Avante Alegria!

Sorry, this entry is only available in Portuguese-Brazilian. You may want to see this post through Google Translator.

Yesterday  my order from FFI of all materials that had been left on my collection arrived. My purpose on them is to carefully study them and practise their teachings so that my future children and grandchildren don’t need to spend such energies reading so many materials about things that they should have be already living out since the beginnin, thus they would automatically fall into a waving of blessing of my own lifestyle I sorrowed through my single life. They would only have to watch me and see how things work. Thus, the spent energy for reading what I am learning right now would be redirected to God’s destiny for them. I believe that I’ve been doing a good job, while I myself am receiving His destiny for my life in the process.

The first material I read was the book “Will you bless me?”, by Neal Lozano. When I looked at it I realized it was a childish book, but when I started reading it I felt how many powerful teachings are in it. It’s everything so tender and sweet that the book quickly reached my heart. It teels the history of a father telling his daughter (Anna) the history of Jesus when he was a little young man. It shows up how Mary and Joseph tenderly Father-led blessed Jesus, while Anna’s father telled the history to her. After finishing the history, Anna tenderly asks to his dad, “Will you bless me?”. At that very moment, my heart couldn’t handle such tenderness and purity. In my isolated bedroom, on a 6-degree coldness, there I was weeping completely surrended by the tenderness and power of the blessing.

As fast as an eye’s blink, the Holy Spirit started speaking to me, “My son, that is the very exact way that will happen to your own children. You will be a blessing to them. They will grow up in grace and truth all they of their lives, simply because you love me and my love is in you. I’ve chosen you to be the best agent (father) of My love for your children this generation has ever seen.”

“Yes! Yes!” – I triumphantly replied with my red eyes. “That’s so true, Adonai! That’s my prayer, and I also pray for EVERY perfection, purity, tenderness of Jesus Christ who already lives in me be manifested in my mind and emotions. From this day on I don’t accept anything that doesn’t come from my regenerated spirit and I give you all my heart. I hate sin as you hate! And everytime I don’t see perfection, purity and tenderness of Jesus in my soul, I will hate that with all my strengths and go down to the shed blood of Yeshua to renew me and to forgive me. I pray for your power to overflow my life in the same way as the water stream  flowing abundantly through the banks of the world’s largest river! You love me so much! And I love you so much! I don’t want to hurt you, I don’t want to hurt my future wife, neither my future children. So, when the angels ask you who is your best agent on the earth, may you say ‘Leandro Maia’. With you within me I can be the best! Let’s go to the battle!”

How is it possible for me, at the age of 21, single, with no romantic expectation for the next four years (probably), to love and to pray so much for my future wife and children in which I have not even met? The only answer to that question is this: Because it comes out from my Yeshuas-regenerated spirit. How do I know that? Because it was exactly the same very kind of love (covenant) in which Yeshua loved us 2,000 years ago, dying and giving away His own life for us, even when we hadn’t existed.

Coming back to the materials, I’ve already watched the DVD teaching about Bar/Bat Barakah. I like when Williar (Audrey Meisner’s dad) is interviewing. He asks questions so relevant and important that perharps others wouldn’t do. I’ve talked about Bar Barakah with some Christian friend and I realized that there are several different kind of understandings, and we read the same book (Bar Barakah – parent’s guide to do a Christian Bar Mitzvah). However, I will still strive for the vision the Lord has been giving to me. Surely, I have a lot of projects to my own Bar Barakah (which yet I haven’t done) and to my children’s ones; I am sorrow a lot of nice things now. Another thing I received from the Lord by revelation is how to receive Shabbat at my own home. I am about to do something life-changing to my dad and it will happen in a Shabbat (God’s holy day). Soon I will write the testimonies.

As you might have realized, this experience with the Lord is the result of my correct understand of my identity as a man.

BaShem Yeshua HaMashiach (in Jesus’ name),

My jorney to the biblical understanding of Shabbat (the Day of the LORD) still continues…

Two more books to my personal library  have just arrived yesterday. They are Shabat Shalom: a practical guide to delight the Shabbat at home, by Avraham Tsvi Beuthner, and Shomer Shabat, by Isaac Dichim.

I have already started reading the first book, and I am enjoying it so much! There are so many things in the Scriptures I had never thought before.

The next book in my “waiting list” is Sitting at the feet of Rabbi Jesus: Hohe Jewishness of Jesus can transform you faith, by Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg (I didn’t find it in Portuguese, just in English. Thanks to Dixon’s Family (Jacque and Miss Jocelyn) who commended it to me). I’ve read some reviews about it and I can’t wait to read it!

Thanks for reading.

Hey guys!

It’s not the purpose of this post to get deep on the subject, but just to share somethings I have been learning since I decided to ask for God’s ancient paths, and walk therein (Jeremiah 6:16). Well, the biblical blessing is an ancient path, the Jewish wedding as well; the ceremony of transition from puberty to adulthood (Jewish Bar Mitzvah) as well; etc. I whole-heartedly believe that those things were not made just for the Jewish people, but they were made for all human being, because God has inicially implemented blessings mechanisms in the Hebrew culture to ensure prosperity to them, instilling in the laws and in the culture, and again for ensuring the blessing would be imparted from one generation to the next, to the next and to the next, as effectivelly as possible. But there aren’t such mechanisms anymore in our Western culture today, because the king of darkness has sistematically taken them off.

What has taking my attention to in the last months is something I am already completely convinced that is another ancient path: the Shabbat (or Erev Shabbat). That’s the holy day unto the LORD. In our culture, the adventists call that as “Sábado” (here in Brazil), however in my personal opinion, doesn’t have the same deep meanings and foundations as in the Jewish Shabbat. That’s the holy day unto Him, it’s an appointment with Him, which you spend 24h of each week devoting yourself to the family, celebrating the best meals, living out your time with a unique quality, blessing them throughout the day and through the cerimony of transition from the common day to the holy day.

In our Western culture, there isn’t anymore the right concept of holiness. The first thing that comes out in our Christian minds today when we hear the word “holiness” is this: to have a good behavior or moral high standards, go well in our way of thinking and behalf unto Kingdom’s stuffs, etc, etc, everything related to behavior. But the word “holy” in Hebrew is koddesh, and that means simply this: “dedicated”, “set-apart”, “separated” unto somebody or something (both good or evil). Thus, the word “holy” requires an object. Holy unto who or what? For instant, I am holy unto the LORD Yeshua, and I will be holy unto my future wife from our wedding day on; that means I will be dedicated, set-apart and separated unto her. Before our wedding day, I was common unto her; our relationship was common, not holy. From our wedding day on it will be holy. As husband I will have access in her heart (a deeper emotional comunication, a dedication, etc) that any husband else on the earth will have. That doesn’t mean that I have a higher moral standards than any husband else, or I am better than the other men, no! That just means that I am dedicaded, set-apart, separated unto my (future) wife, while every man else is just common (the opposite of holy) unto her (after the wedding day). Ijust gave one example of holiness but you can be holy to anything because if you have to be unto something or somebody (unto the LORD, unto a devil god, unto a special task, etc). I believe that we must understand the right understanding of “holiness”. For more information, listen to Holy vs Common audio teachings.

I gave a brief explanation of that because I want to say that our Western culture has lost completely the sense of holiness. There aren’t holy things anymore. Everything is common! All marriages are treated as common; all days are treated as common; all people are common; all authorities are common; everything is common, anything is holy. There isn’t the perception of holy anymore. It’s obvious the consequences of this lack of perception of what is holy inside a society (divorce, authority insubmition, immodesty in dressing, etc).

The Shabbat is a holy day unto the LORD, which you spend 24h each week resting, with no work, nothing to worry about, delighting yourself on the reached work of the last six days, just devoting yourself to the family, blessing them and imparting heavenly blessings to each memberr during all the cerimony process, meals and time together. It’s so beautiful! As the same way we give back 10% of everything received from the LORD through the tithe (another thing which the LORD says that is holy), we also do the same in the Shabbat. We give back 1 day of the week to the LORD, and He himself makes all the 6 days left better for us, providing body and spiritual resting need for our better functioning.

Well, I just gave a brief introduction on the Shabbat. There are several other things else I have discovered about. Personally, I haven’t started to “observe” the Shabbat yet, because it’s something very new for me and my family isn’t Christian as well, but I am getting deeper and deeper on the matter for me to observe it as soon as possible. I have sent some letters to FFI and other families which have already been observing the Shabbat, and asking them some information. My exciting journey is doing well! Surely It’s something very interesting to gradually do, especially by living in a culture where everything is so common (the opposite of holy). I really want to walk in that ancient path of God. If there is anybody else there who observes the Shabbat, please feel free to share with us your thoughts and life experience, I would appreciate so much hearing from you.

Thanks for reading.

For the Kingdom,

Senior aspiring to Knight,