John TL Maasbach Podcast

We need to be made ready for God's service. How does that precious thing inside you become purified? It has to go through the fire! God uses Zarephath, the melting pot, to bring us through fire and His hand of love stays upon us along the way.

We're talking about change. It can be something we dread, but it is often necessary. It purifies us and brings us to a place of character. Learn more about this melting oven in Elijah's life. Zarephath, a very important place where God leads us to as well.

Lessons at the Brook Kerith for the mature christian include knowing the value of the hidden life with the Lord. The Lord came to Elijah with a Word, as Elijah was spending time with Him in solitude at the Brook Kerith. This is no microwave Gospel! The Carmel moment will come and it will be glorious, but this time of seclusion with God is essential.

In our lives, God may send us to a particular place where He commits Himself to make his promises a reality. Are you still at the place God told you to be? What if that place runs out of supplies? Your Mount Carmel moment will never happen if you don't spend time in solitude at the Brook Kerith. Let's continue to study the life of the man who was just like us: Elijah.

Was Elijah's strength out of a source that is unreachable to us? Not at all! That's why it's so good for us to study his life. Elijah had a revelation of a different dimension of the power of God and this dimension is available to us today because God is alive, God is near and God is our strength.

The power that brought down the strongholds of the enemy is able to bring them down today. God will give due on His Word! John T.L. passionately shares the secret of Elijah's source of strength and this source is available to you today. You cannot confront what is against you if you don't stand in the same strength as Elijah.

In this introduction to the source of Elijah's strength, John T.L. paints the picture of the wicked time Elijah was living in. Ahab, who hated the God of Israel; Jezebel, his evil queen; the false prophets and the true prophets of God who were slaughtered or hiding. Doesn't this situation hold similarities for us today? When we have prayed everything we know to pray, God starts working and He is preparing you for your mount Carmel moment!

This is a special Word from the Lord for you! We continue this sermon in the life of David where we see the preventative grace of God in his life. Preventative grace is when the Lord keeps you from taking matters into your own hands or from saying something that feels right but is not right for you to do and can come back to you on a day of reckoning. This powerful message is for today but also to be reminded of in future battles.

When we talk about grace, we usually think of the grace we receive when we've done something wrong. And there are many miracles of the grace of God that we can see when we look back in our lives. But the greatest miracles - most probably - the Lord has done without me even knowing it! He was protecting me from things or situations and that's: preventative grace, the preventing of the Lord in our life from certain things that keep us from harm.

Perhaps you have lost that intimacy with Christ, the Father and the Holy Spirit. But the scepter of God's grace, mercy and love has been stretched out to us and if you touch it today believe that at that very instant everything is brand new and you are excepted by the Father! What are some obstacles that can ruin our relationship with God and how do we overcome them?