25 Av 5993 / 12 August 2023
Day 224 Readings:
Dear AVI,
Cause me to see what YOU have instore for me... Give me eyes to see and ears to hear O GOD...
Parshat Re'eh, 7th Portion (Devarim (Deuteronomy) 15:19-16:17)
16 “Observe the month of Abib and [a]celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where the Lord chooses to establish His name. 3 You shall not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in a hurry), so that you will remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
Haftarah Re’eh: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 54:11–55:5
Isaiah 54
11 “Storm-ravaged [city], unconsoled,I will set your stones in the finest way,lay your foundations with sapphires,12 make your windows shine with rubies,your gates with garnet, your walls with gemstones.13 All your children will be taught by Adonai;your children will have great peace.14 In righteousness you will be established,far from oppression, with nothing to fear;far from ruin, for it will not come near you.15 Any alliance that forms against youwill not be my doing;whoever tries to form such an alliancewill fall because of you.16 It is I who created the craftsmanwho blows on the coals and forges weapons suited to their purpose; I also created the destroyer to work havoc. 17 No weapon made will prevail against you. In court you will refute every accusation. The servants of Adonai inherit all this;the reward for their righteousness is from me,” says Adonai.
Isaiah 55
1 “All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You without money, come, buy, and eat! Yes, come! Buy wine and milk without money — it’s free! 2 Why spend money for what isn’t food, your wages for what doesn’t satisfy?Listen carefully to me, and you will eat well,you will enjoy the fat of the land. 3 Open your ears, and come to me; listen well, and you will live —I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the grace I assured David.4 I have given him as a witness to the peoples,a leader and lawgiver for the peoples. 5 You will summon a nation you do not know, and a nation that doesn’t know you will run to you, for the sake of Adonai your God, the Holy One of Isra’el, who will glorify you.”
B’rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Re’eh: 1 Corinthians 5:9–13; 1 Yochanan (1 John) 4:1–6 ; Matthew 7:7–291
1 Corinthians 5:9–13
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”
Yochanan (1 John) 4:1–6
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Matthew 7:7–29
Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 12 Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Dear AVI,
O HOLY One of Israel, YOU alone are GOD and KING of the Universe! I will keep on asking YOU to give me a husband who loves YOU and is crazy about me too. I love Mosab Hassan Yousef, will YOU let me marry him? Even though it is dangerous and I have to learn how to be a nurse, I will gladly marry him because YOU made me love him. I still love Mosab, no man on earth is like him. I pray that YOU save all his loved ones Gonen Ben Itzak, Shiek Hassan Yousef, Sabha Abu Salem, and all the rest of his brothers and sisters who does not know YOU yet. Take care of My Mosab, even if I will not be able to marry him because YOU would not allow it, I pray that YOU fill him with YOUR love and joy and peace and happiness. May he live to experience the rapture O GOD, as YOU take us all away as YOUR bride from the earth and brought as a wife into YOUR kingdom, to JESUS our Bridegroom.
Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach, Amen!
A Tree and Its Fruit
15 “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will [j]know them by their fruits. [k]Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they? 17 So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will [l]know them by their fruits.
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [m]miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
Bible Study Together:
Deuteronomy 2:1-37
3 ‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north, 4 and command the people, saying, “You are going to pass through the territory of your brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful;
7 “For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your [b]trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’
24 ‘Arise, set out, and pass through the [p]Valley of Arnon. Look! I have handed over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; start taking possession and plunge into battle with him. 25 This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the faces of [q]people everywhere, [r]who, when they hear the news of you, will tremble and be in anguish because of you.
31 “And the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess it, that you may inherit his land.’ 32 Then Sihon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jahaz. 33 And the Lord our God delivered him [k]over to us; so we defeated him, his sons, and all his people.
Romans 3:1-8
3 For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? 4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be [b]true but every man a liar. As it is written:
“That You may be justified in Your words,And may overcome when You are judged.”
365 Daily Kingdom Living:
You're Right. I'm Wrong.
David starts out this psalm expressing how blessed someone is when God's mercy and grace is applied to sin. He contrasts the blessedness of forgiveness with the heavy weight of rebellion; the weakness of silence with the strength of confession; the determined stubbornness of a mule with someone responsive to the Lord's unfailing love. Which would you rather be?
Prayer: Dear Lord, I confess there have been times when hiding and covering up seemed the best choice, but I want to be different. I acknowledge my sins are not only against the people I know and love - but against You. Please forgive my stubborn resistance; give me a soft, tender, open heart toward you. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Scripture
Nehemiah 3 Buillders of the Wall
Nehemiah 4 The Wall Defended Against Enemies
1 Corinthians 7:25-40
25 Now the question about the unmarried: I do not have a command from the Lord, but I offer an opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is worthy to be trusted. 26 I suppose that in a time of stress like the present it is good for a person to stay as he is. 27 That means that if a man has a wife, he should not seek to be free of her; and if he is unmarried, he should not look for a wife. 28 But if you marry you do not sin, and if a girl marries she does not sin. It is just that those who get married will have the normal problems of married life, and I would rather spare you. 29 What I am saying, brothers, is that there is not much time left: from now on a man with a wife should live as if he had none — 30 and those who are sad should live as if they weren’t, those who are happy as if they weren’t, 31 and those who deal in worldly affairs as if not engrossed in them — because the present scheme of things in this world won’t last much longer. 32 What I want is for you to be free of concern. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord’s affairs, 33 with how to please the Lord; but the married man concerns himself with the world’s affairs, with how to please his wife; 34 and he finds himself split. Likewise the woman who is no longer married or the girl who has never been married concerns herself with the Lord’s affairs, with how to be holy both physically and spiritually; but the married woman concerns herself with the world’s affairs, with how to please her husband. 35 I am telling you this for your own benefit, not to put restrictions on you — I am simply concerned that you live in a proper manner and serve the Lord with undivided devotion.
36 Now if a man thinks he is behaving dishonorably by treating his fiancée this way, and if there is strong sexual desire, so that marriage is what ought to happen; then let him do what he wants — he is not sinning: let them get married. 37 But if a man has firmly made up his mind, being under no compulsion but having complete control over his will, if he has decided within himself to keep his fiancée a virgin, he will be doing well. 38 So the man who marries his fiancée will do well, and the man who doesn’t marry will do better.
39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives, but if the husband dies she is free to marry anyone she wishes, provided he is a believer in the Lord. 40 However, in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains unmarried, and in saying this I think I have God’s Spirit.
Psalm 32
Blessedness of Forgiveness and of Trust in God.
A Psalm of David. A Maskil.
1 How blessed is he whose wrongdoing is forgiven,Whose sin is covered! 2 How blessed is a person whose guilt the Lord does not take into account,And in whose spirit there is no deceit!
3 When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted awayThrough my [c]groaning all day long.4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;My vitality failed as with the dry heat of summer. Selah5 I acknowledged my sin to You,And I did not hide my guilt;I said, “I will confess my wrongdoings to the Lord”;And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah6 Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You [e]in a time when You may be found;Certainly in a flood of great waters, they will not reach him.7 You are my hiding place; You keep me from trouble;You surround me with [f]songs of deliverance. Selah
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;I will advise you with My eye upon you.9 Do not be like the horse or like the mule, which have no understanding,Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,Otherwise they will not come near to you.10 The sorrows of the wicked are many,But the one who trusts in the Lord, goodness will surround him.11 Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones;And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.
Dear AVI,
O GOD My GOD, please forgive me for desiring a very much younger man and putting pressure on him. I feel yuck and pathetic of myself Wow! I never thought I could put a lot of pressure on a man, I remember Zvika also told me that he wasn't the one for me even though I never told him I liked him but somehow he sensed it and it is soooo embarassing to be liking someone so much without being liked back. The devil has been trying to destroy me using my heart and desire, I have witnessed how deceitful is this heart of mine. How pitiful it is that I am this way. I feel so bad over myself, is this the reason why I have been feeling so low and sad??? Is this the reason why I have been depressed? I liked the younger man who didn't like me... why did YOU even allow my heart to be deceived? Why the WORD about 14 years? Why did such feelings come upon me? Did I deceive Pastor Art in such a way??? Psalm 32 reminds me of Pastor Art, but I never liked Pastor Art, I treated him like a father but his own heart also deceived him and so it is a human weakness that we cannot control and somehow the spirits lie to us. That is why YOU warned us in John 4 to tests the spirits. I am too dumb for these things O LORD, if YOU will not save me, I could never be helped. But here I am O LORD, please forgive me for being to harsh on Pastor Art, because the spirits also deceived him. I have forgiven him already, long time ago because being in this weak state is simply human. How many more days O LORD do I need to suffer from my own sins??? How many more punishments do I need to endure from YOU? For when I am without YOUR Promise, I endure. When YOU promised me a husband and I do not have one yet, I endure waiting and being deceived by my own heart liking people who don't like me. It is such a difficult road that I am in, I feel rejected, unwanted and unloved. But I should feel this way in this world so that I will seek only YOUR love, I will know only YOUR love that is invisble, that I can see in the eyes of my dogs and family sometimes. I just don't want to be sad anymore O GOD, please help me to rise above my pain and help me to fast once again so that I can be light weighted and dance for YOU smoothly just like the fat inspiring girl on youtube. AVI, I have no ONE else on earth to help me but YOU and so many pressures in life drain the joy out of me. Please O GOD give me joy inspite of all that is happening. Toda for this wonderful Shabbat that YOU have given me to reflect and understand the things that are going on. I praise YOU for this wonderful Shabbat. I can't wait to talk to Pastor Jonah about what YOU have revealed to me this day. What a revelatory Sabado it is. But LORD, which North are YOU taking me to??? I pray to go to Israel and serve in the Military there. I want to have a family of my own, a husband who loves YOU and me and I love him so much too, and we will live in Israel and Philippines. But for now I will be content with loving and having just YOU and all that YOU have already given me, family, home, dogs... friendships, church. LORD, toda for this life that I am still alive and in good health. Toda for healing my spirit and mind, toda for YOUR grace O GOD. Toda for YOUR healing O GOD. Toda for YOUR love O GOD.
Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach, Amen!
Proverbs 21
5 The plans of thediligent certainlyleadto advantage, But everyonewho is in a hurry certainlycomesto poverty.
6 Theacquisition of treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor, the[a]pursuit ofdeath.
7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, Because theyrefuse to act with justice.
Dear Yousef,
I finished my morning shabbat prayers and try to scan for a compass online to see where is my north directly. I went on the web and saw a headline "Canadian Content Creator Lil Tay dies at 14" there it is with 14 years again!!! But this time, this lie of 14 is dead. Is it not spiritual that GOD would reveal the TRUTH at this time??? That all of the 14 years I thought was from GOD about Jeward on November 2022 was all but a lie, it was never from GOD, it was just the lies of the spirits and only today I find out about the lie and the deceitfulness of the heart. I don't want to be like King David who had suffered for chosing to believe the lie of having Bathsheba. Yes he can have her along with a destroyed family. But thankfully this 14 years lie has finally come to die today on a shabbat Reeh that GOD shows me it has been a lie and my promised land is still beautiful and coming.
Since I am always pointed to Jerusalem, my north is Israel... I realized while I was writing to you that I don't need a compass, because I always made sure wherever I go and sit, that my north is towards Yerushalyim and Damascus through my Beryl Wheels or Jeursalem Compass. I am coming for you in October when Israel accepts me. If not, I am leaving for somehwere else far somewhere I will meet you in another time and place, with another name and face.
Your Bride,
Azenath Maryiam