Can we do תפילות prayers for:
Mike Clayton and his ministery?
That also through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?
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Leviticus 9:1-11:47
2 Samuel 6:1-19
Definition Please
I don't travel as much as I did, but am still on the road quite a lot. Over a ten-year period I have memorized many of the interstates. I know that I-40 goes from Barstow CA to Wilmington NC. Not only I do I know both ends, but have driven every mile between the two, some of them many times. After a while all interstates begin to look alike and in fact are quite boring. I now find myself anxious to get off these concrete wonders and take more back roads when possible. You just never know what you may see around the next turn in the road when you slow life down a bit.
One thing you see more of on small roads is animals. I enjoy seeing deer grazing or a flock of turkeys doing whatever turkeys do. With more animals does come a bit more road kill though. It is tragic, but no matter how PETA tries to change the laws of nature, animals and auto bumpers or tires just do not get along very well.
One constant with road kill is the usual flock of buzzards trying desperately to drag the night's mishap off the road and eat it. Isn't it just amazing how Elohim in His wisdom created everything for a purpose? Even before the car was invented, He had made a way for roads they would travel on to be cleaned without a single tax dollar being spent!
I have seen quite a bit of road kill in my day and have had more than one experience when I thought a buzzard was waiting a bit too long to fly out of the way or worse yet, fly in the direction of my windshield. I have seen the sights and smelled the smells, but one thing I have never done is to pull over and join the buzzard for his meal. "Why?" you may ask. Because my mother taught me that road kill was not within the definition of the word "FOOD."
This may be a bit wordy to come to my basic point of defining the word food, but I want you to get a bit of a picture in your mind. As Brad Scott would say, "Words mean things," and this may never be truer than in how we define the word food. So how do you define the word food? Is it defined by your culture or taste buds? Maybe it is by the region of the world where you were raised. It is likely that much of your definition comes from what was set on the table when you were a child. But how should we truly define the word food? Why not go to our Creator and ask what His definition is. Enter Leviticus 11, the center of the Torah, the chapter known as the belly of the Torah. What a great place to put His definition of the word food, right in the belly of Torah! What a pun!
So the question arises, "Why does the definition of the word food change from family to family, from region to region and from country to country?" The answer is really very simple and is found by answering one question, "Who defines your life?" When He truly defines our life, we give Him the authority to define the words that control our life. Thinking this way causes the word food to take on a whole new meaning, does it not? Just imagine for a moment how life would be different today if Adam and Eve had not changed the definition of the word food in their day. Eat and don't eat is a constant, no matter if you are in The Garden or in Leviticus.
Defining the word food is not just about what we eat, but it is about our whole attitude toward Him. When we change His definition into our definition we make ourselves our god instead of Him. When we allow a pastor, church or religious system to change His Word, we make them into the god of our lives. Whatever we allow to change His definitions of words in scripture into something they are not has become the god of our lives. See, the belly of Torah is about much more than not sharing road kill with a buzzard!
On a separate, but related note consider this. You find yourself with a sickness and scripturally come to the leaders of your congregation for prayer and anointing with oil. During the prayer you feel the symptoms of this illness leave your body and miracle of miracles you are healed. It is now a good time to go to the local restaurant and celebrate His goodness with a fellowship meal. The menu is passed around and the waitress comes to take your order. The special is pork chops with southern style gravy and a biscuit. Sounds too good to pass up! The next day finds the symptoms of your illness back. You thought you were healed! Maybe you were, but by taking the unclean into your body you gave permission for the illness to return. His word is His word. If we follow His definitions we have blessing, but if not we invite curse.
As we pursue His revealed Word in our lives, let us look to the foundation of Torah to define words that affect us on a daily basis. Let us do so while keeping the thought in our minds that since He never changes, His definition for words does not change. If we do not follow this rule, you just never know what you may find yourself thinking or doing. I mean, "How would Fluffy taste on the grill with a bit of salt, pepper and A-1?" NOT!
Shabbat Shalom,
Mike
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