Longings for Rhema

In faith.

Oct 06, 2024

Hi! 👋 (I really need more greetings, please send me suggestions thx)

How are y’all? What’s new with you? How can I pray for you??

It’s been so sweet reading some of the email responses, I’m SO sorry I haven’t had enough time to respond to everyone… but I promise I am praying and y’all are continually in my heart!

This week I found a new appreciation for the Word of God - the Bible.

In the New Testament two Greek words are used to denote “word”— logos and rhema. Both logos and rhema are the Word of God, but the former is God’s Word objectively recorded in the Bible, while the latter is the word of God spoken to us at a specific occasion. Rhema is God’s word with your name on it, His personal word to you!

John 6:63 says that “the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life”. Did the Jews not have the logos of God? Sure, they did. They were very familiar with it and could recite the Old Testament commandments well, but ultimately it was of no use to them. Only the words which the Lord spoke to them were spirit and life. Only rhema is spirit and life.

Thy Word is like a storehouse, Lord,
With full provision there,
And everyone who seeks may come,
Its glorious wealth to share.
Thy Word is like a deep, deep mine,
And jewels rich and rare
Are hidden in its mighty depths
For every searcher there.

I guess I just really long for the Lord to speak to me… apart from Him I can really do nothing.

Day by day, I’m learning that our lives really depend on the Lord’s words and our work depends on the Lord’s commands. Without His words, we really don’t have any revelation, light, or knowledge… I need His personal speaking to sustain me.

The Lord Jehovah has given me / The tongue of the instructed, / That I should know how to sustain the weary with a word. / He awakens me morning by morning; / He awakens my ear / To hear as an instructed one. Isaiah 50:4

A great fear of mine is actually to be in the Training, hearing so many words and reading so much but still somehow missing His personal speaking and shepherding…

I realized, I presently have a really hard time trusting the Lord in different situations and my faith in Him is still pretty weak. This verse has been my prayer these past few days:

And Jesus said to him, You say, If You can. All things are possible to him who believes. Immediately, crying out, the father of the child said, I believe; help my unbelief! Mark 9:23-24

In Hebrews 12:2 it talks about Jesus being the Author and Perfecter of our faith… You know, I was so encouraged by this footnote on “Author”… and lol am SO grateful that I don’t have to try and make up new words or ways to expound on this wonderful truth. So I hope this isn’t cheating haha, here it is:

“He is the Originator, the Inaugurator, the source, and the cause of faith. In our natural man we have no believing ability. We do not have faith by ourselves. The faith by which we are saved is the precious faith that we received from the Lord. When we look unto Jesus, He as the life-giving Spirit (1Cor 15:45) transfuses us with Himself, with His believing element. Then, spontaneously, a kind of believing arises in our being, and we have the faith to believe in Him. This faith is not of ourselves but of Him who imparts Himself as the believing element into us that He may believe FOR us.

Hence, He Himself is our faith. We live by Him as our faith; we live by His faith, not by our own.

As the Author and the source of faith, Jesus is also the Leader, the Pioneer, and the Forerunner of faith. He cut the way of faith and, as the Forerunner, took the lead to pioneer it. Hence, He can carry us in His footsteps through the pathway of faith. As we look to Him… He transfuses and even infuses us with the faith that He originated and perfected.”

So what more can I say?? Other than, “Lord, I believe! Help my unbelief!” Aka “increase my faith”…

I guess I just need to keep looking away unto Him. Hearing Him. Flinging myself upon His breast. Hiding my tired and weary being in my spirit (which is STILL LIFE) with Him and in the Body. Learning to live by the unseen things.