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Podcast

The Lie in My Right Hand

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8b37a-1555927

The world is filled with attractive and intriguing idols, and they’re all promising to bring us joy and contentment. But the emptiness we feel inside, that empty space, cannot be filled with any of these worldly things. The empty puzzle space can only be filled with the missing puzzle piece. Only the perfect piece will bring the puzzle perfect peace.

When the world only provides short term answers, there is a long term one that is eternal, and it’s readily available for your acceptance. Stop repeating the lie, stop looking for what’s right in front of you, drop the lie in your hand, and choose life from the Son of Man.

Pray on,

~ E.M.

Song: If Love is Real (Unreleased)

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Podcast

His Word is Good

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s7agv-16c0192

A library is a house of  hope (we could stop there) …

It’s a place where we all, whatever our situation,

can feed our ideas and developed our dreams.

 

A cartoon showed (a father handing a child a book to his teen-age son):

“It’s a book you say, ..uh, what do I plug it into?” You mind!

 

Apart from the word of God, human life knows only chaos. It is the word that speaks order into creation and that sustains all the processes of nature. It is the word that motivates all history and brings it to fulfillment. It is the word alone that gives guidance, and forgiveness, and blessing, and fruitful life. It is in the word that God draws near to his chosen people and abides with them.

 

I share this because just as in (the Minor Prophet), Amos’ time…

(a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. ~ Amos 8:11)

There are many today who are tragically ignorant of their Bible.

…and some are weekly church goers!

They don’t’t know scripture, they don’t read it, or study it.

…I heard it said that those that do dabble with commentaries

are guilty of not creating their own.

The Biblical illiteracy among Christians is epidemic.

 

Father, our land is ripe for the hearing of your word

Let each and everyone of us begin a disciplined approach to your word

Reading it, studying it, digging deeper into it,

questioning what it means, praying on its application…

and then sharing with those around us the riches of doing so

sharing it in a way that excites others to join us

In your Son’s name we pray…

 

Pray on…

Song: His Word is Good

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Podcast

Tilling For Love

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ggxdt-16c0172

…break up your unplowed ground ~ Hosea 10:12

One of my daughters was a stubborn child. She knew what she wanted, and wasn’t going to have it any other way. Her will was strong, her heart could turn hard during such an exercise, her upsetment occurred because she wasn’t getting what she wanted …much like many adults, like many unhappy souls in the world …dare I say much like our politicians …their stubbornness, their inability to see past their hard hearts, is the cause for much turmoil in their world and ours.

In Hosea 10:12, God uses metaphors from agriculture to set forth his requirements. Sandy Adams shares, We need to prepare the ground before we plant a garden. The strongest plants grow in the worked, and softened soil. The barren spots were the ones that were unworked.

Repentance does to our spirit, what a tiller does to the hard ground. A repentant heart sees its sin’s true ugliness. True repentance turns my life over and over breaking up my hardness. It allows the seeds of God to take root and create spiritual growth. But if the heart is not prepared the seed won’t take root. This why we need to turn up the soil of our heart. We need to work over that soil with a thorough repentance.

Tilling ground is laborious, hard, backbreaking, agonizing work …and so  is real repentance …the results though are worth the effort. The strongest stands of spiritual fruit, will grow where you have worked the ground.

Pray on…

Song: Once Again Lord

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