Deliverance

We will be learning this dance for this year Pesach Celebration, we think it is beautiful and will be changing a couple hand motions.  Enjoy!

Sugar-free Hamentashen Cookies

Thanks to my dear friend Andi at Declared unto Him

for her suggestion of replacing sugar for honey in

my dessert recipes... and I am oh so

glad I have... yummy!

Here is a sugar free recipe for Hamentatshen Cookies

My girls and Husband gave the thumb up on them.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup butter

3/4 cup honey

2 eggs

6 tbsp orange juice

1 tbsp vanill extract

2 tsp baking powder

4 1/2 cups all purpose flour

your own filling

 (we used sugar free apricot jam) 

Directions:

1)  In a large bowl, mix together the honey and butter.  Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in the orange juice and vanilla.  Mix in the baking powder, then gradually stir in the flour until the dough forms a ball.  Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.  Over night is better.

2)  Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).  Grease cookie sheets

3)  On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/8 in ch thickness.  Cut into 3 inch circles, I use a mason jar lid.  Place circles on the prepared cookie sheets.  Spoon 1 teaspoon of filling onto the center of each circ..  Pinch the sides of each circle to form a triangle, covering as much of the filling as possible.  The cookies may be frozen on the cookie sheets if desired to help retain their shape while cooking

4)  Bake for 8-10 minutes in the preheated oven, until light golden brown.  These are best undercooked slightly.  cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.

Enjoy!  We did!

First Fruits ~ He is Risen

HalleluYah It's First Fruits! Lev 23:11 Yahshua was risen on Early First Fruits which lands on the morrow (first day of the week; sunday) after the first Shabbat (saturday) following Passover.
(found these pic here)

The Tomb is Empty!

We celebrate that Yahweh's Messiah Yahshua has risen and we are counting the next
50 days in celebration and anticipation for the latter first fruits. The day that the Holy Spirit
fell upon 120 believers in the upper room. Incidentally the Torah was given to Moshe on
Mt Sinai on the latter First Fruits...wow, the Torah written on tablets of stone. After
Yahshua's resurrection, the Torah was written on tablets of our hearts.

This is one of the counting the omer charts we found. We are using the one at Torah Tots.

We are also following the daily scripture readings found here (click on omer chart)
At the end of the week we will give the girls a treat or little gift to signify one week
of seven.
We are still learning what the feast and festival of Yahweh are about, and their significance to his believers today.
Have a wonderful week of counting the omer!
Shalom

Chag Sameach Pesach

May the Spirit of Passover bring

change to your life as you remember

the Lamb of Yah in your

Pesach Celebration

From our Family to Yours

Chag Sameach Pesach!!

L'Shannah Tovah!

(pic taken from http://www.yrm.org/newmoon.htm)

Just a real quick note...

Happy New Year!! 

we were so blessed last year to see the new year's moon,

however this year we weren't able to.  We had a bad

T-storm yesterday and rain there after till night fall.

When we went out to look for the new moon it was

dark and over cast... so this morn I hopped on

over to  yrm's newmoon site to see if others

had perhaps witnessed the new moon, sure

enough about 17 people saw and reported it!

Again to all my friends and family
L'Shannah Tovah!! 

 

The Ninth Month

Rosh Chodesh Sameach!

Another re-newed moon was spotted by several

fellow believers last nigh, unfortunately we weren't

one of them :-(

However, we still are blessed to  see

another new month of the creator, the ninth month

which will bring in the traditional celebration of
Hannukkah!  This is not an appointed
moedim but one we do celebrate, although

not as most do.  I'll post on this 

celebration later :-)   

 

Sukkot 2010

If you read my earlier post you know that I've misplaced my camera
(I refuse to say I LOST it)
Because of this I have postponed blogging

about our Sukkot.
Then yesterday in my e-mail was the Fourniers Family Update

letter and in it Sukkot Pics... yay!! So, I've used some of their pics

to compliment my Sukkot blog post.

Something you need to know is that this was Joseph's

first camping trip, so he knew

nothing of putting up a tent. This is

where the hand of Yah came in using

the brothers that were already there.

They came over without any request on our part

to help put up the tent. Our tent is a nice large

one and they had it up in about 15 minutes or

it could have been less. How grateful Joseph was!

While we were setting up our camp site, Kelly Fournier came

over to introduce herself and welcome us. Such a sweet sister.

Later we were given gifts from our neighbors the Schminkes, two lovey
hand crafted welcome cards, scrumptious pumpkin cookies from

Hailey, and wonderful dehydrator (which I have used several

times and my family thanks Pamela every time they enjoy

their dehydrated goodies!)

That evening at sunset was the first day of Sukkot. We gathered

around the Fourniers campsite for some time

of worship, testimonies, and fellowship.

How sweet it was.

Each day of the week was wonderful, but I
would have to say the highlight for me
was the fellowship, worship and dancing

This Sukkot gathering was an answer to many of
my prayers.  I knew the direction Yah is leading us, but
sometimes one needs to see it  to comprehend it.
So  it was for my family.  I know one day we
will have land and be living off the grid, I know
one day we will be working on our land
for our own food, I knew how we as a
family are to live together.  But to articulate this
to my family was another thing.  My husband
didn't fancy the idea of living off the grid,
my girls never realized how beautiful
dressing modestly was, how lovely
serving others could be, 
how music, dance, and worship can
bind us together in unity.
Dancing! 
what a wonderful new and exciting journey
they discovered.

Yahweh had divinely placed us amongst believers who
lived all this and my family saw and
beheld the beauty of it all.

So profound were we effect by this family and families
that my older daughter has had a complete change
in attitude and desire to live for Yahweh
I have renewed hope and an example of
the fruits of surrender will produce.

After returning home both my girls
decided on their own to wear head coverings.
At first I thought it was because the other girls at
the gathering wore them.  As I inquired as to
this sudden desire I found that my girls
have made a commitment to walk
in the ways of Torah. No longer
did they obey Torah because
Momma and Daddy said to,

But they have decided,

to obey because they saw
what true holiness was.
When they were asked by their older sister
(who doesn't live at home) why

they were covering, the answer
was, because we want to show that
we are in submission to daddy and
Yahweh.  My girls no longer say
"...because our parents say we have too..."

but, "because we want to walk
in the ways of Yahweh"

What a joy to my heart to hear that!!

There is dancing in our home, there is singing, and worship,

there is striving to love and serve each other...

we had wonderful examples at Sukkot
that we brought home with us and are

striving to follow...

(Kelly &Brianna Fournier)

The music provoked AbbiYah to pick up her guitar
and practice...read here for her story

ahhh...the dancing... my girls are now
singing and dancing through out the day...
you can read YahChanna's post about
dancing here



how awesome to see brothern dance
before Yahweh

Joseph was burried in the name of
Yahshua the Messiah

Family Fun Day... tug-a-war...



The Children (and some adults) of our Sukkot gathering....
how lovely to behold the faith of children...

We left after sunset on the last great day because YahChanna
had picked up a virus that was going around.
She was infected with a bug and we all
were infected with love, new friendships,
and sweet memories...
Thank You, Yahweh for your goodness
toward us, it is in comprehensible


...thank you

Our First!!

we had our first Sukkot with the brethren... it was more than I could have dreamed!! Father blessed us to attend a gathering about an hour and half from our home. We met the most wonderful people!! I'm exhausted right now but I'll wright more when I fully rested and can think clearly :-b

Yom Teruah Dinner

Leviticus 23:24

“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you have a rest, a remembrance of blowing of trumpets, a set-apart gathering.

Thought I'd share this years Yom Teruah Dinner with ya'll:

Apple-Crusted Salmon found @ Whole Foods Market

Garlic Broccoli found @ All Recipes

Green olives stuffed with Garlic

Black olives

Cinnamon & Spice Challah found @ Look Who's Cookin

Grape Juice

and for dessert:

Apple caramel pie topped with home made vanilla whipped cream
(everything from the pie crust to the caramels are made from scratch)
Apple Caramel Pie found @ All Recipes

Caramels found @ All Recipes

We would like to spend Yom Teruah outside perhaps at a near by part,

sounding the shofar, singing, reading and praying.

Rejoicing in our Creator and his Messiah!!

Rosh Chodesh Sameach!

Rejoice! Blow the Shofar, shout for joy, clap your hands

for Yahweh has given us another re-newed moon.

The sixth month according to the Creators calendar.

This month is often used to prepare oneself for the coming of the Fall Feast
and Festivals.

Trumpets
Atonement
Sukkot

HalleluYah!!

Rosh Chodesh Sameach!

We sighted the re-newed moon tonight, don't know if it was out last night because we had large black thunder clouds that hid the moon from our sight.

We are now in the Fifth Month according to the Scriptures...

Praise Yahweh! HalleluYah!!

Rosh Chodesh Sameach!

Happy Re-newed moon!

We weren't able to see the re-newed moon sliver last night, too much cloud coverage...

However, others have spotted it so we now have entered into

the fourth month of Yahweh's Calender.

This month has no 'biblical' name found in the scriptures,

so we refer to it as the 'forth' month.

We don't use the name 'Tammuz' because it is a

pagan deity...

Ezek. 8:14
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Yahweh's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz - ( pagan deity ) מְבַכּוֹת אֶת־הַ תַּמּוּז -- a Sumerian deity of food or vegetation, a Phoenician deity

Ezek. 8:15
Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

The Month of Sivan

Rosh Chodesh Sameach!

Happy New Moon! Another month Yahweh has granted us, let us blow the shofar (or the pvc pipe in our case) and rejoice!!

We have entered into the third month of Yahweh's calender according to the book of Esther it is called Sivan:

Esth.8:9 Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁלִישִׁי הוּא־ חֹדֶשׁ סִיוָן



Have a blessed Shabbat!

Rosh Chodesh Sameach!

Happy New Moon!!

Tonight it was clear so we saw the new creasent...beautiful...this is the second month of Yahweh's calendar the month of Zif or Ziv.

Chodesh Tov!

Here is a link to explain more about the new moon.

Pesach 2010

Messiah Our Passover

Time for Spring Cleaning in more ways than one!

Passover will soon be upon us and we are in the mist of cleaning out the leaven in our home. We have nearly eaten everything up that contains leaven in it and are beginning our cleaning out leaven in our fridge, cabinets, toaster oven, etc.

We are also asking Yahweh to search our hearts...we need all the leaven in our heart out also. This is something we do, not only during this time but daily. However, especially during this season we want to take more time to examine our hearts in the light of Yahweh's word.

This morning as we were reading our daily readings; we are in the book of Exodus chapter 32 and 33, we read how Yisrael made a golden calf and had a festival for Yahweh, yes for Yahweh! We read how they offered sacrifices, ate, and rose to play. With music and dance did they have a celebration for Yahweh...

He was enraged by their sin, what sin? The sin of making an idol and using it in their worship to him...remember we are not learn the way of the heathen, do not worship me the way they worship their elohim!

We read how Moshe interceded for them, intercede so that he asked that his name be blotted out that their sins would not be held against them....

Yahweh's response "Everyone that sins against me, shall their name be blotted out of my book" Wow, that's pretty serious!

As we began to talk about this, we began to feel very convicted about our own personal sins...so much so that we all three desired to stop the devotion and go before Yahweh.

My daughter AbbyYah said, "Mama, we don't deserve to have our names in his book, we deserve to have them blotted out....mama, we want mercy and grace...sobs...but we don't want to give it to others who hurt us...more tears...the conviction was good for our souls! We need Messiah, just when we think we've got it, we stumble upon some leaven...how we need Messiah our Passover to cover the doorpost of our hearts, to ever make incession for us and to deliver us from the sin that so easily besets us.

It's true we don't deserve all he has done for us, it is our prayer as a family that this season of deliverance, of passing from bondage to freedom, will bring about a new heart for us all. That this year will be the year we can say, He brought us out! Each of us have our own 'sins' we need to confront, confess, and repent from...

This is the time for Spring Cleaning...Yahweh give me a clean heart and a right spirit within me...

The Jonah Code

Popular Arguments against Shabbat Observances

I found an excellent resource to help explain better some misunderstood scriptures that would seem to support 'Sunday' worship. With a greater examination of these scriptures we can see that Sunday worship is not what is being admonished ...here is an excerpt of the article:

If you ever engage in discussions with Sunday keepers about the Sabbath, you will almost certainly be called on to answer six specific passages in the New Testament. Three of these are typically used in support of Sunday as the Sabbath. The other three are cited in an effort to show that there is no need to keep the Sabbath holy.

Let us look at the first three passages used in an effort to show that Sunday is the day of rest.

THE PASSAGE IN QUESTION…

•Acts 20:7: "And upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight."

Wrong interpretation—The common idea is that Paul was holding a Sunday worship service.

Proper explanation—Note that the word "day" is italicized in the King James Version, meaning it was added by translators. The phrase should properly read, "And upon the first of the…" The word "week" in the Greek is Sabbaton, or Sabbath, Strong’s Greek Dictionary. In Word Studies in the New Testament, M.R. Vincent notes, "The noun Sabbath is often used after numerals in the signification of a week" (Acts 20:7 note). The Greek text behind this phrase, therefore, literally reads "And upon the first of the Sabbaths."

First for what? The verse refers to the first weekly Sabbath in the seven-Sabbath (seven-week) count to Pentecost. Paul was moved to give a message on this day. This occurred following a regular meal that the disciples had enjoyed on a weekly Sabbath, not Sunday.

You can read the rest of the article here

Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?

After reading this ask yourself, should I be celebrating christmas?


The Origin Of Christmas

Christmas is a holiday shared and celebrated by many religions.
It is a day that has an effect on the entire world.

To many people, it is a favorite time of the year involving gift giving, parties and feasting. Christmas is a holiday that unifies almost all of professing Christendom.

The spirit of Christmas causes people to decorate their homes and churches, cut down trees and bring them into their homes, decking them with silver and gold.

In the light of that tree, families make merry and give gifts one to another.

When the sun goes down on December 24th, and darkness covers the land, families and churches prepare for participation in customs such as burning the yule log, singing around the decorated tree, kissing under the mistletoe and holly, and attending a late night service or midnight mass.

What is the meaning of Christmas? Where did the customs and traditions originate?

You, as a Christian, would want to worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth, discerning good from evil.

The truth is that all of the customs of Christmas pre-date the birth of Jesus Christ, and a study of this would reveal that
Christmas in our day is a collection of traditions and practices taken from many cultures and nations.

The date of December 25th comes from Rome and was a celebration of the Italic god, Saturn, and the rebirth of the sun god.

This was done long before the birth of Jesus.

It was noted by the pre-Christian Romans and other pagans, that daylight began to increase after December 22nd, when they assumed that the sun god died.

These ancients believed that the sun god rose from the dead three days later as the new-born and venerable sun.

Thus, they figured that to be the reason for increasing daylight.

This was a cause for much wild excitement and celebration. Gift giving and merriment filled the temples of ancient Rome, as sacred priests of Saturn, called dendrophori, carried wreaths of evergreen boughs in procession.

In Germany, the evergreen tree was used in worship and celebration of the yule god, also in observance of the resurrected sun god.

The evergreen tree was a symbol of the essence of life and was regarded as a phallic symbol in fertility worship.

Witches and other pagans regarded the red holly as a symbol of the menstrual blood of the queen of heaven, also known as Diana.

The holly wood was used by witches to make wands.

The white berries of mistletoe were believed by pagans to represent droplets of the semen of the sun god.

Both holly and mistletoe were hung in doorways of temples and homes to invoke powers of fertility in those who stood beneath and kissed, causing the spirits of the god and goddess to enter them.

These customs transcended the borders of Rome and Germany to the far reaches of the known world.

The question now arises: How did all of these customs find their way into contemporary Christianity, ranging from Catholicism to Protestantism to fundamentalist churches?

The word "Christmas"itself reveals who married paganism to Christianity.

The word "Christmas" is a combination of the words "Christ" and "Mass.

The word "Mass" means death and was coined originally by the Roman Catholic Church, and belongs exclusively to the church of Rome.

The ritual of the Mass involves the death of Christ, and the distribution of the "Host", a word taken from the Latin word "hostiall" meaning victim!

In short, Christmas is strictly a Roman Catholic word.

A simple study of the tactics of the Romish Church reveals that in every case, the church absorbed the customs, traditions and general paganism of every tribe, culture and nation in their efforts to increase the number of people under their control.

In short, the Romish church told all of these pagan cultures, "Bring your gods, goddesses, rituals and rites, and we will assign Christian sounding titles and names to them.

When Martin Luther started the reformation on October 31st, 1517, and other reformers followed his lead, all of them took with them the paganism that was so firmly imbedded in Rome.
These reformers left Christmas intact.

In England, as the authorized Bible became available to the common people by the decree of King James the II in 1611, people began to discover the pagan roots of Christmas, which are clearly revealed in Scripture.

The Puritans in England, and later in Massachusetts Colony, outlawed this holiday as witchcraft.

Near the end of the nineteenth century, when other Bible versions began to appear, there was a revival of the celebration of Christmas.

We are now seeing ever-increasing celebrating of Christmas or Yule, its true name, as we draw closer to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ!

In both witchcraft circles and contemporary Christian churches, the same things are going on.

As the Bible clearly states in Jeremiah 10:2-4, "Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen; and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven. For the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain. For one cutteth a tree out of the forest. The work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not."

So, what is wrong with Christmas?

1. To say that Jesus was born on December 25th is a lie! The true date is sometime in September according to the Scriptures.

2. Trees, wreaths, holly, mistletoe and the like are strictly forbidden as pagan and heathen! To say that these are Christian or that they can be made Christian is a lie!

3. The Lord never spoke of commemorating his birth but rather commanded us to remember the sacrifice of His suffering and death, which purchased our salvation.

Think about it!
Can we worship and honor God by involving ourselves with customs and traditions, which God Himself forbade as idolatry?

Can we convince God to somehow "Christianize" these customs and the whole pretense and lie of Christmas, so we can enjoy ourselves?

Can we obey through disobedience?

So what is right about Christmas?

1. Nothing!