Jesus Christ is Lord, and the Lord's law is written on the heart
[The following insights and reflections came as I meditated on some portion of the Bible, or on a word or message that I believe YHWH has given me, or on some situation or other matter that concerned me. Until recently, I just recorded them as I received them and shared them only privately, but now I am under a burden to share them publicly. As they are reported under Insights and Reflections on the home page at this web site, I add them to this page with the date of their publication in brackets. They are arranged in order according to the dates when they were recorded. At least some reflect wisdom, knowledge or understanding that YHWH gave me, but I did not record the actual words that I received. David Eckman]
• A body whose parts are directed from any place but the head is out of control, in disorder. There can only be order in his body when Jesus alone governs. 18.Aug.1987 [25.Nov.2007]
• No one is a failure who knows Jesus, and no one is a success who does not know Jesus. Everyone who knows Jesus is a success. 25.Oct.1988 [9.Dec.2007]
• He who leads in service is a true leader. Unless we lead in building and rebuilding the temple of Jesus' body, we all suffer. 1.Mar.1990 [2.Dec.2007]
• Evil cannot flourish, cannot even exist where there is wholeness. The devil needs an opening to do its work, and if a person is whole, there are no openings to allow the filth, evil and fear of the devil's toolbox to enter. 10.Dec.1992 [16.Dec.2007]
• The battle is one for our mind. Satan seeks control over it. The Lord seeks submission and obedience from within it. We must be single-minded: all in Jesus, not double-minded, tossed about by the enemy's lies. 7.Feb.1993 [24.Dec.2007]
• Anyone who tells people that, or treats them as if, they cannot do the Lord's work or pray for themselves or renounce and overcome Satan's power by themselves (through the power in Jesus) is a liar and false teacher. 7.Feb.1993 [30.Dec.2007]
• Jesus came to set us free-- body, soul and spirit, but we must choose freedom over bondage, healing over sickness, wholeness over brokenness, life in him over life in the world. We must follow him, wherever he leads, rather than pursue the seductions of the world. 7.Feb.1993 [6.Jan.2007]
• We cannot blame the devil for our own misconduct. Satan merely tempts. We choose to stray. We decide who or what will reign in our lives. 7.Feb.1993 [2.Mar.2008]
• John Wesley wrote: "We know no gospel without salvation from sin." Meditating on this, I asked YHWH, "What is sin?" The answer jumped into my mind: Defilement and disobedience, having in mind things of YHWH-- defilement that leads to bondage to Satan and a carnal world, disobedience that rejects YHWH's kingship. I also asked, "What is salvation?" The thought came: Deliverance and healing unto holiness. 10.May.1995 [20.Jan.2008]
• All gifts are given to show who YHWH is and whose we are. 1.Oct.1996 [9.Mar.2008]
• When you have been wounded or hurt, beware lest you react or respond without considering your own part in the matter. Self-righteousness deludes us into condemning and rejecting someone who has said or done something that offended or hurt us. It prevents any consideration of what may have been going on in the other person. It prevents any consideration of what was said or done to make the other person speak or act as that person did. 24.Feb.1997 [16.Mar.2008]
• We can sense the progress of our healing when we quickly recognize our own self-righteousness. And we can rejoice in our healing when we do not receive someone else's words or acts as wounding us anew or opening old wounds, but instead we consider what we did or said and, even more, turn to YHWH to guide, instruct and direct us in ministering to the other person. 24.Feb.1997 [23.Mar.2008]
• Prayer is food to the soul. 15.Oct.1997 [27.Jan.2008]
• Humility is the proper position for prayer, and humility is a condition of the heart. 15.Oct.1997 [28.Oct.2007]
• As children of YHWH, we are valued not for who we are but for whose we are. One of the frequent words I receive from YHWH is an encouragement to take a particular action or forbear from something "because of who I am and whose you are." 4.Nov.1997 [4.Nov.2007]
• In the Old Testament, YHWH spoke most often to Israel as a nation. In the New Testament and the time since Jesus and the gift of the Holy Spirit, he speaks to men as individuals and members of his body. 4.Jan.1998 [5.May.2008]
• True class is not demonstrated by wealth, breeding, family background or history, nor by power or prestige. It is demonstrated by the way a person behaves under different circumstances. 16.Jul.1998 [13.Jul.2008]
• Characteristics of low class behavior include selfishness, dishonesty, sexual promiscuity, greed for more when one has enough, racial and other prejudice, discourtesy, arrogance, and abuse of others. 16.Jul.1998 [20.Jul.2008]
• Characteristics of high class behavior include generosity even when in need, honesty, gentleness, viewing and treating everyone else as an individual, courtesy, humility, integrity even when faced with harm, loving others as much as oneself. 16.Jul.1998 [27.Jul.1998]
• Those who are weak in faith try to get others to share their beliefs in hope that will confirm their validity. Those strong in faith don't care who agrees. 8.May.2001 [21.Oct.2007]
• Satan uses truth to decorate falsehood. 21.Apr.2004 [11.May.2008]
• Only a holy (perfect, complete, undefiled) person can approach the holy God. No one can achieve that condition apart from Jesus, no matter how good by worldly standards, because YHWH set the standard in Jesus, and only in him can the standard be met. 31.Aug.2004 [14.Oct.2007]
• Without knowledge of the one true God, people seek security and comfort in what they can see and touch. 2.Sep.2004 [30.Mar.2008]
• Divisions among the people of YHWH reflect our inability to hear and obey him. 20.Nov.2004 [18.May.2008]
• Authority invests the holder with the right to be obeyed (see Num. 27:20, Mark 1:22,27). Power merely gives the holder the means to enforce obedience. A person may have one without the other. Jesus has both and invests his people, as a body, with both. 3.Feb.2005 [A note I wrote in my Bible at Matt. 28:18-20] [13.Jan.2008]
• YHWH disciplines those he loves. The rest he leaves to the consequences of their choices. 15.Mar.2005 [18.Nov.2007]
• Carnal men seek to conform others to what they believe, at least partly to confirm what they believe and partly to justify the way they treat others. This is at least part of what motivates Muslims and Hindus to persecute those who accept Jesus. 5.Aug.2005 [6.Jul.2008]
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Even the most harmless and innocuous of worldly pleasures can become sin when they displease YHWH, when they replace YHWH in our thoughts and affections, when they separate us from him. 12.Dec.2007 [25.May.2008]
*YHWH or YHVH is the English representation of the four Hebrew letters that spell the name of the God of the Bible, the one true, living God worshipped by Jews and Christians. YHWH was the name by which he identified himself to Moses in Ex. 3:14. According to references that I've read, the exact pronunciation of YHWH's name was lost in antiquity, but the generally accepted pronounciation in common English is "Yah-weh" or "Yah-way". Some translations of the Bible, such as the KJV and NASB, substitute "the LORD" for his name, following a practice begun before Jesus' birth.
YHWH revealed himself in various ways to the children of Israel in the Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament. He also revealed himself in and through his son Jesus Christ and acts, among other ways, in and through Christians by the Holy Spirit. Because the word "God" is being used today to designate all kinds of human inventions, although accepted for centuries in English as a name for YHWH, I prefer to use the name that YHWH chose for himself rather than "God" or "the LORD" as I did in early versions of my writings. Please read The Name of the One True, Living God for a fuller discussion.
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