Shalom brothers and sisters in Messiah! We pray that all is going well
with you and that YHVH is using you for His glory!
This blogpost is very exciting so let´s get started!
Isaiah 40:10-11
See, the Master YHVH
comes with a strong hand, and His arm rules for Him.
See, His reward is with
Him, and His recompense before Him.
11 He feeds His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs with His arm,
and
carries them in His bosom, gently leading those who are with young.
We have a newborn lamb! It is amazing to see the
blessings that YHVH gives,
but this is something we honestly didn´t know if we
would be able to see,
with all the immigration paperwork that we´ve had
to go through,
and all the twists and turns that have to go with it,
so it´s even more amazing to be able to witness it
knowing just how big of a miracle it really was.
What is also so amazing is just how the whole
experience was and how it underlines with Scriptures. It was night outside, and
were we are it is very dark at night unless the full moon is out.
We had been waiting for ¨Mama Sheep¨ to give birth
for a while now, so we
had to be very careful and pay close attention to her.
However, sometimes the sheep like to go where it´s
difficult to impossible to see them,
so Brother Jesús had to go down the
pasture with a flashlight to look for them.
And how would you know, they were ALL the way at
the BOTTOM of the pasture, and guess what? Mama Sheep decided that down there
was a good place to give birth to a lamb.
So Brother Jesús
came back up to ask for help since the sheep didn´t want
to come back up the
hill. So Sister Tammy and another Brother whose family
had been
staying with us for a week went down to help him get the sheep back up
the hill.
Luke 15:4-7
“What man among you, having a hundred sheep,
and having lost one of them,
does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness
and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?
5 “And having found it, he lays it on his
shoulders, rejoicing.
6 “And having come home, he calls
together his friends and neighbors, saying to them,
‘Rejoice with me, for I
have found my sheep which was lost!ʼ
7 “I say to you that in the same way
there shall be more joy in the heaven over one sinner repenting, than over
ninety-nine righteous ones who need no repentance.
Now, you may think that sheep are these sweet, docile
creatures that go wherever
you lead them and get completely lost without
someone taking care of them at all times.
However, that´s only ½ the truth, Remember, sheep have
brains too,
and when they decide that you are trying to take them isn´t where they want to go, well…
let´s just say they are a
pain to handle! Anyway, the reason we say that is because
when we tried to
bring them back up, 2 things happened...
One was that Mama Sheep didn´t want to come up at all,
and started going in all different directions trying to get away, while at the same time trying to find her
lamb(whose
name is Milo, by the way) which Sister Tammy was holding.
The second thing that
happened was that Zacchaeus(our dominant male sheep)
started attacking Mama Sheep to point where Brother Jesús had to
start fighting with
him to keep him away from Mama Sheep.
Now, another difficulty was the
actual walk up the hill. In the daytime you can see
all the rocks and holes,
but at night it´s much harder, even with a flashlight.
So you add that difficulty into
it and you can see just how hard it truly is to get the
lost sheep to come back
home. It would have been very difficult
if not impossible for Brother Jesús to bring them back up by
himself,
and even with the help of two other people it was still very difficult
to bring them back home.
John 10:14-16
“I am the good shepherd. And I know Mine, and
Mine know Me,
15 even as the Father knows Me, and I know
the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
16 “And other sheep I have which are not of this fold –
I have to bring them as well,
and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be
one flock, one shepherd.
However, the joy in being able to see this newborn
lamb is absolutely amazing.
Milo, not even a day old, could go wherever his
Mama went and could
run nearly as fast as her too.
For all the blessings that YHVH has given us, this may
be the most special,
because this one was truly ‘un milagro’(a miracle, hence
where Milo comes from),
and one that we can see, hear, touch, and smell every
day. It truly is amazing to see YHVH at work!
Psalms 100
Raise a shout for YHVH,
All the earth!
2 Serve YHVH
with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.
3 Know that YHVH,
He is Elohim; He has made us, and we are His –
His people and the sheep of His
pasture.
4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into
His courts with praise.
Give thanks to Him; bless His Name.
5 For YHVH is good; His kindness is
everlasting, And His truth, to all generations.
And while this may be off topic, we want to say
HALLELUYAH to our King because we have been told that we no longer have to
leave Costa Rica every 3 months!
We are not completely through yet, but the hardest part
has been
completed so rejoice with us and please keep praying that we can
finish quickly
that way we can be able to better share the
Good News with the people here in
Costa Rica.
Until next time…
Shalom!
The Montañez Family
Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH
HalleluYAH!
