Passover

I love this season! I love the book of Exodus and the wisdom and inspiration that comes from the book. I don't celebrate Easter, because it's not biblical. (but that's another post) I do however celebrate Passover/Resurrection because they are. I love this time because when the children of Israel begin to make their departure from Egypt, they were given instructions on how to make their exit the best. There are some very important principles to gather from the testimony of the Exodus the Passover and later the Ressurection.

When they took the lamb it was a sacrifice unto G-d that allowed them and their households to be covered by the blood of the Lamb. It was so prophetic because in that one moment G-d was foretelling of the ultimate sacrifice that he would make with his son generations later. The sacrifice allowed things to "pass" from their lives and allow them to be renewed and clean despite all of their issues and problems. He was erasing their pasts and giving them a new beginning. He even tells them that this would be the beginning for them.

"And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you" Exodus 12:1-2

It was the first step in their allowance for a relationship with him. We can't come to the father without acknowledging the blood of the lamb. With that one event everything that was in our lives, passes away and we are renewed. Where their sacrifices had to be done over and over again, year after year, ours was wiped clean one time. Not only that but the blood of the lamb covered their entire household, and it still does.

I love how G-d prepared future generations with the knowledge that blood could remove all sin and trespass. The key to any change is mind renewal. He not only presented that by sight and act, and meditation with the yearly sacrifice of the lamb, but he inspired various writers within the scriptures to continuously remind them of their exodus and the testimony of G-D's goodness to them. They were instructed to not only read it, but to hear it. (He gave them the law of meditation right there).You have to meditate on the truth until all doubt is removed from your mind that, that thing exists even if it makes no sense and you can't even see it. You have to see, hear and speak the word all the time.

They were instructed not to do any work on the 7th day. It was designed to be a day of rest and reflection. Sabbath is important to G-d. He wants us to learn to rest. Rest from work, from worry, from fear, from anything that has been weighing on us. I acknowledge the Sabbath because it's commanded. Initially I really didn't know what to do with myself, but now I read and study, pray. Enjoy myself. I work hard all week. Despite what people think, mothers who are at home do work! I homeschool 2 of my children--they are all learning, but you know what I mean--only 2 go to school. I am a writer. Writing is work. My schedule may be free form, but I still work hard at it. I need the Sabbath. Not to mention that the lesson I get from the children of Israel not honoring the Sabbath is bondage. Whenever we don't allow ourselves to rest from that which G-d is responsible for we are allowing the adversary to inflict us in a type of bondage. Your mind is never free from trying to figure things out yourself--what's G-ds role then? You are not operating in the system he set up that would allow you to be free from all of that.

The lesson of the Exodus and the Passover is that all the things that we are worried about are already done. We are responsible for following the instructions that G-d gives us to see the physical manifestation of those things coming to pass in our lives. The children of Israel had to do something--follow the instructions that they were commanded to do. They could have ignored G-d and stayed right where they were.

You have to understand the faith walk of their story. They were unfamiliar with G-d. They had been in Egypt so long that only the elders really knew who he was. That's why Moses was commanded to call the elders together to tell them what he had said(Exodus 3:16) . The elders were the ones keeping the memory of G-d alive within their society. They were the ones crying out to G-d for deliverance. The things that Moses did with the rod and the plagues didn't impress them even as powerful and mighty as they were. They were used to "magic" being performed by the Egyptian sorcerers. If they had been impressed all doubt would have been eradicated from them, but it wasn't. They followed the instructions by faith.

We have to operate just like that. Faith without works is dead. You have a part to play. If you don't act you won't see. You can't believe G-d for something and then think he's going to do it all. If you are believing him for a new job-you have to get out there and look and while you are looking ask him where the job is so that your looking won't be in vain. Somewhere in the midst of looking, it will drop into your spirit what you are looking for.

Their faith caused the Passover, and the exodus to come to pass in their lives. The exodus didn't occur in days it was a year later before they were able to walk away from Egypt. Deliverance takes time! They had to wait for their time to come and exist right where they were being faithful and maturing until things changed. But when they came out, they were rich, healthy, free from all bondage.

Ressurection is all about operating in the power of G-d. Jesus told us he would send us a comforter (John 14:26) . He sent us the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is Jesus without the flesh. He operates in us and through us. That's why it says we have this power in earthen vessels (2 Corin 4:7). In order for things to be ressurected, something has to DIE! We don't like that. We want change but without the death to our negative attitudes, words, thoughts, and ways. When death occurs in our lives, we'll feel it. Jesus felt what he was going through on the cross and he was able to bear it knowing the end from the beginning. We too must know that the death of anything will work out on our behalf.When Jesus ascended to heaven leaving the Holy Ghost, it worked out for our good. Only a few at a time could have had Jesus in the flesh. But now we can all have the Holy Ghost. Only a few would have been prayed for delivered and healed by Jesus-now the comforter is able to do all of that and intercede on our behalf. It worked out in our favor. So if people leave, G-d has someone better. If you lose some stuff, G-d has greater stuff coming! It's as simple as that.!

Celebrate the Passover and this season of Resurrection knowing that G-d can and he will do whatever he says!

Be Blessed. Chosen.