Psalm 9

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Philippians 3:10 "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;"

"...and the fellowship of His sufferings". Here is an arena of fellowship thoroughly neglected by the Christianity of today. How many people have you ever heard speak of wanting to know the fellowship of the Messiah's suffering? That's because suffering goes completely contrast to what we as human beings actually want, thus the idea of suffering goes completely contrary to what the many gospels preached in todays pulpits teach.

And this has nothing to do with the suffering of all individuals which is common to this life. Think about this. A Christian stricken with cancer may preciously proclaim that they are suffering for Christ. But what about the serial rapist in prison who is diagnosed with the same cancer? Or the Buddhist monk or Indian shaman? No, this is not the fellowship of Yahoshua's suffering.

The beatings and imprisonment of Paul or Silas for simply casting a demon out of a young girl, this was that suffering. The stoning of Stephen for preaching the truth, imprisonment of Peter, all the perils faced by all the believers of the age, this was that fellowship; and Paul wanted to know the fullness of all.

Who in their right mind would want such a thing? We may ask. Yahoshua told us plainly that if we would be followers of Him, we must daily take up our cross and follow. To these early believers, the cross was not a religious icon. It was an instrument of suffering and death. Paul knew full well the risks for proclaiming the risen Messiah, yet he never hesitated. His consuming passion was more and more of the living Yahweh, and he would march through whatever hell could be devised in order to have more of his Blessed Master.

There are no mega churches preaching the true Gospel of the Kingdom. Even by today's stundards, to stand by the truth and walk in the true path of righteousness means to be hated, mocked and scorned. But this is just the path that leads to glory unimaginable and joy unspeakable, for it is through the fellowship of His sufferings, that the Messiah reveals Himself to us in the most loving of ways.

Blessed Heavenly Father Yahweh

I praise You for all the things that You are doing in my life, I praise You for the good and the bad, for I know that You are at work, not only in my life, but in the lives of all Your Israel children, and in the world as well.

HalleluYah!

0408 - Theodosius II succeeded to the throne of Constantinople.
1308 - King Albert was murdered by his nephew John, because he refused his share of the Habsburg lands.
1486 - Christopher Columbus convinced Queen Isabella to fund an expedition to the West Indies.
1707 - England, Wales and Scotland were united to form Great Britain.
1805 - The state of Virginia passed a law requiring all freed slaves to leave the state, or risk either imprisonment or deportation.
1863 - In Virginia, the Battle of Chancellorsville began. General Robert E. Lee's forces began fighting with Union troops under General Joseph Hooker. Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own soldiers in this battle. (May 1-4)
1867 - Reconstruction in the South began with black voter registration.
1877 - U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew all Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
1883 - William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) had his first Wild West Show.
1884 - The construction of the first American 10-story building began in Chicago, IL.
1898 - The U.S. Navy under Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
1905 - In New York, radium was tested as a cure for cancer.
1915 - A German submarine sank the U.S. ship Gulflight.
1927 - Adolf Hitler held his first Nazi meeting in Berlin.
1931 - The Empire State Building in New York was dedicated and opened. It was 102 stories tall and was the tallest building in the world at the time.
1934 - The Philippine legislature accepted a U.S. proposal for independence.
1937 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.
1944 - The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, made its first flight.
1945 - Martin Bormann, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, escaped from the Fuehrerbunker as the Red Army advanced on Berlin.
1945 - Admiral Karl Doenitz succeeded Hitler as leader of the Third Reich. This was one day after Hitler committed suicide.
1948 - The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed.
1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called Annie Allen.
1958 - James Van Allen reported that two radiation belts encircled Earth.
1960 - Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Powers was taken prisoner.
1961 - Fidel Castro announced there would be no more elections in Cuba.
1968 - In the second day of battle, U.S. Marines, with the support of naval fire, continue their attack on a North Vietnamese Division at Dai Do.
1970 - Students at Kent State University riot in downtown Kent, OH, in protest of the American invasion of Cambodia.
1971 - The National Railroad Passenger Copr. (Amtrak) went into service. It was established by the U.S. Congress to run the nation's intercity railroads.
1981 - The Japanese government announced that it would limit passenger car exports to the United States over the next three years.
1986 - The Tass News Agency reported the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.
1992 - On the third day of the Los Angeles riots resulting from the Rodney King beating trial. King appeared in public to appeal for calm, he asked, "Can we all get along?"

Psalm 79

Philippians 3:10 "... being made conformable unto death"

It would be easy to stumble at this statement, but as ironic as it may seem, death is a way of life. But this is not some brooding , morbid or dark mentality. If it were, how could it bring us into the light? No this, indeed is the very opposite. For as we "put to death " all our sins or as Paul states "the old man or old sinful nature", we find ourselves fulled with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

"Whoever would save his life shall loose it... " John the Baptist, when told that the disciples of Yahoshua were baptizing more than he, did not suffer a second's competitiveness. "He must increase and I must decrease". The light that would cause the church to actually shine in this dark world would be less of the traditions and doctrines of men, and more of the Word and Spirit of Yahweh. The same in each of our lives, less of us and more of the Messiah.

But oh how our wretched flesh cringes, our ego's groan, our rugged individuality shudders, our minds rebel against such a death. A voice whispers "but you enjoy being this way or that, surely God doesn't care about this quirk or that little indulgence. Think of all the happy memories you have of (insert sin here). All your friends and family expect you to behave in such and such a way".

Yet there is another voice, it whispers in holy thunder, "behold the Holiness of Yahweh God. Do you feel that great peace which is different that anything you have ever experienced? It is but a taste, a small down payment of an even greater peace yet to come. Give yourself up to the Father. Dare to be a new creature. Just let it go.

:11"If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. "

Paul looks to the life beyond this one as the source of hope for the sufferings and the self denial that he experiences here. Ever and always, if we are to be overcomers, if we are to experience the victory of holiness, we must look beyond this pale world and forward to the glory which is to come, for truly the just shall live by faith.

Heavenly Father Yahweh

I praise You and Thank You for all the life You have given me, not just this life, but the Life I will live with You in Your Glorious Kingdom. Help me to look at both life and death through Your Perfect Eyes.

HalleluYah!

1519 - Leonardo da Vinci died.
1670 - The Hudson Bay Company was founded by England's King Charles II.
1776 - France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.
1797 - A mutiny in the British navy spread from Spithead to the rest of the fleet.
1798 - The black General Toussaint L�fouverture forced British troops to agree to evacuate the port of Santo Domingo.
1808 - The citizens of Madrid rose up against Napoleon.
1813 - Napoleon defeated a Russian and Prussian army at Grossgorschen.
1863 - Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was wounded by his own men in the battle of Chancellorsville, VA. He died 8 days later.
1865 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson offered $100,000 reward for the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1885 - The Congo Free State was established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
1887 - Hannibal W. Goodwin applied for a patent on celluloid photographic film. This is the film from which movies are shown.
1890 - The Oklahoma Territory was organized.
1919 - The first U.S. air passenger service started.
1926 - In India, Hindu women gained the right to seek elected office.
1926 - U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua to put down a revolt and to protect U.S. interests. They did not depart until 1933.
1933 - Hitler banned trade unions in Germany.
1941 - Hostilities broke out between British forces in Iraq and that country�fs pro-German faction.
1941 - The Federal Communications Commission agreed to let regular scheduling of TV broadcasts by commercial TV stations begin on July 1, 1941. This was the start of network television.
1945 - Russians took Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting. The Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.
1946 - Prisoners revolted at California's Alcatraz prison.
1965 - The "Early Bird" satellite was used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic.
1970 - Student anti-war protesters at Ohio's Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard took control of the campus.
1974 - Former U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals.
1993 - Authorities said that they had recovered the remains of David Koresh from the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, TX.
1994 - Nelson Mandela claimed victory after South Africa's first democratic elections.

Psalm 38

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Philipp[ans 3:12 "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus."

What glorious hope we have, for even Paul, who's entire being was offered up unto Yahweh, whose words have guided and instructed multitudes, found that even he had not obtained perfection in any form. Within him there was still wrestlings and struggings, and while many have looked at his menory with great reverence and respect, he was still, but a man. But still he continued on, he turned his back on all his past and reached out continuously to grab hold of the glory that he saw so plainly in the Messiah.

Not that Paul did not see his own worth, but he did not dwell on such worth. Denying our talents does not make us humble. If you are beautiful or handsome standing in front of a mirror repeating over and over again that you are ugly does not qualify as humility. Being able to say " I am beautiful, but that will not save my immortal soul, and my physical beauty shall fade with age, I need a Savior who can give to me beauty of soul and spirit", would be humility.

Paul knew full well where he stood with Yahweh and was able to say with confidence... "be followers together of me...". This was no arrogance for Paul knew just as fully well that he was not perfect, but neither was anyone else. He had not walked in the absolute fullness of all there was to be had, but neither had anyone else. In essence, Paul is saying "I can see it, come with me that we all may press forward together. I'm not perfect, but I see the One who is and I'm going forward to Him with all my might, come with me."

:13-14 "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

Sinless perfection will never be reached as long as we are in these tabernacles of flesh, but it is still our goal, to be as the Messiah, to walk ever as He walked. anyone who settles for some lesser standard of lesser value shall not be known as an overcomer. If we are not moving forward, even if only at a snail's pace, then we are slipping backwards. Our goal is ahead, not behind.

Heavenly Father Yahweh

Thank You for Your Holy Spirit and for leading me in YOUR path of righteousness. Help me to keep my eyes on You and Your Glory and Your Promses and not to be focused on myself.

HalleluYah!

Psalm 32

Acts 2:26 "Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:"

The notion of rest seems to be a far way concept in our modern age. All about us, people are running to and fro, exhausting themselves with activities that do not seem to ever be finished. In a day and time when we have more time for "leisure", we actually are overburdened and overwhelmed.

Our forefathers worked from sun to sun and often into the night to secure the "basics", food, shelter, clothing. These days all such things are available with ease, so much so that the few who would try to be self sufficient are looked upon as oddities. But even our forefathers whose labor was for their very survival, knew how to cease from their labors; how to stop and visit with the unexpected guests, to rush to the aid and comfort of the stricken friend or family member, and to set aside time for worship and prayer.

But we, who are so "blessed" with the technological terrors of this modern day are always in a hurry, never considering the abundant material blessings we have. Our focus is always more, more, more. Our very children become a source of weariness because we have them engaged in every possible activity so that they may have all the "advantages" previous generations didn't have. Yet what a godless generation has arisen agound us, spoiled and without natural affection, mesmerized and hypnotized by all the latest toys and entertainments. (Is. 3:12)

Yahweh will assist us, by returning us to the harshness of days gone by, when our toil will again be for the "basics". Perhaps then we will learn what is really important and then give our strength to His Kingdom rather than all the foolishness our society, has heaped upon itself. Then perhaps instead of chasing, after the latest "things", we will again set our hearts upon He which never changes, and He will grant rest for our souls.

Oh, Heavenly Father Yahweh

Deliver Your Israel people from the rebellion, the apathy and the love of the things of this world, I pray Thee. Pour out Your Holy Spirit upon us that we might repent and once again be Your peculiar treasure.

HalleluYah!

1471 - In England, the Yorkists defeated the Landcastrians at the battle of Tewkesbury in the War of the Roses.
1493 - Alexander VI divided non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal.
1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on Manhattan Island. Native Americans later sold the island (20,000 acres) for $24 in cloth and buttons.
1715 - A French manufacturer debuted the first folding umbrella.
1776 - Rhode Island declared its freedom from England two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
1795 - Thousands of rioters entered jails in Lyons, France, and massacre 99 Jacobin prisoners.
1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte disembarked at Portoferraio on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.
1863 - The Battle of Chancellorsville ended when the Union Army retreated.
1886 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter patented the gramophone. It was the first practical phonograph.
1916 - Germany agreed to limit its submarine warfare after a demand from U.S. President Wilson.
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British.
1932 - Al Capone entered the Atlanta Penitentiary federal prison for income-tax evasion.
1942 - The Battle of the Coral Sea commenced as American and Japanese carriers launched their attacks at each other.
1942 - The United States began food rationing.
1946 - A two-day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay ended. Five people were killed.
1961 - Thirteen civil rights activists, dubbed "Freedom Riders," began a bus trip through the South.
1970 - The Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister.
1989 - Oliver North, a former White House aide was convicted of shredding documents and two other crimes. He was acquitted of nine other charges stemming from the Iran-Contra affair. The three convictions were later overturned on appeal.
1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1998 - Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento, CA. The sentence was under a plea agreement that spared Kaczynski the death penalty.
2000 - Londoners elected their mayor for the first time.
2003 - Idaho Gem was born. He was the first member of the horse family to be cloned.

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Proverbs 10

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Psalm 37:7 " Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. "

Yahoshua told us that we couldn't, by worry, add one inch to our height or accomplish or achieve anything. Throughout all of scripture we see the same theme: trust, obey, wait. In faith we rest in the faithfulness of Yahweh and His Word and His Promises. In this we see the striking parallel between these who have been truly touched by Yahweh's Holy Spirit and those who have aquired a head knowledge, an intellectual knowledge of Yahweh only.

:1-2 "[A Psalm] of David.] Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb."

Yes we see the wickedness of evil men or women everywhere, but what is our duty in the face of such growing darkness? Are we to overthrow them? Are we to rush out in armed revolt or political uprising? "Fret not"... Our Messiah has instructed us not to be troubled, that He would surely return to gather His little flock, that where He is, we also shall be. Stay focused not on the cultural calamities that arise or the growing wickedness, but on Him and Him alone,. It is when we divide our attention, like poor Peter, that we begin to be overwhelmed by the storm around us.

:4-5 "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass."

Abandon the fickle ways of this world and all its cares and worries and surrender your entire being, every thought and notion unto Him and He who sees in secret will reward you openly.

:7-9 "Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth."

All these wicked men and women are nothing but signs to you, for to show you how quickly our Messiah and King shall come. :12-13"The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming." Rest assured, Yahweh is not caught by surprise at these people or their vain imaginings. The events of these last days are all a part of His intricate plan, and if our King can laugh at them in perfect confidence, let us take up the chorus with Him and laugh them to scorn, for laughter doeth good like a medicine.

Do not now worry, for the joke, as terrible as it may be, is on them.

Heavenly Father Yahweh

Have mercy on Thy Israel people, I pray. We have sinned against You and cast away Thy perfect law, and now we are reaping according to our works. Deliver us, O Father, lead us back into Thy Truth and into Thy peace, that we might again be Your holy people.

HalleluYah!

1494 - Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica on his second trip to the Western Hemisphere. He named the island Santa Gloria.
1798 - U.S. Secretary of War William McHenry ordered that the USS Constitution be made ready for sea. The frigate was launched on October 21, 1797, but had never been put to sea.
1809 - Mary Kies was awarded the first patent to go to a woman. It was for technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.
1814 - The British attacked the American forces at Ft. Ontario, Oswego, NY.
1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena, where he had been in exile.
1847 - The AMA (American Medical Association) was organized in Philadelphia, PA.
1862 - The Battle of Puebla took place. It is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo Day.
1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the U.S.
1886 - A bomb exploded on the fourth day of a workers' strike in Chicago, IL.
1891 - Music Hall was dedicated in New York City. It was later renamed Carnegie Hall.
1892 - The U.S. Congress extended the Geary Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 more years. The act required Chinese in the U.S. to be registered or face deportation.
1901 - The first Catholic mass for night workers was held at the Church of St. Andrew in New York City.
1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda began publishing.
1916 - U.S. Marines invaded the Dominican Republic.
1917 - Eugene Jacques Bullard becomes the first African-American aviator when he earned his flying certificate with the French Air Service.
1925 - John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
1942 - General Joseph Stilwell learned that the Japanese had cut his railway out of China and was forced to lead his troops into India.
1945 - The Netherlands and Denmark were liberated from Nazi control.
1945 - A Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon. A pregnant woman and five children were killed.
1955 - The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) became a sovereign state.
1981 - Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. It was his 66th day without food.

Psalm 68

Jeremiah 6: 16
"Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where id the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls..."

Today's Laodecian church prides itself on being new and modern. It's techniques are designed by the best of showmen and it's policy and doctrine could very well have been drawn up by a whitehouse spokesman. No old hammering on sin and sinfulness for this church. In today's church love, acceptance and grace must be the one banner that flys over the steeples of churchianity. Holiness can be defined by the whim of the preacher, and whatever our fathers or grandfathers were guilty of condemning as sin, today's church reconciles itself to such to show our shame at their discriminatory or prejudiced attitude.

But what of the Bible? What of Yahweh's unchanging word? Even while translators from endless ages have stumbled through the Holy Word, Yahweh's Spirit still opens our eyes to the lost treasures therein. But Yahweh not only doesn't change, He can not change! Beneath the centuries of translations and pens of scribes, the word of Yahweh is still as steadfast as ever, like an unwavering star by which we may all set our course. Amid today's Babylon of chaos and abomination Yahweh's word still points us to the Ancient Paths, the law; the Commandments, statutes and judgements of the everliving God. Here is rest for the sin weary soul.

Matt 11:28-30 " Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light."

Many have tried to use the grace revealed through The Messiah to abolish the Law, but they have no understanding who they are dealing with. Yahoshua the Messiah is the word, the word made flesh, Yahoshua is Yahweh the Infinite God. For Him to abolish His own law and word, would be to try and abolish some part of Himself. No He came to call us to repentance, to turn from our lawless ways back to the "Ancient Paths" of His word, for it is through obedience and obedience alone that we may enter into His sweet rest.

Precious Father Yahweh

Your Word is perfect and Your law a light for our path. Draw the eyes of Your people away from the ways of this world and back to Thy precious law, that we might no longer walk in darkness but in Thy glorious light.

HalleluYah!

1527 - German troops began sacking Rome, bringing about the end of the Renaissance.
1529 - Babur defeated the Afghan Chiefs in the Battle of Ghagra, India.
1576 - The peace treaty of Chastenoy ended the fifth war of religion.
1682 - King Louis XIV moved his court to Versailles, France.
1851 - The mechanical refrigerator was patented by Dr. John Gorrie.
1861 - Arkansas became the ninth state to secede from the Union.
1877 - Chief Crazy Horse surrendered to U.S. troops in Nebraska.
1882 - The U.S. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. The act barred Chinese immigrants from the U.S. for 10 years.
1910 - Kind Edward VII of England died. He was succeeded by his second son, George V.
1937 - The German airship Hindenburg crashed and burned in Lakehurst, NJ. Thirty-six people (of the 97 on board) were killed.
1941 - Joseph Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership.
1941 - Bob Hope gave his first USO show at California's March Field.
1942 - During World War II, the Japanese seized control of the Philippines. About 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.
1960 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
1962 - The first nuclear warhead was fired from the Polaris submarine.
1994 - The Chunnel officially opened. The tunnel under the English Channel links England and France.
1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against U.S. President Clinton. The case alleged that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
1997 - Army Staff Sgt. Delmar G. Simpson was sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping six trainees at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
1997 - Four health-care companies agreed to a settlement of $600 million to hemophiliacs who had contracted AIDS from tainted blood between 1978-1985.

Job 37

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Isaiah 57:15 "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones...,:19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] far off, and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. [There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked."

The beauty of redemption never fades. It is majestic and speaks volumes about the Character and Mercy of Yahweh our God. He is Holy. His very Name is holy, and yet how carelessly we utter it, how thoughtlessly we sometimes use the Name of Yahweh in our utterances. So pure, so utterly beyond our pitiful frame of reference.

He is holy, we are born into sin, our very nature's bent by sin toward sin. His natural actions are perfect. Our natural charcters are toward lawlwssness. How can we hope to be reconciled unto Him in which there is no darkness?

We need mercy. In His mercy He touches our hearts and our minds, reveals our need, promises not only to cleanse us, but to empower us to be obediant. Unto us who are utterly without inclination toward righteousness, He promised to give us the inclination and the ability to forsake lawlessness and walk in obedience.

"I dwell in the high - holy place AND with him that is of a contrite - humble spirit". How glorious is Yahweh our God! To the soul that is broken by the weight and guilt of their own sins (as also the sins of others) Yahweh does not ever hesitate to stoop down from His Exhalted station and gently lift our faces toward Himself and say "I am here my child".

How wonderful is the mercy of the Everliving. Give thanks and look to the True God, Yahweh, and give glory to His Holy, awesome Name!

Oh, Holy Father Yahweh

I would be so lost without You, without Your Holy Word and Your Holy Spirit. Thank You for Your mercy upon me, for I am not worthy of You, but You are worthy to be worshipped, and You alone have the Words of Life.

HalleluYah!

0558 - The dome of the church of St. Sophia in Constantinople collapsed. It was immediately rebuilt as ordered by Justinian.
1274 - The Second Council of Lyons opened in France to regulate the election of the pope.
1429 - The English siege of Orleans was broken by Joan of Arc.
1525 - The German peasants' revolt was crushed by the ruling class and church.
1763 - Indian chief Pontiac began all out war on the British in New York.
1800 - The U.S. Congress divided the Northwest Territory into two parts. The western part became the Indiana Territory and the eastern section remained the Northwest Territory.
1847 - The AMA (American Medical Association) was founded in Philadelphia.
1912 - Columbia University approved final plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories.
1912 - The first airplane equipped with a machine gun flew over College Park, MD.
1915 - The Lusitania, a civilian ship, was sunk by a German submarine. 1,198 people were killed.
1926 - A U.S. report showed that one-third of the nation's exports were motors.
1937 - The German Condor Legion arrived in Spain to assist Franco�fs forces.
1939 - Germany and Italy announced a military and political alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1940 - Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.
1942 - In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and American navies attacked each other with carrier planes. It was the first time in the history of naval warfare where two enemy fleets fought without seeing each other.
1945 - Germany signed unconditional surrender ending World War II. It would take effect the next day.
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. was founded. The company was later renamed Sony.
1951 - Russia was admitted to participate in the 1952 Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee.
1954 - French Colonial Forces surrendered to the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu after 55 days of fighting.
1954 - The United States and the United Kingdom rejected the Soviet Union's bid to join NATO.
1960 - Leonid Brezhnev became president of the Soviet Union.
1975 - U.S. President Ford declared an end to the Vietnam War.
1984 - A $180 million out-of-court settlement was announced in the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans who claimed they had suffered injury from exposure to the defoliant while serving in the armed forces.
1992 - A 203-year-old proposed constitutional amendment barring the U.S. Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise was ratified as the 27th Amendment.
1997 - A report released by the U.S. government said that Switzerland provided Nazi Germany with equipment and credit during World War II. Germany exchanged for gold what had been plundered or stolen. Switzerland did not comply with postwar agreements to return the gold.
1999 - In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens were killed and 20 were wounded when a NATO plane mistakenly bombed the Chinese embassy.
1999 - In Guinea-Bissau, the government of President João Bernardo Vieira was ousted in a military coup.
2000 - Russian President Vladimir V. Putin named First Deputy Premier Mikhail Kasyanov as premier.

Psalm 16

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Luke 1:67-69 "And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; "

How wonderful is the touch and the filling of the Holy Spirit of Yahweh our God. So many have confused the plain and simple truth of Yahweh's Holy Spirit because of thier unbelief. Here is no mystery. We serve a Living God. We are children of a Living God. This means He is not just some historical name, neither does He stand seperated from our lives and the events which surround us. No, He is living, He is active and just as much at work in the lives of you and I as He is in bringing all the events of this world to their grand climax.

The Spirit of Yahweh, which can only be Holy, is always on the move, working and ministering in the lives of men. The very Presence of Yahweh which accomplishes more in an instant of time than all the programs of churchianity throughout their many years. Many fear the notion of the Holy Spirit, but there is nothing to fear, for the Holy Spirit can only lead us to our Heavenly Father. It is Yahweh's very Spirit that draws us away from sin, causes us to repent, writes the law upon our hearts. Opens our eyes to those things which we could not see before hand. Shows us the will of the Father, sanctifies us and guides us to the paths of righteousness.

The Holy Spirit of Yahweh comforts all war torn hearts and broken spirits, teaches us in the ways of our Father (for the Holy Spirit is the Father) and warns us when we are in the presence of anything which would lead us astray. Let us always be thankful for the Presence of Yahweh through His Holy spirit, for it is the Holy Spirit that seperates the shepherds from the hirlings.

Heavenly Father Yahweh

I praise You and thank You for Your Holy Presence in my life. Pour out Your Holy Spirit upon Your Israel people, I pray, that our eyes may be opened and that we might truly be a people that walk in the Presence of our Living God.

HalleluYah!

1096 - Peter the Hermit and his army reached Hungary. They passed through without incident.
1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolted against King Henry VI.
1541 - Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. He called it Rio de Espiritu Santo.
1794 - Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen.
1794 - The United States Post Office was established.
1846 - The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought. The battle occurred in Palo Alto, TX.
1847 - The rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson.
1879 - George Selden applied for the first automobile patent.
1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."
1902 - Mount Pelee on Martinique erupted and killed over 30,000 people and destroyed the town of St. Pierre.
1904 - U.S. Marines landed in Tangier to protect the Belgian legation.
1914 - The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
1921 - Sweden abolished capital punishment.
1933 - Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.
1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
1945 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.
1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1960 - Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union resumed.
1970 - Construction workers broke up an anti-war protest on New York City's Wall Street.
1973 - Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.
1986 - Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.
1999 - The first female cadet graduated from The Citadel military college.

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Luke 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."

It was Yahweh's Holy Spirit that had moved the prophet Isaiah to write these words hundreds of years before, the very words with which The Messiah would begin His earthly ministry. Isaiah, a mere man, was moved to write of that which he could not have guessed, describing that which he had never seen. No man or woman has any power within themselves to do anything supernatural. Things such as this come from the spiritual.

Acts 21:10-11 " And as we tarried [there] many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles."

The Holy Spirit of Yahweh gives unto devout men and women understanding beyond their ability to have. But also empowers us beyond ourselves, to lift up and to proclain the Name of Yahweh/Yahoshua and His Holy Word. Power, was a mark upon the early church, but so were love and holiness. The Holy Spirit not only gives us the gifts, but also the fruits, and it is by the fruits of the Holy Spirit of Yahweh that we may discern between what is of Yahweh and what is not.

Acts 16:16-18 "And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour."

In our modern churchianity, most preachers would be thrilled to have the damsel's advertisment, but not Paul. Paul recognized the difference between a demonic spirit and The Holy Spirit. And he desired no witness except from Yahweh. There is much talk about "psychic abilities " in our time, but rest assured, you will never find such abilites in man's make up found in scripture. These are only two sources of supernatural power to be found in this world. One flows from the Throne of Yahweh and brings forth His Kingdom.The other is a contrived counterfeit, as ingenious as it is diabolical, and we should not be surprised to find that, just as in Thyratira, demons can preach as well.

O Holy Father Yahweh

Praise Your Holy Name. You are holy, and you are filled with light, and no darkness can dwell near You. Grant me, I pray, the discernment to know Your Holy Voice from all other voices that would beckon for my attention, that I might obey You and You alone.

HalleluYah!

1429 - Joan of Arc defeated the besieging English at Orleans.
1502 - Christopher Columbus left Spain for his final trip to the Western Hemisphere.
1671 - Thomas "Captain" Blood stole the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
1754 - The first newspaper cartoon in America showed a divided snake "Join or die" in "The Pennsylvania Gazette."
1901 - In Australia, the Duke of Cornwall and York declared the First Commonwealth Parliament open.
1915 - German and French forces fought the Battle of Artois.
1936 - Fascist Italy took Addis Abba and annexed Ethiopia.
1946 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy abdicated and was replaced by Umberto.
1955 - West Germany joined NATO.
1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time.
1962 - A laser beam was successfully bounced off Moon for the first time.
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee began formal hearings on the Nixon impeachment.
1978 - The bullet-riddled body of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was found in an automobile in the center of Rome. The Red Brigades had abducted him.
1980 - A Liberian freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida. 35 motorists were killed and a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed.
2002 - In Bethlehem, West Bank, a deal was reached that would end the 38-day standoff at the Church of the Nativity. Thirteen suspected militants were to be deported to several different countries. The standoff had begun on April 2, 2002.
2002 - In Kaspiisk, Russia, 39 people were killed and at least 130 were injurde when a remote-controlled bomb exploded during a holiday parade.
2002 - In Bahrain, people were allowed to vote for representatives for the first time in nearly 30 years. Women were allowed to vote for the first time in the country's history.

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Luke 4:18 "The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, ..."

Soon after announcing and laying out the program for His Mihistry, we see the Messiah rejected and driven from his own town where He had grown up. How many times has this pattern been repeated in the lives of countless believers down through the centuries? The Spirit of Yahweh comes upon a believer, and those most intimately acquainted with their lives are the first to turn against them. The unity of The Spirit has nothing to do with bringing everyone together or helping us to all "get along", but it does have everything to do with the "fellowship of His sufferings"

:32-36 " And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power. And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, Saying, Let [us] alone; what have we to do with thee, [thou] Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word [is] this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out."

The Power of the Holy Spirit brings power and authority. As we surrender to the leading of the Holy Spirit, it is no longer we that minister, but the very Presence of Yahweh God. Then and only then will we see the poor given hope, the broken hearted healed, the captors delivered, blind made to see, and the enslaved set free. All our plots, plans, and programs will never accomplish what the power of the Holy Spirit of Yahweh can accomplish in a single moment.

Luke 11:20 "But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you."

The Annointing and the Power of the Holy Spirit is a precious element of the Kingdom of Yahweh God. The two go together hand in hand. There are many who have attempted to list the benefits and characteristics of the Kingdom of Yahweh, but any list which does not include The Power, The Annointing, The Gifts and the fruits of The Holy Spirit of Yahweh is incomplete. We are not a Kingdom of peasents and serfs after the manner of earthly kingdoms. Ours is a Kingdom of priests, daily going into the Presence of Yahweh our God, through the Blood of the Lamb, Yahoshua the Messiah. Glory unto Yahweh!

Blessed be the Name of Yahweh

Father, look upon Thy Israel people, I pray, and see how divided and scattered we are. Deliver us, O Father Yahweh, from all our sin, strife and division, and teach us to reach for You and for You alone.

HalleluYah!

1503 - Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands.
1676 - Bacon's Rebellion, which pits frontiersmen against the government, began.
1768 - The imprisonment of the journalist John Wilkes as an outlaw provoked violence in London. Wilkes was returned to parliament as a member for Middlesex.
1773 - The English Parliament passed the Tea Act, which taxed all tea in the U.S. colonies.
1774 - Louis XVI ascended the throne of France.
1775 - Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold led an attack on the British Fort Ticonderoga and captured it from the British.
1794 - Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI, was beheaded.
1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte won a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy.
1840 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith moved his band of followers to Illinois to escape the hostilities they had experienced in Missouri.
1857 - The Seepoys of India revolted against the British Army.
1865 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union troops near Irvinville, GA.
1869 - Central Pacific and Union Pacific Rail Roads meet in Promontory, UT. A golden spike was driven in at the celebration of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S.
1872 - Victoria Woodhull became the first woman nominated for the U.S. presidency.
1908 - The first Mother's Day observance took place during a church service in Grafton, West Virginia.
1924 - J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1933 - The Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.
1940 - Germany invaded Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
1941 - England's House of Commons was destroyed by a German air raid.
1941 - Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy, parachuted into Scotland on what he claimed was a peace mission.
1942 - U.S. forces in the Philippines began to surrender to the Japanese.
1943 - U.S. troops invaded Attu in the Aleutian Islands to expel the Japanese.
1960 - The U.S.S. Triton completed the first circumnavigation of the globe under water. The trip started on February 16.
1968 - Preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris.
1986 - Navy Lt. Commander Donnie Cochran became the first black pilot to fly with the Blue Angels team.
1994 - The state of Illinois executed convicted serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murders of 33 young men and boys.
1994 - Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa�fs first black president.
1997 - An earthquake in northeastern Iran killed at least 2,400 people.
2000 - 11,000 residents were evacuated in Los Alamos, NM, due to a fire that was blown into a canyon. The fire had been deliberately set to clear brush.
2002 - Robert Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole. Hanssen, an FBI agent, had sold U.S. secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.

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Luke 11:11-13 "If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if [he ask] a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Churchianity has acquired these verses and applied them to their own desires, but a plain reading shows that The Messiah, Yahoshua had a specific gift that He was actually speaking of.

It wasn't for food or clothing or any other thing that Messiah spoke of. It was The Holy Spirit of Yahweh that Yahoshua referred to, and notice He specificallty says that we must ask for it.

There is a great deal of misunderstanding and downright deception being practiced these days regarding The Holy Spirit of Yahweh. Human emotion, personal agendas and man made creeds and doctrines have so distorted 

 need, but He will never ever force Himself into our circumstances. He may bring about events designed to humble us, to break our stubborn willful spirits; but He waits upon us to surrender, to cease from our own labors, to reach out to Him; to ask.

Stubbornness and selfishness are obstacles to The Holy Spirit of Yahweh, and as long as we think that we are fine, as long as we do not see our need, Yahweh will let us go until we do see our need and realize we are not fine, but weak and helpless. Then all we have to do is ask, for that is what He waits for, and once His children ask, He will pour out His Holy Spirit upon us with gladness and joy.

Heavenly Father Yahweh

Blessed be Thy Holy Name. I praise You and thank You for all Thy many blessings and all Thy tender mercies that You have poured out on me. May I walk in Thy Holy Spirit all the days of my life, that I might bring You joy and honor.

HalleluYah!

0330 - Constantinople, previously the town of Byzantium, was founded.
1573 - Henry of Anjou became the first elected king of Poland.
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor.
1689 - French and English naval battle takes place at Bantry Bay.
1745 - French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army at Fontenoy.
1792 - The Columbia River was discovered by Captain Robert Gray.
1812 - British prime Minster Spencer Perceval was shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons.
1816 - The American Bible Society was formed in New York City.
1857 - Indian mutineers seized Delhi from the British.
1858 - Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi landed at Marsala, Sicily.
1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1934 - A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a "Dust Bowl." The storm was one of many.
1944 - A major offensive was launched by the allied forces in central Italy.
1947 - The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1995 - The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was extended indefinitely. The treaty limited the spread of nuclear material for military purposes.
1996 - An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades. All 110 people on board were killed.
1998 - India conducted its first underground nuclear tests, three of them, in 24 years. The tests were in violation of a global ban on nuclear testing.
1998 - A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency. The coin is known as the euro.
2001 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his decision to approve a 30-day delay of the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh had been scheduled to be executed on May 16, 2001. The delay was because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had failed to disclose thousands of documents to McVeigh's defense team.

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Luke 11:13-14 "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered."

In Luke 4 when Yahoshua announced that The Spirit of Yahweh was upon Him, He was rejected, but leaving Nazereth He commenced to casting out demons. Here The Messiah has just promised that Our Father in Heaven will give The Holy Spirit to all who ask, and the very next line finds Him casting out more devils.

One of the missions of the Spirit of Yahweh working through us is to see the dominion of Satan cast down. A man in his own strength and power and wisdom is no match for an adversary which has thousands upon thousands of years of wicked practices, decieving, usurping and destroying. All the magic words and charms of theTalmud, all the elaborate rituals of Catholicism, all the inventions of the pagans and the heathens strike no real fear into demonic hearts.

But the Power of Yahweh in the Anointing of His Spirit upon one of His obedient children is a fear and a terror throughout all the regions of the damned. The Edomite pharisees could not comprehend the power they saw being manifested with such authority, so they accused Messiah of being empowered by Satan himself, thus filling up their cup of iniquity by blaspheming The Holy Spirit of Yahweh.

:20 "But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you." The Power of the Holy Spirit of Yahweh is inseperable from the Kingdom of Yahweh. The Kingdom of Yahweh is more vast than any have peviously supposed, and Yahoshua the Messiah has established that this Kingdom be a Kingdom infused with power and authority, enough so as to stand against the very forces of Satan's kingdom and to prevail against it. A kingdom of free men, set free from all the oppressions of sin and free from the slavery and captivity of the evil one, for he whom the Messiah has set free is free indeed.

Blessed Father Yahweh

Help me to walk in Thy Holy Presence, and in the Power of Thy Presence, that I might be witness unto all whom I come in contact with, that You and You alone may be glorified.

HalleluYah!

1588 - King Henry III fled Paris after Henry of Guise triumphantly entered the city.
1780 - Charleston, South Carolina fell to British forces.
1870 - Manitoba entered the Confederation as a Canadian province.
1926 - The airship Norge became the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
1926 - In Britain, a general strike by trade unions ended. The strike began on May 3, 1926.
1932 - The infant body of Charles and Anna Lindbergh's son was found just a few miles from the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, NJ.
1937 - Britain's King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1940 - The Nazi conquest of France began with the German army crossing Muese River.
1942 - The Soviet Army launched its first major offensive of World War II and took Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine from the German army.
1943 - The Axis forces in North Africa surrendered during World War II.
1949 - The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin Blockade.
1965 - West Germany and Israel exchanged letters establishing diplomatic relations.
1978 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women.
1982 - In Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpowered a Spanish priest armed with a bayonet who was trying to reach Pope John Paul II.
1992 - Four suspects were arrested in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny at the start of the Los Angeles riots.
1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin dismissed Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and named Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin as his successor.
2002 - Former U.S. President Carter arrived in Cuba for a visit with Fidel Castro. It was the first time a U.S. head of state, in or out of office, had gone to the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2003 - In Texas, fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers went into hiding over a dispute with Republican's over a congressional redistricting plan.

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John 14:15-18 "If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."

Obediance to the perfect law of Yahweh is tied to the Holy Spirit of Yahweh. The Kingdom is filed with the Presence of the Ever Living God, and His presence is always tied to His commandments. :15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments." What commandments? Where ever we find Yahoshua The Messiah we find Him loving, observing, and expounding on the commandments of Yahweh. In the first verse we are told that it was Yahoshua The Messiah that created all that is, in Genesis 1 we are told that Yahweh's Spirit hovered over the waters and was the creative force at work. Yahoshua is called the Word made flesh, that He existed from before the beginning. Yahoshua is Yahweh, and if we love Him we keep His commandments, and if we are obediant children, we may ask for the Presence of Yahweh in greater measure.

:16 " And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;". Comforter was originally teacher, instructor, this is why it is called "The Spirit of Truth" :17 "[Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.". Worldliness, carnality, sinfulness cannot recieve the Holy Spirit of Yahweh. Ironically, it is only by the work of Yahweh's Holy Spirit that we can be brought to repentance and obedience. We are utterly dependent upon Yahweh/Yahoshua's Spirit for literally everything in our lives.

Our Heavenly Father delights in giving good things to His children, and He delights in giving unto us His Holy Spirit, if we would but ask. This is no mystery, for what greater gift can our Father Yahweh give unto us, than more and more of Himself.

My Heavenly Father Yahweh

I praise You and thank You for all Thy Mercy and Love. Look upon me and know me, O Father Yahweh, and if I have strayed from Thy Precious Word, lead me back into the perfectness of Thy Ways.

HalleluYah!

1607 - Jamestown, Virginia, was settled as a colony of England.
1648 - Margaret Jones of Plymouth was found guilty of witchcraft and was sentenced to be hanged by the neck.
1779 - The War of Bavarian Succession ended.
1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip left Britain for Australia. He successfully landed eleven ships full of convicts on January 18, 1788, at Botany Bay. The group moved north eight days later and settled at Port Jackson.
1821 - The first practical printing press was patented in the U.S. by Samuel Rust.
1846 - The U.S. declared that war already existed with Mexico.
1861 - Britain declared its neutrality in the American Civil War.
1864 - The Battle of Resaca commenced as Union General Sherman fought towards Atlanta during the American Civil War.
1865 - The last land engagement of the American Civil War was fought at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA.
1867 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis became a free man after spending two years in prison for his role in the American Civil War.
1888 - Slavery was abolished in Brazil.
1912 - Royal Flying Corps was established in England.
1913 - Igor Sikorsky flew the first four engine aircraft.
1917 - Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
1927 - "Black Friday" occurred in Germany.
1958 - U.S. Vice President Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
1968 - Peace talks between the U.S. and North Vietnam began in Paris.
1975 - Hailstones the size of tennis balls hit Wenerville, TN.
1981 - Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
1985 - A confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters. 11 people died in the fire that resulted.
1996 - In Bangladesh 600 people were killed by a tornado.
1998 - India did a second round of nuclear tests. The first round had been done 2 days earlier. Within hours the U.S. and Japan imposed tough economic sanctions. India claimed that the tests were necessary to maintain India's national security.
1999 - In Moscow, the impeachment of Russian President Boris Yeltsin began.

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John 4:23-24 "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth. "

In our modern churchianity, "freedom of the Spirit" is all the rage. The blessing of Yahweh has been reduced to rock concert praise and worship, the unrestrained emotionalism of the worshipers and above all things a rollicking good time. But is this worship? David does exhort Israel to worship Yahweh with cymbals, lyres, flutes, pipes and with a shout and a dance. But is he telling us to have a holy free for all, when Paul admonishes us to do all things decently and in order?

Then there is the other side of the coin. There are those who can proclaim the laws of Yahweh ver batim, can bring specific proofs of who and where the lost tribes of Israel are in our modern times, but their "worship" is a series of lectures and of abstract prayers and petitions. Is there no middle ground?

Of course there is and The Messiah HImself has stated, :24 "God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth." The Holy Spirit will never lead us into a sensual, chaotic enviroment. While Yahweh is not afraid of a little noise in His Honor, neither was baal, and the recorded scenes of the frenzy of Baal worship create quite a picture. The Holy Spirit never leads away from decency and order, but also never restricts us to an entirely set program. True "freedom of the Spirit" is not freeedom from holiness, but freedom from the oppression of sin and the devil, and the Holy Spirit is of course, the Spirit of Truth which leads us into all truth.

So as in all things, we find the need for balance, and only those truly led of Yahweh's Holy Spirit can actually find and enjoy such balance. We must never be afraid to lift up our voices in praise and worship of our Heavenly Father, but we must always fear offending Him with "strange fire". We must neither quench the Holy Spirit nor grieve it, but surrender to The Spirit and to the Truth of Yahweh.

Heavenly Father Yahweh

Pour out Thy Spirit of truth upon Thy people, I pray Thee, that we might repent and return from all the sordid paths that we have traveled and be saved from our sin and our ignorance, that we might cease to be a reproach unto Thee, and begin to give You the True Glory that You alone deserve.

HalleluYah!

1264 - King Henry III was captured by his brother in law Simon deMontfort at the Battle of Lewes in France.
1509 - In the Battle of Agnadello, French defeated Venitians in Northern Italy.
1610 - French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre) was assassinated by a fanatical monk, François Ravillac.
1643 - Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1787 - Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
1796 - The first smallpox vaccination was given by Edward Jenner.
1804 - William Clark set off the famous expedition from Camp Dubois. A few days later, in St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis joined the group. The group was known as the "Corps of Discovery."
1862 - The chronograph was patented by Adolphe Nicole.
1878 - The name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough.
1879 - Thomas Edison incorporated the Edison Telephone Company of Europe.
1897 - "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Phillip Sousa was performed for the first time. It was at a ceremony where a statue of George Washington was unveiled.
1913 - The Rockefeller Foundation was created by John D. Rockefeller with a gift of $100,000,000.
1935 - The Philippines ratified an independence agreement.
1940 - The Netherlands surrendered to Nazi Germany.
1942 - The British, while retreating from Burma, reached India.
1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel as British rule in Palestine came to an end.
1955 - The Warsaw Pact, a Easter European mutual-defense treaty, was signed in Poland by eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union.
1961 - A bus carrying Freedom Riders was bombed and burned in Alabama.
1973 - Skylab One was launched into orbit around Earth as the first U.S. manned space station.
1975 - U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia. About 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation.
1980 - U.S. President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services.
1992 - Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev addressed members of the U.S. Congress, appealing to them to pass a bill to aid the people of the former Soviet Union.

Psalm 45

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Matthew 16:15-17 "He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven."

We are utterly dependent upon Yahweh for everything, even our own conversion. Remember that Peter did not see The Messiah at a distance and decided, " I think I'll become His desciple". Peter did not choose Yahoshua, Yahoshua chose Peter, and in an instant the decision to obey or rebel was made. That was all the decision that Peter was given, to rebel or obey, and that is all the decision that we are given.

As soon as Peter decided to obey, his life carried him where ever it chose and through all the events of Peter's life, the only real decision that was his to make was whether to rebel or obey.

:17 "And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." Flesh and blood doesn't reveal the truth. We may live as an example to others and our lives be witnesses to all around us, but we are merely tools in The Messiah's Hand. The revelation of Yahoshua The Messiah and of all the word of Yahweh, is not made a part of any of us, until the Holy Spirit itself opens our eyes and our hearts to see and comprehend that Truth. Then we have but one decision , to rebel or to obey. If we obey our lives are swept up like Peter's and we are carried on the wings of the Will of The Father, for our lives are no longer our own, but His, to do with as He will. From glory to glory, from truth to truth, from revelation to revelation, The Holy Spirit of Yahweh will touch our hearts, break us, mold and remake us into the image of the Father and all along the way , it is but one decision before us, rebel or to obey.

That work which goes on in your life is not of your doing, nor of the circumstances that surround you , but it is The Father who is hard at work in your life and so it is that we can rejoice and be glad, for He is revealing Himself to us in great and greater ways.

My Precious Father Yahweh

Grant me, I pray Thee, a greater understanding of You in my heart. And not me only, O Father, but unto all Your Israel people who hunger and thirst for You. Give us a greater hunger and a greater thirst for You and You alone.

HalleluYah!

1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by Bartholomew Gosnold.
1614 - An aristocratic uprising in France ended with the treaty of St.Menehould.
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law.
1795 - Napoleon entered the Lombardian capital of Milan.
1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," was born.
1862 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1916 - U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.
1948 - Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.
1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1958 - Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.
1970 - U.S. President Nixon appointed America's first two female generals.
1970 - Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.
1988 - Soviet forces began their withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet forces had been there for more than eight years.
1990 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record.
1997 - The Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.
1999 - The Russian parliament was unable a attain enough votes to impeach President Boris Yeltsin.

Psalm 11

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Exodus 8:19 "Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This [is] the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said."

Even the idolatrous wizards of Pharoah, whose lives were filled with the demonic practices of their false religion recongnized the Source of the Power that Moses and Aaron demonstrated before Pharoah. In all their demonic armory and superstitious arsenal they possessed nothing that could equal the raw, unbriddled display of power and glory that faced them now.

The Finger of God. What am awesome thought. How many of us have witnessed the Finger of God, whether in our lives or the life of someone else? The Finger of Yahweh God gave authority to one lone hebrew, returned from exile, standing against the power and might of the greatest empire to rule at that time in history. The Finger of Yahweh moved effortlessly, bringing one calamity after another upon mighty Egypt, one judgement after another against the false gods of Egypt's religion.

Luke 11:20 "But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you."

Moses acted under the Finger of Yahweh God to destroy the yoke of the Egyptians, to deliver Isreal from their oppression and enslavement and to crush a kingdom's dominance that would not worship Yahweh and Yahweh alone. Isreal found freedom, after they had witnessed the demonic gods of Egypt fall under judgement one by one. But even after so great a deliverance, only a few weeks later the children of Isreal danced before more false gods of gold. Why? They were still enslaved, only in their hearts.

Yahoshua the Messiah came to free the captives and to loose those enslaved, but now He goes to the core and root of our slavery: our hearts. The same Finger of God that crushed the Kingdom of Egypt that Isreal might become a nation, also now stands ready to crush Satan's dominion, that we might take part in Yahweh's Kingdom. Is it harder to crush the might of Pharoah, or to crush the power of the sin that so easily besets you? Is it more difficult to free a vast multitude of hebrew slaves, or to deliver you from the demonic influences we each have fallen under in our sinful paths?

Whether they be of pride, covetousness, lust or any other sin, The Finger of Yahweh God can crush their power and set even the lowliest slave free.

Blessed Father Yahweh

Help me to take hold of "the Finger of God" even as a child takes hold of it's father's finger and is lead and made to walk straight by the guidance of it's father's direction; for you are my Father, and I need You with every step.

HalleluYah!

1770 - Marie Antoinette, at age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1866 - The U.S. Congress authorized the first 5-cent piece to be minted.
1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted during the Senate impeachment, by one vote.
1879 - The Treaty of Gandamak between Russia and England set up the Afghan state.
1881 - In Germany the first electric tram for the public started service.
1888 - The first demonstration of recording on a flat disc was demonstrated by Emile Berliner.
1888 - The capitol of Texas was dedicated in Austin.
1920 - Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome.
1946 - Jack Mullin showed the world the first magnetic tape recorder.
1960 - Theodore Maiman, at Hughes Research Laboratory in California, demonstrated the first working laser.
1965 - Spaghetti-O's went on sale.
1969 - Venus 5, a Russian spacecraft, landed on the planet Venus.
1975 - Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1987 - The Bobro 400 set sail from New York Harbor with 3,200 tons of garbage. The barge travelled 6,000 miles in search of a place to dump its load. It returned to New York Harbor after 8 weeks with the same load.
1988 - A report released by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declared that nicotine was addictive in similar was as heroin and cocaine.
1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police do not have to have a search warrant to search discarded garbage.
1991 - Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress. 2000 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was nominated to run for U.S. Senator in New York. She was the first U.S. first lady to run for public office.

Psalm 19

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Luke 11:20 "But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you."

Yahoshua the Messiah ties the Power of Yahweh, the Finger of God, to the Kingdom of Yahweh. Ours was not meant to be a weak or sniveling little dominion, but a kingdom of Power, Vitality, and might, not necessarily through armies or strength of men, but by the Power of the Holy Spirit of Yahweh. What good is a nation (or company of nations) if it can stand against an onslought of bombs and military, or if it can invade other nations and bombbard them into submission, if that nation ( or company of nations) rots from within and is itself enslaved to the power of the devil? What good is it to live in lands ruled "by the people" if "the people" are godless, lawless or slaves to abominations?

The Kingdom of our God is meant to be a witness to the world and a barrier against the kingdom of darkness. It is not merely for the sake of individual freedom, but for the sake of righteousness that the Kingdom exists. It is the Kingdom of our God, Yahweh Sabaoth, and He alone will rule supreme.

Satan and his leagions of damned angels, demons and devils, have rejected Yaweh's rule, they have rebelled against His law and His dominion, they have no place in the Kingdom of our God, therefore they must be cast out. One day they will be abolished from the very face of eternity and reality, but for now we do battle, the Kingdom suffers violence and the violent must take it by force. Now we wrestle over each and every individual soul, and if each soul would be a part of the Kingdom and if the Kingdom would be a part of each soul, then with force, the Power of the Holy Spirit of Yahweh, the Finger of God, we uproot and cast out of each soul the darkness and pollution of satan's dominion.

The citizens of Yahweh's KIngdom are meant for freedom, true freedom, freedom from sin and darkness. This freedom can not be legislated, but must be seized, not by might or strength of arms, but by the Finger of God, the Power of the Presence of Yahweh/Yahoshua.

Heavenly Father Yahweh

Deliver me, I pray Thee, from all the influences of the darkness that I once walked in, and to never, ever look back longingly at my past life of sin, but to keep my eyes steadfast upon You and Your Glorious kingdom.

HalleluYah!

1540 - Afghan chief Sher Khan defeated Mongul Emperor Humayun at Kanauj.
1630 - Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi saw the belts on Jupiter's surface.
1681 - Louis XIV sent an expedition to aid James II in Ireland. As a result, England declares war on France.
1756 - Britain declared war on France, beginning the French and Indian War.
1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was founded at 70 Wall Street by 24 brokers.
1814 - Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden. Norway's constitution, which provided a limited monarchy, was signed.
1881 - Frederick Douglass was appointed recorder of deeds for Washington, DC.
1926 - The U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires was damaged by bombs that were believed set by sympathizers of Sacco and Vanzetti.
1940 - Germany occupied Brussels, Belgium and began the invasion of France.
1946 - U.S. President Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
1948 - The Soviet Union recognized the new state of Israel.
1954 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled for school integration in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling declared that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal.
1973 - The U.S. Senate Watergate Committee began its hearings.
1980 - Rioting erupted in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie. Eight people were killed in the rioting.
1996 - U.S. President Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. Megan's Law was named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka, who was raped and killed in 1994.
2000 - Thomas E. Blanton Jr. and David Luker surrendered to police in Birmingham, AL. The two former Ku Klux Klan members were arrested on charges from the bombing of a church in 1963 that killed four young black girls.
2000 - Austria, the U.S. and six other countries agreed on the broad outline of a plan that would compensate Nazi-Era forced labor.
2006 - The U.S. aircraft carrier Oriskany was sunk about 24 miles off Pensacola Beach. It was the first vessel sunk under a Navy program to dispose of old warships by turning them into diving attractions. It was the largest man-made reef at the time of the sinking.

Psalm 28

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Exodus 31:18 "And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God."

Isn't it amazing to find the awesome demonstrations of Yahweh's Power at work in delivering His eternal Law unto His chosen. There are so very many who proclaim a power of Yahweh God, and yet they deny the commandments of Yahweh God, as if the two could somehow be seperated one from the other. But the Power of Yahweh was never meant to function independently of the law of Yahweh. They exist side by side, each one fueling the other.

Without the commandments of the Most High, there would be no discerning between the Holy Spirit and the lying spirits that surround us, always looking for opportunity to lead vulnerable men and women astray. Without the Holy Spirit, the commandments are a dead letter, a historical record. But the Holy Spirit of Yahweh brings the commandments alive and Yahweh makes them live in our hearts.

Deut 9:10 "And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly."

Moses had enjoyed a communion with the Father there on the Holy Mountain unlike anything mortal man had experienced before hand. Only Adam in the garden and Enoch had enjoyed as intimate a communion. Moses had seen the "hinder part" of Yahweh, he came down from the mountain shining with the shekinah glory of Yahweh still upon his face so brilliantly, he had to veil his face in order for the rest of the children of Isreal to behold him.

And what was the outcome of that mountain top experience? The Law. The "Finger of God" which so easily left an entire nation in ruins so that another nation might be born, the "Finger of God' which would cast out demons from the afflicted and be a mark of the Kingdom of Yahweh God; that same "Finger of God" wrote His commandments in stone to be the law which was meant to guide a nation (and a company of nations).

The Power and the Law are inseperable from the Kingdom.

Blesed be the Name of Yahweh

Father I praise Your Holy Name and I thank You for Your guiding law and the power of Your Holy Spirit. Let Thy Spirit, I pray, change me daily in Your image and write Your law upon my heart.

HalleluYah!

1302 - The weaver Peter de Coningk led a massacre of the Flemish oligarchs.
1642 - Montreal, Canada, was founded.
1643 - Queen Anne, the widow of Louis XIII, was granted sole and absolute power as regent by the Paris parliament, overriding the late king's will.
1652 - In Rhode Island, a law was passed that made slavery illegal in North America. It was the first law of its kind.
1792 - Russian troops invaded Poland.
1798 - The first Secretary of the U.S. Navy was appointed. He was Benjamin Stoddert.
1802 - Great Britain declared war on Napoleon's France.
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed emperor by the French Senate.
1896 - The U.S. Supreme court upheld the "separate but equal" policy in the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision. The ruling was overturned 58 years later with Brown vs. Board of Education.
1917 - The U.S. Congress passed the Selective Service act, which called up soldiers to fight in World War I.
1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, CA. She reappeared a month later with the claim that she had been kidnapped.
1933 - The Tennessee Valley Authority was created.
1934 - The U.S. Congress approved an act, known as the "Lindberg Act," that called for the death penalty in interstate kidnapping cases.
1951 - The United Nations moved its headquarters to New York City.
1974 - India became the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
1980 - Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. 57 people were killed and 3 billion in damage was done.
1994 - Israel's three decades of occupation in the Gaza Strip ended as Israeli troops completed their withdrawal and Palestinian authorities took over.
1998 - The U.S. federal government and 20 states filed a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., saying the computer software company had a "choke hold" on competitors which denied consumer choices by controlling 90% of the software market.
1998 - U.S. federal officials arrested more than 130 people and seized $35 million. This was the end to an investigation of money laundering being done by a dozen Mexican banks and two drug-smuggling cartels.

Psalm 47

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Exodus 23:14,16 " Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year...And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field."

The Feast of Firstfruits was known by several names. Leviticus 23:15-21 "And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD. And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, [even] an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD. Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations."

Deuteronomy 16:9-12 " Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn. And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that [is] within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes."

It was known as The Feast of First fruits for it was then that the very first of the harvest was to be had. The Feast of Weeks because it was seven weeks or fifty days from the weekly sabbath during the Feast of Unleavened Bread that it was counted down. From the counting of fifty days, it became known as Pentecost, which means literally "fifty days".

Yes, it is quite a surprise to many within churchianity that the "Day of Pentecost" was actually a Holy Day, a Holy Convocation for all of Isreal. A day of rejoicing and memorial from generation to generation. Here Israel was to remember that they were slaves in Egypt and the mighty deliverance by the Hand of Yahweh. The Feast of Firstfruits/Pentecost was a memorial of the giving of the Law, for it was at this time the twelve tribes gathered in front of the Holy Mountain where the fire and smoke of Yahweh descended.

But it was also a prophecy, for Feast of Firstfruits looked foreward to the day, when after Yahoshua the Messiah, our Perfect Lamb of Sacrifice would be ascended , becoming the First fruits of a new covenant. (I Corinthians 15:20 Colessians 1:18) There is much that we have lost as a people, because we do not "keep the feasts" which were and are as teachers and signposts unto the Israel of Yahweh God. We have disregarded the inevitable testemonies and witnesses given unto us by our Father in Heaven, and substituted them with pagan rituals and traditions of men which are at best, pitiful instructors, and at worst, idolatrous and blasphemous.

In the Feast of Pentecost we see a plan for Yahweh's Kingdom that looks nothing like our own. But if we would look to the Feasts and open our hearts to the Holy Spirit of Yahweh, we might begin to grasp the awesome nature of the Kingdom of Yahweh and our places within it.

Precious Father Yahweh

Be merciful, I pray Thee, unto Your Israel children; for we have failed to keep Your Holy Days and have lost so very much of our identity by not walking in obediance to Your Word and Your Law. Help us to regain what we have lost and to walk uprightly before Thee, O father, that we might truly witness unto You and unto Your Kingdom.

HalleluYah!

1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier set sail for North America.
1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery.
1568 - After being defeated by the Protestants, Mary the Queen of Scots, fled to England where she was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth.
1588 - The Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon, bound for England.
1608 - The Protestant states formed the Evangelical Union of Lutherans and Calvinists.
1643 - Delegates from four New England colonies met in Boston to form a confederation.
1796 - The first U.S. game law was approved. The measure called for penalties for hunting or destroying game within Indian territory.
1847 - The first English-style railroad coach was placed in service on the Fall River Line in Massachusetts.
1856 - U.S. Senator Charles Sumner spoke out against slavery.
1857 - The electric fire alarm system was patented by William F. Channing and Moses G. Farmer.
1858 - A pro-slavery band led by Charles Hameton executed unarmed Free State men near Marais des Cygnes on the Kansas-Missouri border.
1911 - The first American criminal conviction that was based on fingerprint evidence occurred in New York City.
1921 - The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.
1926 - Thomas Edison spoke on the radio for the first time.
1926 - Benito Mussolini announced that democracy was deceased. Rome became a fascist state.
1935 - T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" died from injuries in a motorcycle crash in England.
1943 - Winston Churchill told the U.S. Congress that his country was pledging their full support in the war against Japan.
1958 - Canada and the U.S. formally established the North American Air Defense Command.
1964 - The U.S. State Department reported that diplomats had found about 40 microphones planted in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1967 - The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain that banned nuclear weapons from outer space.
1967 - U.S. planes bombed Hanoi for the first time.
1992 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown" for having its title character decide to bear a child out of wedlock.
1992 - The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises.
1999 - Rosie O'Donnell and Tom Selleck got into an uncomfortable verbal issue concerning gun control on O'Donnell's talk show.
2003 - Hundreds of Albert Einstein's scientific papers, personal letters and humanist essays were make available on the Internet. Einstein had given the papers to the Hebrew Universtiy of Jerusalem in his will.

Psalm 21

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Leviticus 23:16-17 "Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD."

Two loaves baked with leaven. We have already seen how that leaven represented sin. How ironic that two loaves, made with the first fruits of the harvest should be offered up before Yahweh with leaven. How can this be? Yahweh is Holy and in Him there is no darkness nor appearance of sin.

To answer the question, let us ask another question. Why two loaves?

At the time of the giving of the law there were twelve tribes (13 including Levi), but they were considered part of the whole, the people or nation of Israel. In time Israel became a great nation, but It did not last. After the death of Solomon they broke in two, forever afterward referred to seperately as the House of Israel and the House of Judah.

Jeremiah 31:31 "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:"

A new covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah. Israel, divorced by Yahweh for all her adulterous sin and idolatry; Judah, from whom the Kingdom was taken and given unto another nation. Two Houses, imperfect, sinful, in need of a Saviour. Here are the two loaves, presented unto Yahweh at the Feast of First Fruits or Pentecost year after year, generation after generation.

Truly, Yahweh is never taken by surprise, but has seen the end of all matters from the beginning, and what's more has revealed such things unto us in those things which He gave unto us to perform. Truly these Feasts, these Holy days were a shadow of things to come, and had we been keeping them, much that was revealed in shadows might have become plain.

Our Heavenly Father Yahweh

Help us to see as You see, that we too might never be taken by surprise in our pilgrimage here on this earth.

HalleluYah!

0325 - The Ecumenical council was inaugurated by Emperor Constantine in Nicea, Asia Minor.
1303 - A peace treaty was signed between England and France over the town of Gascony.
1347 - Cola di Rienzo took the title of tribune in Rome.
1506 - In Spain, Christopher Columbus died in poverty.
1520 - Hernando Cortez defeated Spanish troops that had been sent to punish him in Mexico.
1690 - England passed the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II.
1674 - John Sobieski became Poland�fs first King.
1774 - Britain's Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish the American colonists for their increasingly anti-British behavior
1775 - North Carolina became the first colony to declare its independence.
1784 - The Peace of Versailles ended a war between France, England, and Holland.
1861 - North Carolina became the eleventh state to secede from the Union.
1861 - During the American Civil War, the capital of the Confederacy was moved from Montgomery, AL, to Richmond, VA.
1874 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.
1875 - The International Bureau of Weights and Measures was established.
1899 - Jacob German of New York City became the first driver to be arrested for speeding. The posted speed limit was 12 miles per hour.
1902 - The U.S. military occupation of Cuba ended.
1926 - The U.S. Congress passed the Air Commerce Act. The act gave the Department of Commerce the right to license pilots and planes.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the "Spirit of St. Louis." The trip took 33 1/2 hours.
1930 - The first airplane was catapulted from a dirigible.
1932 - Amelia Earhart took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She became the first woman to achieve the feat.
1939 - The first regular air-passenger service across the Atlantic Ocean began with the take-off of the "Yankee Clipper" from Port Washington, New York.
1941 - Germany invaded Crete by air.
1942 - Japan completed the conquest of Burma.
1961 - A white mob attacked the Freedom Riders in Montgomery, AL. The event prompted the federal government to send U.S. marshals.
1969 - U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia Mountain, which was referred to as Hamburger Hill.
1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.
1996 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure banning laws that would protect homosexuals from discrimination.
1999 - At Heritage High School in Conyers, GA, a 15-year-old student shot and injured six students. He then surrendered to an assistant principal at the school.

May 21

Psalm 30

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Matthew 3:11 "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and [with] fire:"

Baptism was a common practice, not only in bringing in new converts to the religion of the Hebrews, but also in the rededication of those who had wondered astray. John the Baptist had come preaching repentance, and his stern message of returning to the pure law of Yahweh had smitten many hearts. On they came, being fully submerged into the waters of the Jordon, rising to purity. Water baptism is still the public proffession of our faith in the death, burial and resurrection of the Messiah.

But John introduced a bold concept to those that heard his message. There was one coming, who would baptize in fire and the Holy Spirit. You can almost see the confusion in the eyes of the hearers. How was this to be?

Acts 1:4 "And, being assembled together with [them], commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, [saith he], ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."

Yahoshua had given the disciples a great task, but they were not to take one step, until they had recieved power. The Messiah had a baptism for them yet to come, and as to how this event was to come, they could only guess. But this was to be no ordinary immersion. This was to bring about a power that these men did not yet possess.

:6 "When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?"

Does it seem odd to you that these disciples would ask such a question? If it does it is because churchianity has corrupted and maimed the entire concept of the Kingdom beyond recognition. And this question was also not out of line, for the very next verse gives no rebuke, no reproof from The Messiah. Only the admonition that that time was in The Father's Hands.

Again we see the Kingdom and The Power are connected. This power that they were about to recieve would truly make them witnesses, not just to historical or religious facts, but unto the Power of the One True God, Yahweh, such power, that these men would become known as those who turned the whole world upside down. What have we turned upside down lately?

Our Heavenly Father Yahweh

Forgive me I pray, for having ever resisted Your Holy Spirit and walking in my own way. Help me to deny myself and to choose Your Perfect ways.

HalleluYah!

0996 - Sixteen year old Otto III was crowned the Roman Emperor.
1471 - King Henry VI was killed in the tower of London. Edward IV took the throne.
1536 - The Reformation was officially adopted in Geneva, Switzerland.
1542 - Hernando de Soto died along the Mississippi River while searching for gold.
1790 - Paris was divided into 48 zones.
1819 - Bicycles were first seen in the U.S. in New York City. They were originally known as "swift walkers."
1832 - In the U.S., the Democratic Party held its first national convention.
1840 - New Zealand was declared a British colony.
1856 - Lawrence, Kansas was captured by pro-slavery forces.
1863 - The siege of the Confederate Port Hudson, LA, began.
1881 - The American branch of the Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton.
1924 - Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a "thrill killing" committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb. The killers were students at the University of Chicago.
1927 - Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo nonstop airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The trip began May 20.
1934 - Oskaloosa, IA, became the first city in the U.S. to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1956 - The U.S. exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean over Bikini Atoll.
1961 - Governor Patterson declared martial law in Montgomery, AL.
1968 - The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from. The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
1970 - The National Guard was mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University.
1991 - In Madras, India, the former prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a bouquet of flowers that contained a bomb.
1998 - In Miami, FL, five abortion clinics were hit by an butyric acid-attacker.

Psalm 36

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Act 2:1 "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place."

"The day of Pentecost"; the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of First Fruits, the disciples that had followed the Messiah were gathered together and were all "in one accord" here on this Holy Festival Day. If Yahoshua had abolished these things, shouldn't His closest disciples have been aware of it? But here they were, and as Luke tells us at the end of his gospel, they were continually in worship and praising and blessing Yahweh God. And so it is that as we lose ourselves in worshipping The Father, as the whole of our beings are focused on praising Him, He comes and meets with us.

:2-3 "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them."

In the original aramaic we find a sound from Heaven like "a spirit groaning" and "light" appearing over the heads of the disciples. But in either case, the Presence of Yahweh/Yahohsua was rushing forth to meet them, to surround and immerse them.

"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost..." Remember that in the gospel of John after His Reserrection, The Messiah had breathed upon them and said "recieve ye the Holy Spirit". This was that measure of Himself that takes hold within each of us at the time of our repentance, but there was more to pour out, for He had not yet ascended. But now that measure was growing, expanding filling them to overflowing. "... and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance". Many having no idea as to this experience assume that the disciples were under a kind of "Holy Spirit Possession", but Yahweh's Spirit does not move in such a way."... they spoke..." Perhaps a word formed in their minds or perhaps they felt a word in their very mouths, but it was up to them to open their mouths and lift their own fleshly tongues and part their own lips, but as soon as they did, the Holy Spirit of Yahweh took their submission and they began to praise and exalt Yahweh in languages none of these men had ever spoken before and very likely had never even heard.

But this was not a hinderance to Yahweh's Holy Spirit. Yahweh knows all the languages of men that have ever been spoken and He is fluent in all of them. Then why, one may ask, must they/we speak in languages alien to our own? Because Yahweh God glorifies Himself. There are many who mistakenly suppose that this "speaking in other tongues" is nothing more than the ability to learn a new language, but were is Yahweh's glory in that? Many a godless medical student learns latin, but there is no glory to Yahweh. It is man's own effort. This is the miraculous, the supernatural manifistation of Yahweh's own Holy Spirit. "... The Spirit gave utterance..." The disciples themselves did not even understand what was being said, but the purpose and the plan of Yahweh/Yahoshua was unfolding.

Many are those that would seek to limit the working and the Power of Yahweh so that it fits neatly into their world view, but Yahweh is not limilted, but will glorify Himself. It is so often that it is the simplest of people Yahweh uses the most, for they are the least polluted by the doctrines of men.

Heavenly Father Yahweh

You have told us that You desire to Baptize us in Your Holy Spirit. Please, I pray, Baptize me in Thy Holy Spirit, that I might walk in Your Power and in Your anointing.

HalleluYah!

1246 - Henry Raspe was elected anti-king by the Rhenish prelates in France.
1455 - King Henry VI was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses.
1570 - Abraham Ortelius published the first modern atlas in Belgium.
1761 - In Philadelphia, the first life insurance policy was issued in the U.S.
1819 - The steamship Savannah became the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
1841 - Henry Kennedy received a patent for the first reclining chair.
1849 - Abraham Lincoln received a patent for the floating dry dock.
1868 - Near Marshfield, IN, The "Great Train Robbery" took place. The robbery was worth $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds to the seven members of the Reno gang.
1872 - The Amnesty Act restored civil rights to Southerners.
1882 - The U.S. formally recognized Korea.
1891 - The first public motion picture was given in Thomas Edison's lab.
1892 - Dr. Sheffield, a British dentist, invented the toothpaste tube.
1900 - The Associated Press was incorporated as a non-profit news cooperative in New York.
1908 - The Wright brothers registered their flying machine for a U.S. patent.
1939 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a military alliance between Germany and Italy known as the "Pact of Steel."
1955 - A scheduled dance to be headlined by Fats Domino was canceled by police in Bridgeport, Connecticut because "rock and roll dances might be featured."
1969 - A lunar module of Apollo 10 flew within nine miles of the moon's surface. The event was a rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
1972 - U.S. President Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit Russia. He met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
1972 - The island Ceylon adopted a new constitution and became the republic of Sri Lanka.
1990 - In the Middle East, North and South Yemen merged to become a single state known as the Republic of Yemen.
1990 - Microsoft released Windows 3.0.
1998 - New information came to light about the June 1996 bombing that killed 19 American airmen. The information indicated that Saudi citizens had been responsible and not Iranians as once believed.
1998 - A federal judge said that Secret Service agents could be compelled to testify before a grand jury in Monica Lewinsky investigation concerning U.S. President Clinton.
1998 - Voters in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland turned out to cast ballots giving approval to a Northern Ireland peace accord.
2002 - In Birmingham, AL, a jury convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry of murder in the 1963 church bombing that killed four girls.

Psalm 41

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Acts 1:5 "For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."

Baptism is immersion, being totally submerged, every square inch of your frame, down to the last hair. John the Baptist completely lowered those who came to him in the waters of the Jordan River. Water baptism to us shows the death, the burial and the resurrection of Yahoshua the Messiah.

The event of Acts chapter 2 is called the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. It is full immersion in the Holy Spirit of Yahweh. The Holy Spirit within us fills our beings, suddenly we are brought to the submission, the surrender of our will, The Holy Spirit of Yahweh yearns to speak with our tongues, through our lips. A moment of hesitation, uncertainty, then obediance. At once we are filled to overflowing. The Spirit of Yahweh runs out and we are covered, immersed, saturated by the Power and The Presence of the Ever Living God. Every fiber energized, on Holy Fire by the Spirit of Yahweh.

Oh how the skeptics despise the Baptism of The Holy Spirit. They point to the excesses and lawlessness of many who have claimed to have experienced this mighty power. Of course there is a counterfeit. But how can there be a counterfeit if there is not an original? Wherever you find the Spirit of Yahweh on the move amongst those who truly believe, you will shortly see springing up the imposters, and the fanatics; those who imitate but never partake in the genuine move.

2:13 "Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine."

The disciples were not discretely exercising some liturgy. They were intoxicated, but not with alcohol. These were over whelmed by the Power and the Presence of Yahweh, The Ever Living God, and in the midst of such a Presence, what can anyone do, but rejoice?

Father Yahweh

Help me to discern between Your Holy Spirit and all the other spirits that would try to lead me astray.

HalleluYah!

1430 - Joan of Arc was captured by Burgundians. She was then sold to the English.
1533 - Henry VIII�fs marriage to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
1618 - The Thirty Years War began when three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window.
1701 - In London, Captain William Kidd was hanged after being convicted of murder and piracy.
1785 - Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals.
1788 - South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify U.S. Constitution.
1827 - The first nursery school in the U.S. was established in New York City.
1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established. The organization's name was changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.
1900 - Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
1901 - American forces captured Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.
1908 - Part of the Great White Fleet arrived in Puget Sound, WA.
1915 - During World War I, Italy joined the Allies as they declared war on Austria-Hungary.
1922 - "Daylight Saving Time" was debated in the first debate ever to be heard on radio in Washington, DC.
1926 - The French captured the Moroccan Rif capital.
1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.
1937 - Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died.
1945 - In Luneburg Germany, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, committed suicide while imprisoned by the Allied forces.
1949 - The Republic of West Germany was established.
1960 - Israel announced the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1981 - In Barcelona, Spain, gunmen seized control of the Central Bank and took 200 hostages.
1985 - Thomas Patrick Cavanagh was sentenced to life in prison for trying to sell Stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was demolished.
1998 - British Protestants and Irish Catholics of Northern Ireland approved a peace accord.

Psalm 48

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Acts 2:14 -18 " But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all [ye] that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is [but] the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: "

Yes, this is the same Peter, who only a few weeks earlier had fearfully denied Yahoshua The Messiah three times in a single night, (as Yahoshua told him he would). Where once he was afraid, now he is bold. Where once he was uncertain, now he is a beacon of truth. Where once he was always wondering about The Messiah's words, now he expounds the Word of Yahweh.

What was the difference? 16:18 " But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: "

The rain was falling and Peter bathed in Power from on High. Here is the difference between religion and The Way. We are called to be filled with the Power of the Presence of Yahweh, to be new men and women, "New creatures in Christ". There is no effort we may exhert to bring about this change, there is no formula of prayer or words. It is the grace of Yahweh manifested.

We can be changed by the Power of the Holy Spirit of Yahweh. The men and women we have been in the past does not have to be our fate, but we can be more, more than we've ever hoped or dreamed, by the outpouring of Yahweh's Spirit. Many struggle and fail to live victoriously for The Messiah because they struggle in their own strength. But it is not by might or by power but by My Spirit says Yahweh.

Blessed Father Yahweh

Help me to be a new creation; not the same person I have always been, but a new person changed by Your Spirit and Your Word.

HalleluYah!

1543 - Nicolaus Copernicus published proof of a sun-centered solar system.
1607 - Captain Christopher Newport and 105 followers found the colony of Jamestown at the mouth of the James River on the coast of Virginia.
1610 - Sir Thomas Gates institutes "laws divine moral and marshal," a harsh civil code for Jamestown.
1624 - After years of unprofitable operation Virginia�fs charter was revoked and it became a royal colony.
1689 - The English Parliament passed Act of Toleration, protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics were specifically excluded from exemption.
1738 - The Methodist Church was established.
1764 - Bostonian lawyer James Otis denounced "taxation without representation" and called for the colonies to unite in demonstrating their opposition to Britain�fs new tax measures.
1798 - Believing that a French invasion of Ireland was imminent, Irish nationalists rose up against the British occupation.
1822 - At the Battle of Pichincha, Bolivar secured independence of the Quito.
1830 - The first passenger railroad service in the U.S. began service.
1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse formally opened America's first telegraph line. The first message was sent from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD. The message was "What hath God wrought?"
1863 - Bushwackers led by Captain William Marchbanks attacked a U.S. Federal militia party in Nevada, Missouri.
1913 - The U.S. Department of Labor entered into its first strike mediation. The dispute was between the Railroad Clerks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
1930 - Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly from England to Australia.
1941 - The HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic. Only three people survived.
1954 - The first moving sidewalk in a railroad station was opened in Jersey City, NJ.
1958 - United Press International was formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1961 - The Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi.
1976 - Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington.
1980 - The International Court of Justice issued a final decision calling for the release of the hostages taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.
1983 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the right to deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminate.
1993 - Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesus Posada Ocampo and six other people were killed at the Guadalajara, Mexico, airport in a shootout that involved drug gangs.
1993 - The Ethiopian province of Eritrea declared itself an independent nation.
1994 - The four men convicted of bombing the New York's World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

Exodus 20

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Exodus 19:5-6 "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel."

24:3-8 "And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. And Moses took half of the blood, and put [it] in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words."

On this very first Pentecost, the children of Israel witnessed with their own eyes the awesome spectacle of Yahweh's Presence upon the holy mountain. Yahweh's thunder and fire and smoke were meant to instill fear in their hearts, that they would think twice before sinning against such a magnificent God.

But here also was a marriage ceremony. Yahweh was making Israel His peculiar treasure upon the earth. He was to be their God and they were to be His people, His and His alone. He uttered His commandments from the mountainand the people said "I do" (24:7).

:8 "And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words." The marriage covenant was made and sealed. Then went Moses and the elders of Israel up unto the mountain and dined in the Presence of Yahweh God in a marriage feast onlike any ever held before.The unheard of had taken place. The Creator of Heaven and earth had taken unto Himself a bride, and not just any bride, but an entire race of people to be His chosen, His Treasure. (Jeremiah 31:32 "...Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: ..." Isaiah 54:5 "For thy Maker [is] thine husband; the LORD of hosts [is] his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called." )

How blessed are the children of Israel, to dwell under the safe shadow of such a wonderous and magnificent God. That He would care for them so much is beyond human comprehension. To think that The Creator of the universe would want such an intimate relationship with a race of people, and that all He would require, would be our obediance.

Yahweh/Yahoshua

Come quickly, I pray. Come quickly.

HalleluYah!

585 BC - The first known prediction of a solar eclipse was made in Greece.
1085 - Alfonso VI took Toledo, Spain from the Moslems.
1787 - The Constitutional convention opened in Philadelphia with George Washington presiding.
1810 - Argentina declared independence from Napoleonic Spain.
1844 - The gasoline engine was patented by Stuart Perry.
1911 - President of Mexico, Porfolio Diaz, resigned his office.
1925 - John Scopes was indicted for teaching the Darwinian theory in school.
1927 - Ford Motor Company announced that the Model A would replace the Model T.
1946 - Jordan gained independence from Britain.
1953 - In Nevada, the first atomic cannon was fired.
1961 - America was asked by U.S. President Kennedy to work toward putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
1963 - The Organization of African Unity was founded, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1970 - Boeing Computer Services was founded.
1977 - An opinion piece by Vietnam verteran Jan Scruggs appeared in "The Washington Post." The article called for a national memorial to "remind an ungrateful nation of what it has done to its sons" that had served in the Vietnam War.
1985 - Bangladesh was hit with a hurricane and tidal wave that killed more than 11,000 people.
1986 - Approximately 7 million Americans participated in "Hands Across America."
1996 - In Nimes, France, Christina Sanchez became the first woman to achieve the rank of matadore in Europe.
1997 - U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history (41 years and 10 months).
1997 - Poland adopted a constitution that removed all traces of communism.
1999 - A report by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China concluded that China had "stolen design information on the U.S. most-advanced thermonuclear weapons" and that China's penetration of U.S. weapons laboratories "spans at least the past several decades and almost certainly continues today."
2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander landed in the arctic plains of Mars.
2009 - North Korea announced that it had conducted a second successful nuclear test in the province of North Hamgyong. The United Nations Security Council condemned the reported test.

Psalm 43

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Hosea 1:2-3 "The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, [departing] from the LORD. So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son."

All they had to do was obey. All the might and power of Heaven stood at Israel's disposal, if only they would obey. But they would not. Scripture is one, long, continuous record of Israel and Judah's transgressions. They walk in obedience for a season, but always they would return to the adultery of serving other gods and the laws that were associated with them. Generation after generation, century after century, the Mercy and Grace of Yahweh Elohim was mocked and stretched until finally, a horrible day arrived.

:4 "And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.",6 "And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [God] said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away." ,8-9 "Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God]. "

The tribes of the northern Kingdom of Israel will be utterly carried away. Their name to be left behind, forgetting even their own history. But still, Yahweh's mercy endures forever, for belold :10 "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God." They were not to perish from the face of the earth, but would become a people without number, but also without a memory.

2:6 " Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. "

These put away tribes would never return to their ancient homeland but would wonder until they had filled the whole of Europe and America. Still they were condemmed, divorced from their Heavenly Father (2:2 "Plead with your mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;" , Genesus 3:8 "And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also."). But even in Yahweh's great wrath, He has purpose. Even in His Judgement He remembers mercy. For He still had a purpose for those Hebrews who would become known as "gentiles or nations". 2:23 "And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to [them which were] not my people, Thou [art] my people; and they shall say, [Thou art] my God."

Romans 9:25 "As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God." 1Peter 2:10 "Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy."

Yahweh had scattered Israel across the continent of Europe for their adultery. Because Israel would not be faithful to Yahweh her husband, He divorced her. But even this served the Father's purpose, for He had plans to take Israel back, in an even greater way than before. But How? According to the law a woman divorced from her husband, defiled by other lovers can not remarry until her original husband die. She is ever forbidden from remarrying her original husband. The only way Israel could be remarried, redeemed, was for her former husband to die, but how does Yahweh die?

John 19:30 "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." By wrapping Himself in human flesh, the penalty could be paid, the curse could be broken, Israel could be redeemed. But oh what a price! In all of human history no deity from any religion has ever sacrificed themselves for men. But here Yahweh/Yahoshua Himself, Creator of Heaven and earth has done just that, and all for the love of His Chosen.

Father Yahweh

I thank You for all the mercy and love that You have shown unto me. Let my life truly be lived unto You.

HalleluYah!

0017 - Germanicus of Rome celebrated his victory over the Germans.
1328 - William of Ockham was forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII.
1521 - Martin Luther was banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings.
1647 - A new law banned Catholic priests from the colony of Massachusetts. The penalty was banishment or death for a second offense.
1660 - King Charles II of England landed at Dover after being exiled for nine years.
1670 - A treaty was signed in secret in Dover, England, between Charles II and Louis XIV ending the hostilities between them.
1691 - Jacob Leiser, leader of the popular uprising in support of William and Mary�fs accession to the English throne, was executed for treason.
1736 - The British and Chickasaw Indians defeated the French at the Battle of Ackia.
1791 - The French Assembly forced King Louis XVI to hand over the crown and state assets.
1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy in Milan Cathedral.
1831 - Russians defeated the Poles at battle of Ostrolenska.
1835 - A resolution was passed in the U.S. Congress stating that Congress has no authority over state slavery laws.
1836 - The U.S. House of Representatives adopted what has been called the Gag Rule.
1864 - The Territory of Montana was organized.
1865 - Arrangements were made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi.
1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted, by one vote, of all charges in his impeachment trial.
1896 - The last czar of Russia, Nicholas II, was crowned.
1908 - In Persia, the first oil strike was made in the Middle East.
1926 - In Morocco, rebel leader Abd el Krim surrendered.
1938 - The House Committee on Un-American Activities began its work of searching for subversives in the United States.
1940 - The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
1946 - A patent was filed in the United States for an H-bomb.
1946 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed a military pact with Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Stalin promised a "close collaboration after the war."
1948 - The U.S. Congress passed Public Law 557 which permanently established the Civil Air Patrol as the Auxiliary of the new U.S. Air Force.
1961 - Civil rights activist group Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee was established in Atlanta, GA.
1969 - The Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.
1972 - The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) was signed by the U.S. and USSR. The short-term agreement put a freeze on the testing and deployment of intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles for a 5-year period.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton renewed trade privileges for China, and announced that his administration would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights record.

Psalm 58

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Jeremiah 31:31-36 "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. "

At the marriage ceremony of Sinai, Yahweh gave Israel His commandments, His judgements, His statutes, His law. Israel proclaimed that all Yahweh commanded there they would do; but they didn't. It was easy to commit themselves in the face of thunder, fire and smoke, rattling the mountain and the very ground beneath their feet. But When they no longer stood focused by the extra ordinary they failed, and were cast off, put away.

Now Yahweh/Yahoshua redeems Israel back unto Himself, the bride of Christ. Now we are called individually, for it is individuals that are citizens of the Kingdom. Ephesians 1:13 "In whom ye also [trusted], after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, ", 4:30 "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. " On the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, we see the new covenant put into full effect. The Blood of the Lamb has been shed and presented before the alter/throne of Yahweh in Heaven. And the Baptism of The Holy Spirit of Yahweh is that small glimpse into the fullness of the coming Kingdom. Here we have recieved in part, on that great day we will be transformed. Paul says it is the "sealing" of us unto Yahweh/Yahoshua as His bride and betrothed. We are sealed, marked as set aside unto Him and no other. We are to bear His seal of Authority and , yes, ownership.

"And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. ". It may be a surprise to many that we can actually grieve Yahweh's Spirit, but when we allow sinful attitudes to prevail in our daily walk, we indeed grieve Yahweh's Spirit. When we resist the Holy Spirit's promptings to turn away from those things which destroy our witness of Yahweh/Yahoshua, we grieve the very Spirit of Yahweh.

And why should we ever grieve Yahweh's Holy Spirit? We are not our own, but have been redeemed at a great price and are set aside as a bride unto our King. By His Holy Spirit we are sealed and His law is now being written upon our minds, that we might be truly sanctified, set apart and a bride without spot or blemish at His coming.

Blessed Father Yahweh

I'm so grateful for Your forgiveness and for Your grace. Just as I once lived in rebellion against Your commandments, now I want to live in obediance. Write Thy Law upon my heart and make Your Word live in me.

HalleluYah!

1647 - Achsah Young, a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch."
1668 - Three colonists were expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists.
1813 - Americans captured Fort George, Canada.
1901 - The Edison Storage Battery Company was organized.
1907 - The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco.
1933 - In the U.S., the Federal Securities Act was signed. The act required the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1935 - The U.S. Supreme Court declared that President Franklin Roosevelt's National Industrial Recovery Act was unconstitutional.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency" amid rising world tensions.
1941 - The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.
1942 - German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.
1944 - U.S. General MacArthur landed on Biak Island in New Guinea.
1960 - A military coup overthrew the democratic government of Turkey.
1998 - Michael Fortier was sentenced to 12 years in prison for not warning anyone about the plot to bomb an Oklahoma City federal building.
1999 - In The Hague, Netherlands, a war crimes tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic and four others for atrocities in Kosovo. It was the first time that a sitting head of state had been charged with such a crime.

Psalm 97

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1 Thessalonians 1:5 "For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake."

The "much assurance" that Paul speaks of didn't come by way of clever arguments or a polished technique of evangelism, but through the Power and anointing of the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God. There is much failure in churchianity these days, because in the plans of men, The Holy Spirit has no part.

It was once written, "for much that is undertaken by the church (The Holy Spirit) is not necessary. The Holy Spirit is no more needed to run bazaars, social clubs, institutions, and picnics, than it is needed to run a circus". ("The way to Penecost" by Samuel Chadwick, Chat, 2 p. 14). "The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college trained but not Spirit filled works no miracles."

Why do we not see the genuine moving of Yahweh's Holy Spirit in our day and time? One of the missions of The Holy Spirit is to lead us into all truth. Truth is Yahweh's word. His law, His commandments, His statues and judgements. But vain men have anounced that the law of Yahweh no longer exists, and if it does it is strictly a "jewish thing", but they know neither the nature of the law nor of the name jew.

"Christians" love to sing and dance and have "a good time in the Lord", but they utterly despise being told to repent and be holy. Thus they fail to find the true power and anointing of Pentecost and have chosen a cheap substitute, a poor imitation. Rather than have power and anointing they have chosen entertainment and amusement. Rejecting holiness and sanctification, they wallow in a false "freedom and liberly". Beware of any so-called "Spirit of God" which denies the word and law of God.

Yahweh's Spirit leads to truth, and His Truth has always been His Word.

Heavenly Father Yahweh

Teach me Thy ways, and empower me by Thy Holy Spirit to live in obediance unto You and unto Your law.

HalleluYah!

585 BC - Thales Miletus predicted a solar eclipse.
585BC - The Persian-Lydian battle ended.
1533 - England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
1774 - The First Continental Congress convened in Virginia.
1805 - Napoleon was crowned in Milan, Italy.
1863 - The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War.
1900 - Britain annexed the Orange Free State.
1918 - Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, declared independence.
1937 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington, DC, signaling that vehicular traffic could cross the newly opened Golden Gate Bridge in California.
1940 - During World War II, Belgium surrendered to Germany.
1961 - Amnesty International, a human rights organization, was founded.
1976 - The Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaty was signed, limiting any nuclear explosion - regardless of its purpose - to a yield of 150 kilotons.
1998 - Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. The U.S., Japan and other nations imposed economic sanctions. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "Today, we have settled the score with India."
1998 - Dr. Susan Terebey discoved a planet outside of our solar system with the use of photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
2002 - Russia became a limited partner in NATO with the creation of the NATO-Russia Council.

Psalm 59

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Acts 2:37-39 "Now when they heard [this], they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men [and] brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call."

Here is the unbridaled power of Yahweh's Holy Spirit. Peter's sermon was not a feel good message. It was not a lecture on how to have their best life now. Peter, filled with the Anointing of The Holy Spirit preached The Messiah, Yahoshua, and in no uncertain terms pointed to the assembled listener's and charged, "whom you crucified"!

The Power and Anointing of The Holy Spirit did not speak on instantaneous "praise and worship concert".The Baptism of The Holy spirit did not launch an organisation or denomination. It pricked the hearts of all exposed to it's power. Three thousand souls felt the awful condemnation of their sins, made real to them by the Holy Spirit of Yahweh/Yahoshua, and in anguish of soul they cried out, " what shall we do"?

Repent!!! This was the Message that turned the world upside down then, it has been the message of every Holy Spirit led revival since, and it is the message that would turn the world upside down again. Repent! Turn away from sin, separate the light from the darkness, come out from among them-Repent!

Notice what Peter says next "... be baptized... and you shall recieve". There is no wrestling with words here. The message is plain and simple repent- be baptized- recieve the gift of The Holy Spirit. Here on the day of Pentecost, at the feast of Pentecost the pattern was set, and it has not changed. The man made doctrines of dispensationalism, higher criticism and a hundered other lies may attempt to bury the truth but Peter exposes them all when he says, " For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call."" There is no time limit or cut off dates. Peter did not say "until the era of the apostles closes, but to all that are afar off. This wasn't referring to countries or nations, but to generations, centuries. Time itself could not contain this gift. It was given to them, it is offered to us.

Father Yahweh

Forgive me, I pray, for all the times that I have not been bold in proclaiming Your Word. Fill me, O Father Yahweh, with that Holy Spirit Boldness to proclaim You before all men.

HalleluYah!

1453 - Constantinople fell to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660 - Charles II was restored to the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth.
1721 - South Carolina was formally incorporated as a royal colony.
1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses.
1790 - Rhode Island became the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1848 - Wisconsin became the 30th state to join the United States.
1849 - A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln.
1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.
1916 - The official flag of the president of the United States was adopted.
1916 - U.S. forces invaded Dominican Republic and remained until 1924.
1922 - Ecuador became independent.
1932 - World War I veterans began arriving in Washington, DC. to demand cash bonuses they were not scheduled to receive for another 13 years.
1962 - Buck (John) O�fNeil became the first black coach in major league baseball when he accepted the job with the Chicago Cubs.
1973 - Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
1974 - U.S. President Nixon agreed to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
1986 - Colonel Oliver North told National Security Advisor William McFarlane that profits from weapons sold to Iran were being diverted to the Contras.
1988 - U.S. President Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union in Moscow.
1990 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
1995 - The last 3 bodies were recovered from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
1997 - The ruling party in Indonesia, Golkar, won the Parliament election by a record margin. There was a boycott movement and rioting that killed 200 people.
2000 - Fiji's military took control of the nation and declared martial law following a coup attempt by indigenous Fijians in mid-May.
2001 - In New York, four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted of a global conspiracy to murder Americans. The crimes included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.

Psalm 104

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Acts 2:46-47 "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved."

Isn't it funny, how so many simple truths of scripture have fallen by the wayside. Here we have two very simple points, almost unheralded is our modern churchianity.

The first is that these first believers continued. They did not repeat a prayer then go about their merry way. They continued . :41 "Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added [unto them] about three thousand souls." . To many, repentance is merely a short respite by the side of the road, but eventually they will end up going on in the direction they were originally headed. But bible repentance means more than just stop. It means to turn and begin walking in a new direction. It is not a new creation that "christianizes" and "spiritualizes" the things of this life which they already partook in. No we must turn away from the life we once led, the things of this world and our old lifestyles, and turn towards that which is of Yahweh our God, and contunue towards Him.

Laying down our old lives, we pick up new lives and then live them. Continuing daily, steadfastly in the apostle's doctrine (which is a good deal different than any doctrines of churchianity today), in fellowship, in prayers, in praising Yahweh God. Continuing means growing, running the race set before us. wrestling with the enemies of our souls. Continuing means bearing fruit, going from glory to glory, changing, maturing from "little children" to "elders in the one true faith."

There is very little "continuing" in our modern churchianity. but if we are to lay hold of the prize, continue is what we must do. the Power of The Holy Spirit of Yahweh/Yahoshua does just that, draws us onwards so that continuing becomes the most natural thing we could do.

My Heavenly Father Yahweh

Search me and know me, and show me anything in my life or in my heart that is not pleasing unto You, that I might repent and cleanse my ways before You.

HalleluYah!

1416 - Jerome of Prague was burned as a heretic by the Church.
1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.
1527 - The University of Marburg was founded in Germany.
1539 - Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, landed in Florida with 600 soldiers to search for gold.
1783 - The first daily newspaper was published in the U.S. by Benjamin Towner called "The Pennsylvania Evening Post"
1814 - The First Treaty of Paris was declared, which returned France to its 1792 border 1854 - The U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.
1868 - Memorial Day was observed for the first time in the U.S.
1883 - Twelve people were trampled to death in New York City in a stampede when a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing occurred.
1889 - The brassiere was invented.
1896 - The first automobile accident occurred in New York City.
1912 - The U.S. Marines were sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests.
1913 - The First Balkan War ended.
1922 - The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
1933 - Sally Rand introduced her exotic and erotic fan dance to audiences at Chicago�fs Century of Progress Exposition.
1943 - American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.
1982 - Spain became the 16th NATO member. Spain was the first country to enter the Western alliance since West Germany in 1955.
1989 - The "Goddess of Democracy" statue (33 feet height) was erected in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

Psalm 60

Acts 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.""

The second thing we find in those passages is that little phrase so overlooked by modern churchianity, "such as should be saved." In a modern church world were ministy is about filling pews rather than sanctifying souls, is it any wonder why this phrase is so neglected?

The evangilist Charles Spurgeon once lamented that the church of his day had already begun to seek, quantity over quality. Two souls sanctified and energized by the word or the Spirit of Yahweh can accomplish more than two thousand weekly pew sitters walking in disobediance and worldliness. But notice also, "... Yahweh added to the church...". This was not a product of a man's charisma. This was not a product of planning in committee or well researched programs. This was the work of Yahweh Himself. He added. What a powerful statement, for it cuts through all ideas and notions of pathetic men and lays plain the root: it is Father Yahweh alone who builds His Kingdom. We are no more than tools in His mighty hands. By the Holy Spirit, He draws all men to Himself, He guides them into all truths, He alone adds.

"... such as should be saved". Does our Heavenly Father truly want everyone? Does not Paul tell us that there are vessels of honor and vessles of wrath?

Our duty is to exalt Yahweh/Yahoshua every moment of every day, as we walk in the anointing of His Holy Spirit. Some, whom the Holy

Spirit has already begun to draw, will be drawn even closer by our witness. Others, who care less about our witness, our faith or our God and who may even be enemies of Yahweh God, will never come over to our side no matter how much we plead or beg. It is Yahweh's Spirit alone that draws a man (or woman), and so we must walk in Yahweh's Holy Spirit if we are to be of any use to our Father's Kingdom.

Blessed Father Yahweh

Give me the discernment to see people as You see them, that I might be about Your buisiness and not be decieved in any way.

HalleluYah!

1433 - Sigismund was crowned emperor of Rome.
1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by the U.S. Congress.
1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented "flaked cereal."
1889 - In Johnstown, PA, more than 2,200 people died after the South Fork Dam collapsed.
1900 - U.S. troops arrived in Peking to help put down the Boxer Rebellion.
1902 - The Boer War ended between the Boers of South Africa and Great Britain with the Treaty of Vereeniging.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its first conference.
1910 - The Union of South Africa was founded.
1913 - The 17th Amendment went into effect. It provided for popular election of U.S. senators.
1915 - A German zeppelin made an air raid on London.
1927 - Ford Motor Company produced the last "Tin Lizzie" in order to begin production of the Model A.
1947 - Communists seized control of Hungary.
1955 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered that all states must end racial segregation "with all deliberate speed."
1961 - South Africa became an independent republic.
1962 - Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. Eichmann was a Gestapo official and was executed for his actions in the Nazi Holocaust.
1970 - An earthquake in Peru killed tens of thousands of people.
1974 - Israel and Syria signed an agreement on the Golan Heights.
1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was finished after 3 years of construction.
1979 - Zimbabwe proclaimed its independence.
1994 - The U.S. announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
1995 - Bob Dole singled out Time Warner for "the marketing of evil" in movies and music. Dole later admitted that he had not seen or heard much of what he had been criticizing.
2003 - In North Carolina, Eric Robert Rudolph was captured. He had been on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list for five years for several bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing.