Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem during the second century B.C., following the triumph of a small group of Jewish rebels, known as the Maccabees, against their oppressors the Greek-Syrians, who had defiled the temple by erecting an altar to Zeus and sacrificing pigs within its sacred walls. In order to rededicate the temple, the Maccabees had to light a menorah that would burn within the temple at all times. However, they only had enough pure olive oil to last for one day. Miraculously, the oil burned for eight days, leaving time to find a fresh supply of oil.
Something seems extra special to me this year. Can you feel it? Actually I don’t feel it at all, but I sense it in my spirit. I sense a newness, something extraordinary, extravagant, exciting, excellent, exceptional, and yet unexplainable because it makes no sense to the human mind.
Stirring inside of me are visions but not of sugarplums. I think this is what it is to have a sense of wonder, true wonder when experienced leaps and dances, adding rhythm to faith, causing faith to whirl and swirl with extravagant expectancy. Yes stirring inside of me is a sense of true wonder. A Wonder that dares to believe then take action.
Will you dare to believe with me? Will you dare to believe one more time? Will you expect to experience an extravagance released from heaven, from Him, from the Holy Spirit of our Savior as we celebrate this season of His birth?
Dare to Believe
The lamp still burning
How can this be
A miracle happened
Hanukkah teaches me
The God of Israel
Is The Light
Our God with us
Is in the fight
Fighting to regain
What the enemy had stolen
A time of rededication
Forward and emboldened
ThIs menorah
With a days measure of oil
Burns brighter today
In darkness and turmoil
A special time to remember
Abounding joy on the horizon
The Light Of Christmas
The miracle still mesmerizes
Behold The Lamp
Behold The Light
Behold The Miracle
A Sacred Sight
Hanukkah beckons
Only receive
Miracles still happen
Dare to believe
@ laurette laster
“His head and his hair were white like wool—white as glistening snow. And his eyes were like flames of fire! His feet were gleaming like bright metal, as though they were glowing in a fire, and his voice was like the roar of many rushing waters.”
Revelation 1:14-15 TPT
God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom.
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah
Until next time, thank you for listening with me. Laurette
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