Purim Celebration – March 4 at 7 pm
Join us for a fun evening as we present the story of Esther in a musical. Light refreshments following the show. Come dressed in your favorite costuemm (nothing scary or indecent please.)
Week of Prayer – January 1 – 7, 2023
This week we join other believers across this nation and around the world in prayer for an awakening to take place in our personal lives, our communities, our nations and the world. Our theme verse is “After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly” (Acts 4:31, NIV)
Below are the daily prayer prompts.
2022 Week of Prayer – Tuesday’s Prayer Focus
Too often our minds and emotions are hijacked by the chaos of the world and the challenges of life. What if today, we take time to focus on the beauty of Yeshua? What if we choose to reflect on all the good things He has done in our lives and the glorious creation that surrounds us? Perhaps this change in perspective will encourage our hearts. Perhaps it will break through the darkness trying to encroach on our minds and emotions. It will certainly strengthen us as we pray today. May you see His beauty in even the most minute of details.
Blessings,
Rabbi Carol
2021 Omer Calendar
Here is a copy of our Omer calendar for 2021 for those who want to count with us.
Counting the Omer – Expect now is the time
March 28, 2021
Tonight we start the counting of the Omer. For the next 50 days we will count each night as we look forward to Shavuot. The counting is to be done with great expectation. It is a season of reflecting on the promises of Adonai as we look to their fulfillment in our lives. The talmidim (disciples) of Yeshua counted the Omer. In Acts 2 when we read they waited in the Upper Room, it was during the counting of the Omer. Yeshua told them to go to Jerusalem and wait for the promise of the Ruach. On Shavuot that year the Ruach was poured out just as Adonai had promised and they received power to be His witnesses.
We encourage you to wait on Adonai during the next fifty days. Wait with anticipation of what G-d is going to do. The verse I choose for tonight says, “This is why I wait upon you, expecting your breakthrough, for your Word brings me hope.” Tehillim 130.5
Expect breakthrough in your life. At the set time, Adonai always fulfills His word. Don’t be discouraged by the wait you have gone through. As those who have gone before us, believe He is a promise keeping G-d and that now is the time for your breakthrough. Look to His word. Meditate on His promises and on who He is – a faithful G-d who will not let you down.
Expect G-d to act!
Blessings,
Rabbi Carol
For Such A Time As This
February 25, 2021
Shalom Chaverim,
Tonight we began celebrating Purim, which commemorates Adonai’s deliverance of our Jewish people from the hands of those who sought our annihilation. Most of us are familiar with the story. Our heroine is a young Jewish woman named Hadassah (Esther).
As the news of Haman’s plot to kill all the Jews is brought to Hadassah, she is not sure of what her role should he. Her cousin Mordecai challenges her with these six simple words, “For such a time as this.” When Hadassah hesitates to her cousin’s appeal that she needed to speak to the king to save the Jewish people, Mordecai responds, ” For if you fail to speak up now, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from a different direction; but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows whether you didn’t come into your royal position precisely for such a time as this.”
These words provoke thoughts of courage and bravery for that is certainly what Hadassah needed as she entered into the throne room of the king on that day. Too often we fail to understand that she really didn’t know if she would make it out alive or not. Yet, she knew she had been placed in the palace for that moment. She knew she could not be silent.
I believe Adonai would encourage each one of us with those same six words – for such a time as this. Our world is in a mess. Evil and wickedness press hard against the kingdom of light seeking to extinguish it. We have been called for such a time of this. It is not time for us to shrink back in fear. We cannot give in to intimidation. We cannot think we can sit in our homes doing nothing and think we and our families will be safe from it all.
Each one of us must rise up in this hour saying to G-d. Hineni – Here I am! Each one of us can make a difference in our world as we cooperate with Adonai by making ourselves available and standing up for truth and righteousness. Courage is needed in this hour.
Is there a risk? Yes! Absolutely! But the consequences of doing nothing far outweigh that risk. It is time we take our place in this generation and stand boldly in the face of evil and say enough is enough. Let us rise up in the face of darkness using the authority and power Adonai has given us and stand against the forces of evil that seek to rule and overpower the kingdom of light. We know that through G-d we will prevail. It is through Him that we will have the victory.
Friend, you have been called for such a time as this.
Blessings,
Rabbi Carol Calise