Entries by Robert Shaw

Circumstantial Christian: It Isn’t Enough

If you could meet any one from history – who would your top candidate be? The top contenders in 2026? Pope Leo XIV, Abraham Lincoln, or George Washington. In my limited research I was surprised to see these three outpaced Jesus. I must confess that I have an ulterior motive in asking this question. Most […]

Jesus Needed?

Count the Omer – Countdown to Pentecost: Day 41 Matthew 1:20 “But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy […]

Entering the Rest of God – Through Striving?

Making the Omer Count – Countdown to Pentecost 1 Corinthians 14:1 “Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]; and earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual endowments (gifts), especially that you may prophesy (interpret the divine will and purpose in inspired preaching and teaching).” The Greek word for […]

An Awakening

Today Marks Day 34 of Counting the Omer – 16 Days from Pentecost. It was during that fifty day period between Jesus’ death, resurrection and ascension that the disciples were commanded to stay in Jerusalem and seek the promise of the baptism of the Spirit. Luke 24:49 states: “Behold, I send the Promise of My […]

Down in the Valley

Omer Count – Day 30 to Pentecost, or Shavuot Pentecost (or the Hebrew word Shavuot) for Christians marks the day the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the newly birthed New Covenant Church, Jesus’ Bride. Yet it was far more than that. It marked an epoch. What’s an epoch? An epoch is a significant, distinctive […]

So Close and Yet So Far?

Today is Day 27 of counting the omer – countdown to Pentecost or Shavuot. Exodus 25:30 And you shall set the showbread (the bread of the Presence) on the table before Me always. When the people of Israel cried out for bread He provided manna in their wilderness. When the people began collecting the manna […]

The Price of Bread

The German hyperinflation of 1923 remains the most extreme case of currency collapse in modern history. At its peak in November 1923, prices were doubling every 3.7 days. A loaf of bread that cost 250 marks in January 1923 cost 200 billion marks by November. Workers were paid twice daily because their morning wages would […]

God’s Daily Bread

Counting the Omer: Day 22 Leviticus 24:5-9 “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah  for each loaf.6 Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the Lord. 7 By each stack put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent […]

Disturbing Jesus

Today’s Omer Count: Day 20 Friday we sought to answer the question, What is it? referring to the grain that is counted in the omer. Today I want us to begin answering the question, What does God’s Bread provide? Luke 24:35 states: “Then they [themselves] related [in full] what had happened on the road, and how […]

What Is It?

Exodus 16:15 When the Israelites saw it, they said one to another, Manna [What is it?]. For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.  Today is Day 16 for the Lords’ Countdown to Pentecost (or should I refer […]

Table Scraps

Dt. 29:4-6 Yet the Lord has not given you a [mind and] heart to understand and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this day. 5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet. 6 You have not […]

The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread

Revelation 3:18 Therefore I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined and tested by fire, that you may be [truly] wealthy, and white clothes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see. Today is the twelfth day […]

Making It Count

Friday, April 10 marks the ninth day of the counting of the omer. What is the counting of the omer and what difference does it make for followers of Yeshua-Jesus today? Leviticus 23:15-17 states: 15 ‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of […]

Code Blue: Revival or Funeral

Colossians 3:1 If then you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead],… We have all heard sermons regarding Paul’s famous testimony in which he stated, “I have been crucified with Christ…” Gal. 2:20. But how many messages, or devotions have you heard, or read on being […]

Falling Down: The “Trip” of Humility or Pride?

Zephaniah 2:3 Seek the Lord [inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life], all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will and have kept His commandments; seek righteousness, seek humility [inquire for them, require them as vital]. It may be […]

PRAY! Prayer for Soldiers at Home and Abroad

If you don’t subscribe to Israel 365 News, or Not the Bee News, I want to encourage you to do so. Recently I read that Austin Texas, CBS reporter, Vinny Martorano, was in downtown Austin Texas reporting on the events transpiring there in regard to the news that America had struck Iran. What did CBS […]

Birthing Jesus?

1 Timothy 2:13-15 For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. 15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control. Before you shut down your computer and think that Robert has lost his ever […]

After the Prayer and Fasting (WARNING: This Is a Lengthy Read)

Job 33:14-17 For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, 16 then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, 17 that he may turn man aside from his deed…” ESV Psalm 19:1-4 The heavens […]

Demonic Strongholds

Yesterday we saw how a demonic foothold can turn into a demonic strong man. Unfortunately it doesn’t stop there. If the agreement or contract is not broken then the strongman that began as a foothold becomes a stronghold. 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 states: For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and […]

Footholds, and Strongmen

This Sunday I shared with the church one of the purposes of my fast: to address a spirit of abortion, and a spirit of mocking that has come against the Lord’s purposes for this church. In 2025 we have had two people note that they discerned a spirit of mocking in our church. One was […]

Happy New Year!

Isaiah 46:9-10 [Earnestly] remember the former things, [which I did] of old; for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is none like Me, 10 Declaring the end and the result from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel […]

Laboring….in the Harvest?

Matthew 9:37-38 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Some time around 2002 I was meditating on this passage of Scripture and what the Lord revealed to me astounded me. So much so that I […]

Pregnant with the Holy Spirit? – Merry Christmas!!!

Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place under these circumstances: When His mother Mary had been promised in marriage to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be pregnant [through the power] of the Holy Spirit. Are you pregnant with the Holy Spirit? Mary was, and what was conceived in […]

Dream of Revival

Before departing for Nicaragua I hammered out the blogs I felt the Lord had given me – scheduled to go out on certain days of the December calendar. Friday, December 19 I had scheduled a blog titled, “Tsunami of the Spirit?” to go out at 6:00 AM. Little did I know a week later (from […]

Tsunami of the Spirit?

“Democracy is in jeopardy at this very moment, we are in danger of dictatorships in most countries of the world. Democracy as such seems to be breaking down before our eyes.” Sounds like something ringing from our headlines today. When was it spoken? May 24, 1978 by the great British preacher, Martin Loyd-Jones. he continued […]

Hold Fast!

A man fell off a cliff but managed to grab hold of a branch on his way down. He hung there and shouted up to the top, “Is anybody up there?” “Yes,” came the reply, “God is up here!” “Can you help me, God?” “Yes.” “What do you want me to do?” “Let go of […]

Going Up!?

Israel 365 News recently posted an article entitled, “Israel Tests Its Readiness for Mass Aliyah Amid Rising Antisemitism.” The date of the article? November 28, 2025. What is aliyah? Aliyah in Hebrew means to “go up,” or “ascend.” “In Israel and Judaism it has two primary meanings: the immigration of Jews to the land of […]

Playing Marbles With Diamonds

A story was told of a man who loved old books. He met an acquaintance who had just thrown away a Bible that had been stored in the attic of his ancestral home for generations. “I couldn’t read it,” the friend explained. “Somebody named Guten-something had printed it.” “Not Gutenberg!” the book lover exclaimed in […]

Loving and Hating

Malachi 1:2-3 I have loved you, says the Lord. Yet you say, How and in what way have You loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? says the Lord; yet I loved Jacob (Israel), 3But [in comparison with the degree of love I have for Jacob] I have hated Esau [Edom] and have laid waste […]

It’s Not Complicated

Colossians 2:6-8 As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him.7 Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you […]