Be blessed.
And come home already.
You are irreplaceable.
We love and miss you.
9/20/13
9/13/13
If I were the Devil - Paul Harvey
This is Paul Harvey's "original" version from 1965
1965
This was originally broadcast in 1965
wow
and here we are in 2013!
Nuff said.
9/10/13
9/6/13
Life or Death - Your Choice
It really IS -That Simple
“When the time arrives that all these things have come upon you, both the blessing and the curse which I have presented to you; and you are there among the nations to which Adonai your God has driven you; then, at last, you will start thinking about what has happened to you;2 and you will return to Adonai your God and pay attention to what he has said, which will be exactly what I am ordering you to do today — you and your children, with all your heart and all your being.
3 At that point, Adonai your God will reverse your exile and show you mercy; he will return and gather you from all the peoples to which Adonai your God scattered you.
4 If one of yours was scattered to the far end of the sky, Adonai your God will gather you even from there; he will go there and get you.
5 Adonai your God will bring you back into the land your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it; he will make you prosper there, and you will become even more numerous than your ancestors.
6 Then Adonai your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your children, so that you will love Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being, and thus you will live.
7 Adonai your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hated and persecuted you; 8 but you will return and pay attention to what Adonai says and obey all his mitzvot which I am giving you today.
9 Then Adonai your God will give you more than enough in everything you set out to do — the fruit of your body, the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your land will all do well; for Adonai will once again rejoice to see you do well, just as he rejoiced in your ancestors.
10 “However, all this will happen only if you pay attention to what Adonai your God says, so that you obey his mitzvot and regulations which are written in this book of the Torah, if you turn to Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being. 11 For this mitzvah which I am giving you today is not too hard for you, it is not beyond your reach. 12 It isn't in the sky, so that you need to ask, ‘Who will go up into the sky for us, bring it to us and make us hear it, so that we can obey it?’ 13 Likewise, it isn't beyond the sea, so that you need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea for us, bring it to us and make us hear it, so that we can obey it?’
14 On the contrary, the word is very close to you — in your mouth, even in your heart; therefore, you can do it!
15 “Look! I am presenting you today with, on the one hand, life and good; and on the other, death and evil — 16 in that I am ordering you today to love Adonai your God, to follow his ways, and to obey his mitzvot, regulations and rulings ; for if you do, you will live and increase your numbers; and Adonai your God will bless you in the land you are entering in order to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away, if you refuse to listen, if you are drawn away to prostrate yourselves before other gods and serve them; 18 I am announcing to you today that you will certainly perish; you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Yarden to enter and possess.
19 “I call on heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have presented you with life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, choose life, so that you will live, you and your descendants, 20 loving Adonai your God, paying attention to what he says and clinging to him — for that is the purpose of your life! On this depends the length of time you will live in the land Adonais wore he would give to your ancestors Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov.”
In the New Covenant We are Told By Messiah Yeshua Himself
When asked as recorded in Matthew 22
"Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?"
He answered,
"You are to love ADONAI your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.' This is the greatest and most important mitzvah. And the second is similar to it,
'You are to love your neighbor as yourself.'
All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot."
9/4/13
What's it it really all about anyway?
As we enter this season of Rosh Hashanah, also Biblically known as "The Feast of Trumpets"
Rosh Hashanah begins a ten day period known as "the Day of Awe" that take us into "Yom Kippur"
The single most Holy Day of the Year - for the Jewish people.
The "Day of Atonement".
Still to this day Jewish people around the globe will take time to fast and pray and reflect on their life. All through the "Days of Awe". Seeking reconciliation with G-d and with other's in their life.
As a believer in Messiah - these High Holy Holidays are so much more glorious to me!
Knowing that Yeshua - is The Lamb of G-d - slain before the foundation of the world.
That Messiah has come once for all (Isaiah 53) and we are but awaiting His second triumphant return - THIS - gives me such a glorious feeling inside my heart and spirit I can not explain! A hope! The Apostle Paul writes about it in the new covenant - about the Messiah being HIS hope of Glory!
I was sitting here in prayer this morning and the Isaiah 53 would not leave me - so I read it.
What a perfect way to start the Days of Awe !
Then I started to get get it......
Why is it that we (G-ds people) can't just forgive others as Yeshua forgave and continues to forgive us?
Here are a few scripture that popped into my head.
"If you love me (Yeshua) you will keep my commands..." John 14:15
"Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me;..." John 14:21
and....in short...what does Messiah command?
John 13:34
"A new command I give you; Love one another as I have loved you, so you must love one another....."
Wow - I don't know about you but those alone are pretty powerful scriptures in and of themselves and I just took three scriptures of hundreds of them to choose - pretty much telling us to do the same thing.
I am most confident every believer has heard these three I have chosen at least one time or another.
I know I have.
If we go a little further in John 13 ch verse 35 Messiah continues to say,..
"By this (loving each other like I loved you) everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. (like I loved you)"
**** I would to stop here and draw the readers attention to a few things***
As humans - have you ever noticed our need for justification? Just to be able to forgive someone?
It's seems also very important to for us to have stipulations and in many cases boundaries when we forgive.
Have you ever thought about that?
The whole part about forgiveness and our need as human beings to feel justified and stipulate it's necessity.
Why is this?
Why do we feel that we can only forgive if.........?
or
We will only forgive but we will never forget....?
And then we tell ourselves G-d is okay with it?
Ummmm - No?....That is right. No!
G-d is not okay with it. You can reference the scriptures above if you like...
"A new command I give you; Love one another as I have loved you, so you must love one another. "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (Like I love YOU as I just mentioned in my last sentence........"I" added this part to make my point)
As I sit here this morning with Messiah - sitting in Awe and reflecting on all that HE had done for me -I can't help but be amazed at my audacity to think I can "fell I have a right" to hold a grudge. Place a boundary. Stipulate in ANY way forgiveness.
I have no justification. I have no right to stipulate.
As he has forgiven. I am commanded to love others as HE LOVED ME.
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13
Messiah Yeshua laid down his life for me in thee most horrific manner, suffering ways I can't imagine, for me, while I was yet a sinner....forgiving me...AND FORGETTING.....casting my sin into the sea of forgetfulness. As far as the East is from the West!
I have NO RIGHT - nor does anyone who wishes to call themselves a disciple of Messiah - to love any less.
I have been challenged this Rosh Hashanah
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
4
Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7
He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8
By oppression[a] and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.[b]
9
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10
Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11
After he has suffered,
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[g]
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
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