SONGS OF LESLIE ANN
The CDs
These songs reflect the significant appointed times/Moedim that our Heavenly Father gives us to celebrate our Halakhah/walk.
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It has been a beautiful beginning to the Spring, Aviv! You know, Our Heavenly Father gave us a wonderful calendar to follow in His Word the Bible! In it we are taught about the first month being Aviv, Abib or Nissan. [On a side note- makes me think of the name of the Nissan Altima car or the Hyundai Genesis car -both have to do with first or beginning. =)]Aviv means Tender Green. How appropriate that His calendar begins when all things are coming forth, tender green!
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Aviv at the last new moon around the time Spring began and fields of wild Aviv, Barley, in Israel near Jerusalem are tender green. We celebrate a glorious coming together on Passover. Passover, the blood covenant, is linked to the great Patriarchs of the faith, including Messiah, through circumcision and as is more well known through our Messiah's crucifixion for our redemption. We are protected under the Shadow of His Wings! "Under His wings you will find refuge" Psalm 91:4 "how often I longed to gather you as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings" Luke 13;34; Matthew 23:37. We keep this meal showing forth the Lamb's blood over us whereby we are saved from death; we accept Him who is victorious over death, sin and the grave. Death has passed over us! Amen! We are under His protection. 1 Corinthians 11:24; Luke 22:19; Revelations 1:18 So many verses in Scripture account to His victory!
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Then enter Unleavened Bread to honor Messiah's sinless life whereby we are not eating anything with yeast in it until a full week has passed since Passover meal. We begin counting the Omer by waving the fully ripe Wave Sheaf on the first day of the week after the weekly Sabbath. This all represents Messiah! How this reminds me of when I was a little girl listening to and joining my Grandma Pick in singing, "Bringing In The Sheaves"! She made me feel special by sharing all her endeavors with me -even including me in her Bible classes at Christ For The Nations College. She loved to study the Word, she enjoyed playing piano and singing: all of which impacted me greatly. Counting the Omer and have until Day 50 in which seven weekly Sabbaths pass to proclaim Shavuoth, Pentecost! Exciting season we are glad to be in.
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One year I had planned to celebrate Passover in late Spring according to the Rabbinical Hillel 11 Calendar and had even made plans with HIS congregation to do so. But the two weeks previous I had such a heaviness on my heart to celebrate according to His Word and not man. For Ruach HaQodesh reminded me, "Why are you desiring to honor the Father by celebrating His appointed times and not man's in the first place?" Wow! The reason we are celebrating His Holy Days was to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth for that is the only way we are to worship Him according to HIS Word. John 4:24 He doesn't want man's ways one way or the other. So, we set forth to hurriedly prepare His Passover according to His timetable wherein He gives us the seasons. That must have been how it was when they were preparing to leave Egypt- for they were in a hurry too. Interesting. We are always to be ready and sensitive to the prompting of Ruach HaQodesh! And amazingly a solar eclipse brought the year in and a lunar eclipse brought the Passover meal in.
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A Scripture kept coming to my mind, "He will avenge them speedily, nevertheless when the Son of Man returns will He find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8 We need to have the Bitachon faith not just the Emunah, believing faith. We need to have the faith that acts on the belief. By honoring His Holy Days which are for all Israel and all who join to Israel, then we are having Bitachon faith as mentioned by James who said he would show his faith by His works. James 2:18
When Messiah returns may He find us with Emunah andBitachon faith! May He find us understanding, receiving and acting upon The Holy Calendar of the Bible and imparting our Father's ways from hearts full and overflowing with Passion and Love!
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How exciting it was to learn that upon making the declaration to keep with His Calendar that others decided to as well, including the Sanhedrin at the Temple in Jerusalem who for the first time in 2000 years did likewise and forsook man's calendar this year to begin by honoring the Father's of which Heaven and Earth are witnesses according to the Word!
HALLELUYHWH!!
When Messiah Yahshua returns, will He find faith on the earth? His first coming and second coming are according to His Father's Holy Day Calendar that even the elect have not known or have neglected. But, May He find us ready, with plenty of oil in our lamps, understanding and observing His ways in sincerity and truth as the midnight hour is drawing ever so close.
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Reflecting upon the inital reason to bring forth the first CD, I would like to share brief background of each of the songs:
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The Hebrew pronunciations used on this CD are primarily from the ancient Biblical perspective to bring out the purest form that we have knowledge of today for LaShon HaQodesh- The Holy Language.
Right from the beginning of the Biblical year we see in Pesach/ Passover what YahShua did for us as YHWH’s Paschal Lamb in the song :
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By My Stripes You Are Healed 4.52. Another Pesach song...
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EliMelek 5.21, was inspired from my Grandfather’s name Mailach who fled from the persecutions leading up to the Holocaust; this song shares how the holy letters of our Avinu's/Father’s very name portray His message of saving grace through His Son YahShua HaMashiach!
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Fill Us YHWH 5.03 asks the Father to fill us with His Holy Spirit/Ruach HaQodesh & is for Shavuoth/Pentecost wherein we remember both the giving of His Torah & His Ruach HaQodesh.
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Blow The Shofar 8.56 sings Daniel's Prayer in ch 9 for Yom Teruah/Trumpets & Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement-the day the Book of Life will be opened & we want to hear our name read from it. This song calls for Teshuva/repentance.
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When We Enter Into The Tabernacle 9.42 is for Sukkot/Tabernacles & decribes the Tabernacle.
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It Is Shabbat 2.51 is about Abba’s weekly Sabbath Moedim of rest; when he was only seven years old my son Daniel BradLee wrote the chorus and melody for this song. The rest of the songs describe our Halakhah/walk before YHWH in His Son YahShua...
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For He Is The Living Elohim 5.04 is from Daniel 6 & boldy proclaims that the kingdom of Elohim/God is forever.
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Armor of Elohim 6.15 is about being fully equipped in the Spiritual attire He makes available to us through His Word & His Holy Spirit!
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Love Song To YHWH 7.25 is my tribute to our heavenly Father.
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Avodah 5.27 is about our daily work & Halakhah being a worshipful servitude directed to our heavenly Father from Kawana- motivation from hearts that follow the compassion that YahShua HaMashiach/Jesus the Messiah showed while on earth.
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Love Fulfilled 5.24 shares our daily need to fulfill love by obeying our heavenly Father’s law as His Son YahShua did.
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He Makes Us B’lev Echad 5.34 shares about our Father’s love joining us to Him & to one another. As a bonus is a cool hip version of...
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Love Song To YHWH 6.15, May we all recognize The Good Path, and walk on THE WAY that we may worship Him in Spirit & in Truth!
I give thanks to our heavenly Father for He answers prayers- He gives me melodious chords to play & sing for Him.
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I was taught to read music, but, as hard as I tried, I could not play by ear. Even in college when the professor asked if he was playing a melodic Major 3rd, I thought, “Please don’t call on me- I can’t even hear if the pitch went up or down let alone what the interval is.”
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But since then, Abba/Father has been blessing my ears & has allowed me to write, play & sing songs for Him fulfilling visions & dreams since a child one being a heavenly vision I had as a little girl wherein I was playing a golden piano with angels all around. HalleluYAH!!
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I give thanks to my children who patiently endured listening to me work on the songs day after day, night after night at home, on the road, wherever we were!
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Thanks also to my parents for their love & support, for believing in the ministry of music that the Father laid on my heart since a baby of nine months old batting my hands on the piano keys at Grandma Miller's house, for honoring my request to learn to play piano at the tender age of seven years old as I felt the ever present and growing desire to honor the Most High through music!
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78:16 length.
Insert designs by Leslie Ann
הכרת הליכה הטוב
Hakarat Halakhah Hatov
Recognizing The Good Walk