Trey Knowles: Risala 6 – Diversion and Prioritizing

To the believer and to the chosen: your enemy's weapon against you is what you value most. Will the believers continue to compromise their faith? This, my brothers and sisters, is a test of your loyalty. And will the chosen ones of Israel continue to become addicted to taking the venom of the snake? What is being offered to you becomes a curse. In other words, you've been baited like Pinocchio.

The principality system that hates you also enslaves you, influences you, and tempts you like the fox and the cat in Pinocchio. Hollywood, luxury, fame, sports, play, bread, circuses, and foolishness—consider how Balaam was hired to curse Israel, the chosen ones, turning the chosen Israelites into human, demonic androids and misplacing their trust and devotion away from the Father who is in heaven. Be on guard.

Yeshua teaches us in Matthew 6:21: “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

My Lord Yeshua emphasizes that a person's priorities and affections are centered on what they value most—whether it is our Father's spiritual investment in us or earthly wealth.

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

You must make a choice now about whom you are going to devote your loyalty to. For I tell you, as for me and my house, I, Trey Knowles, devote myself to the Lord.

ٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّمَا ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنْيَا لَعِبٌۭ وَلَهْوٌۭ وَزِينَةٌۭ وَتَفَاخُرٌۢ بَيْنَكُمْ وَتَكَاثُرٌۭ فِى ٱلْأَمْوَٰلِ وَٱلْأَوْلَـٰدِ ۖ كَمَثَلِ غَيْثٍ أَعْجَبَ ٱلْكُفَّارَ نَبَاتُهُۥ ثُمَّ يَهِيجُ فَتَرَىٰهُ مُصْفَرًّۭا ثُمَّ يَكُونُ حُطَـٰمًۭا ۖ وَفِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ عَذَابٌۭ شَدِيدٌۭ وَمَغْفِرَةٌۭ مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ وَرِضْوَٰنٌۭ ۚ وَمَا ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنْيَآ إِلَّا مَتَـٰعُ ٱلْغُرُورِ ٢٠ — Surah Al-Hadid (57:20)

“Know that this worldly life is no more than play, amusement, luxury, mutual boasting, and competition in wealth and children. It is like rain that causes plants to grow, to the delight of the planters. But later the plants dry up; you see them wither, and then they are reduced to chaff. And in the Hereafter there will be either severe punishment or forgiveness and pleasure from Allah, whereas the life of this world is no more than the delusion of enjoyment.”

So I ask: Will the believers continue to compromise their faith? And will the chosen ones continue to become addicted to taking the venom of the snake? In this way, your enemy does not seek to reconcile the evils of slavery, but rather to continue them.

Grace and Peace, Trey Knowles

Trey Knowles: Risala 5 – You Labor in Vain

Your labor empowers the lazy. The lazy worker commands others, bargaining for riches born from nothing, while sharing little with those who truly labor. You strengthen the wicked. You enrich the idle. You help them gather wealth that is here today and gone tomorrow—value that fades and leaves no lasting reward.

Why do you labor in vain? Can you not see that it is all for nothing? Does your work help the paralyzed? Does your work provide food and shelter? Outside of these things, your labor becomes empty. As it is written in Isaiah 55:2: Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?

Are you tired of laboring for nothing, spending money on things that do not satisfy the spirit? What happened to you? Your faith was once in God. You lived simply, gathering what God provided. Your true labor was agriculture—producing, nurturing, and sharing the works of the Lord.

My Lord Yeshua said, “Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life” (John 6:27). Of this I, Trey Knowles, am certain. My Lord Yeshua knows, for He is the bread of life that I follow.

ٱلْمَالُ وَٱلْبَنُونَ زِينَةُ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۖ وَٱلْبَـٰقِيَـٰتُ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتُ خَيْرٌ عِندَ رَبِّكَ ثَوَابًۭا وَخَيْرٌ أَمَلًۭا

Wealth and children are the adornment of this worldly life, but the lasting righteous deeds are better with your Lord in reward and in hope. You who labor are angry—but do you know why? Is it what you desire that stirs your anger? Is it what you covet that troubles your spirit? My Father created everything and called it good. Over it we were given dominion, so that we might glorify our Father in heaven through the blessing of His good works.

You who labor—who do you labor for? For the lazy worker who commands others? For those you empower? For those you make rich? For those who pollute the works of God—the earth and all that is in it? Why do you labor in vain and spend money on what does not satisfy?

Grace and peace, Trey Knowles

Trey Knowles: Risala 4 – “For I Am Jealous for You”

I am jealous for you because of your unfaithfulness. I long for you to turn away from what destroys you and return to our Father in Heaven, to live in the Spirit of truth. You were once joined to my Father, but you committed adultery and no longer listen. Now I grieve—and in that grief, I burn with jealousy—because of your loyalty to death and destruction.

You have placed yourself into the enemy's hands, and your children are being born into the image of the beast. When you grumble against your current husband—who lies, cheats, steals, and kills, and who makes you dependent on him by overworking and mistreating you—I will not be moved by your complaints.

Who are you to grumble against the very one you depend on—the wicked master whose character you have taken on, whose unlawful spirit you follow, and in whose wars you fight? This is why I am jealous for you. You have chosen the world over my Father.

Have you not read in Scripture: “You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity with God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.” (James 4:4)

So am I, Trey Knowles, right in saying that I am jealous for you because of your unfaithfulness to my Father in Heaven? Do not even grumble against me, because Musa said:

“You will know that it was the Lord when He gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.”

وَقَطَّعْنَاهُمُ ٱثْنَتَىْ عَشْرَةَ أَسْبَاطًا أُمَمًا ۚ وَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ إِذِ ٱسْتَسْقَىٰهُ قَوْمُهُۥٓ أَنِ ٱضْرِب بِّعَصَاكَ ٱلْحَجَرَ ۖ فَٱنۢبَجَسَتْ مِنْهُ ٱثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ عَيْنًا ۖ قَدْ عَلِمَ كُلُّ أُنَاسٍ مَّشْرَبَهُمْ ۚ وَظَلَّلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْغَمَامَ وَأَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْمَنَّ وَٱلسَّلْوَىٰ ۖ كُلُوا۟ مِن طَيِّبَاتِ مَا رَزَقْنَاكُمْ ۚ وَمَا ظَلَمُونَا وَلَٰكِن كَانُوا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ (7:160)

Surah Al-A'raf (7:160) “We divided them into twelve tribes—each as a community. And We revealed to Moses, when his people asked for water, ‘Strike the rock with your staff.' Then twelve springs gushed out. Each tribe knew its drinking place. We shaded them with clouds and sent down to them manna and quails, saying, ‘Eat from the good things We have provided for you.' They certainly did not wrong Us, but wronged themselves.”

Grace and Peace, Trey Knowles