Thanksgiving - Pray Psalm 100, 107 and 118
At the Altar of Incense
Prayer
Every FIFTH DAY (Thu.)
1:00 P.M.
Around the Thanksgiving table...
let us give Him THANKS!
Psalm 100
Psa 100:1 “Raise a shout for YHWH, all the earth!
Psa 100:2 Serve YHWH with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.
Psa 100:3 Know that YHWH, He is Elohim; He has made us, and we are His – His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Psa 100:4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him; bless His Name.
Psa 100:5 For YHWH is good; His kindness is everlasting, and His truth, to all generations.”
Psalm 107
Psa 107:1 “Give thanks to YHWH! For He is good, for His kindness is everlasting.
Psa 107:2 Let the redeemed of YHWH say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
Psa 107:3 And gathered out of the lands, from east and from west, from north and from south.
Psa 107:4 They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert way; They found no city to dwell in.
Psa 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their being in them grew faint.
Psa 107:6 Then they cried out to YHWH in their distress, He delivered them out of their troubles.
Psa 107:7 And He guided them by the right way, to go to a city to settle.
Psa 107:8 Let them give thanks to YHWH for His kindness, and His wonders to the children of men!
Psa 107:9 For He has satisfied a longing being, and has filled the hungry being with goodness.
Psa 107:10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, bound in affliction and irons,
Psa 107:11 Because they rebelled against the words of Ěl, and despised the counsel of the Most High.
Psa 107:12 And He humbled their heart by toil; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
Psa 107:13 And they cried out to YHWH in their distress, and He saved them out of their troubles.
Psa 107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and He broke their chains in pieces.
Psa 107:15 Let them give thanks to YHWH for His kindness, and His wonders to the children of men!
Psa 107:16 For He has broken the gates of bronze, and He cut the bars of iron in two.
Psa 107:17 Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their crookednesses, were afflicted.
Psa 107:18 Their being loathed all food, and they drew near to the gates of death,
Psa 107:19 And cried out to YHWH in their distress, He saved them out of their troubles.
Psa 107:20 He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Psa 107:21 Let them give thanks to YHWH for His kindness, and His wonders to the children of men!
Psa 107:22 And let them bring sacrifices of thanksgiving, and relate His works with rejoicing.
This painting is by our brother Ralph Wall who is now in the balcony of heaven.
This is of Christopher Columbus, who when faced with a great storm and was weary of life, he began to cry out to Him and declare His word in His Name, while drawing his sword, and the storm ceased.
It is now known that Christopher Columbus, who was a believer was also Jewish, and so were many on the ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria...
They were launched by Him to find a place where people could worship Him in Spirit and in Truth... and this launching happened the day following the infamous ‘Expulsion Order’, which drove the Jews out of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).
He opened a Door for His people, both Yehudah and Ephrayim, and others, to come to a Bozrah, a sheep pen, where He would keep them safe.
Knowing this, now read verses 23-31!
Let us give Him THANKS!
Psa 107:23 Those who go down to the sea in ships, doing work in many waters,
Psa 107:24 They see the works of YHWH, and His wonders in the deep.
Psa 107:25 For He commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves of the sea.
Psa 107:26 They go up to the heavens, they go down to the depths; their being is melted because of evil.
Psa 107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunkard, and all their wisdom is swallowed up.
Psa 107:28 Then they cry out to YHWH in their distress, and He brings them out of their troubles.
Psa 107:29 He caused the storm to be still, so that its waves were silent. (c: Even the wind and the waves obey Him.)
Psa 107:30 And they rejoice because they are hushed; and He leads them to the haven of their delight.
Psa 107:31 Let them give thanks to YHWH for His kindness, and His wonders to the children of men!
Psa 107:32 And let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people, and praise Him in the seat of the elders.
Psa 107:33 He makes rivers become a wilderness, and the fountains of water become a dry ground;
Psa 107:34 A land of fruit becomes a salty desert, for the evil of those who dwell in it.
Psa 107:35 He makes a wilderness become a pool of water, and dry land become fountains of waters.
Psa 107:36 And He causes the hungry to dwell there, and they build a city to settle in,
Psa 107:37 And they sow fields and plant vineyards, and they make fruits of increase.
Psa 107:38 And He blesses them, and they increase greatly; and He lets not their cattle diminish.
Psa 107:39 But when they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil and sorrow,
Psa 107:40 He pours scorn on nobles, and causes them to wander in a pathless waste;
Psa 107:41 But He raises the poor up from affliction, and makes their clans like a flock.
Psa 107:42 The straight ones see, and rejoice, and all unrighteousness shuts its mouth.
Psa 107:43 Who is wise? Then let him observe these matters! Let them understand the kindnesses of YHWH.”
Psalm 118
Psa 118:1 “Oh, give thanks to YHWH, for He is good! Because His kindness is everlasting.
Psa 118:2 Let Yisra’ĕl now say, ‘His kindness is everlasting.’
Psa 118:3 Let the house of Aharon now say, ‘His kindness is everlasting.’
Psa 118:4 Let those who fear YHWH now say, ‘His kindness is everlasting.’
Psa 118:5 I called on Yah in distress; Yah answered me in a broad place.
Psa 118:6 YHWH is on my side; I do not fear what man does to me!
Psa 118:7 YHWH is for me among those helping me; therefore I look on those hating me.
Psa 118:8 It is better to take refuge in YHWH than to trust in man. (this verse is the very center of His Word)
Psa 118:9 It is better to take refuge in YHWH than to trust in princes.
Psa 118:10 All the gentiles surrounded me, in the Name of YHWH I shall cut them off.
Psa 118:11 They surrounded me, Yea, they surrounded me; in the Name of YHWH shall I cut them off.
Psa 118:12 They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like burning thorns; In the Name of YHWH I shall cut them off.
Psa 118:13 Pushing, the enemy pushed me to fall, but YHWH helped me.
Psa 118:14 Yah is my strength and song, and He has become my deliverance (‘Yeshua!’).
Psa 118:15 The voice of rejoicing and deliverance (‘Yeshua!’) is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of YHWH is doing mightily.
Psa 118:16 The right hand of YHWH is exalted, the right hand of YHWH acts mightily.
Psa 118:17 Let me not die, but live, and declare the works of Yah.
Psa 118:18 Yah has punished me severely, but did not give me over to death.
Psa 118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness; I enter through them, I thank Yah.
Psa 118:20 This is the gate of YHWH, the righteous enter through it.
Psa 118:21 I thank You, for You have answered me, and have become my deliverance (‘Yeshua!’).
Psa 118:22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner-stone.
Psa 118:23 This was from YHWH, it is marvelous in our eyes.
Psa 118:24 This is the day YHWH has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psa 118:25 I pray, O YHWH, please save; I pray, O YHWH, please send prosperity.
Psa 118:26 Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of YHWH! We shall bless you from the House of YHWH.
Psa 118:27 YHWH is Ěl, and He gave us Light; Bind the festal offering with cords to the horns of the altar.
Psa 118:28 You are my Ěl, and I praise You; You are my Elohim, I exalt You.
Psa 118:29 Give thanks to YHWH, for He is good! For His kindness is everlasting.”
In His shalom,
Constance
At the Altar of Incense
“And one of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep.
See, the Lion of the tribe of Yehuḏah, the Root of Daviḏ, overcame to open the scroll and to loosen its seven seals.’
And I looked and saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders a Lamb standing, as having been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of Elohim sent out into all the earth.
And He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him sitting on the throne.
And when He took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp,
and golden bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the set-apart ones.
And they sang a renewed song, saying,
‘You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals, because You were slain, and have redeemed us to Elohim by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
and made us sovereigns and priests to our Elohim, and we shall reign upon the earth.’…
…And when He opened the seventh seal, there came to be silence in the heaven for about half an hour.
And I saw the seven messengers who stand before Elohim, and to them were given seven trumpets.
And another messenger came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer, and much incense was given to him, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the set-apart ones upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the set-apart ones, went up before Elohim from the hand of the messenger.
And the messenger took the censer, and filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth.
And there were noises, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.”
Revelation 5:4-9; 8:1-5
11/22/11
