Spiritual Meanings Of The Hebrew Letters

I learned about this from my pastor at church. It is very interesting. I thought I would share what I learned.

How many people realize the Jesus was Jewish. So many church’s in America make Him out to look completely different.

Hebrew letters are not just ordinary letters. Each letter is a symbol, full of many inner meanings, from literal straightforward meaning, to deeper spiritual meaning. Understanding the letters provide essential insight into the deeper meanings of the Torah or the Bible.

After studying the letters in depth it is not uncommon for many people to feel that the letters express some direct spiritual communication that goes beyond words. In kabbalistic circles, (A guide to find meaning and purpose In your life) meditation on the letters is commonly practiced to encourage this type of rapport with the letters.

Looking into the deeper meanings of the letter can transform and deepen our learning and can lead us to deeper levels of spiritual experience. Kabbalist will study for many years to realize the great inner spiritual meanings of the letters, so it is important to realize that this one tiny point can deepen to a field of study, which could be followed for a lifetime.

For Example: I’m going to do my name using this method: Kathy

K or Khaf the Hebrew letter means literally the cupped palm of the hand, it is like a cupped outstretched palm, ready to receive. The shape of all containers- a bowl, a cup,a jar, is based on that basic curved shape and Khaf represents the idea of a container. A house is a form that contains the going on of the people inside it; a body is a form that contains the life and energy of the person. It also teaches us to shape ourselves to bend the ego and shape our character.

If you have a K or Khaf in your name. Do you contain worries or negative thoughts? Or do you contain what you most aspire to?

K- a cup ready to receive goodness. It is Paslm 11 in the Bible.

Since the vowels are silence in the Hebrew letters. It is only based on constances.

T- or Teith the literal meaning of basket or nest is the symbol of the good in all creation. It has todo with purity and impurity, teaching us to choose the good, and also the realization that even within the bad things that happen, there is hidden good. Teith also represents femininity. It includes the kindness and mercy of creation and the principle that everything is eternal and nothing is ever lost.

Teith’s essence is feminine, representing the number 9 for 9 months of pregnancy, and shaped like a womb, a spiral, a container where things change and transform. The infinite is contained in Teith and it brings about the finite.

The Teith contains the Hesed or kindness and mercy of creation. It teaches us to distinguish between the good and the bad, and by choosing the good to clean and purify and thereby to do that which is impossible, to erase the bad deed that was done. Nothing is lost, nothing wasted and all is eternal.

It is Psalm 9 in the Bible.

H or Heith is the letter of life. It represents infinite possibilities. It is undifferentiated substance and energy, containing all possibilities that could come into being. Heith indicates the ability of the human to rise and go beyond nature. It is related to the Neshama, the soul. It represents the power of choice which is given by the soul, as well as the qualities of charm and grace in which come from the soul.

Heith is like a revolving gateway, a power to enter a higher level, to enter the mysteries of one’s soul, and return to worldly consciousness. The ancient form of the letter looks like a 🪜 ladder, indicating the ability to go above and beyond limitations. It is the essence of the human being to break through nature, to spiritual realization. It is also in the word for prophecy and wisdom.

Is it Psalm 8 in the Bible.

Y or Yod is a dot or point. The Yod represents the Creature, the single point from which all of creation emerges, and the unity within multiplicity. It is the foundations, the hidden divine spark which caused everything to be. It represents the power of the spirit to govern and guide matter.

Yod is a symbol of the Holy One, the Creator, since the holy name starts with Yod as in Yahweh. The meaning of Yod is great. According to kabbalistic tradition, all of the creation came forth from a single point- a point which represents God’s infinite presence inside of the finite world.

As Yod represents the idea of Unity within Multiplicity of one whole that is comprised of parts. Yod as we see is a single point, but it’s value is 10 it shows us that many grains of sand are used to make one pot, many pages make up one book , many drops of water make up the ocean. There are many occurrences in the world, but they all stem from one God, perfect and indivisible.

It is Psalm 10 in the Bible.

I am planning on having my name in Hebrew spoke over me, by my pastor I sure there is more insight into may name I have not found.

The sight I used for this information was Kabbalah.comHebrew Letters Spiritual Meanings.

The Value Of Memorizing Scripture

I have been focusing on memorizing scripture lately. I know the Bible in and out, I know how to have morals and values. But I have a difficult time memorizing scripture. Yes, there are a few a can say word for word. But not as many as I would like to.

Jesus said in John 6:63. “My words are Spirit and they are life.” Thing about that for a minute.

The words of Jesus are unlike any other words ever spoken. When the Bible says that “man cannot live by bread alone, but man lives you everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord -Deuteronomy 8:3-, it likens the Word of God to Spirit food. It feeds our spiritual man just like natural food feeds our bodies. This is how we become partakes of Divine nature. This is how we become “the Word made flesh” in the world. -John 1:14-

The apostle James says “receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save souls.” -James 1:21- It’s amazing isn’t it?

The word not only rearranges our thinking to align with ultimate reality, but it also gives us access to an alternate state of being.

Engraftment Scripture into your life so that it becomes a living and active extension of who you are.

Memorize and delight in God’s Word. You can engraft passages on peace in the midst of chaos. Engraft words on faith and fight off despair. Focus on joy or boldness any by doing so you become a partaker of the Devine nature contained in those very words!

By engrafting it into your way of thinking, you begin to interact with and become one with the mind of Christ.

The more you practice this process, the more your renewed mind becomes open words of knowledge, words of wisdom, discerning of spirits or any gift of the spirit.

Life in the spirit is always supernatural but not always spectacular. We all love the stories of healings, miracles, and dramatic public display of God’s Grace. Yet, there is another aspect of supernatural living. Continuous peace and joy will fill your soul as you experience divine appointments and ideas that prosper you, bless others and bring heaven to earth.

Focus on internal transformation and you’ll see results in every area of your life, both subtle and, at time spectacular.

Don’t Waste Your Trials

Truths that can change your life.

Eventually, it comes to everyone. You can’t really plan for it, because it sneaks up in the middle of the night, or raids your happiest moments in life, or destroys the ending to the perfect story.

If you’re human, you will have some sort of trial come your way. It’s a guarantee. You may lose your job, have a spouse walk away from you, or contract a life threatening disease. The smaller trials like an relenting boss, a rebellious child, an accident, or a financial loss that are no less trying.

The formula that most people use for the unsuspecting trial is simply to buckle in and hope they don’t fall out. When mine came, it surprised me. I had no idea. I thought that I was having trouble again with my stomach, until I saw the blood. This trial was no 8-second ride. It happened and it lasted months, and years. It was bladder cancer.

Because of the type I was diagnosed with, the uncertainty of it. I couldn’t just hold on until it was over that didn’t make sense.no have to fight, and fight for my life.

If all we hope for is to gain mere survival- to endure to the end-we will have wasted the trial, we will have missed out on God’s blessing.

We’re really not supposed to wait for the wild ride to end. We are meant to embrace our trial and actually benefit from it.

The trial I endured was extremely difficult. But at no time did I think it was punishment. I thought I was just really unlucky.

You will waste your trial if you believe it is punishment

Trying to test Jesus, some men brought Jesus a crippled boy. “Whose sin was it that caused this? His parents or his? Jesus said neither, but he is like to this so God can be glorified.”

We all know about this verse, yet when we are afflicted; we still ask “What did I do to bring this on?

Some are four pack a day smokers and lung removal should be no surprise. Or the man who gets behind the wheel drunk isn’t surprised to wake up on a thin mattress in a concrete cell.

But for many of us, it seems that life just grabs us, like a sudden wave on the beach pulling blankets and sunglasses and cell phones out with the tide.

It’s not a punishment, but a blessing if your faith becomes real, if you love becomes purposeful, if your life finds traction.

Romans 5:3 says “We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance , and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame.”

Trials can awaken the senses and spark the cold heart.

We gain none of those benefits if we are sullen and withdrawn. We miss out on character and hope and love if we’re out to blame someone, something. There is nothing more earth-shattering than a shout for joy in the midst of calamity.

You will waste your trial if you seek comfort from your odds rather than from God.

Some count their chariots and some count their horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. -Psalm 20:7-

The world gets comfort from their odds. But not us in the middle of a cancer fight.

Cancer survival rates are amazing today. But if you put your hope in the 7 in ten chance of survival, you’ll miss out on what the real mission to your heart. There are other odds- and we are always betting on doctors, or spouses changing their minds, or kids coming back home.

Here some new odds. You have a 100 percent chances of suffering in your life. But rest-assured, that you also have 100 percent odds the receiving Christ’s comfort, meeting you in your deepest distress, and restoring your simple joy.

You will waste your trial if you spend too much time analyzing the situation.

It’s not wrong to research career opportunities if you are unemployed. It not wrong to read about a disease. It’s not wrong to read about the way your walk-away spouse, to visit people and get their opinions. But it is wrong to spend too much time in head acknowledge, and not enough time in heart despair.

Your trial is meant to awaken you to the reality of God. This is your chance finally to clear your head and figure out Jesus and get to know Him fully.

You will waste your trial if you endure it alone.

We are mortified that others will discover our scars, our open wounds. We usually hide and try to make a go of it alone. Your need gives others an opportunity to respond. How many times have you heard about someone who has been sick, or who lost a love one, or who has a relationship on the rocks, and it’s been weeks or months since it’s happened. You feel crushed. You could have helped.

In your trial, you will need your brother or sisters to walk with you, to live our their faith beside you, to love you. And one day, you can do the same for them.

You will waste your trial if you fail to use it as a pointer to God’s truth.

They will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues (church) and prisons, and you be brought before kings and governors for my name sake. This will be your opportunity to bear witness to truth. -Luke 21:12-13-

So is it with cancer or job loss or emotional loss. There is a golden opportunity to show there are things more important than life on this earth. Don’t let them slip by.

See Yourself As God Sees You

How do you see yourself? Pause for a moment and think about it. What thoughts have you had about yourself today?

So many of us find ourselves basing our self-worth on how others see us and on our accomplishments, feeling shame from our past, defining our value based on our looks, or setting unrealistic standards for ourselves.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. If only we could see ourselves as God sees us.

Let’s look at three thought patterns that can act as roadblocks to thinking- and living – the way God desires. These destructive thought part were identified by a psychologist name

d Albert Ellis in 1973. Let’s contrast these ideas with what 1 Peter tells us about how we can “prepare our minds for action.” Adjusting our thinking to Scripture is the foundation of being holy in all we do. -1 Peter 1:15-

1. I must be loved or approved by virtually every other person in my like.

If we are living to make sure that others love us, we give them permission to evaluate us based on what we do-we give people the power to determine our self-worth.

When we leave home, many of us have “Internalized parents” who are now voices in our heads that tells us what we should do, what is important, and how we should do things. Have you ever been in a situation where you have to make a decision and you can hear your parents saying, “that’s not responsible…” or “I told you that would happen.”

Many of us are so concerned about being loved that we give the opposite sex permission to evaluate our self-worth. As adolescents, we might sacrifice our own identity to get attention and acceptance, even to the extent to pretending not to be bright or kind because we think the opposite sex won’t be impressed. Or we might deny ourselves food to lose weight to try to fit in with the body images portrayed in magazines. Even as adults , we buy Into the beauty myth, thinking that our appearance and approval from a spouse.

If you have looked at my past posts. You know I hated myself when I grew up and moved out. I was told I was ugly and know one would want anything to do with me. I would look at myself in the mirror and cringe because I hated myself so much.

We will never make it anywhere in life until we learn to love ourselves as we are.

If we are living to make sure that others love us, we give people the power to determine our self-worth.

We may even feel pressure from other places like church, or a book club,

or an extracurricular activity, to measure ourselves according to certain stereotypes – women are supposed to be nurturing, quiet and gentle, and raise well-behaved children, and maybe even do crafts. And men should be competent spiritual leaders, provide for and protect their families, be a “manly man,” and be in touch with their feminine side, too. If we live to please a church community, we find ourselves negating the interests or gifts that God has given us.

Well as for me I am not quiet or gentle and I have no patience to do crafts. And that’s okay because:

Our Identity Is Found In Christ.

It is rooted in his freedom-giving mercy. Our identity is that of a child of God and a joint heir with Jesus Christ. Our inheritance is one of forgiveness, an intimate relationship with Jesus, and hope of fellowship with God. -Ephesians 1-

These truths assure us of God’s unconditional love, and of intimacy, security, and hope we find in Him. None of this is based on what we do; rather, it is grounded in what God has already accomplished through Christ.

When we know how much God loves us, nothing else matters and our fellowship with Him brings light to our soul.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy ha has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection that can never perish, spoil or fade- kept in heaven for you. -1 Peter 1:3-4-

2. Our past history is an all-important determiner of our present behavior: because something once strongly affected our life, it should definitely continue to be so.

You may feel controlled by a secret. Have you ever has something happen to you that you have revealed to no-one, or perhaps to only a few people. Perhaps you feel great shame about certain aspects of the family you grew up in, or maybe you have sinful habits you feel embarrassed about, such as gossip, lust, pornography, or a critical spirit. Maybe you are ashamed of some things you’ve done in the past. Or maybe you feel ashamed of something that has been don’t to you.

If we don’t deal with issues in our past, they will continue to control us in some way in our present. We can deal with past sin, our family histories, as well as past violations to our bodies and minds.

It is important to identify our feelings in these situations are destructive shame or healthy conviction. Healthy conviction always separates our identity from our behavior. Shame links these two so wrong behavior taints our image of ourselves. Healthy conviction alerts us to the fact that we have done something that goes against our internalized values.

Biblical conviction is a God-given emotion that “red flags” a behavior and tells us it is an act of rebellion against God. It spurs us to confess our sin and experience the love and forgiveness that God has provided for us through Jesus Christ. 1 John 1-9 tells us “if we confess our sins. God is faithful and just to forgive us from all unrighteousness

Biblical conviction is a God-given emotion that “red flags” a behavior and tells us it is an act of rebellion against God.

Any feeling of guilt that come after we’ve confessed our sin are not from God, but may be from the evil one. We still have to live with the consequences of our sin, but God doesn’t punish us for our sin. God disciplines us to get us back on track so we can continue to experience God’s love and plan for our lives. Our struggles can bring us closer to God and heighten our faith as we experience His faithfulness in forgiving us and drawing us closer to Himself. -Hebrews 12:4-13-

In this you greatly rejoice, though for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire may be proven genuine and may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. -1 Peter 1:6-7-

Know who You Are

3. we should be thoroughly competent, and successful in all possible respects in order to consider ourselves worthwhile.

Ten percent of people will struggle with some form of clinical depression in their lifetime. Depression can be biological or situational, and often can be the leading causes of depression is setting your standards so high that you cannot possibly live up to them. You are constantly striving for a standard that is unattainable, but you wear yourself out trying anyway. One of the messages that can play over and over in our minds is that we have to “be perfect.”

We often fall into the trap of feeling responsible not just for ourselves, but for the lives of others, whether our co-workers, friends, children, or spouses. We taken the weight of everyone’s world. We don’t have too.

It’s often difficult for us to separate our identity from our behavior. We feel if we don’t measure up, it reflects on who we are as individuals.

God’s Grace Is A Gift.

In and through His Grace, God heals us and brings us freedom to live a new life. Sometimes Grace does not come easily to us, we have to work at changing our thinking. We need to humble ourselves to accept God’s Grace and extend grace to ourselves when we don’t measure up, knowing that God already sees us as the perfect reflections of Christ that we will be in eternity. -1 John 3:1-3-

Is Prayer Your Steering Wheel Or Your Spare Tire?

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Corrie Ten Boom

When I read this a have to admit I was hesitant to answer, I was a little uncertain. For me sometimes it depends on the situation.

Is prayer your first attempt steering wheel or your last-ditched effort. (your spare tire)

As a spare tire, prayer is saved for a crisis situation or when you think you have something really big you need God for, those crisis can be your health, relationship, work, or emotional issues. You’re not even sure how to pray and find yourself struggling when you need prayer. There are times when we treat prayer as a last resort. Nothing else has worked, so I guess I should pray!

The steering wheel is needed every moment that you’re in the car. It’s what drives our lives. In this case prayer is the center to opening ourselves to receive God’s help and direction. Does you prayer life guide you in every facet of your life? Is it something you have your hands on every waking moment of the day?

How do you answer that question?

  • Why did you choose your answer?
  • When do you pray, morning or evening? Why? For how long?
  • Do you pray just before meals?
  • How about praying without ceasing?

Prayer should not be your spare tire, but it must be your steering wheel.

Because..

  • Prayer protects us.
  • Prayer changes things, including us.
  • Prayer draws you closer to God.
  • Prayer makes you happy.
  • Prayer gives you hope.
  • Prayer heals you from all pain.
  • Prayer makes you stronger spiritually.

“The greatest tragedy in life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.” -F.B Meyer-

Prayer pumps power into the steering wheel and around every detour or do you only use it when your life is blown and flat.

Isaiah 58:11. The Lord will guide you always in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden like a spring whose water never fails.