Borrowing Trouble

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

GOD gives us just enough grace for one day at a time! To avoid fatigue, weariness, and burnout in our minds, we must learn to live one day at a time! YESHUA teaches us in today’s Scripture to meet each day’s challenges as they come and that we are not to be borrowing today our troubles that can be coming our way tomorrow! 

GOD has promised us His amazing grace to help us face our troubles and be overcomers when they come our way each and everyday! But that grace comes one day at a time.

Matthew 6:34
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about its own things, sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

All of you who know me, know that’s a very special Scripture to me. We may not know what tomorrow will hold, but we know WHO holds tomorrow! So let’s begin today to live one day at a time, knowing that our ABBA FATHER will supply an abundant amount of His amazing grace to see us through each and every morning, and that is a promise that we can count on from our Creator!

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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Faith: A Gift From God

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

Hebrews Chapter 11, known as “the faith chapter,” is truly amazing to read when you’re really, really digesting it. It caused me to marvel at faith—the faith of all those mentioned as well as just in general. Faith is such an integral—one could say most important—element of our relationship with God. 

What is faith, really? This chapter in Hebrews starts out describing it as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). 

Later, those “things not seen” seem to point to things like a baby conceived in (very) old age (verse 11), a son, and then a whole people rescued from death (verses 17-19, 28), and most of all the promise from God of an inheritance: a better place…a better way…in essence, the promise of Himself (verses 8, 10, 13-16, 40; Hebrews 12:1-2). 

This faith is the belief that all of this is true, and that it is on these things we need to be fixing the eyes of our hearts and minds instead of on earthly things (Colossians 3:1-2). And it’s there that we truly have hope. Actually glorious hope, as long as our gaze can be kept there. Sigh. So many distractions these days. But the most beautiful and glorious (and merciful) thing about faith is is that it’s a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8-9); so if we just receive that gift, and then walk with that gift in us, we are able not only to have our own wonderful (and pleasing to God) relationship with Him (Hebrews 11:6), but we can then also become part of the “great cloud of witnesses” who share Him and His love—this Living Hope—with the world (Hebrews 12:1; Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Peter 1:3; Ephesians 2:10). 

In Jesus’s wonderful and precious Name. Amen.

(Written by a dear sister at L’Chaim.)

 

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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Believe the Impossible

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

In the natural world, many things are impossible, but in the supernatural realm with GOD, there is nothing impossible! GOD wants us to believe for great things—make big plans—then expect Him to do things so great that you will be left with your mouth hanging open in awe! 

We need to be bold in our asking; nothing is too big for our sovereign GOD! 

James 4:2 tells us we have not because we ask not. When our dreams seem overwhelmingly big and we do not see how to accomplish them, we need to keep in mind that even though we do not know the way, we do know the Way-Maker! His name is ADONAI, the Great I Am, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and The end! 

Ephesians 3:20
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

Let’s be encouraged today to stretch our faith beyond our highest prayers, dreams, hopes and desires and then watch them unfold!

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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Win-Win Combination

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

GOD invites us (His children) to pray because He delights in providing for us and He stands ready to do so. But He wants us to come in faith and ask Him to accomplish His divine plan in our circumstances! Not knowing GOD’S will for our circumstances can hinder the effectiveness of our prayers. 

He says “yes” when our petition is in agreement with His purpose for our life. We need to pray GOD’S Word as much as we can! 

What I mean by that is we need to use a verse, a passage or principle in His Word to back up what we are praying for. If we are unsure what we are praying for is indeed His will, then simply ask GOD to give it to us if it is His divine will to do so and to help us be satisfied with His decision for us!

1 John 5:14

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us.

Petitioning GOD with specific prayers by faith, free of doubt and aligned with His will is a win-win combination! This will result in an affirmative answer from GOD every time!

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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Expecting God’s Goodness

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

Are you hopeful today? There are many Scriptures that speak of hope, but one of the greatest ones is our verse today. Meditate on our verse, Isaiah 30:18, and see how it will begin to bring you great hope! GOD is saying here that He is actively looking for someone to be good to! Actually, He waits, expects, looks and longs to be gracious to us! 

But He cannot pour out His goodness on anyone who has a negative attitude! He is looking for someone who is expecting His goodness, someone who is on the lookout all the time. He is looking for the person who is full of faith and trust, someone who is eagerly anticipating His gracious gifts. 

Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.

GOD wants to be good to you today! Are you ready and waiting with anticipation, filled with faith and trust in Him? If that is you, get ready for an outpouring of His goodness; it’s on the way!

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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