Shabbat 13 July 2024
FULL Packed Shabbat
Event today:Meeting with Stephen, Mom, Wilfredo about the details of the Foundation
Facilitators Discussion Meeting
Practice at 5pm
SOAP
Scriptures
John 12
The Unbelief of the People
When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them. 37 Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, 38 so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
“Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39 Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,
40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”
41 Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him. 42 Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
Philippians 1:1-28
English Standard Version
Greeting
1 Paul and Timothy, servants[a] of Christ Jesus,
To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers[b] and deacons:[c]
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving and Prayer
3 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, 4 always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. 6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. 7 It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace,[d] both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. 8 For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. 9 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Observation2 scriptures are speaking to me:In John 12, there is a glory that happens on earth because of how GOD uses man to accomplish HIS will. But not everyone will believe this glory even if they see the signs of this glory for fear of man and because people love the praise of man more than the approval of GOD and this is a known fact happening even in my present situation. But GOD is assuring me, encouraging me with HIS word in Philippians, that HE will complete the work HE started in me. I may have failed him many times but HE will never fail me.Philippians 1 because I feel exactly what Paul is writing about. There is a yearning in me to be with the ones who have seen and followed the glory of GOD.vs 8, For GOD is my witness how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ JESUS because I did yearn for the love that I felt from people whom GOD has used to touch me. And just as Paul wrote, I write the same things because it seems he drew the words I cannot express on my own from my heart that indeed it is right for me to feel this way about all the ones I love because I hold them in my heart who are partakers with me of grace of all the hardships that I went through. Those who have touched me have been graced with the love of GOD for me, the love of GOD because GOD is working through them regardless of the fact if they confess their allegiance to a certain kind of faith or not.
ApplicationI will keep following the glory of GOD, I will not be afraid of those who reject me, I will chose JESUS over my flesh, my life, my safety, my heart. I will keep trusting in HIS love and faithfulness because HE is faithful to complete whatever HE started in me. I do not want to live with regrets yet I do have regrets when I hold back from loving people and showing them how much I appreciate them for fear of being in the wrong place... stepping out of place... I should not fear these things, I used to be so fierce and bold and did not care what others thought of me and I want to carry the same glory that GOD has given me because of HIS grace.
PrayersDear AVI,How great are YOU O LORD, HOLY is YOUR Name Almighty and Precious GOD! Thank YOU for this shabbat rainy and cold but the rest of this day is wonderful to me even though my schedule today is fully packed, I am happy and excited because I know YOU are with me, I feel YOUR presence around me and I thank YOU for this blessed feeling that I have - I am grateful for my parents health how they have not been sick for many months. How YOU have kept us all, how YOUR glory was overshadowing my brother's wedding, how YOU made everything happen O GOD, I will always remember these things to mind because every year YOU are making miracles in our lives, not everyone sees it but I am so blessed to see it and be touched by it. Thank YOU FATHER for the miracles YOU are preparing for all of us, thank YOU that YOU have been answering my prayers for Stephen and Benita, Lillian, Stephen and Mary, and I pray for Paul Gaisano, to know YOU, call him LORD because he needs YOU, his life is empty without love, but YOUR love is the one he needs the most. I pray for Alexis to continue contending for her promise just as YOU have called me to fight for mine, I pray for our Accounting system to be successful and that I can account everything. I pray to go back to school to study Acounting Technology because as long as we have the Technology, everything is easier so I just need to know how to use it. Please KING JESUS give me a school or someone who can teach me how to use it. I pray for Dean and Denesse that YOU keep them humble and submitted to YOU. I pray for Boy and Mae and all their team to be pure hearted, have good health and to work in accordance to YOUR Will. I Pray for people in church to be have all that they need and I pray that we be a blessing to those who are in need O GOD. I pray O GOD have YOUR way in us, let YOUR Kingdom come let YOUR will be done unto all the people YOU have caused me to pray for. I lift up to YOU the Gaisanos in CDO Stevie, Beverly, Sydney, Lyn, Sandy and her husband and their children that they know YOU, that YOU reveal YOURSELF to them and they will decide to follow YOU. I pray for Lucio, Mitchell, Kim, Grace & Husband, Stephen who are Aunt Benita's children that they will not miss YOUR grace O GOD but that they will respond to YOUR call in their lives to follow YOU and love YOU because YOU are the reason why we have existed and in the end of our lives, we want to be with YOU, I want all that I know to be with YOU O GOD and so I keep praying for them because prayers is the only way for me to love them. I thank YOU for Grace and Deric, make them pure hearted and keep them O GOD obedient and loving YOU. For YOU deserve all of our efforts, our devotion and love! YOU deserve us O GOD for we came from YOU!In the name of YEHOSHUA I pray AMen!
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