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2023

He is risen

He is Risen - Resurrection (First Fruits)

Dear Beloved,
Let us rejoice at the Lord's resurrection. The Lord said to the women who went to the tomb. Why do you seek the living among the dead?Let us read it in Luke 24.
Luk 24:1  Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. 
Luk 24:2  And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. 
Luk 24:3  And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. 
Luk 24:4  And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: 
Luk 24:5  And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? 
Luk 24:6  He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, 
Luk 24:7  Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. 
Luk 24:8  And they remembered his words, 
Luk 24:9  And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. 
Luk 24:10  It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. 
Luk 24:11  And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. 
Luk 24:12  Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass. 

May you have a wonderful resurrection Sunday. May the Lord's every precious promise be Yes and Amen (Psalm 107). I ask the Lord that you step into His promises and be filled with a deeper connection to Him than ever before.Jesus is Alive and He is intimate - He is the Most High and deeply in connection to His people - And He is Alive - Thank you Jesus.
In Christ our Lord,

Ps Helen Kasimiotis

ABIDING AND THE FRUIT HARVEST

Tabernacles 

Hello blessed saints,

We are in the tabernacle season, and as I went for an evening walk the Saturday that has just passed the Lord prompted me to write you about the feast of Tabernacles - see the breath of life rivers website for greater detail as I there deal with all of the feasts and their significance. This evening I was reminded of the phrase "The tabernacle of God is with men."
Rev_21:3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

ABIDING AND THE FRUIT HARVEST
The Lord Jesus is intimate and one with the Father and the Father has a deep regard for the holiness of the sacrifice of the Son. And it is through the sacrifice of the Lord that we can know the Father.John 15 tells us that we are the branches and that He is the true vine. I would like you to think for a moment if you are a branch what are you connected into where do you abide?  
Joh 15:1  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 
Joh 15:2  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 
Joh 15:3  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 
Joh 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

The relevance of this to tabernacles is that the season of Tabernacles was the time of the fruit harvest.Lev 23:39  Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:The fruit comes as we are in the ABIDING (John 15:2) and this connection into the abiding comes through the cross. If one thinks of connection outside of the cross there will be no unity to the power of faith in the Holy Spirit, they will not be able to abide in the true vine.  If you think of a car with one being outside the cross they can find themselves going into different destinations. Submitting ones self to the cross brings them to the place of being IN CHRIST and then one will drive the car where only Christ will go. 

THE SON OF GOD ABODE IN THE FATHER

The house of the Holy Spirit is the people of God. At the fall of Lucifer there was pride a created being started to look at the attire God had given to him - he began to believe that he could be like the Most High.How did the created being become more superior to the Creator in his own eyes? Pride was conceived in satan as he began be consumed with the glory, God had given to Him instead of giving glory to the one who gave it.  He was cast to the earth and as written in Luke 10:17-20 Jesus saw him fall like lightning. In Matt 4: Satan attempted to tempt Jesus telling him to turn the stones into bread but the Son was not given to demonstrating His power nor was He incited by satan to prove Himself and was thus faithful in keeping with the consecration of His fast.When Jesus walked the earth He completely abode in the Father only doing that which He saw. We see that Jesus proclaimed this in John 5:19.Joh_5:19  Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

EXAMPLES OF WHERE PEOPLE DO NOT ABIDE.In the book of Judges everybody did what they saw fit, not enquiring of the Lord.
Jdg 17:6  In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. 
The carnal man is never wanting to know what God will say lest he would have to let go of his selfish ambitions. Such a person will exercise their liberty to conceive ideas for their own desires and glory. They may have many suggestions but none of those suggestions do not honor or give God reign. They may even seek mercy outside of the cross leaning into the christian faithful for comfort but never encounter Christ at the cross for His wisdom and truth.  Lawlessness leads to bitterness but lawfulness breaks this broken fellowship to the Lord. The Lord says "Abide and you shall be led by me and not by your own knowledge."
The Season of our Joy  The tabernacle season is also considered to be the season of our Joy. In John 15:11 it says that when we abide in Him, His joy will be full.   

Joh 15:7  If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Joh 15:8  Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 
Joh 15:9  As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 
Joh 15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 
Joh 15:11  These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 
In the one that abides righteousness is not fulfilled with Joy, one may have to longsuffer but in the abiding there is joy. Service is in honor of Him with no selfish ambition.  Love is the motivation. It is truly where one bears the fruit of love to others and the fruits of the Spirit are manifested.Eph_5:9  (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

In being a tabernacle of God's glory, the abiding presence of God comes in them that do abide and allow the Lord to fill them  and witness His kingdom to others.
Blessings in Chirist Jesus. Ps Helen Kasimiotis

2024

The Torah Light and His Appointing

Passover  
Blessings from Breath of Life,
During the exodus out of Egypt, the blood of the lamb was put over the door post so that death could pass over during the last plaque. After this we see that the next verse speaks of how the offering was prepared and how they would eat the meal before the exodus.
Exo 12:8  And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 

The Flesh  

First of all, the flesh represented the flesh of Jesus.We know in the gospels that the Lord told us to eat His flesh and drink His blood (Joh 6:53-57)
When we think of eating the flesh of Jesus we can say that one would part-take of the revelation of His Word with attention to how that Word will ultimately lead them to become transformed into the likeness of Him.  The likeness of Himself also is exemplified in our lives as we live out His convictions when we come into our authority as His Son this is when we live these convictions out. I particularly want to focus on the word Torah - The torah are the teachings of Jesus that contain a lay out of His laws this is how we know how it is with His conviction.                                   In the first part of Exo 12:8 it says, The flesh was eaten in the night - the flesh speaks of the flesh of Jesus.The torah we see unveiled unto us through the Holy Spirit. Torah is at times difficult for people to understand - When relating to the torah,consider this example -  If the Lord spoke to me the commandment and said "thou shall not steal" you can say that this is His conviction and the essence of how he feels about this injustice. His commandment therefore brings us to the knowledge of His essence and value system.  For the person that abides in this commandment it means that they will not steal and thereby grow in the authority of the Lord and walk in maturity as His priest and His co-heir.

The Torah (Light in the Night).

The torah is light (Prov. 6:23) - In the Exodus passage - The children of Israel, were eating the flesh, prophetically, part-taking of Christ's torah in the night. It is a picture of one understanding the glory of the torah and the light of the torah as it illuminates their life in the midst of the darkness i.e. to say the night which speaks of where the adversary presents itself. In the exodus account the adversary was Pharaoh who forbade them to go out into the wilderness to  worship the Lord.
So where there is night, the light of the torah is there.

More on the word flesh  

Lets look at the Hebrew letter pictograph meanings.H1320
בָּשָׂר
bâśâr
baw-sawr'
from Right to Left we have a;'Bet' - house.'Shin' - heart of God - also denoting a hunger for Him.'Resh' - His Headship 
Putting these pictures together we see Christ's heart (middle letter shin), His Lordship over our lives (last letter resh) and He being our very dwelling (first letter bet). It is like stepping into Jesus and He is the author and finisher of our faith (Heb 12:2).

Roasted with fire

It was Roasted with fire means this torah portion was proven!  

Unleavened bread 

With the roasted flesh they ate unleavened bread - they ate the meal with unleavened bread - the unleavened bread - establishes us to trust the Lord's purity. The unleavened bread speaks of His mercies and hope of our calling.
Ephesians 1: 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Bitter Herbs

Exo 12:8....with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
The significance of the bitter herbs can be found in why they are used.Bitter herbs such as dandelion root and wormwood help to quench sugar cravings.Sugar cravings can represent those things that interfere with people giving to God the glory.Such fruit proceeds with what is bitter in the heart of man.Others lean into people or places in which they find an identity even so this can become an idol and the appointing of the Lord is not honored when presented elsewhere.The Lord was revealing to me that often it will take a separation to discern the Lord's appointing. An issue of the heart is the fear of man trying to please someone instead of giving to God His due honor.Moreover, jealousy also causes people to seek out their own glory - and such people undermine His appointing. This is an undermining of Christ Himself. Let's remember that the Lord has to have His Lordship over our lives if we are to be 'found in Him', the appointing, will be easy to discern.This issue is dealt with here because people can miss out on opportunities and delay their development and growth for their purpose and calling. The bitter herbs represented laying down those things that intervene with God's appointed day.
Blessings

Ps Helen

Sep 3rd - Reflection after the feasts - this is more in time to Pentecost 

Law of Exodus 20:17 

Exo_20:17  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Hello Breath of Life faithful,
Recently the Lord asked me to declare a Word on the commandment "Do not covet."Upon pondering this commandment I have written a word that will help bring aspects of this commandment to light.
In the wells of salvation we are not in a place of holding to bitterness and unforgiveness as we abide in Him and draw from His wells of salvation 'not coveting' your neighbour becomes easy!
The blood of Jesus is our life line - in the covenant when we have communion and we part take of the life that is in the Lord ie:
 the life of the Christ can run through every part of our day. So what does this say of coveting - is there any room for coveting if the life and power of the blood is in our life. Of course, we would say no.

Wealth and Status

What if you don't have the status that some one else does, then
Christ's life can flow into that part of your life so that you can get the armoury for what you need to execute in your life's destiny.  He will motivate, inspire and propel you to get equipped.  This equipping may entail that one gets the training for future aspirations that God has placed in their heart.or God can equip one with new strategies etc,
People covet when they don't have. But God's power and life in the blood means that His increase and measure can come through His love, power and mercy.
When people covet it is also part of the belief that they are going to be better off with what another has when they should really focus on what God has graced for 'their' life.
Property development is a really good example. if ones covets someone else's field  - they may have to understand that one called into this gifting is also given the grace to steward the upkeep of all those properties, whereas another may not be called to this. God may need them to serve in a different mission.
Also remember that the pursuit of wealth in the kingdom way is very different to the wealth created in the place where mammon comes in as a vice and is a factor. Mammon hurts people because the character of the person that has this spirit  causes grievance through violating other people's worth, value and ethic. We know that the spirit of mammon is not God, the two are on opposite ends unto where Christ said you cannot serve God and mammon. 

 Mat 6:24  No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. 

Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Mammon is driven by unholy ambition and greed and the need for wealth status. It is the place of where people put their worth in the status and what they have rather than placing one's worth in Christ and then being grateful with what He has blessed them with.  When God prospers people He is at the focal end of what they do and what is at the heart of ones attitude.
It says do not to covet anything that is your neighbours.
If you compare yourself to someone you will end up in the current of what their life is about.
Maybe one should evaluate their post. What is their post in life? perhaps God has not called you to that particular post,
Why should one covet their neighbour's manservant, maidservant,  ox or ass? These all represent those things one can employ in their household or field to that alleviate a burden.
When others have their burdens lifted and one covets them, they should remember God is not limited. The Lord is not short of a solution for their situation. One has to also have an open heart to His way. Perhaps He will bless you with an innovative thought around the problem, He may empower you so that you will not see your limitations.
At best one ought to ask God for what they need. His answer may surprise them. They may learn some things about the plans and purposes God has for their lives. God may reveal what one will actually need that they did not see coming because of the good plans he has for their future and destiny.

Covetous attitudes arise when one is not standing in their authority and being resurrected in their faith in God to pursue His destiny and rightful prosperity for their lives - the type that will bring joy and gladness.
The wells of His salvation is about being an heir of salvation and rejoicing in the places He has appointed and His life flowing into those plans and places for ones needs.
His resurrection life restores one to wholesomeness.
Be rejoicing then when your neighbour increases or has something more because it is a testament to God's faithfulness toward them and He will be faithful to you also.
Remember Jesus said ask and it shall be given to you,  seek and you will find knock and it will be open to you,

Mat 7:7  Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 
Mat 7:8  For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 
Mat 7:9  Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 
Mat 7:10  Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 
Mat 7:11  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? 

Blessings to you in Christ our Lord

Ps Helen 

Feast of Trumpets & Atonement tribulation saints - characteristics 

Hello everybody,

This is a feast day season. Feast of Trumpets has passed Oct 3- and we are now in the feast of Atonement Oct 12 then Tabernacles Oct 16.

Jesus - the High Priest 

There is no beginning and no end in Jesus the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek 

Let us not forget that Jesus bled seven times on the way to the cross. 

The crown of thorns - His blood running over His face and ears to give us eyes to see and ears to hear.

His feet were pierced - setting out our paths for His purposes

His hands were pierced - setting out of hands for His righteous deeds

His heart was lacerated - setting out heart apart for His Kingdom

The sword driven to His side - pouring out blood and water - The pouring out of HIs Spirit and Revelation. 

And at the very first event the garden of Gethsemane - His sweat drops of blood - His trusted  friends who now say as He did say "Not my will but Yours be done".

Demarkation and the Tribulation Saints

In the present age we must have our supper with the Lord and allow the Lord to pour in His wine and renew our lives to be as we mention before to be one with Him in His living Truth. Interpreting all matters back to the truth of His Word. Judging all fruit back to the truth in His Word.

Recently, I discerned much spiritual discord as God was showing me a people who believe they are going to meet the Lord in the air - yet, they were not intimate to the seal of His Word.  They reminded me of the spies who brought back a bad report from Canaan. They were on their way to the promised land but they met Caleb and Joshua with nothing but discord and rebellion.  They delayed and robbed Caleb and Joshua of facing the adversary unto the victory the Lord would have given them. They seemed to themselves to be as grasshoppers in their own eyes, this is because they were disconnected from the Lord not looking to Him (Numbers 13:33). 

They would not enquire of Him. We know in that this generation in Israel did not make the promised land because of their murmur, complaint and rebellion.  

Before the day of the feast of trumpets the Lord said to me "Tribulation saints" It was as though there was going to be a clear distinguishing between the rapture saints from those who 'seem' to contend to follow the faith keeping up appearances but in the end they do not know how to honor the Lord. They run with all sorts of hidden agendas after their own glory. 

The book of Jude has a description of such people. 

Jud 1:12  These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

These scriptures indicate that these people are so far fallen that they are clouds without rain. Again as spoken before they keep up appearances but they are without rain meaning they are torahless – they do not abide by the law.

The root word for Rain in Hebrew is ‘yara’ which means law.

Such people are a source of strife and the Lord was going to deliver the meek of the earth out of this false witness. 

The Lord said the word “Tribulation saints” to me because he was instructing me that He would not be mocked by such even now. Especially because such people love end time prophesy, but they themselves are not wise virgins.

The Tribulation is a place where people will have to quickly choose to honor their salvation. 

When the trumpet blows such people will realise the counterfeit Christianity that they had lived.  They will have opportunity to realise their deception. They will have to refuse the mark of the beast and hold fast to martyr for Christ (Rev 14).

The Lord implored His disciples in Luke 21 to be worthy to escape all these things.

All these things speaks of the events of the tribulation.

Luk 21:34  And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 
Luk 21:35  For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 

Luk 21:36  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. 

"overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life" In addressing this verse it may help to look at this the other way round. It actually begins with the cares of this life leading to spiritual drunkedness meaning that such a person loses connection to the Holy Spirit and are governed by their self-centreness. The word surfeiting speaks of one that lacks control and is excessive or one who does not care for the boundary.

Turning toward a resurrected Christianity

A turning toward a resurrected Christianity is imperative for one to walk in true righteousness.

When one looks to the ascension of Christ, they look onward toward His kingdom, here through the cross one is resurrected unto what God has for their paths in the place of His glory. 

Blessings in Christ,

Helen.