Haderekh Messianic Devotional

“And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, ‘Let us go up at once, and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it’.” Numbers 13:30 After 400 years enslaved in Egypt there was, no doubt, a longing in the hearts of the Children of Israel for freedom, not only from slavery, but freedom to love and serve Yehovah in the way He had commanded them. Until Moses began leading them towards the Promised Land they had focused on the vision. Now they had to put into practice the vision they previously saw only in theory. Despite their new-found freedom, they complained, they rebelled...

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”James 1:22-25 The story is told of a seminary lecturer who set his students a task - with a tight deadline. To teach them to “be instant in and out of season” when it came to being prepared to preach at short notice, they were to write a sermon outline about “The Good Samaritan”, and bring it to him in his office within the next 15 minutes. He then left the room for his office in another building. The students all worked hard, writing their sermon plans, all seemingly making the point that it was the Samaritan who...

‘…They will soar on wings like eagles…’ Isaiah 40:31 NIV An eagle once landed in a farmer’s field with its wing injured. Seeing that it was unable to fly, the farmer carried it to his farmyard and housed it alongside his turkeys. After some weeks, the eagle's wing was fully healed, so the farmer separated it from the turkeys and perched it on a nearby fence. The eagle sat there for a while, then eventually dropped to the floor, waddled over to the turkey pen, and waited till the farmer allowed it back inside with the turkeys. The farmer took the eagle to a nearby hill; but the eagle just...

'He was in the beginning with Yehovah' John 1:2 (NKJV) How big is your picture of Yeshua? Do you worship a small, finite Yeshua, or do you worship a Yeshua who is infinite, glorious, majestic, unlimited, and divine? John reveals that before the universe was formed, and the earth created, that the 'Word' - Yeshua - existed with Yehovah. That means that Yeshua wasn't just a human being at a certain time in history, but was, and is, a divine being, in eternity. Many people today reduce the person of Yeshua, by either claiming that He is a mythical figure, or by saying that He was just a...

'Whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple' Luke 14:33 (NKJV) In an address to some university students, Rudyard Kipling said, 'As you go through life, don?t seek for fame or money, or for power, because one day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things, and then you will realise how poor you are'. Yeshua told his disciples not to hold onto those kinds of things either. Telling those who were following Him to give up everything, would have weeded out the spectators from the participants. He didn't mean that you can't possess anything, but rather that...

'Whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple'. Luke 14:27 (NKJV) There was once a youth leader who became the youngest elder that his Fellowship had ever known. The following week, his boss offered him a partnership in the business. It would have meant a huge salary, a luxury car and a big house in the country. However, it would also mean giving all his time to serve the company. He felt so called by Yehovah to work with the youth, but the business offer was so tempting. This verse from Luke convinced him that to truly be Yeshua' disciple, he had to give up his...