190 Av 5983 / 6 August 2023
Day 218 Readings
Bible Study Together
Numbers 34:1-29
365 Daily Kingdom Living:
Drown
Where do you look for rescue when you are drowning in the sea of negative circumstances? Your help lies not within yourself, nor in other people, but solely in God. When you are in trouble, the Lord who watches knows we are not kidding and is paying close attention to us. We can count on his help.
Lord, my emotions seem so much more powerful than my faith. As my Rock, you are the solid ground of my life and I thank you for stabilising, strengthening and shepherding me. Amen.
Scripture:
Ezra 3
10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the[f] priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the ordinance[g] of David king of Israel. 11 And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord:
“For He is good,For His mercy endures forever toward Israel.”
Then all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.
12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of the fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this temple was laid before their eyes. Yet many shouted aloud for joy, 13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard afar off.
Ezra 4
24 Thus the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem ceased, and it was discontinued until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
1 Corinthians 2
9 But, as the Tanakh says,
“No eye has seen, no ear has heardand no one’s heart has imaginedall the things that God has preparedfor those who love him.”[a]
10 It is to us, however, that God has revealed these things. How? Through the Spirit. For the Spirit probes all things, even the profoundest depths of God. 11 For who knows the inner workings of a person except the person’s own spirit inside him? So too no one knows the inner workings of God except God’s Spirit. 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God, so that we might understand the things God has so freely given us. 13 These are the things we are talking about when we avoid the manner of speaking that human wisdom would dictate and instead use a manner of speaking taught by the Spirit, by which we explain things of the Spirit to people who have the Spirit. 14 Now the natural man does not receive the things from the Spirit of God — to him they are nonsense! Moreover, he is unable to grasp them, because they are evaluated through the Spirit. 15 But the person who has the Spirit can evaluate everything, while no one is in a position to evaluate him.
16 For who has known the mind of Adonai?Who will counsel him?[b]
But we have the mind of the Messiah!
Psalms 28
28 (0) By David:
(1) Adonai, I am calling to you;my Rock, don’t be deaf to my cry.For if you answer me with silence,I will be like those who fall in a pit.2 Hear the sound of my prayerswhen I cry to you,when I lift my handstoward your holy sanctuary.
3 Don’t drag me off with the wicked,with those whose deeds are evil;they speak words of peace to their fellowmen,but evil is in their hearts.4 Pay them back for their deeds,as befits their evil acts;repay them for what they have done,give them what they deserve.5 For they don’t understand the deeds of Adonai or what he has done. He will break them down;he will not build them up.
Dear AVI,
I do not mean to pray these prayers for my enemies but even David prayed them. I pray that YOU protect me from the hypocrites and slanderers, who lie to themselves are are self seeking self centered and selfish. I pray that YOU punish the wicked and let YOUR judgements fall on the face of the earth O GOD Almighty!
6 Blessed be Adonai,for he heard my voice as I prayed for mercy.7 Adonai is my strength and shield;in him my heart trusted, and I have been helped.Therefore my heart is filled with joy,and I will sing praises to him.
8 Adonai is strength for [his people],a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.9 Save your people! Bless your heritage!Shepherd them, and carry them forever!
Proverbs 20:24-25
24 A man’s steps are ordained by the Lord; How then can a person understand his way?
25 It is a trap for a person to say carelessly, “It is holy!” And after the vows to make inquiry.
I understand this Point AVI, especially in the life or Artemio who vowed to YOU to be faithful to his wife only to question if she really is the one YOU chose for him. It is a very good example that I pray would not ever happen to me. If YOU ever give me the best man to marry, help me not to question YOUR will when I already start seeing the dark side of things and of my husband because no one is perfect and one who doubts YOUR ways will be trapped and tossed back and forth in the waves of the sea of difficulty. This wisdom written by Shlomo is so profound and deep, toda for letting me understand it. I pray that YOU will continue to lead me to the best path for me until YOU come again, let me always follow YOU KING JESUS and never doubt anything from YOU.
Dear AVI,
HOLY are YOU O GOD and KING of the Universe! Great and Mighty are YOU O LORD!!! Forgive me O GOD for any wrong I may have done, O GOD correct me by speaking gently to me and enable me to be sensitive to the RUACH HAKODESH. Do not allow me to be led astray from YOUR Paths, from YOUR will, from YOUR Truths but keep my heart and mind, my spirit aligned to YOUR path for me. I ask YOU AVI, to help me to keep trusting YOU. Toda for this marvelous and beautiful Sunday that we can all go to worship YOU in YOUR Sanctuary and enjoy YOU O GOD! But I thank YOU that I am not made just for the use of the church but to be sent by YOU wherever YOU are calling me. O GOD, form the dreams of my heart, I have lost all my dreams and it seems I cannot dream anymore. But help me to dream YOUR dreams, what are they O LORD? Show them to me, if I should stay or go... I do not want my pain or hurts to dictate the path I should go. I want YOU to lead me and keep leading me O GOD. How I pray that YOU fill me once again with YOUR Ruach Fire because I want nothing more in this world that to be Happy and filled by YOU and YOUR love for me. O LORD, I do not want to worry about the church Anniversary but I am. Please send me a new choreographer, someone who is committed and willing and is already a believer of YOU. I don't care if he is boy or girl, please let this church anniversary be a success. Please send me committed dancers too O GOD. Please AVI, help us O GOD. I pray that we can network to the young in Opra who are gifted and who are willing and able to make YOUR Praise and Dances Glorious. O GOD help us. O GOD, have mercy on us. Please send us YOUR young people who are in need of YOU Oh GOD and who can dance for YOUR glory. O GOD, have mercy O GOD. Even a choreographer from Mandaue we need them for JESUS Reigns. I pray for YOUR grace O GOD, enable us O GOD to finish the race and finish what we have started. YOU alone can finish it O GOD. Please help us KING JESUS!!! Have mercy on us KING JESUS! Grant us YOUR mercy and TRUTH KiNG JESUS. Grant us the workings of the RUCH FIRE KING JESUS. Please GOD equip me to dance for YOU too please help us O GOD. Send us YOUR people who will worship with us and make YOUR Praise Glorious. I pray for Jay, heal his heart and help him to get back on track, I pray that YOU will do a work in his life that he would still be able to teach dances for JESUS Reigns, enable him to be humble, deal with his pride, help him O GOD he needs YOU. I pray for Mosab Hassan Yousef and that YOU answer the cry of his heart for his family to be saved, Shiek Hassan, Sabha Abu Salem and all the rest of his siblings, take care and protect them always and grant peace and joy and the Fire of the RUACH to Mosab O GOD I pray for the sick to be healed Jose Gulfan and for him to know YOU and receive YOU as LORD and Savior. I pray for Jeannie Rose to be saved, for Ramon Tiu to be saved O GOD, save all the lost. Please AVI and heal Virginia Boca the mother of Lisa. I pray O GOD have mercy on YOUR people and le there be an awakening in YOUR church. Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach, Amen!