Air Date: 10 05 21

Dear God, I know that You can open doors that no man can ever shut. It’s not always easy for me to see and sense the direction I need to take. And so today, I trust and ask You to lead me to open doors of opportunity that you have prepared for me. Help me make sense of the options that lay before me and help me see and make the right choices today. Amen.

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Air Date: 10 04 21

Through Jesus we get to know what the Father is like, what to expect of Him, and how to come to God through Jesus his Son.

We learn that our approach must involve faith but also knowledge of God’s character. As we read in Hebrews 11:6, “Now without faith it is impossible to please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” So approaching God requires two things: faith in his existence and an expectation of his reward for seeking him.

Hebrews 11:6 is Luke 18 in a nutshell. The chapter features five people who want to draw near to God. In each case they come to Jesus with a question, need, or desire. In four of the five cases we see Jesus reward these seekers. The Lord responds to them in answer to their prayer with an act of mercy. In verse 1 the Lord tells a parable to “them,” meaning his disciples. The Lord tells another parable to “some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous.” Verse 15 features a group of parents bringing their infants to Jesus and the disciples. “A ruler” approaches Jesus with a question. Finally, the Lord addresses the Twelve in verse 31 and a blind man in v 35

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Air Date: 10 01 21

The word blessing in Ephesians 1:3 is a translation of the Greek word eulogy,and it means “to speak well of.” Since God is the one acting in this verse, we can say that God has spoken good things about us, or pronounced good things for our benefit. The good things that God has decreed for us are probably beyond our ability to number, but we can outline a few by looking at the verses that follow the statement (Ephesians 1:4–13.

Ephesians 1:4 says that He has “chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” God has chosen to make us holy and blameless, and all because of His love, His good pleasure, and His grace (verses 5–6). What a blessing, that “even when we were dead in sins” (Ephesians 2:5), God chose to extend His grace to us and offer us salvation. This is even more amazing when we realize that He made that decision before sin even entered into the world.

In verse 6, we are made “accepted in the beloved.” The word is related to grace and gives the idea of making us graceful or favorable through Christ, the beloved of God. When we put on Christ, the Father sees His loveliness when He looks at us. The blood of Christ has taken away the guilt of our sins, and we stand before the Father as perfectly accepted.

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Air Date: 09 30 21

And look at the interesting choice of words about the connection between God's Word and life. To those who find them, God's Words are life. To those who find them. God always requires that we look for Him, that we choose Him. The good news is that He is always available, never hiding.   

If I speak only what my senses dictate, I will not agree with God. It is speaking the word only by which I agree with God. It is the confession of faith that is my victory

God never forces us to believe in Him or to follow Him or to be obedient to Him. He simply says, "Here I am. I am the beginning and the end. All power is mine. With Me nothing is impossible."

So we must seek after God. We are told to look for Him in Holy Scripture and to integrate His Word into our hearts and our total being so that we are filled with faith in Him. When that happens, there is no room for the seeds of the evil one to grow, there is no room for doubt, and there is no room for illness. Look to your Heavenly Father and you shall live.

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Air Date: 09 16 21

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ … This is my name forever, and this my title for all generations”

He also proclaimed Himself as,

‘The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation …

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Air Date: 09 15 21

What a striking start to this oracle—THE BOOK OF MALACHI!

I have loved you, says the LORD  sets the tone of the book, gives reassurance and challenge, and places at the centre of the book the issue of what God has done and what God has revealed. The book does not start with a summary of what the people have done or not done, but what God has done. It does not start with what the people have done to God, but what God has done to the people. He has loved them.

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Air Date: 09 14 21

Everything Happens for a Reason  —

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Air Date: 09 13 21

Zephaniah 2:3 |  "Seek the Lord inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life, all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will and have kept His commandments; seek righteousness, seek humility inquire for them, require them as vital.  It may be you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger." 

God gave this to me when I was in High School.  What stands out is:  "Seek the Lord inquire for Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life"  We need to keep this on our minds and in our hearts and let it be the driving force of our lives.  It is a truth I understood quite unequivocally when I read it Zephaniah 2:3 and soaked in it from there on.  Holy Spirit quietly affirmed it to me as the plan of God for me.  I didn't have the stress and challenges then as I have had since and God quickens me to that and to me as well as

Isaiah 55:6  |  6Seek, inquire for, and require the Lord while He may be found claiming Him by necessity and by right; call upon Him while He is near.

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Air Date: 09 10 21

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.   Hebrews 11:1   NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses.

Faith is yielding your spirit to its built-in urge to allow the Holy Spirit to supernaturally empty you of doubt.  Doubt of God's existence, doubt of His goodness, or doubt of God's care is removed from the life of one who has faith.  In it's place God gives confidence that you know that you know God is real--and He is your God.

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Air Date: 09 08 21

2 For I resolved to know nothing (to be acquainted with nothing, to make a display of the knowledge of nothing, and to be conscious of nothing) among you except Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and Him crucified.

3 And I was in (passed into a state of) weakness and fear (dread) and great trembling after I had come among you.

4 And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them,

5 So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men (human philosophy), but in the power of God.

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