Tammuz - The Month of Reuben

7th June - 7th July 2013 (5773)

ראש חודש סיון Rosh Chodesh Tammuz (The head of the month)

Firstfruits today 7th June 2013 - give your best into the month - invest in your future for God’s blessings in this month. בִּכּוּרִים bikkurim - firstfruits
A very important month when we are given a choice to choose between that which builds and that which destroys ! A month to build relationship and intimacy with God in Spirit and Truth .

Guard your heart and your eyes.

Deuteronomy 11:26

“ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;”

Deuteronomy 30:15-19

“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: “
This month the children of Israel built a golden calf . Worship is the only antidote to idolatry !

Song of Solomon 5:2-12

“I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love. What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us? My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.”

We do a double take on our vision ...look at our vision and then look again to ensure we really are on the right path . Check it out with the Lord ask Him what adjustment to make if any !

See who you come into alignment with this month ..check your handshakes ..your covenant agreements....this is a very sensitive time this month to accurately see your covenant
alignments.

See where you are in your walk this month and consult with the Lord to see what adjustments  need to be made.

Time to remove the protective shell from around you and give full access to the Lord to reach you and minister into your life. Get rid of the shell of protection and insulation .....isolation is not what God has designed for your life. OPEN UP !

Historically this is an interesting yet sad month . It is the month that the children of Israel sinned against God by making the golden calf and the first set of covenant tablets given to
Moses were destroyed.

Solomon’s temple was also destroyed this month . We must let our righteousness shine at this time , if we don’t we will come under great attack .

Don’t allow negative reports to come forth . Look at what the Lord has said about you . This is the true vision . Speak only that which build in agreement with God plan for you not what the enemy has planned. Don’t speak anything and you are in problems ...Confess God’s call and purpose for your life.

Reuben , Simeon and Gad were stationed at the south end of the tabernacle . They correspond to the summer months of Tammuz,Av and Elul .


Our eyes should be bright this month ...keep them bright in hope of what God is doing in your life.

Jeremiah 29:11-13

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”

It is very important this month that we come into agreement with God’s call upon us and that we speak out and declare those purposes. Be careful not to speak anything which will pull down the positive .

Keep praising God for His wonderful grace upon us .


Be very thankful for all He has provided for us.


Shine brightly and don’t let the enemy have any foothold.


Boast on God and the exploits He has given us to perform !