Tithe?
Proverbs 3:9-10 Honor Adonai with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your income. 10 Then your granaries will be filled and your vats overflow with new wine. Firstfruits... This is discussed a lot in Jewish circles. For many of their festivals they are required to bring the first fruits from their harvest. In this verse it was first fruits of ALL your income. First fruits were often waved before the Lord as a praise offering. Sometimes they were burned as a sacrifice
Are you like dough?
Matthew 13:33-35 33 And he told them yet another parable. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with a bushel of flour, then waited until the whole batch of dough rose.” 34 All these things Yeshua said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without using a parable. 35 This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet, “I will open my mouth in parables,
I will say what has been hidden since the creation of the universe.
Small, but Large
Matthew 13:31-32 31 Yeshua put before them another parable. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed which a man takes and sows in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows up it is larger than any garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the birds flying about come and nest in its branches.” Mustard seed... This is a seed many of us have heard about. Having lived in Israel I can testify that the plant becomes quite large. Bird can sit and rest (no
How to pray...
Matthew 6:7-15 7 “And when you pray, don’t babble on and on like the pagans, who think God will hear them better if they talk a lot. 8 Don’t be like them, because your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 You, therefore, pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven!
May your Name be kept holy.
10 May your Kingdom come,
your will be done on earth as in heaven. 11 Give us the food we need today.
12 Forgive us what we have done wrong,
as we too have forgiven those who ha
