In this episode, explore the profound concept of spiritual momentum with Rabbi Schneider. Delve into the mysteries of the Kingdom of God as we unpack the significance of receiving from Jesus and subsequently translating that reception into actionable faith. Rabbi shares personal insights from a decade of transformation through the Harp and Bowl ministry and emphasizes the importance of spiritual discipline to keep moving forward.
I want to talk to you about the secret today and the mystery reveal, get this now, of momentum. We’re in the midst of a series right now. We’re calling it Mysteries of the Kingdom of God. This is really a deep, important study. The things that I’ve been sharing, beloved ones, and teaching during the series, it’s not just academic information. These truths are profound. They’ve changed my life. The things that I’m sharing with you, beloved ones, are things that I’ve learned after walking with God for over 30 years. These truths absolutely have been changers in my life. I talked about the mystery of receiving and talking about how it all begins by simply learning how to receive from Jesus. You see, my life radically changed over 10 years ago. I’d already been walking with the Lord. Now get it. I’d already been walking with the Lord for over 20 years. And I mean, I was actively pursuing God. I mean, I was passionate for God. For 20 years, I’d been pursuing Him. But about 10 years ago, the Lord brought me to a whole new level of learning how to receive from Him. At the time, I was going through a difficult phase in life and I really needed God. I mean, I was just walking through a really deep place and had a very significant struggle going on. And it was in this place of need and in this place of desperation that my spirit connected with God in ways of being able to receive from Him in a way that was unlike anything that I experienced before. It actually began when I was introduced to what I call harp and bowl prayer ministry, where I would just sit for hours and listen to ministry, worship music that was just ascending directly to God. I mean, it was songs that were sung that were not like about God. It wasn’t like he is our rock. It was all like you are our rock. It was all songs that were being sung to God. And these songs also were made up of apostolic prayer, meaning the type of prayers that the apostles prayed in the New Testament, where Paul, for example, prayed that God would open the eyes of our understanding, give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation. So I was listening to music that was sung directly to God in worship, as well as music that was intermingled with or mixed with prayers that were the same prayers that we actually read of in the New Testament, asking God once again for the power that raised Christ from the dead to be at work in our lives, to be at work in my life. And as I was introduced to this Harp and Bowl ministry, I call it Harp and Bowl because we read in the fifth chapter of the book of Revelation that before the throne of God, John saw a bowl of incense that was arising to God. The incense was arising up to God. And then John told us that this incense was the prayers of the saints. And at the same time, John saw that mixed with the prayer, he saw a harp playing. So it wasn’t like the prayer was prayed and then music came, but that the music, the harp in Revelation 5 was actually ascending to the Lord mixed with the prayers. So this is kind of called harp and bowl ministry where there’s prayers and worship that’s ascending to God at the same time, you know, mixed with the music. And so about 10 years ago, as I was introduced to this and going through deep waters in my life, God just gave me, now listen, God gave me, and I’m sharing this for you, God gave me a supernatural grace, hear me now, just to sit at his feet. So for hours every day, I’m talking about like eight, 10 hours a day for a year, I just sat at the feet of Jesus, immersing myself in harp and ball ministry, listening to worship music that was intermingled with the apostolic prayers and prayers out of the Bible. And I didn’t do anything else for almost a complete year. That was my whole day. I would wake up in the morning and just sit before the Lord all day long. And God gave me a supernatural grace in this season just to sit at his feet, just like we read that Mary did when Martha was so busy. Mary was just sitting at his feet. And during this time, the Lord was just ministering to me, beloved ones. He was just strengthening me as I just sat there just receiving, just receiving, just receiving. And I began this series on mysteries of the kingdom of God by talking about the mystery of receiving. So after I spent a year just sitting at God’s feet receiving, the Holy Spirit then began to move beyond. And then He began to teach me how to take action. And so on last broadcast, I talked about the mystery of outflow, that first we have to learn how to receive, but eventually the receiving has to break out of our lives into an outflow. And on last broadcast, I talked to you about outflow and how it’s so important for us to exercise our faith, to exercise the Word, to use the anointing and to work the anointing that’s within us. Because it’s only as we use the anointing, it’s only as we use the gifting, it’s only as we exercise our faith that we change the spiritual atmosphere around our life. Remember, the Lord said to Moses, Moses, how long are you going to go around this mountain? It’s time now to take action. And everybody, beloved, that truly is being ministered to by Jesus, there may be a season of sitting at his feet like I did, but there also has to come a season where you take action. And as you take action and stretch forth your rod, What’s going to happen is things are going to change in life. We have to not just receive, like many people in the church are doing. They’re just waiting for God to show up, just waiting for a miracle to happen. And they don’t realize that the miracle sometimes will not happen until they do something. And so, beloved ones, if you want to really see growth in your life, you’re going to have to balance receiving with taking action, exercising your faith, and doing something. Now, today… I want to move forward and I want to talk to you about the secret of momentum. Why do I call these secrets? Because people that don’t have spiritual ears and eyes, they can’t see these things. But in Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, secrets become mysteries that are revealed. I want to talk to you about the secret today and the mystery reveal, get this now, of momentum. What do I mean by momentum? To give you a feel, beloved one, of what I mean by momentum, I’m going to read now from the book of Chronicles. I’m going to 2 Chronicles today, chapter number 27, verse number 6. 2 Chronicles 27, verse 6. Hear the word of God. I’m just going to give you one scripture here that I want to develop with you to show you how momentum is developed in our life to eventually give us, get this now, momentum. Break through. Mysteries of the kingdom of God. Receive. Then learn how to exercise the spirit of God, the anointing that’s in you. Then keep doing it day after day, and you’re going to get strong, and you’re going to get breakthrough. Let’s look at momentum today. 2 Chronicles 27.6. So Jotham became mighty. Get it now. He became mighty. He became mighty. It wasn’t something that happened in a second, but rather he became mighty as he continued. So Jotham became mighty because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God. I want to read it again. So Jotham became mighty because he ordered his ways before the Lord, his God. You see, what happened in Jotham’s life, beloved, as he kept on day after day, just putting one foot in front of the other foot in the ways of God, he became mighty. What brought him to the place of becoming mighty? Listen, momentum. What do I mean by momentum? As we keep on every day, just waking up in the morning and putting one foot in front of the other foot, knowing that we’re doing what God has told us to do, not based on what we feel that day, but based on what we know we should do. When we keep doing that, listen to me. we get momentum and we become mighty. And when we become mighty, what’s going to happen is we’re going to get breakthrough. But I want to focus today on this aspect of momentum. Momentum is something that happens when something is moving in a certain direction and it keeps moving in that same direction. And eventually, because it has kept moving in that same direction, it develops power and that power will eventually spring forth for breakthrough.
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I want to talk to you today about the mystery of developing strength and gaining momentum. We do this, beloved, listen to me now, through spiritual discipline. When we keep doing the right thing, despite what we feel, and I’m speaking to many now in the Western world, in the US, because we live in a culture that we don’t have spiritual discipline, many of us. We just simply go with what we feel. If we feel inspired, if we feel passionate, then we act passionate. But if we don’t feel inspired and we don’t feel passionate, then some of us don’t do anything to keep building momentum in the Lord. And people just, you know, they drift in and out. They’re hot and they’re cold. They’re hot and they’re cold because they’ve never learned the secret of of just developing momentum through spiritual discipline, and simply have learned the secret of doing what’s right even when they don’t feel like it. You see, beloved ones, if we’re going to ever get strong in the grace of God, we’re going to have to learn how to do what we know we should do even when we don’t feel like it. A great definition of discipline is this. Doing what we know we should do, get it now, after the feeling of it has worn off. In other words, how many people start a diet after they ate their last meal? There are full now, and they don’t feel like eating anymore, and so it feels like a great time to start a diet. You know, you have that last bowl of ice cream. You know what? I’ve had enough of this. I’ve done this too long. I shouldn’t do it anymore. It makes me feel guilty for eating so much. I’m going to go on a diet now. They feel great about it because they don’t want any more ice cream. But then a day or two or three days goes by, and now it’s Wednesday, and And all of a sudden, they feel like ice cream. And so what do they do? They forsake the diet and they yield to their feelings. And as a result, they never get momentum and therefore never get breakthrough. If we’re going to become strong, we’re talking about mysteries of the kingdom. If we’re going to get breakthrough in our life, we’re going to have to develop the momentum of ordering our ways after the Lord day after day, whether we feel like it or not. You see, I truly believe that one of the most remarkable things and action steps that we can take in our life that’s so simple and so practical, yet few do it, is simply by waking up in the morning and starting our day with God. Take a half hour, 45 minutes, or an hour every day, and don’t look at your phone. Don’t look at your emails. Don’t do anything. Just get before the Lord. Have your devotion allowed. Begin to speak God’s Word over your life. Begin to thank Him for all He’s done, and do it every single day. Order your pattern after the Lord, whether you feel like it or not. When you do that, you’re going to get momentum in your life, and you’re going to keep going from strength to strength and from glory to glory. Jotham, the Bible says, ordered his ways after the Lord. He didn’t order them after his feelings. He didn’t order them after his flesh. He ordered his ways, get it now, after the Lord. So I want to ask you a question. If you’re not waking up in the morning and giving that first part of the day to God by doing a spiritual devotion to him, let me ask you a question. Do you think that’s good or bad? I just really want to drive it home because this isn’t just a suggestion. This is something I want to ask you a question. Isn’t God after our first and our best? You look at, for example, the Lord gave the children of Israel what? The law of firstfruits, that they were to take the first of their harvest every year and offer the first of their harvest to him. And when the Lord set up the priesthood in the Torah, he began the priesthood, get it now, beloved ones, with the firstborn. born Son. You see, I believe that there’s a law that God wants operative in our life where He wants our first and our best. What did Jesus say? He said, seek first the Kingdom of God and everything else should be added to you. So I believe God wants the first of our time, I believe he wants the first of our treasure. I believe he wants the first of our talent. He wants the first of our time, talents, and treasures. Listen, I know that if you will implement this suggestion, this encouragement that I’m giving you right now, this challenge, if you will implement this and stick with it, you’re going to gain momentum in your life and it’s going to give you breakthrough. I am asking you right now in the love of God, If it’s true that what I’m saying is correct, that God wants the first, He wants the first of our treasure, He wants the first of our talent, He wants the first of our time, don’t we apply that then by giving Him the first of our day? In other words, if you have to wake up an hour early to give God the first of your day, praise God. Just do it. Just do it and you’ll be blessed. Because if we just wake up in the morning and run into the day without taking time with God, we’re not going to be as connected during that day with God as we would have been if we would have given the first of our time. We want to be like Jotham. that ordered his ways after the Lord, and as a result of that, beloved ones, he became mighty. Now, I know that what I’m sharing with you, I mean, it’s not like something new for many of us. But the question is not whether it’s new, but the question is, are we doing it? You see, we want to keep doing the right thing day after day after day, and when we do, we’ll create momentum, and momentum will result in breakthrough. If I could, I’d just like to stop a second here and give some practical suggestions about how to give God the first part of your day. In other words, what does that look like? You see, I think some people, they try doing this, but then they give up because they just feel like a failure. In other words, some of you, perhaps, have even tried beginning your mornings with the Lord, and you got down and you sat on a couch, maybe you had a cup of coffee with you to give the first part of that day, whether it was 15 minutes, 20 minutes, a half hour, 45, an hour, whatever it was, and you found that your mind started to wander. Maybe you picked up the Bible, you wanted to connect with God. but you found as you were reading the Bible, your mind started drifting and so you gave up and you said, what’s the use? I want you to know God loves you and He understands that you’re human and that He understands that at times our mind will wander. If your mind wanders, don’t give up. God loves you. Just bring your mind back. I love something that David said in one of the Psalms. He said to the Lord, your gentleness, David said to the Lord, has made me great. God is gentle towards you. Don’t give up because your mind wanders. And then sometimes you might feel when you wake up in the morning that you’re really engaged. You can sense God’s presence. But then maybe a day or two more down the week, you wake up in the morning, you feel so disconnected from God. You feel so far away from Him. You don’t feel like doing the devotional. You don’t feel like staying connected because you don’t feel that you are connected. Again, I want to encourage you, beloved one. God loves you. Don’t give up. Just be like Jotham and keep ordering your way after the Lord, and you’ll build power through momentum. If you feel disconnected some days, it’s okay. Just don’t let the devil take you off track. Just keep doing what’s right. Now, one of the ways to read the Bible that I find is helpful is, for example, let me just go to the gospel of John, chapter number 14. Jesus said here in verse one, do not let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. Rather than just continuing to read. Stop after every verse and just turn it into a prayer. Just say, Father God, thank you that even as Jesus stilled the sea and calmed it, you’re telling me here not to let my heart be troubled. Father God, I thank you for the peace of Jesus that’s been breathed over my life. And now I ask you, Father God, to help me to not let my heart be troubled. Okay, so you take every portion that you read, beloved ones, and just then turn it into a prayer so that you make your reading of the scripture a prayer dialogue between you and God. It’s not how much of the scripture you read. It’s how much you can connect with God through the scripture. John continues on. He said, believe in God. He said, believe also in me. And then we say, Father God, thank you. I do believe in you. Father God, thank you. I believe in you. And I declare, Father, I believe in you. And I declare that you are great and that you are God and that you are good. And Father God, I ask you to even strengthen my faith in you. Strengthen me, Jesus, with the fire of the Holy Spirit. Jesus, I desire faith, Lord Jesus, that will move every mountain out of the way of my life. Jesus, I love you today. I believe in you. Strengthen my faith. And so as we’re doing our morning devotional, one of the things that I encourage us to do that I know is extremely helpful is as you’re reading the scripture, turn it into a prayer dialogue with God. Some folks have just kind of a framework that they’re covering X amount of scriptures a day. They’re reading so many chapters of the Bible a day. But what’s the use of that if it’s just words that are rolling over your head like water off a duck’s back? It’s better to slow down and let the words have impact and cover less than to cover a whole bunch of scriptures that are just disconnected from you identifying with them in your heart. Develop momentum by confessing God’s Word over your life and over your circumstances. Blessed are you if you do these things. I promise you, my friends, you’ll be blessed. We are facing such chaos in the world around us. Beloved, the only hope left for people is the God that created the world, and you and I are His ambassadors. We are the ambassadors of the Lord Jesus Christ. You and I are Jesus the Messiah’s ambassadors. We have to do something, beloved, to prepare the world for His return by preaching the gospel. When you support me in discovering the Jewish Jesus, you are literally taking part in preparing the earth’s atmosphere for the coming return of the Lord Jesus. You see, Jesus said when the gospel is preached to the ends of the earth, then he will return. People more and more are recognizing that they can’t hold on to anything outside of themselves, that everything around them is unstable. that systems are falling apart, that governments are collapsing, economic systems are collapsing, people’s moral code is collapsing. The only thing that’s sure, beloved, is God himself, who is our rock. And I want to ask you to support me as I continue to preach the gospel of King Jesus around the world declaring this reality and this truth. You see, beloved ones, Jesus is counting on you and he’s counting on me. Wore his voicepiece, wore his mouth. Jesus said, you shall be my witnesses. I want to ask you, would you be faithful? Would you support me? And would you support discovering the Jewish Jesus? I want you to know, beloved, your financial help makes a big difference and is effectively being used to spread the gospel.
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The Aaronic blessing in the book of Numbers, chapter 6, is not a blessing that comes from an impersonal being out there somewhere in the heavens. This special blessing comes from a person, Yahweh God Almighty, our Creator and Maker. So receive God’s blessing into your life right now.
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with his countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. God bless you and shalom.
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I’m your host, Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Make sure to join us again tomorrow when Rabbi Schneider shares the secret of breakthrough. That’s coming up Friday right here on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
