An utter dependence on God is a common trait that I’ve observed in almost every on-fire remnant believer I’ve known, and I bet you’ve found this to be true as well. The word that comes to mind is: yielding. It’s a yielding of our desires, ambitions, and plans to the will of God.
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John prepared the way for Jesus. Similarly, there are men today preparing the way for Antichrist. Yuval Noah Harari is a history professor, best-selling author, and World Economic Forum speaker, who has a particular disdain for the Bible and any notion of a living God. We’ll see how he and others like him are deceiving and being deceived as they prepare the way for Antichrist.
The ministry of Jesus began in the streets, “as Jesus was going along.” The Holy Spirit moved from a place to a people on the day of Pentecost, but we keep trying to put the “kingdom” back into a building, where most of what we call “ministry” happens in the building.
Our lives are made up of decades, years, hours, minutes, and seconds, and there are 86,400 seconds in each day. Time is an immeasurably valuable commodity, a finite resource that we can spend, invest in, or waste just like money. We are all given a limited amount of time on earth to live, and then we die. In God’s grace and mercy, He knows when that time is for each person. As the awareness of sin marches on, the seconds of our lives tick away. Every one of those seconds is a step on the road to eternity.
Many people have a sort of hierarchy of sins taken from a list curated by society over the centuries. There are even some sincere Christians who have a sliding scale of sin severity based on wisdom and traditions of men. The Bible cuts through the clutter of human opinion. It explains precisely what the unforgivable sin is and how to deal with it because ignoring it has eternally tragic consequences.
Many modern-day self-proclaimed “apostles and prophets” act as though God is some genie in a bottle or Santa Claus, and have made asking in prayer in Jesus’ name a path to health, wealth, and power. Here is a short but timely and biblical piece from a dear friend of mine, Pastor Paul Sherbird, who reminds us about having the right motives when we ask in Jesus’ name.
Society is in a perilous state when buying a particular brand of car, voting a certain way, or telling the truth becomes a dangerous act. We used to agree to disagree. Disagreement used to get you cancelled, now it might get you killed.
We have the power of the Holy Spirit and the authority of His name. We need not a dog collar, nor to be regaled in fine vestments. We need not attend seminary, nor have a diploma in theology hanging on our study wall. Peter and John had none of these things but instead had calloused hands and smelt of fish.
Every mob needs an enemy. It seems like the group of “love and tolerance” has nothing but intolerance for people of faith, and the object of their hate is Christians.