Being a Blessing!

Shalom brothers and sisters in Messiah! 

We pray that you are all having a blessed time wherever you are and 

that YHVH will use you to be a part of the mission!

Here in Costa Rica we have been very blessed with everything that we have,

 and with that provision that YHVH through you has given, we have been able to bless others as well,

 not just with the physical needs but more importantly with the Spiritual needs as well. 

Not just to give but to give to open a door for the Truth. A BIG thank you to the McDaniel’s 

who have so graciously allowed us to stay at their house in Costa Rica all this time and use their car as well. Through them YHVH has been able to use us here and without their help it wouldn’t be possible.

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Now, on to the pictures!

 

Please pray for this sweet elderly couple, Don Eulogio, Dona Genobeva, and the rest of their family. 

They have been very kind to us when we visit them. We have been able to talk with them about the 

Word as well as being able to bless them and their family with clothes, food, and more. Pray for their health, especially Don Eulogio’s, and pray that their daily needs will be met. They have several

 children and grandchildren staying with them as well, so pray that they will be able to 

grow in His Word and that they can be used for Yah’s glory.

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We have also been blessed to meet this couple named Don Eulogio and Dona Benilda

 that live halfway down the mountain. We planted seeds in them a while back when doors 

had been opened in the church but then rejected the message of truth. They love to study the 

Word and have recently found out that what they were taught in their church didn't match up 

with what the Scriptures said.  We have been able to help them learn more, using with some

 of the teachings that are in the internet. There are some great ministries around but sadly 

most of them are not in Spanish. However, there are a couple of ministries beginning to

 translate their studies and teachings into Spanish. One of those ministries, as you can

 see by the pictures above, is 119 Ministries through their Spanish ministry called Examinalo Todo.

 Their studies have been a great help to many(us as well) because they are very easy to

 understand and more importantly use mostly Scripture references in their teachings.

However, Bro Eulogio and Sister Benilda have some needs. Do you see what’s wrong in the pictures? 

They aren't sitting down! Why? Because of the fact that they didn’t have almost any chairs 

and the ones that the did have where those flimsy plastic type that crack easily. For them 

it was fine but when company came it meant that there wouldn't be enough chairs to sit in…

Which brings us to the next part of this blogpost…

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  Bro. Jesus was blessed to meet this young man named Don Lidier. What started out as 

just a couple of questions for his English class turned into a very big blessing for both him and Jesus.

 He loves to study, read, and learn about the Word of YHVH and wants to learn even 

more about anything and everything he can. Pray that his eyes will continue to be

 opened and that his wife and daughter can also come to the truth

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Anyway, there is something else he does as well. He builds furniture! He has made all types

 of wood furniture, from cabinets to shelves, and even better, chairs. When we found out about this we 

knew just the man to call. What is really cool is that we blessed him with some money to build the chairs…

And then were able to give the chairs to Bro Eulogio and Sister Benilda! Isn’t it amazing

 how YHVH works? YHVH through you blesses us with the finances to be able to bless Don Lidier,

 who in turn builds us these chairs with which we are able to bless them, who in turn bless 

us back when we see their faces! And then, after it all, we say…

HalleluYAH!!!

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But we aren't done yet. This is  Don Eulogio and Dona Benilda’s ‘outhouse’. As you can see,

 it’s pretty much just  a old dirty hole in the ground. Bro Jesus asked Bro Eulogio what he 

would need to build a bathroom with a shower connected to their house. Don Eulogio told 

my dad it would cost over $450 to build it. Bro Jesus put these pictures on Facebook 

asking that if anyone felt led to give to be able to make them a new bathroom. And amazingly, within a week, YHVH through some of you gave almost all of what we needed to be able to build it! HalleluYAH!

 We cannot thank you enough for all that you have done for us and more importantly 

for others here in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama.

Kabod-YHVH!(Glory to YHVH!)

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Continue to pray for us here. We lack nothing but want to be able to provide even more 

others in need here. YHVH loves a joyful giver, and we want to be able to give even more 

on your behalf showing them brotherly love as the first assembly. PHILADELPHIA!  

Times are getting tough but this is when the light shines the brightest. Make sure your lamps 

are full of oil and that your light is shining in the midst of the darkness. May we continue to 

follow YHVH always and be able to share HIS Word with the rest of the World!

May YHVH El Shaddai multiply blessings on your account!

Until next time…

Shalom! 

The Montanez Family

 Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH 

HalleluYAH!

We were Invited...

Shalom brothers and sisters in Messiah! 

We pray that you are all having a blessed time wherever you are 

and that YHVH will use you to be a part of the mission!

Here in Costa Rica we have been very blessed. YHVH hasn’t just been providing through you, 

He has also been providing through the blessings of the fields. He has given us corn, beans, 

bananas, papayas, plantains, yucca(a root vegetable), and even more! 

One of these days soon we will have to show you all that YHVH has provided.

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Last week, we were blessed to be able to be invited for a graduation here in Costa Rica.

 In Costa Rica the schools begin in February and end in early December. so 2 of the families 

that we know here invited us for their kids’ 6th grade graduation.

Here are some of the pictures of the graduation!

Mark 10:14b

“Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the reign of Elohim. 

 

These children are graduating from Kindergarten and going into 1st grade.

Pray that these little ones can be able to learn about Messiah and stay away from the sins of this world. These are perilous times, were the adversary comes to seek, kill, and destroy, 

and as we see more and more often, he attacks the smallest ones 1st, 

because they do not have a real understanding of Messiah. That is why it is SO 

important to teach the Scriptures to your children at a very young age, because studies show

 that a large majority of people have made up their mind about Messiah by the time they turn 13 years old!

Psalms 127:3

Look, children are an inheritance from YHVH, the fruit of the womb is the reward. 

 

On the left picture, this young man named Adrian, and on the right picture, this young lady named Keberlyn. These 2 were the ones for whom we were invited for their graduation. 

In fact, Keberlyn had asked Tammy for 6 months if she was going to come to her graduation. 

 

Adrian’s mom, Dona Christina, giving him his graduation ring. 

Pueblo Nuevo, Costa Rica’s 6th Grade class of 2012.   

 

Christian and Tammy with Keberlyn.

Jesus praying for Adrian. 

Pray that these young man and young lady can be able to Walk and Talk as Messiah did. 

Pray that we will be able to continue ministering to them and their families and that they can

 continue to come to the REAL truth of Messiah and be able to learn more about the Scriptures, 

and pray that YHVH will be able to use them to share the Good News with their friends and family.

Until next time…

Shalom! 

The Montanez Family 

Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH 

HalleluYAH!

Truth Be Told

John 8:31-32
So Yahshua said to those Yehuḏim who believed Him,
 “If you stay in My Word, you are truly My taught ones, 
32 and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Praise YAH that He has shown us the REAL truth! About 4 years ago, we found this REAL truth.
It began when we were invited to go to Sukkot(Feast of Tabernacles) in Texas.
We were still 'Christians' at the time, so we just thought it would be a nice vacation.
But we were really wrong. When we got there and began talking to the people there,
we realized that there was something different(a lot different!) in what they were saying.
We were amazed in what they were saying and doing(like Shabbat, the Names, the feasts, etc.),
but we weren't convinced that they were right. In fact, when we came back from TX, my dad went into his Bible and his computer and wanted to show that they were wrong. Well, guess what happened??
 :')

Once we found out the truth we realized that we could no longer stay where we were in Florida,
and so we packed up our van, left Florida, and well, the rest is history!

That’s SOOOOOO Cheesy!!!

Job 10:9-12

Remember, please, that You have made me like clay. And would You turn me into dust again?
10 Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
11 Skin and flesh you put on me, and wove me with bones and sinews.
12 Life and kindness You have bestowed on me, and Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

 

YHVH has blessed us so much with the ability to milk our own cows and make our own cheese. 

There is a HUGE difference between the milk you buy in the states at your local store 

and fresh, straight-from-the-cow milk, not so much in taste(even though there is a BIG difference),

 but rather in quality and in nutrition as well. The stuff you buy at the store is 

ULTRA-homogenized and sometimes even worst, ULTRA-pasteurized(NO GOOD for cheese making!!!) 

Anyway, we like making cheese. We would like to make many different cheeses, but since
we don’t have all the necessary tools(like a thermometer), we can’t.

 However, there are cheeses that we can make here, and one of those cheeses are made 

from a dear husband and wife halfway down the mountain. They are a very sweet couple and love

 to read and study YAH’s Word. They also have a bunch of cows and get a LOT of milk, SOOOOO….

THEY MAKE CHEESE!!! This cheese that they make is what some would call here ‘Tico Cheese’. However, just like any cheese, or rather put, ANYTHING anyone does or makes, they will do

 it just a bit different then the next person. We have probably had 7 different types of tico cheese 

just from the couple of families that we know in Costa Rica. In fact, every time you make cheese, 

it will turn out just a little different, even if you do it exactly the same every time!

Anyway, here is how they made cheese!

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The 1st thing you do of course is milk the cow(LOL). We don’t have a picture of them

 doing it but here is Christopher with the cow getting ready to milk.

 

Once you get the milk, you can do 2 things to it. You can either make cheese right away, 

or wait for 8-12 hours until the cream has settled to the top. Now, if you take the cream off the top, 

you can make butter or cream cheese or sour cream or etc.., but if you do it will 

decrease how much cheese you make. So sometimes we take the cream off and sometimes we don’t.

Now, in this cheese, there is no fancy starters or mixers or really any of that stuff. 

All that you need to begin to make it into cheese is rennet.

When we were thinking about writing this post, Christian made an amazing point 

about how our lives are in fact very similar to this cheese:

Our lives are very similar to this cheese. Just like the milk, we appear to look white, 

we appear to be clean. But just like the milk, we are mixed in with this dirty, yucky sin, 

and we may not even know it. But just like the rennet(which is a reddish color), 

the blood of Yahshua allows us to be able to separate from the dirty, yucky sin. 

Next we have to wait about 30 minutes for the cheese to set. Just as the milk takes time to 

become cheese, so we take time to cleanse ourselves from the unrighteousness of this world. It isn’t an overnight thing. It takes time to become that perfect, white, set-apart person that YHVH wants us to be. 

But little by little, day by day, YHVH through the blood of Yahshua changes us and begins to make us holy.

Once the cheese has set, we have to mix the milk around, and then put 

boiling water into the cheese and let it settle to the bottom and come together. 

And just like that cheese having to be mixed and stirred and have boiling water poured on it, 

so we have to go through tests, trials, and tribulations. We have to be shaken so that 

we can be made better, so that we can become more like what YHVH wants to be day by day.

Then, after the cheese has set, we have to cut the cheese into 4th’s, take one of these pieces of cheese,

 and then squeeze as much whey as we can. We will see an amazing thing that happens later.

Then the cheese has to be cut up in your hands to about pin-size pieces. 

After that, we put salt in it. And just like the cheese has to

 have salt in it to have flavor, so we are to have salt in our lives. Yahshua said:

Matthew 5:13

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt becomes tasteless, how shall it be seasoned? 

For it is no longer of any use but to be thrown out and to be trodden down by men. 

 

Without salt, cheese is bland and not very good. 

And without salt in our lives, we are not useful for YHVH’s purpose.

Amen!

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Before we go on, we want to say that this couple has been very gracious to us. 

They love to speak and study the Word of YHVH. But because they like to

 study so much and like to ask questions, they have gotten in trouble with their church. 

They see how their church isn’t preaching YHVH’s Word and that the church is 

falling well short of where the Scriptures teach that they should be. But just like any people 

here that we have preached to, they do not want to leave the church because they 

feel like they have a duty to go to the church. Pray that the blinders can be completely 

taken away from their eyes and pray that they can be able to take off the holding that their church 

has on them. Pray that they can learn how to follow YHVH fully. They love to study YHVH’s Word, 

so just pray that they can come to embrace and fully see what is in the Scriptures. 

 

 

This is a really interesting press that they made. All it is 4 pieces of wood made into a box, 

another piece of wood for the ‘follower’, which helps squeeze the cheese, and 2 2x4 pieces of wood. 

Then, on the end of the top 2x4, they have a notch that they made into the end of the wood and put 

a sack filled with rocks and press it down! It’s that easy! Most of the presses we see online are

 either very fancy, very expensive, or both. This was an easy press that cost almost NOTHING to build!

Next you put the cheese into the box, press it flat with your hand,

 put the follower on it, and then put the press with the sack of rocks on it. 

Let it sit 12 hours or overnight and TaDa! You have made Tico Cheese!

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Now, if you paid attention, you would have seen how the cheese

 was pressed twice, once with your hands and once with the press. This is really cool.

 Did you know that we are and will be separated from this world twice? 

The 1st time happened when we accept the blood of Yahshua. When we accept the

 blood of Yahshua, we are Spiritually separated from this world, as Yahshua says:

John 15:19

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. 

But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out 

of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

 

The 2nd time we will be separated from this world is when YHVH 

creates a New Heaven and a New Earth. There we will be physically separated

 from this world and the whole Earth will be re-made and perfected. There no man will sin. 

We will become perfect, set-apart, and white(clean), without spot or blemish!!!!!

Revelation 21:1-5

And I saw a renewed heaven and a renewed earth, for the former heaven 

and the former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more.
2 And I, Yohanan, saw the set-apart city, renewed Yerushalayim, coming down 

out of the heaven from Elohim, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice from the heaven saying, “See, the Booth of Elohim is with men, 

and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His people, 

and Elohim Himself shall be with them and be their Elohim.
4 “And Elohim shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death,

 nor mourning, nor crying. And there shall be no more pain, for the former matters have passed away.”
5 And He who was sitting on the throne said, “See, I make all matters new.” 

And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and trustworthy.

HALLELUYAH!!

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And here is the finished product!

May YHVH bless you and may we one day be 

able to have ‘Cheesy Fellowship’ together too!

Until next time…

Shalom! 

The Montanez Family 

Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH 

HalleluYAH!

P.S. Someone just asked me where we got the rennet to make this cheese. I know that in Costa Rica you can get it at most supermarkets but I don't believe it will be quite so easy in the states.

 There is an amazing place online called 'New England Cheesemaking Supply Company.

Their website is http://www.cheesemaking.com/

They have EVERYTHING you could possibly find to make just about any cheese you want. 

They also have all the cultures, rennets, and things like that

 to make things like yogurt, sour cream, kefir, etc.
Hope that this helps!