Teshuvah ~ Return To Your First Love

This year the Biblical Feasts of Passover, Unleaven Bread and First Fruits coincides with Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday with many significance to observe between these feast. And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.   Luke 22:19‭-‬20 NKJV This passage refers to the Passover meal Jesus Christ celebrated with His disciples before His crucifixion.  The Passover table is prepared with a special meal including unleaven bread and the four cups of sweet wine (Cup of Sanctification, Cup of Suffering, Cup of Redemption and the Cup of Praise) representing the covenant Abba Father made with the children of Israel as we read in Exodus 6:6-8. This feast is a reminder of their salvation from Egypt and the re-telling of this story every year at the table....

Shalom beloved, After watching a recent teaching Taste your words by Kisha Gallagher  the encounter with Yeshua and the Samaritan woman at the Well of Jacob came to mind. We read about this Eternal Love proposal in John 4 where Yeshua was on His way to Galilee but decided to go via the city of Sychar in Samaria. He had an appointment with a woman who came to the well with her bucket to draw water at a time of day when nobody would normally go. We do not know much about her but that she had five husbands and the man she was with was also not her husband. So what actually happened at this encounter? Why did Yeshua go out of His way to come and meet with her? Was it perhaps because of her situation? Could it be because of the verbal abuse, both subtle and harsh, she experienced by her previous husbands? Words of hurt, anger, shame and guilt. Then she also had to deal with the gossiping of the neighbours and people in her town. People who had no idea about what actually is...