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Apostolic passages that I think pair well with #torah parsha #vayigash (#genesis 44:18-47:27), plus links to related commentary and videos: https://www.americantorah.com/....2021/06/08/parsha-va

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Your thoughts on past memories please:
I think that the purpose of our memories is not to remember our past, but to extract things out from our past, to use as lessons, to structure our future.

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I teach my family that "every person is the sum of their experiences". Therefore, every person will respond differently to a situation dependent on their experiences. Some will run to a fire while others will run away from it, kind of thing.

Our memories can therefore make or break us dependent on whether we have overcome that experience.

For instance, a person can feel so guilty about their sin that they can't forgive themselves so that they can approach Father for His forgiveness. They are therefore captured by their memories of their sins.

One person can come out of a broken home and use it as a reason to blossom in their walk with Father and others can use their experience as an excuse not to follow Father.

We have to choose to use our experiences (and by association our memories of those experiences) as stepping stones to climb higher and higher.

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On this date in history, 12/17/1903: The Wright brothers make their first powered flight in the Wright Flyer at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, NC. #otd #tdih #techhistory

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Thought for Today: Sunday December 17

Have good faith in the great sorrows of life and be patient with little ones. If you have completed your daily task with great effort, you will be able to sleep in peace. God will be awake!

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Peaceful Sleep

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Proverbs 3:24 / Psalm 34:7 / Psalm 103:20 / Psalm 91:11 / 2 Corinthians 10:5

Abba, thank You for peaceful sleep, and for Your angels that encamp around us who fear You. You deliver us and keep us safe. The Angels excel in strength, do Your Word, and heed the Voice of Your Word. You give Your angels charge over me, to keep me in all my ways. I bring every thought, every imagination, and every dream into the captivity and obedience of Yeshua Moshiach. Abba, I thank You that, even as I sleep, my heart counsels me and reveals to me Your purpose and plan. Thank You for sweet sleep, for You promised Your beloved sweet sleep. Therefore, my heart is glad and my spirit rejoices. My body and soul rest and confidently dwells in safety amein.

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"Thus saith Yahweh, Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver the oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the wickedness of your works."

Je 21

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If you really want to be obedient to God's commandments - have you read them?
There's more than ten. There's not 613 (could be vastly more or vastly less depending on how you count them, and frankly the 613 list was a stupid way to count them). What matters more than how you count them is that you read them, and obey.
They are not just in the Greek Scriptures. They are not just in the writings of Moses. You have to read the entire Bible.
This doesn't mean that every part of Scripture is a command. And it absolutely doesn't mean that an individual part of Scripture cannot stand alone (the discussion of so-called "context" is warped beyond recognition at this point). It means that you'll have to look through the whole thing to find all the commands that you are to obey - that's not a problem. (Imagine the Creator of the universe giving his own word to sinful children of dust, and someone's response is, "Do I have to read all of it?")
He didn't have to spell it out for us. He didn't have to tell us what we already knew, and urge us to do it. We were already without excuse. That he spoke to us anyway should humble our stiff necks to the earth, and receive our immediate and utter attention.

#sabbathposts 2023/12/16

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Well said.

I looked at the "613" when I was still investigating the validity of Torah and it was interesting how the count was done as some verses are counted multiple times as one action could have multiple outcomes.

My first "lesson" was to realize that the 10 Commandments were the words spoken directly to the Nation and then they feared and asked that Father had to complete His instructions through Moses. So the rest of the text is still part of Father's Law that was given on the mountain and not "Moses' Law" as such. We just call it Moses' Law as he spoke it.

Since then, I have seen that there are so many more laws than what I initially thought, but it is all so easy to achieve as long as my mindset is in loving Father first and then myself and then my neighbour. Yes, I did say it differently than what the verses read, as you can't love your neighbour if you don't first love yourself...