Shavuot and Sefirat ha-Omer
“I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances” Ezekiel 36:27.
Shavuot marks the conclusion of a seven-week period known as sefirat ha-Omer, the counting of the Omer. Beginning on the second day of Passover, we are commanded to count 49 days leading up to Shavuot (Leviticus 23:15). This is a time of anxiety and anticipation for farmers who observe their ripening grain. In religious terms, counting the Omer links physical and spiritual redemption.
From the moment the period of the ‘bootcamp’ weeks was finished, Abba gave me a word on my heart. In the past weeks I met several people who received some teachings.
I know that at least one of them is happy and totally satisfied while another one felt disappointment because she had totally different expectations!
She found a piece of paper on the street which stated “ MIS LINE” While I pondered on that I asked Abba if I had left anything out!
It is from that moment He begun to speak a word into my heart!
Acts 1
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
“4 At one of these gatherings, he instructed them not to leave Yerushalayim but to wait for “what the Father promised, which you heard about from me. 5 For Yochanan used to immerse people in water; but in a few days, you will be immersed in the Ruach HaKodesh!”
Acts 2
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
” The festival of Shavu‘to arrived, and the believers all gathered together in one place. 2 Suddenly there came a sound from the sky like the roar of a violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire, which separated and came to rest on each one of them. 4 They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh and began to talk in different languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.”
The first followers of Yeshua must have had a great sense of expectation when they gathered in that one place! Wow I can almost feel it myself!
They experienced as the First people on earth what it means to be filled with the Ruach HaKodesh!
From that moment on everyone who becomes a child of our Father and Lord will be filled too with His Holy Spirit!
Father made me ponder about this in the past days and suddenly He made me understand what Shavuot (Pentecost) is all about!
This is what He speaks into my heart for all of us!
Leviticus 23 (Complete Jewish Bible)
“(v) 23 Adonai said to Moshe, 24 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘In the seventh month, the first of the month is to be for you a day of complete rest for remembering, A holy convocation announced with blasts on the shofar. 25 Do not do any kind of ordinary work, and bring an offering made by fire to Adonai.’”
“My children gather every year with great expectations! Most of the time expectations for what they will receive and experience!
They want of Me that I repeat what I AM has done in those early days when I poured out My Spirit!
But My Holy fire is NOT predictable I AM is holy and does things as I Am want to do!
My children many of you have received veils over your head meaning: You do not see MY truth but you received lies which will tickle your flesh!
While My children it is not about YOU but about Me!
My offerings are turned into offerings for YOUR ministries and YOUR work! While I Am is waiting for ONE offer that will touch my heart!
A broken chastened heart, a broken spirit is the offer that I Am is waiting for!
So I can give My best wine to all of you so My sons will finally come visible!
Not YOUR expectations but MINE that is what you must keep in mind! My holy gatherings and feasts are not about you or to satisfy YOUR feelings and emotions!
It is about you being delivered of flesh and selfish behavior, it is about redemption physical and spiritual so your First offer to Me can be………..YOU!
And for the leaders: “It is a time for you to help and teach my flock how to cleanse themselves and also your ministries of fleshly things and things of the world!
You are the so called farmers whom I Am has called to take care that MY GRAIN is ripening in a way that I AM pleases!
I will humble the proud and I will exalt the humble ones! Those who do not steal MY glory! For it can be the end of times but I AM is still the same!”
HE WHO HAS AN EAR……
(Shavuot marks the conclusion of a seven-week period known as sefirat ha-Omer, the counting of the Omer. Beginning on the second day of Passover, we are commanded to count 49 days leading up to Shavuot (Leviticus 23:15). This is a time of anxiety and anticipation for farmers who observe their ripening grain. In religious terms, counting the Omer links physical and spiritual redemption.)
Psalm 51
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
(16) For you don’t want sacrifices, or I would give them;
you don’t take pleasure in burnt offerings.
19 (17) My sacrifice to God is a broken spirit;
God, you won’t spurn a broken, chastened heart.
20 (18) In your good pleasure, make Tziyon prosper;
rebuild the walls of Yerushalayim.
Ezekiel 17
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
22 “Adonai Elohim says, ‘From the top of this tall cedar, from its highest branch, I will take a shoot and plant it myself on a high and prominent mountain. 23 I will plant it on the highest mountain in Isra’el, where it will put out branches, bear fruit, and become a noble cedar. Under it will live all kinds of birds; winged creatures of every description will live there in the shadow of its branches. 24 Then all the trees of the field will know that I, Adonai, bring down the tall tree and raise up the low tree, wither the green tree and make the withered tree bear fruit. I, Adonai, have spoken; and I will do it.’”
Ezekiel 13 (Complete Jewish Bible)
9 “My hand will be against the prophets who have futile visions and produce false divinations; they will not be allowed into the council of my people, or be written in the register of the house of Isra’el, or enter the land of Isra’el. Then you will know that I am Adonai Elohim.
17 “You, human being, turn your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own thoughts. Prophesy against them; 18 tell them that Adonai Elohim says, ‘Woe to the women who sew magic pads for all arm joints and put veils over people of all sizes, in order to hunt human lives! Will you hunt down the lives of my people while you keep your own lives safe? 19 You dishonor me before my people for a few handfuls of barley and crumbs of bread, killing people who should not die and sparing those who should not live, by your lying to my people, who love hearing lies.’”
Blessings and Shalom over you!
~ Mamme Devorah
Called by Yeshua by the will of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
“Adversity is the spark that lights the matches, to glow the fire of self-confidence,” Catharina Schouten.
Catharina Schouten–Meijer (Mamme Devorah) is the founder of Dezerto Floro Foundation – Desert Flower. Blossoming despite hardship! She encourages, inspires, teaches, and is training and equipping people. She goes wherever the Father is sending her! She is sent in the Biblical way. In 1995 the Holy Spirit set her apart, for the work to which He has called her. Pastor Hendrik – Jan van Mourik – Restoration Church – in the Netherlands, sent her in the apostolic and prophetic ministry in 2006. Rev. Paul van Beek God’s Outreach Ministry Int. sent her in the Deborah call in 2011. Ministry mandate: Isaiah 45 Deliverance, Rebuilding, Restoration.
Isaiah 28:11-12 (NKJV)
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people,
12 To whom He said, “This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,” And, “This is the refreshing”; Yet they would not hear.
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