Sometimes I think we do not really understand what we have.

Isaiah 55:2 "Why do you spend money for what is not bread and your wages for what does not satisfy. Listen carefully to Me and eat what is good and let your soul delight itself in abundance."

I have been given so many promises from the Lord, so many benefits simply because I am called His child (Psalm 103:1-5) yet I try to do things on my own or seek to satisfy myself in some way other than Him. I am ashamed to say that I love Him or that I know Him because I still keep doing my own thing, my life is not completely surrendered to Him. If I truly knew Him He would be my everything. The small glimpses I have had of Him bring me to my knees in adoration and thanksgiving for all He has done, but like the children of Israel I am so quick to forget, rebel, and seek my physical needs above a relationship with Him. Oh that we really knew Him we would be set apart from this world, apart from sin, apart from the flesh, we would obey His command to love others, we would see the world changed. Oh that we would take the time to simply sit at His feet and know Him today instead of always saying "later". The one thing that will count in eternity is how much we know our Savior Jesus Christ, I do not want to be ashamed when I see Him face to face I want to recognize Him and continue on as best friends in Heaven as it was here on earth.

Psalm 146:2 "While I live I will praise the Lord; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being."

Oh please saints, know Him! Come to Him with everything He loves you so much, there is nothing He will hold back from you, there is nothing to horrible that He cannot forgive. He desires relationship so much, fulfill the purpose of your existance, to know and worship Him! By doing this you will be so much more satisfied than you could ever be doing anything else! He is great and greatly to be praised!

"I am the bread of life." John 6: 48,

"But whoever drinks from the water that I give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give shall him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life." John 4:14

"This is eternal, that they may know You, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." John 17:3

Be blessed,

Michelle

Ministry in Ben Yehuda Street
Jason and I in the Dead Sea

Tio Mesod at the Kotel on Shabbat

Balcony at the CCBC

Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age they shall be fresh adn flourish to declare that the lord is upright He is my Rock and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

Psalm 92:13-15

EnJoY!

Bonner family on top of Mount Carmel.

Tractor ride after a long day of hiking in Petra, Jordan.

On our trip to Petra we got to meet many Bedouins who work in Petra and one of them invited us to His house for dinner where we got to eat amazing food with our hands! It was the greatest experience and Bedouins are the coolest people ever!

We have 10 more days here in Eretz Yisrael. I want to stay here forever it is by far the coolest place I have been. It is so amazing to look around and see and hear all the Jews from all over the world who have answered that "inexplainable" urge to come back to the land of their fathers. God has been so faithful to do exactly what He said in His word, Israel is the greatest example of this. If He is so faithful to this very rebellious and stiff-necked people how much more will He be to us His children according to the New Covenant?