Apr 13, 2022 – Prayer Focus
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 – The 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call – HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAUREEN!
“A CALL TO THE WALL…ONE NATION UNDER GOD”
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We begin our hour by praising and giving thanks to God!
“Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore!”
Psalm 113:2
We sing: Blessed be the Name of the Lord
Blessed be the Name of the Lord! He is worthy to be praised and adored!
So we lift up holy hands in one accord singing:
Blessed be the Name, Blessed be the Name, Blessed be the Name of the Lord!
(repeat)
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The key assignment for the 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call is to intercede hourly
for the safety and security of our duly elected President, Donald John Trump,
and to pray for that which pertains to our nation!
We pray for his protection, for our First Lady, Melania, and their marriage
and for all the members of their family. We cover them all with the Blood of Jesus.
In every situation and decision, let our President be led by the Holy Spirit, so that he learns the truth and acts accordingly, for the good of the nation.
Pray.
That as the REDEMPTION of the AMERICAN REPUBLIC takes place, those leaders that God anoints and appoints will take their places in the governments of each state and in our nation’s Capitol!
Pray.
For a miraculous conclusion to the investigations into the 2020 elections,
and proof of fraud and collusion to remove Joe Biden (and company) and restore President Trump
to his rightful office so that he can lead this nation once again and work to restore the global balance!
Pray.
For protection, provision, and peace for Professor / Patriot David Clements and his family,
and for Dr. Shiva and all working with him to expose the fraud and corruption of the 2020 election!
Pray.
That Russian aggression in Ukraine will cease and war there will be ended.
Pray.
Strategic Focus for Wednesday
WELCOME THE KING OF GLORY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
THE REDEMPTION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC – Part 103
Preparation for Passover and for WELCOMING THE KING OF GLORY INTO ALASKA – Day 10
Worthy is the Lamb – A Messianic Passover Haggadah – Part 10
Now as they were eating, He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.”
And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and each of them began to say to Him, “Lord, is it I?”
Matthew 26:21-22
The time spent together by the on-site team at one of the WTKOG gatherings is such a beautiful experience! As always, the sense of expectation heightens as each one arrives and takes their place on the team! There is such a joyful expectation that the BEST IS YET TO COME as we approach the “definitive encounter” that will take place with our God and King in Utqiagvik / Barrow, where we will Welcome the King of Glory into Alaska under the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights on Resurrection Day / Easter Sunday morn, April 17th at 2 AM AK time. Pray!
We pray:
- Lord, You are good, and Your mercy endures forever! Thank You for going ahead of us to prepare each of the places in which we were allowed to herald Your coming, and then to welcome YOU! Pray.
- Thank You for allowing us to gather here in Alaska, for drawing near to us as we draw near to You, for encompassing us with Your love and for receiving us as Your own! Pray.
Worthy is the Lamb
A Messianic Passover Haggadah – Part 10
Step: 7 – Rachtzah- Netilat Yadayim Leader: Before we begin to eat some matzah and begin our seder meal, we will (again!) wash our hands, though this time we will recite the traditional blessing:
Blessed art thou, Lord our God, Master of the universe,
Who hast sanctified us with thy commandments, and commanded us about washing the hands.
Note: Some of the early sages stated that you should pour the water three times on each hand – right, left, right, left, right, left. After “washing” the hands, they are clasped together and the blessing is recited. Pray.
Step: 8 – Motzi Matzah – Eating the Matzah Leader: We are now ready to eat some matzah – but not just any matzah – but the very special matzah that represents our fathers Abraham and Isaac, the great patriarchs of our faith, who demonstrated the truth of God’s sacrificial love by the binding of Isaac upon the altar. I will now open the matzah tosh and take out the top and middle matzah, representing Abraham and Isaac, and break off some pieces for everyone here. Before we eat this special matzah, however, we will recite two traditional Hebrew blessings. First, we will recite the familiar blessing over the bread, and then we will recite the blessing over the matzah, which will mark the start of the seven-day festival of Unleavened Bread. First, then, let us all recite the traditional blessing over the bread. All recite:
“Blessed art Thou, LORD our God, King of the universe,
Who brings forth bread from the earth.”
Leader: Now we are ready to recite the special blessing over the matzah, which marks the start of the seven-day festival of unleavened bread (chag ha-matzot), recalling our first week after the great our deliverance from bondage in Egypt. Pray.
Let us all recite the blessing over the matzah together: All Recite:
Blessed are You, LORD our God, King of the universe,
Who sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to eat matzah.
(Please now eat the portion of matzah given to us)
The word matzot, “unleavened bread,” can be read as mitzvot, “commandments,” which suggests a connection between them. Note that during his Upper Room Seder with the disciples before he would be crucified, Yeshua distributed matzah pieces so they could dipped in the dishes on the seder plate: Pray.
Reader 1: When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. And as they were eating, Yeshua said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”
Reader 2: And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Lord, is it I?”
Reader 1: Yeshua answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me.”
Reader 3: Judas, who would betray him, answered, “Rabbi, is it I?” Yeshua said to him, “You have said so.” – Matthew 26: 20-25; John 13: 36
After this, Judas left into the night to betray our Lord and was therefore not at the Seder when Yeshua later sanctified the matzah (the Afikoman) and the Third Cup as the symbols of his body and blood sacrificed for our redemption. Pray.
The Meaning of Matzah Leader: We have now had our first taste of matzah for the seven day holiday called Chag HaMatzot, the “Feast of Unleavened Bread.” The Lord clearly stated that we were to eat this bread, the “bread of affliction,” to commemorate the Exodus from Egypt:
Reader 1: The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. Exodus 12:33-34 We remember how we ate only matzah from the time we left Egypt on Passover day until the day we crossed over the sea seven days later and left Egypt forever behind us:
Reader 2: Remember the day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from that place. No leavened bread may be eaten. Seven days you shall eat matzah, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. Exodus 13:3,6
Leader: There is a connection between leaven (chametz) and Egypt. Apparently the Egyptians perfected the use of fermentation (yeast) for making bread, and such bread was even used as a form of currency in their economy. Leaven therefore represents the “rich man’s bread” – that is, the bread eaten by the taskmasters who exploited others. Leavened bread is the food of this evil world of which we are to be purged. Leaven (yeast) produces fermentation, which is a natural process of decay. The sages identify leaven with the yetzer hara, the evil impulse that gives “rise” to lusts of the flesh and the pride of life. Yeshua was completely without sin, entirely “unleavened,” that is, free from the curse of death and its corruption. He was not “puffed up” by sin but was “a lamb without spot or blemish” given for our Passover sacrifice 1 Peter 1:19. Moreover, after He was buried, Yeshua did not suffer the natural process of corruption (decomposition of the body). His body did not “return to dust” – the very curse given to Adam and Eve. As the “Second Adam,” Yeshua’s death “reversed the curse” by killing the power of sin and death through the sacrifice of himself. Hebrews. 9:26 Pray.
The Apostle Paul instructed us to “purge out the old leaven” to keep the feast of Passover 1 Corinthians 5:7-8 which means that we are to live in purity and separation from the corrupting influence of sin in our lives. Since we have been made “unleavened” (pure) by the sacrifice of Yeshua, our lives should reflect the inner purity of his heart… Does this mean that we are supposed to flagellate ourselves in repentance? No, because unleavened bread is called the “bread of affliction” (literally, “bread of humiliation” or “bread of humility”). Partaking of this bread means humbly identifying with the suffering and afflictions that Yeshua performed on your behalf. Pray.
Leader: As the prophet Isaiah wrote about the Messiah:
Reader 3: Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:4-5
Leader: In other words, matzah represents the bread of His afflictions, not our own. We do not become sanctified, in other words, by afflicting ourselves, but rather by sincerely trusting in the afflictions that Yeshua endured on our behalf. Just as we are saved by God’s grace through faith, so are we sanctified. Sanctification is a work of the Holy Spirit in our lives just as miraculous as regeneration itself 1 Cor. 6:11. We do not earn merit before the LORD through performing “good deeds” Titus 3:5-6, but rather by humbling ourselves and trusting in the Messiah for righteousness John 6:28-29. “It is finished.” Unleavened bread, then, signifies our identification with the Lord in his humility and afflictions, but it does not mean attempting to effect our own sanctity by means of self styled affliction. We are sanctified by God’s grace, not by outward shows of religion. Remember that all the “oughts” (commands) of the New Covenant are directed to the truth of who you are “in the Messiah,” that is, by virtue of His connection to you, and not to your former life and identity as a slave in Egypt. Pray.
Unlike leavened bread that relies on an “outside” agency (yeast), unleavened bread is simple and pure: just add flour and water, mix and bake. Second, in ancient times, the leavening process usually involved adding a pinch of soured dough to the mix (se’or ), but unleavened bread has no “history” that is brought into its creation. It’s therefore an entirely “new lump,” not using material from the past. It is free, in other words, from the effects of the curse of previous decay. Leavening therefore represents our connection with our past lives. Another way to say this is that unleavened bread represents an abrupt break with the past brought about through a lack of previous labor or human design.
After all, “salvation is from the LORD” Psalm 3:8. God delivered the ancient Israelites from slavery, just as God delivers us from the slavery to our sins. Eating unleavened bread – the “bread of affliction” – is really to eat the bread of His affliction – and therefore functions as a memorial to our own powerlessness to effect righteousness. It is eaten “in haste,” that is, not the result of human ingenuity or planning. It is a commemoration that salvation is the work of the Lord, rather than a work of our own. The idea that we can merit our own righteousness before God – that we are self-sufficient and do not need a Savior – is something Yeshua regarded as a form of “spiritual leaven.” It is only when the ego is deflated (“unleavened”) that we are able to discern the truth of our inward condition. As it says in Scripture, knowledge “puffs up,” but love builds up…Pray.
Step: 9 – Maror – Eating the Bitter Herbs
Locate the maror on the table and get ready to spread it on some matzah… Leader: The next step of our Seder is to eat some bitter herbs to remember the bitter afflictions of our people. Just as every Jew must imagine that he himself was emancipated from Egypt, so he must imagine that he was enslaved there. Let’s take some matzah or a piece of romaine lettuce and load it with some horseradish (enough to make the size of a small egg if you would crunch it into a ball). Some people dip this into the charoset to soften the effect. We will all recite the blessing over the bitter herb together and then eat it: All recite:
Blessed are You, LORD our God, King of the universe,
Who sanctified us with his commandments and commanded us to eat maror.:
[Eat after reciting the blessing]
Step: 10 – Korekh – Eating the Hillel Sandwich
Leader: In the days of the Second Temple, the sage Hillel used to say, “If am not for myself, who will be for me? But if l am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?” During Passover Hillel used to make a “sandwich” of matzah, maror and lamb to fulfill the Torah’s command: “You shall eat the Passover with matzah and maror.” Locate the charoset on the table as well as the maror… Get two pieces of matzah to make your ” sandwich.”
“They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with matzah and maror they shall eat it.” Exodus I 2:8
Instead of eating lamb, today we substitute charoset. We take some matzah and shmear some maror (horseradish) on one end and some charoset on the other. We then top off the matzah with another piece. When you eat, begin with the bitter and move to the sweet to remind yourself of the good end of your redemption. Pray.
The charoset reminds us of the mortar used to glue the bricks together while we were in Egypt…”Charoset” comes from the Hebrew word cheres, meaning ” clay.” Pray.
The step of Korekh was developed to accommodate an argument among the sages. Hillel thought that the matzah and maror (and lamb) should be eaten together, whereas other sages thought they should be eaten separately. Therefore Jewish tradition opted to do both: first we eat them separately (the Motzi Matzah step followed by the Maror step), and then we do it again together – as the Korekh step. Strictly speaking, the Korekh step is not necessary, since it is of rabbinic origin, whereas the eating of unleavened bread and bitter herbs is a Scriptural commandment.
We are now ready to answer the very important “fifth question” of the Seder: “When do we eat?” And the answer is (almost) now! This concludes the first part of the Seder. We now will eat dinner and continue after the meal is completed. Important: Before we eat dinner, however, we will recite the Passover blessing on the following page…
Step:11 – Shulchan Orekh – Eating the Passover
Locate the eggs on the table. We begin our meal by eating eggs dipped in salt water…
Leader: There is a custom to eat a hard-boiled egg dipped in salt water at the start of the Passover meal. Some say this is to remember the crossing of the Red Sea to freedom, while others say that the egg represents the festival offering that pilgrims were required to make during the time of Passover. Pray.
It is also customary to mention the ceremony of the priests as they slaughtered the lambs in the courtyard of the Temple on erev Pesach. The blood of each lamb was caught in a basin that was passed from one priest to another until it reached the last priest who poured it out on the lower part of the altar. While this was happening, the Levites would sing psalms of praise to God. Afterward, each lamb was skinned, its flesh was salted, and certain parts were burned upon the altar. Finally, the remainder was given to the offerer, who took it home to be roasted whole over an open fire. Before the family would eat the lamb with matzah and maror, all recited the following blessing:
Blessed are You, LORD our God, King of the universe,
Who sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to eat the Pesach.
During Temple times, the Pesach offering was lifted up for all gathered to see and the question, “Why do we eat this Pesach offering?” was asked. Everyone present would then retell the story of the Exodus from Egypt and also partake of the matzah and maror. Pray.
We pray:
- Lord, as we prepare our hearts to celebrate Passover, we ask for a deeper appreciation of all that pertains to this Feast, and appreciate what it is that You want to show us about it! Pray.
- We cover ourselves, our families and our homes with the Blood of Jesus, the true Passover Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world! Pray.
- Bless President Trump and draw him closer to You this Passover! Guide and direct him in making the right decisions that will facilitate his return to the White House. Pray.
- Protect our nation from all who seek to destroy it! Bring forth Your solutions to the critical matters we are dealing with! Pray.
- Let the light of Christ flood the nations, drawing all men to Him, as He is lifted up on the cross… and on our lips in prayer! Pray.
- That we will cleanse and our homes in order so that they might be places for Your HABITATION and sanctuaries for others! Pray.
- That we will joyfully release the LOVE of GOD over Alaska and throughout our beloved nation. Pray.
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Listen to the song ahead of time, then either sing or pray it!
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HINENI, ADONAI! HERE I AM, LORD!
ENGAGING IN A WARFARE OF LOVE! THE BATTLE OF THE BRIDE!
KADIMA! ONWARD…FORWARD!
“LAYNA!” LIGHT AND TRUTH!
BE STRONG…COURAGEOUS…BRAVE!
UNASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST!
GOD’S CHAMPIONS FOR LIFE!
MARANATHA! COME, LORD JESUS!
BE READY! REVIVAL IS COMING!
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
ONE NEW MAN!
VICTORY!
STANDING IN THE GAP!
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