“THE IMPORTANT CALLING OF MESSIANIC FAITH” by Cathy Hargett

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THE IMPORTANT CALLING OF MESSIANIC FAITH

By: Cathy Hargett

July 14, 2026

Believers who have embraced Messianic Faith are a remnant of the followers of Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah. They are a very small part of the over two billion people in the global group of followers of Jesus. Messianic beliefs are similar to traditional Christianity, with one very big difference. 

Their faith is not complete if it does not include the revelation of Israel and the foundations of our faith being rooted in God’s covenant with Israel.

 It is the basic, distinguishable, foundational principle. This is not in the creeds of the traditional church, but it is basic to Messianic faith. I am Messianic, part of this remnant. 

Although both the words "Messianic" and "Christian" mean followers of Messiah, choosing to identify as “Messianic”, with its Hebrew connotation, instead of using the word “Christian” helps express this very significant difference in beliefs. 

There was a time early on, as I understood the prophecies and the wonders of seeing them come to pass in our day, when I did not see a necessity to distinguish between “Messianic” and "Christian”, but today, I think it is prophetically necessary to make that distinction. The day of His great re-appearing, for the second time on earth, is drawing near. 

Walking in the fullness of Messianic Faith is an important calling to help prepare the way of the Lord. 

There are many Christians throughout the world who follow Jesus without walking in the fullness of their faith. Some of them may remember passages in the Bible about being grafted into God’s original covenant with Israel through the blood of Jesus. 

But many do not embrace the relevance, the gravity, of this basic truth, having been brought into their faith through traditional theology. Traditional Christian theology teaches that those who follow Jesus, usually meaning only Gentiles, have now replaced Israel and have become His “new chosen people”. 

The Jews are “out”, and the Gentiles are “in” because “the Jews rejected Jesus”. In my own faith walk, growing up in cultural Christianity, I was taught that “we don’t follow the Old Testament; instead, we follow the New Testament”. 

Without going into the expansive discussion about “replacement theology”, also known as “supersessionism”, the Lord put it on my heart to share about the unique and important calling of those who walk in Messianic Faith. 

The modern-day Messianic movement is similar to traditional Christianity, in the sense that even though this faith expression is fairly new, there are already many different types of expressions of Messianic Faith, from Messianic Judaism to Jewish Roots, to Christian Zionism/Biblical Zionism, etc. 

Some in the movement only refer to Jewish believers, not including Gentiles, as “Messianic”. I, personally, believe that those who follow Yeshua and who embrace the identity of being “grafted into Israel” are all Messianic, both Jew and Gentile. 

The verbiage is important today - “Messianic” and “Christian” represent very different belief systems, even though both expressions agree that Yeshua is the Messiah. The difference is the relevance of understanding that our foundations are in God’s covenant with Israel. Why does that matter?

It matters greatly because without this piece, a basic link to the fulfillment of our destiny as believers is missing. Without understanding God’s prophetic plan, which means using Israel as the people from whom He brings the Messiah, the nation that is destined to bless all other nations, we reject His heart and His plan. 

We are not walking in the fullness of our faith. We don’t understand the faith that Yeshua taught. Without Israel, there is no understanding of the promises Yeshua fulfilled or what is coming at the end of the age.

A caveat here about “Christian Zionism”. Even though Christian Zionism expresses understanding about Israel, there is often a missing link. 

Many times the political, secular element is the dominant expression in Christian Zionism. There is a love and loyalty for Israel, but no sense of the “oneness”, of understanding that true believers are not just “pro-Israel”. 

They are one with Israel, of the same “essence” in His Spirit, by His precious blood. In true Biblical Zionism, there is the understanding of unity of believing Jews and believing Gentiles into one faith. We are no longer separated from each other.

With Zionism, and make no mistake, I am definitely a Biblical Zionist, without the Messianic Faith portion, there is still a separation between Jew and Gentile, even if there is mutual love and respect. 

There has to be more than that. There has to be unity of the faith between Jew and Gentile: one God, one faith, one Messiah, one new man, so I still believe, especially for the purpose of proclaiming the fullness of the Gospel, that a better description of our faith is “Messianic”. 

After over forty years in this movement, it is obvious to me that all of us in the Messianic community are poised to take the next step in our faith. Having understood the basic principles, we are still lacking in our unity as one new man. We continue to teach the basics (mostly to each other) instead of living the fullness. 

And, to be fair, we must always teach the foundations, but it’s time for the remnant of the remnant to start walking together in our faith as One in Him. The remnant of the remnant are like believers in the first century, those who will once again live and walk in unity with such love for each other and anointing from the Spirit that the world will know Him.

The unique responsibility and calling for believers is that we walk together in unity as one new man, proclaiming the fullness of the Kingdom. God chose to reveal Himself through the unity of faith and love of His people, both Jew and Gentile, together. 

This fulfillment happens through our shared passionate worship and love for Him. If we are not grafted together into this olive tree, the fullness of faith does not exist. 

The prophets speak of Israel and the nations. They tell us that at the end of the age, the wealth of the nations will come into Zion. They tell us that Gentiles will bring the Jewish people back to the Land. 

They tell us that when the nations of the world come against Zion, God will destroy them. Yeshua told us there would be a separation of the nations, the sheep and the goats, nations who stand with Israel, and those who don’t. Yeshua comes when His people speak the words He longs to hear, “blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord”. 

The message of Yeshua came first to the nations through His Jewish people. We in the nations must return to Israel as Israel returns to Messiah Yeshua. Now at the end of the age, the Gentiles/the nations return that message to God’s choice of the foremost of the nations. 

This is the important and unique calling of those in the remnant who walk in the fullness of understanding this. When we speak of salvation in Yeshua, we cannot leave this part out, because it is the fulfillment of the fullness of the Gospel of the Kingdom. 

When missionaries are sent out from various churches without proclaiming this part of the message, the fullness of the Gospel has not been taught. That’s what makes our calling as Messianics unique and very important according to the Word.

We must speak this out, walk this out – we must proclaim the Kingdom; the mystery of this message involves both Jew and Gentile (read about the mystery in Ephesians and Romans). If our faith does not include Israel and the Jewish people, we are following “another Gospel”. We are not following the Gospel of the Kingdom. 

For those who walk in the faith of traditional Christianity that teaches that Israel is no longer relevant, it’s not possible to be “one new man” because the fullness has not yet come to your faith. 

When I understood this, this lack, this “hole”, in my faith life, the Ruach compelled me to eat the Word like a ravished, starving soul, until it became part of my being. 

Of all the faith teaching and all the sermons and the studies that have been part of my spiritual journey, the relevance of Messianic Faith is the most profound. I realize that without it, I do not know the full truth. 

With it, I hunger and seek more of my Messiah, growing deeper in love with Him and for His Word, so desiring to be part of preparing the way for His return by coming into fullness. This fullness results in unity of worship of the God of Israel, for both Jew and Gentile. 

This is the fullness that reveals Abba, our God, the God of Israel, the one true God to the world. This is His plan, the restoration of all things back to Himself through the precious blood of the Lamb, through Yeshua, the King of the Jews. 

Cathy Hargett
Highway to Zion Ministries
www.highwaytozion.org

"THE HEAVENLY REALM" Message by Cathy Hargett

​                 “THE HEAVENLY REALMS”

Cathy Hargett

July 4, 2026

Heaven has been on my heart and in my mind. I have asked the Lord to teach me more about heaven. And several times recently, I have had “pictures” of Him showing me things about heaven.

In one of the pictures, I had the spiritual experience of being with Him seated in the heavenly realms, looking down with Yeshua and Abba from above the earth in an exhilaratingly high place. Another time, I was actually in a fighting brawl with many others, struggling to bring order and peace and conclusion to absolute chaos, and the whole fight seemed endless. Yeshua reached out and pulled me from the middle of the fight and took me somewhere very high and not of this world.

My spirit so longs for completion in the eternal realm. Sometimes I wonder if this longing is because of my natural age (pretty old!) or if it’s mostly the longing for eternity that He has put in every heart. My conclusion is that I believe every heart and spirit that has been sealed by His Spirit longs for this mystery of heaven and the Kingdom to be revealed. Perhaps it’s the way He gets us ready for the transition from these hybrid beings that we are - both earthly/physical and spiritual/eternal, existing in flesh and bones for the time being - into the total spirit/Spirit beings of the eternal Kingdom.

Because of the revelation of Messianic faith, I praise Him that He has allowed me to understand the concept of the restoration of Israel and the coming Kingdom that will reside on planet earth at the end of the age. This revelation has kept my heart enthralled ever since He gave me understanding about it. I was not taught this before Messianic faith became my faith. Mostly what I was taught was something vague about a "heaven” somewhere above where we would all go when we die if we believed in Jesus, but never anything about Yeshua and heaven coming down to a redeemed and glorified earth at the restoration of all things. I have understood much better about the Kingdom when it comes down to earth than about the Kingdom existing now in heaven above at this present age.

Knowing this about heaven coming to earth at the end of the age has so sustained me in hope that I haven’t thought very much about this interim place that is somewhere above right now until the return of Yeshua. The truth is, unless heaven comes down out of the heavenly realms to earth before we die physical deaths, all of us will also experience the heaven that is above. So, where is He now and where are my parents and my loved ones who have gone before me? As my Sister once asked me, “What are they doing up there?”

Even now as I write this I realize that I am only at the beginning of grasping this concept of the heaven above. But I really do want to know more than I know now. I believe if we understand this better, we can be an encouragement to others, not only to comfort at times of loss of those we love, but also so that we are filled with faith and hope and confidence that heaven is real, and that heaven comes to earth!

What do we know – we know that God and Yeshua are seated in the heavenly realms and they are looking down on the creation. The Scripture says that He sits above the circle of the earth and looks down and sees all mankind. He is looking to see if there are any who understand and seek Him. He views the whole earth. And it is clear that this is an actual “place” that is high above this planet because He is always looking down from someplace “up”.

The Apostle Paul speaks about going to a “third heaven”, and this is where God and Yeshua reside at the moment. But His Holy Spirit is here on the earth inside of us. We also know that from this realm He blesses us with every spiritual blessing and that He is seated far above all rule and authority, even now in this present age and in the one to come. So we know there is an age that is coming after this one when He will be here on the earth. In other words, heaven comes down.

When Paul spoke about the third heaven, he said, “whether in the body or out of the body, I do not know”.  This tells me that those times when we experience Him so fully, we wonder if we have crossed over from this present age to the eternal one, exemplify what Brother Paul meant. We know there are times that make us feel like we grasp what being “total spirit” is about, and we are no longer these dual-beings made of flesh and spirit/Spirit, but we are totally in the Spirit!

A very profound part of all this contemplation/revelation is to know that this place called heaven is filled with the spirits of righteous men made perfect. Our believing loved ones exist here, in this place that we are bringing into focus. They are in an actual place with Him. I want to know even more about this, and I am asking Him for more revelation. We know it is in a very high location. It is still very much connected with planet earth. But it is a place above all principalities and rulers, and every evil spiritual force.

Stephen saw Yeshua in heaven as he looked up from the earth. He could see Him standing there. Hallelujah!  And also in that place are things that have been replicated on the earth, like the temple of God and the ark of the covenant. There are angels and horses and sounds so beautiful in worship. There are people from the tribes and from every nation. It is noisy at times. Do the saints get to look down from there onto the earth?

We know there is a “second heaven” just because we know there is a first and a third one! The first one is the one we can see from earth – the sky He created. It is beautiful and filled with birds and flying creatures. We know that He created the sky and all the starry hosts and that He uses it to reveal the times.

In that “second heaven,” there is warfare and battling and Kingdom victories taking place. There are angelic beings and principalities. There are evil, spiritual forces, too. I believe we spiritually fight in this realm, too, with living our faith and intercessions and worship. Today, I am not focusing on the second heaven as much as I am on the third.

And what I do know is what I’ve understood most clearly up until now – I do know that this high-above-us place will come down to earth at the end of the age. Everything and everyone will fill this place with His glory. Every loved one who is there now will be here. It’s at this point that I must confess that my eyes can only squint to imagine more. Because He has filled our hearts with eternity, we long for this place and for His Kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven. And from eternity’s perspective, it is so, even now. Selah. Amen.  

“Therefore if you have been raised up with Messiah, keep seeking the things above – where Messiah is, sitting at the right hand of God. Focus your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.”   (Colossians 3:1-2)

 

SCRIPTURES OF CONFIRMATION:

Ecclesiastes 3:11

Isaiah 40:22

Psalm 33:13-14

Psalm 14:2

Psalm 53:2

Ephesians 2:6

Ephesians 1:3, 20-22

Colossians 3:1-3

II Corinthians 12:1-10

Genesis 1:1, 26, 28, 30

Genesis 7:11

Psalm 148:4

Ephesians 2:2

Ephesians 3:10-11

Ephesians 6:12

Daniel 10:12-14

Revelation 12:9

Acts 1:2, 9, 10, 11

Hebrews 12:22

Acts 7:55

Hebrews 7:26

Revelation 11:19

Revelation 15:5

Revelation 14:15

Revelation 21 and 22

Cathy Hargett
Highway to Zion Ministries
www.highwaytozion.org

Love For His People Ministry was founded in 2010 by Steve & Laurie Martin. Charlotte, NC USA

“IN THE MIDST OF US” - Cathy Hargett, Highway To Zion

“IN THE MIDST OF US”

Cathy Hargett

January 31, 2026

The weather was threatening, and there were only a few of us who gathered for Kehila on that very cold Shabbat last week. There were seven of us, to be exact, who had ventured out. From the beginning of our time together, there was a sense of anticipation. Those of us who were there have shared some things about it with the rest of our Kehila.

But as I continue to ponder what happened that day, I feel prompted to share some thoughts about it with all of you in our larger Mishpacha. I think it’s important. It’s about our unity and intimacy as His Body. He has called us to a holy covenant with Him, not just individually, but together, collectively, in community, His People/His Loved One. He will come. He will appear in the midst of us, just as surely as He appeared at the Tent of Meeting during the days of Moshe.

The Lord’s presence that day at Kehila was so palpable even as we shared before the gathering officially started. Looking back on it, I know that the Scripture from Malachi was happening as He watched over us:

“Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in His presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored His Name.”

(Malachi 3:16)

Since the first of the year, we’ve been hearing Him speak to us about being His People and His Loved One, collectively, in community, and not just individually. He has been showing us how to be One in Him as a “People”. He deserves the Glory that is due Him from His holy people. It’s powerful when a whole community is empowered at the same time to go into deep, intimate worship together.

Looking back on it, the Ruach had set the stage for His Glory to appear. Even as I write this, I am remembering a Scripture we read at the very beginning –

“Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart….who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of Glory may come in…”

(Psalm 24:7-10)

Before we even started, one of our most faithful brothers had talked about the marvel of how God appears to us in our small Kehila. He talked about how this happens to us when we gather. He shared many beautiful things about it. Later, we all experienced the wonder of His presence together, something that does happen often to us, but this day was even more awe-filled than usual. The King of Glory did come in.

Several of us have tried to talk together about what happened that day, but it’s almost like we can’t really express it in words and maybe we just don’t want to say too much because we should treat it as holy. We just know that Yeshua, the King of Glory, came, and His presence humbled us and cleansed us. We also experienced that “humbled” feeling together. And at the same time, He was speaking to each of us and to all of us in so many deep and beautiful ways.

“For where two or three come together in My Name, there am I with them.”

(Matthew 18:20)

There was an exhortation about the refining Fire of God and about the purifying and cleansing of it. It was as if we were receiving this corporate purifying as we looked up to Him with unveiled faces. There were beautiful banners with fire flowing all around. It was as if He was revealing Himself in every act of worship. There was a word about taking up the sword He has given to each of us, with each of us having a specific sword or weapon of warfare.

I remember at one point, after we had come to His Table, one of our prophetic sisters, holding the Bread, talked about how the Lord spoke of “discerning His Body”. And then she related that we, His people, are His Body. Her words gave such a sense of holiness and sanctity to the “oneness” of all of us who follow Yeshua with all our hearts. He was showing us how precious a covenant we have with Him and with each other. There was so much happening in my heart as we ate that meal with Yeshua and drank the Wine of His precious Blood. In the spirit of my mind, I could see Glory, flowing in streams of liquid gold. The golden streams were flowing with such stunning otherworldliness that I knew He was searing something deep in my soul. I believe all of us were experiencing these deep mysteries of Truth from Him.

One of the sisters prayed and shared and prophesied with such purity of heart that when she would speak, I had this sense that I could almost physically see that she was surrounded by angels. Her face was shining, as if she was being prompted by angels to speak, and she was so fixed on Him, not on us or herself. I was amazed at the sense of heaven coming down with all those angels all around.

Another time, one of the men pronounced that we were on holy ground and took his shoes off. I sensed it, too. He said something about the heat, about being liquefied, being purified. I also sensed that and could see that liquid gold Glory again. Another prophecy was about the Glory cloud leading His people. It truly was all about Him and His Glory. Oh, God, it’s all about You.

When we gather together as His people, with our eyes fixed on Him in deep worship, He is there. I praise Him for coming to us and for being there in the midst of us. He desires us to be One in Him. He wants to be with us. He wants us to be in His Glory, in His Presence, a holy people bowing in worship to our holy God.

“They will be My People, and I will be their God. I will give them singleness of heart and action so that they will always fear Me…”

(Jeremiah 32:38-39)

“I have given them the Glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one – I in them and you in me – so that they may be brought to complete unity…”

(John 17:22-23)

Cathy Hargett

Highway to Zion Ministries

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HE IS FOR YOU – RECEIVE HIS BLESSING by Cathy Hargett

HE IS FOR YOU – RECEIVE HIS BLESSING

By: Cathy Hargett

November 23, 2025 

My friends, chaverim, I am so grateful for you, for the mishpacha, the family of God, for all of us in Israel and the nations, who follow Yeshua, the God of Israel. I am so thankful to Him for making us one in His blood covenant with us. The Lord bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.

The Bible says in Numbers 6:24-27,  that when this blessing is prayed over His people, it puts His Name on them. So, now you have the Name of God on you.

These words that the Lord gave to Moses and the priesthood to speak over Israel are seeping deeper into my soul. I am receiving from Him a new intensity of the truth that He is for me. He is for you. He is for us. He is for His people. The beauty of that blessing and the kindness of it, the goodness of it, so reveal Him and His heart.

He is so good. He is kind, like a Father with a child. His desire is to bless us. He wants to give us grace and favor and peace. This is Who He is! He wants us to walk and live with His face shining on us, walking with that Glory of His Presence on us and all around us.

The glorious face of God shines. We know this because of the scriptures about His Glory, how it shines like the sun. It is like His smile for us, beaming on us with everything that He is. His whole face lights up when He sees us! Oh, Abba, thank You for loving us!

“..His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.” (Revelation 1:16)

“There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun..” (Matthew 17:2)

That light of His face, shining on us, is the splendor of His person, and it is powerful. It means powerful favor for us and powerful destruction for the enemy who would seek to destroy. This is the shining face of God that is on us. When He returns to us, that same Light of His face that is shining on us will devour all the darkness and every enemy forevermore.

“..the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will overthrow with the breath of His mouth and destroy by the splendor of His coming.” (II Thessalonians 2:8)

“..He looked like fire: and brilliant light surrounded Him..this was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell facedown..” (Ezekiel 2:27-28)

The blessing in Numbers 6 is often called the Priestly Blessing or the Aaronic Benediction. It is to be spoken by the priesthood. Yeshua is the Great High Priest. And when Yeshua came and grafted us into the covenant He made with Israel, He made all of us a royal priesthood, a holy nation. We are to pray this prayer of His blessing over our loved ones and even over ourselves!

When we pray it, the supernatural blessing of God covers those who receive it. They are marked by God, with His Name placed on them. His Name is on us forever. Yeshua Himself places His Name on us. He also makes sure we, in the nations, know that this Name connects us with Israel and with the eternal Land, which speaks of the eternal Kingdom, and the place of His throne.

“..I will write on them the Name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new Name.” (Revelation 3:12)

He is so for us. He delights to bless us. He wants us to receive the blessing, the fullness of the Light of His face. Let’s receive it now from Yeshua, our great High Priest, and let’s pray it over others:

“The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace. So they will put my Name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.” (Numbers 6:24-27)

THE BLESSING - SUNG BY JOSH AARON 

https://youtu.be/MoniopAzp8M?si=qUP0-2U18Lwegwnp

Cathy Hargett

Highway to Zion Ministries

http://www.highwaytozion.org

ABOUT THE LAND OF ISRAEL by Cathy Hargett, Highway To Zion Ministries

 

             ABOUT THE LAND OF ISRAEL by Cathy Hargett, Highway To Zion Ministries

September 27, 2025

Dear Ones, 

Some thoughts on my heart as we watch the nations of the world coming against the Land of Israel and the Jewish people - if you follow the God of Israel, you should not be confused at all about where to stand regarding dividing the Land of Israel. 

Regarding dividing the Land, the Word is unequivocal. The Land of Israel belongs to one people, to the Jewish people, and it is not to be divided. In fact, a central theme in the Bible, a foundational theme, is all about the Lord establishing this Land for His Jewish people and then returning to the Land, Himself, to live and reign from Jerusalem. 

There are many social and political issues where believers and followers of the God of Israel, the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus), may have biblical support for diverse views, but on the subject of the Land of Israel, there is no room for diversity. There is only one place to stand. 

There is no other place to stand unless you stand against what He says. The Scripture tells us that in the last days, many will stand against Him. We see it plainly for ourselves even now, as the roll call of the nations reveals those who are for and against dividing up the Land of Israel. God is clear about judgment coming against those who resist His Word about the Land of Israel. He Himself will come against them. 

The Land matters. The Bible teaches us the Gospel of Salvation, and it also teaches us the Gospel of the Kingdom, the Kingdom of God coming to planet earth. Both reveal Yeshua - the salvation of everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord and the restoration of Israel and the nations, the restoration of all things, of all creation. 

Pray for His Kingdom to come, for the glory of Israel and the restoration of all things. Yeshua is "a Light for revelation to the Gentiles (the nations), and the Glory of Your people Israel" (Luke 2:32).

SCRIPTURES:

Joel 3:2, 12

Zechariah 12:9, 14:1-21

Ezekiel 36:2-12; 25:6-7; 28:24-26

Isaiah 60:12

Matthew 25:31-46

Revelation 21, 22

Cathy Hargett

Highway to Zion Ministries
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THE GOODNESS OF OTHERS by Cathy Hargett

 

                                              THE GOODNESS OF OTHERS 

Cathy Hargett

September 7, 2025

 

As I ponder the sweetness of the time I spent with fellow followers of Yeshua recently, I am realizing that my whole being, spirit, soul, and body, is at peace. We all experienced Yeshua together in a humble fellowship of worship.

When I woke this morning, I realized that there was this sweet afterglow of His Spirit. I remembered each precious person in the gathering. Yeshua had so poured His love on me through them. I pray that each one who was there is also experiencing this same sense of His goodness, of being loved. I feel so grateful and thankful for the goodness of His people, His followers. Goodness that only comes from the indwelling Presence of God is what I know I received.

Good people. Those are the ones who are guileless and loving, not desiring anything in return. These are the people who carry His Spirit and reflect a pure love that is not possible from any other source but Him. Part of the wonder and the blessing is knowing that there is great loyalty to each other, like you have with close family members. It truly is an amazing thing. A built-in trust develops almost immediately just by being in the presence of the goodness of people who you know have His best interests and your best interests at heart.

Laurie Martin, Cathy Hargett, Steve Martin Spet. 6, 2025

What I am experiencing today is also amazing, the after-effect of being in that group of lovers of God. I feel loved and cared for, accepted and blessed. It is an “I am safe, loved, secure, and protected” kind of feeling. Maybe these things, just the basic love and goodness of others, are the signs and wonders that should cause us to marvel as much as we do about the more dramatic spiritual signs.

When you feel loved and cherished, your response is to love and cherish in return. That’s what is so awesome about being loved by Yeshua. He first loved us and then we love Him back! It’s the same with the family of God. It’s the same love from God, the same goodness of God that we all share. We give and receive, and then we give again, and the cycle continues.

Don’t you just praise Him for letting us sometimes “feel the love” in deeper ways through precious people who live lives of goodness and sincerity? Just thinking these thoughts about goodness changes us, and His Presence descends and surrounds us with awareness of Him. God is good. Thank You, Yeshua, for goodness, proclaiming that You are alive on planet earth! You haven’t left us. Thank you for allowing us to be loved and to become lovers. When we receive it, we give it. You taught us that.

This phenomenon, goodness and love among the mishpacha, is truly what Yeshua desired. It’s the one commandment that He called “new”. It is new in the sense that we didn’t have this kind of love until He gave us His Spirit when He left the earth. Before His Spirit came into our beings, we were limited in love. With His Spirit inside us, and with agreement of our faith as His followers, His goodness flows. Thank You, Lord, for loving us and for Your goodness. Thank You for spreading Your goodness among us. We love You and we love Your goodness in each other!

“..the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control..”

(Galatians 5:22)

Cathy Hargett
Highway to Zion Ministries
http://www.highwaytozion.org

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“LONGING FOR THE KING - PREPARING FOR HIS APPOINTED TIMES” by Cathy Hargett

 “LONGING FOR THE KING - PREPARING FOR HIS APPOINTED TIMES”

Cathy Hargett

September 3, 2025

Many times I am asked by others, “How do you celebrate the Fall Feast days”? One of the biggest ways is by releasing the spontaneous longing of my heart. When Fall begins to approach, I just find myself leaning into the Spirit and yearning to go deeper into Him. For me, this season means greater intimacy with Elohim and greater awareness of His desire for oneness with His people. To understand this in a personal way – He desires to be One with me and with you!

As always, anticipation is building that some soon-coming Succot, our King will be here to forever dwell with us on earth. His Kingdom will be established, and His people will be living in the Light of His goodness and glory! Longing for the King intensifies from the beginning of the season in the month of Elul all the way to the end of Succot and Shemini Atzeret. Yes, truly, He desires us to live the Word, “I am my Beloved’s and He is mine”.

Succot, Feast of Tabernacles

Today is the tenth day of Elul, the month leading up to the Fall Feasts - Yom Teruah (many call it Rosh HaShana, but He doesn’t!), Yom Kippur, and Succot. He is calling us to meet Him on His appointed days and times. When we draw near to Him, He will draw near to us.

Here are some ways to draw near to Him, beginning now, in preparation for this season:

1.     Set apart a time to worship and be with Him each day of the 40 days of the season of Teshuvah, the season of turning back to Him. This traditional season begins on Elul 1 and continues through Yom Teruah, and through the “ten days of awe”, and up to the day of Yom Kippur on Tishrei 10. After that, we wait five days until the Feast of Succot begins.

2.     Join Israel in some of their traditions that have clear biblical foundations – read Scriptures that draw you nearer to Him as we seek His face with humble, repentant hearts. Here are a few to help us get started –

Psalm 27 - this Psalm is traditional for this season and is read by many every single day during the Fall Feasts, not just during the 40 days of Teshuvah, but throughout the Fall Feast season.

Exodus 34:5-6 – even though we are in dire need of repentance, confession, and being forgiven, we also remember the goodness of God, who He is, and His great mercy. In Judaism, this passage is known as the 13 Attributes of God or the 13 Attributes of Mercy.

Isaiah 55:6 – seek the Lord while He may be found.

Psalm 51 – draw near with a humble heart and ask Him to create in us clean hearts and to renew a right spirit within us.

Psalms – read all 150 of them – you can divide them up according to the days leading up to Yom Teruah.

Song of Songs 6:3 – ponder the truth that He is your Beloved and you are His – “I am my Beloved’s and He is mine”.

3.     Study the Scriptures about the Feast Days as each one approaches, and let it be a worship to Him as you seek to understand what He is speaking to your heart. (Here are some passages: Leviticus 23; Numbers 29; Deuteronomy 16; Exodus 23; Exodus 34.)

4.     Pray for Israel during these days of hardship and pray for the rescue and release of each one of the hostages still in Gaza (Psalm 122; Isaiah 62; Psalm 137:5).

5.     Gather together with other Yeshua followers during this season and encourage each other to take His yoke upon us and learn of Him, Torah, its fulfillment in Yeshua, and His family, Israel, His chosen.

6.     Sound the shofar as an alert that the time of His appearing is at hand, that these are the days for repentance and return to Him, and that the King is coming. Sounding of the shofar during all the 40 days of Teshuvah is traditional for some in Judaism and for others it is traditional to sound the shofar only at Yom Teruah and on Yom Kippur.

7.     As we worship, thank, and renew our love to the God who has forgiven us, let’s intentionally forgive others. Ask Him to bring to mind those we have not forgiven – and make a list if we need to!

Let’s ask Him together for dove’s eyes, fixed straight ahead on Him, fully expecting the total restoration of the Promised Land of Israel and the coming of the throne of the eternal Kingdom to that Land. We will view the King and the Land that stretches afar. Chag Sameach!

“Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and view a Land that stretches afar”.

(Isaiah 33:17)

  Cathy Hargett, Highway to Zion Ministries

http://www.highwaytozion.org

Blow the shofar! Highway To Zion gathering in Charlotte, NC 2019

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“CALLED TO MINISTER TO GOD" by Cathy Hargett, Highway To Zion

 

“CALLED TO MINISTER TO GOD"

Cathy Hargett

August 28, 2025

Sometimes we can come to clarity about our callings by just looking back over our lives and how the Lord has protected, guided, and led us all along. I admit that it’s easier to see this if you have some years behind you, which I do!

And often, we get understanding about the unique ways He has appointed us by looking at the struggles, the weaknesses, the sins that tempt us and trip us up, that so easily “entangle” us as it says in Hebrews 12.

The blessing of learning to repent quickly and with an earnest heart is that many times He reveals that the opposite of the struggles and failures of our lives show us the deep places of our hearts where our spirit was supposed to be. These are the places that the enemy comes against you the hardest. The spirit that He created in us is pure and right, what we were meant to be.

When I look back at my life, I see spiritual callings that He put in me since I was very young. I see now that I longed for a meaningful, purposeful, spiritual life. I remember things like cutting out little clips of words with high and lofty truth. I loved words. At the time, it could have been just the highest thoughts of admirable people, not necessarily spiritual people, but now I know that He was always calling me to love truth, deep things, and His Word. My flesh was still ruling my spirit so I couldn’t see it then but my spirit was searching.

We are all different, and He made us exactly who He wanted us to be. Maybe He’s bringing to your mind some recollections of how He was guiding you on your journey that now make sense. Look at the activities of your life, too, and the principles and lessons you may have learned, even if you did not especially enjoy the activities. For example, I did lots of traveling as a businesswoman, which I did not enjoy, but the calling on my life required the skills I learned by doing those things.

The other side of this early quest for spirituality reminds me of the dangers that He also navigated me through. Along with the desire for deep, spiritual things came an attraction to any kind of spiritual experience, from talking about scary stories, mysteries, and occult things like ouija boards and reading horoscopes or books about dark spiritual things. My spirit longed for the deeps. And the enemy was intent on setting snares to destroy the plan of God for my life.

I also loved to sing and dance, not spiritual dance. In fact, sometimes the opposite. Today, I see how much the Lord was calling me into pure worship in songs, hymns, spiritual songs, and to dance before Him with abandon and joy. He always intended that worship and love for Him would be the calling of my life and my eternal destiny (and yours).

Ultimately, when we seek Him, He shows us things about our unique selves and our journey. And then, He speaks deeply into our spirits and lets us know that He has always called us to purity and truth and to minister to Him. We marvel at this, and our trust in Him grows deeper and more filled with awe at how personally He loves us and knows us. All the while, He is calling us ever closer to Him and to who we ultimately will be, His holy priest.

From the perspective of where I am today, I realize He was always calling me to deep worship, to minister love and joy and devotion to Him as He has ministered the same love and protection and goodness to me my whole life, whether I was living it in a devoted way or in an off-course way.

The truth is that God has called every follower of His to a place of ministry to Him. He began showing us in ancient times through His people, Israel. Israel was set apart, a nation unlike any of the other nations. This nation was and is called to be a nation of priests, a people that glorifies Him, His treasured possession. As those grafted into this glorious covenant, we, too, are destined to have this unbelievable, intimate and pure relationship with Him. As followers of Yeshua ha Mashiach, we serve Him now, a royal priesthood, a spiritual nation, made up of individual priests, passionately serving Him and ministering to Him. This is the Kingdom. This is Yeshua’s desire for us to seek the Kingdom of Heaven.

It is soon coming here to planet earth, in fullness. Now we see in part, but then we shall see Him face to Face. Perhaps if you ask Him, He will take you back and show you how He has always appointed you to a deep relationship and intimacy with Him, how the intentions of His heart have always been that you would be part of His royal priesthood, His Holy Nation. He wants to love you in a deeper, palpable way. Bless His glorious Name forever. And you will minister love and worship back to Him in proportion to how much you allow Him to pour into you.

Embrace Him now and enter that secret place of the Most High. Receive the Truth that you are called to be a holy priest unto God, to glorify our King Yeshua, and to allow Him to expand your spirit into fullness as you realize your calling is to minister to the Lord.

“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.”

(I Peter 2:9)

Cathy Hargett

Highway to Zion Ministries

http://www.highwaytozion.org

Photos below: Cathy and attendee at a recent Highway To Zion Shabbat gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dance and teach of the Lord's goodness and coming Kingdom!

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“RETURNING TO THE FAITH OF OUR BELOVED” by Cathy Hargett

 “RETURNING TO THE FAITH OF OUR BELOVED”

Cathy Hargett

August 25, 2025

 

Would you pray with me? “Yeshua, my King, thank You for teaching me about Your yoke and about the faith of our fathers. Thank You for Your burden that is light and for opening the eyes of Your people to the truth about who You are. Would You please teach us more about how to follow You and how to seek Your kingdom?”

When we walk with Him, the firstborn Son, we begin to see the connection with God’s chosen people, Israel, also called the firstborn of Avinu (our Father). As we walk out our faith journey, pressing forward, not stopping at the elementary teachings, but continually maturing, growing, our eyes fill with wonder, and the true picture of who He is comes into focus. We see Him, the Son of God, the Son of Man, in His beauty, the crucified and resurrected Chosen One of the God of Israel.

Just like in ancient times, He continues to show us miraculous pictures here in the natural realm. He shows us the Land of Israel that He created for Himself as a revelation of His plans. He wants us to know about the mysteries of the Land, to know Him, to know what His plans are, and to help prepare and build up the spiritual infrastructure of the highway from heaven to earth. If we miss the unveiling of the mystery of the Kingdom through the revelation of God’s covenant with the people of Israel and His relationship with the Land of Israel, our understanding will always be disconnected from the full truth of His Word.

Golden Gate (Eastern Gate) in Jerusalem, Israel

He gave us glimpses of it when He spoke to Jacob through his dream about the stairway, the ladder, at Bethel. The ladder, the way into heaven, rested on one end on the earth, explicitly, it rested on the Land of Israel, and on the other end, in heaven. Already we see the connection of the Land with heaven. Jacob even said “this is the gate of heaven”.

He was proclaiming that on this Land, the Land of Israel, is the gate of heaven. Here lies a major clue for understanding how He has planned the reconciliation of all things back to Himself.  It is for us to embrace. Just like Jacob, we may say about the revelation of the Land, “..How awesome is this place. This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.” (Genesis 28:10-17)

Our Yeshua is the Connector, the Ladder, the Highway, the Gateway into the knowledge and experience of living in the Kingdom of heaven. If we will receive it, we will learn that the syllabus for understanding God’s Word rests on the Land of Israel and His covenant with His people. We climb this Ladder, ever higher and higher. Yeshua is the Way, the Gate, the Door, into the Kingdom of heaven.

One of the most beautiful mysteries of Messianic Faith is how understanding about Israel creates a greater intimacy with Him, but even this one example about Jacob’s dream shows us how Yeshua and the Land are connected, how they are the same in so many ways. It’s truly throughout the Scripture that we see these examples, from the concept of the Firstborn to the eternal Kingdom expressed by the Promised Land, we see the Oneness of Yeshua and the Land. To love Yeshua is to love the Land. To love the Land is to love Yeshua. His yoke is the yoke of the Kingdom of heaven.

As we learn about how Yeshua lived as a Jewish Man on planet earth, we see He lived His faith within the culture of Israel. His people were followers of Moshe’s teachings from God. He followed Torah and obeyed every commandment to perfection. Today, I continue to discover more about intimacy with God by observing the appointed times of the Lord and by studying about and worshiping Yeshua, the Living Torah.

It has been so exhilarating to learn His ways and to grasp just the very surface of His deeps as the truth is unveiled by obeying His commandments to keep the Feasts. I so love to celebrate and enjoy the Feasts of the Lord. I love the traditions and the customs, too. But what He is revealing to us as He teaches us is beyond the customs themselves, higher than “religion” or liturgy. We must recognize that. It will stir our hope beyond human comprehension for the Kingdom to come. It will exercise our spirits and cause our hearts to grow bigger than our flesh until we can walk by the Spirit with less times of walking by the flesh!

This pure-like gold-Messianic-Faith is what Yeshua reveals to us with the sacrifice of His Life. He shines like the sun in all its brilliance and teaches us by His Ruach more than ritual or practices, wearing certain garments, and doing prescribed religious things. He teaches us Transcendent Torah. He said, “unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven”. He calls us ever so much higher until we know that He, Himself, is the fulfillment of every Word. It would be impossible to obey Him if He didn’t live inside us. Through Him, the impossible is possible. He makes us holy for Himself. The Spirit is calling us to return to the transcendent faith of our Beloved.

“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

(Matthew 5:48)

Cathy Hargett

Highway to Zion Ministries
http://www.highwaytozion.org

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