Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem~Shavuot 5770~ The First Fruits
Oh LORD, Our God,
How Excellent is Your name Over All The Earth!
How Magnificent, How Glorious, and How Lovely!
And How Excellent is Your Torah,
Your Eternal Word,
which You have Preserved to This Day.
1. Now Naomi had a kinsman of her husband, a man of great wealth, of the family of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
2. And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one in whose sight I may find favor." And she said to her, "Go, my daughter."
3. So she departed and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
Abba, Father, Thank You for Your Eternal Wisdom,
And Your Wisdom in providing for the Needy, as outlined in Your Torah.
Thank You For The Example here, where kindness and obedience to your precepts leads eventually to the Glory of Your Fulfilled promise!
4. Now behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, "May the LORD be with you." And they said to him, "May the LORD bless you."
5. Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose young woman is this?"
6. The servant in charge of the reapers replied, "She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.
7. "And she said, 'Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.' Thus she came and has remained from the morning until now; she has been sitting in the house for a little while."
8. Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen carefully, my daughter. Do not go to glean in another field; furthermore, do not go on from this one, but stay here with my maids.
9. "Let your eyes be on the field which they reap, and go after them. Indeed, I have commanded the servants not to touch you. When you are thirsty, go to the water jars and drink from what the servants draw."
LORD, we thank you for giving us the example of Boaz,
a Righteous and Good Man,
who Feared God and treated those who worked for him with respect and dignity.
As we Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem in Today's Harsh and Bitter World,
We Thank You for those of Your people who have welcomed the Needy into their midst.
As those seeking asylum have poured into Israel from the East and The West,
The North and The South,
From Ethiopia and India and China and Vietnam,
Some claiming to be "Jews" and some not even pretending,
Israel has done Her best to accomadate them,
Often while enduring International Criticism all the while.
10. Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your sight that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?"
11. Boaz replied to her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband has been fully reported to me, and how you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously know.
12. "May the LORD reward your work, and your wages be full from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge."
13. Then she said, "I have found favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and indeed have spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your maidservants."
14. At mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come here, that you may eat of the bread and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar." So she sat beside the reapers; and he served her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left.
15. When she rose to glean, Boaz commanded his servants, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not insult her.
16. "Also you shall purposely pull out for her some grain from the bundles and leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke her."
17. So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
18. She took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also took it out and gave Naomi what she had left after she was satisfied.
19. Her mother-in-law then said to her, "Where did you glean today and where did you work? May he who (I)took notice of you be blessed." So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, "The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz."
20. Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed of the LORD who has not withdrawn his kindness to the living and to the dead." Again Naomi said to her, "The man is our relative, he is one of our closest relatives."
Dear Abba, We Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem,
And for those within her gates.
Almighty God, We pray so Fondly for Your Beloved!
We Pray that as You Call Them Home,
from the East and From The West,
From The North and from the South,
From Out of the Lands of persecution and Bitterness,
Of Paganism and Slavery and Bondage,
Of places that were never really home to them,
Places that only brought famine, infertility, widowhood, and abandonment,
and bring them Home to Peace and Abundance and Your Provision.
Abba, Father, We Pray for Your Beloved People,
Who despite Persecutions and Pogroms,
Exile and Slavery,
Holocaust and Now Denial of Their History,
have probably contributed more to Western Civilization
than any other People Group!
We ask for forgiveness for ourselves,
Dear Father, and we Pray for Our Nation.
We ask You to reverse the trends of evil and selfishness
that have taken hold in our own Land.
We beg that You will restore Faith in You,
The One True God,
and that Our own Nation will Once Again be Known
as one who keeps Her Promises to Her Friends and Allies,
and NOT as A Truce-Breaker.
Abba Father, How we long for that Day,
When You will remove From Your Holy Place
ANYTHING that does not Honor You,
and You ALONE.
LORD, We Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem, For Israel,
and For The Jewish People.
We Thank You Profoundly For That Tiny Nation
that sits at the Very Crossroads of History,
At the Nexus of Three Continents,
A Holy Witness to The Ultimate Truth of Your WORD!
For it is Not By Might,
Not By Power,
But By Your Spirit that the enemy will be overcome.
We Plead For Israeli Control Over All the Holy Sites in Israel,
So that People of All Faiths may visit them.
We Pray For Bibi Netayahu, and the Leaders of Israel
May They Receive Wisdom from You to do the Right Thing.
We Pray For The Swift and Sure Coming of Messiah,
Blessed Be He,
To Establish His Kingdom,
and Make All Things Right.
Blessings To All Who Visit This Thread
Hallelujah and Amen
Lamh Foistenach Abu!