Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
7 22 2024
SUNDAY’S PROPHECY
“Is my presence heaven to you? Am I truly the treasure of your heart?
Just look to where your trust is. Are you walking with me in the presence of your enemies?
Don’t you know that nothing escapes me? Don’t you know I am always reaching out to bring you strength and comfort? I cannot be separated from my word. What words are you holding onto?
I’ve given you eyes to see what cannot be seen with the natural eye.
You must keep remembering where your hope comes from.
You must die to those dividing rods that separate us. Proclaim my name… Speaking my words.
Eat them. Devour them. Do not let them depart from your mouth. Hold to them.
Believe in them. Ask me to build your faith. I am Jehovah Rapha. Jehovah Tsidkenu.
Know my names. Get lost in me. I am revealing myself to you. None of your trials are without protection when you hold fast to me. I will use you…grow you and work through you.
I will continue to grow my kingdom. I have mighty plants for you. Do not despair or grow weary.
For I am in you and with you. Make me first”.
Even though I had prepared a word for you today, I often wonder whether the Holy Spirit has something else in mind on Sunday. He did! He asked some hard and penetrating questions. “Is my presence heaven to you? Am I truly the treasure of your heart?” And then he cuts right to the matter.
“Just look to where your trust is?” and then He hit me between the eyes.
“Are you walking with me in the presence of your enemies?”
Isn’t that a true test of your walk? He says in Ps 23,
“I will prepare a table for you in the presence of your enemies”. Literally, a banquet.
Isn’t that the question that He asks of us? You and I?
“What words are you holding onto?”
How often must we be told that our battle is a spiritual battle? We are not in a war that can be won in the flesh. We need to remember the movie the Matrix. There is another dimension that Paul taught us about in Ephesian 6. “Put on the Armor of God!” And look what He says today. “I’ve given you eyes to see what cannot be seen with the natural eye”. Isn’t that Ephesians 6;12? “For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.:” Therefore! Put on the whole Armor of God!
PRAY! Speak the words of His Holy Scriptures. “Eat Them. Devour Them! Do not let them depart from your mouth. Hold to them. Believe them”. Have you been asking yourself why am I losing this battle I am in today? My marriage, children, finances, relationships….whatever that mountain is. He is telling us today to SPEAK TO THEM. Take authority with the word of God. PUT ON the full armor of God.
How can we fight this battle in the stubbornness of doing it our way? We keep beating our head up against the wall but the Holy Spirit is saying to YOU and I… You are in a spiritual battle. Change your weapons. Change your attack. By declaring the offense of God himself! And then…. And then…. He comes out and says, “IAM JEHOVAH RAFA…IAM JEHOVAH TSIDKENU! KNOW MY NAME!
He says I AM Jehovah Rafa…your healer. Is He to you? I know the names of God but it has been awhile since I heard the name Jehovah Tsidkenu – I needed to look it up. It appears twice in the Old Testament. Jeremiah 23:6 and again in 33:16. It means “The Lord, our Righteousness”. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Jeremiah 23:6
Matthew Henry said this; “ Jehovah is translated as “The Existing One” or “Lord.” The chief meaning of Jehovah is derived from the Hebrew word Havah meaning “to be” or “to exist.” It also suggests “to become” or specifically “to become known” – this denotes a God who reveals Himself unceasingly. Tsedek (tseh’-dek), from which Tsidkenu derived, means “to be stiff,” “to be straight,” or “righteous” in Hebrew. When the two words are combined…Jehovah Tsidkenu…it can be translated as “The Lord Who is our Righteousness.”
He is here spoken of as The Lord our righteousness. Observe, Who and what he is. As God, he is Jehovah, the incommunicable name of God, denoting his eternity and self-existence. As Mediator, he is our righteousness. By making satisfaction to the justice of God for the sin of man, he has brought in an everlasting righteousness, and so made it over to us in the covenant of grace that, upon our believing consent to that covenant, it becomes ours. His being Jehovah our righteousness implies that he is so our righteousness as no creature could be. He is a sovereign, all-sufficient, eternal righteousness. All our righteousness has its being from him, and by him it subsists, and we are made the righteousness of God in him. (Matthew Henry)
Sundays Prophesy finishes with: “None of your trials are without protection when you hold fast to me.
I will use you…grow you and work through you. I will continue to grow my kingdom.
I have mighty plants for you. Do not despair or grow weary.
For I am in you and with you. Make me first”.
“Thank You, Jehovah Tsidkenu, for clothing me with the righteousness of Christ. I am grateful that I can stand before You justified and accepted because of Your righteousness. Lord help me to put you first. Help me to speak your words to the mountains in my life…. Jehovah Tsidkenu, I surrender my self-righteousness and my own efforts and put on your armor to fight the unseen war surrounding me.
In Jesus Name.
Let me know, with a note what you are fighting.
And how His word today has redirected you to fight the right way.
What a wonderful name it is Hillsong
