Shabbat (When you go out)
Haftarah Ki Tetze: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 54:1–10 [Messianic adaptation: commence the reading at 52:13]
Isaiah 54:1-10
Complete Jewish Bible
1 “Sing, barren woman who has never had a child! Burst into song, shout for joy, you who have never been in labor! For the deserted wife will have more children than the woman who is living with her husband,” says Adonai. 2 Enlarge the space for your tent, extend the curtains of your dwelling; do not hold back, lengthen your cords, make your tent pegs firm. 3 For you will spread out to the right and the left, your descendants will possess the nations and inhabit the desolated cities. 4 Don’t be afraid, for you won’t be ashamed; don’t be discouraged, for you won’t be disgraced. You will forget the shame of your youth, no longer remember the dishonor of being widowed. 5 For your husband is your Maker,Adonai-Tzva’ot is his name. The Holy One of Isra’el is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of all the earth.
Matthew 19:3–12
Complete Jewish Bible
3 Some P’rushim came and tried to trap him by asking, “Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife on any ground whatever?” 4 He replied, “Haven’t you read that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female,[a] 5 and that he said, ‘For this reason a man should leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two are to become one flesh’?[b] 6 Thus they are no longer two, but one. So then, no one should split apart what God has joined together.”
Galatians 3:9-14
English Standard Version
9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
The Righteous Shall Live by Faith
10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”[a] 12 But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”
Psalm 13
English Standard Version
How Long, O Lord?
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,” lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
6 I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
Psalms 42
English Standard Version
Book Two
Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?
To the choirmaster. A Maskil[a] of the Sons of Korah.
1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?[b]
3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation[c]
6 and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
8 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
ObservationToday GOD is saying a lot to me. In Isaiah 54 GOD is telling me to sing because HE promised me all that HE will give to me all that I have desired and asked of him and even more. Yet In Psalm 13 and 42, GOD is commanding me to sing in the brokenness of my heart, sing in the middle of the waiting and not having anything that HE has promised me yet. But HIS WORD is telling me consistently that I will be married, I will leave my parents house, and I will be happily married by a man who loves me just as JESUS loves me. It will not be easy believing for the impossible that it has to be Stephen, and I will again risk myself with so much pain just believing in something that could possible give me a heartbreak, so let my heart break if that's what it takes, let the pain burn every unholy thing within me, but it will all be worth it!
ApplicationSo I will sing even when I do not see what HE has promised. Yes I will rejoice and sing, even when I do not have yet what a loving husband who adores me, I will lead HIS church into praising even when I do not yet have children who love me. I will sing because HE has given me the faith to believe and the endurance and patience to keep trusting HIM inspite of the long delay that HIS promise is taking to be fulfilled. I will sing, I will feel the pain, I will not escape it, because the pain is important, it refines me, it keeps me humble and not inflated.
PrayersDear AVI,O HOLY ONE OF Israel! Great are YOU O GOD Almighty! YOU are faithful and true to every WORD YOU have ever written and spoken over to my Spirit! I bless YOU my GOD and KING who rules the Universe and Sovereign over every moving thing!!! Thank YOU for allowing me to feel the pain, YOU do not want me to be puffed up, YOU want me to keep trusting YOU, for YOU my husband KING the redeemer of all the earth and YOUR love for me is everlasting, YOU will never fail me. I thank YOU for saving all the people YOU have brought to my life to pray for, thank YOU for the opportunity to pray for Stephen, Benita, Janine Rose, Carlo, Sandro Muhlach, I ask that YOU save them from being condemned to hell, I pray deliver them from all their pain and heal them, bring them closer to YOU so that they enjoy a loving relationship with YOU. Let them know YOU, please bring them to the FATHER. I pray for Kyle, Arlene and Rey, even my parents Dad and Mom, that YOU will heal their traumas and wounds and let them follow YOU O GOD! Please paulia nana si Arlene sa Pilipinas, kaysa mag sigeg pangutang didto sa Dubai nga dli man kaha ni NIMO kabubuton nga muadto siya didto, nga siya rasad ni ingon ana nako sauna! Please GOD si Stephen, buhi a nana! Like YOU Promised in Isaiah 42 that YOU will pour out YOUR Spirit on him becuase YOU have chosen him! O GOD, even if I am such a mess, so vocal and brutally honest, may YOU still be glorified in all that I do and say! O GOD as I do my best in everything, be glorified over my life! I pray O GOD, take care of all of us! For YOU deserve our all and our best, our highest devotion and effort, our lives, our love, our worship, our honor and praises and thanksgiving, all glory belongs to YOU O GOD Almighty, JESUS, KING forever!In the Name of YESHUA Amen!
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