@sinbach Happy Birthday
It is a fact that God has delivered us from the power of darkness - Satan’s kingdom - and translated us into the Kingdom of Christ.
Thus, we have redemption and our sins are forgiven.
We are no longer in Satan’s territory nor are we under His authority.
The unbelieving, the Christ-rejecters, the rebellious and the disobedient are under Satan’s legitimate authority.
But we are not!
The fact is that when we repented and surrendered to Jesus Christ and made Him Lord, we were translated, carried over - spirit, soul, and body - out of the kingdom of Satan into the Kingdom of Christ.
Did you know that prophets can smell? They can smell uncleanness. They can smell sin. They can also smell the sweet aroma of prayer and worship. They can smell bread where the Word is preached. They can smell the fragrance of the Lord when He is present in a church.
Prophet, don’t be afraid to smell; you are not crazy.
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
—1 CORINTHIANS 12:17
I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
—SONG OF SONGS 5:5
J. Eckhardt - "The Prophet's Manual"
People can be offended by prophets. Prophets can rub people the wrong way. Some people hate truth. They don’t like what prophets say. Remember, Jesus offended the people in His hometown. He offended the Pharisees and the religious leaders of His day. He did not “butter them up,” but He spoke the truth.
If you don’t want to offend anyone, you cannot be a prophet.
And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”
-MATTHEW 13:57
Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying?”
-MATTHEW 15:12
J. Eckhardt - "The Prophet's Manual"
Father, in the name of Jesus, I am at the brink of my Red Sea, but I thank You for the miracles that come as I face impossible situations.
I thank You for Your saving grace, Your strong right hand, and Your outstretched arm.
No one has an arm like Yours! Even as You brought the children of Israel through the Red Sea, I know You are doing the same for me.
I depend upon You to see me through. There is absolutely nothing impossible for You, Jesus.
I take courage and comfort knowing that You are my strength when I am weak.
My trust is in You, God. I take You at Your word, for Your word will not return void unto You.
@Cherishingsparrows2020 Amen.
@Williams_girl @tanjaostman Thank you. God bless you.
Imagine....your child leaves home for school in the morning and later that day you discover that the government detained them and all their classmates and sent them to a government quarantine camp because someone in the school was suspected of being exposed to the coronavirus.
This just happened at our sons' secondary school in Hong Kong.
No one at the school was sick.
No one from the school has tested positive.
The detention of all 120 children and sending them to a government quarantine camp was based on POSSIBLE exposure.
@Cherishingsparrows2020 I'm praying for you right now. God bless you.
Prayers are welcome for a 32 year old disciple living in our home (my husband had the privilege of sharing Jesus with him 11 months ago and afterward he was baptized and has been very eager to learn more of God's Word and share with others). Right now he is going through COVID. The rest of our family is fine. We had this sickness a year ago and I believe our immune response has been very good, praise God. Of course, we are still trying to do what we can to remain healthy. But, I wanted to ask your prayers for our family and especially for this brother in our home.
@tanjaostman I understand you, Tanja! The situation is precipitating in some countries (in Italy too). I do not know what to do anymore. I pray, I sing to the Lord, I meditate on the Scriptures but I don't know how to get out of this nightmare. It is a constant struggle to keep God's peace. Only God knows how we feel and will surely act in our favor according to his will. God bless you and protect you.
The video clip in the article is heartbreaking! 💔 This is abuse! It's not about if we are pro or anti vaccine. mRNA aren't made like traditional vaccines. It's just statistical facts that the risk for young people to die or get hospitalized by the so called vaccine is several times higher than dying from the virus. It's not a nice virus, but this is worse... https://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2021/11/09/_1820_we-are-destroying-young-lives-with-experimental-covid-injections.aspx
Found this in my phone. Can't remember who said it...
"Believer, Jesus loves each and every one of us equally, but He can only trust you in proportion to your obedience. It's one thing to say 'Jesus loves me'. It's another thing to say 'Jesus trusts me'.
You want to walk in His power? You want to be a mighty weapon in the hand of the Father with which He brings destruction to the kingdom of darkness? Then He has to be able to trust you."
@Berrybunchfamily God is with you. Rest in God through Jesus Christ. Don't worry, I'm continuing to pray for you right now. God see you and knows your suffering.
“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.”
Psalms 91:14-16 NKJV
God bless you.
I will continue to pray for you. God bless you.
"Bless the Lord , O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. The Lord executes righteousness And justice for all who are oppressed. He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel".
Psalms 103:2-7 NKJV
I feel utterly dreadful. We've prayed against the virus in our home and bodies, to leave.
But God is still good, and while I have breath in my lungs I will yet praise Him...even if my lungs aren't in quite the happy place I'm used to!
I decided it's time to start seeing some improvements in our health....9 days in...I'm gonna keep hoping we're on the upward trend not the downward trend...
Ezekiel was such a blessing to the captives in Chaldea, for he was a prisoner himself, and so wrote, “I sat where they sat” (Ezekiel 3:15 amp). Paul uses an arresting phrase, “the fellowship of His sufferings” (Philippians 3:10). This conveys the same idea about a mutual sharing of trials and sorrows. Are we lonely? If so, we can tell Jesus all about our experience, and He will console us. Remember, He had nowhere to lay His head, and all His disciples forsook Him and fled. At the cross, too, there is the mystery too deep for us to understand: He was momentarily forsaken by His Father for our sins. Are we in pain? Jesus can enter with us into such physical anguish for He knew what anticipated pain was, yet went steadily onward to meet it. (See Matthew 16:21; 20:17–19.) Then, did He not suffer the most terrible kind of actual and physical pain when He was scourged, crowned with thorns, and crucified? (See Matthew 27:26, 29, 35.) ....
I am a Christian saved by the grace of God.
My mission is to evangelize and disciple according to the "Great Commission" of Jesus Christ.
I am married to a woman of God who is a truly gift from God, and together we serve the Lord.
For over twenty years I have been engaged in preaching the gospel and teaching the Holy Scriptures in Italy.