FROM THE RABBI'S DESK
Messages monthly from Rabbi Paul.
When someone is about to go into ministry, there is often something called an ordination service in which other ministers lay hands on, pray over, publicly recognize, anoint, and commission him for the ministry and purpose for which he has been called by God. In Psalm 90 Moshe writes a very famous verse, "Teach us to number our days O Lord that we may have a heart of wisdom." Does it mean that we should realize the limited number of days we have on earth? Yes. But it means even more. The word "number" here is a translation of the Hebrew "manah" which also means to appoint and ordain. So it can be translated, "Teach us to appoint our days, to ordain our time." If you let your days go by without ordaining them, they will just go by wasted and missing the purpose for which they were meant. What kind of year do you want this to be? Don't let it just go by. Ordain it. Schedule your ordination service- consecrate, dedicate, appoint and commission this coming year for God, so that it will fulfill the purpose for which it was called, to be a blessing in your life.
Take time in the Lord for your ordination service - to dedicate and appoint thise year to the high purposes of God in your life.
Please remember:
As we travel through 2012, please keep in prayer for the following... Our Nation and leaders, our youth, our communities, our family and friends, our Synagogue and most of all Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem!
Right now, this very moment, His Spirit is speaking to you. What are you going to do with it? Hide like you have been doing? Or surrender and pray to receive Him?
Yeshua has indeed come, he is coming back for His elect! Will you be counted among them? Rabbi Paul Collins of Mobile recommends that you start attending your local Messianic Jewish Synagogue!
If your Church would like Rabbi Paul to come teach the Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith please feel free to call him!
In Mobile, Lower AL, and Lower MS that is Beit Israel , 8340 Rabby St in Bayou La Batre, AL.
On-line search: www.IAMCS.org to find the closest one to you!
The Ridin Rabbi
Rabbi Paul J. Collins
THOUGHT/QUOTE FOR THE MONTH
If worries and problems try to overcome you during the day, cast them aside. Remember that its only the old life -- you have nothing to lose -- be free.
Eph. 4:22-24
TORAH/ BRIT CHADASHAH READINGS
January 6/7...Vayechi
Genesis 47:28-50:26
1 Kings 2:1-12
1 Peter 1:3-9
January 13/14...Shemot
Exodus 1:1-6:1
Jeremiah 1:1-2:3
Acts 7: 17-29
January 20/21...Vaera
Exodus 6:2-9:35
Ezekiel 28:25-29:21
Romans 9:14-24
January 27/28...Bo
Exodus 10:1-13:16
Jeremiah 46:13-28
1 Corinthians 11:20-34
February 3/4...Beshalach
Exodus 13:17-17:16
Judges 4:4-5:31
John 6:22-40