God's Word is Powerful! - This week's video. https://youtu.be/7IzyC3ZZSIk
As the mountain stream cuts through the granite cliff, so God's Word cuts through my heart. His Word, the Bible, is the most powerful agent in your life! He promises to use it to instruct you, speak to you, change you, and build you up. Unleash this power in your life. Allow God's Spirit to have free reign within you buy providing the sword that He promises to use. Take up and read today.
In lesson 8 we apply the principles of managing our emotions in the Bible to the emotion of sadness. Yes, sadness is good at times. But it should not hold us back from doing what God wants us to do for His kingdom and His glory. You can order the book that includes all the lessons here: https://a.co/d/btwtjrV
When have you felt like you were about to crash? Perhaps you had too much to do, or perhaps you had too many circumstances that were mounting out of your control. Are you feeling precarious? Precarious times call for prayerful measures. Those precarious times may be our most important times because in those times we walk closely with the Lord. We sense the need for our Shepherd most when the dark clouds of difficult times and the thunder and lightning bolts of pain or loss cause our hearts to skip away from the outskirts of the Lord’s flock and walk as closely to Him as we can. While you are there, know that His presence comforts you. As David said, “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him.” Do what you can in each situation and then leave the rest in His hand. I’m struck with this in the life of Esther. Her life was totally upended when she was taken into a wicked man’s harem. He was the most powerful man on earth so she could not say no. But she prayed to the Lord. As...
I just finished Ian Murray’s biography on Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones. His ministry is an inspiration to me. I love the simple consistency he exhibited and his reliance upon God ordained methods to accomplish God’s purposes. One area I find Lloyd Jones exhibited great wisdom was how he graciously resisted the overwhelming tide of the ecumenism of his day. Dr. Lloyd Jones believed that the ends should not justify the means. In the 1950’s, ecumenism in England was championed by most Evangelical leaders. Leaders like J I Packer believed that they were to gain greater respect by association with and dialog within theologically liberal associations. The hope was to heal the cancerous body from within by being a healthy cell. His end goal – a more respected evangelical voice. His means – accommodation with theological error. Most conservative evangelicals [1] today side with Lloyd Jones against Packer. Association with those who deny funda...
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