Today's report focuses on really two scriptures, Zechariah 12:8-11 and Matthew 23:39. Both scriptures point us to who Yeshua (Jesus) is and what He did for us through His death on the cross.
Today as never before the single greatest sign involves God's People, the Jews. He is not done with us yet and He, God, is actively involved in the affairs of the heart in His people.
As we move ever closer to the return of Jesus Christ (Yeshua Our Messiah) we are seeing the world's focus on Jerusalem like a laser!
The Jews in Israel are now crying out to God for their temple. The EU is demanding that Israel divide Jerusalem into two parts, east and west. The Jewish quarter and the east would be the Palestinians capital. Thought... The world refuses to call Jerusalem the capital of Israel, I wonder if Jerusalem was divided if they would call east Jerusalem the capital of the Palestinians? I digress...
Very interesting Bible verses in Jeremiah 3:1-9 tell us that we could be on the verge of the return of Yeshua (Jesus) to this earth and the rapture of believers.
The Bride of Christ, the believers of today, are intrinsically tied to Israel and the Jews whether we acknowledge this or not, this fact cannot be denied!
To hear my audio prophecy update on this, please listen to the audio I have supplied below.
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We continue with our study of Paul’s letters this week with 2 Corinthians 1.
Paul writes:
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints who are throughout Achaia:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.
v. 1-7 (NASB)
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This is the last message in Paul’s letters in 1 Corinthians. We will continue studying Paul’s letters with 2 Corinthians in two weeks. We end our study today with 1 Corinthians 16.
Paul writes:
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so do you also. On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come. When I arrive, whomever you may approve, I will send them with letters to carry your gift to Jerusalem; and if it is fitting for me to go also, they will go with me.
v. 1-4 (NASB)
The KJV for the second verse reads “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him…” Everything God asks us to give away, whether it be money, love, forgiveness, etc., we can be sure that He has first given it to us. We are more willing to give when we are not in lack. If we lack receiving God’s provision for our needs, we will be less willing to give to meet someone else’s needs. If we lack receiving God’s forgiveness for our mistakes, we will be less willing to forgive others for their mistakes. We have to receive from God before we can give to others.
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We continue our study of Paul’s letters this week with 1 Corinthians 15. In this chapter, Paul talks about Christ’s resurrection and the resurrection of the dead. He explains that if there is no resurrection of the dead, as some of them were saying, then Christ would not have been raised from the dead. Christ died for our sins because we were dead in our sins, and He was raised to life for our redemption, as Colossians 2:13-15 explains, “When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross” (NIV).
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We continue our study of Paul’s letters this week with 1 Corinthians 14. In the last chapter, Paul talked about possessing God’s “agape” love, which we have by receiving and remaining in His love. Paul begins chapter 14 instructing the Corinthians to pursue God’s “agape” love, but also to be eager to possess spiritual gifts in order to share His love with others.
Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries. But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation. One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church. Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.
v. 1-5 (NASB)
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We continue our study of Paul’s letters this week with 1 Corinthians 13. In the last chapter, Paul talked about the different Spiritual gifts God bestows upon His children. He ended the chapter saying, “And I show you a still more excellent way.” In chapter 13, He explains that the more excellent way is love.
Paul expresses:
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
v. 1-3 (NASB)
It says if we do not have love, it profits us nothing. The word translated as do not have is echó, which means “I have, hold, possess.” The word translated as love is agapé, which means God’s kind of love: “selfless, unconditional, sacrificial.” To possess God’s love, we must receive and remain in His love. We can’t give something we don’t have. If we are not seeking Him to be filled with His love, we will have nothing to give to others.
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We continue our study of Paul’s letters this week with 1 Corinthians 12.
Paul begins talking about the different Spiritual gifts God bestows upon His children.
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware. You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
v. 1-11 (NASB)
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We continue our study of Paul’s letters this week with 1 Corinthians 11.
Paul begins exhorting the Corinthians to imitate him as he is of Christ. He then uses an example of the customs of their time (hair length and head coverings) to clarify that they are to honor and give glory to Christ, not to him or anyone else. He corrected them for this earlier in 1 Corinthians 3 when they were arguing about who they would follow. Paul’s telling them to follow his example in following Christ.
Today we will be discussing the attributes of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Philippians 2. As we unpack this scripture we discover some life lessons concerning the mind of Christ, humility, suffering and servant hood.
It's never an easy road becoming like our Savior, however, it's a road we all must travel at some point in our relationship with Yeshua our Messiah.
He is more concerned with His character being developed in our lives, to the extent He will allow painful circumstances to enter our lives in order to teach us to walk with Him in the power of His Holy Spirit in love, faith and hope!
Learning to be like Christ takes a lifetime and we won't be like Him entirely until we graduate from this life and go to be with Him.
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Yesterday we looked at Romans 8:1-2; There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. See video's below Part 1 and Part 2...
The thought I focused on in the first video was the idea of how we don't always feel like we're victorious and not condemned and that positionally God sees us as conquerors and dead to sin.
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We continue our study of Paul’s letters this week with 1 Corinthians 10. Paul begins warning the Corinthians to learn from the Israelites’ example and not make the same mistake they did when they displeased God and were overthrown in the wilderness.
Paul begins:
For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.
v. 1-5 (NASB)
We often think God is displeased with us because we make mistakes and mess up often. But that’s not true. God called King David a man after His own heart, even though he was a murderer and an adulterer. God said, “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men, but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you” (2 Samuel 7:14-15, NASB).
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