Yom Shabbat, Fourth Month 1, 6006 – June 19, 2021
Closer Means Closer
This morning as I was considering this as the Sabbath, I thought about the call we each have on our lives. When I find myself thinking about others and how they are doing – or not – with their calling toward YAH, I am encouraged by the Spirit to focus on me. Yah calls me to be the best me I can be. He does not call me to make others be a certain way. That is between them and YAH. Actually, I have plenty to do just focusing on me. I have a responsibility for me to YAH. Maybe a bigger problem is if I spend time focusing on others and talking about others, I am not working on me. And frankly, I need the work. Closer to God and His people means closer to God. Anything else is some level of distraction for sure. This is what I am doing this Sabbath – thinking about me and how I can be a better me, walking closer to YAH.
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Prayer
Father, I exalt You. You alone are my King. I praise You name YAH. I praise the name YAHUAH! Let Your kingdom come here, and let Your will be done here, on earth as it is in heaven. Send me now Your provision. Forgive me my trespasses and transgressions, and help me to for give those that have trespassed or transgressed against me. Deliver me from the evil here. Deliver me from the evil plans men have for me. Destroy their plans and the works of their hands. Keep me from temptations YAH. This is Your kingdom and power and glory. Reign. I ask all these things of You Father King in the name YAH Yeshuah HaMashiach. Amen.