March 2, 2012

THE MYSTERY OF MEOD


Shalom Friends and Fellow Warriors,

Mega showers of blessings to you all! I would like to take some time today to share an experience I had that will undoubtedly help you find that secret place of the “Meod”!

Today in Israel is Friday which is the day to get your food shopping done before the stores close early for the Shabbat.  I have this little place we love to shop at since they have the best and most exotic fruit/ produce of the Promised Land!  It is just a feast for your eyes when you enter this small store and get to sample the best tasting fruit and veggies anywhere in the world.  As I was getting out of the car to enter this place...suddenly out of heaven I was hit and deluged with a visitation of the highest order!  It was “inside outside” and lasted for about 3-4 minutes.  I have tried to explain to a couple of believers what really happened to me but my English vocabulary is useless.  It is something that in the 20+ years of ministry I have never experienced in Him!

So what happened and how can I help open the door for you to experience and know a similar deluge from Him?  The best place to start is not in initiating an all night prayer meeting, or 40 day fast, or buying the latest electronic mixed worship CD!  It is simply in digging into the first Commandment of the ancient Hebrew Scriptures and parking there for as long as is needed...  Look at this text with me and do not mental ascent it from rote memory but look at it as though it is the first time you have read it!

“Hear, O Israel.  The Lord our God is one Lord.  And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”  
(Deut. 6:4-5)

In this visitation I instantly began to be aware of myself melting into a new “realm” that I have never been privy to experience.  It seemed to be the summation of all three aspects of my being (Spirit, Soul, and Body), and was a door of the alabaster box breaking that we must initiate and allow for Him to invade.  I’m not talking about just probing this realm because you “need” something from Abba!  Let us just be honest about this elementary stage of discipleship that many of us have never graduated out of.  And that is seeking God and strongly searching for Him because you need a miracle of some sorts.  God will use these circumstances to hedge you into the dry riverbed of His choosing to dismantle you and lead you to walk by a new faith.  But this is still a low level relationship and is not seeking His face but rather His hand of provision.  Then, there is the next phase in our spiritual journey (“wanderings” to the carnal mind)...and that is a sanctified heart decision that your will becomes His will.  This post-Gethsemane mystery is a feature that still is open for many believers today and really is the backbone of most ministry pursuits that people endeavor to do for Abba’s glory.

However, what I have been taken into today is something even more mysterious and stupendous.  Yes, it does produce a intoxication of joy and reverence in His majestic presence...but it is so far beyond this.  The best way to describe this zone in Him is found in the three Hebrew words used in our Deut. 6:5 text above.  Loving God with all your lebab (heart), with all your nephesh (soul or life), and meod (muchness).  Let me quickly translate the literal meaning of these 3 parts of the whole man for you.  Heart in ancient Hebrew denotes the intention or will of the whole man.  This is the part that was eternally infected in the original sin in the Garden of Eden and thankfully made a new species thru the new birth (John 3:3).  The soul of man represents the closely interfacing area that His breath (Spirit) causes our body and mind to live and function.  He breathes into us and we become a living nephesh (soul) and this area mysteriously interfaces close to our natural physiology.  It is here that the Greek concept of the soul differs from the Hebrew in that it conjectures that the soul is the seat of the mind, will, and emotions.  I’m not going to try to split linguistic hairs here trying to dissect our “tri-une” being and compartmentalize these three words God tells us to love Him with.  Because the Hebrew concept here is not individual compartments (Greek worldview) but rather a semantically concentric being and state that is not identified by separate spheres.

Now comes the third word used in the first and foremost commandment in the Scriptures and it has to do with loving Him with all our meod (muchness).  Notice that the NT Greek struggles to express the depth of this ancient Hebrew word “meod” at this spot.  In Mark 12:30 it is rendered in some translations as “mind and strength,” in Luke 10:27 it is rendered “strength and mind,” and in Matthew 22:37 simply as “mind”.  Why this divergence in meanings?  Because God’s original intent can be lost in translation when one divorces the text out of its original context.  Just look at the context...God is One, yet He is manifested in three (Abba, Son, Spirit).  We are not talking about absolute oneness like the Jewish community in the 10th Century A.D. did in changing the Hebrew word echad (plurality of oneness) of Deut. 6:4 to yachid (absolute singular) to tragically pursue their own newly codified rabbinical system and separate themselves from the unique interfacing of the NT revelation of the Messiah Yeshua has with the OT.  What we are talking about here is that just as God is one, yet has a plurality of oneness of the Godhead, there is also this plurality of oneness in the spiritual and physical makeup of man (the key being the concentric oneness as a whole and not separating the uniqueness of the three “spheres”).  These specific Hebrew words that were Divinely God-breathed for Moses to write down were not to emphasize this specialized makeup of man to be explored, but instead was to reinforce the absolute singularity of a personal devotion to God!  Our whole man and it's will is to be operating in sync with the unity of its bodily vitality in a completeness of service and not a interworking of disarray.  Thus the mystery of loving God with all our meod is not just with all our strength or mind (with one sphere always lagging behind as is taught in today’s destiny messages of hyper individualism), but rather the “muchness” or completeness of a singularity of a superlative degree of oneness with Him!  Glory to God!!!!

The Mystery of the Meod is beyond just a consecration or pursuit to know Him or experience Him and His wonderful miracles, but now must be understood by the configuration of this ancient Hebrew adverb meod or “muchness”.  It is not a mindset of determination or a place of kinetic physical strength worked up in a frenzy to serve and work for Him.  It is not something that can be hyped up by music and it is not a feeling of a “high” that many in the new mystical/ prophetic crowd are boldly endorsing...even to the point of using verbiage to describe modern drugs, illegal substances, and it’s paraphernalia used therein to induce this additive “high”.  This again is not the Mystery of the Meod, but a debased attempt to appeal to a contemporary audience that is carnally motivated for a “touch” because they love the ecstasy of feeling the “anointing”.  No, it is simply a oneness with Him that is so trouble-free yet so mysterious that you must simply become like a child and let Him have full control....   (Full Tilt Yield)!

May you who read this short teaching of the first Commandment find the grace of Abba to turn the key in your heart and allow Him full control...the “muchness” of loving Him.  Beware of trying to serve Him in the paralysis of analysis that views the heart completely more holy than the rest of you!  Be made whole today!  (The Hebrew word shalom is not just peace but also completeness and wholeness...the muchness of being one with Him!!!!)  Quit trying so hard and just flow with Him and what he has predestined you for!

Thank you for taking the time to please Him....

In His service for your faith,

Scott

PS, Many ask me how I can maintain and thrive in the Middle East with so much glorious exploits, Divine favor, and uncontrollable joy when the wheels are coming off the entire region right now. Well it is real simple…I maintain a very high modus operandi of giving that convicts, shames, and stuns many saved and unsaved. My whole life is a empty purse that is addicted to radical giving! I have been led to stay away from the tight fisted selfish stingy believers here who do not have the abandonment to give with hilarity…wanting nothing in return! It is a great stun gun to neutralize the antichrist spirit here and I will never stop in this stun giving! So we move in stealth and keep a wide berth away from the stingy folks and give radically to those who are truly desperate and being targeted by the Holy Spirit for salvation or emancipation from religious carnality! You really can’t teach people to give expecting nothing back. It can only be learned through osmosis in the secret place of His river soaked IV feed still realms of Glory! And these are the folks that support this ministry and these are the folks that are the real warriors I’m writing to in these communique’s!

Bless you’all for your repeated supply drops for the current ops here and may what I have been experiencing the last few weeks in His secret IV endorphin mainline from Heaven be also yours in this exciting hour! It does not matter the economic climate you maybe in…just keep giving hilariously! The vision to build out a stealth center against terror is ready to be implemented. This is a secret project that is very close to the heart of God. Let us labor together and contact me to discuss the budget currently needed. What a time to be alive in the Middle East for the new awakening approaching! New stealth projects have been started this week and funds are needed to implement moving forward. $498,300.00 is needed and feel free to contact me for more operational specifics! Glory to God!


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