Biblical Teachings

Peace of Mind in Perilous Times

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Pete Garcia   Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ~ Isaiah 5:20   It used to be, that people didn’t need to lock their doors at night, or worry about someone stealing a bike from their front yard. You didn’t use to need to worry about your kids walking to the store by themselves, or just being out all day playing until dinner time. You didn’t need to worry about whether your government was spying on you. You …

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Genesis 41:4 4 The ugly and gaunt cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.

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Pharaoh’s dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry; my seasons of coldness have frozen all the genial glow of my periods of fervency and enthusiasm; and my fits of worldliness have thrown me back from my advances in the divine life. I had need to beware of lean prayers, lean praises, lean duties, and lean experiences, for these will eat up the fat of my comfort and peace. If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the …

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Confidence in Times of Distress

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When hardships discourage us and we want to escape, God offers us rest in His presence and power.   PSALM 46:1-11 1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.   2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;   3 Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. Selah.   4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.   5 God is …

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Secure in Our Salvation

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Many people struggle with uncertainty about their salvation. They do not understand that once they have received God’s free gift of Eternal Life and have been born into the family of God, there is no way that they can return to the position of being a lost and guilty sinner in the eyes of God. The very nature of the spiritual life that has been received, ETERNAL, and the Divine Source and Agent of that life, GOD, forbid drawing the conclusion that a saved person can ever again be lost. “And I give them eternal life, and they shall never …

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When You’re Juggling Faith and Heartache~

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It’s become more than apparent, that what faith appears to be to someone watching and what faith feels like to someone walking through it, can seem to be completely different and yet, in reality, be absolutely the same. In the wee morning of December 8th,2015, my heart stopped.   Getting my world started again, – no matter how many times the clock ticks, or how many days go by, or how many times I flip the page on the calendar over to a new month, is still an ongoing, don’t-know-how-to-do-it, battle every single moment of every single day. Only, it’s …

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The Messianic Time Table According to Daniel the Prophet

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Topics: messianic prophecy, messiah to die, end times Category: Issues 05:01 Daniel’s Messianic Time Table by Arnold Fruchtenbaum More than any other book of the Hebrew Scriptures, the writings of the prophet Daniel confront us with evidence of the time of Messiah’s coming—evidence that many people would rather not see. But it is there and cannot be ignored. That Daniel was indeed a prophet is well substantiated. He accurately prophesied the rise of the Medo-Persian, Greek and Roman empires even at a time when the Babylonian Empire, which preceded them all, was at its height. He accurately predicted the fortunes, conflicts, wars and conspiracies of …

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When you feel like you’re in the storm

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Mark 4:39 – 4:40 39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?   John 16:33 “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”   When you feel like you’re in the storm – No matter what swirls around us, God …

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“Our heart shall rejoice in Him.” Psalm 33:21

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Blessed is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their cages. The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon rise to the surface and see the light of God’s countenance; they have a buoyancy about them which keeps their head always above the water, and helps them to sing amid the tempest, “God is with me still.” To whom shall the glory be given? Oh! to Jesus–it is all by Jesus. Trouble does not necessarily bring consolation with …

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A Mighty Servant of God

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When we treasure God’s truth above all else, we’ll start to replace worldly habits with godly ones. EPHESIANS 4:17-24 17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 20 But you did …

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Riding Out the Storm

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2 Samuel 12:13-25 13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. 14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. 15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. 16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, …

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THE JOY OF SERVICE

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“These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be fulfilled.”– Joh 15:11 “My servants shall sing for joy of heart.”– Isa 65:14. ON THE eve of Gethsemane and the night before His crucifixion “these things” were said by our Lord: how could He have even a thought of Joy? Note how confidently He speaks of it–abiding, remaining, persistent joy! Like a hot geyser-spring, rising from unknown depths on an ice-bound world. How could He think of joy at such a moment? One answer alone seems possible. He knew that …

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