Shabbat 27 July 2024
Homebound - Flight to MNL Philippines
Scriptures
God Reveals Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
17 Then Daniel went to his house and made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, 18 and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. 19 Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 20 Daniel answered and said:
“Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. 21 He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings;he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;22 he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.23 To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise,for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.”
Hebrews 3:7-19
English Standard Version
A Rest for the People of God
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ 11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Hebrews 4:1-13
English Standard Version
1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.[a] 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’”
although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” 5 And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.”
6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, 7 again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God[b] would not have spoken of another day later on. 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
ObservationDaniel 2 GOD reveals the dream to Daniel and it's interpretation because Daniel is a man of GOD who feared GOD. How does it relate to me, there is a "dream" built by my mother influenced by her "prophets" that will be implemented by it's original dreamer whose dream is purely to put his masterpiece to action that will benefit our local and marginalized farmers. This dream was built like by different kinds of element just as the Statue of Nebukadnezzar's dream appeared to him. The interpretation was revealed to me and Mae - the original dreamer's daughter because the elements were the intentions that GOD had revealed to us during this trip. This dream of a statue is the Foundation but it had many elements and this newly formed dream has greatly disturbed me just as it disturbed the King that he wanted to know the meaning of it. Like Daniel I praise GOD because HE revealed all these things to me and to those who also wanted to understand the dream.
Hebrews 3-4GOD had a promise to me since September 20, 2023 and HE had been faithfully reconfirming it through HIS words and circumstances of confirmation. But I struggled to believe it today because I do not see the manifestation, I only see the signs. GOD's promise to me is the dream GOD had always put in my heart since I was a young girl - to be loved by a faithful and good man chosen by GOD and be married to him.
ApplicationIn Daniel 2 my task was to discover the truth and since GOD revealed it to me so specially through people, I am now able to rest because I had been against this dream because of it's elements. The dream itself is also my dream to help the poor farmers through agriculture. But the hearts of the people building this dream were not pure and therefore this dream has to be put on hold before we enter the land of Promise because the wicked shall not partake of GOD's rest because their hearts have always been astray they cannot enter HIS rest.
In Hebrews 3-4My task is to enter my rest in GOD today. To not harden my heart, to keep believing in faith, To surrender to the impossible dream GOD put in my heart, in spite of seeing no manifestation today, I have to stand my ground and not walk away. To believe GOD even though it is hard, it is painful to wait another day is the only way I can enter my rest. My task is to stand my ground, just believe, just trust, HE is working it out, and Sir Vincent one of GOD's instrument HE used to really encourage my heart said, it is when you do not see anything that GOD is working out something. Walk by faith, not by sight.
PrayersDear AVI,O Wonderful and Loving, Merciful and Gracious FATHER, thank YOU so much for giving me rest on this blessed Shabbat day! Thank YOU so much O GOD because YOU understand everything I was going through and worked things out for me so that I could enter my rest today and YOU did it so amazingly and wonderfully! I cannot wait to tell David and Kim about what YOU did! YOU are great and amazing O GOD! YOU are truly wonderful! I need YOU so much to do what YOU did or else I will be destroyed by my own disparity. O GOD My GOD, Toda for giving me a heart of worship, an opportunity to play with the worship band of my church because through this act of service, YOU have ushered me into YOUR Presence surrounding me with songs that give rest to my heart and soul. YOU surround me with songs of deliverance from my enemies, till all my fears are gone!!! Hallelujah!!! Toda Raba! May I continue to walk in faith and in the Spirit with my heart at rest O GOD! Take full control over me O GOD, and help me to keep fasting and praying until I see the full manifestation of YOUR Promise over my life! Help me to continue living and walking in the Spirit and my everyone connected to me receive their miracle because YOU have been keeping me in YOUR glory and power. Toda for setting us all free, YES JESUS I declare freedom for Stephen Lao Yu from all his fears and pain, whatever HE is going through, I declare deliverance for him and his mother and that YOU will bring them into the saving knowledge and encounter of JESUS so that they will never be the same again. Usher them today into YOUR truth and YOUR Love. O GOD just like what YOU always do with me, YOU always bring me into songs of praise because YOU have shown me YOUR goodness day by day! YOU are so faithful O GOD and I pray they will experience YOU like I experience YOU O GOD, fill them with YOUR HOLY GHOST O GOD please JESUS and I pray that my parents will be released from all this false dream and wrong motives, O GOD, set them free from the greed and love of money.
In the Name of JESUS Amen!
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