Shabbat Is Almost Here!

Well, I cant believe its been a week since I have unplugged from facebook and I cannot tell you how wonderful it feels! I am so peaceful and just know that I made the right choice in obeying Jehovah and my hubby. I have had more time to study the Scriptures and read some books that I have had sitting around for awhile now. Plus I am able to be very active on a forum that is just a great place to learn and share without being treated rudely for differing beliefs.

So its after 1am and yes I am still awake! LOL My littlest one just drifted off to sleep and I need just a few minutes of quiet time to myself. So I figured I would update my blog as a way to unwind before bed. When I wake up I have tuna casserole to make and a huge crock of chili for our fellowship that meets this Saturday afternoon. House is pretty much tidied up and I even made a special treat for Sabbath... Peanut butter m&m cookies!

I cant wait till sunset tomorrow when we sit at the dinner table and share a meal together over candle light. When daddy plays guitar while we sing worship songs with the children. While we huddle around while I read a Bible story and share alittle about the Torah portion for the week. I cant wait till we have our  bread  and grape juice and the children hold it up and help us sing the blessings over them in Hebrew. I cannot wait to sleep in a little extra on Sabbath morning and wake up to fresh coffee and warm cinnamon rolls. I cant wait to study Scripture with my husband and uncover amazing gems along the way. I cannot wait until we get to go to our fellowship and hear some more teaching on the Scriptures and then we get to discuss it and eat a wonderful meal together as one big family. I cannot wait for this incredible weekly gift that my Father has blessed me with! Its one of the greatest gifts He has given to His children. Its a time to cease from working and to rest in HIM. Its a time of spiritual renewal and physical renewal. Its a time for families to draw closer to one another and to the ONE who created them. Thank you Father for your Shabbat! May I never forget what a blessed gift it is from YOU to me. Shabbat Shalom!

Thus heaven and earth were completed with all their array. On the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing. He rested on the seventh day after all the work he had been doing. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on that day he rested after all his work of creating (Gen 2:1-3).        

"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy" (Ex 20:8-11). 

This is what the LORD says: "Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed. Blessed is the man who does this, the man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.… And foreigners who bind themselves to the LORD to serve him, to love the name of the LORD, and to worship him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant-these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer….If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob." The mouth of the LORD has spoken (Is 58:2-3, 5-6, 13-14).

There must still be, therefore, a seventh-day rest reserved for God's people, since to enter the place of rest is to rest after your work, as God did after his (Heb 4:9-10).