The House Of Living Water
(THOLW)
12973 Olive Blvd., Olive Arcade
St. Louis, MO 63141

Open 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Weekly Scheduled Events

Weekly Monday Bible Discussion
1:00 pm – 2:30

Your questions explored in the Holy Scriptures, Old or New Covenant. Bring your Bibles or just bring your questions.

Tuesdays
Weekly Healing Room
1 pm – 6 pm Tuesday late Afternoons
Available by appointment,
Call 314 429-3046

The ministry team lead by Adele Morse

Weekly Friday
Restorers of Israel meets for Prayer for Israel
2 pm – 4 pm
Friday Afternoons

“Spiritually, the gatherings are regularly filled with power and the Presence of the LORD. However, His power and Presence always manifests in a different manner, which keeps everyone in great anticipation each week. In most of the meetings we are blessed with live worship to assist us in drawing near to the LORD and then we move back and forth between worship and intercession.” Quay Messner, prayer leader.

Are You Desperate for Me?

By Linda Clark

In 2007 the Lord placed on my heart a great and heavy burden to know the Torah, not as I had traditionally studied it, but He impressed upon me His great desire that prophetically He was going to bring the light of His Word into the reality of the hearts and minds of those who desperately desired to see Him.

He said, "It is in the desperate heart that My hope will be found. Hope cannot exist in the heart without me. I am all hope. The measure of all things is Torah; the life of My Son, by the power of My Spirit. My full measure of faith is endless, to be given to those who through revelation alone are sustained; My Torah brought to its fullness, established to accomplish its full purposes. Are you desperate and desirous? Does your heart count as lost what it has know until now, to make room for all that I long to reveal and do as a result of complete desperation?”

So it was in desperation that I came to THOLW where on Wednesdays, Rabbi Altom has opened up the Torah and brought hope to life.

As Christians we have become thoroughly indoctrinated in the Greek mind set. There are great gaps, unanswered questions, and skip over verses, that plague us as we try to apply our westernized hearts and minds to the Hebrew Scriptures. The Hebrew mind set concerns itself with practice as opposed to the Greek which concerns itself with knowledge.

In many of our circles it is more important to believe the right things, than to actually live that way. Many congregations had abandoned their literal inter- pretation of Scripture, whereas the whole Hebrew thought pattern is based on God's supernatural intervention in the lives of His people.

“You made Your ways known to Moses, make Your ways known to us. You revealed Your glorious deeds to the children of Israel, make them known to us today.”

My heart is changed, and in these uncertain times, there is no famine of the Word of God at THOLW.

(Drop by The House of Living Water any day. Although Rabbi Altom is on Sabbatical, Evelyn is there daily, ready to share the Word of God first to the Jew and then to the Gentile.)

Scripture Portion of the Week

In almost every denominational Hymnal there is a yearly Bible reading schedule. Bibles are sold with the daily reading schedule, all to set up an organized way to read the Bible, Old and New Testament.

Everyone is accepting of the paragraph above but if you would read, “Weekly Torah Portion”, many Christians may not understand what Torah means or just dismiss it as “Jewish.”

Yet, the first five books of the Bible, or Holy Scriptures as Jewish people refer to God’s Word, is simply the books that are being referred to as “Torah.” So, reading the Books of Moses, or Pentateuch, is not such a foreign thing, especially in our day when the “Ten Commandments” are such an issue in the courts of our land and are found in Exodus 20, the second book of the Holy Scripture.

Ask yourself what was the reaction of the Israelites was after the Ten Commandments were given? What was the purpose of even giving commands to Israel? Well, Exodus 20 is read every year around February or to be precise, this year February 14, 2009.

Before revealing what the Israelite response was, let’s look at “denominational reading plans.” Reading plans or programs for the Holy Scripture according to some, goes back to the time of Nehemiah and Ezra which may be know to you as the return of the Jews from captivity in Babylon.

In the Feasts of Israel 16 Month Biblical / Jewish Calendar, produced by the Galilee Experience Messianic Book Store in Tiberias, Israel explains what “Torah Portion of the Week” means. In every Jewish community and in every synagogue a portion from the Torah (the five books of Moses-the Pentateuch) and one or more portions from the Prophets and Writings (the other 34 books of the Old Testament / first Covenant) are read on Sabbaths and on major Biblical / Jewish holidays. Each Torah portion has a name, derived from the first few words in the test of the portion. Translations of the names are provided. In this Calendar (The Feast of Israel 16 Month Calendar) you will see these portions listed by reference, so you can follow what the Jewish people are reading each week, and what they are hearing preached and discussed in synagogues all over the world. We also include suggested New Testament, New Covenant portions for Christians and Messianic believers, to complement the Old Testament portions, The New Testament portion references were developed by Lederer/ Messianic Jewish Publishers and used by their permission. They can be contacted at: www.messianicjewish.net.”

The House of Living Water lists those scriptures on it’s monthly calendar. It has been our practice for many years, whether in a newsletter or on a calendar. But this practice of weekly readings of the Holy Scripture, called portions in short for that part of the text read, has been practiced by the Jewish people since 458/457 B.C.E. That means that for 2,466 years a sequential reading of Genesis through Deuteronomy with the prophets and Psalms plus has been read on the same dates as we read them today in the Jewish community.

In a life time, an average of 70 to the biblical mandated 120 years, a person can read, study, meditate and receive the Word of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to direct their lives, order their steps and through Jesus, Yeshua finally take them to be with The Word for eternity. Moses said in Deut. 18:15, “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.”

The New Year Challenge for you is to read the weekly “Torah Portion”
and receive God’s promise in 2009:

“Be vigilant, listen obediently to these words that I command you so that you'll have a good life, you and your children, for a long, long time, doing what is good and right in the eyes of God, your God.” Deut. 12:28 (The Message)

Now to answer the question of the response of hearing the “Ten Commandments” in Exodus 20,

“And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.” (KJV)

In reflection, it is interesting that when the Israelites returned from captivity in Babylon they began to weekly read the Torah Portion. As they rebuilt the Temple and remembered the glory of the past, they realized the importance of the Law to keep them on track that they may experience God and His promised covenant forever.

For The House of Living Water the Word says, “Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.” Exodus 20:24.Join us any time in the New Year.