Yahweh

Genesis 2:4

Here is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created. On the day when Yahweh, God, made earth and heaven,

Genesis 2:7

Then Yahweh, God, formed a person from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living being.

Genesis 13:4
where he had first built the altar; and there Avram called on the name of Yahweh.

Genesis 26:28
They answered, “We saw very clearly that Yahweh has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there be an oath between us: let’s make a pact between ourselves and you

Exodus 3:15
Elohim said further to Moshe, “Say this to the people of Isra’el: ‘Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh [Yahweh], the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz’chak and the God of Ya‘akov, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever; this is how I am to be remembered generation after generation.

Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Yeshua, [which means ‘Yahweh saves,’] because he will save his people from their sins.”

Matthew 4:4
But he answered, “The Tanakh says, ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of Yahweh’”

Thanks for reading today ya'll. Come back tomorrow for Z the last letter of the challenge. 

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Xamine

2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves to see whether you are living the life of trust. Test yourselves. Don’t you realize that Yeshua the Messiah is in you? — unless you fail to pass the test.

Psalm 26:2
Examine me, Adonai, test me, search my mind and heart.

Psalm 139:23
Examine me, God, and know my heart; test me, and know my thoughts.

Lamentations 3:40
Let us examine and test our ways and return to Adonai.

1 Corinthians 11:31
If we would examine ourselves, we would not come

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

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.

Repent

Acts 2:38

Kefa answered them, “Turn from sin, return to God, and each of you be immersed on the authority of Yeshua the Messiah into forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh!

Isaiah 1:27

Tziyon will be redeemed by justice; and those in her who repent, by righteousness.

Jeremiah 31:18
Yes, I turned away; but later I repented. When I had been made to understand, I struck my thigh in shame and remorse, bearing the weight of the disgrace acquired when I was young.’

Jeremiah 34:15
Now you repented, you did what is right from my viewpoint when each of you proclaimed freedom to his fellow; and you made a covenant before me in the house bearing my name.

Ezekiel 18:21
“However, if the wicked person repents of all the sins he committed, keeps my laws and does what is lawful and right; then he will certainly live, he will not die.

Repent means to turn with sorrow from a past course of action. To turn away from sin and follow Yahweh. But, that not all it means. There is a deeper meaning to the word repent. To truly repent means to turn wholeheartedly to Yah and continue to continue to try to get closer to him. At least, that what it means to me.

Thanks for reading today ya'll. 

Obey

Genesis 22:18

and by your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed — because you obeyed my order.”

Exodus 20:6

but displaying grace to the thousandth generation of those who love me and obey my mitzvot.

Exodus 24:7

Moshe came and told the people everything Adonai had said, including all the rulings. The people answered with one voice: “We will obey every word Adonai has spoken.”
Leviticus 18:4
You are to obey my rulings and laws and live accordingly; I am Adonai your God

Exodus 20:12
12 “Honor your father and mother, so that you may live long in the land which Adonai your God is giving you.

Obeying is sometimes a hard thing to do. Now, that I am a teenager I am finding that there are a lot of things in this world that try to get me to disobey my parents. And, in turn disobey Yahweh. 

Thanks for reading today ya'll. Come back tomorrow for the letter p. 

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.

Love

1st Corinthians 13:1-4
13 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

3-4 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

As I said yesterday I am going to be talking about my singing and dancing today. I hope soon to start posting some of my originals and covers on facebook for my friends and family to hear. I have been working on my singing voice for many years and I thought I had it all figured out. Until, I went to Winter Jam back in March. When, I saw how much the artists really got into the songs and poured their hearts out for the lord. I realized that there was something that was missing from my music. I realized that I was it for myself, not for Yahweh and his kingdom. It wasn't until I heard the song The Proof Of Your Love by for King & Country that I realized that what I need to add to my music was love. Love for Yahweh. Love for his kingdom. And, love for the life he has given me. Since hearing this song live I have way more passion for my music and my dancing. I loved dancing before, but I was doing for the show of it. And, one day during one of the songs I realized that my heart wasn't in it. I knew that I wasn't doing it for the right reasons, but I didn't know how to fix it. So, I went on trying to dance, but it was so hard to get into the songs. After, hearing this song I knew what I had to do. And, since then I have been so much happier. My dancing is now for him and everything he is doing through me and for me.

Thanks for reading today ya'll. I hope you learn something from this post, because I know I have. Listen to The Proof Of Your Love below complete with the verse from above. 

Kingdom

Matthew 6:33

But seek first his Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Psalm 45:7 

Your throne, God, will last forever and ever; you rule your kingdom with a scepter of equity.

Psalm 68:33

Sing to God, kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to Adonai, (Selah)

Daniel 2:44

“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will establish a kingdom that will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not pass into the hands of another people. It will break to pieces and consume all those kingdoms; but it, itself, will stand forever 

Matthew 12:28

But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you!

The Kingdom of Yahweh is one of the most things for me. I am an aspiring singer, so singing to my congregation is one of my favorite things to do. To reach out to the kingdom of Yah and give them hope in their darkest times. I am also a dancer and dancing for my God and his kingdom is amazing feeling. I will be speaking more on my singing and dancing tomorrow.

Thanks for reading ya'll. See you tomorrow with L. Watch the video below. 

Joy

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Isaiah 24:8

the happy sound of tambourines ceases, the shouts of merrymakers are stilled, the joy of the lyre ends.

Isaiah 24:14

They lift their voices, singing for joy, shouting from the west to honor Adonai

Isaiah 25:9
On that day they will say, “See! This is our God! We waited for him to save us. This is Adonai ; we put our hope in him. We are full of joy, so glad he saved us!”

Isaiah 35:10
Those ransomed by Adonai will return and come with singing to Tziyon, on their heads will be everlasting joy. They will acquire gladness and joy, while sorrow and sighing will flee.

Thanks for reading today ya'll. 

Grace

Ephesians 2:8-9
For you have been delivered by grace through trusting, and even this is not your accomplishment but God’s gift. You were not delivered by your own actions; therefore no one should boast.

Isaiah 54:8

I was angry for a moment and hid my face from you; but with everlasting grace I will have compassion on you,” says Adonai your Redeemer.

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains may leave and the hills be removed, but my grace will never leave you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Adonai, who has compassion on you.

This post is inspired by the song Grace Wins by Matthew West. One of my all time favorite Matthew West songs. I had the pleasure of hearing this live at Winter Jam in March. I was amazing to sit front row and have him sing this song directly to me and my family and friends. Words can't describe the way this song makes me feel. It really hits home for me. 

Below are some of the lyrics and the lyric video for Grace Wins. 

Thanks for reading today ya'll. See you tomorrow with H.

There's a war between guilt and grace
And they're fighting for a sacred space
But I'm living proof
Grace wins every time
No more lying down in death's defeat
Now I'm rising up in victory
Singing, hallelujah
Grace wins every time

Demons

Matthew 12:22

22 Then some people brought him a man controlled by demons who was blind and mute; and Yeshua healed him, so that he could both speak and see.

Luke 11:14
14 He was expelling a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute spoke; and the people were astounded.

1st Peter 5:8

8 Stay sober, stay alert! Your enemy, the Adversary, stalks about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

2nd Peter 2:4

4 For God did not spare the angels who sinned; on the contrary, he put them in gloomy dungeons lower than Sh’ol to be held for judgment.

Ok, lets talk about demons and how to avoid them. Have you ever seen someone that was possessed by demons? I know I have and it was pretty terrifying. How can you keep from getting in this type of a situation yourself? One way is to avoid anyone who is a bad influence or is possessed by demons. And, another way is to keep yourself on the right path toward Yahweh. But, how do you know if you are on the right path? If you ever doubt that what you are hearing or doing might not be right consult the bible. Everything you need to know is right there in the Torah. 

Thanks for reading with me today. I'll see ya'll tomorrow with the letter E. 

Cain And Able

Genesis 4:3-16
3 In the course of time Kayin brought an offering to Adonai from the produce of the soil; 4 and Hevel too brought from the firstborn of his sheep, including their fat. Adonai accepted Hevel and his offering 5 but did not accept Kayin and his offering. Kayin was very angry, and his face fell. 6 Adonai said to Kayin, “Why are you angry? Why so downcast? 7 If you are doing what is good, shouldn’t you hold your head high? And if you don’t do what is good, sin is crouching at the door — it wants you, but you can rule over it.” 8 Kayin had words with Hevel his brother; then one time, when they were in the field, Kayin turned on Hevel his brother and killed him.

9 Adonai said to Kayin, “Where is Hevel your brother?” And he replied, “I don’t know; am I my brother’s guardian?” 10 He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground! 11 Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood at your hands. 12 When you farm the ground it will no longer yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive, wandering the earth.” 13 Kayin said to Adonai, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 You are banning me today from the land and from your presence. I will be a fugitive wandering the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” 15 Adonai answered him, “Therefore, whoever kills Kayin will receive vengeance sevenfold,” and Adonai put a sign on Kayin, so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Kayin left the presence of Adonai and lived in the land of Nod [wandering], east of ‘Eden.

Everyone knows the story of Cain and Able. The story of the first murder. But, not everyone knows the reason behind the first murder. If you just read the verses above you think that he just gave the wrong sacrifice to Yahweh. But, is that the only reason Yahweh didn't accept Cain's offering. NO!

The reason he didn't accept Cain's offering is because, Cain only did it to make himself look good. He did it to glorify himself instead of Yahweh. That is why he didn't accept the offering. 

Thanks for reading with me today. Come back tomorrow for letter D.

By His Blood We Are Saved

As the title says today we are going to be talking about some verses about how we are saved through the blood of Yeshua the Messiah.

 

Revelation 5:9-10

9 and they sang a new song,

“You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals;
because you were slaughtered;
at the cost of blood you ransomed for God
persons from every tribe, language, people and nation.
10 You made them into a kingdom for God to rule,
cohanim to serve him;
and they will rule over the earth.”

1st Corinthians 11:25

 likewise also the cup after the meal, saying, “This cup is the New Covenant effected by my blood; do this, as often as you drink it, as a memorial to me.”

 

1st Corinthians 10:16
The “cup of blessing” over which we make the b’rakhah — isn’t it a sharing in the bloody sacrificial death of the Messiah? The bread we break, isn’t it a sharing in the body of the Messiah?

These are all wonderful verses about how Yeshua died for us. How he nailed all of our sins to the cross. I long to see the day when he returns to take us home. I often wondered what we did to deserve such a love. What we did to deserve Yahweh himself coming to earth to die for us. 

That's all I have to say for today.  I'll see Ya'll Monday with the letter C.

Until, then comment below with what you think about this topic.

Shabbat Shalom!