Pastor Ray Bentley points out how the Christian life is a challenging journey that reveals how God supplies his grace on demand. Somebody, well, describe to me the Christian life until we get to heaven. You live the Christian life from trench to trench. And as you make that effort from where I am now to the next trench, it's amazing.

As sure as there's a visible world, there's an invisible world, a spiritual world. And pastor Ray Bentley says the two are more connected than you may realize. Angels and humans are both involved in the same conflict with the same enemies. What you see first in the natural is a reflection of what's happening in the spiritual. We're in the midst of a cosmic conflict right now, spreading.

Today, pastor Ray Bentley points out, it's important to seek the Lord, especially at those times when we don't feel like it. God is saying, I want you to seek me, and it's not going to be easy. You're going to have to. It's going to boggle your mind. It's going to wrap you up emotionally, sometimes into a knot. But I don't want you to stop, for you will find me when you seek me.

Does life ever get tough for you? Pastor Ray Bentley says it's possible that God's way of getting your attention is. Our God, behold, is a jealous God. And because God loves you, God is working. Kind of like manipulating your circumstances in such a way that you are comfortable. If you seek anything else more than you seek him because he loves you too much.

Today, pastor Ray Bentley reminds us there's one spot on Earth that's the epicenter of God's end times plan. What's interesting to me is that all the nations of the earth that are wrestling over the modern problems and war and terror and religion and all the rest, it all comes down to that one mountain where Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead.

Pastor Ray Bentley explains why Mount Zion and Jerusalem are so significant in Bible prophecy on that mount. God's only begotten Son was crucified, and that's where his son rose from the dead. And that is the mountain upon which his son will sit as king over the whole earth. That city means everything to the father. Spread. You see all of his people coming down before the king.

Prophecy often reveals its pinpoint accuracy. Pastor Ray Bentley says such was the case with a familiar verse. You've heard this scripture. This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. What day is it talking about? The fulfillment of the prophecy of Daniel. The day that we call and celebrate is Palm Sunday, the week before Easter.

Ever feel really small in the presence of God? Pastor Ray Bentley says that's what makes his grace so much greater. Here is a little man on earth, smaller than a grain of sand. And yet this little speck on that little grain of sand speaks and thinks and mouths some words. And the great God of the universe hears it. How encouraging.

Today on Maranatha radio, pastor Ray Bentley points out how our culture resists God's ways, and it says his judgment is too quick and too harsh. No, God, we don't want your book. We don't want your heaven. We don't want your narrow way. We don't want the cross. We will do it without you. God isn't doing anything per se to us.

God likes us to confess our dependence on him. But today, pastor Ray Bentley points out that's way out of step with the world. In which we live. Our culture looks down on weakness. God says weakness is a universal human experience. And God says, rather than being ashamed of your weakness, come to me. Let me be your wisdom. Let me be your strength.