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Monday, November 27, 2006

Prison Weekly December2nd, 2006

Torah Vayetse " And He Went" Genesis 28:10-32:3

Haftorah Hosea 12:13-14:10 Gospel John 1:43:51

Jacob left Beer-sheba, and set out for Haran. He came upon a certain place and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. He had a dream; a stairway was set on the ground and its top reached to the sky, and angels of God were going up and down on it. And the Lord was standing beside him and He said, "I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac: the ground on which you are lying I will assign to you and to your offspring. Your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you and your descendants. Remember, I am with you: I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is present in this place, and I did not know it!" Shaken, he said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the abode of God, and that is the gateway to heaven." Early in the morning, Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. He named that site Bethel; but previously the name of the city had been Luz. Jacob then made a vow, saying, "If God remains with me, if He protects me on this journey that I am making, and gives me bread to eat and clothing to wear, and if I return safe to my father's house--the Lord shall be my God. And this stone, which I have set up as a pillar, shall be God's abode; and of all that You give me, I will set aside a tithe for You." Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the Easterners. There before his eyes was a well in the open. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for the flocks were watered from that well. The stone on the mouth of the well was large. When all the flocks were gathered there, the stone would be rolled from the mouth of the well and the sheep watered; then the stone would be put back in its place on the mouth of the well. Jacob said to them, "My friends, where are you from?" And they said, "We are from Haran." He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" And they said, "Yes, we do." He continued, "Is he well?" They answered, "Yes, he is; and there is his daughter Rachel, coming with the flock." He said, "It is still broad daylight, too early to round up the animals; water the flock and take them to pasture." But they said, "We cannot, until all the flocks are rounded up; then the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well and we water the sheep." While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's flock; for she was a shepherdess. And when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the flock of his uncle Laban, Jacob went up and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of his uncle Laban. Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and broke into tears. Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father. On hearing the news of his sister's son Jacob, Laban ran to greet him; he embraced him and kissed him, and took him into his house. He told Laban all that had happened, and Laban said to him, "You are truly my bone and flesh." When he had stayed with him a month's time, Laban said to Jacob, "Just because you are a kinsman, should you serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?" Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older one was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah had weak eyes; Rachel was shapely and beautiful. Jacob loved Rachel; so he answered, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel." Laban said, "Better that I give her to you than that I should give her to an outsider. Stay with me." So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her. Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my time is fulfilled, that I may cohabit with her." And Laban gathered all the people of the place and made a feast. When evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him; and he cohabited with her. Laban had given his maidservant Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maid. When morning came, there was Leah! So he said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? I was in your service for Rachel! Why did you deceive me?" Laban said, "It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the older. Wait until the bridal week of this one is over and we will give you that one too, provided you serve me another seven years." Jacob did so; he waited out the bridal week of the one, and then he gave him his daughter Rachel as wife. Laban had given his maidservant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maid. And Jacob cohabited with Rachel also; indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served him another seven years. The Lord saw that Leah was unloved and he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren. Leah conceived and bore a son, and named him Reuben; for she declared, "It means: 'The Lord has seen my affliction'; it also means: 'Now my husband will love me."' She conceived again and bore a son, and declared, "This is because the Lord heard that I was unloved and has given me this one also"; so she named him Simeon. Again she conceived and bore a son and declared, "This time my husband will become attached to me, for I have borne him three sons." Therefore he was named Levi. She conceived again and bore a son, and declared, "This time I will praise the Lord." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing. When Rachel saw that she had borne Jacob no children, she became envious of her sister; and Rachel said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die." Jacob was incensed at Rachel, and said, "Can I take the place of God, who has denied you fruit of the womb?" She said, "Here is my maid Bilhah. Consort with her, that she may bear on my knees and that through her I too may have children." So she gave him her maid Bilhah as concubine, and Jacob cohabited with her. Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. And Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; indeed, He has heeded my plea and given me a son." Therefore she named him Dan. Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. And Rachel said, "A fateful contest I waged with my sister; yes, and I have prevailed." So she named him Naphtali. When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as concubine. And when Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son, Leah said, "What luck!" So she named him Gad. When Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son, Leah declared, "What fortune!" meaning, "Women will deem me fortunate." So she named him Asher. Once, at the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben came upon some mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." But she said to her, "Was it not enough for you to take away my husband, that you would also take my son's mandrakes?" Rachel replied, "I promise, he shall lie with you tonight, in return for your son's mandrakes." When Jacob came home from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You are to sleep with me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." And he lay with her that night. God heeded Leah, and she conceived and bore him a fifth son. And Leah said, "God has given me my reward for having given my maid to my husband." So she named him Issachar. When Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son, Leah said, "God has given me a choice gift; this time my husband will exalt me, for I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun. Last, she bore him a daughter, and named her Dinah. Now God remembered Rachel; God heeded her and opened her womb. She conceived and bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my disgrace." So she named him Joseph, which is to say, "May the Lord add another son for me." After Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Give me leave to go back to my own homeland. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, that I may go; for well you know what services I have rendered you." But Laban said to him, "If you will indulge me, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on your account." And he continued, "Name the wages due from me, and I will pay you." But he said, "You know well how I have served you and how your livestock has fared with me. For the little you had before I came has grown to much, since the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. And now, when shall I make provision for my own household?" He said, "What shall I pay you?" And Jacob said, "Pay me nothing! If you will do this thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flocks: let me pass through your whole flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted animal--every dark-colored sheep and every spotted and speckled goat. Such shall be my wages. In the future when you go over my wages, let my honesty toward you testify for me: if there are among my goats any that are not speckled or spotted or any sheep that are not dark-colored, they got there by theft." And Laban said, "Very well, let it be as you say." But that same day he removed the streaked and spotted he-goats and all the speckled and spotted she-goats--every one that had white on it--and all the dark-colored sheep, and left them in the charge of his sons. And he put a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was pasturing the rest of Laban's flock. Jacob then got fresh shoots of poplar, and of almond and plane, and peeled white stripes in them, laying bare the white of the shoots. The rods that he had peeled he set up in front of the goats in the troughs, the water receptacles, that the goats came to drink from. Their mating occurred when they came to drink, and since the goats mated by the rods, the goats brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted young. But Jacob dealt separately with the sheep; he made these animals face the streaked or wholly dark-colored animals in Laban's flock. And so he produced special flocks for himself, which he did not put with Laban's flocks. Moreover, when the sturdier animals were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they mated by the rods; but with the feebler animals he would not place them there. Thus the feeble ones went to Laban and the sturdy to Jacob. So the man grew exceedingly prosperous, and came to own large flocks, maidservants and menservants, camels and asses. Now he heard the things that Laban's sons were saying: "Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from that which was our father's he has built up all this wealth." Jacob also saw that Laban's manner toward him was not as it had been in the past. Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers where you were born, and I will be with you." Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field, where his flock was, and said to them, "I see that your father's manner toward me is not as it has been in the past. But the God of my father has been with me. As you know, I have served your father with all my might; but your father has cheated me, changing my wages time and again. God, however, would not let him do me harm. If he said thus, 'The speckled shall be your wages,' then all the flocks would drop speckled young; and if he said thus, 'The streaked shall be your wages,' then all the flocks would drop streaked young. God has taken away your father's livestock and given it to me. "Once, at the mating time of the flocks, I had a dream in which I saw that the he-goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and mottled. And in the dream an angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' 'Here,' I answered. And he said, 'Note well that all the he-goats which are mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and mottled; for I have noted all that Laban has been doing to you. I am the God of Beth-el, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to Me. Now, arise and leave this land and return to your native land." Then Rachel and Leah answered him, saying, "Have we still a share in the inheritance of our father's house? Surely, he regards us as outsiders, now that he has sold us and has used up our purchase price. Truly, all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, do just as God has told you." Thereupon Jacob put his children and wives on camels; and he drove off all his livestock and all the wealth that he had amassed, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan. Meanwhile Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household idols. Jacob kept Laban the Aramean in the dark, not telling him that he was fleeing, and fled with all that he had. Soon he was across the Euphrates and heading toward the hill country of Gilead.On the third day, Laban was told that Jacob had fled. So he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days, catching up with him in the hill country of Gilead. But God appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, "Beware of attempting anything with Jacob, good or bad." Laban overtook Jacob. Jacob had pitched his tent on the Height, and Laban with his kinsmen encamped in the hill country of Gilead. And Laban said to Jacob, "What did you mean by keeping me in the dark and carrying off my daughters like captives of the sword? Why did you flee in secrecy and mislead me and not tell me? I would have sent you off with festive music, with timbrel and lyre. You did not even let me kiss my sons and daughters good-by! It was a foolish thing for you to do. I have it in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father said to me last night, 'Beware of attempting anything with Jacob, good or bad.' Very well, you had to leave because you were longing for your father's house; but why did you steal my gods? Jacob answered Laban, saying, "I was afraid because I thought you would take your daughters from me by force. But anyone with whom you find your gods shall not remain alive! In the presence of our kinsmen, point out what I have of yours and take it." Jacob, of course, did not know that Rachel had stolen them. So Laban went into Jacob's tent and Leah's tent and the tents of the two maidservants; but he did not find them. Leaving Leah's tent, he entered Rachel's tent. Rachel, meanwhile, had taken the idols and placed them in the camel cushion and sat on them; and Laban rummaged through the tent without finding them. For she said to her father, "Let not my lord take it amiss that I cannot rise before you, for the period of women is upon me." Thus he searched, but could not find the household idols. Now Jacob became incensed and took up his grievance with Laban. Jacob spoke up and said to Laban, "What is my crime, what is my guilt that you should pursue me? You rummaged through all my things; what have you found of all your household objects? Set it here, before my kinsmen and yours, and let them decide between us two."These twenty years I have spent in your service, your ewes and she-goats never miscarried, nor did I feast on rams from your flock. That which was torn by beasts I never brought to you; I myself made good the loss; you exacted it of me, whether snatched by day or snatched by night. Often, scorching heat ravaged me by day and frost by night; and sleep fled from my eyes. Of the twenty years that I spent in your household, I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks; and you changed my wages time and again. Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, been with me, you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God took notice of my plight and the toil of my hands, and He gave judgment last night." Then Laban spoke up and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks; all that you see is mine. Yet what can I do now about my daughters or the children they have borne? Come, then, let us make a pact, you and I, that there may be a witness between you and me." Thereupon Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a mound; and they partook of a meal there by the mound. Laban named it Yegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Gal-ed. And Laban declared, "This mound is a witness between you and me this day." That is why it was named Gal-ed; And [it was called] Mizpah, because he said, "May the Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of sight of each other. If you ill-treat my daughters or take other wives besides my daughters--though no one else be about, remember, God Himself will be witness between you and me." And Laban said to Jacob, "Here is this mound and here the pillar which I have set up between you and me: this mound shall be witness and this pillar shall be witness that I am not to cross to you past this mound, and that you are not to cross to me past this mound and this pillar, with hostile intent. May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor"--their ancestral deities--"judge between us." And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. Jacob then offered up a sacrifice on the Height, and invited his kinsmen to partake of the meal. After the meal, they spent the night on the Height. Early in the morning, Laban kissed his sons and daughters and bade them good-by; then Laban left on his journey homeward. Jacob went on his way, and angels of God encountered him. When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's camp." So he named that place Mahanaim. Jacob sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

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Next Weeks Torah Vayishlach "And He sent" Genesis 32:4 - 36:43 Haftorah Obadiah 1:1-21 Hosea 11:7-12:12 And Gospel Matthew 26:36-46

Mission Updates:Greetings Saints in His Perfect Peace, Well Thanks giving has come and gone. With us it was a wonderful two days. So lets me start with Thanksgiving. Mom had gone over to Wichita on Wed. night to cook and make ready for Thursday�s crowd. Yes we were packed. Football was played off and on both days in the parking lot. It basically was just catch but it was my children and the poor. All had fun. You see at Messiah's Branch it was more like a family gets together rather than us as an agency just feeding them. Our place is so very small that there is barley room to move down the main aisle when people are sitting in the chairs. We do have forty chairs but the room in between is well no room. But I will not murmur this is the place the Lord has placed us in and what I can afford if no donations came. Meaning rent $450 I think it is a month. The bills are another story. Yes I would love to have a place with double the room. In fact as I have been checking this year the people outside would be under 100 for an overflow. If I had a bigger place I would simply just let them stay. More on that latter, back to Thanksgiving. While waiting on the meal I went and got a couple of chess/checker sets for the people to play, as they were not interested in the football game. Much visiting and there was a blessed spiritual feeling that remain with everyone for the two days. The meal was wonderful, as mom had outdid her self of course. Grandma was there and that added to everyone�s enjoyment. Mom made a bunch of wonderful pies also. The turkey was two kinds she just mixed together smoked and baked. Grandma outdid her self with two kinds of dressing. I liked the cornbread the best. It is so amazing how we jam pack people in together bumping each other and still they get along. Let me tell you these same people for the most part do not get along that well in other places and in the street. At 6 PM we waited on the channel 3 report they filmed on Tuesday. They had followed me around with a camera for about two hours. I thought they would do a major hatchet job on it but it came out wonderful. I recorded it at home on the dvr I think it is called. At the first of the news they called me a Samaritan. The report told of how a blessed family had came for 7 years to care for these people. In fact it was my words mixed with the newscasters. For just being a few minutes long let me tell you it showed and told much of what we do on a regular basis. I am praying for a way to copy it and have it converted to place on the net. I know they sell at wal-mart a VHS-DVD recorder that would copy it to DVD but $200 is way out of our reach. In fact Thanksgiving drained us and many of the bills are in. Thursday night came and I had told some of the guys if they needed to stay over they could. You see we all stayed the night in order to save gas as we were going to have to be open also on Friday. Now many had already left when the picture was taken at the top. Some came back later but it ended up being fewer than 20 that stayed the night with my 17-year-old son Daniel and I. I rented some movies for them to watch and mom left us some Turkey before she left for sandwiches. She and my other children went to my sisters to stay the night in BEDS! I slept on a small couch. My son slept on the floor as other did or slept in the chairs, which I do not know which were harder. And we did not even have enough blankets to lay of the dirty floor. You see the carpet is worn out and threads hanging out so bad it is beyond cleaning. Fat chance the Landlord would buy a new one. We also need to repaint inside but again no funds for that. Lord willing maybe we could buy a building one of these days? Everyone was well behaved and at least half had colds and coughed most of the night. Many of these will not get well until summer time. I gave out cold medications and pain stuff. That helped. But again I now need more supplies. We had a great night and the next day they were changed people. Others came in when we opened the door for Friday and it was like the guys were inviting people into their own homes. One night inside and being treated as human and well family they were different people. This is what the agencies miss. They treat people as clients and if they treated them with more love and respect they would change easier and would be more likely to be able to gain jobs and other things they need to get out of the street. They do not wish to be where they are! I also got a chances to pray for people and they got a chance to see what it means to be real called out people, a chance to see that Messiah's people are really not the same as the world that we are a set a part people. Most people just do not get it, being saved is a life of sacrifice for others. We are to be a Blessings to the world as we are not of this world but the next! Friday was a blessed day also. It was more or less a repeat of Thursday. When the people left they were like brand new people. Truly the Lord blessed us ALL. I could not have asked for a better Thanksgiving. The Holy Spirit was just so there both days! All of you that helped in any way I pray the Lord blesses you greatly because YOU made a difference in people lives. People that cannot ever repay you. Matthew 6:19 ^{19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Yes Thanksgiving drained us and we are back to praying in bill money. This is a great need and I ask all to please pray about supporting this as our mail in donations have dropped because of the Holidays. In fact there is no money for the newsletter that is supposed to print and mail this next week. As I was asked by someone to check into how much it would cost to rent a building and pay bills for it for an overflow I am running into the problem that people want a year�s lease. So saints lift this up in prayer for us. I need to make a special trip to Wichita just to look for a building but right now I just have the gas for Tuesday. You can use the Florence address to mail in a donation; pay-pal gets it to us immediately. Yes I know it was a bummer I had to re-run a program I pray that problem gets cured. May ......., The LORD bless thee and keep thee; The LORD make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee; The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee shalom. (peace) Bemidbar (Numbers) 6:24-26 In Yeshua's Name, Bro. Dan, Pastor of Messiah's Branch}

Mark 12:41 41And Yeshua sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. 42And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: 44For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

Proverbs 22:2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all. Shalom in Yeshua our Messiah, Where do I begin wow what a week beginning on Tuesday we were packed and Lynda made nine dozen egg sandwiches as I set out 17 trays of sweets. I made beef -n- noodles, mashed taters and buttered corn with bread-n-butter for dinner. Channel 3 News came and made a segment about how we care for the people that they played during the news on Thanksgiving. Pastor Dan will be putting it up on the net just as soon as we have a way to copy it on dvd from the DVR. We made a total of 65 plates on Thanksgiving an served many home made deserts. I went Wednesday night to spend some time alone with the LORD at the same time cooking -n- baking all sorts of foods.This was my first year to make deserts from scratch, my mother gave me all the ingredients then I just threw them all together without measuring anything. I prayed and talked with the Lord while doing this and everything came out wonderful. I got to lay down at 8:30 Am then got up at 12:18 and let the guys standing outside about 13 come in. We had a VERY BLESSED THANKSGIVING with our extended family. Yes they are our family many of them even the men that are older than me call me mom. I set out 17 trays of sweets besides everything we served for dinner and believe everything was taken. There are several of them that eat the sweets I give them during the days we are not there so that they do not have to come out of their hiding to be discovered then raided, run off, beaten, taken to jail for being poor, and their belongings thrown in the dumpster. The poor are people to and we take them in and treat them with Love & Respect just as if they were blood. The Lord willing we will soon be able to give them a hand up so they can get off the street, cleaned up, have an address and get back on their feet. Yes there are a few that will never give up their drinking but they still deserve to eat and have a warm place to sleep. These people are being treated worse than animals in Wichita Ks. People care more for the homeless animals than they care for the abused, lost, poor and homeless people. What a SHAME and don't think for a minute that YAHWEH is not in control these people who could help but refuse will pay for their evilness, hate and shunning of these people. Thursday night the children and I went to my sister-in-laws to shower and sleep while Daniel -n- Dad stayed at the Mission with the guys. Friday morning Daniel made 7 dozen egg sandwiches before we got there and set out sweets I had in the freezer. When we arrived Lynda made 10 more dozen sandwiches and I set the rest of the sweets from the freezer out (the freezer was full of sweets approx 13 trays or more. I also hade a case of twelve boxes with 8 three cakes in a pack of chocolate zingers. We served out all the rest of the food and most all the deserts. I believe it was a total of around 55 plates and 13 to go plates there were even a few second plates. We had a wonderful Shabbat service and all of us were glad to be home Saturday morning 3am. Thank you all who helped supply the needs for this to happen you helped to bless over a hundred people between the two days. Many who would not have had a Thanksgiving otherwise. Oh by the way we served a total of 9 19-21 pound turkeys and I have four more in the freezer. The bills are flowing in and the newsletter needs to go out next Friday. All accounts are nearly drained we ask you to pray about supporting these many works of Yahweh that He has appointed us to do. We know He will supply all of our needs and will NEVER fail us but He uses His people to support these works. Pray about it you may be a vessel He is waiting to hear from. I am in need of postage for the over seas newsletter mailing and the prison weekly. Say a prayer if nothing else send a stamp. Thanks again to all who helped and continue to help weekly, monthly or even just one time.

We love you all and Pray you a very Blessed week ahead. Shalom sisterlinda/family/ & Messiah's Branch

Monday, November 20, 2006

Prison Weekly November 25,2006

Torah Reading Tole'dot "Generations" Genesis25:19-28:9

Haftorah Malachi 1:1-2:7 Gospel Romans 9:6-13

This is the story of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac. Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. Isaac pleaded with the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord responded to his plea, and his wife Rebekah conceived. But the children struggled in her womb, and she said, "If so, why do I exist?" She went to inquire of the Lord, and the Lord answered her, "Two nations are in your womb,Two separate peoples shall issue from your body;One people shall be mightier than the other,And the older shall serve the younger." When her time to give birth was at hand, there were twins in her womb. The first one emerged red, like a hairy mantle all over; so they named him Esau. Then his brother emerged, holding on to the heel of Esau; so they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the outdoors; but Jacob was a mild man who stayed in camp. Isaac favored Esau because he had a taste for game; but Rebekah favored Jacob. Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the open, famished. And Esau said to Jacob, "Give me some of that red stuff to gulp down, for I am famished"--which is why he was named Edom. Jacob said, "First sell me your birthright." And Esau said, "I am at the point of death, so of what use is my birthright to me?" But Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. Jacob then gave Esau bread and lentil stew; he ate and drank, and he rose and went away. Thus did Esau spurn the birthright. There was a famine in the land--aside from the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham--and Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerar. The Lord had appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land which I point out to you. Reside in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; I will assign all these lands to you and to your heirs, fulfilling the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. I will make your heirs as numerous as the stars of heaven, and assign to your heirs all these lands, so that all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your heirs--inasmuch as Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge: My commandments, My laws, and My teachings." So Isaac stayed in Gerar. When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say "my wife," thinking, "The men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful." When some time had passed, Abimelech king of the Philistines, looking out of the window, saw Isaac fondling his wife Rebekah. Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "So she is your wife! Why then did you say: 'She is my sister?"' Isaac said to him, "Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her." Abimelech said, "What have you done to us! One of the people might have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us." Abimelech then charged all the people, saying, "Anyone who molests this man or his wife shall be put to death."

Isaac sowed in that land and reaped a hundredfold the same year. The Lord blessed him.And the man grew richer and richer until he was very wealthy: he acquired flocks and herds, and a large household, so that the Philistines envied him. And the Philistines stopped up all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with earth. And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you have become far too big for us." So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the wadi of Gerar, where he settled. Isaac dug anew the wells which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham's death; and he gave them the same names that his father had given them. But when Isaac's servants, digging in the wadi, found there a well of spring water, the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He named that well Esek, because they contended with him. And when they dug another well, they disputed over that one also; so he named it Sitnah. He moved from there and dug yet another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called it Rehoboth, saying, "Now at last the Lord has granted us ample space to increase in the land." From there he went up to Beer-sheba. That night the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Fear not, for I am with you, and I will bless you and increase your offspring for the sake of My servant Abraham." So he built an altar there and invoked the Lord by name. Isaac pitched his tent there and his servants started digging a well. And Abimelech came to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his councilor and Phicol chief of his troops. Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, seeing that you have been hostile to me and have driven me away from you?" And they said, "We now see plainly that the Lord has been with you, and we thought: Let there be a sworn treaty between our two parties, between you and us. Let us make a pact with you that you will not do us harm, just as we have not molested you but have always dealt kindly with you and sent you away in peace. From now on, be you blessed of the Lord!" Then he made for them a feast, and they ate and drank.

Early in the morning, they exchanged oaths. Isaac then bade them farewell, and they departed from him in peace. That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water!" He named it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite; and they were a source of bitterness to Isaac and Rebekah. When Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son." He answered, "Here I am." And he said, "I am old now, and I do not know how soon I may die. Take your gear, your quiver and bow, and go out into the open and hunt me some game. Then prepare a dish for me such as I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my innermost blessing before I die." Rebekah had been listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau had gone out into the open to hunt game to bring home, Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I overheard your father speaking to your brother Esau, saying, 'Bring me some game and prepare a dish for me to eat, that I may bless you, with the Lord's approval, before I die.' Now, my son, listen carefully as I instruct you. Go to the flock and fetch me two choice kids, and I will make of them a dish for your father, such as he likes. Then take it to your father to eat, in order that he may bless you before he dies." Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, "But my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am smooth-skinned. If my father touches me, I shall appear to him as a trickster and bring upon myself a curse, not a blessing." But his mother said to him, "Your curse, my son, be upon me! Just do as I say and go fetch them for me." He got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a dish such as his father liked. Rebekah then took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were there in the house, and had her younger son Jacob put them on; and she covered his hands and the hairless part of his neck with the skins of the kids. Then she put in the hands of her son Jacob the dish and the bread that she had prepared.

He went to his father and said, "Father." And he said, "Yes, which of my sons are you?" Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your first-born; I have done as you told me. Pray sit up and eat of my game, that you may give me your innermost blessing." Isaac said to his son, "How did you succeed so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because the Lord your God granted me good fortune." Isaac said to Jacob, "Come closer that I may feel you, my son�whether you are really my son Esau or not." So Jacob drew close to his father Isaac, who felt him and wondered. "The voice is the voice of Jacob, yet the hands are the hands of Esau." He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; and so he blessed him. He asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" And when he said, "I am," he said, "Serve me and let me eat of my son's game that I may give you my innermost blessing." So he served him and he ate, and he brought him wine and he drank. Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come close and kiss me, my son"; and he went up and kissed him. And he smelled his clothes and he blessed him, saying, "Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that the Lord has blessed. "May God give you Of the dew of heaven and the fat of the earth, Abundance of new grain and wine. Let peoples serve you, And nations bow to you; Be master over your brothers, And let your mother's sons bow to you. Cursed be they who curse you, Blessed they who bless you." No sooner had Jacob left the presence of his father Isaac�after Isaac had finished blessing Jacob�than his brother Esau came back from his hunt. He too prepared a dish and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father sit up and eat of his son's game, so that you may give me your innermost blessing." His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am your son, Esau, your first-born!" Isaac was seized with very violent trembling. "Who was it then," he demanded, "that hunted game and brought it to me? Moreover, I ate of it before you came, and I blessed him; now he must remain blessed!" When Esau heard his father's words, he burst into wild and bitter sobbing, and said to his father, "Bless me too, Father!" But he answered, "Your brother came with guile and took away your blessing." [Esau] said, "Was he, then, named Jacob that he might supplant me these two times? First he took away my birthright and now he has taken away my blessing!" And he added, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?" Isaac answered, saying to Esau, "But I have made him master over you: I have given him all his brothers for servants, and sustained him with grain and wine. What, then, can I still do for you, my son?" And Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, Father? Bless me too, Father!" And Esau wept aloud. And his father Isaac answered, saying to him, "See, your abode shall enjoy the fat of the earth And the dew of heaven above.Yet by your sword you shall live, And you shall serve your brother;But when you grow restive, You shall break his yoke from your neck." Now Esau harbored a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing which his father had given him, and Esau said to himself, "Let but the mourning period of my father come, and I will kill my brother Jacob." When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you. Now, my son, listen to me. Flee at once to Haran, to my brother Laban. Stay with him a while, until your brother's fury subsides--until your brother's anger against you subsides--and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will fetch you from there. Let me not lose you both in one day!" Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am disgusted with my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries a Hittite woman like these, from among the native women, what good will life be to me?" So Isaac sent for Jacob and blessed him. He instructed him, saying, "You shall not take a wife from among the Canaanite women. Up, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife there from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother, May El Shaddai bless you, make you fertile and numerous, so that you become an assembly of peoples. May He grant the blessing of Abraham to you and your offspring, that you may possess the land where you are sojourning, which God assigned to Abraham." Then Isaac sent Jacob off, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau. When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, charging him, as he blessed him, "You shall not take a wife from among the Canaanite women," and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram, Esau realized that the Canaanite women displeased his father Isaac. So Esau went to Ishmael and took to wife, in addition to the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, sister of Nebaioth.

From Parshat Hayyei Sarah. From THE TANAKH: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society. Used by permission.

Next Weeks Torah Vayetse " And He Went" Genesis 28:10-32:3

Haftorah Hosea 12:13-14:10 Gospel John 1:43:51

Mission Updates: Greetings Saints in His Perfect Peace, Tonight I am smoking turkey for the poor and homeless in Wichita. Al together I think we will be doing 8 Turkeys! I cannot wait. The Turkeys will have all the normal trimmings with them, dressings, pies, green bean casseroles, and many other things. It will be wonderful. We have one of the biggest crowds of the year on Thanksgiving. We open most all-day and close after dark. This year it will be hard to close as some will have no place to go but the cold outside. You see there is no overflow shelter. But we will be staying all night in Wichita anyway so more than likely I will stay in the storefront and let some stay. We will see. I also have the Landlord to consider as if I did this and he found out? They barely get by with us being there the days we are. You know we are a really dinky place. But it is all the rent we can afford. It would be nice to have a place twice the size but with that comes twice the rent and bills. We have been here 7 years. The amount of money spent on rent would have bought an old building. There are so many churches that could afford to pay the extra bills it would take to stay open all night. I really do not understand why they do not see this. One person wanted to know if I was mad at the churches for not bringing the people in. They said pointed back towards the city as being the ones causing the problem. But the truth is it is not the city�s job to care for them it is the Body of Messiah that is called to care one for another. Mad no, upset and brokenhearted, Yes! Wichita has 600 to 800 or more churches. Between 100 and 200 are out freezing on the street�. Yes the city could do something and should. We will see. I had someone asked me how much it would cost to rent a building to take the people in for three months. I am checking on this. If I do find a building then I will basically have to live in Wichita for three months in the building myself as we do not have people there that can handle the people. That would be real rough. But if the Lord provides the building then one way or another we will do it. Right now I am praying in the money needed for Bills, as some are due now. I can tell that the normal donations from the newsletter have dropped and it more than likely is because of the Holiday season. So if you can help in any way we can use the help. The radio program will more than likely be a Rerun from last week. I know I said I was going to have to cure the rerun problem. I just have not the money it takes to buy the last piece of equipment I need to pre record programs. I can do them with just me but I need to be able to get a good equal sound with someone else to prerecord programs. I would do a program from the Wichita Mission on Thursday but I do not have a landline but only my cell phone so it would not be a very good program. But I am praying about it. The last part I need to complete the radio studio is right here. Yes this is the very last part. You being able to prerecord programs professionally will let me get more guests and here is why. Many just cannot do a Thursday night or might be in the USA for a couple of weeks with no free Thursday. But if I can prerecord then I can do it when they have time and ether send the program to AVR or simply podcast it giving us more programs! So if you love radio you may wish to help in this area. If I do not get back with you have a Great Thanksgiving and try to remember all things come from the Lord so it is He whom we must thank. The LORD bless thee and keep thee; The LORD make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee; The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee shalom. (peace) Bemidbar (Numbers) 6:24-26 In Yeshua's Name, Bro. Dan, Pastor of Messiah's Branch

Proverbs 14:21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. Shalom In Yeshua Our Messiah, Friday the boy's and I were busy giving out sweets and making sandwiches, Joshua helped out in the kitchen cooking the eggs and Elijah helped by putting the napkins and bread on the tray then handing out the sandwiches. Most of the guys really enjoyed the boys making and serving them their sandwiches it was definitely a different day. Tuesday I set out 18 trays of sweets and made five dozen egg sandwiches along with keeping up with the drink & sweet table. Friday I set out 13 trays and helped the boys in between. ( The Boys are 12 and 5 ) This week will be a very busy week for me as I prepare the Thanksgiving feast. I am making all the pies this year so I will be staying all night Wednesday at the Mission baking and getting read. We are smoking three turkeys and baking two, grandma and Sharon are baking turkeys and Ed & Randa are smoking one for a total of eight turkeys to serve both Thursday & Friday. December bills have started coming in so pray about helping this ministry we need you to be a part in completing His Works. Remember He uses His People and you may be a vessel He is waiting to use. The newsletter is due to go out the week after Thanksgiving those funds are still needed. Radio was paid another four weeks so it is paid up to the second Thursday of Jan. We had some foods come in to the Mission Friday from someone who found our website. These will be used in food boxes for those who ask for food. I may even make some chicken salad sandwiches to feed in place of the eggs for a change. If any of you want to help we except all donations and find a use for them. The same person blessed us with a calendar from Israel it is beautiful THANKS. Remember to keep us in prayer and pray about helping. Shalom sisterlinda family & Messiah's Branch More on the Mission next update; Mark 9:23,10:27

" THE Truth will set you FREE" Shalom B�Shem Yeshua HaMashiach / Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah

One day a U.S. Senator is tragically killed in an auto accident. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. "Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you." "No problem, just let me in," says the man. "Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity." "Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the Senator. "I'm sorry, but we have our rules." And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him. Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people. They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne. Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises. The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him. "Now it's time to visit heaven." So , 24 hours pass with the Senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns. "Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity." The Senator reflects for a minute, then he answers, "Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell." So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above. The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. "I don't understand," stammers the Senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"

The devil looks at him, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were campaigning . . . Today you voted!"

" THE Truth will set you FREE"

Shalom B�Shem Yeshua HaMashiach

Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah

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Monday, November 13, 2006

Prison Weekly November 25,2006

Torah is Chaye Sarah "Sarah's Life"

Genesis 23:1-25:18

Haftorah 1Kings 1:1-31

Gospel 1 Corinthians 15:50-57

Sarah's lifetime�the span of Sarah's life�came to one hundred and twenty-seven years. Sarah died in Kiriath-arba�now Hebron�in the land of Canaan; and Abraham proceeded to mourn for Sarah and to bewail her. Then Abraham rose from beside his dead, and spoke to the Hittites, saying, "I am a resident alien among you; sell me a burial site among you, that I may remove my dead for burial." And the Hittites replied to Abraham, saying to him, "Hear us, my lord: you are the elect of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places; none of us will withhold his burial place from you for burying your dead." Thereupon Abraham bowed low to the people of the land, the Hittites, and he said to them, "If it is your wish that I remove my dead for burial, you must agree to intercede for me with Ephron son of Zohar. Let him sell me the cave of Machpelah that he owns, which is at the edge of his land. Let him sell it to me, at the full price, for a burial site in your midst." Ephron was present among the Hittites; so Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, all who entered the gate of his town, saying, "No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field and I give you the cave that is in it; I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead." Then Abraham bowed low before the people of the land, and spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "If only you would hear me out! Let me pay the price of the land; accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there." And Ephron replied to Abraham, saying to him, "My lord, do hear me! A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver�what is that between you and me? Go and bury your dead." Abraham accepted Ephron's terms. Abraham paid out to Ephron the money that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites�four hundred shekels of silver at the going merchants' rate. So Ephron's land in Machpelah, near Mamre�the field with its cave and all the trees anywhere within the confines of that field�passed to Abraham as his possession, in the presence of the Hittites, of all who entered the gate of his town. And then Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre�now Hebron�in the land of Canaan. Thus the field with its cave passed from the Hittites to Abraham, as a burial site. Abraham was now old, advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. And Abraham said to the senior servant of his household, who had charge of all that he owned, "Put your hand under my thigh and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell, but will go to the land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac." And the servant said to him, "What if the woman does not consent to follow me to this land, shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?" Abraham answered him, "On no account must you take my son back there! The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from my native land, who promised me on oath, saying, 'I will assign this land to your offspring'�He will send His angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son from there. And if the woman does not consent to follow you, you shall then be clear of this oath to me; but do not take my son back there." So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore to him as bidden.Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and set out, taking with him all the bounty of his master; and he made his way to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor. He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city, at evening time, the time when women come out to draw water. And he said, "O Lord, God of my master Abraham, grant me good fortune this day, and deal graciously with my master Abraham: Here I stand by the spring as the daughters of the townsmen come out to draw water; let the maiden to whom I say, 'Please, lower your jar that I may drink,' and who replies, 'Drink, and I will also water your camels'--let her be the one whom You have decreed for Your servant Isaac. Thereby shall I know that You have dealt graciously with my master." He had scarcely finished speaking, when Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, the son of Milcah the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder. The maiden was very beautiful, a virgin whom no man had known. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up. The servant ran toward her and said, "Please, let me sip a little water from your jar." "Drink, my lord," she said, and she quickly lowered her jar upon her hand and let him drink. When she had let him drink his fill, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they finish drinking." Quickly emptying her jar into the trough, she ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels. The man, meanwhile, stood gazing at her, silently wondering whether the Lord had made his errand successful or not. When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold nose-ring weighing a half-shekel, and two gold bands for her arms, ten shekels in weight. "Pray tell me," he said, "whose daughter are you? Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?" She replied, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor." And she went on, "There is plenty of straw and feed at home, and also room to spend the night." The man bowed low in homage to the Lord. And said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His steadfast faithfulness from my master. For I have been guided on my errand by the Lord, to the house of my master's kinsmen." The maiden ran and told all this to her mother's household. Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man at the spring--when he saw the nose-ring and the bands on his sister's arms, and when he heard his sister Rebekah say, "Thus the man spoke to me." He went up to the man, who was still standing beside the camels at the spring. "Come in, O blessed of the Lord," he said, "why do you remain outside, when I have made ready the house and a place for the camels?" So the man entered the house, and the camels were unloaded. The camels were given straw and feed, and water was brought to bathe his feet and the feet of the men with him. But when food was set before him, he said, "I will not eat until I have told my tale." He said, "Speak, then." "I am Abraham's servant," he began. "The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich: He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female slaves, camels and asses. And Sarah, my master's wife, bore my master a son in her old age, and he has assigned to him everything he owns. Now my master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell; but you shall go to my father's house, to my kindred, and get a wife for my son.' And I said to my master, 'What if the woman does not follow me?' He replied to me, 'The Lord, whose ways I have followed, will send His angel with you and make your errand successful; and you will get a wife for my son from my kindred, from my father's house. Thus only shall you be freed from my adjuration: if, when you come to my kindred, they refuse you--only then shall you be freed from my adjuration.' "I came today to the spring, and I said: O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if You would indeed grant success to the errand on which I am engaged! As I stand by the spring of water, let the young woman who comes out to draw and to whom I say, 'Please, let me drink a little water from your jar,' and who answers, 'You may drink, and I will also draw for your camels'--let her be the wife whom the Lord has decreed for my master's son.' I had scarcely finished praying in my heart, when Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and went down to the spring and drew. And I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.' She quickly lowered her jar and said, 'Drink, and I will also water your camels.' So I drank, and she also watered the camels. I inquired of her, 'Whose daughter are you?' And she said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.' And I put the ring on her nose and the bands on her arms. Then I bowed low in homage to the Lord and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right way to get the daughter of my master's brother for his son. And now, if you mean to treat my master with true kindness, tell me; and if not, tell me also, that I may turn right or left." Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The matter was decreed by the Lord; we cannot speak to you bad or good. Here is Rebekah before you; take her and go, and let her be a wife to your master's son, as the Lord has spoken." When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed low to the ground before the Lord.The servant brought out objects of silver and gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; and he gave presents to her brother and her mother. Then he and the men with him ate and drank, and they spent the night. When they arose next morning, he said, "Give me leave to go to my master." But her brother and her mother said, "Let the maiden remain with us some ten days; then you may go." He said to them, "Do not delay me, now that the Lord has made my errand successful. Give me leave that I may go to my master." And they said, "Let us call the girl and ask for her reply." They called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will." So they sent off their sister Rebekah and her nurse along with Abraham's servant and his men. And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,"O sister! May you grow Into thousands of myriads; May your offspring seize The gates of their foes." Then Rebekah and her maids arose, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and went his way. Isaac had just come back from the vicinity of Beer-lahai-roi, for he was settled in the region of the Negeb. And Isaac went out walking in the field toward evening and, looking up, he saw camels approaching. Raising her eyes, Rebekah saw Isaac. She alighted from the camel and said to the servant, "Who is that man walking in the field toward us?" And the servant said, "That is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself. The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. Isaac then brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he took Rebekah as his wife. Isaac loved her, and thus found comfort after his mother's death. Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan. The descendants of Dedan were the Asshurim, the Letushim, and the Leummim. The descendants of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah. Abraham willed all that he owned to Isaac; but to Abraham's sons by concubines Abraham gave gifts while he was still living, and he sent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the East. This was the total span of Abraham's life: one hundred and seventy-five years. And Abraham breathed his last, dying at a good ripe age, old and contented; and he was gathered to his kin. His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre, the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites; there Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife. After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac settled near Beer-lahai-roi.This is the line of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's slave, bore to Abraham. These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the first-born of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedmah. These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names by their villages and by their encampments: twelve chieftains of as many tribes. These were the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years; then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his kin. They dwelt from Havilah, by Shur, which is close to Egypt, all the way to Asshur; they camped alongside all their kinsmen.
From Parshat Hayyei Sarah. From THE TANAKH: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society. Used by permission.

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Mission Updates:Greetings Saints in His Perfect Peace, First I will speak about Prophet Tom Deckard. We traveled up to Topeka, Kansas to see his two talks. Originally I understood from the Prophecy Club advertisements that he was only going to speak about False Prophets and False Prophecies. (He spoke on this subject on the radio in July. Links for all his programs on our radio program are below.) When I got the invitation they sent in the mail to people in the area, I was glad to see he was doing two talks for DVD. The added talk was about how he was called to be a prophet. I think he said, or maybe it was on one of the slides, that he had over 70 encounters with angels. Many times they have saved his life. You know this man has given many prophecies to nations. All of his prophecies have come to pass in full, not in part. He has even raised people from the dead! At his web site you can see a picture of him as a cloud covered him on stage while preaching. I forget which country he was in at the time, but all who stepped up into the cloud were healed! There is so much in these two talks. In one talk he bought out the history of Christianity and the Sabbath, topics he has spoken about on our programs. In fact, if you have not heard The Last Transition of the Church you really need to; the program is in our archives. Stan had some things to say about Prophet Deckard. One comment that everyone should hear, and I will repeat, is that he believes Deckard to be a more major prophet than Dumitru Duduman. What I know it is more like this - Dumitru Duduman was sent to the USA and the world with a message that is still valid today. Prophet Deckard was sent to add to that message and place further warnings on top of Duduman�s warnings. One prophet does not take away from, but compliments the other. And yes, Tom is my friend; as he said there was a bond between us. So it was great to see him and Stan, who also has been my friend almost from the very start of the Prophecy Club. If I was you, Saints, I would go to the Prophecy Club web site and order the two DVD�s in advance of their release. You need to see what the "Prophet has said". Make sure you pray for Stan and Prophet Deckard and thank God for making these messages available to you! Below are links to all the programs the Prophet has done on our radio program! Mom and I were invited by a ministry called Kingdom to a dinner on Friday. They sell blank tapes, CD's, copiers, DVD's and other things to help ministries. We will start buying our CD's from them as they are the kind you can print right on the CD. Kingdom also has a great deal on printers for the CD�s. We can get a high speed CD/DVD copier for $99 if we buy the CD's and the printer from Kingdom. This equipment will help our ministry greatly! Right now it takes so long to copy CD's from our computer. The new printer will also make our CD's look professional. I think more people will be reordering CD's from us when the product they receive looks sharp. The more CD's we get into peoples� hands, the greater the number of people that hear the warning! And more help comes in for the poor! We only need $350 to do this. Here is an amazing fact they told us during the dinner: In the USA only 3% of all the people have ever even read the New Testament! Most people, and I pray you are not one of them, have not only neglected to read the New Testament, but also the Tanak or the Old Testament. No wonder God's people are so lost and do not realize what is required of them! This is no good! Kingdom had the right idea; they sell an audio of the Bible that you can copy and give away. They said that the USA is an audio nation. Tapes are out, CD's are in. DVD�s are good but most lost people will not play them...but a CD, yes, it will get to them. I wish I could encourage you Saints to get copies of Deckard's radio programs as well as others and pass them on to your friends and relatives. In the future we will offer audio Bibles for cost!!!!!!!!!!!! So please help me get this started!

It was so hard Friday at the Mission. We had standing room only. You see the library where many hang out was closed and we had many new faces. They enjoyed what we had to offer but it was not enough to go around. They hurt for warm socks, gloves, hats, coats and other items. It is very sad that the city has to fund the churches to open an overflow shelter. You see that boils down to paying the church to let the poor in for the night just to sleep. We are only a storefront; if we had a bigger building we could give them a place to be warm and safe during the night, but we can�t afford the rent on a larger place right now. Something has to be done or many will freeze to death this year. They all know it and when the subject is brought up we look around and wonder who it will be. I mean, if I could I would buy an old run down house and create a program to get some of them off the street and into jobs. It is so hard to drop them off under the bridge..... these are human beings not just old drunks and drug addicts. They are veterans from Iraq and other wars; people who have just lost jobs or are disabled. No, this is very sad. These are not throw away people! We have 20 blankets left to take to our store front Mission, as that is what we are missionaries to them...sounds funny, missionaries in the USA....but how could the body of Messiah know that they are to care for one anther and the poor when they do not even read their Bibles....no wonder things are the way they are. So please pray about a donation today we need your help in all areas!!!!!!!!!! Pay Pal is immediate help or mail to the Florence address below, but please pray about helping us for them and to get the warning message out! And Yes we got the van fixed tonight! New tires, rear end fixed, front end, new springs etc. The LORD bless thee and keep thee; The LORD make His face shine upon thee,
and be gracious unto thee; The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee shalom. (peace)
Bemidbar (Numbers) 6:24-26 In Yeshua's Name, Bro. Dan, Pastor of Messiah's Branch

Psalm 9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

Shalom In Yeshua Our Messiah, Friday we were packed all day with standing room only. Lynda made 14 dozen egg-lunchmeat & cheese sandwiches. I put out 13 trays of sweets each tray has approximately 48 packs on it. I made a hobo stew for dinner served with bread-n- butter. We gave out all the coats, gloves and stocking caps that we had. Tuesday we will give out the last twenty blankets. We had lots of new faces Friday and most were sleeping out side. Wichita is refusing to open an over flow shelter even with all the huge churches that are right down town within the homeless area. They sleep just about anywhere they can hide because the police have run them out from under most of the bridges. We have had reports of the police beating them and harassing them just because they are homeless. Yahweh will deal with the people of those churches who sit idly by and do nothing to help the poor. I had an idea come to me about how to get these people off the streets and help them get jobs and back on their feet. I am not going to reveal it as of yet for I am waiting on Yahweh to guide me and provide the means to make this all happen. I know it will come but only in His timing. I know I am where I am suppose to be and doing what He has called me to do I will just have to wait an do everything in His time.

All the bills are paid and another four weeks of radio was paid. Pastor Dan took the van over to the shop tonight. They will fix it tomorrow then we will go pick it up and take it to get new tires then everything will done and we will be ready to face this winter. Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away and I have begun getting supplies to prepare our Feast with the people. If anyone wants to make a dish and bring it by the Mission contact me @ 316-648-4963 I will be spending the night before at the Mission cooking. Thank you all who have supported these works in one way or another Please pray about supporting this Ministry and the many outreaches of it. I am again in need of stamps for the weekly prison mailing I have 17 on the list now. The mailing list for the news letter is still being worked on I have to retype everyone back in because the file was lost on the last upgrade. Thanks again to all who help May Yahweh Bless and Keep you in these days ahead. More on the Mission next update love sisterlinda/family/&Messiah's Branch

MARK 9:23,10:27

" THE Truth will set you FREE" Shalom B�Shem Yeshua HaMashiach / Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah

Red Marbles

During the waning years of the depression in a small southeastern Idaho community, I used to stop by Mr. Miller's roadside stand for farm-fresh produce as the season made it available. Food and money were scarce and bartering was used, extensively. One particular day Mr. Miller was bagging some early potatoes for me. I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily apprising a basket of freshly picked green peas. I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes. Pondering the peas, I couldn't help overhearing the conversation between Mr. Miller and the ragged boy next to me.

"Hello Barry, how are you today?"
"H'lo, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya. Jus' admirin' them peas ... sure look good."
"They are good, Barry. How's your Ma?"
"Fine. Gittin' stronger alla' time."
"Good. Anything I can help you with?"
"No, Sir. Jus' admirin' them peas."
"Would you like to take some home?"
"No, Sir. Got nuthin' to pay for 'em with."
"Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?"
"All I got's my prize marble here."
"Is that right? Let me see it."
"Here 'tis. She's a dandy."
"I can see that. Hmmmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort of go for
red. Do you have a red one like this at home?"
"Not 'zackley .....but, almost."
"Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip this
way let me look at that red marble."
"Sure will. Thanks, Mr. Miller."

Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me. With a smile she said, "There are two other boys like him in our community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes or whatever. When they come back with their red marbles, and they always do, he decides he doesn't like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one, perhaps." I left the stand, smiling to myself, impressed with this man. A short time later I moved to Colorado but I never forgot the story of this man, the boys and their bartering. Several years went by, each more rapid than the previous one. Just recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community and while I was there learned that Mr. Miller had died. They were having his viewing that evening and knowing my friends wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon our arrival at the mortuary we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased and to offer whatever words of comfort we could. Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army uniform and the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white shirts ... very professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller, standing smiling and composed, by her husband's casket. Each of the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one, each young man stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the casket. Each left the mortuary, awkwardly, wiping his eyes. Our turn came to meet Mrs. Miller. I told her who I was and mentioned the story she had told me about the marbles. Eyes glistening she took my hand and led me to the casket. "Those three young men, who just left, were the boys I told you about. They just told me how they appreciated the things Jim "traded" them. Now, at last, when Jim could not change his mind about color or size... they came to pay their debt. We've never had a great deal of the wealth of this world," she confided, "but, right now, Jim would consider himself the richest man in Idaho." With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her deceased husband. Resting underneath were three, magnificently shiny, red marbles.

Moral: We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds.
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath.

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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Prison Weekly November 11th

Torah is Vayera "And He appeared'' Genesis 18:1-22:24

Haftorah Reading is II Kings 4:1-37

Gospel Reading is II Peter2:4-11

Genesis 18:1-22:24

The Lord appeared to him by the terebinths of Mamre; he was sitting at the entrance of the tent as the day grew hot. Looking up, he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them and, bowing to the ground, he said, "My lords, if it please you, do not go on past your servant. Let a little water be brought; bathe your feet and recline under the tree. And let me fetch a morsel of bread that you may refresh yourselves; then go on--seeing that you have come your servant's way." They replied, "Do as you have said." Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quick, three seahs of choice flour! Knead and make cakes!" Then Abraham ran to the herd, took a calf, tender and choice, and gave it to a servant-boy, who hastened to prepare it. He took curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared and set these before them; and he waited on them under the tree as they ate. They said to him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" And he replied, "There, in the tent." Then one said, "I will return to you next year, and your wife Sarah shall have a son!" Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years; Sarah had stopped having the periods of women. And Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "Now that I am withered, am I to have enjoyment�with my husband so old?" Then the Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I in truth bear a child, old as I am?' Is anything too wondrous for the Lord? I will return to you at the time next year, and Sarah shall have a son."Sarah lied, saying, "I did not laugh," for she was frightened. But He replied, "You did laugh." The men set out from there and looked down toward Sodom, Abraham walking with them to see them off. Now the Lord had said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, since Abraham is to become a great and populous nation and all the nations of the earth are to bless themselves by him? For I have singled him out, that he may instruct his children and his posterity to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is just and right, in order that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what He has promised him." Then the Lord said, "The outrage of Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave! I will go down to see whether they have acted altogether according to the outcry that has reached Me; if not, I will take note." The men went on from there to Sodom, while Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Abraham came forward and said, "Will You sweep away the innocent along with the guilty? What if there should be fifty innocent within the city; will You then wipe out the place and not forgive it for the sake of the innocent fifty who are in it? Far be it from You to do such a thing, to bring death upon the innocent as well as the guilty, so that innocent and guilty fare alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?" And the Lord answered, "If I find within the city of Sodom fifty innocent ones, I will forgive the whole place for their sake." Abraham spoke up, saying, "Here I venture to speak to my Lord, I who am but dust and ashes: What if the fifty innocent should lack five? Will You destroy the whole city for want of the five?" And He answered, "I will not destroy if I find forty-five there." But he spoke to Him again, and said, "What if forty should be found there?" And He answered, "I will not do it, for the sake of the forty." And he said, "Let not my Lord be angry if I go on: What if thirty should be found there?" And He answered, "I will not do it if I find thirty there." And he said, "I venture again to speak to my Lord: What if twenty should be found there?" And He answered, "I will not destroy, for the sake of the twenty." And he said, "Let not my Lord be angry if I speak but this last time: What if ten should be found there?" And He answered, "I will not destroy, for the sake of the ten." When the Lord had finished speaking to Abraham, He departed; and Abraham returned to his place.The two angels arrived in Sodom in the evening, as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to greet them and, bowing low with his face to the ground, he said, "Please, my lords, turn aside to your servant's house to spend the night, and bathe your feet; then you may be on your way early." But they said, "No, we will spend the night in the square." But he urged them strongly, so they turned his way and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. They had not yet lain down, when the townspeople, the men of Sodom, young and old�all the people to the last man�gathered about the house. And they shouted to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may be intimate with them." So Lot went out to them to the entrance, shut the door behind him, and said, "I beg you, my friends, do not commit such a wrong. Look, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you please; but do not do anything to these men, since they have come under the shelter of my roof." But they said, "Stand back! The fellow," they said, "came here as an alien, and already he acts the ruler! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." And they pressed hard against the person of Lot, and moved forward to break the door. But the men stretched out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. And the people who were at the entrance of the house, young and old, they struck with blinding light, so that they were helpless to find the entrance. Then the men said to Lot, "Whom else have you here? Sons-in-law, your sons and daughters, or anyone else that you have in the city�bring them out of the place. For we are about to destroy this place; because the outcry against them before the Lord has become so great that the Lord has sent us to destroy it." So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, "Up, get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law as one who jests. As dawn broke, the angels urged Lot on, saying, "Up, take your wife and your two remaining daughters, lest you be swept away because of the iniquity of the city." Still he delayed. So the men seized his hand, and the hands of his wife and his two daughters�in the Lord's mercy on him�and brought him out and left him outside the city. When they had brought them outside, one said, "Flee for your life! Do not look behind you, nor stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, lest you be swept away." But Lot said to them, "Oh no, my lord! You have been so gracious to your servant, and have already shown me so much kindness in order to save my life; but I cannot flee to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die. Look, that town there is near enough to flee to; it is such a little place! Let me flee there�it is such a little place�and let my life be saved."He replied, "Very well, I will grant you this favor too, and I will not annihilate the town of which you have spoken. Hurry, flee there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Hence the town came to be called Zoar. As the sun rose upon the earth and Lot entered Zoar, the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah sulfurous fire from the Lord out of heaven. He annihilated those cities and the entire Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground. Lot's wife looked back, and she thereupon turned into a pillar of salt.
Next morning, Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood before the Lord, and, looking down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the Plain, he saw the smoke of the land rising like the smoke of a kiln. Thus it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain and annihilated the cities where Lot dwelt, God was mindful of Abraham and removed Lot from the midst of the upheaval.

Lot went up from Zoar and settled in the hill country with his two daughters, for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar; and he and his two daughters lived in a cave. And the older one said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to consort with us in the way of all the world. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him, that we may maintain life through our father." That night they made their father drink wine, and the older one went in and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she rose. The next day the older one said to the younger, "See, I lay with Father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go and lie with him, that we may maintain life through our father." That night also they made their father drink wine, and the younger one went and lay with him; he did not know when she lay down or when she rose. Thus the two daughters of Lot came to be with child by their father. The older one bore a son and named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today. And the younger also bore a son, and she called him Ben-ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today. Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negeb and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was sojourning in Gerar, Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, "You are to die because of the woman that you have taken, for she is a married woman." Now Abimelech had not approached her. He said, "O Lord, will You slay people even though innocent? He himself said to me, 'She is my sister!' And she also said, 'He is my brother.' When I did this, my heart was blameless and my hands were clean." And God said to him in the dream, "I knew that you did this with a blameless heart, and so I kept you from sinning against Me. That was why I did not let you touch her. Therefore, restore the man's wife�since he is a prophet, he will intercede for you�to save your life. If you fail to restore her, know that you shall die, you and all that are yours." Early next morning, Abimelech called his servants and told them all that had happened; and the men were greatly frightened. Then Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? What wrong have I done that you should bring so great a guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done to me things that ought not to be done. What, then," Abimelech demanded of Abraham, "was your purpose in doing this thing?" "I thought," said Abraham, "surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. And besides, she is in truth my sister, my father's daughter though not my mother's; and she became my wife. So when God made me wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'Let this be the kindness that you shall do me: whatever place we come to, say there of me: He is my brother.''
Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham; and he restored his wife Sarah to him. And Abimelech said, "Here, my land is before you; settle wherever you please." And to Sarah he said, "I herewith give your brother a thousand pieces of silver; this will serve you as vindication before all who are with you, and you are cleared before everyone." Abraham then prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his slave girls, so that they bore children; for the Lord had closed fast every womb of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham. The Lord took note of Sarah as He had promised, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken. Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken. Abraham gave his newborn son, whom Sarah had borne him, the name of Isaac. And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter; everyone who hears will laugh with me." And she added, "Who would have said to Abraham That Sarah would suckle children! Yet I have borne a son in his old age."The child grew up and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. Sarah saw the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham playing. She said to Abraham, "Cast out that slave-woman and her son, for the son of that slave shall not share in the inheritance with my son Isaac." The matter distressed Abraham greatly, for it concerned a son of his. But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed over the boy or your slave; whatever Sarah tells you, do as she says, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be continued for you. As for the son of the slave-woman, I will make a nation of him, too, for he is your seed." Early next morning Abraham took some bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar. He placed them over her shoulder, together with the child, and sent her away. And she wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. When the water was gone from the skin, she left the child under one of the bushes, and went and sat down at a distance, a bowshot away; for she thought, "Let me not look on as the child dies." And sitting thus afar, she burst into tears.

God heard the cry of the boy, and an angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heeded the cry of the boy where he is. Come, lift up the boy and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him." Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water, and let the boy drink. God was with the boy and he grew up; he dwelt in the wilderness and became a bowman. He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.At that time Abimelech and Phicol, chief of his troops, said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything that you do. Therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my kith and kin, but will deal with me and with the land in which you have sojourned as loyally as I have dealt with you." And Abraham said, "I swear it." Then Abraham reproached Abimelech for the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized. But Abimelech said, "I do not know who did this; you did not tell me, nor have I heard of it until today." Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a pact. Abraham then set seven ewes of the flock by themselves, and Abimelech said to Abraham, "What mean these seven ewes which you have set apart?"He replied, "You are to accept these seven ewes from me as proof that I dug this well." Hence that place was called Beer-sheba, for there the two of them swore an oath. When they had concluded the pact at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, chief of his troops, departed and returned to the land of the Philistines. [Abraham] planted a tamarisk at Beer-sheba, and invoked there the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God. And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines a long time.Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test. He said to him, "Abraham," and he answered, "Here I am." And He said, "Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you." So early next morning, Abraham saddled his ass and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and he set out for the place of which God had told him. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place from afar. Then Abraham said to his servants, "You stay here with the ass. The boy and I will go up there; we will worship and we will return to you."Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. He himself took the firestone and the knife; and the two walked off together. Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, "Father!" And he answered, "Yes, my son." And he said, "Here are the firestone and the wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?" And Abraham said, "God will see to the sheep for His burnt offering, my son." And the two of them walked on together. They arrived at the place of which God had told him. Abraham built an altar there; he laid out the wood; he bound his son Isaac; he laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. And Abraham picked up the knife to slay his son. Then an angel of the Lord called to him from heaven: "Abraham! Abraham!" And he answered, "Here I am." And he said, "Do not raise your hand against the boy, or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your favored one, from Me." When Abraham looked up, his eye fell upon a ram, caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son. And Abraham named that site Adonai-yireh, whence the present saying, "On the mount of the Lord there is vision."The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, and said, "By Myself I swear, the Lord declares: Because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your favored one, I will bestow My blessing upon you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sands on the seashore; and your descendants shall seize the gates of their foes. All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed My command." Abraham then returned to his servants, and they departed together for Beer-sheba; and Abraham stayed in Beer-sheba.Some time later, Abraham was told, "Milcah too has borne children to your brother Nahor: Uz the first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram; and Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel"--Bethuel being the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore children: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Mission Updates: Greetings Saints in His Perfect Peace, Most Sabbaths I do not spend my time with the computer. It is a day of rest both in the physical and the spiritual. It is a time to shut off the rest of the world and reflect on the blessings that the Lord has given you. A time to enjoy family. When you come out of the Sabbath you are renewed in body and spirit ready to face the world and the world's problems. Yes it is a day to enjoy and look forward to. A meeting time with your heavenly Father. But today my mind is troubled. I have such a hard time being at rest when I look back at the week and see the faces of those we help. A woman with no shoes, a diabetic so thankful for what we did for her she wanted to donate her medication, yes faces of people real people not throw away people. I think of Brother David huddled in a hidden concrete hole, along and wondering if he is to be attacked again as a few months ago he was beaten almost to death with a pipe as he slept. At least the city would fund the churches to open an overflow. It seems funny give churches money to open their doors at night so the people can come in and be safe from the cold and from the mean streets....but there is no overflow this year as the city is saying two things, no funds and we believe we should not open till after it gets below freezing....It has already been below freezing saints. We were blessed with more money for medications. That was a great need. It is good now for a short while. So we are looking for the day called by thanksgiving. A day that is much like the Sabbath as we give thanks for the things the Lord has given us and enjoy our families....we open our doors on this day and become family with the people, the poor, some homeless and some not. People that lack family, people that lack love and compassion. People that we ask the Lord to send us. The ones that need the help the most. To send us also the worst of the very worst so we might be a light to them. Yes some funds have been coming for that day and by faith I know enough will come, for it is something that the Lord has placed on us to do.

You see that is what this ministry is about. Doing the Lord's will. We know that he spent His ministry among the worst sinners and among the poor. He lived from one place to another as a man without a home, because His real home was not of this earth. He called us out of the world, called us! He loved us and was willing to suffer and die for us. Gave his life so that we might live. We are to look to His example. We are to do as he told us, love one another as he loved us. love our neighbors and ourselves. Just how many in the body of Messiah know the word sacrifice? Sure people give but do they sacrifice? No I do not just mean money while with some that is the biggest sacrifice, but I mean how much of your time do you give to the Lord? He is supposed to come first in your life and not last or when there is time. So what if you were about to die and you cried out to the Father and said " help me Lord my car is about to go off a cliff!" What if God the Father said to you, well I am sorry, I do not have the time right now, get back with me when I do? And giving time to the Lord is done in many ways such as Messiah said as it is recorded in Matthew 25:41^{1Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. So many do not the things that the Lord called us to do one to another........I wonder when the time of trouble comes that these that were in such a hurry to gain this world will realize just why all they labored for is taken from them.}

Matthew 6:19 19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Let's go on....just how much time to you spend communicating with the Lord? How much time is spent in prayer? In His book? Or just walking and talking with him? Let alone devote one whole day to him? And how much time do you spend praise him and thanking him for all you have received? It all belongs to Him or have you forgotten that? So yes I am troubled today as These next months brings the cold in. I look at the people and wonder if who I may be called to the hospital for as they pull the plug on them....because they found them outside frozen. I wonder just how the rest will take it. I know one last year after his friend died drank so much because of the grief that he fell into a river and died in much the same manner as his friend.....They ask me Pastor when is a shelter going to be built and I have no answer for them. And I wonder about these coming months just how hard it will be for us. By faith I know we will get through them but donations are generally way down as people spend on the holidays....gifts are okay to give others, but should not gifts to Yeshua come first? I mean is that not what the claim is? A Celebration of the Lord? The LORD bless thee and keep thee; The LORD make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee; The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee shalom. (peace) Bemidbar (Numbers) 6:24-26 In Yeshua's Name, Bro. Dan, Pastor of Messiah's Branch

Romans 2:12-13 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.Shalom in Yeshua Our Messiah, Friday Lynda made five dozen egg, lunchmeat an cheese sandwiches and I made two dozen egg sandwiches. I set out around forty bags of donut holes, and seven trays of sweets. I had been guessing at how many we been giving out but I was way off. We counted a couple trays the last time we picked up sweets and there was forty packs on a tray so seven trays would be 280 or some where close to that. The Tuesday before I set out Twelve trays. I made cows-n-the blankets and BBQ chips with peaches for dinner then I made a cherry pie for service break we enjoyed with the Challa Bread, both was outta this would. We had a few new people come and said they'd be coming back. I have a few bills that need to be paid this week then a few that are due between the fourteenth and seventeenth. We received another hundred and fifty toward Thanksgiving so I'm sure we will be able to have a really good dinner for both Thanksgiving and the day after. I have commitments for five turkeys being prepared four will be deboned and ready to serve. Then we will cook our turkey so I have six total. If anyone else wants to donate a turkey either cooked or uncooked we can still put some in the freezer for later in the year.

Thank you all who have been helping to meet the needs these people are being forced to sleep in the cold. I thank Yeshua/Yahweh every night for allowing me to have a nice warm bed to sleep in and my heart cries for those I know are outside hiding in the cold somewhere barely able to sleep for fear of being beat while asleep. One of our regulars had his back pack stolen that was just above his head while he slept (he had moved it because it was to hard to use as a pillow). Everything he had was in the backpack including his ID. Things are really becoming a night mare for the poor and homeless. Please pray that the people of Wichita will see what they are doing to these people and open a shelter. Thank you all who support and continue to support this ministry. Please pray about supporting these works Yahweh may be waiting to hear from you.

"THE Truth will set you FREE" Shalom B�Shem Yeshua HaMashiach / Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah

Picture in the storm

A little girl walked to and from school daily. Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trek to the elementary school. As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with thunder and lightning. The mother of the little girl felt concerned that her daughter would be frightened as she walked home from school and she herself feared that the electrical storm might harm her child Following the roar of thunder, lightning, like a flaming sword, would cut through the sky. Full of concern, the mother quickly got into her car and drove along the route to her child's school. As she did so, she saw her little girl walking along, but at each flash of lightning, the child would stop, look up and smile. Another and another were to follow quickly and with each the little girl would look at the streak of light and smile.
When the mother's car drew up beside the child she lowered the window and called to her, "What are you doing? Why do you keep stopping?" The child answered, "I am trying to look pretty. God keeps taking my picture."
May God bless you today as you face the storms that come your way.

Next Weeks Torah is Chaye Sarah "Sarah's Life" Genesis 23:1-25:18

Haftorah 1Kings 1:1-31 Gospel 1 Corinthians 15:50-57

" THE Truth will set you FREE"

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