The Shema--Hear O Israel, The Lord Our God, The Lord Is ONE!

Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 56:7; Matthew 1:13; Luke 19:46; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; Exodus 27:20-21; Genesis 3:8-10; Exodus 19:9; Joshua 3:7; Psalm 8:4; Matthew 6:5-8; Romans 12:1-2; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Exodus 26:6; Ezekiel 37:19; Genesis 2:24; Romans 7:19-20; Genesis 11:6; Matthew 5:37; James 1:8; Matthew 3:16, 28:19; John 5:5-10; 1 John 5:5-10; Genesis 9:13; Exodus 33:18-19; Numbers 6:24-26; Genesis 19:14, 33:1-4; Exodus 2:1

We are walking in today:  The Shema--Hear O Israel, The Lord Our God, The Lord Is ONE!

Counting the Omer Psalms 119:129-136 Day 39

Leviticus 23:15-16 (NKJV) 15 ‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. 16 Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord.

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129 Your testimonies are wonderful;
Therefore my soul keeps them.
130 The entrance of Your words gives light;
It gives understanding to the simple.
131 I opened my mouth and panted,
For I longed for Your commandments.
132 Look upon me and be merciful to me,
As Your custom is toward those who love Your name.
133 Direct my steps by Your word,
And let no iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Redeem me from the oppression of man,
That I may keep Your precepts.
135 Make Your face shine upon Your servant,
And teach me Your statutes.
136 Rivers of water run down from my eyes,
Because men do not keep Your law.

​Witness One Lord throughout the Bible:​

​ Deuteronomy 6:4; Zechariah 14:9; Mark 12:29; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians ​

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​Hear O Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is One​

​The first word of the prayer, shema H8085 which means to hear, listen to, obey, to hear with attention or interest.  This is a declaration of great import, pay attention and obey!​

​   We are to live our lives in a praiseworthy manner.  Upholding His 613 principles.  This is what the Jews and Hebrews did, so much so that they were known by other cultures by their customs and lifestyle. John 6:4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.  John 7:2 Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.  And that their, the God of Israel was different than other gods.  1 Samuel 5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.​

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We are also given that His house, should be a house of prayer.  That is how Yahweh identified His house, as a house of prayer, and rebuked the people for making it a den of thieves.  Our prayers should be an intimate time with Adonai a conversation from our heart with ​

​ Him.  As the children of Israel had in the wilderness a tabernacle that the priest would enter in to in the appointed time and in the appointed manner.  We too are to enter into prayer with Elohim at the appointed time and manner.  Over all our lives should be lived in a constant conversation with the Lord God Almighty, that the things throughout the day are interrupting this on-going dialogue and not the other way around.​

​   This was lived out by the Hebrews in daily communion with the Lord God in prayer, not only in the synagogue or on the feast days, but daily and throughout the day.​

​   For the greatness of our God, we are in prayer and reverence for we trust and believe!  He is the great I AM!  He is all that He needs to be when He needs to be! 

Fiveamprayer, during this time, the Counting of the Omer​

​ , take a look at your level of intimacy with God Almighty.  Are your prayers consistent with His word?  Are they a continuous conversation?  Speaking with Him throughout the day?  Blessing Him for all that He has given and allowed you to receive?  Do you revere His greatness?  What is the content of your prayers?  Are they merely for show?  Or are they are they a true seeking of Yahweh?  Are you in discussion with Him?  Are you worshiping Him?​

​ We are to pray His scriptures, they were given to us for our study and understanding.  While we are praying His word, we are also standing on His promises.  We are walking in obedience in what He has given us to do, according to the volume of the Book.  We are not able nor successful in making demands on His promises while in disobedience!!  We have been given ears to hear and I pray that we are doing just that, ​

​hearing with attention and obeying​

​ .  The Shema: Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.  What are we paying attention to?  What are we listening to hear and obey?  We have who the declaration was for, Israel and the message is next.  The Lord who is our God is one.   The word one in the prayer is echad.  Let there no longer be confusion, the Lord our God is not many, He is Echad!  We have been given many names for Him that show us His attributes but when we do all the math the answer is always 1!  John 17:10-12 (KJV) 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.​

​   Look at this prayer of Yeshua the Son of God, He is praying that the people would be one as He and God are one.  Same equation, Yeshua + Yahweh = Echad!  We are given many things in the Bible in three's which is to draw our attention to what is happening or being said.  This by the early church fathers has become an idea called the trinity.  This idea supposes that there are three distinct persons who are all one.  In a study of this word, trinity you will not find it in the Bible.  Due to the allusion of the number three this idea became widely known throughout church history.  Which is in direct conflict to what Yahweh declared in Deuteronomy 6:4--God is One!  Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  Since God was in the beginning, before the beginning began, (thank your Rabbi Messer for this teaching) and the Word was in the beginning and the Word is God and Jesus is the Word made flesh looks like my all my additions from these two scriptures comes up to ONE!  This division is like saying a woman who is a wife, a sister, a niece, an aunt, a friend, a co-worker, a God-mother, a cousin is adding up to 9 different people who all answer to the same legal name.  We have to go back to the first oracles of God.  This clears up any confusion that happened many years ago that keep continuing out of our ignorance or misunderstanding of what was thought or known at the time.  Praise the Lord God Almighty for bringing us to this time and season of understanding and outpouring of His Spirit.  Fiveamprayer, He is teaching us how, in every area of our lives.  For we have allowed ourselves to be corrected and molded by His loving hand.  Proverbs 3:12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.​ Fiveamprayer, there was so much that was taught on this line today.  Go in and and listen several times click here​