Now Family in Messiah… What if lifting our hands in worship is deeper than we’ve been taught? What if it’s not just emotion… not just tradition… but covenant?
Yahuah is showing us something precious right now. Our bodies are His Temple… 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, and inside that temple… there’s a living altar.
Praise isn’t just sound that comes out of our mouth. It’s covenant. It’s how the natural touches the spiritual. It’s how we, as living sacrifices, connect with the One who sits on the throne.
From the patterns He gave in Scripture… to the very blood flowing in our veins this very moment… let’s stretch forth our hands together.
Let’s explore blood on the altar.
Yahuah is calling us deeper into wholehearted obedience. Not surface obedience. Not “I showed up” obedience.
Whole
Complete
“Present your bodies” obedience Romans 12:1.
We know this truth: Our bodies are the Temple of the Ruach ha’Qodesh.
But let me ask you something… Every temple in Scripture had an altar right?
The altar was the center. The place of sacrifice. The place of blood.
So where is that altar in US?
And what does it mean to have blood on the altar as a living sacrifice?
Don’t answer fast. Sit with that question.
Let’s look at the pattern Yahuah gave us in Scripture.
Lifting hands isn’t an empty ritual. It’s Yadah ืָืָื. Yad means “hand”. But yadah means to throw, to cast, to extend, to lift the hands in thanks, confession, worship.
Let’s take a look Leah. Genesis 29:35. Leah was weary. Her name literally means “weary, exhausted”. Pretty interesting isnt it? Anyways, she bore Jacob son after son, and each time she hoped his heart would turn to her. Then she gives birth to Judah… Yehudah… and she says, “THIS TIME I praise Yahuah”.
Do you hear and see this?
She is the first woman recorded in Scripture to say “I praise Yahuah”… she did it through weariness. She turned exhaustion into Yadah. She threw her hands up, not because life was perfect, but because Yahuah was worthy.
Have you ever been there? Weary? Exhausted? Leah shows us: Yadah doesn’t wait for perfect circumstances. Yadah is what we do WITH our weariness.
Yadah is a verb. And verbs require action. It’s intentional. It’s movement. Movement of your hands, your voice, your whole being.
Throughout the Word we see this pattern repeat:
Solomon stood before the altar and spread forth his hands toward heaven 1 Kings 8:22. He didn’t just pray. He stretched. He reached. He extended.
Mosheh on the mountain… Exodus 17:11. When his hands were lifted, Israel prevailed. When his hands dropped, Amalek prevailed. Brothers and sisters, your raised hands have authority. This wasn’t Mosheh’s strength. It was Yahuah’s power flowing through surrendered hands.
I picture Mosheh on that mountain, Exodus 17.
Arms stretched up for hours. I know what that feels like. My arms start shaking after a few minutes of holding them up. They get tired. They want to drop.
Well that’s when Aaron and Hur came. They didn’t tell Mosheh to try harder. They put stones under him to sit on. Then they held his hands up with him. Some of you are weary today. Your arms are shaking. You’ve been holding up your family, your prayers, your faith… alone. Yahuah is saying: Let Me be your Aaron and Hur. and let your brothers and sisters help hold your hands up too. Because when hands stay lifted… even tired hands… the enemy loses. We battle as one with YAH ๐
This is why we stand WITH our brothers and sisters in prayer, praise and worship.
Raising hands - letting it go and worshipping - removes weariness and restores strength, hope, and life ๐.
In Psalm 134:2 we read “Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless Yahuah”
Lift up = nasa ื ָืฉָׂื. To lift, to carry, to bear up. The same word used when Aaron lifted his hands to bless the people. Physical acts… with spiritual authority.
Now let me take you deeper… into how Yahuah designed us.
When you intentionally raise your arms and hands in worship, something happens in your body. Blood flows more readily back toward the heart. From our extremities back to the center.
Consider this example: Yahuah designed our bodies with wisdom. When my arms are down, blood pools in my hands and feet. They get cold. Heavy.But when I raise them… even for 30 seconds… I can feel the warmth return. The blood flows back toward my heart. My center.
Isn’t that just like worship?
When our hands are down, we get cold. Weary. Distant. But when we lift them to Him… life flows back to the altar of our heart. The very thing that sustains us… returns. Yahuah literally designed our bodies to show us that lifted hands bring life back to the center.
Why does that matter?
Because “Life is in the blood” Leviticus 17:11. Yahuah told us that thousands of years ago.
The Temple altar received blood. Poured out. Sprinkled. Given wholly to Yahuah. The blood was the life of the sacrifice.
In us… the heart becomes that living altar. Your heart has four chambers. Four. Just like the altar had four horns. One at each corner. Where the blood was applied.
Fire was on that altar day and night. Jeremiah said, “There is a burning fire shut up in my bones” Jeremiah 20:9. Shut up in bones (the location where blood is made --> marrow)
Do you feel that fire? That’s the altar burning.
Your heart has the capacity to burn with love for Yahusha. Luke 24:32. “The tables of the heart” Proverbs 3:3, 7:3… that’s where Yahuah writes His Torah.
Prov 7:2-3 (TS2009)
“Guard my commands and live, And my Torah as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.”
Just like the stone tablets were placed in the Ark… His Word is written on the tables of our heart 2Corinthians 3:3.
David understood this altar. “The sacrifices of Elohim are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart” Psalm 51:17. Not bulls and goats. A broken heart laid on the altar.
David also established the Tabernacle of Praise and Worship… And he ministered as a “priest” — even though he was a “king”… So too, we are kings and priests unto our Yahuah (see Revelation 1:6, 5:10).
Paul echoes it to us: “Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to Elohim, which is your reasonable service” Romans 12:1.
We are lively stones 1 Peter 2:5. We are a holy priesthood. And what’s our sacrifice? The sacrifice of praise Hebrews 13:15.
But hear this clearly: Without shedding of blood there is no remission Hebrews 9:22. Blood had to be shed. Life had to be poured out.
So when we lift holy hands with a true heart
1 Timothy 2:8… we are making a willful covenant act. Blood flows toward the heart-altar. It’s a picture of surrender. Of pouring out our lives as incense and offering.
As Psalm 141:2 (TS2009) declares: “Let my prayer be prepared before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.”
The natural points to the spiritual every time.
Our hearts are sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb Hebrews 10:22. Exodus 29:16 we see a pattern: blood applied, covenant sealed. And Messiah dwells there by faith Ephesians 3:17.
Yahusha Himself is called the Right Hand of Yahuah Psalm 89:13, 118:16.
His arms were lifted on the tree. His hands were stretched wide. Blood rushed to seal the ultimate sacrifice.
“A body You have prepared for Me… to do Your will” Hebrews 10:5. He became the Lamb. He became the High Priest. He became the perfect Offering… so we could become living sacrifices. Temples with altars where blood and fire meet in praise.
Let me share with you 5 reasons this matters deeply:
It’s commanded and modeled.
Where?
Psalm 134:3 “Lift up your hands in the set-apart place, and bless Yahuah”
1 Timothy 2:8: “I desire that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands”.
How can our hands be holy? Certainly not by our own righteousness. But because we’ve been washed by the blood of the Lamb our hearts sprinkled clean according to Hebrews 10:22, we lift hands in Yadah, we offer consecrated hands. Set apart. Pure in intent.
It directs life.. When you lift your hands, blood flows to the heart. The inner altar. It’s a picture of pouring out your life as a living sacrifice. Romans 12:1 reasonable worship.
It releases authority and victory Mosheh’s hands… rรปm, nasa, natah… they turned a battle. Your raised hands in Yadah declare, “Yahuah, I surrender. I depend on You.” You’re not fighting alone when your hands are up.
It seals covenant… Praise with lifted hands becomes incense Revelation 8:3-4. Blood on the altar of the heart. It’s willful. Physical. It’s saying “I offer myself wholly to You, Yahuah.”
It points to Yahusha… He was lifted. His hands on the tree. Blood flowing. When we lift our hands, we participate in that finished work. We say “I am with You in this sacrifice.”
So let’s be clear: Raising hands in Yadah is wholehearted discipleship in motion.
It turns weariness like Leah into praise. It stretches forth in thirst for Yahuah Psalm 143:6. It presents your body as the Temple… with a burning, blood-sprinkled altar inside.
Are you seeing also now how this comes together?
This isn’t “nice worship posture”. This is covenant reality.
Lam 3:40 Let us search and examine our ways, And turn back to ืืืื.
Lam 3:41 Let us lift our hearts and hands To ฤl in the heavens…
Prepare your heart. Stretch out your hands
Job 11:13 If you would prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward Him.
Philippians 4:8 (TS2009) reminds us: “For the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is righteous, whatever is clean, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good report, if there is any uprightness and if there is any praise – think on these.”
In this act of Yadah…you pour out life on the altar of your heart. You seal covenant. You renew commitment. You glorify the Lamb who was slain.
So TODAY… lift your hands. Mean it in your heart. Let the blood-life flow to the altar within.
Yahusha is worthy! HALLELUYAH ๐๐️
Note: This blog was birthed after listening to a rich 1-1/2 hour message from Revelations of Jesus Christ. Yahuah used their word to stir fresh revelation in my heart about our bodies as His Temple and the deeper meaning of lifting hands in Yadah. The additional reading and discussion with a dear sister Sylvia as well….I am truly grateful for the Body of Messiah and how we sharpen one another. All esteem to Yahuah!
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