23 Av 5983 / 10 August 2023
Day 222 Readings
Torah 5th Portion Reading:
Deuteronomy 14:22-29
(v) 22 “Every year you must take one tenth of everything your seed produces in the field, 23 and eat it in the presence of Adonai your God. In the place where he chooses to have his name live you will eat the tenth of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your cattle and sheep, so that you will learn to fear Adonai your God always. 24 But if the distance is too great for you, so that you are unable to transport it, because the place where Adonai chooses to put his name is too far away from you; then, when Adonai your God prospers you, 25 you are to convert it into money, take the money with you, go to the place which Adonai your God will choose, 26 and exchange the money for anything you want — cattle, sheep, wine, other intoxicating liquor, or anything you please — and you are to eat there in the presence of Adonai your God, and enjoy yourselves, you and your household.
27 “But don’t neglect the Levi staying with you, because he has no share or inheritance like yours. 28 At the end of every three years you are to take all the tenths of your produce from that year and store it in your towns. 29 Then the Levi, because he has no share or inheritance like yours, along with the foreigner, the orphan and the widow living in your towns, will come, eat and be satisfied — so that Adonai your God will bless you in everything your hands produce.
Bible Study Togther:
Psalm 62:1-12
God Alone a Refuge from Treachery and Oppression.
For the music director; [a]according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
62 My soul waits in silence for God alone;From Him comes my salvation.2 He alone is my rock and my salvation,My stronghold; I will not be greatly shaken.
3 How long will you attack a man,That you may murder him, all of you,Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?4 They have planned only to thrust him down from his high position;They delight in falsehood;They bless with [b]their mouth,But inwardly they curse. Selah
5 My soul, wait in silence for God alone,For my hope is from Him.6 He alone is my rock and my salvation,My refuge; I will not be shaken.7 My salvation and my glory rest on God;The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God.8 Trust in Him at all times, you people;Pour out your hearts before Him;God is a refuge for us. Selah
9 People of low standing are only breath, and people of rank are a lie;In the balances they go up.Together they are lighter than breath.10 Do not trust in oppression,And do not vainly rely on robbery;If wealth increases, do not set your heart on it.
11 God has spoken [c]once;[d]Twice I have heard this:That power belongs to God;12 And faithfulness is Yours, Lord,For You reward a person according to his work.
Psalm 28:1-9
A Prayer for Help, and Praise for Its Answer.
A Psalm of David.
28 To You, Lord, I call;My rock, do not be deaf to me,For if You are silent to me,I will become like those who go down to the pit.2 Hear the sound of my pleadings when I cry to You for help,When I raise my hands toward [a]Your holy sanctuary.3 Do not drag me away with the wickedAnd with those who practice injustice,Who speak peace with their neighbors,While evil is in their hearts.4 Give back to them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices;Give back to them according to the work of their hands;Repay them what is due them.5 Because they do not regard the works of the LordNor the deeds of His hands,He will tear them down and not build them up.
6 Blessed be the Lord,Because He has heard the sound of my pleading.7 The Lord is my strength and my shield;My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped;Therefore my heart triumphs,And with my song I shall thank Him.8 The Lord is [b]their strength,And He is a refuge of salvation to His anointed.9 Save Your people and bless Your inheritance;Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.
Psalm 128:1-6
Blessedness of the Fear of the Lord.
A Song of Ascents.
128 Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,Who walks in His ways.2 When you eat the fruit of the labor of your hands,You will be happy and it will go well for you.3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine[a]Within your house,Your children like olive plantsAround your table.4 Behold, for so shall a manWho fears the Lord be blessed.
5 The Lord bless you from Zion,And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.6 Indeed, may you see your children’s children.Peace be upon Israel!
Romans 2:1-16
1 And we know that the judgment of God [c]rightly falls upon those who practice such things. 3 But do you suppose this, [d]you foolish person who passes judgment on those who practice such things, and yet does them as well, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and [e]restraint and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But [f]because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who will repay each person according to his deeds: 7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life; 8 but to those who are self-serving and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, He will give wrath and indignation. 9 There will be tribulation and distress [g]for every soul of mankind who does evil, [h]for the Jew first and also [i]for the Greek, 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who does what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God.
12 For all who have sinned [j]without the Law will also perish [k]without the Law, and all who have sinned [l]under the Law will be judged [m]by the Law; 13 for it is not the hearers [n]of the Law who are [o]righteous before God, but the doers [p]of the Law who will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles who do not have [q]the Law [r]instinctively perform the requirements of the Law, these, though not having [s]the Law, are a law to themselves, 15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, 16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of mankind through Christ Jesus.
365 Daily Kingdom Living:
A Merger Of Love
Paul builds on the unity of married couples when he reminds us of our close affinity with Christ. As believers we are ‘members of Christ himself,’ and we are ‘one with him in Spirit.’ It is personal. We are the bride of Christ! His will determines our will; his priorities become ours; his power is available to us. It is a mysterious ‘merger of love’ that can only be experienced through Him.
Prayer: Father God, there are so many things I don’t understand, but what I DO understand, I want to live out by faith. Today I thank you for your unfailing love for me; I thank you for making me part of yourself and part of your church. Whenever I think about it, it brings me enormous joy. Help me live my life for you today. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Scripture
Ezra 10
10 ‘Ezra the cohen stood up and addressed them: “You have acted treacherously by marrying foreign women and have thus increased Isra’el’s guilt. 11 Now, therefore, make confession to Adonai, the God of your ancestors; and do what will please him by separating yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.” 12 In response, the whole assembly cried aloud, “Yes, our duty is to do as you have said. 13 But there are many people, and it’s the rainy season — we can’t stay out here in the open. Also, it isn’t the work of a day or two; for there are many of us who have committed this crime. 14 Let our leaders represent the whole community; and let all those in our cities who have married foreign women appear at prearranged times, accompanied by the elders and judges of each city; until our God’s fierce anger over this has been turned away from us.” 15 Only Yonatan the son of ‘Asah’el and Yachz’yah the son of Tikvah, supported by Meshulam and Shabtai the Levi, opposed this.
1 Corinthians 6
1 How dare one of you with a complaint against another go to court before pagan judges and not before God’s people? 2 Don’t you know that God’s people are going to judge the universe? If you are going to judge the universe, are you incompetent to judge these minor matters? 3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels, not to mention affairs of everyday life? 4 So if you require judgments about matters of everyday life, why do you put them in front of men who have no standing in the Messianic Community? 5 I say, shame on you! Can it be that there isn’t one person among you wise enough to be able to settle a dispute between brothers?
7 Actually, if you are bringing lawsuits against each other, it is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8 Instead, you yourselves wrong and cheat; and you do it to your own brothers! 9 Don’t you know that unrighteous people will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don’t delude yourselves — people who engage in sex before marriage, who worship idols, who engage in sex after marriage with someone other than their spouse, who engage in active or passive homosexuality, 10 who steal, who are greedy, who get drunk, who assail people with contemptuous language, who rob — none of them will share in the Kingdom of God. 11 Some of you used to do these things. But you have cleansed yourselves, you have been set apart for God, you have come to be counted righteous through the power of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah and the Spirit of our God.
Psalms 31:9-18
9 Be gracious to me, Lord, for I am in distress;My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body too.10 For my life is spent with sorrowAnd my years with sighing;My strength has failed because of my guilt,And my [f]body has wasted away.11 Because of all my adversaries, I have become a disgrace,Especially to my neighbors,And an object of dread to my acquaintances;Those who see me in the street flee from me.12 I am forgotten like a dead person, out of mind;I am like a broken vessel.13 For I have heard the [g]slander of many,Terror is on every side;While they took counsel together against me,They schemed to take away my life.
14 But as for me, I trust in You, Lord,I say, “You are my God.”15 My times are in Your hand;Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.16 Make Your face shine upon Your servant;Save me in Your faithfulness.17 Let me not be put to shame, Lord, for I call upon You;Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in [h]Sheol.18 Let the lying lips be speechless,Which speak arrogantly against the righteousWith pride and contempt.
Proverbs 21:3
3 To do righteousness and justice Is preferred by the Lord more than sacrifice.
Dear AVI,
AVI, My ABBA! HOLY are YOU O GOD and KING of Glory, Sovereign and Almighty, HOLY ONE of Israel! YOU alone are GOD! O LORD be gracious to me, have mercy on me, I do not stand on my feet, my knees are weak and I am depending on YOU day after day, I need YOU AVI, I need YOU. I will keep trusting YOU LORD to take care of me, though I tremble at the days that YOU still are not here, because I am afraid of trouble and tribulation. I am afraid of the things that I cannot deal with, but YOU are my strength and my refuge, my ROCK and safety, my GOD in whom I live, and breathe and have my being. O GOD, I am sleepy even with 7 hours of long sleep. It's better for me to sleep only 6 hours because then I am awake and energized but today, my body feels weak. Please AVI, be my strength, my song, and fill me with YOUR RUACH HAKODESH!!! Fill me with power, fill me with TRUTH and LOVE O GOD, like YOU used to. AVI I want to see you through the eyes of the people around me, filled with love and joy I want to be happy in YOU always. Toda for people who work for us, truly they are YOUR hands, and heart. Truly O GOD, but I have to go, I want to serve Israel for 2 months and experience YOU in a brand new way. I am looking for YOU, I am addicted to YOU, I am lost and weary not having YOUR glory around me like YOU used to. But YOU are here with me in another energy, help me to never forget that YOU are always here with me, please AVI, let me see YOU always loving me. Toda for Cobe, who is always with me and I see YOU in him, how he always loves me, how he roars when I blow the Shofar. YOU are in the little things, as well as the great ones. I long for YOU to fill me, because I feel like crap when YOU do not fill me. I am void, I am null, I am nothing without YOU. O GOD Almighty, do not abandon me to myself but fill me with YOU O GOD, do not allow my enemies to win over me for YOU have already died for my Victory. YOUR Sacrifice has made me whole. O GOD, save all the unsaved families, I pray that YOU save Gonen Ben Yitzak and his family, Shiek Hassan Yousef, Sabha Abu Salem and their children, Jose and Jeanie Rose Gulfan, Ramon Tiu, all those who are in the hearts of YOUR people, my cousins all over the world, Hattab family of Moayed, Nader, Fadi, Shadi and Issam. I pray O GOD, do not forget these people but save them AVI, even the family of Shanyn Gacusan. I pray O GOD bring healing and provision to Benett Silario, Teacher Liz, Jhunn Marie, and Virginia Boca. O GOD, toda for the good health of my parents, my family, our workers, all our dogs, all that YOU have blessed us with O GOD, continue to heal us O GOD from all our emotional, mental, pain. I pray bring salvation to Robert L. Go and his family because he is a good client, and I pray that he will know YOU and love YOU, even Ferdinand Lao. I pray for all the Townhouses to be sold AVI, please sell them out O GOD, even all our condominiums. O GOD, please sell them out. O GOD have mercy on us O GOD, I am so lost without YOU. I need YOU. I need YOU AVI, have mercy on me and remove all my fears and worries. And I pray that YOU come LORD JESUS, come and take me away to be YOUR bride and all of YOUR children O GOD. Bring salvation to Alhamdan Youssef and his family and bring justice to the whole earth O GOD. Do not allow YOUR enemeis to triumph over YOUR children and help me O GOD to offer my body for YOU, through dance, even if I dance alone, I want to be the best for YOU. Please keep me healthy through dance, give me a husband who can dance with me, please AVI, bring us together if YOU are still not coming for YOUR church, please let our union bring glory to YOU. For YOU alone deserve all the honor glory and praises! I need YOU AVI, I love YOU My GOD, My Everlasting KING of Glory!
Ba HaShem YESHUA Ha Mashiach, Amen!