My First Attempt @ Making Challah Bread. How Did I Do?

I guess the 2% European Jewish kicked in yesterday and I knew all along for weeks now that I would bake Challah bread and I did. I just did not know the very day I would bake it but knew that future tense wise I would make/bake it. I love Holy Spirit adventures He takes me on do you?It is the same recipe dough that is but I divided it up and made 2 loaves of bread. One loaf with a slight variation to it. The first loaf of bread I made traditional and instead of sprinkling poppy seed on top of that loaf I sprinkled sesame seeds. The second loaf of bread I followed a suggestion in the recipe and made it round in shape and added golden raisins to that one. I guess the recipe says to make a round braided challah for Rosh Hashanah.
With it being Yom Kippur the day I made the bread I was fasting that day also. So I literally finished baking the bread just before heading out the door for church. Oh my gosh, it was a most pleasant aroma still left in the air when I returned back home and walked through the door. You know that beautiful scent wafting in the air of fresh bread that was baked. That was the smell I was welcomed with last evening when I returned home. So, fasting was done for that day and I then partook of some challah bread.
At church another preaching that touched my heart and I knew I was on a mission of some sort last night also. See, last week I had with me a music cd to share with the pastor's wife as a gift to them. I did not see her so it waited in my satchel until this week. The preaching was based on "obedience" and what I gleaned from it was the portion of we are to be obedient even in the little nudges of Holy Spirit in our lives. Oh wow, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt to give the music cd that very night. I did. This may be a bit odd but Holy Spirit had me bring 2 of the same cd and give them the choice to either select the personally signed copy or just the regular copy of the cd for them to have. They chose the regular cd and for me to save the personally signed copy for another person when that is given as a gift. Deep down inside of me I guessed they would take the one they selected.
See, prior to me going to church that night I sort of vacillated on not giving them the option but to just give them the one they accepted last night. There was a reason beyond my understanding as to why to present to them the choice for them to choose which cd they wanted. I felt Holy Spirit nudge to no shying back on this matter and present as it was originally shown to me to present both and they are to choose which cd to select. One major scripture verse shared last night came from the Old Testament I believe it is in one of the Book of Kings and it is the story of the prophet that was given direct instructions on what to do on the mission they were sent on. An old prophet intercepted this prophet and caused him to sway from the instructions the Lord gave to him to fulfill. The result in this disobedience was death to the prophet that disobeyed the explicit instructions given to him.
I have read this scripture verse many times throughout the years and each time it strikes me of the severity and consequence of not following direction given to you. I just looked up that scripture verse in my bible. It is 1 Kings 13:11-34. I urge you to read this scripture today. I even have that page folded over and I wrote this note alongside of it in my bible. Kind of funny, I had to bring out my magnifying glass to read it for I wrote it in pencil and I want to make sure that I get what I wrote right. "Be cautious of deceptive prophets that will lie to fulfill their plans/agenda. Seek God to increase your discernment & follow God's voice/direction over mans." Oddly enough I did not put a date in my bible when I wrote this one in the margin of the bible page, I generally tend to do that when I do jot thoughts or sermon teachings I hear that strike a witness to my spirit.
I know we serve a loving and a just God and yes He is love but He is also a just God. Maybe the church has gone off course somewhere throughout the ages and that holy fear of the Lord has been loosened up a bit. Church go back to the true ways of the Lord and don't teeter here and there please, for the sake of the kingdom of God is at hand. Trust in the Lord and do not put your total faith in man. Going with God's plan always wins so why even attempt to go with man's plan for it seems to appear that many times man's plan and intentions seems to fail and then we have to cry out to the Lord to forgive us and heal us and heal our land too.
Where did all that just come from? The preaching was lovely last night it was not a strict, stern type of message. It really was not it was a beautiful invitation at the close of the sermon and the presence of God was in that place. Peace flooded my heart and joy was bubbling up inside me also. I asked Holy Spirit to forgive me if I missed Him in any gentle nudges or instructions throughout my life and that I will continue to follow His lead when He does nudge me. I then shared with another person at church and it comes to be that we are both of Jewish decent so we started that conversation off by another person inviting us to a Jewish meal gathering at a local venue this weekend. I did not feel the unction at this time to attend but said I would attend possibly the next one offered. Oddly enough, I was sent an email weeks ago with an invitation to this very event but even back then I did not feel the timing was just right for me to go at this time. The conversation was in part because I shared about baking Challah bread that day. God has a plan and a purpose for your very life. Choose to follow Holy Spirit directions given to you this very day ok.