Archives for January 2015

It’s a Set-Up!!!

January 27, 2015 By

Ever been surrounded by job loss on one side, a wayward child on another, and medical issues on yet another side? At that point you wonder:

  • Where is God???
  • Why am I in this situation??
  • Did He bring me out to destroy me?

What I realize from my experience with God is that “It’s a Set-up!”

When the Children of Israel left Egypt, they left with great rejoicing! After over 400 years of slavery they were free. That is . . . until God intentionally leads them into what appears to be a trap. This is what he tells Moses: “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon” (Exodus 14:1).

Apparently, the Children of Israel were hemmed in with mountains on all sides and the Red Sea in front of them. You have to wonder: A Trap? Or a Set-up? The Children of Israel saw it as a Trap! God saw it differently. This is what He says to Moses: “When Pharaoh sees their location, he will think ” . . .

  • ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’ (NIV)
  • ‘The Israelites are confused. They are trapped in the wilderness!’ (NLT)
  • ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ (NASB)
  • ‘They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. (JPS)

God intentionally sent His children into what seemed to be a trap . . . and here is the reason:  “I will get Me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.” (Exodus 14:4 JPS). IT WAS A SET-UP!

Consider this New Testament scenario: Yeshua has just worked miracles among the crowd in Matthew 14:22: “Immediately Yeshua made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side.” Consider the word “made.” He coerced them! He told them! He gave them an order. As I read this passage, here is my dialogue with Yeshua:

  • ME: But Yeshua, there is going to be a storm at sea and the disciples will be in the midst of it.
  • YESHUA: I know.
  • ME: Then why are you sending them out into the very midst of it?

Say it with me: IT’S A SET UP!

YESHUA: I’m trying to show you My glory! I want you to see a glimpse of Who I really am! I’m trying to bring you deeper into My presence!

Say it with me again: IT’S A SET-UP!!!

Whatever you’re facing today, you are not in it alone! It is true that some things we bring upon ourselves, but God can use even those things to set us up for a blessing! Between a rock & a hard place!??? Between Migdol, Baal-Zephon, Pi-hahiroth and the sea??  IT’S A SET-UP!!! Out on a boat in the midst of the storm!!!  IT’S A SET-UP!!! Stop seeing things as Pharaoh did or as the Children of Israel did. It’s not a trap! IT’S A SET-UP!

Let Him get what He wants: Honor & Glory!!  He’s worthy of ALL of it!!

Shalom Oveerecha,
(Peace & Blessings)

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Torah Scroll Dedication Service

January 27, 2015 By

After seven months of ministry, Kingdom Life Messianic Congregation has acquired a Torah Scroll from Jerusalem. To God Be the Glory!!! torah2Pastors David & Juanita Weiss and the KLMC Family cordially invite you to help us celebrate its arrival into our sanctuary for the very first time. You can participate in a Torah Service and hear readings from the Torah. You’ll see that the entire service, and the Torah itself, points us to the Living Torah — Yeshua our Messiah! If you’ve never worshipped the Lord this way, you’re in for an experience! Join us in celebrating this grand occasion as we celebrate the ONE who wrote the Words of the Torah upon our hearts!

Saturday, January 31, 2015, 10:30 A.M.
Kingdom Life Messianic Congregation
1280 Bells Mill Road, Chesapeake 23322

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Free Hebrew Classes!

January 6, 2015 By

UnknownWouldn’t you love to read this passage from Deuteronomy? Maybe you’ve  wanted to learn Hebrew but didn’t know where to go to do it?

Hebrew is the language of the Torah and therefore the language set apart by God. Each Hebrew letter has numerical and symbolic significance.

Enhance your study of the Word of God by learning Hebrew. Kingdom Life Messianic Congregation offers Hebrew classes every Shabbat (Saturday) from 1:45 to 2:45 pm, 1280 Bells Mill Road, Chesapeake, VA 23322

(Monthly freewill offering will be taken for the Hebrew teacher.)

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God’s Calendar

January 6, 2015 By

As I left the shopping center last night, my eyes were drawn to the moon. There it stood, a round, beautiful, white orb in the eastern sky. I smiled — not at the moon, per se, but at the moon’s Maker. I knew, without a doubt, that it was the middle of the Hebrew month Tevet. A full moon always occurs during the middle of the Hebrew month.

The Creator aligned the stars, planets and moons to his making! He said in Gen. 14:1, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years.”

He’s already marked everything for us.  It’s done! We don’t need to try to “create” anything new! We don’t need an astrologer, a soothsayer or a fortuneteller. He’s marked it all!

I know that the full moon is called, by some, the “harvest moon” for farmer;  the “hunter’s moon” for hunters; and attributed to all kinds of superstitious lore, but do you know that there was a full moon, probably the biggest, brightest full moon ever, the night the Children of Israel left Egypt? There was a full moon on the night Yeshua was born, the night Yeshua wept in the Garden of Gethsemane, and on the night of his crucifixion. All purposeful!! Only God!!!!!

He was the one who commanded us to watch for and observe the new moon each month so that we honor and follow His unique calendar and the arrival of His special holy days. So I have decided to align my life with what God is doing. Even though I live under the Gregorian calendar, I will not set my sights there. I will live according to it in the natural, but NOT in the spiritual! January is January in the natural, but Tevet is spiritual; it is the month God has ordained!

I will set my sights upon what He said He has designated for us, so that I will know the “sacred times, the days and the years,” not to worship the moon or any other celestial being, but to observe it to follow His Calendar.

Do you want to discover what God is doing? Well, let’s align our lives with His times. And when you see a crescent moon, a full moon or just a sliver of a moon, please know that God ordered it to be so at that time and He ordered it for you.

Jews pray at the sight of every new moon. Let me pray this prayer over you during this month of Tevet: “May it be Your will, O LORD our God and God of our fathers, that you renew for us a good month in our Lord Yeshua the Messiah! Amen!”

Chodesh Tov! Have a blessed month!

(Tevet ends January 20th and the month of Shevat begins on the 21st.)

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