Over the past week, the world has experienced some intense birth pangs. If you’ve been reading Worthy News over the past week, it’s been a busy week.
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During the building of the Golden Gate Bridge over San Francisco Bay, construction fell badly behind schedule because several workers had accidentally fallen from the scaffolding to their deaths. Engineers and administrators could find no solution to the costly delays.
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Over the past week, the world has experienced some severe birth pangs. If you’ve been reading Worthy News, you’ve read the situation in Ukraine has intensifed with the Russians massing their troops along the border with the West condemning the referendum taking this weekend in Crimea. In Israel, scores of rockets were fired out of the Gaza Strip and rockets continue to be fired despite a “ceasefire”. The Iranians continue to threaten the destruction of Israel as an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander stated, “Islam has given us this wish, capacity and power to destroy the Zionist regime so that our hands will remain on the trigger from 1,400km away for the day when such an incident (confrontation with Israel) takes place.” Wars and rumors of wars embrace the headlines! The world is on the brink of going over the edge!
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In Israel, Shabbat (the Sabbath) is an extraordinary day. People spend much effort to get everything perfectly prepared for this special season that lasts from sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday. For those of you who have ever visited Israel, you’d know that Friday morning is the time that everyone here is rushing around doing errands before everything closes.
Click here for the rest – and let God minister to you.The Hebrew word “Shabbat”, what we call “the Sabbath” in English, means: “to rest”. The ancient Hebrew word picture unfolds its meaning profoundly and even “prophetically”. Shabbat is spelled “sheen”-“beit”-“tav”.
Read more – let the Word sink in deeper.As the Operation Protective Edge enters its 25th day, a ceasefire is ‘supposed to go into effect’ for 72 hours. Over the past few weeks, we’ve received numerous phone calls and emails expressing their concerns — and understandably so!
Continue – this devotional isn’t done blessing you.With with all the political craziness regarding Israel and her less than friendly neighbors, we’ve been receiving numerous emails expressing concern. Thank you all for your love and prayers. Even in this climate of anxiety, we now prepare to enter, along with all of Israel, into the Shabbat (Sabbath). And as we do, we remember yet again, the deep lesson of in entering into God’s perfect rest.
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