“Seek Yahweh while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to Yahweh, and He will have compassion on him. Turn to our Elohim, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Isaiah 55: 6-7
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Trust in Yahweh with All Your Heart
Yahweh has used Scripture to change my life. I have heard Yahweh’s voice many times in various ways. Most of the time, He simply gives me “a knowing”, and I know that I heard from Him. Occasionally, He will confirm what I heard by having someone do or say something to me confirming that the message was from Him.
In the mid-1970s, I started working on a Ph.D. degree in business strategy. Shortly after my degree program began, Yahweh told me that I would do something very specific for Him. Since it had nothing to do with business, I was confused. I asked Yahweh to confirm that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.
This was Yahweh’s response:
“Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3: 5-6)
Yahweh spoke to me directly through the Scriptures. It happens all the time. That’s why reading the Bible is so important.
As I delved deeply into those two short verses, I realized that Yahweh is Sovereign. He knows what He is doing, and all He wants me to do is follow the leading of His Spirit. If I will do that, He will take me to the right place at the right time, and I will complete my mission successfully.
No matter what the circumstances are at the moment, all I have to do is trust Yahweh with all my heart. He warned me to avoid the natural human tendency to lean on my own understanding, because my understanding isn’t good enough.
Along the way, I am not supposed to take credit for things I didn’t do. When things start to happen and blessings come my way because I followed the leading of Yahweh’s Spirit, I am supposed to give Him the credit, because He did it, not me. I am the recipient of His blessings and a tool in His hands.
All I have to do is follow the leading of Yahweh’s Spirit. It’s just that simple.
Yahweh used Paul to confirm that message. Paul said,
“All Scripture is inspired by Elohim and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of Elohim may be adequate, equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3: 16-17)
Paul wasn’t writing Scripture. He was explaining Scripture and pointing to Scripture in a letter that he wrote to Timothy. Too few preachers today know that. In this instance, Yahweh used Paul’s letter to confirm what He had told me.
“Your word is a lamp to guide My feet and a light for my path.” (Psalm 119: 105)
I was 7-years-old the first time Yahweh used Scripture to direct my path. This is the Scripture He used:
But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the City of David [Bethlehem] there has been born for you a Savior, who is the Messiah Yahweh.” (Luke 2: 10-11)
Most English translations of the Bible miss the importance of Luke’s central message in those verses. He was explaining that the Messiah is Yahweh our Savior. That’s scriptural, and it’s crystal clear in the original Aramaic New Testament manuscripts. It’s not clear in Greek manuscripts of the New Testament that were written many years later, sometimes decades later.
Too few preachers know that. It’s a shame that so many of them don’t do their homework. They just regurgitate what they were told in seminary whether it’s right or wrong. Based on my experience, when you try to tell preachers things, most of them look at you like you are from another planet. It’s as though they are thinking, “Do you know who I am?”
It’s no wonder so many believers have had it with churches.
“I, even I, am Yahweh. There is no savior besides Me.” (Isaiah 43: 11)
Unbeknownst to me at the time, Yahweh’s first instruction to me when I was a boy had to do with the fact that the Messiah is Yahweh. At that time, I had no idea that I would write His Name is Yahweh.
While I was working on my Ph.D. degree, I still didn’t know that I would write that book. Yahweh didn’t tell me to write it until the late-1990s, but He directed my path so that I would be prepared to write it. He also made sure that I would not be so indoctrinated with false Christian traditions that I would have a hard time accepting the truth.
Preachers should think long and hard before they criticize Jews for adhering to Jewish traditions that don’t come from Yahweh, because they do the same thing.
Writing His Name is Yahweh isn’t my ultimate mission. I’ve still got work to do, and the book is related to it.
This is my advice for every believer: Follow Yahweh, not humans. Then you will complete your mission and perform works that He calls “good”. Stated another way, avoid the traditions of men, and stick to the Scriptures. Traditions make accepting the truth difficult.
I can hear some preachers saying, “But I just love Ishtar Sunday. I can’t give that up.”
Really? Try Passover, instead.
We can be thankful that Yahweh is merciful, but His patience has limits. We’re about to find that out.
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“I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me — just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father — and I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice, and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. The reason My Father loves Me is that I lay down My life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from My Father.”
John 10: 14-18
