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ELUL, Deliver Us From Evil

…Preserve us from the violent man

September 5th: REVISITING PSALMS 140

ELUL, OUR 29 DAY BANQUET OF PRAYER… TO HONOR THE KING OF GLORY! ELUL, The Month of The Search… Praying The Lord’s Prayer IN HEBREW & ENGLISH

There’s annotation in the Book of Psalms – (Interlinear Translation, The Schottenstein Edition by Mesorah) that is prefaced before Psalm 140 that reads, “A person who feels powerless to combat the evil and deceit that threaten to engulf them must place his trust in GOD.”

It leads with a message that tell us, “The venom of a spider is under it’s lips, Selah. They spin webs with their deceitful tongue. Which paints quite the picture of the venomous foes we deal with on occasion. That person who puts on a pretense of working with you or getting along, only to strike in silence when unseen.

At the same time, our own tongues can be so unruly, so lethal… poison can also reside under our very own lips.

On the other hand, the snakes tongue passes through a notch on their lip. This allows for the tongue to pass out of their mouth without ever having to open their mouths. Mirroring another enemy that comes against us. One whose mouth we may never see open against us, but whose tongue is quick to strike and leaves a deadly trail of lies, innuendo, accusations, that undermine and destroy reputations.

Living so out of touch with nature, can place us at a great disadvantage. We could learn so much by watching the behaviors of various creatures, they could actually improve our wisdom and knowledge of mankind. At the very least, we can see parallels.

David captures these parallels in many of his songs, such as this one, which I believe are for the purpose of heightening our observations skills in order to increase our discernment. Nature is a useful tool for this purpose.

Let’s Pray.

PSALM 140

Deliver us, O Lord (YHVH), from the evil man: preserve us from the violent man;

2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

4 Keep us, O Lord (YHVH), from the hands of the wicked; preserve us from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow our goings.

5 The proud have hid a snare for us, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for us. Selah.

6 We said unto the Lord (YHVH), Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord (YHVH).

7 O God the Lord (YHVH), the strength of our salvation, thou hast covered our head in the day of battle.

8 Grant not, O Lord (YHVH), the desires of the wicked: further not their wicked devices; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

9 As for the head of those that compass round about us, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Cause the heads of those who rise up against me, that spread deadly poison against my career, my reputation, my family, my name, my friends, etc. let them be buried by their own poison of their own wicked devices.

10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

12 We know that the Lord (YHVH) will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.

Those that live to serve wicked purposes, those that lie, deceive, evade truth have no cause to give thanks to You. Those that serve you with one side of their mouth and abuse Your People with the other side, are only deceiving themselves and those that follow them.

We ask you to release their prisoners LORD. Those that have been poisoned with lies, those that have been blinded by the pretense of loyalty, kindness, integrity, honor. Reveal the mischief in their hearts, for every noose they have hung for Your People, let them fall by the trap they have set for us (Book of Esther).

Save us from the violent and treacherous kind, that lay in wait. We give praise to You LORD, for You maintain the cause of the afflicted, and uphold the right hand of the poor. The righteous give thanks unto Your Name, and shall dwell in Your Presence Forever!

AMEN


	

	
	




	
	

				

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MAY THE LORD RUN SWIFTLY WITH YOUR PRAYERS





PSALM 147





147 Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.





2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.





3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.





4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.





5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.





6 The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.





7 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:





8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.





9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.





10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.





11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.





12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.





13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.





14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.





15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.





16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.





17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?





18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.





19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.





20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.





AMEN










Our Prayer





Send out our prayers of peace LORD, let your Word run Swiftly on our behalf.





Show your statues to all those who wrestle with us,  Help us to make peace in our borders





Strengthen our gates against all evil doers, those who only lust for evil and wrong doing





All those that war against our children, cause their words to fall to the ground





set our children as gate keepers for the city, all those that have served the LORD in their houses.





You GOD, lift up the meek and cast down the wicked in our sight.





You cause our seed to prosper and grow in their lands,





give them the gates of their enemies,  the seen and unseen,





the declared, and those that seek to hide in the darkness,





Cause all of our enemies to see Your Spirit resting upon us, 





the anointing oil upon our garments, our voices, our futures, our lives,





they shall behold and confess,  their time is up.





Amen










  • PSALMS 8-14   SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5
  • PSALMS 15-21 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6
  • PSALMS 22-28 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7
  • PSALMS 29-35 TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8
  • PSALMS 36-42 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9

	

	
	




	
	

			
	

				

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We are steadily trying to obtain and maintain a place of consecration. Yet, in the midst of our focus on these priorities, we are constantly bombarded by more bad news…..,more wickedness, more injustice, more killings, baseless hatred and injustice is relentless.              Evil invades our space.  





Yet, we will persist and stand against it until the wicked devices our enemies are brought down.  





August 28th: TODAY WE ARE READING & PRAYING PSALMS 98-104





Ref:  ELUL, OUR 29 DAY BANQUET OF PRAYER… TO HONOR THE KING OF GLORY!





Psalm 97:10-12





We will not be discouraged, we will not give up, we will not relent, we will pursue mercy and justice with every fiber of our being.





 We who love the Lord and hate evil: GOD preserveth the souls of his saints; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.





Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.





We will rejoice in the Lord, and give thanks at the remembrance of His Holiness.





We Will Sing Over The Nations… Until Justice Flows Through the Streets for Everyone!





Psalm 98





The right hand of GOD will gives us the victory!  GOD will do marvelous things in our eyes, in this generation, for our sons and daughters, for our friends and neighbors, in my lifetime





The world will sing a new song, not one of death, destructions and hate.  We shall sing of justice, mercy , love and truth.





We shall sing of the salvation of the LORD, how our brothers and sister saved  from harm, the innocent, not proven guilty in the courts, shall not be tried and executed in the streets no longer.





The LORD has made known His Salvation, His Yeshua.  His righteousness He has openly shown in the sight of the heathen.





He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel and the seed of Abraham: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.





Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.





Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.





6With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.





Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.





Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together





Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: and we are His Ambassadors in the earth.  





But our report to the LORD is grim.  





Your people go without shelter, health care and food.  Some are being shot down in the streets in front of their children, their spouses, their neighbors.  The courts heap on financial burdens and perpetuate cycles of desperation, execution or imprisonment.  The sick have little or no resources, some have no place to heal or recover, poverty and plague move against us.  





Poor leadership strangles the voices of righteous leaders, who sought to pursue their own gain, their own survival, while they use corrupt and legitimate authority of this earth to stifle, miseducate, and misdirect the public, who are too tired, too confused, too helpless, too hopeless, too distraught, too unbelieving or too believing for their own good. Perhaps, some are just too apathetic to manage their own government.  Are they too fearful? or too complacent, too comfortable with corruption and compromise? 





Those that had held their peace for so long, were detained at home by sickness and disease, which caused us to be home while Rome was burning, and they took to the streets in protest.  Some to say, enough is enough.  Some to say, they were being choked by baseless hatred and bigotry, so much so they could not longer breath.  Some to say, I support this fight, it’s my fight.  I choose to be a part of the solution, I refuse to stand by and just watch unrighteousness continue… and some to take aim and strike and stab under the cloak of darkness, to fuel hate and bitterness, to tear down and destroy– taking advantage of cries for justice to further their own ambitions to kill, steal and destroy.





Justice has been exchanged for prejudice, bias, and hate.   Righteousness has been exchanged for corruption, integrity for perversion, decency for depravity.  





The righteous feel outnumbered and overwhelmed.  Some feel that prayer can not handle the weight of all of the suffering.  Some feel that justice is overpowered by kindness, mercy, faith, love are not the weapons that we can use against this strain of evil.  Some claim that love is but a mat used to welcome the oppressors and give them license for dishonesty, duplicity and guile.  





Despite all this, we have seen good too, in the land of the living, LORD. We have witnessed genuine caring, compassion…  intentional efforts to show love for another.  The world is crying out for justice and mercy and peace…  and our cries have created a shift toward thoughtfulness, consideration, reflection…





With righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.





Psalm 99:7-8





We will keep Your Testimonies, and the Word that you gave us.





You always answer us Lord and this will be no different, as we enter your gates with thanksgiving.  





Ps 101: 6, 8





Your eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with You.





Remove the wicked from our land, cut off all the wicked doers from the city of the LORD.





Ps 102:1-2, 7, 15, 19, 





Hear our prayer LORD, and let our cry come unto thee…  Hide not Your face from us in the day when we are in trouble, incline thine ear unto us. in the day when we call, answer us speedily.





We stand the watch LORD, as a sparrow alone upon the house top.





The wicked come before us and fear the Name the LORD, and all the kings of the earth fear thy glory.  Send Your Name before all the wicked of the earth that mean us harm and our children and neighbors harm.  





Look down from Your Sanctuary, from Heaven and behold the earth. Hear the groaning of the prisoners and the innocents, and loose those that are appointed to death.  Send angels to protect them from those that seek and/or take pleasure in seeking their life.





We are but the dust that you created from the beginning,





Psalm 103: 14-15





A flower in Your field… Yet, We Shall Flourish.  We choose to rise to the full measure, and the full stature of Yeshua, Our LORD.  





The children of your servants shall continue in the path of righteousness, and our seed shall be established before You.





We call forth repair, restoration, recovery, rectification, and restitution for Your People and their children’s children–generational protection and blessings, 





Save their seed, restore justice to the land, protect us LORD, defend our right to pass through the Kings Forest.





AMEN.

	

	
	




	
	

			
	

				

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TODAYS PSALMS: 77-83 TUESDAY AUGUST 25





ELUL, The Month of The Search… Praying The Lord’s Prayer IN HEBREW & ENGLISH





LORD, We offer prayer tonight for all those, including ourselves who have endured trouble.  We are all standing before you in the midst of trouble now.  Enemies are round about us, especially today.  





We pray for defense against enemies seen and unseen, known and unknown, we seek Your help against all enemies, foreign and domestic, hidden or revealed, enemies that we see clearly, even the ones that we refuse to see…





We declare our enemies to be placed into a state of rigidity, we decree their weapons dismantled, their loins loosed, and their plans broken and scattered to the ends of the earth. 





Search me LORD and try my reins, see if there be any wicked way in me…





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We pray for our souls to be at peace, even times when we struggle to be comforted.  We pray for those that are troubled, were troubled, feel troubled, for those who are restless, not sleeping, or so troubled that they can not speak…





May we call to remembrance how we use to sing in the night, being clothed in joy and thanksgiving,  May we consider the past days filled with Your Glory, and make a diligent search of of our hearts. May each one of us, question our relationship with You… earnestly examine our relationship with Our GOD, during the Month of Elul.   





Do we see you as that friend that will never leave us or forsake us?  Do we question the favor of our GOD?  Have we not seen your mercy and favor and promises come to pass in our life?  Are you not better to us than our dearest friend?  Do we ask for you to be gracious to us?  to be gracious again?  to be generous once more in the night and carry our soul to your throne and speak to us once more?  and restore our soul every morning?





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Forgive us LORD, for every time we questioned Your Faithfullness, Your Dedication to us, to me.  For every time I asked for more, when you have given all.  
The Heavens were never shut to us, Your tender mercies have never failed to flow toward us.  We have shut ourselves off to them through disobedience and every undisciplined, unaddressed character flaw, and yet, once again, I come to you with my prayer request in hand. 





Be generous again…  tonight LORD.  Return my soul in the morning with memories of being at Your Throne, being in Your Presence, sitting at your feet and learning from you.  





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Fill me with torah dreams…dreams filled with revelation and wisdom and knowledge…  I want to spend the night at Your Feet, in Your Council…  In Your Classroom!





I decree and declare Your Torah will come to me in the night, Your Wisdom shall Rest upon my head, upon my pillow. 





My hands shall be lifted up in prayer, even as I sleep, My Prayers shall go forth even as my soul rest, I shall speak words of healing and restoration over everyone on my prayer list, I shall speak the counsel of GOD, that you taught me, in the ears of my friends, 





I shall rehearse Your Word in the atmosphere, while I breathe once more the Breath of Heaven while I sleep.  Restore my soul to hear Your Voice as I did in my youth.  Restore to me the wisdom of Torah I had in the womb.  Give us Psalms to pray in the night and let us awaken with Torah on our lips. Torah thoughts, Torah dreams, Torah Visions.





May we arise tomorrow, Slow in speech, slow to anger, swift to hear and wise of heart.  





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We reclaim our voice in prayer, our rest, our joy, our peace, our vision, our insight, our dreams.





We reclaim the joy of our children, even those unborn.      We cast down their spiritual strongholds, every demonic stranglehold and spirit of sabotage that has tried to discourage them, any and all oppressive spirits that have sought to capture their joy and peace and futures, is bound today.  Every illegitimate, unauthorized voice in their lives shall become silent.  You LORD, shut the mouths of lions, every predatory spirit that tries to speak to them shall stutter in their lies, their tongues shall be cleaved to the roof of their mouths, they shall entangle themselves in their lies, deceptions, every snare they set for our children shall ensnare them instead, we pour oil round about their threshold, their door points and decree and declare the enemy shall not pass their door posts, we anoint our children to pray in their sleep, they shall cast out by prayer every ungodly soul ties, we dispatch our prayers to assist them.  





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They will not be tempted, provoked or lured in by the voice of the enemy.  Our children remember the way to The LORDs Sanctuary and shall travel there, even as they sleep.  
The Voice of The LORD shall lead them out safely from all darkness and danger, or despair, all the days of their lives.
We Thank You LORD, that You already sent Your Word to bind up every adversary who lays in wait. Nothing shall track or trace them in the spirit realm.  We nullify all predatory and stalking spirits.  We declare these words into 2021 and beyond.  










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Every prayer We have ever prayed for them shall arise in their presence, and our GOD, their GOD, shall send them help from the Sanctuary!  





They shall arise with the strength to fight the lions and the bears, like David did.  They shall arise to slay the lion like Sampson did, and return this time next year to find honey in the carcass.  They shall rejoice in the place the enemies tried to attack or blindside them on their path.  They shall show up with bread, and turn to call out every uncircumcised phillistine in their valley.  





And this will be their 5 smooth stones… our prayers during the Month of Elul, our obedience to GOD, our vow to speak no loshon hara, our love of our neighbor, and our love of our GOD, The Most High.  





And ALL OUR PRAYERS will come to pass because we remember the years of the right hand of the most High over us and over our House.





We remember the works of the Lord: surely we will remember thy wonders of old and await Your wonders right now!





We will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.





Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?





Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.





You are a Redeemer of the past, the present and the future.  You are Worthy to be Praised.





It’s Already Done





Amen