What Happened to the Disciples of Jesus?
Drive Through History with Dave Stotts
Published on Apr 24, 2018
Quotes
We need to recognize that fact that a part of the Body of Christ right now is hurting and specifically I’m talking primarily about African Americans. -Joel Richardson
We need to watch our heart attitudes that we’re not embracing the spirit of the age. -Joel Richardson
If expressing myself on social media is more important than how I might hurt a large section of the Body of Christ, that’s idolatry. -Joel Richardson
Scriptures
Matthew 5:22 MEV But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ shall be in danger of the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be in danger of hell fire.
Matthew 6:33 MEV But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you.
Psalms 133:1 MEV Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!
2 Timothy 3:1-3 TLB You may as well know this too, Timothy, that in the last days it is going to be very difficult to be a Christian. For people will love only themselves and their money; they will be proud and boastful, sneering at God, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful to them, and thoroughly bad. They will be hardheaded and never give in to others; they will be constant liars and troublemakers and will think nothing of immorality. They will be rough and cruel, and sneer at those who try to be good.
Ezekiel 38:3-4 MEV And say: Thus says the Lord God: I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshek and Tubal. And I will turn you back and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses, and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armor, even a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords.
Ezekiel 38:23 MEV Thus I will magnify Myself, and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 33:29 MEV Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I make the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed.
Ezekiel 38:14 MEV Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: Thus says the Lord God: On that day when My people of Israel dwell safely, shall you not know it?
Jeremiah 29:10 MEV For thus says the Lord: When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Daniel 9:20-21 MEV While I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God, indeed, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
Romans 3:23 MEV For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
John 3:16-17 MEV For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
1 Corinthians 13:13 MEV So now abide faith, hope, and love, these three. But the greatest of these is love.
Matthew 13:39 MEV The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels.
Acts 17:31 MEV For He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed, having given assurance of this to all men by raising Him from the dead.
Matthew 24:7 MEV For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, epidemics, and earthquakes in various places.
Please enjoy and be super encouraged by our good friends from Bound4LIFE!
Due to extreme blizzard conditions [last] weekend, the March for Life received unprecedented national attention. Beyond crowd estimates or miracles in the midst of travel, a longtime Bound4LIFE intercessor tells firsthand what she saw and experienced.
(Washington, DC)—
No matter what the weather threw at us, we were determined to pray.
With our fingers getting cold, we began to write out Life Tape for the three dozen intercessors who had joined us. One by one, we took our place before the barricades—making up a wall of intercession before the court.
Intercessors from across the nation, undeterred by the forecast and bitter cold, had joined us to intercede on this critical day. Many of these individuals have had their lives shifted by prayer sieges like this very one.
Now he and his wife Kelsey have started up Zoe's House Adoption Agency in the midst of raising their ten children, six of whom are adopted.
In the midst of the tumult of protestors and bullhorns, our faithful band of intercessors experienced the peace of God. We set our hearts on our heavenly King, whom Isaiah 42ensures will faithfully bring forth justice in the earth.
This has opened doors for their team to present red Life Bands to a number of presidential candidates—a symbol of commitment to defend the unborn, and a daily reminder to pray.
Especially pertinent will be a challenge to the commonsense Texas law HB2 that requires abortion clinics to abide by widely accepted health, safety and sanitation standards.
The driving wind and icy cold could not dampen our spirits, as we know the momentum is shifting in America: public opinion now reflects firm beliefs in upholding the value of every life, including among millennials.
For Monique, uniting in prayer with Bound4LIFE Chapter Leaders from across the nation was especially meaningful. As a strong single mother, she has been faithfully praying with a small remnant for years outside a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in the Bronx in New York City – where more babies of color are aborted each year than born.
On this pivotal day, she did not stand alone. Monique returned to the Big Apple with a renewed hope for her community.
We do not stand in prayer begging to get God's attention.
Jesus is serious about ending the scourge of abortion. It is He who called us here. He will use prayer, and advocacy like the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, to change hearts and shift culture.
So week by week, day by day, small groups of intercessors will put on freshly hand-written pieces of Life Tape outside abortion clinics and court houses across America—as a witness to the silent unborn who are crying out for life.
For over a decade, Terri Shepherd has taken part in pro-life advocacy with Bound4LIFE—a grassroots movement to pray for the ending of abortion, carry the spirit of adoption, and believe for revival and reformation. She graduated from TheCall Institute at the International House of Prayer University in Kansas City, and earned a degree in social work from the University of Central Florida. Living in the Washington, DC area with her husband, Terri works at a leading Christian public policy organization. 