Thursday, 18 Adar II 5784 / March 28, 2024
Day 453 Readings
Torah: Parshat Tzav, 5th Portion Vayikra (Leviticus) 8:14-21
Leviticus 8:14-21
English Standard Version
14 Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. 15 And he[a] killed it, and Moses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it. 16 And he took all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar. 17 But the bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned up with fire outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.
18 Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 19 And he killed it, and Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar. 20 He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat. 21 He washed the entrails and the legs with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering for the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Dear AVI,
Blessed are YOU AVI My FATHER, ELOHIM YESHUA MELEK HA OLAM! O HOLY ONE of Israel, there is none like YOU most powerful being in the Universe who is Sovereign over all things even of the worm crawling from under my feet. And even as I was still reflecting from yesterday's devotional messages, while no one was here in the restaurant that I sit and at 7:15am suddenly they all arrive, after I prayed yesterdays prayers and today I was about to read the readings today I hear the song "How deep is YOUR LOVE?" by Beegees and I hear YOU singing this to me, I pray and wish my husband Stephen's soul sings this to me because he loves me so much just like YOU love me, just as CHRIST Loves HIS church the Bride. GOD, why can't YOU let him chase me??? Why do I want him so much??? especially with my period today, really revealing I want to make love to him because I want him. Please don't let me long for someone like that, when he doesn't even want me too. Please GOD do not let me suffer like this, I never felt this sexually attracted to anyone in all my life. Not even to any of my boyfriends that's why I never had sex with any of them and because YOUR deep LOVE has protected me from being defiled. LORD, I acknowledge all my weaknesses before YOU. Please help me O GOD for I am YOURS and YOU are mine. If YOU are willing I pray that YOU send me to Israel with Jemimah Sevilla this year. I want to do so many things if this is the last year of my single life please bless me to enjoy and not think about my love for my husband. For YOU Deserve all of me O GOD, and all my heart belongs to YOU, please do not allow me to make idols and gods out of the people and dreams of my life, let me worship and love only YOU so that I am steadfast and standing always by YOU. Please KING JESUS YOU are my air, YOU are my life, YOU are my GOD and there is no other GOD I love but YOU, no other GOD I worship and adore but YOU. let YOUR Grace perfect me.
Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach Amen!
Bible Study Together
2 Kings 4:8-44
English Standard Version
Elisha and the Shunammite Woman
8 One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food. 9 And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God who is continually passing our way. 10 Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.”
11 One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there. 12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him. 13 And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.” 14 And he said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.” 15 He said, “Call her.” And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway. 16 And he said, “At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.” 17 But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.
Elisha Raises the Shunammite's Son
18 When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers. 19 And he said to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!” The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20 And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died. 21 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door behind him and went out. 22 Then she called to her husband and said, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again.” 23 And he said, “Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “All is well.” 24 Then she saddled the donkey, and she said to her servant, “Urge the animal on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.” 25 So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.
When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, there is the Shunammite. 26 Run at once to meet her and say to her, ‘Is all well with you? Is all well with your husband? Is all well with the child?’” And she answered, “All is well.” 27 And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.” 28 Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me?’” 29 He said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not reply. And lay my staff on the face of the child.” 30 Then the mother of the child said, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he arose and followed her. 31 Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him and told him, “The child has not awakened.”
32 When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed. 33 So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the Lord. 34 Then he went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm. 35 Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. 36 Then he summoned Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, “Pick up your son.” 37 She came and fell at his feet, bowing to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.
Elisha Purifies the Deadly Stew
38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal when there was a famine in the land. And as the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Set on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.” 39 One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were. 40 And they poured out some for the men to eat. But while they were eating of the stew, they cried out, “O man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it. 41 He said, “Then bring flour.” And he threw it into the pot and said, “Pour some out for the men, that they may eat.” And there was no harm in the pot.
42 A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they may eat.” 43 But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’” 44 So he set it before them. And they ate and had some left, according to the word of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
English Standard Version
The Lord's Supper
17 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. 18 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,[a] 19 for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. 20 When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. 21 For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk. 22 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for[b] you. Do this in remembrance of me.”[c] 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.[d] 31 But if we judged[e] ourselves truly, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined[f] so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
33 So then, my brothers,[g] when you come together to eat, wait for[h] one another— 34 if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.
ESV Readings
Scripture
Psalm 87
English Standard Version
Glorious Things of You Are Spoken
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song.
1 On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
2 the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
3 Glorious things of you are spoken, O city of God. Selah
4 Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush[a]— “This one was born there,” they say.
5 And of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”; for the Most High himself will establish her.
6 The Lord records as he registers the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah
7 Singers and dancers alike say, “All my springs are in you.”
Dear AVI,
Reading this Promise again speaks differently to me today. YOU have revealed to me that Cebu is the Zion of the Philippines because it is where the Spiritual Gates are where Magellan entered with his little idol causing this entire nation to be Catholic. And on December 2011 You revealed to me that my husband was born in Zion and I thought it was the literal Zion in Israel. But now that YOU have slowly slowly revealed YOUR Truth to me on 2021, I declared it that Cebu is the Zion of the Philippines and now here I am in Anda, Bohol reading about Cebu - Zion of the Philippines that YOU love Cebu more than any dwelling in the Philippines and that my husband was born there. It is not a coincidence that even though Stephen's family live in Surigao, they transferred to Cebu and that him being the youngest was born there. I don't know if the rest of his brothers were born in Surigao but he specifically told me he was born in Cebu. All these things seems useless if he won't be my husband in the end. Please GOD sometimes, I doubt that being too close to YOU is a good thing because of the many kinds of revelations that get me in trouble. Please GOD save me from myself and give me peace within my soul, let YOUR Love steady me and hold me out. I am becoming an old maid of 42 this year, won't YOU give me the love that YOU have created me for??? Won't YOU finally give rest to my poor heart??? Please GOD, what are YOU trying to do to me? Why do YOU break my heart each year???? Yes Okay YOU prune me, YOU discipline me because YOU love me I get that I understand but LORD, how much longer till I am finally ready for love??? How long will YOU cause my soul to hope year after year??? How long will YOU keep breaking me??? Have mercy on me O GOD YOUR Beloved YOUR BRide.
Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach, Amen!
Exodus 33
Nehemiah 13
1 Corinthians 5