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Sukkot Event

Grandparent musings . . .
The other afternoon Rhonda and I were walking around the yard with the youngest of our six grandkids while two of the others played in the distance. As we guarded his steps, listening and trying to understand his words and making sure he didn’t falter while keeping an eye on the others, I suddenly realized that, if time permits and the LORD tarries, they will have opportunity to return the favor . . . so as the days grow more challenging, may we be driven closer together in Abba . . . Shalom U’Vrachot – Peace & Blessings –
DAYS THAT CALL FOR PERSEVERANCE . . .
7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to YHVH, that HE may have compassion on him, and to our God, for HE will abundantly pardon.
8 For MY thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways MY ways, declares YHVH.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are MY ways higher than your ways and MY thoughts than your thoughts.
10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so shall MY WORD be that goes out from MY mouth; it shall not return to ME empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
12 “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for YHVH, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
Isaiah 56:1 Thus says YHVH :”Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon MY Salvation
2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3 Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to YHVH say, ” YHVH will surely separate me from HIS people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
4 For thus says YHVH : “To the eunuchs who keep MY Sabbaths, who choose the things that please ME and hold fast MY covenant,
5 I will give in MY house and within MY walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
6 “And the foreigners who join themselves to YHVH, to minister to HIM, to love the name of YHVH, and to be HIS servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast MY covenant-
7 these I will bring to MY holy mountain, and make them joyful in MY house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on MY altar; for MY house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
8 Adonai YHVH, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, “I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.”
SHABBAT SHALOM
PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
Feast of Trumpets – The Day of the Blast
Zechariah 9:14 “Then the LORD will appear over them; his arrow will flash like lightning. The Sovereign LORD will sound the trumpet; he will march in the storms of the south . . .”
Chag Sameach – Happy Holidays and Shabbat Shalom – see ya’ there – J & R
The September Calendar
Here are the dates and times for the assemblies surrounding the Fall Holidays.
Yom Teruah – Feast of Trumpets – will begin Wed. evening the 4th and the assembly will be held at the congregational building at 7:00pm. From sundown wednesday until sundown thursday is a ‘high sabbath’.
Yom Kippur will begin friday evening and, as has been our practice, we will break the fast together in an assembly on saturday the 14th at 6:30pm ( also at the congregational building ) in lieu of our regular afternoon Shabbat meeting. This friday evening through saturday evening is also a ‘particularly high day’.
Wednesday evening, the 18th, will be the first assembly of the week of Sukkot and will take place at the Mercer County Fairgounds, Harrodsburg KY, 7:30pm. We will have access to the fairgrounds all that day on wednesday so folks can have time for ‘set-up’ prior to the ‘high sabbath’ beginning at sundown wednesday evening.
Based on the feedback so far, the cost for the use of the fairgrounds for Sukkot will be $60.00 per family unit for the entire 8 day period.
If you have NOT contacted us concerning your plans to attend, please do ASAP – we need to know by wednesday of this week . . .Wed Aug. 21st . . .
Stay tuned for more updates over the next few days as we make final plans for this year’s Feast of Tabernacles – Rehearsal for the final Homecoming . . . Shalom U’vrachot- J & R
UPCOMING FALL HOLIDAYS
Shalom to your home – J & R
PRAISE & WORSHIP WEEKEND . . .
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Word of the Lord: from Prophet Kevin Barrett June 7, 2012
Oh My people, listen to Me this day. Is there anything in the earth realm
that I am not aware of? My people, I hear your cries as they go up before
Me. I am not a God that is afar off, but I am near, even as the Word in
your mouth and heart.
Oh, My people, do not fret at the circumstances you find yourself in. Did
I not say that judgment shall begin at My house? Then why do many of you
find yourself perplexed at the trials and testings that have come upon
you.
My people, hear Me this day. I am doing a new thing in the earth and the
old wineskins cannot hold this new move of My Spirit. I must do away with
your old ways, My people. You MUST get into My word and know My truth and
My ways. For not one jot or tittle of My word shall go unfulfilled in
these last days. The trial that you find yourself in is the testing of My
word in you. Yes, My children, I am testing each of you to see if you will
stand in and on My word in ALL of your circumstances, even to the smallest
of consequence. For My people shall walk uprightly before me and worship
Me in Spirit AND in truth.
Do not be surprised at this, My little ones. For I tell you, the false
shepherds and prophets have lied to you. They have not prepared My people
for My TRUE coming. For I am not coming to take a lukewarm, backslidden
church out of the earth in what many of you know as a rapture. For My
bride shall be adorned in My righteousness and shine forth with My glory.
And for this to happen, I must take My chosen ones through the fires of My
choosing to burn off all that is not of Me.
So take heart, My little ones. I have not left you to your own dire
circumstances. But instead I have ordained them to test your hearts and to
purify you. I love each of you, My little ones and do not desire that any
of you shrink back. For I take no pleasure in those that do. But hear Me,
and hear Me well when I tell you that the fires will only get hotter. I do
not say this to discourage you, My little ones. But I say this to prepare
you to go through My purifying fires. And those that are not Mine, though
they say they are, will not endure, but fall away instead. Yes, My
children, you are all about to witness the great falling away. But not
until first there shall come a revival. A revival that will bring in the
masses. I tell you this now, My children so that you will not be deceived.
For when this revival comes, there shall also be many wolves in sheeps
clothing that will deceive and lead many astray. Be not deceived My little
ones, for not all of this revival shall be of Me. For My revival begins in
the heart of each believer. But the enemy will counterfeit this revival
with his own, and many shall flock to it. Do not follow the counterfeit
revival when you see it. For it will come with great showing of signs and
wonders. But there will not be any conviction of My Spirit or taking up of
ones cross.
Hear Me well, My children. You are entering and have entered into the days
of great deception. Not everyone that says Lord, Lord is of Me. Test the
spirits, My children and look for the fruit. For there shall be great
signs and wonders in these last days and many shall be deceived. But I do
not desire for My own to be deceived. Therefore, I say unto you, unless
you ground yourself in the truth of My word and seek to know me in a
constant and daily personal relationship, then you too may fall into
deception.
Do not be disheartened at these words of Mine this day, My children. For I
do not come to you to discourage you, but to forewarn and to prepare you so
that you are not deceived in these last days. I love you, My children, and
do not desire for evil to befall any of you. But if you do not heed my
words this day and seek after Me and love Me with all your heart, soul and
strength, then you shall be open prey to the enemy.
Seek Me, My children, not just head knowledge of My word. For a head
knowledge is not TRUE knowledge of Me. (2 Tim. 3:7) True knowledge of me is
a spirit to Spirit relationship with Me and My Word.
Oh, My dear little ones. You do not know, nor could you know the depths of
the gross darkness soon to come. You MUST be grounded in My living Word
and close to Me at all times. Your adversary knows that his time is short
and is preparing a launch attack against all those that declare My name.
Many will fall to his schemes. But it is My desire that I have a remnant
that will not bow. So I say; seek Me, My children and pray to be found
worthy to escape the things to come.
I am preparing My bride, My little ones. Do not listen to the voices that
tell you that I shall come at any moment to take My bride away. Lies of
the enemy, My little ones. Lies to get you complacent and cause you to
have a false hope in that you shall not have to endure and fight like a
good soldier in this coming darkness.
Oh, My little ones, I love each of you and have even the hairs on your head
counted. Do not think that I take it lightly when one of My children fall
prey to the enemy. But hear Me, My children. I have given you each a will
and I shall not override that will. So be warned, you must be prepared for
what is coming. Do not rely on your pastors, but seek Me. I AM the living
truth and I must be abiding in you at all times. Your pastor cannot save
you. And many pastors today are not preparing My children for what is
coming. And I tell you now that many pastors of My sheep are blind
themselves. So how do you think they can save you, My little ones?
Oh, I do not tell you each to turn from your pastor. But I do tell you to
test the spirits and seek for their fruit. For if your pastor is not
preparing you for what is coming and promising you an easy-out rapture
instead, then flee. Seek to save your soul as a bird out of the snare of
the fowler. You have been lulled to sleep by the enemy. Wake up, My
children. The night is far spent and the Day is at hand. Prepare
yourselves, My little ones. For great shall be this coming darkness.
I love you all, My dear ones and do not desire for any of you to perish.
But I tell you all now, seek Me above all things. And seek for Me to purge
and purify you with My cleansing fire. And take heart, for soon, those of
you that have been purified shall see Me. And when you do, you shall be
like Me in Spirit and in Truth.
Mother’s Day . . .
In the United States, even before there was an official Mother’s Day, there were efforts to set aside certain days to honor mothers. According to World Book Advanced, in 1872, Julia Ward Howe suggested June 2nd be a day of peace, honoring mothers in the United States. She held an annual Mother’s Day meeting in Boston for several years to celebrate the day.
There were others to follow, such as Kentucky schoolteacher Mary Towles Sasseen, who started conducting Mother’s Day in 1887, and Frank E. Hering of South Bend, Ind., who created a campaign to observe Mother’s Day in 1904.
“In one of those mad boundless leaps taken only by the most creative holiday entrepreneurs, Anna Jarvis went national,” wrote American Enterprise magazine, the publication of the American Enterprise Institute. “She decided that henceforth, on the anniversary of her mother’s death, all Americans ought to honor the women who gave them birth.”
Mother’s Day Voted Down!
The Senate by an overwhelming margin of 33-14 killed the measure by sending it back to committee. However, as American Enterprise magazine related, Anna Jarvis was not deterred. She called on the World’s Sunday School Association. By 1914, the idea of a Mother’s Day became the darling cause of members of Congress, and the holiday, set for the second Sunday of May, became part of our national culture. ( end of article )
Before the celebration existed in the US as we know it, the concept of ‘honoring motherhood’ has been tried and tested in various ways in differing times and cultures. Even the ancient egyptians, greeks and romans tied the ‘honoring of motherhood’ to the worship of their idols. So for the those that attempt to live according to God’s Word and stay away from things that are idolatrous or pagan in their nature, what do we do with Mother’s Day ?
Well, before Anna Jarvis and the Kentucky schoolteacher . . . before Julia Ward Howe . . . even before the greeks, the romans and the ancient egyptians . . . even before all of these, there was and is the ‘Ancient of Days’ and His Word. What does HE have to say about honoring mothers ?
Just that . . . “That you shall honor your mother ( and your father ), that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you” . . . Exo 20:12, Deut 5:16, Matt 15:4-6, and Eph 6:1-2 . . .
And let us not forget Proverbs chapter 31 starting with verse 10 speaking of the ‘virtuous woman’ .
Verse 28 of that passage says that ‘her children rise up and call her blessed and her husband also sings her praises’ . . .
Here is just one more example of Father God laying down a mandate and a pattern for His people, and then the ‘enemy’ comes along and counterfeits it ( which is what he does ) or ‘we’ get all excited thinking that we have ‘entrepreneur-ed’ a ‘new’ holiday when all along it was written down in God’s Word for His people . . . “Honor your Mother”.
Should we honor Her everyday ? Sure we should. Is there anything wrong with picking out a ‘special day’ just for her ? If there is, I can’t find it.
THEREFORE . . . this Shabbat we will ( get the jump on everybody else a day early and ) honor our motherswith a little gift and give opportunity for ‘her children to call her blessed and for her husband to sing her praises’ . . .
And while we are at it, we will have the ‘blessing of the children’ .It reminds me of a line from an old song . . . it went something like this . . .
“Wrap up the babies and grab all the ladies and everyone come . . .”
So come on and we will see you at Shabbat . . .
‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this ( the keeping ) is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, YHVH , sanctify you.
Shalom U’Vrachot – Peace & Blessings – J & R
P.S. – Next Shabbat,- May 18th – there will be a time change. Another ‘note’ about that is coming on the heels of this one. Ya’ just can’t stand the anticipation, can ya’ ?
