Hey guys, this is Curtis Abbott with RestoredBibleCulture.org. And I just
wanted to create kind of a Part Two to my previous video on Proverbs 3:5-6
and there was just some things that I wish I would have added to that
other video that rather than redo the video I just wanted to add a second
video. And so, basically, I want to really center in on one portion of that verse
a little bit more significantly in this video than I did in the previous one. And
so, of course, the scripture goes, you know, trust in the Lord with all thine heart,
and lean not on thine own understanding. In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy path. I want to center back in on that
whole concept of acknowledge him. You know, because I think the secret to being
able to trust God with your whole heart, which I'm learning more and more as I
push into these things myself. As I press into - to - to purify myself through his
spirit. Like one of the things I do regularly is I ask God to just purge me
from an evil heart of unbelief because I think so much of this walk comes down to
whether we actually believe him. You know, whether we actually believe him.
If you think about it, if we knew with every ounce of our being the practical
reality of heaven and earth, of who he is in his fullness. You know, we would pursue
God with our whole heart, with nothing held back, and it would just be a natural
reaction. Because to know him is to trust him, to know him is to love him, to know
him is to be motivated to pursue him. And so, that section there
in that verse, in all your ways acknowledge him. You know that the Hebrew
word there for acknowledge is very interesting, it's it's the word yada, it's
Yada in the Hebrew. And so I kind of make a joke, you know, really knowing God,
really pursuing God, really loving God with your whole heart is all about
Yada, Yada, Yada. You know, it's all about knowing him, it's all about
yada-yada-yada and I'm not mocking the Word, I'm saying it's all to know, to know,
to know. To become one with, you know, that's the same word used for "Adam knew
Eve" and they became, you know, they became one flesh. Adam knew Eve, you know,
that when they had that intimacy of communion, that intimacy of sexual
relation, that intimacy of becoming one with, becoming "echad." You know, that's the
Hebrew word for "one" there, and uh, to be intertwined with. I just
want to stress this concept of knowing him and pursuing knowing him with
everything that we are. Obviously, that involves complete surrender, that
involves opening oneself in complete transparency before him. But you know, I
also like the little play on words, you know, we oftentimes use that term, you
know, yada-yada-yada is in you know, dah-da-da that you're just talking, talking, talking,
yada-yada-yada. Well you know, that's really, how do we get to know him? We get
to know him by acknowledging him in all our ways. where there's no no no dark
places, there's no nooks, there's no crannies. We've invited him
into every single aspect of our life. And, you know, I was talking to somebody the
other day who was having some issues with some drug addiction challenges and
it was a woman and I just encouraged her to stay linked with God, stay one with
God, even when she's going through that strong
temptation. Because as that addiction is is kicking in and if she can bring
God in, and bring the light, if you will, into that darkness, what happens when
light enters darkness? It illuminates that place. And how much the enemy loses
his hold when we bring light into darkness and so often when we're
struggling in some area that's giving us challenge, so often that's a time in
which we depart from God, that's a time in which we kind of leave God behind and
we shut the door and we hide from him. But imagine for a moment, if you actually
stayed locked arms with God when you went into the most challenging places of
your soul, the areas in which you're having
struggles overcoming, the areas in which you're embarrassed and ashamed. Imagine
if we were willing to risk the transparency of staying lock-armed with
God. And as we go through that temptation the light of his presence illumines what
typically is in darkness. It's gonna completely undermine the ability for the
enemy to maintain that hold on your soul. Because his tactics work in darkness but
God is light. And so, when we bring God into every nook and cranny of our life,
we find freedom in every nook and cranny of our life. And we walk with him in that
way, to acknowledge him in all of our ways. Because here's reality, he is there!
There's nowhere on earth, there's no where even in the depths of Hell that
his presence is not. He is there, his love is there! And so, as a result of that, he's
already there, he already knows when you're there.
And so, as a result, why not stay lock-armed with him? And I'm not saying come to
a place that's sacrilegious, and, and doesn't put the separation between, you
know, the holy and the unholy. But the reality is, God wants to be one with you.
The reality is, he wants to be one with me. And, the reality is, when a person...
the Scriptures talk about, you know where, you know, he who joins himself with the
lord is one spirit. And in that same context of passage, it talks about, he
who joins, of making the members of Messiah members with a prostitute. Talking
about, he who joins himself with the prostitute is one flesh. And so, it's
actually, I think, what was most likely talking about temple prostitution in that case.
You know, kind of an idolatrous circumstance but nonetheless notice that
in that context of that verse, someone is becoming one with a
prostitute and they're bringing the members of Messiah into that. Because
when we're one with him were inseparable from him. We can trick ourselves that
he's not there, but he's always with us. He'll never leave us or forsake us. And
so, if we begin to learn to, in all our ways acknowledge him. Kind of like a
sense of "oh oh yeah" you know, he's there. Oh
yeah, you know, acknowledging his presence,
acknowledging his desire to impart wisdom. Understanding and acknowledging
his his his his wisdom, his presence, his love, his light. And and beginning to walk
or continuing in a path of walking with him in that. Imagine how transformative
that would be to our lives. There's no part of our life that he does not want
to be a part of. And also from that communication playing
on that yada-yada-yada. I mean, it's not the same to talk to yourself than it is
to talk to God. I want to encourage, one of the things that I'm really working on is
just seeking to commune with God more and more through the whole of life,
through the mundane. Just as if I had someone else in the room with me and I'm
working on a project, let's say, putting up this video whatever the case may be
and gleaning from the fact that you have someone else looking over your shoulder,
giving you insight, acknowledging what their attention is brought to and all of
those things. Imagine if we walked with God in that way. Imagine how over time
that would grow in our union with him. Imagine how that would enlighten our
minds, as he speaks in that still small voice. Imagine as, just like if you have a
relationship and you've been in a very long-term highly intimate relationship,
where you just begin to think alike. Imagine if we walked with God to such a
level in which we begin to think alike, where we have the mind of Messiah like
the scripture says. Like, you know, we become where no longer are his thoughts
higher than our thoughts. What if we actually became one with God where our
thoughts became almost synonymous with his thoughts. Now I know he's infinite
and he's all-knowing and everything else but what if we'd bridge that gap, that veil
of the flesh and came into that supernatural revelation, that
supernatural relationship, that'd begin to melt away the separation between who we
are and who he is. What if we so melded with him, that we, kind of like it goes on
in that verse and and he shall direct our paths. What if we so melded with him
that we were directed in this way, where we were just one with God, and we
walked with him in all our ways and everywhere we went, that wherever we went
the presence of God went. Imagine what's potentially available. I'm thinking of a
quote it's not coming to me perfectly but it says, the world,
something to the effect of, "the world has yet to see what God can do with a man
wholly devoted to him." And I believe that's true. I believe that there's a
place in God, I mean think about it, Enoch walked with God and was not. I kind
of imagined it almost as if Enoch was in this relationship, so intimate with God,
so one with God, that it almost began to shift dimensionally, where like one
moment he was in the flesh and one moment he was kind of in the spirit, one moment
he was in the realm of Earth and one moment he was stepping into the realms
of the Spirit. And as he as he kind of phase shifted as that relationship
heightened and heightened and heightened, that one day he was walking with God and
just was not. He didn't come back. He stayed on the other side. Paul said, you
know, you know, I don't know what to choose do I do I stay in the flesh which
is good for you or do I? You know what's he [garbed], I mean, we
don't really understand these kind of concepts. What are they actually talking
about? Are these things available to us? Well, it's in the scripture and it's true
for others. You know, it's something that's available in the spirit. And I
just want to just kind of broaden the perspective of what intimacy with God
could mean. What if you became so intimately communed and so intimately
one with God that like Peter, you got to the place in which that anyone within
the distance of your shadow was healed. You know, like Paul where he took
kerchiefs and such and he'd wipe the sweat off his brow and people would...
his essence was intermixed in such a way with God's essence that these these
towels were brought to the sick or demon-possessed and they were healed or
delivered. Think about that. In all your ways acknowledge him. What benefit are we
getting from having hidden places? What, what satisfaction is that bringing to our
soul? It says that he you know has has in his, in his, I don't remember how the
scripture goes perfectly, but in his right hand is riches and honor and in his
left hand is treasure, not treasures, but pleasures forevermore. You know, walking
with God, some people see walking with God as something that's gonna restrict
their life, as if they're gonna, they're not gonna be able to enjoy this, they're
not gonna be able to enjoy that. You know, that's not a scripture understanding of
walking with God. Walking with God is a path of blessing but even if this life
holds trials and tribulations because of what God's called you to do. Think about
it, that just puts an exponential reward on the rewards of heaven. Because imagine,
God's not gonna allow anything you go through unrewarded. He says he's a
rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. And if there's any reward that
doesn't come on earth, it's delayed let's say or something of that nature, well
that, could you imagine there's no investment on earth that out pays God's
investment in his people? He's going to take things, and on the other side if you
are faithful with him, if you become one with him, if you if you if your whole
heart is devoted to become an interlinked with God and being sold out
to his purposes, sold out to his presence, sold out to knowing him. Imagine what
that means, imagine that he's gonna pay dividends. You think
the miracle of compound interest, you know, on earth could compare to the
miracle of a life invested in God yet not fully rewarded in the earth realm. Of
what that means in terms of eternity? Get the vision for that. I want to get the
vision for that! You know, I want to live in light of eternity, I want to live in
light of the truths that are coming out of my mouth but I don't want him to come
out of my mouth, I want to become one with the truth. But, you know, like just
like Messiah was the the word that became flesh and dwelt among us, God
desires his word to become flesh in us. He desires us to to become one with him.
Like, like the Messiah said, you know, Father I pray that they be one even as
we are one. Let us become one with God, let us acknowledge him in all of our
ways. And you know, a lot of times we say we know something when we just can spout
it out mentally. No, when we know something we become one with it.
In fact, under my clock I've got a a saying that I felt like God gave me a
a couple years ago that's really humility provoking, but it says
this, "I only know as much as results show. If my results don't show it, then I
don't know it, it's still something I'm trying to learn." And I, that just, that
quote just helps me recognize the divide between the way we typically use the
word know and the way God wants us to know his word, the way God wants us to
know his spirit, the way God wants us to know him. And so, I just wanted to bring
that out a little bit more. Yada-yada-yada.
To know him, to know him, to know him. You know that word shows up almost five, in
the Hebrew, the Hebrew word for know, "yada," shows up like almost five times more
than the word "love" in the Hebrew. And so, to know him. There's no purpose
for our lives that extends greater than "to know him." You think about, I think
about that verse that comes to mind where it says that uh, but but Lord Lord you
know did I not did I not cast out Devils in your name
did I not heal in your name and you know it's not obviously an exact quote
but then remember he goes on to say "depart from me I never knew you." There's
nothing more important than knowing him. And of course, he is love and so to know
him is to love him, to fully know him is to become an embodiment of love, an
embodiment of his spirit but in the full expression of who he reveals himself to
be in Scripture. And so, I want to just uh, just wanted to say some more
words on that relating to, you know, becoming, you know, acknowledge him and
you know, in all our ways acknowledging him and that's just the prayer of my
heart. I just want to pray right now, Father, I just pray for myself and for
anybody that's watching this video, that Father you'd put within us a revelation of
what is available in pushing into you, the treasures of your presence, the
treasures of your personhood. I pray that you'd give us a revelation that would
cause us to have a motivation to pursue you with everything that we are, holding
nothing back, in pursuing you to purify our hearts so there's nothing that
separates us from walking in the fullness of what you intended
that relationship to be. Open the eyes of our understanding to just pursue you,
give us a knowledge of who you are that's an inseparable knowledge, that
becomes something that cannot be lost, something that doesn't just exist in our
minds, but something that we know fully in our hearts that has become flesh in
us. Father, we want to know the tangibility of your presence, we want to
know you in the fullness of your resurrection, and in the fellowship of
your sufferings. We want to know you to the place in which we can consider it
pure joy when we encounter trials of many kinds.
We want to know you. So, anyway, just a few thoughts guys. Um, God bless you and uh, hope
to see you soon.


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