You shall fear YHWH your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear. He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.
Deuteronomy 10:20-21
To love God is to fear and obey him, to be loyal to him, and to rely only on him as our ultimate defense. God is both the object of our praises and the reason for any praise we might receive.
You shall therefore love YHWH your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
Deuteronomy 11:1
To love God is to be attentive, to honor his rules & decisions, & to obey his commandments. If you don't do that, then you don't love God.
Equality is a myth. Nobody is equal to anybody, not even in death... except in salvation vs condemnation and when compared to God. Relative to Him, we are nearly indistinguishable from one another.
"Love your neighbor as yourself" means to treat one another as peers. We're all pathetic, weak, and worthless, and yet we're all loved by God.
Daily Prayer
Blessed are You Adonai, our Moshiach; to You be the glory and praise for ever. When we have erred and strayed, You seek us out; You love searching for us and desires to bring us home to the light of Your presence. As we rejoice in Your Son, our Redeemer and Shepherd, stir in us the same compassion for others as You have for us, that we may help to reveal Your glory in this world. Loving Abba Elohiym, we give You thanks that You have called us to share in showing Your love to the world. Bless all who are called to be pastors, priests, ministers, rabbi’s, teachers of Your Word and all who give evidence to Your grace. Give to Your believing people a sense of mission and outreach, that everyone may share in Your redemption. We pray for all our farmers; all who provide us with food and the necessities of life. We ask Your blessing on all who are homeless or hungry tonight; we pray for refugees and asylum seekers, all who suffer from poverty and all who have a difficult financial problem. We thank You Abba for our lives and all that we have. We ask Your blessing upon all our homes and our loved ones. We pray for our community and all who suffer from loneliness or the inability to cope with what is happening to them. Abba, You are our hope and our strength and we come to You for refreshment, renewal and strength. Let all who feel fearful, all who are weak, all who are struggling, those troubled in mind and those in distressed in spirit turn to You. We ask Your touch on all who are ill, with a disability or on their death bed. We ask forgiveness for our sins, our bad thoughts and our shortcomings. We give You thanks and praise that through Your Son, our Master, we shall not perish but have everlasting life. We rejoice in the fellowship of all Your saints and we pray this prayer in the Name of our Adonai Yeshua Moshiach, amen.
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:18
Be very cautious in offending widows, orphans, and landless because God is their defender. They have a special place in God's heart.
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