What Am I Supposed To Be Doing?

Matthew 6:33; 16:24-25; Psalm 37:4; John 15:7; Psalm 2:7; Isaiah 42:1; Deuteronomy 18:15-26;

We are walking in today:  What Am I Supposed To Be Doing?

Fiveamprayer we have to look at ourselves this morning.  Let us look in the mirror and ask, "what would Yahweh have me to do?"  This is not a decision that we can make on our own.  When we do, we feel that our lives are missing something that is just beyond our reach.  True satisfaction, is found in the purpose that Elohim put on the inside of us.  When we allow our needs to motivate us we will not find all that we truly desire because that is not what should be moving is forward!  Lining our lives up to His purpose according to Adonai's instruction, we find ourselves obedient and all things are provided for us!  Upon a closer inspection we find that it is actually contained in our DNA.  So when we choose to live our lives outside of what Yahweh has purposed we feel that there is something missing--our lives incomplete.  For full contentment is found in what has been placed on the inside of you at His own design, for He is the Lord God Almighty, Creator of the universe!  If we try anywhere else, we find a poor substitute.  Fiveamprayer will we submit, adapt and obey to what the Almighty has for us to do?  Will we be found advancing His kingdom?  Who's direction are you following the need or the purpose?  When we make Him our focus and His direction leads our intentions, all things are accomplished!  Our deepest desires and most persistent thoughts come from Him--fiveamprayer, He has given you work to do!  Ask Him for information to define your purpose.  Be bold and don't allow any fears to divert you from what He has planned for you!! 
Fiveamprayer we have to know that we must teach others about the Torah from the Tanakh--scriptures from the Torah, the Prophets, the Writings (Ecclesiastes, Psalms, Daniel, Esther, Ruth, Lamentations, Song of Solomon, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Proverbs, Job) they will all witness and agree to scripture in the Brit Chadasha or New Testament.  That is the method, the messenger and the message!  To hear this again click here.

Weekend Meditation: The Test Results Are In!!!

Revelation 22:12-16; Matthew 25:1-12; Genesis 2:7; Psalm 33:6; John 6:23; Deuteronomy 32:46-47; Psalm 119:50; Deuteronomy 30:16; Psalm 119:93; Proverbs 13:14; Proverbs 3:1-2; Psalm 119:27, 144, 24-32; Isaiah 8:20; John 1:4; Acts 2:28; 1 John 1:1; John 14:6; Colossians 3:4; John 5:24; Deuteronomy 8:2-3; Hebrews 3-4; Malachi 3:18; Exodus 31:13, 16, 20:12, 20, 31:16; Hebrew 13:20-21; Leviticus 23:1-44; Matthew 7:23; 1 John 3:4


We are walking in today:  Weekend Meditation: The Test Results Are In!!!

Here are the next 10 principles of the Lord God Almighty. This arrangement of the 613 principles, the law of our Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is from the book by Rabbi Ralph Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom Principles For Kingdom Living. This book can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here. 

 

The Fifth Commandment Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

387. You shall honor your father and your mother --Exodus 20:12

388. You shall not strike your father or mother --Exodus 21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
389. You shall not curse your father or mother --Exodus 21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
390. You shall not curse a leader among your people Exodus 22:27 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
391. You shall revere your mother and father --Leviticus 19:3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
392. The tithe of cattle or the flock shall be holy to the LORD -- Leviticus 27:33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
393. You shall only appoint a king whom the LORD will choose from your brethren --Deuteronomy 17:15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
394. You shall not appoint a king who is a foreign man, who is not your brother -- Deutronomy 17:15
395. You shall not return to Egypt to dwell there --Deuteronomy 17:16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
396. A king shall not have too many horses for himself  --Deuteronomy 17:16

Fiveamprayer what will you hear Him say?  "Well done, My good and faithful servant?"  Or, "depart from Me you workers of iniquity.  I never knew you?"  We have to come to a closer relationship with Yahweh.  This is a personal thing that we really know Him for ourselves!  In His teachings, Jesus Christ of Nazereth, used the term life often but let us look at this word in context of the Hebraic culture.  The word chai translated as living or quickening.  Life is found in the law and the teachings of Yahweh Himself!  Light within you is from the Torah on the inside of you!  This is why Yeshua is the light of the world, for He is the word made flesh, the walking Torah scroll!  Adonai has a pattern, to draw us back to His life and His light.  There is power in His word when we put them into action!  Remember that the Hebrew language is focused on actions, movement.  Elohim is causing us to enter into the kingdom!  The wilderness of testing for believer is this: will you return to the Torah, Yahweh's teaching and instruction?  As the children of Israel were brought out by the blood of the lamb, Christians are also brought out the same way, by the Lamb of God, who was slain for the world.  How is it determined who would be brought in and others left without the door?  We are to study and learn for the time of testing is here!  To hear this again click here.

Torah Portion--Tazria – She Conceives

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“Set Apart for Complete Wholeness”

Tazria – She Conceives

Torah: Leviticus 12:1 – 13:59, Haf Torah: Ezekiel 45:16 – 46:18, Brit Chadashah: 2 Corinthians 6-9

All throughout the Torah God makes a distinction between the clean and unclean…holy and unholy. This week’s Torah portion, Tazria, deals with states of impurity, how to recognize them, how to recognize when one is no longer considered ritually unclean, and when to declare cleanness or uncleanness.

Ritually clean – Pure – Tahor
Ritually unclean – Contaminated – Tamei

The Torah portion starts with the explanation of the time of ritual impurity after a woman gives birth to a child. The Bible states that a woman must abstain from sexual relations with her husband for 40 days after the birth of a son, 80 days after the birth of a daughter. During this time of separation the woman is separated unto Yahweh; she is devoting herself wholly to God in order that she would be made complete and whole. For the woman, completeness occurs when the blood flow has stopped; wholeness occurs during the time when her body is still physically, mentally and emotionally healing from the process of child-birth.

God differentiates between completeness and wholeness because they deal with two distinct facets of your being.

Completeness: relates to your heart – the earthly realm
Wholeness: relates to your mind – the heavenly realm.

Tazria explains that when there is a sign or area of possible uncleanness on a person (or on their clothing), a cohen (priest) examines the area in question and, based on specific identifiers listed in the Torah, declares the person unclean or separates the person from the rest of the population for a period of time. After the period of time has been fulfilled, the cohen re-examines the area in question and either separates the person for another period of time or declares them unclean. If a third examination is required and the area in question does not meet certain standards, the cohen declares the person unclean.

Just as there are indications of ritual uncleanness or contamination outlined in this Torah portion, there are indications in our daily lives that cause us to be contaminated. When a person chooses to participate in offenses, gossip, slander, arrogance, or false oaths, they become “ritually unclean” (tamei). When we participate in the “uncleanness” or “contamination” of others we also become defiled.

Another form of ritual contamination is allowing your thoughts to continually remember the past. If you are overly concerned with what people think about you and/or that past mistakes will be exposed, you can enter into ritual impurity and be locked in your past. Fear can lead to poverty and isolate you from man and God.

Dwelling on the past…

Inhibits your ability to move forward and grasp what God has for you; your mind remains in a state of wandering and trying to negotiate your future.
focuses your mind on what the enemy wants you to believe
Can be extremely painful, leaving you emotionally and physically paralyzed
Allows the enemy to play on your insecurities and imprison you in a mental place that causes discomfort

"Stop dwelling on past events and brooding over times gone by; I am doing something new; it’s springing up—can’t you see it?” (Isaiah 43: 18-19 CJB)

God is doing a new thing in your life! Yeshua has prepared a bright future for you and your generations. Your deliverance declares that you can step out of the past abuses and into your future that is full and abundant. Tazria is God’s provision to keep you clean, healthy, complete, and whole. Tazria is God’s instruction to keep you, by His Spirit, in right standing with God and man. During the times of separation from others when we feel isolated or alone, God – our cohen gadol (high priest) – is examining us and looking us over; His Spirit is causing us to be cleansed and purified so that we are complete and whole…able to reflects back to Him His own character, likeness, lifestyle and ways. Tazria reveals an outward manifestation of the condition of your inward self. God’s redemption is found in His covenant and the covenant promise that God’s purpose and intent for your life is being accomplished.

“Therefore, my dear friends, since we have these promises, let us purify ourselves from everything that can defile the body or spirit, and strive to be completely holy, out of reverence for God.”2 Corinthians 7:1 CJB

Five Smooth Stones, Exodus: Life In The Light Of Yahweh's Word.

Exodus 10; Romans 9:7-21; 2 Timothy 2:19-21; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12; Isaiah 1:19-20; Psalm 23; Job 5:14, 12:25; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-5; Isaiah 60:2; Revelation 21:23; Proverbs 4:19; Joel 2:2, Psalm 139:11-12; Ecclesiastes 2:13; Proverbs 6:23; Matthew 6:22-25; Colossians 3:16; 2 Peter 1:19-21; Proverbs 4:18; Exodus 27:20; Romans 13:12; Hebrews 12:2; Proverbs 13:9, 24:20, 21:4; Psalm 50:16-17; Exodus 28:30; Revelation 1:8; Isaiah 46:6

We are walking in today:  Five Smooth Stones, Exodus: Life In The Light Of Yahweh's Word.

Fiveamprayer, be aware that there comes a time when repentance is no longer available.  We see with Pharaoh in Exodus 20 that he met this time frame before the children of Israel were brought out.  The Lord God Almighty knows who are His.  Remember there are two kinds of vessels, one used for honor the other for dishonor at His choice.  We must receive the love of truth, that it truly takes root in our hearts, not overtaken by delusions resulting in spiritual blindness.  Come out from among them!  Come out of Egypt and crossover into the promised land!  Look at the truth of Yahweh, no longer walk in the traditions of men.  We can either eat right and live, or live wrong and be eaten by the very words you disobey.  Isaiah 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.  Fiveamprayer, let us walk in the light of His Torah--His teaching and instruction!  To hear this again click here.

Remembering What Yahweh Has Taught Us!

Psalm 121; Deuteronomy 8; Matthews 6:33; Numbers 15:38; Deuteronomy 6:8-9; Hebrews 5:12

We are walking in today: Remembering What Yahweh Has Taught Us!

Thank You Yahweh for meeting with us this morning!  He is drawing us to Him, for we are seeking the truth!  So many are looking for more of the Lord God Almighty!  Fiveamprayer, remember that when the enemy comes in like a flood, that the Lord God lifts up a standard against him!  But what is the standard?  His teaching and instructions, His Torah.  We find in the Tanakh we are told to remember, to rehearse, that these words shall not depart from out our mouth.  Why is this being focused on?  Because Adonai knows that we could and have forgotten.  Hebrews 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.  It is obedience to the commandments that is not only a benefit for us but to the community as well.  Even in following one commandment, there is much power released and far reaching.  How much more in earnestly seeking to keep them all?!  For Yeshua is the one who bridges the gap when we miss the mark.  The real heart check question is but what is your intention?  While the children of Israel were in the wilderness they were protected, provided for and taught the Torah.  In the wilderness, Elohim had their undivided attention that they would be able to learn and walk according to what He laid out before them--fiveamprayer let us do the same--learn to do and to teach!  How many other people could be drawn to Yahweh by the example of our lives being lived out before them?!  Amen, amen!  To hear this again click here!


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Testimony Tuesday--Come Let Us Magnify Him!

Revelation 12:11; Philippians 4:13; Psalm 119:45-48; 2 Corinthians 9:8; Matthew 11:1-8; Mark 11:24; John 21:24; Joshua 1:6-9; Proverbs 3:3-7; Ezekiel 3:1-27; John 6:29-44; Hebrews 12:28; Philippians 4:6-8; 2 Chronicles 20:17; Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 37:1-8; Isaiah 58:13; John 15:7; Psalm 27; Jude 4:12; Psalm 119:89-90, 33:6, 119:103-105, 119:129-130; John 15:3, 6:63; 1 Peter 1:23-25; Psalm 62:11; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Luke 1:37; Nehemiah 4:5; Isaiah 55:8; Matthew 19:26; Psalm 17:1-15; Deuteronomy 11:22-23; Proverbs 16; Psalm 55:17

We are walking in today:  Testimony Tuesday--Come Let Us Magnify Him!

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Thank you Fiveamprayer for getting up with scripture to tell about the greatness, awesomeness of our Lord God Almighty!  We have to know that He has come for our words, but what words are we using?  He is coming to hear His words in our mouths!  We must study, know and learn scripture that we would be so full of scripture that is our constant response in every situation.  Not just when we have to talk ourselves down from the ledge but also those around us!  Wake up, we are on assignment daily, at our jobs, in our families, in the grocery store!  Be available to be used by Yahweh for His purpose and plan!  Glory to His name, hallelujah!  To hear this again click here.

The Importance Of The Fourth Commandment

Psalm 73:26; Exodus 20:8-11; Mark 2:27-28; John 1:1-3; Ephesians 3:9; Hebrews 1:2; Genesis 2:2-3

We are walking in today:  The Importance Of The Fourth Commandment

In our busy lives when many are asked about reading the Bible, they reply that they will make time for it--eventually.  Fiveamprayer, we must take time out to study and learn His word!  The following of the fourth commandment from scripture is what was given to us as an example and a sign of His promise.  The fourth commandment takes up 25% of the text in the ten commandments.  When we follow this instruction to rest and go before Him at His appointed time we are refreshed and experience a wonderful rest!  He allows for us to get all of our work done in six days and the seventh day to rest.  This is one of the most overlooked commandments, keeping the sabbath day holy, for Yahweh has set it apart.  Then we have Yeshua telling us in the Brit Chadasha, Mark 2:27-28 27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: 28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.  So this is something that was made for us to rest and time with Yahweh, in His presence without distraction and set up weekly that we would not continue to go without rest or time with Him.  To hear this again click here.

Weekend Meditation--Just Because God Said It, That Is Enough For Me!

Psalm 19; John 1:1, 1:14; Deuteronomy 42:46; Isaiah 2:3, 1:10, 5:21; Psalm 78:1; Zechariah 7:12; Deuteronomy 18:18; Psalm 119:105; Luke 8:21, 5:1; Acts 11:1; Isaiah 14: 2 Thessalonians 2:8;Acts 6:7; Luke 8:11; Acts 8:25

​We are walking in today:  Weekend Meditation--Just Because God Said It, That Is Enough For Me!

Here are the next 10 principles of the Lord God Almighty. This arrangement of the 613 principles, the law of our Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is from the book by Rabbi Ralph Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom Principles For Kingdom Living. This book can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here.

The Fourth Commandment Exodus 20:8-11

Remember the Sabbath day, to sanctify it.  Six days you shall work and accomplish all your work; the seventh day is Sabbath to the Lord , your God; you shall not do any work--you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maidservant, your animal, and your convert within your gates--for in six day the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested the seventh day.  Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.

377. You shall not eat leavened bread with the Passover --Deuteronomy 16:3
Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

378. You shall rejoice on your Festivals --Deuteronomy 16:14
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

379. You shall observe the requirements for taking a woman captured in war as a wife --Deuteronomy 21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

380. You shall not sell a woman captured in war --Deuteronomy 21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

381. You shall not enslave a woman captured in war --Deuteronomy 21:14
382. You shall not turn over a slave who is rescued from his master to you --Deuteronomy 23:15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
383. You shall not taunt a slave who is rescued from his master to you --Deuteronomy 23:16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

384. You shall observe the laws of marriage and divorce --Deuteronomy 24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

385. A husband shall be free for his home for the first year --Deuteronomy 24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

386. You shall read the Torah to all of Israel during Sukkot in each Sabbatical year --Deuteronomy 31:12 Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

Psalm 19

1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. 7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

​ The Word of God, the Davar Elohim--in going back to the Hebrew roots of the Christian faith it is the terminology of words that gets in the way.  No matter what educational background we have, we have​

​ to find and determine the original definition and intention behind the word.  Adonai comes this morning to teach us by and through His word.  He also communicates through people, the people that He knew​

​ would be faithful and preserve His word through​

​ their culture--the Hebrew people.​

​  The enemy knows well how important communication is.  The devil purposely misquotes scripture​

​ , knowing full well that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.  Healing would not be needed for those who are healthy.  So he has taken on this position to confuse the language.  The words being redefined was a slow process that has evolved to a different meaning from the original intent.  There are terms that we must go back to define from the original language, Hebrew.   Believe. Kingdom. Life. Light. Righteousness. Worship.  These words are defined in the Tanakh.  The authors of the Brit Chadasha expected that those who were reading what was being written by them, had an understanding of the Tanakh.

word​

​ --John 1:1, 1:14 from the beginning was the word--so this did not begin in the Brit Chadasha but in the Tanakh.  For the full understanding we need the Hebrew definition.  Davar means spoken word, words of speech, spoken things.  The Word of God is Davar Elohim, His commandments, statutes, ordinances, His ways.  His word teaches us His way and to walk in His path.  This word became flesh and walked among us.  His teachings and ways walking in the flesh! Yeshua, the HaTorah!

Thank You Lord God Almighty for the validation of Your word!  If God said it, that is enough for me!  Get understanding of how the word of God was translated.

word in Hebrew davar, in Greek logos

It is agreed that the Tanakh was written in Hebrew and contains Jewish idioms and cultural content.  There were dramatic changes in language and culture leading up to the time that Yeshua walked on the Earth.  From davar, words of speech, and spoken things to logos, to say or speak--in the Greek culture goes further to god of knowledge, right thought, right belief.  What we have here is the subtle shift from Yeshua being Davar Elohim into the god of knowledge logos. As we continue to study the word, word​

​ taking it from the Greek definition that we find used in the Brit Chadasha, logos.  Which is further defined as saying the right thing without actually doing the right thing.  Leading to only a confession without the matching action or behavior.

Fiveamprayer we have to see how this thing was done!  The word was translated and re-defined--this  is an attack on the communication from Yahweh.  Much to our error, from the lack of study, we find ourselves walking in lawlessness against the original instruction from Yahweh Himself.  We have been given His teaching and instruction, for the benefit of our lives, the Torah.  This is the Davar Elohim.  Fiveamprayer, check the word--what are you reading?  How did Yeshua walk while on the earth?  To hear this again click here.​

​​Excerpt read from Edwin Hatch, The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church. 1895. Williams and Norgate.
​“But when the product of one generation spreads its branches far and wide into the generations that succeed, its roots must be deep and firm in the generation from which it springs. No lasting element of civilization grows upon the surface. Greek education has been almost as permanent as Christianity itself, and for similar reasons. It passed from Greece into Africa and the West. It had an especial hold first on the Roman and then upon the Celtic and Teutonic populations of Gaul; and from the Gallican schools it has come, probably by direct descent, to our own country and our own time."

"In a similar way we shall find that the Greek Christianity of the fourth century was rooted in Hellenism. The Greek minds which had been ripening for Christianity had absorbed new ideas and new motives;"
“We have ample evidence in regard to the state of Greek thought during the ante-Nicene period. The writers shine with a dim and pallid light when put side by side with the master-spirits of the Attic age;”
“We have ample evidence also as to the state of Christian thought in the post-Nicene period. The fathers Athanasius, Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Cyril of Jerusalem, the decrees of general and local Councils, the apocryphal and pseudonymous literature, enable us to form a clear conception of the change which Greek influences had wrought.”
“Education was no longer in the hands of “private tutors” in the houses of the great families. It entered public life, and in doing so left a record behind it.”
“But when the product of one generation spreads its branches far and wide into the generations that succeed, its roots must be deep and firm in the generation from which it springs. No lasting element of civilization grows upon the surface. Greek education has been almost as permanent as Christianity itself, and for similar reasons. It passed from Greece into Africa and the West. It had an especial hold first on the Roman and then upon the Celtic and Teutonic populations of Gaul; and from the Gallican schools it has come, probably by direct descent, to our own country and our own time."

Five Smooth Stones, Genesis--In Beginning

Psalm 66:16; John 14:6; 1 Corinthians 6:30; John 10:10; Acts 14:8-10; John 1:1; Hebrews 11:6; John 14:15; Deuteronomy 30:19, 29:15; Acts 2:39; Deuteronomy 29:9; 2 Samuel 8:16; Hebrews 8:8-10; Jeremiah 31:31-36; Hebrews 8:13, 5:4-6; Psalm 2:7; Hebrews 7

We are walking in today:  Five Smooth Stones, Genesis--In Beginning

The first language is Hebrew and is very focused on actions and is verb based opposed to Greek that is noun based.  The extensive explanation of places gives more detail and tells why this area is important.  By the time the scriptures were translated from Hebrew to English, the words were tripled. The meaning can be altered based on the translation.  We have to study fiveamprayer, for understanding! Take the word judge for example can be translated as deliverer.  A different meaning is seen when translated as deliverer bringing out of something, being saved from and not facing punishment as the word judge may invoke.  In Hebrew there is no J so the words spelled with a J would have a Y sound.  Names are important in the Bible, the meaning will give us details about the person and their characteristics.  We have revealed to us in Genesis as this book follows 22 centuries of the generations of the world from the very beginning.  Behold fiveamprayer, awake to Yahweh's teaching and instruction!  Listen to hear and hear to obey!  To hear this again click here.

The Weight Of Evidence

Psalm 11; 2 Corinthians 11:13-14; John 10; Luke 6:45

We are walking in today:  The Weight Of Evidence

Fiveamprayer let us open up the Bible--all of the evidence is before you!  Those of us who earnestly attempt to consider the evidence with an unbiased eye, find the lack of respect given to the entirety of the holy scriptures of the Bible, shocking.  The Holy Spirit will never contradict the scriptures!  Consider the only admissible evidence, holy scripture.  Not any other thing--not mystical mysteries, feelings or misinterpretation of scriptures.  We have got to go straight to the word!  Often Christians have a passive attitude, not truly seeking the truth.  The evidence, that you find before you in the Bible was not to have a word changed, not a jot or tittle.  There have been countless sermons on doctrine written and preached from the pulpit, the focus on creeds determined by church councils.  This determination is in believing the right thing and separating the believers from those who don't believe.  The focus should be rather how did you arrive at good sound doctrine?
False balance and false weights are an abomination unto the Yahweh.  Why is this important for us to understand this?  Well, lets look at the time and culture this was in practice.  A farmer for example would come in with a basket of figs, looking for someone to trade for coins in the town.  The scale would be taken out and the farmer places the figs on one side and the one who is trading with coins would place a weight on the scale. They would keep adding until they were balanced, reaching a just weight.  The problem became that the weights would not be accurate and brings about a deception in the transaction.  These deceptive transactions come from a under or over stating of one side of the balance over the other.  This can be seen in the Western church who through the early church fathers seemingly divorced all traces of their Hebraic roots of their faith.  All that was taught by the Jewish prophets and disciples from the Bible--almost thoroughly removed.  This should no longer be a separation, let us go back Fiveamprayer to find what was taken out or over looked!  To hear this again click here.

How to study scripture with a Hebraic mindset, four levels:
-peshat the literal meaning of the scriptures
-remez an alluding to the meaning of scripture; referring back to another scripture
-drash what does the scripture mean to me; discussion of scripture
-sod the deeper meaning found in scripture

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Testimony Tuesday--What Is A Testimony?

Deuteronomy 6

We are walking in today:  Testimony Tuesday--What Is A Testimony?


David declared " I have inherited Your testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart" (Ps 119: 111 NASB).

What is Testimony and why is it so important? A testimony is any spoken or written record of what God has done. They reveal God’s nature and His ways. They create an expectation in our hearts for God's ways to be manifested in our lives. The Hebrew root word for "testimony" means "do again." Every record of what God has done in past genera­tions is a promise of what He will do again in our lives, because He is the same yesterday, today and for­ever (see Heb. 13:8; Acts 10:34).

When we declare what God has done, power is released to make that testimony happen again in the lives of those who hear it. The testimonies of God are what connect each succeeding generation of believers to His covenant promises. This is why God instruc­ted Israel in the Law of Moses to remember the testimony on a regular basis and teach it to their children. Their entire social structure of Israel was to be built on the repetition of the testimony (see Deut. 6·).

They were also instructed to build memorials to remind them of what God had done.

For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children; That the generations, to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children, That they may set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments (Psalm 78:5-7).

When we set our hope in God we strengthen our expectation of God’s power working in the midst of our situation. When this happens our faith level rises which actually releases the power of God to work in our situation.

Our faith level is critical because it impacts our ability to "keep God’s commandments" which is the basis of receiving blessing and protection from curses. We can only fulfill God’s commands through the supernatural empowerment of His Spirit that comes through faith. Faith and obedience go hand and hand.

When we stop keeping the testimony, our faith in the miraculous power of God to work in our lives diminishes, and correspondingly so does our obedience to God’s commands.

If you study the history of Israel you'll find that every generation that stopped walking in their covenant with God did so because they forgot His works. David goes on in Psalm 78 to describe such a generation:

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle. They did not keep the covenant of God, They refused to walk in His law, And forgot His works And His wonders that He had shown them (Psalm 78:9-11).

The failure of Israel to keep the testimony led to forsaking God’s mission and purpose for their lives, which had serious consequences.

By choosing to coexist with their ene­mies in the same territory, they became vulnerable to idolatry, which led them to break their covenant with God which effectively removed God’s protection from curses. As a result they lost their identity as the people of God and became just like the people around them.

Failing to keep the testimony leads to an identity crisis, causing us to forget who God is and who we are. When this happens there is nothing to distinguish believers from the rest of the world with the result that the very purpose God created us and pours into us is nullified.

What does it take to keep the testimony so we can represent God with power and accomplish His mission for our lives?

God made it very clear what needs to happen. It includes establishing a culture of testimony around us such that our whole life is based on remembering who God is, proclaiming what He has done, and walking our His purpose for our lives. This is what God intended when He told the Israelites,

"And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." (Deuteronomy 6:6-7, ESV)

The New Testament parallel of this is Hebrews 10:16-18, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,” then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. "

How awesome, when we remember who God is and follow His ways He no longer remembers our sin. This is the nature of the New Covenant. The key is remembering Him, knowing His ways and obeying Him through the power of the Holy Spirit who is made available through faith in the power of the blood of Jesus.

The following verses stress the importance of knowing God and obeying His will:

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." (Matthew 7:21, ESV)

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock." (Matthew 7:24, ESV)

"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you " (Matthew 28:19-20, ESV)

“Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” " (Luke 11:28, ESV)

"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." (James 1:22, ESV)

Like the promises of God, the key to keeping testimony of God begins by meditating on them. Meditation powerfully engages our imagination. Long after the miracles of Israel crossing the Red Sea and the Jordan on dry ground, David writes in Psalm 66,

"Come and see the works of God ... He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the river on foot."

David could not have possibly seen God part the Red Sea and the Jordan River because they occurred long before he was born. However, through his imagination he owned these miracles as part of his story.

David states the importance of this imagination engaging activity of meditating on the Word— "I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation" (Ps. 119:99).

Remembering is critical to keeping the testimony and declaring the testimony releases God’s promises to those who hear and believe.

Revelation 19:10 says, "the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

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What Is Salvation? What Does It Mean To Be Saved?

Psalm 25:5, 115:14-16; Luke 4:43; Matthew 19:17; Revelation 19:10; John 1:17; 1 Samuel 15:22; John 27:29, 10:24, 12:47; Romans 10:9, 8:2; Isaiah 56:6-8; Romans 8:14-17; Ephesians 2:18-22; Exodus 14:30; John 4:22; Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13, 10:4; 1 Chronicles 11:14; 2 Chronicles 6:41; Psalm 37:39; 1 John 5:6-12; John 3:3-5; 1 Peter 1:22-23; John 3:9-10, 7:21-23, 4:22, 17:3; Matthew 16:19


We are walking in today:  What Is Salvation?  What Does It Mean To Be Saved?

Fiveamprayer, remember that the Bible was written by Jews, to Jews, from Jews.  We have to seek to understand scripture from the Hebraic mindset.  The authors were from and in that culture and that directly effects their writings.  How can we hope to corrrectly divide the word of Almighty God with our western/Hellenistic mindset?  Different cultures place value on different things and approach ideas in very different ways.  The good of the community mindset is Hebraic for example while the Greek looks to the good of the individual.  Let us study and see what scripture will show us today. 
There is actually not a scripture that says to accept Jesus Christ to be saved and go to heaven.  We are to worship Him in spirit and in truth.  So is heaven a place or an idea?  The kingdom of Heaven or the heavenly realm can be experienced now!  Eternal life begins before you die and is so strong that it does not cease even in our death.  Fiveamprayer, in the presence of Yahweh we are saved!
Replacement theology not only erroneously teaches the Christian church has replaced Israel but actually goes as far as divorcing the Hebraic roots of the first century church--at the hand of the early Christian church fathers.  Let me ask you a question--is Israel the children of God?  If so would there ever be a time that a parent would replace their children for another child?  Another child could be adopted and included into the family but replacement?  What parent would allow this?  To hear this again click here.

Weekend Meditation--We Took Obedience Out Of Faith!

Matthew 5:11-20; Hebrews 11:1; Numbers 11:11-12; Exodus 17:12; Deuteronomy 32:4; 1 Chronicles 9:2; Psalm 88:11; 2 Samuel 7:16; Genesis 15:6, 32:20, 28:29; 2 Chronicles 20:20; Psalm 119:66; Deuteronomy 6:17, 7:6-9; Proverbs 20:6; Isaiah 7:9; Matthew 31:23; John 8:46-47; John 10:25-27, 14:12-15; Luke 7:9; John 5:19, 8:28, 8:55, 12:49; Matthew 8:5-10; Galatians 1:14; Acts 14:22; Romans 1:5, 3:31, 4:21; Colossians 1:23; Hebrews 11:6; James 2:19; Matthew 8:29; James 1:25, 2:12; John  2:10-12; Psalm 138

We are walking in today:  Weekend Meditation--We Took Obedience Out Of Faith!

Here are the next 10 principles of the Lord God Almighty. This arrangement of the 613 principles, the law of our Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is from the book by Rabbi Ralph Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom Principles For Kingdom Living. This book can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here.

The Fourth Commandment Exodus 20:8-11

Remember the Sabbath day, to sanctify it.  Six days you shall work and accomplish all your work; the seventh day is Sabbath to the Lord , your God; you shall not do any work--you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maidservant, your animal, and your convert within your gates--for in six day the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested the seventh day.  Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.

367. You shall sound and hear the shofar on Yom Teruah --Numbers 29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

368. You shall offer the prescribed Elevation-Offering on Yom Kippur --Numbers 29:7-8 7 And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:8 But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:

369. You shall offer the prescribed Elevation-Offerings on each day of Sukkot --Numbers 29:13 And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:

370. You shall offer the prescribed Elevation-Offering on the eighth day of Sukkot --Numbers 29:36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:

371. You shall not demand payment debts remitted in the 7th year --Deuteronomy 15:2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the Lord's release.

372. You shall remit the debts of your brother in the 7th year --Deuteronomy 15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

373. You may demand payment of debts from a gentile--debts not remitted in the 7th year --Deuteronomy 15:3

374. You shall not refuse to lend to your destitute brother because the year of remission is near --Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

375. You shall not send your Hebrew bondservant away empty-handed --Deuteronomy 15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

376. You shall adorn your Hebrew bondservant generously from your flocks, from your threshing floor, and from your wine cellar --Deuteronomy 15:14

Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

 

 

 

Matthew 5:11-20 11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. 

 

Fiveamprayer is faith a noun or verb? In my opinion the second most misused word in the Bible is faith, law is the first.  This word has become a large part of every day language: you gotta have faith, I have faith in you, where is your faith?  With this common use of this word do we really know what it means?  Let us look at scripture.  Destroy the law is a Hebraic term meaning to misinterpret or cause an incorrect interpretation of scripture.  The words faith and belief are often used as synonyms.  From a Hebraic mindset there are several root words that are translated as faith.  Aman is one of them, meaning faith, faithful, believe, assurance, nursing.  Numbers 11:11-12 contains the term nursing father in reference to Moses caring for the children of Israel.  This illustrates the child like faith of those over them in caring and providing for every need.  That they and us would come to the Adonai in total trust for every need being supplied by Him.  To believe in Yahweh does not necessarily mean to believe Yahweh.  This lead to taking away following the Torah and less focus and study on the Tanakh.  In this manner, Christianity has become spiritual Israel who went away from Yahweh's law. The enemy found victory in the re-defining the word faith.  Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  Faith is a personal commitment to follow, believing Yahweh and trusting Him.  This is an action word like most of the Hebrew language is in motion.  Fiveamprayer, faith is a response to the davar Elohim, the word of God.  It is about obedience not sacrifice, this is our natural response to commitment.  This is a do, more than just believing, this word faith.  This is not something that you get it is always something that you are doing.  True faith is a hear and do!  We find in Matthew 8:5-10 a trusting obedience, faith.  It is not unseen or blind but a flow of obedience from a higher authority.  1 Corinthians 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.  True faith is manifested by obedience to a higher authority, fiveamprayer!  Praise Yahweh, for He has given us a how to guide for His will for our lives, the Torah.  Don't just believe--do! To hear this again click here.

Five Smooth Stones--Leviticus, The Offerings

Leviticus 1-16; Exodus 29:38; Numbers 15:4; Genesis 4:3; Joel 1:9. 2:14; Deuteronomy 8:8; Colossians 2:15; 1 Corinthians 6:13; Hebrews 13:16; Proverbs 25:16-17; Deuteronomy 12:30-31; Psalm 73:21; Revelation 3:20; Ezekiel 7:20-22; Mark 9:49-50; Colossians 4:6; Hebrews 10:29; Leviticus 18; Deuteronomy 28

We are walking in today:  Five Smooth Stones--Leviticus, The Offerings

Thank You Adonai for giving us a teaching this morning on offerings.  Giving us the understanding to why and where we are missing the mark.  That we would be drawn back to focus on the righteousness and holiness of the Almighty God.  That we would not be tempted to follow other gods nor do the things that the heathens do for them.  He alone is the only wonderful, mighty and awesome God!  There is none like unto Him!  He is so gracious to tell us how to come before Him to remember the covenants He has with us.  That we go before Him, with burnt, grain, fellowship, sin and guilt offerings.  Fiveamprayer Elohim is looking for us to come before Him with what He has provided us, to worship and seek His presence.  The items offered with the sacrifices are also of note as well all meat sacrifices always with salt.  Salt was used often as a symbol of friendship, the alter is the table of the Lord. 
We are to be living sacrifices--fiveamprayer are you living your life pleasing unto Almighty God?  Does your life give a pleasing aroma of praise unto Him?!  We have to study, learn and know what we are expected by Yahweh to do.  Stand on the principles of Yahweh, His Torah, His teaching and instruction.  There are clear things to do and things not to do with results either good or bad in our lives--we get to choose!  When we choose to prescribe to the wrong choices we have to live out that consequence.  Make that change and take the correction!!!  Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.  Wake up fiveamprayer, there is more to this blessed in the city and blessed in the field from Deuteronomy 28:3.  Keep reading there is also Deuteronomy 28:16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.  Cursed?  Well that can't be right or is it?  Elohim set before us blessing and cursing and even tells us to choose life that we and our descendants would live!  Is that what we see for so many people these days?!  You don't have to look very far to see that many are not living life, did they unaware choose the curse instead of the blessing? A careful reading of Deuteronomy 28 will give some insight of where your choices have placed you.  Not attacks of others more often than not, but you.  This is why going back to the beginning is so important!!  Hebrews 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.  Fiveamprayer we have the pattern, the mirror of what we are to look like--James 1:22-24 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.  Those who are not being doers of His word forget what manor of person were!  We have to go back to get the understanding, that we would remember why we do what we do or better yet why we would not do the things that we are told not to do.  Having His commandments allows us to stand on a solid foundation to know good and right things to do to be able to truly say, expect and receive being blessed in the city and in the field.  Study to show thyself approved!  To hear this message again click here.

Gather Fiveamprayer, Together For A Fast.

Esther 4

We are walking in today:  Gather Fiveamprayer, Together For A Fast.


Esther 4:15-16 15 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer, 16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

The Esther fast is observed during one of the two days of Purim or the days leading up to it.  This evil decree if not counteracted would have meant the death of many of the Jewish people in this time.  For Persia was a large region having 127 providences and regarding the lives of those ranging over several continents.  As we can find many times in the davar Elohim, or the word of God is that the number of the people nor the skill does not have any say in the outcome.  The most common deciding factor is obedience to instruction and trust in the hand of the Almighty in the whole outcome--no matter how it appears to our logic or intellect!  How can focus on the queen going before her husband, the king un-summoned have that much sway in a decision?  Or a better question would also be, why would Esther go un-summoned before her husband, the king on threat of death?!  Actually properly said this was not a threat of death, if the king did not lower his scepter, than it was certain death.  The focus that it takes to lay down the security of your life for the lives of others is not something to take lightly, nor was it.  There was preparation involved.  A crying out in the spirit both within and without the palace that this terrible deed would be undone.  The up-building of knowing that whether deliverance would come in this fashion or another, Esther declares...'and so I will go into the king, which is not according to the law, and if I perish, I perish'.  Only with preparation can that kind of declaration be made.  For both Esther, her cousin Mordecai and the Jewish people know in Who they trust and rely. 
Fiveamprayer, Adonai comes this morning with a wake up call!  We are to no longer huddle within ourselves separate and alone!  We are to gather together focused in prayer with fasting.  The importance of observing this fast of Esther is in our seeking the Lord God Almighty--we are afflicting our flesh that we would be focused on the heavenly things above.  We regain focus by more prayer and removal of this physical food to concentrate on the spiritual sustenance.  The heavenly nourishment also comes with increased hearing, spiritual insight and more.  There are things that have to be broken off of us and us made ready for what Elohim has purposed and planned from the very beginning of the world.  We give Him all the honor, glory and praise!  There is no one like unto Thee Yahweh!  Hallelujah and glory to Your name!  All blessings, honor and glory to the Most High God, Yahweh!  To hear this again click here.

Testimony Tuesday--Tell Them Fiveamprayer, The Lord God Favored Me!

 Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

We are walking in today:  Testimony Tuesday--Tell Them Fiveamprayer, The Lord God Favored Me!

Let he that is without sin, let him cast the first stone!!  We are thankful for Yahweh's favor over our lives. Tell someone today, that Yahweh favored me!  Be thankful for the STONE throwers in your life. They not only expose you, but they expose themselves!!  You have victory in all things, because He sees all and knows all!  You are the apple of His eye, that we are engraved in His very hands!  We are His handiwork and we are always before Him.  Look all through our the davar Elohim, the word of God--Moses, Abraham, the three Hebrew boys in the furnace--favor!  The two spies with the good report, Caleb and Joshua, Sarah giving birth in her old age!  Favor!!!  We must repent before the Lord God and He is faithful to forgive you!!!  Speak to the stone throwers in your life and say thank you!!  But know right now,fiveamprayer,  through and through that Yahweh favored me! Amen and glory to Your mighty and awesome name!  To hear this again click here.

Weekend Meditation...Overflow

The God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob is so good to us here on fiveamprayer that we had to do several posts for today!  All praises to Yahweh who knows all and sees all!  Help us Heavenly Father--Avinu Malkeinu!  Amen, amen

From Esther:​
ZERESH, SAID TO HAMAN, “IF MORDECHAI, BEFORE WHOM YOU

HAVE BEGUN TO FALL, IS A DESCENDANT OF THE JEWS, YOU WILL NOT

BE ABLE TO HARM HIM, FOR YOU WILL SURELY FALL BEFORE HIM”

*****THE POWER OF EVIL INTRUDES IN OUR LIVES. IT COMES UNDER

MANY DISGUISES--SCHEMES, BETRAYAL, WHAT CAN WE DO? GOD

PRESENTS A CHALLENGE TO ENTER THAT PLACE OF INTERCESSION

WHERE THE ENEMY IN OUR MIDST MUST YIELD TO THE AUTHORITY AND
 

THE INTERCESSOR STANDS BETWEEN TWO REALMS, THE NATURAL

AND THE SPIRITUAL. INTERCESSORY PRAYER BRINGS THE POWER OF

HEAVEN DOWN TO EARTH. STEP BY STEP, INTERCESSION RESULTS IN

DELIVERANCE FROM THE POWER OF EVIL.

 

THE AARONIC BLESSING ROM AN ANCIENT HEBREW PERSPECTIVE  

 

“Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel.

YHWH will kneel before you presenting gifts and will guard you

YHWH will cause his wholeness of being to shine toward you

bringing order and he will provide you with love, sustenance

YHWH will lift up his wholeness of being and look upon you and he

will set in place all you need to be whole and complete

“So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.

QUIT LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT—GOD IS NOT A MAGICIAN

HE’S REAL- HE DOESN’T USE MAGIC TO FIX A PROBLEM—

HE USES HIMSELF--- WHICH MEANS—HE’S GOING TO USE US, FIVE

AM AND MANY MORE OF US WHO HAS THE SAME MIND SET TO
 

 IGNORE YOUR STRENGTHS– 1 COR 1:26-31 FOR YOU SEE YOUR

CALLING, BRETHREN, THAT NOT MANY WISE ACCORDING TO

THE FLESH, NOT MANY MIGHTY, NOT MANY NOBLE, ARE CALLED.

27 BUT GOD HAS CHOSEN THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD

TO PUT TO SHAME THE WISE, AND GOD HAS CHOSEN THE WEAK

THINGS OF THE WORLD TO PUT TO SHAME THE THINGS WHICH

ARE MIGHTY; 28 AND THE BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD AND

THE THINGS WHICH ARE DESPISED GOD HAS CHOSEN, AND THE

THINGS WHICH ARE NOT TO BRING TO NOTHING THE THINGS

THAT ARE, 29 THAT NO FLESH SHOULD GLORY IN HIS PRESENCE.

30 BUT OF HIM YOU ARE IN CHRIST JESUS/YESHUA WHO

BECAME FOR US WISDOM FROM GOD—AND RIGHTEOUSNESS

AND SANCTIFICATION AND REDEMPTION— 31 THAT, AS IT IS

WRITTEN, “HE WHO GLORIES, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD.”​

Weekend Meditation--The Walking Torah: Torah Is Not The End, It's The Goal!!

John 1:1-14; 2 Timothy 2:15​; Acts 2:3-5, 3:1-4, 5:2-11,6:12-15, 15; Numbers 6:1-21; Acts 21:23-25; Galatians 5:16-22; Deuteronomy 30:11-14; Romans 10:1-8 john 15:12; Matthew 19:17; John 15:10; Hebrews 2:17-18, 4:15; Romans 3:31; James 1:22-25; Romans 8:5-8; 1 John 2:3-7; 1 Corinthians 7:19; 1 John 5:3; 2 John 1:6; Matthew 11:29-30; 2 timothy 3:12-17;Ezekiel 45:13-20;  Hebrews 7:12; Exodus 28, Leviticus 16:4; Zechariah 8:23; Isaiah 61:3; Luke 4:16-21; Revelation 22:14; Ephesians 2:10-12; Romans 11:1

 

​We are walking in today:  Weekend Meditation--The Walking Torah:  Torah Is Not The End, It's The Goal!!

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​Here are the next 10 principles of the Lord God Almighty. This arrangement of the 613 principles, the law of our Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is from the book by Rabbi Ralph Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom Principles For Kingdom Living. This book can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here.

The Fourth Commandment Exodus 20:8-11

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Remember the Sabbath day, to sanctify it.  Six days you shall work and accomplish all your work; the seventh day is Sabbath to the Lord , your God; you shall not do any work--you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maidservant, your animal, and your convert within your gates--for in six day the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested the seventh day.  Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.

357.  You may acquire foreign bondsmen to remain yours as an ancestral heritage --Leviticus 25:46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

358. You shall not allow a foreigner to mistreat a Hebrew bondsman --Leviticus 25:53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

359. You shall make the second Passover offering on the 14th day of the second month (Pesach Sheni) --Numbers 9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

360. You shall eat the Passover Sheni lamb with matzor and bitter herbs --Numnbers 9:11

361. You shall not break a bone of the Passover Sheni lamb offering --Numbers 9:12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

362. You shall not leave over any of the Passover Sheni lamb offering until morning --Numbers 9:12

363. You shall offer to male lambs as and Elevation-Offering on your on each Sabbath (Mussaf)  --Numbers 28:9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:

364. You shall offer the prescribed Elevation-Offering on your New Moons --Numbers 28:11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;

365. You shall offer the prescribed Elevation-Offering on Shavuot --Numbers 28:26-27 26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: 27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;

366. You shall offer the prescribed Elevation-Offering on Yom Teruah --Numbers 29:1-2 1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. 2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:

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Fiveamprayer, we need to clarify whether we are subject to the law.  Many Christians ask if we are to follow all of the law: sacrificing animals and stoning people for adultery, for example.  Do you live in a theocracy?  Then no--there a commands that only apply to those living in the land of Israel.  There are some commands that apply to the priests, the high priest, men, women, those married and unmarried.  Timothy was instructed by Paul, to rightly divide the word of God.  We have to know and understand that Paul's letters were dealing with specific situations--two main heresies he was dealing with: those new to the Way of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, had to take on all of the Torah to be saved.  This shows that the Jews were holding on to traditions.  Then on the other side of the aisle we have the new converts who believed that once they were saved there was no relationship with the Torah.  The new converts were coming from pagan religions and did not understand that the Torah relationship was not over with salvation.  Those coming out of Roman and Greek societies were also under the misleading anti-Semitic beliefs.

​ In the book of Galatians they had the wrong understandings where even Paul a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin and a rabbi who tells us himself in the book of Romans--Romans 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.  That they would even accuse him of teaching against the Torah.  If this was the case he had the perfect backdrop to make the declaration that Torah observance is over, next we find that he walks in the definition of the Nazrerite vow found in Numbers 6.

​ So with further study and proper translation to the original Hebrew we find that the Torah is to keep us and not the other way around.  It is what Adonai, Elohim, Yahweh has prescribed for His creation and the work of His hands to be blessed, healthy, successful and united community.  All that we have in our ignorance have sought out everywhere else with little to no success.  He, Yeshua is the Way, the Truth and the Life!  He is the walking Torah, the Word made flesh!  To be Christ-like is to walk according to His teaching and instructions!  Thank You Lord God for opening up our understanding that the scales have fallen from our eyes!  Praise His holy name!  Amen, amen!  To hear this again click here.

Torah Portion--And He Called

Vayikra-And He Called

"Maintaining a Life of Honor"
Leviticus 1:1 - 5:26, Isaiah 43:21 – 44:23, 1 Corinthians 11-16

There are two means by which you prosper: honor and wisdom. Honor is a decision…a seed…a law. And it can be taught. Wisdom is the ability to recognize who should and should not be honored. The ability to discern honor and dishonor enables you to end wrong relationships. Wrong people never leave voluntarily. Like Jonah, they must be thrown overboard.

Dishonor is not a character glitch that you are born with – it is a decision to defy and disrespect God in people. Dishonor is a choice; it disconnects, disqualifies and reveals the deceiver in your midst. What you refuse to learn through people, you will learn through pain. Once dishonor has occurred, restoration rarely occurs. Dishonor oftentimes leads to disease. In Hebraic understanding, deception is the birthplace of all pain.

This sets the context for the Torah portion, Vayikra. Leviticus Chapters 5 and 6 deal with the guilt offering, or the guilt that occurs when you begin to understand the error of your way. In other words, “How do I make restoration when I have done someone wrong?” “How do I get back to a place of favor with someone I have dishonored?” These questions reveal the fact that guilt has now cut you off; you are disconnected from the one you have dishonored.

When you have sought forgiveness from someone you dishonored, and forgiveness is not granted, then that’s between them and God. According to Biblical law, they were to forgive and release the offense. Some people are not able to forgive because they have not forgiven themselves. Restoration is not simply saying, “I’m sorry, please forgive me.” It includes finances and a meal – a tribute offering. Repentance without a tribute offering does not fully remove one’s guilt.

The purpose of offerings has always been to maintain the covenant relationship with God. Abuses of covenant relationship lead to defilement and the departure of the presence of God. Restoration is required to re-enact the power of covenant relationship.

All Biblical offerings fall into two categories – the in-communion offerings (in common union) and the out-communion offerings (out of common union). The in-communion offerings restore the relationship between the worshipper and man.

In-Communion Offerings

1. Olah Offering or Ascent Offering – an offering given entirely to the Lord.
2. Minchah Offering or Tribute Offering – a tribute paid to God and is food for the priest. This offering is given with money and a meal.
3. Sh’lamim Offering or Fellowship Offering – a covenant seed eaten by all, the worshipper, the priest and God altogether.

Out-Communion Offerings

1. Chatta’t Offering or Purification Offering – purifies or de-sins the individual.
2. Asham Offering or Reparation Offering – requires a wholehearted repentance and restitution.

The simple truth behind these offerings is that they do not pertain to your past, but to your future. These offerings have the potential within them to keep you from diseases of the spirit which not only affects your present life, but your future. All disease is a result of separation on three levels:

1. Separation from God, His Word, His person and His love.
2. Separation from yourself – not accepting yourself, not loving yourself, guilt and condemnation.
3. Separation from others – breach in relationship, hatred, bitterness, envy, jealousy, competition, performance, being too overdriven, lack of nurturing, lack of love, etc.

When you begin to separate, you are in dangerous territory.

God, in His infinite wisdom, has given principles in the Torah that are the antidotes to diseases of the spirit. Yet we say that God’s Torah does not apply to us today…that we are not “under the law”… that our redemption is in Yeshua/Jesus alone. No, your salvation is in Yeshua/Jesus Christ. Redemption is found in the principles of the Torah, God’s teaching and instruction.

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.” Hosea 4:6 NKJV

 The Torah principles allow you to gain self-confidence and self-esteem from God, rather than man. Healing of spiritually rooted diseases begins with the following:

1. Coming back into alignment with God, His Word, His person, His nature, His precepts and what He planned for you from the beginning of time. The solution is restoration.
2. Accepting yourself in your relationship with God. Getting rid of self-hatred, self-bitterness, and guilt. Coming back in alignment with who you are in God through Yeshua’s redemption.
3. Making peace with your brother, your sister, and all others, if at all possible.

How you live your life is critical. God gives you faith, which is steadiness and steadfastness in His commands. When God gives you an instruction He has, in essence, taken something from the unseen realm and brought it into the seen realm – faith. Once you see it, you apply the principle (instruction) of God. Once you walk in the principle of God, you find your purpose. From purpose He gives you vision. You see clearly and have hope for yourself. You can see long term. From vision, comes increase.

Faith = Principles = Purpose = Vision = Increase

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” Deuteronomy 6:5 NKJV

In Vayikra, God has given the principles that will help you maintain a life of honor. The wisdom hidden in Vayikra is found through the offerings. As you look to Yeshua and obey his instruction, dishonor and its associated diseases of the spirit have no stronghold and no other choice than to be far from you! 

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