“and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite who is in your town, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name.” (Deut. 16:16, italics, underscoring & boldface mine)

Everyone, yes, everyone is commanded to rejoice! We have been given a command to rejoice . . . and for seven days! Seven is the number of spiritual perfection!

“Celebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year” (Leviticus 23:41).

That seven-day rejoicing prepares our minds to realize that our lives should be lived in complete joy (not only for seven days, but always) because we know the One in Whose presence there is fullness of joy and at Whose right hand there are pleasures forevermore! That indeed is spiritual perfection!!!

The angels understood this when they said to the shepherds:

“Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.” (Luke 2:10) They spoke the language of Sukkot.

The wise men who saw the star knew that this season had brought them the Messiah, so Matthew records that:

“When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy” (Matthew 2:10).

From prison, Paul tells the Philippians:

“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!”

When the host of heaven sees the reason that we should be rejoicing, they say:

“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.” (Rev. 19:7).

What does this have to do with you? You have been called to rejoice! It is a command! Difficult times will come and life happens, BUT we have been commanded to rejoice. So let us, together, push past this veil of flesh! Let us silence the voices of this world that tell us we have nothing to rejoice about! Let us be like the angels, the shepherds, and the great host that stood before the throne and say to one another, “REJOICE!” God gave us the greatest Gift ever, the Gift of His Son and with Him come the fulfillment and the future hope of great promises.

Yes, we DO have a reason to rejoice. Moreover, He says when we rejoice during this Festival, our joy will be made complete.

“For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.” (Deut. 16:14-15)

PRAYER: Abba, thank you for giving us this season as a reminder that this is how we should live . . . in complete joy regardless of our circumstances. As we celebrate The Feast of Tabernacles, thank you for blessing our harvest, the fruit of our hands, and for making our joy complete.

WEDNESDAY, 10/8, 6:30 P.M.
At the Sukkah, 1280 Bells Mill Rd., Chesapeake 23322

SATURDAY, 10/11, 10:30 A.M.
KLMC, 1280 Bells Mill Rd., Chesapeake

SATURDAY, 10/11, 4:00 P.M.,
Chesapeake Campground,
693 South George Washington Hwy, Chesapeake 23323

SUNDAY, 10/12, 10:30 A.M.
Chesapeake Campground

WEDNESDAY, 10/15, 6:30 P.M., KLMC

THURSDAY, 10/16, 7:00 P.M., KLMC

Come learn more about this appointed time! Come rejoice with us as we rejoice in Him! We invite you BECAUSE He already has!
Chag Sameach!
Have a Blessed Festival!
It is the Season of Our Rejoicing!!!!

1280 Bells Mill Road, Chesapeake 23322

Simchat Torah (The Joy of the Torah) Fri., October 17, 7:00 P.M.

David & Juanita Weiss, PASTORS

CONGREGATIONAL LEADERS: Pastors David & Juanita Weiss
1280 Bells Mill Road, Chesapeake, VA 23322 (Kingdom Life Ministries)
Your Connection to the Hebraic Roots of the Kingdom

ORDER OF SERVICES
Yom Shabbat Services— 10:30 A.M. — 12:30 P.M.
Oneg Lunch — 12:30 P.M. — 1:30 P.M.
Beginning Hebrew — 1:45 P.M. — 3:00 P.M.
Torah Discussion — 3:00 P.M. — 4:00 P.M.

MISSIONS STATEMENT:
Inspiring  people to live Yeshua-centered lives by carrying out the Kingdom mandates to Love, Pray, Study, Evangelize, and Disciple through Hebraic-Roots teaching

VISION:

• Walking in Kingdom power and authority (Luke 10:9, 19)
• Living by Kingdom principles (Matthew 5-8)
• Worshipping together Yeshua HaMashiach (the King of the Kingdom) in the unity of the Spirit (Ruach). (Ephesians 4)
• Celebrating the Appointed Feasts (Moedim) of the Lord (Leviticus 23)

CORE VALUES:
We are committed to Jewish roots teaching, the enlightenment of the local church, the importance of Israel in the plan of God, and the salvation of unsaved Jewish & non-Jewish people.

We are committed to ministering, not only to the spiritual needs of those whom we serve, but also to their physical, mental, and emotional needs.

We are committed to developing relationships with local churches and synagogues as a response to Yeshua’s prayer in John 17 that we are to be one (echad).

We are committed to being a Spirit-filled and Spirit-led congregation operating in the gifts of the Spirit and producing the fruit of the Spirit.

We exhort our congregation to identify and exercise their specific God-directed role of praying for and funding missionaries, especially those who serve in the 1040 Window.

WHAT WE BELIEVE:

• We believe that salvation has always been “by grace through faith,” in the atoning work of Yeshua and that works of law, or righteous acts, have never saved anyone (Gen. 15:6; Rom. 2-6; Eph. 2:8-9; Heb. 11:6, 39).
• We recognize that Jewish people (physical descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob, whether through the mother’s or the father’s blood-line) who place their faith in Yeshua as Israel’s Messiah have not disowned or separated themselves from their race and their Judaic heritage, but remain sons and daughters of Israel (Romans 2:28-29).
• Gentiles who place their faith in Yeshua, are “grafted into” the Jewish olive tree of faith (Rom. 11:17-25) becoming spiritual sons and daughters of Abraham (Gal. 3:28-29).
• We observe and celebrate the LORD’s Feast Days (Moeday Adonai) given by God to Israel, with their fulfillment in and through Messiah Yeshua.
• We believe that true “Biblical Judaism,” especially the faith of first century believers, which we seek to practice, acknowledges the continuity of faith in the one true God, revealed throughout the Scriptures, and ultimately manifested in God’s Son, Yeshua the Messiah.
• We acknowledge that the New Covenant body of believers is composed of both Jews and Gentiles who have received Yeshua the Messiah as the Promised Redeemer. The “middle wall of partition” has been broken down, eradicated by Yeshua Ha Mashiach, and now we worship the God of Israel together (I Cor. 12:13; Eph. 2:13-14)
• We believe that once unsaved Jews are connected to their Jewish Messiah Yeshua and once Gentiles believers embrace the Jewish roots of their faith, then the Body of Messiah will walk in the full power and authority given to it by Yeshua. (Romans 9-11)
• We believe in the importance of land of Israel to the heart and plan of God and continually pray for the peace of Jerusalem. (Psalm 122:6)