My Desert Journey

    I found the Lord when I was 23 years old, attended a Chrismatic church, was classified as a "Spirit filled, tongue talking, hands laying on" Christian, and went to a local Bible College. 
     After a couple of years I felt like I was becoming a spoiled "Kings" kid.  Mainly because I saw, a lot of "name it and claim it".  God became my 'sugar daddy'.  My focus was becoming, more on what He could give me, what I was "entitled" to, than on Who He is. 
        A friend of mine, who also went to school and church with me, would go to a synagogue now and then and had a love for the people of Israel. He took me to a place that had local Christian bands play and I signed up for updates. They also had church services in this warehouse. Their mission was to kids and young adults, the unchurched or ones rejected by mainstream ones. 
        My roommate and best friend also attended the same church, I watched myself so not to take her on the same road as I felt I was being lead down.  Everyones walk is different.  However as time went on I could see she was feeling the same way and we findly discussed what God was doing in our lives.  It was an awesome time.  We both couldn't wait to get home from work to delve into His Word every night for hours.  We had to make ourselves go to bed.  This study/prayer time was more intense than I had in College.   We had spread out on the dining room table our Strongs, the Hebrew and Greek Lexicons, our Bibles and notebook.  It was intense. 
     About 3-4 months had gone by and I got a newsletter in the mail from the church in the warehouse.  Reading through it I notice they had moved to a building two blocks away.  One Sunday I decided to see what they were doing.   They were a  group of humble believers in awe of how God could use them for His Glory.  I then started attending and became an active member.
     It was this Fellowship that had my first encounter with a Messianic Rabbi.  He came to speak one Sunday and it was a delight to hear how the New Testament (Brit Chadashah) was reinterating the Old Testament (The Tanakh).  To see a glimpse into the life of Jesus (Yeshua), as a Jewish man, in His culture and day.  This spoke to me and I started to attend the Messianic Synagogue on Friday nights and Saturdays and Church on Sundays. 
          
        To be continued......