Living In Yerushalayim
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
The Heavenly Feast
Jerusalem is an amazing word. In Hebrew, the word is Yerushalayim, which doesn't mean Jerusalem, but Jerusalems. It's plural. But the Hebrew word doesn't just mean plural, it means two. Yerushalayim means there are always two Jerusalems. The Jerusalem here on earth now is imperfect. There is also a heavenly Jerusalem which is perfect, but is yet to come. To those who are born again, the Bible says you are born of Jerusalem-of Yerushalayim. So we are to live in both Jerusalems now. The key is to live now in what is yet to come. Live in the perfect, finished work and victory of God now-before you see it! Live in the answered prayer before it manifests. Live in the freedom of Messiah before you see it. Rejoice in your blessings before they come. Rejoice in the kingdom that is now in Messiah. Live in he victory that He has already accomplished. It is a finished work. Live in what is not yet as if it were. Rejoice in what is to come as if it is now. Celebrate what shall be in faith, and you will have the blessings of Yerushalayim.

Today's Mission
Today, learn the secret of living in the perfected work of God. Give thanks before you receive. Be victorious before you see the victory.

Galatians 4:25-26
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Tell me now, you who have become so enamored with the law: Have you paid close attention to that law? Abraham, remember, had two sons: one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. The son of the slave woman was born by human plotting; the son of the free woman was born by God’s promise. This illustrates the very thing we are dealing with now. The two births represent two ways of being in relationship with God. One is from Mount Sinai in Arabia. It corresponds with what is now going on in Jerusalem—a slave life, producing slaves as offspring. This is the way of Hagar. In contrast to that, there is an invisible Jerusalem, a free Jerusalem, and she is our mother—this is the way of Sarah. Remember what Isaiah wrote: Rejoice, barren woman who bears no children, shout and cry out, woman who has no birth pangs, Because the children of the barren woman now surpass the children of the chosen woman.
Isn’t it clear, friends, that you, like Isaac, are children of promise? In the days of Hagar and Sarah, the child who came from faithless plotting (Ishmael) harassed the child who came—empowered by the Spirit—from the faithful promise (Isaac). Isn’t it clear that the harassment you are now experiencing from the Jerusalem heretics follows that old pattern? There is a Scripture that tells us what to do: “Expel the slave mother with her son, for the slave son will not inherit with the free son.” Isn’t that conclusive? We are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

Have a blessed day and week.
May Yeshua Hamashiach bless you,
Love, Lizzy