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Have you taken action? Do not procrastinate – it is the devil’s favorite tool to stop you from obedience to the Lord. Obey today.
http://ptl2010.com/2014/03/03/an-invitation-for-you-to-join-us-fight-abuse/
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This is a cry to all men…
Be the spiritual leader of your home again!
Teach your children the Godly way…
and from God they will not stray.
For the seeds planted in their heart…
will be the basis for a Godly start.
All children learn from example…
so their behavior is not circumstantial.
Drugs, sex, and alcohol…
have been a cause of many to fall.
Gambling, infidelity, pornography…
are these all part of your biography? Continue reading
The origin of the sons of God transcends any location on earth. They are strangers to earth. Earth is not their home. They are sojourners and pilgrims during their earthbound travels. Their roots go back to the beginning, locked deep down in their Father’s heart. They are not earthlings. They are not of this earth.
For God’s true offspring, life on earth is not really about earthly things. Invisible heavenly things, spiritual things, are driving what is happening for the sons of God while here on earth. But most of God’s sons and daughters do not know their destiny as of now. Their main problem is that they do not know how to walk in the heavenly calling that they are called to. Their problem is that they are thinking from a fleshly, earthly, natural point of view.
Man sees everything this way. He sees it all through the eyes of his own carnal senses. If it cannot be seen with the eyes or heard with the ears, or touched with the fingertips, or tasted with the tongue, or smelled with the nose, then it must not exist! That is natural man’s thinking. But, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things that God hath prepared for those who love Him.”
Natural minded man does not realize that this earth is not just about earthly things! The truth is that the things that are happening here on earth have been put in motion by things that cannot be seen from earth, nor seen by earthlings. This earth is about heavenly things! This earth is not really about earthly things. This earth is about spiritual things. This earth is about invisible things. Continue reading
The Lord Our Shield “But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.” (Psalm 3:3)
The beautiful metaphor of God as our shield, and our protector from evil, is used over 15 times in the book of Psalms, the first being in our text above. The very first time it is used in the Bible, however, is also the first time the word “shield” itself is used. That was the time when God assured Abram, after his battle with the armies of the northern kings: “Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield” (Genesis 15:1). This was a great comfort to Abram, there in the land of the Canaanites, where evil and enemies surrounded him on all sides.
But consider also a few of the many “shield” promises in the book of Psalms. One of the most beautiful and most uplifting is Psalm 84:11: “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
And consider also this wonderful promise: “As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler [same word] to all those that trust in him” (Psalm 18:30). In the same psalm appears this great testimony: “Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great” (Psalm 18:35).
Three times in Psalm 115 appears the injunction to “trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield” (Psalm 115:9-11). Similarly, “thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word” (Psalm 119:114).
The final reference in Psalms to the Lord as our shield is “Blessed be the LORD my strength. . . . My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me” (Psalm 144:1-2).
from Institute for Creation Research
In Him Is No Darkness “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 1:5)
Light is the most fundamental and important form of energy, and energy includes every phenomenon in the physical universe. It is appropriate for John to affirm that God is light, because everything created must reflect the character of its Creator. The term “light,” therefore, has come to be applied not only to light in the physical sense, but also to that which is true in the intellectual realm, and holy in the moral realm as well.
In terms of truth and genuine knowledge, “the entrance of thy words giveth light” (Psalm 119:130). “In thy light shall we see light” (Psalm 36:9). Without God’s truth, there is only darkness. “The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them” (2 Corinthians 4:4). The Bible also speaks of light as moral holiness. “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. . . . And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:8, 11).
There are still other analogies: “In him was life; and the life was the light of men” (John 1:4). Not only is light symbolic of life itself, but it also depicts God’s daily guidance for our lives. “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8:12). Since there is no darkness in God, “if we walk in the light as he is in the light” (1 John 1:7), there remains no excuse for any darkness in our lives. “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6). HMM
from Institute for Creation Research
Young in the faith , those who love the Lord, love to worship Him.
The Anthem
Like a Fire
Nothing is impossible
Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates
With pleasant fruits, Fragrant henna with spikenard,
Spikenard and saffron,
Calamus and cinnamon,
With all trees of frankincense,
Myrrh and aloes,
With all the chief spicesSong of Songs 4:13-14 NKJV
These few lines are packed full of meaning for us today.
The Lover of our souls, the Shepherd King is speaking in wonderful word pictures painting a description of what He sees as He surveys the garden of your life with Him.
In Verse 12 that He calls his maiden bride an enclosed or locked garden. She is to Him a place prepared.
This is it self is a wonderful turnabout. We know Jesus says to the disciples in John 14:2
… for I go to prepare a place for you. – John 14:2 NASB
As you press in to your relationship with Him, you begin to create a place for Him.
First this word, translated orchard, is interesting. It is not Hebrew in origin, but probably Persian or some other eastern source. It may be where we get our word paradise. It speaks of cultivated parks or forests that were kept near the Asian King’s palaces. It makes me thing of the garden God created for Adam and Eve.
Today as I ponder this idea, I keep coming back to the really awesome realization that we are to the Lord a paradise, and that we have prepared a place for Him.
Just as in the Garden of Eden, Jesus came and walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day, so it is with the garden – paradise – you are preparing for Him.
… If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. – John 14:23 NASB
As you give your life to Him in faith and obedience, in trust and love, His grace runs through the garden of your life. The living water of His Spirit flows through your garden, in wells and fountains, springs and streams, and supplies life to this forest, this orchard of fruit bearing trees, trees of life that grow within you.
I must go and tend to my garden. I must prepare a place, because the Lover of my soul is coming to meet me here. [Tweet This]
I go to prepare a place for Him.
Will you do the same?
Blessings,
Ben
Is a Christian Blessing…to multitudes around the world. Honored to be a part of such movement for Jesus Christ. We’re just getting started…as hearts are prepared.
Do it today. Do not procrastinate – the wonderful tool of the enemy to keep us from action. Don’t let him win.
http://ptl2010.com/2014/03/03/an-invitation-for-you-to-join-us-fight-abuse/
http://ptl2010.com/2013/12/17/he-lifts-us-up-please-take-a-journey-with-me-psalm-3418/
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