“My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less” – Now Think On This by Steve Martin

“My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less” – Now Think On This by Steve Martin

March 6, 2020

“When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee – God can’t break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us, in the order of Melchizedek.”  Hebrews 6:17-20, THE MESSAGE

Do you know what we can have each day? Hope! And what kind of hope? A hope in the ETERNAL God, the Savior of our souls, the One Who (even better than President Trump) has made promises and keeps them! (Sorry, I just had to add that political part…to see if you were awake.)

I woke up this morning knowing that even though I have been “quarantined” from my uptown Charlotte accounting contractor job for 14 days after my return trip to India on Feb. 21, 2020, (for having a cough that I have had for years, as my good wife Laura Jean can attest to); I ended up in ER two days ago for rectal bleeding; and previously on Monday I had to make the decision to cancel a gathering the Lord had given me as an assignment to again attempt to do, back in October 2018, after a year and a half of preparation (canceled due to facing an $8,000 cost with only 11 registered with less than a month to go)…

He has given us ETERNAL HOPE!

And as the old hymn still sings, “My hope is found on nothing less!”

Read the words from the hymn, “My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less (On Christ The Solid Rock)” by Robert Critchley

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly lean on Jesus name

On Christ the solid rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand

When darkness veils His lovely face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil

His oath His covenant His blood
Supports me in the ‘whelming flood
When all around my soul gives way
He then is all my hope and stay

On Christ the solid rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand…

Source: Musixmatch

Listen here and be encouraged again: On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand

Yes, my friends, we will always have the hope BUILT on nothing less than Jesus Himself. That is our eternal guarantee for those of us who believe and keep our eyes fixed on Him.

“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:1-2, NKJV

Nothing less!

Now think on this.

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin, Founder/President Love For His People, Inc.

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Outrage on the Temple Mount, Er, Haram al-Sharif - RON CANTOR CHARISMA NEWS

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem (Wikimedia Commons )

Outrage on the Temple Mount, Er, Haram al-Sharif

 1/6/2017 RON CANTOR  CHARISMA NEWS

Earlier this week, in Israel, a tour guide was leading a group of American students on the Temple Mount—you know, the place where the first and second temple stood (according to any historian with an ounce of integrity).

In his teaching, Israeli archeologist Dr. Gabriel Barkay used the suddenly controversial term, "Temple Mount." He was confronted immediately by Islamic thug guards.

You see, the Islamists on the Temple Mount not only deny that there ever was a temple there, but they demand that you deny it as well.

According to the TimesofIsrael.com: "In passing, he once again referred to the site as the Temple Mount; its Arabic name is Haram al-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary. Incensed, the guards interrupted once more, ordered 72-year-old Barkay to stand and marched him over to a cluster of Israel police officers who were standing beneath a clutch of pines."

Not long ago, UNESCO, the joke of an organization within the U.N. that promotes education, science and culture (but apparently not history), passed a resolution that proclaimed that the Western Wall and the Temple Mount were solely Islamic sites and denied their Jewish connection.

Islamic guards had been following Dr. Barkay and his group to make sure they didn't say anything inappropriate such as Temple Mount. Now, standing with the police, the Islamic thugs wanted Dr. Barkay expelled from the Temple Mount ... I mean, Haram al-Sharif. Of course, he was breaking no law, just hurting their feelings; and therefore, he was able to continue.

You might wonder, if Israel is a Jewish state, why are there Islamic guards harassing people on the Temple Mount? After Israel defeated Jordan in 1967, the WAQF (the organization that oversees the Temple Mount) was created under Jordanian oversight, which then employed Palestinians to run it. This is a direct contradiction to how Jordan treated Jerusalem's Old City from 1948 to 1967. They destroyed every Jewish symbol, monument and synagogue. Now they cry foul if a Jewish person simply utters a prayer on the Temple Mount. And we put up with it.

This thuggish aggression against Jewish and Christian tourists is not new. Many tour guides will tell you they have suffered a similar encounter. Instead of defending the tourists, the United Nations, against all logic and intellect, agrees with the Islamists that the Temple Mount is really and only Haram al-Sharif. Of course, the Islamic block of nations has sway in the U.N., so truth takes a back seat to myths that are meant to weaken Israel.

The funny thing is that we have no direct evidence that Mohammed ever even visited Jerusalem, but we have tons of evidence of the two different Jewish Temples that stood there.

And to be clear, Yeshua will return to the Mount of Olive directly facing that area. He will enter, and I am quite sure He will acknowledge it as the Temple Mount as He sets up His kingdom.

"Then the Lord will go out and fight those nations as He fights in the day of war. On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is to the east of Jerusalem" (Zech. 14:3-4a). 

Ron Cantor is the lead pastor of Tiferet Yeshua Congregation in Tel Aviv (along with an anointed team of leaders). Yeshua found Ron when he was an 18-year-old agnostic. You can read about it in Ron's book, Leave Me Alone, I am Jewish!—Ron's testimony. He has also written a novel about the first Jewish believers called Identity Theft.

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WATCH: New CBS Medical Drama Celebrates Saving Baby in the Womb - CHARISMA NEWS

WATCH: New CBS Medical Drama Celebrates Saving Baby in the Womb

10/26/2015 CAROL SEWELL / BOUND4LIFE  charisma news

WATCH: New CBS Medical Drama Celebrates Saving Baby in the Womb

"Life is measured here in split seconds; hesitate and people die."

From the opening minutes of CBS' new medical drama Code Black, the characters and narrative reveal this could be a bright spot among the 20 new broadcast TV shows debuting this fall.

Thrusting viewers into a real-world emergency room, it dramatizes the great lengths medical professionals go to save a single life—including one in the womb.

Created through a collaboration of former physician Ryan McGarry and writer/producer Michael Seitzman, Code Black takes place in a fast-paced trauma center in Los Angeles. In the ER, it's known as "code black" when the volume of patients exceeds resources; then even first-day medical residents deal directly with patients' life-and-death traumas.

Life-affirming moments shine through in the chaotic, intense pilot episode. Medical residents conflict over the best way to treat a nine-month pregnant woman, who appears to have flu symptoms.

After the young mother is released from the hospital, one doctor-in-training realizes it could be carbon monoxide poisoning. She ends up in an ambulance with the unconscious pregnant patient.

Stuck in LA traffic, the resident calls in and learns the ER is facing a "code black" status; she'll have to deliver the baby by C-Section in the ambulance. "You've done an OB rotation, you've witnessed plenty of these," her supervising physician says on the call.

With guidance from the experienced doctors by phone, who continue their lifesaving efforts on other patients near death, ultimately the sound of the baby's first cry brings a hush in the ER—then, slowly, smiles on every face.

"I've got her!" announces the medical resident on speakerphone. "She's so beautiful." This climactic scene was such a powerful statement for life, bringing me to tears.

Men and women on the front lines rescuing citizens from accidents, medical trauma, fires and crime see death daily. They encounter the worst of everything life can bring, as we see in the characters played by veteran actors Luis Guzmán (Traffic, The Count of Monte Cristo) and Marcia Gay Harden (Mona Lisa Smile, The Hoax).

Yet when a new life is born as a result of their efforts, it brings them peace and joy. It breathes renewed life into what they do. It is not an inconvenience for them. Life is precious and they know it.

Many of the best stories in film and television, from family-friendly movies to edgierscience-fiction sagas, celebrate new life and uphold the value of every human being—bringing hope to those caught up in the storyline. Most of all, I picture God smiling and celebrating this new creation of His.

Code Black points to the noble purpose of medical science: to save and preserve lives. Though sometimes overlooked by a politicized health care industry—where many defend a woman's right to end her baby's life at any stage in the womb—this medical drama plot is quite revealing.

What it reveals is that deep inside every human is the appreciation of new life, no matter how inconvenient. God, the author of life, designed a man and woman together to bring forth offspring in His image. Most of us instinctively recognize this miracle.

But many are not willing to admit it because of out-of-control political correctness. They come up with right-sounding arguments to explain away the evil being perpetrated by Planned Parenthood. Try as they might to ignore this miracle of life in the womb, they cannot deny the truth in all honesty.

More and more people today, particularly Christian leaders, are finding it harder to deny the immorality and corruption of the abortion industry. The exception seems to be elected officials who rely on Planned Parenthood funds in order to be re-elected.

Every year, the pro-life movement gains more ground as science confirms what we see revealed in Scripture: that life begins at conception. Truly, humans made in the image of God are the apple of His eye.

Our nation faces an emergency. Now the pro-life movement needs to a call a "code black" status—all hands on deck during this critical moment. In a culture hungry for truth, the value of every precious life must come front and center.

The pilot episode of Code Black is currently available to watch free of charge. Rated TV-14 for realistic medical trauma situations and some language. 

Carol Sewell is the Founder of Generation to Generation, dedicated to teaching the foundational principles upon which America was founded. She is the author of What Were They Thinking? – On Truth, Liberty and Legacy (foreword by David Barton). Carol and her husband reside in Plano, Texas where they enjoy living near their daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.

Reprinted with permission from Bound4LIFE.

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