Shm'ta Year~ "The Year of Release and Rest In The Lord"
Stabilizer In The Storm
By Meaghan Spies
Shm'ta Year~ The Year of Release and Rest In The Lord
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. Leviticus 25:3-4
Let us continue digging deeper into the prophecy God gave me for 5782\2022.
Every seventh year on the Jewish Calendar is a Shm'ta Year, a Sabbath year, a year of rest to the land according to the Torah, or Law, of God. In the Holy land, the Shm'ta year is mostly observed with all its laws and practices.
According to the Jewish Calendar, we are in the year 5782 from Creation. The Year started last September on Rosh Hashanah, and according to the cycle of years, it is a Shm'ta Year. This makes 2022 a Shm'ta Year, too, a Sabbath year of rest to the Lord.
God told His people that they should work the land for six years, but that the seventh year was the Sabbatical, or Shm'ta, year, a year of rest and release. He told them to leave the ground fallow during the seventh year.
God knew they would wonder where their provision and help would come from the seventh, eighth and ninth year. God told them to use the provision of the sixth year and that He would care for them until the ninth. If they would observe His Laws, God promised that He would bless their land. He has. He still is, because some have honoured His ways.
5782\ 2022 is a Sabbath year, A Year of Release and Rest In The Lord. Resting in the Lord is a place of trust every Christian should come to know and seek to live in. To rest is to trust the Lord, to know in your knower that He will never let you go, that He holds you in the palm of His hand, and that He will perform every one of His promises to you.
Rest in the Lord this year. Cast all your cares on Him without restraint this year. Walk in His ways and He will bless you in all you do. That's just God's way.
Meaghan Spies © 2022
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