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Sep. 28, 2009
Yom Kippur
It's Midnight and we haven't eaten since about 6pm and we're all feeling it. My stomach is aching, my mouth is dry.. I'm afflicting myself.
This is Rabbinic Calendar Yom Kippur.
Today I'm praying for Rifqa Bary and for Muslims to come to know Messiah. We watched Avi Lipkin's 5 Deceptions of Islam
Abba Father, I call out to you today, on this day which so many are afflicting themselves in obedience, and for the coming Day of Judgment. On this day when we come before you in repentance, having searched ourselves for the last week, searched our hearts to find our sins, and come to you with T'shuvah, repentance, to turn from what we were doing, to do only that which you call us to.
Father, my heart longs to walk only in obedience to Your Will, to walk in Torah, to know your heart for every aspect of my life. I used to think that was "pie in the sky" "unattainable" for me. I used to think that I needed to be someone really special to hear with an audible voice to know what you wanted from me. But now I know, I know exactly what you want from me, because I read your Word, I have studied the Torah, and have seen how failing to live out Torah has affected the lives of the House of Israel through out the generations. I have seen how they have suffered the curses of Deuteronomy 29. On the other hand, there are a few stories which show us how people have received the blessings of living out Torah and we see Deuteronomy 28 in their lives.
Many would say they would never covet the "thorn in the side" that Paul suffered.. no.. I too do not covet it.. but I do see how absolutely BLESSED Paul was despite this thorn. I see how living out God's Word blessed PAUL - because he had such a close relationship with God - and YES, God spoke to him in audible voice. Or what about Mary and Martha? Were they not blessed to sit at the Master's feet? To serve him food and drink? And to call on Him when their brother died - What a blessing to have Lazarus back from the dead! - but even moreso, the woman at the well.. though she lived in sin, she made T'shuvah and turned her heart to Yeshua and brought her community to Him too.
Abba, Their lives were not easy - nor will it be for Rifqa Bary now that she has given her life to You. HaSatan does not like to let you win. HaSatan thinks he's a greater god than you, but we know that the created can not have the glory due to the Creator. HaSatan will see his day of judgment, and he will be cast into the abyss. Until then, though Lord, your children are being decieved by him.. They are following the way of the sword, they are not following the Light. They know not Love, for they have not Love.. Abba Father, I pray for those who are lost, those who have already been deceived - show them The Way.
Abba, my stomach aches in pain from lack of food, but your heart is wrenched every time someone rejects your love, every time someone is confronted with the Truth, and choose to follow the lies of HaSatan. The pain in my stomach is nothing compared to the pain you have for your beloved children, created in Your image. HaSatan has only death in store for those who follow him under the banner of Allah, or Molech or Dagon.
Lord God, Feed me with Your Word, which is the Bread of Life. Quench my thirst with your Living Waters. May judgment day come, and the adversary stand against me, and there be found nothing written as testimony against me.. as I stand under the Shadow of the Wing of my Saviour, My Redeemer who has paid the Price for my sin.. and was not rejected by me.
B'Shem Yeshua HaMeshiach, Amen
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Sep. 29, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Love you,
Susan