7 Elul 5783 / August 24, 2023
Day 236 Readings
Torah: Ki Teitzei, 5th Portion Devarim (Deuteronomy) 23:25-24:4
Deuteronomy 23
(v) 25 (24) “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat enough grapes to satisfy your appetite; but you are not to put any in your basket. 26 (25) When you enter your neighbor’s field of growing grain, you may pluck ears with your hand; but you are not to put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
Deuteronomy 24
1 “Suppose a man marries a woman and consummates the marriage but later finds her displeasing, because he has found her offensive in some respect. He writes her a divorce document, gives it to her and sends her away from his house. 2 She leaves his house, goes and becomes another man’s wife; 3 but the second husband dislikes her and writes her a get, gives it to her and sends her away from his house; or the second husband whom she married dies. 4 In such a case her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again as his wife, because she is now defiled. It would be detestable to Adonai, and you are not to bring about sin in the land Adonai your God is giving you as your inheritance.
Bible Study Together:
Psalm 44
(0) For the leader. By the descendants of Korach. A maskil:
2 (1) God, we heard it with our ears;our fathers told us about it —a deed which you did in their days,back in days of old.3 (2) With your hand you drove out nationsto plant them in [the land],you crushed peoplesto make room for them.
4 (3) For not by their own swordsdid they conquer the land,nor did their own armgive them victory;rather, it was your right hand,your arm and the light of your face;because you favored them.5 (4) God, you are my king;command complete victory for Ya‘akov.
6 (5) Through you we pushed away our foes,through your name we trampled down our assailants.7 (6) For I don’t rely on my bow,nor can my sword give me victory.8 (7) No, you saved us from our adversaries;you put to shame those who hate us.9 (8) We will boast in our God all dayand give thanks to your name forever. (Selah)
10 (9) Yet now you have thrust us aside and disgraced us;you don’t march out with our armies.11 (10) You make us retreat from the adversary,and those who hate us plunder us at will.12 (11) You have handed us over like sheep to be eatenand scattered us among the nations.13 (12) You sell your people for a pittance,you don’t even profit on the sale.14 (13) You make us an object for our neighbors to mock,one of scorn and derision to those around us.15 (14) You make us a byword among the nations;the peoples jeer at us, shaking their heads.
16 (15) All day long my disgrace is on my mind,and shame has covered my face17 (16) at the sound of those who revile and insult,at the sight of the enemy bent on revenge.18 (17) Though all this came on us, we did not forget you;we have not been false to your covenant;19 (18) Our hearts have not turned back,and our steps did not turn away from your path,20 (19) though you pressed us into a lair of jackalsand covered us with death-dark gloom.21 (20) If we had forgotten the name of our Godor spread out our hands to a foreign god,22 (21) wouldn’t God have discovered this,since he knows the secrets of the heart?23 (22) For your sake we are put to death all day long,we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.
24 (23) Wake up, Adonai! Why are you asleep?Rouse yourself! Don’t thrust us off forever.25 (24) Why are you turning your face away,forgetting our pain and misery?26 (25) For we are lying flat in the dust,our bodies cling to the ground.27 (26) Get up, and come to help us!For the sake of your grace, redeem us!
Romans 8:18-39
New American Standard Bible
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the eagerly awaiting creation waits for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, [a]in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. 23 And not only that, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons and daughters, the redemption of our body. 24 For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, through perseverance we wait eagerly for it.
Our Victory in Christ
26 Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with [b]groanings too deep for words; 27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the [c]saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that [d]God [e]causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring charges against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, but rather, was [f]raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of [g]Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 Just as it is written:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long;We were regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
365 Daily Kingdom Living
God Reigns
God blesses people with intellect and ability. But He reigns. This knowledge helps us to see things in the proper perspective and right order; we may not put all our trust in man but we can place our confidence in God – He will direct our efforts in the right way.
Prayer: Lord, help me to get rid of my faith in man and worldly things. Forgive me for the times that out of my stubbornness and ignorance I did things my way. I trust in You, my Lord and my Saviour. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Scripture
Job 12
Job 13
15 Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.
16 He also shall be my salvation, For a hypocrite could not come before Him.
Job 14
1 Corinthians 15
Our Final Victory
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a [m]mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O[n] Death, where is your sting?O Hades, where is your victory?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Psalms 39
NKJV
4 “Lord, make me to know my end,And what is the measure of my days,That I may know how frail I am. 5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,And my age is as nothing before You;Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;Surely they [b]busy themselves in vain;He heaps up riches,And does not know who will gather them.
7 “And now, Lord, what do I wait for?My hope is in You. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.9 I was mute, I did not open my mouth,Because it was You who did it.10 Remove Your plague from me;I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.11 When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,You make his beauty melt away like a moth;Surely every man is vapor. Selah
12 “Hear my prayer, O Lord,And give ear to my cry;Do not be silent at my tears;For I am a stranger with You,A sojourner, as all my fathers were.13 Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,Before I go away and am no more.”
Proverbs 21:30-31
CJB 30 No wisdom, discernment or counsel succeeds againstAdonai.
NKJV 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle, But deliverance is of the Lord.
Dear AVI,
Blessed are YOU O HOLY ONE of Israel, KING of the Universe, LORD of all, Sovereign over all things in Heaven and in Earth!!! O GOD my GOD, I feel finally YOU have delivered me from the bondage of fear and worries, anxieties that I have never felt in my life before suddenly crept on me on the days from June to August I was angry and bitter towards my own family and so all kinds of attack came upon me but yesterday YOU were gracious to me and had mercy on my tormented soul that YOU sent me videos on youtube to lead me to a prayer of deliverance and videos that brought my joy back for YOU have been at work in the lives of many even though I felt that a great part of YOUR presence left me. O LORD, I know YOU are always with me but I could not feel YOU anymore because I was hurting and broken. Forgive me O LORD for my wrongs and make things right for me for I depend greatly on YOU. I have no ONE else but YOU O GOD Almighty! Help me to live for YOU and I pray for my parents to cling more and more to YOU as we see the days approaching O GOD the day of YOUR coming and reckoning is the day of my redemption!!! Redeem me O GOD because this world is evil, so painful and I have had enough of being here! Help me O GOD to live a life more than a conqueror and soar from glory to glory because I want to please YOU and enter heaven with flying colors! I don't have to be a martyr but I want YOU to say to me "Well done good and faithful servant!" I pray O GOD, enable me to do what pleases YOU, to be obedient to YOUR Will, to hear YOUR Voice day after day to feel YOUR presence and have overwhelming joy and love because I am under YOUR shekinah glorious presence and YOUR love is more than enough completing me. O GOD, please save the unsaved souls of Letecia Apatan, Catalina Torres, Atty Sheiryl Vinas, and Richelle, all those that do not know YOU, O GOD save us all, we cling to YOU O GOD. Protect me from evil entities and spirits that is in people like Jay and Pauline. Protect me from envy and strife from my bretheren. Heal us and deliver us O GOD from all evil. I pray that YOU deliver Oliver Deogrades from all his bitterness and save his soul from death O GOD, deliver him and I pray for more drivers to work for Marides Marketing Corp. I pray bless the work of Enriqueta Lagman and save her soul and her family too. I pray save Gonen Ben Yitzak and his family in YESHUA HaMashiach, and save Sheik Hassan Yousef, Sabha Abu Salem and her children that do not know YOU yet. I pray take care always of Mosab Hassan Yousef, though I have lost my hope in believing the promise YOU gave me but I will always pray for him and his conerns. Save Palestine O GOD, show up in Israel and let bring KING JESUS the Prince of Peace to Jerusalem. O Adonai, Return to us, return, we need YOU and love YOU more than life itself. Have mercy O GOD, on YOUR children and return. Set us free from this life of suffering O GOD, set us free. Heal us O GOD from all our pain and make us new once again! Enable us to live the life of More than conquerors for this is what YOU have died for us to have, not just salvation but dominion on earth! For YOURS is the Kingdom, the glory, the honor, the power forever and ever!!!
Ba Ha Shem YESHUA HaMashiach, Amen!