As disciples of Messiah Yeshua, we teach the Hebrew path that He walked and His message of the restoration of the Kingdom of God.
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
ESV Psalm 141:2
King David was Israel's greatest king, but his life was filled with pain and sorrow. Soon after being annointed king, he found himself being hunted like a wild animal, severly chasitised for failing to transport the Ark correctly, betrayed by his oldest son, responsible for the death of thousands of his countrymen, and suffering the loss of many of his sons. If anyone had something to pray about, it was David!
Yet in spite of his many trials, David maintainted a very close relationship with God; even being the only person called - "a man after God's own heart." How did David maintain that relationship with God? He did so through prayer.
David's prayers were very effective. His prayers were answered because He knew how to approach YHVH and how to 'make his case' before the judge of the universe.
How can our prayers bring the same results ? Let's see!
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Pray Like David Did - Part 1
image by Peter Paul Rubens via Wikimedia Commons.org Our Mindset Toward Prayer
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All of us believe we should pray, and we've all heard that we should avoid repetitious prayer. Yet when we look at the scriptures, we see what appears to be a pattern for prayers. Did God give us a pattern by which we can make our prayers more effective? Is the "Lord's Prayer" a model from which we should build our prayers? -
Pray Like David Did - Part 2
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What is the correct posture for prayer? Are we to sit? Stand? Kneel? Prostrate ourselves? Are we to look up? Look down? Based on what we see in the scripture, each of those positions were used in the scriptures at various times and for specific reasons. Does our posture while praying mean really matter? -
Pray Like David Did - Part 3
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Did you know that many of our traditional prayer customs are no where to be found in scripture? Maybe we should examine some "non-traditional" prayer customs --ones that are found in scripture, and ones that can be shown to get results. After all, prayer is about communication, and communication is not always verbal. -
Give Thanks
image by Anthia Cummings via iStockPhoto.com In the Old Tesstament, the most common Hebrew word for 'thanks' is the word 'Yadah' which literally means "to stretch out the hand". 'Yada' is used to convey the thought of thanks, praise, and confession. How did YHVH intend for His people to thank and praise Him. Let's look at it from a 'Hebraic' perspective.
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Miraculous Healing
image by Benjamin West, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.org "By using social media, a prayer request can be sent around the world in a matter of minutes, and thousands of prayers can be sent to God within hours. But is God more concerned about the Quantity of prayers or the Quality of those prayers. Maybe we should do as Yeshua's disciples did and ask - 'Lord, teach us how to pray'"
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Names Mean Things
The scriptures show us that the Creator of the Universe has a number of names and titles - all of which provide insight into who He is and what He is willing to do for us. Is it possible that by using the name that is most appropriate for the request we are making to Him, He might be more inclined to grant us our petition?
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the Hebrew Roots 'Awakening'!
Discover Hebrew Roots - the 'Way' God gave to Israel, the 'Way' Yeshua restored in His day, and the 'Way' taught by the disciples.
..."But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets...
NKJ Acts 24:14
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Hebrew Roots?
James Tissot - Wikimedia Commons Hebrew Roots is an 'awakening' . . . a realization that Messiah Yeshua (Jesus Christ) meant what He said when He told his disciples that 'not one jot or tittle would pass from the law til all things are fulfilled'. Since most prophecy has yet to be fulfilled, those of us who live by His words believe we should fashion our lives after the Torah-observant example of Yeshua.
To put it in a nutshell - we believe we are saved by His grace, and that saved people will attempt to follow in the footsteps of their Saviour.
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the Hebrew Walk
The Hebrew Walk can best be illustrated by a straight path that leads to the Mountain of God. Sin, on the other hand, is when you get off the path, which frequently leads you over a cliff and headed for destruction. The remedy for sin is 'repentance' which in Hebrew simply means to 'return' - as in 'return to the path'.
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Faith is knowing that you don't walk the path alone - that God is with you, protecting and providing along the way. -
Being a Disciple
Greg Smith by permission Have you ever considered how you ulimately became aware of the Hebrew walk - the walk of Messiah Yeshua? How did this message finally cross your path and peak your interest?
No matter what your circumstance, one thing is for sure – you are here because you chose to follow the teachings of someone else. In fact, we have all chosen to follow the teachings and testimony of 15 Jewish men – the 12 disciples along with James, Luke, and Paul.
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Ami Yisrael
'Ami Yisrael' is Hebrew for 'my people Israel'. We take the words of God, Yeshua, Moses, the prophets, and Yeshua's disciples seriously. Thus when Paul said "... if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise" (Gal. 3:29) we believe that applies to us. We are not trying to be Jewish, for the Jews are just a small part of the Hebrew people. Instead, we hope to pattern our lives after that of the Hebrew of Hebrews - Messiah Yeshua.
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