Telling Future Generations

Here is a spiritual law that you can take to heart: 'spiritual work and spiritual attack' go together because we are in a spiritual war!

In Nehemiah Chapter 6, the personal attacks against Nehemiah by his arch-enemies, ramps up and zeroes in on the leader Nehemiah. The goal was to stop the wall building work at any cost.

Nehemiah 6 reads like a spy novel where threats against God's servant abound. These spiritual attacks point us to the real spiritual war that rages against God's people. Spiritual battle tactics and dependence upon the Lord are required, as we are strengthened in the Lord to complete our spiritual work and rest in God's sovereignty.

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Nehemiah, the governor of the land in Jerusalem, not only encourages God's people to model redemption, by forgiving other's debts and keeping their promise before God and man, but also to give grace to others, by giving 'grace for grace'.

Nehemiah, in many ways, reflected the true Redeemer, by not requiring of the people what he could have charged and also by abundunantly providing for his people at his table.

Nehemiah in many ways was a reflection of the 'Greater Nehemiah' and the 'Greater Governor', who is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Nehemiah was a good and even great governor of the land of Judah, but Nehemiah pales in comparison when paired to Christ, who is our 'Great Redeemer'.

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Internal family disunity broke out among God's people that almost brought the 'wall-building work' in Jerusalem to a screeching halt. Brethern turned against brethren and family against family, all because great debt was heaped up due to famine, taxes, and usury charged on top.

The people were powerless on their to repay. They needed a Redeemer!

In the same way, we also need a Redeemer, one who will provide for His people who are unable to provide for themselves. 

Nehemiah 5 not only reminds us as God's people, that we need a Redeemer, but that we are to model redemption before others, even in the midst of internal family disunity.  As God forgave us our greater sin debt, so we are to forgive others their lesser sin debt and intentionally step from disunity to restored unity in Christ.

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Gracia closes out her time by sharing with the audience the missionary flashcard story produced by Child Evangelism Fellowship.

CEF is pleased to share, 'The Burnham Story,' with the children in our CEF Good News Clubs nationwide to help teach children to understand the importance of missions and the need to share Christ with others, both near and far.

After listening to today's program, if you are interested in purchasing the CEF missionary flashcard story of Gracia Burnham, visit our CEF website at cefofillinois.com

We hope you enjoy as Gracia shares with you her own missionary story, that you in turn, can teach and tell to others, including the future generations.

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Gracia Burnham continues to share her testimony where her and her husband, Martin, were held hostage on the Philippine islands by a Muslim terroist group for over a year. 

But even in the midst of captivity, and afterwards, the Lord has provided opportunities for Gracia to show God's love to her captives, who were former enemies.

Praise God that He is indeed in the heart changing busisness through the power of the Gospel, yet today!

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Meet Gracia Burnham, the modern day Elizabeth Elliot, who was a former missonary to the Philippines with Missionary Aviation Fellowship.

In 2001, Gracia and her husband Martin, were held captive for over a year by a Muslim terrorist group.

Listen to Gracia's compelling story that she shares not only about what happened in the Phillipine jungles, but how God's love holds her heart captive still today, even in the midst of life's trials and uncertainties.

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Listen to the CEF of Illinois Statewide Ministry Report for 2023 and also meet a special visitor, Emmanuel Mukasa, the National Direction from CEF of Uganda.

Hear what God is doing not only in the state of Illinois, but also what God is doing in the ministry of CEF worldwide, including from the other side of the world in Africa! 

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Jill Hostetler, the Assistant State Director of CEF of Illinois, shares a look back at our 5-Day Club summer ministry of what God did to enable us to reach almost 500 children with the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ!

We praise the Lord for His provision of 9 summer missionaries who gave of their summer to share the Good News of Christ with the children throughout Central Illinois.

Also included are two summer missionaries who share testimonies of their life-changing summer and what God did in and through them in their summer ministry.

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Looking back at 2023, we praise the Lord for all that God has done in providing for our ministry and making a way to minister to children and point them to Christ.

We hope you enjoy listening to our Camp Good News summer ministry report shared by Mark Andrews, our new Acting Camp Director.

Camp ministry, first and last, is about transforming lives by the power of the Gospel through Biblical teaching, outdoor education, and doing life together in a Christ-centered, relational community.

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Navigating storms is a mark of a strong leader, whether they are external storms from without, or internal storms from within. 

In Nehemiah Chapter 4, we will look at two 'external storms' and two 'internal storms' that Nehemiah faced, as the leader, the captain of his people, and how Nehemiah navigated these storms, not with a 'man-centered' fear, but with a 'God-centered' reverent fear and faith in the Lord.How does Nehemiah as God's appointed leader respond to these compounding external and internal 'storms' that were also outright 'spiritual attacks?'

Remember these four key words that we will learn about today in our podcast when facing 'life-storms': PRAY UP, ARMOR UP, LOOK UP, and CIRCLE UP!

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