesus’s righteousness today. Let it separate you from your sin and refresh you.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Holy Street People…

Jesus walked down what’s now called the Villa Dolorosa. The disciples walked down Emmaus Road, Phillip the road to Gaza, Paul the Damascus Road and then Straight Street.

The first believers were called the Derech-The Way. In Hebrew, Derech not only means the way, but the street, the path or the road. God’s people aren’t so much about places, they’re about ways. The difference between a place and a way is, a place has set dimensions but a way is open ended.

If you’re born again, you’re no longer simply someone dwelling on earth; you’re a pilgrim, traveling. You’re not about a place anymore, you’re about the way. Your ups and downs, valleys and mountains are what you go through.

Don’t get caught up in the place, the circumstance, or situation. You’re a person of The Way and that means someone who’s always moving forward, pressing through, growing, going farther.

So keep pressing on. As Paul said, “This I do, I press on.” Get moving down the Derech, the road of Jesus on which you’ve been called to walk. You’re of The Way.

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Press into Jesus today and allow Him to show you where you need to move ahead. Then go farther.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Little Red Riding Hood Deception…

One of the first stories I ever learned was Little Red Riding Hood. She encounters a wolf posing as her grandmother. After a short talk with the wolf, she begins to suspect something’s amiss. She calls in some hunters and they kill the wolf.

There’s a biblical principle in this story. Yeshua, Jesus spoke of wolves, He spoke of the enemy as wolves. He spoke of wolves in sheep’s clothing. The principle here is that evil never comes as evil. It always disguises itself as good. No temptation comes to you in its actual form.

It doesn’t show you all the ugliness that it’s going to do with the big teeth it has. It comes to you as a grandmother with a bonnet on. It seems harmless and good, but remember, whenever you’re being tempted, behind that bonnet, there’s a wolf wanting to devour your walk, your family, and everything in your life.

Don’t give it any room, don’t approach it, don’t engage it, just get out of the room. Call the hunters and be done with it. When temptation comes, resist and don’t engage in conversation with the enemy today. Call on the name of the Lord.

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7

When temptation comes, resist and don’t engage in conversation with the enemy today. Call on the name of the Lord.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Magdalene…

Many think Mary Magdalene was a prostitute who came to the Lord. Pope Gregory the Great was the first to link her to the prostitute who wept at his feet. All we really know is that Mary Magdalene had demons and was delivered by Jesus.

We don’t know whether she was a prostitute or sexually immoral. But no one questions it. She’s become the world’s most famous prostitute. Imagine that you come to the Lord, and for generations, you’re known as the world’s most famous prostitute.

It doesn’t matter what people think of you. Most of the time, they’re wrong anyway. It only matters what Jesus thinks of you and that you’re with Him now. Start rejoicing with what God thinks.

Get away from caring about what people have in their minds. It doesn’t matter. It means nothing. Get close to God like Mary Magdalene. It’s all that’s going to matter in the end; getting close to Him. Because when all is said and done, Jesus is enough.

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. Galatians 1:10

Don’t be concerned today with what others think about you, but rejoice in His thoughts toward you.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Breaking The Jim Crow Laws…

The Civil War was won, slavery was abolished. But in the South there were, “The Jim Crow laws,” by which Black Americans were still degraded and deprived of their rights. It wasn’t until the Civil Rights movement, that these laws were challenged and changed.

In the same way, Jesus has won the war against sin, the flesh, the devil, and bondage. He did it on Calvary. But many believers are still living in the same old laws of sin and death, even though they’re free. You have to challenge that old law, just like the Jim Crow law. Defy that old law in your life.

When the enemy says you have to fall, backslide, fail, or mess up, you say, “No, I won’t! I’m not subject to this anymore! Jesus set me free, and I’m free indeed. I will not obey, submit, or give in anymore because greater is He that’s in me than you in the world.”

Break the law today. I’m not speaking of the laws of the state but the laws of the enemy that have no place in your life. It’s time to be free!

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:13-14

Break the laws of the enemy today and walk in the freedom of Jesus.

Walk daily with God at your side side!

Love always,

Ed

Th Incense Cloud Of Busyness…

The cloud of incense is what the high priest would burn when he came into the Holy of Holies because he had to cloud it up to not die from seeing the glory of God. You might be doing the same thing.

One of the most popular incense that we burn to keep us from God’s Glory is our incense of busyness. We distance ourselves from God by creating busyness. We come home, turn on the television, the internet, cell phone or something else. We cloud out devotion, prayer and worship. We cloud Him out.

Our schedules are filled with things and no time to really enter His presence. You can be ministering for Him, but you have a cloud of busyness that is keeping you from really knowing Him and being intimate.

In the New Covenant, there’s no more veil or cloud. So start unclouding your life. Start clearing out space for God. Make time every day when you’re just alone with Him.

Make time for living in the reality of God’s presence without the cloud. Live unclouded. Live cloudless.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Put aside your busyness today and spend time alone with Him.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Be Ye First Fruitful…

We’re called to be fruitful. But did you know we’re called to be first fruitful? In Hebrew, bikkurim means “first fruits.” The day of bikkurim is when the first fruits would be lifted up from the earth.

Jesus rose on “first fruits” because His resurrection is the first fruits from the dead. It had never been done before. Jesus gives you the power not just to be fruitful but to be first fruitful. That means you can bear fruit when you have never born fruit before.

When nobody loves you, you can bear the first fruit of love. When no one’s reaching out to you, be first fruitful and reach out to them. When everyone’s negative, where there’s no reason to rejoice, you be first fruitful and rejoice. Have peace and praise anyway.

Our new life begins in the tomb, when there was no reason for Jesus to come alive. So you have the same power to bear fruit when there’s no reason. You’ve heard, “Be fruitful;” but now I give you a new commandment.

Don’t just be fruitful; learn the secret of becoming first fruitful. Bear that fruit anyway.

So that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, Colossians 1:10

Look for opportunities today to be first fruitful for the Lord. Don’t react but act upon. Don’t wait for the good, shine the good.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Saved For Joy…

According to Exodus 5:1, God brought the Hebrews out of Egypt to hold a feast for Him. In Hebrew, “chag”, “feast” means to be giddy or joyful.

If you’re saved by Jesus, it’s a Passover salvation through the Lamb as well. The reason we’re saved is to glorify God and have joy. God brought you out of the old life so you could bless Him and be joyous.

It never says be miserable in the Lord. It says, “Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice!” God didn’t go through coming to earth, suffering, dying and overcoming death so that you would be miserable, depressed, live in compromise or failure, and be down.

God saved you with a Passover salvation so you would be celebrating His presence, rejoicing, praising, glorifying Him, and being exceedingly glad in Him. That’s the power of the Passover Lamb, of Jesus in your life, to live joyously.

You can overcome all gloom, all sorrow, all despair, all depression to rejoice in Him. He’s given you the power. So rejoice, be exceedingly glad, for God has done it. You have been saved for joy.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song, I praise him. Psalm 28:7

Celebrate His presence today. Rejoice in the Lord today at all times and in all things.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Seeing With the Eyes of Hebrews…

In the book of Hebrews, the author quotes from the Scripture but doesn’t say who it’s from; Moses, Jeremiah, or whoever wrote it. He just attributes it all to God. Because it wasn’t from those people. It was through them from God. Everything is from God.

We need to learn this secret that can change our lives. Stop looking at circumstances, people, problems, or blessings. Start looking at God and realize that He’s behind it all. If you love the Lord and are in His will, then all things are being worked out by God for good.

God’s not using our problem with evil intent, but for good. So if a problem is from God’s will, then it’s not really a problem. All blessings also come from God. Did someone encourage you or reach out to you or love you in the name of the Lord?

Take it as God encouraging, reaching out, loving you, and working all things for your good. In the end, that’s exactly what it’s going to turn out to be. So receive all things and do all things in love and in blessing back to God, for His glory.

And we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

Look at all the circumstances in your life today as God working it out for your good.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed