1 Corinthians 14 (New International Version, ©2010)

1 Corinthians 14

Intelligibility in Worship

1 Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy. 2 For anyone who speaks in a tongue[a] does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit. 3 But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort. 4 Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, but the one who prophesies edifies the church. 5 I would like every one of you to speak in tongues,[b] but I would rather have you prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues,[c] unless someone interprets, so that the church may be edified.
6 Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you and speak in tongues, what good will I be to you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or word of instruction? 7 Even in the case of lifeless things that make sounds, such as the pipe or harp, how will anyone know what tune is being played unless there is a distinction in the notes? 8 Again, if the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle? 9 So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air. 10 Undoubtedly there are all sorts of languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning. 11 If then I do not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker is a foreigner to me. 12 So it is with you. Since you are eager for gifts of the Spirit, try to excel in those that build up the church.

13 For this reason the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that they may interpret what they say. 14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. 15 So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding. 16 Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer,[d] say "Amen" to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying? 17 You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified.

18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. 19 But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.

20 Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. 21 In the Law it is written: "With other tongues and through the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord."[e]

22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers. 23 So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and inquirers or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind? 24 But if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying, they are convicted of sin and are brought under judgment by all, 25 as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, "God is really among you!"

Good Order in Worship

26 What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. 28 If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.
29 Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 30 And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. 31 For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. 32 The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets. 33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord's people.

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EIN K'MALKENU ~ Micha'el Ben David Music Video Production Series

Published on Nov 25, 2012

HALELU-HU Ki L'Olam Chasdo! Praise Him for His Mercy Endures Forever!

Celebrating Eight AWE-some years of my own personal "Lech Lecha" from New York City all the Way to the holy & set-apart City of Jerusalem this time in 2004, and I've been upheld and sustained since by His Grace alone!

Having been personally sent & kept by the Holy One of Israel Himself, I bless YAH Who is my Strength and my Song and I gladly give Him ALL the Glory & Strength due to His Name alone; for He has ever been faithful to watch over His Word which concerns me, my life's Purpose and Destiny in Him. And just as He has promised to keep, safeguard, preserve and strengthen me in every season and at all times, in the good and the bad, in both the trying and the overcoming times, so He has done it for His Glory and He has made all things beautiful in His time!

And please Join me in Giving Him Thanks in this season & also in celebrating 8 full years of EmetZionMusic International Service & Ministry to YHVH & all His people internationally, beginning in Jerusalem and to the nations of the world! My Goal/Heart Desire is to fill the Earth with the Knowledge of YHVH/YESHUA as the waters cover the Sea so that many may truly know and love Him through the Proclamation of His Word, the Singing of the Songs of Zion and the Teaching of Torah in its Fullness by His Spirit/Ruach; bringing forth the Light that is found only in Mashiach Yeshua! "For out of Zion shall go forth TORAH and the Word of YHVH from Jerusalem!"

Enjoy this Beauty-Full Video of HaShem's Creation in every way and marvel at His Goodness towards all Mankind by Sending His Only Son, YESHUA, Who having taken the form of a Man has now become the Salvation of the whole world, the Jew being first; for salvation is found in no other than in Yeshua HaMashiach Ben David Ben Elohim alone! As it is written by the prophet Yeshayahu/Isaiah: "Behold El/God is my Salvation, I will trust & not be afraid; for Yah, YHVH, is my Strength and my Song; He has become unto me Yeshua(h) ~Salvation!" Isaiah 12:2

Yes, He's worked & brought forth Salvation to the Jew first and then also to all the tribes, tongues, kindred and nations of the world! His Blood still speaks greater than that of Abel or any other Tsakikim who ever lived and walked this side of eternity, for He is the Only & Ultimate Tsadik/Righteous, Flawless, Sinless One! Be richly blessed in this testing Season of Faith, via War, and Rumors of War whereby all that can be shaken will be shaken and only what is TOV/Good will remain! Be strong & Stay in the Faith by Remaining Faithful to the Faithful One, the Holy One of Israel, our Creator KING YHVH TSEVA'OT! Kadosh! Kadosh! KADOSH! [Isaiah 6] May the whole earth be filled with His Glory!

Happy Thanks-Giving Day to all today & every Day until age 120 B"H, all the Way into ETERNITY living a Torah life in Yeshua HaMashiach!

Special thanks to my God & King and to all who were and are involved in making this Music Video a beautiful and a glorious success! And holy shout outs especially to my Music Production partner Phil Rogers, Thomas Tapp & Jorge Arciniega of Seed Media, Art Mathias & Pat Hadley of Wellspring Ministries, Robert and Janice Coulter and all my holy friends in Anchorage Alaska and throughout the world! Shalom, shalom to all peoples and nations of the world, from the City of the Great KING, Jerusalem/Yerushalaim, the City of Peace! And no matter what you see or hear: Peace / SHALOM is her Destiny, her Inheritance! So pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and all Israel.....

Yours truly & with His great Love,

Micha'el Eliyahu Ben David,
His Beloved Messenger!

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1 Kings 12 (New International Version)

1 Kings 12

Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam

1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all the Israelites had gone there to make him king. 2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from [a] Egypt. 3 So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: 4 "Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you."
5 Rehoboam answered, "Go away for three days and then come back to me." So the people went away.

6 Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. "How would you advise me to answer these people?" he asked.

7 They replied, "If today you will be a servant to these people and serve them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants."

8 But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him. 9 He asked them, "What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?"

10 The young men who had grown up with him replied, "Tell these people who have said to you, 'Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter'-tell them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist. 11 My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.' "

12 Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, "Come back to me in three days." 13 The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders, 14 he followed the advice of the young men and said, "My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions." 15 So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word the LORD had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.

16 When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king: "What share do we have in David, what part in Jesse's son? To your tents, O Israel! Look after your own house, O David!" So the Israelites went home. 17 But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.

18 King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram, [b] who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 19 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

20 When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.

21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—a hundred and eighty thousand fighting men—to make war against the house of Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam son of Solomon.

22 But this word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God: 23 "Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, to the whole house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, 24 'This is what the LORD says: Do not go up to fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.' " So they obeyed the word of the LORD and went home again, as the LORD had ordered.

Golden Calves at Bethel and Dan

25 Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Peniel. [c]
26 Jeroboam thought to himself, "The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David. 27 If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam."

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HINE BATI / HERE I COME (Tehillim Mem/Psalm 40) By Micha'el Ben David

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

Shot in the Qumran and at the Dead Sea, this latest Music Video invites the Viewer to experience Micha'el's Discovery Journey of TORAH TRUTH that has set Him FREE to worship the Holy One of Israel in Spirit & in Truth as He encountered HaKadosh Baruch Hu/The Holy One Blessed Be He, in Israel over a decade ago in a deeper Way than Micha'el had even known before and since then he has entered the Narrow & Difficult Road to God's Calling on his life, his Destiny and Purpose in the Kingdom of YHVH! "Broad is the way that leads to destruction" therefore Micha'el upon being called to break away from the norm and the cold routine of the religious worlds infiltrated with falsehood and doctrines of Satan, did not hesitate to walk purposefully and face to Face with the One Who is altogether Lovely and HOLY; and it has NOT been easy at all. Micha'el encountered much opposition from fellow believers and non-believers alike along the Way! Despite all the challenges and difficulties and misunderstandings coming from every direction, Micha'el remains STRONG and determined for the Good Hand of YHVH is upon Him to be as "a Repairer of the Breach and a Restorer of the Ways to dwell in" to build the Wall just as Nehemiah and Ezra of old and to stand in the Gap as Ezekiel for the Generation of Jacob who will praise HIM in Spirit & in Truth~the Full Counsel of YHVH!

Born and Destined to be a Voice in the Wilderness as He prepares the WAY of the Coming of the LORD with His Songs of Zion, Micha'el has set his face like flint! He will NOT turn to the left or the the right of His Calling! His Aim is first and foremost to please His Heavenly Father and NOT to please men! Let He who has Ears to hear take heed and understand and consider the wonders and mysteries of YHVH and turn and be saved! Oh the JOY of doing the Will of our Creator and of embracing His Full Counsel, the Commandments of YHVH and Faith in YESHUA HAMASHIACH.... Micha'el unashamedly proclaims God's Righteousness and is a Voice to our Generation! For this is the Generation of Jacob who will praise YHVH!

From Tehilim/Psalm 40:8-9 (Hebrew) "Then I said: 'Behold I come; in the Scroll of the Book written of Me. Elohai I delight to do your will and Your TORAH is deep within Me!"

This Video was shot at Qumran and at the Dead Sea where Bible Scrolls were found! Reenacting the fact that God's Voice is still to be heard and discovered in the Midbar/Desert Wilderness of Life! It is there that we can receive His Torah, His Instructions for LIFE! And say YES to His Will! May you too delight in doing His Will! Shalom U'Vracha! EMETZION MUSIC & ENTER~REIGN~MENT INTERNATIONAL ~ Copyrights 5772/2012

SONG LYRICS taken from Psalm 40:8-9 (in Hebrew) 7-8 elsewhere.....Shalom!

HINE BATI ADONAI BIMEGILAT SEFER KATUV ALAI
LA'ASOT RETSONCHA ELOHAI CHAFATSTI
V'TORATCHA B'TOCH MEAI'

HERE I COME O MY LORD FROM THE SCROLL
OF THE BOOK THAT'S WRITTEN OF ME
TO DO YOUR WILL MY GOD IS MY DELIGHT
AND YOUR TORAH IS DEEP WITHIN ME

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Proverbs 22 (New International Version)

Proverbs 22

1 A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.

2 Rich and poor have this in common: The LORD is the Maker of them all.

3 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.

4 Humility and the fear of the LORD bring wealth and honor and life.

5 In the paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares, but he who guards his soul stays far from them.

6 Train [a] a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

8 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

9 A generous man will himself be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.

11 He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend.

12 The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside!" or, "I will be murdered in the streets!"

14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the LORD's wrath will fall into it.

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.

Sayings of the Wise

17 Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach,
18 for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips.

19 So that your trust may be in the LORD, I teach you today, even you.

20 Have I not written thirty [b] sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,

21 teaching you true and reliable words, so that you can give sound answers to him who sent you?

22 Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,

23 for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them.

24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered,

25 or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared.

26 Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;

27 if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.

28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your forefathers.

29 Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men.

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MELECH HAKAVOD ~ KING OF GLORY [Tehilim/Psalm 24:7-10]

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Melech HaKavod / KING of Glory
Tehilim/Psalm 24:7-10

God of War, you may ask? Whatever happened to the God of Love? Well, it's about time the world has a full knowledge of the Holy One of Israel, YHVH Tseva'ot, the LORD of Armies! (See also Exodus 15:3 Zechariah 14:3-4, Isaiah 6:3, Psalm 18:13-15, Revelation19:11-21) Scriptures depicting a NO-JOKE/NO-NONSENSE God Who means business & makes War with His enemies and the enemies of His Covenantal People because of His Eternal LOVE for us! As it is written it's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the Creator of the Universe Whose Grace & Patience we have exhausted by our unbelief and outright rebellion against a Most Loving Creator! SO ACT LIKE YOU KNOW SON & DO THE RIGHT THING!

What the world needs now is NOT love per say but a healthy Fear of God which is the Beginning of Wisdom and the understanding of True LOVE!

Here's to being ECHAD/ In Unity or Oneness with YHVH!
Shalom, shalom!

This latest Video was recently shot in early March 2011 in Accra amongst other parts of Ghana, Africa. It was my first time ever in Africa aside from having crossed the Eilat border from Israel into Egypt once for a short moment, this was quite an experience for me! The people were warm and pleasant and I totally enjoyed my time with the precious Ghanaians who are prayer warriors! We had lots of fun shooting the video though we spent lots of time on the road to drive to all the exquisite locations, we were blessed to be able to get ample footage in two and a half days to make this video possible! We were extremely blessed with all those beautiful souls who volunteered to be part and to grace us with their presence, sense of humor and unique African beauty! B"H, I look forward to touring and exploring all of Africa soon, Heaven willing, even possibly this coming Summer 2011 by His Grace, going around sharing the heart of YHVH and singing the SONGS of ZION! ENJOY the Clip & His Presence!

Shalom Aleichem with LUV from Jerusalem!

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem! May you prosper in your Love for her and may she honor you in return!

Micha'el,
Beloved of YHVH!


Lyrics for Melech HaKavod

Melech HaKavod (Psalm 24:7-10)

S'u Shearim Rosheichem
V'Hinasu Pitchey Olam [2X]

V'Yavo Melech HaKavod
Mi Hu Zeh Melech HaKavod
Adonai Izuz v'Gibor
Hashem Gibor Milchama

Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
Be Lifted Up You Everlasting Doors [2X]

And the King of Glory Shall Come In
Who is this King of Glory?
The LORD (YHVH) Strong & Mighty
YESHUA Mighty In Battle

Our God is a Man of War




YESHUA is His Name
He is the King of Glory




S'u Shearim Rosheichem
V'Hinasu Pitchey Olam [2X]

V'Yavo Melech HaKavod
Mi Hu Zeh Melech HaKavod
Adonai Izuz v'Gibor
Adonai Gibor Milchama

Adonai Ish Milchama




Sh'mo Yeshua
Hu Melech HaKavod

Repeat til fade out....

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Psalm 22 (New International Version)

Psalm 22

For the director of music. To the tune of "The Doe of the Morning." A psalm of David.

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.

3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel. [a]

4 In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.

5 They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

7 All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:

8 "He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him."

9 Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast.

10 From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.

11 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

12 Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

13 Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against me.

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me.

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me [b] in the dust of death.

16 Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced [c] my hands and my feet.

17 I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me.

18 They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

19 But you, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.

20 Deliver my life from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.

21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save [d] me from the horns of the wild oxen.

22 I will declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation I will praise you.

23 You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!

24 For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.

25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you [e] will I fulfill my vows.

26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the LORD will praise him— may your hearts live forever!

27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,

28 for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.

29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him— those who cannot keep themselves alive.

30 Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.

31 They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn— for he has done it.

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'When one rules over men in righteousness,when he rules in the fear of God,

Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012

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2 Samuel 23:1-7 (New International Version)

The Last Words of David

1These are the last words of David: "The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man exalted by the Most High, the man anointed by the God of Jacob, Israel's singer of songs:2"The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue.3The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me: 'When one rules over men in righteousness,when he rules in the fear of God,4he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth.'5"Is not my house right with God? Has he not made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part? Will he not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire?6But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered with the hand.7Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear; they are burned up where they lie."

AFWIS Joins Operation World in Prayer for the Hot Spots of the Americas

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Jan 21: The Americas, Hot Spots of the Americas

The Americas, Hot Spots of the Americas

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Answer to Prayer

Missions vision has rapidly grown and matured in Latin America. The 1987 COMIBAM conference in São Paulo, Brazil, generated continent-wide interest and sparked numerous initiatives to reach the unreached. At that time, there were around 60 agencies with 1,600 missionaries. Today, there are over 400 agencies representing more than 10,000 missionaries! An increasing proportion serve outside Latin America and in the unevangelized world. Major sending nations are Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Peru, but missionary sending structures are developing in most lands. Quite apart from this are the thousands who serve God abroad as economic migrants or deliberate tentmakers.
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Challenge for Prayer

Widespread human need exists, even in these relatively stable and affluent continents. Economic poverty is the most obvious, having been a defining factor for decades in the political and even theological developments in Latin America. But lack of education and literacy, health issues, lack of clean water and sanitation, and persistent urban violence and crime all continue to plague much of the region. The Caribbean has the highest murder rate of any region in the world. While democratic government continues to take root, in many countries it is a fledgling and needs both integrity by leaders and committed endurance by the population.
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Blessing

Octarium performs Peter Lutkin's "The Lord Bless You and Keep You" live as an encore. 

Listener's Choice concert, February 2011.

The Lord bless you and keep you.
The Lord lift His countenance upon you.
And give you peace.
The Lord make His face to shine upon you.
And be gracious unto you.
Amen.

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Alleluia - Randall Thompson performed by Octarium

Celebrating the 71st anniversary of Randall Thompson's "Alleluia," first performed on July 8, 1940 at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth.

Performed by Octarium. Available on the album Essentials (http://www.octarium.org/cd3.html).

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1 Chronicles 7:14 - HEAL OUR LAND

If my people will humble themselves,

humble themselves and pray,
if they seek my face and humble themselves
and turn from the wicked ways;
I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin,
I will hear from heaven and heal their land.

Lord, heal our land, Father, heal our land,
hear our cry and turn our nation back to You;
Lord, heal our land, hear us, O Lord,
and heal our land, forgive our sin
and heal our broken land.

Lord, we bow our knee, we humble ourselves,
humble ourselves and pray,
Lord, we seek Your face, we humble ourselves,
and turn from our wicked ways;
Father in Your mercy, (please) forgive our sin,
Father, in Your mercy, come, heal our land.

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1 Corinthians 13 (New International Version, ©2010)

1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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1 Kings 11 (New International Version)

Solomon's Wives

1King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter--Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.2They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.3He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.4As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.5He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.6So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done.7On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.8He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.9The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.10Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD's command.11So the LORD said to Solomon, "Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.12Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.13Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen."

Solomon's Adversaries

14Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.15Earlier when David was fighting with Edom, Joab the commander of the army, who had gone up to bury the dead, had struck down all the men in Edom.16Joab and all the Israelites stayed there for six months, until they had destroyed all the men in Edom.17But Hadad, still only a boy, fled to Egypt with some Edomite officials who had served his father.18They set out from Midian and went to Paran. Then taking men from Paran with them, they went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.19Pharaoh was so pleased with Hadad that he gave him a sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, in marriage.20The sister of Tahpenes bore him a son named Genubath, whom Tahpenes brought up in the royal palace. There Genubath lived with Pharaoh's own children.21While he was in Egypt, Hadad heard that David rested with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was also dead. Then Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me go, that I may return to my own country."22"What have you lacked here that you want to go back to your own country?" Pharaoh asked. "Nothing," Hadad replied, "but do let me go!"23And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah.24He gathered men around him and became the leader of a band of rebels when David destroyed the forces [of Zobah]; the rebels went to Damascus, where they settled and took control.25Rezon was Israel's adversary as long as Solomon lived, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled in Aram and was hostile toward Israel.

Jeroboam Rebels Against Solomon

26Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon's officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah.27Here is the account of how he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the supporting terraces and had filled in the gap in the wall of the city of David his father.28Now Jeroboam was a man of standing, and when Solomon saw how well the young man did his work, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.29About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country,30and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.31Then he said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon's hand and give you ten tribes.32But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one tribe.33I will do this because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molech the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in my ways, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my statutes and laws as David, Solomon's father, did.34" 'But I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon's hand; I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose and who observed my commands and statutes.35I will take the kingdom from his son's hands and give you ten tribes.36I will give one tribe to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name.37However, as for you, I will take you, and you will rule over all that your heart desires; you will be king over Israel.38If you do whatever I command you and walk in my ways and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you.39I will humble David's descendants because of this, but not forever.' "40Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king, and stayed there until Solomon's death.

Solomon's Death

11:41-43pp -- 2Ch 9:29-31

41As for the other events of Solomon's reign--all he did and the wisdom he displayed--are they not written in the book of the annals of Solomon?42Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.43Then he rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.