Category: December-2

We pray you had a blessed Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends! As we have entered into the month of December we look forward to the M.J.A.A. South East Regional Conference December 16^th-18^th, 2022 at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando Florida! It is a powerful, supernatural weekend of Messianic praise, worship, teaching, and fellowship! Paul Wilbur and Sarah Liberman will be our guest psalmists! This is a weekend you don’t want to miss!

Register at https://mjaa.org/southeast2022/#schedule

Tuesday, November 29^th 2022, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is national Giving Day! The intent is for people to kick off the holiday season by donating money to a charitable cause such as Congregation Zions Sake! Giving Tuesday was founded in 2012 by New York’s 92nd Street Y in partnership with the United Nations Foundation. In the year 2021 Americans spent $707.5 billion, that’s right, $707.5 billion dollars on the Christmas Holiday! Congregation Zion’s Sake and every Church I know sees a downturn in Tithes and offerings in December every year! That’s a tragic and horrible statistic! What an impact for the Kingdom of Adonai and Jewish revival we could do with just 1% of this spending! Consider honoring God first with a special donation to Congregation Zion’s Sake today, on giving Tuesday!

        We look forward to celebrating Hanukkah for eight days which begins at sunset, Sunday December 18^th 2022. Then on Wednesday, December 21^st 2022 we enter the “winter Solstice”, the shortest day of the year that officially marks the first day of winter! At our Erev Shabbat service on Friday, December 23^rd we will have a special Hanukkah service with both a children’s and youth group holiday presentation! You don’t want to miss this special service with all of our children and youth!

The end of this month, December 31^st marks the end of the Gregorian Calendar year of 2022 and the start of the New Year 2023. The 1^st of Nisan (the Biblical New Year) begins at sunset, Wednesday March 22^nd 2023 when we begin the year 5783. As we move into a new year one of the meanings of 5783 is the year of retribution. Retribution is the dispensing or receiving of reward, punishment, and judgement! 5783 spells “Ur” in Hebrew which means to be exposed! 23 in the Gematria means to drop or trickle, to flow scantily. The year 2023 will be a year of lack regarding food and water. Adonai has been preparing us for such a time as this! The good news is that it will be a year of great revival as people will seek Adonai and His Kingdom!

        The term “Revival” unfortunately is an overused, miss understood term used by religion to announce weeklong services in the summer or to facilitate guest speakers or traveling evangelists. Also, unfortunately “Revival” is a term that is rarely used in the Jewish Community even though the term is found throughout the Tanach:

        The term “Revival” unfortunately is an overused, miss understood term used by religion to announce weeklong services in the summer or to facilitate guest speakers or traveling evangelists. Also, unfortunately “Revival” is a term that is rarely used in the Jewish Community even though the term is found throughout the Tanach:

    To revive is to have an abundant live, a prosperous life, to be restored to health, to have victory over disease, to grow in the Lord, to be healed of sickness, depression, and even have victory over death! This isn’t a term to announce a special service, it is a life changing transformation that is cultivated. Cultivate in Hebrew is: “le’ovdah”, to work, to serve, to be a bondservant, and worshipper.

    To be revived, to experience life from the dead, to have signs and wonders be part of our daily lives is something we must work towards, to strive for, to cultivate through prayer and worship! Those with a humble and contrite heart, those who seek Adonai, those who are His bondservants, those who praise and worship the God of Israel in spirit and truth, those who rejoice in Him, to them He pays attention.  In fact, He revives those who are humble! Those who have a broken, contrite heart, those who seek Him! As we enter a new year shortly let us enter His gates with Thanksgiving, with expectation, with anticipation for revival, for a move of God! The onus is upon us to be a mature, sin free body that acquires the groanings of the Holy Spirit for revival. We must matriculate into society, into work, into school, into malls and stores, sharing the Good News by demonstrating the dunamis power then introducing the King. May we be humble servants for the Lord to use to usher in Worldwide Revival.