|City on a Hill - Writings for Refuge

I am only a witness of Yeshua when I stop striving, when I humble myself, and accept the yoke of the Messiah. Jesus carried His heart in a very specific way: meekness. He claimed to be gentle (meek) and lowly. Matthew 11:27-30 NKJV — “All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” There are no witnesses of Jesus outside of this reality. There are many false witnesses that use Jesus as a means to their own glory. They strive to be something, rather than to decrease. If you meet a mature witness of Jesus, they won't tell you what they have accomplished. They only shine the personality of Jesus. They rea

Faith happens each day. One of the main reasons our faith fails is we look too far ahead. We don't need to borrow worry from tomorrow about how we will manage, what will happen, what we will choose. Matthew 6:31-34 NKJV — “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ “For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Making today's choices in faith is much easier when tomorrow's trouble stays there. If I start trying to address tomorrow's trouble with today's choices I easily get confused by my emotions and wrong understanding of what will happen... This causes me to compromise faith with logic. James 4:13-14 NKJV — Come no

The Bible promises over and over that two things will be tested in the hearts of those that profess Jesus in the last days: 1. Patience 2. Faith I f you study the passage about the last days leading up to the return of Yeshua, you will find patience and faith are the two qualities needed. God is keeping the crowns on the head of the saints by patience! Luke 21:17-20 NKJV — “And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. “But not a hair of your head shall be lost. “By your patience possess your souls. “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. When God 'shakes everything that can be shaken' the fleshy reaction is impatience. Many, right now, feel like the return of the Lord is very near.  The natural reaction to that is to erroneously believe we are running out of time. We are not. God is never running out of time.  He is the ancient of days.  He isn't slack, and He isn't hurried.  He is. Jesus isn't wringing His hands

Luke 12:15 NKJV — And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.” It's impossible to serve God and mammon. It will wear you out, because man wasn't meant to live two lives. Everyone picks what they live for. In my life I've lived for myself by making my life about career, family, recreation, nature, sports, music, and church... Yes, even church I made about me! In 2011, the Lord showed me how I had made my life entirely about me by creating the seemingly perfect mix of all these things ^ Although it gave me a fairly ideal "American" life, it left me very dull towards God's leadership. In 2011, I learned the secret to giving myself fully to God. I haven't yet achieved it, but I began a journey that changed everything. Philippians 3:12 NKJV — Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus

The cares of this life are a snare in the days leading up to the return of Yeshua. The cares of this life are a great temptation BECAUSE of the shaking of everything shakeable. The more God reveals instability in the world, the more tempted we are to shore up what seems unstable. This is what it means to fail the test coming upon the whole earth. We have to find the one stable thing. A new day is dawning. Noah preached righteousness to an entire generation by doing something so otherworldly! Luke 17:26-30 NKJV — “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: “They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; “but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. “Even so will

The parable of the sower is about how I hear. Listen: Luke 8:11-18 NKJV — “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. “Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. “But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. “Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. “But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience. “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. “For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not