Lighting Our Path

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

As believers, we are to trust the Bible’s accuracy! It is meant to have a positive influence on our conversation, conduct and character! 

When on the earth, YESHUA affirmed the validity of the Old Testament by using it! 

After His resurrection, He explained what Moses and the prophets said about Him (Luke 24:27). Then He promised the disciples that the Holy Spirit would enlighten their minds and jog their memories (John 14:26). This ensured the New Testament’s accuracy! 

Like a well that never runs dry, the Bible offers a fresh taste of living water each time we open it! We could only skim its surface even by reading it in one’s lifetime. Over time, various leaders have tried in vain to destroy it or restrict access to it!

Ps. 119:105
Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 

The Bible is the LORD’S way of revealing Himself to humanity! Even though throughout history, there have been many that tried to destroy its meaning, it is still the most loved Book in the world, and it keeps winning hearts to MESSIAH YESHUA! 

Is it lighting your path today?

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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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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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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