Zealous

Numbers 25:11
“Pinchas the son of El‘azar, the son of Aharon the cohen, has deflected my anger from the people of Isra’el by being as zealous as I am, so that I didn’t destroy them in my own zeal.

Mark 7:36
Yeshua ordered the people to tell no one; but the more he insisted, the more zealously they spread the news.

Galatians 4:17
True, these teachers are zealous for you, but their motives are not good. They want to separate you from us so that you will become zealous for them.

Galatians 4:18
To be zealous is good, provided always that the cause is good. Indeed, whether I am present with you or not,

As you can see from the verses above. To be zealous is both good and bad. As you see with Pinchas back in numbers he was zealous for Yahweh and stopped Yahweh from destroying the people of Israel in his anger. But, if you look at the teachers in Galatians they were too zealous and made it about themselves. So be careful when being too zealous. Make sure you stay on the right path with your zealousness. 

Thanks for reading with me this year ya'll. Be sure to come back and read me next year on the A to Z challenge. 

Watch the video below. 

Worship

John 4:24
God is spirit; and worshipers must worship him spiritually and truly.”

1 Samuel 15:25
Now, please, pardon my sin; and come back with me, so that I can worship Adonai.”

2 Samuel 12:20
Then David got up off the ground, washed, anointed himself and changed his clothes. He went into the house of Adonai and worshiped; then he went to his own palace; and when he asked for food, they served it to him; and he ate.

Ezekiel 46:3
The people of the land are also to prostrate themselves in worship before Adonai at the entrance to that gate on Shabbat and on Rosh-Hodesh.

Psalm 22:28
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Adonai; all the clans of the nations will worship in your presence.

Psalm 63:4
for your grace is better than life. My lips will worship you.

Worship is a very important thing to me and my family.  Every Saturday we have praise ad worship for about 30 minutes. A friend and fellow Messianic singer Mason Clover is one of the best worship leaders I have ever met. He has played at our church multiple times. 

Thanks for reading today ya'll. Check out  one of my favorite Mason Clover songs below.

Victory

1 Corinthians 15:57
but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah!

Deuteronomy 20:4

because Adonai your God is going with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies and give you victory.’

Isaiah 61:11
For just as the earth brings forth its plants, or a garden makes its plants spring up, so Adonai, God, will causevictory and glory to spring up before all nations.

Jeremiah 51:10
Adonai has brought forth our victory. Come, let us proclaim in Tziyon the work of Adonai our God!

Psalm 3:9
Victory comes from Adonai; may your blessing rest on your people. (Selah)

Psalm 20:6
Then we will shout for joy at your victory and fly our flags in the name of our God. May Adonai fulfill all your requests.

Psalm 20:7
Now I know that Adonai gives victory to his anointed one — he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand.

Thanks for reading today ya'll. Watch the video below of the Victory Chant.

Strength

Philippians 4:13

13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Isaiah 40:29
He invigorates the exhausted, he gives strength to the powerless.

Exodus 15:2

Yah is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God: I will glorify him; my father’s God: I will exalt him.

Exodus 15:13
In your love, you led the people you redeemed; in your strength, you guided them to your holy abode.

Numbers 24:8
God, who brought them out of Egypt, gives them thestrength of a wild ox. They will devour the nations opposing them, break their bones, pierce them with their arrows.

Deuteronomy 33:25

May your bolts be of iron and bronze and your strength last as long as you live.

I like many of you grew up hearing the line I can do things thru Christ who strengthens me. And, many time I just shrugged it off and didn't believe it. I just thought it was something my mom said because she could. It wasn't until my mom got really sick that I started believing it. It wasn't until I had to run the whole house by myself during the day that I realized that I needed his strength to get me through the day. Even, though she is much better now and I don't need to it by myself anymore I still find myself using this line every day. Even, though I has less on my plate each day I still need his strength to get through my day.

Thanks for reading today ya'll. Listen to the song below. 

Quail

Exodus 16:13
That evening, quails came up and covered the camp; while in the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp.

Numbers 11:31

and Adonai sent out a wind which brought quails from across the sea and let them fall near the camp, about a day’s trip away on each side of the camp and all around it, covering the ground to a depth of three feet.

Numbers 11:32
The people stayed up all that day, all night and all the next day gathering the quails — the person gathering the least collected ten heaps; then they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

Psalm 105:40
When they asked, he brought them quails and satisfied them with food from heaven.

Ok, so it turns out that Q is a very hard letter to find something for when you're doing Bible verses. So, after a long and hard search of things that start with Q that you might find in the Bible. I decided on Quail. Well, I don't have to say about quail. Just that they are delicious or so I've been told. 

Thanks for reading today ya'll. Come back tomorrow for R. 

Names

Exodus 3:14

God said to Moshe, “Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh [I am/will be what I am/will be],” and added, “Here is what to say to the people of Isra’el: ‘Ehyeh [I Am or I Will Be] has sent me to you.’”

Exodus 1:1

These are the names of the sons of Isra’el who came into Egypt with Ya‘akov; each man came with his household:

Exodus 28:29

Aharon will carry the names of the sons of Isra’el on the breastplate for judging, over his heart, when he enters the Holy Place, as a continual reminder before Adonai.

Zechariah 13:2
“When that day comes,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “I will cut off the very names of the idols from the land, so that no one even remembers them any more. I will also expel the [false] prophets and the spirit of uncleanness from the land;

Names! Names are all throughout the Bible. From the very beginning to the very end. From the first five books to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. It is even the name of one of the books. Sh'mot or Exodus means names in Hebrew. Names are very important to Yahweh and his Torah. As you can see in the first verse Yahweh even told Moshe the name to call him by. 

Thanks for reading today ya'll. See you Monday with the letter O.

Make sure to watch the video to the right.

Messiah

John 4:25
The woman replied, “I know that Messiah is coming” (that is, “the one who has been anointed”). “When he comes, he will tell us everything.”

Mark 9:41
Indeed, whoever gives you even a cup of water to drink because you come in the name of the Messiah — yes! I tell you that he will certainly not lose his reward.

John 17:3 And eternal life is this: to know you, the one true God, and him whom you sent, Yeshua the Messiah.

John 1:17

For the Torah was given through Moshe; grace and truth came through Yeshua the Messiah.

Well we have made it half way through the A-Z Challenge. M is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet. It has been fun so far and I look forward to the rest of the challenge. 

Yeshua the Messiah the healer, the redeemer, the son of God. Yahweh left all of his glory behind to come to earth and die for us. To take away all of our sins. To heal us and to redeem us. To make us his once again. 

Thanks for reading today ya'll. Come back and see me tomorrow with the letter N.

Egypt

Exodus 12:1-10
12 Adonai spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Egypt; he said,2 “You are to begin your calendar with this month; it will be the first month of the year for you. 3 Speak to all the assembly of Isra’el and say, ‘On the tenth day of this month, each man is to take a lamb or kid for his family, one per household — 4 except that if the household is too small for a whole lamb or kid, then he and his next-door neighbor should share one, dividing it in proportion to the number of people eating it.5 Your animal must be without defect, a male in its first year, and you may choose it from either the sheep or the goats.

6 “‘You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, and then the entire assembly of the community of Isra’el will slaughter it at dusk.7 They are to take some of the blood and smear it on the two sides and top of the door-frame at the entrance of the house in which they eat it.8 That night, they are to eat the meat, roasted in the fire; they are to eat it with matzah and maror. 9 Don’t eat it raw or boiled, but roasted in the fire, with its head, the lower parts of its legs and its inner organs. 10 Let nothing of it remain till morning; if any of it does remain, burn it up completely.

Exodus 12:29-36

29 At midnight Adonai killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock. 30 Pharaoh got up in the night, he, all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was horrendous wailing in Egypt; for there wasn’t a single house without someone dead in it. 31 He summoned Moshe and Aharon by night and said, “Up and leave my people, both you and the people of Isra’el; and go, serve Adonai as you said. 32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you said; and get out of here! But bless me, too.” 33 The Egyptians pressed to send the people out of the land quickly, because they said, “Otherwise we’ll all be dead!”
34 The people took their dough before it had become leavened and wrapped their kneading bowls in their clothes on their shoulders. 35 The people of Isra’el had done what Moshe had said — they had asked the Egyptians to give them silver and gold jewelry and clothing; 36 and Adonai had made the Egyptians so favorably disposed toward the people that they had let them have whatever they requested. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

Alright today we are going to talk about the Israelites leaving Egypt (the exodus). We've all read the story of the Exodus. About how Yahweh lead the Israelites out of slavery.  But, today I'm going to talk about something much greater than the Israelites. Today, I'm going to talk about the greatest Exodus, Yeshua dying for us on the cross. You can see he's there all through out the Exodus story. If you read verse 7 you can see that they are talking about blood saving the first born of the people. And, Yeshua was Yahweh's firstborn and it was by his blood that we are saved. 

Thanks for reading Ya'll. See you tomorrow. 

Ark of the Covenant

Hey ya'll for this year's a-z challenge I will be doing Bible verses for each letter. So here we go with the first letter A.

Ark of the Covenant
Exodus 25:10-22
10 “They are to make an ark of acacia-wood three-and-three-quarters feet long, two-and-a-quarter feet wide and two-and-a-quarter feet high.11 You are to overlay it with pure gold — overlay it both inside and outside — and put a molding of gold around the top of it. 12 Cast four gold rings for it, and attach them to its four feet, two rings on each side. 13 Make poles of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. 14 Put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark; you will use them to carry the ark. 15 The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they are not to be removed from it. 16 Into the ark you are to put the testimony which I am about to give you.
17 “You are to make a cover for the ark out of pure gold; it is to be three-and-three-quarters feet long and two-and-a-quarter feet high.18 You are to make two k’ruvim of gold. Make them of hammered work for the two ends of the ark-cover. 19 Make one keruv for one end and one keruv for the other end; make the k’ruvim of one piece with the ark-cover at its two ends. 20 The k’ruvim will have their wings spread out above, so that their wings cover the ark, and their faces are toward each other and toward the ark-cover. 21 You are to put the ark-cover on top of the ark.
“Inside the ark you will put the testimony that I am about to give you. 22 There I will meet with you. I will speak with you from above the ark-cover, from between the two k’ruvim which are on the ark for the testimony, about all the orders I am giving you for the people of Isra’el.

Ok, now that you have read the verses about the making of the Ark, lets talk some more about it.

Placed inside the Ark were: a jar of manna, the tablets of the covenant (10 commandments), and Aharon's staff. Now, the Ark was very important to Yahweh and the children of Israel. But, why?

Well, think about it. The Ark was where Yahweh sat to be in the presence of his people, his children. I would think that would be very important to him. Ok, so no one was aloud to touch the Ark directly or else they would die. Not, even the High Priest could touch it or carry it. The only ones allowed to carry it were the Levites themselves. And, they had to use the poles that were attached to it. They could NOT touch the Ark itself.  

Alright enough on what I have to say about it, I want to see what you have to say.

Please comment with your opinions below.