A friend was over yesterday, March 26, 2015 and we were discussing scripture and Karlyn, my wife, brought up Luke 23 and the criminals who were crucified with The Lord.
The next morning the thought ocurred to me that in the Luke 23 scripture is a prophecy that either has been overlooked, forgotten or just missed.
So, I thought I would record my thoughts and share them with you in the audio below. I hope you find this as interesting as I did!
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.
Continue reading "Let This Mind Be In You: Philippians 2:1-11" »
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.
YOUR WORD FOR TODAY!
The daily bread talks about "the little tent." The little tent, as you'll discover was a small tent at the Billy Graham crusades, where they prayed and the real work was done.
If I went to your home, could I find your knee imprints were you pray?
God Bless You as you seek after Him!
Bro Stef's Thought: If you have spent anytime in Christian circles, church, fellowship gatherings and social events you have heard the pains and sufferings of God's people. I am not making light of the troubles that God's people experience, they are real and in some cases life threatening.
My thoughts About Rabbi Kaduri's prophecy and Ariel Sharon's death: Click Here to Read
What most are not mentioning about Kaduri, I wrote about this a few years ago, Kaduri is a Kabbalist and Kabbal is based on Jewish “Mysticism” as part of its foundation. See this: http://www.jewfaq.org/kabbalah.htm .
My personal belief is that those who practice Kabbal lean towards extra biblical information and depend on more than just the scriptures for information and inspiration, hence, it is more likely for one to receive the wrong information. Now I’m not saying that Kaduri’s message is not true, but I do approach it with a great deal of skepticism.
The Bible is the authority that reveals where we are on God’s timeline and it is clear that we are nearing the time when Christ will return. I’m very careful to not hitch my wagon to what men say, because I have seen over the years, 39 to be exact, many lose faith and become discouraged because men have gotten it all wrong over the years.
Continue reading "Rabbi Kaduri's Prophecy and Ariel Sharon's Death" »
Todays' report I want to approach a bit differently. Traditionally, at this time of year, we hear sermons on the birth of our Savior, and it is appropriate that we do, after all, the Lord gave everything He had, He suffered like no one in history has ever suffered, [ Isaiah 53 ] to pave the way for all of us who believe in Him to have eternal life!
Come back with me, in your minds eye, to Moses and the Children of Israel in the wilderness, Numbers 21:1-9. This is when the People of God, the Jews, complained and the Lord sent fiery serpents to His people because of their complaining and after the people were bitten by the serpents they would die. You'll recall that after the people recognized their sin and became repentant, Moses prayed and God provided the answer and the solution. It's worthy of our time to contemplate that it was only after repentence was realized and the heart of man was humbled that the Lord provided the remedy. We would do well to remember that God is the same yesterday, today and forever!
The solution was really very simple and yet it was extremely prophetic and powerful. Not only would the solution heal them and stop them from dieing, it would require something that we are all asked to do today:
Based on Judges Chapter 6:
The story of Gideon is a powerful example of how our Messiah, Jesus Christ sees us. He sees us as people that are filled with His attributes. He sees us as conquers and victorious. People of mighty works in His name, works and miracles that He did and even greater!
From time to time we may feel afraid, fearful, frustrated and not very victorious with ourselves and with life, much as Gideon did. When The Angel of The Lord (Yeshua, Jesus) appeared to Gideon, he was at a wine press threshing wheat. Threshing wheat in a wine press
( See the wine press at Shivta, Israel ) would have concealed Gideon so that no one would have seen him, the fact that he was threshing wheat in secret, well that’s very telling about the state of Gideon’s heart and mind at that time and it reveals to us that he was most likely ruled by fear and doubt.
As I look at at the trials I have gone through recently and over the last 14 years, it seems to me that the Lord is teaching me to trust in Him, exercise my faith no matter what I see, feel or experience. He is always with us and He will NEVER leave us or forsake us! He will guide our paths... We can TRUST in HIM!
My Prayer:
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John 5:24, NLT
I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.
Think about how powerful of a statement this is. In the Lord's day, the Jews of that day believed that ONLY God could forgive sin, they have believed this for over 4,000 years by the way and they're right, only God can forgive sin!
Continue reading "Your Word For Today: Yeshua Makes a Radical & Bold Statement" »
1 John Chapter 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
When John penned these words it was before 70 A.D. and at that time there were Antichrist's in the form of Gnostic's. Basically Gnostic's believe that one is spiritual and saved by what they do predominately, not by who they place their faith in. Therefore, John was countering the trends of his day, and in our vanacular he was saying, let's get real, this is what sin is and this is the solution to it, recognize you are a sinner, confess your sin and yeild your will to God and the "true" God will forgive you your sin.
John's emphasis was on a personal relationship with a living God, not a god of their imaginations, something in the air or a good feeling for doing something good. John wanted the Jews of his day to understand completely, that first, one must exercise faith and the natural affect of that faith would be seen by what we do. Many in his day had it backwards, what you do was more important than what or who you believed in.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Continue reading "Your Word For Today: If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar..." »
So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you.
The children of Israel were about to enter the promised land without their leader Moses. Moses was passing the mantle of leadership on to Joshua (meaning Salvation) who would lead them before the Lord. The children of Israel were feeling uneasy, nervous and fearful for the unknowns that were ahead of them.
The fear of the unknown has a way of just griping our insides and causing all kinds of turmoil within our hearts and our stomachs for that matter. Fear is a strong emotion that can either help us to be sharp and act divisively or cause us to withdraw and shrink in the face of danger and not complete our God given mission.
Continue reading "Your Word For Today... God is Always With Us!" »
Psalm 102:13-18
You will arise and have mercy on Zion; For the time to favor her, Yes, the set time, has come. For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And show favor to her dust. So the nations (gentiles) shall fear the name of the Lord, And all the kings of the earth Your glory. For the Lord shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory. He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, And shall not despise their prayer. This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.
This is probably one of the greatest prophecies for our day. In this prophecy it is declared that God will rebuild the stones of Israel (His Land), that the time has come to do it and He wrote this prophecy for a group of people, the Gentiles, non-Jews, who would come generations and even thousands of years later.
I am a Watchman and help people connect the dots between Biblical events and the headlines of today. Ezekiel 33:6
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