About
God's Appointed Feasts
Living each moment within God's calendar fills every second with His majesty and glory. When we embrace His rhythms, He infuses His intentionality into everything we do.
Celebration
We love to celebrate everything that life has to offer in Messiah Yeshua. Feasts. Eating. Drinking. Silence. Resting. Worship. Prayer. Communion. Playing. Working. Friendships. Marriage. Cleaning. Restoring Order. Sharing our faith.
We celebrate God. The feasts He gave us. Shabbat. His life lived through us. Yeshua, the Cross, the Resurrection and the Holy Spirit.
We celebrate learning. Exploration. Discovery. Laughter. Freedom. God's constraints. Listening. Wisdom. Creativity.
We celebrate becoming who God made us to be. The activities we can do together. Each other's hearts. Our relationships. Our need to be alone with God.
We celebrate God's Word, healings, miracles, signs and wonders, salvations, and the ordinary activities of life.
We celebrate people. As they come into the freedom of full intimacy with God, and through Him, with each other, their emotions, thoughts, feelings, desires, ambitions and passions enhance His Presence on earth as it is in Heaven.
We celebrate our Bridegroom King as His Bride, inviting Him to take over our lives. His vision is to see this piece of earth, as well as the whole earth, become as beautifully loving as heaven. He asks us to invite Him home. We experience Him celebrating us.
We celebrate Shabbat, appreciating all God has done for us during the past week. Shabbat looks back to what was very, very good for us in the past week. So do we.
We celebrate Sunday. God created light on the first day of the week. Yeshua rose from the grave on the first day of the week. Pentecost occurred on the first day of the week. Sunday, the first day of the week, is the day of the power of God's Love Light. Sunday looks forward to what God is bringing us next.
We worship, we play, we rest, we pray, we take time alone, we create activities and do them together, we celebrate the feasts because God loves them, we worship Him because He Inhabits our praises, we find ways to help each other, we lift each other up and encourage each other.
Repentance
Repentance is the oil that pours down upon the hearts and souls of man to cause all things to work together for God's good. Without personal repentance, without turning from the ways of our selfish or ungodly desires, without turning to God and all He desires of and for us, we do not have the capacity to enter into His glory and live within His rest, within His community.
Repentance is an ongoing process that must be embraced every day of our lives. Every moment, without exception, God is refining us, and if we are journeying with Him from Glory to Glory, we need to be going from repentance to repentance.
As God removes more and more of our programming, more and more of our unsanctified decisions, more and more of those things that have owned us, we get to experience more and more of his goodness, His blessings, His gifts. That is the divine exchange of our lives, giving Him every part of ourselves for everything He gave us through His blood upon the cross, His remarkable fountain of aliveness.
Shalom, everyone! I was raised by atheist Jews and knew very little about Torah and God’s commandments until I gave my life to Yeshua when I was in my 40s. A few years later, Yeshua introduced me to the Ancient Path of the Israelites and asked me to conform my walk to Torah. I fell in love with the beauty of my inheritance. Later, He introduced me to some of the most charismatic, healing churches in the United States, and asked me to stay there, learning about His Spirit, consciously living within Him. Eventually, my parents saw the differences both had made in my life and wanted me to lead them to Christ. From Old Testament to New Testament, heaven penetrated my life, a taste of “on earth as it is in heaven.” Later, God asked me to lead several Messianic cultural/arts organizations, in California, Israel, and South Carolina, introducing many Christians to the Hebraic roots of their faith and introducing many Jews to Yeshua and His Spirit through the arts in worship. When He called me to “God’s Mountain” in South Carolina, He asked me to create a Goshen, a protected, fruitful, abundant place for worshiping Him. (Genesis 45-48, Exodus 8-9) I had never built a home, stewarded land, or created a community, so all of this was new and challenging. So far, we have put in a road, a water system, solar panels, built a beautiful worship/ creative/arts/prayer center, an outdoor venue for gatherings, weddings and times of repose, and set up cabins and a glamping tent for private retreats. It has been a very exciting and enjoyable adventure, filled with people who have come to participate. I wish I could describe how God’s healing journey led me to create this project, but I believe that story is better told in depth. So if you are interested, please check out my book, “Freedom: True Freedom Lasts Forever.” It is a riveting adventure into the heart of God’s passionate love for healing, redemption and deliverance, a great blessing to those who read it. Two last thoughts … (1) In my life, nothing valuable happens, or can sustain itself, without the silent pursuit of God’s presence. “Be still and know that I Am God,” Psalm 46:10, has become emblematic for me. I can only achieve what God has asked of me by taking great amounts of time to be still before Him. The deeper my stillness, the more abundant my fruit. I invite everybody to taste and see that the LORD is GOOD through silent meditation on Himself, on his Word, on His Spirit. Seek His Face and you will find it. (Matthew 7:7-8.) (2) God often reminds me that He gave me former Cherokee Land, and I am to honor both the Cherokee and my own Hebraic roots here. In exploring the local story of the Cherokee, I discovered many similarities between them and the Jews, including that both worship an unseen Creator and both have hidden their identities to avoid persecution. We are both in need of similar healing. This is an aspect of God’s Mountain that is still to be explored. I am looking forward to seeing what God will do!