G-d's Treasures

My three main purposes for each day: Knowing the voice of the L-rd, obeying Him, and dwelling in His presence. (being a woman I can multitask) He is the Way, the Truth, and the life. The Word says that the ways of the righteous are ordered by the L-rd. He does order our steps to help turn what He is teaching us into life.

We are promised in His Word that all who seek, find, and all who ask, receive. A more accurate translation would be that all who keep seeking find, and all who keep asking receive. The quest for these treasures of the knowledge of His ways is one of the greatest adventures you can know in this life, to a large degree because He adds to it the experience of the truth.
Only those who care enough to continue the pursuit of these treasures will find them. Those who care that much for them will likely be careful enough to handle them rightly. Those who do not have the experience of building a fortune will not have the wisdom to keep it. Those who do not have the experience of searching out G-d's treasures of wisdom and knowledge will not care enough to keep them or live them. The greatest treasure of all will be the fellowship I have with Him when He becomes our Teacher.
I personally put the highest priority on any book or material I felt that He has specifically put in my hands, but only a small percentage of what I studied over the years would I put in the category of knowing that it had been given to me directly by the L-rd. They would often get me going on a trail, but I followed the trail with my own pursuit and research, digging deeper, wanting the full meaning.
I was given a Helper, who was sent to be my guide, not the Doer. Once I got on a trail I would feel the Holy Ghost guidance if I started to drift from it, and He would correct me and help me get back on the right track. He is gentle and humble of heart. He is gentle in the way He guides me. For this reason, I must stay sensitive to recognize His guidance and even His correction. He may use dramatic ways to get my attention but that tends to be the exception, not the rule.
I was taught when I was a new believer that He gave us the desires of our hearts. The things we desire in our innermost being were the things He was calling me to do. I followed my heart in my studies. There were a few that I had fellowship with, they were rare but they were rich in substance.  Just to meet someone with the same zeal for understanding was like finding an even greater treasure. Pastor Heath Perry was a G-d sent, I was talking with my Father and said: “I know you have many more over the hill, but it would be nice to talk to one.” I felt alone in life’s journey and was ready to quite looking for a place I would fit in.
I had been an agnostic before coming to know that G-d was real and not like Santa clause, tooth fairy ect. From the time I learn to read, I had a hunger too real everything I could get my hands on, story books to me out of reality of the cruelty of life’s experiences.  I developed a love for knowledge, I wanted to know about everything, and had many interests. I was confused by religion, but I thought that if I could ever learn who the real G-d was I would spend the rest of my life getting to know Him.
Then I had a supernatural conversion experience that left me with no doubt that G-d is real and that Y’Shua is the Son of G-d and everything He said He was in the Scriptures. This was the greatest day of my life, I found someone who truly loved me. I knew I had found the greatest treasure of knowledge anyone could ever find.
It is written that G-d is LOVE, I learned that you could not learn anything about Him without loving Him more. That compels you to learn more about Him so that you get caught up in an ever tightening and ascending life spiral that gets stronger and stronger. There is nothing that will ever satisfy the human soul like knowing G-d. Once you start to know Him, you just cannot get to know Him enough.
The L-rd shares His glory with men and His love for man is more than anyone has yet comprehended. The real revelation was not in the words, but in what I felt – His love for me. He is always with me. He loves me! His manifest presence is with me all the time, but He does not always manifest Himself in the same way. Being with Him in His presence is like nothing else. This is what I was made for-t9 dwell with Him, to know His special fellowship.
You could tell a difference in the writings of those who had experienced this. Their message was far more than just doctrine and principles. Their message was far more than just doctrine and principles. There was a life on it that made you not want to put the book down. I feel for all who sit for years under teaching and preaching, but never experience the L-rd Himself. That is too common in our times, which led me to study church history, times and customs. History comes from the words His and Story. My purpose for studying history was to see His works in it, and by this, to know His ways better. I did not realize that I was building a foundation of general knowledge that was necessary for the great revelations that were to come. Without that foundation some of the greatest treasures I found would not have even made sense to me. One must go through a wilderness to get to the Promise Land, and that wilderness is usually the exact opposite of what you’ve been promised.
Without question it would be G-d’s relentless pursuit of man and His unimaginable patience and love for man even though He is constantly rejected or ignored by man. It’s the most painful love story ever written, and it is not over. He is in relentless pursuit of a bride, but, to date she seems to have little or no time for Him. So far, it is the greatest of all tragedies, but we know it will have the most wonderful of all endings. He will have the bride that He is so worthy of.
There is a lot of suffering on earth, and it is right to have compassion for it, but I think it is even more important to know the suffering of the L-rd. His suffering did not end on the cross. He still intercedes for us because He still feels for our suffering, and it hurts Him. I don’t think this will end until we see and are touched by His suffering and devote ourselves to seeing the bride that He is so worthy of make herself ready for Him, and they are united. Then the new age in which His kingdom comes will begin.
Advancement in the kingdom comes by becoming greater servants of others. We were created for His pleasure, and nothing will ever satisfy our own souls like fulling this purpose. To spend a lifetime just to bring Him joy for a single moment would be a life well lived, but we can bring Him joy every day. What do we have to do that is more important than that?
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. The repetitious cycles of history are tragic. We keep repeating the same mistakes.
The church has been just as guilty of this as the rest of the world. This is the cause of the worst human tragedies, and why they are repeated over and over. The most prevailing reason is pride. The core of this pride causes every generation to think that they are better than the last one. We tend to think we are smarter, wiser, and definitely not like our parents, and this keeps us in the trap. We become even more shallow shells of who we could be. Only repentance, and the humility that would enable us to be teachable, will get us free.
The L-rd gave us the answer to this dilemma when He gave the Law to Moses and commanded us to honor our fathers and mothers, that requires more than just knowing their stories, it is continuing with a respect for their teachings. He did not say honor the great ones, or even just the good ones, but whatever parents we got, they do the best in what they have to work with. I think if our mindset was to honor those who have gone before us instead of disregarding them, we could even learn so much form the bad ones that our progress could be multiplied. When our elders are not listened to, that we do not try to learn all that we can from those who have been this way before, is one of our greatest mistakes, and the reason why we repeat the great mistakes of history over and over. It is rare to find anyone who has been changed by the truth, it is rare to find those who are living the great teachings of the faith. I think humility must be mixed with the truth in order for it to change us.
G-d commanded Israel to repeat their history every year. This was not to get them to live in the past, yet we cannot deal with the present or the future as we should if we forget the lessons of the past. Not respecting the past enough to study it is probably the main cause that so many empires have risen, through all that it takes to build such a thing, only to quickly disintegrate for the lack of a simple, basic, understanding.
One of the great revelations of G-d in history is His seemingly infinite love for, and patience with, man. We are ever learning but not coming to the knowledge of the truth. Even the few who honor His witnesses seldom really do what they say. Yet the L-rd has never given up on us. He remains faithful even when we are so unfaithful.
Please bear with me to share a couple of other principles I’ve learned. What may at first discourage us can lead to an even greater, more substantial hope. The true hope that will never disappoint us often has to begin with losing our hope in men, but that is when we can put our trust in the L-rd. Our hope cannot be in people, even G-d’s people, but in Him. To be disillusioned means to lose you illusions, replacing them with the illusions with faith. True faith is always centered on G-d, not mankind. Part of truth is to see our true condition, but even more importantly, to see G-d’s heart and purpose for us. Israel went through repetitious cycles of: trusting Him and seeing His victory; forgetting Him and falling into apostasy; falling into bondage; crying out to Him for deliverance, and He would deliver them, over and over. I, myself have done this over and over, even the church has done the same thing throughout history.
G-d had never lost His patience or His hope in us, because He is not really trusting in us as much as He is in His Holy Ghost to bring this to pass. There will be a generation that breaks this downward cycle we have been trapped in. We can resist the delusions that they are so much smarter or better than previous generations. That generation will break through and possess the Promise Land.
A main factor about the times is that the end of the age is the harvest. A main factor about the harvest is that all of the seeds that have been sown are coming to maturity, both the good ones and the evil one. When the L-rd spoke about the end of the age, He would send His angels to gather out of His kingdom all of the stumbling blocks. The tares will be reaped first, and that will leave the wheat.
True sojourners do not follow the masses, but always move the opposite spirit of this world. The pride and arrogance of man has reached the levels that were prophesied for the end of this age. It cannot get much worse, so those who overcome this darkness will be some of the humblest and, therefore, the most teachable and wise of all time.
Where sin abounds grace does that much more abound. G-d gives His grace to the humble, and G-d’s grace is the most valuable of all treasures. There is nothing that can stop His grace, and there is nothing that cannot be accomplished with His grace. We are getting close to the time when the humble will inherit the earth. They will do this because they walk in His grace. Therefore, the greatest in the kingdom are the humblest.