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Cheshvan: The Work God Does in the Ordinary
You don't lack a breakthrough. You lack a place for the breakthrough to live. Most of us have prayed for the mountain, and God has answered, and then Monday arrived with its dishes, its inbox and its tired body. The question Cheshvan asks is not "Did you encounter God?" but "Where did the encounter go?"
el-nahara
Oct 237 min read


Cheshvan: The Ooze of His Word
Styrax - month of pure speech
I'll be honest with you, this stretch of the year is not my favorite. I'm a spring-summer girl at heart, growing up in South Africa this is suppose to be spring and summer time. If I could hibernate through the coming months of winter and rise again with the first warm light, I would. But perhaps that is exactly why Cheshvan has something to teach me.
el-nahara
Oct 96 min read


TISHREI: When Time Becomes an Altar
Beginning again by remembering what time is for. There are moments when a new season arrives and we assume the most important thing is to decide what we will do next. Tishrei invites a different question. What if the beginning of a year is not first about planning the future, but about returning our attention to God?
el-nahara
Sep 254 min read


Tishrei: Let Us Partake
There are moments when you can feel a season changing before you can explain why. Something in you knows that you are standing at a threshold. Excitement and terror hold hands. You may not have evidence yet, but there is a quiet recognition: something is moving. That is where I find myself as we cross into Tishrei, and I have a feeling I am not standing here alone.
el-nahara
Sep 186 min read


Why We Have Made Rest the Reward for Productivity
Rest Was Never Meant to Be a Reward !
The opening story of Scripture gives us something very different. God creates light, sky, land, water, living things, human beings and then God rests. Not because He is exhausted. Not because creation has finally become too much. Not because He has completed enough tasks to justify taking the afternoon off.
el-nahara
Sep 115 min read


The Difference Between Being Seen and Being Known
So many believers carry the same quiet ache: why doesn't anyone truly know me? You show up to church. You show up in your marriage, your friendships, your family gatherings. You are present, fully present, and still, something in you wonders if anyone has actually perceived who you are becoming. You start to wonder if you're invisible.
el-nahara
Aug 285 min read


Seen But Not Revealed
There is a difference between being seen and being revealed. I remember a season in my previous marriage, sitting right beside my ex-husband, asking the same question again and again, and getting nothing back not defiance, just absence, as if my voice couldn't reach him. That wasn't an isolated moment. It became a pattern I've lived more than once, carrying prophetic words the Spirit gave me, watching them pass unnoticed, only to see them unfold exactly as spoken, months or y
el-nahara
Aug 143 min read


The Journey to El-Nahara: It’s Not a Brand — It’s a Living Movement
How did we arrive here — to this ever-expanding work, this luminous community we hold so dear? I say we and not I, because none of this would exist without Chris, my amazing husband — his faith, often stronger than mine, his steady covering, and his unshakable belief in what God has called us to build together. My journey with anointing oils began back in 2008. It has been a path of discovery and deep learning — an unfolding relationship with the Spirit through the language o
TanYah Jackson
Nov 9, 20253 min read
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