We don’t have to argue about it, all we have to do is to get out the words of the Father himself and see where he said that “these are a permanent regulation for you, for all generations” and know that it was also for us, in our generation, too.

We can learn more everyday about the Messiah and his culture, the Rabbis’ words HE grew up on and what it meant to his fellow Jews and learn what he was really saying as a Jewish, Torah-keeping Rabbi. We can read about traditions that Messiah held to and which ones he said went against the commandments and were burdensome to the people.

We have access to all of this and can search the Father and his will for our lives if we are willing to look for truth and to accept that perhaps, as Jeremiah said, “we have inherited the lies of our fathers….”

May we all seek his ways and learn more each day so that we can walk as Messiah walked and be YHVH to the people.

I found a great excerpt from Restoring Our Lost Legacy by Dr John Garr at Robin’s blog, Heart of Wisdom. I was very pleasantly surprised at the responses to each and every objection I have encountered by Christians when it comes to Torah and “grace”. If you have any misunderstandings about “Grace and the Law”, and Keeping Torah, please be sure to check it out.

Leviticus 23
1 YHVH said to Moshe, 2 “Tell the people of Isra’el: ‘The designated times of YHVH which you are to proclaim as holy convocations are my designated times…. 43 so that generation after generation of you will know that I made the people of Isra’el live in sukkot when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am YHVH your God.’” 44 Thus Moshe announced to the people of Isra’el the designated times of YHVH.

Be sure to read in between the dots to understand what days and times the Father has appointed to us as “a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live.”
Click here to read it in Leviticus 23.

Shalom~

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YHVH is my Rock and my Redeemer. Without him, I am nothing. Without him, I cannot walk in this world set apart from its evil ways.

This is the view from our porch at Pook Rd in April 2010

Praise HIM. May my mouth praise HIM.

Shalom!

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Jocelyn made me a really nice icon to change the name of my meme to a more fitting, less pagan-origin one! I have been wanting to get back into posting my weekly praise, and I was hoping to get the icon on here asap. Others have kept it up a whole lot better than I have since we got here! Anyway, I don’t have my password for her to upload it, so it will hopefully be here next week! Thanks Jocelyn, and sorry!

Thank you for joining me for Shabbat Shalom! Praise. If you would like to read others’ thoughts, praises this week, please follow the links below. If you would like to join us for Shabbat Shalom! Praise, we welcome you! We welcome you to participate. You can read about the meme HERE. Please leave a comment with your direct link on this post and link back to Walking Therein in your own Shabbat Shalom! Praise.

Shalom!

Bless you, Father, for yet one more time to praise you, to love you, to bring our petitions to you. You hold time in your hands and give to each of us the time we were created for.

May your name be known in all of the earth, YHVH.

Friends, we are the people of the mightiest Elohim -the mightiest god that there is. There is none greater. There is none more loving and kind, nor more just and jealous and true.

The truth is that time is a valuable commodity. We only have so many hours in the day to learn and complete what the Father has for us for the day. If we defer from his plans, those minutes will never be gotten back. Much different from money, isn’t it? We all worry about where our next dollar is coming from or what we will do if we don’t have X amt of money, but we fritter away time and miss opportunities without giving it another thought.

We are only given one life and the hours in that life. Money can be made over. Time is gone once it ticks away.

What will you do with your time?

We spent the past twenty years training our children up in Christianity. We never knew we were supposed to train them up in Scriptures and Torah alone, not man’s doctrines. That may sound stupid to you, but when was the last time you were in your church and the preacher said to follow the Torah commandments? Or turn to this week’s Torah readings? If you sit in a Christian church each week, you will not hear this, even though it is the foundation for our faith. The foundation of the faith of our Messiah. Yes, Yehoshua(aka Jesus) is the foundation – the Living Torah – the Son of YHVH, who walked in Torah, taught us from Torah, based all of his words on Torah, and then told us to go and teach it to others. But the Christian Saviour is severely lacking in being a Torah Keeper. You might say he is a man of Torah-lessness(lawlessness).

In twenty years of being a Christian, I never heard that Jesus walked in and kept the Torah. I never heard this Torah truth – the fact that he himself said that Torah has not been abolished and the Feasts are still appointments we must keep with YHVH. I had no idea what my Messiah really looked like. I didn’t know his given name. But, yet, I cried out for him in my spirit for all of that time.  I was taught and told to love a Saviour different than the Messiah sent by the Father.

For all of that time, I tried to teach him to my children, but I was teaching the wrong Messiah. I was teaching a Saviour who does not look like the Messiah. I was teaching a truth that is but a shadow, a speck, of what the Father has for his people.

[How did that happen? ]

Jeremiah 16
10 “When you tell this people all that I have said, and they ask you, ‘Why has YHVH decreed all this terrible disaster against us? What is our iniquity, what is our sin, that we have committed against YHVH our God?’ 11 then you are to say to them, ‘It is because your ancestors abandoned me, says YHVH, and went after other gods, serving and worshiping them, but abandoned me and did not keep my Torah. 12 And you have done worse than your ancestors, for – look! – each of you lives according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
19 YHVH, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in time of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, saying, “Our ancestors inherited nothing but lies, futile idols, completely useless.”

LIES. Lies. We were passed down lies. The cornerstone of the faith is a tallit-wearing, 7th-Day-Shabbat-keeping, Torah teaching, Jewish Rabbi. THAT picture is a bit different than the Jesus I heard about all my life, from the time I went to Catholic school to the time I got saved in an Assembly of God Church to the seeker-friendly church we attended last in small-town America. Not one of them knows who this man is.

And, he said they wouldn’t know him.

Matthew 7
‘ 21 “Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, only those who do what my Father in heaven wants. 22 On that Day, many will say to me, `Lord, Lord! Didn’t we prophesy in your name? Didn’t we expel demons in your name? Didn’t we perform many miracles in your name?’ 23 Then I will tell them to their faces, `I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!‘ ‘

Lawlessness: without the Law: Torahlessness.
Do you see the picture starting to take shape here?

All of that T I M E to learn the truth. All that time to teach my children that we are indeed to walk as the Messiah walked. I believed the lies. Gone. All that time to search the Father’s words and put the weight on them that Yehoshua(aka Jesus) did.

All that time to learn the Feasts and Times and Seasons that showed his first coming and his second.

All that T I M E. Why? Why wouldn’t I read it and teach it? That’s part of the lie. I never read it for myself. I never read it without the shadow of man’s doctrines. We all know that grace entered the world at the cross and did away with the “curse of the Law”, right???

WRONG.

We have inherited LIES. And those lies bind us up and waste the precious time, the years that YHVH, the Father, has prepared for us to live out in him. Time for us to teach his true words, his lost words, to our children. Want to know what to train them up in? Train them up in every word that comes from the mouth of YHVH, the Torah. Want to defeat the enemy in your life? Learn the same Scriptures that Messiah used to turn his lies back. Speak the words of Scripture that Messiah knew and put into action. Want to know the truth? Grace came into our lives as humans in the GARDEN when the Father gave them the hope of Messiah.

Time. It is a precious commodity in our lives. We are the stewards of it, and it is up to us to teach the use of it to our children. Use it wisely. Be wise in his ways.

“23 Then I will tell them to their faces, `I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!‘ ‘”

Do not spend another minute wasting time.  Read it for yourself. No longer practice the Lawless lives you are leading. Turn to him and embrace all he has given us and all that he is.

Have a blessed Shabbat rest. May you learn all he has for you this day and walk in his narrow path.

Shalom!

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We also shipped the Shabbat glasses we use each Friday and Saturday nights.  They were my Great-Grandmother’s.  On my mother’s side. Some of them, Amanda sought out and bought at the Goodwill, and some my mother bought. About half of them made the trip. I should have packed them better.

We had celebrated two Shabbats here using the china and the glasses, and Hannah washed them and set them out to dry. When Eric got the bottle of honey out, he had no idea it would slip out of his hands, right down onto the Shabbat glasses and break four of them. Yes, FOUR! I have to admit I cried. It wasn’t that they are so important, but probably more that these were the glasses we had used when we were all together in our HOME, having Shabbat, and now they were gone. We brought so little of what we had, and it was just too much at that moment. Just an emotional thing, I suppose.

Things can be an emotional for us humans, can’t they? We can get attached to our things and think we can’t live without them. I get attached to all of the memories of all we have done with our things.  A lot of the things I left in the States I had a hard time parting with because one of my children had bought it for me – or made it for me.  I did bring a few things like that, probably more than I planned, because, when you get right down to it, they are important to me. Like a piece of that child at that moment in time. Granted, I left a whole lot that held dear memories for me too, but when I look around here, I am surprised at all we did get to bring.

As I thought about the broken Shabbat glasses, I had the same feeling I have every time something like this happens. After I cry and think of all the memories attached to it, I have to say, “They are only things, Jacque; just things.” I had a bowl, several years back, from the dinner set we got for our wedding, and about fifteen years later, I think I just had the one bowl left and a few plates and coffee cups.  One of the children broke the last bowl, and I was very upset. It was, after all, the last one I had, and it was special to me.

But it was just things.

After overreacting, and feeling horrible that I did, I did something to remind myself how much more important my children are to me than my things are, precious or not, memories or not. I glued all the pieces back together and wrote on the inside of the bowl. Some were sayings and some was Scripture. I would show you a picture of it, but I don’t have the bowl anymore. It didn’t make the cut of things to leave the States with. My children did make the cut. All but one of them came with us.

I daily look around and think of something else we had to leave in the States. A week after we arrived here in this new home, Caleb wasn’t listening, and he broke a glass piece I had brought with us. Again,  another broken thing. When we were on our way to Florida to take our things to ship to Costa Rica and fly out from Ft. Lauderdale, I can tell you that it was very emotional. We all were thinking of our animals, our home, our family and friends… all we were leaving.

We left a lot. We gave away a lot. One day, it hit me that of all the things I left in the States, there is nothing more dear to me that I left behind than my daughter. Of all the things I will never have again because it was broken, I would say the hardest thing I deal with is my broken heart. And hers. I would leave all of these things there to have her here with us.

So, broken things, they all teach us a lesson. And that is the way to live: learning from each and every moment that comes into our lives. Brokenness is a good thing in the Father’s eyes. It is when we are broken that we are able to be molded into what the Father has for our lives. He wants us broken, not to our detriment, but to our good and his glory. We can be cool, smart, pretty, whatever, but that’s when we are seeing ourselves. When we see him is when we are broken and at our end, and he can be what we and others see.

That is what Yehoshua did. If he were a composer or artist, we would deem that as his “magnum opus”. He had finished all he was purposed here for, to teach us how to walk in the Father’s ways and to give his life to ransom us from the stronghold of sin. He was broken. He was beaten, degraded and broken, and that was when he said it was finished.  He had accomplished his purpose for that time.

We will live lives, some of us with broken hearts, broken things, broken marriages, broken relationships, broken bodies, etc. etc… and this is the time he can be seen best if we place it in his hands. I am not always so good with fixing broken things. There always seems to be missing pieces, and it never looks the same with glue. There are always cracks that stay visible to the eye… But the Father, well, he can make those scars heal or leave them there, and still heal us. He takes broken things and makes them his and creates in them something we could never imagine.

So, it is not so bad a thing to be broken. To be a broken thing in Yah’s sight is a precious thing. It is the time when I am ready to be his and allow him to work his work in me. I imagine, just like when I have had things broken, that all of a sudden, their value is seen more greatly by me, just as our being broken is a valuable thing to the Father and its value is seen better by others then through his hands too.

I need to get better at being broken and allowing him to fix me. What about you?

Shalom~

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“It is YHVH who girds me with strength; he makes my way go straight. He makes me swift, sure-footed as a deer, and enables me to stand on my high places. He trains my hands for war until my arms can bend a bow of bronze; “You give me your shield, which is salvation, your right hand holds me up, your humility makes me great.”
Psalms 18:32-35

Let us thank and place our faith in the one who makes our ways straight and enables us to stand in the high places. Time will not always be easy. Times WILL be tough. They will soon be getting a lot tougher. But, as I was discussing with a good friend last evening, we were born for these times and so were our children. We must stand up in the Father and his words, led by the Father’s Spirit and walk in these days. We must place all of our hopes and dreams and trials and shortcomings at his feet and allow him to be our all.

He is, right now, if we will let him, training our hands for war and gives us his shield of salvation as his right hand holds us up. Let us come before him, humbled. Let us strip our own hopes and dreams, our failed dreams, our plans and come to him with no expectations and no offenses, humbly before him following his commandments, walking in what he has for us.

Let us be his people.

Shalom~

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