Best Friend

L'Chaim Messianic Congregation, Lake Worth Florida, Palm Beaches

Believers think of YESHUA as their Savior, Lord, or Master but not often as their friend! We may have difficulty with that concept, but YESHUA does not! Because of His companionship as our best friend, we can have a truly joyful life.

YESHUA accepts us (unconditional acceptance); He walks through trials with us! He is our encourager and faithful friend during our dark times. Also, He is always available. He is never too busy to meet our needs or respond to our prayers. He’s a friend that sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24). He is always ready to listen to us. We can share everything with Him, our doubts, tears, and joy! YESHUA is our High Priest who is seated at the right hand of ABBA interceding for us.

John 15:13-14

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.

As the old hymn says, “What a friend we have in YESHUA”!

Have you made Him your best friend?

Blessings,

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Our new location:

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation meets at:
OASIS CHURCH
16401 SOUTHERN BLVD
WELLINGTON FL 33470

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Results of Discipline

L'Chaim Messianic Congregation, Lake Worth Florida, Palm Beaches

“RESULTS OF DISCIPLINE”

Discipline is one of the most important character traits a person can possess. We know that GOD disciplines those He loves.

Proverbs 3:12
“For whom the LORD loves He corrects.”

Today’s Scripture teaches us that discipline is something we do for ourselves. It does not bring immediate joy or results, but with time, it produces good fruit for those who submit to it! Don’t think of discipline as difficult, but let’s see it as a vehicle that brings blessings, peace, and great enjoyment in our lives! 

Don’t see it as an enemy but as a friend that will help us become everything GOD wants us to be and empower us to do everything He wants us to do, for an abundant life!

Hebrews 12:11

Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterwards it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Reflect on a specific area of your life you need discipline (maybe spending some time with GOD everyday). Whatever it may be, take it to ABBA FATHER and make a commitment to work on it with the help of the Holy Spirit!

Blessings,

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Our new location:

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation meets at:
OASIS CHURCH
16401 SOUTHERN BLVD
WELLINGTON FL 33470

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Dead Wrong

L'Chaim Messianic Congregation, Lake Worth Florida, Palm Beaches

Do the sins of your past make you feel like trash? Do you ever think that your sins are too gross or too frequent for GOD to forgive? Do you think GOD is mad at you? If your answer to all this is true—you are dead wrong!

Your sins (past, present, and future ) were all atoned for on Calvary! 

YESHUA said, “It is finished”! You were purchased by the Blood of the Lamb. Once you accept His sacrifice as atonement for your sins and ask YESHUA into your heart, the Holy Spirit comes and makes his home in you! You are now the temple of GOD (His house, His family, and His child). You are GOD’S home, His dwelling place. 

When we do fall short (sin), simply repent and ask for forgiveness and then meditate on His perfect love for you and know that it’s a personal and permanent love and it keeps no records of wrongs! 

When GOD looks at you, He doesn’t see your sin; He sees His Son!

John 14:23
Yeshua answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.

Remember GOD is not making His mind up about you. He has already decided you’re a keeper!

Blessings,

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Our new location:

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation meets at:
OASIS CHURCH
16401 SOUTHERN BLVD
WELLINGTON FL 33470

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Amazing Love

L'Chaim Messianic Congregation, Lake Worth Florida, Palm Beaches

Being loved is a longing in every human being! Today, let’s take a look at what the Word of GOD has to say on love (loving GOD, loving others, and loving ourselves). 

Mark 12:29-31
Jesus answered him, “The ]first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

First, we need to know that love is not just something that our heavenly FATHER does, but love is who He is.

1 John 4:8
 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

See, long before we were ever born, GOD loved us. His love is eternal! GOD’S love for us is incomprehensible; it has no beginning and no end and is beyond anything we can imagine! 

Therefore, no matter where we have been through or what we have done in the past, His love toward us remains consistent, committed, and unrestrained!

Romans 5:8
But GOD demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners MESSIAH  died for us.

Yes, GOD’S love is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He does not wait for our lives to straighten out before He loves us! 

He proved His love even when we were lost in our sin. (Read John 3:16)

His love is beyond words—-AMAZING LOVE!

Blessings,

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Our new location:

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation meets at:
OASIS CHURCH
16401 SOUTHERN BLVD
WELLINGTON FL 33470

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Pressing Forward

L'Chaim Messianic Congregation, Lake Worth Florida, Palm Beaches

We have an enemy, his name is Satan, and he hates us because we are GOD’S children created in GOD’S image to have fellowship with Him! Satan wants us to always be looking at how far we have fallen, rather than how far we have come! Remember he is a liar and there is no truth in him; he is the father of lies (Ref. John 8:44)! He always wants our focus to be on our past instead of our future and on how far we still have to go, rather than how far we have come! 

He wants our minds filled with how many times we fail instead of how many times we have succeeded! 

But our heavenly FATHER wants us to focus on our strengths and not our weaknesses, our victories and not our losses, our blessings and not our problems! 

Philippians 3:13-14

“Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of GOD in MESSIAH YESHUA.”

Let’s keep our eyes focused on YESHUA! And don’t ever believe the lies of our enemy (Satan).

Blessings,

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Our new location:

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation meets at:
OASIS CHURCH
16401 SOUTHERN BLVD
WELLINGTON FL 33470

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Walking in Authority

L'Chaim Messianic Congregation, Lake Worth Florida, Palm Beaches

Some Believers are living in defeat simply because they don’t know as believers in YESHUA’S power that GOD has given them authority over every work of the enemy! We don’t have to let the devil push us around because GOD has armed us with His Word! 

Because of His Word, we are dangerous to the enemy’s destructive plans! Although ABBA FATHER has given us that authority over Satan, we need to know how to use it! It’s up to us to choose to believe the Word of GOD more than we do our feelings and emotions! GOD has given us power AND authority. So even though the enemy may have power, he doesn’t have the authority unless we give it to him! It’s one thing to have power and another thing to have the authority to use that power!

Luke 10:19
Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall be any means hurt you.

Remember, having authority doesn’t mean that you & I will never experience trials & tribulations! But it does mean that we will come out victoriously on the other side of it.

Blessings,

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Our new location:

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation meets at:
OASIS CHURCH
16401 SOUTHERN BLVD
WELLINGTON FL 33470

Back to the BLOG.