Listening to God requires making time for Him.
In this teaching, Dr. Charles Stanley assures believers that
we need to seek Him, and He will answer. When we stop
striving and dive into His Word, we open the door to
experience His many blessings.
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
(Hebrews 13:8)
"For Christ did not please Himself, gave no thought to His own interests;
but, as it is written, The reproaches and abuses of those who reproached
and abused you fell on Me.
For whatever was thus written in former days was written for our instruction,
that by our steadfast and patient endurance and the encouragement drawn from
the Scriptures we might hold fast to and cherish hope.
Now may the God Who gives the power of patient endurance and Who supplies
encouragement, grant you to live in such mutual harmony and such full sympathy
with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus.
That together you may unanimously with united hearts and one voice,
praise and glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah.
Welcome and receive to your hearts one another, then, even as Christ
has welcomed and received you, for the glory of God."
(Romans 15:3-7)
"I will dwell in Your tabernacle forever;
let me find refuge and trust in the shadow of Your wings."
(Psalm 61:4)
Dr. Charles Stanley, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church in
Atlanta, Georgia for 50 years and founder of In Touch Ministries
went home to be with the Lord this morning. According to his family,
Dr. Stanley died peacefully in his sleep. He was 90 years old.
May he rest safely in the arms of Jesus.
"He will redeem their lives from oppression and fraud and violence,
and precious and costly shall their blood be in His sight.
Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel
Who alone does wondrous things!
Blessed be His glorious name forever;
let the whole earth be filled with His glory!
Amen and Amen!
(Psalm 72:14, 18, 19)
The nation of Israel paused today as sirens wailed across the land
to remember the six million Jewish lives lost during the Holocaust.
In the hearts of Jewish people around the world is the sentiment,
"Always remember. Never forget."
I still find it hard to believe at times that something so abominable
as the Holocaust could have happened in the mid-20th century.
But it did happen.
Unfortunately, there are many people today with hatred and
resentment simmering in their hearts for God's chosen people
and the nation of Israel.
There are those who deny that the Holocaust happened.
There are those who declare that the land which God bequeathed
to the Jewish people in the Bible does not belong to them.
Many self-proclaimed Christians erroneously believe that God
has replaced Israel with the church in these last days.
Antisemitism is on the rise in many places in the world, and unfortunately,
this includes a place once considered a safe haven for Jewish people
called the United States of America.
Currently within the land of Israel itself there is
much political chaos and unrest in the streets
pitting Israeli against Israeli.
Meanwhile, acts of violence and murder against Israelis by terrorist groups like
Palestinian Islamic jihad, Hamas, and Hezbollah, remain a constant threat.
That Jews are once again established in their own land, while the
scattered remnants of the twelve tribes are returning there from the
uttermost parts of the earth, not only attests to the Spirit of the Lord
at work, but of His boundless love and mercy, and amazing grace,
for His own beloved people and nation.
PSALM 121
*A Song of Ascents
I will lift up my eyes to the hills around Jerusalem
to sacred Mount Zion and Mount Moriah-
From whence shall my help come?
My help comes from the Lord Who made heaven and earth.
He will not allow your foot to slip or to be moved;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber or sleep.
The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your
right hand, the side not carrying a shield.
The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all evil; He will keep your life.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore.
*The fifteen psalms known as the "Songs of Degrees or Ascents"
were traditionally sung by caravans of Jewish pilgrims
going up to attend the feasts at Jerusalem.
The Spirit Of Antichrist Unmasked!
"Who is such a liar as he who denies Jesus Christ the Messiah?
He is the antichrist, the antagonist of Christ, who habitually
denies and refuses to acknowledge Father and Son.
No one who habitually denies, (disowns) the Son, even has the Father."
(1 John 2:22-23)
An important yet little known teaching from beloved
Messianic Rabbi Zev Porat of messiah ofisrael ministries.
May God bless him and his ministry always!
"I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God;
for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation.
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For surely as the earth brings forth its shoots, and
as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring forth,
so surely the Lord God will cause rightness and justice
and praise to spring forth before all the nations,
through the self-fulfilling power of His word.
(Isaiah 61:10-11)
