Mar 31, 2017 Notes Shabbat Call
03-31-17 Notes from the International SHABBAT Celebration
7-10 PM Eastern
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The title of this night is called: “In Heavenly Places with Lord Jesus!”
We prepared our hearts for this SABBATH with a short sharing (below) followed by several new songs, and then Deborah in CA sang the Shema.
The SABBATH…SHABBAT…from https://messianicsabbath.com “Once you take away the work, pursuing your own interests, shopping, errands, projects and business, and add in gathering with other believers and bringing an offering – what Yehovah is trying to say is, “Save one day just for me, where you can focus your attention on our being together.” The verse that sums up the spirit of the Sabbath: Isaiah 58:13-14 “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
He desires to be with you without all the distractions. He desires for you to find the joy and strength in him that can only be found when you begin setting aside the Sabbath for him. Friday night at sundown is referred to as Erev Sabbath (Sabbath Evening). This is a time traditionally spent in the home with family or friends. The shofar is blown and two candles are lit to mark the beginning of the Sabbath. A meal is shared, bread and wine/juice are offered and blessings are recited over the Sabbath, the food and each other. Likewise, just before sundown on Saturday, there is a short ceremony called Havdalah (meaning to differentiate or separate). It consists of overflowing wine/juice and the scent of spices, representing the overflowing joy and sweetness of the Sabbath. Jewish tradition provides many beautiful practices for the Sabbath day as well. Again, the lighting of the candles and reciting of Biblical prayers and blessings are typical. The Torah (or the whole Bible for Messianic believers) is celebrated with thanksgiving. Prayers and blessings over Jerusalem are offered.”
Pastor Ioan reflected on the question: If we hear the voice of the Lord saying, “COME UP!” are we ready to say, “Hineni! I am here, Lord!” and then enter into His Presence…not alone, but together, corporately!
SONG: “I the Lord of sea and sky, I have heard My people’s cry, I have wept for love of them, whom shall I send? Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? I have heard You calling in the night. I will go, Lord, if You lead me, I will hold Your people in my heart!”
SONG: “Hineni” by Philip Stanley Klein (available on u-Tube on Chavah Messianic Radio) http://messianicradio.com/?song=2356
Everything we do, we do to the GLORY of GOD! All that we are, we make available for building up and benefitting of the Body of Christ! We lift, love and linger together with You, here in Your Presence! We complete one another! I am complete in YOU! We are complete in Him – He in us, and we in Him! ALLELUIA!
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Psalm 2:8 “Ask of Me and I will give the nations…as an inheritance for you!”
Robbie shared about her students: 1) Chase McConnell, in LA, who has a call on his life and is being oppressed. Lord, cut the net that is trying to hold him captive and liberate him to be a liberator in YOU! Release the evangelist that is inside him, for Your GLORY! 2) Tiffany (who’s cutting herself) is tormented yet crying out for something to fill the void! COME, Lord Jesus! We pray for and claim the souls of the millennials! They are called from the womb and will fulfill their destiny! Several of us prayed for the youth…from those being born at this hour through all those millennials (30 and under) in our nation at this hour, and in the nations around the world!
Psalm 118:15 In the tents of the righteous soldiers of God, there are shouts of joy and victory. They sing: “The right hand of the Eternal has shown His power.16 The mighty arm of the Eternal is raised in victory; the right hand of His has shown His power.”17 I will not die. I will live. I will live to tell about all the Eternal has done.18 The Eternal has taught me many lessons; He has been strict and severe, but even in His discipline, He has not allowed me to die.19 Open wide to me the gates of justice so that I may walk through them and offer praise and worship to the Eternal.
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Pastor Ioan said that this hour is being defined by the Lord…as we share our lives as if in his living room, together! We are positioned, because of our “Hineni” response, above the interference of any other spirits or whatever might try to corrupt! We are being elevated in the spiritual realm – lifted up to be with and in Christ, in heavenly places!
What a treasure! Ioan’s wife Meruna used to speak to the children when they were young, addressing them as “My Treasure!” Exodus 19:4-5 4 “You are eyewitnesses of all that I did to the Egyptians. You saw how I snatched you from the bonds of slavery and carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. 5 Now if you will hear My voice, obey what I say, and keep My covenant, then you—out of all the nations of the world—will be My treasured people.”
God is healing the generations, and this nation will be restored because He finds delight in this nation and her people!
We gave thanks to the Lord, unmuting all of the lines and worshipping HIM together! What a sound…and it is moving around the world right now!
Pastor Ioan was touched by what we were experiencing, and said the title of this night is called: “In Heavenly Places with Lord Jesus!”
We are deeply connected together in the Spirit realm, and praying as one in this precious and sanctified HOUSE of PRAYER, we come to the table of the Lord…
-Joyce “set the table” for this time of sweet communion with a prayer that released a fragrance that surely filled the nostrils
of the Lord with joy!
-Richard sang his part of the service and offered the bread – representing His precious Body – and as we took the
elements, we remembered the “Price” that was paid for us and our salvation!
-Cookie released her love for Him and it poured all over us as she prayed over the cup, HIS Blood- poured out for us!
-Kay closed our time of communion by blessing the Lord for all He is to us…and in gratitude for all he’s done! AMEN!
-Rita started singing the Lord’s Prayer and we joined her and soaked in every word! For THINE IS the KINGDOM, and
the POWER and the GLORY …FOREVER! AMEN!
-Barbara sang “SHALOM, SHALOM” over us and we received it…every speck of it!
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FINALLY…(Maureen’s emphasis)…Pastor Ioan shared The HAMMER insight the spirit has given him!
Ioan has been challenged by the Gorsuch situation – God is showing him a hammer and teaching him from the Maccabees (Hammer) when the Hellenistic Jews tried to kill the spirit of the nation and defiled the temple. A rural Jewish priest from Modiin, Mattathias (Gk: THE GIFT OF GOD) the Hasmonean, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods. Mattathias killed a Hellenistic Jew who stepped forward to offer a sacrifice to an idol in Mattathias’ place. The Maccabees rebelled and the restoration of the nation took place… and they celebrated Hannukah, Feast of Light.
As the Maccabees (hammer) struck, they were successful! Today, we are hearing the strike of the “hammer” again – and as in the time of the Maccabees – God is once again striking. The hammer is in His hand and He is striking and at the at the same time, restoring with it…and we hear the strike over and over again! It is a “FORGE” – used to shatter and break, pull down and also to rebuild. It is striking key elements of society; the “hammer” must strike in areas such as ROE v WADE, organizations like Planned Parenthood, Black Lives Matter, MOVE ON.org and the many Soros funded groups, the homosexual agenda, removing prayer from the schools, pornography, trafficking, et al.
What is the composition of the hammer?
Head: the new Administration – administers justice – strikes from above and hits down, with force of gravity / evil comes from below
Handle: the prayer movement and those intercessors who are waiting, watching and praying, while held in the hand of God Who is using it to strike at this hour
THE ONE WHO wields it – God Himself!
The energy that affects the hit of the hammer is determined by the material from which it is made. The recoil of the head is critical…that depends on the weight of the head. (Recoil on Titanium is 3% and Steel is 30%)
The lighter weight material is much more effective than the heavier weight material.
It is easier for the handle and the hand to operate when the head is made of quality material.
It is critical that it be wielded from above and the strike must be down
There is a new hammer being wielded by God Himself…and the “head” of this hammer is the new Administration. That is why those who are part of the new Admin must be quality people…ie. President, VP, and members of the Cabinet…and their key advisors. So too must the intercessors be readied, to be held in God’s hand, for His use!
Isaiah 40:4 …to make the crooked road wide and straight for our God. God is hammering away – reversing the wrongs in society – the crooked shall be made straight (ie. crooked “society” will become just)
Mark 3:13-15 13 Jesus called together a select group of His followers and led them up onto a mountain. 14 There He commissioned them the twelve. [Later He calls them His emissaries.] He wanted them to be with Him. He sent them out to spread the good news 15 and to cast out evil spirits [and heal diseases].
Are we, as intercessors, ready to be part of that handle in God’s hand? Are we ready to be sent out?
Jeremiah 23:29 Does not My word burn like fire? Does it not shatter rock like a strong hammer?
As we closed this SHABBAT Celebration, Ioan shared his memory of the temperament in the USA before the election… people were feeling little hope and were afraid of what would happen…but now hope is being restored, and fear is being cast out by a love that is enveloping the nation. Just as Isaiah 40 says the crooked will be made straight (just) — we are here as His witnesses, filled with that hope and operating in a WARFARE OF LOVE, ready to be used as His hammer handle, as HE holds us all together, firmly “in His grip”! “Yes, Lord. Yes! Hineni!”
SHABBAT SHALOM!
Maureen, Ps Ioan, Dallas
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