Haderekh Messianic Devotional

'To everything there is a season, Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJV) Do you have a 'fortune-cookie' faith?  Believers often like to have a daily Bible reading from the Book of Proverbs, which is known for its wisdom, and positive principles of how life should be lived. Proverbs is a wonderful book, but you can't treat its principles like promises; taking a few verses, or a positive phrase, as an answer to everything. We know that 'all things work together for good' (Romans 8:28), but it doesn't mean the journey is easy. Paul tells us: 'Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times...

“My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.” Psalm 5:3 In the natural realm many of us are accustomed to eating “on the go”, starting off our days in a rush to get to work or to school, maybe grabbing a piece of toast or a cereal bar as we head out of the door. If we have lunch at all, we eat it at our desks, keeping up with the workload that surrounds us. Then at night, if we are fortunate, we sit down to eat our dinners, often the largest meal of the day, on a tray in front of the TV. Then we are too full and too...

"And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat." Mark 6:31 It has been said we need to "come apart" before we really do "come apart." Life has always been "busy", it has always been full, and yet we try to fit 30 hours of living into a 24-hour day. Before all our modern conveniences, like washing machines, driers, electric and gas cookers, microwave ovens, etc., it seems people had a more leisurely pace of life. The only difference between now and then is that some of the...

“this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.” Philippians 3:13 Rather than wallowing in the guilt of our past faults and failures, each of us needs to move on. It is not smart to sit alongside the prodigal son in the pig pen of life. Like him, we must come to our senses, get up and come home to Yehovah. The saying goes that the definition of insanity is to continue doing the things you have always done and expect a different result. If you continue to do the things you have always done, you will continue to get the...

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour." 1 Peter 5:8 Imagine living at the foot of a mountain, at the edge of a beautiful, quiet river. It is an idyllic setting; quiet, peaceful and relaxing. How wonderful it would be to retreat there, to relax and recuperate after a stressful day at work. There is a time - as we read in Psalm 23 - to lay down in green pastures, by still waters. We all need times when we come aside and rest a while, like Yeshua did with His disciples. There is a time for recuperating from the...

"I can do all things through Yeshua who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13 Life's challenges come in different shapes and sizes. And what is a challenge, or a mountain, to one person may be an insignificant molehill to another. We have all met people who can make a mountain out of a molehill, but is it not refreshing to come across someone who seems to so easily conquer a mountain as if it were a molehill? Imagine looking through a pair of binoculars. Looking through one way appears to magnify what we are looking at. It makes the object we are viewing seem so much closer and so much bigger....