Lucia
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Happy New Year!!!
Shimmie graciously asked me to start off the new thread.
This is still Shimmie's pet project and she's OP and main resource.
More info on 2nd post.
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The year of the Jubilee.
How many of us know that this year is the designated year of the Jubilee and what the Jubilee actually means.
The dictionary defines jubilee as:
a special anniversary of an event, especially one celebrating twenty-five or fifty years of a reign or activity."jubilee celebrations"
synonyms: anniversary, commemoration.
So basically it's a really BIG party!
Here's a brief biblical/religious history:
The ancient Jewish tradition from Mosaic Law was in the 15th year to pardon all debts, release all slaves, return lands, and pardon debts, and most importantly remission (absolution) of sins.
This tradition was revived in 1300 A.D. by Pope Boniface VIII with extraordinary jubilees in between and after the Protestant Reformation of 1500's became mostly a Catholic celebration.
From Leviticus 25:8-17
8 You shall count seven weeks of years—seven times seven years—such that the seven weeks of years amount to forty-nine years. 9 Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month let the ram’s horn resound; on this, the Day of Atonement, the ram’s horn blast shall resound throughout your land. 10 You shall treat this fiftieth year as sacred. You shall proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to your own property, each of you to your own family. 11 This fiftieth year is your year of jubilee; you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth or pick the untrimmed vines, 12 since this is the jubilee. It shall be sacred for you. You may only eat what the field yields of itself.
13 In this year of jubilee, then, each of you shall return to your own property. 14 Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any from your neighbor, do not deal unfairly with one another. 15 On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee you shall purchase the land from your neighbor; and so also, on the basis of the number of years of harvest, that person shall sell it to you. 16 When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more; when the years are few, the price shall be so much the less. For it is really the number of harvests that the person sells you. 17 Do not deal unfairly with one another, then; but stand in fear of your God. I, the Lord, am your God.
Here's my take on it every year we make New Years resolutions, then some or most of us don't follow through on them. We have the best of intentions to change our lives but it's not easy we all know that. Why because the world tells us to only make secular goals to get more stuff we don't need and completely forget or ignore anything spiritual. (I mean spiritual as in of God, Jesus, Holy Spirit) and the enemy is hard at work day in day out.
What was the reason the Israelites took 40 years to make what was roughly a 2 week journey?
They kept forgetting about God, they did not keep on believing. They mistakenly thought I believed in Egypt but now I'm in the desert, what can God do?
They would not let go of their oppressed mentality, they would not let go of the "old ways" and their sins, some did not ask God for forgiveness or forgive themselves holding on to guilt and shame. Actually, that's the enemies way of establishing strongholds, through doorways to keep us in defeatist oppressive patterns unable to see the way and the light.
How does this affect us?
The enemy is attacking us from all sides. Our job as Christian women is to hold it down, keep it (home, husband, family and kids) together but to serve others the way we should at our bests, we have to heal ourselves first. Our men, children and society are broken because a lot (not all) of us as women are broken and/or fragmented. You cannot give what you do not have. Forgive others, ask God to forgive you, then forgive yourselves. There is a saying "physician heal they self" so ladies I say heal thyselves in Jesus name, just ask Him.
What if we could start anew and be renewed, be revived as never before. This is what the jubilee means to me it's a chance to be freed and celebrate. It's the opportunity for all of us to let go of the pain, suffering, anger, resentment, shame, guilt, depression, anxiety, stress and whatever earthly, physical, emotional, or spiritual thing that is tormenting us. There is nothing you have done or have had done to you that cannot be forgiven and healed by Jesus.
Take all of it, confess it, and that burden will be lifted off your shoulders, take it all and lay it down at the foot of the cross. You have the chance to be renewed every day, every hour, every minute, every second we make a choice on how we react to what is thrown at us by the enemy. Offer it all up to the Lord our God the Father, Jesus God the Son, and the Holy Spirit and lay it down.
Don't stay stuck in the enemies repetitive patterns and endless vicious cycles, break free. I say to you in Jesus name my sisters in Christ.
Confess it! and take it to Jesus at the foot of the cross and lay all your burdens down at His feet,
lay it down,
lay it down,
LAY.IT.DOWN!
-Now after that look at your prayer life, if needed take your prayer life up a notch, and you will see Jesus move in your life. Nothing happens in the physical world that doesn't happen in the spiritual world first, so pray without ceasing and ask Him for all your needs.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Mathew 7:7-8
The Answer to Prayers. 7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
This is the year to break through, break free and celebrate!
-Ladies get your "War Room" on, and Bring It!
Shimmie graciously asked me to start off the new thread.
This is still Shimmie's pet project and she's OP and main resource.
More info on 2nd post.
-------
The year of the Jubilee.
How many of us know that this year is the designated year of the Jubilee and what the Jubilee actually means.
The dictionary defines jubilee as:
a special anniversary of an event, especially one celebrating twenty-five or fifty years of a reign or activity."jubilee celebrations"
synonyms: anniversary, commemoration.
So basically it's a really BIG party!
Here's a brief biblical/religious history:
The ancient Jewish tradition from Mosaic Law was in the 15th year to pardon all debts, release all slaves, return lands, and pardon debts, and most importantly remission (absolution) of sins.
This tradition was revived in 1300 A.D. by Pope Boniface VIII with extraordinary jubilees in between and after the Protestant Reformation of 1500's became mostly a Catholic celebration.
From Leviticus 25:8-17
8 You shall count seven weeks of years—seven times seven years—such that the seven weeks of years amount to forty-nine years. 9 Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month let the ram’s horn resound; on this, the Day of Atonement, the ram’s horn blast shall resound throughout your land. 10 You shall treat this fiftieth year as sacred. You shall proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to your own property, each of you to your own family. 11 This fiftieth year is your year of jubilee; you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth or pick the untrimmed vines, 12 since this is the jubilee. It shall be sacred for you. You may only eat what the field yields of itself.
13 In this year of jubilee, then, each of you shall return to your own property. 14 Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any from your neighbor, do not deal unfairly with one another. 15 On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee you shall purchase the land from your neighbor; and so also, on the basis of the number of years of harvest, that person shall sell it to you. 16 When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more; when the years are few, the price shall be so much the less. For it is really the number of harvests that the person sells you. 17 Do not deal unfairly with one another, then; but stand in fear of your God. I, the Lord, am your God.
Here's my take on it every year we make New Years resolutions, then some or most of us don't follow through on them. We have the best of intentions to change our lives but it's not easy we all know that. Why because the world tells us to only make secular goals to get more stuff we don't need and completely forget or ignore anything spiritual. (I mean spiritual as in of God, Jesus, Holy Spirit) and the enemy is hard at work day in day out.
What was the reason the Israelites took 40 years to make what was roughly a 2 week journey?
They kept forgetting about God, they did not keep on believing. They mistakenly thought I believed in Egypt but now I'm in the desert, what can God do?
They would not let go of their oppressed mentality, they would not let go of the "old ways" and their sins, some did not ask God for forgiveness or forgive themselves holding on to guilt and shame. Actually, that's the enemies way of establishing strongholds, through doorways to keep us in defeatist oppressive patterns unable to see the way and the light.
How does this affect us?
The enemy is attacking us from all sides. Our job as Christian women is to hold it down, keep it (home, husband, family and kids) together but to serve others the way we should at our bests, we have to heal ourselves first. Our men, children and society are broken because a lot (not all) of us as women are broken and/or fragmented. You cannot give what you do not have. Forgive others, ask God to forgive you, then forgive yourselves. There is a saying "physician heal they self" so ladies I say heal thyselves in Jesus name, just ask Him.
What if we could start anew and be renewed, be revived as never before. This is what the jubilee means to me it's a chance to be freed and celebrate. It's the opportunity for all of us to let go of the pain, suffering, anger, resentment, shame, guilt, depression, anxiety, stress and whatever earthly, physical, emotional, or spiritual thing that is tormenting us. There is nothing you have done or have had done to you that cannot be forgiven and healed by Jesus.
Take all of it, confess it, and that burden will be lifted off your shoulders, take it all and lay it down at the foot of the cross. You have the chance to be renewed every day, every hour, every minute, every second we make a choice on how we react to what is thrown at us by the enemy. Offer it all up to the Lord our God the Father, Jesus God the Son, and the Holy Spirit and lay it down.
Don't stay stuck in the enemies repetitive patterns and endless vicious cycles, break free. I say to you in Jesus name my sisters in Christ.
Confess it! and take it to Jesus at the foot of the cross and lay all your burdens down at His feet,
lay it down,
lay it down,
LAY.IT.DOWN!
-Now after that look at your prayer life, if needed take your prayer life up a notch, and you will see Jesus move in your life. Nothing happens in the physical world that doesn't happen in the spiritual world first, so pray without ceasing and ask Him for all your needs.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Mathew 7:7-8
The Answer to Prayers. 7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
This is the year to break through, break free and celebrate!
-Ladies get your "War Room" on, and Bring It!
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