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6th New Moon
Govern My Understanding
Aug | Sept 2026 · New Moon Letter
This letter considers what it means to remain teachable before Yahuah—to allow Him not only to correct what we believe, but the lens through which we determine what we are willing to believe.
THIS NEW MOON’S THREAD
Understanding Can Make You Quieter
We are not here merely to gather knowledge. We are learning to live in what we have come to understand.
With each New Moon, we walk the path together—learning, growing, governing, reflecting, and becoming—so that what we learn does not remain as information, but becomes visible in the way we live.
Grow As I Grow. Walk As I Walk. Learn As I Learn.
Knowledge can make us confident. Understanding should make us careful.
THE WALK OF THE LETTER
What We’re Walking Through
Each letter moves through what is being learned, what must come under Yahuah’s governance, what deserves deeper reflection, and what that understanding is becoming in the way we live and worship.
GOVERN
Malkuta d’Yahuah Inyaniym + Palal
We bring the inward matter beneath Yahuah’s authority and examine what is governing us.REFLECT
Walk It Out + Reflection
We slow down, sit with what has been exposed, and allow understanding to deepen.BECOME
What’s Growing + From the Walk to the Song
We carry what has been learned into life and watch what the walk begins to produce.LEARN
Understanding Can Make You Quieter
The deeper I grow in understanding Yahuah, the more I am realizing that growth does not always give me more to say.
Sometimes it makes me quieter.
It makes me examine what I thought I knew, how I arrived at my conclusions, and whether I have remained teachable enough to be corrected.
Knowledge can make us confident. Understanding should make us careful.
Am I reading what is written—or reading what I already believe into what is written?
WHAT I’M STUDYING
Scripture to Sit With
“Then Yahuah, the Aluah, formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the Breath of Life, and man became a living soul.” — Barashiyt 2:7
I have been returning to what the text actually says rather than beginning with what I have been taught that it means.
Sometimes sound understanding begins with allowing Scripture to establish its own language before we begin explaining it.
GOVERN
Malkuta d’Yahuah Inyaniym
Functioning Under His Governance
There are matters we bring before Yahuah because we want Him to change what is happening around us.
But sometimes the greater work is what He is governing within us while the matter remains before Him.
The question is not only, “What do I need Yahuah to do about this?” Sometimes the question is, “What in me needs to function beneath His governance while I walk through it?”
Do not merely correct what I believe. Correct the lens by which I determine what I am willing to believe.
THIS NEW MOON’S KINGDOM MATTER
Govern My Understanding
Understanding can become its own competing authority when I become more committed to defending what I know than remaining teachable before Yahuah.
This New Moon, the matter being brought beneath His governance is not simply what I believe. It is how I arrive at belief.
Yahuah,
Do not merely correct what I believe. Correct the lens by which I determine what I am willing to believe.
Where fear has shaped my understanding, correct me. Where pride has made me difficult to teach, humble me. Where experience has distorted what I see, restore my sight.
Give me eyes to see and ears to hear. Teach me to properly divide Your Word without forcing it to agree with conclusions I have already made.
Let Scripture testify with Scripture. Let truth correct me before I attempt to use it to correct someone else.
Govern my mind. Govern my interpretation. Govern my conclusions.
And when understanding comes, let it produce humility rather than superiority.
Amein.
REFLECT
What Is Governing My Interpretation?
Every one of us approaches Scripture carrying something with us: previous teaching, experience, expectations, fear, emotion, or a conclusion we already hope to prove.
Before I settle on a conclusion, I am learning to ask what is governing my interpretation right now.
The goal is not merely to become better at identifying error. The goal is to remain correctable ourselves.
Am I allowing truth to form my understanding—or asking truth to defend the understanding I already have?
QUESTION FOR REFLECTION
Has Understanding Made Me Quieter?
Has greater understanding made me more humble, more patient, more careful with my words, more willing to listen, and more willing to examine myself before correcting someone else?
Or has what I know simply given me more confidence in my own conclusions?
Can Yahuah correct me without me becoming defensive? Can I remain teachable when correction reaches something I am deeply convinced of?
BECOME
What Understanding Becomes
What is learned does not remain in the mind alone. If it is truly received, it begins to alter posture.
What is studied begins to shape understanding. Understanding begins to shape posture. Posture begins to shape Palal. And what is lived before Yahuah begins to produce fruit.
What is being learned is becoming something.
What is truly understood does not remain as information. It begins to become the way we live.
WHAT’S GROWING
One Walk. Different Fruit.
Sometimes the fruit is quieter thinking. Sometimes it is greater humility. Sometimes it is restraint.
And sometimes, what has been walked through becomes worship.
What is this walk producing in me? Is what I am learning becoming humility, soundness, a more faithful walk, and worship?
BEFORE THE NEXT LETTER
Carry This With You
Before you move on, do not rush past what this letter has exposed. Let what is being learned remain with you a little longer. Sit with it. Walk with it. Let it become something in you.
Remain With It
Do not hurry away from what Yahuah has uncovered. Stay there long enough for understanding to deepen.
Palal Through It
Bring the matter before Yahuah. Let what was learned become Palal, and let what is prayed shape the walk.
Watch What It Becomes
Pay attention to what the walk is producing. Understanding should not remain information alone.
FROM THE WALK TO THE SONG
Weight
Weight grew from learning to sit with Aluah without religious performance. In that stillness came a deeper revelation of who He is.
The more I came to know Him, the more I realized how much of Him I still did not know.
That knowing carried weight—not the weight of burden, but the weight of His character—and it began calling me to become something different, something more.
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