Week 1- Babes Intro begins December 29, 2024
We begin our Gregorian year 2025
in the Hebrew year 5785
in the Hebrew month TEVET
Weekly Reading
Sunday Proverb: 29
Mon-Fri: We will begin in Genesis next week
Sabbath Psalms: 107-109
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Come to LIFE!
THE SOVEREIGN PLACE
where God BREATHES
and LIFE is given
as BABES are
Born of the Spirit
into the Family of God.
God calls all Mankind
with His Divine Invitation to become His child…
(THAT IS YOU!)
We are all His creation,
but not yet His child.
We only need to Confess
our need for the Savior
and accept His free gift of Salvation
through the finished work of the Cross of Christ.
This is the only Way to become God’s child…
to be born of His Spirit into His family.
I don’t know exactly how it works,
but this Invitation has been working since the day that
Jesus said, “You must be born again… (of God’s Spirit.)”
When we are born again we become God’s Babes in Christ.
We receive a New Nature from the Life of Christ.
We turn away from the old ways of the world with new power over sin
and turn toward the higher ways of God.
This gives us direct access to communication with God…
and we learn to hear His Voice.
We grow/mature in Him and receive many other benefits…
until we ultimately have
the promised inheritance of Eternity
with Him Forever.
God is a Gentleman…
He does not force Himself upon us…
We must ask Him to come into our life…
and when we do… WOW!
Eye has not seen… Ear has not heard…
neither has entered the heart of Mankind
what the LORD has prepared for those who love Him! 1Cor 2:9
God’s Word, the Seed of His Kingdom,
needs good Soil in which to grow.
The soil is our opened-heart
where we receive God's Word.
Have you been born (again) of the Spirit of God ?
It is now an OPT-IN ONLY experience.
Why?
Sadly, Adam, the first human
who was originally created in right-relationship with God…
unknowingly “opted himself and all Mankind out” of that Relationship.
Something changed on the inside of Mankind…
sin-nature was born …
he now knew the difference
between good and evil
as he disobeyed what God said.
This caused a wall of distance between Mankind and the Creator.
Instead of looking to God for provision
Mankind usurped looking to God
and now looked to self and the world
for what he wanted or needed.
We need God's LIFE in us…
Since the time of Adam’s distance from God,
all Mankind has been born separated from God…
the Bible calls it being DEAD in our sins. (Ephesians 2:1)
But the Good News is
that Yeshua Jesus opted all Mankind back into relationship with God…
because of His substitutional death for sin in our place
and His Resurrection that dealt with Death and the Grave.
We have a Divine Invitation to be born again
and enjoy Relationship with God…
Have you answered the Divine Invitation to be a part of God’s Family/Kingdom?
Have you made your Confession of Faith in Yeshua/Jesus?
Come join us for thirteen weeks of exploring the Early Journey of Babes in Christ.
It is also a great reminder for those growing in other stages…
to remember when we were first born again!
I think of Andre Crouch’s song… Take Me Back!
When I look back to when I first believed
I can see that My God has been
so very Faithful to me over all these years!
Will you join me here each day
as we cozy up in these winter months
with our Bible and Journal and HolySpirit?
Let’s GROW together!
PLEASE GET FAMILIAR WITH
THE TREASURES OF TRUTH
IN THE RESOURCES MENU
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LET’S BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING-
Seven Days for everything
and everything in seven days!
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SUNDAY- A new DAY! A new WEEK!
There once was a world of darkness and chaos…
before Time...
there was GOD.
In the Beginning of all the creating…
there was GOD.
He created…
made everything from nothing …
but by His Word.
Without raw materials,
God SPOKE everything into existence.
Everything that was created was perfect…
It was beautiful and serene. It had purpose…
His Purpose.
Read The Trinity in Time (in Additional Resources Menu).
Genesis 1 tells us a story of His purpose
and the beginning of Life...
In the Beginning,
God SPOKE Ten Words of Creation...
(And God said:)...He spoke to the:
1 Light…. And God said, “Light! Be!...
then He designated the division of Day and Night.
One Day... not First, because there was not yet any other day.
2 Firmament… And God said, “Firmament,
Be in the midst of the waters!
Divide the waters from the waters!” Second Day.
3 Waters… And God said, “Waters
under the heavens,
Be gathered together to one place!
Dry land, Appear!” Third Day.
4 Earth… And God said, “Earth,
Bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,
and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth!” Third Day.
5 Lights… And God said, “Lights,
Be in the firmament of the heavens,
to divide the day from the night!
Be for signs and for appointed times
and for days and years!
Lights, Be in the firmament of the heavens
to give light upon the earth!” Fourth Day.
6 Waters…And God said, “Waters,
Teem abundantly with the moving creature that has life,
and fowl to fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven!”
“Be fruitful!
Multiply and fill the waters in the seas,
and fowl, multiply on the earth!” Fifth Day
7 Earth…And God said, “Earth,
Bring forth the living creature after its kind,
cattle and creeping thing
and beast of the earth after its kind!” Sixth Day
8 Then God spoke to Himself…
Then God said, “We will make mankind in our image,
after our likeness
and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
over the fowl of the air, over the cattle,
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” Sixth Day
9 Mankind And God blessed them and
God said to them,
“Be fruitful! Multiply! Fill the earth!
Subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air
and over every living thing that moves upon the earth!”
10 Mankind… And God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed
which is upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;
it will be food for you.
And to every beast of the earth, to every fowl of the air,
and to everything that creeps upon the earth, in which there is life,
I have given every green herb for food.” Sixth Day.
(From the One New Man Bible– how do other versions render this passage?)
~Take some time now to Stop and Be Still with Holy Spirit…
think about all of God's Creation and Him as the Creator…
Tov is the Hebrew word for 'GOOD'...
See how many times God said His work was Tov?
Journal your thoughts...
what Tov things are you thankful for ThisDay?
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MONDAY- A new DAY!
We will begin exploring the Patterns/Prompts
of the TEN THEMES
which include:
GOD
WORD
MANKIND
SALVATION
HOLY SPIRIT
CHRIST
CROSS
PRAYER
CHURCH/COMMUNITY
PROMISE
and we will also add
~SELAH to the end of each day.
What is ~SELAH ?
Most references say it was a musical term used in the Psalms
and a couple other places in Scripture meaning to pause.
In this study, I use ~SELAH to mean:
STOP! And Thank about it…
as we ponder the greatness and faithfulness of God
we are easily able to find much to Thank about.
-Be STILL (cease all activity)
and KNOW (you will see) that I AM God.
Do you practice stillness and gratitude daily… weekly?
We will learn this practice as you go
through the days and weeks in this study.
Wherever you see ~SELAH at the end of each day,
it is a great time for you to get your Bible and Journal to
STOP! And Thank about IT.
The IT is whatever is in your heart…
HolySpirit just may inspire you with
some great AhHa! Moments.
He is like that!
~SELAH (Go ahead… this is your time!)
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TUESDAY- A new DAY!
and in ThisDay we can enjoy...
Life… Light… Love… Live… LORD
Babes find Life in Christ as they are born again!
Children enjoy Light in Christ as they grow in the Word!
YoungOnes learn to Love as they are loved by God!
MatureOnes Live in the Spirit!
And in ALL Stages of Growth in Christ
we Behold YHVH... the LORD!
Use your Journal today and write out what you think of these five words.
Look up their definitions.
How is the order significant?
Does changing the order
change the picture in your mind
about their relationship with each other...
and your relationship with God?
Go ahead...
switch up the order and be inspired.
LIFE is our focus in this 13 weeks of Babes.
Journal how these L’s are
in your LIFE today...
or lacking somewhere.
Reflect what your source of Life is today...
are you WITH God?
Have you answered
the Divine Invitation
with your Confession of Faith?
If you have, what changed in your LIFE?
~SELAH
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WEDNESDAY- A new DAY! A new GregorianYEAR!
2025!
Seven Days make up one week
and will remind us of God’s Presence...
Sunday to Saturday (Sabbath)
We will use Isaiah 11:2
in the form of a Menorah (7 branch lampstand)...
one lamp for each day...
to remind us of God's Presence
each day and each week.
In your planners you can write the abbreviation initial, K,C,W,Y,U,M,R,
(see below)
next to the day of the week it corresponds to
and remind yourself of these attributes
of God' Presence each day.
A Menorah Lamp represents the
Divine Light and Presence of God on earth.
YHVH is the four letter name of God...
Our Jewish cousins say "Adonai" or "Hashem" (the Name)
In our English Bible it is translated as the LORD.
We will begin each week of this study with a Main Menorah of 7’s
to center ourselves in the Truth of His Presence each day.
Soon we will not need a reminder! And we will add more to it!
Know Your Menorah Days:
English name of day/Hebrew name-(abbreviation)-Menorah Lamp focus for that day:
First day Sunday/Yom Rishon- (K)-Knowledge of the Spirit of YHVH
Second day Monday/Yom Sheni- (C)-Spirit of Counsel
Third day Tuesday/Yom Shlishi- (W)-Spirit of Wisdom
Fourth day Wednesday/Yom Revi’i- (Y)-Spirit of YHVH
Fifth day Thursday/Yom Hamishi- (U)-Spirit of Understanding
Sixth day Friday/Yom Shishi- (M)-Spirit of Might
Seventh day Saturday/Yom Shabbat- (R)-Reverence (Fear) of the Spirit of YHVH
~Stop and think about this…
How do these attributes of God impact/bless you?
Did you already know that Sunday is the first day of the week
and Saturday is the seventh?
Did you know that we are designed to go from Work to Rest in our week?
~SELAH (Journal time)
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THURSDAY- A new DAY!
Going forward, all the weekly Scripture Readings
will be listed at the beginning of each week on Sunday.
The Proverbs of the Day will match up with the Sunday date
and you will just read one chapter on Sunday.
You can also read a chapter of Proverbs
each day of the month if you wish
…31 chapters and 31 days!
Easy for beginners! Glean some Wisdom for your life.
Monday through Friday
is for reading through the other books of the Bible
with the entire weekly portion listed
for you to go at your own pace…
about 5 or 6 chapters each day.
We begin the year in Genesis
and end the year in The Revelation.
When you read, ask HolySpirit
to illuminate AllTruth for you
so it is not just words on a page...
but that it becomes the Living Word of God!
**This M-F portion of Scripture reading pace
may not be for beginners…
but you can adjust it if this pace is too intense.
Saturday/Sabbath is for reading the Psalms.
The Psalms are broken up into Five Books.
We will read one book (1-4) with each season/stage
and on Selah weeks each season
we will read Book Five passages. Easy for beginners.
~SELAH
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FRIDAY- A new DAY!
Life- Nature of God
Do you KNOW God?
Did you know that He knows you...
even better than you know yourself!
Did you know that He loves you
and desires for you to be an active part of His Family of Children?
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son,
so that every one who believes in Him would not die
but would have eternal life.
For God did not send His Son
into the world so that He would condemn the world,
but so that the world would be saved through Him.
The one who believes in Him is not condemned:
but the one who does not believe has already been condemned,
because he has not believed
in the name of the only Son of God. John 3:16-18 OneNewManBible
“Most definitely I say to you,
unless someone would have been born from above,
he is not able to see the Kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus said to Him, “How is a man able to be born when he is in old age?
Is he able to enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time?”
Y’shua (Jesus) answered, “Most certainly I say to you,
unless someone would have been born out of water and Spirit,
he is not able to enter the Kingdom of God.
What has been born of the flesh is flesh,
and what has been born of the Spirit is spirit. John 3:3-6 ONMB
If you confess with your mouth that Yeshua/Jesus is Lord
and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead,
you will be saved.
For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God,
and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. Rom 10:9-10 NLT
Have you been born of God's Spirit?
Do you believe in your heart that Yeshua/Jesus is God's Son?
Have you confessed with your mouth?
Learn to know your Father in Heaven - God.
Ponder His majestic work in The Creation of the heavens and the earth...
Babes in Christ are born to New Life in the Nature of God.
~SELAH
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SATURDAY - A new DAY!
On the Seventh Day, Yom Shabbat,
God ended His work and He ceased from all His work which He had made.
And God BLESSED the seventh day and sanctified it…
The Sabbath Day Rest was established in the beginning of time at the end of God’s creating…
the seventh day of the week.
The evening and the morning were one creation day,
so Jewish cousins begin the Sabbath after sundown on Friday night (the beginning of the seventh day)
and Sabbath continues until Saturday evening at sundown
which ends the seventh day and begins the first of a brand new week.)
Do you personally recognize the seventh/Sabbath Day as a day of Rest from Work?
I realize this may be a tough topic for Christians (Non-Jews).
Our culture has come to recognize Sunday as the Christian day of worship…
not the same as the Sabbath...
someone in history changed Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday…
and who made this change?
You can look it up …
Spoiler Alert: It wasn’t God who made the change!
**You may not currently set Saturday aside as a holy day,
but Scripture only names the seventh day
as the day that God created as the holy Sabbath day of rest.
He is the One who sanctified it as a rest for Mankind.
Is there a greater authority?
We will look into this further as we go.
For now, just realize that Sunday was not sanctified as the Sabbath by God...
but it certainly is a great day to gather with other believers and worship our King.
We can certainly take any of the other six days
as a “day of rest” or a “day of worship”
but we can only rightfully call the seventh day, Saturday,
The Sabbath.
**Also, Non-Jewish Gentile believers in Christ (Christians)
are not required or encouraged to convert and become Jewish.
God created and needs both the Jew and the Gentile to fulfill His Purposes…
we each have a place in the Kingdom of God …so you…
Be You In Him!
~SELAH
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