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There are a few times in my life that I would say God tangibly told me to do something, and one of these moments involved July’s First Friday service. Usually, because of July 4th, we cancel our event because it is the lowest attended. But this year I felt a deep sense that the service should continue as planned and I should lead it.
My dad was surprised at my enthusiasm to take the reins, and said, “Do it!” Right after that discussion, my dad received a request to minister in Ecuador.
For the first time ever, Paul Wilbur Ministries ministered on two different continents on the same night (7/07/17).
That date will forever be etched in my memory, much like when I was married, my son’s birth, and when my son was dedicated to the Lord.
Two key themes, worship and covenant, were heavy on my heart for July’s First Friday service. I began intensely praying, reading scripture, and seeing a pattern forming in what God wanted to be shared. My dad told me that he was wanting to start a series entitled “Foundations,” and everything the Lord was giving me appeared to not only fit that focus, but lay a solid beginning point.
Worship is choosing to give over your will to the will of the Father. I believe this is what Yeshua spoke of in John 4:24 to the Samaritan woman at the well. It’s the giving over of your desires, dreams, and will to the one who created all. It’s not that it is a have-to lifestyle, but a get-to life.
Since He has given us free will, if we give worship and obedience back to Him, there is so much more we can do for the Kingdom out of a covenantal relationship.
Before I get caught up teaching my message again, you can go and see the entire service on Paul Wilbur Ministries YouTube channel.
That First Friday evening brought many breakthroughs to people with answers they had been praying about. I think the number one thing any minister should ask when preparing for a message is, “What can I share with people to encourage them and enable them to bring His love to those outside the building?”
I think most messages today have to do more with bringing hope, but not activating believers to go and do good works. How else can the world know we have been sent to them? Yeshua was the ultimate teacher of this principle when He would serve his disciples and instruct them to do the same for each other.
I encourage you to share the love of Messiah out in public, which doesn’t necessarily mean you must be an evangelist preaching on a street corner. Sometimes it might be to show the love of Yeshua when someone has given you an opportunity to retaliate against them for their wrong doing.
Remember a soft answer turns away wrath, and in a world spinning fast in chaos, it’s time for the Church to stand up as His light.
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Posted: 18 Jul 2017 Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG
It looks like the effort to repeal Obamacare is completely dead, and that says a lot about the current state of the Republican Party. For decades, RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) have been using labels such as “Republican”, “conservative”, “pro-gun” and “pro-life” to get elected, but then once they get into office they govern like Democrats. There was so much hope when Donald Trump won the election last November, but thanks to the RINOs in Congress not much has actually been accomplished so far. In fact, this is being called “the most unproductive Congress in 164 years”. The following is an excerpt from an article published by The Week…
Just six months ago, it looked like the Republican Party was about to go on a legislative blitzkrieg, shredding law after law passed by the Obama administration. ObamaCare would be vaporized and replaced with a nickel rattling inside an empty Mountain Dew can. Dodd-Frank was sure to be tossed aside for a transparent giveaway to Wall Street. And Republicans would pass their regressive tax reform, their perplexing border-adjustment tax, and so much more. The GOP hadn’t held total power in American politics since 2006, and the party had become much more conservative in the interim.
Most of us were anticipating that so much would get done over the past 6 months, but instead we have seen nothing but gridlock. The most recent example of this has been the Obamacare debacle. After failing to push through “Obamacare 2.0”, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decided that he would switch gears and try to get a clean Obamacare repeal bill through the Senate, but unfortunately that effort has already failed…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s sudden move to try to repeal Obamacare without a replacement plan appeared doomed Tuesday as at least three moderate Republicans rejected the idea.
Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said they will not support a motion to proceed to the bill, which would repeal Obamacare in two years. Without their support, McConnell cannot get the 50 votes he needs to pass a repeal bill.
Collins, Capito and Murkowski are perfect examples of what I am talking about when I use the term “RINOs”. They are essentially Democrats, but they have been able to successfully use the Republican label to get elected. Unless we are able to start kicking the RINOs out of Congress, most of Trump’s agenda is going to go nowhere. Obviously Trump is not happy about what has transpired in the Senate, and now his plan is to basically sit back and let Obamacare fail…
Now his plan is to “let Obamacare fail; it will be a lot easier,” he said. “And I think we’re probably in that position where we’ll just let Obamacare fail.” “We’re not going to own it. I’m not going to own it,” the president said. “I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it. We’ll let Obamacare fail, and then the Democrats are going to come to us.”
But will the Democrats come to the Republicans ready to compromise as Obamacare comes apart at the seams? I seriously doubt it. I think that they are convinced that they can successfully point the blame at the Republicans as our health care system continues to deteriorate. Personally, I believe that the more the federal government gets involved in health care the worse it is going to get. Unfortunately, once you establish a program that gives out free goodies to people it is hard to take that back. For RINOs such as Collins, Capito and Murkowski, one of the biggest obstacles to repealing Obamacare is that it would roll back the Medicaid program to pre-Obamacare levels. Today, more than 74 million Americans are on Medicaid and CHIP, and more than 58 million Americans are on Medicare. That means that more than 130 million Americans are enrolled in these government programs at this point. That is nearly half the country. Of course many Democrats would like to go all the way and put everyone in such programs, but then we would have a completely socialized health care system. The big problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. Everybody likes free stuff, but somebody has to pay for all of that free stuff somewhere along the line. And if people are forced to expend time and effort in order to get their free stuff, interest in the free stuff drops substantially. In Alabama, food stamp enrollment plunged dramatically once work requirements were re-instituted…
Alabama began 2017 by requiring able-bodied adults without children in 13 counties to either find a job or participate in work training as a condition for continuing to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. According to AL.com, the number of those recipients declined from 5,538 to 831 between Jan. 1 and the beginning of May – an 85 percent drop. Similar changes were implemented in select counties in Georgia and by the end of the first three months, the number of adults receiving benefits in three participating counties dropped 58 percent, according to the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
In my brand new book entitled “Living A Life That Really Matters”, I open up about why I want to run for Congress. For way too long we have had a federal government that has just gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. We need to swing the pendulum way back in the other direction, and we need to educate people on the benefits of having a very limited central government. If you take the shackles off, the free market system works incredibly well. And once upon a time, the United States actually had a free market health care system and it was the best on the entire planet. We can get there again, but first we need to get rid of the RINOs in Congress and replace them with people that deeply believe in true conservative values. Michael Snyder is a Republican candidate for Congress in Idaho’s First Congressional District, and you can learn how you can get involved in the campaign on his official website. His new book entitled “Living A Life That Really Matters” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.
If you have been viewing the Love For His People blog in the past two months, you will now be familiar with these Love Music! posts. I love passionate, believing and encouraging music about the Lord Jesus (Yeshua), and it seems that a lot of you do too. These LoveMusic!posts have become very popular on our ministry site.
And...when I selected songs by Paul Wilbur as the featured one, the interest has been very good. With his Messianic sound, Jewish heritage, and his tremendous voice and guitar skills, no wonder!
So this edition features a new song off his latest CD called "The Shadow of El Shaddai" which actually came out last year. I wasn't aware of it until I was searching for some of my other favorites sung by Paul. This particular song, along with several on the CD, including Blessed Is He Who Comes, Forever Good and Call On The Name, has become one of my favorites too!
I encourage you to listen to The Shadow of El Shaddai using the YouTube link below and then get the CD or MP3 to have the full list of songs.
You will see three shopping website choices listed below. Just today I bought three more from Paul's website - for gifts to give out, and to support Paul's ministry!
You too be blessed in your blessing,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
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Support Paul Wilbur directly on his website shop: Paul Wilbur Ministries shop: Forever Good $12 CD with coupon, good until 07.25.17. You must enter the Coupon Code FG12SH at checkout. Free shipping too! (I bought 2 today. Steve Martin)
Ray Comfort, whose movies have been seen by millions, said, "I forced myself to watch the scene, and even though I know it's only acting, with special effects, I found it horrific. It brought me to tears." (Jeff Montgomery/Flickr/CC)
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The wildly popular Netflix program called 13 Reasons Why has started a massive controversy. It not only details why the main character took her own life, garnering sympathy, but it shows her committing suicide. She doesn't jump off a bridge, leaving what happened to her to the imagination. Rather, she sits in a bathtub fully clothed, takes a razor blade and slits her wrists.
Ray Comfort, whose movies have been seen by millions, said, "I forced myself to watch the scene, and even though I know it's only acting, with special effects, I found it horrific. It brought me to tears."
The controversy is over whether this scene will deter young people from committing suicide or will stir up copycat suicides because the character seen taking her life is a celebrity in their eyes.
Comfort added, "I believe it was a horrible mistake. This is because I greatly value my life, and the thought [of suicide] ... sends me into a shudder of horror. I had a similar feeling as I interviewed a suicidal girl for our new movie, EXIT: The Appeal of Suicide. She said that she wanted to end her life and explained to me that very few are able to kill themselves by overdosing with pills because of complications. She then described why other means of suicide were very difficult. We left that part of the interview out of the film for fear of giving ideas to vulnerable people."
Comfort then explained that when he asked her if it was scary to be continually contemplating suicide, she said, "You get used to it."
"And there is my concern with the death scene in 13 Reasons Why. It seems that the series producers didn't take into account the thousands of young people known as 'cutters.' These people regularly cut their skin and draw blood, and in doing so repeatedly, they get used to it. It loses its intuitive horror. Studies show that 40 percent of cutters have thought of suicide. In essence, many cutters may be actually rehearsing their own deaths. Someone slitting their wrists is not as horrific to them as it would be to you and me. Couple that mentality with a celebrity hero who slits her wrists, and you have potential copycats."
The parents of two teenage girls in San Francisco, who committed suicide in separate incidents, are blaming their deaths on 13 Reasons Why. Both girls had viewed the series two days before they took their lives.
Newsweeksaid, "Decades of research prove that a startling range of emotions and behaviors can be contagious—from moodiness to yawning. Young people are especially susceptible; they obsess over fads and fashion trends and copy illicit behaviors from peers, such as smoking, drinking or speeding. Or suicide."
The award-winning producer also said, "Although EXIT includes clips of two suicide jumpers leaping from the Golden Gate Bridge, we have left their hitting the icy waters of the San Francisco Bay to the imagination. There are big differences between the two films. The people shown in EXIT are not actors; nor are they celebrities. And most importantly, the film offers the solution to the tragic problem of suicide. It doesn't leave viewers hopeless in the face of the horror of death, as 13 Reasons Why does. EXIT gives people a reason to live and explains that we all have great worth because we are made in the image of God."
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Jewish visitors to Jerusalem's Temple Mount on Monday did something that many are calling a prophetic breakthrough–they prayed, openly and without harassment.
Typically, non-Muslim visitors to Judaism's holiest site are accompanied by officials from the Islamic Trust (Waqf) to ensure they don't engage in acts of Christian or Jewish worship, which in the eyes of Muslims would desecrate the sacred compound that is today occupied by several mosques.
But this week, the Waqf was boycotting the Temple Mount over Israel's decision to reinstall metal detectors at its entrances.
Previously, Israel had removed the metal detectors at the behest of the Waqf and its Jordanian overseers. That ill-advised move enabled three Israeli Arab Muslim terrorists to enter the Temple Mount with guns last week. Following Friday prayers, they proceeded to murder two Israeli police officers there.
So Israel reinstalled the metal detectors. And the Waqf stayed away (and urged other Muslims to do the same). And Jews flocked to the Temple Mount unhindered for the first time in many years.
The first thing one of the Jewish groups did was go to the very point where the police officers were killed last week and recite prayers for the deceased and their families.
What made this action particularly poignant was that the officers themselves weren't Jewish. They were both members of Israel's Druze minority.
1st time in years Jews visit Temple Mt not being escorted by reps of Jordanian organization After refusing to comply w/new security measures pic.twitter.com/i1sYUnLIWk
PHOTO: Jews reciting kaddish at area where 2 Police officers were murdered on Temple mount, taking advantage of absence of Waqf officials. pic.twitter.com/qkixqTy9Ao
