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'Shalom, Shalom' |
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Andrew Shreeve Ministries
Partner Letter – February 2008
‘Bringing good tidings, publishing peace and salvation’
(Isaiah 52:7, Romans 10:15)
| Contents
- Welcome
- Teaching: ‘Shalom Shalom’
| Welcome
| Dear blessed Partners,
Greetings in the almighty name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! I pray you are flowing in the anointing, led by the Holy Spirit, blessed financially, healthy and strong, loyal and faithful to the Lord, meditating God’s promises daily, and your families are in peace, order, and loving unity.
This month we have added eleven audio messages to the website under the ‘Teaching’ section. These messages are free to listen to, or download. Also coming soon, in addition to English and Spanish, will be audio messages in various languages including: Urdu, Mandarin, and Tamil.
I am presently in Australia and writing a new book entitled, “God’s Covenant of Healing”. It is a tremendous blessing to be researching the Scriptures on this wonderful subject. In this month’s teaching we will be looking at the Hebrew word ‘shalom shalom’ and understanding ‘shalom shalom’ in the context of health, and the New Covenant.
Shalom shalom,
Andrew
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Copyright © Andrew J. Shreeve 2008
‘Shalom Shalom’
| Hebrew Word: shalom shalom (shaw-lome’ shaw-lome’)
English translation: safe, that is, (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, that is health, prosperity, peace: do, familiar, fare, favour, friend, greet (good) health, (perfect such as be at) peace, prosper, rest, safe, salute, welfare (all is, be) well, wholly (Strong’s Dictionary, www.e-sword.net , 2007). Peace; completeness; welfare; health…tranquillity, at ease, unconcerned…unharmed, unhurt…to be whole. Personal welfare or health (An Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words, W. E. Vine, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, 1985, pp. 173-174)
The Hebrew word ‘shalom shalom’ includes healing. If we are experiencing sickness, infirmity, and pain, we are not experiencing ‘shalom shalom’ as all is not well, and thus we are not enjoying welfare, prosperity, favour, and good health. It is also more difficult to be: at peace, happy, friendly, at rest, and whole, when we are in the agony and torment of sickness and disease. Sickness and disease is not the state of ‘shalom shalom’.
In Isaiah chapter 53 we see the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ, bearing in Him the sin and sickness of humanity. In Isaiah chapter 54 we see the blessing of the redemption that Jesus has purchased for his Body – the church. The New Covenant, which the God of Israel has established with all of humanity, every ethnic group and tribe, is a covenant of kindness and mercy:
With great mercy will gather thee…with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee (Isaiah 54:7-8)
The New Covenant is not a covenant of wroth, rebuke, and judgement but rather of kindness and peace - ‘shalom shalom’.
My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee (Isaiah 54:10)
Here the Lord is defining his ‘New Covenant’, attained through faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, as the covenant of my ‘shalom shalom’. The English word translated peace in verse 10 is the Hebrew word ‘shalom shalom’.
The New Covenant is a covenant of the Lord’s ‘shalom shalom’: the Lord’s health, favour, safety, welfare, completeness, tranquillity, ease, wholeness, rest, peace, and prosperity.
In understanding these foundational Old Testament truths we more easily understand the New Covenant. In the Old Covenant we see the Lord laying a foundation of the New Covenant as ‘shalom shalom’. As we accept the revelation of ‘shalom shalom’, we easily understand Jesus’ ministry as bringing ‘shalom shalom’. Jesus brought healing, well being, prosperity, kindness, mercy, and a sense of peace with God everywhere he went. This is the message of the New Covenant. It is not a message of sin consciousness, fear, worry, and judgement. Rather, it is a message of the Lord taking our judgement for sin and imparting his righteousness to us. It is a message of love, mercy and blessing:
I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones (Isaiah 54:11-12)
These are the pleasant blessings of the Lord. This is the Lord adorning his Bride with beauty. We, the church, are his Bride (Romans 7:4). He desires to adorn us with loveliness.
The Lord gives us his righteousness. Jesus right standing with the Father is imparted to us, his Bride. Jesus ushers us into the presence of the Father God and introduces us as his Bride. We have found favour and acceptance because we are now married to the Righteous One himself – Jesus. We have become one with Jesus. We are a part of Jesus, and can never be separated from Jesus and his righteousness again (unless we choose to divorce him). He who is love (Greek: agape) will never reject us, regardless of our faults. We are now safe in the bosom of the Lord:
Their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord (Isaiah 54:17)
There is now no condemnation for us in Jesus (Romans 8:1). Jesus has borne our judgement on the Cross of Calvary, and given us his righteousness. There is no more accusation against us. We have entered into the love of his ‘shalom shalom’:
Every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement thou shalt condemn (Isaiah 54:17)
How wonderful is this covenant of ‘shalom shalom’, where we enjoy the acceptance, favour of the Lord. The benefits of ‘shalom shalom’ include: health, safety, well being, and prosperity. The promises of the covenant are the promises of ‘shalom shalom’. When all the promises of God are taken together and received by faith, they combine to produce ‘shalom shalom’. Each individual promise is a part of ‘shalom shalom’.
Understand the blessing of the New Covenant in the light of the fullness of ‘shalom shalom’. This is God’s hope for his creation. The Lord is not the author of terror, fear, sickness, disease, poverty, lack and want. This is not the Lord’s aspiration for his creation. The Lord desires and has made provision for ‘shalom shalom’ for his creation. This is the completeness of the New Covenant - peace with God forever through faith in Jesus Christ. Peace, prosperity, wholeness, health, and safety in this life and also forever in Heaven.
Take hold of this word from the Lord today. Know that in Jesus Christ you are righteous by faith. Know that every promise of the Lord is legally yours due to your righteousness in Jesus (2 Corinthians 1:30, 5:21). Review all the promises of the Lord. Meditate and confess them as yours. Water the seeds of the promises. Allow faith to rise in your heart. Allow your imagination to be captured through seeing yourself in the state of ‘shalom shalom’. Receive into your spirit this rich blessing of the Lord. Keep your words and confession in unity with this blessing of ‘shalom shalom’. Always speak the victory, not the problems or circumstances. Receive the success Jesus has purchased for you. Be blessed. I love you,
Andrew | |
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