B.E.S.T. Shabbat

""Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:4 (NASB) Perceptions define our reality. The kingdoms of our lives are what exercise authority in what we can think and do. Authority is what we obey. It is the voice that has our ear and our heart. We learn early in life to listen to certain voices and to trust in those voices. Our trust is the gift of our heart. "Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding." Proverbs 3:5 (NASB) Solomon realizes this principle and directs those who pursue truth and wisdom to return or to repent in the trust of their heart to the Lord. The contrast or the way of the fool is to lean on our own understanding. Why does Solomon use the metaphor of leaning and not just say also to not trust our own understanding? Leaning implies support outside of one's self. But you might answer he said our own understanding? Yes, it is ours but it wasn’...

""If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple." Luk 14:26 In these troubled times, there is a battle for control of our hearts. Our hearts determine how we live our lives. They establish our boundaries, our expectations and what we will do and say. ""But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders." Mat 15:18-19 The place of defilement is the conversation and corresponding actions that proceed from the conversation of our heart. The heart speaks and we become defiled. The defilement comes from evil thoughts which lead to murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness and slander. This is the true battleground in our lives, our own hearts. The conversation of the hear...

casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. (1Pe 5:7 NKJV) Click to listen to " Living in Troubled Times " There have always been troubled times. The most difficult thing for us is to learn how to be the light in the darkness. As the darkness seems to escalate out of control like the pandemic we are facing at the time of this teaching, anxiety and fear seek to grab our hearts and to steal the ease of joy. When we need our joy the most is when the darkness is greatest. This is the true hour of intercession. but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently. Therefore, He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. (Heb 7:24-25 NASB) Yeshua within us, the author of the conversation of our heart, lives eternally as the voice of intercession. What is the voice of intercession? How do we attune ourselves to that voice? What is our appr...

"Praise the LORD! How blessed is the man who fears the LORD, Who greatly delights in His commandments. His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth and riches are in his house,  and  his righteousness endures forever. Light arises in the darkness for the upright; He is gracious and compassionate and righteous. It is well with the man who is gracious and lends; He will maintain his cause in judgment. For he will never be shaken; The righteous will be remembered forever. He will not fear evil tidings; His  heart is steadfast , trusting in the LORD. His heart is upheld, he will not fear,  until  he looks with satisfaction on his adversaries."   Psa  112:1-8 (NASB) Click here to listen to " The Steadfast Heart " As  evil tidings run amok in our world, there is a response that the Lord makes available to us which is  called the steadfast or established heart .  Yeshua spoke of th...

"The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in You. (Isa 26:3) Click here to listen to  " Intention " Faith is the definition of the inner conversation of our heart. Our heart is activated in a positive, Godly direction by gratitude. We live in the atmosphere of heaven which is of blessing. As we just spoke about, blessing is always available to us as our inheritance as children of the King, our Father and God. Part of the adventure of life, which brings true liberty, is to live in the awareness in our heart and mind of the Voice of God and live inside an open and questioning heart. Questions and interactions with the Spirit that is God in us, brings us into joy, righteousness, and peace. The Apostle Paul instructs: for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. (Rom 14:17) To enhance our experience of the kingdom reality, I want to discuss and engage with the i...

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them . God blessed them ; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." (Gen 1:26-28) Click here to listen to  " Faith’s Ground of Being: The Blessing "   We have been sharing the foundation of faith is an inner conversation in our heart. We know that we can transform the foundation we live out of by a new listening, new sh’ma. Revisiting Deuteronomy 6:4-5, we see that listening is the key to loving. "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is ...