So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.
Joshua 6:23
Rahab and her family were not immediately incorporated into Israel. They were placed outside the camp, at least until Jericho was sorted out. New converts to faith in YHWH should be extensively discipled before being trusted with leadership and ministry roles.
Since COVID is back on everyone's mind...
If you build a parapet on your roof to protect guests, but you built it out of cardboard, then you didn't really fulfill the commandment in Deuteronomy 22:8. In fact, because you created an illusion of security that could cause people to take greater risks with their own safety, you've just compounded your guilt. You "put a stumbling block before the blind", used "unjust weights and measures" to deceive, and you failed to build a parapet on your roof.
Now. Extend this principle to the libraries full of laws and regulations that claim to make people safer but actually do the opposite.
https://www.americantorah.com/....2021/08/19/covid-vac
When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.
#deuteronomy 22:8 #kiteitzei
The law about building a parapet on your house illustrates a broader principle: resources and accomplishment bring responsibilities. If you are aware of a hazard that is under your authority or control and don't fix it or warn your brother, you might as well have pushed him.
If someone gets hurt through stupidity, it's his own fault. If you made it easier, it's also yours.
EATING DISORDERS
A healing prayer for someone who suffers from eating disorders
(Including anorexia nervosa and bulimia)
References:
1 Samuel 28:22 --- Ecclesiastes 9:7 --- Matthew 6:11 --- Philippians 4:19 --- Matthew 15:11 --- Proverbs 2:11 --- Luke 4:40 --- Psalm 143:8 --- James 1:5 --- Psalm 119:144 --- 2 Timothy 1:12 --- 2 Corinthians 10:4 --- Galatians 5:1 --- Deuteronomy 33:27 --- Psalm 23:4 --- John 16:24
Healing Promise:
“Eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way” (1 Samuel 28:22 NKJV)
Healing Prayer:
Mighty Heavenly Abba, thank You for the gift of food. I pray for Your help in learning how to overcome this eating disorder. I know it is not Your will for me to suffer in this way. I love You and I know You love me. Help me to follow Your admonition to eat properly so that I will have the strength to follow You and serve You at all times. Teach me how to eat my bread with joy, because I know You are always faithful in supplying my daily bread and meeting all my needs. Thank You for Your promise to supply all of my needs according to Your riches in glory, through Yeshua Moshiach. I claim this promise as I ask You to meet my need for healing of my eating disorder of ..................... . Help me to remember it is not what I consume that defiles me. Instead, it is what I speak that does so. Give me clear insights and let Your discretion preserve me. Abba, I ask for Your healing, Your direction, Your wisdom, Your understanding and Your keeping power. Let the power and deception of all eating disorders be removed from my life. Let their strongholds be pulled down now. In Moshiach, I have been set free. Help me to stand fast in the liberty you have provided for me from this eating disorder, so I will never again be entangled with the yoke of bondage to any kind of eating disorder. Thank You for helping and healing me my Adonai and my YHVH. You are my refuge Abba and underneath me are Your everlasting arms. Thrust out the enemy from before me at all times. Keep me from all evil. Thank You for Your healing power that is at work in me now. In the glorious Name of Yeshua I pray, amen.
Genesis 1:28 says "And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it…"
The foremost question I want to answer concerning this verse is: "To what extent are we required by God to ‘be fruitful and multiply'?" I see three ways to argue the point.
1. God blessed us with fruitfulness, but did not necessarily command us to multiply.
2. God categorically commanded mankind to be fruitful and multiply.
3. God commanded mankind to be fruitful and multiply, but only to a certain point.
https://www.remnantnation.org/....post/be-fruitful-and