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"She shall extend her hand to the poor, and she shall reach out her hands to the needy"  Proverbs 31:20



I am a Witness


by: Amaziyah Baht Ysrayl 



HalleluYAH! I am a witness to Yah’s grace and mercy.  He brought me out of darkness into His marvelous light. You see from my experience, these are not mere words on a page or lyrics to a song but a testimony of Yah’s immeasurable love.

Often times the redeemed of Yah are held in the shackles of fear.  We allow the adversary to convince us that exposing our past transgressions will only bring about judgment from our brothers and sisters.  The truth is that being transparent with one another only yields an impenetrable body of MessiYah.

We, the set-apart servants of Yah, chose to humble ourselves, pray, seek His face and turn from our wicked ways thus, Yah has forgiven us: why then are we allowing the adversary to bring condemnation?  The reason is that we have been conditioned by the world to keep our “skeletons hidden in the closet.”

Our past is not a weakness.  It unmistakably illuminates Yah’s esteem and deliverance power. Now that through MessiYah Yahoshua we are overcomers, it is our duty and privilege to help others do the same.  One of the most powerful tools that our Father has given us is our testimony.  It builds a bridge of commonality for us to reach the lost sheep of Israel.

I would like to share with you all exerts from the autobiography that I composed for graduate school admissions at Emory University.  I was accepted to the Master of Divinity program at Candler School of Theology; however I declined the invitation because Yah brought me out of darkness into His marvelous light. HalleluYAH!

“I have always maintained a relationship with Yahoshua through prayer; however I was not necessarily intentional about keeping His commandments until age twenty-two when I gave up my life to serve and follow Him.  Since that time I have endured constant trials and tribulation, nonetheless Yah has carried me safely through them all.  My faith has been strengthened and I am maturing in the MessiYah daily.

I want to begin by exploring my early childhood experiences.  I will then advance to my adulthood and proceed chronologically.  My mother and biological father never married, however they continued their relationship for four years after my birth.  At age seven my mother married my stepfather.  Promptly after the wedding he became very abusive.  To preserve my sanity, I heavily involved myself in school.  I excelled in academics and participated in many extra curricular activities.      

My first semester in college was painless.  I made the dean’s honor roll and founded a national sorority on campus.  It was not until second semester that all of my unresolved trauma from childhood began to resurface.  At first I could not identify the problem.  I visited a therapist and still could not reconcile my past.  My grades began to suffer as I gradually progressed into a deep depression.  I concealed the dark unknown pain in my heart by turning to the world.  Shortly thereafter, I found myself lost in darkness, searching in all of the wrong places for fulfillment.  Immaturely, I decided to get married.  After the wedding I could not understand why I was having serious emotional challenges

with intimacy.  I prayed about the situation and Yah refreshed my memory.  I realized that all of my problems were rooted in suppressed memories of childhood molestation.  I confronted my perpetrator and he denied it.  Shortly thereafter, unable to cope with the reality of being exposed, he shot himself in the head.  The following years seemed unbearable at times.  I dropped in and out of college several times and there were many days when I did not believe I would make it another.  My world was shattered.  It took months before the process of forgiveness would be completed.   After many sleepless nights and tears of anguish I finally was able to forgive him.  Overcoming that experience proved to be my most difficult challenge thus far.  In the beginning I often questioned, asking, “why me Yah?”  Now I realize that Yah did not allow me to endure arbitrarily, rather he gave me a testimony to share with others about His great love and healing power.  I am a living witness of His glory.

I give Yah praise for changing my life.  He loved me when I was steeped in sin, and gently washed them all away.  Not only has my first-hand encounter with Yah’s amazing love enabled me to love Him with my whole heart, but now I can pour out that same love on others.  Every since I was a youth, I knew that I wanted to make a positive impact on the world.  In the last year Yah has been slowly disclosing His master plan for my life.  Through the Word, He revealed to me that I would teach the multitude.  Four months later a guest pastor (that did not know me) prophesied the very same thing into my life.  Two months afterward, I received more conformation.  At a Young Life Fall Leadership Retreat, Yah gave me words to speak.  After I finished a young man approached me.  He said, “…You are a messenger sent by Yah to warn.  Your message will be offensive and hard for people to accept.  Be courageous and bold.  You are called. Be encouraged...”  Again, this was accurate conformation of what had previously been revealed to me through the Word.  Now that I have a better understanding of my divine purpose in life, I am taking the necessary preparatory measures to accomplish the work set before me. 

My heart belongs to the downtrodden.  In the future, I will proclaim a message of hope unto the poor.  I will teach primarily in inner-city ghettos around the world.  I will illuminate biblical truths that have long been forgotten.  My area of concentration lies within the context of identifying the true descendants of the biblical Israelites.  Upon earning the specified number of credit hours, I will earnestly pursue the Master of Divinity Thesis Option in order to further my research.  I am committed to searching for and discovering the Truth.  It is my life objective to spread the gospel to the poor, comfort the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prisons to them that are bound.  Following in the footsteps of Yahoshua my Savior, all things have become possible for me.  Nothing is withheld from those that believe.”

This autobiography was written two years ago.  I had just begun to learn the truth of Yah. I praise Yah for giving me understanding and opening my eyes to see spiritually.  I praise Yah that the seeds He planted fell on good soil, and grew up, and will yield a crop a hundredfold in the Name of Yahoshua the MessiYah. HalleluYAH!!

 
 
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