Anne Elliott 2 2026 Torah Sisters Retreat “Because Yeshua Came Near”

This was the fourth session of the 2026 Torah Sisters Retreat.

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Shalom. Uh, you're gonna need some stuff today. I do not have any slides. I know. Breaking out of my mold. So, do you have your thing? Or something. Something to write notes on. I will help you. Okay. I'm a teacher. I will help you. So you need something. You're gonna need a Bible because we're gonna be moving. So all right. I'm trying to think here who I could pick on. I was gonna pick on my daughter, but I don't see her. Oh, yeah, there she is. Casey Molino, come up here. She likes it when we say her name. All right. She just got married. All right, so I need her help here for a second. Hold that. Yeah, she's holding this, and she's holding right there. I want you to picture this as the moment of creation. Okay? Took seven, six days. Six days, and he did all of these amazing things. And he knew you, your name, everything about you at before that moment. And everything, I mean seriously, all the DNA to make you happen was in Adam and Eve. You were there. He knew you. This side, you guys be ready to put your hands together. This side is when Yeshua reigns forever and ever as king. Hallelujah. Okay. Now she's tying a knot. And in that, I know she can tie knots better than I can. She makes zit z. So yeah. Now let's hold it again. That knot is where we are right now. Okay, here we are. That's us. We're at Tor Sisters. Do you think that knot is significant? That's what we're gonna learn today. You can go sit down. So, yes, it's significant. I'm gonna have to tell you something. I'm not very crafty. All of you that know me know that about me. So I'm gonna teach you stuff today I don't actually know anything about. Maybe someone here will know something about it. So I'm actually gonna read a little bit about it. I'm gonna read to you about tapestry, okay? Unlike embroidery, tapestry is created on a loom. Now I got to see a loom at Greenfield Village, which is in Detroit area, and um it's just so incredible. But tapestry, some of the most famous tapestries in the world are like 70 feet long and just massive, massive things. An artist first, though, in order to make a tapestry, and a tapestry, what I like about it, my husband loves history. He talks about history. He wakes up in the morning talking about history, he goes to bed, he talks about it in his sleep. I'm serious. He actually listens to history podcasts if he can't sleep. So on a tapestry, oftentimes they'll tell a story. And it's a gorgeous story, or sometimes it's a war story. Sometimes there are like pagan myths. We won't look at those. But the history ones, um, they'll have battle scenes. They'll tell about kings and queens, they'll tell about blood that was shed to make nations and, you know, just all of these heroes and heroines. So a tapestry tells a story. But before the tapestry is made, an artist first has to paint a full-scale design. Now, I can't, I can paint a little bit like color in the numbers kind of thing, but this is the 70-foot painting of what the tapestry will be. The artist pictures it in their mind. I don't even know how that happens. And then the giant drawing is placed behind the loom as a guide. And then the warp threads, these are the vertical threads. You can think of them like timelines, okay? Um, when they're telling a history story, they are actual timelines, these vertical warp threads, and and that's gonna hold the story. And then weavers have to pass these weft threads horizontally through the warp to build the image line by line. And the remarkable thing is that they work from the back side. They actually can't see what they're making as they make it. And you know, if you stand really close to it, you'll see individual threads with subtle um texture changes where the threads change colors, or they have to put different colors into it. And and sometimes those colors are harmful for the threads, you know that, right? In order to make certain colors, you have to put acid or other things on to make it get that. And these these weavers have to make these decisions as they go. And I don't know about you, but if you were looking at the back side, it wouldn't look like much. These little knots and little threads, they're insignificant, right? Except that they're making this amazing, beautiful story. I mean, honestly, if you ever get to see a tapestry, please tag me with your picture on Facebook because I want to see it. So get your Bible because I want to tell you about the tapestry that Yah made when He made you. We're gonna start. Oh guys, you're gonna be shocked at this one. We're gonna start in Hosea 3. We're not gonna stay there long though. Hosea 3, I'm gonna read a verse that I read last night just to get us started. Hosea 3, verse 4. You don't have to necessarily write this down yet. I'll tell you, I'll help you take notes. You can write all the verses down though, because you might want to visit them again later. So I'll read if maybe you're the kind of person that just wants to get the things down. When I take notes, and I love to take notes, I take notes all the time. And um you can get pretty fast at it. So if you're like writing Hosea, just put H-O-S, or if you're not even sure how to spell Hosea, just put an H-O, because oh, you got that part. You'll figure it out later. And then, you know, put the numbers down, but if you can't remember them, just get the Hosea 3 and you'll find it again. And if not, it'll force you to have to read the whole chapter again. That's not bad. So Hosea 3, verse 4. For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or cheraphim. And afterward, the children of Israel shall return and seek Yehovah their Elohim and David their king, and they shall fear Yehovah and his goodness in the latter days. Guys, we are so close to the end. And I'm not saying that because I want it to happen and I'm somehow having wishful thinking. No, the Bible tells us that all of this has already happened. And the prophets tell of a time when people who have been scattered all over the world because of their sin will return to the Torah and they will repent. Okay, you don't believe me. They're just kind of looking at me. Go to Deuteronomy 30. Deuteronomy 30. I'll prove it to you. I want you to know where we are on that string. Deuteronomy 30. I love this chapter. Deuteronomy 30. I won't bore you with the whole thing. No, it's not boring. This chapter is amazing. But we'll just read Deuteronomy 30, verses 1 through 4. Let's see. You tell me where we are in history. Okay? He is talking to the children of Israel before they go to Jericho. So that's where this is being written down. Okay. Moses is looking forward to a time and he's he's already giving them blessings and curses, and he says, I know you guys are going to mess it up, and all these horrible curses are going to come on you, and you will be kicked out of the land and scattered. That's in Deuteronomy 28, if you want to check me. And then he says, Now it shall come to pass when all these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations, where Yehovah your Elohim drives you, and you return, anyone done that? And you return to Yehovah your Elohim and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that Yehovah your Elohim will bring you back from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations where Yehovah, your God, has scattered you. Where are you guys from? If your ancestors came from anywhere, let's say India, China, the Far East, and you might have to stand several times for this. Anyone have an ancestor? India, China, the Far East, stand up for me. Okay. Yay! Yay, good, we got some. Okay, anyone have any ancestors from the Middle East? And I know that's a big area, the stands all the way through to Israel, um, Turkey, anywhere in the Middle East. Um, yay, amen. All right, how about how about um let's go up to Russia? Let's go up to the cold countries, let's get Russia and Scandinavia. Anywhere that's freezing cold. I'm standing, I'm standing Sweden over here. Okay. All right, let's go down a little bit warmer, warmer, beautiful Europe. Let's go mainland Europe, anywhere from uh, let's say Greece all the way over to Spain. Anyone, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, how about the British Isles? Do we have anybody? I mean, I've gonna have to stand like four different times. I think we have ancestors from all four of them. Okay, let's go down. Anywhere on in Africa is huge and amazing and gorgeously beautiful. Who has any ancestors from there? All right, and then am I missing? Oh, yeah, we'll go around this way. Okay. Any ancestors from Canada? Any ancestors from well, ancestors from the United States, we're gonna skip that one. How about down in Mexico? How about down in South America? How about the Caribbean and all those gorgeous, gorgeous islands? If I don't go to Israel, that's where I'm going. And how about um, how about let's go over to Australia, um, let's go to New Zealand, how about Greenland? You know, okay, let's go back. Deuteronomy, we're down to verse four. Almost three. He'll gather you again from all those places. And he's fulfilling his word right here and right now. And in verse four, if any of you are driven out to the farthest part under heaven, I don't know how how well you know your geography, but you're in Michigan. It's pretty close to the farthest part from where this was written. And here we are. And from there, Yehovah your Elohim will gather you, and from there he will bring you. So where are we on that string? I just read it. I don't know. He he can't be too much longer, because this is coming true, and in our time and in our days. Hallelujah, what a privilege. So I want to turn um, it's said back in Hosea. I forgot to point it out. Um, if you want to peek at it, but I'll just read it quick. He said, The children of Israel shall abide many days, and we said last night that that's you know, a day with Jehovah is a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day, so many days, and then he will bring us back. And it has been, depending on which tribe got kicked out, several thousand years since that happened. So I'm gonna take you to a really strange place. I want you to go to Leviticus chapter 15, verse 25. All the men that are sneaking in, you can just forget and not listen for a couple minutes. All right, Leviticus 15, verse 25. You're gonna go, what in the world are you doing, Ann? Um, I do teach childbirth classes, been teaching them for almost 30 years. And so I want to I want to show you something that's really beautiful because the Torah points to Yeshua, okay? Even the weird things. So Leviticus 15, 25 says, if a woman has a discharge of blood for many uh days, she's unclean for many days. You guys get where I'm drifting, other than at the time of her customary impurity, or if it runs beyond those days extend, and the time is she's unclean for so long. All the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity, and she shall be unclean. And this poor woman that's unclean, every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge shall be to her as a bed of her impurity. She cannot go into the presence of Yah, she can't really go into the presence of anybody. Every okay, I read that. Verse 27 Whoever touches those things shall be unclean. Wow. Ever felt untouchable? They have to wash their clothes because they were around you. And they have to bathe in water and be unclean until evening. But ladies, if she's cleansed of her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days. Shabbat. Un Shabbat, she'll be clean. I don't know if it's I mean, I'm just imagining if it was seven days. Let's say she was unclean and became clean, forgiven, repent, all the sins are washed away, and it's a Sunday morning in Shabbat. She's like, Oh Shabbat, I'm a new person. I'm no longer untouchable. I can now go to the presence of Yeah. That's how I felt when I first celebrated Shabbat. Went into a first congregation where other people were celebrating Shabbat with us. Nothing like it, right? Probably you haven't. For many of us, it's happening today as we all worship, right? And on the eighth day, she'll should she shall take for herself two turtle doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the intercessor, the priest Yeshua. She brings those little tiny gifts, all she has. Her talents and abilities, they're nothing. They're cheap, they're less than a chicken at Aldi. And he's he says, I'll intercede for you. And the priest shall offer as a sin, one as a sin offering, and the other as a burnt offering, and he'll make atonement for her before Jehovah for the discharge of her uncleanness. There's just so much beauty there that he has prophesied that it is time. So I'm gonna I'm gonna get closer to where we're gonna camp out for a minute. Let's go to Romans chapter 13. Romans 13. We're gonna read 11 through 14. So if you write in real fast, R O M Romans uh Romans 13, 11. And do this, knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep. For now our salvation, our Yeshua is nearer than when we first believed. He's coming. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness, let us put on the armor of light, let us walk properly. As in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy, but put on. Okay, I'm gonna stop here for a second. I'm not a Greek scholar. I don't know Greek. My husband knows Greek, although he forgets it as he gets older. He doesn't, he's using more Hebrew these days than Greek. But the next word in that verse, put on the Lord. If you just saw the Lord, if we were singing it, shout out what name you would put there. What name would you put there? We have maybe a variety of names. What would you say for the Lord? Say it louder. All right. I heard a master. I heard, did I hear an Adenai? Yeah. Did I hear Yahweh? Did I hear Yehovah? I've been a couple. Did I hear Yehuah? Alright. Did I miss anyone? Alright, so that's what it says. But then the next word is Yeshua. And the next word is our Messiah, the anointed king. Put on him. And make no provision for your flesh to fulfill its lusts. So when I read these verses, it's saying to me, I am no longer Anne from Sweden or the British Isles or America or Michigan or I'm not Anne from Torah Sisters, I'm not Anne. I need to not identify as me anymore. I need to put on him. So if you are cold, you've been walking down to the dining hall and you're freezing cold, you put on your sweater. And my daughter Candace has a great big green cape with a hood. And if it's dark outside at our house, I have no idea she's out there. It's just too dark. She has put it on and she now identifies as whatever. And we need to put on, very practical here. I'm still me, but I need to put on him so that when someone looks at me, they don't see me anymore. I am no longer that Gentile. I need to put on him. Okay. How? That's what I want to know. How does that look? Like, how is that gonna look Thursday morning when we leave, you know, Torah sisters? So now we're gonna camp out for a little bit in Ephesians, one of my favorite books, Ephesians chapter one. We're gonna actually go a little bit through Ephesians. I need to slide this over. And we're gonna do five points. So point number one, you can write in your notes if you like this. We put on Yeshua, and we are able to, because he gave us his spirit. He did not leave us alone. So we can do that. It's it's we're capable. We have the ability because we put on him. So Ephesians 1, verse 3 says, Blessed be Elohim, the father of our master, Yeshua the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places and Messiah. Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, before that string started. Why? So that we would be holy and without blame before him in love. What does it mean to be holy? Holy is a big word. I used to throw it around in the Baptist church, but holy meant nothing to me until I read Torah, Leviticus 19. Holy means to rise up before the aged one. Holy means don't trip a blind person. Holy means don't mix the fabrics, you know, and get wool and linen together. Holy means weird things they don't talk about in Christianity, right? Holy is practical. Holy is set apart. Holy means that you are walking in a way that you can be in his presence because he's like, that's my identity. That's how I would treat the blind person. That's how I would treat the aged person. So I want you to do that too, because we're gonna walk together and we're gonna have a fellowship like Adam and Eve did. We can have that because we're gonna be holy. So it says he chose us for that reason. Okay? Now, the second part of I gotta look at my notes. Okay, how do we do that? Let's skip down to verse 13, Ephesians 1:13. It says, In him you also trusted after you heard the word of truth, the good news of your Yeshua, in him also, in whom also having believed, you are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. He is the guarantee of our inheritance until we get to the end of the string that's summarizing the rest of the verse. He's that guarantee. Okay? He gives us his spirit as a helper, because without that, we would be just living like a gentile still. I have to I can't I can't get rid of that Gentile identity. Like when you move to a new country, you still speak your old language from the old land. And everybody knows you're a foreigner until you you finally get the accent right, and they maybe after a while recognize you as being from that country. So the Holy Spirit is given to us because he knows we can't speak his language. We read the Torah and we try really hard. Someday He'll write it on our hearts and we won't need anyone to teach us. But at the moment, He has promised to give us a helper who will help us so that we can put on Yeshua so someone look at us and see a new identity. So it says in John 14, uh, just write it down. John 14. No, you know what? I'm gonna do it. I wrote it down. John 14, verses 15 through 18. I'll try to read quickly. If you love me, keep my commandments, and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper, that he may abide with you forever. The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot have, he can't receive him because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, and he dwells with you, and he will be in you. I will not leave you orphans, I will come to you. Do you guys realize what a treasure that is? And they've been saying it all day, like they stole everything from my notes. He wants to speak to you. And I'm not talking in a weird woo-woo way. He wants to speak truth, and you'll identify his voice because it will match everything he's ever said before. It's not gonna be some new thing, but he's gonna bring it to your mind at the moment that you need it, and the words are gonna come out because. Because he's going to be the one speaking through you. Okay? Ephesians 3 again, verse 16, says that we will be strengthened. Um, sorry, I lost it. He will be, we he will, he will grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit in your inner man. So those moments that you have to do the really hard things, the really hard conversations, the times you're afraid to speak out, and then they get this weird feeling of strength. And you get later you look back on it, you're like, how in the world did I ever have the ability to do that? Because I know I couldn't have done that. That was him. He was he was helping you, he was filling you, he was equipping you, and that's what he promised. So, see the difference between us and the children of Israel is that we have the ability because of Yeshua to come near to him, maybe not then the way it will be when we get into the kingdom, but because of his spirit, we can be near to him today. I hear a lot of people say, I say it, we've said it this week, just last night, I think we said it. Some things in the Torah are hard to understand and hard to figure out how to do them. And so we tend to be we tend to be irresponsible sometimes and say, Oh, I'll just wait until Yeshua gets here. But unfortunately, he just said, I will not leave you orphans. I'm with you. I will send you a helper. Okay, we're gonna come back to that. Number two, because he came near, he gives us the ability to have a new identity because he also gives us his shalom. I didn't want to say peace, but that's what it's gonna say in your Bibles. It's gonna say peace, but we know it's shalom, which is a completeness, a healing that in every way. He fixes all of the things and fills us with this peace that is unexplainable to everyone that watches. So Ephesians 4, I'm gonna read verses 1 through 16. It says, I therefore, the pr this is Paul talking, I therefore, the prisoner of the master, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with long suffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit. Remember that spirit in the bond of peace. Shalom. He wants to fill not just our hearts, but our community of hearts with shalom. Now, this is a work in progress, as we all know. He's gonna tell us some keys on how to do this. It says there is one body. We're no longer Gentiles in all the nations. There's no such thing as races with him, there's no such thing as differences with him. There's one body, one spirit. Just as you were called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in you all, then why don't we all get along? But to each of us, grace was given according to the measure of the Messiah's gift. And that's why he said, in other words, what he's saying here is I had this all figured out a long time ago. I had a plan and I was I was working it. And do you guys know okay, what day of the Omar count is it right now for you? Yeah, okay. Are we close to 40? Okay. What happened on day 40? He ascended to heaven. Look at verse the end of verse 8 when he ascended, which he did like right now. He led captivity captive. In other words, he grabbed us out of the prison and he ran. And he's like, I'm getting you out of there. You're mine now, and he gave gifts to us. Now, this, okay, I'm gonna skip down to verse 11 so it's not all complicated. And this is how he did it to help us. He gave some to be apostles. There are people in here that have a ministry to go out and share the gospel with people that have never heard. They are sent out. That's what an apostle is. He gave some prophets. There, I do believe women have a little bit more gift of prophecy. Maybe the men get to write the books, but it says that women will prophesy at this time, does it not? And to prophesy, just being quite simple, it means to proclaim. It also can mean to carry a song. I heard you guys sing and it sounds amazing in here. If you can sing, you are a prophet. If you proclaim his truth to those, maybe sometimes you're just proclaiming it like this, and others see it. Sometimes you're just like, I feel like I'm supposed to talk to that person. Man, I feel like I'm supposed to talk to her, and you just beeline it to her. You're proclaiming, okay? He gave some to be evangelists. Evangel means to someone who carries the good news. They're good at telling their spiel. Okay? They're always telling a story about what Yah has done for them. They're like on Shabbat, they're the first one going, I have a praise, I have a praise, and they're giving their spiel. They're an evangelist at that moment. There are pastors, they're like shepherds over sheep. You know, the women that are like, oh, come on, honey, let me give you a hug. Oh, you need a cookie. All right. They're the they're the shepherdesses, and they're constantly taking care of everyone. Someone, some of you are extremely gifted at that. Some are teachers, some of them are born talking and they keep talking. And that is because in verse 12, it's for the equipping of those who have been set apart. That's you guys. For the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Messiah. Why? Until we all come to the unity of the main of a perfect, I lost my place. The unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God. We are not there yet. We are not there yet. So we still need people to go out, people to bear their burdens and sing their songs and and tell their spiels and give their hugs and give the lessons. And we need that until we're all unified. Of course, we know that won't be until Yeshua comes. And so until that time, you need those people in your life. And in fact, it says in verse 14 that we be no longer, oh no, I missed an important phrase. Till we come to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Messiah, until you have put him on so well that you need no more teaching. Don't get proud because that's not gonna happen. Okay? So you need them, but that's what he's working on in your life. He wants to make you like his precious son Yeshua. Verse 14 that we should no longer be children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. Man, we have a lot of that going on. And I think it's honestly my opinion. I'm just gonna talk to you heart to heart. I think it's because we're not plugged into each other. And until you have people in your life who are further along and are willing to shepherd you, you are in great danger. All right. Listen to the mama here. You need people, you need godly people, not people. Facebook is not a place because you cannot see their lives. You can't see how their children behave, you can't see how their marriage acts, you know, in the middle of the week when they're not posting all their cute recipes. You need real, live people, and until you have them in your life, you are in danger. So it goes on in verse 15. We are to speak the truth to each other in love, and we have to grow up together into him who is the head, our Messiah, from whom the whole body joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part these and these, I already forgot what they're called in the tapestry, doing their part causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. Okay, so I'm looking here to see. I think I said all my points. No, there was one more point I wanted to say. Let's go back up to verse three. We're keeping the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. So, how do we have unity? We talked about yesterday when you come into a covenant with others and you come into a covenant meal and you sit down at that meal together, you know, you're having some good barbecue on a Friday night, you've barbecued it up now, and it's Shabbat, and you're sitting around and you're talking, you're like, oh, it's been a great week, and you're having fellowship with others. And again, you had that barbecue, an animal had to die, so that you can have that covenant meal. So make sure that the people you have your meals with are covenanted with you. Don't be don't be fellowshipping with people that are a bad influence. Have the covenant meal, especially on the times of Shabbat, especially on the times when you're learning about Yah together and you're walking your faith. I'm not saying never. I have neighbors in my neighborhood. We have we we eat together, I take them gifts, my husband talks football with them, but it's very different when you're getting that meal together. You know what I'm talking about. Those meals that are special, those people that are important in your life. An animal died to have that meal. You should look at your meal times and who you eat dinner with as important. Okay? In a way, you're covenanting with them. So choose your friends carefully. And that's why he says if we do these things, if we walk in these ways, with the Spirit talking to all of us in the room, we're all covenanted together, we're all listening to his voice together, the bond of peace grows and grows. This is the fruit of it. You can't help but have that, can you? If you're careful who you choose as your best friends. Okay. Number three, let me go back and review. Because he came near, how can we, how can we be built into this beautiful tapestry? First, he gave us his spirit, he'll help us. Second, he gives us his shalom. Of course, we have to do it his way to get that. If you don't have his shalom, check that you're doing it his way. Third, he gives us his mind. Let's go on in Ephesians 4, let's go to verse 17. This I say therefore, and testify in the Master that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk in the futility. Futility means it produces no valuable effect. Everything it does comes to nothing. Do you know anybody in Michigan or in Ohio or Tennessee or wherever you're from that does things that are pointless in their life? Maybe they're smoking weed all the time and they just never get around to doing anything. I have neighbors in our in our neighborhood that moved into a house that was gorgeous. I mean, when they moved in, the gardens were beautiful, the flowers were beautiful. They had the best house as far as their gardens in the whole property. They moved in close to October, and the first thing they did was throw up Halloween decorations. I'm like, yay, that'll be great. That's what I can see now. And they smoke weed, and I love them. Sometimes they're not easy to love, but they just don't accomplish much because their minds are filled with emptiness. They just, it's futility. It's not producing anything. I'm not trying to speak badly of them because many of us were in that place before. We were in that place where we were thinking futility, but he says, don't walk like them anymore, having their understanding darkened. They are alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance they don't know that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart, who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. You guys know people like this don't walk like that anymore. You may have been like that before. No more. It's over. Not gonna do that anymore. You have not so learned Yeshua. He didn't walk like that. Everything about his life was purposeful and for others. You couldn't have a life less unfutile. I don't know what is that word. Anyway, if you indeed have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Yeshua. Okay, that's an important verse. Have you learned Yeshua? When I was a kid, I love grammar. I have a grammar book back there. I love grammar. My third grade teacher would try to get us to speak with proper grammar. Well, it's Michigan, so you know it's a work in progress on that one. But she'd try it. But we would say, when she wasn't around, we'd say, yeah, she tried, she learned us. She learned us. Does anyone else talk like that? Yeah. Is it a Michigan thing? I don't know, but she learned us. Have you learned Yeshua? Have you learned him? Okay. It says, you have heard him and have been taught by him. Does that just happen? Does he just wake up one morning and wow, you're amazing. You know all this stuff. Does it happen like that? I don't think so. You gotta put the time in. You gotta sit at his feet and you gotta study. How many of you guys have been to college? Is it fun? It's a lot of work. I have two daughters in college right now. One graduated last year. I feel like they use all their cortisol studying for exams. It's like cramming and working in so hard, and they have to they study and study and study, and they have I have one daughter, her papers are like 30 pages, double space, but still ridiculous. It's so much work, but she's learning. And if she were attending a birth, I'd be very glad she had studied. Have you learned Yeshua? It's not just gonna happen. It's not like you lay your Bible under the pillow and osmosis comes through and you know him. You have to study, okay? You have to get your notebooks and your pens and you have to write and you have to do it not just once. It doesn't happen just once. This is college. You have to go to college, and he is the Holy Spirit is your professor. He is willing to meet you, but you have to attend class. And if you don't attend, you won't know Yeshua. And it's not just the Torah portions. I know I'm saying the same thing that others have said, but you also need to know the New Testament, and you also need to know the prophets. It's the best in the whole Bible. Honestly, it's so encouraging. You gotta know it all. How do you do that? It depends on how much time do you have to go to college. Some of us need to move things out of our life so that we have more time. That's just all there is to it. You can't go to college, work full time, and party with all your friends at the same time. It's not possible. So you have to choose your priorities. Now, some of us are mothers, some of us are grandmothers, some of us have jobs. But that's not all the time you have, and you know it as well as I do. Sometimes you could cut your sleep by a few minutes. I'm not saying a lot. I believe in sleep. Maybe you could watch one less TV show. There's a lot of things you can do to learn Yeshua, but it is not gonna happen unless you put the work in. You have to go to school. Okay. It says here in verse 22, you have to put off. Remember, he said, put on Yeshua, you have to put off the yucky garments that you used to wear. You have to put those off concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Spirit, that word is breath. Your mind has to breathe. Every time you take a breath, you're having a choice. How am I going to be today? Breathe in. Am I going to be righteous and holy and like Yeshua? Or am I just going to wait till the next breath? Because I don't feel like that right now. I'm tired today. I have a headache. Okay? You have to choose. In the spirit, in the breathing of your mind, you have to choose to put on the new man which was created according to Elohim in true righteousness and holiness. Okay? He says, I'm gonna I'm gonna go on and we're gonna read some of the things that he wants our mind to look like. I want you to use this. When you go to college, my daughter, okay, I'm gonna pick on Candace again. She's going to school to be a midwife. There's a handbook on the website. The handbook has a catalog of all the studies that need to be done. Okay, what needs to be learned. She's gonna have a lot of different things. Some of them are more interesting to her than others, but it doesn't matter. The state requires these things to get your degree. Okay? We're gonna read the next chapter. And if you have a pen, I want and if if you don't mind writing in your Bible, I'm all for it, I want you to mark any of the curriculum that you might need to work on. Nobody's gonna see it but you. And you're gonna come back to it later, right? There's gonna be something for everybody in here. And we're gonna start in verse 25 after I get a drink. Ephesians 4.25. I apologize, Ephesians 4.25. Yes, so this is your college course. Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. So this is lying 101. Don't have it. This is how not to lie. You're gonna have to work. It's not gonna just be read that verse, you're gonna have to read a lot of verses about how not to lie and get that worked into you, okay? Next course, be angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the adversary. Next one, let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him work hard. Stop being lazy. Working with his hands, what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. In that course, they make you actually go out and do homework. You have to like give people stuff. And you have to work really hard. Like you have to go to work in a full-time job, and you may not get paid very well, and then you actually have to give away all that well-earned money to people in need. That's a hard course, I'm just telling you. Okay, here's another course. Let no corrupt words proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for necessary edification or building up other people, that it may impart grace to the hearers. Okay, here's another course. Do not grieve that set-apart spirit of Elohim who lives in you, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Well, that could be a lot of categories. In that course, that's called learning to listen to his voice. And so you have to be really quiet. If you're talkative like me, that's a hard course to be in because you want to talk to him all the time and tell him all your problems. And he says, I want you to listen because you're doing things wrong in your life, and I'm willing, and you're grieving me. Remember, he restored us to his presence. Remember how much he loved us, he chased after us, and yet we're grieving him. This is the course where you get taught how not to do that. And how would you do that? Like, where would you go in your Bible? There's a lot of really good places, but I feel like the prophets again have a lot of things where Yah says, Man, my people did this and it broke my heart. So I would probably read like Jeremiah or Lamentations or Isaiah and find out what grieves him and make sure you're not doing it. Okay. Let's see, where am I? Verse 31 let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor. I didn't look it up, but clamor, I'm just hearing like a really loud. I'm always upset. Drama, drama, drama, and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice, all this, all this hatred, and where you wish you'd just kill people. They're so angry at the things that are going on in the world, it just burns you up inside. And this class will help you. Okay? Because in this class it continues, you're gonna learn how to be kind to one another, tenderhearted for those that are hurting, forgiving one another even when they don't deserve it. Why do I say that? Because even as Elohim and Messiah forgave us. In this class, they make you look in a mirror every day and go, yeah, that person needed him. So now you have to go out and treat them like he treated the person in the mirror. Okay. Um that's certainly not everything to put on Yeshua, but that's a whole lot of it. So, point number four, if you're taking notes, point number four, the next thing that he does is he gave me Yeshua's example. And for this, as they've been saying, I'm just gonna say the same thing again. Get in the gospels and read them again and again till you know this Messiah. It's not just a human being that walked the earth and was amazing and made history. He was the creator of the universe who inserted himself into a human flesh that would get tired and hungry. And, you know, like I was thinking about how much sleep we have not necessarily. Been getting this week, partly because maybe that we're not in our own bed, partly because we talk too much, partly because we're 50 something and we have hormones that wake us up. And so, Yeshua, how many all-nighters did he pull to help people? Or he would just go and get some quiet time and someone would say, Can you help me? And then he'd go, Really? Really? I was just about to go to bed. He didn't. He said, Sure, I'll help you. It was just crazy to me. Like he functioned. Again, I'm not advocating never getting sleep, but there are times where we don't need sleep. We need to help somebody. Every mom knows that. We'll survive. Okay, don't do it permanently. You can't be like Yeshua if you don't know what he did. So you have to read it. Okay, but I do believe that you'll see Yeshua painted across the entire scriptures. So you need to look for him. Like that would be a really cool study to do. Set up a binder. It's called Everything I See About Yeshua, and then start in Genesis 1. And every single thing that you see about Yeshua, write it down until your binder is just overflowing. I don't think, well, it says at the end of one of the gospels that if you wrote everything down about Yeshua, all the books in the world would not be able to hold it. So this is like an ongoing course. You will never ever fill that book because he's that amazing and that big. So you have to know him. Why did he do it? Verse 5 or chapter 5, Ephesians 5, verse 1, tells us why. Therefore, you be imitators of him as dear children and walk in love as Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma. We're just doing what he did. So that book that you're gonna write about, all the things that are about him, the purpose of doing it is so that you can act like that in everyday life. Okay? It's not just to go, wow, Yeshua's amazing. I'm gonna worship him. And that's great. But it's so that, okay, holy you have to be holy. All right? That's just amazing. So let's find some practical ways. Um I was gonna read you some other verses. There are so many passages in the New Testament that tell us to be imitators. I'm just gonna read them off of my paper. It's 1 Corinthians 11:1. Imitate me, Paul said, just as I imitate Messiah. 1 Peter 2, 21 says, For to this you were called, because Messiah suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow his steps. So how do we do this? We have to walk in love. Um, let me go down to verse 3. This is a way to walk in love. Fornication, all uncleanness, we have there are that is defined in the Torah. Uncleanness is defined. It's not a made-up word. You can't make it up according to churchianity. You need to go to the Torah and define uncleanness, but let no fornication or uncleanness or covetousness let it not even be named among you as it is fitting for saints. And you're saying, I would not do that. Well, keep going. Neither filthiness nor foolish talking. Any unclean, you know, poop. Your seventh grader words says, Don't do it. No unclean words are to come out of our mouths. No, neither filthiness nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather, oh, we're good at this one. Giving of thanks, no complaining, no, no letting out a string of blah, blah, blah, blah, of you know, I won't say them, the words, because we're having a bad day, but instead, giving of thanks. That's hard. Um, for this, you know, this these are serious words, guys. Listen to this. You've been brought into his presence. This is serious. No fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man who is an idolater has any inheritance in the kingdom of Messiah and God. I don't write the mail. I'm just delivering it. Okay? Let no one deceive you with empty words, saying, once saved, always saved. But because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience. Therefore, do not be partakers of them. He keeps repeating that. Okay. The next, so yeah, no fellowship with the darkness. Okay. I'll I'll just keep reading. Verse 8. You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Master. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth. Back to school, find out what is acceptable to him, and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. But rather, what does it say, guys? Rather, expose them. What? Expose them? That's not nice. I don't think we're supposed to do that. Isn't that judging? Like, did you really? I mean, did you talk to them before you exposed them? Why would you expose somebody to say thank you? To save their soul. Because some of the things in the Bible are serious. And some people are not departing from wickedness, and their soul is in danger. Unless you do believe that you can click the button on the website and you're once saved, always saved. And I don't think you do. If you do, come talk to me. Um this doesn't sound loving, but separation from God is what happens when we sin. And if your friend is sinning, chase after them. They might not love you anymore, but what if they did listen? You ever think about that when you're scared to talk to them? What if they did listen? You have saved them. Um, in the Elliot house, when I get asked this question a lot, um we've had four of our seven kids get married, another one's dating. Um, the last two are not ready, so don't think about it. So the that we get asked a lot, do you have rules in your house for dating? What are your rules? And my girls are all here, they'll know that this is what we do. You're thinking about that, like, okay, what will be our rules for dating? Like my mom had the rules, you know, like have to be home by 11 kind of thing. And you get in a lot of trouble with those kind of rules, don't you? So um the rules, we we prayed about it for a long time. And I don't really remember the how it all happened, but we noticed in the Torah that it says you're not to make friends with or let your sons and daughters marry the Canaanites. Well, who would be the Canaanites right now? They're the people doing the unfruitful works of darkness, okay? They're they're they're the people of the nations, and we are not to let our sons and daughters marry them. So, okay, but how does that work? Like, how are we gonna do this? So, well, there are some things, and this is just the Elliot family, you can do it differently. But we went through the Torah and well, we actually there's through the whole Bible, and we made a list of all of the things that if I did that thing, he says, You gotta get out of the land. You can't be in here. If you're gonna act that way, out you go. And so, like things, obvious things like murder. If I murder, you know, they're dead. That's one way of getting them out. Um, because that's the capital offense that's in the Torah. Um, other things, homosexuality. So, yeah, we don't want our no, our kids are not getting involved in that. At least we're gonna do our best, right? Um, what are some other things? Picking up a stick on the Sabbath day. A guy lost his life for that. So, would I let my kids date someone who doesn't think the Sabbath is important? Uh-uh. Because I don't want my kids and my grandkids getting kicked out of the kingdom. That's serious stuff. So I would expose it to my daughters and say, oh no, no, no, you cannot do that because I care about you, I care about my grandchildren, I care about my great-grandchildren. So if it's gonna get you kicked out of the kingdom, I will expose it. You know, we we may love those people. I wouldn't necessarily go out on the internet and expose it to my daughters, but we're gonna pull them in and say, I'm sorry, but you cannot talk to him anymore. I know that sounds bad, but there are people you shouldn't talk to. All right, and there's a whole list. So there you have another, there's another course in your catalog. Find out all the things that get you kicked out of the kingdom. You can find them, they're there. Strong's concordance works appropriately. Find them and don't let your daughters and your sons anywhere near those people. And daughters, you should do that homework because you want to be in his presence. He loved you and he chased after you. So why would you go running after those other lovers? Don't do it. Okay. So, let's go on to something happier. Verse 15. I did skip a couple verses, you can read them later. Verse 15, see then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the master is. Don't go out and have a good time and get drunk with wine because you need something to drown your sorrows. I know added, that's the end version. Um, but be filled with the spirit. Okay, when you have a lot of sorrows, and sorrows come in this life, you can't get away from them. Every one of us is touched by them. You could get drunk, it's an option, unless you at least not unless you're not 21. But you could you could do something to drown and numb all those sorrows. But he says, that's not for you. Let's imitate Yeshua. What would Yeshua do? Yeshua wept as they were saying when his best friend died. And then he rose and back to life again. But he did have those emotions. But look and see what it says here. If you're filled with the Spirit, verse 19, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melodies in your heart to the Master, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Master Yeshua the Messiah, submitting to one another in the fear of Elohim. So if you want to be like Yeshua, fill your heart with a song and just play it all the time and be thankful. I wish we could have seen that in person. It doesn't talk that much about it in the gospels. It does, if you go into the Psalms, I mean, if you talk about how he made the stars and the stars are singing, he made stars to sing. He loves music. Like there's a lot of stuff in the scriptures. But when you're down and you want to walk like the master, and you're and you're overwhelmed with all the problems in life, the answer is music and thanks for thanks. You may not have to carry a tune, that doesn't matter, but filling your mind with good, Yah-honoring music that lifts him in praises. It does help a bad day, doesn't it? It really does. I'm gonna keep going. I'm just gonna, I'm not gonna read every part of these, but you could keep going on how to imitate Yeshua. If you kept going, it would be wives to submit to your own husbands. Amy had a fantastic talk about that earlier. It'll be on YouTube if you weren't able to be in here. But one of the ways that we um show Yeshua and walk like him is to submit to those husbands that he gave us. And honestly, you say, when did he do that? He was a man, he didn't have to submit to any husband, but he washed their feet. Yeah, my feet are stinky right now. I've been in these shoes too long. You you that have husbands, washing their feet's not really up there on your list of romantic things to do. But it shows that you care. Sometime when they're sick, you wash their feet, you take you take care of them. Um, and and that if you think of submitting to him as not he gets his way all the time, and I never get what I want. But rather, okay, that's not really what I wanted today, but I could serve him by doing that. That's very Yeshua-like. There's really nothing more Yeshua-like than to set your own things aside, your own God-likeness aside, and put on human flesh in order to die for someone. So to say, wives, submit to your husband, really? Is that so difficult? I mean, it is, it's gonna take practice, and you might maybe you need to go to school for that specific thing, but it's such a Yeshua thing to do. It's not because you're married. If you're not married, practice that with other people. Maybe it's your parents and they give you a rule that you think is totally unreasonable, but you can submit to them and practice, practice loving on others and putting your own things aside. That's there's nothing more Yeshua like that, because he left all of the universe to be here with us. And it talks to husbands. Chapter 6: Children obey your parents and the master, teaching our children to obey. Did Yeshua obey his father? Yeah, he did. He always obeyed him, even to the point of death. Okay? If you have children, don't provoke your children to wrath. You know, don't poke people. It's not like Yeshua went around trying to get all the tax collectors to sin so he could catch them and then send them to hell. When that woman came to him and they accused her of adultery, he did not attack them and try to make it harder on her. He had compassion. And we should have compassion on our children. We should not try to like set them up to fail. And I, you guys see parents that do that. They like, like, almost like they're they're like, oh, got him. See, I knew he had that bad habit, and then they all laugh about it. I just don't think that's funny. We shouldn't do that. We should, we should have compassion on our children. Remembering we were little ones and we were having to learn new things too. Okay, bond servants or employees, people working for a master, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh. Even if they make you put codes into a computer for eight hours a day, day after day after boring, stinking day. You should still do it because they will see the master in you. And you're doing it because you work for him. Okay? You don't get a job. No, none of us have a job. Not a single one of us work for a job. We work for Yeshua, who, and and he gives us the privilege of working in bookkeeping or in some other, you know, as a nurse or whatever. That's just the place he placed you. And the paycheck, that's nothing. You could have no paycheck like Elijah and the ravens would bring you your dinner. Okay, you don't have to have a paycheck. He's promised to supply your needs if you ask him. The paycheck is a tool that you can use financially to use that money in his kingdom to serve him to the best of your ability, whether it's a little amount and you're always needing more and having to ask him a lot, or a lot, and you have the responsibility being wise with things, which is the Bible says that's very difficult. So, whatever, whoever you have to serve on this earth, serve them as if you're serving him, because it's the truth. You are serving him. He placed you because all of those people that you're serving every day, that you're working with at your jobs, they're they've got a string in that tapestry also. Maybe, maybe they're the acid making your colors. I don't know. But you, all of those people, you're affecting them, you're showing Yeshua to them, and you need to make sure that when you go there, you're going there as an emissary of the King of Kings, and you're serving whoever comes across your path. Okay? Let's go. You like the word finally when it's long and it's in the afternoon and you're almost to go home. Finally, my brothers, point number five. Point number five, he will help us because he's gonna give us his boldness. He's gonna make us bold. Verse, chapter six, verse ten. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the master and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of Elohim, that you may be able to stand against the tricks of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of darkness or wickedness in heavenly places. I noticed something as I was studying for this, I thought it was so fascinating. I want you to go back to chapter three, verse ten. Okay, it just said principalities in heavenly places, those kinds of things. Okay, look at three verse ten. Actually, I'm gonna go back to verse eight. Okay, I'm just gonna read eight through ten. To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given that I should preach among the Gentiles the the gospel, the unsearchable riches of the Messiah, to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery. From which, from the beginning, the mystery meaning he let us be on the tapestry. Okay, that's the mystery. So cool. Which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden to God who created all things through Yeshua the Messiah. Why? To the intent that now the manifold witness of God be made known by the set apart ones to the principalities and powers. We are on display. Our lives are on display to the principalities and powers. I've been focusing too much of my life on putting on the whole armor of God because those principalities and powers are scary out there. And he says, No, I made you for this time because you're my show-off piece. I'm gonna show them how amazing I am, God says, through you. Those principalities and powers do not scare him. I'm gonna show you another verse just to prove it. Go back to 2, chapter 2, verse 4 through 6. But God, who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead, this was yesterday, even when we were dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Messiah. For by grace you have been saved. And he raised us up together and made us sit in the heavenly places with Messiah Yeshua. Principality. All right, how many of you have been going, those principalities and powers? No, this is what you do. Those principalities and powers down there, and his foot is on them, as long as you've put him on. Nothing to be afraid of. Nothing to be afraid of. So put that on every day. He has made you to be bold. Okay? Sometimes you have to write something that will expose darkness, and it's scary. Sometimes you have to go to a friend and you know that maybe the demons have been running that person's life for too long and you're afraid of what's gonna happen. He says, No, put on Yeshua. He's not scared of demons. He controls the demons, he controls the wind, the waves, all of it. He says, demons go out of there. And I'm not sure I have that power, but I will put him on and I can ask him to do miracles in the lives of my friends. Okay, so be bold. Um, it says, though, I want to warn you, I'm just gonna read this verse. 2 Timothy 3, verse 12 says, All who desire to live godly in the Messiah Yeshua will suffer persecution. You hear that? There's a class that you have to take called Persecution 404. That's a senior level class. Okay, you have to take that class to graduate. I'm sorry to say. No one wants to take this one. John 15, verses 18 through 20 says, if the world hates you, know that it hated me, Yeshua says, before it hated you. If they persecuted persecuted me, they will also persecute you. It's the facts. So don't let it surprise you. Don't let it wreck your life. What do you do when hard times come? You sing and you worship and you thank him for the hard times, and they will come, but then does that mean you have to be quiet? That's what the principalities down there want you to do. That's what they think is gonna happen, but they don't know the spirit of God lives in you, do they? And you're not gonna be quiet because his spirit's gonna come out and you're gonna be brave, and you're gonna speak out when you have to speak out, and you're gonna expose the works of wickedness, and you're gonna praise and glorify the Creator, and you can put your eyes on him. So we're just gonna read real fast to the end of the chapter. We're gonna start with verse 14. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate truth, who is the way, the truth, and the life, you've put on Yeshua. Put on the breastplate of righteousness. Who is the righteousness of God? Yeshua. Having shod your feet with the preparation of the good news of peace, who is the Prince of Peace? Yeshua. Above all, taking the shield of faith with which can't talk, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. What is faith? Faith is walking out what you've read in your Bible to be true. You had faith the day that you kept Shabbat for the first time. That's faith. You read about it. You didn't just go, oh, that's interesting. I think the Sabbath is on the seventh day. No, you walked it out that you had faith. You you put your step where your knowledge was. That's faith. And when you do that, you Quench, you stomp on all those fiery darts. It's not having some amazing prayer that you pray that gives you faith. Like I do believe we should pray over our children, we should pray over people. But really, what helps or what stomps the fiery darts is obedience. Obedience. That's how you stop him. And he's gonna keep shooting at you. But the more you obey, he's gonna go, yeah, I'm gonna go find another target. Or maybe not, maybe he'll take you out because persecution happens to all of us. But yeah, still gonna get the glory from that, right? So you're still stomping out the fiery darts, even it's if it's with your death. It's okay. So verse 17, take the helmet of Yeshua, salvation, and the sword of the spirit that he put inside you to be your helper, which is the word of God. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. I don't know how you cannot see this here. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful, don't go to sleep to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints and for each other. I want you to I want you to think of somebody in this room that you know that maybe you've had a conversation with the last couple days that is struggling with something. And I want you to pray this prayer inside your heart right now for them. Pray for them that utterance may be given to them. And they may open their mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel. We can't just hold everything we've been learning here. You gotta go home and you gotta tell people how much he loves them. He chased after them, and he he wants to live with them and make his presence with them, and they won't know if you don't tell them. And that takes courage. So pray for each other. Put people in your planner. Try to have someone every day that you pray for, that you're like, you know what, that person's on my heart today. You know how you just start thinking about somebody. That's your signal. Pray for that person. Pray that they will open their mouth boldly, or whatever way that they are trying to live out their faith in Yeshua, that they will do it with boldness and courage. Um, in verse 20, and he says, I am an ambassador in chains. He had this persecution thing down. He's he was a you know graduate with honors in the persecution department. But he says, Pray for me too, that I may speak boldly as I ought to speak. So even Paul had days when it was hard and he was afraid, and he needed people to pray for him. Verse 21 and 22, he's just saying that he's gonna send his brother there to help and let them know what's going on. He's like basically signing them up for his email list so they can always find out what's going on in their lives. Um, if you're not on my email list, you should be by now. Um back there with the cookies. You can get on my email list and get some recipes, and I will tell you what's going on in my life, and I'll let you know how to pray for me. Okay, so my email list is really not about marketing, it's about please pray for me because I'm I'm on a front line. And there's a lot of days I do not have boldness. And when I send out those email lists and I s or those emails and I say please pray for me, I'm not just saying it. I'm begging you to pray for me. And if you have a need, I don't know if you know this about email lists, it's really not complicated, but you just hit the reply button and it goes to a human being. And in my case, it goes to me. And if you need something that you need to prayer for, I will pray for you. If you need help, I'll help you. Okay, so my email list, I'm not just making this up, guys. It's back there. You need to get in contact. Maybe you need some help with something, you need some scripture. I might have to refer you to my husband, but we will help you. Okay. And that's what he's saying there too. He's like, I'm in prison, but I want to keep you abreast of what's going on in my life because I need help. I need prayer. So I do too. And then he says, peace to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Master Yeshua, the Messiah. I want to close with my prayer. Ah, the Father, grace be to all of these Torah sisters that love Yeshua. Please send us your grace, your protection over our lives, your favor because we are special to you. Please, Father, take us through this next year and all the changes and the things that will come into our lives. And I pray, Father, that you would help us be aware of the spirit that you sent us to be our helper. Please help us to listen to his voice and depend on him more and more. Please help us to put in the time to study. And Father, as you know, every morning I come to you as I put on my zitsi and I say, Our Father who are in heaven, please let your name in my life be lifted up. Please let your kingdom come. And if there's some job, Father, that we as women can do to help others be in that kingdom, Father, may that come. But Father, whatever you bring into our life, trials and troubles or happy days, may your will be done as it was in Yeshua who put himself on the cross because of us. Father, I pray that you'd give us the things that we need to grow in you, the daily bread from your word. I pray, Father, that you'd help us to forgive those who've done things against us, as we also have done things against others. Pray that we'd make it right with those people. And do not lead us into a test that's bigger than we can pass, Father. I pray that you'd help us to get straight A's in these classes. Deliver us from the enemy that is always trying to ruin it. Help us to realize who we are in you, our identity, that the principalities and the powers are nothing as you have conquered them through the resurrection. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.