Haderekh Messianic Devotional

Job 23:12 “I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.” If you, even as a follower of Yeshua, despite your positive confessions and aspirations, struggle to get into the Scriptures on a regular and consistent basis, you should know that you are not alone. One of the reasons can so easily be because many of us have set out determined to start reading more out of a sense of obligation, rather than having a desire to, feeling a need within our hearts to hear from Yehovah, or to learn more about Him. It may also be because we have sometimes started out by trying to sit...

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.” Ephesians 3:20 Have you ever reached the place where things appear to be so negative, contrary and impossible to understand or control, that you cannot see how even Yehovah Himself can sort it out? That is sometimes known as reaching “the end of your rope.” There is a saying which goes, “When you reach the end of your rope - let go, because underneath are His everlasting arms.” Deuteronomy 33:27 tells us, “The eternal Yehovah is your refuge, and...

“Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.” Psalm 55:22 Have you ever felt so stressed and overwhelmed with things that within seconds of feeling and behaving totally normal, you find yourself erupting like a volcano, saying and doing things that are out of character for you? Have you ever felt like that when someone walks by wearing a T-shirt that says something like “Too Blessed to be Stressed”? Did you ever want to scream, strangle them or, at least, respond in a way you knew deep down would have been totally inappropriate? Come...

“…that your prayers be not hindered.” 1 Peter 3:7 The prophet Daniel was a man of prayer. There are times when he received immediate answers from Yehovah but, in Daniel 10, we read of one occasion when it took three full weeks for the answer he needed to arrive. At that point, he had a vision and a voice spoke to him, saying that his prayer had been heard immediately when he prayed, but that the answer had been “withstood” by the “prince of the kingdom of Persia.” In other words, the principalities and powers of darkness in the area where he lived had delayed the answer Daniel was awaiting....

“This one thing I do…” Philippians 3:13 We live in an age when many diverse demands are made on our time and attention throughout each and every second of each and every day. We are being pulled from all sides as 1001 things vie for our immediate involvement. Even the word ‘vie’ itself means ‘to compete eagerly in order to do or achieve something.’ The result can be that we no longer have and enjoy a sense of peace and relaxation. Whoever you are, you may at times feel like everyone and everything else has a slice of your life - so much so that there is no ‘me time’ left - let alone time to...

“But Yehovah hath chosen the foolish..., the weak..., the base..., the despised..., the...are not...” 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 When we are feeling “on top of the world”, feeling good about ourselves and feeling like one of the world’s elite, it is easy to be haughty and judgemental about anyone we consider, at least at that point in our lives, to be below us. But, come on, let us be real; that is only for a fleeting moment - and all those smug feelings are mere, momentary “feelings”, simply because we all know the true “me” and the stupid things we all think and do when, thankfully and...