Priorities

This is a time to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

This is a time to get closer to the Lord and to get our priorities straight.

This is also a time of repentance and reflection on what we hold as a priority.

Please read Mark 12:30-31, “And you shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Matthew 22:37-40, “And He said to him, ‘You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire Torah and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Now please read Deuteronomy 6:4-7, “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These words, which I am commanding you today, are to be on your heart. You are to teach them diligently to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up.”

Many times, when people get their eyes off the Lord and onto other things, they will start to backslide and little by little they exchange their first love for whatever they become preoccupied with, and then if the person is not careful, that will take the place of the Lord in their lives and become their idol.  

Please read Revelations 2:1-7, “To the angel of Messiah’s community in Ephesus write: ‘Thus says the One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks in the midst of the seven golden menorot: I know all about your deeds and your toil and your patient endurance, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. You have tested those who call themselves emissaries and are not, and have found them to be liars. You have perseverance and have endured for My name’s sake, and you have not grown weary. But this I have against you, that you have forsaken your first love. Remember then from where you have fallen. Repent and do the deeds you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your menorah from its place unless you repent. Yet you have this going for you, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Ruach is saying to Messiah’s communities. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the Tree of Life, which is in the Paradise of God.”

If this is you, you know what you need to do to get right with the Lord, remember what caused you to fall.  Then truly repent by turning from your sins and turning to the Lord, confessing your sins and asking the good Lord to forgive you along with having a change of heart and mind.  And then get your priorities straight and do the things that you once did!!  Enough said, have a super day and may the good Lord bless all of you!!