Hungry Hearts Ministries

One of the purposes of Hungry Hearts Ministries is to provide resources for believers to learn more about Jesus (or Yeshua, in Hebrew), and His word, the Bible.

We believe that the Bible is truth and that living according to Torah is the beginning of this truth, which allows us to grow spiritually These resources are designed to facilitate this growth.

“The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath,” are Jesus’ own words about the amazing gift He has given us each week. We get to rest from our work, and rest in Jesus. Keeping the Sabbath, and keeping it Holy is the fourth commandment. Discover how to be obedient to that command, and to cultivate the appreciation of the gift of the Sabbath. Your Christian walk will never be the same.

Pastor Bill Shults has been serving the Lord as a Sabbath-keeper for 34 years. He is the Founder of Hungry Hearts Ministries with seven churches in the USA and missions overseas. The ministry hosts a variety of feast celebrations in Tennessee. He is also a gifted author of books, articles, and pamphlets.

In addition to our quarterly Pursuit magazine, we offer:

• Books and CDs available through our website and Amazon

• Free Booklets available through our website in PDF format or in print, by request

• Sabbath Sermons available live on RevMedia every Saturday at 3pm/4pm Central/Eastern and later on Youtube

God’s Plan of Salvation brings hope during life’s trials and challenges. This plan is best understood by studying The Lord’s feast days, as outlined in Leviticus 23. Learn the prophetic meanings of the feasts as well as the spiritual significance of each celebration. Find out how God’s plan will unfold, and the role you will have in it.

Evangelist Kelly McDonald, Jr. currently serves at the President of the Bible Sab bath Association (BSA) in addition to a variety of roles at Hungry Hearts Ministries. He is a prolific author of books, articles, and blogs. He has been preaching for 13 years and is available to speak at your church upon request.

Hanukkah reminds me that no effort is too great when it comes to guarding His Truth. It reminds me to be grateful for those who have loved The LORD and demonstrated courage in protecting His Word and His Ways for generations who were to follow.

Kasey Perry Eldress

Hanukkah is celebrating Jesus being The Light of the World, and sharing that joy for eight nights. We have it all--fire, faith, family, friends, food, fun, fellowship, and a future--because of Jesus, and Jesus is what it’s all about.

Studying about and celebrating Hanukkah awakened me to the Truth that GOD was not silent for 500 years between the OT & NT as I was taught growing up. He was, as He remains, alive and well & working in those who love and obey Him, working miracles against each attempt against His people by the prophesied Anti-Christs, of which there will be a final one that is closer than many realize.

Raynor Deaconess

The Potter’s Hand, continued needs to be. Surrender fully to His will; don’t dictate it to Him.

3) Am I being gently corrected by the Lord? When you are generally walking the right way with the Lord, you will receive gentle correction here and there. If this is the case, stay humble and listen to His voice. Make changes as He reveals them – His hand will gently smooth you out.

4) Am I broken because others have wounded and hurt me? When a person is going through this situation, then he/she usually faces a lot of condemnation. You will have feelings that you are never good enough or that you can never measure up. Give your brokenness to the Lord and He will make it beautiful. “to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.” (Isaiah 61:3)

The Hebrew word translated as ashes is epher. It is the root word for aphar meaning the dust from Genesis. Acknowledge to Him that you cannot figure it out on your own; you cannot go forward without Him. Acknowledge that He’s the only one that can fix you. Acknowledge that He will make you whole and give you freedom. Give Him your mourning and heaviness – you will receive joy and praise! This will help you to go forward.

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves” (2 Cor. 4:7).

The Spirit of God within us is the Treasure within our clay vessel. The goal of this treasure is to display HIS GREAT POWER and that IT IS OF HIM – not us. We think we have all this control over ourselves. We try to exercise our might over our clay and treasure. It only causes us confusion. The great power comes from Him, and it will allow us to defy the tides of worldliness and godlessness around us.

The best attitude we can have towards God is surrender. That will make the process of molding much easier. This physical treatment of clay corresponds to how we are spiritually stretched and pushed beyond our limits by God.

As the Lord, the Potter, molds us there will be times we are stretched, contracted, and bent in an uncomfortable position. Sometimes the clay must rest. It is a necessary part of Him forming us into who HE made us to be. We must remind ourselves that HE’s the maker. He knows what He intended for your life to look like. If we yield to that purpose, then the end result will be so much greater than what we could ever dream or realize. He paid the ultimate price; He owns us.

When we are going through a hard time with our clay, we can be tempted to look at other people. We tend to think that they are the reason that our lives are not going the way that we would like. We need to look at ourselves first and foremost. It all goes back to the heart of Passover. We have to accept our culpability in Jesus’ death – and acknowledge our stubbornness to submit to Him. We are our biggest impediment.

I have definitely experienced this process of the potter-clay relationship between God and myself over my life. Up until I fully surrendered to God starting in 2006, I told Him I would be everything but what He planned for me: “Baseball player”; “Lawyer”; “College Professor.”

I faced disappointment, heartbreak, and unpleasant memories. I was marred, crushed, and reshaped. I was trying to tell the potter what I was going to be instead of letting Him form me into what I want. Before the summer of 2006, I used to tell God I would never be a minister, sell insurance, and a slew of other things. When I surrendered things got so much better. I allowed Him to shape me according to His will. Our lives will be so much more fulfilling when we do this.

In all of this, we must also learn to recognize the Potter’s hand. This requires a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Do you see, know, consider, and understand when the Lord’s hand is acting? Or is it strange to you?

We are usually too caught up in our own drama, drama with other people, or distractions to recognize that the Lord’s hand is at work and WHAT the LORD’s hand is doing. If you are obeying Him, then we should perceive all the shaping He is doing to prepare you for His will. It could be preparation for the next season, assignment, and future purpose for your life. Learn to see progress when He is at work on our clay, whether it appears that way or not.

The Lord has steady hands – He won’t fail or make a mistake like a human potter would. However, we must be in tune with the Potter’s hand to know which area of our lives need His affection or correction. We must be in tune with...

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Life’s wisdom tells us that we need to earn our daily bread and warns us to not take bread out of people’s mouths as well as to know which side of our bread is buttered. Biblical wisdom tells us to break bread in fellowship (Acts 2:42, 20:7; 1 Corinthians 10:16), warns that man cannot live on bread alone (Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4), and not to eat the bread of idleness (Proverbs 31:27).

No matter how you slice it, there are many bread idioms in our culture. That is not surprising because bread is the most essential food for human survival.

Bread is a staple in the Bible as well. In fact, one sev en-day feast, The Feast of Unleavened Bread, is about eating a particular kind of bread. Outside of Judaism, this feast is not as well-known as the feast that immediately precedes it, which is Passover.

Instructions to keep Passover and the Feast of Un leavened Bread appear in four of the five books of Torah. These references can be found in Exodus (12:1-17), Leviticus (23:4-8), Numbers (9:1-14), and Deuteronomy (16:1-8).

Unleavened bread is bread made without a leavening agent. Leavening agents make bread rise, and the oldest leavening agent is yeast.

The Hebrew word for unleavened bread is matzah. In Hebrew, the letters started out as symbols, and those symbols give us insight into further defining the word. Matzah is spelled with three Hebrew letters, mem (water or chaos), tsadeh (harvest, need, pull towards, or desires), and hey (behold, show, or Holy Spirit).

These letters give us the physical formula for matzah.

By: Deaconess Sarah Raynor

If you mix water (mem) and harvest or flour from grain (tsadeh), behold (hey), you get matzah.

There are always multiple meanings in Scripture, and Hebrew reflects this as well. There is a spiritual formula revealed by the letters spelling matzah as well. Chaos (mem) desires (tsadeh) the Holy Spirit (hey). There is an innate desire built into humans to seek the divine by seeking a relationship with Jesus.

Most Biblical translations define unleavened bread as the bread of affliction (Deuteronomy 16:3). This is because that is the kind of bread that the Israelites took with them during their exodus from Egypt. They did not have time to let their bread rise before they left, so they hastily made unleavened bread without yeast. This leads to a lot of Rabbinic thought about remembering the affliction of the Israelites and an emphasis on doing without bread made with yeast during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

While we are commanded to not eat bread made with yeast during the Feast of Unleavened Bread and to remove all leaven from our homes, I want to examine the idea that unleavened bread is the bread of affliction and the emphasis on doing without.

Affliction, according to the dictionary means “the state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, calamity, adversity, persecution” (Webster).

When the Israelites left Egypt, were they afflicted? Well, they took the spoils of Egypt with them when

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