Receive Yeshua, Don't Just Accept Him
There is a profound difference between merely accepting Yeshua and truly receiving Him into your nephesh. Acceptance may be spoken, a nod, a moment of assent, yet reception changes the very core of who you are. God’s desire has always been relational. In Deuteronomy 6:5 , He commanded, “ You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. ” The Hebrew words deepen the meaning. Levav ( לֵבָב ) is heart , the seat of thought and emotion. Nephesh ( נֶפֶשׁ ) is soul , the living self that desires, feels, and experiences . Me’od ( מְאֹד ) is strength, abundance, the entirety of one’s being. Loving God in this way is not intellectual assent; it is full surrender, total reception. Acceptance touches the lips, reception transforms the soul. The prophets show what follows when a heart truly receives God. Ezekiel 36:26-27 says, “ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone fr...