Atonement is one of the greatest experiences yet to happen for God’s people—for both the Jewish world and the Body of Christ. In Judaism, the Day of Atonement is a solemn gathering and a time of humbling their hearts with prayer and fasting. Moses commanded, “For it is on this day that atonement shall be…
Whenever God leads His people into a new day, His provision to feed them changes. The instant a child is born, it has to find a new way of feeding. It is no longer attached to the umbilical cord that fed it in the womb for nine months. The cord is cut off at birth…
When God created the world, He put such a tremendous force of power and energy into that creation that it kept going by itself. God does not have to wake up in the morning to make the sun come up. The sun will come up because it is part of what He created. God simply…
The night before the crucifixion, Christ prayed, “That they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me” (John 17:21).1 We know that Yeshua (Jesus) asked the Father for this oneness, and…
Joel describes the Day of the Lord as “a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness” (Joel 2:2).1 But I want to look at another aspect of this day. “As the dawn is spread over the mountains, so there is a great and mighty people; there has never been anything…
The return of Christ will be an awesome event and every eye will see Him as He descends from heaven with a shout. No one will miss it. If you are honestly a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, you are included in His second coming. The dead and the living will all participate (1…
Christ taught His disciples to pray, “Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name” (Matthew 6:9).1 We always begin with worship and adoration of the Lord. Then He added, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). This is a command and a prophetic proclamation.…
When the Pharisees asked Yeshua (Jesus) when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst” (Luke 17:20-21).1 The end-time events mentioned…
There are principles involved in the fulfillment of prayer. And if we are going to proclaim and execute God’s principles in the earth, then we will be required to live by those principles. Yeshua (Jesus) taught His disciples, “Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up…
God has a plan, and His plan counters everything satan is attempting to do. No matter how negative the picture seems to get, you must be convinced that God’s plan will win over satan’s plan. That is called faith. Rather than using the word believe, I like the word know. We know! No matter how…
Christ is our salvation and the sacrifice for our sin, yet He came preaching the Kingdom of God. He understood the connection between the two. We cannot separate the Kingdom of God from salvation because the two are very much one. Think of the Kingdom of God as the final outworking of salvation. If you…
If you want to enter the presence of the Lord, you must have a hunger that drives you. Your hunger will focus your will because you enter into things of the spirit by your will. You will to do the will of God (John 7:17). When Yeshua (Jesus) came, He said, “I HAVE COME ……
What happens when you lose the ability to control your will? At some point, you come to a place where it is impossible to change it. Something has been locked in. That is the warning I want you to get out of this message. The decisions you make today are extremely important because they form…
When Yeshua (Jesus) taught His disciples to pray, He told them to ask the Father for forgiveness in this way: “And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors” (Matthew 6:12).1 To understand this, we must have a deeper understanding of what God means by forgiveness. We often forget what really went…
Many people have asked me, “What is waiting on the Lord?” Waiting on the Lord is an earnest expectation that anticipates moment by moment for the Word of God to become visible in the earth. We are waiting for the things that have been promised prophetically in God’s Word to come off the page and…
Moses is a highly revered figure in Judaism and throughout the Scriptures. As a strong leader, he moved in a tremendous anointing. But the disparity between the anointing that rested on Moses and that of the people who followed him was tremendous. Similarly, throughout Church history there has always been a strong leader who started…
During the days of Daniel’s captivity in Babylon, he realized that he lacked understanding. So he gave his attention to seeking God with fasting, prayer, sackcloth and ashes (Daniel 9:2-3). In his repentance, Daniel focused his heart on God and on His Word. He had a specific purpose in mind. He went into repentance because…
I want to change our whole concept of repentance. God is instilling in us the mind of Christ, the mind of sons and that is a dynamic change for us. When David sinned against the Lord in his violation with Bathsheba and killed her husband, he recognized that he had done some horrible things (2…
The weeks between Passover and Pentecost are a special time that God works with the spirits of His people. Those fifty days were probably the most challenging and confusing days the disciples had ever lived. They ate the Passover meal with Yeshua (Jesus), went to the Garden of Gethsemane, saw Him arrested, and watched Him…
I want there to be a sense of awe resting on the Body of Christ that the tongue holds the power of life and death. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit” (Proverbs 18:21).1 We will witness the fruit of what we speak.…
The apostle Peter wrote, “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you” (1 Peter 4:12).1 One of our greatest testings is to see how we relate to God’s chosen people, the Jews. When the children of…
Often when people preach about end-time events, they tend to focus on what satan is doing rather than on what God is doing. Of course, negative things will transpire, but the emphasis of the end-time is about the return of Christ. It is about Yeshua (Jesus) appearing. It is about the coming presence of the…
Known as the Counting of the Omer, the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot or Pentecost commemorate the Exodus from Egypt and link it to the celebration of God giving the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai. The word omer means “sheaf,” and an omer was an ancient unit of dry measure used for grain.…
Beginning at sunset on April 27th this year, Israel will hold memorial ceremonies throughout the country at schools, military bases, and places of business to recognize the heroes and martyrs of the Holocaust. Known as Yom HaShoah, this solemn national holiday has been recognized annually since the 1960s. Synagogues will hold services of worship that…
During the Passover meal, Yeshua (Jesus) initiated what we call the Communion. Imagine yourself sitting with Him and His disciples among the flickering oil lamps. Let the experience come alive for you as if you were reclining with them. Open your heart to receive Christ; let Him wash your feet and serve you (John 13:4-5).…
Passover is the night of God’s miracles. It is the night of His authority. What happens on this night can only happen by the hand of God and by His sovereignty. I want us to feel a oneness with the Jewish people around the world as we enter in with them at this tremendous moment…
It is easy to look at world events and feel like we are gritting our teeth and hanging on to a rollercoaster ride. But God is trying to impart something different to us. We are not victims, and we are not without recourse. God is raising up a people who are going to be effective…
In the wilderness, the Israelites lived in the presence of God continually. The glory of God rested over the Ark of the Covenant, and it rested over His people. They were identified with the glory of God’s presence that was physically visible to them in a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by…
If you read about Peter in the Gospels, you realize that he had many motivations for what he was expecting to get out of being a disciple. When the Lord told His disciples that it was necessary for Him to die in Jerusalem, Peter rebuked Him saying, “‘God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen…
As a highly trained Jew, Paul understood how the Hebrew Scriptures pointed to Christ. Writing to the Colossians, he used the terminology of Purim from the book of Esther to describe our salvation experience. “When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him,…
The work of the cross and the resurrection of Christ are exactly like the Feast of Purim. In the story of Esther, the Jewish people were to be annihilated. Haman had the king’s signet ring and was completely in charge—that is, until the authority and power of that ring was taken from him and given…
When Christ walked on the earth, crowds of people followed Him for the healings they needed or the miracles they wanted to see. They pursued Him for the fish and barley loaves without realizing where the flow of life was coming from (John 6:2-13). That is still true of Christianity today. We often come to…
So often we labor with a feeling of unbelief without understanding where unbelief really comes from. The disciples faced unbelief when Christ told them, “I’m going to suffer many things, be killed, and be raised up on the third day” (see Matthew 16:21). But they were not ready for Christ to disappear from their sight!…
When God makes His Word come alive in your heart, you must respond. Since we cannot fulfill that Word by our own energies or dead works, God has given us the tremendous outlet of worship. Like an explosion of our hearts back to Him, we can sing, “We believe Your Word!” We can also teach,…
If you look around the landscape of Christianity today you may wonder, “How will we ever become one?” Our oneness is important because the oneness of the Body of Christ will be a sign of the Lord’s return. In His prayer to the Father, Yeshua (Jesus) said, “The glory which You have given Me I…
A paradigm is a belief or a way of looking at something. It usually includes concepts that you have developed in great detail over the years. If you are driving fast and the car in front of you suddenly stops, your mind instantly responds. You know what is going to happen, so you do not…
Everything in the Bible from Abraham up to the return of Christ is about an oath. God promised to bless Abraham, make his name great, and bless all the families of the earth through him (Genesis 12:2-3). Further, “the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I will give this land’” (Genesis 12:7).[i]…
I have a deep cry in my heart that yearns to see a transformation and removal of my adamic nature. I know the ability to change only comes from God through His grace, but there needs to be a human hunger and pursuit of it as well. In reading the Beatitudes, one verse struck me…
It is true that at some point you will either experience life after death in the presence of the Father, or you will face eternal death away from His presence. So the question is, “Are you prepared?” What have you chosen as your eternal life experience? I know the focus of this ministry is to…
When God created man in His own image, He created a will. Your will, essentially, is you. You were born into this earth as a free will and that is what you have control over. Yeshua (Jesus) came and willed to do the will of the Father. He said, “I do not seek My own…
When you think about salvation for the world, you realize that it needs to happen on a global level, and it needs to happen soon. The things of the Kingdom accelerate as they move forward. And we know that God “will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness” (Romans 9:28, KJV). Another translation…
Everything that is happening in the world today magnifies the absolute need for the sons of God to be manifested at this time (Romans 8:19-21). We are to mature into “the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13).[1] So when we talk about sonship, we are referring to the…
God is truth. Yeshua (Jesus) is truth. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth. In contrast, satan is lie. According to John 8:44, “Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature.”[1] More than being a liar, satan is the lie. The end-time battle is a battle between truth and lie. It…
Yeshua (Jesus) had a full prayer life and often went out to a solitary place to pray all night (Matthew 14:23; Mark 1:35; Luke 6:12). Prayer petitions God, but intercession is different. When Yeshua laid down His life for us on the cross, He interceded on our behalf to the Father that sin would be…
As a young adult, I believed the Kingdom of God was imminent. I thought, “Why go to college? Why prepare for anything? The Kingdom of God is coming.” And the truth is that the Kingdom of God is coming, but you will need to prepare for it if you want to be “a vessel for…
We know that we are not to be conformed to this world and its thinking, but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2). Yet we live in a society today that is determined to challenge our faith, move us away from our Christian values, and enculturate us into a different way…
What opens the door to God’s heart? The answer is your thankfulness. Thanksgiving is the door to God’s presence. You simply partake of Christ’s sacrifice and wholeheartedly thank God for all the goodness He is beaming toward you. In doing so, you will continually appropriate His life each new day as you love and thank…
I am more interested in seeing the sons of God mature and come forth than I am in following other end-time events. Who are these sons that Romans 8 talks about? They are those who are led by the Spirit, filled with the Spirit, and have the Spirit of the Father dwelling in them so…
What happens when you determine—when you will—to do God’s will? You share His holiness. You become like Him. Because God is a will, you begin to reflect Him who created you in His image and are transformed from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18). I want my will to be the reflection of God Who…
Have you ever wondered what God does all day? He looks for a people to be His worshippers. God dwells in the worship of His people and is “enthroned upon the praises of Israel” (Psalm 22:3).[i] The outcome of us becoming spiritual worshippers is that God comes and dwells with us here on the earth.…
We are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and all our soul, and all our might (Deuteronomy 6:5). But the one thing that God is determined to do with all His heart is to bring His people back to the land of Israel. “I will rejoice over them to do…
During this time of turmoil and political unrest, the United States needs divine intervention. Our Founding Fathers recognized that God gave us favor and established this great nation. But now we are facing an important decision, “Do we live in the blessings, anointings, and great provisions that God has given us, or do we leave…
“The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life” (Proverbs 14:27).[i] This type of godly fear is best defined as “awe, reverence, or honor.” However, when Yeshua (Jesus) instructed His followers not to be fearful, He was talking about a fear that mistrusts the Father: “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father…
Worship will become the most important function of the Body of Christ. As Christ’s beauty and His wonder are unveiled to us, we will stand in His presence to worship Him as we have never dreamed possible. In awe we will sense God’s presence so much with us that, like Yeshua (Jesus), we will have…
At the close of Tabernacles, another joyful celebration begins. It is called Simchat Torah, and it means “rejoicing in the Torah.” A wonderful expression during this time is that someone takes the Torah scrolls and dances with them through the congregation. They say that they are dancing with the Torah and the Torah is dancing…
During the Holocaust, thousands of men and women had the extraordinary courage to stand up for righteousness and save the precious lives of Jewish people. These unsung heroes were common people, schoolteachers, nuns and priests, farmers, soldiers, mothers and fathers who when faced with a difficult decision, risked their lives and the lives of their…
I have so much anticipation for the Day of Atonement! Also known as Yom Kippur, it is the highest holy day of the year on the Jewish calendar. On this day, the High Priest made an atoning sacrifice for sin to restore the relationship between God and His people (Leviticus 16:5–10). We know that in…
Judaism was born out of a deep love relationship between the Holy One of Israel and His covenant people (Isaiah 49:7). God loved the fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and He loves their children, the Jewish people. One of my biggest heartbreaks comes when I hear people talk about Judaism as being a religion filled…
God in His goodness created wholesome food to sustain, nourish, and heal our physical bodies. Part of this diet includes “every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you” (Genesis 1:29).[i] When Ezekiel saw a vision of water flowing from the Temple, he observed “all kinds of trees for food ……
Yeshua (Jesus) has an amazing destiny for your life! To be aligned with His purpose, you must have a drive to know God and receive a deep experience of His love for you. As the apostle of love reminds us, “We love, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).[i] When you are overwhelmed by…
What is God? He is a will. The whole earth and all creation were created because God said, “Let there be …” (Genesis 1:3).[i] You can rephrase that. God said, “I will that there be light. I will that there be the earth” (see Genesis 1:3, 10). Everything about God is His will. When the…
The book of Isaiah contains a beautiful passage about the restoration of Judah, a prophecy that we see being fulfilled in the nation of Israel today. “The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.” (Isaiah 37:31)[i] Why is Israel fruitful and abounding in blessings?…
Nothing is stronger than your imagination. You can use your imagination in a very positive sense to bring yourself into the presence of the Lord. Focus on how wonderful He is, how much He loves you, and how He wants to be with you. Read His Word prayerfully and picture yourself walking in it. Clothe…
We know God is love, but I want you to see that God is also good—really good! His very personality is goodness and everything He does and everything He creates is good because He puts Himself into it. After bringing forth life and vegetation on the earth, “God saw all that He had made, and…
I want to open our hearts concerning the relationship Christianity should have with the Jewish people. Abraham believed God “and He reckoned it to him as righteousness” (Genesis 15:6).[i] According to the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, the Hebrew word for righteousness means “righteousness as vindicated, justification, salvation.”[ii] That is very clear. Abraham received what…
You know that “God sits on His holy throne” (Psalms 47:8),[i] but I want you to recognize that our hearts are His throne room. Christ dwells in and among each one of us: “For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst” (Matthew 18:20). In your worship,…
Yeshua (Jesus) was asked: “Who is my neighbor?” and He responded with a parable. A man was left by the side of the road after being robbed and beaten. No one helped him until the Good Samaritan came near, saw his great need, and had compassion on him. He bound up the stranger’s wounds with…
As Christians, we know that God has a heart of inclusion. We must realize that He is both our Father and the Father of the Jewish people. In His covenant promises to the Jews, He said, “It is impossible for Me to break My covenant with these people. As long as the sun comes up…
God, Who is love, wants His children to love each other. We are to reflect our Father’s exact nature. Even our faith works through this deep expression of love (see Galatians 5:6). Our fervent love for God and His children includes a deep love and acceptance for all of Israel as well. The Father loves…
Over 3,000 years ago, God promised the Land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants forever (Genesis 12:7; Luke 1:55). Israel today is a land of miracles. Many of the battles and wars since Israel’s independence in 1948 can only be explained by God’s faithfulness to His covenant promises with Abraham. If you are aware…
Have you ever experienced a deep hunger to know God in all of His love, power, and righteousness? You can cultivate your hunger for God. God moves by the principle of hunger. Did your mother tell you not to eat before dinner because it would spoil your appetite? If you feed on the things of…
As members of the Body of Christ, we must recognize that in the heart of Israel there is a sincere love for the Arab nations. You cannot say that Arabs are against peace, nor can you say Israelis are against peace. Instead, you must recognize that there are radical elements who live for the annihilation…
Our Father loves us! God is love and everything He does is good and is filled with His love (1 John 4:16). As the psalmist says, “His lovingkindness is everlasting” (Psalm 136:1). God is so in love with all the people of the world that He sent His Son to free us “that whoever believes…
I want you to have a simple meeting with God that will change your life. It has to be very personal to you. It cannot be what someone else experienced; it must be your experience. “The whole earth is full of His glory” (Isaiah 6:3).[i] We are headed for some fantastic days and the limitations…
God has spoken many promises for this generation and we want to see them fulfilled here on earth. The Body of Christ today is a generation of destiny. It is time for us to rise up, step into our destiny, and become what the Lord needs in the earth today. The time between Passover…
During the fifty days between Passover and Pentecost, God was at work in the hearts and minds of the disciples. The Father was bringing them out of their confusion and misperceptions to prepare them to move under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Each one came to the end of himself to be completely surrendered…
Following the resurrection of Christ Jesus our Lord, the disciples were given no specific guidelines about how to set up a church. All they had was a relationship with Him. They had to reach in daily to hear His voice, so that Yeshua (Jesus) could come forth within a body of people by the Holy…
The Bible is a story about God’s family and the covenant He made with Abraham, “IN YOUR SEED ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED” (Acts 3:25).[i] When Peter spoke on the Day of Pentecost, he connected the Jews back to that family relationship: “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God…
If you want to find a relationship with God, you will find it in the relationship of being children of Abraham. God is making Himself real by virtue of the relationship with His people. The blood of Yeshua (Jesus) opened the door for Gentiles to be grafted into the covenant promises of the children of…
When God commands something, He empowers us to do it. He is determined to bring the Body of Christ together into unity and love. But we must reach in for God’s love and cannot work it up in ourselves. It comes from the power of Christ and His Word. Yeshua (Jesus) never told His…
The Book of James was written around A.D. 48 while the early church was still predominantly Jewish. James, the brother of our Lord and bishop of the church in Jerusalem, addressed his letter to “the twelve tribes” of Israel and gave practical guidelines about how we are to love and care for each other as…
God commanded Israel to celebrate the Passover, “And you shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever” (Exodus 12:24 NASB95). It was to be a night of remembrance. God wanted His people to never forget how He delivered them out of Egypt with a powerful hand. It was to be…
When God opens a door through the biblical feast of Passover, it is because there is something in it that we are to experience in our lives today. And like the Israelites, we are to come out of bondage. We tend to look at the Tanakh (Old Testament) as things happening on the natural…
As Christians, we recognize the importance of our salvation experience through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross during this time of Passover. The blood of Christ is a grace and a covering, as well as a tremendous provision for us when we fail or stumble. But God intends for us to have much more! On the…
It is easy to look forward to the return of Yeshua (Jesus) and simply wait passively for Him to come. But great rewards are available to those who use the time wisely to make preparations, inside and out. He should be both our Lord and Savior now, not just then. And if we learn to…
It is time for the great witness of the Messiah Yeshua to come forth in the earth, and according to His prayer in John 17, that witness is a result of the oneness of the Body of Christ. “… that they may all be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You,…
The Feast of Purim, also known as the Feast of Esther, is a time of great celebration in which the Jewish people rejoice in God’s deliverance for them from death and destruction. Symbolically, this feast anticipates the final vanquishing of satan from the earth for all mankind. As Christians and allies of the Jewish people,…
As followers of Christ, we know that the Word of God is essential to our spiritual growth. We must read it, study it, meditate on it, apply it, and live it. “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16). But the reason…
While in a time of fasting and prayer some years ago, the Lord made real to me that as Christ went through the suffering of the cross, He saw the face of every human being who had ever been on the earth. He saw the face of every human being who was on the earth…
