The Living Goodness of God - David Mitts

⁴Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? (Romans 2:4 (NKJV))

We are created for a treasure; the treasure is called the goodness of God. 

²¹“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:21 (NKJV))

It is this treasure, which makes our lives transform from the lower life into the realms of being truly human and truly alive.  Yeshua spoke of this transformation in terms of losing our lower life in order to receive eternal life.

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²⁵“He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. (John 12:25 (NKJV))

Earthly life: outer form, hole inside.versus

God’s goodness:different form and complete.

The power of eternal life, is a treasure given from heaven called the “Goodness” of God.  It is a powerful magnet that draws us to Him.  It is true food and true drink for our eternal spirit.

³¹In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” ³²But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” ³³Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?” ³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. (John 4:31-34 (NKJV))

We are created to eat and drink of His goodness!!  His goodness is the tangible stuff of the Kingdom of Heaven.  It is NOT of this earth and cannot be manufactured in this dimension.  It is the stuff of eternity, the true reality.

It was manifested to the Children of Israel in the desert as manna.  Even though manna was NOT the goodness itself, listen to results it produced:

³“So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD. ⁴“Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. (Deuteronomy 8:3-4 (NKJV))

Manna which is connected to the Word of God kept Israel from disease and clothing wearing out.  This is a picture of eternal life coming from the goodness of God.  Gods goodness transforms our reality from one bound to this physical realm, with its food sources that bring, at best, limited benefits, to eternal life sources which make our being resonate.

When we learn to receive His Goodness, we bring a reality to our lives that is of His realm , thoughts and feelings that are His realm.

The Scriptures speak of this as the mind of Christ.

[14] But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. [15] But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. [16] For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:14-16 (NASB)

This means we know things and feel things that are spiritually available to us. Like what? Marriage covenant.  Caring for the sanctity of our body.  Emotional purity. Compassion for the lost. Healing for the sick. Faith.

Turn with me now to Psalm 107:

¹ Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!

For His mercy endures forever. (Psalms 107:1 (NKJV))

The actual Hebrew says “Give a hand to Yahweh, out of eternity is chesed, loving-kindness. 

Chesed: This word is translated as mercy of loving-kindness.  The Hebrew word is made up of 3 letters, the Chet, the samech, and the dalet.  Dalet means door, Samech is the picture of a circle, signifying eternity and chet is the word picture for a gate, or a hedge around something, like a pen or a shepherd’s protected area.  So, chesed is that which opens the door into eternity providing a shelter or an enclosure of safety.  Now, why is this mercy??  Mercy implies something undeserved. In our word of cause and effect, we feel unworthy of love.  We know that we have been selfish and have acted as we saw fit often without thinking of others.  We are starving for another reality that is NOT of our origin.  This is chesed.  God’s goodness wants to draw us to an eternal source of kindness, of mercy that transforms us in how we think and feel. Let’s continue in Psalm 107:2-7

²Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,

Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,

³And gathered out of the lands,

From the east and from the west,

From the north and from the south.

⁴They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way;

They found no city to dwell in.

⁵Hungry and thirsty,

Their soul fainted in them.

⁶Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,

And He delivered them out of their distresses.

⁷And He led them forth by the right way,

That they might go to a city for a dwelling place. (Psalms 107:2-7 (NKJV))

The redeemed are those who have said “YES” to His invitation to trust Him.  That is redemption!  He takes us when we feel like lost wanderers hungry to find a sense of home.  He gives us a reason for living, a “right way” and brings us to a destiny.

⁸Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

⁹For He satisfies the longing soul,

And fills the hungry soul with goodness.

¹⁰Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,

Bound in affliction and irons—

¹¹Because they rebelled against the words of God,

And despised the counsel of the Most High,

¹²Therefore He brought down their heart with labor;

They fell down, and there was none to help.

¹³Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,

And He saved them out of their distresses.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,

And broke their chains in pieces.

¹⁵Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

¹⁶For He has broken the gates of bronze,

And cut the bars of iron in two.

¹⁷Fools, because of their transgression,

And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

¹⁸Their soul abhorred all manner of food,

And they drew near to the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,

And He saved them out of their distresses. (Psalms 107:8-19 (NKJV))

Do you hear the cry of the Psalmist?  If we will cry out in our trouble, He will release from eternity, goodness.  We have only to trust Him!!

The Psalm continues but I want to step out of it for a minute and ask a question:  Have we traded true food and drink for junk food?  What happens when we satisfy our hunger or thirst with junk food?  It takes away our appetite for a little while but then what?? We feel empty because.. you can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

God’s goodness is here today.  He wants us to taste and see that He is good.

⁸Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good;

Blessed is the man who trusts in Him! (Psalms 34:8 (NKJV))

If we open our heart and trust Him, He will release blessing into our lives, the blessing of true goodness that makes all of our life special and alive with love.

Meekness: The Key to Our Destiny Manifested - David Mitts

5 Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5)

Every ministry has a purpose or a set of purposes that The Lord brings people together to accomplish through their relationship and the combination of gifts and talents of that group of people.

One New Man Ministry has been a place of healing since its inception.  Randi Lechner at one of our prophetic conferences declared the name: One New Man: A Healing Place.

Over the years, we have utilized “healing technologies”physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually to be a venue for healing.  These include, my practice, FFI courses, the School of the Spirit, Fire and Glory soaking, prophetic impartations and a healing of our spiritual genetics through the restoration of authentic Hebraic Roots.

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Healing occurs against a background of honor.  We gravitate towards honor.  The scriptures state that when we honor and are honored, we are in a culture of blessing and healing.

16‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. (Deuteronomy 5:16 (NKJV))

Certainly, we would agree that long days, a state of well-being and an inheritance in the Land which the Lord has for us is indeed healing and restoration.  We can also see the connection to honor.  Honor is recognition of correct and proper alignment.

It should be obvious to honor our father and mother.  Yet, because rebellion is bound up in our heart, we have to be instructed to align ourselves correctly. 

15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;

The rod of discipline will remove it far from him. (Proverbs 22:15 (NASB))

Discipline removes the foolishness of our rebellious nature.

Discipline is the application of meekness.  

Meekness is the constraint of power to the task at hand.  The mother lion has the power to destroy her cubs, but she constrains herself out of love and picks them up gently.

The Israeli army has the power to obliterate Gaza and Hamas.  But because they recognize that to do so, is to use power without meekness, without honoring that there are people in Gaza who are pawns of the regime, the army drops pamphlets and makes phone calls to warn residents of their impending attacks.  

Meekness is discipline.  Another word for meekness is diligence.

4Poor is he who works with a negligent hand,

But the hand of the diligent makes rich. (Proverbs 10:4 (NASB))

Diligence is the way we describe a disciplined person.  They do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done.  This is meekness and true humility.  Humility is not just the apology but also includes doing what needed to be done.

Now, when we see that meekness is really discipline then we can begin to understand how it is necessary to our inheritance.  We cannot operate in dishonor and walk in our destiny.

What do we need to honor?  Well first and foremost the Lord.  But, what does it mean to honor the Lord??  Well the Hebrew word for honor is Kavod, which means weightiness.  When we honor the Lord, we give the greatest weight to His Word, His instruction set.

Well we know His general instruction set.  But generalities do not produce specific results.  We need specifics.  This involves work on our part.  We need to know His specific will in our lives.  This begins with recognizing the real problem is not even His will but our own.

You see we are automatically wired for our own will.  It is why we resist doing what we know we need to do.  There is an inherent stubbornness; an iniquity in our being that sabotages our accomplishing what God has in store for us.  

This takes the form of worry.  Worry is from the kingdom of mammon, which is biblical code word for self will.  

24“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

25“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26“Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27“Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29“and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30“Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32“For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6:24-34 (NKJV))

What we don’t immediately realize is that worry and mammon are the same kingdom.  Worry is the result of serving mammon.  Mammon is serving myself.  The problem is that at the root of that is the idea of self-worship.  I want to be god.  Or put another way, I want to live with illusion that I am in control of my life.  This is mammon.  The solution is to seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.  When we do that, then Yeshua promises us that we will have life, food, clothing, etc…

It isn’t the life, food and clothing that are the problem, but the worry.  Worry is anti-meekness.  Meekness is the disciplined use of power and available resources to accomplish our destiny, our inheritance.  Worry is the mental activity of avoiding the disciplined work living in fantasy of an illusionary world that is rooted in unreality.  

Worry requires chaos.  Meekness requires order.  Worry lives in the darkness of what if’s, Meekness lives in the light of accountability and disciplined focus and action.  Worry-Mammon says to itself, I’ll get to it someday and then carries those half-promises in the mind dissipating all creative energy and replacing it with fantasies, Meekness, organizes and seeks out kingdom truth, honoring authorizes in areas of weakness and walks into a concrete inheritance.

Church has done a very poor job of practically imparting Biblical truth.  Meekness has been replaced by shame-based false humility instead of being heralded as a disciplined programmed systematic progression towards an inheritance.

Meekness requires a system.  It actually describes a system.  The mind cannot operate well left to its own imaginations.  This is chaos.  We never think of what we need to be thinking of when we need to be thinking of it.  Instead we think and act on what is in our thoughts and imaginations.  This is mammon, doing what is right in our own eyes, and it produces worry, stress, sickness and chaos.  It produces death to our destiny.

It is time to become teachable.  It is time to pursue destiny.  We are a house of Destiny.  We are building a Destiny House, which will come to pass through disciplined planned action by meek people.  Are you one of them????

Restoring His Life to the Belly - Charles D Harris

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly. (Proverbs 20:27 KJV)

The Hebrew word for belly or womb is beten בטן 

The word picture is the house that surrounds life.

"The abdomen (commonly called the belly) is the body space between the thorax (chest) and pelvis. The diaphragm forms the upper surface of the abdomen. At the level of the pelvic bones, the abdomen ends and the pelvis begins.

The abdomen contains all the digestive organs, including the stomach, small and large intestines, pancreas, liver, and gallbladder. These organs are held together loosely by connecting tissues (mesentery) that allow them to expand and to slide against each other. The abdomen also contains the kidneys and spleen." - Web MD

These organs produce and process things for our body that provide us with life.  The word picture is also of a womb with a baby which represents life.

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Lets start from the beginning...It is Good...
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. (Gen 1:31 KJV)

9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. (Gen 2:9 KJV)

The Hebrew word for good is Tov טוֹב
The word picture says that good is what surrounds and is inside (the outside and the inside are the same - there is no deception) - Hebrew Word Pictures~ Dr Frank T Seekins

God is good and what he created is declared good (that's includes you and me).

The serpent deceives causing to listen to another voice causing to leave the surrounding and covering of life in God and be surrounded by other voice.  The voice of death!

The choice in the garden was between the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (being wise in own eyes). This deceptive appetite drove the decision thus causing separation.

It's interesting to see the curse the Lord put on the serpent, to be driven upon and by the belly.

14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: (Gen 3:14 KJV)

The Hebrew picture for Satan is שָׂטָן . an adversary that devours life

The woman was deceived to listen to the voice of another for the satisfaction of her belly and Adam followed suit.  The belly was looking to fill a hunger of being wise in her own eyes.  The Hebrew word Ta'ah is the twisting of the eye to deceive and lead astray.

We have twisted appetites and hungers in our belly causing all of us to be sick and deceived eventually driven to our god being our belly abandoning fellowship and relationship with the source of life.

25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want. (Pro 13:25 KJV)

19 Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.) (Phl 3:19 KJV)

This is our adversaries plan.  His voice.

8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: (1Pe 5:8 KJV)

How do we stop the madness?  Reconnect back to the source of life.

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (Jhn 3:16-18 KJV)

Be reconciled
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: (Eph 2:16 KJV)

20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven. (Col 1:20 KJV)

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. (Rom 10:9-11 KJV)

When we are One with the Father, we can speak the heart of the Father into the earth as Yeshua did.
20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; [and] with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. (Pro 18:20 KJV)

We can truly worship God in spirit and truth
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth. (Jhn 4:23-24 KJV)

Yeshua declares...
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (Jhn 7:38 KJV)