The Living Word

Miracles and healing are a mystery. Sometimes we pray and we see Jesus step in and save someone from death or we see them become healthy after a devastating diagnosis. And other times we watch as people we love grow sick and die when we've prayed just as hard or even harder sometimes. We've wept and cried out loud to God and yet we don't see Him creating that miracle that we oh so desperately want. Pastor Danny challenges us today to continue to trust and to follow even when we don't understand what God is doing.

Pastor Danny reminds us today that we need to keep coming back to the truth and witnessing to the truth. The truth will change the way that we interact with the people we love and with the world around us. It'll tell us how to live in peace with everyone. It tells us how to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with our God. People who are people of the truth are easy to spot in how they care for the people around them. Are you one of those people? Be a person of the truth today. Let the truth guide you.

Pastor Danny says that it will take four things for us to stand our ground in Jesus Christ. The first is to be willing to be unpopular, possibly to the point of losing our own lives. And the second is courage, I don't know about you but I want more than anything to be found faithful to Jesus. The call today is to evaluate yourself. We will find out what the other two are as we listen to Pastor Danny's message and as we do let the spirit talk to your heart about you and if you need to develop those four things.

We are called to proclaim the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ just like John was, but just like John there is a cost to sending that Gospel forward. The thought of going and speaking the Word again turned John's stomach, but he was faithful to record and send out everything he saw even from isolation on the island of Patmos. We follow his lead and when we follow Christ who bore the cross because of the joy on the other side. We know that there is a cost but we also know the love of God.

If we really want to see the world changed and the church renewed Pastor Danny tells us not to get caught up in the details God has yet to reveal. God has given us everything we need in His word to live our lives for Him. Don't try and figure out what the thunder said, live every day listening to what the spirit of God says. Follow his leading and you'll see the world changed in ways you could have never imagined. Listen to His voice and watch the revival catch on like wildfire within the church.

It's hard to believe that people could still want their own way after being faced with the mighty power of God. But Pastor Danny shows us in Revelation how that's exactly how some people will respond still. God doesn't want anyone to perish, He wants to draw all people to Himself and cover them but He is not going to force you to it. If you haven't chosen Him yet you should choose Him today. His love is better than life and it is certainly better than the trouble that we bring on ourselves. Choose Him and choose the way to life.

Pastor Danny is working His way through the Book of Revelation, which can be confusing and even frightening at times. But Pastor Danny says today that it is God at work behind every event that is coming. That should give us great comfort because our God is powerful and mighty but not only that He loves us and He continues to do what is good for His children. When the end of days comes we want to be on the side of the Almighty God so if you've never answered His call do it today.

Can you imagine? Numerous voices raised in worship to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, incredible beasts and angels all shouting Halleluiah, and the people (it's not just the Israelites) people from every nationality, every age, people of all creation. Can you see it? Can you feel it? That is what heaven is going to be like! Today as you listen let God's glory and power overwhelm you until you too are joining in the chorus of Halleluiahs.

Today it begins. The opening of the seals. Pastor Danny is going to describe what each one of these represents. What it causes to happen on the earth and what becomes of the people who are left, it can be terrifying but there is hope. Some people will find Jesus in this time, they'll see what is happening and then they'll finally believe. But there is still this judgement being poured out on the earth. Now is the time to believe what's written in the Bible and to give your life to Jesus before this judgement takes place.

Jesus is going to return to redeem this earth. The evil you see everywhere will be judged, but for now we have to endure. Pastor Danny talks today about the future hope we will have in the Lord. How He is going to take His people home to be with Him forever and then is going to defeat the enemy once and for all. So for now we wait. We long for Jesus to come, but we don't sit idly by. Step into the dark places of this world and shine the light of hope, a hope that is only found in Jesus.