Dwelling in the glory of God is the great invitation for every believer. Bill Johnson
Quote for the Day
Month: June 2021
Do not be troubled
Covid Vaccination and Sin
Have you had your jab yet? I got mine last week and lived to tell the story!
There are many vaccines available today, but of course the only one that most people are interested in a the moment is the corona virus.
Vaccines have brought a massive improvement in health conditions and life spans over the last century or so. Second only to the provision of clean and safe water, vaccines have changed our lives for the better. Diseases such as small pox and measles used to ravage communities and kill millions of people, but we don’t even think about them these days.
It amazes me that within about 12 months of the covid virus exploding around the world we have a number of vaccines available to protect our community. It used to take years, even decades, to discover how to beat a disease, but the increase in knowledge about genetics has made it possible to rapidly discover, test and deploy these vaccines.
There is another disease rampant around the world that we have learned to live with but is just as deadly. This disease is not a physical virus, but is deadly. You won’t get it by contact with other people and you can’t heal it with an injection.
The disease goes by many names- pride, self-centredness and sin are but a few.
It is a condition of the spirit that says that I am the most important person in the world. Everybody has to bow to my demands. I can do whatever I like regardless of how other people might feel.
Just about every problem in our lives comes down to our desire to control our own lives, to live as if nobody else matters and to ignore God’s ways for our lives.
There is a cure for this. It involves admitting that we are wrong and asking God to forgive us through Christ then living His way not our own way.
Tough medicine perhaps, but absolutely essential.
Hang On!
At training camp for children of terrorists, 672 kids shown JESUS Film
It happened in an extremely dangerous country, where the culture is hostile to Christ and
His followers.
Every day a “JESUS” film team here begins their ministry with the same prayer. “Holy Spirit, where should we go today?” One day as they walked and prayed, they heard the voices of children. Following the sound, the team entered a compound filled with children and began talking to them about Jesus. The team had no idea where they were and the risk they were taking.
The police heard what they were doing, moved in and arrested them. Before being hauled away a team member had the presence of mind to quickly turn on a NewLifeBox in his backpack…leaving the backpack behind.
Arrested by the authorities, they transported the team members to the police station where they subjected them to torture, beatings, and threats. “How dare you?…you are spreading lies…you are teaching heresy…you will stop at once!”
Thinking they had intimidated the team enough, the police let them go. The team made their way back to the compound to retrieve the backpack. To their amazement hundreds of children were quiet, sitting in groups, eyes fixed on their smartphones, watching something…but what?
As they got closer, their best hope was confirmed: the children were watching the film “JESUS” on their phones. You see, the battery powered NewLifeBox they left behind creates a Wi-Fi hotspot, inviting anyone looking for a hotspot, and within 150 feet, to watch a film about Jesus.
In all, there were 672 children, and most were engaged with “JESUS.” Now the children began asking the film team many questions about what they had seen and heard. Then the children asked one more question: “Can you help us tell our parents about Jesus?”
Later, the team learned that the compound was a training center for the children of wealthy militants! The Lord had led the team and this amazing tool to the primary school for their children, where they were learning to fight for their religion.
Pray now that the doors remain open to many of these children and their families to learn more about Jesus.
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Quote for the Day
The glory is the manifest presence of Jesus. Heaven is a presence-based culture, a relational environment. The glory of God is the source of life itself. And to live in His glory means to explore the great delight of who God is. Daily, there is an ever-increasing insight, revelation and experience of His goodness, of His kindness, of His greatness. Bill Johnson
Rest To The Weary
25 I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.’ Jeremiah 31:25 NIVUK https://bible.com/bible/113/jer.31.25.NIVUK
Quote for the Day
The heart of God for our personal fulfillment in life is bigger than we can imagine. That’s why He has covenanted with us to go “beyond all we could ask or think” (see Eph. 3:20). He is that kind of Father. Bill Johnson
Send Me
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. 5 For the Lord is good and his love endures for ever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalms 100:4-5 NIVUK https://bible.com/bible/113/psa.100.4-5.NIVUK
God’s Promises
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