4 Elul 5783 / August 21, 2023
Day 233 Readings
Torah: Ki Teitzei, 2nd Portion Devarim (Deuteronomy) 21:22-22:7
Deuteronomy 21
ii) 22 “If someone has committed a capital crime and is put to death, then hung on a tree, 23 his body is not to remain all night on the tree, but you must bury him the same day, because a person who has been hanged has been cursed by God — so that you will not defile your land, which Adonai your God is giving you to inherit.
Deuteronomy 22
5 “A woman is not to wear men’s clothing, and a man is not to put on women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to Adonai your God.
6 “If, as you are walking along, you happen to see a bird’s nest in a tree or on the ground with chicks or eggs, and the mother bird is sitting on the chicks or the eggs, you are not to take the mother with the chicks. 7 You must let the mother go, but you may take the chicks for yourself; so that things will go well with you, and you will prolong your life.
Dear AVI,
Blessed are YOU O HOLY GOD and KING of the Universe! Reigning in power and majesty! Ruler over all Kingdoms and laws in the Universe! Toda so much for YOUR gentle and kind heart, how YOU care for even the animals in the world. I know that if YOU care for as lowly as a bird or sparrow, that YOU care for me and all the peoples of the world, no matter how rich or poor they are. O GOD Almighty, I wake up everyday needing YOU, please let me feel YOUR love around me, let me bask in YOUR HOLY Presence. Please LORD, there's so many things I can worry about, but I don't want to worry or fear because YOUR WORD says YOU are here with me and will never forsake me and will always help me. O GOD, YOU are coming very soon, I want to serve YOU LORD, I do want to be troubled by any business but YOUR Business alone. I want YOU to take me out of this troubled life and bring me to a life of faith, I want to live by faith and only trouble about the matters concerning YOUR Kingdom. Please help me AVI, help me to live for YOU and to focus on YOU and not on wordly things. Dear AVI, I do not need too many possessions, YOU already know what makes me joyful and glad. YOUR presence and Love is what makes me joyful and glad, and with love I am already rich.
Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach Amen!
Bible Study Together
Deuteronomy 23
15 (14) For Adonai your God moves about in your camp to rescue you and to hand over your enemies to you. Therefore your camp must be a holy place. [Adonai] should not see anything indecent among you, or he will turn away from you.
Deuteronomy 24
5 “When a man takes a new wife, he is not to go out with the army, nor be assigned any duty; he shall be free at home for one year and shall make his wife whom he has taken happy.
365 DailyKingdom Living
Good & Evil
Conflicts and struggles are part of life. Difficulty as they are, God can use them for good purposes. So stop complaining but ask: What can I learn from this situation? And be confident that the pain is only for a while; our all-knowing God will surely see us through and establish us at a higher place.
Prayer: Lord, let me neither assume undue credit in good times nor take unnecessary self-blame in bad times. For I know that You allow both good and evil to happen because You love me and in Your infinite wisdom You will build my character through them. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Scripture
Job 1
6 Now there was a day when the [b]sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and [c]Satan also came among them. 7 The Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.” 8 The Lord said to Satan, “Have you [d]considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, [e]fearing God and turning away from evil.”
20 Iyov got up, tore his coat, shaved his head, fell down on the ground and worshipped; 21 he said,
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,and naked I will return there.Adonai gave; Adonai took;blessed be the name of Adonai.”
22 In all this Iyov neither committed a sin nor put blame on God.
Dear AVI,
I don't have faith like Iyov's, please do not do to me or to anyone in my family what YOU did with Iyov because we are not as faithful and strong as Iyov. YOU already know O LORD how weak we are, so please Adonai, have mercy and give me a life without worry when YOU send me to take care of YOUR business. I have been in my father's business never thought I could enjoy it for one second but I enjoyed because YOU are with me, and YOU worked with me. But look at me LORD, how I am forced to be responsible for the things that I do not want to worry about. Please AVI, I don't believe I am meant to face such business challenges or else I would not think about another life and place. I want to live a life of faith which only YOU alone can take me one day and to be fruitful for YOU because YOU are My GOD who I live for and I live for YOUR love and pleasure LORD, make me joyful again in YOUR Presence. Take care of the things that concern me, take care of everything AVI for me and set me free from worry and concerns, from the cares of this life. Let me live and walk in the Spirit and the freedom that YOU have died for every humanity to enjoy. Please AVI. I pray that YOU provide for us a better CPA Lawyer whom we can work with who is humble and will do their job to defend us so that we are no longer dragged into court by the corrupt Tax Government who seeks to extract and steal from it's business people. I pray O GOD, have mercy on us and make a way for these problems to be resolved. I do not want to worry about these things O GOD, help me to trust YOU help me, help us O GOD my family and let me live a different life because YOU made me so different from them. Give me a spouse that I can work with serving YOU and living by faith. Do not allow me to be in this life forever because YOU have created me a different person. YOU did not make me to be like my family O GOD, remember why YOU have created me and remember the purpose to which YOU have created me to be. I negotiate right now, let me marry a man that is focused on serving YOU and doing Kingdom work. Please AVI, have YOUR way in my life, let YOUR will in my life be done. Please AVI, be with me and make me happy with YOUR love even though I cannot see YOU, I am so sad in my life because I have so many responsibilities. I am wretched, helpless and needy of YOU O GOD, do not burden me with these troubles, do not let me carry the weight on my shoulder but help me to see YOU working in all things. Help me to trust YOU because YOU are faithful and true even though I am not, YOU are!!! Please AVI, lift up my countenance and let me rejoice in YOU once again. O LORD, comfort me in all the sorrows that YOU allow me to go through, comfort me and send me YOUR GOD chosen husband who will be able to carry my burdens with me and whom I can lean on and feel protected and secure. Comfort me O GOD and help me to see carry on the mission YOU have called me to be on earth. Help me O GOD, I am so much in need of YOU everyday I cry out to YOU needing YOU, come LORD JESUS!!! Come now!!! Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach, Amen!
Job 2
3 The Lord said to Satan, “Have you [b]considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man [c]fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds firm to his integrity, although you incited Me against him to [d]ruin him without cause.” 4 Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has, he will give for his life. 5 However, reach out with Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face!” 6 So the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your [e]power, only spare his life.”
Job 3
23 (24) “My sighing serves in place of my food, and my groans pour out in a torrent;
24 (25) for the thing I feared has overwhelmed me, what I dreaded has happened to me.
25 (26) I have no peace, no quiet, no rest; and anguish keeps coming.”
1 Corinthians 13
The Greatest Gift
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body [a]to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not [b]puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, [c]thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is [d]perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Psalms 37:12-29
12 The wicked plots against the just,And gnashes at him with his teeth.13 The Lord laughs at him,For He sees that his day is coming.14 The wicked have drawn the sword And have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay those who are of upright conduct.15 Their sword shall enter their own heart,And their bows shall be broken.
16 A little that a righteous man has Is better than the riches of many wicked.17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, But the Lord upholds the righteous.
18 The Lord knows the days of the upright,And their inheritance shall be forever.19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. 20 But the wicked shall perish;And the enemies of the Lord,Like the splendor of the meadows, shall vanish. Into smoke they shall vanish away.
21 The wicked borrows and does not repay, But the righteous shows mercy and gives. 22 For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth, But those cursed by Him shall be [c]cut off.
23 The steps of a good man are [d]ordered by the Lord,And He delights in his way.24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the Lord upholds him with His hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread. 26 He is [e]ever merciful, and lends; And his descendants are blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good; And dwell forevermore. 28 For the Lord loves justice,And does not forsake His saints; They are preserved forever, But the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off. 29 The righteous shall inherit the land,And dwell in it forever.
Proverbs 21:25-26
25 A lazy man’s craving will kill him, because his hands refuse to work —
26 he covets greedily all day long; but a righteous person gives without holding back.