This week's Scriptures

The readings this week are called Ki-Tetzeh-"When you Go Out":

Torah: Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19

Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1-10

*Deuteronomy 21:21, 22:21, 22:22, 22:24; 24:7; 23:14. "Thus you shall purge away the evil from among you". As mentioned last week, the word for "purge" may also be translated "to burn, kindle or root out". There are many situations and circumstances dealt with in these passages (some of necessity not making for the most pleasant reading) pointing to the fact that it is of great importance that God's people be 'set apart' and clean-both morally and physically, personally and as a community,"since the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you".

*Deuteronomy 23:5. "Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you."

*Deuteronomy 23:7. "You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land." We believe this admonition to still be in effect today.

 PLEASE PRAY for a love for Egypt among the Body in Israel, even as political relations appear to be moving in a dangerous direction. Pray for the Body in Egypt to rise up in faith and love and hope.and moving in the miraculous power of the Spirit of God.

*Isaiah 54:2-3. "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited.

" PLEASE PRAY: That Israel will come into that place of righteousness in her Messiah which will allow God to extend her borders to encompass the territory which He has ordained for her, a territory from which she will never be plucked up.

*Isaiah 54:5. "For your Maker is your husband, YHVH of Hosts is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth."

PLEASE PRAY: For revelation in Israel that God loves him in an intimate way-and has provided a "Redeemer" for him, who is One with the Father. "All things came into being through Him (i.e. Yeshua/Jesus), and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being" (John 1:3).

*Isaiah 54:7-8. " 'For a mere moment I have forsaken you, but with great mercies I will gather you. With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,' says the LORD, your Redeemer."

*Isaiah 54:10. " 'For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,' says the LORD, who has mercy on you."

portions taken from Israel prayer list