9 Tevet 5781, Thursday Erev Christmas
24 December 2020
Thursday
Psalm 74
(0) A maskil of Asaf:
(1) Why have you rejected us forever, God,
with your anger smoking against the sheep you once pastured?
2 Remember your community, which you acquired long ago, the tribe you redeemed to be your very own. Remember Mount Tziyon, where you came to live.
3 Hurry your steps to these endless ruins, to the sanctuary devastated by the enemy.
4 The roar of your foes filled your meeting-place; they raised their own banners as a sign of their conquest.
5 The place seemed like a thicket of trees when lumbermen hack away with their axes.
6 With hatchet and hammer they banged away, smashing all the carved woodwork.
7 They set your sanctuary on fire, tore down and profaned the abode of your name.
8 They said to themselves, “We will oppress them completely.”
They have burned down all God’s meeting-places in the land.
9 We see no signs, there is no prophet any more; none of us knows how long it will last.
10 How much longer, God, will the foe jeer at us? Will the enemy insult your name forever?
11 Why do you hold back your hand? Draw your right hand from your coat, and finish them off!
12 God has been my king from earliest times, acting to save throughout all the earth.
13 By your strength you split the sea in two, in the water you smashed sea monsters’ heads,
14 you crushed the heads of Livyatan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.
15 You cut channels for springs and streams, you dried up rivers that had never failed.
16 The day is yours, and the night is yours; it was you who established light and sun.
17 It was you who fixed all the limits of the earth, you made summer and winter.
18 Remember how the enemy scoffs at Adonai, how a brutish people insults your name.
19 Don’t hand over the soul of your dove to wild beasts, don’t forget forever the life of your poor.
20 Look to the covenant, for the land’s dark places are full of the haunts of violence.
21 Don’t let the oppressed retreat in confusion; let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 Arise, God, and defend your cause; remember how brutish men insult you all day.
23 Don’t forget what your foes are saying, the ever-rising uproar of your adversaries.
Avi Yakar,
Blessed are YOU Adonai Elohim King of the Universe! My Everlasting!!! Toda Raba for this day that YOU have made, toda for waking me at 4am to pray... Toda for silencing the voice of the enemy that wants to anger me or stir up negative feelings inside of me. Toda Abba, so many thoughts run through my mind regarding Cherry and Lagman but I pray today that we will be able to give to Lagman the 13th month pay due to their employees. I remember this advice that Anthony gave me as I was complaining to him about how long I've waited for YOUR Promises. He gave me YOUR Word to not be anxious but to pray in all things. But I believe today I have truly applied that word right now as I did not allow the enemy to make me angry but to let go of any injustice and trust YOU to vindicate me. But Avi, I also have a concern, Gaw Arlene agrees with YOU regarding Anthony - he is the one. But what about the man born in Zion??? Have YOU forgotten this promise? I will only consider him if he is a man born in Zion, because YOU spoke those words to me Avi. And see YOUR word is confirming it today in Psalm 74: 2 Remember your community, which you acquired long ago, the tribe you redeemed to be your very own. Remember Mount Tziyon, where you came to live. Is not my husband not supposed to be born in Israel? If Anthony was born in America then how could he be the one? Surely YOU have to fulfill the WORD YOU have given me, Avi Remember Mt Zion where YOU came to live, remember.
Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach, Amen!
Genesis 45:28-46:27
(v) 28 Isra’el said, “Enough! My son Yosef is still alive! I must go and see him before I die.”
Genesis 46
1 Isra’el took everything he owned with him on his journey. He arrived at Be’er-Sheva and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Yitz’chak. 2 In a vision at night God called to Isra’el, “Ya‘akov! Ya‘akov!” He answered, “Here I am.” 3 He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down to Egypt. It is there that I will make you into a great nation. 4 Not only will I go down with you to Egypt; but I will also bring you back here again, after Yosef has closed your eyes.”
5 So Ya‘akov left Be’er-Sheva; the sons of Isra’el brought Ya‘akov their father, their little ones and their wives in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry them. 6 They took their cattle and their possessions which they had acquired in the land of Kena‘an and arrived in Egypt, Ya‘akov and all his descendants with him — 7 his sons, grandsons, daughters, granddaughters and all his descendants he brought with him into Egypt.
8 These are the names of Isra’el’s children who came into Egypt, Ya‘akov and his sons: Re’uven Ya‘akov’s firstborn; 9 and the sons of Re’uven — Hanokh, Pallu, Hetzron and Karmi.
10 The sons of Shim‘on: Y’mu’el, Yamin, Ohad, Yakhin, Tzochar and Sha’ul the son of a Kena‘ani woman.
11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, K’hat and M’rari.
12 The sons of Y’hudah: ‘Er, Onan, Shelah, Peretz and Zerach; but ‘Er and Onan died in the land of Kena‘an. The sons of Peretz were Hetzron and Hamul.
13 The sons of Yissakhar: Tola, Puvah, Yov and Shimron.
14 The sons of Z’vulun: Sered, Elon and Yachle’el.
15 These were the children of Le’ah whom she bore to Ya‘akov in Paddan-Aram, with his daughter Dinah. In sum, his sons and daughters numbered thirty-three.
16 The sons of Gad: Tzifyon, Haggi, Shuni, Etzbon, ‘Eri, Arodi and Ar’eli.
17 The children of Asher: Yimnah, Yishvah, Yishvi, B’ri‘ah, and their sister Serach. The sons of B’ri‘ah were Hever and Malki’el.
18 These were the children of Zilpah, whom Lavan gave to Le’ah his daughter; she bore them to Ya‘akov — sixteen people.
19 The sons of Rachel Ya‘akov’s wife: Yosef and Binyamin.
20 To Yosef in the land of Egypt were born M’nasheh and Efrayim, whom Osnat the daughter of Poti-Fera priest of On bore to him.
21 The sons of Binyamin: Bela, Bekher, Ashbel, Gera, Na‘aman, Echi, Rosh, Mupim, Hupim and Ard.
22 These were the children of Rachel who were born to Ya‘akov — in sum, fourteen people.
23 The sons of Dan: Hushim. 24 The sons of Naftali: Yachtze’el, Guni, Yetzer and Shillem.
25 These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Lavan gave to Rachel his daughter; she bore them to Ya‘akov — in sum, seven people.
26 All the people belonging to Ya‘akov coming into Egypt, his direct descendants (not counting Ya‘akov’s sons’ wives), totaled sixty-six. 27 The sons of Yosef, born to him in Egypt, were two in number. Thus all the people in Ya‘akov’s family who entered Egypt numbered seventy.
Joshua 4
20 Those twelve stones which they took out of the Yarden, Y’hoshua piled up at Gilgal. 21 Then he said to the people of Isra’el, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers what these stones mean, 22 you are to explain it to them by saying, ‘Isra’el came over this Yarden on dry land. 23 For Adonai your God dried up the water in the Yarden from in front of you, until you had crossed, just as Adonai your God did to the Sea of Suf, which he dried up from in front of us, until we had crossed. 24 From this all the peoples of the earth can know that the hand of Adonai is strong, and you can fear Adonai your God forever.’”
Ruth 4
1 Meanwhile, Bo‘az had gone up to the gate and had sat down there, when the redeemer of whom Bo‘az had spoken passed by. “Such-and-such,” he said, “come over, and sit down”; so he came over and sat down. 2 He took ten of the city’s leaders and said, “Sit down here”; and they sat down. 3 Then he said to the redeeming kinsman, “The parcel of land which used to belong to our relative Elimelekh is being offered for sale by Na‘omi, who has returned from the plain of Mo’av. 4 I thought I should tell you about it and say, ‘Buy it in the presence of the people sitting here and in the presence of the leaders of my people. If you want to redeem it, redeem it. But if it is not to be redeemed, then tell me, so that I can know, because there is no one else in line to redeem it, and I’m after you.” He said, “I want to redeem it.” 5 Then Bo‘az said, “The same day you buy the field from Na‘omi, you must also buy Rut the woman from Mo’av, the wife of the deceased [son], in order to raise up in the name of the deceased an heir for his property.” 6 The redeemer said, “Then I can’t redeem it for myself, because I might put my own inheritance at risk. You, take my right of redemption on yourself; because I can’t redeem it.”
7 In the past, this is what was done in Isra’el to validate all transactions involving redemption and exchange: a man took off his shoe and gave it to the other party; this was the form of attestation in Isra’el. 8 So the redeemer said to Bo‘az, “Buy it for yourself,” and took off his shoe. 9 Bo‘az addressed the leaders and all the people: “You are witnesses today that I am purchasing from Na‘omi all that belonged to Elimelekh and all that belonged to Kilyon and Machlon. 10 Also I am acquiring as my wife Rut the woman from Mo’av, the wife of Machlon, in order to raise up in the name of the deceased an heir for his property; so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his kinsmen and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.” 11 All the people at the gate and the leaders said, “We are witnesses. May Adonai make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Le’ah, who between them built up the house of Isra’el. Do worthy deeds in Efrat; become renowned in Beit-Lechem. 12 May your house, because of the seed Adonai will give you from this young woman, become like the house of Peretz, whom Tamar bore to Y’hudah.”
13 So Bo‘az took Rut, and she became his wife. He had sexual relations with her, Adonai enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. 14 Then the women said to Na‘omi, “Blessed be Adonai, who today has provided you a redeemer! May his name be renowned in Isra’el. 15 May he restore your life and provide for your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.” 16 Na‘omi took the child, laid it on her breast and became its nurse. 17 The women who were her neighbors gave it a name; they said, “A son has been born to Na‘omi,” and called it ‘Oved. He was the father of Yishai the father of David.
Mark 6
4 But Yeshua said to them. “The only place people don’t respect a prophet is in his home town, among his own relatives, and in his own house.” 5 So he could do no miracles there, other than lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of trust. Then he went through the surrounding towns and villages, teaching.
48 He saw that they were having difficulty rowing, because the wind was against them; so at around four o’clock in the morning he came toward them, walking on the lake! He meant to come alongside them; 49 but when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought it was a ghost and let out a shriek; 50 for they had all seen him and were terrified. However, he spoke to them. “Courage,” he said, “it is I. Stop being afraid!” 51 He got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. They were completely astounded, 52 for they did not understand about the loaves; on the contrary, their hearts had been made stone-like.
53 After they had made the crossing, they landed at Ginosar and anchored. 54 As soon as they got out of the boat, the people recognized him 55 and began running around throughout that whole region and bringing sick people on their stretchers to any place where they heard he was. 56 Wherever he went, in towns, cities or country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the tzitzit on his robe, and all who touched it were healed.
Avi Yakar,
O HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL! Have mercy on me O GOD Almighty for I AM YOURS, and I am so disturbed by what happened yesterday because of all the wrong things being done against the workers. Forgive me Adonai it is also my fault because I did not give the computation right away. So I want to transfer the funds to Lagman right now so that I can have peace of mind and peace as I spend time with YOU because it is really disturbing me. The workers might also be crying out against me... O GOD forgive me. Please Avi, help us...Help me. So Avi, I'm going to transfer payment because I need my Shalom! Right now Avi, help me I need peace Avi. I need YOU. O GOD Almighty! I need YOU. I will do it before I even continue praying. Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach, Amen!
Avi, I already transferred the payment using my account. Please Avi, let Mam Lagman be okay and comfort her Avi... Forgive me for the delay... Please Father forgive me... Avi help me to overcome. Toda Raba Avi, I lift up to YOU right now everything that concerns me.
Toda that YOU hear my heart and spirit more than the utterance of my mouth. My soul is precious to YOU and every moment of it I dedicate to YOU.
Please Avi, bless my Isaac, my husband and sons... and my future family... bless my family and help us to be good stewards of YOUR blessings. Please Avi, work in us, fill us with the Ruach Hakodesh, that we may please YOU all the days of our lives.
Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach, Amen!
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