Guys I can't give any details and I will not be posting this information on any other forum, but this week is really important to us at BTJ. we have Chinese pastors that have traveled to be together for the first time since the pandemic started last year. It is amazing to be with them and in prayer with them, but we need to plan the best way to support the church in China for this year. We do not want our own ideas, agendas, and thoughts to pollute what God has for us. Please pray for the leading and the guiding of the Holy Spirit during this time.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord , my strength, and my redeemer.
Psalms 19:14 KJV
I will say of the Lord , He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Psalms 91:2 KJV
Daniel 7:24-26
Complete Jewish Bible
24 As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and yet another will arise after them. Now he will be different from the earlier ones, and he will put down three kings. 25 He will speak words against the Most High and try to exhaust the holy ones of the Most High. He will attempt to alter the seasons and the law; and [the holy ones] will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time. 26 But when the court goes into session, he will be stripped of his rulership, which will be consumed and completely destroyed.
Whatever work you do, put yourself into it, as those who are serving not merely other people, but the Lord. Remember that as your reward, you will receive the inheritance from the Lord. You are slaving for the Lord, for the Messiah.
Colossians (Col) 3:23-24 CJB
Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit.
John 15:2 AMPC
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 14:26 KJV
Leader according to the world, the flesh and Satan...
Dominate everyone, put them beneath YOU. I am god, kill them, enslave them, to instill fear so you can have power and control.
Leader according to GOD, Have no other god before ME, be a servant and even slave (put them above You) to your wife and children and all I give you to help build them up, love them like Christ loved the church, love them more than your yourself...
If you would be great in the Kingdom of heaven, be a servant. If you would be the greatest, be a slave...
Choose you this day whom you will serve...
Seek first the Kingdom of heaven and HIS righteousness and all your daily needs will be added unto you...
Walk not after the flesh but after the spirit...
GOD is a Spirit and we must worship him in spirit and truth...
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalms 119:105 KJV
It is totally MESSED up that Biden demands that I, as an American citizen, be tested for COVID before being allowed to return to America. Meanwhile! Illegals crossing the border into America ILLEGALLY are allowed to enter with NO TESTING - AND! AND! AND! given a free bus pass to travel ANYWHERE they would like to go. 😡 🤬
Sorry, rant over.
Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and disregards the offenses of others]. [Prov. 10:12.]
1 Peter 4:8 AMPC
Pain handled in God’s way produces a turning from sin to God which leads to salvation, and there is nothing to regret in that! But pain handled in the world’s way produces only death.
2 Corinthians (2 Co) 7:10 CJB
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the person whose ears are open to My words [who listens to My message] and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me has (possesses now) eternal life. And he does not come into judgment [does not incur sentence of judgment, will not come under condemnation], but he has already passed over out of death into life.
John 5:24 AMPC
Strive to live in peace with everybody and pursue that consecration and holiness without which no one will [ever] see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14 AMPC
Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back. ”
Luke 6:38 NLT
I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return.
Philippians 1:9-10 NLT
The sad anthem of our world could be the Frank Sinatra song, " My Way." Even sadder is the fact that God's children sometimes follow this folly! There is only one Way, it is His Way.
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