We are approaching the period of the Feast of Tabernacles; it starts with the Feast of Trumpets and Rosh Hashanah on September 10th. That same day begins the Ten Days of Repentance. On September 19th, we celebrate the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). The Feast of Tabernacles itself (Succoth) starts on September 24th and ends on September 30th. As a …
Today I explain the parable of the talents from Matthew 25:14. We have been given many talents from the Lord, it is our responsibility to manage those talents. We won’t see growth if we hide our talents, we must put them to good use and share them with others.
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Today I talk about Jesus teaching the disciples. There are many layers of interpretation, but it is important to make the scriptures practical in our lives. It is also important to continue studying and learning the deeper meanings of Jesus’ teachings.
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There is a saying in ancient Hawaii which says that words can either be a source of healing or destruction. This is so true, and we need to be careful with our words. Ka ‘olelo no ke ola, i ka ‘olelo no ka make. It means: In speech is life, in speech is death. A friend sent me this and …
Today I teach about Jesus in relationship to His roots. In order to better understand Jesus’ teachings, we must study His heritage. Jesus was a Jewish teacher speaking to a Jewish audience. Lord open our eyes to have a fresh understanding.
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Last week, as I continued to study the parables that Jesus taught, something new became clear for me in the Parable of the Sower. Usually, I have read this parable thinking about four different types of soil, by the road, rocky, thorny, and good or fruitful and I always wondered what kind of soil I was. We know that in …
Today I speak about the importance of us becoming equipped to walk according to God’s will. Colossians 3:16-17 “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.”
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This summer I heard for the first time a beautiful song from Numbers 6:23-27, the Aaronic Benediction or also known as the Priestly Blessing. It was sung in English and in Hebrew by a young woman who has a sweet voice, Lindsey Hertzberg. The song was composed by Misha Goetz. I had heard the same blessing voiced before, but the …
Today I bring a foundational teaching about God’s unchanging love. We repent for believing the lie that God can reject His children. Even in times of discipline God loves us to the uttermost and wants to see us mature as His sons.
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Today I inspire us to receive a new perception of God’s love for us. God is preparing each one of us for something new, but it cannot happen out of our human perception of love. There is a motivation in God’s love to see us grow and mature, so we can participate in the bringing forth His kingdom.
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Today I expound on the story in 1 Kings 17. Even though Elijah was a prophet, he could not solve his own problems. He had to rely on the miracle God provided through the poor widow. We need to get out of our comfort zone and appropriate the provision God has given us through relationships.
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Today I link the parable of the prodigal son to Revelation 3:20. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.” The prodigal son was free to make his own choice but the father delighted when he chose to come home. Similarly God will never force us to open the door to His love but is eager to dwell with us when we choose to let Him into our lives.
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Today I express the importance of us becoming channels of living water. When we only receive and never share the blessing, we become like the dead sea. We must be willingly to share the love we have received to continue the flow of living water.
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Today I relate our provision from God to a box of parts waiting to be assembled. We have access to a complete provision, but if we do not read the manual and spend quality time with our instructor, we won’t be able to see the fullness of all that we have received.
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Today I inspire us to continue opening up to receive God’s love. God is love, and the key to walking as sons of God is seeking His love with all our heart. We grow up by receiving His love with a broken spirit. Everything we do must be born out of this pure love.
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Last Summer I was happy to celebrate my graduation from Shiloh University with a Master of Divinity degree. It took me several years, numerous classes, books, and hundreds of hours. However, my desire to study and learn did not stop with the graduation. Achieving a degree was never my main goal. My goal was, and continues to be, always focused …
Today I connect our ability to see ourselves as God sees us to our openness to receive God’s love. Through a story of the eight cow woman we can see how opening up to God’s love allows us to be aware of the beauty in ourselves that He has seen from the beginning.
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Seeds have an amazing ability to retain and preserve their quality and ability to reproduce and multiply. Seeds kept for years still retain the same untouched qualities they had generations past. I have heard of some 2,000-year-old seeds that germinated. They can not only reproduce the same DNA—the qualities of what they are—but they can reproduce it in great quantity. …
Today I impart a new revelation of the Holy Spirit. Jesus wanted us to have the Holy Spirit, not only to be filled with His power, but also to have a daily reminder of His love for us and His desire for us to walk in oneness.
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Every year when we go through the period between the biblical feasts of Passover and Pentecost I like to study the difficult transition that the disciples went through. Today we can read the whole sequence of events and we know that everything was leading to the Day of Pentecost and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; but we must remember …
Today I relate our anticipation for Pentecost with our hunger for the truth. The Holy Spirit was not sent for the disciples’ personal gain, but to enable them to walk in their commissioning. We cannot miss what God is doing because it does not happen the way we thought it would.
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After the first Passover in Egypt the people of Israel camped in the desert, a time where God made a covenant with the people of Israel (Deuteronomy 4:12-14). When God gave Moses the law, one of the feasts He instructed them to celebrate was known as the Feast of Weeks (Leviticus 23:15-17). Immediately following the Passover, the priest was to …
Today I link our ability to see God’s plan for our lives to our willingness to be part of His plan. We cannot expect to see God moving if we are reluctant to be the channel through which He moves.
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Some people think that they have all the control over their lives and that they can achieve anything that they want because of their intelligence, strength, abilities, and talents. Those people forget that they were blessed with each one of the gifts that they rely on. Any of the talents or strengths that we think we have, we have actually …
Today I speak about our need to have a daily revelation of the Lord. The disciples knew Christ, but when he appeared on the road to Emmaus after His resurrection they did not recognize him. We cannot be satisfied with a revelation or an experience from the past. We pray everyday for our daily bread, a fresh and new revelation and experience with God.
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Lately, I have been praying for God to give me His love for my family, my community and people on my street in a deeper way. This desire started when we received a direction to start a coffee and prayer ministry and just be available to whoever is in need of a blessing. The idea was simple: set up a …
Today I convey the importance of having an experience with God’s love. We can study the word and know it’s teaching but it is a daily experience with God’s Love that will change us. Part of this process is getting to know ourselves as we are known by God. 1 John 3:1 “See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are.”
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We just finished celebrating the Feast of Passover, and even though I grew up celebrating the biblical feasts ( Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles, and others), I have wondered if people may think it is a little strange for us to celebrate the festivals of the Old Testament. I have also had people ask, ‘Why do you even read the Old Testament?’ …
Today I teach about Passover and how it relates to us as Christians. In the book of Exodus, God delivered His people from slavery. They were not only slaves to Pharaoh, but also to the gods of Egypt. The Israelites had to stay in their houses with blood on the door posts to be set free. Today, we recognize that Christ’s blood is our covering. When we take communion, we take it in faith that we are no longer slaves to the gods of this world but we are sons of the Lord Most High.
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Today I reiterate the importance of loving one another. Our love, one for another, is key in this process of restoration. When we move in this love we activate principles of the Kingdom. John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
I have been writing about the process of restoration of the church, and one of the things that impact the way I walk with God is the way I apply, in my life, the principles established by God. Sometimes we may have a sense that we have lost our closeness with God and that we are not being blessed. When we understand the principles of a walk in the Spirit we should not become confused when we feel that. It is important to learn that we are blessed when we obey the commandments of the Word of God. It is not enough to know something; we are blessed when we do the things we already know. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them (John 13:17).
One of the principles that impact our lives constantly is forgiveness. When Jesus taught His disciples to pray he included this principle. For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. “But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions” (Matthew 6:14–15). Jesus also taught about this principle in a parable (Matthew 18:23-35). In this parable it becomes clear that the debt that God is willing to forgive us is infinitely greater than the debt that we are asked to forgive others.
We are approaching the time of Passover. During this time we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Salvation, Redemption, Forgiveness of our sins, and being born again in a relationship with God, the Father. We can only approach the communion table to appropriate the forgiveness of our sins when we are willing to let go of the offenses of others toward us. It does not mean that it is easy; it means that we recognize that we have been forgiven a lot more than we are forgiving others. The offenses of others toward us are not worth holding on to, when compared to the mercy and grace of God towards us, through the blood of Jesus spilled for us.
Isaiah 58:1-12
Matthew 25:35-40
Matthew 5:23-24
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