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Wednesday, July 10, 2019
"Been Offended?" - Now Think On This message by Steve Martin, Love For His People, Inc.
The Signet Ring Anointing On Your Life | Dr. Lance Wallnau
The Signet Ring Anointing On Your Life | Dr. Lance Wallnau
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
"Transitions" - Now Think On This by Steve Martin
“Transitions”
“A time to give birth
and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.” Ecclesiastes
3:2, NASU
Having been to a few
wineries over the years, both here in the USA and Israel, at the strong encouragement
of my good wife, I have seen a bit as to how wine is made. Part of the process
is pouring out the fermenting grape juice from one vat to another, to leave
behind the fallen sediment, which can embitter the liquid from the bottom if the
wine is left in the barrel beyond the appointed time. Without this outpouring
from one to another, no one would really enjoy the final flavor. And the Lord
knows we can’t have that.
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| The Golan Heights Winery in Israel. (Photo by Steve Martin, May 2019) |
For me, I like change. I
get bored doing the same old same old. Maybe you don’t, but I hope you respond
to that which may come your way anyway. After all, if we are not hearing the
Lord, walking with Him, and obeying His directives, day by day as the song
goes, we cease to experience His fresh and new life daily. And that will indeed
get old.
The time is coming, if
it hasn’t already in your life, that the Lord will bring a transition your way.
This is not intended to bring harm, but to further cause growth and expansion. Being
flexible is going to be a large part of what is coming.
We have often heard this
word given in Isaiah, which speaks directly to the Jews and their land Israel,
but it can also refer to the “grafted in ones”, Gentiles such as most of us,
who call upon the Living God of Israel.
“Enlarge the place of
your tent; stretch out the curtains of your dwellings,
spare not; Lengthen your cords and strengthen your pegs.
"For you will
spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants
will possess nations and will resettle the
desolate cities. (Isaiah 54:2-3, NASU)
Be willing and responsive when the call goes out, to you, informing
you of a transition coming your way. You may be surprised by His suddenness, as
we would see it, but have faith in knowing that “God causes all things to work together
for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”
Romans 8:28-29, NASU
Now think on this and see what good things the Lord has in store
for you and those around you.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People,
Inc.
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07.09.19 – “Transitions” – Tuesday, 6:45 pm
I Am Uprooting Fear, Insecurity in My People by Bill Yount Identity Network
I Am Uprooting Fear, Insecurity in My People by Bill Yount
Identity Network July 9, 2019
"Don't be intimidated in any way by your enemies. This will be a sign to them that they are going to be destroyed, but that you are going to be saved, even by God himself" (Phil. 1:28, NIV).
Before getting up to minister recently, my wife sensed that I was battling intimidation. She leaned over to me and whispered, "Your new name is 'Confidence!" Immediately, a lion roared inside me, and an alarm went off in hell. I rose up to minister, and the Lion of the Tribe of Judah took over the meeting. The Lord is renaming you today also. Your new name is "Confidence!"
Laying Aside
I have found a key that unlocks the cage of that lion who lives inside of us as believers. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Heb.12:1 KJV).
"Laying aside" is a powerful command that changes our perspective. When you lay something aside it is still there, but you don't focus on it, for the next verse says, "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith." Now when intimidation attacks me, I have learned to lay it aside and do what God has called me to do.
The devil works overtime to steal our confidence to do the work of the Lord. But we are not alone. The Lord allows our insecurities and fears to be exposed to deal with the root of them. So be encouraged and don't stop. When you feel insecure or fearful, lay it aside, and get up and let the lion roar. God is faithful. "Faithful is He who calls you, who also will do it" (1 Thess. 5:24, MEV).
I received an email recently from a dear sister who plays the piano for masses. She was fighting insecurity about performing perfectly at a special upcoming ceremony. I sensed the Lord giving me this word for her, "Lay aside your fear. Jesus will play the piano." Hours later, she sent me this response:
"PRAISE REPORT! I just finished a run through the music and Jesus did indeed play the piano! I had to keep reminding myself that He was doing it and I didn't need to stick my nose in. When I first saw my friend Rachel, she asked me if I was ready. Very unlike me, I answered, 'Yes!' PTL."
The Root of All Fears
Most of our insecurity and fears are surface symptoms with a deep root. The Lord deals with our weaknesses to make us strong. I have battled insecurity and fear most of my life. It started the moment my head hit the road so hard that it caused a bone growth on my forehead. The bike wreck happened when I was 5. The trauma of what followed with surgery and doctor check-ups for most of my younger years opened the door to a giant fear, a door that never got shut until recently.
I spoke at a conference recently in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I was checking out hotel prices. They were so high I wouldn't have been able to sleep at night. I kept looking around for a reasonable priced one. I found it. 'The Cemetery Inn" near the battlefields. Arriving home after that weekend, greeting my wife, she said, "So-and-so called, and he wants you to call him about those two cemetery plots he offered you a long time ago." I couldn't help but think.
I just came from The Cemetery Inn, and now someone is offering me two cemetery plots at half price. The half price concerned me too. I said, "Lord, I don't like the timing of this. I just came from ministering for You all weekend. What is going on?" Two days later, I was to meet the brother at the cemetery memorial park to sign the transfer papers. After I arrived, I got tired of waiting in the office for him, so I went outside.
When I walked outside, all I could see were grave markers. As an eerie feeling came over me, the Lord spoke, "Son, this is the root of all your fears your whole life: Every doctor visit and the fear of every report of your physical exams. You are afraid to die. You battled it since the moment your head hit the road when you were 5 years old. When you were 7 with a brain tumor, death hounded you again. Then 14 years ago, with a blood clot in the artery of your heart with a 50-50 chance of survival, it stampeded you again. Three days later with a heart catheterization, your heart stopped on that table, and they jumped it back to beat again. Have you noticed by now I have never let you die? I still hold the keys to hell, death and the grave."
He continued, "What do you think about the Scripture that says, 'To be absent from the body is to be present with Me?' No pain, no doctors, no devil. Fully alive in My unspeakable presence forever and ever? What are your thoughts on this?"
For a moment, I was speechless. He was right. I just faced my worst fear that had made me vulnerable to an endless list of others. And I failed to compare it to eternity. That day, I found peace in a cemetery. As I left those grave markers, He spoke again, "By the way son, the same power that raised Jesus from the grave lives in you. Go live. Go live. Don't be afraid of living. Enjoy every minute of it."
What's your fear? Losing a loved one, a job or your reputation? Maybe you are afraid to die and afraid to live. Drag your fears to Jesus today. Let His peace envelop you and His perfect love cast out all fear. Tell Him you are in this for the long haul no matter what.
God's Crazy Love Does It
In my worship time recently, I heard the Lord whisper, "I'm crazy about you, Bill. I'm absolutely crazy about you." I said, "What? Lord, why would You be crazy about me? I fall so short of Your glory." He said, "I know, but you trust Me. You still trust Me to do what you cannot do. That thrills Me. That's what makes Me crazy about you."
How about you? Do you know that you can thrill Him? Trust Him today, and you will experience His crazy love for you and His peace that surpasses all understanding. 'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus.' The Lord would rather have us trust Him than figure Him out.
Let these words redeem our time on earth:
I wanna live like there's no tomorrow; love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.— "It's Good to Be Alive," Jason Gray
Bill Yount
Temple Mount Sifting Project Unveils Artifacts From the Time of David - CBN News Chris Mitchell
Temple Mount Sifting Project Unveils Artifacts From the Time of David
07-09-2019
CBN News Chris Mitchell
JERUSALEM, Israel – Jerusalem’s Temple Mount has never been excavated, at least publicly.
However, an illegal construction project twenty years ago led to discoveries about its ancient past.
In 1999, the Islamic group responsible for the Temple Mount began construction on a large underground mosque. They broke a law prohibiting unauthorized construction, and during the project dumped tons of debris into the Kidron Valley.
Israeli archaeologists began sifting through the debris in 2005 in hopes of finding artifacts that point back to the Jewish temple that once stood in Jerusalem.
Over the years, The Temple Mount Sifting Project has uncovered a treasure trove of artifacts.
“The Temple Mount Sifting Project is an archeological adventure whose purpose is to find the empirical proof of what was on the Temple Mount thousands of years ago,” Shlomo Zwickler from American Friends of Beit Orot told CBN News.
Throughout its history, more than a quarter of a million volunteers have worked on the sifting project making it the largest archeological project in history.
Since its beginning, the project has uncovered enormous archeological evidence.
“We have until now, approximately a half a million finds … the vast majority of the material is from the first temple period and on, starting in the 10th century B.C., which is the time of David and Solomon. And that goes hand in hand with the biblical account,” the project’s director Gabi Barkay said.
While the sifting project began years ago, a new phase is just beginning.
“Fifty-two years ago right here on this hallowed ground that we’re standing on right now that one of the decisive battles of the six day war took place,” he told CBN News. In fact, it was the battle just before the command was given to descend the Mount of Olives,cross the Kidron Valley and ascend the Temple Mount … for the first time in two thousand years."
Some believe the evidence from the project validates the Jewish claim and connection to the city of Jerusalem.
“It’s very simple. There’s no project that (shows) his better than this one. It proves that everything that we said about it and dreamt about it and prayed about it is true,” said Zvi Koenigsberg
“And we know where we came from of course based on our faith, of course on our heritage but also based on the empirical evidence that we find based on where we were,” explained Zwickler.
Barkay says the importance of the Temple Mount to the Jewish people and to the world is profound.
“First of all, the Temple Mount is the soul, heart and spirit of the Jewish people. It is mentioned and indicated more than twenty times in the New Testament. It is a focal point in the ministry of Jesus. And it should be one of the cornerstones of western civilization … it is also the archeological site number one in the country. And probably one of the most important archeological sites of the world.”
Now they're sending out an open invitation for more to come.
“This sifting project is really going to be a major thing for people from around the world to put their hands into and work through soil that came in from the temple itself from some point in its history,” said Stephen Pfann of The University of the Holy Land.
Zwickler invites people everywhere to “come sift the dirt from two thousand years ago. Come be part of history. What was and also what will be.”
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