Parsha Pinchas (Phineas)

from Rabbi Jack… Bible link
Many times, God calls on us to do something we do not feel qualified for. When that occurs we can choose to do one of two things. The first and best thing is to admit our inadequacies and in faith accept the challenge and make the necessary adjustments in our lives to accommodate God. Sadly, this is where a lot of people get hung-up because the necessary adjustments may relate to thinking, circumstances, relationships, commitments, and time. That is where faith comes in. Faith is knowing that God will provide what we need, when we need it, where we need it. Or, we can have a faith crisis. A lot of people have faith crises. A faith crisis is when we cannot bring ourselves to trust God, it means we are not willing to adjust our life to do what God is asking. It is here that many people miss out on experiencing God's best in their lives. God has not called us to walk by sight, He has called us to walk by faith. Moses was comfortable in the desert tending Jethro's flocks and being married to Zipporah but that was not God's best for him. He needed to make uncomfortable adjustments in his life. He needed to leave the comfort and security of his home. Quite an adjustment for an eighty year old man, but he did it! Once we determine to follow God by faith, and to make the necessary adjustments in our lives, we will begin to experience God as He accomplishes the impossible through us. He becomes our righteousness, our healer, our peace, our deliverer, our provider. Every step of obedience we take by faith brings us into a closer love relationship with God. Yeshua had that type of love relationship with the Father, and that is exactly why God created us, to have an intimate love relationship with Him. When our love relationship is right with God, we will see Him functioning all around us, through us and in us. That is why Yeshua said: Matthew {22:37-38} "Yeshua said unto him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all thy mind. 38) This is the first and great commandment." Without a love relationship with God, we will always feel inadequate and will never accept to move out of our comfort zones. My prayer is that everyone will desire the kind of love relationship where we accept God’s challenges so that He can accomplish great things in our lives."
from Ellen… Bible link
The Bible, the Word of God, is overflowing with symbolism. We need to know that the black ink on white paper is only one of HIS tools for us to ingest the Word. I was reading the other day and saw the term “threshing floor”. Okay so I am a city girl and only visited a farm environment when on a field trip or some other congregational gathering. But now, only now, is the threshing floor becoming part of my thinking. I must admit that when reading the Word, I just took for granted that kings, prophets and others met on the threshing floor. So, I looked it up… The threshing floor in Scripture is a place of separation and revelation. A place where the harvest was prepared by separating the grain from the useless straw for the purpose of exposing and collecting the most valuable part of the crop. Wow! Now, for some of my finite symbolism. Of course, we are the grain and unbelievers, people practicing paganistic rites like perversion, child molestation, abortionists offering up our children to Molech and more are the chaff!!! Today we are experiencing heightened visualization of homosexual lifestyles and as of late at the so called “pride” parade in NYC the chant was heard from the participants, “we are coming for your children”. Never before have the things, the abominations and perversions of the devil become so every day so out in the open!!! My heart grieves for the young people of today because purity is rare and all this other garbage is commonplace. Anyway, as the grain is being separated from the chaff on the threshing floor the farmer waits for the perfect windy day to lift up what is on the threshing floor so that the Ruach, the wind can blow the useless straw and leave only the grain! God has appointed threshing floors all throughout the world and throughout our lives. Did you know that the Dome of the Rock is built on a threshing floor? Let us watch and wait what our glorious King, our God Almighty does with that one!"
Yours in Messiah Yeshua, "…while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Messiah Yeshua." (Titus 2:13) Rabbi Jack & Ellen
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