A Matter of Trust

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

 Do you find yourself asking GOD what He is doing in your life and in your walk with Him, not understanding? Well, if we always understood we would have no need for trust! 

You may find yourself asking questions like, “What does my future hold, or will I ever see my breakthrough?” 

We have to learn to trust our heavenly FATHER, especially when we don’t understand His ways or what might be happening in our lives. We need to become comfortable with the unanswered questions. We need to relax and get comfortable trusting and believing GOD—the One who does know. 

Make it a habit of trusting! Even if you can only see one step ahead of you, take that step with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and then trust GOD to show you the next one! 

ISAIAH 55:8-9
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord, for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. (This is my go-to scripture.) 

If your answer is delayed, trust and know GOD’S timing is always perfect. His thoughts and ways are not ours, and His are higher and wiser even when it doesn’t seem to make sense and we don’t understand! Trust the LORD always!

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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Choose Life

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

Our GOD is a GOD who is always on the move! The possibilities are unlimited for each of us for what our heavenly FATHER wants to do in our lives! It doesn’t matter how young, old, rich or poor, we might be! It doesn’t make any difference if we are educated or uneducated or even if we have weaknesses! GOD can make miracles out of our messes because that is never too hard for our almighty GOD! 

As we continue on in our walk, let’s make the right choices; no one can do this for you. The choices are all up to you! We need to always trust GOD’S Word and take the appropriate action to be assured of His blessings!

Deut. 30:19
I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessings and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.

In GOD, there are no dead-ends, only His Shalom for all new beginnings!

 

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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Youthful Attitude

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

As believers in MESSIAH YESHUA, we need to always maintain a youthful attitude, no matter how old we may be! Our usefulness to the Kingdom of GOD never ends, no matter our age. 

Laughter is always a good thing in life. Some of us have been hurt deeply and have emotional baggage that we are carrying with us. Don’t let laughter be buried under all that. Clinging to past bitterness and feelings of rejection can age us quickly. We need to lay all that down at the cross of YESHUA, by forgiving others and ourselves. 

And always remember that with each new sunrise, every morning is a new beginning; with each new day, we have another opportunity for our ABBA FATHER to help us smile and laugh! 

Psalm 103:5

He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagles.

As believers, we have the opportunity to take part in GOD’S work each and everyday, being a blessing to those around us. Never give up on your dreams and moving toward your goals. Remember, as soon as we settle for watching the world go by, we start to age!

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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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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