Yom Shabbat, Iyar 4, 6003 – April 21, 2018
Rest And Peace
We are in a day of rest today. With that day should come peace with God. Everyday we should experience peace with God because our Messiah made peace with God for us.
Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
On the Sabbath we rest from our ordinary work. We instead reach out to people to help them, to share our lives with them, and to be at rest with them. It is a time of joy, or should be. We all need rest from life’s great flow of business. We all need to find our way to the One that created The Sabbath is a good time to study the scriptures in greater depth, to consider His works, and to understand what He has in store for us. We know that He loves us. We know that He cares for us. We know that He has given to us life and not death. He has given us the power over darkness. We can be at peace on the Sabbath if we will only trust in our Father.
As I write these things here, it is important to at least me that those reading know that I write this not as someone that has figured out how to do things perfectly. I write as someone that sees there is a place to be at with our Father, adn I long to attain that place with Him. There are both works, and not works. Reconciling those and the scriptures that explain those things is a part of what life with God is all about for us.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. Praise the name YAH! Let Your kingdom come here in the hearts and minds of mankind. Heal our hearts and minds. Let Your perfect will be done here as it is in heaven. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Deliver us from the evil here. We want to serve You well. We want to be Your people. We want to learn to forgive people. Wipe away all the thoughts and memories of the evil done to us or by us. In their place let there be only thoughts and memories of You and Your love toward us. Raise up Your people, Father, and show Yourself strong on our behalf. We long to be restored. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold all that has been taken or held back in any way from Your people, and the more besides. Restore what the worm has eaten. Send in quickly the $424,523,962.53 that we might use it to care for Your people. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). WE ask all these things in the name of YAH Yeshuah. WE ask all these things of You, Father, our King, in Your name YAH! Amen.