“Deborah’s Drash”

 

“Sitting at the feet of Yeshua”

 

A  Daily Devotional/Bible Study based on the Hebraic/Jewish Roots of Christianity

 

 

Today’s Date:   February 28

 

This Months Theme – The Faith Walk/HaEmunah  Halakhah (The Way One Walks or Goes)

                                      A Study in  Messianic Jews/Hebrews 11 –The Faith Chapter

 

Click below for Blank Devotional Journal to use with your Studies

 

Devotional Journal

 

 

 Weekly Torah Portion[1] for the  week- New Torah Cycle Begins!

 

 

Click Here For Current Torah Reading Schedule

 

Daily Bible Reading Schedule:

 

Tenach/Old Testament Reading:

 

1 Samuel 24:1-25:44

 

Tehillim/Psalms Reading:

 

Psalm 116:1-19

 

Mishlei/Proverbs Reading:

 

Proverbs 15:20-21

 

Brit Hadasha/New Covenant:

 

John 10:22-42

 

Hebrew Daily Word:

 

 Pure In Heart                        “Barey lev”

 

Meditation Verse

 

1 Corinthians 16:13 Amplified Translation

 

 13  Be alert and on your guard; stand firm in your faith (your conviction respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, keeping the trust and holy fervor born of faith and a part of it). Act like men and be courageous; grow in strength! [Ps. 31:24].[2]

 

 

Quote Of The Day:

 

 Smith Wigglesworth

 

“It is always those people who are full of faith that have a good report, that never murmur that are in the place of victory, that are not in the place of human order, but divine order”

 

 

Deborah’s Drash Commentary:

 

We Are Called to be Men and Woman of G-d who are Controlled and Sustained by Our Faith In His Torah/Word.

 

Hebrews 11: 12-16

 

12  So from one man, though he was physically as good as dead, there have sprung descendants whose number is as the stars of heaven and as countless as the innumerable sands on the seashore. [Gen. 15:5, 6; 22:17; 32:12].

13  These people all died controlled and sustained by their faith, but not having received the tangible fulfillment of [God’s] promises, only having seen it and greeted it from a great distance by faith, and all the while acknowledging and confessing that they were strangers and temporary residents and exiles upon the earth. [Gen. 23:4; Ps. 39:12].

14  Now those people who talk as they did show plainly that they are in search of a fatherland (their own country).

15  If they had been thinking with [homesick] remembrance of that country from which they were emigrants, they would have found constant opportunity to return to it.

16  But the truth is that they were yearning for and aspiring to a better and more desirable country, that is, a heavenly [one]. For that reason God is not ashamed to be called their God [even to be surnamed their God—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob], for He has prepared a city for them. [Exod. 3:6, 15; 4:5].[3]

 

Matthew 6:25-34  “Seeking His Kingdom”

 

25  Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing?

26  Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?

27  And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life? [Ps. 39:5–7].

28  And why should you be anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin.

29  Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these. [I Kings 10:4–7].

30  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?

31  Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?

32  For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.

33  But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

34               So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.[4]

 

Psalm 40 –Yahweh sustains Those Who Belong To Him

                  I waited patiently for the Lord;

And He inclined to me and heard my cry.

                  2    He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,

And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

                  3    He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God;

Many will see and fear

And will trust in the Lord.

                  4    How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust,

And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

                  5    Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,

And Your thoughts toward us;

There is none to compare with You.

If I would declare and speak of them,

They would be too numerous to count.

                  6    Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;

My ears You have opened;

Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

                  7    Then I said, “Behold, I come;

In the scroll of the book it is written of me.

                  8    I delight to do Your will, O my God;

Your Law is within my heart.”

                  9    I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation;

Behold, I will not restrain my lips,

O Lord, You know.

                  10  I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;

I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;

I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.

                  11  You, O Lord, will not withhold Your compassion from me;

Your lovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me.

                  12  For evils beyond number have surrounded me;

My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;

They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,

And my heart has failed me.

                  13  Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me;

Make haste, O Lord, to help me.

                  14  Let those be ashamed and humiliated together

Who seek my life to destroy it;

Let those be turned back and dishonored

Who delight in my hurt.

                  15  Let those be appalled because of their shame

Who say to me, “Aha, aha!”

                  16  Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;

Let those who love Your salvation say continually,

“The Lord be magnified!”

                  17  Since I am afflicted and needy,

Let the Lord be mindful of me.

You are my help and my deliverer;

Do not delay, O my God.

 

 

Psalm 37 – Trust in Adonai

                  1    Do not fret because of evildoers,

Be not envious toward wrongdoers.

                  2    For they will wither quickly like the grass

And fade like the green herb.

                  3    Trust in the Lord and do good;

Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

                  4    Delight yourself in the Lord;

And He will give you the desires of your heart.

                  5    Commit your way to the Lord,

Trust also in Him, and He will do it.

                  6    He will bring forth your righteousness as the light

And your judgment as the noonday.

                  7    Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him;

Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,

Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

                  8    Cease from anger and forsake wrath;

Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.

                  9    For evildoers will be cut off,

But those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land.

                  10  Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more;

And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.

                  11  But the humble will inherit the land

And will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

                  12  The wicked plots against the righteous

And gnashes at him with his teeth.

                  13  The Lord laughs at him,

For He sees his day is coming.

                  14  The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow

To cast down the afflicted and the needy,

To slay those who are upright in conduct.

                  15  Their sword will enter their own heart,

And their bows will be broken.

                  16  Better is the little of the righteous

Than the abundance of many wicked.

                  17  For the arms of the wicked will be broken,

But the Lord sustains the righteous.

                  18  The Lord knows the days of the blameless,

And their inheritance will be forever.

                  19  They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,

And in the days of famine they will have abundance.

                  20  But the wicked will perish;

And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures,

They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

                  21  The wicked borrows and does not pay back,

But the righteous is gracious and gives.

                  22  For those blessed by Him will inherit the land,

But those cursed by Him will be cut off.

                  23  The steps of a man are established by the Lord,

And He delights in his way.

                  24  When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong,

Because the Lord is the One who holds his hand.

                  25  I have been young and now I am old,

Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken

Or his descendants begging bread.

                  26  All day long he is gracious and lends,

And his descendants are a blessing.

                  27  Depart from evil and do good,

So you will abide forever.

                  28  For the Lord loves justice

And does not forsake His godly ones;

They are preserved forever,But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.

                  29 The righteous will inherit the land

And dwell in it forever.

                  30  The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,

And his tongue speaks justice.

                  31  The law of his God is in his heart;

His steps do not slip.

                  32  The wicked spies upon the righteous

And seeks to kill him.

                  33  The Lord will not leave him in his hand

Or let him be condemned when he is judged.

                  34  Wait for the Lord and keep His way,

And He will exalt you to inherit the land;

When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

                  35  I have seen a wicked, violent man

Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

                  36  Then he passed away, and lo, he was no more;

I sought for him, but he could not be found.

                  37  Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright;

For the man of peace will have a posterity.

                  38  But transgressors will be altogether destroyed;

The posterity of the wicked will be cut off.

                  39  But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;

He is their strength in time of trouble.

                  40  The Lord helps them and delivers them;

He delivers them from the wicked and saves them,

Because they take refuge in Him

 Psalm 31:23-24 – Be Strong and of Good Courage

                  23 O love the Lord, all you His godly ones!

The Lord preserves the faithful

And fully recompenses the proud doer.

                  24  Be strong and let your heart take courage,

All you who hope in the Lord.[5]

 

Bonus: Prayers of The Bible – Prayers From The Life of Yeshua

 

Luke 10:17-22

 

Torah Nuggets:[i]

 

 Click link for Torah Portion Teaching:

 

Messianic Israel Ministries Torah Study

 

Halacha – The Way One Walks or Goes- Derived from the Hebrew word “Halakh” which means “To Walk”.  The Way to follow the Torah/Word of God.

 

 

In this weeks Torah Portion, what is God saying to me today about my walk with Him? 

 

How can I apply this Torah Portion with my walk with Yeshua this week?

 

Bible Study Nuggets From Daily Bible Reading:

 

Golden Nuggets From Gods Word: (Write the Revelations and Insights you have received from Him today)

 

Word to Hide in my Heart: (Write memory Verse of your choosing)

 

Word from the Lord (Write out verse, quote or anything that was spoken to you by the Ruach HaKodesh/The Holy Spirit.

 

Today I will…. (write down how you will apply what the Lord has spoken to your heart through His Holy Word to your daily walk with Him in your Journal.)

 

Daily Prayer Guide For Your Prayer/Tefillah Journal

 

Worship Time - Psalm 100:4 “I will adore you AdonaiPut in your favorite Worship CD or Tape and Praise Adonai-See Amidah #1-4 Below and Shema

 

Waiting Time - Psalm 62:5 – I will wait in Your presence and surrender my thoughts to you! Clear your mind of the clutter and focus on Ha Shem.

 

Confession & Repentance /Tishuvah Time -1 John 1:9 – I will ask and receive forgiveness for my sins –Write down what you need forgiveness or deliverance from so you may walk in Holiness. –See Amidah #5-6 Below

 

See below for Personal Word  Confessions to build up your Faith and Spirit and to plant the Word in Your Heart

 

Intercession Time –Ezekial 22:30-31  I will stand in the Gap for the world and for others as Yeshua is doing for us as our High Priest at the right hand of The Father

 

31 Day Cycle of Prayer for the World…(Use a World Atlas to help you pray for the World) 

 

Today’s Countries to Pray for are:

 

Click Here For Map of  World and Countries

 

Israel – Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Daily

 

 

*Daily Prayer Reminders: See Amidah #11-12, 14-17 Below

 

1 Timothy 2:1  1 First of all, then, I counsel that petitions, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all human beings, 2 Including kings and all in positions of prominence; so that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives, being godly and upright in everything. 3 This is what God, our deliverer, regards as good; this is what meets his approval.[6]

 

President, Government Leaders, Family, Friends, Church, Ministers, Spouse, Children, Ministries, Schools, Salvation, Missions, World Revival – See 40 Day Prayer Focus Below

 

Petition Time – My Abba Father hears me when I pray and answers when I pray in faith/trust and according to His Word. Write down personal petitions for today. See Amidah #7-8 Below

 

Watching Time – Colossians 4:2a – I will keep watch in the spirit and be alert to what & who I need to pray for.   See Amdiah #13

 

Prayer Alert: Today Adonai has specifically laid these people upon my heart to pray for: Write it down in your Prayer Journal

 

Listening Time: Psalm 85:8 Write down what Ruach HaKodesh/The Holy Spirit has revealed to you today in Prayer.

 

List 5 Things your are thankful to G-d for today in your Prayer Journal (You can print one out below)

 

In  Tefillah/Prayer: Always Pray the Word and Pray in the Ruach and Pray Always with ALL Prayer…..

 

Praise, Waiting, Confession, Singing, Watching, Intercession, Petition, Thanksgiving, Devotions, Meditation, Listening and Praise

 

Suggested Prayer Books:  Prayer’s That Avail Much Volumes 1,2 and 3 by Germain Copeland[ii]  and The Artscroll Seder Series[iii].

 

The Prayers of a Righteous Person are Powerful and Effective –James 5:16

 

 

Click on the Links for Daily Prayer and Bible Study helps

 Torah/Bible Study Helps

 

 Blue Letter Bible

Lots and Lots of Study Helps, Concordances, Commentaries, Various Translations Etc.

 

 

First Century Judaism/Christianity

Eddie Chumney’s Hebrew Roots Website

 

Hebrew Glossary

 

Hebrew Roots Glossary

 

The Sabbath and Biblical Festivals

Learn about the Sabbath and Feasts of YHWH

Eddie Chumney’s Hebrew Roots Website

 

The Tabernacle

Learn about the Tabernacle

Eddie Chumney’s Hebrew Roots Website

 

Recommended Reading For Further Study

 

Messiah Volume 1, 2 and 3 Avi Ben Mordachi

http://www.millennium7000.com/

 

Restoring the Two Houses of Israel- Eddie Chumney

The Feasts of Messiah – Eddie Chumney

Who is The Bride of Christ-Eddie Chumney

http://www.hebroots.org/

 

Who is Israel – Angus and Batya Wooten

Restoring Israels Kingdom – Angus and Batya Wooten

http://www.mim.net

 

First Fruits of Zion – Torah Club Volume 1,2,3, 4 and 5

http://www.ffoz.org

 

 

Prayer Helps

 

Shemoneh Esreh-Amidah and Ha Adonai Tefillah/The Lords Prayer

Shema

 

Traditional Jewish Prayers and Blessings

(Jewish Website by D’vorah, Click here for more insights into Jewish Prayer)

 

40 Day Prayer Focus

(Daily Petitions to Yahweh)

 

Personal Word Confessions

(to build up your  faith)

 

 

Who I am In Messiah Scriptures

(What Yeshua did for you)

 

 

 

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Lots more to See and Read !

 

 

Baruch HaShem Adonai –

 Shalom B’Shem  Yeshua Ha Mashiach

 

 

Deborah

 

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[1] An excellent Torah Devotional is the Walk Series, Walk Genesis, Walk Exodus, Walk Leviticus, Walk Number, Walk Deuteronomy , by Jeffery Enoch Feinberg, PHD by Lederer Books, a division of Messianic Jewish Publishers.   Easy to read, with Hebrew nuggets, and illustrations. Also FFOZ Torah Club is a more detailed study, and worth enrolling for.

[2]The Amplified New Testament, (La Habra CA: The Lockman Foundation) 1999.

[3]The Amplified New Testament, (La Habra CA: The Lockman Foundation) 1999.

[4]The Amplified New Testament, (La Habra CA: The Lockman Foundation) 1999.

[5]The New American Standard Bible, 1995 Update, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1996.

[6]The Jewish New Testament, (Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications) 1996.



[i] An excellent Messianic Jewish Devotional called The Walk Series, Walk Genesis, Walk Exodus, Walk Leviticus, Walk Numbers and Walk Deuteronomy by Jeffery Enoch Feinburg, PhD.  Published by Lederer Books Messianic Jewish Publishers is a wonderful Daily Devotional to use for studying Torah, along with FFOZ Torah Club which is more detailed.  Both will give you additional insights into Torah.

[ii] This book is filled with Scripture Prayers to help you pray the Word – Harrison House Publishers, Germaine Copeland –Available in any Christian Book Store

[iii] You can order The Art Scroll Seder Series through Amazon. Com or First Fruits of Zion