Does anyone else have that problem? I just want peace on my day of rest but sometimes I feel like two or three day sabbaths would work better for me, ya know? One for drawing nearer to Yahuah, one for sleeping and one for spiritual bliss....but preparing to take on another dose of the world. I mean its just fascinating how fast time flies. Can someone please tell me how they celebrate sabbath? I begin Friday at dusk and it lasts til Saturday at dusk. That's when I try not to conduct any buying or selling too, I love Our Father and I just want to be with Him... Happy Sabbath everyone, Love You!
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Jun 1, 2019
I have a sabbath day routine but sometimes I struggle trying to switch gears from physical world to spiritual world, it can be hard for me..
I have a sabbath day routine but sometimes I struggle trying to switch gears from physical world to spiritual world, it can be hard for me..
Shabbat Shalom Christina. I hope you have a blessed day of rest.
In all fairness, it can be difficult sometimes to just "shut off" and spend the sabbath day in a total rest.
However, there are a few to keep in mind that may make this a bit easier for you. Lets take a look at them.
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."
— Exodus 20:8-11
This is the command.... and nothing else... we are commanded to simply REST. We need to be careful not to make the day about anything more than that. As our messiah said "Sabbath was made FOR man, not man for the Sabbath."
You see, Sabbath is a gift to you, it is for you, it is yours! Its not a day to pressure yourself into making it a perfect day for Yah, it is a perfect day already, and its for YOU! he just wants you to rest/relax.
Another thing that I have found extremely helpful, (though Im not telling you to do this) is that my house has recently began keeping Shabbat from sun-up to sun-down. I believe Genesis explains this rather well.
[Gen 1:4-5 KJV] 4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
So Yah had seen that the light was good, yet this is not said about the darkness... then notice what happened... Elohim called the Light DAY. so Day and Light are interchangeable according to Yah. Then we see this...
[Gen 2:2-3 KJV] 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
So if Yah calls the Light= Day... this says that Yah rested on the seventh Light, not the sixth darkness...
so, by keeping Sabbath in this manner, it actually allows us to sleep off the Friday and wake up in a total Sabbath!
But again, this is just something for you to look at and consider.
Good points on the day, i don’t think I’ve seen of those pints yet. There’s some excellent videos on YouTube named when does a day begin according to scripture. For anyone seeking truth I highly encourage you to dig in and let Yah give you correct understanding. A correct view on creation will also reveal on when a day starts. The new day in creation wasn’t declared until it was morning. You had morning the beginning of a new day, then daylight portion where work was done, evening where day faded into night, and the night which is absence of light.
How to observe sabbath can be very frustrating for a new believer or follower of the way because of all the corruption the synagogue of Satan has done.
@jaman Where does scripture say "The new day in creation wasn’t declared until it was morning." I agreed with this however after Re-reading Genesis 1:1-5 several times there was darkness before the light was created in V3. So half way thru the darkness of the 1st day of creation YHWH created the "Light" which he called day and it was good; with this chronological understanding there was darkness/night and then light/day. So there was evening and then morning - One Day & the First. YHWH created the 2 great lights on the 4th day (V16): the Moon and the Sun weren't factors that created and established the "DAY Cycle". So there was evening and then morning - One Day & the Fourth. The "Evening 2 Morning Day" doesn't seem correct with R Human biological clocks however I must remember that YHWH is outside of R Human time understanding he created 4 US. Shalom
@Blue where does scripture say halfway through the darkness of the first day light was introduced? that's reading into the text nowhere are we given a length of time the darkness was there, all scripture says was it came to be void and empty and darkness was on the face of the deep. the cycle is light, evening, night, morning. it wasn't until morning came that there was a new day. if you only have evening-morning, evening-morning, evening-morning you only have half of a day; you have to look at the whole day
Hi Christina,
I completely understand! The Father called me into the narrow path Torah walk about 1-1/2 years ago. It was a gradual process as I was learning what is in scripture and what was tradition.
I observe Friday evening to Saturday evening as well. After a long week commuting to work I’m ready! i quickly got to the point where I would take my dog to the park and walk by the lake. Recently I came across this scripture...
Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.” Ex 16:29! What??!! Don’t leave my house??!!
Ive done that the last two weeks! It works for me. It allows me to divide up my day better into sleeping late then spending time with the Father. I also try to do the same on Sunday but have to run a few errands in the afternoon.
I appreciate yur replies but yea, I was concerned about "how" rather than "when" if you want to get technical. LOL, but thank you for your care in the matter. Hi Dee...I believe we should sleep in too...yahhh!! Zzzzz…...
We pick at the housework and food shopping all week long after work, then Friday night after work we have a candlelit feast to help the relaxation come....definitely easy to follow the crowd and live stressed out and uptight!
One day all the crazy will stop...🤗