Prayer Points by Dr. Darlene

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The eyes of YHVH are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. (Psalm 34:15)

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (James 5:16)

If you have suggestions for additions to this prayer list, please post them in the comments section. Thank you for praying!

  1. Pray for you children (and grandchildren) that YHVH will give us the wisdom and knowledge to raise them in the fear, love, faith and understanding of YHVH Elohim and Yeshua the Messiah, so that they will remain faithful and pass on his truth to the next generation. Pray that our prodigal children who have walked away from YHVH will come back to him and fall in love  with Yeshua and his word and embrace and follow the light of his truth.
  2. Pray for the people in the MidWest (of the U.S.) who are suffering from flooding from the storm.
  3. Because I was traveling (by air), I was particularly aware of the crash that killed so many people. Many loved ones were left behind and they need prayer for strength to go on.  We live in a high tech world and the people who invent and create these high tech items; they need to be particularly wise, knowledgeable and diligent in order to protect us from calamity.
  4. Terror attack is never good regardless of the victims. We must prayer for those left in the aftermath of the terror attack on the mosque.
  5. Pray that our schools would again teach history. If we don’t learn our history, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history in the rise of socialism, which will lead to communism.
  6. Some U.S. states are beginning to pass laws to force immunization. This is not freedom and it is not safe.  Many people cannot process the adjuvants that can lead to severe disorder and even death.
  7. Pray for our  (U.S.) President who must battle even his own party to try to lead the country.
  8. Many have been affected by the U.S. college scandal. Jobs will be lost, and students have been harmed.  We need integrity in the country, so these type of things don’t happen.  It appears that in this and some of the above, that the love of money is at the root of this evil.
  9. Fake News is propaganda. The most recent and blatant was the accusation made by the actor who claimed to have been beaten up by two conservatives when in fact, he paid people to beat him up to cause division.   A news report this week revealed more than a dozen of these type things that have occurred in just the last month.  This is pure propaganda and is designed to cause discord and to deceive people so that they make decisions based on lies.  We must pray for the TRUTH to be revealed in all situations and for people’s eyes to be opened and for them to have discernment.
  10. Many people have already thrown their hats into the U.S. presidential campaign for 2020.  President Trump has already had campaign rallies.  It is time to REALLY pray about this next election which truly will determine whether the U.S. remains free or goes socialist.
  11. Pray for all widows and orphans and especially those of our fallen military and law enforcement public servants.
  12. Pray for Father to reveal to us what He would have us to do to aid someone who needs help.
  13. I am hearing rumblings of ISIS gaining strength again. Pray against this enemy of our Father’s people living in the Middle East.
  14. Pray that President Trump will not be halted by members of the U.S. congress in trying to protect our borders.
  15. Pray for those who for some reason feel they cannot go on. May they reach for help and FIND it so that they do not chose to take their lives in despair.
  16. Pray for unity among the church denominations. Yeshua said that those not against them were for them!  There were and are differences and some are significant, but the heart of the Father would, I believe, wish for us to find SOME common ground—and love each other.
  17. Although some depend on pharmaceuticals for their existence for some reason or another, and while lowering the prices of prescription meds is a GOOD thing, pray that people would be healed and not NEED these meds and that they would not be dependent on them.  The whole pharmaceutical industry has become a giant entity that could control everyone who depends on it.
  18. Pray for the homeless, and pray that Father would reveal to each of us, someone who genuinely needs a hand out to help them back up.
  19. Pray for President Trump, for protection and good health for him and his family, for wisdom, knowledge, discernment, self control, courage, strength to lead our nation in spite of the opposition against truth and righteousness.
  20. Pray for the spiritual and political opposition, and that their eyes would be open to Truth that they might turn to Father and follow His ways.
  21. Pray for the general population, and that Father would pour His conviction out upon all and that we would all turn to Him in confession of sin, repentance, and obedience to Elohim.
  22. Pray that the conservatives of America would have the courage and strength to stand up and be active to the goal of protecting our southern border.
  23. Pray for the people who have so far been unable or unwilling to understand the sanctity of life from conception, so that they would reverse their thinking and remove unrighteous laws from the books that allow the murder of innocent babies.
  24. Pray for the people who honestly NEED asylum in America, and that they would be shown proper channels, so that our nation could be a help to those truly in need.
  25. Pray for those in charge of voter registration to accomplish a purge of illegal voters, so that our elections would be AMERICAN elections.
  26. Pray for victims of human trafficking, and that they would be found and returned and that this practice would be stopped.
  27. Pray for the leaders of “the church” who are whitewashing the Truth and deceiving their congregants.
  28. Pray that our Father’s will be accomplished in all things and that Yeshua would come soon.
  29. Prayer for Israel/Jerusalem, the land and the people.
  30. Prayer for those suffering during unseasonable cold weather conditions, especially the homeless and the poor.
  31. For those who are addicted whether to alcohol, drugs (both prescription AND street drugs) and pornography.
 

Blog Scripture Readings for 3-17 Through 3-23-19

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THIS WEEK’S SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR STUDY AND DISCUSSION:

Parashat Tzav — Leviticus 6:1 (6:8)* – 8:36
Haftarah — Jeremiah 7:21– 8:3; 9:22-23
Prophets — Isaiah 20:1 – 26:21
Writings — Proverbs 2:1 – 8:36
Testimony — John 14:1 – 18:40

Most of this week’s blog discussion points will be on these passages. If you have general comments or questions on the weekly Scripture readings not addressed in a blog post, here’s a place for you to post those. Just use the “leave a reply” link below.

The full “Read Through The Scriptures In A Year” schedule, broken down by each day, can be found on the right sidebar under “Helpful Links.” There are 4 sections of scripture to read each day: one each from the Torah, the Prophets, the Writings, and from the Testimony of Yeshua. Each week, the Torah and haftarah readings will follow the traditional one-year reading cycle.

* Verse numbers in parenthesis refer to the verse number in Christian English Bibles when they differ from Hebrew Bibles or the Tanakh.

Weekly Blog Scripture Readings for 3/17/19 through 3/23/19.

 

Yeshua: What’s more important than Torah-law obedience?

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John 13:35, By this all will know. Love was to be the identifying mark of a disciple of Yeshua. The Bible defines love in several ways. We love Yeshua by keeping his (Torah) commands (John 14:15; 1 John 5:1–3). Yeshua defines the Torah as loving Elohim with all of our heart, soul mind and strength and loving our neighbor as ourself (Mark 12:28–31). Paul says that all the laws of Elohim can be summed up in love (Rom 13:8–10). Yeshua said that the greatest expression of love is to lay one’s life down for another as Yeshua did for us (1 John 3:16; 4:11). Without love, all the good—even religious works—we may do YHVH counts as nothing (1 Cor 13).

It’s important to note that most disciples of Yeshua (including Christians) believe this principle, but, sadly, when it comes down to reality, many fail to live out the identifying principles of love. How easy it is to view our religious works as the main identifying marks Continue reading →

 

The Two Broad Categories of Sin

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Leviticus 4:1–33, Atonement for unintentional sin. Listed in this chapter are the steps priests (verses 3–12), the people (verses 13–21) and the leaders (verses 22–26), or people of the land (verses 27–35) had to take to deal with sin. These four categories cover all people on earth: the priests, the Israelites, the leaders of Israel, and everyone else (all the Gentiles).

Yeshua’s blood atonements is sufficient to cover all humans. The steps to make atonement for unintentional sin prophetically point to Yeshua’s death as a sin offering for man. They include offering a young bull on the altar (i.e. Yeshua’s death on the cross), the sinner laying his hands on the bull (i.e. confession of one’s sins and transferring those sins to Yeshua), sprinkling the blood of the sacrifice before the veil of the holy of holies (i.e. a picture of Yeshua’s blood being presented before the throne of Elohim on man’s behalf), sprinkling blood on the altar of incense (i.e. Yeshua interceding on the sinner’s behalf Continue reading →

 

“You shall never wash my feet…”

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John 13:8, You will never wash. Peter rejected Yeshua’s washing his feet not because of human obstinateness, but because of his honor for Yeshua. Washing the feet of one’s guests was an act of hospitality on the part of a host and was usually performed by a servant, not the host. Peter considered it to be demeaning for the Master to be performing the task of a servant, yet this is exactly what Yeshua was attempting to demonstrate. As the Messiah, he came to lay down his life in loving service for his disciples and not to be served (Matt 20:28; John 10:15; 15:13). Yeshua then made the point that his disciples should following his example in serving one another (vv. 12–17).

John 13:14–15, You also ought to wash. Yeshua is giving a simple and clear command here for the saints to wash one another’s feet. How many Christian churches who claim to be followers and imitators of Yeshua actually wash each others’ feet? If Christian leaders in most churches are teaching their people to obey this command, now many other of Yeshua’s other commandments are they not teaching and obeying?

 

Without Blemish—Why, What and Who

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Leviticus 3:1, Without blemish. Heb. tamiym meaning “complete, whole, entire, sound, healthful, wholesome, unimpaired, innocent, having integrity.” Of this word, The TWOT states, [Tamiym r]efers to animals which are without blemish; also translates as such related adjectives as full, whole, upright, perfect. It represents the divine standard for man’s attainment.” Tamiyn occurs in the Tanakh 91 times, and the KJV translates it  in a variety of ways: without blemish, perfect, upright, without spot, uprightly, whole, sincerely, complete, full. Here are some examples of how tamiym is used in the Tanakh:

  • Noah was a just, perfect or upright (tamiym) man (Gen 6:9).
  • YHVH admonished Abraham to walk perfectly or blamelessly (tamiym) before him (Gen 17:1).
  • The Passover lamb was to be without blemish (tamiym, Exod 12:5) as were all the other animals offered to YHVH as sacrifices (e.g. Exod 29:1; Lev 1:3, 10; 3:1, 6, 9; 4:3, 23, 28, etc.).
  • YHVH instructed the Israelites to be blameless (tamiym) before him by not being like the wicked, abominable and idolatrous nations around them (Deut 18:13).
  • Elohim is perfect (tamiym, Deut 32:4).
  • The people of Elohim are to fear him and to serve him in sincerity (tamiym) and truth and to put away the gods of Egypt (this world) and to serve Elohim (Josh 24:14).
  • David was blameless or upright (tamiym) before Elohim (2 Sam 22:24). Even thought David committed adultery, murder and egregiously disobeyed in some other areas, Elohim viewed him as tamiym because of he had repented of and turned away from his sins.
  • When a person is upright or blameless (tamiym) before Elohim, Elohim will be blameless (tamam meaning “to be complete, be sound, be unimpaired, be upright or to deal in integrity, to act uprightly) in response to that person (2 Sam 24:26).
  • The ways of Elohim are perfect (tamiym, 2 Sam 22:31).
  • Elohim makes the ways of the saint perfect (tamiym, 2 Sam 22:33).
  • Those who walk uprightly (tamiym) will be allowed to dwell in the presence of Elohim (Ps 15:2).
  • The Torah-law of YHVH is perfect (tamiym, Ps 19:7).
  • YHVH blesses or withholds no good thing from the upright (tamiym, Ps 84:11 cp. Ps 119:1; Prov 2:21; 28:10, 18).
  • The righteous are to walk perfectly or blamelessly (tamiym) before Elohim (Ps 101:2, 6; 119:80; Prov 11:5).
  • YHVH delights in the blameless (tamiym) person (Prov 11:20).
  • The wicked abhor those who speak uprightly (tamiym, Amos 5:10).

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. (Matt 5:48)

 

What is the covenant of salts?

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Leviticus 2:13, (also Num 18:19) Salt of the covenant. Why did YHVH mandate that salt be added to this offering?

Like the other elements of all the offerings listed in this chapter, it is a physical substance YHVH uses as a prophetic metaphor to help humans to understand spiritual realities. As a top tier teacher, YHVH uses teaching tools to understand humans deep spiritual truths—to help us to bridge the gap in our understanding between the physical and earthly plane that the spiritual or heavenly plane. To wit, salt has two properties. It destroys (thereby purifying a substance) and preserves. It destroys plants and microorganism like fungus and bacteria and it therefore aids in the preservation of food by killing those things that cause food to decay. Therefore salt symbolizes the covenant of YHVH, which stipulates that if you follow the Torah you will be blessed (preserved and purified), but if you violate it you will be cursed (destroyed). As salt prevents spoilage of food, and acts as a cleansing agent, so the Torah-Word of Elohim, if obeyed, will keep one in the paths of righteousness and in right relationship with the Almighty. It will prevent one from spiritual degradation. 

Furthermore, salt as a preservative conserves and symbolizes permanence, even as the sacrificial meat it seasoned symbolized the immutability of YHVH’s covenant with his people.

Salt also makes food palatable, even as obedience to the commandments of Elohim make otherwise sinful men palatable to the “taste buds” of the Creator. Recall Yeshua’s statement about the saints being the salt of the earth (Matt 5:13). Our Master further states that every sacrifice was salted (Mark 9:49), and Paul declares that the saints are “living sacrifices, holy and acceptable [or well-pleasing] to Elohim.” As such, they are to be unlike the world, which to YHVH is tasteless and not well-pleasing (Rom 12:2–3)

So salt is a sign of YHVH covenant with his people for a variety of reasons that are spiritually significant. 

So important was salt in ancient times as a food preservative that it is called “a foundation of civilization.” Because it was difficult to obtain, it was a highly valued trade item, and roads were constructed to procure it (e.g. the Via Salaria in Italy during Roman times). Cities and empires were built around salt supplies. The English word salary derives from the Latin word salarium for salt, and either indicates that the wages of a Roman soldier were at times paid in salt, or that he was allotted money to purchase salt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_salt).

These facts underscore the reality that without salt, human life cannot exist. As such, salt is an appropriate addition to the tabernacle sacrifices, for without the sin sacrifice of Yeshua (which the ancient Levitical sacrificial system prophetically portrayed), man has no hope of being preserved eternally.