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Cheryl A. Hawkins, Winchester, VA (2026)

08/24/2026

Elul day 11
Ask for the Ancient Path

ELUL: DAY 11

ASK FOR THE ANCIENT PATHS

“Thus said Yahuah, ‘Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and find rest for yourselves.’”
Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah 6:16, ISR

There is a call in Elul that is deeper than simply asking Yahuah to show us where we are going. He is calling us back to the way He has already established.

Yahuah says, “Ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it.”

The ancient paths are not obsolete because they are ancient. They are ancient because they were established before us.
There is a way of walking with Yahuah that does not need to be reinvented by every generation.

A way of obedience. A way of holiness. A way of reverence.
A way of covenant. A way of ordering our lives according to His Word rather than our preferences.

The Bride must learn to discern the difference between what is new and what is true.

We live in a generation that can easily assume that newer means better, that unfamiliar means deeper, and that what is ancient must somehow be outdated.

But Yahuah says: “Ask for the old paths." Stand. Look. Ask.
Discern. Then walk.

That last part matters. It is possible to recognize truth and still refuse to walk in it. It is possible to admire the ancient paths while continuing down our own.

Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah records the response of the people:
“But they said, ‘We do not walk in it.’”

They had been shown the way.
The problem was not that Yahuah had failed to reveal the path.
They were unwilling to walk it.

I believe this is a sobering word for the Bride.

Elul cannot become a season of receiving beautiful revelation about returning to Yahuah while refusing the obedience that return requires.

At some point, revelation must become a response. Conviction must become obedience. Knowing must become walking.

The Bride cannot remain at the doorway admiring the path. She must walk it.

The ancient paths will confront us because they do not always agree with the ways we have become accustomed to.

They confront convenience. They confront self-rule.
They confront compromise. They confront the places where we have allowed the culture around us to shape us more than the Word of Yahuah.

This is why returning can be uncomfortable. We are not simply returning to information. We are returning to covenant order.

There is something beautiful about Yahuah calling it “the good way.” His ways are not designed to diminish His people.

They teach us how to walk. They teach us how to live.
They teach us how to remain aligned with Him.

The Bride does not obey to earn His love. She obeys because she belongs to the One she loves.

That is covenant.

Today I am pondering these questions in my heart:

Do I recognize the ancient paths?

Am I willing to walk in them?”

Where have I exchanged His ways for my preferences?

Where have I called something “old” that Yahuah still calls good?

Where have I become so familiar with Scripture that knowing it has replaced obeying it?

Where have I created my own path and then asked Yahuah to bless it?

Elul is an invitation to return.

Not to nostalgia. To faithfulness.

Back to reverence. Back to obedience. Back to covenant.
Back to the ways of Yahuah.

And Yahuah gives a promise to those who walk the good way:

“And find rest for yourselves.” There is rest in walking the way Yahuah has established. Not because the path will always be easy, but because there is peace in knowing we are walking in alignment with Him.

The Bride does not need to create her own way.
She needs to walk His path.

Stand. Look. Ask. Discern. Walk.

The ancient path is still there.

Will you walk in it?

A Prayer:

Yahuah, teach me to stand in the ways and see. Give me eyes to recognize the ancient paths and discernment to know the good way.

Forgive me for the places where I have chosen my own path and then asked You to bless it. Forgive me for where convenience, preference, or familiarity have become greater influences than Your Word.

Bring me back to what You have established. Bring me back to reverence. Bring me back to obedience. Bring me back to covenant. Teach me not only to recognize Your way, but to walk in it.

Where Your Word confronts me, give me humility to receive it. Where obedience requires change, give me courage to change. Where I have become comfortable with something You are asking me to surrender, give me grace to release it.

Do not allow me to become someone who hears the ancient path and says, “I will not walk in it.”

Give me a willing heart. Give me obedient feet.
Let my life become a testimony that Your ways are still good.

Yahuah, I do not want to create my own way.

I want to walk in Yours. Lead me back.
Teach me to walk. Keep me on Your path.

In Yahshua's Name, Amen.

Blessings, Bridal Glory Friends.

The Bridal Glory
Christie Williams

08/24/2026

Elul 10
Set Apart
Yahuah does not call His people back so they can continue living exactly as they did before. His call to return is also a call to become set apart

ELUL: DAY 10

SET APART

“And you shall be set-apart to Me, for I Yahuah am set-apart, and have separated you from the peoples to be Mine.”
Wayyiqra/Leviticus 20:26, ISR

There comes a point in returning to Yahuah when the question is no longer only “Am I willing to come back?” We must ask, “What am I willing to leave behind?”

Yahuah does not call His people back so they can continue living exactly as they did before. His call to return is also a call to become set apart.

The Hebrew word "qadosh" speaks of being set apart, consecrated, distinct, belonging to something sacred. Yahuah says, “I have separated you from the peoples to be Mine.”

That is the heart of consecration.

He does not separate us simply to make us different.
He separates us unto Himself.

The Bride must understand this.

Being set apart is not about creating an outward appearance of holiness while the heart remains governed by something else. It is not about constructing an identity around everything we refuse to do. It is about belonging so completely to Yahuah that His ways begin to govern our lives.

The question of consecration is not just: “What am I allowed to do?” It is "What belongs in a life that belongs to Him?”

What have I allowed to become common because I have become familiar with it?

What have I excused because I have learned how to live with it?

What have I tolerated that Yahuah has been asking me to surrender?

I think Elul brings us into this kind of examination.

There are things Yahuah may be asking us to lay down, not because He is trying to diminish our lives, but because He is reclaiming what belongs to Him.

“I have separated you... to be Mine.”

To be Mine. Those words carry the weight of covenant.

The Bride cannot belong to Yahuah and remain completely governed by her own desires, ambitions, preferences, and appetites. Covenant changes allegiance.

This is why holiness reaches far beyond outward appearance.
It enters our motives. Our words. Our relationships.
Our decisions. Our hidden life. Our stewardship. Our response to correction. Our response when no one is watching.

Your heart belongs to Him.
Your time belongs to Him.
Your choices belong to Him.
Your future belongs to Him.
Your private life belongs to Him.

The Bride cannot say, “I am Yours,” and then reserve certain places of her life where Yahuah is not permitted to speak.

Covenant changes belonging. And belonging changes how we live.

This is why consecration is not simply about what we stop doing. We are being gathered unto Him.

We release because we have found something greater.
We surrender because we belong.
We let go because we trust the One who is asking.

The Bride begins to understand that holiness is not punishment. It is belonging expressed through a life.

The closer she comes to Yahuah, the more His ways become precious to her. His truth becomes more valuable than her preference. His correction becomes something she can receive. His holiness becomes something she desires rather than something she avoids.

She begins to ask less, “What can I still keep?”
And more of “What pleases the One I love?”

That is the movement from obligation into covenant.

There is a difference between being separated from something and being separated unto Someone.

Yahuah says: “I have separated you… to be Mine.”

The Bride's distinction is not rooted in superiority.
It is rooted in belonging.

This is where consecration becomes deeply personal. It happens in the hidden places where no one else can see. It happens when we choose truth over convenience, obedience over preference, surrender over control, and holiness over what has simply become familiar.

It happens when we finally stop defending what Yahuah is asking us to release. It happens when the heart can say: “Yahuah, this belongs to You too.”

That is the cry of a consecrated Bride. Not, “Look how set apart I am.” But: “I am Yours.”

I believe this is the holiness Yahuah desires, not religious performance, not outward distinction for the sake of being noticed, but a heart that has become fully aware of whom it belongs to.

The Bride is being prepared to dwell with the One she loves.
Preparation requires consecration.

There are things that cannot accompany her into deeper places simply because they have been familiar for a long time. Some things must be surrendered. Some attachments must be broken. Some compromises must be confronted. Not because Yahuah is taking something precious away. But because He is making room for what is holy.

So let Elul search you.

What has become too familiar?

What have you stopped seeing clearly because you have lived with it for too long?

What are you holding that Yahuah has asked you to release?

And what would change if you truly believed His words:

“I have separated you… to be Mine.”

The Bride does not need to strive to look holy.
She needs to belong wholly.

Set apart.
Consecrated.
His.

A Prayer

Yahuah, search my heart and reveal everything I have allowed to become common that You have called me to treat as sacred. Show me where familiarity has weakened my reverence and where compromise has become comfortable.

Teach me what it means to be set apart unto You. Where You ask me to release something, give me grace to surrender it. Where You expose compromise, give me courage to repent. Where I have protected something from Your examination, teach me to open that place completely to You.

I do not want holiness to become an outward appearance. I want my life to be shaped by belonging to You.

Take what is Yours.

My heart.
My desires.

My choices.
My future.
My hidden places.

All of me.

Let my life become a response to Your covenant love.
I do not want to be set apart so that I can be seen.

I want to be set apart because I am Yours.

Make me wholly Yours.

In Yahshua's Name, Amen.

Blessings, Bridal Glory Friends.

Christie Williams
The Bridal Glory

08/24/2026

Elul day 9
If Your Presence Does Not Go

ELUL: DAY 9

IF YOUR PRESENCE DOES NOT GO

“And he said to Him, ‘If Your Presence is not going, do not lead us up from here.’”
Shemoth/Exodus 33:15, ISR

We are still in Shabbat.

The Bride has leaned into the Sabbath, laid down the noise of the week, released her striving, and turned her attention toward Yahuah. Now, in that stillness, another question can be heard:

"Will I move if His Presence does not go with me?"

Moshe/Moses understood something we must learn: the promise is not greater than the Presence. Yahuah had promised Israel a land, but Moshe would not accept the destination without Yahuah Himself.

He said, “If Your Presence is not going, do not lead us up from here.”

What a weighty covenant posture!

We can become so focused on where Yahuah is taking us that we stop asking whether His Presence is actually leading us there. We can become captivated by open doors, opportunities, assignments, restoration, influence, and promises. But an open door does not automatically mean we are to walk through it.

All movement is not always progress. Every opportunity is not always obedience. All desire is not always direction.

I often ask ABBA, “Where are You taking me?” But lately I've been asking, “Are You going with me?”
And beneath that: “Am I willing to wait if You are not?”

That question searches the heart. It reveals whether we want Yahuah Himself or simply what Yahuah can give us.
It reveals whether we love the Presence or the promise.

The Bride must come to the place where she can say, “I will not trade Your Presence for a destination.”

Shabbat is a beautiful place to let that truth settle into us. We are not required to rush into tomorrow. We do not have to force the next door open. We do not have to manufacture movement.

We can become still enough to discern.

“Yahuah, do not let me go where You are not going.” Do not let me mistake opportunity for assignment. Do not let me mistake urgency for obedience. Do not let me become so attached to an outcome that I am unwilling to wait for You.

There will be times when He asks us to remain longer than we expected. There will also be times when He asks us to leave something we thought would last much longer.

Both require trust.

The Bride must learn when to remain and when to move.
She does not run ahead because she is impatient.
She does not remain behind because she is afraid.
She follows the Bridegroom.

This is covenant discernment.

On this 9th day of Elul, the question before us is:

"If Yahuah offered you the promise without His Presence, would you still want it?"

May our answer be, "No. I want You. I would rather wait with You than arrive without You. I would rather have Your Presence than the appearance of success. I would rather obey Your timing than satisfy my urgency."

Because if His Presence goes with us, we are never without what we truly need.

And if His Presence is not going... I do not want to go.

A Prayer:

Yahuah, as I remain in this Shabbat, quiet my heart enough to recognize Your Presence. Search the places in me that have become driven by urgency, desire, fear, or attachment to an outcome. Show me where I have been moving without first asking whether You are leading.

Teach me to value Your Presence above every promise, opportunity, destination, and answer. If You are not leading, teach me to wait. If You are leading me forward, give me courage to follow. If You ask me to release something I have become attached to, give me grace to let it go.

Do not allow me to confuse movement with obedience or an open door with Your will. Teach me to recognize Your voice and remain close enough to discern Your movement.

Yahuah, I do not want substitutes for Your Presence. I do not want success without You, ministry without You, opportunity without You, or fulfillment without You.

I want You.

Let this Shabbat settle something deep within me. I do not have to rush toward the future. I do not have to force what You have not opened. I do not have to carry tomorrow today.

I can rest. I can listen. I can wait. And when You move, I will follow. “If Your Presence is not going, do not lead me there.”

Let this become more than words. Let it become the posture of my life.

Your Presence is my security.
Your Presence is my direction.
Your Presence is my rest.

I do not want to arrive somewhere without You.
I want to go where You go.

In Yahshua's Name, Amen.

Blessings, Bridal Glory Friends.

The Bridal Glory
Christie Williams

08/24/2026

Elul day 8
SEEK MY FACE
Your Face, Yahuah, I Seek.

ELUL-DAY 8

SEEK MY FACE

“When You said, ‘Seek My face,’ my heart said to You, ‘Your face, Yahuah, I seek.’”
Tehillim/Psalm 27:8, ISR

The timing of this invitation matters. As the Sabbath enters, the noise of the week gives way to stillness, labor gives way to rest, and the heart is given room to turn toward the One who called it.

Shabbat is not simply a pause from work. It is a turning of the heart.

We cease from our labor and remember that Yahuah is Elohim. We release our striving and remember that our lives are not sustained by our own strength. We step away from what continually demands our attention and become attentive to the One who deserves it.

There is something deeply prophetic about entering Shabbat in Elul with these words: “Your face, Yahuah, I seek.”

We are not turning toward Him only for what He can do.
We are turning toward Him.

The Hebrew word "baqash" carries the idea of seeking, searching, pursuing, and earnestly desiring.

Yahuah is not calling us to gather information about Him. He is calling us to seek His face, His presence, His countenance, His nearness.

David said: “One matter I asked of Yahuah, that I seek: to dwell in the House of Yahuah all the days of my life, to see the pleasantness of Yahuah...”
Tehillim/Psalm 27:4, ISR

David had battles. He had enemies. He had uncertainty. Yet the deepest desire of his heart was not simply for his circumstances to change.

He wanted to dwell with Yahuah. That is the heart being reordered.

There is a difference between seeking His hand and seeking His face. We can seek provision, direction, healing, breakthrough, confirmation, and open doors while missing the deeper invitation to know the One who gives them.

The Bride must learn to desire Yahuah above what comes from Yahuah.

His presence becomes the treasure. This is why Shabbat is so significant.

The world teaches us to measure ourselves by what we accomplish, produce, complete, and demonstrate. Shabbat interrupts that measurement. It reminds us that we are not sustained by our own striving.

We stop. We remember. We rest. We become attentive.
We turn our faces toward Him.

Some things become visible when we stop long enough to see them. What has been occupying our attention? What has been consuming our thoughts? What have we been carrying that Yahuah never asked us to carry?

Then His invitation comes again: “Seek My face.”

The Bride must learn the difference between being busy around Yahuah and being attentive to Yahuah. Service matters. Obedience matters. Assignment matters. Yet none of these can replace intimacy.

I know what it is like to replace intimacy with ministry.
I had a big itinerary, but I left the secret place.
On the outside, I looked successful in ministry, but on the inside, Yahuah was asking me to minister to Him.
My first love had become what I did for Him rather than being Him.

We can become so occupied with the work of the Kingdom that we lose awareness of the King.

The Bride is not being prepared to become impressive.
She is being prepared to become intimate.

Mary understood this when she sat at the feet of Yahshua and listened.

“Mary has chosen the good portion, which shall not be taken away from her.”
Luqas/Luke 10:42, ISR

There are moments when doing must give way to dwelling, when activity must give way to attentiveness, and when our hands must become still enough for our hearts to become aware of the One before whom we stand.

As Shabbat begins, we do not have to manufacture an encounter with Yahuah. We do not have to force an emotional experience or perform spiritually.

We stop. We become present. We turn toward Him.

The Bride who seeks the face of the Bridegroom does not disappear when the answer is delayed. She does not withdraw when circumstances become difficult. She does not abandon devotion because prayer did not produce the outcome she expected.

She has learned something deeper: His presence is the treasure she cannot afford to lose.

When we turn toward Yahuah, His presence also begins to reveal what cannot remain. His holiness exposes divided allegiance. His light brings hidden things into view. His truth confronts compromise.

Seeking His face does not make obedience less important.
It makes obedience more personal.

We are responding to the One whose face we seek.

So as Shabbat begins, lay down the noise.
Lay down the unfinished work. Lay down the striving. Let what is unfinished remain unfinished.

You do not have to accomplish something for Yahuah.
You can seek Him.

Let your rest become an act of trust.
Let your stillness become an act of worship.
Let your turning toward Yahuah become an expression of love.

The Bride who learns to seek His face becomes increasingly familiar with His presence. She recognizes His voice. She recognizes His correction. She recognizes His ways. She learns what pleases Him because she has learned to stay near Him.

This is how intimacy forms.

Face turned toward Face.
Heart turned toward Heart.
Bride turned toward Bridegroom.

When Yahuah says, “Seek My face,” let the deepest place within you answer: “Your face, Yahuah, I seek.”

A Prayer:

Yahuah, as Shabbat begins, I turn my face toward You. I lay down the work, the striving, the unfinished things, and the burdens I have carried through the week. I release the need to solve what only You can resolve. Teach me to rest in You and remember that You are Elohim.

You have said, “Seek My face,” and my heart answers, “Your face, Yahuah, I seek.” Teach me to desire Your presence above Your gifts, Your heart above Your hand, and Your will above my own.

Let this Shabbat quiet what has been noisy within me. Let it restore what striving has depleted. Let it remind me that I belong to You and that You are my source.

When the answer is delayed, keep me seeking. When the path is unclear, keep me seeking. When the season is difficult, keep me seeking. When You bless me, keep me seeking.

Do not allow Your blessings to become substitutes for Your presence.

Make my devotion genuine and my pursuit wholehearted. Let my heart remain turned toward You when no one is watching. Let my life become increasingly attentive to Your voice and responsive to Your Word.

Your face, Yahuah, I seek.

In Yahshua's Name, Amen.

08/24/2026

Elul 7
The Word is Near
From the pages to my heart,
From my heart to my mouth
From my mouth to my walk,
From my walk to my witness

ELUL: DAY 7

THE WORD IS NEAR

“The Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart to do it.” Debarim/Deuteronomy 30:14, ISR

There is a great deception that can enter the heart of a covenant people: believing that obedience is somewhere beyond reach.
Yet Moshe declares something different: “The Word is very near you.”

Near enough to hear.
Near enough to receive.
Near enough to speak.
Near enough to do.

Yahuah did not give His Word to only increase our knowledge. His Word is intended to enter the heart, shape the mouth, govern the will, and become visible in the way we walk.

The Word is not given to inform us alone. It is given to form us.
Information can fill our minds. Formation changes our lives.

We can know Scripture and remain unchanged.
We can speak covenant language while another allegiance governs our decisions. We can collect revelation while resisting the obedience it requires.

The Bride is not being prepared by collecting beautiful words about covenant. She is being formed into a covenant people.

Yahshua said: “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”
Yoḥanan/John 10:27, ISR

Notice the movement: They hear. He knows. They follow.

Hearing and following belong together.

The Bride does not demonstrate that she knows the Bridegroom by the beauty of her speech about Him. She demonstrates relationship through the way she responds to His voice.

This is why the Word being near carries such weight.
If the Word is in your mouth, you have something to speak.
If the Word is in your heart, you have something to guard.
If the Word is given “to do,” then revelation carries responsibility.

There is also something beautiful about the Word being in the mouth and in the heart.

The mouth speaks what the heart carries.

This is why Scripture repeatedly warns us about vain speech, false testimony, murmuring, slander, and words that destroy.

A covenant heart must eventually produce covenant speech.

What Yahuah writes within us begins to shape what comes out of us. The mouth becomes a witness to the condition of the heart.

This month of Elul is a time to ask the following:

What has been coming out of me?

Not only when I am in worship.
Not only when I am teaching.
Not only when I am surrounded by people who agree with me.

What comes out when I am disappointed?
When I am corrected?
When I am misunderstood?
When I am overlooked?
When someone wounds me?
When I do not get my way?

The Word must become near enough to govern those moments too. The Bride is not being formed for a moment. She is being formed for a life of covenant.

The Word must travel from the page into the heart.
From the heart into the mouth.
From the mouth into the walk.
From the walk into the witness.

That is formation.

The Word searches. The Word exposes. The Word corrects.
The Word establishes.

“For the Word of Elohim is living and working and sharper than any two-edged sword...” Ibrim/Hebrews 4:12, ISR

Do not fear the Word because it exposes you. The Word that exposes is also the Word that establishes. The same Word that reveals where you have wandered shows you the way back.

The same Word that confronts rebellion shows you the path of obedience. The same Word that cuts also restores.

Moshe declared: “I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life...”
Debarim/Deuteronomy 30:19, ISR

The way Yahuah gives is not designed to keep His people from life. His way leads into life.

The Bride must stop seeing obedience as the enemy of freedom. The boundaries of covenant are not rejection. They are the wisdom of the One who knows the way of life.

She learns His ways because she trusts His heart. She obeys because she belongs. She walks because He has spoken.

There is no need to wait for another revelation before obeying what Yahuah has already made clear.

The Word is near.

The question is no longer only “What is Yahuah saying?”

The deeper question is: “How will I walk in what He has said?”

That is where revelation becomes covenant. That is where hearing becomes obedience. That is where knowledge becomes wisdom. That is where love becomes allegiance.

The Bridegroom has spoken.
The Word is near.

Walk it.
Live it.
Become it.
Be a Bridal Witness.

A Prayer for Day 7

Yahuah, let Your Word come near to me. Let it move beyond information and become formation within me. Write Your truth upon my heart until Your Word governs the way I think, speak, choose, respond, and walk.

Guard me from hearing Your voice without responding. Put Your Word in my mouth and establish it in my heart.

When fear speaks, let Your Word speak louder. When offense speaks, let Your Word govern me. When my desires pull against Your ways, teach me to surrender.

Let my hidden life reflect Your Word.

I receive it. I treasure it. I guard it. I obey it.

“The Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart to do it.”
Debarim/Deuteronomy 30:14, ISR

In Yahshua's Name, Amen.

The Bridal Glory
Christie Williams

08/24/2026

Elul day 6
A circumcised Heart
Circumcise my heart until nothing competes with my allegiance to You.

ELUL-DAY 6

A CIRCUMCISED HEART

“And you shall circumcise the fo****in of your heart and harden your neck no more.”
Debarim/Deuteronomy 10:16, ISR

Yahuah is not satisfied with outward signs of covenant while the inward heart remains resistant to Him.

The lips can speak covenant language while the will remains untouched. We can know His Word, recognize His voice, and still protect places within ourselves from the obedience His voice requires.

This is why Moshe's/Moses's words are so piercing: “Circumcise the fo****in of your heart.”

Circumcision is cutting. Something must be removed.

There are places where pride has grown over tenderness.
Places where disappointment has become hardness.
Places where self-protection has become resistance.
Places where our preferences have quietly become more important than obedience.

The work of Elul reaches beneath appearances.
The more time I spend with ABBA, the more I realize that He is after my heart.

“And now, Yisra’ĕl, what is Yahuah your Elohim asking of you, but to fear Yahuah your Elohim, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, and to serve Yahuah your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being, to guard the commands of Yahuah...”
Debarim/Deuteronomy 10:12–13, ISR

Fear Him. Walk in His ways. Love Him. Serve Him. Guard His commands.

Scripture does not separate love from obedience. Love gives obedience its relationship. Obedience gives love its expression.

This is covenant.

Yet hardness is dangerous because we can become accustomed to hearing Yahuah without responding to Him.

“Today, if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts...”
Tehillim/Psalm 95:7–8, ISR

Sometimes the danger is not that we cannot hear.
The danger is that we hear and have learned to resist.

We hear conviction and explain it away.
We hear correction and defend ourselves.
We hear the call to surrender and begin negotiating the terms.

We know what Yahuah has spoken, but we delay obedience because His Word confronts something we still want to protect.

Over time, resistance can become hardness.

This is why Scripture says: “Harden your neck no more.”
A stiff neck refuses to bend.

There is a spiritual stubbornness that can disguise itself as discernment, independence, wisdom, even self-protection, while beneath it Yahuah is asking one question:

"Will you yield to Me?"

Oh, my friends, this has been me and is me in some areas of my life. The more I lean into Him and hear the rhythm of His heartbeat of love and truth, the more I desire to be a pure Bride.

The Bride cannot be prepared while continually resisting the Bridegroom's voice. Some things cannot accompany us into deeper covenant.

Pride must be cut away.
Self-rule must be cut away.

The need to control must be cut away.
Fear of people must be cut away.

Offense that has become identity must be cut away.
Divided allegiance must be cut away.
The preference we have elevated above His Word must be cut away.

The knife of covenant reaches what religion can hide. Yet the purpose of the cutting is not destruction. It is consecration.

Moshe gives us the destination:

“And Yahuah your Elohim shall circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Yahuah your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being, so that you might live.”
Debarim/Deuteronomy 30:6, ISR

There it is.

To love Yahuah.
The cutting leads to wholehearted love.

Yahuah is removing what interferes with allegiance because He desires a heart that belongs completely to Him.

Yahshua showed us what that surrendered heart looks like in the garden:

“Yet not My desire, but let Yours be done.”
Luqas/Luke 22:42, ISR

I want to be clear: A circumcised heart is not a heart that never struggles. It is a heart that has stopped making its struggle the final authority.

Desire may speak.
Fear may speak.
Emotion may speak.
History may speak.
But covenant settles the question of who has the final word.

Yahuah does.

This is the formation of the Bride.

She is becoming tender enough to hear.
Humble enough to receive correction.

Trusting enough to surrender.
Faithful enough to obey when obedience costs something.

Secure enough to say:
“Yahuah, You are right.”

Elul brings us under presentation and divine examination.

The Bridegroom sees what has been surrendered and what is still being protected. He sees where obedience flows freely and where resistance remains.

So my prayer today is not:
“Make me look ready.”

It is:
"Make me true within."

'Circumcise my heart until my life agrees with the One I say I love.
Remove what has covered my sensitivity to Your voice.

Cut away divided allegiance.
Soften what has become hard.

Expose what I have defended.
Confront what I have protected.

Make me responsive again.'

The goal is not to only have a heart that has experienced the cutting. The goal is a heart that belongs wholly to Yahuah.

A heart that hears.
A heart that yields.
A heart that obeys.
A heart that walks.
A heart that loves.

A bridal heart.
A heart that burns solely for the Bridegroom King.

A Prayer:

Yahuah, circumcise my heart. Remove everything that interferes with wholehearted allegiance to You. Cut away pride, resistance, self-reliance, fear, offense, divided loyalty, and every place where my will has resisted Yours.

Do not allow me to become accustomed to hearing Your voice without responding.

Where I have become hard, make me tender.
Where I have resisted correction, make me teachable.
Where I have demanded understanding before obedience, teach me trust.

Let Your Word move from my mouth into my heart and from my heart into the way I walk.

Make me true within.

Give me a heart that can say: “Yahuah, You are right. Your Word is true. Your ways are good. I belong to You.” Let my obedience become the fruit of love and my surrender the expression of covenant. Circumcise my heart until nothing competes with my allegiance to You.

In Yahshua's name, Amen.

Blessings, Bridal Glory Friends!

The Bridal Glory
Christie Williams

Cheryl A. Hawkins

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