River of Life Tabernacle's Podcast

Starting with Mount Sinai where the Torah was given and ending at Mount Zion where the Spirit was given, fire was on both, and the people GATHERED together heard and saw the Word of Yahweh as it was given.

Pastor Mark continues the series of Peter with the three questions asked of him...contrasting Agape/Committed Love with Phileo/Friendship/Brotherly Love.  Which kind of love do we have for the Father, Yeshua and each other?

Douglas Merritt, Jr. brought a very timely message for Shavuot/Feast of Weeks/Pentecost encouraging all that this is a season of transformation...even when one is in grief.  He went on to remind us that all who need comfort in any way, that the Comforter has come in the form of the Holy Spirit. 

In preparation for the upcoming feast of Shavuot/Feast of Weeks/Pentecost, Past Mark brought a message how the Holy Spirit is used in our sanctification process. 

Dr. Hollisa Alewine brought a timely message of what counting the Omer to Shavuot can produce in the life of the believer.  It prepares us for the betrothal as it matures us in our walk.

Pastor Mark spoke to the value and necessity to be led by the Spirit and to sharpen our discernment to know if we are being led by the Spirit of the flesh.

Coleman Hostetler brought a personal testimony of trying times and how he was taught by the Spirit and the Word to trust and have faith through the process.

Pastor Mark shows patterns in Scripture where the Torah and the New Testament both testify of Yeshua, but the knowledge of Yeshua is what removes that veil.

Tyler Merwin brought beautiful patterns from the Word as it pertains to the Exodus out of Egypt for the Last Day of Unleavened Bread, both past and future connections to encourage us of the hope that lies ahead for us.

Steve Hostetler brought a timely message for the First Day of Unleavened Bread that walked us through the faithfulness of Yahweh to keep His covenant, that He is powerful and able to get us to the finish line if we will keep moving forward in Him.

Pastor Mark walked us through the prophesied suffering of the Messiah, the actual suffering of Yeshua, all the way through the glory of His resurrection. Through it showing the perfect redemption and salvation given for all who will receive it. 

Pastor Mark returns to the life of Peter in the final hours of Yeshua before His crucifixion, showing the common temptation of man to deny the Messiah when push comes to shove and encouraged us to understand our frailties and cry out to the Father for His strength to stand up for our faith in trial.  Yeshua knew this would happen and prayed for Peter ahead of the temptation and ultimately Peter became a mighty preacher of truth.

Pastor Mark brought a compelling and convicting message to us as parents and people who have influence in others' lives, concerning the Biblical mandate and importance to deposit the Torah/The Word of Yahweh into our children and those we are around every day.

Richard Killebrew and Tyler Merwin brought very enlightening truths from history and Scripture about Purim and its connection to the people of Elohim.

In preparation for the upcoming Passover and Unleavened Bread season, Pastor Mark shares both past and future Messianic prophetic connections to when Yeshua was on the earth about lay down His life for the salvation of the world and two very significant animals that play a role in those connections.

Pastor Mark brought a word for Rosh Chodesh Adar, twelfth month.  This is the last month before the new feast cycle begins and every is beginning to bloom.  With that we are to have ever increasing JOY, CELEBRATE and prepare for the upcoming feast of Passover and Unleavened Bread.

As we continue drawing patterns from Peter's life, Pastor Mark went to Revelation 12 & 13 speaking of the Mark of the Beast and asking the question, "What mark are we taking?"

In part four of "Identifying with Peter", Pastor Mark shares a pattern from Luke 22 that he gave a subtitle of "No Room for Divas" that we don't need to be worrying about who's the greatest in the Father or Yeshua's eyes in comparison to your fellow brethren's call versus our own, but concern ourselves with serving as Yeshua so beautifully demonstrated by His example.  We must serve first and recline later.  

Pastor Mark continues with the series using Peter's life as an example to us.  Today he focused on Peter's faith to get out of the boat in spite of the winds and waves to go to Yeshua.  Though his focus waivered and he began to sink, he still had the faith to move out of the boat and Yeshua rescued him from sinking.

Pastor Mark continues the series showing patterns from Peter's life to our own.  This week he connected the prophesy about the Messiah in the Torah to the Mount Transfiguration experience.

Pastor Mark started a series using the life of Peter to teach life lessons.

Pastor Mark compared the life of a believer to a thermostat and a thermometer.  A thermostat controls the temperature in a room whereas a thermometer only measures the temperature.  Which one are we?  As a thermostat we have the power to make changes for the kingdom and this is how we should be used in order to be a light to lead others to salvation and obedience.

Pastor Mark began showing this week the truths that the Father and Yeshua are marking Their people with Their seal and giving those who receive salvation a new name and new responsibilities as pillars in the congregation of the righteous.

Tyler Merwin brought a compelling summary and points of personal encouragement about Chanukah and how the prophecy was foretold and how the patterns and principles can be applied to our lives.

Dr. Hollisa Alewine brings part 2 of "It's Not Christmas".  She continues to show the history and prophecy of the coming Messiah who will be the eighth and final prince of the Davidic Reign prophesied about in Micah 5. 

Dr. Hollisa Alewine brought a beautiful and timely message showing the history of the first Chanukah and that it's not a Jewish Christmas.  She also made clear connections to believers as a royal priesthood that needs to be geared up and ready for the mission ahead. 

In part 2 of "Understanding True Faith", Pastor Mark shows from Scripture that when we yield to the deeds of the flesh it will damage our faith, therefore we need to walk by the Spirit and not the flesh.

Pastor Mark started a series on understanding true faith and the absolute necessity to develop our faith if we're going to be pleasing to the Father and Yeshua.  We must remove everything in our lives that would hinder our faith and get us off track.

Pastor Mark concludes his series of Be a Light Together by encouraging us to be scrupulous and not to go backwards but keep moving forward, proclaiming the Father and Yeshua's appointed times through our obedience to them.

Pastor Mark continues his series about the importance of keeping YHVH's appointed times and how it shines a bright light to the world.

Pastor Mark started a series called "Be A Light Together" encouraging us to be a bright light for the kingdom as we start this new Torah Cycle.  As we all walk in the ways of Yahweh and Yeshua together, we make a brighter light and greater impact on the communities that we're in.  May we bind together in unity as it is a pleasant thing to our Abba and Yeshua.

Pastor Mark shares patterns from the Word of why white is worn on Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement.

Each Year for Yom Teruah Pastor Mark seeks the Father for a word that will be a focus for us throughout this year.  This year it is "Double Grace" with grace being Biblically defined as Yah's power and enablement to fulfill His will.

Pastor Mark prepares us for the upcoming Mikveh~Baptism~Annual Immersion and Tashlich~Casting of Stones service that we will do at the river in afternoon following the Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets service.

Pastor Mark continues the series on preparation for Yom Teruah drawing patterns from Malachi 4, Exodus 14 & 15, Zechariah 1 and 1 Thessalonians 4.

Pastor Mark began a series in preparation for the Feast of Trumpets/Yom Teruah and how it relates to preparing for the return of Messiah.

Pastor Mark finished the series by encouraging us to be fully aware of the Jezebel spirit and not grow weary in well doing while standing against it.

Pastor Mark is continuing the series Two Women Two Spirits.  He encouraged through the patterns in the Word to stay the course, be wise and discerning and not be deceived by the wrong spirit.

Pastor Mark continues the series about The Two Women to Spirits.  The Virtuous Bride and the Adulterous Bride/Jezebel.  He shows patterns from Proverbs 2 and Isaiah 65 that tie into the end of days.

Pastor Mark started a series in preparation for the upcoming fall feasts which speak to the end of days so that we will have our hearts right and our discernment sharpened as to which "woman" are we, and what voice are we listening too? The Bride of Messiah or Jezebel?  

Brother B.J. Walters brought a real and authentic message of the heart about our faith being tested.  It is an encouraging message that we can all relate too.

Pastor Mark concludes the series called "Forty Day Periods" with Yeshua being taken by the Spirit to the wilderness to be tested by the enemy.  He passed all of the tests with "It is Written".  We, too, will overcome the lies of the enemy with "It is Written".  We can use this "weapon" if we are placing the Word in our hearts and minds.  We were encouraged to get in the Word and stay in right relationship with our Heavenly Father and Yeshua and be led by Their Spirit.

Pastor Mark continues the series called Forty Day Period Part 3.  This week the focus is on the spirit of influence that we have for the good or the bad. Which will we choose.  One brings blessings, one brings judgment.

Pastor Mark took a little side road in the series "Forty Day Period" to encourage us to have the right mindset, a predetermined purpose to follow Elohim and Yeshua in all of their ways, so that when the testings come we won't falter.

Bryan Barnes, of Growing in Torah Ministries, brought a compelling and timely message of repentance and how one should give and receive forgiveness.  When we repent and forgive, we are "Servants of the Most High, Blameless before Him!!"

In part two of this series Pastor Mark shared from Exodus 32 showing patterns of what happens when we jump the gun and don't wait.  We must not grow weary in well doing.

Pastor Mark did part one of a two-part series on drawing patterns to live by from the forty day periods we have in Scripture.

Tyler Merwin brought beautiful patterns from the Word connecting Shavuot, the Giving of the Word and the Giving of the Spirit, to the elements of the offerings and how they relate to the believer.

Pastor Mark shows from the Scriptures the Father's and Yeshua's heart for Their people who love and obey them.  That we are His treasured possession and that while this was emphasized many times in the word, it was first given to a mixed-multitude at the mountain on what would become the feast of Shavuot.  He moved us forward to the prophets and then Yeshua's words concerning Their great love for the world.

Pastor Mark brings a compelling exhortation to the body of Messiah to make sure that we are putting our trust in the one true Elohim and not the gods of this world that seek to turn its back on the One true Elohim, YHVH and His Son Yeshua.

Brother Tyler Merwin brings a message to encourage us as we continue our journey to Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks.