What does it mean to pray for Peace?  What Peace did Jesus bring to the world?

 The Angels spoke peace and Jesus came into the world (Luke).  Jesus left peace and spoke peace to all when he left this world (John).

 The Magi gave gifts unto Jesus upon his birth.  But Jesus gave gifts to all men.  Jesus was able to leave greater gifts unto us:  the Holy Ghost, Peace and Salvation. God loves you more and wants to leave with you. Greater...

HOW DOES GOD SPEAK TO US 

How does the word of the Lord come to us? In the Bible, it happened in many different ways: by a personal appearance of God, by an audible voice, by visions or dreams, by the ministry of angels, by the working of the Spirit of God upon the mind, by the making alive of a passage of Scripture to our hearts, or by the ministry of a prophet or preacher.  Here is a brief lesson on How God speaks to us..

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ARE YOU MAKING AN EFFORT TO GET A SHARE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD? (see Matt:11:6-18).  Are you doing what God has called you to do with fear, reverence. Pushing, pressing, making your way through. Matthew 11:12 and the new King James Version says 'from the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of heaven suffers violence. And the violent take it by force.' A lot of people believe that this means that the times of th...

Luke Chapter 5 has several parables and relatable stories about Jesus selecting (calling) the Disciples. The chapter, as with the synoptic stories in Matthew and Mark, have miracles that Jesus completes at this time.

Jesus' response continues with the two short parables. Luke has the more detailed version:

— see Luke 5:36-39, KJV

 I also know that this story is about the explanation Jesus gives for His disciples not Fasting. But ...

Hebrews 11:1 King James Version (KJV)

11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

 In 2017 I was chosen as the speaker for a General Education Diploma (or GED) Graduation. My topic was There’s a “Hope” in Front of Me.  I had a short outline and was not sure what I would say in the end.  Many times, God works this way with my sermons…but for what I consider a “Speech” this was unusual.

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Season 13. Episode 4

Elisha What are you doing here (I Kings 19:1-21)

 1Ki 19:1 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done, and [fn]how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

 1Ki 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more so, if by about this time tomorrow I do not make your [fn]life like the [fn]life of one of them.”

 1Ki 19:3 And he [fn]was afraid, and got up and ran f...

Read I Corinthians 12:4 -I Cor 12:13, and v31

·      The Holy Spirit is part of the Trinity (3rd person)

o   Genesis 1:1-2

o   John 14:15-17

o   Matthew 28:19 

·      The Holy Spirit is a person, (I Cor 12:11 (NASB95)- 

o   The Spirit is alive

o   The same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

·      We cannot the limit the gifts that the Holy Spirit gives (Paul used the word Manifestation t...

Galatians 3:28, Philippians 4:3, I Peter 4:11, see also 1Co 12:6-11

In an Old Testament we find Deborah , she was a ruler, a judge of the Israelite people, a prophetess and a poet (Judges 4 & 5). Deborah led an army of 10,000  into battle along with a man named Barak. Even though she prophesied that the Lord would deliver the enemy up, Barak refused to go unless she went with him. Deborah's answered him in Judges 4:9 (NASV)...

The Window of God

2 Kings 6:24-33; 2 Kings 7:3, 10-11; 2 Kings 7:18-19 

Dr.  Sim Taylor 

Hello all! This week we will continue to study Spiritual Principles and the work of the Holy Spirit.  I am sharing this sermon with you as an extra study for the week. Be Blessed.

Then the captain, the king's right-hand man, responded to the man of God, "Look, [even if] the Lord were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?&qu...

MY MIND AND MY BODY WILL OBEY MY SPIRIT

The Bible teachers us we are a three-part being; made in the image of God.

Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.   

(27) So God created man in his own image, in the image ...

How will I know when I have received the Salvation of the Lord
Our main scripture today is Genesis 15

We will also look at Romans 4:20-25; Galatians 3:6-9 and Hebrews 11. Additional scriptures include Romans 10:17 & James 2:26. Isaiah 61, Isaiah 30:27, Hebrews 12:29

The question we ask today is How can we discover if we are saved? How will be know when we receive our promise (salvation).  

1)    Genesis 15:6-8

a)     How can we...

Main Scripture: Matthew 13 versus 3-9, 18-23, 51-52, 

Reference Scriptures: Isaiah 55: 2-3, Psalms 37: 4, Psalms 1:1-6, John 3, I Timothy 1: 7

You can also find the Parable Of The Sower in Mark 4, and Luke 8.

In Matthew 13, Jesus is explaining about the Kingdom. He tells the people about the different types of soil. Afterward the disciples ask him to explain the parable. It is not that the parable was hard to understand for ...

Scripture is from Philippians 1:12-30 (New American Standard Bible)

The term Relax, Release, and Relate comes from an episode of the Cosby Show (TV sitcom from the 1990's).  Debbie Allen's character regularly recited it in her effort to combat stress or fear. One writer said that these three words relate the emotional tug-of-war in our faith walk.

God asks us to move; we stay put; God asks us to stay put; we m...

Faith, Confidence, Boldness, Access and Liberty

Scriptures:  (NASB) 2 Corinthians 3:2-6; & 12; Hebrews 11:1-3 (Genesis 1); Ephesians 3

What is Faith?  God has the ability to speak and produce something from nothing (Genesis 1). God can speak and what he says  becomes the "Let there be...". God breathed into us.  Does it make it possible for us to speak to make the "Let there be"? We are the image of God? What ...

In a previous lesson entitled “Overcoming Evil with Good “we looked at Scripture; in Matthew 5 : 8-48; Romans 12:21, and  James 4:7, We discussed how to combat the enemy. We learned how to live out the bible lesson “treating people differently than they treat you”. In this complementary lesson we look at how to combat the enemy. The Bible says in Ephesians 6:10 (NASB):
Eph 6:10. Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strengt...

Scripture; Matthew 5 (esp 38-48); Romans 12 (esp v 21); James 4:7, book of Job

Today we discuss how to overcome the human nature to treat  others as they treat us.  As I spent time in meditation with God he explained how to live out scriptures that instruct us to turn the other cheek....andHe did so using the game of Football!

You will hear some difficult terms at first in this lesson, but stick with me. “Dialectics” is a term used t...

Today we want to talk about the Things that are seen and the things that are not seen. How can we become people of God who know his will and are open to his wisdom? How can we know the things that are seen, but at the same understand the things that are not seen (unseen)?

 2 Corinthians 4:17.    For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,

2 Corinthians 4:18.    while we lo...

Moving Mountains: On the Journey to Be like Christ

Matthew 17:1  Jesus *took with Him Peter and [a]James and John his brother, and *led them up on a high mountain by themselves. 

• Jesus directed the disciples to come with him to a secret place. What are your conversations with Jesus in Secret?  Do you talk to him and ask him to show you how to increase your Faith? 
• The disciples spent time with Jesus during times of teach...

Isaiah 59:19 in the King James says "So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him." Maybe we have not interpreted this verse as the original author intended. We will review a few of the verses before verse 19 and examine the situation the people are in. God is dealing w...