“A psalm. A song for the dedication of the house. By David: I will exalt you, Adonai, because you drew me up; you didn’t let my enemies rejoice over me. Adonai my God, I cried out to you, and you provided healing for me. Adonai, you lifted me up from Sh’ol; you kept me alive when I was sinking into a pit. Sing praise to Adonai, you faithful of his; and give thanks on recalling his holiness. For his anger is momentary, but his favor lasts a lifetime. Tears may linger for the night, but with dawn come cries of joy. Once I was prosperous and used to say, that nothing could ever shake me — when you showed me favor, Adonai, I was firm as a mighty mountain. But when you hid your face, I was struck with terror. I called to you, Adonai; to Adonai I pleaded for mercy: “What advantage is there in my death, in my going down to the pit? Can the dust praise you? Can it proclaim your truth? Hear me, Adonai, and show me your favor! Adonai, be my helper!” You turned my mourning into dancing! You removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, so that my well-being can praise you and not be silent; Adonai my God, I will thank you forever!”
Tehillim (Psa) 30:1-13 CJB
Something to think about today:
Much that is called Bible study is not actually Bible study at all. == Satan kept men for years from any interest in Bible study, but now that there is a great and growing interest in studying the Torah, satan keeps people from real study of the Bible. Questions about the authorship, date, end times, prophesies etc., of the various books of the Bible -- in the Bible and those left out, -- are both interesting and important; but studying these things is not studying the Bible. Dwight L Moody once asked a graduate of a great university why he did not give his life to teaching the English Bible. The young man replied, "I don't know anything about the Bible." "Why," Dwight Moody asked and then said, "you have a high priced professor employed in your university just to teach the English Bible." The young man answered, "Sir, would you like to know how we study the Bible? We have spent the last six months trying to find out who wrote the Tanakh, and we know less about it now than when we began." That was not Bible study.
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Thought for Today: Sunday January 23
Elohim is your Heavenly Father. Listen to Him! Learns what it means to be a child of the Everlasting King Most High. Your richest duty is devotion to Him. This duty is such a joyous privilege that it feels like a luxury. You tend to feel guilty about pushing back the boundaries of your life to make space for time alone with Him. The world is waiting to squeeze you into its mould and to crowd out time devoted to Him. The ways of the world have also warped your conscience, which punish you for doing the very thing that pleases Elohim most: seeking His Face. Listen to Adonai above the clamour of voices trying to distract you. Ask Ruach HaKodesh to control your mind and your heart. Be still and attentive in His Presence – You are on Holy Ground!
Really good commentary of this shabbat’s Parsha
https://www.hoshanarabbah.org/pdfs/yitro.pdf
Obviously we don't get into the Kingdom of Heaven simply by doing good works, or do we? We rightly claim that salvation is by God's grace and mercy, but then we look down on those who stray into legalism, as we call it, by trying to do what the Bible says. Somewhere there's a balance between saying we're saved and not living like it, and living like we're saved, but having no peace. Maybe we find that balance by learning who we are, and Whose we are.
http://thebarkingfox.com/2022/....01/22/yakety-yak-and
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love 1Jhn 4:18
For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, and of love , and of a sound mind. 2Tim 1:7
We are not to fear as the world fears ..... we are in the world but not of it , this is not our home ......
Dont take the mark for fear of the unknown ,( flesh never wants to suffer) when we try to save our lives we will lose it ....
Yahshuah never said it would be easy but He did promise to never leave us or forsake us ?.
For those still in the valley of decision make your calling and election sure .... dont be deceived, satan wants you in fear ...
Choose you this day and evedayry whom you will serve......
We must not look to the left or to the right ....
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“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you. Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say. For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 10:16-22
??Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. ?? ??What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.??? And (fear not) them which kill the body, but are? not able to kill the soul:? but rather ?fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.?
Matthew 10:26-28 KJV