This week's #torah portion is called #vayeshev and consists of #genesis 37-40. Vayeshev means "and he lived". It's prophetic of Israel's restoration and Yeshua's resurrection.
Here's a list of related New Testament passages, commentary, and videos...
https://www.americantorah.com/....2021/10/17/parsha-va
Isaiah 19:2—3, “So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.” The division that our Creator uses divides people into two general groups, those who choose to follow the Creator completely and those who do not. 1Kings 18:21 “Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word.”
Just a thought/question this Sunday afternoon.
While I sit here in my livingroom, studying Scripture about the anti-christ, a thought came to mind; WHAT IF, the anti-christ is not just one person but a group of people or a country? The reason I say this, I have a retirement property in another small country, recently, not far from my place there, an outside government opened a research facility under the disguise of weather studies. But instead what they do not mention is that these "studies" include biological warfare. No-one is allowed to come within 50 miles from the facility. Also, the same group recently started with experiments in Cape Town South Africa, and the reason been given is space research. Therefore, I am just wondering, do we have it wrong? Maybe? About one person as anti-christ? Hope someone can explain more.
Lily Portion for Today:
Ladies remember, teach your household that life can be a great adventure and journey if they have Yeshua as their Guide and faith as their staff. (Prayer: Abba, You are my family’s Refuge and our Fortress. In distress You have always proved Yourself faithful. Make my family sensitive to recognise Your will in our lives and grant us the grace to be guided continually by Your will for our lives, amen.)
OSTEOPOROSIS/BONE DISEASE
A healing prayer to use when you suffer from osteoporosis or any bone disease
References:
Psalm 6:2 --- Proverbs 3:5-8 --- 3 John 2 --- John 16:24 --- Luke 6:19 --- Hebrews 13:8 --- 1 Peter 2:24 --- Isaiah 53:5 --- Jeremiah 30:17 --- Proverbs 4:20-22 --- Psalms 34:20 --- Proverbs 16:24 --- John 15:16
Healing Promise:
“Have mercy on me O Adonai, for I am weak; O Adonai, heal me, for my bones are troubled” (Psalm 6:2 NKJV)
Healing Prayer:
Have mercy on me Adonai YHVH, for I am weak. Heal me of the bone disease of …………… It is my deepest desire Abba, to trust in You with all my heart and not to lean on my own understanding. In all my ways I will acknowledge You and I know You will direct my paths. As I reverence You and depart from evil, I know I will experience health in my body and strength in my bones. Thank You Abba for Your promise of healing. As I pray, I claim Your promise of health and healing. How it thrills my heart to realize Abba, that You desire for me above all else, to prosper and be in health, even as my soul prospers. With joy I believe and receive this promise as the antidote to bone disease. In the same way that the virtue of Yeshua went forth to the multitude and healed them all, I pray that His virtue would bring complete healing and wholeness to me, for I know that Yeshua Moshiach my Adonai is the same today as He was yesterday. He is truly the Great Physician in my life. Thank You Abba. How happy I am to know that Yeshua took my sins so that I could live unto righteousness. It is by His shed blood and the stripes He bore for me that I am experiencing Your healing power my Abba and my YHVH. I thank You with all of my heart. How I love You my Abba and my Adonai Yeshua, Who was wounded because of my transgressions and bruised for my iniquities. The chastisement of my peace was upon Him and with His stripes I am healed. Thank You Abba for healing me. Thank You for restoring health to me, as You have promised. I will attend to Your Words and incline my ear to the truths of Your Word. I will not let them depart from my eyes. I will keep them in the midst of my heart, because I realize that Your Words are life to me and health to all my flesh and bones. Abba, You keep all my bones and not one of them is broken. Your Words are pleasant to my soul and they are health to my bones. Thank You my Adonai and my YHVH. By faith I can now say that You are the healer of my bones. In the matchless Name of Yeshua I pray, amen.
Wastefulness is to dishonour God: if there is anything you would sacrifice for God, it means nothing if you would sacrifice the same thing for nothing.
"The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious." Pr 12
Unless something is precious to you, you can give nothing precious to God.
It is a temptation to confuse greed and desire, and so to excuse ingratitude as contentment.
"he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich" Pr 21
Note that he is saying "not be rich" as a consequence. If you love the Giver of wealth, then you love wealth as a good gift from the good Giver.
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights" Ja 1
"I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour" 1K 3
Rejoice in substance, let it be precious to you, because it is a gift given in love from someone you love - and only for that reason. That is the only reason anything is good.
If you put the cart before the horse, and love wealth above or rather than the Giver, this is to "worship and serve the creation rather than the Creator", and thus is covetousness idolatry:
"covetousness, which is idolatry" Col 3
If instead of loving wealth more than God we love God more than wealth - but do not love wealth at all, this is ingratitude, and says nothing good about our love for God. It is not enough to simply Love wealth less than we love God - we must love wealth not at all, except as a gift from God - and our love of wealth for that reason, because it is a gift, reflects directly on our love for the Giver.
If we love wealth even the smallest amount as something separate from God, then it is that much greed and idolatry. "You cannot serve God and mammon". If we love good things as from God, as part of our love for God, any lack we have in this love is that much ingratitude and indifference towards God, a lack in our love for him.
"Thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which Yahweh thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house" Deu 26
#sabbathposts 2023/12/02