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Friday, February 22, 2019
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Preparing For Revival (Day 2) - Jeremiah Johnson on The Jim Bakker Show
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Quotes
Failure to accurately interpret the signs of the times leads to a culture of prayerlessness. –Jeremiah Johnson
This is the hour to stand, to speak for truth, and to partner with God’s heart. –Jeremiah Johnson
Scriptures
Isaiah 58:1 KJV Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
1 Peter 4:17 MEV For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God, and if it begins first with us, what shall the end be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
John 3:18 MEV He who believes in Him is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Hosea 6:2 MEV After two days He will revive us. On the third day He will raise us up, that we may live before Him.
Esther 4:14 MEV “For if you remain silent at this time, protection and deliverance for the Jews will be ordained from some other place, but you and your father’s house shall be destroyed. And who knows if you may have attained royal position for such a time as this?”
1 Timothy 6:10 MEV For the love of money is the root of all evil. While coveting after money, some have strayed from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Revelation 6:12 MEV I watched as He opened the sixth seal. And suddenly there was a great earthquake. The sun became black, like sackcloth made from goat hair, and the moon became like blood.
Revelation 6:15-17 KJV And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Isaiah 5:20 MEV Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who exchange darkness for light, and light for darkness; who exchange bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Matthew 16:18 KJV And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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Paul Wilbur - TONIGHT at Antioch International Church Feb. 22, 2109 7 pm. ALL Welcome! Free admission.
Paul Wilbur - TONIGHT at Antioch International Church
Feb. 22, 2019, 7 pm. ALL Welcome! Free admission.
See more here: Antioch International Church in Fort Mill, SC
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Preparing For Revival (Day 1) - Jeremiah Johnson on The Jim Bakker Show
Preparing For Revival
Pastor Jim and Lori Bakker welcome special guests Jeremiah Johnson, Pastor Joe Campbell, and Daniel Simonin as they share how we can create an atmosphere for revival.
Guests: Jeremiah Johnson, Pastor Joe Campbell, Daniel Simonin
Morningside Studios Production
Quotes
There is no such thing as a third great awakening in America without the church beginning to be mobilized and fight for life in this country. -Jeremiah Johnson
God told me that teachers in the school systems are going to begin to have a greater realm of authority than even pastors in pulpits. -Jeremiah Johnson
Scriptures
Ephesians 2:2 MEV In which you formerly walked according to the age of this world and according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience.
Isaiah 5:20 MEV Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who exchange darkness for light, and light for darkness; who exchange bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Psalm 22:3 MEV But You are holy, O You who inhabits the praises of Israel.
Psalm 139:13-14 MEV You brought my inner parts into being; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will praise you, for You made me with fear and wonder; marvelous are Your works, and You know me completely.
2 Chronicles 7:14 MEV If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
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Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta) Inbox x Picture a Day - The Holy Land Revealed. "The Golden Gate".
According to Jewish tradition, on Yom Kippur a messenger (usually a priest) took the
sacrificial lamb from the Temple through the gate to the desert. The Red Heifer
purification ceremony also involved taking the sacrifice through the eastern gate to
the Mount of Olives.
Unlike most of Jerusalem's other gates, the Golden Gate was originally built at least a
millennium before Suleiman the Magnificent rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem in 1540.
Indeed, some archeologists believe that the original gate, dating back to Herod's
construction or even Nehemiah's period (440 BCE), still exists beneath the current gate.
Perhaps because of the great religious significance of the gate to Jews and Christians as
the Messiah's route into Jerusalem, it is believed Suleiman sealed the gate and permitted
the construction of a Muslim cemetery in front of the gate.
The theory of an ancient gate received support in 1969 when an archeological student
beneath him opened and he found himself in a pit of bones looking at the top of another
gate eight feet beneath the surface. Fleming photographed his discovery. When he
returned the next day, the tomb had been sealed with a cement slab by the Islamic
custodians of the cemetery.
Perhaps the bones date back to 625 CE when a Jewish revolt supported the Persians vs the Byzantines. Led by Benjamin
of Tiberias and his army, the Jews controlled the city for several years, possibly even restoring religious practices on the
Temple ruins. The period was marked with slaughters committed by all sides.
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Always On Time - Now Think On This by Steve Martin
Steve Martin
“When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go." (John 11:43-44, NASU)
Lazarus was dead. Buried in the cave tomb. It had been four days after Yeshua (Jesus) had been told by the time He finally got there. And yet He was in no hurry to get to him. When it was time, it was time.
To give a good portion of the story as written in the Word, for the fuller picture, John tells it this way.
“Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, " Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick." But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it."
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was. hen after this He said to the disciples, " Let us go to Judea again." The disciples said to Him, " Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?" Jesus answered, " Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. "But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
This He said, and after that He said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep." The disciples then said to Him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking of literal sleep. So Jesus then said to them plainly, "Lazarus is dead, and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him." Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, so that we may die with Him."
So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off; and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him, but Mary stayed at the house. Martha then said to Jesus, " Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. "Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You." Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." Martha said to Him, " I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."
Jesus said to her, " I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?" She said to Him, "Yes, Lord; I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, even He who comes into the world." (John 11:1-27, NASU)
Lazarus was a good friend of Jesus. His sisters Martha and Miriam (Mary) were also close to Yeshua and were thus expecting Him to come as soon as He had heard of their brother’s death. But in order to show them, the disciples, those gathered in Jerusalem at the time, and later have this dramatic, miraculous event proclaimed to all the world through this written Word centuries later…Jesus came when it was time for Him.
He was in no hurry. He wasn’t going to miss doing His Father’s will. He knew when it was time to go and bring resurrection life.
It amazes me how the Lord is always on time. We think there are moments in our life when He is late; when He missed it; when our internal thoughts and often spoken words are, “If only it had happened when it was supposed to happen, it would have turned out right. If only He had done something when He should have done it.”
But because we don’t see the full picture, and God our Father does, He moves when it is the right time to move. He makes His move when it is exactly the right time. The Holy Spirit is always on time.
As with me on many occasions, it is the same for you I would imagine. You had prayed. You had sought. You have even worried, believing the Lord hasn’t heard, He isn’t moving, and it will never happen when it should have happened. It may even be dead and gone. Over and out.
You may even think that God Almighty, Whom we often consider is silent when it comes to something we are fully desirous of, isn’t paying attention at all to us.
But He is. Because He knows. He will do it in His time. And it will be the right time.
Don’t lose patience. Keep on keeping on. (Remember that saying decades ago?) Keep believing, keep seeking, keep looking up to the One Who knows when, where, how long, and how much.
All is in His control. Because He is Love, His promises are true, His acts are just, and HE WILL BE ON TIME. He is always on time, and you will see it happen for you too.
Shalom and ahava (peace and love in Hebrew).
Now think on this,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
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