Serving a Faithful Elohim

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It wasn't that long ago that I was on my knees begging Abba for fellowship and friends. When we left our church it was scary and hard, but we did it by faith. The same is true of our prayers for a son, our home, and a plethora of other things. By faith we made the necessary steps to prove that we trusted and would accept what ever came our way. 

Now our lives are in a place that I honestly never could have imagined. We've joined a great congregation and are able to dig into the Word, as well as fellowship with like-minded believers every Shabbat.  We are happily raising 3 children to love YHVH and to serve Him with their lives. I see my 2 oldest children thinking of others and trying to be helpful and loving. One of my biggest concerns has always been that my children would be close to each other and it's just so amazing for me to watch how they try to take care of each other. Not that they're perfect but they love each other, and really what more could I ask for?

This past month we've had so many answers to prayer it's been mind blowing. It's just kind of been one thing after another and it's times like this that strengthen us all the more for times when things are really hard. 

After the birth of our son we had to make some decisions about circumcision. Not whether to do it, but who to have do it and how to afford it. Since it had to be done on the 8th day that made things slightly more complicated. Thankfully our midwives recommend a wonderful mohelet to us. This whole process has given me a whole new understanding of Tzipporah's struggle with circumcision {Exodus 4:24-26}. 

Once we called the mohelet and got everything set up the realization of what was going to happen set it. I told my husband "my inner momma bear came out". Because that's truly the only way I could describe it. I did a lot of praying and seeking in those few days before the brit and then on the day of I felt at peace. I knew we were obeying and so Abba would take care of us, which He did! From everything down to the financials we were taken care of in a way that only a loving Abba could. It was amazing. 

our son after his brit milah

We are just so happy and blessed and I truly believe that it is the fully undeserved chesed {loving-kindness}that a merciful and loving Abba pours out on us. We do our best to reciprocate that love by obeying but in all honesty we fall short SOOOO many times. But nevertheless HE IS STILL FAITHFUL! He has never forsaken us, even though truly we have deserved it! 

So that is what is going on around here. We are so thankful for the way Abba manifests Himself to us and we are forever indebted to Him. He is our all in all! 

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of Elohim: I trust in the mercy of Elohim for ever and ever. I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints. Psalm 52:8-9

This Morning

This morning my husband left for his new job. We had a late night last night and I felt like there was no way that I could get up and do the parenting thing alone. I've had help for almost 3 months! But the Lord woke me up with the song Surrender All on my heart! I am so thankful for His mercy and loving-kindness! This song is my life's prayer and a BEAUTIFUL reminder to me of what I must do, in order to do what He has called me to do! 

...walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called. -Ephesians 4:1

Here are the words to the song:

Take all I am Lord, and all that I cling to, 

you are my Savior I owe everything to. 

Take all my treasures, that lie in my store house. 

They can not follow, when I enter Your house.

So I surrender all to you. I surrender all.

Take all my cravings, for vain recognition, 

fleshly indulgence, and worldly ambition. 

I want so much Lord, to make you the focus, 

to serve you in secret and never be noticed.

So I surrender all to you. I surrender all.

Take all my hunger, for all that’s forbidden, 

every desire and sin I keep hidden. 

Search me and know me, I want to bring to you, 

a life that is holy and sanctified through you.

So I surrender all to you. I surrender all.

So I surrender all to you. I surrender all. 

This song is from the cd 'By Faith' by the Galkin Evangelistic Team. I highly recommend this cd which you can find here

I'm Going to a Conference!

I'm finally getting to go to a conference and I'm so excited! My family and I will be attending the Northeast Vision Summit at Solid Rock Baptist Church in Berlin NJ. We weren't sure if we'd be able to go but through lots and lots of prayer and some serious intervention on God's part we'll be heading out on Tuesday!

I've heard so many miraculous stories of how the Lord has provided for people and I always thought "how cool would it be if God did that for me?" Now I'm not saying that God hasn't done many many amazing things for me but you know those stories when you realize that it has to be God? Well we had that happen to us. Our hotel has been provided and different people have just handed us envelopes of money to provide for our expenses to go! Have you ever been handed an envelope with $100 in it? Well before now, neither have I! My family is just so excited to see what the Lord has in store for us because we just know it is going to be AMAZING!

There will be some great preachers coming to the summit and I can't wait to hear what the Lord has to say through them. The main speakers will be Bro. Charles Clark Jr (Hosting Pastor), Bro. Doug Fisher, Bro. Jack Trieber, Bro. David Gibbs, and Bro. Paul Chappell. If you are located anywhere in the Northeast maybe you'd consider going. If you do go please contact me via twitter (@His_Rib) and maybe we can meet up.

Summit Promo 12 from Northeast Vision on Vimeo.

Feel The Love

Ladies I have been having a GREAT WEEK! I've felt a renewed closeness to the Lord and just finally got it into my heart that Jesus loves ME! (He loves you too, but for the purpose of this post we're just going to be focusing on me lol)


I've known that God loves me ever since I got saved. But sometimes I struggled because it was a head knowledge. I know this, scripture says this, and my pastor preached it. But God has done something in my life. He's done the same thing for you too, and if you don't know about it you need to go and have a chat with Him. 


You want to know what He did? 


He died for me (and for you)! Thinking about this reminds me of the hymn that goes: For ME, He came and to death pursued, AMAZING LOVE! How can this be? That thou my HOLY GOD shouldst die for ME???? 


John 3:16 says: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.


Whoseoever is ME!! (and YOU!!!!) It's a totally open invitation! God loves with a HOLY love. He became a man and took on all of my sins. ALL past, present, and future. 


Do you know why He did that?


Because He is SO Holy that in my own strength I could not come into His presence. But He wanted to fellowship with ME! With ME (and YOU) He wanted to have a relationship and I was so filthy and sinful that He couldn't. It was impossible, SO HE MADE IT POSSIBLE! Do you understand that? He wanted me, so He came and got me! He came here to earth for ME! 


I've struggled with this and questioned it from time to time. If that's you I encourage you to keep asking questions. But ask the ONE who truly has the answers. 


...be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive -Ephesians 4:14


Don't be turned to and fro by the philosophies of this world or of other religions. Don't worry about "religion"!* Put your focus on the One above and HE WILL DIRECT YOUR STEPS. 

I don't want to make this sound over simplified, because it takes time and we must wait on the Lord for His guidance. But man oh man having a heart knowledge of the love of God is an unbeatable feeling! Nothing compares to it. Having God's unconditional love means I don't have to look anywhere else for love. He provides it all. Having my husband love me, and my children love me is just bonus! I don't have to worry if people like me, because guess what? GOD LOVES ME! He cares about me and my life and my day to day. 


The best part about all of this (for you) is that He loves you too. If you don't know that you need get alone with God and grab hold of Him! Ask Him to show you the truth of His PERFECT LOVE so that you can know, that you know, that YOU KNOW, God loves you! 


Do you feel as on fire for the Lord as when you first got saved? If not you need to re-examine your heart. Do you really believe that God loves you? If you really believe that, and feel that, then you should be FIRED UP! Not lukewarm, but on fire! You shouldn't be able to contain what God has done for you. If you REALLY comprehend how much God loves you then you should be on a roof top somewhere! Because it is an AMAZING, PERFECT, UNTOUCHABLE LOVE, that no one can take away! This is my ONLY praise this week because truthfully.... It is more than enough!!!!! 



For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Romans 8:38-39




 *Just so you don't get the wrong message, it's not that you don't need to go to church. Just that you don't need to worry so much about religious titles, and the doctrine's of men. Any church you attend should preach THE WHOLE Word of God and should be governed by the scriptures not doctrines made up by men. You shouldn't need any extra Biblical books to tell you the will of God. I just wanted to clear that up lest anyone think I'm encouraging them to leave church and just stay home alone and read their Bible alone. :o)

Thanks and Praise

We've been talking about thanking God, and I think thanks and praise go hand in hand. The things that we thank God for we should also be praising Him for, right? I know that seems like an impossible task. But I think the key is in knowing the character of God. 


If we use our example from Monday about the Ten Boom sisters and the fleas, then God could be praised for being all knowing, a protector, merciful, loving, a great planner, and those are just a few! 


So while for most it would be hard to say "Lord, I am praising you for these flees" it's probably easier (and more honest) to say "Lord, I'm praising you because you know best, because you are in control, because you have a purpose for this!" 


Praising God is such an important part of following Him and loving Him. We can see this in Romans 1:21 which says:

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

So how do we glorify God? One way is to praise Him, and make His name known. If not we can end up in a place where we know God, but our hearts are darkened and we're living a life no different than the unsaved. I don't want that to be me! I want to be sure that since I know God, that I glorify Him as God. I want to have a pure heart before my Father and one of the ways that we can aim to keep our hearts pure, and full of light is to keep His praises on our tongues. 


So what are you praising HIM for this week?




My Praises:

• God's mercy, grace, righteousness, and forgiveness
• Seeing my girls play together nicely 
• Getting some of our laundry mountain tackled
• Watching Facing The Giants (that movie encourages me so much)
• Working with the teens at church
• God's provisions
• Listening to some great teachings on tough issues
• Having my parents watch the girls so we could help out at church
• Seeing my husband grow in different areas
• Belonging to a Bible believing church
• Having a great pastor and assistant pastor
• Our 17 month old still sleeping through the night

Days of Praise!

As you can now tell Wednesday will be our praise day! Before we get into what our praises have been so far let's look at what scripture has to say about praise. Here are just a few verse that I've come across in my recent readings as I've been preparing for this revival:

 Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people. - 1 Chronicles 16:8

This verse here is a direction. It's not saying that it would be nice if you did this but rather it is saying DO this. Give thanks, call upon His name, make known His deeds! So we see we are told to praise God. 

Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods. - 1 Chronicles 16:24-25

Again with this verse we are told to do something but there is something else very important here. God deserves our praise! Now I'm sure we all know that, but how much more should we realize it as truth when we see it laid out for us in scripture?!

Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright. -Psalm 33:1

Here we see God wants the righteous to rejoice in Him, and that's exactly what sharing praises about His goodness does. 

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me -Psalm 50:23a

Who doesn't want to bring glory to God? I'm sure we all do! So that's exactly why we are doing this! We are taking time out every Wednesday to share about the goodness of the Lord. 

The point in doing five praises a day is so that we can seek to find things to praise Him for regardless of the situation. There have been days that I struggled to even write down one praise let alone five! But I pushed through and I did it! I hope that you were blessed in doing this exercise and that you would see the benefit in continuing with it :o)

Ok now for some of my praises:

• Getting to have quiet time with the Lord
• Bible time with my family
• Opportunities to train my children
• Wisdom to know to turn to God for the answers in training my children
• A Great dinner
• God's Provisions for my family
• Finding a mentor
• My husband's business picking up a little
• Family soul-winning
• Pizza for dinner (not having to cook!)
• Getting a scripture from the Lord
• Getting to talk with a mom who used the curriculum I want to use

Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. -Psalm 150

What are some of the things that you are praising the Lord for? It doesn't matter if they are big or small, let's bring Glory to God together!