Touching the heart of the world with the heart of God.
National Day of Prayer, Prayer Vigil
Thursday, May 7, 2015
7:00 P.M.
Kingdom Life Messianic Congregation, 1280 Bells Mill Road, Chesapeake, VA 23322 — David & Juanita Weiss, Messianic Pastors
Join area pastors, rabbis, worship leaders, community leaders, military servicemen, businessmen, mothers, fathers, children and religious leaders as we join in prayer for the 7 Pillars of our Nation — Government, Military, Media, Business, Education, the Body of Messiah, and Family.
Almost 2,000 years ago, on this day (March 30), and on the Hebrew calendar (Nisan 10), Yeshua rode into Jerusalem and was hailed by all as the “One Who Comes In the Name of the Lord”!
REVERSE: — Three thousand years before as the Israelites were about to spend their last night in Egyptian bondage, God had told Moses to tell the Israelites to select a lamb without defect for each household! For three – four days, that Lamb was to be a part of the family. They would protect it, love it, value it so that it would remain unblemished. It would become “their lamb.” On Nisan 14 this very lamb would give its life for that family and its blood would bring them protection from the angel of death.
FAST FORWARD: Yeshua lived with his family for thirty years. They got the opportunity to live with the Lamb of God for three decades. For three-and-a-half years Yeshua lived with His disciples. He dined with Mary, Martha and Lazarus. He made Himself at home in Peter’s house in Capernaum. He dined with Zaccheus and also at Matthew’s. He ate with sinners and tax collectors. Many followed him, listened to his teachings, were touched by Him, and were healed by His Word. They got a chance to love Him, at times protect Him, but most of all to witness that He was unlike anyone they had met.
John the Immerser called Him “The Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29).
Andrew tells his brother Peter, “We have found the Messiah.” (John 1:41)
Philip said to Nathanael that they had found “the one that Moses and the Prophets wrote about.” (John 1: 45)
Peter called him “The Messiah, the Son of the Living God.” (Matthew 16:16)
Nicodemus called him a” Rabbi come from God” (John 3:2).
On this day, in particular, He is hailed as the Pesach (Passover), Seh Ha Elohim, the Lamb of God.
AT PRESENT: I invite you for the next three days until Nisan 14 (April 3rd) to spend very special time with Him, love up on Him, protect the value of His Presence in your life and heart, and bear witness to the fact that He is like no other.
What will you declare about Him!!!
Chag Sameach! (Happy Passover!)
CONGREGATIONAL PASSOVER SEDER
Saturday, April 4, 2015, 5:00 p.m.
Kingdom Life Messianic Congregation
1280 Bells Mill Road, Chesapeake, VA 23322
Cost: Adults – $22 per person Children (12 & under) – $11
(includes full seder with meal: appetizers, orange chicken with caramelized onions, honeyed carrots, potatoes, green beans, dessert, and all the spiritual food of the Seder Plate)
E-mail us if you wish to attend or text Pam at (757) 277-4759
This Appointed Time helps you make the connection between Passover, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection — between the Old and the New. Taste the symbols of the Seder Plate and be transported to the Exodus from Egypt to the night of Our Lord’s Sacrifice and finally to the the Marriage Supper of the Lamb! Your faith in the promises of God and the God who promises will be strengthened!
Call us soon! Seating is limited!
Terrorists walk into a synagogue while rabbis are in morning prayer and hack them mercilessly. Isis marched thirteen Coptic Egyptian Christians out to the beach and beheaded them, their blood crimsoning the ebbing waters. They lit aflame a Jordanian fighter pilot inside the cage in which they held him. These are just three instances of atrocities that ISIS has committed against Jews, Christians, their own, and the West. The world was appalled at these events, and so the world should be.
But how should we as Believers respond?
When Stephen was martyred, consider the aftermath:
On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. 2 Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. 3 But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison. 4 Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went. (Acts 8:1-4)
They buried him, they mourned him, but they never stopped preaching the Word for which Stephen had given his life so selflessly. We oftentimes get caught up in the snapshot of what we consider reality as opposed to what God sees. Our Omniscient God, like Stephen, knew that stoning was not the end of Stephen’s life; it was the beginning of a movement. It was the beginning of revival. Hallelujah!!! It was the beginning of creation moving closer to its completion.
The Coptic Egyptian Christian who called on the Name of Jesus before he was martyred does not want our response to his martyrdom to be just astonishment, sadness, or despair. I’m sure what he would want is an explosion of the Word of God. It’s what I would want if I were a martyr! Most importantly, it’s what God wants.
Believers in Yeshua, we cannot be so taken aback by the world’s heinous behavior when the world does only what it knows to do — evil!!! Our job is to do what we have been called to do: share indiscriminately the Good News of the Word.
Yes, we will pray for the salvation of the world and of the enemies of Messiah. But there will be martyrs! The Word speaks of it. So, over a martyred body, let’s declare Yeshua is Lord and allow that martyred seed to be the catalyst for the explosion of the Gospel. Only then can we hasten the return of Messiah who will finally put an end to all that is evil!! So be it!
ROSH CHODESH (NEW MOON) CELEBRATION
5:00 P.M.
KINGDOM LIFE MESSIANIC CONGREGATION
1280 BELLS MILL ROAD, CHESAPEAKE 23322
God has a time clock! It’s not ours! He has a calendar! It’s not ours! He set the stars in the heavens so that we would be reminded of His times.
“And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years'” (Genesis 1:14).
The new moon (or the first day) of the first month of the Hebrew calendar (Nisan) begins March 21st!
Upon leaving Egypt, he commanded his people to observe the new moon with the blowing of the shofar and burnt offerings and peace offerings SO THAT they would be remembered before their God. It’s as if he is saying, “Remember me and my commandments and I will remember you!”
“Also . . . on the first days of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your . . . offerings, and . . . they shall be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the LORD your God.” (Numbers 10:10)
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT: There will be the blowing of the shofar, reading of liturgy, worship & praise, dance, a short teaching on the importance of the new moon celebration, food, fellowship, and fun!!!
So you are cordially invited to join us as we celebrate God’s gift of another month!! As we remember Him and His commandments, He will remember us!! We look forward to seeing you there! (IT’S A FREE EVENT!!!)
Shalom Oveerecha!
Pastors David & Juanita Weiss
When my young son was taking Tae Kwon Do, he said, “Mom, I just want a yellow belt and then I’m finished.” He received his yellow belt and the board he had to break to secure it. He was done!
When he joined a speed skating team, he wanted to make it to Nationals. That was his goal. He and his three-man relay team went to Nationals in Peoria, IL and won third place — a bronze medal. A feat indeed!
When he enrolled in the Music Program at the local high school, he wanted to make District Band. Yes, he did.
What’s the point — because I could go on with more examples? I think for the most part, we all who live in the West are very much like my son. We set a goal and we achieve it and we go on to the next thing. What I did not know then as I supported my son through these achievements is that Biblical (Hebrew) thinking is so different from the way we normally think. Biblical thinking does not center itself upon the goal or achieving it. It centers itself on the process.
Today we want to throw in the towel if we do not have a job making 40K by the time we’re 30 … or 2 1/2 children … or a home with a 2-car garage. We’ve learned nothing along the way, not even the fact that we live in a society that is so Greek-thinking oriented that all of our thought processes are so far from how God made us to think and live.
Who told you you had to be a certain way and to acquire certain things by a certain age? I’ll tell you who told you that!!! Society. A society not based on Hebraic thought but on reasoning and Greek thinking.
Biblical thinking focuses on the pursuit. Just think, Apostle Paul, one of the greatest theologians of all times, says this:
“I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection” (Philippians 3:12).
Wait a minute, Paul: “YOU of all people have not reached perfection!! YOU who traveled to 3 continents, wrote most of the New Testament, and whose ministry changed the face of the Gentile world??? YOU have not reached perfection?
Paul knew what a lot of us do not know because he no longer thought like the world; he thought like Yeshua who was born into a Hebrew culture. Paul knew that the essence of life was in the pursuit of the goal:
“No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.” (Phil. 3:13-14).
It’s in the press. The learning, the character building, the transformation into His likeness — it’s in the pursuit.
Here’s to Yeshua undoing what my son, you, and I have learned from this world so that we can think like Him, be like Him, and love like Him.
HAPPY PURSUIT!
February marks the national observance of Black History. A lot of events come to mind when I think of Black History: from the Middle Passage, to Jim Crow, to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the many black slaves whose blood forged this nation and their indomitable spirits that fought against the odds that their bodies might be free.
It is true that the Bible speaks of slavery, but what the Israelites came out of in Egypt and what the slaves in America went through was never condoned by the Bible, although “seemingly” devout men and women used the Bible to justify this brutality.
This is what the Bible says about slavery: “In the Torah, kidnappers face the death penalty (Exodus 21:20). If a man seriously hurts his slave, the slave is to be immediately released (Exodus 21:26-27). If a slave is killed by his owner, the man faces the death penalty (Exodus 21:16).” [First Fruits of Zion]
“If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.” (Exodus 21:2)
God knew that once the Israelites reached the Promised Land that there would be the poor, those captured by war, and probably those who would have to sell themselves into bondage just to survive. He made stipulations for them in the Torah so that they would be protected.
It wasn’t until “seemingly” devout men and women minimized the validity of the Old Testament and tried to understand the New Testament apart from the Old. The result was obviously error. The result was Slavery in America.
The Egyptians did not know the God of the Old Testament. The “seemingly” devout men and women who justified slavery supposedly did know Him.
If we got the idea behind slavery wrong because we tried to interpret the New Testament by discrediting the Old (calling it useless and outdated and obsolete) what other principles/ideas/concepts have we gotten wrong?
It’s time to get back to the Source — to the document that first spoke of a coming Messiah — to the Document that the Messiah spoke of when He came — and to the Document that gives validity to the New. It’s time to get back to the Torah.
Kingdom Life Messianic Congregation (KLMC) cordially invites you to share in its “Celebration of Purim,” the event that marks the divine overthrow of the plans of Haman to utterly destroy the Jewish people.
“For Haman … the adversary of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to … destroy them. But when it came to the king’s attention, he commanded … that his wicked scheme … should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur …” (Esther 9:24-26)
Join us as we declare the sovereignty of God and His covenant with His people. Make plans to be a part of the festivities:
WHEN: Friday, March 6, 2015, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Kingdom Life Messianic Congregation, 1280 Bells Mill Road, Chesapeake 23322
If you have never celebrated Purim before, you are in for a blessing. We look forward to seeing you there.
Shalom Oveerecha (Peace & Blessings),
Pastors David & Juanita Weiss & the KLMC Family
Ever been surrounded by job loss on one side, a wayward child on another, and medical issues on yet another side? At that point you wonder:
What I realize from my experience with God is that “It’s a Set-up!”
When the Children of Israel left Egypt, they left with great rejoicing! After over 400 years of slavery they were free. That is . . . until God intentionally leads them into what appears to be a trap. This is what he tells Moses: “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon” (Exodus 14:1).
Apparently, the Children of Israel were hemmed in with mountains on all sides and the Red Sea in front of them. You have to wonder: A Trap? Or a Set-up? The Children of Israel saw it as a Trap! God saw it differently. This is what He says to Moses: “When Pharaoh sees their location, he will think ” . . .
God intentionally sent His children into what seemed to be a trap . . . and here is the reason: “I will get Me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.” (Exodus 14:4 JPS). IT WAS A SET-UP!
Consider this New Testament scenario: Yeshua has just worked miracles among the crowd in Matthew 14:22: “Immediately Yeshua made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side.” Consider the word “made.” He coerced them! He told them! He gave them an order. As I read this passage, here is my dialogue with Yeshua:
Say it with me: IT’S A SET UP!
YESHUA: I’m trying to show you My glory! I want you to see a glimpse of Who I really am! I’m trying to bring you deeper into My presence!
Say it with me again: IT’S A SET-UP!!!
Whatever you’re facing today, you are not in it alone! It is true that some things we bring upon ourselves, but God can use even those things to set us up for a blessing! Between a rock & a hard place!??? Between Migdol, Baal-Zephon, Pi-hahiroth and the sea?? IT’S A SET-UP!!! Out on a boat in the midst of the storm!!! IT’S A SET-UP!!! Stop seeing things as Pharaoh did or as the Children of Israel did. It’s not a trap! IT’S A SET-UP!
Let Him get what He wants: Honor & Glory!! He’s worthy of ALL of it!!
Shalom Oveerecha,
(Peace & Blessings)
After seven months of ministry, Kingdom Life Messianic Congregation has acquired a Torah Scroll from Jerusalem. To God Be the Glory!!! 
Pastors David & Juanita Weiss and the KLMC Family cordially invite you to help us celebrate its arrival into our sanctuary for the very first time. You can participate in a Torah Service and hear readings from the Torah. You’ll see that the entire service, and the Torah itself, points us to the Living Torah — Yeshua our Messiah! If you’ve never worshipped the Lord this way, you’re in for an experience! Join us in celebrating this grand occasion as we celebrate the ONE who wrote the Words of the Torah upon our hearts!
Saturday, January 31, 2015, 10:30 A.M.
Kingdom Life Messianic Congregation
1280 Bells Mill Road, Chesapeake 23322