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Passover to Pentecost – The Spring Feasts: When are they and how are they relevant today?

The Lord’s Holy Days, Feast Days, Jewish Feasts, Appointed Times, Mo’edim — whatever term you use, don’t miss these days!  If you are seeking more intimacy in your walk with Yeshua, learning about, experiencing and keeping these feasts (including the Sabbath) will bring you not only into deeper intimacy with him, but Yehovah will shower you with new understanding, unexpected blessings, strengthened faith and fresh excitement daily.  I highly recommend it!
Included here is a list of my blog posts about the Spring Feasts and a Biblical haggadah for Passover.

First of all, this quick reference guide shows the 2024 Hebrew and Gregorian dates, the Hebrew names, the purpose of the Feasts and Biblical instructions for observing them from a Messianic understanding.

Although for me the first time through the Feasts was more learning than experiencing, with each passing year, they grow in richness and revelation of Yeshua.  In the following posts I’ve attempted to share some of those insights in the hopes that you will be encouraged to start or continue your pursuit of your own journey into intimacy with Him.

Posted by  |  March 15, 2021 | Categories: Counting the Omer, Feast of First Fruits, Passover, Pentecost, Spring Feasts | Tags: , , , , | 2 Comments

We are the Sheep of His Pasture

Psalm 23 is such beautiful prose from David. It has so many things we desire – green pastures, still waters, paths of righteousness, protection from death, vindication from our enemies, our cup overflowing, goodness and mercy following us, dwelling in the house of the Lord.

But as a shepherd, David’s perspective reveals more than meets the eye.

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Posted by  |  March 8, 2024 | Categories: Following God, God's Character, God's Provision, Walking with God | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

The Spirit of the Throne

I did a study of Psalm 45, which is a beautiful description of the Lord in his palace.  Verse 9 says, “…at your right hand is the queen in gold…”  As Yeshua’s bride, this is us, his queen.

One of the things I did when I fully absorbed that concept, is to see myself standing beside him at his throne. 

I would spend an hour or so first thing each morning waiting on him there. But unlike my usual waiting posture, I faced outward, looking into the palace and beyond.  Quickly I began to realize how transformative this could be.  This is a place where I can become transformed into his image and see things from his perspective, take in the spirit of that place, the heavenly realm. The following is what I saw over a couple of days.

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Posted by  |  October 30, 2023 | Categories: God's Character, God's Peace, righteousness | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Tracing Yeshua’s Blood From the Cross to the Ark – Part 3

If you know YHVH even a little bit, you know he is holy and has set up all of his Torah instructions for a reason. He has and will continue to fulfill all of his own instructions until heaven and earth pass away.  So we understand from the instructions for the Day of Atonement that to fulfill the law, Yeshua’s holy blood has to be put on the Ark of the Covenant in the heavenly temple. 

Have you thought about when and how Yeshua’s blood shed at Passover might have been put on the ark?

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Posted by  |  September 10, 2023 | Categories: Ark, Atonement, Day of Atonement, Fall Feasts, Feasts, Jesus, Last Days, Mo'edim, Passover, Second Coming, Spring Feasts, Yeshua, Yeshua’s death | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Tracing Yeshua’s Blood From the Cross to the Ark – Part 2

We know that Yeshua’s blood is what atones for us.  We know that his blood was shed on the cross at Passover. We understand from the instructions on the Day of Atonement that to fulfill the law, his blood has to be put on the Ark of the Covenant in the heavenly temple.  But there’s no instruction for doing that at Passover.

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Posted by  |  September 9, 2023 | Categories: Ark, Atonement, Day of Atonement, Fall Feasts, Feasts, Jesus, Passover, Spring Feasts, Yeshua, Yeshua’s death | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Tracing Yeshua’s Blood From the Cross to the Ark – Part 1

For the Feast of Unleavened Bread, I spent time with the Father every day imagining myself in the tabernacle. I’ve done this for several years because there’s a pattern of it commanded in Leviticus 8, where the priests are being consecrated for service. They eat unleavened bread and spend seven days at the entrance of The Holy Place. I wish I had seven days, but I spent several hours there that week. Most of that time I was face down, imagining YHVH’s presence

over the ark of the covenant behind the curtain in the Holy of Holies.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread ended on a Wednesday, and on the following Sunday I was sitting at my computer working on a project. YHVH interrupted me with his presence, calling me to him, so I went to my prayer chair where I meet with him.

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Posted by  |  September 8, 2023 | Categories: Ark, Atonement, Day of Atonement, Fall Feasts, Jesus, Passover, Sin, Spring Feasts, Yeshua, Yeshua’s death | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment

Pursue Gold, Eternity Starts Now!

Psalm 45 is one of my favorite Psalms.  It’s a picture of Yeshua as the King, and his bride as his queen.

Verse 9 says, “daughters of Kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.”

Wow – that’s us! We’re the bride of the King, we’re the Queen standing in gold!

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Posted by  |  December 4, 2022 | Categories: Following God | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

9 Ways to Restore Broken Relationships

The fruit of the Spirit is a byproduct of having the Holy Spirit dwell inside us. These are nine of the qualities that are evident and increasing in our lives as we nurture the Spirit’s presence and influence within us.

Having said that, we can further excel in these areas when we focus on them intentionally.  In addition to being the natural result of spending time in the Spirit, when we seek to increase these qualities by living in the Spirit, this is one of the ways we are transformed into the image of Yeshua.

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Posted by  |  September 18, 2022 | Categories: Healing, Humility, Jesus, Peace, Reconciliation, Yeshua | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

I have been crucified with the Messiah, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I have my Yeshua time the first hour and the last hour of every day.  But besides that, during this one week, he had been waking me up during the night to show me things about this one specific topic. So on this night when I woke up and heard his instruction, I figured we would be on the same topic.

While I was lying on the bed, he told me to raise my arms. I did that and praised him and told him I loved him. Then my arms got cold, so I turned over and covered up.

But I kept hearing him instructing me to raise my arms. Again I figured he had something he was going to show me. So I obeyed him. And he did!

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Posted by  |  August 29, 2022 | Categories: Jesus, Obedience, Submission, Yeshua, Yeshua’s death | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Yeshua Loves You With The Fruit of The Spirit

Have you ever tried to describe Yeshua’s love to someone?  It almost leaves us speechless, because there are hardly words to describe how multi-faceted it is.  He alone possesses this kind of love, and therefore mere words cannot do it justice.

Paul tells us in Ephesians 3:17-19:

“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

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Posted by  |  June 30, 2022 | Categories: God's Character, God’s Love, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Yeshua | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

13 Ways to Shut the Door on the Enemy

One day after I had sold my house, I was cleaning it. I was in the living room and I heard the Lord tell me to hurry. I wondered about that and asked if I should not be doing this right now. He said, “Yes, just hurry.” So I went ahead.

Suddenly a man walked in my front door and started talking to me. I realized I had left the door open.

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Posted by  |  May 18, 2022 | Categories: Power, Prayer, Protection, Spiritual Warfare | Tags: , , , , | 5 Comments

A Snapshot of Five Servants

Although he already had my full attention, I could hear in my spirit Yeshua call to me by name.  My name, Christi, means “like Christ, the anointed one” in Greek. I’ve come to realize that when Yeshua says my name, he’s getting ready to tell me something transformative, to continue transforming me into his image, more like him.

That morning it was servanthood.  He has called me his servant, and this is one more tool he wanted me to have. He showed me five servants and asked me what they had in common.  Then he asked what each one was known for. The whole lesson took 30 minutes to write, but will serve me for a lifetime in my transformation into his image.

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Posted by  |  April 28, 2022 | Categories: Humility, Obedience, Submission, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Fearfully & Wonderfully Made

Purim and the reading of the story of Esther provides us so many amazing insights into how Yehovah works.  Somehow he combines his sovereignty with who he’s made us to be and invites us to participate with him in creating a masterpiece.

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Posted by  |  March 8, 2022 | Categories: God's Will, Purim | Tags: , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Yehovah is Answering Your Prayers

You’ve prayed and prayed; you’ve put your request on the prayer chain; you’ve prayed without ceasing for as long as possible and agreed with two or more other believers. Yet, you still have no answer. Where’s Yehovah? Why is he silent? Is he listening?

I believe he is listening, and that he never ignores your prayers. He doesn’t always answer you, but I believe he always responds.  Even silence can be an answer. There are many ways he responds to us and many ways we can miss his answers.

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Posted by  |  February 4, 2022 | Categories: Prayer | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Yeshua’s Life-Changing Love

“I belong to my love and his desire is for me.”
Song of Songs 7:10

That’s not just a song from one of Solomon’s many wives.  This is a picture of how Yeshua wants to live with us every day, every hour, every minute. 

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Posted by  |  December 17, 2021 | Categories: God’s Love, Jesus, Yeshua | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Pursue the Mysterious Voice of The Creator

“God works in mysterious ways.” We hear that phrase frequently.  Usually it’s when we can’t understand what Yehovah is doing, or make sense of why things are like they are.  And sometimes it’s when something unexpectedly good happens out of a bad situation.

Although it’s not a quote from the scriptures, it is scriptural: 

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9

But typically, when we throw something in the “mysterious” category, we leave it there.  We chalk it up to never being able to understand God’s ways.  But in doing so, we miss what he would like to reveal to us.

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Posted by  |  November 26, 2021 | Categories: Following God, God’s revelation, Hearing God, Prayer | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment