Month: August 2018

Praying for a Change

by

Anything we pray for that aligns with the Father’s plan will be granted. Praying for a Change James 5:16 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Hanging above the door in our house, my mother’s favorite plaque constantly reminded us, “Prayer changes things.” From an early age, I witnessed this powerful truth through her example. She’d tell me about some difficulties she was facing and then have me pray about them with her. And later, she’d always be sure to …

Read more

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5)

by

“It is in the hour of trial, just when the clouds are blackest and a spirit of dejection has seized us, that God’s faithfulness appears most conspicuously. He knows our frame and will not suffer us to be unduly tried, but will, “with the temptation also make a way to escape” (1 Corinthians 10:13). That is to say, He will either lighten the burden or give increased strength to bear it, so that we shall not be utterly overwhelmed by it. “God is faithful”: not that He is engaged to secure us if we deliberately plunge into temptations. No, if we …

Read more

Come Out

by

Come Out 1 Kings 19:10-18 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the …

Read more

Till the World Ends 

by

Till the World Ends Prophecy – Signs Monday, August 06, 2018 Pete Garcia No topic is as sought out, as picked over, and as intriguing as it is despised, as is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. No claim ever made was as audacious as was Christ’s, because by boldly proclaiming that not only could death not hold Him, but that the whole earth would one day mourn at the sight of His return (Revelation 1:7). Think about it, either Jesus had serious delusions of grandeur, or He is who He says He is, God in the flesh. The humbled Servant, faithful to …

Read more

The Throne of Grace

by

Jesus sees what it is we really want and need, even when we don’t recognize what that might be The Throne of Grace Hebrews 4:13-16 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our …

Read more

Learning from Abraham about the Life of Faith 

by

Learning from Abraham about the Life of Faith by John F. Walvoord Hebrews 11 11 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see. 2 For by it the people of old received God’s commendation. 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible. 4 By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith …

Read more

30 Faith Introduction II

by

This passage provides a principle for those Jewish people who were in the first century church that had rejected the truth of the coming judgment of all. If they were genuine believers their spiritual eternal salvation was assured but they would suffer bodily in some manner. If they were not saved then the significance of their willful sin would render them unsaved and Hell is their destination. Paul previously warned that, by failing to fellowship, apostasy may already have taken place because some refuse the assembling together. Because some have already stopped associating with other believers, a warning follows. If you …

Read more

Israel: Lynchpin of Bible Prophecy – by Jack Kinsella

by

Israel: Lynchpin of Bible Prophecy – by Jack Kinsella “For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the Name of the LORD, to serve Him with one consent.” (Zephaniah 3:9) Hebrew, as a spoken language, was already on the decline when Latin was still the lingua franca of the day. The modern word “Hebrew” is based in the root word ‘abar’ which means ‘to cross over.’ As a functional, working language, classical Hebrew flourished until around the time of the Babylonian Captivity in the 6th century BC. Under the subsequent Persian, …

Read more

“We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Romans 8:28

by

“We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Romans 8:28 Upon some points a believer is absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets of the vessel when it rocks most. He believes that an invisible hand is always on the world’s tiller, and that wherever providence may drift, Jehovah steers it. That re-assuring knowledge prepares him for everything. He looks over the raging waters and sees the spirit of Jesus treading the billows, and he hears a voice saying, “It is I, be not afraid.” He knows too that God …

Read more

The Day God Gave Me More Than I Could  Handle

by

The Day God Gave Me More Than I Could Handle What kind of God gives us more than we can handle? I recently read a blog with a sweet little story that ended with a sweet little quote that we’ve probably all heard (and said) hundreds of times. “God will never give you more than you can handle!” And while the article was good and it brought a tear to my eye…I couldn’t stop thinking about that overly used, “go-to” Christian phrase. “God will NEVER give you more than you can handle!” During some of the toughest times in my …

Read more

THE OLIVE TREE, ANTI-SEMITISM AND BIBLE PROPHECY

by

Dr. Thomas S. McCall At a convention of the Pre-Trib Study Group in Dallas, Dr. John Walvoord presented a paper on the Pre-Tribulation Rapture and Premillennial teaching, including the history of doctrines throughout the Church age.  I was very much struck by something that Dr. Walvoord said as he analyzed the transition from widely held pre-millennial views of the early church in the first three centuries to the predominantly amillennial, postmillennial or anti-millennial views that developed afterwards, and it centered around Augustine. Latent Anti-Semitism Caused Amillennialism I appreciated especially what Dr. Walvoord said, as quoted from the audio tape of …

Read more