My Next Prayer: Teach Me Ever More Fully the Meaning of Each Word in the Scriptures!
Posted by: PowerOfChoice | Thu, Jul 12, 2007 7:34 pm | Tag(s): Prayer Requests | Write Comment | Permalink |
Praise the Lord for answer to prayer! Plans and decisions have been made for continuing this web site and to make a continuance on Operation Global Rain. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, Lord of Hosts!
My next prayer is that I, and all of us, should continue to grow into an ever fuller understanding and realization of the many blessings in store for each and all of His Sons and Daughters within each and every word in the Holy Scriptures.
I believe God is wishing to use each and everyone of us as a tool towards this purpose.
God is the Creator of a multi-dimensional universe. I have no doubt but that most of us have realized new and additional lessons of light from time to time in one and the same text passage or even in one and the same word. Sharing these experiences with one another through witnessing certainly multiplies these blessings, do they not?
Here are a few of the most striking realizations the Lord has been opening my eyes to over the years:
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The cross:
Something or someone that stands straight up for the God of Truth.
[ In Hebrew - cf. Strong’s Dictionary - the last letter of the alphabet, tav, is also a word meaning ’sign’ or ‘cross.’ In Greek the first letter in the word Christ ‘χ‘ looks like a cross, or don’t you agree? But, more importantly, the root meaning of the Greek word translated ‘cross’ is ‘to stand straight up.’ ]
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Abel:
The meaning of the Hebrew name Abel is ‘worthlessness’ or ‘vanity.’ This realization was a great surprise for me! But it taught me a lot of things.
One of the differences between the sacrifices of Cain and Abel was that one was an apparent act of worship following the exterior format of God’s word while sadly missing the point of the inherent lesson. The consequence naturally being that of also losing the intended blessing. Thus in effect Cain’s sacrifice, in my mind, may be best characterized as an empty ritual. That is, doing something that is just a wee bit off from the original instructions such that the correct strings of my mind is not set in motion and I fail to get the gist of that still small voice.
Abel sacrificed and burned that which to me symbolizes empty, skewed, and meaningless acts of worship. That is, Abel burned up - got rid of - that which is worthless and vain in thought, word and action. - And was blessed by so doing!
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Sin:
To miss the point.
[ The Greek word translated ’sin’ is given by Strong’s as ‘to miss the mark.’ ]
Notice the close connection between the focal point of this word, sin, and the lesson I learned from the name ‘Abel’ above!
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Ceremonial:
An empty ritual. A word or act never ordained by God.
What is forever to be nailed to the cross? What is forever to be burned into nothingness by the ever cleansing fire of the God of truth and understanding - of the God that Is and of that which is what it is?
What ceremonial laws are forever to be nailed to the cross? The ordinances designed by God to be forever a true tuning fork teaching and tuning us towards the music, harmonies, and frequencies of the Creator? Or all such thoughts, words, and acts of habit and tradition as have little more value than did the ritual sacrifice of Cain?
How does this apply to the words of God spoken in Leviticus 23? Does any eternal word, spoken by God and expressly stated to remain “forever,” ever burn until it is no more? Or is it our missed points, our misunderstandings, that are to burn until they exist no more?
What is the point of being oriented to God’s own time? Does music, harmony, and the beauty of nature have anything to do with time? Do you know of anyone being disoriented to time? Does it make a difference?
Do we have anything to lose by timing our get togethers, our ‘holy convocations,’ in accord with the instructions in Leviticus 23? If we do, is that the same as suggesting that we should also introduce the same or similar meaningless rituals as has through time, ever since Cain and Abel, only led to meaningless bloodshed and loss of true and real value, and so many of the countless blessings forever intended to each and every one of us by our Maker?
This quarter’s Sabbath School Quarterly is entitled: “For Better of for Worse.” The Feast of Tabernacles to the Hebrew mind has everything to do with the Wedding ceremony between God the Father and His Bride, that is God the Father becoming one with His People, His Church. Individually we are created for being the Sons and Daughters of God, but all of us taken together constitutes something more, a creature of somewhat different nature, our Mother Church. And the One and only Head of that Household is God the Father, is He not? Each of us are to be tuned in accord with the will of the Father. How else can our Mother ever even hope to be in harmony and peace while in a happy and joyful marriage with our Father? How else can our Mother and our Father ever even hope to both be at the same time at the same place while dating together?
Does recognizing the true biblical timing for the Day of Trumpets, the Day of At-One-Meant, the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Eighth Day have any value? Will we ever know the difference if we never give it a try? What blessings may we be missing out on if we keep on believing that some of God’s eternal ordinances and teaching tools have been “nailed to the cross?”
Could we be in danger of killing Able, our beloved brother? Could it be that Able represents the true Sons and Daughters of God who “stands straight and upright” for the truths of their convictions while step by little step following the Light as given them as they are each little by little and day by day being anointed by the oil of the Holy Scriptures?
What will happen to the American People - “Am-erica-n” may be derived from words meaning “People of Kings” - if they, we, fail to recognize the difference between our Father in Heaven and her that is created to stand “beside” Him, being one with Him, but not before Him? In this context, could it be that I am perceiving a little bit clearer the meaning of the words:
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me?“
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Please Father, let us keep and grow with this web site!
Posted by: PowerOfChoice | Mon, Jul 9, 2007 4:33 am | Tag(s): Prayer Requests | Write Comment | Permalink |
Our Lord in Heaven, our Maker,
My prayer at this time is that your Sons and Daughters, and especially those of us who are Seventh-day Adventists, will be able to communicate by means of this web site, such that we may be able to learn and grow ever closer to You who are our Maker - as well as closer also to one another.
In the name of Yeshua who leads each of us step by little step towards the solution of each and all of our problems, Yeshua our Saviour, I pray…
Amen!
Pray for our church
Posted by: cherubgrace | Fri, Jul 6, 2007 7:13 pm | Tag(s): Prayer Requests, English | 2 Comments | Permalink |
Please keep in your prayers our churches here in Southern California. We have so much challenges we face daily that we fervently need the divine guidance of the Holy Spirit. Pray for Unity in the hearts of man and child that we may be effect leaders in finishing the work in these last days. Let us continue to pray without ceasing for one another. Praise God for OGR and what it is doing for each church, company and home that is participating. Let’s keep the incense rising!
Pray for Me!
Posted by: Jychenka | Mon, Jul 2, 2007 9:38 pm | Tag(s): Prayer Requests, English, Spanish | 4 Comments | Permalink |
My name is Oxana and I want to ask all of you pray about me, because I really need it! I want to be in close relationship with God! I want to work for him,but I have problem with it, because my parents don’t want it, so I really need in your prayers. Now is hard time for me, hard time in my life, I made so many bad mistakes… but I believe that God will forgive me my sins…
Oxana
Please Help
Posted by: tyneeelynsirlot | Sun, Jul 1, 2007 3:26 am | Tag(s): Prayer Requests | 5 Comments | Permalink |
My Husband and I were so going to do this with all of you. We haven’t even started yet. I want so much to do this. I do not want to be left out. We REALLY need your prayers. I could get into all the reasons why and you would all sympathize with us, but that is hardly the point. The big picture is that Satan has entered and made things upsidedown once again. Mean while our hearts are discouraged now. Please pray for us.
Thank you church family,
In Christ love & name,
Roger & Lynn
In heaven, will we follow God’s calendar? - Or that of the Pope?
Posted by: PowerOfChoice | Sat, Jun 30, 2007 8:00 am | Tag(s): Prayer Requests | 2 Comments | Permalink |
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I have a prayer:
My prayer is that I will be ever more in tune with the harmonics created by God throughout the universe. Throughout all of God’s creation I see harmony. Nature is like an orchestra of unfathomable proportions. Everything in nature is singing in tune with the music ordained by the Creator . The only ones with discordant voices seem to be those of mankind. In nature we are familiar with biological and seasonal cycles of many kinds that unceasingly follow the calendars of the Creator.
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A fateful day in ancient history:
Until the end of king Solomon God’s People were following the reckoning of time instituted by God from the beginning of time, and more particularly as reckoned by that which was created on the Fourth Day of the creation week. Then there was a change. The new king of Israel was jealously fearful that his people would turn away from him and return to the king of Judah. Because of that this new king arranged to change the calendar such that his people would no longer be reminded of the three annual Feasts ordained by God and upon which God’s People were to go up to Jerusalem for to worship together. The story is found in 1 Kings 12. KJV states that the king made two golden calves. The corresponding Hebrew words, however, may well be in reference to two different calendars - rather than to two calves.
As a consequence of this action of king Jeroboam, son of Nebat, we have lost track of what exact year we are living in relative to the beginning of the creation. And, notice, Jeroboam, son of Nebat, throughout the recorded history of the kings of Judah and Israel, is being constantly referenced as the most evil, or as the most sinful, of all the kings of Judah and Israel. I for one believe we may have reason for believing that Jeroboam is being thus referenced because of his changing God’s calendar and because of the unavoidable disorientation relative to God’s timing that must follow as a consequence thereof.
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Additional blessings inherent in Daniel 7:25?
As Seventh-day Adventists we have learned to put much emphasis upon a very similar series of events of prophecy recorded in Daniel 7:25, have we not? Perhaps there is more significance to this passage than what we have previously recognized? Is there a connection between king Jeroboam and papal calendar changes we have learned to recognize by means of Daniel’s prophecy? In essence, when we are consenting to follow another calendar than the one being taught in the Holy Scriptures from the beginning of time, it seems that we may in fact be following in the footsteps of king Jeroboam, son of Nebat, does it not?
I for one firmly believe that God has tremendous blessings in store for anyone who is willing to do his or her best in tuning into the frequency of our Creator, and more particularly by getting back into the reckoning of time as given us by our Creator. As Seventh-day Adventists we have been experiencing tremendous blessings by taking one step in the right direction by resting upon the Seventh Day and keeping it holy as per the Fourth Commandment. What additional blessings might some of us wish to realize for ourselves by taking some further steps in this same direction? Might there be a blessing in not being totally disoriented as to the time frame of our Creator?
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7-7-7 or 6-6-6?
Today is the first of the two Sabbaths of special prayers during this OGR event. Next Sabbath is the 7-7-7 Sabbath as dated in the Roman Catholic Church Calendar of Pope Gregorian. More specifically, the next Sabbath is the 7th Day of the 7th Month in the 2007th Year after Caesar Tiberius per the Gregorian calendar. The name Tiberius comes from the river Tiber that flows through Rome and the meaning of the name Tiberius is closely related to the words holy and sanctified. It is well known that in the Roman Catholic Church the numbers 3, 6, and 9, as well as multiples of the same, are very celebrated numbers. Thus, for instance, the number 666 as found in the words VICARIUS FILII DEI in the papal tiara. Well, we are now living in the beginning of the 3rd millennium of this Roman Catholic calendar which has its true basis, not upon the birth of Yeshua the Messiah as generally believed, but upon Caesar Tiberius. Thus the 7-7-7 date is the very first such event in this third millennia of Roman time reckoning. No doubt this is a most significant date for the powers behind the Roman Catholic Church, or do I not have a valid basis for such a presumption?
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How about the Sabbath today, “6-30-7″ or “June 30, 2007?”
Let’s consider today’s date from a slightly different angle: Today is the day that completes the Sixth month, isn’t it? In the new Roman Catholic reckoning of week days as generally used in Europe this Day is also the Sixth Day of the Week, is it not? (Additionally 30 = 5 x 6.) Accordingly, when today ends, the 1st full 6 years and 6 months of the 3rd millennium of the Roman Catholic calendar comes to its end at the end of the 6th Day of the Roman Catholic week.
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Next Sabbath completes an important 666 date!
So what does that make the point in time at the end of the next Sabbath – and the subsequent Sunday? That point in time completes the first 6 full days, 6 full months, and 6 full years of the 3rd millenium, does it not? In a very real sense that Sunday may be considered in terms of the 1st completed 6-6-6 in this 3rd millennium, correct? I wonder whether this date might not be an even more significant date than is 7-7-7 for some key powers behind the Roman Catholic Church?
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What are the corresponding Biblical dates?
So what are the biblical dates of these two Sabbaths? Well, simply put, this Sabbath is the 13th Day (full moon) of the 4th Moon of the biblical year. Next Sabbath is the 20th Day of the same 4th Moon. I am not aware of any particular biblical Feast day being associated with these Sabbaths.
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How may this be important for us today?
If by this planetary get together, OGR, we can truly become anointed by the light shed upon us by the Holy Spirit, such that we allow Him to be in fact our Helper who is cleansing us from our sins (our missed points re e.g. God’s own time keeping,) then I believe this OGR event will truly become a powerful tool in the hand of our Creator for sanctifying His own Sons and Daughters.
Perhaps some of us will even be willing to cease suffering from the consequences and curses of participating in said sins of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, that have been upon us now for I believe 2960 years, more or less? It would be about time, would it not?
Perhaps this could be a time in preparation for an event similar to the one recorded regarding Elijah and the 400 prophets of Baal in 1 Kings 18, or perhaps for an event similar to the one recorded regarding king Josiah in 2 Kings 23?
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prayer request
Posted by: dub_8701 | Fri, Jun 29, 2007 11:02 pm | Tag(s): Prayer Requests | 1 Comment | Permalink |
I request for prayers for my application for a work visa to go through for New Zealand it’s been a month but i know that the Lord is still in control. Also for me and my wife with our 18 month son we are going through tough times but we know the Lord says he will never put us through things that we cannot over come. James 5 says “The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.”
Who will help me plead? Who will be our prayer warriors?
Posted by: cdea | Fri, Jun 29, 2007 3:14 pm | Tag(s): Prayer Requests | 3 Comments | Permalink |
I belong to a small new church group in the Carolina conference, of only 14 baptized members, with over half as brand new SDA members, so we don’t have many prayer warriors yet. So who will help us prayer? Who will be our prayer warriors?
I have three important requests:
1. M, who I will leave as unnamed, was baptized January 2007. His present girlfriend and children have learned of the Everlasting Gospel and have now joined and been baptized also. However, the mothers of M’s two sons both now live in the area. Need I say more! Please pray that “all things will work together for good to those that love the Lord and are the called according to His purpose.”
2. Sherman has not heard the Everlasting Gospel yet! My sharing the Everlasting Gospel and also his marriage are being threatened. Please pray for the Lord to” lift up a standard against the enemy, when He comes in like a flood against Sherman!”
3. I desire to be thoroughly sanctified. For it is written, “And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. John 17:19.”
Who will help me plead? Who will be our prayer warriors?
Thanks in advance for your prayers!!!!
Prayer for outpouring of the Holy Spirit on my children & grandchildren
Posted by: jrosaasen | Thu, Jun 28, 2007 4:13 pm | Tag(s): Prayer Requests | Write Comment | Permalink |
please pray for my children & grandchildren that the Holy Spirit will pour out His spirit on them. Especially for my son Ken. The devil is trying to claim him. Please pray for my nephew Brian who has a long-time drug habit.
Plz pray for………
Posted by: dove_22 | Wed, Jun 27, 2007 9:14 pm | Tag(s): Prayer Requests | Write Comment | Permalink |
Plz pray for my granddaughter and her friends to get to know god better than they do right now. =]