Prayer Practice, an Israel Trip, and New Music

We have fifteen to twenty people interested, which should make the trip economical for everyone, and we could drive the price down. I will start looking into it. It's very interesting — you never know what's going to happen during the Feast of Trumpets. Maybe that's already written in the books. We'll all have to pray about that.

Thank you, Kelly. I hope all of you spend time in the Word of God and in prayer. Forget about the template, but if the template helps you, then use it. The deeper focus is on your own prayer life and practicing it with another believer. It is really powerful to go through this not just once, but consistently throughout the year — intercession, warfare, severing. That is what I'm talking about, not just regular prayers, but really getting into the Word of God, asking Him to identify areas where you need to be more pure and refined.

Regarding Yeshua's real birthday, we will go through that when we reach the Feast of Tabernacles. From what I see in the Scriptures, He was born on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles and was circumcised on the eighth day, which corresponds to Shemini Atzeret, meaning "eternal life." If you are unfamiliar with this, look at Luke 1 and follow the chronological account of John the Baptist's birth, Zechariah's priestly ministry, and Gabriel's announcement to Mary. You can do the calculations from there to determine when Yeshua was born. I believe that timeline places His birth on the Feast of Tabernacles, and we will discuss the full reasons for that in a couple of weeks when we arrive at that feast.

The truth is the truth, and we all have to come to understand it. Sometimes the truth is not easy to accept when we have been raised a certain way our entire lives. It can be a tough thing to swallow. But as I've said, sometimes you just need a good glass of chocolate milk to help it go down. All kidding aside, our focus here is the true ways of worship on God's calendar — His feast days, His Sabbaths, His new moons. That is what sets us apart, and everything else flows from there. Once we set ourselves apart, that is the first step toward truly maturing to the highest level possible in our walk with the Lord.

Regarding the Israel trip — we now have about forty people saying they would love to go to the Promised Land. I will look into it, I promise. I know wonderful people over there who will take care of us. We would be in great hands in Jerusalem and in the Galilee area, where I have close friends who are Messianic Believers doing great work for the Lord. I just need to reach out to them and see what we can put together — a tour of all the sites, of course, but also with prophetic understanding as we look at those places. As for vaccination requirements, I don't believe those are still required in Israel, but I will look into it starting tomorrow to get all those questions answered.

To those of you who feel like you are on an island in the way you worship and believe — you are not alone. We are in the middle, between the Jewish community and the Gentile church with its man-made traditions, and sometimes it does feel like a lonely road. That is exactly why this community of believers matters. We live in separate cities, but thank God for the internet and YouTube. That is why I started doing live videos for fellowship. I didn't even expect it to feel like this, to be quite frank, because I don't have a church. I'm not a minister or a pastor. I'm a businessman in real estate who loves the Lord and the true ways of worship. But I look at the state of the modern-day church — the deception and the ways of worship that have crept in — and it concerns me deeply. That is the reason I do these things.

Regarding the ministry — what we are doing here with the teaching is really more of a teaching resource than a formal ministry. It started with books and prophecy, with Daniel and Jeremiah. Then the Lord put on my heart the true ways of worship. I am very interested in biblical prophecy, and I have a lot of videos on that. Now that the book is out and the feast videos are done, we will be turning back to the prophets and what is unfolding in this important time we are living in. Stay tuned for that.

We are also working toward making these gatherings more of a true fellowship experience — with worship music, teaching, and a proper environment rather than just a phone camera. More on that as we get it set up.

We are also releasing our first album. My good friend Joseph Taylor Strickland and I have five songs we have been working on, and we are in the final stages of mixing and mastering. A couple of those are already on YouTube, but we went back and remastered them. We plan to release the full collection the night before Yom Kippur, and they will be free on the website. Some of the songs are theological, some are worship songs, and some are more in the style of Christian rock — but all of them have spiritual lyrics. We hope they are a source of inspiration and we will post them on the YouTube channel as well.