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40 Days Of Teshuvah To Yom Kippur |
Create In Me A Clean Heart Oh Adonai and Renew a Right Spirit Within Me
Psalm 51
Read Psalm 27 Daily
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Day 15
Al Chet Prayer
The Goal Of Al Chet Is To Get To The Root Of The Problem. To become more like Yeshua and to become conformed to His Image and Torah is a process, it does not happen over night. The key is never to give up, because He does not give up on us. We are all under construction and a work in process and this is the time to do spiritual house cleaning.
#15 For the sin that we have sinned before You by excersing power.
This is referring to misuse of power. For those who have been called to be leaders, we are called to be servants to His people. With that leadership comes power and authority to do what He has called us to do. Power put in the hands of an immature believer can be very dangerous and damaging to the Body.
This also applies to those of us who have leadership positions in the secular world. How do we treat those that are our employees, staff etc. Do we build people up or do we think they are nothing but stepping stones for my own selfish ambition.
As believer's God has endowed us with power as well to do His will upon the earth.
Yeshua, our Messiah is the perfect picture of one who excercised His power and authority to bless and heal, yet He did not hesitate to rebuke those who misused their positions as well.
Here Yeshua was rebuking the spiritual leaders of his day for their misuse of power:
Mat 23:23 "Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You pay your tithes of mint, dill and cumin; but you have neglected the weightier matters of the Torah - justice, mercy, trust. These are the things you should have attended to - without neglecting the others!
Mat 23:24 Blind guides! - straining out a gnat, meanwhile swallowing a camel!
Mat 23:25 "Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence.
Mat 23:26 Blind Parush! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean too.
Mat 23:27 "Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but inside are full of dead people's bones and all kinds of rottenness.
Mat 23:28 Likewise, you appear to people from the outside to be good and honest, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and far from Torah.
How are we to use the power Yeshua has given us?
Act 1:8 But you will receive power when the Ruach HaKodesh comes upon you; you will be my witnesses both in Yerushalayim and in all Y'hudah and Shomron, indeed to the ends of the earth!"
Act 4:33 With great power the emissaries continued testifying to the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua, and they were all held in high regard.
Act 10:38 how God anointed Yeshua from Natzeret with the Ruach HaKodesh and with power; how Yeshua went about doing good and healing all the people oppressed by the Adversary, because God was with him.
Act 10:39 "As for us, we are witnesses of everything he did, both in the Judean countryside and in Yerushalayim. They did away with him by hanging him on a stake;
Act 10:40 but God raised him up on the third day and let him be seen,
Act 10:41 not by all the people, but by witnesses God had previously chosen, that is, by us, who ate and drank with him after he had risen again from the dead.
Rom 15:18 for I will not dare speak of anything except what the Messiah has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by my words and deeds, Rom 15:19 through the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Yerushalayim all the way to Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the Good News of the Messiah. Rom 15:20 I have always made it my ambition to proclaim the Good News where the Messiah was not yet known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation, Rom 15:21 but rather, as the Tanakh puts it, "Those who have not been told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand." *Journal - Food For Thought
God apportions to everyone exactly what they need; whether wealth, intelligence, blessings etc., Only when wwe feel our position is independant of God do we seek to dominate others for our own advantage.
Ask yourself;
Did I take advantage of those who are weak -- either physically, economically or politically?
Did I manipulate or intimidate someone into doing something he'd really rather not have?
Exploring the "Al Chet" Prayer by Rabbi Shraga Simmons (Aish Hatorah) |
