Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Almighty and Eternal God,
How Excellent is Your Name Over All The Earth!
You Alone Are Worthy of Praise,
For Your Alone Are Holy,
You Alone Are God,
You Alone Are The Most High!
Omnipotent,
Omniscient,
and Omnipresent,
You See The End From The Beginning
And The Beginning From The End.
We Thank You For Your Precious and Holy Word,
Which Gives Us Daily Insight Into Your Eternal Mind,
Your Righteousness,
and Your Love For Us.

Let all that has been Concealed
Be Revealed.

Father, We Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem,
According To Your Will and Promise.
We Pray That You Will Forgive The Sins
of Our Own Nation,
and Lead us all to Godly Repentance.
Create in Us Clean Hearts, Oh LORD,
and Renew a Right Spirit Within Us.

This we Pray Together,
As We Await Your Messiah,
Blessed Be He,
To Set Up His Kingdom,
And Make All Things Right.

”The Greatest Of these Is Love.”

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ML/LTOS

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

b>A New Study For A New Year: Personalities

Genesis 40

40 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.

5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.

6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.

7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?

8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.

9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

10 And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:

11 And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:

15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:

17 And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:

22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

The King James Version

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I just finished a book by John Grishom called "Gray Mountain". It was about a young lawyer who loses her job as a big law firm in New York City, and ends up advocating for Coal Miners (Pro Bono) in Appalachia. Some of her former colleagues try to lure her back to NYC, and I don't want to write any spoilers, so I'll stop. Anyway, the book illustrates how some jobs, even though prestigious and lucrative, can possibly be worse than unemployment. Such was the Job of "Butler" to the King.

The Butler, in this case, was the Cupbearer. This meant that he tasted the wine and food before the King did, in order to insure that it wasn't poisonous. If the Butler dropped dead, well, bye. He was just doing his job. "NEXT!".

What this Butler did must have displeased Pharaoh enough to land him in prison, along with the Baker. Both of them have dreams, which Joseph interprets.

The Baker is executed, and the Butler restored to his old position as Cupbearer to the King. The sad thing is that he forgets Joseph, still languishing in jail.

There is another Cupbearer in the Bible, named Nehemiah, who served the King of Persia during the Exile, hundreds of years later. Nehemiah was respected by the King, who noticed that his Cupbearer was depressed, and he cared enough to ask him was what troubling him.

Nehemiah replied that his homeland, and his beloved City of Jerusalem, had been laid waste. This resulted in the King giving Nehemiah a Leave of Absence and supplies to go and rebuild. Nehemiah, like Joseph, had excelled in his unenviable position and earned the respect of everybody around him. And, unlike Pharaoh's Cupbearer, Nehemiah REMEMBERED.

When we read the story of Joseph, we wonder how the Patriarchs could not recognize their brother Joseph. After all, they had lived with him for 17 years and he was their brother. However, they sold him into slavery nearly twenty years earlier and had spread the tale that he was dead. They had plunged their father Jacob into deep mourning, and the family went on living as if Joseph was dead, so for all intents and purposes, he was. Besides, who could survive a desert trek, years in slavery, an Egyptian Prison (I hear they are still pretty awful, and breeding grounds for terrorists), and the passage of nearly twenty years?

Joseph was a person of such integrity that, in whatever circumstances he found himself, he caused all around him to prosper. As Potiphar's slave, he quickly rose from slave to foreman, to administrator of Potiphar's Household Business. His competence, sense of responsibility, and integrity caused Potiphar to prosper, and Mrs. Potiphar to lust after him. And so, he ended up in Prison because of a false accusation of rape.

Now, in prison, Joseph once again shines. The Warden sees a good thing and elevates Joseph to a kind of "Assistant Warden". Even though he is still a Prisoner, he behaves with such dignity that he is soon a trusted confidant of the Warden and Prisoners alike.

It is in this capacity that he counsels two new prisoners who have been jailed by Pharaoh for some reason. Their "crimes" are not stated, but, knowing that Pharaoh was considered a "god", they could have been jailed for such a minor offense as looking up at the wrong moment, or using the wrong title when addressing a member of the king's court. If their crimes were really bad, like treason or conspiracy, I think that would have been stated in the text. In any case, they are now in a place of suffering, just like Joseph.

The lesson in this part of the story is that it doesn't matter what our circumstances are, it is how we react to them. There is no joy in slavery, nor is there in being falsely accused of horrible evil, and there certainly is no joy in prison. And yet, Joseph rises above it all.

I am reminded of an old sermon story about a scalding hot sidewalk. On the sidewalk is a lump of clay and a lump of hard wax. The sun beats down and softens the wax, making it malleable enough to sculpt into something beautiful, or even make into a candle to provide light. The same Sun beats down on the clay, baking it, and turning it into adobe. Adobe is brittle and, under pressure, crumbles into dust. Joseph was Wax, and the two servants of Pharaoh were Adobe. The Prison wasn't different, their hearts were.

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

☘️Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me… (Prayer of St. Patrick)☘️

ML/LTOS

Amen to your word and prayer. Do you think Joseph might have disguised his voice and veiled his face as he spoke to them in another language?

Joining in prayer. God bless.

Amen, left that other site

And in the time of Moses, Pharaoh’s heart was Adobe. ;)

Joining in Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem and for our Beloved America.

Well, he would have been several years older, no longer a teenager, dressed differently, clean shaven, and wearing eye makeup, so they probably didn’t have a clue.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem

Thank You, Etabeta, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

☘️Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me… (Prayer of St. Patrick)☘️

ML/LTOS

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Thank You, norsky, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

☘️Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me… (Prayer of St. Patrick)☘️

ML/LTOS

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