Clean and undefiled religion before Elohim is this...

Shalom brothers and sisters in Messiah! I pray that YHVH's shalom is with you and 

that He is using you to share His Good News wherever you live.

There is an elderly lady named Dona Blanca that lives down in the town of El Duruy, Costa Rica. 

She is a very sweet lady and loves to talk about Scripture.

 But as you will see here, she had been living in a rather hard environment.

  Psalms 69:1-3

 Save me, O Elohim! For waters have come up to my neck. 

2 I have sunk in deep mud, And there is no place to stand; 

I have come into deep waters, And the floods overflow me. 

3 I am worn out from my crying; My throat is dry; 

My eyes grow dim As I wait for my Elohim.

 

Psalms 69:13, 20

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O YHVH, At an acceptable time, O Elohim. 

In the greatness of Your kindness, Answer me in the truth of Your deliverance.
20 Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, 

but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none. 

 

  She had her whole house falling down around her, the kitchen floor had big, gaping holes

 that were very difficult for her to walk through, and she slept in the rain

 with no walls and her house being flooded.

She has a grandson that stays with her named Bryan but during

 the daytime he works so she was by herself. 

She had some help from one of her sons named Don Renaldo, but he also 

worked up at the farm so he could only work at her house on the weekends.

 

Psalms 69:29-34

 But I am poor and in pain; Let Your deliverance, O Elohim, set me up on high. 

30 I praise the Name of Elohim with a song, And I make Him great with thanksgiving. 

31 And this pleases YHVH more than an ox, A bull with horns and hooves. 

32 The humble shall see, they rejoice, You who seek Elohim, and your hearts live. 

33 For YHVH hears the poor, And He shall not despise His captives. 

34 Let the heavens and earth praise Him, The seas and all that moves in them. 

 But thanks to YHVH our Elohim, her prayers were answered! 

Through YHVH's blessings and your gifts an elderly lady named Dona Blanca has a new house.
Here is just a small part of what was done to build her a new home.

 

James 1:22-27

And become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 

23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, 

he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror, 

24 for he looks at himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what he was like. 

25 But he that looked into the perfect Torah, that of freedom, and continues in it, not becoming 

a hearer that forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing of the Torah.. 

26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle 

his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is worthless. 

27 Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this:

 to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. 

 Matthew 25:31-46

 “And when the Son of Aḏam comes in His esteem, and all the set-apart messengers with Him, 

then He shall sit on the throne of His esteem. 

32 “And all the nations shall be gathered before Him, and He shall 

separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats. 

33 “And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 

34 “Then the Sovereign shall say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, 

inherit the reign prepared for you from the foundation of the world – 

35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty 

and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, 

36 was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and 

you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.’ 

37 “Then the righteous shall answer Him, saying, ‘Master, when did we see 

You hungry and we fed You, or thirsty and gave You to drink? 

38 ‘And when did we see You a stranger and took You in, or naked and clothed You? 

39 ‘And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and we came to You?’ 

40 “And the Sovereign shall answer and say to them, ‘Truly, I say to you, 

in so far as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.’ 

41 “He shall then also say to those on the left hand, ‘Go away from Me, 

accursed ones, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his messengers – 

42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, 

43 ‘I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, was naked and 

you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’ 

44 “Then they also shall answer Him, saying, ‘Master, when did we see You

 hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not serve You?’ 

45 “Then He shall answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, in so far as you 

did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ 

46 “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.” 

There are many who have contributed to 

building Dona Blana's house, 

and to all who have helped, 

may YHVH multiply your Blessings. 

Philippians 4:17

Not that I seek the gift, 

but I seek the fruit that is multiplying to your account. 

Until next time...

 Shalom!

The Montanez Family
 Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH

HalleluYAH! 

The Fast of Isaiah 58... Yom Kippur 2012

Shalom brothers and sisters in Messiah! I pray that you all have had a blessed Moedim(Feast Days)

and that YHVH can use you to share His good news with others.

We have been busy lately but I do want to update you on what we have been doing. 

10 days ago was Yom Kippur, and as you know, it is called the Day of Atonement/Repentance.

 In Leviticus 23 it says:

Leviticus 23:26-32

.  And YHVH spoke to Moshe, saying, 

27 “On the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be a set-apart 

gathering for you. And you shall afflict your beings, and shall bring an offering made by fire to YHVH. 

28 “And you do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, 

to make atonement for you before YHVH your Elohim. 

29 “For any being who is not afflicted on that same day, he shall be cut off from his people. 

30 “And any being who does any work on that same day, 

that being I shall destroy from the midst of his people. 

31 “You do no work – a law forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 

32 ‘It is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your beings. On the ninth day

 of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you observe your Sabbath.”

This is the only day of the year that the high priest was able to go

 into the Most Holy Place and make an offering for the sins of all of Yisra'el

 as it says in Leviticus 16:

Leviticus 16:29-34

  “And this shall be for you a law forever: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, 

you afflict your beings, and do no work, the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. 

30 “For on that day he makes atonement for you, to cleanse you, 

to be clean from all your sins before YHVH.. 

31 “It is a Sabbath of rest for you, and you shall afflict your beings – a law forever. 

32 “And the priest, who is anointed and ordained to serve as priest in his father’s place, 

shall make atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, the set-apart garments,
33 And he shall make atonement for the Most Set-apart Place, and make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar, and make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. 

34 “And this shall be for you a law forever, to make atonement for the children of Yisra'el, 

for all their sins, once a year.” And he did as YHVH commanded Moshe.

Now, on this day He tells us to afflict our beings and fast. Now most people think of fasting as praying all day and not eating. But a couple of years ago we found a passage in Isaiah that talks about the true fast that YHVH really wants, and since we should be doers of the Word and not just hearers, we paid special attention:

Isaiah 58:1-5

“Cry aloud, do not spare. Lift up your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to 

My people their transgression, and the house of Yaʽaqob their sins. 

2 “Yet they seek Me day by day, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness,

and did not forsake the right-ruling of their Elohim. They ask of Me rulings

 of righteousness, they delight in drawing near to Elohim. 

3 They say, ‘Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our beings, 

and You took no note?’ “Look, in the day of your fasting you find pleasure, and drive on all your laborers. 

4 “Look, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wrongness. 

You do not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high. 

5 “Is it a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his being? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to YHVH?

So if the real fast isn't to not eat and put sackcloth on, then what is it that we are supposed to do...?

James 1:27

Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans

 and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Isaiah 58:6-7

“Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke? 

7 “Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, and cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Yahshua promises us in Matthew 25 that those who will inherit the kingdom of Elohim will be the ones who give food and water to the hungry and thirsty brings in the strangers clothes the naked, and goes to the prisons, because He says:

Matthew 25:40

“And the Sovereign(Yahshua) shall answer and say to them, ‘Truly, I say to you, in so far

 as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.’

So basically in essence, what is the real fast?

Matthew 22:37-40

And Yahshua said to him, "You shall love YHVH your Elohim with all your heart,

 and with all your being, and with all your mind."

38 “This is the first and great command. 

39 “And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 

40 “On these two commands hang all the Torah and the Prophets.”

That is what it truly is, to love, and Yahshua was the perfect example of that. 1st Peter says:

1 Peter 2:21-25 

For to this you were called, because Messiah also suffered for us,

 leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps, “

22 who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth,” 

23 who, being reviled, did not revile in return; suffering, did not threaten,

 but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; 

24 who Himself bore our sins in His body on the timber, so that we, 

having died to sins, might live unto righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed.  

25 For you were like sheep going astray, but have now 

 returned(Teshuvah) to the Shepherd and Overseer of your lives.

May we all learn to LOVE YHVH and show our LOVE by LOVING our neighbor, whether it be your best friend, some kid down the block, a homeless man, or a poor widow. 

May YHVH bless you!

Until next time...

Shalom!

The Montanez Family

Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH

HalleluYAH!

Trip to Nicaragua Part 4 of 4

Shalom brothers and sisters in Messiah! I pray that you all had a blessed Shabbat! 

Here is the final part to our trip to Nicaragua and I pray it will be a blessing to you and your family.

This trip could not have happened without YHVH and you! Without your gifts and offerings, we could not go and do YHVH's will for our lives. Without your blessing we couldn't be a blessing to the poor, widows, and orphans.

 James 1:27
  Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this:
 to visit orphans and widows in their affliction,
and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

 

Here is the video!

We thank you so much for your offering and allowing YHVH to

 use your offering where it reaches those in need. 

With the gifts you have given, we have been able to go

 to the poor, widows, and orphans throughout Central America

 with the Torah of YHVH being doers of the Word.
With your gifts you have given we have been able to give clothes, dishes, shoes to those in need and 

with the offerings we have been able to visit the prison, preach the Good News, buy a table for a widow, 

and shade for the poor in Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

Again, we praise YHVH for all He has done through you 

so far and all you are going to do for His Kingdom sake.  

 

If you see on the top right corner of the screen, there is a button there. That is the new donation button specifically for the poor, widows, and orphans. We thank YHVH so much for EVERYTHING  

He has done through you in our lives and in the lives of others. 

 

We do not seek your gifts, but rather:

Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek the gift, but I seek 

the fruit that is multiplying to your account.

 

 Again, we thank you so much and may YHVH bless you always!

Shalom!

The Montanez Family

Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH

HalleluYAH!!

Pesach and Unleavened Bread

Shalom family in Messiah! Pray that you had a blessed Pesach and Unleavened Bread.

 Sorry I haven't done any blog posts, been a little busy.

 Anyway, we are back at the farm and I just wanted 

to show you some of the things we did in Filadelfia. 

That is where we went for Pesach, and we had a blessed time there surrounded by brotherly love. 

Here is a video with some of what was going on that week.

Here it is!

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We had a very blessed time and we thank YHVH that He allowed us to be a part of it.

So how about you? How was your Feasts? 

Pray that YHVH continues to do His will wherever we go. 

Until next time...

Shalom!

The Montanez Family

Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH

HalleluYAH!!

Panama Trip March 2012

Shalom brothers and sisters in Messiah! Hope you have a blessed Pesach.

So sorry I have not been blogging, our computer broke

and then we went to Panama where there isn't wireless internet.

 Now we are Filadelfia celebrating Pesach with some of the brothers in Costa Rica.

Here is some pics and a video from Panama.

Decided to make it into one video so that there weren't 5 parts. :)

This is the 1st time I have done this so let me know how it looks

 so that I can know if I should do it like this again.

Anyway, on to the video!

From Filadelfia, Costa Rica...

Have a blessed Pesach/Shabbat!

Shalom!

The Montanez Family

Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH

HalleluYAH!!