Wednesday, December 17, 2014

A VERY BLESSED HANUKKAH AND CHRISTMAS SEASON 2014 TO ALL





My dear family in Yahushua,

I would like to extend my sincere and humble gratitude to each and every one of you who support this ministry in your various ways. We are One Body in Christ and One Spirit, working in harmony to manifest Heaven on earth, just as our Lord directed us to do when He spoke the words, "Not My will but yours be done, on earth as it is in Heaven". 

Miracles upon miracles have been and will continue to occur here and with all of God's people as we become more and more infused with His Spirit. 

I wish to join you in Spirit this season to come closer than we ever have before to our King, watching and waiting for His expectant return for His Bride. 

My family thanks you from the bottom of our hearts for all the love you have shown us on this journey. We pray for you daily, and for your blessings of protection, provision, and His grace in abundance. 

You are all very dear to us and we appreciate each one of you so much.

Shalom,

Julie and family






Chanukkah, the Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight day festival beginning on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev.
Chanukkah is probably one of the best known Jewish holidays, not because of any great religious significance, but because of its proximity to Christmas. Many non-Jews (and even many assimilated Jews!) think of this holiday as the Jewish Christmas, adopting many of the Christmas customs, such as elaborate gift-giving and decoration. It is bitterly ironic that this holiday, which has its roots in a revolution against assimilation and the suppression of Jewish religion, has become the most assimilated, secular holiday on our calendar.

The Story

The story of Chanukkah begins in the reign of Alexander the Great. Alexander conquered Syria, Egypt and Palestine, but allowed the lands under his control to continue observing their own religions and retain a certain degree of autonomy. Under this relatively benevolent rule, many Jews assimilated much of Hellenistic culture, adopting the language, the customs and the dress of the Greeks, in much the same way that Jews in America today blend into the secular American society.
More than a century later, a successor of Alexander, Antiochus IV was in control of the region. He began to oppress the Jews severely, placing a Hellenistic priest in the Temple, massacring Jews, prohibiting the practice of the Jewish religion, and desecrating the Temple by requiring the sacrifice of pigs (a non-kosher animal) on the altar. Two groups opposed Antiochus: a basically nationalistic group led by Mattathias the Hasmonean and his son Judah Maccabee, and a religious traditionalist group known as the Chasidim, the forerunners of the Pharisees (no direct connection to the modern movement known as Chasidism). They joined forces in a revolt against both the assimilation of the Hellenistic Jews and oppression by the Seleucid Greek government. The revolution succeeded and the Temple was rededicated.
According to tradition as recorded in the Talmud, at the time of the rededication, there was very little oil left that had not been defiled by the Greeks. Oil was needed for the menorah(candelabrum) in the Temple, which was supposed to burn throughout the night every night. There was only enough oil to burn for one day, yet miraculously, it burned for eight days, the time needed to prepare a fresh supply of oil for the menorah. An eight day festival was declared to commemorate this miracle.

Sunday, November 30, 2014

BE INTIMATE WITH ME, MY BLOOD IS EVERYTHING


Here the cry of My heart My people, the love song of your Savior.  As I long for relationship with you… for a heart wide open to receive all that I have to give. My life was a life so freely given, without hesitation, without condition, without doubt, without fear. My life's blood poured out in complete obedience for you... because of My intense love for you. Nothing could stop Me from giving all for you. 

Love died that day for you so that you would have a way, a way to Our Father, a way through Me. Never has a love like Mine been known, NEVER children- a love that would die for you, again and again and again. 

I AM YOUR FIRST LOVE. 

I AM everything that you have ever sought for in your heart. I alone will satisfy. I alone hold all the answers. Allow Me to go deeper, ever deeper to reach the very depths of your soul. I wish to be your first love. I wish to rule and reign over your heart. 

The blood is everything children. My blood covered all. My blood conquers all. My blood is Our covenant, shed for you and for all men so that sins would be forgiven, so that victory is won, so that you can be One in Me as I AM One in My Father and We are One in Spirit and in truth. 

I want all of you children. I gave My all for you, can you not do the same for Me? 

So much mercy has been given, so much mercy shown, so much grace poured out. For those who have ears to hear and understand what it is to have My Kingdom within, the Kingdom of God resides within you. It lives within your heart, those who know Me and love Me intimately. Within this intimacy, this love relationship, this blood covenant bond that We share, you will be given blessings upon blessings from My Father, from Our Father. Those who live with hearts wide open receiving all that I have to give will have My peace and will walk a victorious life regardless of outward situations and experiences. I have come for so long, longing for each and every one of you to fully surrender to My will. 

But I tell you now, this time as you know it is come to a close. For all must come to pass as has been written. It is time for the culmination of all things. You knew this day would come for it is in My Word and My Word is truth. So I ask you this day, are you in total surrender to Me? AM I your first love? Has My blood washed you and sanctified you and made you holy as I AM holy?

You are blood-bought. Have you accepted this gift in its entirety? Are you walking in My victory and in My righteousness? Is your life a risen one in Me? Will you join Me now in these last days to bring all the lost home? Will you reach the unreached and love the unlovable for Me, as I did for each and every one of you? Will you walk that narrow road of Calvary knowing that victory is won? 

I have waited so long My children, I have waited so long. 

My blood has purchased you. It is the ultimate price that I paid. My blood makes you holy as I AM holy. My blood frees you. My blood sanctifies you and sets you apart from those who do not walk with Me. My blood ratified Our covenant. My blood covers you. My blood transforms you. My blood nourishes you and sustains you and carries you and washes you. My blood is your banner. It is your access to the Kingdom. My blood is how I have joined you to Me. My blood is the way, the truth, and the life as I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me and My blood. You must take of Me; consume Me. Accept this, My blood poured out for all as your saving grace. My blood redeems you; My blood transforms you. 

Kingdom within children, Kingdom within. Reach deeper My loves, reach deeper… for there you will find Me; for I never leave you or forsake you. My love transcends all. Draw closer to Me and closer to My heart in every moment. Be intimate with Me. 

Allow Me to sing My love song to your heart. Allow Our hearts to blend into One. Allow this and you will experience such things as you have never known, such glory. Nothing you know here compares to the glory to be revealed to you; you who choose intimacy; you who choose this blood covenant. Choose this My loves, do it quickly. Choose Me, choose love. 

Choose eternity in unconditional love, bought for you by your Savior, the Great I AM. For My love knows no bounds. So much love poured out, so much love. Receive My gift in all of its entirety. Receive love. Be bathed in My mercy and My grace and My presence always amongst you. Live in the rivers of My living water. Be covered in My glory for you were created to have relationship with Me, to be One in each other. 

YAHUSHUA YOUR FIRST LOVE



2 Peter 1:3King James Version (KJV)

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue


John 10:18King James Version (KJV)

18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.


Revelation 2:4King James Version (KJV)

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.


Isaiah 58:11King James Version (KJV)

11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.


Psalm 107:9King James Version (KJV)

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.


Luke 17:21King James Version (KJV)

21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.


Leviticus 17:11King James Version (KJV)

11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

Hebrews 9:14-22King James Version (KJV)

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.


Hebrews 10:19King James Version (KJV)

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,


Hebrews 10:22King James Version (KJV)

22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.


1 John 1:7King James Version (KJV)

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.


Revelation 1:5King James Version (KJV)

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,


Revelation 12:11King James Version (KJV)

11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.


Romans 8:18King James Version (KJV)

18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.