Be Bold!

Wow, a new year! 2010. Oh how Yah has kept and delivered me from all of my troubles up until this very day! I've had far more joyful days than sorrowful ones due to His grace.

"I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears." Psalm 34:1

Fear can paralyze us out of commission, making us timid and unable to share the Gospel. The first members of the church knew this and prayed this way:

"Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness," Acts 4:29

Everyone who stands up for the true teachings of the lord Messiah will be mocked, scorned and threatened. If we do not enlist God's help, we may fall silent in the face of such opposition. What a loss that would be! People need to hear the Gospel so that they may respond to it and be saved. Some have "sugar-coated" the Good News so that it would appeal to those of pagan, polytheistic nations. Still, as Paul said, this is another message and not the one delivered to us by the Messiah:

"I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ." Galations 1:6-7

Yeshua Ha Messiah said that his Father is the only true God. "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." John 17:3

Proclaiming the Gospel means believing what Yeshua says about himself and his Heavenly Father. Yeshua is the heir and we are co-heirs with him in ruling the coming Kingdom where God's will shall be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Yeshua is our King who sits on Yahweh's throne ruling with God's power and authority. This is not because Yeshua is God but because this right has been given to him for his faithfulness on the cross:

Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Matthew 28:18

If we are not willing to proclaim the Gospel of Yeshua because we fear what people may say or do, now is the time to ask for boldness! If we are ashamed of Yeshua and his words before men, he will also be ashamed of us before his Father. As Yeshua is our only mediator between God and man, we really can't afford to let that happen.

PRAYER: Almighty Yah, open my lips that I might praise You before all in what you have done for us in Yeshua our Messiah. Strengthen me with your spirit to bodly profess the Gospel in good season and in bad. In Yeshua's teachings, Amen.