Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the Lord is good and His love endures forever. His faithfulness continues through all generations. Ps. 100:2-5
I want you to take a moment and think back, way back, to different times where believers sowed the seed of the Word into your life. Close your eyes and allow the Holy Spirit to remind you of these divinely orchestrated moments, where Abba Father allowed these connections. Your faith journey, where you stand today, is the culmination of many different people's spiritual input. Let's give thanks to Abba Father for every pastor, minister, "dominee," family member or even a stranger, for every youth leader, prayer leader, cell group leader, Holy Spirit inspired sermon, song or book that Father divinely planned for your life. Give thanks to God for His deep love for you, because where will we be without Jesus, without faithful servants of God, who obediently sowed His truth into your life. We cannot take it for granted and as we are coming to the end of this season, pause and with a grateful heart acknowledge and honour those men and women. In God's wisdom and perfect timing, He allowed those interactions. Thank you, Abba Father. As we look back and remember this, we can now look forward to 5786 with hope, because God is still connecting fellow believers, building His body in Messiah and expanding His Kingdom!
In Leviticus 23 we read about the Lord's appointed festivals. There is a new beginning on the eve of 22 Sept. 2025. The start of the year 5786. It's also known as the "head of the year", Rosh HaShana, when we celebrate the Feast of trumpets, Yom Teruah.
I'd like to focus on the "86" of the year 5786. In Hebrew, the letter peh , is a pictograph of a mouth. We are still in the decade of the "mouth." Be mindful of your speech. Are you speaking life or death? It is vitally important to guard the door of your lips! The vav , is a symbol of a peg, hook or nail. "Vav" is known as a connector. It is the 6th Hebrew letter with the numerical value of six. Six is the number of man. Man was created on the 6th day. We move in 6 dimensions; forward, backwards, left, right, up and down. Man works for 6 days and rests on the 7th. Yeshua hung on the cross from 9 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon, exactly for 6 hours! He died to save mankind.
Look at this picture. Matt.6:10 "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." The Word of God connects. In Ex. 26:6, 32, 37 you read of golden clasps and hooks. They were essential to connect the curtains of the Tabernacle together, forming a unified covering for the Holy and most Holy place. Gold refers to God's divine glory. Silver hooks were used for the outer court's curtains, but there is a higher standard in holier places. Only the best – gold!
May God divinely connect you to people in this new season. My prayer is that you will be closely connected to the Holy Spirit so that you will not miss these new connections. It could be a new job, or a new friendship or connecting ministries together.
Ps. 119 is an acrostic Psalm. The 176 versus are divided into the 22 letters of the Hebrew alefbet. Thus, 8 versus per Hebrew letter. The portion for "vav" is Ps. 119:41-48. Please read it. I'll highlight these versus. "May Your unfailing love come to me. I trust in Your Word. Do not snatch the Word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in Your laws. I will walk about in freedom."
It is interesting to note that each column of text on a Torah Scroll starts with the letter "vav", thereby hooking the text to the parchment and connecting it to the previous verses. The Word unified.
Abba Father, help us to always speak the truth, especially in times when the world wants to try and silence us. Give us the boldness, wisdom and love to share the Gospel without compromise.
Romans 8:38-39 "For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Such beautiful Words of promise. I'm forever thankful to be connected to Yeshua!
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