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Edwin Elisha James is an Evangelist whose commitment to preach wherever the Lord leads him has fructified in bringing hundreds of souls to the Lord - a dream and a desire that he has harboured for the longest time!

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Patience: Our Gift of Service

Colossians 3:12-13

“When we are troubled or in pain, we turn to people who will listen patiently to our cries of distress. But I wonder how often we seek to be the person who steps up to share a hurting friend’s burden.”
In today’s reading, the apostle Paul encouraged believers to put on a heart of compassion, kindness, and patience. In other words, we don’t come from the womb pre-equipped with these traits. Rather, we receive on-the-job training in imitating Jesus Christ as we bear with and forgive one another.
The Holy Spirit is more than willing to instruct us in the proper ways to grow spiritual fruit. The heavenly Father then provides opportunities for us to try out our newly developed skills.

Prophet – Jacob

Genesis 28:13-15
There above it stood the Lord,  and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac.  I will give you and your descendants the land  on which you are lying.    Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you  will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south.  All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.    I am with you  and will watch over you  wherever you go,  and I will bring you back to this land.  I will not leave you  until I have done what I have promised you. ”
Genesis 31:3

Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Go back  to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

Hanani

2 Chronicles  16:7-10
At that time Hanani  the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him: “Because you relied  on the king of Aram and not on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.   Were not the Cushites  and Libyans a mighty army with great numbers  of chariots and horsemen? Yet when you relied on the Lord, he delivered  them into your hand.   For the eyes  of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish  thing, and from now on you will be at war. ”

    Asa was angry with the seer because of this; he was so enraged that he put him in prison.  At the same time Asa brutally oppressed some of the people.

[Message No: 7273]

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