The traditional blessing as you blow the shofar is, “Blessed are You oh Lord …who commanded us to hear the voice of the shofar.” Notice it’s not ‘who commanded us to blow the shofar.’ The heart of this teaching, is the blessing comes when we hear the sound of the shofar and it resonates in us. This will reconnect us spiritually to everything God is saying and calling us to do.
The Lord wants us to take these 40 days to examine our priorities — spiritually and financially. Each day as we hear the shofar, we have a fresh opportunity to examine our hearts. Let’s return to our first love by making sure we are putting God first.
Tiz and I are excited for what God is about to do! With the sounding of the shofar we expect God to release an outpouring of miracle blessings and breakthrough into your life!
The prophet Joel describes this very season Joel chapter 2: Blow the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; For the day of the LORD is coming, For it is at hand.
The Lord designates this as a “due season” of judgment and reward. The daily blowing of the shofar represents God’s alarm clock to wake us up from any spiritual sleep or slumber. In His great love and mercy He sounds an alarm so we are not caught unaware and miss the abundant blessing about to happen. One of the traditional sounds is 9 quick blasts in short succession (Teruah) — which resembles an alarm.
Right now we’re entering into the season of the shofar. The shofar is God’s spiritual alarm clock! It’s the time of year when God’s power and presence are working to draw us back to Him. He wakes us up to spiritual opportunities and reminds us to get back to accomplishing His agenda.
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm. The sound of the shofar is a supernatural notice of victory over the enemy. You are more than a conqueror.
The Bible teaches that the shofar is the trumpet of God. The blowing of the shofar is still meant to serve important biblical purposes including; the sound for war, the announcing of the coronation of the King and announcing the fall season of Elul, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot.
Blow the trumpet in Zion and sound the alarm. Elul is the month when we blow the trumpet. When Jesus, our Messiah returns we will hear that sound. Elul is an exciting time.
In Leviticus 23 God instructs Israel to blow the trumpet on the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, which is also called the Feast of Trumpets. Ancient tradition teaches we sound the shofar for a full forty day period beginning the 1st of the Hebrew month of Elul through the festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. This season is known as the season of “teshuvah” which means to return.
