Enlarge The Place Of Your Tent

Shalom!

We are Counting The Omer! Today is S'fiyrat meOmer 29/May 18. The 49 Days Plus One between HaBikkurim/FirstFruits Resurrection of Yeshua Ha Masiach to Shavuot/Pentecost...

Vayikra/Leviticus 23:10-11 records: "Speak to the sons of Yis'rael and you will say to them, 'When you come into the land which I am giving to you, and have reaped its' harvest, and brought in the OMER/SHEAF - the beginning of your harvest to the cohen - then he will WAVE THE OMER BEFORE ADONAI for your acceptance.'"

The sons of Yis'rael were freed from slavery in Mitz'rayim/Egypt. Adonai brought them out of bondage to fulfill His Promise - to deliver the sons of Yis'rael into the Land of their Fathers. There, Yis'rael would find an abundant country that would yield its plentiful crops in season.

After forty years in the Desert, eating nothing but manna, surely the sons of Yis'rael were anxious to taste the fruit of that first harvest. But Adonai gave one requirement regarding the harvest: both that first year, and every Spring thereafter, Yis'rael was to bring an OMER from the harvest to the cohen. Accompanied by GRAIN and BURNT offerings, the OMER was to be presented to Adonai - a SACRIFICE OF THANKS for a rich season of bountiful harvest!

But this was not jut to be any OMER - it was to be from "the beginning of your harvest." Before even tasting the first harvest of the year, Yis'rael was to bring th FIRST SHEAF to Adonai! It could not be held back or used for any other purpose; and no other OMER could take its place. The first OMER was the harvest's special representative, reserved for Adonai alone!

When the OMER was brought to the cohen, he ws to "wave the OMER before Adonai." By lifting up the harvest's representative OMER to The L-rd, it became a symbolic offering for the entire harvest "for your acceptance..." In order for Yis'rael to be acceptablet to Adonai, an offering for the harvest - a specially dedicated offering - had to be made.

During this season, we we count from the day the FIRST OMER was to be waved, let us also allow ourselves to be waved before Adonai s the first of a great harvest yet to come! Let us not hold ourselves back or devote ourselves to some other purpose, but be fully dedicated to Adonai, than an abundant crop may be harvested through us! As Yeshua's special representatives, may we be lifted up and waved before Adonai for all the peoples - first the Jew, and then for the Nations - for the reaping of the harvest,and for our acceptance!

On this 28 day of Counting the Omer, the L-rd is exhorting us to "Enlarge the place of your tent, and the curtain of your dwelling places - stretch them out!" He wants us to have the faith to make more room than we know what to do with, so that HE can fill it up to overflowing! He wants us to stretch out what we already have, with the faith that our tents will no longer be filled up with more of the same junk! He says, "restrain not" - don't hold back your faith - and He will not hold back His Blessings from you!

Pray in agreement with me: Adonai, My G-d, pour out YOUR Blessings upon me, as I stretch otu my faith to receive them. Show me how to restrain myself no longer, so that I can make room in my life for only You. Push out the things that I have been unable to get rid of on my own, so that You alone can fill my life in ways I could never have imagined. I praise you, Adonai, for the faith to receive Your blessings! I enlarge my tent for You tody, my Master - fill it up to overflowing!

The Brit Hadassah reading for today was from Yochanan 5: 31-47 and is very appropriate for the Season of the Omer Counting! Yeshua is talking with the religious leaders about why they would not accept Him as Messiah. Amazingly He tells them that there are FIVE testimonies of Him that they all were were taught were "SIGNS OF THE MESSIAH" -
1. Yochanan the Immerser was the FORERUNNER as prophesied; and spoke of Yeshua as "The One" Who would be the Lamb of G-d
2. The WORKS that Yeshau did were clearly the works identified with Messiah: healing the sick; raising the dead; giving sight to the blind; causing the lame to walk
3. G-d, The FATHER, Who sent Messiah Yeshua, TESTIFIED concerning Yeshua that He was the Messiah, His Son "in whom He is well pleased" at his Immersion and at the Mount of Transfiguration
4. The very WORDS of the Scriptures spoke clearly about Messiah; Who He would be/was
5. MOSHE clearly spoke of the Messiah; and the Jewish leaders all believed Moshe's writings and words

All these "SIGNS" clearly pointed to and identified Yeshua as The Messiah of Israel. On this 29th Day of the Counting of the Omer, let us respond in full faith and assurance to Our Messiah; and bow our knees in honor and worship to Him Who Was and Is and Is To Come!

Blessings and Shalom!

Susan