Pastor Jenkins' focus today is on Hebrews 1--to highlight the Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit are One. Initially, Father Yahweh spoke to the people through His prophets. But once Yahshua came on the scene and died on the Cross for our sins, He speaks to us through His Holy Spirit because He has finished what the prophets could not do.
One may ask: What did He do? Well, of upmost importance is Yahshua's death paid the price for our sins and actually wiped our slate clean. In other words, He gave us redemption. Unlike the prophets of old, when mankind committed sin, an animal had to be sacrificed and its blood shed. The only problem with that was the process had to be repeated every year. Man's sin was always before him. But now, through Yahshua our sins are as far as the East is from the West.
Yahshua has given us a way back to salvation since we have received Him in our hearts. When He ascended back to Heaven, He sent His Holy Spirit to be with us. The Holy Spirit is our Comforter and helps us decide what actions to take in difficult situations. The Holy Spirit only speaks of Yahshua; therefore, it's Yahshua Himself speaking to us.
Remember Yahweh loved us so much that He sent His only Son, and Yahshua His Son loved us so much that He paid the ransom for our sin through death; then He sent His Holy Spirit to keep us grounded in His word in order that we would make sound decisions.
Never discount the power of prayer through repentance, which leads to eternal life in Yah.
Pastor Jenkins looks at Numbers 20 to show us what happens when our prayers don't line-up with Yahweh's word.
Here in this Chapter, we see the Israelites, Moses, Aaron and Miriam, of which Aaron and Miriam were Moses' sister and brother. Moses was given direct instructions from Yahweh what to do in order to be successful in delivering the children of Israel out of bondage in Egypt into the Promised Land. Moses started out faithful to Yahweh's direct command to him, but what happened?
Well, through the long journey, the children of Israel became disgruntled with Moses and Aaron's leadership for not having water to drink. They started voicing their displeasure with Moses and, as a result Moses disobeyed Yahweh's command. Yahweh told Moses to speak to the ROCK before their eyes, and it would bring forth water, and that would have glorified Yahweh. However, out of anger, Moses lifted up his hand, and with the rod smote the ROCK twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their beasts drank the water.
But, the question is: did Moses do what Yahweh commanded him to do? No! And as a result, he did not enter the Promised Land.
The message here is when Yahweh gives us a command, we MUST obey it. Yahweh's word is our only defense against Satan.
Memory Verse: 1st Cor. 10:4
Today, Pastor Jenkins spoke on what’s required for salvation found in 1st Peter, Chapter 1. Salvation is a free gift from Yahweh through Yahshua (our Comforter). Without Yahshua’s grace, we are lost and have no salvation, and no chance to receive Eternal life. That is why it is so vitally important for us to repent for our sins and invite Him into our hearts. What’s holding us back from moving forward?
Don’t think for a minute that once we’ve accepted Yahshua, everything is going to be easy. NOT SO FAST: Understand there still will be challenges because Satan, our Number One Enemy will continually try to pull us back into a life of sin. He believes if he had control of us once, he can force us to turn back. That’s where Yahshua comes in—He will fight for you and lead you out of darkness into His glorious light. Yahshua is no respecter of persons, what He does for one, He’ll do for all.
When we repent for our sins, we become new creations in Yahshua, and our old life is “no more.” We now can move forward trusting in Him that our sins have been completely washed away, resting assured that we will never be the same.
If you want a new life -- we encourage you to try Yahshua! In Him, you’ll have what you need to defeat Satan and move closer and closer to a life of victory!
Memory verse: 1st Peter 1:9
Pastor Jenkins pulls back the curtain today and speaks about the right kind of prayer – which is the prayer of faith.
As believers—we have accepted Yahshua our Savior into our hearts. Now, we know how to pray according to His will. Let’s look at what He says in verses 14 and 15:
14: “And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He hearest us:
15: And if we know that He hearest us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.”
Our Heavenly Father Yahweh only hears our prayers when we pray to Him through His Son and according to His will. There’s no other way to receive salvation but through YAHSHUA, and His way is found in the pages of the Bible.
So, instead of crying, worrying, and wringing our hands about situations that are out of our control, why not pick up the Bible and act of what you’ve read. JUST STAND ON THE WORD OF YAHWEH AND BELIEVE.
We must remember: in order for Yahweh to hear us, we must be one of His. He answers our prayers in His own time because He knows what’s best for us. Therefore, we must wait patiently and be in expectancy knowing that Father Yahweh through His Dear Son Yahshua answers prayers when the time is right.
Also remember we must always forgive everyone -- no matter what (see Mark 11:25, Matthew 6:12 and Luke 6:37).
Memory verse: 1st John 5:3
Pastor Jenkins speaks about "Saved By Grace" from Romans 10. One might ask: "what does saved by grace" really mean? Well, it means through Yahshua's death, we received unmerited favor. We are forgiven for our sins even though we don't deserve it since we did nothing to receive His favor. Even though we didn't love Him, He still yet loved us and continues to love us. Out of His great love for all of mankind, He took our sins upon Himself and in exchange offered us eternal life. He did this for us because He loves us. He didn't leave anyone out. Not one person's sin escaped Him, His death covered it all. Once we meet the criteria found in verses 9 and 10, we are no longer the same. Instead of practicing sin, we now have the strength through Yahshua to say "NO" to sin, and go on praising Him. We're not perfect because we're in these flesh bodies, we still commit sin but now its unintentionally. As believers, we don't go around looking to commit sin and that's the difference.
We didn't do anything to deserve Yahshua's goodness. It was all His doing. When He shed His precious blood and died on the cross taking on the sins of the whole world, was when unmerited favor came into being; prior to His redemptive act, unmerited favor did not exist.
So now, the only question is "do we stay under guilt and shame" or do we invite Yahshua to come and live in our hearts. I choose to invite Yahshua into my heart and confess out of my mouth the words found in verses 9 and 10.
Don't let Satan steal your joy. You are a new creation in Yahshua, old things are passed away and all things are become new. Just know that you are not alone, there are others pulling for you, so take heart and be encouraged.
Memory verse: Romans 10: 9-10