AHAVA Mailing! Special invitation for you!

 

You have put joy in my heart ~~ 

more joy than when their grain and new wine overflow.  

Psalm 4:8

Dear Friends,  

I would like to invite you to receive a weekly AHAVA mailing and Prayer Sheet from me!   

It is the first `fruits` of a Ministry God has put on my heart together with a prayer partner which we started from a desire to pray for our families and for Israel.  He gave us the idea to pray according to scriptures related to the weekly Parsha (weekly Torah and related scriptural readings).   We call the devotional `AHAVA, Praying from the Parsha`.  

We have been so blessed praying from them and how God ministers to us through His word in each week. 

And would like to share His AHAVA Love through them and with you! 

I would be overjoyed if you would like to receive our AHAVA mailing with the weekly PDF prayer sheet! 

 I hope it will be a blessing to you in your devotional time,  to pray these scriptures for your loved ones, and that there might be something new to learn through the introduction in each week to the weekly parsha in the short `blurb` on each prayer sheet.  

May we draw closer to the LORD and to one another in Him!! Thank you always for your support and encouragement.  Many of the drawings on the prayer sheets were first posted here on the blog!

And for something immediate, we just found that we can share a link directly to the PDF, so please find this week`s prayer sheet HERE !! 

Be blessed as you pray the scripture verses over your loved ones, schools, communities, congregations, cities, nations!! Let`s take the authority we were given in Messiah as we claim Salvation and restoration for our loved ones and see Life and resurrection in all areas He has given in our lives!! 

Blessings and AHAVA, 

Love, 💕Shayndel (aka Joanne) 

 

PS to anyone who is interested to receive the weekly PDF and newsletter, you can let me know in a comment and/or send your e-mail address to me at:

 ahavaprayerandmovement@gmail.com 

May the grace of our Lord be poured out on ......................(put in your name and your loved ones)  abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Messiah Yeshua.   

 1 Timothy 1:14

❤️

 

 

 

 

Unleavened Raisin Cakes! Recipe!!

 

The Hebrew word `AHAVA` which means Love, with unleavenedd `raisin cakes`♡

Sustain me with raisin cakes,

refresh me with apples ---

for I am weak with love.          Song of Songs 2:5

 

Dear Friends,

As I linger in the `unleavened` state a little longer, I wanted to share with you the recipe for my `Unleavened Raisin Cakes!`.  As you may remember they were first made HERE!! Thank you for encouraging always, and  Without any further a-do , here it is!!

 This Recipe is for 12 Heart-shaped Raisin Cakes !!

3 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
3/8 teaspoon cloves
3/8 teaspoon nutmeg
3 tablespoons sugar (note: I use a kind of sugar we can find here in Japan called Ten-sai Tou, it is a healthy sugar made from radish (I think that is the base!) and is gentle on the stomach!  Use your preferred type of sugar if you cannot find Ten-sai Tou where you are
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons grapeseed oil OR olive oil
  2 cups water (approx.)

1/3 cup of raisins

Preheat oven to 200 degrees C (390~400 degrees F)
Prepare baking sheets with waxed paper.

Mix together flour, spices, sugar, and salt.
Mix in the grapeseed oil.
Add water gradually and mix until it makes a soft and kneadable dough.  

Fold in the raisins!

Roll out onto a floured surface.
Roll out in to a large thin circle or oval.
Cut in half and then divide into "pie-shaped" 6ths on each side, so you have 12 pieces total from the "circle".
Separate each piece and shape into a heart by hand.
Line on baking sheets.
Bake for 28 minutes, turning the baking sheet once in the middle

Serve with delight, enjoy!

Shabbat Shalom!!

Love,
 ❤️　Shayndel 

Credit thanks:  I adapted mine from a recipe for Cinnamon Matzah you can find from Nazarene Israel.:

https://nazareneisrael.org/book/nazarene-israel-passover-study/unleavened-bread-recipes-v4-1/

PS you can also find continuing unleavened uploads at Joanne`s Challah-cast Channel.  Thank you for visiting! 

 

 

 

my Passover Diary ~ ~ ~

 

He is the one you praise.  He is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.  Deuteronomy 10:21

I wrote a few weeks ago about not seeing my daughter since last year, over one year ago before Passover.  For Passover last year, we were supposed to meet but had to cancel as it was at the onset of the `pandemic` and travel restrictions.

 We were planning to have Passover  again this year on zoom and guess what? We didn`t keep the zoom date, because she came home in person and surprised us!  

We had an early Passover face to face!!

That is my Passover Miracle, and I thank the LORD on High for His answer to prayer this Passover and revealing His chesed love.   

Thank you for your prayers!

I want to share the story and start with a little backdrop to set the scene.

It happened the days of preparing just before Passover, as I was cleaning out the last of the hametz (leaven) from the house.  

Even then I was remembering when my daughter was here before she went to college and we did the cleaning together, or at least, she was there to cheer me on and help with the `feather inspection`(making sure we got all the last crumbs)!  I even have a post about it HERE, where we were giddy with the spring blossoms and she was taking my bag of `hametz` to her workplace to be stored away and out of the house for the week of unleavened bread!!

Back to the current story, it was almost Passover and I had already sent her a box of matzah and grape juice and a few other things for her so she could have it for our `zoom` Seder together.  I decided to cook the Passover meal in advance and  send that to her as well so we could have it together.  I made the brisket and matzah ball soup and had everything ready at around midnite to make sure to have it frozen by the next day and send it by delivery to her on time.

When I finished and packed the last matzah balls and soup in the freezer, it was about midnite, and just then the doorbell rang!!

 I wasn`t sure to answer it or not at such an hour but in my surprise of the moment, I didn`t have to do anything.  She opened the door with her own key and there was my daughter in the entrance smiling with her bright yellow suitcase and announcing she`s home!!

The next night I defrosted everything and we had a gorgeous (and a little early) Passover seder together!! Our visit was in haste as she was only able to stay a few nights, but it was wonderful to have her here face to face and celebrate Passover and even enjoy the cherry blossoms and a little family time together!!

 Thank you for reading my story.  

 And now the `Parable`.

I felt the LORD speaking to me about `Preparation`, and how when we prepare for that special time in eager anticipation of seeing the one we love and celebrating the feast with them, it actually can hasten that happening.  So can you see the parable? As we `Prepare` for Messiah`s return, we can actually hasten His coming as we prepare for Him and make everything ready in our hearts, homes, and spirit for His coming.  And who knows, His coming might even be early!!!

 Hope you are experiencing miracles big and small (though no miracle is `small` by definition a miracle is a miracle!!) and having a blessed month of Yeshua, season of deliverance, month of Love!! (I added that!).  Isn`t it perfect on God`s calendar the next month will begin this week. It is the month of Iyar, which is considered a month of healing, and acronym for the first letter in the verse, I am the LORD who heals you.   

As well as a month of `passage` between Redemption (Passover) and Revelation (Shavuot).

Praying a blessed and healing month of Iyar and continued deliverance and miracles as we count up the days to Shavout. 

Now to Him who is able to do far beyond all that we ask or imagine, by means of His power that works in us, to Him be the glory in the community of believers and in Messiah Yeshua throughout all generations forever and ever! Amen.      Ephesians 3:20~21

Much Love,❤️

Shayndel

 

This meal I was able to have ready in the quickest time ever, as I had it all prepared and all I had to do was `defrost` it , just add the spring greens! 

 

 

PS Just for the record, I am leaving space below to add the pics of house cleaning, and the meal `frozen` and to remind myself, as well as remember how there are times when a miracle comes into being through our preparedness!! Hmm... we might be on to something there!!! xoxo

 

 

Cup of Restoration ~ Intro to the Haggadah under the new Spring Green!

 

Dear Friends,

Please join me under the Cherry trees to share from a few different pages in the Passover Haggadah.  The Haggadah is what we read from during the Seder at Passover.  Haggadah means the `telling` of the story and `Seder` means `order`.

I hope there might be something new in it for you from a `Messianic` Passover Haggadah, and I also hope you will be able to enjoy the beautiful springtime in Japan, as the series goes from from the full bloom and full moon of the month of Nisan, to the petals falling from the leaves, to the new spring green!!

Blessings and Shabbat Shalom! Love, ❤️Shayndel

 PS this is part 4 !

 

 

I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the Name of the LORD. 

 Psalm 116:13 

 ❤️

 

 

 

Holocaust Remembrance Day~ Remember

 

I will also set up a place for My people Israel and will plant them, so they may dwell in their own place and not be disturbed again.  Nor will the children of wickedness afflict them anymore as in the past, since that day I commanded judges to be over My people Israel.  So I will give you rest from all your enemies.   2Samuel 7:10~11 (from this week`s Haftarah reading)

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. 　The task of eternal remembrance is given to us.  We must remember and not distort the memory of the atrocities that were done that led to the mass murder of six million Jewish people as well as around four hundred thousand non-Jews, and preserve their memory and their bravery through unimaginable circumstances that they endured.

In remembering may we also pray for our world and hearts of people that this terrible hatred and anti-Semitism which we still see will be eradicated.

Now Israel is a state where Jewish people can learn Hebrew and live the dream of having a Jewish state. 

May our people Jew and Gentile alike stand with the State of Israel in unity.  In prayer, in provision, in Love,  and honor the memory of our beloved brethren.

Much Love　❤️

Shayndel