No Idols, Please

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

We were created to love the LORD and be loved by Him. Anything that competes for our devotion simply doesn’t fit our life’s purpose! 

We need to keep in our spirit that the most important mission of our life here on this earth is to love our GOD with all our heart, soul, strength and mind!

Without complete devotion to Him, we would pursue our own interests and neglect godly principles and godly goals. 

No idol, whether it is an individual, dream or an item is not worthy of our worship! GOD hates idols of every kind because He knows anything that draws our attention away from Him is dangerous. It is a sure way to stumble in this life and end up ensnared in sin and lose our blessings!

Matthew 22:37
YESHUA said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.”

We serve a holy and just GOD, whose deep love for mankind moved Him to send His only begotten Son, YESHUA, to die in our place! He deserves and demands our total loyalty and surrender!

 

Love & Blessings,

Pastor Bruce and Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Lake Worth, Florida

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Completed

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

Anonymous author:

I was reading in Hebrews 11 about Abraham offering up his only son and that God COULD HAVE raised him from the dead (v 19), but ultimately, He didn’t need to. However, when it came time for HIM to offer up His only begotten Son, the deed was completed, and He actually DID resurrect! Another amazing foreshadowing and symbol of what God was planning to do for us “in the full.”

 

Love & Blessings,

Pastor Bruce and Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Lake Worth, Florida

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A Prophetic Song “Over the Rainbow”

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

Did you know that “Over the Rainbow” was not written about the mythical Land of Oz?

“Over the Rainbow” was written about the homeland of the Jews, which is Israel!

The lyrics were written by Yip Harburg, the youngest of four children born to Russian-Jewish immigrants. His real name was Isidore Hochberg, and he grew up in a Yiddish-speaking, Orthodox Jewish home in New York.

The song’s music was written by Harold Arlen, also a cantor’s son. His real name was Hyman Arluck, and his parents were from Lithuania.

Together, Hochberg and Arluck wrote “Over the Rainbow,” which was voted the 20th century’s SONG OF THE CENTURY by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.

In writing it, the two men reached deep into their immigrant Jewish consciousness—framed by the pogroms of the past and the Holocaust about to happen—and wrote an unforgettable melody set to near prophetic words.

“And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”

We at L’Chaim commemorate “Holocaust Remembrance Day” each year, and we declare, “We Remember.”

And we honor those that dreamed of “the land that they heard once in a lullaby,” those that never saw the Promised Land, and those who rose from the ashes to make the dream a reality.

 

Love & Blessings,

Pastor Bruce and Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Lake Worth, Florida

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The Peace of God

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

Are you at peace today?

Nothing is worth anything if you don’t have peace! Even having great wealth is no good without peace! You cannot put a price on the value of peace. You can spend your whole life trying to climb the ladder of success and it could consume you with pressure, stress and rob you of your peace, joy and time that should be spent with your family.

We are never truly successful unless we have peace. Peace comes from knowing who we are in MESSIAH YESHUA (the Prince of Peace) and having the peace of GOD, which surpasses all understanding

Philippians 4:6-7
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.                                    

Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

GOD wants to see us (His children) having our needs met and blessed in abundance and being in a position to bless others! But ABBA  never wants it to be a cost of exchanging our peace for it. Seek the prefect peace of GOD in all you do, and always refuse to live without it!

 

Love & Blessings,

Bruce and Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Lake Worth, Florida

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The Path of Life

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

What is your response if GOD doesn’t fulfill a burning desire? 

For some people, unmet longing feels like the worst thing that could happen. It makes their entire life seem disappointing and incomplete! So they pursue their dreams themselves either in opposition to GOD’S will or in disregard and end up truly disappointed, even if they got what they think they wanted! 

Deep down inside of us is a desire, a hunger for something we can not see and do not fully know, which is “GOD-Himself”! 

Of course, we can never fully know and understand GOD; there is always more to be uncovered about Him. But He promises to reveal to us more about His ways as we grow close in fellowship with Him daily (our personal prayer time).

Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Amazingly, as we pursue our desire for GOD, He fulfills the other desires He has given us. And so we learn that acquiring anything outside of His will eventually turns to ashes, leaving dust in our mouths! He longs to fill us with “pleasures forevermore.”

Psalm 16:11
You make known to me the path of life. Abundance of joys are in Your presence, eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

Love & Blessings,

Pastor Bruce and Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Lake Worth, Florida

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