Giving Thanks For Our Enemies

Posted by on Sep 28, 2010 in From the Heart of the Mountain | 1 comment The apostle Shaul revealed that it is the will of Elohim in Messiah Yeshua that believers are to give thanks in everything.  In everything give thanks: for this is the will of Elohim in Messiah Yeshua concerning you. (1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV)  This is not always an easy task.  It is especially difficult when one’s enemies are attacking at every turn.  Thanking the Sovereign One for...
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No Cross No Glory

Posted by on Sep 7, 2010 in From the Heart of the Mountain | 3 comments From our childhood onward we all seek for recognition, affirmation, and attention from those around us. As children, we long to hear our parents affirming recognition of our efforts, obedience, and performance.  As students, we rejoice to see the teachers encouraging comments in red ink next to the circled letter grade with the little plus sign next to it.  As an employee we desire to receive a...
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Suffering Body of Messiah

Posted by on Aug 25, 2010 in From the Heart of the Mountain | 8 comments Yeshua the Messiah, our Master, was a real, tangible, flesh and blood person—just as we are—but without having transgressed the Torah.  The author of the letter to the Hebrews and the Apostle John were emphatic about this reality. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Yeshua Messiah is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that...
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The Baptism of Fire

Posted by on Jul 25, 2010 in From the Heart of the Mountain | 3 comments For I am YHWH your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 45 For I am YHWH that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. (Leviticus 11:44-45 KJV) Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for...
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What Were We Saying?

Posted by on Jul 13, 2010 in From the Heart of the Mountain | 0 comments And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? 34 But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. (Mark 9:33-34 KJV)  I can only image what it would be like if the Messiah showed up at one of our Messianic conferences, synagogues or church meetings, or home...
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How Long O YHWH?

Posted by on Jun 30, 2010 in From the Heart of the Mountain | 2 comments There are times in all of our lives when the hurt, the heartache, the fear, the anxiety, the challenge, or the cross that is before us is so real, so painful, that we become blind and deaf to the presence of the Holy One in our lives.  The discomfort of the cross we are sometimes asked to carry reminds us that our flesh is still very much alive.  While our flesh is crying, shouting, screaming,...
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