Shabbat 6 July 2024
Event: Today we will break our fast at church eating Congee made by our beloved mother Grace
Here and Now:
I love Saturdays because it is the 7th day and the official Sabbath day of Rest, Sunday can also be rest, GOD is not strict, HE just wanted us to rest at least once a week BUT there are studies that show that during Saturdays the body's system automatically slows down and rests during Saturdays. When I use this Sabbath day to go to the mountain with my sister Grace or go to church to rest or even to practice music for the Sunday, it is special to me because I have already set my mind that Saturday is Shabbat, it is rest, church for me is a place of rest and refuge, the mountains and the seas too. But last night (Friday evening - which was the beginning of Shabbat for the Jews) GOD gave me rest to all my toiling, groaning and pleading in my Spirit when Shobe Hannah Kate - Pastor's daughter, delivered a revelation that GOD gave her in the Hebrew word "Shema" which means Listen or Hear, and it is used by GOD to ask Israel to Listen or Hear HIS words. But last night, instead of GOD using this to tell us something, GOD is using this WORD to say "I listened, I heard" it means, HE is answering every prayer that we had brought to HIS altar, HE is answering every sigh every cry every groaning and utterances that cannot even be expressed in words. HE is answering! It is done!
2 Timothy 2
English Standard Version
13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. 22 And have mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment[g] stained by the flesh.
Doxology
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time[h] and now and forever. Amen.
Mark 16:14
English Standard Version
The Great Commission
14 Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
Matthew 1428 And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” 29 He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind,[e] he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” 31 Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” 32 And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. 33 And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
ObservationI have observed that in all the scriptures I have been reading today and since yesterday it was about GOD not doing miracles because of unbelief or doubt. Yesterday the word Matthew 13 also spoke to me: 57 But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.” 58 And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief. GOD is assuring me of who HE is today: I AM FAITHFUL even if you are not. GOD is encouraging me today to build yourself up in your faith by prayers in the HOLY SPIRIT. GOD is commanding me also to save others by snatching them out of the fire by having mercy on them. GOD is rebuking my doubts and feelings of defeat by saying: I AM, I SAID, IT IS DONE.
ApplicationJust like Peter when I received GOD's revelation to me I was confident in the beginning of it, so that I asked HIM if I could walk on water (believing fully that what HE said will come to pass that I acted in line with that Revelation) but in the later part when I focused on the realities and the difficulties of HIS promises coming to pass, I began to sink on the water and I prayed and prayed and today GOD has saved me telling me "your faith is little because of your doubt". But GOD is so faithful because all that HE wanted me to do: Build myself up in the faith HE was able to do through me when I was able to fast and pray for that Promise this week of fasting and prayer. Also yesterday GOD prompted me to encourage a Sister who had been struggling with her daughter and as I gave her that encouragement to keep praying, we both received an understanding of what GOD had revealed to her 7 months ago during the first part of the Prayer and Fasting week this year. It is one thing to receive a revelation from GOD but another to understand completely what it means because only can we apply those revelations properly. I am so blessed even by the Revelation that GOD gave to Kate that I cried hearing about GOD's response to our prayers and pleadings in the Spirit. It was an awesome experience last night! GOD is Awesome!
PrayersDear AVI,O HOLY and AWESOME GOD! Thank YOU so much for responding to YOUR people, thank YOU for YOUR Faithfulness O GOD! My heart is overwhelmed with gladness and joy because I can see what YOU want me to see. I can see Stephen and Mom Benita coming to church with me. I continue to pray for Dad, Mom and Grace to come back to church with us. I pray O GOD that YOU heal their pain and traumas in the past. I pray the same for Stephen and Benita, deliver us O LORD from everything hindering us from completely following YOU. O GOD thank YOU for sustaining me for 7 days to pray and fast. I want to continue my prayers today and for the rest of my life that my loved ones and I will always be following YOU and obeying YOUR WORD. I pray even for Michael Placencia to stop his abusive drinking and that YOU encounter him too, please hear the prayers of his wife Mandy for her. I pray for Jr and Gaily, heal them of every sickness and disease they suffer today with their daughter Gabella. I pray O GOD that YOU will continue to speak to them and let them understand what it is more that YOU want them to do because YOUR will is always to cure us and to make us whole. I pray for Rey and Arlene to be together, provide for them LORD wherever YOU want them to go and give them a home with provision. For it is not YOUR will for the married to be separated even by distance, so bring them together LORD find a way for them. I pray for my Aunts and relatives, Diko Lillian Aunt Lucy and Aunt Buena to be saved O GOD, I pray save them O GOD by revealing YOURSELF to them and that they will spend their lives knowing and loving YOU. I pray for Ako Sabina to continue to grow in YOUR WORD as she already has been doing Bible studies with a friend, do not let her go LORD but send someone else to minister to her. I pray for Carolyn, Walter, Hayley, Fangie, Warren, Dipe Robert, Di-um Vicky, Jason and Kara, Kate, Kim to be know YOU and love YOU and follow YOU, be drawn to YOU O GOD to live for YOU. I ask YOU O GOD to secure their eternal salvation, all my relatives LORD, Sipe Henry, and his family, let Bambi know YOU in the US O GOD keep her safe there, I pray for Ahya Jojo and Fern to be blessed so that they can be a blessing to their families and use them to bring their unsaved families to YOUR Kingdom. I pray O GOD, have mercy on all of us because we are in desperate need of YOU and YOUR Power working in our lives. Please O GOD secure the Family Corporation with loyal workers and those that are untrue I pray will be removed and replace them with good workers. I pray that YOUR grace will sustain us each and everyday as we live our lives to honor YOU, I pray that YOU work out all things for our good and that I will always be content not lacking or wanting anything because YOU are my Shepherd YOU already have given me everything I need. It is only a matter of time that I will be able to tangibly have them but YOU already have what is best for me and I thank YOU LORD for enabling me to receive all that YOU want for me. It is because of YOUR grace O GOD that I am able to receive everything YOU have in store for me. Thank YOU JESUS for every promise and every WORD and every revelation and every moment that YOU show YOURSELF to me and prove YOURSELF strong to me and to all those whose hearts are fully devoted to YOU. Thank YOU ABBA for YOURS is the power and the glory forever and everIn the Name of JESUS Amen!
EVENING SOAPScriptures
Joshua 3
New King James Version
Israel Crosses the Jordan
1 Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and they set out from [a]Acacia Grove and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they crossed over. 2 So it was, after three days, that the officers went through the camp; 3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests, the Levites, [b]bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it. 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.”
5 And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify[c] yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” 6 Then Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over before the people.”
So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.
7 And the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt[d] you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
ObservationSanctification means to purify and cleanse ourselves from every sin and guilt and GOD enabled HIS church to be sanctified through our semi annual prayer and fasting week because tomorrow! - this could mean, the next season of your life, GOD is going to do wonders!!!
ApplicationWOW!!! Wonders! Miracles! Signs! Supernatural happenings! Is what I have been waiting for GOD to do and act in my life and in everywhere I go, I want HIM to show up in power and truly indeed GOD is taking me to another place tomorrow as we cross the seas we arrive in Cagayan de Oro the next day and it seems like GOD is making me ready to cross this ocean because what it awaits is GOD who is about to do wonders from among the people I will be with.
Prayers Dear AVI,O HOLY and Awesome FATHER GOD! Thank YOU for YOU are faithful and true and worthy of all our trust and pain. Toda for giving me a heads up of blessing that YOU are going before me to cross the seas tomorrow with my Aunts! I remember Adonai that this is one of the signs I have asked YOU to show me regarding marrying the person YOU pointed out to me. One of the sign is me being able to go to CDO this week before Diko leaves for Canada and at the very last minute before I even finished my prayer and fast at the last day of Fasting, YOU gave me a sure sign but bringing me to CDO with my Aunts tomorrow and this I believe is already supernatural because I thought they were not going anymore because time is short. I never thought all of sudden this morning Diko would call me telling me we are heading to CDO straight to the home of the Gaisano's in CDO, Alexis' Uncle and cousin. Please bless my time there with the cousins and with my Aunts. I thank YOU for this wonderful opportunity to be with my Aunts before Diko leaves for CDO, thank YOU for blessing me with new friends like Aunt Lucy and Aunt Buena who are so kind and wonderful people. Thank YOU AVI! I pray that YOU use me wherever I go to be a blessing an encouragement, healing and carry YOUR light and message of hope to people who are lost without YOU. And I pray that Stephen will respond greatly to YOUR call of love to follow YOU and serve YOU all our days.
In the Name of JESUS I pray Amen!
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