One consistent characteristic of human religious expression is the showiness of it. We build ornate places of worship, adorned with the finest materials, staffed by the best ministers and musicians, and meticulously maintained by dedicated professionals. It's only right that we give God our best, or so we see from the examples of Scripture. But then, is it really "giving God our best" when the hearts of those inside the ornate buildings are inclined more toward themselves than toward God?
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Lily Portion for Today: Shabbat February 17
The most important cause of spiritual barrenness is a tardiness to pray! If you and your families can get your hearts in a state of boldness in prayer, everything else becomes relatively easy. (Prayer: Father, You Who hear Your children’s supplications, help my family to consciously make time to spend with You in prayer, so that we can experience true spiritual growth, amein.)
I used to remember seeing a sidebar that had information in it including the phases of the moon. I've been on this site on both my tablet and my laptop. I'm on my tablet right now and I don't see that sidebar. Was it never there on the tablet and I'm just now noticing it? Or did it disappear?
Psalm 32:5, “Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin.” Some modern Christian denominations teach that forgiveness can not happen without the blood of Yeshua/Jesus but there are many passages in the Bible that disprove that, especially in the Psalms.
Wishing everyone a very blessed Sabbath!
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"Every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire."
Lk 3
Shabbat Shalom, fellow humans! Praise Yahuah!
Thought for Today: Shabbat February 17
Following YHVH, is the pathway to joy and each step is blessed by the tenderness of His love.
Christi Banks
SHABBATH SHALOM!
Here is your question for today found in Malakym Aleph 5:6-13:
What did Shelomoh use to cover the walls, and what was used for the floors of the Temple?
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Melakym Aleph (1 Kings) 5:26-6:13
And YHWH gave Shelomoh wisdom, as He promised him. And there was peace between Ḥiram and Shelomoh, and the two of them made a covenant.
And King Shelomoh raised up compulsory labor out of all Yisra’ĕl. And the compulsory labor was thirty thousand men.
And he sent them to Leḇanon, ten thousand per new moon by courses – they were one new moon in Leḇanon, two new moons at home. And Aḏoniram was over the compulsory labor.
And Shelomoh had seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing stone in the mountains, besides three thousand three hundred from the chiefs of Shelomoh’s deputies who were over the work, those ruling over the people who labored in the work.
And the king commanded, and they brought large stones, precious stones, to lay the foundation of the House with hewn stones.
And Shelomoh’s builders, and Ḥiram’s builders, and the men of Geḇal did hew, and prepared timber and stones to build the House.
And it came to be, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Yisra’ĕl had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, in the fourth year of the kingdom of Shelomoh over Yisra’ĕl, in the new moon of Ziw, which is the second new moon, that he began to build the House of YHWH.
And the house which King Shelomoh built for YHWH was sixty cubits long, and twenty wide, and thirty cubits high.
And the porch at the front of the Hĕḵal of the House was twenty cubits long, according to the breadth of the House, and its width ten cubits, from the front of the House.
And he made for the House windows with narrowed frames.
And against the wall of the House he built rooms all around, against the walls of the House, all around the Hĕḵal and the Speaking Place. Thus he made side rooms all around.
The lowest side room was five cubits wide, and the middle one was six cubits wide, and the third one was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the House, so as not to lay hold on the walls of the House.
And the House, when it was being built, was built with finished stone made ready beforehand, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the House while it was being built.
The doorway for the middle side room was on the right side of the House. And they went up by stairs to the middle side rooms, and from the middle to the third.
So he built the House and completed it, and he panelled the House with beams and boards of cedar.
And he built the side rooms of the structure against all the House, each five cubits high, and they were fastened to the House with cedar beams.
And the word of YHWH came to Shelomoh, saying, “This House which you are building – if you walk in My laws, and do My judgments, and shall guard all My commands and walk in them, then I shall confirm My word with you, which I spoke to your father Dawiḏ, and shall dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and not forsake My people Yisra’ĕl.”
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