Pastor Deborah
It's vital when we believe in what God said.
First, we overcome our emootions then help others to overcome their emotions.
What do we believe? Who do we believe?
If we don't know what God says, then we are unable to counsel others.
Dictionary Definitions -
Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.
In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or earnestness of one's actions.
It's vital when we believe in what God said.
First, we overcome our emotions then help others to overcome their emotions.
Honesty, by definition, is to tell the truth and being true.
Integrity is having strong moral principles based on honesty and to follow those principles religiously.
Integrity can stand in opposition to hypocrisy.
The simplest definitions of “integrity” generally focus on consistency of intentions and action, of words and deeds – or as we say around here, consistency of walk and talk.
The opposite of integrity is hypocrisy – saying one thing and doing another.
The word integrity evolved from the Latin adjective integer, meaning WHOLE or COMPLETE.
In this context, integrity is the INNER sense of "WHOLENESS "deriving from qualities such as honesty and consistency of character.
being truthful (even if it is incorrect) about a subject at hand.
Integrity is “the condition or quality of being complete; undivided or unbroken; wholeness.”
integrity is “an unimpaired condition.”
“moral soundness or uprightness.”
The word integrity occurs sixteen times in the Bible, and is without a doubt one of the most important words in the scriptures.
Throughout the Bible, there are three men who God told us specifically were men of integrity.
PROVERBS 11:3 TPT
Integrity will LEAD you to SUCCESS, but treachery will destroy your dreams.
PROVERBS 11:3 KJV
The integrity of the UPRIGHT shall GUIDE them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
H8538 integrity
Original: תּמּה
Transliteration: tûmmâh
Phonetic: toom-maw'
Strong's Definition: Feminine of H8537; innocence:- integrity.
H8537
Original: תּם
Transliteration: tôm
Phonetic: tome
integrity, completeness
completeness, fulness
innocence, simplicity, prosperity
Complete in Christ means our spirit man is already whole.
GENESIS 20:1-2 AMPC
NOW ABRAHAM journeyed from there toward the South country (the Negeb) and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he lived temporarily in Gerar.
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister.
And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah [into his harem].
GENESIS 20:3-4 AMPC
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said, Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken [as your own], for she is a man's wife.
But Abimelech had not come near her, so he said, Lord, will you slay a people who are just and innocent?
GENESIS 20:5 AMPC
Did not the man tell me, She is my sister?
And she herself said, He is my brother.
In INTEGRITY of HEART and INNOCENCY of HANDS I have done this.
H8537
Original: תּם
Transliteration: tôm
Phonetic: tome
Strong's Definition: From H8552; completeness; figuratively prosperity; usually (morally) innocence:- full, integrity, perfect (-ion), simplicity, upright (-ly, -ness), at a venture. See H8550.
GENESIS 20:6-7 AMPC
Then God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know you did this in the Integrity (tummah) of your HEART, for it was I Who kept you back and spared you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not give you occasion to touch her.
So now restore to the man his wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live.
But if you do not restore her [to him], know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.
God values integrity even in our hearts.
Integrity is connected to our hearts.
God saw the integrity of Abimelech and favored towards him.
God is protecting us behind our back.
1 KINGS 9:1-2 NKJV
And it came to pass, when Solomon had FINISHED BUILDING the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he wanted to do,
that THE LORD appeared to Solomon the SECOND TIME, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
1 KINGS 9:3 NKJV
And the LORD SAID to him: “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built to PUT MY NAME THERE forever,
and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
1 KINGS 9:4 NKJV
Now if you WALK BEFORE ME as your father David walked, in INTEGRITY of HEART and in UPRIGHTNESS,
to DO according to ALL that I have commanded you, and if you KEEP My statutes and My judgments,
1 KINGS 9:5 NKJV
THEN I will ESTABLISH the throne of YOUR kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
Integrity - Tûmmâh תּמּה
TAV is the last letter of the Hebrew Alphabet.
Meaning mark, sign, omen, or seal, it is the symbol of TRUTH, PERFECTION, and COMPLETION.
It represents the restoration Tikkun תיקון of all of existence.
It is a RETURN to the ESSENCE and PURPOSE of ONE’S LIFE.
It represents COMPLETION, BEFORE BEGINNING AGAIN with the original Oneness of the Aleph.
The Tav shows us that THE END was SET FROM the BEGINNING,
as Tav is the final letter of בראשית Beresheet, “In the Beginning”, the first word of the Torah/Bible.
It is the idea that the Creator set in motion all of existence in order TO REACH a FINAL STATE of PERFECTION, the FULFILLMENT of ALL of CREATION.
It is also the COMPLETION of TRUTH אמת EMET.
However, AS SOON AS the Tav is reached,
we BEGIN AGAIN immediately
BY going back to the ALEPH, the ONE SOURCE of EVERYTHING.
The end is never really the end, but the BEGINNING of something NEW.
H319 end
Original: אחרית
Transliteration: 'achărı̂yth
Phonetic: akh-ar-eeth'
Strong's Definition: From H310; the last or end, hence the future; also posterity:- (last, latter) end (time), hinder (utter) - most, length, posterity, remnant, residue, reward.
ECCLESIASTES 7:8 KJV
Better is the end (achărı̂yth) of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
JOB 8:7
“Though your beginning was insignificant, yet your END [w-ach’arit’ka] will increase greatly.”
Our lives are rather insignificant in the grand theme of things… God’s plan for us to return to the Garden will be a massive upgrade of our lives.
Whether we like or not (some people don’t like change), our Creator has a plan… and it’s a good one.
ISAIAH 46:9-10
“Remember the former things long past, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me,
DECLARING the END [ach’arit] FROM the BEGINNING, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘MY PURPOSE will be ESTABLISHED, and I WILL ACCOMPLISH ALL MY GOOD PLEASURE’.
If He is the one who started it, He will be the one who finish it.
G-d's seal (in Creation) is TRUTH (in Hebrew, EMET, spelled out by the final letters of the three last words in the account of Creation: bara elokim la'asot," " ...G-d created ‘to do’").
The last letter or seal of the word emet, "truth," itself - the SEAL of G-D'S SEAL - is the letter TAV, simple faith,
the conclusion and culmination of all twenty-two forces - letters - active in Creation.
The three letters which spell EMET are the beginning, middle and ending letters of the alef-bet."
The aleph corresponds to one’s INITIAL AWARENESS of DIVINE paradox in the INFINITE SOURCE (where the higher and lower waters, joy and bitterness, are absolutely one).
From this awareness issues MEM, the FOUNTAIN of DIVINE WISDOM, EVER - INCREASING POWER of INSIGHT into the mysteries of Torah.
"The FINAL END of knowledge is NOT to KNOW."
The culmination of the FLOW of DIVINE WISDOM in the soul (after all is said and done) is the "majestic" revelation of the infinite "treasure-house" of simple faith in Gd's absolute omnipresence below innate in the soul of Israel.
The CULMINATION of TRUTH SIMPLE FAITH is the secret of the "tav."
Don't boast because sometimes we really know nothing and there are someone out there who knows more than us.
Be humble and realise that we don't know everything.
So we are taught: "Torah is the impression [the tav] of Divinity; Israel is the impression [the tav] of Torah."
Torah is the secret of separation between good and evil - circumcision - the cutting off of the foreskin (evil).
Tav is the impression of the divine; the divine realm
Whole bible is about the divine realm.
Tav is a complete, three dimensional template.
Tav is the end of a cycle, the closing of a circle, but it is not the end of the way.
This is the big cycle – if Dalet is 4 and Mem is 40, Tav is 400, indicating three levels of cyclicality.
But Tav is also the beginning of a new path.
Tav is an answer (Teshuva) to questions asked during the process, during the cycle, during the rotation, and an answer can be the end of a wonder or the beginning of a new one.
Tav is a stop sign that says “no further” and hints to the wise saying, “KNOWING WE are IGNORANT brings us CLOSER to GOD.”
Whoever feels clever, with a bag full of answers, will probably be prevented from continuing the process.
Jesus is the Aleph and the Tav.
Finished in Christ means it's all in Him.
How can we know everything? We start all over again to learn His Word.
Resh-Shin-Tav constitute together the new network of possibilities that is connected to the Silver Epoch.
Together they are the permission and the service, to which one can aspire.
The journey from Aleph to Tav can contribute not only to the person walking its path.
It can also give payback to the original source.
This is the beginning of a new hope that continues to grow.
The Hebrew letter “mem” stands for “mayim” which is the “waters.”
The shape of the “mem” represents an open or closed womb (depending on which form of the letter mem it is).
Being held and nurtured by the waters of life.
Allowing this living water to saturate every area of our being as we rest in this hidden space.
Life is found in the hidden place of growth, but often that life comes through the trials of adversity.
Living waters also represent God's Word.
Let the Word of God saturated all of our being as we rest in the womb.
Just as the culmination of the gestation period is the process of birth, so there are often times of pressing and challenge that bring you to the new open place of possibility.
TRUST the process – from the solitude and nurturing of the quiet place of growth to the pressure and discomfort of the coming forth into the new, all is a natural cycle.
Embrace it and TRUST that it is for YOUR GOOD – even in the moments it is challenging, trust that you are being catapulted into new levels as you are BIRTHED into the NEW.
You have all you need for this moment, for the all-sufficient One is meeting every need and sustains you every step of the way.
Hey -
The original pictograph for this letter is, a man standing with his arms raised up.
The Modern Hebrew, and original name for this letter, is hey, a Hebrew word meaning "BEHOLD," as when looking at a great sight.
This word can also mean "breath" or "sigh," as one does when looking at a great sight.
The meaning of the letter is behold, look, breath, sigh, reveal and revelation from the idea of revealing a great sight by pointing it out.
The word hei has three meanings:
The first is “here is,” as in the verse, “Here is seed for you” (hei lachem zera).
The next is “to be disturbed,” as it states in Daniel “And I Daniel was disturbed....(nih’yeisi)”
And the third is “behold” as in “Behold, this is our G‑d...,” (hinei Elokeinu...) which refers to beholding a revelation.
These three definitions converge.
When we’re born and come into this world, G‑d gives us seeds
(i.e., the potential to be productive and make good of our lives).
Many times, however, we become disturbed and confused and lose sight of our objectives.
Eventually, though, every Jew will come to do teshuvah and acknowledge his Creator.
He will then behold the revelation of G‑d.
This word springs forth from primarily three Hebrew words.
One with integrity is one with shelemut.
That should look familiar.
It is shalom, which of course actually means wholeness or completeness.
One who is well rounded and balanced.
Not necessarily great at one thing and then terribly lacking in others.
We are complete and whole.
When we do things without integrity, there is no wholeness and peace.
The other word in Hebrew is yashar.
This means to be straight or upright, as in the straight and narrow road, if you will.
BERE’SHIYT (GENESIS) 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect [tam] in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
PSALMS 37:37
Mark the perfect [tam, complete] man, and behold the upright [yashar]: for the end of that man is peace [shalom].
JOB 2:3
“and the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a PERFECT and an UPRIGHT man, one that FEARETH GOD, and escheweth evil?
and still he HOLDETH FAST his INTEGRITY, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.”
JOB 2:9
“Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine INTEGRITY?
curse God, and die.”
JOB 27:5
“God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.”
JOB 31:6
“Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.”
Integrity – Tummah תּמּה
What Jesus did on the cross is final, is complete.
It is good enough for us.
Go into the river, let the living waters fill us up; fill ourselves with His word as much.
All His words are true.
2 CORINTHIANS 11:3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your MINDS should be corrupted from the SIMPLICITY [yashar, tam] that is IN CHRIST the MESSIAH.
G572 simplicity
Original: ἁπλότης
Transliteration: haplotēs
Phonetic: hap-lot'-ace
Thayer Definition:
singleness, simplicity, sincerity, mental honesty
the virtue of one who is FREE from PRETENCE and HYPOCRISY
- not self seeking, openness of heart manifesting itself by generousity
Strong's Definition: From G573; singleness, that is, sincerity (without dissimulation or self seeking), or generosity (copious bestowal):- bountifulness, liberal (-ity), simplicity, singleness.
Notice that Paul is concerned about the people being drawn away from what was in the garden in the beginning.
Warren Buffett once, said: “You’re looking for three things,
generally, in a person - intelligence, energy, and integrity.
And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two.
I tell them: Everyone here has the intelligence and energy; you wouldn’t be here otherwise.
But the integrity is up to you.
You weren’t born with it and you can’t learn it in school.”
Integrity and Character:
What’s the Difference?
The English word character doesn’t actually appear in the Bible,
but the Greek word from which we derive our English word does.
Hebrews 1:3 refers to the “express image” of Jesus Christ.
The Greek word there is karakter, from which we get our English word character.
Character is a matter of doing right, over and over until it becomes a part of your life.
You teach a child to get up in the morning, make his bed, get dressed, read her Bible, do his chores, and so on.
You teach children to treat adults with respect.
You teach them diligence, patience, and a good work ethic.
When they learn all of that and then do it without thinking about it, they are displaying character.
Character, somebody said, is doing right by habit.
It’s simply doing the right thing automatically.
You can train character into a child.
Good character is the natural response of acting or reacting according to high standards of behavior in every situation.
Integrity is character, but it is also more than character.
Integrity is actually more important than character.
Integrity is character that truly comes from the heart.
It is character that is resolute.
It is character that cannot be changed or polluted.
Integrity is more likely to produce character than character is to produce integrity.
In fact, integrity is the parent of character.
You may find a person who doesn’t have much character, but if he has integrity, he will eventually build character.
Integrity is more important first.
After we have integrity, character will change.
Young people whose parents were not Christians and had no interest in Christianity.
Some of these young people got saved and allowed the Holy Spirit to work in their lives and produce integrity in them.
Before long, they were saying, “I want to do right.
It doesn’t matter what anybody else says or does, I’m going to do right.”
A person like that will eventually develop character.
Character deficiencies are really a result of a lack of integrity.
If a man has integrity and he sees a character deficiency or a character flaw in his life, he will say, “I need to deal with that.
I can’t let that character flaw stay in my life.”
Nobody is perfect; that’s not what we’re talking about.
We’re talking about steel that is sound.
We’re talking about the steel of resolve on the inside of a person’s soul: the resolve to do that which is right.
Integrity is more than good habits that have been formed.
People form good habits and then go bad. Why?
Because even though they had good habits, they didn’t have the integrity to undergird and support the good habits.
Integrity is a determination of the heart.
Integrity is the unwavering determination in the heart to do right no matter what.
When I’m afraid, I must do right.
When I’m not afraid, I must do right.
When my emotions try to lead me the wrong way, I must have integrity.
I must do right.
When my emotions are doing fine, I must do right.
When I’m among the heathen, I must do right.
When I’m not among the heathen, I must do right.
When I’m among committed Christians, I must do right.
And when I’m among Christians you can hardly tell apart from
the world, I must do right.
When my friends stand with me, I must do right.
When my friends attack me, I must still do right.
When my friends turn on me, despise me, make fun of me,
and put me down, I must still maintain integrity.
If my wife and children stand with me, I must do right.
If my wife and children don’t stand with me, I must do right.
When it’s easy, I must do right.
When it’s hard, I must do right.
When there’s no cost, I must do right.
When the cost seems high, I must do right.
When people like it, I must do right.
When people don’t like it, I must do right.
That’s integrity.
If there is anything that is needed in young men today, it is that kind of integrity.
Young men simply need to have the resolve in their hearts and souls to say, “I will do right.
I may not feel like it.
I may not get any support or encouragement.
But I’ve got to have integrity and I won’t let it go.
I’ve got to do right!”
Integrity is that thing in a man or a woman that says, “I must and will do that which is right.” Period.
No question marks.
A man of integrity tells the truth. Period.
He tells the truth when he is under oath.
He tells the truth when he’s not under oath.
That’s what Jesus was talking about when He said, “Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay” (Matt. 5:37).
Holding Integrity in Your Heart
Integrity is not just what people see.
Integrity is WHAT YOU ARE.
Twice in Genesis 20, the Bible referred to the integrity of Abimelech’s heart.
God said about Job, “He holdeth fast his integrity.”
Job himself said, “. . . I will not remove mine integrity from me.”
One of the most important truths in the whole Bible is this:
Jesus said, “Without me, ye can do nothing.”
If you’ve got any integrity, it’s not just because you have it naturally.
If you’ve really got it, it’s because God gave it to you.
I also want to tell you that even though God gives integrity to you, there’s also a sense in which He says, “I give you the responsibility to hold on to your integrity.
I gave it to you, now you hold onto it.”
How can a person hold onto integrity?
Only by having it and keeping it in the heart.
If it is not in the heart, integrity is up for grabs.
If it is not in your heart, then the mind will begin to rationalize and figure out a way to get around it.
If your integrity is only in your hands, somebody will be able to buy it from you.
If your integrity is only in your mind, somebody will talk you out of it.
But if integrity is in your heart, then with God’s help, you can keep it no matter what.
Ask yourself a key question:
What would you do if you knew that nobody would ever find out?
If you knew you would never be caught, what would you do?
Which is stronger in your heart right now, greed or integrity?
Would you steal if you knew no one would ever find it out?
Which is stronger in your heart, lust or integrity?
What would you look at if you knew no one would ever find out?
Where would you go if you knew no one would ever find out?
What would you do if you knew that no one would ever find out?
Integrity says, “I can’t do this because I can’t live with myself if I do.” That is integrity in the heart.
Remember the story of Joseph?
He was sold into slavery by his brothers and wound up in Potiphar’s house in Egypt, where Potiphar’s wife tried to seduce him.
What did Joseph say?
“How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
Joseph wasn’t just worried about Potiphar finding out.
He was worried about having to live with himself, knowing that God would know what he had done.
Martin Luther said, “If I knew the world would go to pieces tomorrow, I would still plant my apple tree and pay my debts.”
If no bill collector was coming after you, would you still pay your bills?
If the boss is nowhere around, do you still put in eight hours’ work for eight hours’ pay?
Do you work harder when the boss is watching than you do when he’s not?
Proverbs 20:7 says, “The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.”
Proverbs 11:3 says, “The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.”
If you have integrity, it will serve as a guide to you, directing you in the way you ought to be going.
Integrity - Tummah and Yashar
The state of being sound and whole (shalom) and complete IN CHRIST, with an undivided heart of simplicity, or sincerity of heart and intention, truthfulness and UPRIGHTNESS in thought, word and action flowing from the NEW REGENERATED SPIRIT MAN.
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