Fruitfulness - Pastor Jesse Enns
Antioch International Church
Fort Mill, SC
Published on Mar 17, 2019
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Man Who Spent 23 Minutes in Hell Shares Insight Into End-Times Judgment Day - CHARISMA NEWS
Man Who Spent 23 Minutes in Hell Shares Insight Into End-Times Judgment Day
3/20/2019 CHARISMA NEWS
Some say there is no judgment coming for our sin. What do you believe? Bill Wiese, author of 23 Minutes in Hell, provides scriptural insight on this very important topic.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Walk on Water - Now Think On This by Steve Martin
Walk on Water
Steve Martin
“Peter said to Him, "Lord if it is You, command me to come to You
on the water." And He said, "Come!" And Peter got out of the
boat, and walked on the water and came toward Jesus.” (Matthew 14:28-29, NASU)
Someday I too will walk on water.
So will you.
We may not have the faith for it now, but we will. The Lord will get us
to that point when our trust level in Him is so high that even as He spoke the
word clearly to Peter, “Come to Me”, we too will get out of the boat and walk
to Him, on water. Because it will be necessary.
I believe too that the Lord didn't need Peter to come to Him just for the fun of it. He was giving Peter another opportunity to teach him to further trust. For down the road, when the going got really tough, Peter would look back and remember that it was possible to believe in the Lord and put his trust in Him. And yes, if even for just a moment, even if slightly, Peter did walk on water.
After the resurrection, he would speak to thousands and see them get saved. His faith had grown.
Let us not despise those times when we wonder why the Lord asks us to do simple acts of obedience. As all tests go, they have to be passed in order to be elevated or advanced onto the next grade level.
As I drove down the road to visit a friend, having hurt himself in a golf
cart accident (and he wasn’t golfing at that!) I was praying in tongues and
asking the Lord about the faith we need each day, sometimes just to do what it
takes to get things done for that day.
The Holy Spirit’s response to me is what initiated this message.
In my mind came His word, “You may not have faith for all that I have planned
for you to do yet. But the time will come, as you are faithful now to grow in the
faith you have, little by little. Then you will have the required faith for when
I will ask you to walk on water.”
I believe that. You can too. He gives to each of us according to our
faith, which can enlarge.
We can come up with all kinds of excuses why we can’t hear and obey the
Lord, and yet, in His patience with us, He puts us in situations where we just
need to trust Him – have faith – and see Him respond with the provision, direction,
and wisdom. And then our faith grows more.
Looking back, as you grew up, you faced challenges that at the time you
said to yourself and probably others, “No way can I ride a bike.” “No way can I
drive a car.” “No way can I play that instrument.” “No way can I move to
another city, state or country.”
And what happened? You learned how to do it. His grace enabled you to get
up, get out, get on with what had to happen, so you could move up, move out,
and move on in His plans and purposes for your life. Those things now come naturally
for you. That is how faith grows.
Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:11-12 (NKJV), “When I was a child, I
spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I
became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly,
but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also
am known.”
We begin as children, both in the natural and spiritual, and we grow into
the things of an adult. As we walk with the Lord day by day, with our eyes
fixed on Him (kind of like those Texans who keep “fixin’” to do things…), we do
as in Hebrews 12:2 we are instructed to do. Keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus. Every
day.
The time is coming, and for some, it has already, where your very next
move will be critical for a life or death situation. If you have not been growing
in your faith, focusing on the Lord Jesus, then will you be ready when it does happen?
When He asks you to walk on water, possibly to escape something deadly serious, or to help another in their crisis, will you have trusted in Him up to that point already,
and be able to step out and accomplish the challenge?
Get ready to walk on water.
Shalom and ahava (peace and love in Hebrew).
Now think on this,
Steve Martin
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Change is in the Air (Day 1) - Bobby Conner on The Jim Bakker Show
Watch here: Change is in the Air (Day 1)
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Quotes
God will do little things to see if He can get our attention to trust us with big things. -Bobby Conner
The simplest thing from God is so profound you will never get it with human wisdom. -Bobby Conner
Scriptures
Ephesians 3:20 MEV Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or imagine, according to the power that works in us.
Mark 10:51 MEV Jesus answered him, “What do you want Me to do for you?” The blind man said to Him, “Rabbi, that I might receive my sight.”
James 4:3 MEV You ask, and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.
Matthew 7:7 MEV “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.”
Romans 10:10 MEV For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Proverbs 18:21 MEV Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 16:24 MEV Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones.
Proverbs 25:11 MEV A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Psalm 46:1 KJV God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Isaiah 53:5 MEV But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.
Romans 16:20 MEV The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Amos 3:7 MEV Surely the Lord God does nothing without revealing His purpose to His servants the prophets.
Psalm 16:11 MEV You will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Proverbs 17:22 MEV A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.
Isaiah 26:3 KJV Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Jeremiah 1:5 MEV “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you were born I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Revelation 6:14 MEV Then the heavens receded like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
Jude 1:20 MEV But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith. Pray in the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:18 MEV But we all, seeing the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, as in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord.
Proverbs 6:31 MEV But if he is found, he will restore sevenfold; he will give all the substance of his house.
Matthew 18:18 MEV “Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
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.
Titus 1:11 MEV Who must be silenced, who subvert whole houses by teaching for dishonest gain things they ought not teach.
Daniel 7:22 MEV Until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.
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!
Jude 1:3 MEV Beloved, while I diligently tried to write to you of the salvation we have in common, I found it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.
Proverbs 23:23 AMPC Buy the truth and sell it not; not only that, but also get discernment and judgment, instruction and understanding.
Proverbs 14:12 MEV There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
John 14:6 MEV Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
John 8:32 MEV “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”
John 16:13 MEV But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own authority. But He will speak whatever He hears, and He will tell you things that are to come.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 MEV But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others who have no hope.
Joshua 1:8 MEV This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth. Meditate on it day and night so that you may act carefully according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way successful, and you will be wise.
James 1:22 MEV Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Matthew 10:32-33 KJV Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
James 2:17 MEV So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
Luke 12:8-9 KJV Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.
Romans 1:16 MEV For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Matthew 18:19 KJV Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Romans 8:31 KJV What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
3 John 1:2 KJV Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Psalm 103:3 KJV Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.
Psalm 37:4 KJV Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
John 8:7 MEV So when they continued asking Him, He stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Matthew 6:15 MEV But if you do not forgive men for their sins, neither will your Father forgive your sins.
1 Peter 2:24 MEV He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness. “By His wounds you were healed.”
Hebrews 3:15 MEV While it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
Headlines
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
'We're Raising Her as a Girl': Falwells' Remarks About Granddaughter Spark Liberty LGBT Protest - CBN News Steve Warren
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. (AP Photo)
'We're Raising Her as a Girl': Falwells' Remarks About Granddaughter Spark Liberty LGBT Protest
03-18-2019
Some pro-LGBT Liberty University students protested on campus recently after the university's president and his wife said their granddaughter will be raised according to her God-given gender.
The News & Advance reports Jerry Falwell, Jr. and his wife Becki, were speaking at a satellite CPAC event alongside Donald Trump, Jr. when the couple said they would raise their granddaughter as a female.
"She's our granddaughter, and we're raising her as a girl," Mrs. Falwell said. "We're not letting her have a choice. God makes the choice of what the babies are going to be and God decided she would be a girl."
The Falwells went on to explain that their granddaughter always carries a baby doll with her, while their own sons grew up around firearms.
About 30 Liberty University students responded to the Falwells' remarks by waving gay pride flags and carrying signs supporting transgender rights on the steps of the campus' student union.
Some of the signs said "LGBTQ Lives Matter" and "Hate is a choice, being transgender is not," according to the Washington Examiner.
"We're out here mainly to start conversations, but to also be supportive," said Elizabeth Axley, a sophomore demonstrator who says she's bisexual. "Yes, this is a Christian campus and, yes, Jerry Falwell, Jr. has insinuated that he does not care about you, but that does not mean that every Liberty student does not care about you — we love you."
Scott Lamb, a vice president for Liberty University, told the News & Advance that the school believes in letting its students exercise their constitutional rights. "We have protests quite frequently," Lamb said, adding the university supports free speech and the right to assemble.
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