Friday, November 27, 2015
Surrounded By Glory
Today I woke early after the holiday. My family is all tucked in bed sleeping warmly. I am preparing for the day, starting with reading scriptures. We have a weekly reading schedule we follow, and this week includes a psalm.
Psalms 8:1 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
This type of Hebrew scripture that begins and ends the same have a message embedded in their structure. The message is the middle, with each of the other verses being a reflection of their counterpart on the other side of the middle. Here, the middle verse contains some interesting nuggets.
Psalms 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
It says in Hebrew that Yahuah (LORD) our Master (Lord) has made us a little lower than the angels (gods), and has surrounded (crowned) us with riches (glory) and splendor and majesty (honor). My experience in the physical has not always been so. In recent times it has been far more challenging than that. However, scriptures are true. Therefore we know that we can ask our Father Yahuah (Lord) for the riches and majesty, and know that they are coming to us and will appear. God does not lie, and what goes out of His mouth comes to pass. We are His mouthpiece and we are to say what He says, just as Yeshuah (Jesus) did.
John 12:49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
5 0 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
We should pray for glory and honor to surround us, just as David said we were made to be. If we already are, then we should pray that it stays and that Yahuah (Lord) shows to us how to spread that to others.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. We want Your kingdom around us here. Praise the name Yahuah! Send us today Your overwhelming blessing, pressed down, shaken together, and running over such that it overflows to those around us. Forgive us our sins. Heal up our inner hurts that we might stand strong for You and defend the weak and lowly of heart. Deliver us from the thief that is taking our lives through stealing our money, our finances, our goods, and enslaving us daily, as it has for years. Rise up, O Mighty King Yahuah! Rise up to crush these evil works! Your people cry unto You, do You not hear? Rise up and show Your strength on behalf of Your people. Deliver us while it is called today Father. Deliver us today. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.