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A Christian Pastor with a social consciousness, a student of life with a desire to present to some and introduce to others JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH through his Teachings.Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-55275026713704507722013-10-27T10:54:00.001-07:002013-10-27T10:54:43.232-07:00<div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=morning02-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002Y27P3M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-22228913077916196882011-09-21T00:17:00.000-07:002011-09-21T00:17:16.854-07:00Weapons Of Mass Destruction !!!<b>Weapons of Mass Destruction</b><br />
This strong title was thought to get someone attention as we continue to see the overt and covert work of Satan, the Bible says the enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy also to be mindful of the devices of the enemy.Micheal Porter's book " Kill Them Before They Grow"with the subtitle "Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in American Classrooms". Speaks of a diabolical scheme to destroy a generation that Satan has set up an evil system that is sown into every fiber and fabric of both this nations history and it's present condition. This scheme is very obvious in some places and extremely subtle in others, but its objective is to render the Body of Christ impotent and unable to come together as the community of faith is intended too.Let's go to the Word of God in Matthew 2:7-8,12-18 (NLT)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> Then Herod called for a private meeting with the wise men, and he learned from them the time when the star first appeared. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">8</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> Then he told them, “Go to Bethlehem and search carefully for the child. And when you find him, come back and tell me so that I can go and worship him, too!”</span><br />
<div class="nlt07_body" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"></span><br />
<div class="nlt07_body" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">12</a></span> When it was time to leave, they returned to their own country by another route, for God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod.</span></div><div class="nlt07_subhead" style="font-size: 0.9em; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">The Escape to Egypt</span></div><div class="nlt07_body-hd" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">13</a></span> After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”</span></div><div class="nlt07_body" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">14</a></span> That night Joseph left for Egypt with the child and Mary, his mother, <span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">15</a></span> and they stayed there until Herod’s death. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “I called my Son out of Egypt.” <a class="ftnt" href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#fnt__5" name="fnt_5" style="color: rgb(50,67,149) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: none; text-transform: lowercase !important; vertical-align: top !important;">[fn5]</a></span></div><div class="nlt07_body" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">16</a></span> Herod was furious when he realized that the wise men had outwitted him. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, based on the wise men’s report of the star’s first appearance. <span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">17</a></span> Herod’s brutal action fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:</span></div><div class="nlt07_poet1-vn-sp" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -2em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">18</a></span> “A cry was heard in Ramah—</span></div><div class="nlt07_poet2" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">weeping and great mourning.</span></div><div class="nlt07_poet1" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Rachel weeps for her children,</span></div><div class="nlt07_poet2" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">refusing to be comforted,</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">for they are dead.”</span></div><div class="nlt07_body" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="nlt07_body" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Here in the text Herod did not want to praise or acknowledge the child he wanted to kill him. He knew what the system of this world knows that if a generation grows up healthy physically and mentally that at the appointed time they will be able to take their rightful place in that society. The attack begins by doing all it can by removing God from the public square, and by doing so as it says in the book of Judges "they did what was right in there own eyes". The inner city becomes a place that Charles Darwin would liken to the "survival of the fittest". Many of these persons by the time they leave elementary school they have have dropped out mentally and have lost their sense of pride and purpose. Brothers and Sisters there is more than one way to kill someone you can do it with weapons, do it with words ,instilling worthlessness,through welfare. You can take away a person's spirit, identity, destroy their dream and tell them directly and indirectly they have no purpose. When this kind of attack employed is done overtly and covertly long enough and starts early enough to undo the damage will take tremendous work therapeutically and spiritually something that many of "us" are unwilling to do.I close with this, what weapon(s) has the enemy used against you, your family, your community and how is it effecting you, your family and your community. This was written as a internal look and some of the things that winked at and looked the other way ! Let's look to the hills which come our help for our help comes from the LORD ! AMEN <b>I dedicate this message to Pearline S Lee (my mother) she has been a constant source of strength in my LIFE I am blessed to have had a living example of JESUS CHRIST</b> </span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=morning02-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002Y27P3M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-4143406446345434512011-09-19T12:55:00.000-07:002012-05-06T22:10:00.560-07:00Morning Manna Ministries: Jesus Came Preaching, TEACHING and Healing ! (Matt...<a href="http://morningmannaministries.blogspot.com/2011/09/jesus-came-preaching-teaching-and.html?spref=bl">Morning Manna Ministries: Jesus Came Preaching, TEACHING and Healing ! (Matt...</a>: In 2 Timothy 3:16-17 we read: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, fo...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=morning02-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002Y27P3M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-82270679121743910592011-09-19T12:53:00.000-07:002011-09-19T12:53:13.512-07:00Jesus Came Preaching, TEACHING and Healing ! (Matt 4:23)<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In 2 Timothy 3:16-17 we read:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">"The word "<span style="color: #ff6600;">inspiration</span>" means "breathed out by God". Rephrased, this verse says,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“all scripture was breathed out by God and is inspired and profitable for teaching,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">conviction, correction, instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">perfect, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To expand further the word <span style="color: #ff6600;">doctrine</span> is translated "<span style="color: #ff6600;">instruction</span>," reproof is translated </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">"<span style="color: #ff6600;">conviction of sin</span>," correction is translated "<span style="color: #ff6600;">improvement of character" and instruction</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 14pt;">in righteousness, has the idea of “training or discipline</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.” </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We could accurately paraphrase this verse this way:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">“</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The scriptures for the salvation of our spirit, soul and body are Divinely breathed by </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">God and are profitable for instruction, for the conviction of sin, for the improvement of </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">our character and for our training in righteousness, so that we may be mature, being </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">fully equipped for every beneficial work!” </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The word of God is (and has) everything we need to become a complete and </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">perfected Christian, fruitful in every good work!</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> According to 2 Timothy 3:16 the scriptures are profitable in least four ways</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Authorship of the Word of God</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“For all scripture is given by inspiration of God (is God-breathed).” 2 Tim 3:16</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Know this first, that no prophecy is of any private interpretation. For the </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">they were moved by the Holy Spirit.” 2 Peter 1:20, 21</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Because it is supernatural in origin, it sometimes seems like the Word is contrary to </span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">human reason. It is not contrary to reason, but contrary to the natural mind and </span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ordinary human experience! Men being raised from the dead, being led by a pillar of </span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">fire and cloud, </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">or hearing and writing the Word of God under Divine Guidance are not </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ordinary experiences… But given the extraordinary nature and abilities of God the </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">events recorded for us are not contrary to reason. He can do anything!</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Word of God is completely trustworthy! We can build our lives on it without care </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">because <u>He watches over His Word to perform it and He is not a man that He can lie</u></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Word of God Is Alive</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hebrews 4:12 says:</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.</span></u></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Man's Opinion In Light Of God's Word</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The authority of God's word has been established. However, there are those who </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">believe and preach contrary to the word. What should our attitude be?</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We must obey God’s Word</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Once we have knowledge of the Word, we must be obedient to that word in order </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to call him Lord.</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">"And why call me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" Luke 6:46</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:9</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We must yield our personal opinions to scriptural authority.</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We must read, hear and meditate on the Word<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">"This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shall </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">meditate therein day and night, that thou may observe to do according to all </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that is written therein: for then thou shall make thy way prosperous, and then </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">thou shall have good success." Joshua 1:8</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We must set aside time every day to read the Word of God. </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• The Bible will keep you from sin. Psalm 119:9-11</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• It is a lamp unto our feet, lighting the way we should go Psalm 119:105</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• The Bible is a guide to, and equipper on, the way of life. 2 Timothy 3:16-17</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• The word cleanses us. John 15:3, Ephesians 5:26</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• The Bible causes people to live fruitful and prosperous lives. Psalm 1:1-3</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• To rightly divide the word and not be ashamed. 2 Timothy 2:15</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• The word is the Sword of the Spirit. Ephesians 6:13-17</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• Because faith comes by the word. Romans 10:17</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• Because we are destroyed for a lack of knowledge of the word. Hosea 4:6</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• By it we receive hope Romans 15:4</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• It brings us continuing salvation 1Timothy 4:16</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">• It contains everything we need to live a godly life. 2Peter 1:3-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">4</i></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=morning02-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002Y27P3M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-75357276155686447762011-09-17T13:55:00.000-07:002011-09-17T13:55:33.079-07:00DAVID A Man After God Own HEART ! 2Samuel 6:14-23<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">+</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16pt;">And David danced before the L<span class="small">ord</span> with all his might, wearing a priestly tunic. <a href="" name="fnt_3"></a><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=2Sa&c=6&t=NLTP&x=12&y=13#fnt__3#fnt__3"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: fnt_3;"></span><span class="vnum"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=2Sa&c=6&t=NLTP&x=12&y=13##"><span style="color: #324395;">15</span></a> </span></span>So David and all <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region> brought up the <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Ark</place></state> of the L<span class="small">ord</span> with much shouting and blowing of trumpets.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the L<span class="small">ord</span>, she was filled with contempt for him.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><span class="vnum"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=2Sa&c=6&t=NLTP&x=12&y=13##"><span style="color: #324395;">17</span></a> </span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16pt;">The <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Ark</place></state> of the L<span class="small">ord</span> was placed inside the special tent that David had prepared for it. And David sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings to the L<span class="small">ord</span>. <span class="vnum"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=2Sa&c=6&t=NLTP&x=12&y=13##"><span style="color: #324395;">18</span></a> </span></span>When he had finished, David blessed the people in the name of the L<span class="small">ord</span> Almighty. <span class="vnum"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=2Sa&c=6&t=NLTP&x=12&y=13##"><span style="color: #324395;">19</span></a> </span></span>Then he gave a gift of food to every man and woman in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Israel</place></country-region>: a loaf of bread, a cake of dates, <a href="" name="fnt_4"></a><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=2Sa&c=6&t=NLTP&x=12&y=13#fnt__4#fnt__4"><span style="color: #324395;"><span style="mso-bookmark: fnt_4;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[fn4]</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: fnt_4;"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: fnt_4;"></span> and a cake of raisins. Then everyone went home.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><span class="vnum"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=2Sa&c=6&t=NLTP&x=12&y=13##"><span style="color: #324395;">20</span></a> </span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16pt;">When David returned home to bless his family, Michal came out to meet him and said in disgust, "How glorious the king of <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Israel</place></country-region> looked today! He exposed himself to the servant girls like any indecent person might do!"</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><span class="vnum"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=2Sa&c=6&t=NLTP&x=12&y=13##"><span style="color: #324395;">21</span></a> </span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16pt;">David retorted to Michal, "I was dancing before the L<span class="small">ord</span>, who chose me above your father and his family! He appointed me as the leader of <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Israel</place></country-region>, the people of the L<span class="small">ord</span>. So I am willing to act like a fool in order to show my joy in the L<span class="small">ord</span>. <span class="vnum"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=2Sa&c=6&t=NLTP&x=12&y=13##"><span style="color: #324395;">22</span></a> </span></span>Yes, and I am willing to look even more foolish than this, but I will be held in honor by the girls of whom you have spoken!" <span class="vnum"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=2Sa&c=6&t=NLTP&x=12&y=13##"><span style="color: #324395;">23</span></a> </span></span>So Michal, the daughter of Saul, remained childless throughout her life.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;">You DON’T Understand MY PRAISE !</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;">You DON’T Understand WHY I DANCE !</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I was the least of MY Faher’s CLAN </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;">But still the LORD chose ME !!</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I SLAID Goliath ! </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And the people Shouted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saul killed Thousands</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;">AND I KILLED Ten’s of Thousands and Saul dispised me and I responded DON”T HATE THE PLAYA HATE </span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;">THE GAME !!!</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;">My Favorite SON disrespected me to my FACE !</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I fell in to sin with another man’s wife then I murdered her Husband !</span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=morning02-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002Y27P3M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-19521562338926476872011-08-01T18:45:00.000-07:002011-08-01T18:45:32.169-07:00Morning Manna Ministries: Expos'e From The Dark Side !!! part 4 <b>Weapons of Mass Destruction</b><br />
This strong title was thought to get someone attention as we continue to see the overt and covert work of Satan, the Bible says the enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy also to be mindful of the devices of the enemy.Micheal Porter's book " Kill Them Before They Grow"with the subtitle "Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in American Classrooms". Speaks of a diabolical scheme to destroy a generation that Satan has set up an evil system that is sown into every fiber and fabric of both this nations history and it's present condition. This scheme is very obvious in some places and extremely subtle in others, but its objective is to render the Body of Christ impotent and unable to come together as the community of faith is intended too.Let's go to the Word of God in Matthew 2:7-8,12-18 (NLT)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> Then Herod called for a private meeting with the wise men, and he learned from them the time when the star first appeared. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">8</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> Then he told them, “Go to Bethlehem and search carefully for the child. And when you find him, come back and tell me so that I can go and worship him, too!”</span><br />
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<div class="nlt07_body" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">12</a></span> When it was time to leave, they returned to their own country by another route, for God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod.</span></div><div class="nlt07_subhead" style="font-size: 0.9em; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">The Escape to Egypt</span></div><div class="nlt07_body-hd" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">13</a></span> After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”</span></div><div class="nlt07_body" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">14</a></span> That night Joseph left for Egypt with the child and Mary, his mother, <span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">15</a></span> and they stayed there until Herod’s death. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “I called my Son out of Egypt.” <a class="ftnt" href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#fnt__5" name="fnt_5" style="color: rgb(50, 67, 149) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: none; text-transform: lowercase !important; vertical-align: top !important;">[fn5]</a></span></div><div class="nlt07_body" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">16</a></span> Herod was furious when he realized that the wise men had outwitted him. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, based on the wise men’s report of the star’s first appearance. <span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">17</a></span> Herod’s brutal action fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:</span></div><div class="nlt07_poet1-vn-sp" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -2em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Mat&c=2&t=NLTP&x=11&y=10#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">18</a></span> “A cry was heard in Ramah—</span></div><div class="nlt07_poet2" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">weeping and great mourning.</span></div><div class="nlt07_poet1" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Rachel weeps for her children,</span></div><div class="nlt07_poet2" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">refusing to be comforted,</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">for they are dead.”</span></div><div class="nlt07_body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="nlt07_body" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Here in the text Herod did not want to praise or acknowledge the child he wanted to kill him. He knew what the system of this world knows that if a generation grows up healthy physically and mentally that at the appointed time they will be able to take their rightful place in that society. The attack begins by doing all it can by removing God from the public square, and by doing so as it says in the book of Judges "they did what was right in there own eyes". The inner city becomes a place that Charles Darwin would liken to the "survival of the fittest". Many of these persons by the time they leave elementary school they have have dropped out mentally and have lost their sense of pride and purpose. Brothers and Sisters there is more than one way to kill someone you can do it with weapons, do it with words ,instilling worthlessness,through welfare. You can take away a person's spirit, identity, destroy their dream and tell them directly and indirectly they have no purpose. When this kind of attack employed is done overtly and covertly long enough and starts early enough to undo the damage will take tremendous work therapeutically and spiritually something that many of "us" are unwilling to do.I close with this, what weapon(s) has the enemy used against you, your family, your community and how is it effecting you, your family and your community. This was written as a internal look and some of the things that winked at and looked the other way ! Let's look to the hills which come our help for our help comes from the LORD ! AMEN <b>I dedicate this message to Pearline S Lee (my mother) she has been a constant source of strength in my LIFE I am blessed to have had a living example of JESUS CHRIST</b> </span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=morning02-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002Y27P3M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-67050887584756012232011-07-30T16:56:00.000-07:002011-07-30T16:56:13.626-07:00Expos'e From The Dark Side !!! part 3 "Do You Know Jesus"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Let Me present to some and introduce to others Jesus "The Christ" from Nazareth. Some of us say we know Him in essence is we professing knowledge of Him which can only come from reading and/or having an encounter with through the Holy Spirit. Jesus states in the John's Gospel 5:39 " Search the scriptures in them you think you have eternal life theses are they which testify of me", 2 Timothy 3:16 says "All scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for doctrine reproof and correction, for instruction in righteousness (17) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. Some of us only are interested in taking the short cut so we spend our time trying and looking for an physical but mostly an emotional encounter which might not have been Christ at all. When Paul had a encounter with Jesus on </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Damascus road</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> it affected his life in such a way that he became willing to do ...and to go through...THE PROCESS. During this process Paul is willing to share with us 2Corinthians 12 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px;">So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud.After that he says<b>,</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px;"><b>Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away</b>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Each time he said,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="rl" style="color: red;">"My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px;"><b>So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through </b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>me. Paul through the Holy Spirit is teaching us a profound TRUTH. </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">I think that the "Church" has become too prideful !! How soon we forget Preachers, and leaders and other people who claim to know Christ.Who and will not press the issue of Bible study in the home and the CHURCH. I not trying to offend anyone but someone has to say it. We have people in the fellowship who are in leadership who truly do not believe that we should study to show ourselves approved.(if the did they would) Why do only a few show up when there is a prayer meeting, don't they KNOW the POWER of agreement "that the fervent effectual prayer avails much". Much of our relationship with God is emotional many of us to come to Church to shout, dance and be entertained by the Pastor. When we should be getting instructions on spiritual warfare. We should be coming to Church with pens, note books coming with the expectation of learning practical ways of applying the scripture to our lives.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px;">In this culture we must be aware of the overt and covert work of satan, if we would stand back and look the garden of eve experience and Jesus encounter in the wilderness then listen to John in the epistles satan attack is always the same the bible says in 1John 2:15-16 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.(16)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">For all that [is] in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. We need balance many Christian do not see the Man of God as God's instrument, do not and will not sow into there lives the bible says 1 Timothy 5:16-17,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Elders who do their work well should be respected and paid well,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">especially those who work hard at both preaching and teaching.Now with that being said the leader should not be looking riches his responsibility is look at the Christ and allow the teaching and the Holy Spirit to mold him. The largest Christian Church in the world,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">over the past century, the world has been witness to the growth of Christianity throughout Western and non-Western nations alike. However, few countries can rival the expansion rate demonstrated by South Korea during the last several decades. Some within the Christian church would herald the spread of the Christian faith in Korea as a remarkable achievement. Yet, one must not forget to examine the full-scope of effects that Christianity has had on the native way of life on the Korean peninsula, last time I checked the Pastor </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>David Yonggi Cho</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"> was living in an apartment with a million members we have Pastors in the US living like "rock stars" on the backs of widows and persons on welfare as they sell the "prosperity gospel" which in no gospel at all</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">The Bible says in Proverbs 3:31 <span class="nkjv_TC" style="padding-right: 10px;"></span><span class="nkjv_T4"></span>Do not envy the oppressor,<span class="nkjv_T4">a</span>nd choose none of his ways. In USA there in<b> Racism</b>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><b>Classism and Sexism, </b>if <b> </b>we truly want to be free we must begin to look at these things in light of scripture.If we do our lives, families , our Churches, our ministries will never be the the same .Many African American Christians have problems with this subject of racism and to that what I say is "<b>it is what it is.</b>" Isn't true, that that African-American where brought over in the hulls of ship by people who called Christians, " <b>it is what it is</b>". Isn't true that these Christians could go to Church on Sunday hang and rape on Sunday night.Isn't true that these Christians could allow the slaves to live in the worst condition and give them little or no resources for education therefore rendering the slave powerless to understand, then in conjunction with that came all the settle attacks. First he would separate the family, he picked and chose whatever woman he desired in spite of the father of those children, then he would to call them names ie. the N-word, stupid, shifless , lazy,ignorant, until they came to believe, then later the slave would embrace and begin to call themselves those same names and then assume the behavior. Let me present to some and introduce to others Jesus of Nazareth. My point is not really the issue of racism but how can we say we know Jesus and allow these things to go on and do or say nothing, we should be able to sit at the table as Christians of all races and work out our differences. Where is the conviction of the Holy Spirit ?? Proverb 3:31 Says </span><span class="nkjv_T4"></span>Do not envy the oppressor,<span class="nkjv_T4">a</span>nd choose none of his ways. We see the results of not doing anything reflected in the Church today, many Churches won't allow women to preach, those who do have resources look down on those who don't, the original Church in book of Acts 4:32 saysNow the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. <span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Act&c=4&t=NKJVP&x=9&y=9#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">33</a></span> And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. <span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Act&c=4&t=NKJVP&x=9&y=9#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">34</a></span> Nor was there anyone among them who lacked; for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, <span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Act&c=4&t=NKJVP&x=9&y=9#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">35</a></span> and laid <em style="font-style: italic;">them</em> at the apostles’ feet; and they distributed to each as anyone had need. Brothers and Sisters I pray this message today makes all of us uncomfortable Christians of every race creed and color we have work to do , but first become a student of scripture, search the scriptures get to know the teachings Jesus Christ , allow the Holy Spirit to guide you, and by all means PRAY !!!!!AMEN </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=morning02-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002Y27P3M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-7523941704509571482011-07-30T04:15:00.000-07:002011-07-30T04:15:02.089-07:00DO KNOW JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH ????<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let Me present to some and introduce to others Jesus "The Christ" from Nazareth. Some of us say we know Him in essence is we professing knowledge of Him which can only come from reading and/or having an encounter with through the Holy Spirit. Jesus states in the John's Gospel 5:39 " Search the scriptures in them you think you have eternal life theses are they which testify of me", 2 Timothy 3:16 says "All scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for doctrine reproof and correction, for instruction in righteousness (17) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. Some of us only are interested in taking the short cut so we spend our time trying and looking for an physical but mostly an emotional encounter which might not have been Christ at all. When Paul had a encounter with Jesus on </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Damascus road</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> it affected his life in such a way that he became willing to do ...and to go through...THE PROCESS. During this process Paul is willing to share with us 2Corinthians 12 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px;">So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud.After that he says<b>,</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px;"><b>Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away</b>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Each time he said,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="rl" style="color: red;">"My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px;"><b>So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through </b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>me. Paul through the Holy Spirit is teaching us a profound TRUTH. </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">I think that the "Church" has become too prideful !! How soon we forget Preachers, and leaders and other people who claim to know Christ.Who and will not press the issue of Bible study in the home and the CHURCH. I not trying to offend anyone but someone has to say it. We have people in the fellowship who are in leadership who truly do not believe that we should study to show ourselves approved.(if the did they would) Why do only a few show up when there is a prayer meeting, don't they KNOW the POWER of agreement "that the fervent effectual prayer avails much". Much of our relationship with God is emotional many of us to come to Church to shout, dance and be entertained by the Pastor. When we should be getting instructions on spiritual warfare. We should be coming to Church with pens, note books coming with the expectation of learning practical ways of applying the scripture to our lives.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px;">In this culture we must be aware of the overt and covert work of satan, if we would stand back and look the garden of eve experience and Jesus encounter in the wilderness then listen to John in the epistles satan attack is always the same the bible says in 1John 2:15-16 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.(16)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">For all that [is] in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. We need balance many Christian do not see the Man of God as God's instrument, do not and will not sow into there lives the bible says 1 Timothy 5:16-17,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Elders who do their work well should be respected and paid well,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">especially those who work hard at both preaching and teaching.Now with that being said the leader should not be looking riches his responsibility is look at the Christ and allow the teaching and the Holy Spirit to mold him. The largest Christian Church in the world,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">over the past century, the world has been witness to the growth of Christianity throughout Western and non-Western nations alike. However, few countries can rival the expansion rate demonstrated by South Korea during the last several decades. Some within the Christian church would herald the spread of the Christian faith in Korea as a remarkable achievement. Yet, one must not forget to examine the full-scope of effects that Christianity has had on the native way of life on the Korean peninsula, last time I checked the Pastor </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>David Yonggi Cho</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"> was living in an apartment with a million members we have Pastors in the US living like "rock stars" on the backs of widows and persons on welfare as they sell the "prosperity gospel" which in no gospel at all</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">The Bible says in Proverbs 3:31 <span class="nkjv_TC" style="padding-right: 10px;"></span><span class="nkjv_T4"></span>Do not envy the oppressor,<span class="nkjv_T4">a</span>nd choose none of his ways. In USA there in<b> Racism</b>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><b>Classism and Sexism, </b>if <b> </b>we truly want to be free we must begin to look at these things in light of scripture.If we do our lives, families , our Churches, our ministries will never be the the same .Many African American Christians have problems with this subject of racism and to that what I say is "<b>it is what it is.</b>" Isn't true, that that African-American where brought over in the hulls of ship by people who called Christians, " <b>it is what it is</b>". Isn't true that these Christians could go to Church on Sunday hang and rape on Sunday night.Isn't true that these Christians could allow the slaves to live in the worst condition and give them little or no resources for education therefore rendering the slave powerless to understand, then in conjunction with that came all the settle attacks. First he would separate the family, he picked and chose whatever woman he desired in spite of the father of those children, then he would to call them names ie. the N-word, stupid, shifless , lazy,ignorant, until they came to believe, then later the slave would embrace and begin to call themselves those same names and then assume the behavior. Let me present to some and introduce to others Jesus of Nazareth. My point is not really the issue of racism but how can we say we know Jesus and allow these things to go on and do or say nothing, we should be able to sit at the table as Christians of all races and work out our differences. Where is the conviction of the Holy Spirit ?? Proverb 3:31 Says </span><span class="nkjv_T4"></span>Do not envy the oppressor,<span class="nkjv_T4">a</span>nd choose none of his ways. We see the results of not doing anything reflected in the Church today, many Churches won't allow women to preach, those who do have resources look down on those who don't, the original Church in book of Acts 4:32 saysNow the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. <span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Act&c=4&t=NKJVP&x=9&y=9#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">33</a></span> And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. <span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Act&c=4&t=NKJVP&x=9&y=9#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">34</a></span> Nor was there anyone among them who lacked; for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, <span class="vnum" style="color: #5c749a; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Act&c=4&t=NKJVP&x=9&y=9#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">35</a></span> and laid <em style="font-style: italic;">them</em> at the apostles’ feet; and they distributed to each as anyone had need. Brothers and Sisters I pray this message today makes all of us uncomfortable Christians of every race creed and color we have work to do , but first become a student of scripture, search the scriptures get to know the teachings Jesus Christ , allow the Holy Spirit to guide you, and by all means PRAY !!!!!AMEN </span><br />
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<div class="ArticleTextStyle" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">What a strange lot we are! Enamored of the dazzling lights, the fickle applause of the public, the splash of success, we seldom trace the lines that led to that flimsy and fleeting pinnacle. Bitter hardship. Unfair and undeserved abuses. Loneliness and loss. Humiliating failures. Debilitating disappointments. Agony beyond comprehension suffered in the valley and crevices of the climb from bottom to top.</div><div class="ArticleTextStyle" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">How shortsighted! Instead of accepting the fact that no one deserves the right to lead without first persevering through pain and heartache and failure, we resent those intruders. We treat them as enemies, not friends. We forget that the marks of greatness are not delivered in a paper sack by capricious gods. They are not hurriedly stuck onto skin like a tattoo.</div><div class="ArticleTextStyle" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">No, those who are really worth following have paid their dues. They have come through the furnace melted, beaten, reshaped, and tempered. To use the words of the teacher from Tarsus, they bear in their bodies “the brand-marks of Jesus” (Galatians 6:17). Or, as one paraphrases it, they carry “the scars of the whippings and wounds” . . . which link them to all mankind.</div><div class="ArticleTextStyle" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Small wonder when such people move from time to eternity they “belong to the ages.”</div><div class="ArticleTextStyle" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Taken from Charles R. Swindoll, <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life</em> (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1983) 100. Copyright © 1983 by Charles R. Swindoll, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.</span></div><div class="ArticleTextStyle" style="color: black; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Expos'e From The Dark Side Part 2</span></div><div class="ArticleTextStyle" style="color: black; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">There are some truths that are hard to swallow except through maturity and the Holy Spirit, except through taking a hard look at the life and ministry of Paul of Tarsus and Christianity through the eyes of Howard Thurman's book Jesus and the Disinherited. Then one would begin to see why Jesus of Nazareth would be born in poverty, raised in a ghetto called Nazareth at time when women had no rights and Israel would be under the control of Rome. When came into His earthly ministry and in His inaugural speech he began with these words, (Luke 4:18-19) The Spirit of the Lord has anointed to preach the "good news"to the poor.....chose 12 blue collar guys (disciples) and said( Mark 1:15)"The kingdom of God is at hand</span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">In retrospect as a child I always wondered why I was dealt the cards that I was dealt ! Why didn't my life resemble what I saw on TV ? Why didn't I have a two parents family in the home , I knew something was wrong but not being able to put my finger on the problem. Being naiive I did not and was able to guard and protect myself from the forces that would destroy me. The overt force "the prince of the power of the air" secondly persons that James P. Carse refer to in his book "The Religious Case Against Belief". He talks about ignorance in a couple of ways one is <i>ordinary ignorance</i> all of us are ignorant in this way. Indeed, there is no end of the things that we do not and will not ever know in this respect <i>ordinary ignorance </i>is a trivial phenomenon. The second form of ignorance is a subtler and potentially far more dangerous it called <u style="font-weight: bold;"> willful ignorance</u>. It is a paradoxical condition in which we are aware there is something we do not know,but choose not to know it. Brothers and Sisters there is an attack on the body of Christ , Jesus warns us in Matt 24 it talks about "wars and rumor, famines earthquakes and the love of many growing cold"<b>.In Romans 1 :18-31 it says,</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">18</a></span> For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, <span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">19</a></span> because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown <em style="font-style: italic;">it</em> to them. <span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">20</a></span> For since the creation of the world His invisible <em style="font-style: italic;">attributes</em> are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, <em style="font-style: italic;">even</em> His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, <span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">21</a></span> because, although they knew God, they did not glorify <em style="font-style: italic;">Him</em> as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. <span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">22</a></span> Professing to be wise, they became fools, <span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">23</a></span> and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div class="nkjv_T-plus" style="font-size: 0.9em; text-indent: 30px;"><b><span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">24</a></span> Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, <span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">25</a></span> who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.</b></div><div class="nkjv_T-plus" style="font-size: 0.9em; text-indent: 30px;"><b><span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">26</a></span> For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. <span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">27</a></span> Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.</b></div><div class="nkjv_T-plus" style="font-size: 0.9em; text-indent: 30px;"><b><span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">28</a></span> And even as they did not like to retain God in <em style="font-style: italic;">their</em> knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; <span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">29</a></span> being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, <a class="ftnt" href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#fnt__3" name="fnt_3" style="color: rgb(50, 67, 149) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: none; text-transform: lowercase !important; vertical-align: top !important;">[fn3]</a> wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; <em style="font-style: italic;">they are</em>whisperers, <span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">30</a></span> backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, <span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">31</a></span> undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, <a class="ftnt" href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#fnt__4" name="fnt_4" style="color: rgb(50, 67, 149) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: none; text-transform: lowercase !important; vertical-align: top !important;">[fn4]</a> unmerciful; <span class="vnum" style="color: rgb(92, 116, 154) !important; font-size: 0.8em !important; font-style: normal !important; vertical-align: top !important;"><a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/printerFriendly.cfm?b=Rom&c=1&t=NKJVP&x=11&y=8#" style="color: #324395; text-decoration: none;">32</a></span> who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, <u>not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.</u></b></div></span></span></blockquote>As I close for today I pray your strength in the Lord ! Would you pray for me as I writing this with tears in my eyes to my WIFE, spiritual sons and daughters,brothers ans sisters in the faith all over the world, broken but trusting GOD. I plead the BLOOD !~<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Many of the Masses that call themselves Christians which mean "Christ like" who meet week after week, who pay there dues, serve on there given post, are rarely challenged to know JESUS through His Word. "In The Beginning Was The Word And The Word Was GOD", There is a part of our experience that is physical and can only be understood through the eyes of Faith. But to know GOD'S VOICE and to understand His ways can only be done through living LIFE in light of scripture. Please pray for me Darwin Micheal Harris as I pray for you !!!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For years I've lived between two selves the young man with dreams and visions of greatness and a child afraid. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the book the "Road less Traveled"the path to destruction is broad, attractive and easy to find until it get's you in it's clutches then it becomes a roaring lion or boa constrictor whose only purpose is kill , destroy, any and everything associated me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But There comes a time, a moment of clarity like in the story of the "prodigal son"where we must come to ourselves or die trying , a time when a man must take a stand for what he believes , he must align himself with the GOD of the scriptures. He must willing to fight with all that he knows (knowledge) how.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If your a fan of Shakespeare and the Bible you know that many of it's heroes had serious character flaws it make for a good story and teaches some important lessons. One of the greatest characters in the Bible he's called a friend of God and the Father of the FAITH Abraham had an integrity and fear issue twice he offered wife to have sex with other man because he did not trust that God could or would protect him(gen 12:11-20, gen 20:2-13) sisters imagine that the man of your dreams offering you to another man and what would that relationship be like afterward. Brother or Sister in Christ would you shout or dance and praise God with this as a testimony, would your wife tell everyone the she let another woman have her man to have a child, imagine laying in another room knowing what your husband was doing in another. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let me leave you with this for TODAY if your fear is separating you from God , remember trials to triumph, no test no testimony, no cross no crown, that God will never ask you to do anything He can't bring to completion, even if it requires miraculous intervention on HIS PART. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Jesus gave us an important, unforgettable lesson on the power of faith (Mark ll). On a spring afternoon Jesus and His disciples were traveling by foot across the dry middle-east desert when they came to a lonesome fig tree. As they approached it they found nothing but leaves. Then surprisingly Jesus said to the tree, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." He said it loudly enough so that His disciples heard Him. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The next day as they began their journey back down the old familiar road, Peter saw that the fig tree had withered from the roots.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16.0pt;">"Rabbi!" he exclaimed. "The fig tree you cursed has withered!"<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And with that miracle Jesus began to expound on the subject of faith. "Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, `Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him."<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It's important to note that the original Greek text reads, "Have the faith OF God." There is a subtle yet important difference between having faith IN God and having the faith OF God. You'll never move mountains by having faith in God. Many people have faith in God and are still not seeing the power of God in their lives. Circumstances are changed only when we use the faith </span></b><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">of </span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">God</span></b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=morning02-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002Y27P3M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-82886201649737002302011-05-16T04:31:00.001-07:002011-05-16T04:31:50.722-07:00The Truth Shall Make You ...........<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>There was a time when the church was very powerful--in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Whenever the early Christians entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict the Christians for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators."' But the Christians pressed on, in the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," called to obey God rather than man. Small in number, they were big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." By their effort and example they brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contests. Things are different now. So often the contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. So often it is an arch defender of the status quo. Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's silent--and often even vocal--sanction of things as they are.</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Now we're going to march again, and we've got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be. And force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God's children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to come out. That's the issue. And we've got to say to the nation: we know it's coming out. For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do. I've seen them so often. I remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there we would move out of the 16th Street Baptist Church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out. And Bull Connor would tell them to send the dogs forth and they did come; but we just went before the dogs singing, "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me round." Bull Connor next would say, "Turn the fire hoses on." And as I said to you the other night, Bull Connor didn't know history. He knew a kind of physics that somehow didn't relate to the transphysics that we knew about. And that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. And we went before the fire hoses; we had known water. If we were Baptist or some other denomination, we had been immersed. If we were Methodist, and some others, we had been sprinkled, but we knew water.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">That couldn't stop us. And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we'd go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we'd just go on singing. "Over my head I see freedom in the air." And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can. And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, "Take them off," and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, "We Shall Overcome." And every now and then we'd get in the jail, and we'd see the jailers looking through the windows being moved by our prayers, and being moved by our words and our songs. And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn't adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Birmingham</st1:place></st1:city>.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Now we've got to go on to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Memphis</st1:place></st1:city> just like that. I call upon you to be with us Monday. Now about injunctions: We have an injunction and we're going into court tomorrow morning to fight this illegal, unconstitutional injunction. All we say to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> is, "Be true to what you said on paper." If I lived in <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> or even <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">And I want to commend the preachers, under the leadership of these noble men: James Lawson, one who has been in this struggle for many years; he's been to jail for struggling; but he's still going on, fighting for the rights of his people. Rev. Ralph Jackson, Billy Kiles; I could just go right on down the list, but time will not permit. But I want to thank them all. And I want you to thank them, because so often, preachers aren't concerned about anything but themselves. And I'm always happy to see a relevant ministry.</span></i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">It's alright to talk about "long white robes over yonder," in all of its symbolism. But ultimately people want some suits and dresses and shoes to wear down here. It's alright to talk about "streets flowing with milk and honey," but God has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here, and his children who can't eat three square meals a day. It's alright to talk about the new Jerusalem, but one day, God's preacher must talk about the <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>, the new <st1:city w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:city>, the <st1:city w:st="on">new Philadelphia</st1:city>, the new <st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city>, the new <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Memphis</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Tennessee</st1:state></st1:place>. This is what we have to do</span></i></span></b><div><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
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eve of his assassination, at [the Bishop Charles] Mason Temple in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Memphis</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Tennessee</st1:state></st1:place>,<br />
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</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"> <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><b>Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy in his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It's always good to have your closest friend and associate say something good about you. And Ralph is the best friend that I have in the world.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><b>I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow. Something is happening in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Memphis</st1:place></st1:city>, something is happening in our world.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><b>As you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of general and panoramic view of the whole human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?"-- I would take my mental flight by <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region> through, or rather across the <st1:place w:st="on">Red Sea</st1:place>, through the wilderness on toward the promised land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn't stop there. I would move on by <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region>, and take my mind to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Mount</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Olympus</st1:placename></st1:place>. And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><b>But I wouldn't stop there. I would go on, even to the great hey day of the <st1:place w:st="on">Roman Empire</st1:place>. And I would see developments around there, through various emperors and leaders. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even come up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and esthetic life of man. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even go by the way that the man for whom I'm named had his habitat. And I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his ninety-five theses on the door at the church in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wittenberg</st1:place></st1:city>.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><b>But I wouldn't stop there. I would come on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating president by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally come to the conclusion that he had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even come up the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation. And come with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but fear itself.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><b>But I wouldn't stop there. Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the twentieth century, I will be happy." Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding--something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya: Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee--the cry is always the same--"We want to be free."</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><b>And another reason that I'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we're going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><b>That is where we are today. And also in the human rights revolution, if something isn't done, and in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. Now, I'm just happy that God has allowed me to live in this period, to see what is unfolding. And I'm happy that he's allowed me to be in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Memphis</st1:place></st1:city>.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><b>I can remember, I can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratching where they didn't itch, and laughing when they were not tickled. But that day is all over. We mean business now, and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God's world.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><b>And that's all this whole thing is about. We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><b>Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity.</b></span><br />
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<div style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sanctification also relates to emotional healing, or a changed heart. God wants remove all negative attitudes of despair, fear and rejection from us and give us a hopeful, joyful, faith-filled attitude. He wants to remove all bitterness and resentment from us. A person who is hurt or bitter needs to receive God’s grace so he or she can<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>truly forgive</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>those who have caused the hurt, and get free of every root of bitterness. Wrong heart attitudes such as pride, envy, impatience, resentment, rejection, selfishness, rebellion, independence and so on are the fruit of an unsanctified heart. A full sanctification in God will remove these wrong heart attitudes from us. Sometimes the term “inner healing” is used in relation to the sanctification of the emotions and memories in our soul.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Santification and holiness also means the development of the fruit of the Holy Spirit, and other qualities of godly character. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such there is no law.” (Galatians 5:23,24). The most important of all here is love. In fact, growth in God means growth in love, for God is love (1 John 4:8). Love is the greatest and most important quality that a Christian can have (1 Corinthians 13:13). A definition of Christian love is found in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Comparing our lives with this description of love can give us an idea of how far we have really progressed in sanctification as God defines it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=morning02-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002Y27P3M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-1924827095311287062011-03-31T10:52:00.000-07:002011-03-31T10:52:19.980-07:00Prayer Changes Things ! Part 2<div class="module moduleText color0" id="mod_953355" style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><h2 class="subtitle" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font: normal normal bold 1.2em/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;">G</span>od can change anything through prayer according to His will</h2><div class="txtd" id="txtd_953355" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><pre style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/normal 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b> </b></pre><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."</em>(Php. 4:6-7)</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>Prayer changes things only for God's people because <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose</em>." (Rom 8:26-28). <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Everything by prayer</em>" does not mean everything in the universe, but rather <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"all things that pertain to life and godliness"</em> (2 Pet. 1:3-4, 11). The <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"life"</em> refers to eternal life. We pray only for the change that has connection to God's plan of salvation.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>However this does not mean that we pray only for spiritual things. Prayer will certainly change material things when that change has a spiritual value and benefit.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>Prayer is not for satisfying physical and material lusts (Jas 4:3). It does not mean that we cannot pray for material needs. Jesus taught us to pray, "Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses..." (Lk. 11:3-4) The main purpose of prayer, however, is to help make things "turn out for salvation" (Php 1:19).</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much." </em>(Jas 5:16) When a righteous man prays there are more changes than he could ever imagine or comprehend. <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven." </em>(Jas. 5:15) The sick person is not only healed but also saved.</b></div></div></div><div class="module moduleText color0" id="mod_953367" style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><h2 class="subtitle" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font: normal normal bold 1.2em/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Malaysian Woman received Holy Spirit and Healing through Prayer</h2><div class="txtd" id="txtd_953367" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><pre style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/normal 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b> </b></pre><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>Many years ago there was a Christian woman in Kuala Lumpur, West Malaysia who had been suffering from hemorrhaging, the sickness similar to the one who touched the border of Jesus' garment and was healed (Lk. 8:43-48). This Malaysian woman had also spent her family's savings on doctors and still could not be healed. A member brought her to our church and after hearing the full gospel of salvation she believed in the new birth of water and the Spirit (Jn. 3:3-8).</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>One evening while she was praying fervently at home she was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke with tongues. At that moment she also felt the power of God descended on her and pushed some liquid out of her body. After the prayer she got up and saw a puddle of blood on the floor where she had been kneeling. This woman was completely healed from that moment onwards. She and her husband were baptized into the Lord Jesus Christ.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>After many months she met one of her former physicians at the town market. The doctor was surprised that she looked so healthy and asked what happened to her. He also wanted to know who had healed her. She said her doctor is the Lord Jesus Christ. The doctor also believed in Jesus and was baptized into Him.</b></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=morning02-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002Y27P3M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-53212544189972587542011-03-27T20:14:00.000-07:002011-03-27T20:14:08.635-07:00Prayer Changes Things !!!!!!!!<div style="border-bottom: dotted #CC9900 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: dotted #CC9900 .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: dotted #CC9900 .5pt; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #cc9900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Prayer of Faith<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:20-25; Luke 7:1-10; James 5:13-18; Matthew 9:18-26; James 1:5-8<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The prayer of faith is rooted in our confidence in God's Word. When you are sure that what you are praying for is God's will for you, the prayer of faith can be employed. The prayer of faith is knowing God's will, praying it and receiving it from Him. Not forgiving and doubting are the two greatest hindrances to prayers of faith.</span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--><a href="" name="type6"></a><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="border-bottom: dotted #CC9900 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: dotted #CC9900 .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: dotted #CC9900 .5pt; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #cc9900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Prayer of Contemplation<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>The following steps may help you build contemplation into your prayer life.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.8pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 39.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Establish a time and a place</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Establish a regular time and place to give God your undivided attention each day (not in the car or while doing the dishes!). Have everything you need: your Bible, a journal, a pen, etc., so you can move right into prayer.</span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.8pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 39.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Keep your purpose clear</span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
Come to this time for the sole purpose of seeking God's face. Keep this time for worship, meditation and listening for His voice. Intercession and supplication are for another time.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.8pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 39.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Be still and quiet</span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
This is a difficult discipline and takes much practice. After acknowledging God's presence, become still and quiet before Him. Relax your mind and breathe deeply, all the while thanking Him silently that He meets you in the stillness.</span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.8pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 39.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Meditate on Scripture</span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
Unlike Eastern meditation, our goal is not to empty our mind, but to fill it with the revelation of God's manifest presence. Read small portions of Scripture, asking God to reveal Himself to you. Wait on Him and listen for the Shepherd's voice.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.8pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 39.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Journal your prayers</span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
Write daily love letters to God that respond to the joy of being with Him. Chronicle what He seems to be saying to you in writing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.8pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 39.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Prepare for wandering thoughts</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Don't worry if your mind wanders, especially at first. Jot down things you need to do later; then return your mind to seeking God's face again.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.8pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 39.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Don't fear drowsiness</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It is no sin to fall asleep in the arms of God. Of course, if this becomes the norm, you may need to change your sleeping habits!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 39.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Infuse intercession with contemplation</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Whenever the battle in prayer takes its toll, take a few minutes to contemplate the loveliness of Christ, rest in His arms and simply enjoy His presence. Then go back to the work of active prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>By Tricia McCary Rhodes</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=morning02-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002Y27P3M&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Meet the Pastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545983213175476068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985903719577730547.post-66260799494725601862011-03-22T14:09:00.001-07:002011-03-22T14:10:24.926-07:00Prayer Moves The Hand Of GOD !!!!! "Fervent Effectual Prayers Avails MUCH "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<h3 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc9900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 456px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc9900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 456px;">Prayer of Intercession</h3><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Genesis 18:22-33 (Abraham); 1 Kings 18:41-46 (Elijah); 2 Kings 4:32-36 (Elisha); Acts 12:1-18 (The early church)</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To intercede means to plead or mediate on behalf of another person. Intercessory prayer means praying earnestly for the needs of others, and seeking God's will for their life. We are called to intercede for others, just as Jesus is interceding for us (Hebrews 7: 25).<br />
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<strong><span class="grey_link a" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Six Essentials of Effective Intercessory Prayer</span></strong></div><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #58595b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><span class="worship-orange-text" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Be Sincere</strong></span></strong><br />
Prayer is a sacred responsibility, and we need to treat it as such. Samuel told the Israelites, "Far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by failing to pray for you." (1 Samuel 12:23)<br />
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If you've ever had details of your personal life spread all over church, you know how devastating a little gossip can be. Here's a simple rule for any effective intercessor. Assume every prayer request offered by a friend is for your ears only, even if they don't specifically say so. If you belong to a prayer group, you might ask the person if they mind you sharing their request so others can pray, too. Even if they respond positively, refrain from telling the group any more than is necessary.<br />
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So often we glibly promise to pray for someone - and we really mean it - but somehow we simply fail to do so. When you make a commitment to pray for someone, make a note of it. Amid the pressures of daily life, prayer often gets pushed to the back burner. The whispers of our conscience can be drowned by the screams of a hungry baby or the demands of a cranky boss. But no matter what your work schedule is, you can find time to pray.</li>
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If you consistently have trouble making time for prayer, find a partner and hold each other accountable. Even if you don't have the time to pray together, just remind each other regularly of your commitment to pray. In promising to pray for someone, you've made a sacred commitment. It's a solemn responsibility - with incredible rewards.</li>
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But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also. The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">"He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.'</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">"The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">"But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em; text-align: right;">– <cite style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word;">Matthew 13:24-30, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_English_Bible" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">World English Bible</a></cite></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"></span></div><div style="display: inline !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Martin Luthe<b style="font-weight: normal;">r</b></a><b style="font-weight: normal;"> preached a sermon on the parable in which he affirmed that only God can separate false from true believers and noted that killing heretics or unbelievers ends any opportunity they may have for salvation</b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><b><blockquote style="display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">"From this observe what raging and furious people we have been these many years, in that we desired to force others to believe; the Turks with the sword, heretics with fire, the Jews with death, and thus out root the tares by our own power, as if we were the ones who could reign over hearts and spirits, and make them pious and right, which God's Word alone must do. But by murder we separate the people from the Word, so that it cannot possibly work upon them and we bring thus, with one stroke a double murder upon ourselves, as far as it lies in our power, namely, in that we murder the body for time and the soul for eternity, and afterwards say we did God a service by our actions, and wish to merit something special in heaven."</div></blockquote></b></span><div style="font-weight: bold;"></div><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em; text-align: right;"></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">He concluded that "although the tares hinder the wheat, yet they make it the more beautiful to behold"</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Saint Augustine pointed out that the invisible distinction between "wheat" and "tares" also runs through the Church:</div><blockquote style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em;"><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">O you Christians, whose lives are good, you sigh and groan as being few among many, few among very many. The winter will pass away, the summer will come; lo! The harvest will soon be here. The angels will come who can make the separation, and who cannot make mistakes. ... I tell you of a truth, my Beloved, even in these high seats there is both wheat, and tares, and among the laity there is wheat, and tares. Let the good tolerate the bad; let the bad change themselves, and imitate the good. Let us all, if it may be so, attain to God; let us all through His mercy escape the evil of this world. Let us seek after good days, for we are now in evil days; but in the evil days let us not blaspheme, that so we may be able to arrive at the good days.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Tares#cite_note-6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a></sup></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #301b11; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><b>It is time for the Church to wake up and realize that God is true and His Word is true. We cannot bring release to the post-modern mind by rejecting the very truth that will free them. We cannot bring freedom when we distort God’s method of reaching the lost (and yes I said “lost”…they really are lost.) Scripture is God’s voice speaking to us about the method and the methodology. You see the ultimate issue is once again, <em>biblical authority! </em>The drift away from biblical preaching to a social gospel message is ultimately a rejection of God’s authority…a rejection of His voice in Scripture.I am well aware of the good intentions; I am well aware of the enormous problems socially, politically, and sociologically for people in this deeply sinful and corrupt world. But we do not replace the gospel with a false gospel in the hope that salvation will come by social ministry. The gospel must always be preeminent because without biblical preaching no one can be saved. We can feed the poor but still be eternally lost. “If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,<sup></sup>but do not have love, <em>I gain nothing</em>” (1 Corinthians 1:3). Love is, first of all, truthful. We “speak the truth in love.” God tells us the truth because He loves us. The gospel is a message first….a message of the good news of God’s offer of forgiveness and His grace to us as undeserving sinners. I must never replace that message with a works-righteousness message, no matter how good my intentions may be. We preach the message first.<br />
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