Faith Factor

Encouraging Words with Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

The Apostle James challenges us to understand the connection between faith and obedience. He writes in James 2:17 that faith without works is dead! In other words, we cannot have the unshakable faith we spoke of yesterday without obedience!

Developing steadfast trust takes time. Yes, we are born-again through simple childlike faith, but a growing knowledge of GOD and a deepening true confidence in Him keeps us convicted and also strengthens our faith in times of testing (trials). 

Hebrews Chapter 11 shows us that obedience is critical to steadfast faith! Noah, never seeing rain, obeyed GOD and built the ark! Abraham left his home, his tribe, obeying GOD’S instructions through faith!                                        

Hebrews 11:6A
But without faith it is impossible to please Him.

Knowing and trusting GOD through His Son, YESHUA, experiencing His actual presence and living daily obediently are the two factors needed to develop an unshakable faith! 

Let’s go to the Throne Room today and in prayer ask GOD to give you that unshakable faith! Yes! In Yeshua’s Name. Amen 

With lots of prayers & love,

Shalom!

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation
2116 Lantana Road, Lake Worth, FL 33462

No Excuses

Encouraging Words with Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

Even though the Bible clearly states that every believer receives a spiritual gift, some nevertheless think they were overlooked. So they go through life as a Messiah Follower refusing to serve. 

Others are so busy wishing they had a different ability that they do not use the one given to them by the Holy Spirit! Both of these attitudes are sinful!

GOD has a specific purpose and ministry for every believer! Our spiritual gifts help us fulfill GOD’S master plan. He always has a purpose for handing out our spiritual gifts. We’re to use our gifts for equipping, edifying and encouraging one another (Ephesians. 4:11-13) and for bringing the lost into the Kingdom. 

Everyone profits when we do GOD’S work through the power of the Holy Spirit!

1 Peter:4:10
As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 

Each one of us has important work to do for the Kingdom. We have no excuses for bypassing GOD’S will! Where He has gifted us, He will also provide strength and courage to exercise those gifts!

With lots of prayers & love,

Shalom!

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation
2116 Lantana Road, Lake Worth, FL 33462

We All Have Choices

Encouraging Words with Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

Like many people today, the Israelites in YESHUA’S time believed they were destined for Heaven! 

They mistakenly thought that to join GOD’S family, good works and an intellectual faith were all GOD required.

To help us grasp the truth about entering His FATHER’S Kingdom, YESHUA described two roads, which lead in opposite directions. One, being a broad road where most people travel. It’s the easy journey requiring few commitments with no rules or road signs.

On this path, just about anything is acceptable, giving us whatever we desire, but at the end it delivers nothing of lasting value! 

The other road (the narrow one) has a small entrance which requires being reconciled to GOD through faith in MESSIAH! Traveling on this road requires a commitment to the Savior and a lifestyle of dependence, sacrifice and trust on Him!

Matthew 7:13-14

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to Hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow, and the road is difficult. And only a few will ever find it.

We all have the choice to choose one or the other: the wide and easy path that leads to destruction OR the narrow path that leads to EVERLASTING LIFE!!

It’s your journey; only you can decide which you will choose!

With lots of prayers & love,

Shalom!

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

2116 Lantana Road, Lake Worth, FL 33462

Blessed Assurance

Encouraging Words with Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

 

If you feel guilty about sins from your past, our Scripture today has a blessed assurance for you!                                      

Paul addresses the Corinthian believers who too were struggling with these doubts about past sins as believers of today still do! But we serve a merciful GOD, and the Word tells us in 1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us.”

Until we understand how the LORD forgives and removes sin, we will carry the guilt! 

Forgiveness is based only on the shed blood of YESHUA. He bore our sins on the ROMAN STAKE and died in our place. When you acknowledge that He alone can make you righteous before GOD, then you will be set free.  (There is no condemnation to those who are in MESSIAH YESHUA (Read Romans 8:1).

1 Corinthians 6:11
But you were washed; but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord YESHUA and by the Spirit of God.

Do you wake every morning facing another day carrying around all that guilt? 

STOP!

The LORD is waiting to take that load off your shoulders, and He will cast it as far as the east is from the west!

Receive His amazing grace of forgiveness today by accepting YESHUA as your Savior and Lord of your life, and don’t wait another day; do it today. 

Today is the day of salvation!

With lots of prayers & love,

Shalom!

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

2116 Lantana Road, Lake Worth, FL 33462

Stop and Listen

Encouraging Words with Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

In the Word, we read stories about GOD speaking to His prophets, and He still speaks to us today the same way! We need to listen for that small, still voice; don’t let the busyness of this life keep you from hearing from Him.

The first time He spoke was through the power of the RUACH HAKODESH (Holy Spirit) leading us into salvation. That was just the beginning! If we listen carefully, He will call us to sanctification (being set apart by Him and for Him). He will continually remind us to use His power and resources so we can obey and live righteously. 

Then He calls us to service, giving us abilities, time, and resources for the good works He wants us to accomplish for His Kingdom.

Ephesians 2:10
For we are His workmanship—created in Messiah Yeshua for good deeds, which God prepared beforehand so we might walk in them.

Then He calls us to accountability. One day, we will have to give an account of how we used the resources He gave us!

Romans 14:12
So then each of us shall give an account of himself to God.     

Has life become so hectic that GOD’S voice is inaudible? Especially with all the craziness of today, we need more than ever to give ourselves time to hear GOD speaking to us through His Word and in our prayer closets! During this time on Earth, we all need guidance and wisdom from above! 

With lots of prayers & love,

Shalom!

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

2116 Lantana Road, Lake Worth, FL 33462