Prison Weekly Elul 18,5767

This Weeks Readings are Torah Ki Tavo "When you enter in "

Deuteronomy 26:1-29:9 Haftarah   Isaiah 60:1-22 & Gospel Romans 11:1-15

Next weeks Readings are Torah Nitsavim " you are standing " / Va Yelech "And he went" Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30 Haftarah Isaiah 61:10-63:9 Gospel Romans 10:1-13 & Hosea 14:2-10

When you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it, you shall take some of every first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God will choose to establish His name. You shall go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, "I acknowledge this day before the Lord your God that I have entered the land that the Lord swore to our fathers to assign us." The priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God. You shall then recite as follows before the Lord your God: "My father was a fugitive Aramean. He went down to Egypt with meager numbers and sojourned there; but there he became a great and very populous nation. The Egyptians dealt harshly with us and oppressed us; they imposed heavy labor upon us. We cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our plea and saw our plight, our misery, and our oppression. The Lord freed us from Egypt by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm and awesome power, and by signs and portents. He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. Wherefore I now bring the first fruits of the soil which You, O Lord, have given me." You shall leave it before the Lord your God and bow low before the Lord your God. And you shall enjoy, together with the Levite and the stranger in your midst, all the bounty that the Lord your God has bestowed upon you and your household. When you have set aside in full the tenth part of your yield--in the third year, the year of the tithe--and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat their fill in your settlements, you shall declare before the Lord your God: "I have cleared out the consecrated portion from the house; and I have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, just as You commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor neglected any of Your commandments: I have not eaten of it while in mourning, I have not cleared out any of it while I was unclean, and I have not deposited any of it with the dead. I have obeyed the Lord my God; I have done just as You commanded me. Look down from Your holy abode, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the soil You have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers." The Lord your God commands you this day to observe these laws and rules; observe them faithfully with all your heart and soul. You have affirmed this day that the Lord is your God, that you will walk in His ways, that you will observe His laws and commandments and rules, and that you will obey Him. And the Lord has affirmed this day that you are, as He promised you, His treasured people who shall observe all His commandments, and that He will set you, in fame and renown and glory, high above all the nations that He has made; and that you shall be, as He promised, a holy people to the Lord your God.Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying: Observe all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day. As soon as you have crossed the Jordan into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones. Coat them with plaster and inscribe upon them all the words of this Teaching. When you cross over to enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, promised you--upon crossing the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, about which I charge you this day, on Mount Ebal, and coat them with plaster. There, too, you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not wield an iron tool over them; you must build the altar of the Lord your God of unhewn stones. You shall offer on it burnt offerings to the Lord your God, and you shall sacrifice there offerings of well-being and eat them, rejoicing before the Lord your God. And on those stones you shall inscribe every word of this Teaching most distinctly. Moses and the levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying: Silence! Hear, O Israel! Today you have become the people of the Lord your God: Heed the Lord your God and observe His commandments and His laws, which I enjoin upon you this day. Thereupon Moses charged the people, saying: After you have crossed the Jordan, the following shall stand on Mount Gerizim when the blessing for the people is spoken: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. And for the curse, the following shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphthali. The Levites shall then proclaim in a loud voice to all the people of Israel:

Cursed be anyone who makes a sculptured or molten image, abhorred by the Lord, a craftsman's handiwork, and sets it up in secret.--And all the people shall respond, Amen. Cursed be he who insults his father or mother.--And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who moves his fellow countryman's landmark.--And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who misdirects a blind person on his way.--And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who subverts the rights of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.--And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, for he has removed his father's garment.--And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who lies with any beast.--And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who lies with his sister, whether daughter of his father or of his mother.--And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who strikes down his fellow countryman in secret.--And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who accepts a bribe in the case of the murder of an innocent person.--And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who will not uphold the terms of this Teaching and observe them. And all the people shall say, Amen. Now, if you obey the Lord your God, to observe faithfully all His commandments which I enjoin upon you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. All these blessings shall come upon you and take effect, if you will but heed the word of the Lord your God:

Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the country. Blessed shall be the issue of your womb, the produce of your soil, and the offspring of your cattle, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be in your comings and blessed shall you be in your goings. The Lord will put to rout before you the enemies who attack you; they will march out against you by a single road, but flee from you by many roads. The Lord will ordain blessings for you upon your barns and upon all your undertakings: He will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. The Lord will establish you as His holy people, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the Lord's name is proclaimed over you, and they shall stand in fear of you. The Lord will give you abounding prosperity in the issue of your womb, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to assign to you. The Lord will open for you His bounteous store, the heavens, to provide rain for your land in season and to bless all your undertakings. You will be creditor to many nations, but debtor to none.

The Lord will make you the head, not the tail; you will always be at the top and never at the bottom--if only you obey and faithfully observe the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin upon you this day, and do not deviate to the right or to the left from any of the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day and turn to the worship of other gods. But if you do not obey the Lord your God to observe faithfully all His commandments and laws which I enjoin upon you this day, all these curses shall come upon you and take effect: Cursed shall you be in the city and cursed shall you be in the country. Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Cursed shall be the issue of your womb and the produce of your soil, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock. Cursed shall you be in your comings and cursed shall you be in your goings. The Lord will let loose against you calamity, panic, and frustration in all the enterprises you undertake, so that you shall soon be utterly wiped out because of your evildoing in forsaking Me. The Lord will make pestilence cling to you, until He has put an end to you in the land that you are entering to possess. The Lord will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew; they shall hound you until you perish. The skies above your head shall be copper and the earth under you iron. The Lord will make the rain of your land dust, and sand shall drop on you from the sky, until you are wiped out. The Lord will put you to rout before your enemies; you shall march out against them by a single road, but flee from them by many roads; and you shall become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. Your carcasses shall become food for all the birds of the sky and all the beasts of the earth, with none to frighten them off.

The Lord will strike you with the Egyptian inflammation, with hemorrhoids, boil-scars, and itch, from which you shall never recover. The Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and dismay. You shall grope at noon as a blind man gropes in the dark; you shall not prosper in your ventures, but shall be constantly abused and robbed, with none to give help. If you pay the bride-price for a wife, another man shall enjoy her. If you build a house, you shall not live in it. If you plant a vineyard, you shall not harvest it. Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be seized in front of you, and it shall not be returned to you; your flock shall be delivered to your enemies, with none to help you. Your sons and daughters shall be delivered to another people, while you look on; and your eyes shall strain for them constantly, but you shall be helpless. A people you do not know shall eat up the produce of your soil and all your gains; you shall be abused and downtrodden continually, until you are driven mad by what your eyes behold. The Lord will afflict you at the knees and thighs with a severe inflammation, from which you shall never recover--from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. The Lord will drive you, and the king you have set over you, to a nation unknown to you or your fathers, where you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone. You shall be a  consternation, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to which the Lord will drive you. Though you take much seed out to the field, you shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it. Though you plant vineyards and till them, you shall have no wine to drink or store, for the worm shall devour them. Though you have olive trees throughout your territory, you shall have no oil for anointment, for your olives shall drop off. Though you beget sons and daughters, they shall not remain with you, for they shall go into captivity. The cricket shall take over all the trees and produce of your land. The stranger in your midst shall rise above you higher and higher, while you sink lower and lower: he shall be your creditor, but you shall not be his; he shall be the head and you the tail.All these curses shall befall you; they shall pursue you and overtake you, until you are wiped out, because you did not heed the Lord your God and keep the commandments and laws that He enjoined upon you. They shall serve as signs and proofs against you and your offspring for all time. Because you would not serve the Lord your God in joy and gladness over the abundance of everything, you shall have to serve--in hunger and thirst, naked and lacking everything--the enemies whom the Lord will let loose against you. He will put an iron yoke upon your neck until He has wiped you out.

The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, which will swoop down like the eagle--a nation whose language you do not understand, a ruthless nation, that will show the old no regard and the young no mercy. It shall devour the offspring of your cattle and the produce of your soil, until you have been wiped out, leaving you nothing of new grain, wine, or oil, of the calving of your herds and the lambing of your flocks, until it has brought you to ruin. It shall shut you up in all your towns throughout your land until every mighty, towering wall in which you trust has come down. And when you are shut up in all your towns throughout your land that the Lord your God has assigned to you, you shall eat your own issue, the flesh of your sons and daughters that the Lord your God has assigned to you, because of the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you. He who is most tender and fastidious among you shall be too mean to his brother and the wife of his bosom and the children he has spared to share with any of them the flesh of the children that he eats, because he has nothing else left as a result of the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you in all your towns. And she who is most tender and dainty among you, so tender and dainty that she would never venture to set a foot on the ground, shall begrudge the husband of her bosom, and her son and her daughter, the afterbirth that issues from between her legs and the babies she bears; she shall eat them secretly, because of utter want, in the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you in your towns.

If you fail to observe faithfully all the terms of this Teaching that are written in this book, to reverence this honored and awesome Name, the Lord your God, the Lord will inflict extraordinary plagues upon you and your offspring, strange and lasting plagues, malignant and chronic diseases. He will bring back upon you all the sicknesses of Egypt that you dreaded so, and they shall cling to you. Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you all the other diseases and plagues that are not mentioned in this book of Teaching, until you are wiped out. You shall be left a scant few, after having been as numerous as the stars in the skies, because you did not heed the command of the Lord your God. And as the Lord once delighted in making you prosperous and many, so will the Lord now delight in causing you to perish and in wiping you out; you shall be torn from the land that you are about to enter and possess. The Lord will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, whom neither you nor your ancestors have experienced. Yet even among those nations you shall find no peace, nor shall your foot find a place to rest. The Lord will give you there an anguished heart and eyes that pine and a despondent spirit. The life you face shall be precarious; you shall be in terror, night and day, with no assurance of survival. In the morning you shall say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening you shall say, "If only it were morning!" because of what your heart shall dread and your eyes shall see. The Lord will send you back to Egypt in galleys, by a route which I told you you should not see again. There you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but none will buy. These are the terms of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to conclude with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb. Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: You have seen all that the Lord did before your very eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his courtiers and to his whole country: the wondrous feats that you saw with your own eyes, those prodigious signs and marvels. Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear. I led you through the wilderness forty years; the clothes on your back did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet; you had no bread to eat and no wine or other intoxicant to drink--that you might know that I the Lord am your God. When you reached this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to engage us in battle, but we defeated them. We took their land and gave it to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh as their heritage. Therefore observe faithfully all the terms of this covenant, that you may succeed in all that you undertake.

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

Mission Updates: Greetings Saints in His Perfect Peace, Friday I was broker than broke, about to say okay what should I do quit, you know upset, then I went for a drive and had a talk with the Father, I told him that I had no plans on stopping, then repented of some things, you know we all sin and fall short of the Glory of Yahweh. When I got back I had a donation, then another, and another.....I have the $500 to pay the Owner, I paid radio, (that means it is paid up the next three weeks) got materials to build shelves, picked up the rubber pieces to lay the carpet. I gave mom $300 on the electric bill for here. Bought  some other things. Over the last three days the south side of the building was painted, the children's room is cleaned out and ready. The entrance got carpet laid , I unpacked most of my office and hung pictures. Found some of the medical supplies and I am very low on some things. Found some gloves and a few hats, yes it's still warm out but it will change soon, it is time to start asking for blankets, coats, jackets light, gloves, etc....sleeping bags also. Yes I want to be ready for the bad weather now. I am putting a camera soon up out side, I can go one of two ways with ATT they will send me one and charge me $10 a month, but it comes with web site you watch it on. I do think you have to buy the camera from them for $100. So then I would aim it on the drug addicts and prostitutes so you all can see what's going on, yuk, yuk. Mom got some bill money in the mail and it pretty much covered most of the bills that are in. I think the newsletter money needs to come soon so we can get it out on time. So am I broke? Yes I will have to pray in gas money of course, but we have greatly caught up, things got done, and all donations were spent wisely.  I am sure that He will supply what is needed for His work!

Tomorrow my daughter is going to film a walk though and place it on the net, I will start out side and walk you though so you can see the progress........Please keep us in your Prayers! As I am writing this the sink is being put in, that is a very big AMEN! We did a lot of work this week and will tonight so I can do radio tomorrow, besides I have no more money to go on this week. I have gas home then I am broke as normal. The picture at the top is a young lady who has been in the street on and off. She as many get hooked into the lifestyle that surrounds homelessness, would you believe that some women seek out some of these homeless bad-boys. Anyway she used our phone and called her mother in California, she is sending he a bus ticket and will help her get out of the lifestyle and find a job, something this young lady wants very much to do. The man in the picture is her current boy friend, he may or may not join her in California, and they have only been together two weeks. Her family is rejoicing as that which was lost is now found, AMEN! I have her number and email so we will see. She is really very sweet and she deserves this new start. This is what happens many times when someone is allowed to call relatives out of state or even in state, the phone booth access we offer to the street people to them is a very big thing, and it brings families back together. Also it is greatly needed to set up doctor visits etc. No other place in town offers this! The nights that I stay over here there is a night ministry or night watch going on. Like last night I doctored a man with a large wound on the top of his head and arm. he also wanted prayers. I fed a prostitute that is now convinced in to going into a program on the 1st, yes she asked for prayer. At the night watch here I pray over many people as they seek help in the night! Everyone is getting used to me, and that is very good. Light has came to darkness and the darkness will be pushed out, lift this neighborhood up in your prayers, stand in faith with me please. In the darkness there are sex acts, drug selling, etc all right out there on the street and well as the selling of drugs, the police a re trying but it is very hard, arrest one and five more come back. Please pray about supporting this very important ministry

1 Corinthians 9:19

¹⁹For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. ²⁰And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; ²¹To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. ²²To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. ²³And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

I must cut this short as I have to go to the hospital to see someone before they pull the plug on him. The Newsletter needs to get printed and mailed out we need to pray in those funds as well as money to buy materials to work. So please lift us up in prayer now if you wish to help, in fact there are a few nraml monthly donations taht are not in and I am praying that they are going to come still yet that will give us a great start to next month!

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

^{Matthew 21:21-22 21} Yeshua answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. ²²And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

Shalom In Yeshua Messiah, Yes Yahweh is Awesome and  HE continually test us to see where our Faith is Amen! Boy today was a very busy day, I just could not keep up with the tea. I stopped counting at twenty pitchers......Bootsie made twelve dozen egg, meat an cheese sandwiches and we served eight family size bags of Salsa Doritos, 3-3 pound bags of green apples and two bananas. Oh I also gave out the last six or seven brownies with cherries left over from Friday and one food box. The place really looked a lot different with everything unpacked and on shelves however there is still lots of work to be done before we are FINISHED. The children were able to use their room and as soon as the other school computer arrives they will be doing school there. I made beanie weenies ( the beans were donated and when food is donated we bless it and serve it), fried potatoes, fruit cocktail mixed with peaches and french toast. I also gave out one food box. I posted last Friday what I needed to pay all the bills that were in and low an behold most all the funding had already been mailed two days before. I received a 1400.00 check and a 20.00 check on Sabbath. WOW isn't that AWESOME!!! I paid almost all the bills that were in but since then I have received a few more. Right now the total I need is 350.00 to pay everything in and the 300.00 for the newsletter. I also was able to stock some of the things needed at the Mission and fill up my car.  Remember Yahweh can only supply the needs through HIS OBEDIENT VESSELS. If He tells someone to send this or that somewhere and they don't, then He has to move on to the next vessel until He finds one that will DO AS HE TELLS THEM! HE WILL NEVER FAIL HIS PEOPLE! THANKS TO ALL WHO LISTEN and HELP! I will do my regular update Thursday night so until then KEEP US IN PRAYER and REMEMBER to ASK IF YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO SUPPORT THESE WORKS!

Galatians 5: 22-26

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Shalom In Yeshua Messiah Last Friday Bootsie made thirteen dozen sandwiches and we served Fruit chips and banannas with them. I made hamburger-n-noodles, mashed taters, buttered corn an bread-n-butter for dinner. We had a wonderful Sabbath service finished early and was glad to get home to rest. The newsletter is due to go out so pray about supporting the cost for us to get it out to you. We need to get the remaining bills paid and Dan still needs several things to finish the building. Radio should be paid there are only three paid weeks left. Someone donated two heavy duty picnic tables for the yard at the Mission and Home Depo is suppose to be coming back to finish the gate. They are also going to help out with some other things but I'm not real sure what. Please keep us in pray and don't forget to ask if your to help while your praying.

More on the Mission Next update: We love you and pray you a restful peaceful Shabbath

Shalom sisterlinda/family & Messiah's Branch

PUSH

A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light, and God appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to do,and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with all his might. So, this the man did, day after day. For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all of his might. Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain.  Since the man was showing discouragement, the Adversary (Satan) decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the weary mind:  "You have been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it hasn't moved."  Thus, he gave the man the impression that the task was impossible and that he was a failure. These thoughts discouraged and disheartened the man. Satan said, "Why kill your self over this? Just put in your time, giving just the minimum effort; and that will be good enough." That's what the weary man planned to do, but decided to make it a matter of prayer and to take his troubled thoughts to the Lord. "Lord," he said, "I have labored long and hard in your service, putting all my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock by half a millimeter. What is wrong?   Why am I failing? The Lord responded compassionately, "My friend, when I asked you to serve Me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to push against the rock  with all of your strength, which you have done. Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task was to push. And now you come to Me with your strength spent, thinking that you have failed. But, is that really so? Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back sinewy and brown; your hands are callused from constant pressure, your legs have become massive and hard. Through the opposition you have grown much, and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. True, you haven't moved the rock.   But your calling was to be obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My wisdom. That you have done. Now I, my friend, will move the rock." At times, when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own intellect to decipher what He wants, when actually what God wants is just a simple obedience and faith in Him. By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains, but know that it is still God who moves mountains. When everything seems to go wrong ... just P.U.S.H.!
When the job gets you down ... just P.U.S.H.!
When people don't react the way you think they should just P.U.S.H
When your money is "gone" and the bills are due... just P.U.S.H!
When people just don't understand you ... just P.U.S.H.

P= Pray
U= Until
S= Something
H= Happens
Pass this on to all the loved ones and friends who may need it; they may get it just in time. Truly, great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.

Shalom B'Shem Yeshua HaMashiach

    Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah

&Mark 9:23,10:27

" THE Truth will set you FREE"  Y

 

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Prison Weekly Elul 11,5767

SHALOM

This Weeks Readings are

Torah Ki Tetse " When you Go out " Deuteronomy 21:10- 25:19

Haftarah Isaiah 54:1-10 &  Gospel 1 Corinthians 5:1-5

Next Weeks Readings are Torah Ki Tavo "When you enter in "

Haftarah  Isaiah 60:1-22 & Gospel Romans 11:1-15

When you take the field against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your power and you take some of them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her to wife, you shall bring her into your house, and she shall trim her hair, pare her nails, and discard her captive's garb. She shall spend a month's time in your house lamenting her father and mother; after that you may come to her and possess her, and she shall be your wife. Then, should you no longer want her, you must release her outright. You must not sell her for money: since you had your will of her, you must not enslave her. If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, but the first-born is the son of the unloved one--when he wills his property to his sons, he may not treat as first-born the son of the loved one in disregard of the son of the unloved one who is older. Instead, he must accept the first-born, the son of the unloved one, and allot to him a double portion of all he possesses; since he is the first fruit of his vigor, the birthright is his due.

If a man has a wayward and defiant son, who does not heed his father or mother and does not obey them even after they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the public place of his community. They shall say to the elders of his town, "This son of ours is disloyal and defiant; he does not heed us. He is a glutton and a drunkard." Thereupon the men of his town shall stone him to death. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst: all Israel will hear and be afraid.If a man is guilty of a capital offense and is put to death, and you impale him on a stake, you must not let his corpse remain on the stake overnight, but must bury him the same day. For an impaled body is an affront to God: you shall not defile the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess. If you see your fellow's ox or sheep gone astray, do not ignore it; you must take it back to your fellow. If your fellow does not live near you or you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home and it shall remain with you until your fellow claims it; then you shall give it back to him. You shall do the same with his ass; you shall do the same with his garment; and so too shall you do with anything that your fellow loses and you find: you must not remain indifferent. If you see your fellow's ass or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it; you must help him raise it. A woman must not put on man's apparel, nor shall a man wear woman's clothing; for whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord your God.
If, along the road, you chance upon a bird's nest, in any tree or on the ground, with fledglings or eggs and the mother sitting over the fledglings or on the eggs, do not take the mother together with her young. Let the mother go, and take only the young, in order that you may fare well and have a long life.You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your kinsman. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land. Children born to them may be admitted into the congregation of the Lord in the third generation.
When you go out as a troop against your enemies, be on your guard against anything untoward. If anyone among you has been rendered unclean by a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp, and he must not reenter the camp. Toward evening he shall bathe in water, and at sundown he may reenter the camp. Further, there shall be an area for you outside the camp, where you may relieve yourself. With your gear you shall have a spike, and when you have squatted you shall dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement. Since the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you, let your camp be holy; let Him not find anything unseemly among you and turn away from you. You shall not turn over to his master a slave who seeks refuge with you from his master. He shall live with you in any place he may choose among the settlements in your midst, wherever he pleases; you must not ill-treat him. No Israelite woman shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any Israelite man be a cult prostitute. You shall not bring the fee of a whore or the pay of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both are abhorrent to the Lord your God. You shall not deduct interest from loans to your countrymen, whether in money or food or anything else that can be deducted as interest; but you may deduct interest from loans to foreigners. Do not deduct interest from loans to your countrymen, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

When you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not put off fulfilling it, for the Lord your God will require it of you, and you will have incurred guilt; whereas you incur no guilt if you refrain from vowing. You must fulfill what has crossed your lips and perform what you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God, having made the promise with your own mouth. When you enter another man's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want, until you are full, but you must not put any in your vessel. When you enter another man's field of standing grain, you may pluck ears with your hand; but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor's grain. A man takes a wife and possesses her. She fails to please him because he finds something obnoxious about her, and he writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house; she leaves his household and becomes the wife of another man; then this latter man rejects her, writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house; or the man who married her last dies. Then the first husband who divorced her shall not take her to wife again, since she has been defiled--for that would be abhorrent to the Lord. You must not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a heritage. When a man has taken a bride, he shall not go out with the army or be assigned to it for any purpose; he shall be exempt one year for the sake of his household, to give happiness to the woman he has married. A handmill or an upper millstone shall not be taken in pawn, for that would be taking someone's life in pawn. If a man is found to have kidnapped a fellow Israelite, enslaving him or selling him, that kidnapper shall die; thus you will sweep out evil from your midst. In cases of a skin affection be most careful to do exactly as the levitical priests instruct you. Take care to do as I have commanded them. Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt. When you make a loan of any sort to your countryman, you must not enter his house to seize his pledge. You must remain outside, while the man to whom you made the loan brings the pledge out to you. If he is a needy man, you shall not go to sleep in his pledge; you must return the pledge to him at sundown, that he may sleep in his cloth and bless you; and it will be to your merit before the Lord your God.

You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow countryman or a stranger in one of the communities of your land. You must pay him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets, for he is needy and urgently depends on it; else he will cry to the Lord against you and you will incur guilt. Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: a person shall be put to death only for his own crime. You shall not subvert the rights of the stranger or the fatherless; you shall not take a widow's garment in pawn. Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment. When you reap the harvest in your field and overlook a sheaf in the field, do not turn back to get it; it shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow--in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings. When you beat down the fruit of your olive trees, do not go over them again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not pick it over again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. Always remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment. When there is a dispute between men and they go to law, and a decision is rendered declaring the one in the right and the other in the wrong--if the guilty one is to be flogged, the magistrate shall have him lie down and be given lashes in his presence, by count, as his guilt warrants. He may be given up to forty lashes, but not more, lest being flogged further, to excess, your brother be degraded before your eyes. You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing. When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and leaves no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married to a stranger, outside the family. Her husband's brother shall unite with her: he shall take her as his wife and perform the levir's duty. The first son that she bears shall be accounted to the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out in Israel. But if the man does not want to marry his brother's widow, his brother's widow shall appear before the elders in the gate and declare, "My husband's brother refuses to establish a name in Israel for his brother; he will not perform the duty of a levir." The elders of his town shall then summon him and talk to him. If he insists, saying, "I do not want to marry her," his brother's widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull the sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and make this declaration: Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house! And he shall go in Israel by the name of "the family of the unsandaled one." If two men get into a fight with each other, and the wife of one comes up to save her husband from his antagonist and puts out her hand and seizes him by his genitals, you shall cut off her hand; show no pity. You shall not have in your pouch alternate weights, larger and smaller. You shall not have in your house alternate measures, a larger and a smaller. You must have completely honest weights and completely honest measures, if you are to endure long on the soil that the Lord your God is giving you. For everyone who does those things, everyone who deals dishonestly, is abhorrent to the Lord your God. Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt--how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear. Therefore, when the Lord your God grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

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

Mission Updates: Greetings Saints in His Perfect Peace, Much was done getting the sink in, the plumping has been put in and the cabinets are there waiting to be screwed down and the sinks placed in. The pastor who has been helping is having a problem finding the sink is planning on donating. Pray he finds it we were supposed to put it in today, now there is no way this can be done if he does find it till Monday. He paid for some of the stuff to put the sink in and I have to pay him back. So here it is the 22^nd of the month and Infact another test of Faith it seems. You know it I not really that we do not have enough supporters with those that listen to radio, those that donated because of the mail out newsletter and of course those that get the pns service etc. The problem we are having is because of the added bills we acquired moving to the new place and getting set up. Like now I have the reset of the deposit to pay by the 1^st went I make my first payment, which was the agreement. I have the first payment and I will every month as I pay that myself. The Bills monthly are going to be a little more but I think with the supporters I have now acquired we will be able to meet those bills. But it has cost so much to get the building really finished. It is not a palace nor are or we we trying to make it one, just really clean and functional. What I need to is to get this dept paid off.  Here is what is in need like yesterday and before the first. $500 deposit which goes towards the buying of the building, I gave him a $1,000 to start with another $500 due with the first payment. Radio the last paid radio is tomorrow and I need to pay them a month, it would be great to pay them two, so I could breath a little. Cost $190. If I cannot get radio paid and stay on the air there goes everything so to speak.  broke down and one point and borrowed $3,000 to work on the building from a bank, payback is $149 a month till paid back. I need to get rid of this or at least have the payment when it is due shortly. If I could get a $1,000 to $2,000 all at once I could finish more than likely most of the building or even all, but when it is stung out I add living expenses for a work crew in Wichita. This during the course of the last few months almost doubled what everything cost because of delaying work etc. Anyway lift us up in prayer and to some this depet and what it would take to finish up does not seem much but to us it is very large! We are a place of hope, and prayer for so many people so please lift us up in prayer. I weary but not broken, so little we need.......  

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

1 John 2:28 - And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Shalom in Yeshua Messiah,

This week went so fast not to mention the month is nearly over. Friday Bootsie made twelve dozen sandwiches we served with fruit chips. I made spaghetti for dinner and served peaches, pears, and garlic toast ( that is after we served all the homemade bread stix's Ahava brought. Tuesday we were really packed and it was kinda stressful as the back of the building was blocked off due to them laying the pipes for my sinks. Bootsie made thirteen dozen egg & cheese sandwiches that we served with Salsa Doritos's and pretzels. I took some homemade peach cobbler and some leftover meatloaf that they made about six sandwiches from. For dinner I made hamburger-n-baked beans, macaroni-n-cheese an buttered green beans we served with some really good homemade rolls and zucchini cakes that Ahava brought. Please pray about supporting this ministry there are so many needs in all areas. What could it hurt to just ask Yahweh if He wants you to help. He dose supply all our needs but He can only supply them through His people so Please ask Him we need your support . Radio is now into our paid deposit and we need to get it paid. We need to send AVR 190.00 that will pay for tonight and three more programs. The newsletter should go out next Friday and for us to print and mail that to you it cost right at 300.00. I have paid almost all of August Bills but the three remaining add up to 312.03 still needed. September bills have started coming in and the total of what is now in adds up to 1296.16. We also need 500.00 for a deposit due on the building Sept 1st. this will go toward the purchase price at the end of  five years. I think Dan needs right at 1000.00 maybe less to get the materials needed to finish the building and pay expenses it cost in getting the work done.  Thank you all who support these works we must continue to do what Yahweh has appointed us to do "Care for the People". Lift us up in prayer, we pray you all a very Blessed week & Sabbath.

More on the Mission next week:

love sisterlinda, family, & Messiah's Branch

Shalom B'Shem Yeshua HaMashiach

    Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah

Mark 9:23,10:27

" THE Truth will set you FREE"  

The Month Of Elul A month of spiritual preparation for the High Holidays By Rabbi Reuven Hammer

Although the month of Elul--the sixth month of the year, which immediately precedes Rosh Hashanah--has no special importance in the Bible or in early rabbinic writings, various customs arose sometime during the first millennium that designated Elul as the time to prepare for the High Holy Days. Because these days are filled with so much meaning and potency, they require a special measure of readiness. We are called upon to enter them thoughtfully and to consider what they mean. As the Maharal of Prague said, "All the month of Elul, before eating and sleeping, a person should look into his soul and search his deeds, that he may make confession." Jewish tradition points to the name of the month as symbolically appropriate--the letters of Elul form an acronym for the words in he verse Ani le‑dodi ve‑dodi li--"I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine" (Song of Songs 6:3). Believing that the "beloved" refers to God, the sages take this verse to describe the particularly loving and close relationship between God and Israel. Elul, then, is our time to establish this closeness so that we can approach the Yamim Noraim in trusting acceptance of God's judgment. We approach the trial not out of fear, but out of love. Rabbi Reuven Hammer holds a Ph.D in theology from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He teaches Jewish studies and special education in Jerusalem.

The Jewish Holiday of Rosh Hashanah is widely known and celebrated as the New Years Day of the Jewish calendar, but actually Rosh Hashanah has a fourfold meaning - It is the Jewish New Year, the Day of Judgement, the Day of Remembrance, and the Day of Shofar Blowing.

·         It is the Day of Judgement

As Jews worldwide examine their past deeds and asks for forgiveness for their sins

·         It is the Day of Shofar Blowing

As the Shofar (the rams horn)is blown in temple to herald the beginning of the 10 day period known as the High Holy Days

·         It is the Day of Remembrance

As Jews review the history of their people and pray for Israel

·         And of course it is New Year's Day

Celebrated with it's holiday greeting cards, special prayers, and festive and sweet foods (to ensure sweetness in the New Year)

Rosh Hashanah is observed the first and second day of the seventh month of the Jewish calender, Tishri. Coming in the Fall season of the western calendar, usually in September. In Israel Rosh Hashanah is the only holiday kept for 2 days as it is considered too important to be observed for only 24 hours. Both days are considered one long day of 48 hrs. The traditions of Rosh Hashanah are simple as the only commandment specified for the holiday is the blowing of the shofar. In temple the shofar is blown on Rosh Hashanah to herald the beginning of the period known as the High Holy Days.

Shalom B'Shem Yeshua HaMashiach

    Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah

&Mark 9:23,10:27

" THE Truth will set you FREE"  Y

 

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A new home for Mom, no cleanup required. All starts here.

Prison Weekly Elul 4,5767

SHALOM

This Weeks Readings are

Torah Shoftim " Judges" Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9

Haftarah Isaiah 51:12-52:12 &  Gospel John 1:19-27

Next Weeks Readings are Torah Ki Tetse " When you Go out " Deuteronomy 21:10- 25:19

Haftarah Isaiah 54:1-10 & Gospel 1 Corinthians 5:1-5

 

You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice. You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just. Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not set up a sacred post--any kind of pole beside the altar of the Lord your God that you may make--or erect a stone pillar; for such the Lord your God detests. You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect of a serious kind, for that is abhorrent to the Lord your God.  If there is found among you, in one of the settlements that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who has affronted the Lord your God and transgressed His covenant--turning to the worship of other gods and bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, something I never commanded--and you have been informed or have learned of it, then you shall make a thorough inquiry. If it is true, the fact is established, that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in Israel, you shall take the man or the woman who did that wicked thing out to the public place, and you shall stone them, man or woman, to death. A person shall be put to death only on the testimony of two or more witnesses; he must not be put to death on the testimony of a single witness. Let the hands of the witnesses be the first against him to put him to death, and the hands of the rest of the people thereafter. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.

If a case is too baffling for you to decide, be it a controversy over homicide, civil law, or assault--matters of dispute in your courts--you shall promptly repair to the place that the Lord your God will have chosen, and appear before the levitical priests, or the magistrate in charge at the time, and present your problem. When they have announced to you the verdict in the case, you shall carry out the verdict that is announced to you from that place that the Lord chose, observing scrupulously all their instructions to you. You shall act in accordance with the instructions given you and the ruling handed down to you; you must not deviate from the verdict that they announce to you either to the right or to the left. Should a man act presumptuously and disregard the priest charged with serving there the Lord your God, or the magistrate, that man shall die. Thus you will sweep out evil from Israel: all the people will hear and be afraid and will not act presumptuously again. If, after you have entered the land that the Lord your God has assigned to you, and taken possession of it and settled in it, you decide, "I will set a king over me, as do all the nations about me," you shall be free to set a king over yourself, one chosen by the Lord your God. Be sure to set as king over yourself one of your own people; you must not set a foreigner over you, one who is not your kinsman. Moreover, he shall not keep many horses or send people back to Egypt to add to his horses, since the Lord has warned you, "You must not go back that way again." And he shall not have many wives, lest his heart go astray; nor shall he amass silver and gold to excess. When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this Teaching written for him on a scroll by the levitical priests. Let it remain with him and let him read in it all his life, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God, to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching as well as these laws. Thus he will not act haughtily toward his fellows or deviate from the Instruction to the right or to the left, to the end that he and his descendants may reign long in the midst of Israel. The levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no territorial portion with Israel. They shall live only off the Lord's offerings by fire as their portion, and shall have no portion among their brother tribes: the Lord is their portion, as He promised them.

This then shall be the priests' due from the people: Everyone who offers a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep, must give the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach to the priest. You shall also give him the first fruits of your new grain and wine and oil, and the first shearing of your sheep. For the Lord your God has chosen him and his descendants, out of all your tribes, to be in attendance for service in the name of the Lord for all time. You shall not move your countryman's landmarks, set up by previous generations, in the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess. A single witness may not validate against a person any guilt or blame for any offense that may be committed; a case can be valid only on the testimony of two witnesses or more. If a man appears against another to testify maliciously and gives false testimony against him, the two parties to the dispute shall appear before the Lord, before the priests or magistrates in authority at the time, and the magistrates shall make a thorough investigation. If the man who testified is a false witness, if he has testified falsely against his fellow, you shall do to him as he schemed to do to his fellow. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst; others will hear and be afraid, and such evil things will not again be done in your midst. Nor must you show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

When you take the field against your enemies, and see horses and chariots--forces larger than yours--have no fear of them, for the Lord your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, is with you. Before you join battle, the priest shall come forward and address the troops. He shall say to them, "Hear, O Israel! You are about to join battle with your enemy. Let not your courage falter. Do not be in fear, or in panic, or in dread of them. For it is the Lord your God who marches with you to do battle for you against your enemy, to bring you victory."  Then the officials shall address the troops, as follows: "Is there anyone who has built a new house but has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another dedicate it. Is there anyone who has planted a vineyard but has never harvested it? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another harvest it. Is there anyone who has paid the bride-price for a wife, but who has not yet married her? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another marry her." The officials shall go on addressing the troops and say, "Is there anyone afraid and disheartened? Let him go back to his home, lest the courage of his comrades flag like his." When the officials have finished addressing the troops, army commanders shall assume command of the troops. When you approach a town to attack it, you shall offer it terms of peace. If it responds peaceably and lets you in, all the people present there shall serve you at forced labor. If it does not surrender to you, but would join battle with you, you shall lay siege to it; and when the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword. You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children, the livestock, and everything in the town--all its spoil--and enjoy the use of the spoil of your enemy, which the Lord your God gives you.

Thus you shall deal with all towns that lie very far from you, towns that do not belong to nations hereabout. In the towns of the latter peoples, however, which the Lord your God is giving you as a heritage, you shall not let a soul remain alive. No, you must proscribe them--the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites--as the Lord your God has commanded you, lest they lead you into doing all the abhorrent things that they have done for their gods and you stand guilty before the Lord your God. When in your war against a city you have to besiege it a long time in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees, wielding the ax against them. You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down. Are trees of the field human to withdraw before you into the besieged city? Only trees that you know do not yield food may be destroyed; you may cut them down for constructing siegeworks against the city that is waging war on you, until it has been reduced. If, in the land that the Lord your God is assigning you to possess, someone slain is found lying in the open, the identity of the slayer not being known, your elders and magistrates shall go out and measure the distances from the corpse to the nearby towns. The elders of the town nearest to the corpse shall then take a heifer which has never been worked, which has never pulled in a yoke; and the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to an everflowing wadi, which is not tilled or sown.
There, in the wadi, they shall break the heifer's neck. The priests, sons of Levi, shall come forward; for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to pronounce blessing in the name of the Lord, and every lawsuit and case of assault is subject to their ruling. Then all the elders of the town nearest to the corpse shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi. And they shall make this declaration: "Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done. Absolve, O Lord, Your people Israel whom You redeemed, and do not let guilt for the blood of the innocent remain among Your people Israel." And they will be absolved of bloodguilt. Thus you will remove from your midst guilt for the blood of the innocent, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the Lord.

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

Mission UpDates: Greetings Saints in His Perfect Peace, Mom, Tony, Scott, Harvey, and I spent the day well from about 1:30 Pm till after 10 PM working on cleaning up, putting up shelves, taking un-needed things home etc. We were able to get the clothing room up, meanin we cleaned it out and built shelves in it. Mom had many bags of clothing, socks, jeans shirts, etc but we had no way to give them out, scratch that we set a card table up Friday and placed clothing on it and people took much. Today though they are going though the clothing room a great blessing. The Electric guy will be here today also to do more work, praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, someone sent the $400 needed to get the sink and place it in, I will try and get it in tomorrow. I have to buy a counter top and cabinet. We also have to buy the pipes and run them from two rooms over, I pray the pipe was considered in this brother's estimate.  Much is being covered! Right now I am broke and I need to fill up Wed night before I go home, and I have no cash to make a needed trip to the lumber yard nor for anything else that comes up. We are trying to get done. What I really need is to pray in the $500 deposit before the 1^st, I also need $190 for radio, with everything I really need to pray in $1,000 like right now, anything will help as I am really just broke. I have to cut this off as I have to run a guy to the hunter health clinic. Man it hot outside the van does not have air and it is supposed to reach 103 today! Please lift us up in pray.

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

 1 Chronicles 17:19 - O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things. 

Shalom in Yeshua Messiah

Friday Bootsie made nine dozen sandwiches served with BBQ & fruit chips by Aaron & Ahava. I made beef-n-noodles, corn-n-green beans an bread-n-butter for dinner. We had a wonderful message from Pastor dan then we all learnt an fellowshipped over the Torah portion and the Challa was wonderful. We also celebrated two birthdays Austin turned six and Brian turned 23 it was a wonderful beginning into the Sabbath. Monday I was there up until 2:30 am cleaning, unpacking and preparing the clothes room to open Tuesday. Tuesday I was exhausted an so Thankful for Aaron an the girls, my patiences were on end but everyone made it through the day. We were packed and the clothes room blessed many there were lots of jeans, socks, T-shirts and caps taken. We gave out the 25 care packs that were already made and then Bootsie made twenty more that were given out. I believe we have the makings for about twenty five more. These are a real blessing to the people and I am planning on stocking items to continue making them for the people. We need ramen noodles any type of crackers, individual cereals, snacks, fruit chews, candies just anything we can slip into a gallon size bag. We will also need a constant supply of gallon size bags. Pray about helping us. I paid all the electric bills and was able to pay another five hundred out in bills right now without any more coming in I need 725.00 that includes 190 for four weeks of radio tonight is the last paid night. The newsletter will be coming due in two weeks that's another 300 to get it printer and mailed to you. The prison weekly has been costing me 13-15 for six pages a week in printing because the copy machine is down and I need to get it fixed. Sometimes it takes up to ten pages I have cut back on the extra material I include because of printing cost. Pray about supporting these many works of our Father Yahweh. We encourage everyone to seek Him as He can only supply through His people and He may be waiting to use you to HELP in THESE WORKS. We love you have a very Blessed Week More on the Mission next Update: sisterlinda,family & Messiah's Branch

Shalom B'Shem Yeshua HaMashiach / Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah

Mark 9:23,10:27

" THE Truth will set you FREE" 

 

The last month of the Jewish calendar is actually the most important -- serving as preparation for the High Holidays.

If you had an important court date scheduled -- one that would determine your financial future, or even your very life -- you'd be sure to prepare for weeks beforehand. On Rosh Hashana, each individual is judged on the merit of his deeds. Whether he will live out the year or not. Whether he will have financial success or ruin. Whether he will be healthy or ill. All of these are determined on Rosh Hashana.

Elul -- the month preceding Rosh Hashana -- begins a period of intensive introspection, of clarifying life's goals, and of coming closer to God. It is a time for realizing purpose in life -- rather than perfunctorily going through the motions of living by amassing money and seeking gratification. It is a time when we step back and look at ourselves critically and honestly, as Jews have from time immemorial, with the intention of improving. The four Hebrew letters of the word Elul (aleph-lamed-vav-lamed) are the first letters of the four words Ani l'dodi v'dodi lee -- "I am to my Beloved and my Beloved is to me" (Song of Songs 6:3). These words sum up the relationship between God and His people. In other words, the month preceding Rosh Hashana is a time when God reaches out to us, in an effort to create a more spiritually-inspiring atmosphere, one that stimulates teshuva. The four Hebrew letters of the word Elul (aleph-lamed-vav-lamed) are the first letters of the four words Ani l'dodi v'dodi lee -- "I am to my Beloved and my Beloved is to me" (Song of Songs 6:3). These words sum up the relationship between God and His people.

In other words, the month preceding Rosh Hashana is a time when God reaches out to us, in an effort to create a more spiritually-inspiring atmosphere, one that stimulates teshuva.

40-DAY PERIOD

Rewind 3,000 years to the Sinai Desert. God has spoken the Ten Commandments, and the Jews have built the Golden Calf. Moses desperately pleads with God to spare the nation.

On the first day of Elul, Moses ascends Mount Sinai, and 40 days later -- on the seminal Yom Kippur -- he returned to the people, with a new, second set of stone tablets in hand.

For us as well, the month of Elul begins a 40-day period that culminates in the year's holiest day, Yom Kippur.

Why 40? Forty is a number of cleansing and purification. Noah's Flood rains lasted 40 days, and the mikveh -- the ritual purification bath -- contains 40 measures of water.

Elul is an enormous opportunity. During this time, many people increase their study of Torah and performance of good deeds. And many also do a daily cheshbon -- an accounting of spiritual profit and loss.

ADDITIONS TO THE SERVICES

Beginning the second day of Rosh Chodesh Elul, it is the Ashkenazi custom to blow the shofar every morning after prayers, in order to awaken us for the coming Day of Judgement. The shofar's wailing sound inspires us to use the opportunity of Elul to its fullest. Also beginning in Elul, we say Psalm 27 in the morning and evening services. In this Psalm, King David exclaims: "One thing I ask... is to dwell in the house of God all the days of my life." we focus on the unifying force of God in our lives, and strive to increase our connection to the infinite transcendent dimension.

Slichot

Beginning on Saturday night before Rosh Hashana, we recite "Slichot", a special series of prayers that invoke God's mercy. If Rosh Hashana falls at the beginning of the week, then "Slichot" begin on the Saturday night of the previous week. (Sefardim begin saying "Slichot" on Rosh Chodesh Elul.)

After the sin of the Golden Calf, Moses asked God to explain His system for relating with the world. God's answer, known as the "13 Attributes of Mercy," forms the essence of the "Slichot" prayers. The "13 Attributes" speak of "God's patience." The same God Who created us with a clean slate and a world of opportunity, gives us another opportunity if we've misused the first one. "Slichot" should be said with a minyan. If this is not possible, then "Slichot" should still be said alone, omitting the parts in Aramaic and the "13 Attributes of Mercy."

Finally, the most important aspect of Elul is to make a plan for your life. Because when the Big Day comes, and each individual stands before the Almighty to ask for another year, we'll want to know what we're asking for!

 

We Love You Shalom sisterlinda family & Messiah's Branch

Shalom B'Shem Yeshua HaMashiach

    Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah

&Mark 9:23,10:27

" THE Truth will set you FREE"  Y

 

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