MARK
Word Studies:
After
All
Because
Before
Bring, Brought, Bringest, Broughtest
But
Come, Camest, Came
Day
Do, Dost, Doeth, Doth
Give, Giveth, Givest
Help
Keep
Know, Knowest, Knew, Knowledge
Made
Make, Makest
Now
Perfect
Power
Remnant
See, Saw, Seest,
Seek, Sought
Send, Sent
Until, Til
Way
Went
Woe
Phrases
And God Said
Day & Night, D& N
Hear & See, or See & Hear - H & S;
Heaven & Earth
In that day
"I Will's of God"
Poor & Needy
Seek & Find
Small & Great
Take Heed
The Lord Commanded
Questions of the Bible
Chapter 1
1:2 Behold; send; before (2); way;
1:3 way; make;
1:4 did - do;
1:5 went; all (2);
1:6 did - do;
1:7 cometh - come; after;
1:8 but;
1:9 And it came to pass; came (2) - come (2); in those days - day;
1:10 coming - come; saw- see; v. 10 - 11, Hear & See, H&S;
1:11 came - come; came a Voice from heaven, saying - And God said; I am well pleased - PLEASE GOD; well;
1:13 forty days - day;
1:14 now; after; came - come;
1:15 and saying - And God said;
1:16 now; saw - see;
1:17 and Jesus said unto them - and God said; come; after; I will make you to become fishers of men - I will's of God; make;
1:19 gone - go; saw - see;
1:20 went; after;
1:21 went; the sabbath day - day;
1:24 do; come; destroy; Holy One of Israel - Holy; know; what have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth? art Thou come to destroy us? - great questions of the bible (2);
1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying - and God said; come;
1:26 came - come;
1:27 all; do; for with authority commandeth he - the Lord commanded; What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? - great questions of the bible (2);
1:28 all;
1:29 come;
1:30 but;
1:31 came - come;
1:32 brought - bring; all;
1:33 all;
1:34 because; knew - know;
1:35 before; went; day;
1:36 after;
1:37 found - find; seek; seek & find, S&F; all;
1:38 and He said unto them - And God said; go; came - come;
1:39 all;
1:40 came - come; make;
1:41 And Jesus saith unto Him - And God said; I will; be thou clean - I will's of God;
1:42 as He had spoken - And God said;
1:42 sent;
1:43 sent;
1:44 and saith unto him - and God said; see; but; go; way;
1:45 But (2); went; came- come;
Chapter 2
2:1 after; some days - day;
2:2 and He preached the Word unto them - And God said;
2:3 come; bringing - bring;
2:4 come;
2:5 saw - see; He said unto the sick of the palsy - And God said;
2:6 but;
2:7 doth - do; but; Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? - great questions of the bible (2);
2:8 He said unto them - And God said; why reason ye these thing in your hearts? - great questions of the bible;
2:9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? - great questions of the bible;
2:10 but; know; power; He saith to the sick of the palsy - and God said;
2:11 I say unto thee - And God said; go; way;
2:12 went; before; all (2); saw- see;
2:13 went; all;
2:14 saw - see; and said unto him - and God said;
2:15 And it came to pass; came - come;
2:16 saw- see; How is it that He eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? - great questions of the bible;
2:17 He saith unto them - And God said; but (2); came - come;
2:18 come; do; but; Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Thy disciples fast not? - great questions of the bible;
2:19 And Jesus said unto them - And God said; Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bride-groom is with them? - great questions of the bible;
2:20 But; the days , in those days - day (2); come; will;
2:21 made; new & old, N&O;
2:22 doth - do; but; will; new & old, N&O;
2:23 And it came to pass; came - come; went (2); the sabbath day - day;
2:24 Behold; do; the sabbath day - day; Why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful? - great questions of the bible;
2:25 And He said unto them - And God said; did - do; Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him? - great questions of the bible;
2:26 went; in the days of Abiathar - day; did - do; but; gave - give; How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him? - great questions of the bible;
2:27 And He said unto them - and God said; made;
Chapter 3
3:2 the sabbath day - day;
3:3 And He saith unto the man - and God said;
3:4 And He saith unto them - And God said; the sabbath days - day; do (2); but; Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil, to save life, or to kill? - great questions of the bible (2); good & evil, G&E;
3:5 He saith unto the man - And God said;
3:6 went; destroy;
3:7 but;
3:8 did - do; came - come;
3:9 And He said to His disciples - And God said; because;
3:11 saw- see; before; hear & see, H&S;
3:12 make; known - know;
3:13 goeth -go; And calleth unto Him, whom He would - And God said; came - come;
3:14 send;
3:15 power;
3:19 went;
3:20 cometh - come;
3:21 went;
3:22 came- come;
3:23 And He called them unto him, and said unto them in parables - And God said; How can Satan cast out Satan? - great questions of the bible;
3:26 but;
3:27 will (2);
3:28 Verily I say unto you - and God said; all;
3:29 but (2);
3:30 because;
3:31 came - come; sent;
3:32 behold; seek;
3:33 And He answered them, saying - and God said; Who is My mother, or My brethren? - great questions of the bible;
3:34 looked - look; behold;
3:35 do; the will of God - I will's of God;
Chapter 4
4:2 and He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in His doctrine - And God said;
4:3 Behold; went;
4:4 And it came to pass; came (2) - come (2); way;
4:5 because;
4:6 but; because;
4:8 did -do; brought - bring;
4:9 and He said unto them - And God said;
4:11 And He said unto them - And God said; given - give; know; all; done - do;
4:12 seeing, see - see (2); hear & see, H&S;
4:13 And He said unto them - And God said; know (2); will; all; Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? - great questions of the bible (2);
4:14 soweth the word - And God said;
4:15 way; but; cometh - come; the word (2) - And God said (2);
4:16 the word - And God said;
4:17 but; afterward - after; the word's sake - And God said;
4:18 such as hear the word - And God said;
4:19 choke the word - and God said;
4:20 hear the word - And God said; bring;
4:21 And He said unto them - And God said; brought - bring; Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? - great questions of the bible (2);
4:22 kept - keep; but; come;
4:24 And He said unto them - And God said; take heed; given - give;
4:25 given - give;
4:26 And He said - And God said;
4:27 night and day - day & night, D&N; knoweth - know;
4:28 bringeth - bring; after;
4:29 but; brought - bring; because; come;
4:30 And He said - And God said; Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? - great questions of the bible (2);
4:31 all;
4:32 but; all;
4:33 such parables spake He the word unto them - And God said;
4:34 but; all; a parable spake he not unto them - And God said;
4:35 And the same day - day; come; He saith unto them - and God said;
4:36 sent;
4:37 now;
4:38 Master, carest Thou not that we perish? - great questions of the bible;
4:39 And He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea - And God said;
4:40 And He said unto them - And God said; why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? - great questions of the bible (2);
4:41 What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him? - great questions of the bible;
Chapter 5
5:1 came, come - come (2);
5:2 come;
5:4 because;
5:5 day & night, D&N;
5:6 but; saw - see;
5:7 do; what have I to do with thee, Jesus, Thou Son of His most High God? - great questions of the bible;
5:8 For He said unto him - and God said; come;
5:9 and He asked him - and God said; What is thy name? - gret questions of the bible;
5:10 send;
5:11 Now;
5:12 all; send;
5:13 gave - give; went;
5:14 went; see; done- do;
5:15 come; see;
5:16 saw - see;
5:18 come;
5:19 but; Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him - and God said; go; done - do;
5:20 done, did - do (2); all;
5:22 behold; cometh - come; saw - see;
5:23 come; life & death, L&D;
5:24 went;
5:26 all; but;
5:27 came - come;
5:28 but;
5:30 And Jesus immediately knowing in Himself that virtue had gone out of Him, turned Him about in the press, and said - And God said; Who touched My clothes? - great questions of the bible; knowing - know; gone - go;
5:31 seest - see; Who touched, me? - great questions of the bible;
5:32 looked - look; see; done - do;
5:33 but; knowing - know; done - do; came- come; before; all;
5:34 and he said unto her - And God said; made; go;
5:35 While He yet spake - And God said; came- come; why troublest thou the Master any further? - great questions of the bible;
5:36 He saith unto the ruler of the synagogue - And God said;
5:38 cometh - come; seeth - see;
5:39 come; He saith unto them - And God said; Why make ye this ado, and weep? - great questions of the bible; but; make;
5:40 but; all;
5:41 And He took the damsel by the and and said unto her, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise - And God said (2);
5:43 know; given - give; and commanded that something should be given her to eat - the Lord commanded;
Chapter 6
6:1 went; came - come;
6:2 the sabbath day - day; come; From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto Him, that even such mighty works are wrought by His hands? - great questions of the bible (2); given - give;
6:3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? are not his sisters here with us? - great questions of the bible (2);
6:4 But (2); Jesus said unto them - And God said;
6:5 do;
6:6 because; went;
6:7 and He called unto Him the twelve - And God said; send; power; gave - give;
6:8 and commanded them - the Lord commanded;
6:9 But;
6:10 and He said unto them - and God said; till - until;
6:11 Verily I say unto you - And God said; in the day of judgment - day;
6:12 went;
6:14 do;
6:16 But;
6:17 sent;
6:19 but;
6:20 knowing - know; did - do; Holy;
6:21 a convenient day - day; come; made;
6:22 came - come; will; give;
6:23 will; give;
6:24 went; What shall I ask? - great questions of the bible;
6:25 came - come; will; give;
6:27 sent; went; brought - bring;
6:28 brought - bring; gave (2) - give (2);
6:29 came - come;
6:30 all; done - do;
6:31 And He said unto them - And God said; come, coming - come (2); going - go;
6:33 saw - see; knew - know; all; cam e- come;
6:34 came - come; saw - see; because;
6:35 And when the day was no far spent - day; now (2); came- come;
6:36 send; go;
6:37 He answered and said unto them - And God said; give (2); Shall we go and buy two hundred penny-worth of bread, and give them to eat? - great questions of the bible;
6:38 He saith unto them - And God said; How many loaves have ye? - great questions of the bible; go; see; knew - know;
6:39 and He commanded - the Lord commanded; make; all;
6:41 looked - look; gave - give; before; all;
6:42 did - do; all;
6:44 did - do;
6:45 go; before; sent;
6:46 sent;
6:47 come;
6:48 saw - see; cometh - come;
6:49 but; saw - see;
6:50 all; saw - see; He talked with them and saith unto them - And God said;
6:51 went;
6:53 cam e- come;
6:54 come; knew - know;
6:56 made; but;
Chapter 7
7:1 came (2) - come (2);
7:2 saw - see; found - find;
7:3 all;
7:4 come;
7:5 Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? - great questions of the bible; but;
7:6 He answered and said unto them - And God said; well; but;
7:7 do;
7:8 the commandment of God - the Lord commanded; do;
7:9 and He said unto them - And God said; the commandment of God - the Lord commanded; well; keep;
7:11 but;
7:12 do;
7:13 Making - make; the word of God - And God said; delivered - deliver; do;
7:14 And when He had called all the people unto Him, He said unto them - And God said; all;
7:15 but; come;
7:18 and He saith unto them - and God said; Are ye so without understanding also? - great questions of the bible; do;
7:19 because; but; goeth - go; all; v. 18 - 19 Do ye not perceive that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; v. 19 Because it entereth not into his heart; but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? - great questions of the bible;
7:20 And He said - And God said; cometh- come;
7:23 all; come;
7:24 went; know; but;
7:25 came - come;
7:27 But; Jesus said unto her - And God said;
7:29 And he said unto her - And God said; go, gone - go (2); way;
7:30 come; found - find; gone - go;
7:31 came - come;
7:32 bring;
7:34 looking - look; He sighed, and saith unto him - And God said;
7:37 but;
7:38 done - do; all; well; maketh - make;
Chapter 8
8:1 in those days - day; Jesus called His disciples unto Him, and saith unto them - And God said;
8:2 because; now; three days - day;
8:3 send; will; way; came - come;
8:4 From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? - great questions of the bible;
8:5 And He asked them - and God said; How many loaves have ye?- great questions of the bible;
8:6 And He commanded the people - the Lord commanded; gave (2) - give (2); before (2); did - do;
8:7 and commanded to set them - the Lord commanded; before;
8:8 did - do;
8:9 sent;
8:10 came - come;
8:11 came - come; seeking - seek;
8:12 And He sighed deeply in His spirit, and saith, verily I say unto you - And God said (2); doth - do; seek; after; given - give; Why doth this generation seek after a sign? - great questions of the bible;
8:14 Now;
8:15 And He charged them, saying - And God said; Take heed;
8:16 because;
8:17 knew - know; He saith unto them - And God said; because; Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? - great questions of the bible (3);
8:18 see; do; hear & see, H&S; Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? - great questions of the bible (3);
8:19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragements took ye up? - great questions of the bible;
8:20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? - great questions of the bible;
8:21 And He said unto them - And God said; How is it that ye do not understand? - great questions of the bible; do;
8:22 cometh - come; bring;
8:23 He asked him if he saw ought - And God said; saw - see;
8:24 looked - look; see;
8:25 after; made; look; saw - see;
8:26 And He sent him away to his house, saying - And God said; sent; go;
8:27 went; way; He asked His disciples, saying unto them- And God said; Whom do men say that I am? - great questions of the bible; do;
8:28 but;
8:29 And He saith unto them - And God said; But whom say ye that I am? - great questions of the bible;
8:31 after; three days - day;
8:32 And He spake that saying openly - And God said;
8:33 but (2); looked - look; He rebuked Peter, saying - And God said;
8:34 And when He had called the people, He said unto them - And God said (2); will; come; after;
8:35 will; but;
8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - great questions of the bible;
8:37 give; Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? - great questions of the bible;
8:38 ashamed of Me and of My Words - And God said; cometh - come;
Chapter 9
9:1 And He said unto them, Verily I say unto you - And God said (2); till - until; seen - see; come; power;
9:2 after; six days - day; before;
9:5 make;
9:7 a Voice came out of the cloud, saying - And God said;
9:8 suddenly; looked - look; saw - see;
9:9 came - come; He charged them - and God said; seen - see; till - until;
9:10 kept - keep;
9:11 come; Why say the scribes that Elias must first come? - great questions of the bible;
9:12 And He answered and told them - And God said; cometh - come; all;
9:13 but; I say unto you - And God said; come; done- do;
9:14 came - come; saw - see;
9:15 all; beheld - behold;
9:16 And He asked the scribes - and God said; What question ye with them? - great questions of the bible;
9:17 brought - bring;
9:19 He answereth him, and saith - And God said; how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? - great questions of the bible (2); bring;
9:20 brought - bring; saw - see;
9:21 And He asked his father - and God said; came - come; How long is it ago since this came unto him? - great questions of the bible;
9:22 but; help;
9:23 Jesus said unto him - and God said; all;
9:24 ehlp;
9:25 saw- see; came, come - come (2); He rebuked the foul spirit, saying - And God said;
9:26 came - come;
9:27 but;
9:28 Why could not we cast him out?- great questions of the bible;
9:29 and He said unto them - And God said; come; but;
9:30 know;
9:31 He taught His disciples, and said unto them - And God said; delivered - deliver; after; the third day - day;
9:32 But;
9:33 came - come; He asked them - And God said; what was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? - great questions of the bible; way;
9:34 But; way;
9:35 And He sat down and called the twelve, and saith unto them - And God said; all 92);
9:36 He said unto them - And God said;
9:37 but; sent;
9:38 saw - see; because;
9:39 but; do; Jesus said - And God said;
9:41 give; because; verily I say unto you - And God said;
9:43 go;
9:50 but; will; but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? - great questions of the bible;
Chapter 10
10:1 cometh - come;
10:2 came - come; Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? - great questions of the bible;
10:3 And He answered and said unto them - And God said; What did Moses command you? - great questions of the bible;
10:5 and Jesus answered and said unto them - And God said;
10:6 but; made;
10:8 but;
10:11 and He saith unto them - And God said;
10:13 brought (2) - bring (2);
10:14 but; when Jesus saw it He was much displeased, and said unto them - And God said; saw - see; come; PLEASE GOD;
10:15 Verily I say unto you - And God said;
10:17 gone - go; way; came - come; do; what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? - great questions of the bible;
10:18 And Jesus said unto him - And God said; Why callest thou Me goo? - great questions of the bible; but;
10:19 knowest - know; do (4);
10:20 all;
10:21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him - And God said; beholding - behold; go; way; give; come;
10:22 went;
10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto His disciples - and God said; looked - look;
10:24 but; Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them - And God said;
10:25 go;
10:26 Who then can be saved? - great questions of the bible;
10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith - And God said; looking - look; but; all;
10:28 all;
10:29 and Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you - and God said;
10:30 but; now; come;
10:31 but;
10:32 way; going - go; went; before; began to tell them - And God said;
10:33 Saying - And God said; Behold; go; delivered, deliver - deliver (2);
10:34 the third day - day;
10:35 come; do;
10:36 And He said unto them - And God said; What would ye that I should do for you? - great questions of the bible;
10:37 right & left, R&L;
10:38 but; Jesus said unto them - And God said; know; can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? - great questions of the bible (2);
10:39 And Jesus said unto them - And God said; right & left, R&L;
10:40 but (2); give, given - give (2);
10:42 but; Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them - And God said; know;
10:43 but (2); will;
10:44 will; all;
10:45 came - come; but; give;
10:46 came - come; went;
10:48 but;
10:49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called - the Lord commanded;
10:50 came - come;
10:51 And Jesus answered and said unto him - and God said; What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? - great questions of the bible; do;
10:52 and Jesus said unto him - And God said; go; way (2); made;
Chapter 11
11:1 came - come; sendeth - send;
11:2 And saith unto them - And God said; go; way; find; bring;
11:3 do; will; send; Why do ye this? - great questions of the bible;
11:4 went; way, ways - way (2); found - find;
11:5 do; what do ye loosing the colt? - great questions of the bible;
11:6 as Jesus had commanded - the Lord commanded;
11:7 brought - bring;
11:8 way (2);
11:9 went; before; cometh - come;
11:10 cometh - come;
11:11 looked - look; all; now; come; went;
11:12 come;
11:13 seeing - see; came (2) - come (2); find, found - find (2); but;
11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it - And God said;
11:15 come; went;
11:17 And He taught , saying unto them, Is it not written - and God said (2); all; but; made; Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer?- great questions of the bible;
11:18 sought - seek; destroy; because; all;
11:19 come; went;
11:20 saw - see;
11:21 behold;
11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them - And God said;
11:23 For verily I say unto you - And God said; but; shall come to pass; come;
11:24 Therefore I say unto you - And God said;
11:26 but; do; neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive - I will's of God;
11:27 come (2);
11:28 doest, do - do (2); gave - give; By what authority doest Thou these things? and who gave Thee this authority to do these things? - great questions of the bible (2);
11:29 And Jesus answered and said unto them - And God said; I will also ask of you, I will tell you - I will's of God (2); do;
11:30 The baptism of Joh, was it from heaven, or of men? great questions of the bible;
11:31 He will say - And God said; did - do; why then did ye not believe him? - great questions of the bible;
11:32 but; all;
11:33 And Jesus answering saith unto them - And God said; do (2);
Chapter 12
12:1 And He began to speak unto them by parables - and God said; went;
12:2 sent;
12:3 sent;
12:4 sent (2);
12:5 sent;
12:6 sent; will; his wellbeloved - well;
12:7 but; come;
12:9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? - great questions of the bible; will (2); come; destroy; give;
12:11 doing - do; v. 10 - 11, And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner; v. 11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? - great questions of the bible v. 10 -11;
12:12 sought - seek; but; knew - know; that He had spoken the parable - And God said; went; way;
12:13 send; His words - And God said;
12:14 come; know; but; way; give; Is is lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? - great questions of the bible;
12:15 give (2); but; knowing - know; bring; see; Shall we give, or shall we not give? Why tempt ye Me? - great questions of the bible (2);
12:16 brought - bring; and He saith unto them - And God said; Whose is this image and superscription? - great questions of the bible;
12:17 And Jesus answering said unto them - And God said;
12:18 come;
12:20 Now;
12:22 all;
12:23 whose wife shall she be of them? - great questions of the bible;
12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them - And God said; because; know; power; Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God?- great questions of the bible;
12:25 given - give; but;
12:26 have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? - great questions of the bible; God spake unto him, saying - And God said;
12:27 but; living & dead, L&D; do;
12:28 came - come; well; all; Which is the first commandment of all? - great questions of the bible;
12:29 And Jesus answered - And God said; all;
12:30 all (4);
12:32 well; Master, Thou hast said the truth - and God said; but;
12:33 all (5);
12:34 He said unto him - And God said; after; saw - see;
12:35 And Jesus answered and said, - And God said; How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? - great questions of the bible;
12:36 said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord - and God said (2); till - until; make;
12:37 David therefore himself calleth Him Lord; and whence is he then his son?- great questions of the bible;
12:38 and He said unto them in His doctrine - and God said; go;
12:40 devour - destroy/devour; make;
12:41 beheld - behold;
12:42 came - come; make;
12:43 And He called unto Him His disciples, and siath unto them, Verily I say unto you - And God said (3); all;
12:44 all (3); did (2) - do (2); but;
Chapter 13
13:1 went; see;
13:2 And Jesus answering said unto him - and God said; Seest thou these great buildings? - great questions of the bible; seest - see;
13:4 all; Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled? - great questions of the bible (2);
13:5 And Jesus answering them began to say - And God said; Take heed;
13:6 come;
13:7 but;
13:9 but; take heed; deliver; brought - bring; before;
13:10 all;
13:11 but (3); deliver; beforehand - before; do; given - give; Holy Ghost - holy;
13:12 now;
13:13 all; but;
13:14 but; see;
13:15 go;
13:17 but; woe; give; in those days - day;
13:19 in those days - day;
13:20 those days, the days - day (2); but;
13:22 signs & wonders - S&W;
13:23 but; take heed; behold; I have foretold you - and God said; all;
13:24 but; in those days - day; after; give; light &dark, L&D;
13:25 powers - power;
13:26 see; coming - come; power;
13:27 send; heaven & earth, H&E;
13:28 Now; know;
13:29 see; come to pass - it shall come to pass; come; know;
13:30 Verily I say unto you - and God said; shall not pass - it shall come to pass; till - until; all; done - do;
13:31 heaven & earth, H&E; but; My Words shall not pass away - And God said;
13:32 but (2); that day - day; knoweth - know;
13:33 Take ye heed - take heed; know;
13:34 gave - give; and commanded the porter to watch - the Lord commanded;
13:35 know; cometh - come;
13:36 coming - come; suddenly; find;
13:37 what I say unto you, I say unto all - and God said (2); all;
Chapter 14
14:1 after; two days - day; sought - seek;
14:2 but; the feast day - day;
14:3 came - come;
14:4 Why was this waste of the ointment made? - great questions of the bible; made;
14:5 given - give;
14:6 and Jesus said - And God said; why trouble ye her? - great questions of the bible;
14:7 will; do; but;
14:8 done - do; come;
14:9 Verily I say unto you - And God said; done - do;
14:10 went;
14:11 give; sought - seek;
14:12 the first day - day; go; Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover? - great questions of the bible;
14:13 sendeth - send; go; and saith unto them - And God said;
14:14 go; the Master saith - And God said; Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with My disciples? - great questions of the bible;
14:15 will; make;
14:16 went; came - come; found - find; as He had said unto them - And God said; made;
14:17 cometh - come;
14:18 did - do; Jesus said, Verily I say unto you - And God said (2);
14:19 Is it I? and another said, Is it I? - great questions of the bible (2);
14:20 And He answered and said unto them - And God said;
14:21 goeth - go; but; Woe; as it is written - and God said;
14:22 did - do; gave - give; and said - and God said;
14:23 given, gave - give (2); all;
14:24 and He said unto them - and God said;
14:25 Verily I say unto you - and God said; I will drink no more - I will's of God; until; that day - day;
14:26 went;
14:27 And Jesus saith unto them, it is written - and God said (2); all; because; I will smite the shepherd - I will's of God;
14:28 but; after; go; before; I will go before you - I will's of God;
14:29 but; all; will;
14:30 and Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee - and God said (2); this day - day; before; day & night, D&N;
14:31 but; all; will;
14:32 came - come; and He saith to His disciples - And God said;
14:34 And saith unto them - And God said;
14:35 went;
14:36 And He said - And God said; all; not what I will, but what Thou wilt - I will's of God; but;
14:37 cometh - come; findeth - find; and saith unto Peter - And God said; simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour? - great questions of the bible (2);
14:38 but; spirit & flesh, S&F;
14:39 went; and spake the same words - And God said;
14:40 found - find;
14:41 cometh, come - come (2); and saith unto them - And God said; now; behold;
14:42 go;
14:43 while He yet spake - And God said; cometh - come;
14:44 given - give;
14:45 come; goeth - go;
14:48 and Jesus answered and said unto them - and God said; Are ye come out as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take Me? - great questions of the bible;
14:49 but;
14:50 all;
14:53 all;
14:55 all; sought - seek; found - find; seek & find, S&F;
14:56 but;
14:58 We heard Him, say, I will destroy this temple - And God said; I will destroy this temple, I will build another made without hands - I will's of God (2); destroy; made (2); three days - day;
14:59 but; did - do;
14:60 Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against Thee? - great questions of the bible (2);
14:61 but; Art Thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? - great questions of the bible;
14:62 and Jesus said - And God said; see; power; coming - come;
14:63 What need we any further witnesses? - great questions of the bible;
14:64 all; what think ye? - great questions of the bible;
14:65 did - do;
14:66 cometh - come;
14:67 saw - see; looked - look;
14:68 but; know; went;
14:69 saw - see;
14:70 after;
14:71 but; know;
14:72 the word that Jesus said unto him - and God said; before;
Chapter 15
15:1 delivered - deliver;
15:2 Art thou the King of the Jews? - great questions of the bible; and He answering said unto him - And God said;
15:3 but;
15:4 behold; Answerest Thou nothing? - great questions of the bible;
15:5 but;
15:6 now;
15:7 made;
15:8 do, done - do (2);
15:9 but; will; Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews? - great questions of the bible;
15:10 knew - know; delivered - deliver;
15:11 but;
15:12 will; do; What will ye then that I shall do unto Him whom ye call the King of the Jews? - great questions of the bible;
15:14 done - do; why, what evil hath He done? - great questions of the bible;
15:15 willing - will; delivered - deliver;
15:19 did - do;
15:21 coming - come;
15:22 bring;
15:23 gave - give; but;
15:27 right & left, R&L;
15:28 the Scripture was fulfilled, which saith - And God said;
15:29 destroyest - destroy; three days - day;
15:30 come;
15:32 now; see;
15:33 come; until;
15:34 Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying - and God said; Eloi, Eloi, lamasabachthani? My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? - great questions of the bible (2);
15:35 Behold; He calleth Elias - And God said;
15:36 gave - give; see; will; come;
15:37 and Jesus cried with a loud voice - and God said; gave - give;
15:39 saw - see; gave - give;
15:40 looking - look;
15:41 came - come;
15:42 now; come; because; before; the day - day;
15:43 came - come; went;
15:45 knew - know; gave - give;
15:47 beheld - behold;
Chapter 16
16:1 come;
16:2 came - come; the first day of the week - day;
16:3 who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? - great questions of the bible;
16:4 looked - look; saw - see;
16:5 saw - see;
16:6 seek; behold;
16:7 but; go, goeth - go (2); way; before; see; as He said unto you - And God said;
16:8 went;
16:9 Now; the first day - day;
16:10 went;
16:11 seen - see;
16:12 after; went;
16:13 went;
16:14 Afterward, after - after (2); because; seen - see;
16:15 And He said unto them - And God said; go; all;
16:16 but;
16:19 after; the Lord had spoken - and God said;
16:20 went; confirming the Word with signs following - And God said;
Started: November 30, 2017
Continued: 12/1; 12/2; 12/3; 12/4;12/5; 12/6; 12/7; 12/8; 12/9; 12/10;
Finished: December 10, 2017
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
PRAYER EMAIL - NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Greetings,
"Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause; but I will meditate in Thy precepts. Let those that fear Thee turn unto me, and those that have known Thy testimonies. Let my heart be sound in Thy statutes; that I be not ashamed." Psalm 119:78 - 80
Few days ago, I finished reading my bible through for the 46th time. Challenged at 15 years old, by dad, who was my pastor to read the bible through, I took that challenge. The Lord started doing a work in me at that time with my bible readings and devotional, "Morning and Evening" by Charles Spurgeon. Little did I know that all this would lead me to my present day commitment to read the Bible through twice a year on my knees. Challenged in this by my biographies of great saints that read the bible on their knees and read it over a 100 times in their life time. Read and challenged to set that for my goal. Memorize and re-memorize Psalm 119 twice a year; how this Psalm has filled me and taught me and called me unto Him in greater depths.
All of this to lead me to more and more revealing of certain words and phrases that jump out me and captivate my thoughts. These captivated thoughts are for the phrase here, 'I will meditate in Thy precepts". Meditate is used 14 times in the Bible; 5 of those are found here in Psalm 119. Meditate, chew on the word, the meaning, the purpose of the Word of God for my life and for those around me. And as you share that, glean from that, those that fear the Lord will want that also, for they have the same hungering and thirsting after righteousness that you have. They will come and hear and learn and apply as well. Iron sharpening iron to make it all for Lord's glory and honor. And to do my word/phrase studies; having just recently completed the two from last time reading through - 'Deliver' and 'Woe'. This bring me to over 30 word studies, and 12 phrase studies. And what is all this about? What is it for? It is found in these verses of Psalm 119:78 - 80, it is about meditation on the Word of God to the soul of man and shared to the hearts, minds and souls of men and women that fear the Lord as well.
"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of God shall last forever" Two things are eternal on this world - the soul; and the Word of God. and that which is so important to last forever should be invested in by His children. The labor of prayer is what continues to increase, promote and secure the work of the Word of God in the soul of man for the saving of it. And the Lord has called me to invest in it all. a challenge from Him to be more than what I thought I might be. and that I can say with Paul, 'I am what I am by the grace of God.'
all of this is a process in this life for the work while here and the preparation for the eternal world to come. and all of us have this calling upon us to 'war a good warfare'. I have lost 3 close brethren this year, saints that have passed on into eternity. I walked with them right to the end. the third one is only a matter of days or hours away from exited this life and entering that life. All due to cancer. but everything of our time invested in the Word, in prayer is about that time of death that secures us to be able to say, 'I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith, my course is finished.' Each one said to me, 'I wish I could have done more. Oh, that I had given more time to the Word and prayer.' Brethren, take a word of truth from the dead and dying. 'These men being dead still speak.' What are you investing in? What are you living for? Your getting ready to finish a year, 2017, what have you done? grown in? matured in? finished?
These word and phrase studies have been a process of this growth that have fed me for years - two of the greatest of these is the 'I will's of God' over 2000 of them in the bible of God saying, "I will' Brethren this is an absolute! And the other phrase study is all the questions of the bible. Oh, how these have spoke to my soul and helped me, as well as gave me food to bring to the hungry in bible studies and church services. They are etched throughout my prayer notebook, my prayer phrases and my understanding of Who God is and what is doing. How much we fly over the Word, miss out on and yet it is there before us to glean daily. Give time and place to know the Word of God and to know the God of the Word.
One of the things for the close of this year and the preparation for the New Year is to meditate on the Word of God. Let it saturate your prayer life, your communication with others. Allow for it to feed you and cause you to continue to 'grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord'. Read the Word, study it, memorize it, pray it but don't forget to meditate on it. The Holy Spirit will honor the Word to the soul that fixes itself for Him to allow for His image to be on our lives. and those that see and hear us will say of us, 'they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus'.
Be a man or woman of prayer because the Word of God has lit your fire to seek and be much before Him.
"Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed; but rightly dividing the Word of God'
Prayer Targets:
--Dec. 5 - oral arguments in front of the supreme court for religious freedom & speech; this will set the determined future for our nation and the church; And I fear that the Lord will allow for the court to rule against religious freedom as a continued judgement on the church for its failure. 'who knows if the Lord will turn and repent and leave a blessing behind Him' therefore I will pray;
Was pleased to read that Ronnie Floyd set the prayer call last night for NDP for this important issue. Many of the church are unaware of its implications or even about the court case.
--drugs - push to fight drug war with more treatment centers with drugs; deaths will approach or exceed 70,000 this year;
--abortion rates are reported down by CDC; however, acknowledge and know that adultery and fornication is still at an all time high; day after pill and contraceptives are the greater reason for the lower numbers, not that abortion is less desired by our nation;
--boko haran soliders attacked NE villages of NIgeria; all these years and this evil continues; ISIS is lessened but evil is still prevalent;
--more pestilence and disease - Hepatitis A in CA is unreal with defecating in the streets;
--North KOrea launch heightens response;
--teachers/student sex cases continue; epidemic numbers across our nation;
Updates:
--Dec. 1 start bible through again; word study - 'Destroy/Devour' & 'Holy'; phrase study - 'PLEASE GOD" most of these I already have marked, just need to document them;
--finished Matthew in 47th time through with word/phrase study copying old bible to new bible;
--prayer emails will no longer be sent via mailchimp; I will continue to post them here on my blog;
--sermons uploaded and broadcast on Sundays from ustream account and uploaded to youtube page;
--facebook live stream I've been trying to do once a week to share prayer targets and updates;
--24/7 prayer chain - http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945a4aa2da75-2471/58736439 this is the greatest work needed right now; please go to web site and sign up.
--A Word blog - closing in on 1,900 Scriptures done; currently verses by verse in Isaiah 49: 1 - 8 for this month;
--DanBiser.blogspot.com which this is, not only am I writing my prayer emails from here; but it is also all my other writings; currently started several other projects
1. The Prayer Life - I wanted to cover some of the more in-depth aspects of prayer, more centered in on spiritual warfare and the hour of prayer;
2. The Paradoxes of God - I wanted to document these 2 dozen Scripture that reveal God's nature and ways; I believe most do not know Who God is nor how He works; These are really revealing in our approach to God and in prayer times
3. Seeing that the remedial judgements of September and October, I was and am moved to write on the warning of God when they are given and the response of the people to adhere or to reject or to ignore them this is where we are right now
until,
dan
"Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause; but I will meditate in Thy precepts. Let those that fear Thee turn unto me, and those that have known Thy testimonies. Let my heart be sound in Thy statutes; that I be not ashamed." Psalm 119:78 - 80
Few days ago, I finished reading my bible through for the 46th time. Challenged at 15 years old, by dad, who was my pastor to read the bible through, I took that challenge. The Lord started doing a work in me at that time with my bible readings and devotional, "Morning and Evening" by Charles Spurgeon. Little did I know that all this would lead me to my present day commitment to read the Bible through twice a year on my knees. Challenged in this by my biographies of great saints that read the bible on their knees and read it over a 100 times in their life time. Read and challenged to set that for my goal. Memorize and re-memorize Psalm 119 twice a year; how this Psalm has filled me and taught me and called me unto Him in greater depths.
All of this to lead me to more and more revealing of certain words and phrases that jump out me and captivate my thoughts. These captivated thoughts are for the phrase here, 'I will meditate in Thy precepts". Meditate is used 14 times in the Bible; 5 of those are found here in Psalm 119. Meditate, chew on the word, the meaning, the purpose of the Word of God for my life and for those around me. And as you share that, glean from that, those that fear the Lord will want that also, for they have the same hungering and thirsting after righteousness that you have. They will come and hear and learn and apply as well. Iron sharpening iron to make it all for Lord's glory and honor. And to do my word/phrase studies; having just recently completed the two from last time reading through - 'Deliver' and 'Woe'. This bring me to over 30 word studies, and 12 phrase studies. And what is all this about? What is it for? It is found in these verses of Psalm 119:78 - 80, it is about meditation on the Word of God to the soul of man and shared to the hearts, minds and souls of men and women that fear the Lord as well.
"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of God shall last forever" Two things are eternal on this world - the soul; and the Word of God. and that which is so important to last forever should be invested in by His children. The labor of prayer is what continues to increase, promote and secure the work of the Word of God in the soul of man for the saving of it. And the Lord has called me to invest in it all. a challenge from Him to be more than what I thought I might be. and that I can say with Paul, 'I am what I am by the grace of God.'
all of this is a process in this life for the work while here and the preparation for the eternal world to come. and all of us have this calling upon us to 'war a good warfare'. I have lost 3 close brethren this year, saints that have passed on into eternity. I walked with them right to the end. the third one is only a matter of days or hours away from exited this life and entering that life. All due to cancer. but everything of our time invested in the Word, in prayer is about that time of death that secures us to be able to say, 'I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith, my course is finished.' Each one said to me, 'I wish I could have done more. Oh, that I had given more time to the Word and prayer.' Brethren, take a word of truth from the dead and dying. 'These men being dead still speak.' What are you investing in? What are you living for? Your getting ready to finish a year, 2017, what have you done? grown in? matured in? finished?
These word and phrase studies have been a process of this growth that have fed me for years - two of the greatest of these is the 'I will's of God' over 2000 of them in the bible of God saying, "I will' Brethren this is an absolute! And the other phrase study is all the questions of the bible. Oh, how these have spoke to my soul and helped me, as well as gave me food to bring to the hungry in bible studies and church services. They are etched throughout my prayer notebook, my prayer phrases and my understanding of Who God is and what is doing. How much we fly over the Word, miss out on and yet it is there before us to glean daily. Give time and place to know the Word of God and to know the God of the Word.
One of the things for the close of this year and the preparation for the New Year is to meditate on the Word of God. Let it saturate your prayer life, your communication with others. Allow for it to feed you and cause you to continue to 'grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord'. Read the Word, study it, memorize it, pray it but don't forget to meditate on it. The Holy Spirit will honor the Word to the soul that fixes itself for Him to allow for His image to be on our lives. and those that see and hear us will say of us, 'they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus'.
Be a man or woman of prayer because the Word of God has lit your fire to seek and be much before Him.
"Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed; but rightly dividing the Word of God'
Prayer Targets:
--Dec. 5 - oral arguments in front of the supreme court for religious freedom & speech; this will set the determined future for our nation and the church; And I fear that the Lord will allow for the court to rule against religious freedom as a continued judgement on the church for its failure. 'who knows if the Lord will turn and repent and leave a blessing behind Him' therefore I will pray;
Was pleased to read that Ronnie Floyd set the prayer call last night for NDP for this important issue. Many of the church are unaware of its implications or even about the court case.
--drugs - push to fight drug war with more treatment centers with drugs; deaths will approach or exceed 70,000 this year;
--abortion rates are reported down by CDC; however, acknowledge and know that adultery and fornication is still at an all time high; day after pill and contraceptives are the greater reason for the lower numbers, not that abortion is less desired by our nation;
--boko haran soliders attacked NE villages of NIgeria; all these years and this evil continues; ISIS is lessened but evil is still prevalent;
--more pestilence and disease - Hepatitis A in CA is unreal with defecating in the streets;
--North KOrea launch heightens response;
--teachers/student sex cases continue; epidemic numbers across our nation;
Updates:
--Dec. 1 start bible through again; word study - 'Destroy/Devour' & 'Holy'; phrase study - 'PLEASE GOD" most of these I already have marked, just need to document them;
--finished Matthew in 47th time through with word/phrase study copying old bible to new bible;
--prayer emails will no longer be sent via mailchimp; I will continue to post them here on my blog;
--sermons uploaded and broadcast on Sundays from ustream account and uploaded to youtube page;
--facebook live stream I've been trying to do once a week to share prayer targets and updates;
--24/7 prayer chain - http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945a4aa2da75-2471/58736439 this is the greatest work needed right now; please go to web site and sign up.
--A Word blog - closing in on 1,900 Scriptures done; currently verses by verse in Isaiah 49: 1 - 8 for this month;
--DanBiser.blogspot.com which this is, not only am I writing my prayer emails from here; but it is also all my other writings; currently started several other projects
1. The Prayer Life - I wanted to cover some of the more in-depth aspects of prayer, more centered in on spiritual warfare and the hour of prayer;
2. The Paradoxes of God - I wanted to document these 2 dozen Scripture that reveal God's nature and ways; I believe most do not know Who God is nor how He works; These are really revealing in our approach to God and in prayer times
3. Seeing that the remedial judgements of September and October, I was and am moved to write on the warning of God when they are given and the response of the people to adhere or to reject or to ignore them this is where we are right now
until,
dan
Monday, November 27, 2017
THE PRAYER LIFE
The Prayer Life
"Lord, teach us to pray" - Luke 11:1
"but I give myself unto prayer" - Psalm 109:4
"continue in prayer" - Colossians 4:2
"Pray without ceasing" - I Thessalonians 5:17
"God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you" - I Samuel 12:23
These are a few of the verses of instruction from the Bible regarding to pray and the prayer life. The need is still the same as the disciples asked, 'Lord teach us to pray'. And prayer has generated some of the most marvelous and miraculous results. Every salvation, fulfilled promises from God, deliverance from sin, victory over evil, provisions granted and all because God moved some soul to ask, seek and knock; and God heard, saw and opened. Prayer is the most powerful weapon at the church's disposal to combat hell and its forces of evil and to advance our Lord's kingdom here on earth. How often is that prayer uttered from the church or from a saint, 'Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, here on earth as it is in heaven.' And how is His will done in heaven? Perfectly! And our prayer life is exactly the same opportunity to prevail.
I. Physical Prayers
How often in Christ ministry, that as He would come across the afflicted, He would ask of them, 'what would you have Me do?" And they in quick reply would ask for healing of their physical infirmity. I have always found it amazing that Christ, Who was God, Omniscient, would ask what He already knew. But He was drawing out of them openly, out loud what they desired. Blind Bartimeaus, the lepers, Jairus daughter, each and many more asking for Divine healing of the physical need at hand, at that moment. and how faithful He was to hear, and to respond and Divinely heal them all.
Have we not all been here? And if, by some means of mercy, you have not been here, give thanks, for the higher percentage of the church and of the lost world are all facing disease, sickness, physical desires of need. And in most of these cases, only God can answer that need. for the ways of man have failed, and now a Divine moment is needed or the valley of the shadow of death will turn into the death knell. this is the physical need of the hour for most families, churches, and individuals.
And these physical prayers are offered for the temporal, carnal side of our existence and for those around us and affecting us. Often the trials and tribulations that are not of spiritual need
II. Spiritual Prayers
III. Prevailing Prayers
IV. Hindered Prayers
A question asked by many a saints learning and waling through the process of prayer: 'I'm praying, but I don't see any answers to my prayer. . . I feel like my prayers are not heard. . . I ask, but I don't receive. . . I feel like my prayers are being hindered.' The exact reasons of why our prayers are not answered is varied. But our prayers are only hindered for two reasons:
1. sin;
2. unbelief (which is also sin, but more specific to the cause);
in the book of James, it declares to us, 'you ask, but receive not, because you ask amiss'. Herein is a root cause of why prayers are hindered.
V. Sweet Hour of Prayer
If there was a reason to begin such a work on prayer, it is found in this heading of 'Sweet Hour of Prayer'. I grew up singing it in church, loved by many, beatuiful melody and words that filled the soul. But as the prayer life took off, I began to question, 'am I praying an hour? is it sweet?' Why sing it, if it isn't tru? Or perhaps the other way to word it, 'to sing about sweet hour of prayer but never pray an hour, is a lie; I'm guilty of lying about my prayer life'. so in scrunity it is needful to see if we are praying just as we should.
the other area that came under scrutiny was the traditional Baptist church Wednesday night 'Pray Meeting & bible study" advertised for 7 PM. I grew up under this. And yes, even though it opened and closed in prayer, it was not a prayer meeting. To those that report and know better, they say this died out back in the 1950;s & '60's. The revolution of change to adapt to youth meetings, choir practices, other programs and meetings, the first thing that changed was prayer. It was all but eliminated. Not that the programs, meetings and spending more time in Bible study is not important, or doesn't advance the kingdom; they are important and edifying. but the point is, that emphasizing an hour of prayer is not actually employed. when in reality it is only less than 5 - 10 minutes of the hour.
When we set out on our first 24/7 prayer chain, I learned first hand how hard it was to maintain and employ that hour consistently and faithfully in the secret closet. The benefit of the prayer notebook is underappreciated. I broke it down into section of the hour for prayer:
--10 - 15 minutes of worship;
--10 minutes of confession;
--10 - 15 minutes of churches, brethren, missions;
--prayer against evil acitity;
--lost souls;
--petitions, requests, supplications for the nations, kingdom, future;
In this I learned to pray an hour and often overflow. but I realized I had never seen this modeled, nor spoke of; (except in TW Hunt's 3:30 - 6;30 prayer time each morning, I knew his routine).
Why? Because we know not what to pray for as we should. and too much that is called prayer, is not prayer, but only mental thoughts about someone, or something. Thoughts about may not constitute what prayer is generally defined as, as communication between God and man, and man to God. The richest prayer life is one who knows fully to Whom he is praying and to Whom he is hearing from. Prayer is not simply about the Lord or His will and way; nor is it simple gestures, but it is open, constant, consistent communication before His Holy Throne. Herein, the prayer life is the Divine means by which God has instituted for us to speak to Him and Him to speak to us.
This is an inexhaustible topic, and it is not my purpose to even attempt to cover it all. But it m desire to speak to that which is healthy and spiritual for the prayer life to prevail for the kingdom of God. Prayer is not offered up simply to ease our conscience. It is not done, to accomplish the spiritual discipline check-lists. It is to ask, seek and knock for the will of God to be done in the will of men. And that as in all things there are stages of growth in life, so there are in prayer. God would not have us always to be babes in Christ and remain on the carnal, temporal and selfish. But He would have us to have great faith, and 'do great and mighty exploits for His glory and Name sake.' Let us examine the ways of prayer so as to continue to 'grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord'.
Started: November 27, 2017
Continued: 12/4; 12/8;
Finished:
"Lord, teach us to pray" - Luke 11:1
"but I give myself unto prayer" - Psalm 109:4
"continue in prayer" - Colossians 4:2
"Pray without ceasing" - I Thessalonians 5:17
"God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you" - I Samuel 12:23
These are a few of the verses of instruction from the Bible regarding to pray and the prayer life. The need is still the same as the disciples asked, 'Lord teach us to pray'. And prayer has generated some of the most marvelous and miraculous results. Every salvation, fulfilled promises from God, deliverance from sin, victory over evil, provisions granted and all because God moved some soul to ask, seek and knock; and God heard, saw and opened. Prayer is the most powerful weapon at the church's disposal to combat hell and its forces of evil and to advance our Lord's kingdom here on earth. How often is that prayer uttered from the church or from a saint, 'Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, here on earth as it is in heaven.' And how is His will done in heaven? Perfectly! And our prayer life is exactly the same opportunity to prevail.
I. Physical Prayers
How often in Christ ministry, that as He would come across the afflicted, He would ask of them, 'what would you have Me do?" And they in quick reply would ask for healing of their physical infirmity. I have always found it amazing that Christ, Who was God, Omniscient, would ask what He already knew. But He was drawing out of them openly, out loud what they desired. Blind Bartimeaus, the lepers, Jairus daughter, each and many more asking for Divine healing of the physical need at hand, at that moment. and how faithful He was to hear, and to respond and Divinely heal them all.
Have we not all been here? And if, by some means of mercy, you have not been here, give thanks, for the higher percentage of the church and of the lost world are all facing disease, sickness, physical desires of need. And in most of these cases, only God can answer that need. for the ways of man have failed, and now a Divine moment is needed or the valley of the shadow of death will turn into the death knell. this is the physical need of the hour for most families, churches, and individuals.
And these physical prayers are offered for the temporal, carnal side of our existence and for those around us and affecting us. Often the trials and tribulations that are not of spiritual need
II. Spiritual Prayers
III. Prevailing Prayers
IV. Hindered Prayers
A question asked by many a saints learning and waling through the process of prayer: 'I'm praying, but I don't see any answers to my prayer. . . I feel like my prayers are not heard. . . I ask, but I don't receive. . . I feel like my prayers are being hindered.' The exact reasons of why our prayers are not answered is varied. But our prayers are only hindered for two reasons:
1. sin;
2. unbelief (which is also sin, but more specific to the cause);
in the book of James, it declares to us, 'you ask, but receive not, because you ask amiss'. Herein is a root cause of why prayers are hindered.
V. Sweet Hour of Prayer
If there was a reason to begin such a work on prayer, it is found in this heading of 'Sweet Hour of Prayer'. I grew up singing it in church, loved by many, beatuiful melody and words that filled the soul. But as the prayer life took off, I began to question, 'am I praying an hour? is it sweet?' Why sing it, if it isn't tru? Or perhaps the other way to word it, 'to sing about sweet hour of prayer but never pray an hour, is a lie; I'm guilty of lying about my prayer life'. so in scrunity it is needful to see if we are praying just as we should.
the other area that came under scrutiny was the traditional Baptist church Wednesday night 'Pray Meeting & bible study" advertised for 7 PM. I grew up under this. And yes, even though it opened and closed in prayer, it was not a prayer meeting. To those that report and know better, they say this died out back in the 1950;s & '60's. The revolution of change to adapt to youth meetings, choir practices, other programs and meetings, the first thing that changed was prayer. It was all but eliminated. Not that the programs, meetings and spending more time in Bible study is not important, or doesn't advance the kingdom; they are important and edifying. but the point is, that emphasizing an hour of prayer is not actually employed. when in reality it is only less than 5 - 10 minutes of the hour.
When we set out on our first 24/7 prayer chain, I learned first hand how hard it was to maintain and employ that hour consistently and faithfully in the secret closet. The benefit of the prayer notebook is underappreciated. I broke it down into section of the hour for prayer:
--10 - 15 minutes of worship;
--10 minutes of confession;
--10 - 15 minutes of churches, brethren, missions;
--prayer against evil acitity;
--lost souls;
--petitions, requests, supplications for the nations, kingdom, future;
In this I learned to pray an hour and often overflow. but I realized I had never seen this modeled, nor spoke of; (except in TW Hunt's 3:30 - 6;30 prayer time each morning, I knew his routine).
Why? Because we know not what to pray for as we should. and too much that is called prayer, is not prayer, but only mental thoughts about someone, or something. Thoughts about may not constitute what prayer is generally defined as, as communication between God and man, and man to God. The richest prayer life is one who knows fully to Whom he is praying and to Whom he is hearing from. Prayer is not simply about the Lord or His will and way; nor is it simple gestures, but it is open, constant, consistent communication before His Holy Throne. Herein, the prayer life is the Divine means by which God has instituted for us to speak to Him and Him to speak to us.
This is an inexhaustible topic, and it is not my purpose to even attempt to cover it all. But it m desire to speak to that which is healthy and spiritual for the prayer life to prevail for the kingdom of God. Prayer is not offered up simply to ease our conscience. It is not done, to accomplish the spiritual discipline check-lists. It is to ask, seek and knock for the will of God to be done in the will of men. And that as in all things there are stages of growth in life, so there are in prayer. God would not have us always to be babes in Christ and remain on the carnal, temporal and selfish. But He would have us to have great faith, and 'do great and mighty exploits for His glory and Name sake.' Let us examine the ways of prayer so as to continue to 'grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord'.
Started: November 27, 2017
Continued: 12/4; 12/8;
Finished:
Friday, November 24, 2017
PRAYER EMAIL - NOVEMBER 23 "DO YOU SAVOUR THE THINGS OF GOD OR MAN?'
Greetings,
"But He turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind Me, Satan: thou art an offense unto Me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God; but those things that be of men"
and herein is our question, Have we savoured the things of God throughout this year? throughout this month? and are we longing to continue to savour the things of God right through the end of this year? So much is at stake in these days, weeks and months ahead. And too often I have learned and watched in my own self as well as in others of how fickle we are in spiritual disciplines. Never have I seen church, bible, prayer and evangelism so 'inconvenient and optional to Christians. Can they really say they savor the things of God when they turn from His ways to world, self and sin?
My greatest desire is to be filled in days and weeks with labors before Him, in Him and by Him. church, prayer, witnessing, instruction, time, calendar filled with activity about God and for God. How can we short-change Him our time and energies so much and still say we savour the things of God? Time must be invested in the eternal, spiritual, purposes of God. And if they are not, then it is temporal, carnal, selfish, and our own will and agendas. Let us look again at the 4 pillars of the faith in spiritual discipline for the close of this year and headed into the new year:
1. bible - its not an option for us; We have been entrusted in North America with access, freedom, education to glean, learn, apply and know the Word of God. How many nations, people would give to have what we have and cannot for persecution, limitations. Where much is given, much is required. and God will require of us what we did with His Word when He entrusted it to us to cover the world with it. Your daily time has to be in the Word, to know it, read it and let it speak to you. Sporadic, minimal readings are not sufficient for a healthy spiritual growth. Too many spend more time on facebook, social media watching TV than in the Word. This sin is rarely confessed or addressed by the body of Christ. Be much in the Word; give time to devour it for His work to be done in you.
2. prayer - how much I have craved to be more and more in prayer; To match the great praying saints is set before me. Not just to polly repeat them, but to emulate them in their patterns and times for the sake of what it means to the kingdom and to our Lord. In prayer, I have seen and do know that Satan hates this more than anything else. HE fights hardest against the soul resolved to pray more and learn to pray. In this I know that it is one of the most treasures of our day to be much in prayer. Examine this savour in the Lord and the things of God and follow Christ example of prayer.
3. Sharing the Gospel - how much this impacts me about the souls of men; how many will be graced before us on judgement day that we knew we were to tell them, talk to them, convey to them the Gospel truth and yet we allowed for other things to distract, rob and detour us away from this act of obedience in sharing the Gospel. Make it a priority to speak about eternity to one soul a week; and if doing that, then increase to fill 4 - 5 days a week. The harvest is white but the laborers are few, pray . . .
4. church - too many think of church services, buildings as the means of the church; yet in these buildings, services is where the body gathers to fulfill the Lord's work and desire; They view these services and buildings as optional, random. Yet, the church is the most important thing in the life of a Christian. Christ died for the church; Christ started the church and Christ is coming back for the church. don't tell me the church isn't important.
but the activity of the church is so sinful and vile that it grieves the Holy Ghost greatly. You see this in the attendance of church services. In the US we are now under 20% of our 330 million population that are in church on any given Sunday morning. This greatly lessens for Sunday night services; mid-week services; and the slim, rare to find prayer meetings are all less and less with faithful, steadfast stewards of the kingdom in the church. for most, what kind of Christian you are is found in your church attendance.
In these 4 areas I find, determine our savouring of the things of God or not. time given or time taken away from these things determines our savour of God. And the things of holiness, eternity, Spirit vs. carnality, temporal and self are clear evidences of what we savour in this life. And to the most part will determine our eternity with Him or away from Him. How important to live this life for Him, in Him and about Him. Strive to finish this year at the highest acts of obedience and reverence to the things that are savoring to God. eliminate and flee from the things that savor to me/men.
24/7 prayer chain -
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945a4aa2da75-2471/58736439
This is by far the greatest need of the hour. A continual, prevailing, praying 24/7 chain that comes before the Lord for His purposes, His kingdom, His promises, His will in His people and for the nations. a labor of prayer offered up before Him is the greatest battle and warfare needed today against evil.
But I realize that to many such praying is not possible. An hour prayer times is a hard thing to find among the church body today. You would think a weekly corporate prayer times would be a good thing, yet that is also hard to find among the churches today. Most churches simply do not know how to pray an hour, nor do they pray an hour a week. And the individual prayer times are often filled with thoughts about people and things, yet not what we would consider offering up petitions, supplications, intercessions. Now God knows our thoughts and intents in prayer, but to many say they are praying, when really they are have mental thoughts. Make sure we are communicating to the Lord in prayer times.
Prayer Targets:
--Dec. 5 - it will be another day of infamy for the church and our age; few in the church are aware of this day of the oral arguments set to begin in the Supreme Court over business vs. LGBT agenda; Ruling will impact business and have huge implications to church.
--also more religious denominations setting trend to favor gender bias in stark contrast to Bible; erosion of our day into abominations being accepted and favored;
--murder-suicides - have abated this past week; thankful for this but this is a continual on-going battle against evil in the minds of men and homes;
--another police officer shot & killed in TX;
--drugs; on course for 70,000 deaths this year; huge implications on our society, generational, and continuance of this evil; entire generation being wiped out;
--holidays abound and take priority in churches and Christian lives; priorities are shifted to family, self, ease, etc. spiritual warfare takes a back seat during these 2 months into the new year; dangerous times;
--epidemic of teacher/student sex cases continue; someone should hypothesize where this will lead in laws, school, relationship etc. it is becoming a norm with less and less repercussions; no doubt children, along with sex trafficking will be targeted rather than adult abusers; age will be dropped to 12 for legal contact; perversion and lasciviousness abound; giving us over to reprobate mind;
Update:
--bible reading; last day, Revelation 12; should finish Saturday, 46th time through; word studies completed this time was 'Deliver' & 'Woe'; along with a few other 'PLEASE GOD"; and highlighted Sin, Iniquity, Evil, wicked, sinner, abomination in red highlighter
; I had done sin, sinner, before but now color coated;
--word/phrase study - up through Matthew 19; puts me under 300 pages to completion;
--sermon uploaded to youtube page;
--leaning to prayer emails to be posted on social media of twitter & facebook account and here on my blog danbiser.blogspot.com I may just eliminate mailchimp
--facebook live stream - I have been trying to do these once a week; such a hard thing to fit in, yet a quicker way to present prayer targets and updates; Use the social media to encourage, edify, teach, share and bring together for His business.
Until,
dan
"But He turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind Me, Satan: thou art an offense unto Me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God; but those things that be of men"
and herein is our question, Have we savoured the things of God throughout this year? throughout this month? and are we longing to continue to savour the things of God right through the end of this year? So much is at stake in these days, weeks and months ahead. And too often I have learned and watched in my own self as well as in others of how fickle we are in spiritual disciplines. Never have I seen church, bible, prayer and evangelism so 'inconvenient and optional to Christians. Can they really say they savor the things of God when they turn from His ways to world, self and sin?
My greatest desire is to be filled in days and weeks with labors before Him, in Him and by Him. church, prayer, witnessing, instruction, time, calendar filled with activity about God and for God. How can we short-change Him our time and energies so much and still say we savour the things of God? Time must be invested in the eternal, spiritual, purposes of God. And if they are not, then it is temporal, carnal, selfish, and our own will and agendas. Let us look again at the 4 pillars of the faith in spiritual discipline for the close of this year and headed into the new year:
1. bible - its not an option for us; We have been entrusted in North America with access, freedom, education to glean, learn, apply and know the Word of God. How many nations, people would give to have what we have and cannot for persecution, limitations. Where much is given, much is required. and God will require of us what we did with His Word when He entrusted it to us to cover the world with it. Your daily time has to be in the Word, to know it, read it and let it speak to you. Sporadic, minimal readings are not sufficient for a healthy spiritual growth. Too many spend more time on facebook, social media watching TV than in the Word. This sin is rarely confessed or addressed by the body of Christ. Be much in the Word; give time to devour it for His work to be done in you.
2. prayer - how much I have craved to be more and more in prayer; To match the great praying saints is set before me. Not just to polly repeat them, but to emulate them in their patterns and times for the sake of what it means to the kingdom and to our Lord. In prayer, I have seen and do know that Satan hates this more than anything else. HE fights hardest against the soul resolved to pray more and learn to pray. In this I know that it is one of the most treasures of our day to be much in prayer. Examine this savour in the Lord and the things of God and follow Christ example of prayer.
3. Sharing the Gospel - how much this impacts me about the souls of men; how many will be graced before us on judgement day that we knew we were to tell them, talk to them, convey to them the Gospel truth and yet we allowed for other things to distract, rob and detour us away from this act of obedience in sharing the Gospel. Make it a priority to speak about eternity to one soul a week; and if doing that, then increase to fill 4 - 5 days a week. The harvest is white but the laborers are few, pray . . .
4. church - too many think of church services, buildings as the means of the church; yet in these buildings, services is where the body gathers to fulfill the Lord's work and desire; They view these services and buildings as optional, random. Yet, the church is the most important thing in the life of a Christian. Christ died for the church; Christ started the church and Christ is coming back for the church. don't tell me the church isn't important.
but the activity of the church is so sinful and vile that it grieves the Holy Ghost greatly. You see this in the attendance of church services. In the US we are now under 20% of our 330 million population that are in church on any given Sunday morning. This greatly lessens for Sunday night services; mid-week services; and the slim, rare to find prayer meetings are all less and less with faithful, steadfast stewards of the kingdom in the church. for most, what kind of Christian you are is found in your church attendance.
In these 4 areas I find, determine our savouring of the things of God or not. time given or time taken away from these things determines our savour of God. And the things of holiness, eternity, Spirit vs. carnality, temporal and self are clear evidences of what we savour in this life. And to the most part will determine our eternity with Him or away from Him. How important to live this life for Him, in Him and about Him. Strive to finish this year at the highest acts of obedience and reverence to the things that are savoring to God. eliminate and flee from the things that savor to me/men.
24/7 prayer chain -
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945a4aa2da75-2471/58736439
This is by far the greatest need of the hour. A continual, prevailing, praying 24/7 chain that comes before the Lord for His purposes, His kingdom, His promises, His will in His people and for the nations. a labor of prayer offered up before Him is the greatest battle and warfare needed today against evil.
But I realize that to many such praying is not possible. An hour prayer times is a hard thing to find among the church body today. You would think a weekly corporate prayer times would be a good thing, yet that is also hard to find among the churches today. Most churches simply do not know how to pray an hour, nor do they pray an hour a week. And the individual prayer times are often filled with thoughts about people and things, yet not what we would consider offering up petitions, supplications, intercessions. Now God knows our thoughts and intents in prayer, but to many say they are praying, when really they are have mental thoughts. Make sure we are communicating to the Lord in prayer times.
Prayer Targets:
--Dec. 5 - it will be another day of infamy for the church and our age; few in the church are aware of this day of the oral arguments set to begin in the Supreme Court over business vs. LGBT agenda; Ruling will impact business and have huge implications to church.
--also more religious denominations setting trend to favor gender bias in stark contrast to Bible; erosion of our day into abominations being accepted and favored;
--murder-suicides - have abated this past week; thankful for this but this is a continual on-going battle against evil in the minds of men and homes;
--another police officer shot & killed in TX;
--drugs; on course for 70,000 deaths this year; huge implications on our society, generational, and continuance of this evil; entire generation being wiped out;
--holidays abound and take priority in churches and Christian lives; priorities are shifted to family, self, ease, etc. spiritual warfare takes a back seat during these 2 months into the new year; dangerous times;
--epidemic of teacher/student sex cases continue; someone should hypothesize where this will lead in laws, school, relationship etc. it is becoming a norm with less and less repercussions; no doubt children, along with sex trafficking will be targeted rather than adult abusers; age will be dropped to 12 for legal contact; perversion and lasciviousness abound; giving us over to reprobate mind;
Update:
--bible reading; last day, Revelation 12; should finish Saturday, 46th time through; word studies completed this time was 'Deliver' & 'Woe'; along with a few other 'PLEASE GOD"; and highlighted Sin, Iniquity, Evil, wicked, sinner, abomination in red highlighter
; I had done sin, sinner, before but now color coated;
--word/phrase study - up through Matthew 19; puts me under 300 pages to completion;
--sermon uploaded to youtube page;
--leaning to prayer emails to be posted on social media of twitter & facebook account and here on my blog danbiser.blogspot.com I may just eliminate mailchimp
--facebook live stream - I have been trying to do these once a week; such a hard thing to fit in, yet a quicker way to present prayer targets and updates; Use the social media to encourage, edify, teach, share and bring together for His business.
Until,
dan
Saturday, November 18, 2017
Prayer email - November 18
Greetings,
"the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians. v. 25 and took off the chariot wheels. . . ' Exodus 14:24 - 25
Ah! what a sight when the Lord fights for His people. "If the Lord be for us, who can be against us' But what is it if you are on the receiving end of the Lord fighting against you? We live in a paradox of this for our nation and the church. Many will say that God is judging our nation; and He is. But are we willing to understand that He is judging the church, His people as well. Do we remember what the Book says, 'let judgement begin at the house of God'; 'if you don't repent, I will come and remove your candlestick (to the church of Ephesus)'. God wants His bride pure and holy, pleasing in His sight. And if we are not, then we receive correction as well to understand that this is not acceptable.
but how much more when the judgement comes, when it is for the fact that we live in a nation that has set itself against the Lord. As the remnant of Israel during the days of Elijah,7000 there that had not bowed nor kissed Baal, yet obscure and remote in their worship due to Ahab and Jezebels persecution. How about the church in China, underground, remote, limited as far as freedoms, yet still remain in faithful and obedient and growing. So that people that look at that and in the book of Acts and say 'well the church has to go through persecution to grow'; but that is not so. God sees fit to allow this for some; but it doesn't always have to be.
And so we see that God looks down on a nation that provokes Him and sees their deeds and knows their hearts of evil. He looks upon His church and sees their response and service to Him. And in the combination of these two, nation and church, we see a people that is not pleasing to Him. And when I say church, I am referencing the religious institutions of our nation as well as the remnant that is among them. Now the remnant is doing that which pleases the Lord - fasting, praying, serving, growing and seeking to be holy. Yet, the deluge of evil in our day is sweeping heart and minds into abyss of evil in our headlines. Although the remnant is faithful, judgement is falling, even now. And the cause of all of it, is sin.
What are some of these faults?:
Nation:
-- continues to escalate evil; 'the thoughts of their minds are continually evil';
--self is their god;
--entertainment is priority and time consumption;
--legalized and judicial edicts of abominations and sins as our way of life; abortion, alcohol, drugs, homosexuality, etc.;
--family is destroyed by adultery, abuse, neglect, torn apart and shredded are the majority of households today;
--humanism is mind set, thus we don't need God
Church:
--lack of bible knowledge; reading, studying, memorizing, sharing; this often confessed by most that are stirred up, that they had not been taught to love the Book and know the Book;
--prayer; greatly hindered, loss of time, this confession is many among pastors and church memebers that they have no prayer life, nor do they spend adequate time before the Lord;
--evangelism; too many in the 11 month of this year, will confess that they have not communicate the Gospel message of eternity in Christ or without Christ to one soul;
--fasting; a lost moment of what is greatly needed against this day of evil;
--church attendance and participation is largely open-ended; no faithfulness
--
Wheels coming off:
--since last Thursday - there have been at least 5 murder-suicides in 4 different states; with a total of about 12 losing their lives, 2 families of 4 died;
--another rampage shooter in CA where 4 were shot and the shooter was killed by police;
--Dec. 5 quickly approaches for the court case that will determine our future. Still have not heard much on this;
--Obama continues to organize a group opposing all the work of Trump; 30,000 followers in this, continue a state of anarchy and upheaval, the likes we have never seen;
--several each week of more teachers/student sex headlines; continues as an epidemic of evil; one every day of this past week has been reported and arrested from across the nation;
--each week more parents of neglect and murder, abuse on their own children;
The wheels are coming off - family; church; society; minds and hearts.
Now remember the Egyptians never got out of the Red Sea, but in the next verses, God had Moses turn the waters upon them and drowned them all. He took the wheels off to stop them in the midst to be drowned.
Where are we? Will we get out? Will we perish as a nation?: Will the church be sent underground?
Response of the Church:
Joel 2
1. v. 6, 'Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness' - my efforts and pleadings with church leadership and prayer leaders is to do something before we get to this point. But in many ways we are much pained with the crisis of our day of mass shooting, church shooting, homes torn apart, drugs in every family, cancer in every family, etc.
2. Fasting & Praying - the great need is the response of the church to identify where we are in light of Scripture, remedial judgements so that a proper response might be made; begin with once a month for coporate prayer times and fasting; weekly fasting and prayer by small groups and individuals;
3. an assembly to gather to address the sins of the nation, the church, and the individual to confess before the Lord; Herein is our high offence against the Lord that has provoked Him. These are largely not known to the nation, or to the majority of the church.
4. an act of repentance to turn away from these evils and turn to Him with all our heart, mind, soul and body;
5. A renewed vow and covenant between us and Him.
And to this end and these 5 suggestions I continue to work towards that there may be a right response. For I still believe that there is time, God is waiting on us to respond rightly, and our failure to recognize and do only compounds and deepens the judgements. so while there is still time, I plead respond.
Update:
--T- 10 days before finishing bible reading;
--word studies of 'deliver' and 'woe' winding down; new word study for next time will be 'destroy' and 'holy';
--no writings;
--sermons from Sunday uploaded to youtube page; Acts 19 at Fox's Hollow; Acts 20 at Keyser church;
--24/7 prayer is still looking for partners to join us in these days for a prevailing spirit of prayer against the evil and for the mercies of God; 'in wrath remember mercy' http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945a4aa2da75-2471/58736439
--i'm using facebook live stream more and more to try to do quick updates so these are posted there on my facebook pages;
Until,
dan
"the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians. v. 25 and took off the chariot wheels. . . ' Exodus 14:24 - 25
Ah! what a sight when the Lord fights for His people. "If the Lord be for us, who can be against us' But what is it if you are on the receiving end of the Lord fighting against you? We live in a paradox of this for our nation and the church. Many will say that God is judging our nation; and He is. But are we willing to understand that He is judging the church, His people as well. Do we remember what the Book says, 'let judgement begin at the house of God'; 'if you don't repent, I will come and remove your candlestick (to the church of Ephesus)'. God wants His bride pure and holy, pleasing in His sight. And if we are not, then we receive correction as well to understand that this is not acceptable.
but how much more when the judgement comes, when it is for the fact that we live in a nation that has set itself against the Lord. As the remnant of Israel during the days of Elijah,7000 there that had not bowed nor kissed Baal, yet obscure and remote in their worship due to Ahab and Jezebels persecution. How about the church in China, underground, remote, limited as far as freedoms, yet still remain in faithful and obedient and growing. So that people that look at that and in the book of Acts and say 'well the church has to go through persecution to grow'; but that is not so. God sees fit to allow this for some; but it doesn't always have to be.
And so we see that God looks down on a nation that provokes Him and sees their deeds and knows their hearts of evil. He looks upon His church and sees their response and service to Him. And in the combination of these two, nation and church, we see a people that is not pleasing to Him. And when I say church, I am referencing the religious institutions of our nation as well as the remnant that is among them. Now the remnant is doing that which pleases the Lord - fasting, praying, serving, growing and seeking to be holy. Yet, the deluge of evil in our day is sweeping heart and minds into abyss of evil in our headlines. Although the remnant is faithful, judgement is falling, even now. And the cause of all of it, is sin.
What are some of these faults?:
Nation:
-- continues to escalate evil; 'the thoughts of their minds are continually evil';
--self is their god;
--entertainment is priority and time consumption;
--legalized and judicial edicts of abominations and sins as our way of life; abortion, alcohol, drugs, homosexuality, etc.;
--family is destroyed by adultery, abuse, neglect, torn apart and shredded are the majority of households today;
--humanism is mind set, thus we don't need God
Church:
--lack of bible knowledge; reading, studying, memorizing, sharing; this often confessed by most that are stirred up, that they had not been taught to love the Book and know the Book;
--prayer; greatly hindered, loss of time, this confession is many among pastors and church memebers that they have no prayer life, nor do they spend adequate time before the Lord;
--evangelism; too many in the 11 month of this year, will confess that they have not communicate the Gospel message of eternity in Christ or without Christ to one soul;
--fasting; a lost moment of what is greatly needed against this day of evil;
--church attendance and participation is largely open-ended; no faithfulness
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Wheels coming off:
--since last Thursday - there have been at least 5 murder-suicides in 4 different states; with a total of about 12 losing their lives, 2 families of 4 died;
--another rampage shooter in CA where 4 were shot and the shooter was killed by police;
--Dec. 5 quickly approaches for the court case that will determine our future. Still have not heard much on this;
--Obama continues to organize a group opposing all the work of Trump; 30,000 followers in this, continue a state of anarchy and upheaval, the likes we have never seen;
--several each week of more teachers/student sex headlines; continues as an epidemic of evil; one every day of this past week has been reported and arrested from across the nation;
--each week more parents of neglect and murder, abuse on their own children;
The wheels are coming off - family; church; society; minds and hearts.
Now remember the Egyptians never got out of the Red Sea, but in the next verses, God had Moses turn the waters upon them and drowned them all. He took the wheels off to stop them in the midst to be drowned.
Where are we? Will we get out? Will we perish as a nation?: Will the church be sent underground?
Response of the Church:
Joel 2
1. v. 6, 'Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness' - my efforts and pleadings with church leadership and prayer leaders is to do something before we get to this point. But in many ways we are much pained with the crisis of our day of mass shooting, church shooting, homes torn apart, drugs in every family, cancer in every family, etc.
2. Fasting & Praying - the great need is the response of the church to identify where we are in light of Scripture, remedial judgements so that a proper response might be made; begin with once a month for coporate prayer times and fasting; weekly fasting and prayer by small groups and individuals;
3. an assembly to gather to address the sins of the nation, the church, and the individual to confess before the Lord; Herein is our high offence against the Lord that has provoked Him. These are largely not known to the nation, or to the majority of the church.
4. an act of repentance to turn away from these evils and turn to Him with all our heart, mind, soul and body;
5. A renewed vow and covenant between us and Him.
And to this end and these 5 suggestions I continue to work towards that there may be a right response. For I still believe that there is time, God is waiting on us to respond rightly, and our failure to recognize and do only compounds and deepens the judgements. so while there is still time, I plead respond.
Update:
--T- 10 days before finishing bible reading;
--word studies of 'deliver' and 'woe' winding down; new word study for next time will be 'destroy' and 'holy';
--no writings;
--sermons from Sunday uploaded to youtube page; Acts 19 at Fox's Hollow; Acts 20 at Keyser church;
--24/7 prayer is still looking for partners to join us in these days for a prevailing spirit of prayer against the evil and for the mercies of God; 'in wrath remember mercy' http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945a4aa2da75-2471/58736439
--i'm using facebook live stream more and more to try to do quick updates so these are posted there on my facebook pages;
Until,
dan
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