Yom Shlishi, Kislev 26, 6003 – December 4, 2018
Change The Future For A Friend
It is easy to want to pray for something better for ourselves. We often do this in times of perceived need. The greater the need, the more intense the praying, usually. But often we are encouraged to consider others in our times of prayer.
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rearward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
And as it turns out, this prayer for others with intensity through fasting results in our being blessed as well, as the scriptures tell us. We need to be crying out to our Father for those that are oppressed, to break the bands of wickedness, and for the poor, the hungry, the widow, and the orphan. We are called to help others. This includes especially in our prayers, because our prayers matter.
Let’s help each other today by praying for one another.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. Praise the name YAH! Let Your will be done here in this earth as it is in heaven, so perfectly, and let Your kingdom come here in the hearts and minds and bodies of the people. Send us Your provision. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Wipe away all 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 for us. Deliver us from the evil here. Restore Your people unto You as it was in the garden. Let there be a place for the widow and the orphan to rest their head in comfort and peace. Let them and the hungry be filled and clothed. Strike at the enemy that they not prevail and they flee from the battles against Your people today, even now. Help us to find a way, Father, to serve You. Restore all that the worm has eaten. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold all that the enemy has taken or held back of that which is good, and the more besides. Send in quickly the $423,523,962.53 that we might use it to promote the kingdom here in this earth. Rise up, my King, and strike. We ask all these things of You in the name YAH Yeshuah HaMashiak. Amen.