Haderekh Messianic Devotional

“… neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” John 10:28 Henry Cooke once said, ‘Life happens to us when you are busy making other plans.’ We can be so busy, so involved in the things we have set our minds and hearts on to do, that sometimes we get a wakeup call when we realise five, ten, twenty or even thirty years have rolled by with us barely noticing. We can be so distracted by what we have set our priorities on that that wakeup call shocks us out of our apathy. When that happens, it is so easy to blame anybody and everybody who has been crying out for our attention - and we can...

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me…, For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:29-30 The Scriptures tell us that if all the works that Yeshua did during his ministry on earth were to be written down, the whole world would not contain the books that would be written. (John 21:25). And yet, we never read of Yeshua becoming stressed by the pressure of, effectively, the world’s longest “to-do list.” In fact, He regularly stopped to take time to get away from the pressure and demands upon Him to spend with His Father. As followers of Yeshua, we are not only called to witness...

“My Father’s house has many rooms. If that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?” John 14:2 “Home, sweet home”; “home is where the heart is”; we all know the sayings. It is interesting to note that while many of us love to travel, to see new places or familiar places and faces of friends and relatives, it is amazing how wonderful we feel when we come home again - and sit in our own lounge or “living room.” It is so relaxing, so reassuring, so calming to be where we feel “at home”, where we “belong”, where we are accepted and loved, where we do...

“Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him.” Psalm 37:7 Isaiah 40:31 “…they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.” Isaiah 40:31 Let us look at the benefits of waiting for and upon Yehovah. Before the ascension, Yeshua told his disciples to wait in Jerusalem till the Ruach Hakodesh filled them with the power they would need to fulfil the work He was calling them to do. Had they started prematurely they would have been unprepared and ill-equipped for the calling on their lives.  When we catch a vision of Yehovah’s plans for our futures, we may instinctively try to fulfil them...

“For Thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever, Amen.” Matthew 6:9-13 We have already established that where there is a Kingdom there is, by definition, a King Who reigns and rules over it, and all that happens there. The Son of Yehovah is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and all creation does and will bow the knee, acknowledging Him as Lord of all. That is why the first commandment is “Thou shalt have no other Elohim before Me.” (Exodus 20:3 & Mark 12:29). A democracy is a state in which one can choose a person to govern, to carry out the wishes of the...

“Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” Matthew 6:9-13 In John 10:10, Yeshua told us that the thief, the devil, comes to steal and kill and destroy, whereas He, Yeshua, came to give us life, and to have it, as one translation puts it, in abundance, to the full, till it overflows. In fact, Yehovah sent Yeshua to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8), equipping Him with the Ruach Hakodesh to empower Him to fulfil that calling, so that He could redeem us back to Himself. In that same way, Yeshua commanded His disciples to go into the world with the same purpose, vision...