How to read your Bible...A Challenge

I came across this site and was challenged to read my bible for one hour a day, after 2 months I should be finished with the whole bible, now if I continued to do this for a whole year I should have read my bible 6 times...this is not a study time this is just reading through, study time is a completely different subject and time frame...I started this reading challenge yesterday...in two months from now I'll write how I liked it and if indeed it made we see the plan of Yah as a whole. The author of the article also stated that we should read each book as a whole rather than chopping it up and reading a few chapters here than jump over to the NT and read a few chapters there...really it makes sense, I would never read a novel skipping chapters or even starting the book in the middle, no I normally start at he beginning and read it through to the end...

Gen 16-18

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October 18, 2008
B'resheet 16--18

I haven't kept up with my posting on my reading challenges, however, I have kept up with my readings...

Today I read ch 16-18 and while reading chapter 10 verse 10 & 23 spoke volumes to me.
Verse 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised...
verse 23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all the were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abram's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as Elohim had said unto him.

Abraham didn't wait to walk in what Elohim told him...he immediately obeid!
We are in the midst of working on an "Obedience" lapbook/notebook and within this curriculum there are 10 keys of obedience, one of those keys are titled "Obedience is acting on a command immediately" And this is just what Abraham did, he didn't wait till he had an understanding of it, he didn't wait till it was convient, and he didn't wait till all agreed with him. He had one thing in his heart, and that was to walk in the way of YHWH. It is my prayer today that I may have a heart as Abraham, a heart that is quick to obey YHWH, obey his word, obey his prompting by the Holy Spirit, obey without hesitance...Oh I pray that I would have a single heart for my Elohim...

Genesis 7-9

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October 15, 2008
B'resheet (Genesis) 7-9

I'll have to get back to this and post later...I'm running behind on my schedule...

Genesis 4-6

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October 14, 2008

B'resheet (Genesis) 4-6

As I was reading these chapters verses 8 of chapter 4 caught my attention:

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it."

Yah was very clear in this kingdom living key; we must rule over our temptations, if we succumb to them they will become our master.

Yahshua said like this: "Verily, Verily, I say unto you who ever commits sin is the servant of sin. John 8:34 KJV

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? John 8:34 ESV

Our society now has redefined sin according to their own knowledge, but how does the Bible define sin? 1John 3:4 defines it like this: whosoeverth committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

The word commit actually means practice. The word practice means 1)to do or perform frequently; make a habit of it 2)to do repeatedly in order to become proficient.

There are other ways we 'practice' sin without actually committing them. Such as watching TV programs or video/DVD that are ungodly, full of violence, perversions, adultery, fornication, unkindness, foul language, gossip, the list can just go on and on. Some would say "I don't practice what I watch" however the word says that those who take pleasure in unrighteousness are sinning: (we don't watch TV/video's/DVDs/music etc because we hate it or because it's so uncomfortable to our flesh, no we do like it)

2 Thes 2:9-12 (Reading the whole 2nd ch of 2 Thes is worth studying)
The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
2Th 2:10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
2Th 2:11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
2Th 2:12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Romans
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge (to recognize his authority and or claims/teachings/council) God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Rom 1:29 They were filled with (David filled his heart with the word of Yah that he might not sin against him, what are we filling our hearts with) all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
Rom 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. (Our TV programs are FULL of these sins)
Rom 1:32 Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. (again we wouldn't watch/read/listen if it didn't feel good to our flesh)

David said, "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me". Wow, not many of Yah's people can say this...

We may not say out of our mouths that we approve of the things we watch or read, however, our actions speak volumes, we spend hours in front of the TV, computer, magazines, or on the phone filling our hearts with all sorts of unrighteous things.

This is the practice of sin...repeating over and over till it is proficient (well rehearsed, skilled) in our hearts. When it is well established in our hearts we will find ourselves doing it and we will be judged guilty. Remember the man who lust's after a woman has committed adultery already in his heart.

In 1John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked.
Yahshua never was entertained by unrighteousness, but he always reproved it.

1John3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

If we stop practicing sin, turn and repent from our wicked ways, turn to Elohim and obey his ways than we will no more be slave to sin but we will rule over our temptations.

It is my life's prayer that I would love the truth, recieve the truth, live the truth, and if need be to die for the truth.

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Genesis 1-3

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October 13, 2008

B'resheet (Genesis) 1-3

Wow, As I began to read first chapter of B'resheet I realized how little faith I do have. Elohim/God created everything, the heavens, the seas and all that is in them. No wonder Yahshua was asleep in the boat during the storm (not just a storm but a great storm) he was the creator of that great wind and that great sea. What was there to fear? Do I not know that his eye is on the sparrow? That nothing I go through escapes him, nor does it SHAKE him?

Mathew 8:23
And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him..

And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship

was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying,

Master, save us; we perish.And he said unto them,

Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?

Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea;

and there was a great calm. but the men marveled, saying

What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?

Oh this is quite encouraging! If he sees that I am in real danger he just but needs to speak a word of rebuke...so many scriptures are flooding my mind,

Tehillim (Psalms) 23:4 yea, though I walk through the valley of death,

I shall fear no evil, why for thou art with me!

Tehillim (Ps) 27:2-3 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my

foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Though a host should encamp against me,

my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me,

in this will I be confident...

For i nthe time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:

in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me;

he shall set me up upon a rock.
Tehillum (Ps) 46 Elohim/God is our refuge

and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Therefore will not we fear, though the

earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried

into the midst of the sea; though the waters

thereof roar and be troubled, though

the mountains shake with the swelling thereof...

And not to mention how there are no limits with him...he is the creator, can he not do anything? Oh how I realize that my faith is very small...how, I am to believe his word and not to let fear creep into my mind. When I go to him in prayer I will do as David did and begin to recite all that Yahweh has done:

You oh Yahweh are the creator of heaven and earth, you spoke all things into existence, without you nothing can exist...is anything too hard for You...

I could go on and on with just this train of thought, however, I will move on to the next inspiration that Yah gave me in B'resheet and that is the temptation of Eve/Chavah. Our enemy has not changed in over 2000 years, he uses the same tactics he used on Chavah/Eve. First to plant seeds of questioning what Elohim meant when he said what he did..."Did Elohim really say..." and then he basically calls Elohim a lier and says "surely you wont' die..." and he tops it off with how fearful Elohim is of them so he forbids them the pleasure of eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Here is what it sounds like in today's times, see if he has changed his tactics at all:

The Bible tells 'do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers'

However we find today many young women

dating non-believers, why?

Because the enemy of their souls have brought

a handsome young non-believer into their lives

(how pleasant to the eyes he is). Now that

the enemy has their attention he begins the lies...

He's so nice...yeah, he doesn't believe, but

you can help him see the light...He won't cause me to stumble!

So they begin dating them...disobedience to the word

of Elohim.

Next...the KILL...we are told clearly in

the word of Elohim not to have

relations (sex) outside of marriage

so here it goes...first holding hands (how Innocent)

then he loves her so much,

the kiss,

he has her heart now...mind you he has

gone to church with her but he has

not shown an interest in getting

saved...and if he has been at the

alter...where are the fruits

of repentce...

She has fallen deeply in love with him,

the lie...if you love me you would, or better

yet...I love him so much

how can I show him?

The Fall...

a broken heart and a broken relationship with

her savior. Just like in the garden...

How can we prevent this from happening...by believing Elohim when he warns us in his word...the reason we should not be yoked with unbelievers is because more times than not they bring about our fall...bad company corrupt good manners in other words, they will draw you away not the other way around...remember Joseph, he ran from Potiphar's wife, he didn't reason with her he didn't believe the enemies lies...I could just here it now "Well, she is my masters wife...she has authority over me...I must obey her..." no he believe Elohim and RAN...to many of us including myself play with the thoughts the enemy brings instead of RUNNING or better yet casting them out!

2 Corinthians 10:5

Casting down imaginations, and every

high thing that exalteth itself against the

knowledge of Elohim, and

bringing into captivity

every thought to the obedience

of Messiah;

So today, I will be careful to keep watch on my thoughts and when I pray to recall that Elohim/God is the creator of all thing, is there anything to hard for him?

Ok, so today I did get a little wordy... I'll try to do better tomorrow...but no promises ;-)

Have a Blessed day in Messiah

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