As I was in prayer, the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart about four expectations that God’s people should trust him to bring pass. These expectations are based on absolute promises the Lord has made to us. Our God is a promise-maker and a promise-keeper! 1. EXPECT TO BE REWARDED AS YOU DILIGENTLY SEEK THE LORD. “God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” (Hebrews 11:6). You can ask in faith for a token from the Lord to encourage and rekindle your confidence. God is always on time, and he knows you need a ray of hope and good news in your time of testing. Expect him to keep his promise to reward you now, when you are in greatest need. God cannot lie – he has said he rewards those who diligently seek him – so seek him daily. And truly believe this will be your season of great spiritual blessing. 2. EXPECT TO SEE EVIDENCE OF A PROGRESSIVE MIRACLE IN YOUR LIFE. “With God all things are possible” (Mark 10:27). I have written about instantaneous miracles and progressive miracles. Progressive miracles start in unseen, quiet ways and unfold little by little, one small mercy at a time. You are now in such a miracle. Expect to see God working in mysterious ways, unseen to the human eye. This should be the season you can say, “I don’t know how it will come to pass – I don’t see much happening right now – but I believe God set into motion an answer to my prayers the very first hour I asked.” 3. EXPECT TO ENTER INTO GOD’S PROMISED PLACE OF REST. “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God…enter into that rest” (Hebrews 4:9, 11). The recent year has been one of the most stressful for many believers. It was a year of incredible calamities, problems and trials. Now the Lord desires that you trust him to bring you into his promised rest. God never intended his children live in fear and despair. We need a reckless faith, a trust in him in the face of fear and trouble. Now is the time to lay it all on Jesus. 4. EXPECT THE HOLY SPIRIT TO BE ALWAYS “IN HIS TEMPLE.” “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit” (1 Corinthians 6:19). The Holy Spirit abides in the heart of every believer. He is omnipresent throughout the world and universe. I face each day acknowledging that he is here in his temple to comfort and guide me, encourage and anoint me, to reveal the glory of Jesus Christ in ever-increasing revelations. He desires that you expect him to make his presence manifest to you, and more so each passing day. Believe these promises. Lay hold of these four expectations, and you will see marvelous things in this season of your life. This was sent to me, I don't know who wrote this

3 Things That Faith Is Made Of

Three Things That Faith Is Made Of KNOWLEDGE BELIEF TRUST KNOWLEDGE - the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association. (1) Knowledge - Faith cometh by hearing. Romans 10:17 (NKJ) So then faith comes by hearing, & hearing by the word of God. . First thing we must hear the word of God. Seek to know God, Seek & know what the Gospel is. John 3:15-18 (NKJ) 15) "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life". 16) "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life". 17) "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18) "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only getton Son of God. The knowledge of forgiveness which is free to us. The knowledge of our adoption into God's family. The knowledge of how Jesus Christ changes our hearts. The knowledge of how He has changed us. The knowledge that Jesus Christ is our mediator between God & us. The knowledge of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ & that He was made a curse for us. Galatians 3:13 (NKJ) Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"). BELIEVE - means to a firm religious faith, to accept as true genuine or real, to have a firm conviction as to the goodness efficasy; or ability of something. (1) Believe that the word is true. Believe that God hears us when we cry out to Him with a sincere heart. Believe that God wrote the Bible/ Gospel. Believe that the blood of Jesus Christ washes us from all sin. Believe that Jesus Christ rose from the grave. Believe the promises of God! Believe in eternal life & that we have it. Believe in Gods Power! Believe that God the Father, Jesus the Son, & the Holy Spirit is real & alive!! Mark 1:15 (NKJ) and saying, The time is fulfilled, & the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, & believe in the gospel. Mark 9:23 (NKJ) Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." Mark 11:23 (NKJ) "For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed & be cast into the sea,' & does not doubt in his hears will come, but believes that those things he say will come to pass, he will have whatever he says. Luke 8:50 (NKJ) But when Jesus heard it, He answered him, saying "Do not be afraid; only believe, & she will be made well. TRUST - assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of someone or something. one in which confidence is place. depend in God to be confident; Hope. To commit or place in one's care or keeping. (1) Trust in Faith. Trust the blodd of Jesus Christ is life & not death. Trust in casting all your cares upon Jesus. Trust in rest in HIme for peace. Trust in totally commiting yourself to Him. Trust that Jesus is an intercesser for us. Trust that you are savd. Trust brings Jesus nearer to us. Trust in God's Word. Trust in God's power. Trust in God's promises for us. 2 Corinthians 1:9-10 (NKJ) 9) Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but God who raises the dead. 10) who delivered us from so great a death, & does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us, 2 Corinthians 3:4 (NKJ) And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 1 Thessalonians 2:4 (NKJ) But as we have been approved by God to b entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts. 1 Timothy 2:4 (NKJ) who desires all men to be saved & to come to the knowledge of the truth. Hebrews 2:13 (NKJ) And again; " I will put My trust in Him." (1) found in Merrian- Webster Collegiate Dictionary Eleventh Edition. In Jesus our LORD name; Rev. Londa

I Am a 'Kept ' Woman You see, there were a few times when I thought I would lose my mind, But GOD kept me sane. (Isa.. 26:3) There were times when I thought I could go no longer, But the LORD kept me moving. (Gen 28:15) At times, I've wanted to lash out at those whom I felt had done me wrong, But the LORD kept my mouth shut.. (Psa. 13) Sometimes, I think the money just isn't enough, But GOD has helped me to keep the lights on, the water on, the car paid, the house paid, etc.., (Matt. 6:25 -34) When I thought I would fall, HE kept me up. When I thought I was weak, HE kept me strong! (I Pet. 5:7, Matt. 11:28-30) I could go on and on and on, but I'm sure you hear me! I'm blessed to be 'kept ' Do you know a 'kept ' woman? If so pass it on to her to let her know she is 'Kept ' I'm "Kept" by the Love and Grace of God author unkown This could also be for men

DRINK, STEAL, SWEAR AND LIE DRINK, STEAL, SWEAR & LIE I met this guy while I was in Albuquerque and he has a motto he lives by everyday. He said listen carefully and live by these 4 rules : Drink, Steal, Swear, & Lie. I was shaking my head 'no', but he then told me to listen while he explained his four rules. So here they are : 1.. "Drink" from the "everlasting cup" every day. 2.. "Steal" a moment to help someone that is in worse shape than you are. 3.. "Swear" that you will be a better person today than yesterday. 4.. And last, but not least, when you "lie" down at night thank God you live in America and have freedom. I am not as good as I should be, I am not as good as I could be . but THANK GOD I am better than I used to be ! Author unknown to me. Thank you Larry for sending this.

Are we born this away

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Matt instantly learned the Russian language Jim Bramlett May 30, 2009 Dear friend: This is the amazing testimony of how God supernaturally and instantly taught the late Messianic Jewish leader Matt Schwartz how to speak fluent Russian! The first part of May 2009 I was notified that dear friend Matt had been found deceased in his apartment. Matt was one of the greatest men and Christian examples I have ever known. He was a senior pastor, Bible teacher, motivational speaker, and founder and president of Intercessors for Israel Ministries with 35,000 Delegates in all 50 states and 62 nations. He was a great friend of Israel and a personal friend of Jewish political leaders, including the current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.Previously I shared, "Matt had a gentle spirit and was a loving, kind and encouraging person. He had absolutely nothing to gain from being my friend and encouraging me, but he was, and he did, always. It was Christ working through Matt to bless others. I will greatly miss him." Subsequent to his death I have shared a couple of amazing testimonies of Matt's experiences. I wanted to share this one (below) but was missing some details, so I was awaiting information from our mutual friend Dr. Norman G. Marvin, M.D., who knew Matt much more closely than I did. Dr. Marvin met Matt through the great Messianic Jewish leader Art Katz of Ben Israel Ministries. You may have read Art's classic book, Ben Israel. Both Matt and Dr. Marvin served on Art's board of directors, and both spent many days and hours studying the Bible together, sometimes all day on Saturdays. Dr. Marvin gave me the details below. Matt had shared about how shortly after the year 2000, he sensed that God was calling him to minister in Russia. But Matt did not know the language. He tried and tried those self-teaching programs, but he simply could not learn. Matt continued to sense he was supposed to go to Russia and one day heard God say, "Only obey my voice. I'll take care of it." So Matt decided to obey, step out in faith, and go. While traveling to Leningrad on a sleeper train (not made for comfort), Matt could not sleep, so about 2-3 a.m. he decided to get up and go to the club car for a cup of tea. There was only one other person in the car, a Russian man in a military uniform. Assuming he understood Russian, the man spoke to Matt and invited him to sit down. Shockingly, Matt could understand what the man said to him! Then Matt started speaking to the man in Russian, and shared the gospel with him. It turns out that the man was a Russian naval officer who taught in a submarine academy. He was so touched by Matt and his message that he invited him to speak to the students about this Jesus about whom Matt spoke! Matt did later speak at the school to about 300-400 people, sharing from the Scriptures how the coming Messiah was prophesied in detail centuries beforehand, with all the prophecies fulfilled in Jesus. About 100 of the Russians received Christ that day. No doubt much more seed was planted which will someday come to fruition. With his newly learned language, Matt continued to minister in Russia many times over the years, in Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev, to God's glory. This is another miracle from our miracle-working God, whom we serve with gladness. God told Matt, "Obey my voice. I'll take care of it." Matt did. God did. Jim

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Why a study and perspective of Islam is necessary .... Muslims are increasing more than any other religious group in the world. Their growth rate is four times faster than Christians. Presently, those who practice Islam make up approximately one-fifth of the world's population. One Bible teacher from England, after reviewing current demographics, commented that, "if present trends continue, half of all global births will be in Muslim families by the year 2055". Something revolutionary is happening before our eyes, and most Western Christians are oblivious to it. Not only are Muslims the fastest growing religious group in the world, but also in the United States, Canada and Europe, with Europe perhaps being the model of where Canada and then the United States are heading shortly after.Any simple examination of the present birth rates of the native Europeans versus Europe's Muslim immigrant population leads us to one very clear and ominous conclusion: the Europe we have known is very quickly changing into what some refer to as Eurabia, where Europe will soon find itself under the power and control of Islam. The following short clip will show you just where our world is heading from a purely demographic point of view - click here to watch

Dear Rev. Londa Picard, http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/iran-prophecy.htm on May 18, 2009. To unsubscribe or update your email address visit: http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?zJwMzGyMtCzsHAycjAyMtGa0zEwcLKwMbA==. Prophecy Pitfall #4 Imminency: Can Jesus Come At Any Moment? The only prophecy teaching more appealing than a pretrib rapture that saves us from going through the dreaded Great Tribulation, is this one. It simply says that Jesus can come back "at any moment" with no prerequisite event. Supposedly the early church believed and taught this. I sure hope not as the passing of almost 2000 years makes that doctrine suspect. Yet it does not matter who believes a doctrine, only whether the Bible supports it. Once again you will be amazed at how easy it is to debunk yet another perennially popular teaching. Just a couple clear verses will suffice. For example, Paul warned "that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand" (2The 2:2). Robertson's Word Pictures says "imminent" would be a fine translation of "at hand". Likewise, in the Olivet Discourse Jesus declared to his listeners that many things must yet happen including wars and rumors of wars and yet the "end was not yet" or "won't come right away" (Mt 24:6-10; Mk 13:7-8; Lk 21:9-11). After those prelude events, he said only the "beginning of sorrows" would finally commence with earthquakes, famines, and pestilences. Luke 21:11 adds the additional detail of terrors and great signs from heaven to the rest of these beginning sorrows. Together they well summarize the 6th seal of Revelation which describes an indisputably yet future time when all these things significantly begin to happen at once (great earthquake, all grasses burned up and one third of the sun blocked resulting in famine and pestilences). This aligns the "beginning of sorrows/birth pains" with the future 6th seal through 4th trumpet preceding the Great Tribulation at the 5th trumpet. So if these things are yet future and the "end is not yet" then Jesus' coming has never been imminent, just unknown. There are so many prophecies of events to precede the Second Coming, the idea of his return being imminent with no prerequisite is impossible. A list would include at least: The cosmic signs mentioned above and in Joel 2:30-31; Isa. 13:9-11; Matt. 24:29-31; Acts 2:19-20. The coming of Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord (Mal 4:5-6) which Jesus and John both implied was a dual prophecy only partially fulfilled by John the Baptist (Luke 1:17; John 1:19-23; Mt 17:10-13). Paul said the great apostasy or falling away followed by the revealing of the Antichrist as God sitting in the Temple of God must come "first" before the Day of Christ and our gathering to him at the rapture (2The 2:1-4). If Jesus was never going to come "at any moment", what is the plan? I personally believe that the Bible teaches he would come after 6000 years or six millennial days from when man's self-rule began. This is what the six days of creation foreshadow, much as just about everything in the Torah is prophetic or "a shadow of good things to come". The seventh day when God rested, later the basis for the sabbath day commandment given to Israel, pictures the Millennial reign of Christ and his saints on earth (Rev 20). I have an article on this below. See these articles for more support against imminency: http://www.bibleprophecyrevealed.us/2000-2007/roberts-word-pictures.html http://www.bibleprophecyrevealed.us/main/imminent.html http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/6000.htm Stay tuned for the next installment, where I cover Pitfall #3 of all the false prophets that Christianity seems to be producing and how to easily discern them. Tim McHyde Author of Know the Future http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/PO Box 120-2070, Sabanilla, San Jose 2070, COSTA RICA701-205-4168

May 29, 2009 Dear Ms. Picard: Thank you for your letter regarding same-sex marriage. I appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts with me. I understand your concerns. Recently, the District of Columbia Council approved legislation to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. The bill was approved by District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty and Congress will have at least 30 days to reject or approve the measure. If Congress does not act on the bill within that time frame, it becomes law in the District of Columbia. Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) recently introduced H. J. Res. 54 to disapprove of the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the legislation. In addition, Jim Jordan (R-OH) introduced H.R. 2608 to define marriage in the District of Columbia as the union of one man and one woman. Both pieces of legislation have been referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for consideration. However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has yet to set a date to consider these measures. To date, legislation has not been introduced in the Senate. During the 110th Congress, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced S. J. Res. 43, the Marriage Protection Act. The resolution proposed to amend the Constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. I was an original cosponsor of S. J. Res. 43 because I believe it is wrong for a select minority to impose their definition of marriage on the nation. Unfortunately, the Senate failed to consider S. J. Res. 43 before the close of the 110th Congress. In March, Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) introduced H. Res. 37 to propose to amend the Constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The resolution has been referred to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties for consideration. A similar resolution has yet to be introduced in the Senate. It is important to remember that, while not impossible, amending the Constitution was intentionally made a difficult process by our Founding Fathers. However, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) remains federal law (Public Law 104-199). The Act defines marriage as the legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife and a spouse as a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife. Kansas adheres to a longstanding policy that does not recognize same sex marriages. Most recently, 70 percent of Kansans voted overwhelmingly in favor of the April 2005 ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Again thank you for taking the time to contact me. If you would like more information on issues before the Senate, please visit my website at http://roberts.senate.gov/. You may also sign up on my home page for a monthly electronic newsletter that will provide additional updates on my work for Kansas. Sincerely, Pat Roberts PR:mk