by Jesse Abel
A Word from Papa “J”
To the one who does not understand the love of God; the fear of the LORD and delighting in His commandments must seem like… “Heads He wins and tails we lose” but for those who understand His love; luck does not exist, but grace does. Psalm 112:1-10
Good Morning
Zvi is a man in Israel who ministers the love of God to the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem. Every other month I receive a magazine published by the Friends of Israel Ministries called Israel My Glory. I wait patiently for the stories in this publication, but I especially wait for the stories from Zvi.
True, if you read him like I do you find that each time the events in the story are pretty much the same as the one previously and one might say… so what’s the point, or more bluntly; so what? The point is simple really; there is only one message to share with the religious and the lost souls that God loves.
Zvi goes to the market place, to the synagogues and the neighborhoods and ministers; he is well known and often persecuted for his love for God. That is, out in the public he is attacked but in the privacy of his home, this is where the rubber meets the road as J. Vernon McGee would often say.
Like Nicodemus, the Orthodox Jews show up at Zvi’s home and privately seek to know the truth.
Religious people have no rest, no peace and no hope and are often confused with scripture. For example religious people may be able to quote John 3:16, or know that God is love, they may also repeatedly pray the LORD’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 or they may be such as these Jews who believe the writings of the Rabbi in their sect who follow the dead.
Religion is the plans of man, plans that can never fulfill the promises of God to its followers who may never find rest for their soul. Proverbs 19:21 and other scripture will stir up the religious persons mind and cause them to seek counsel and then with the power of the Holy Spirit, you or me; like Zvi can lead them to the whole counsel of God. We then, like the apostle Paul should not shun the sharing of the gospel with counsel from the Word, Act 20:27.
Confusion with God comes from a lack of faith in God and the promise of His rest for the soul is lost, Hebrews 4:1-9. Have a Godly Thanksgiving… everyday!
To the one who does not understand the love of God; the fear of the LORD and delighting in His commandments must seem like… “Heads He wins and tails we lose” but for those who understand His love; luck does not exist, but grace does. Psalm 112:1-10
Good Morning
Zvi is a man in Israel who ministers the love of God to the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem. Every other month I receive a magazine published by the Friends of Israel Ministries called Israel My Glory. I wait patiently for the stories in this publication, but I especially wait for the stories from Zvi.
True, if you read him like I do you find that each time the events in the story are pretty much the same as the one previously and one might say… so what’s the point, or more bluntly; so what? The point is simple really; there is only one message to share with the religious and the lost souls that God loves.
Zvi goes to the market place, to the synagogues and the neighborhoods and ministers; he is well known and often persecuted for his love for God. That is, out in the public he is attacked but in the privacy of his home, this is where the rubber meets the road as J. Vernon McGee would often say.
Like Nicodemus, the Orthodox Jews show up at Zvi’s home and privately seek to know the truth.
Religious people have no rest, no peace and no hope and are often confused with scripture. For example religious people may be able to quote John 3:16, or know that God is love, they may also repeatedly pray the LORD’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 or they may be such as these Jews who believe the writings of the Rabbi in their sect who follow the dead.
Religion is the plans of man, plans that can never fulfill the promises of God to its followers who may never find rest for their soul. Proverbs 19:21 and other scripture will stir up the religious persons mind and cause them to seek counsel and then with the power of the Holy Spirit, you or me; like Zvi can lead them to the whole counsel of God. We then, like the apostle Paul should not shun the sharing of the gospel with counsel from the Word, Act 20:27.
Confusion with God comes from a lack of faith in God and the promise of His rest for the soul is lost, Hebrews 4:1-9. Have a Godly Thanksgiving… everyday!
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