Shalom everyone and welcome to our
website, I pray you are having a wonderful day and I would like to invite you to one of our Shabbat services in Crestline and Calimesa. If you can’t make it, then continue to check in on our website as things change frequently.
Shavuot has come and gone, and Shiloh will now meet and plan for the last of the Father’s three major festivals — Sukkot. Until then, I’d like to reflect on the fifty days that led to Shavuot.
Each day after Passover was special. With each count, I would ask the Father to cleanse me because I wanted to go before Him without blemish. I know I’m a sinner, and I wanted to approach Him and give Him honor with a clean heart. I gave thanks to the Father for showing me how to prepare myself for His outpouring on the fiftieth day after Passover. I know God wants to bless us, and He is pleased when we are before Him in obedience and prayer. As I counted each day, I was aware that He was pleased at my obedience to count the Omer.
I counted the Omer with anticipation — like a child waiting for his birthday to arrive. Each day I counted with joy in my heart — one, two, three, and so on — knowing that I would be given a gift in fifty days. As prayed during the count, it was not as in previous years. This year was different because instead of praying for a gift that our Father would give to me or my wife, I was led to pray for a healing.
During a visit to another Messianic congregation I was drawn to pray for a sister who has been battling cancer for a few years. We both had tears in our eyes as we agreed in prayer that our Father in heaven
would heal her. I was blessed to see her and pray for her. Then on Wednesday, the day after I celebrated Shavuot, I received an email from Pastor Kathleen with an awesome praise report. She said that her brother Johnny, who is battling cancer, was given a good report, and the doctors were bewildered at what they saw in the x-ray — no cancer spots. After hearing so many disheartening reports that things weren’t going well for Johnny, I was so blessed to hear of God’s report that he is now a walking miracle. That was the best Shavuot gift our Father gave not just to me, but to all of us who kept Johnny in prayer. Thank you Father.
May the Father bless you, protect you, and guide you to a closer relationship with Him.
Shalom,
Pastor Vince
