Batach, Hasah, & Amen

Batach means to lean on a staff or find your security elsewhere than
yourself, and lean on it. Hasah is to run to the shelter of a mother
bird’s wings, a rock or otherwise; and amen is that state of being that
is so fixed from the experience of it being so that you never, ever think,
as your second thought, you have to double think to back up on it—your
first reaction is "amen" to God. Whatever happens—this is an opportunity
for God to enter in and work His good. I’m not there yet. I’m still here
(pointing to hasah and batach) a lot.

After I try all the other things for support, I’ll wake up and lean on God. I’m still
here (pointing to hasah and batach), and after I’ve realized I can’t do it myself,
I’ll run to Him for strength. I’m working on getting over here (pointing to "amen")
to where my lifestyle is a constant "amen "to God--to where no matter what happens, I know—that’s why faith is progressive. (I’ll get to that—from faith to faith—among the
other meanings of that phrase.)

As we move, we’re changed from glory to glory; and wherever faith—"batach, hasah, amen"—is turned loose, God acts. But the so-called "obedience of faith" (Rom.1: 5) is
the 2"hearing" that status of existen- tial being that hears God’s Word—to see it—that
God said it—it’s so. You’re already in movement--you’re already acting on that belief.

Now, "pistis"—(someone asked me last night where the word faith came from. And that’s
what caused me to get that 21 Volume Oxford English Dictionary) To my surprise as I’m learning every day as I keep tracing, and the more I study languages, the richer these
truths become. I opened it, and the English Dictionary, one of the first definitions, traces
faith through various languages—is to hear--to hear in the qualified sense of response.
And you can translate the fifth verse of Romans1-- which we together have received grace
and apostle- ship for the purpose of bringing forth the response of faith.

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