Surviving Your Wilderness Tip #1 - DON'T PANIC - By Daniel Kolenda

Subject: New Bible Study: Surviving Your Wilderness Tip #1 - DON'T PANIC - By Daniel Kolenda

A Wilderness Survival Guide Email Series Tip #1 - Don't Panic

Tip #1 - DON'T PANIC Surviving a physical wilderness takes more than the skills to build a shelter, start a fire, and purify water. It requires a certain psychology, a mindset, a will to live that overcomes the fear and stress associated with crisis. In fact, some people who possessed the skill still died when stranded in a physical wilderness because they lacked the will. And others who lacked the skill but had the will, found a way to survive. Upon entering a spiritual wilderness, our tendency is often to let our imagination run wild. "Will I ever make it out?" "Why is this happening to me?" "I don't feel ready for this." "Does God not realize what I'm going through?" "Is He angry with me?" "Is He judging me?" "Is He even real?" Though it's natural to ask questions like these, obsessing over them depletes our resolve to believe God. And since these questions relate to the very nature of God, their responses must be biblically sound. That's why our study begins here. In the wilderness, perspective is everything. So if you find yourself in a wilderness: don't panic. Take a deep breath. Take a moment to remind yourself who God is, who you are in Christ, and what the Bible says about His faithfulness during troubled times. Fear makes you susceptible to lies from the enemy. He will lie about God's faithfulness and love for you. He'll even lie about God's existence, or about how valuable you are to Him. Such lies are meant to sap you of spiritual stamina. But that's just when the "will to live" must rise the will to live in the Spirit while you pass through desert regions. For God's children in the wilderness, the "will to live" does not merely refer to a desire to survive. It refers rather to an earnest determination to believe God. During spiritual drought, you must determine sometimes against all circumstances, emotions, and even the advice of friends that God is real. He is good. He is faithful, and you will make it through to the other side with Him. Don't let the enemy or circumstances define who God is for you. Refuse to allow yourself to believe anything but God's Word. Resolve as David did during a spiritual desert: "My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast!" (Ps 57:7). One of the most important things you can understand is that even when it seems like everything around you is spinning out of control, if you are a child of God, there is nothing that touches your life that is not ultimately under God's supervision. Everything in your life is somehow "Father filtered." He loves you dearly and deeply. He is watching over you, and won't allow anything to separate you from Him. "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8:38). Allow God's invincible love to cast out all of your fear. "Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, character, and hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us." SURVIVAL TIP #2 COMES IN JUST TWO WEEKS! This Bible Study has been taken from Daniel Kolenda's new booklet "Surviving Your Wilderness" and is for those who want to discover God's way for conquering their wilderness times. Get the Book!

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No Condemnation - Same-Page Podcast for Jan 20, 2017

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Today we take a look and see how easy it is to condemn others rather than love them.  (Pray)

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How often do you find yourself forgetting where God has brought you from? how quick are you to judge another's actions? these are questions that we should ask ourselves every day.

Speak out today "I commit to love others humbly and receive them as my father receives them just as they are."

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From Our friends at Treasure in DC

Dear Team Jesus

The Spirit of the Living God is sweeping across Washington DC and America Herself!!!

We have been greeted here with nothing but Love!!! 1000's have seen the Cross already. We have prayed with 100's of Thirsty new friends. Not a single word of discontent at the site of the Cross!

The Wind of your Prayers are behind these Victories according to Gods Loving Compassion on America, keep humbly crying out to Jesus!!!

Tomorrow God has gifted us with actual Inauguration Tickets (normally gifted from Congressmen). We will attend the Prayer Breakfast w Franklin Graham and We Will Pray!!!

God led us to meditate over the 7 Churches and cry out to God that we would Love as the Church that would please our Father Forever!!!

We Praise God for All of you On Mission with us!!!

Your Love our friends is tangible in every step with the Cross, every hug from a child and every tear from the Hurting.

On Mission w You,

Gary Don, Dan, Austin,Alan

Judging ourselves judging others - Same-Page Podcast for Jan 16, 2017

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Today we dig into the Word of God to judge ourselves in judging others.  (Pray)


 Today's reading comes from Luke 6:37-38  37 "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given to you; a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over—will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you."

Let's read that again:  "Give and it shall be given unto you"
Let me ask you a question.  WHat do you give to others that you hope is never given back to you in return?  (Ponder that and let it become your prayer to God)

What emotions or feelings of resentment or anger do you carry towards someone else?  did you notice that it says "with the same measure you use it will be used to measure you"?

What standard do you apply to others that you hope is never applied to you?

Better yet what more can you do to have a heart of humility and forgiveness with others?

Luke 6:38
@ Cor 9 6 Remember this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Are you in a season of reluctant and sparing love? or bountiful and giving love?

consider the harvest you want and then consider the one you're investing in. ask yourself again, What can I do to have a heart of humility and forgiveness with others?

There are many lessons taught in the Word of God on forgiveness, it is in fact a theme throughout the entire Bible.  we could talk about forgiving others as God through Christ has fogiven you or address that when God forgives He establishes His promise to never bring it up again to Himself much less anyone else and that we all gossip just a little too much, we could discuss not being forgiven unless we forgive but if we zoom out and take a look, it all comes down to what we perceive to be true.  Do you eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil when you look at the world or do you tap into the roots of the tree of life..   one is the wrong tree and if you eat it's fruit you'll be conforming to the image of this world and going agianst the hope of the very One who saved you from your mess.


Commitment:
Let's commit today to come up above the evil and the good of this world.  Let's commit today to cultivating a heart of humility and forgiveness with others, Let's commit today to see others as GOd sees them, with love and compassion for their very souls..

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REPOST: Morning Manna, Bro Billy Shoffner

Saturday  14, January 2017
There is only one BODY.
EARLY MORNING MANNA
Galatians 3:26-28 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
The baptism that Paul speaks of here is the new birth experience of the believer. 1 Corinthians 12:13-14  For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into[c] one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many {click4more}.   Water baptism is an outward expression of what has spiritual happened within the believer but water doesn't put us in Christ it is the Born-Again experience that puts us into the body of Christ, water is altogether another work that was set before us by Jesus when he went under the water, and He said suffer it to be so now, for thus it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness, let me be baptized to set the example for every believer, then John baptized Him. We are one because we placed our faith in Jesus to forgive us our sin and save us, not because we went under the water. Water Baptism is a beautiful ordnance and every believer should desire to be baptized but its not what saves us, the precious blood of Jesus and faith in that blood is our salvation, PRAISE GOD! Amen

Bitterness: relationship to rebellion and unforgiveness - Same-Page Podcast for Jan 8, 2017

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Today we enter into a study on Bitterness by exploring it's relationship to rebellion and unforgiveness.  (Pray)

Today's Reading comes out of Heb 12:  Warning against Rejecting God's Grace
¹⁴ Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness—without it no one will see the Lord. ¹⁵ Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many.
The instruction of the Word of God gives us weapons for our warfare, it gives us things to look to when we have a lack of understanding, and it is to these things we look as we begin to dig out the root of bitterness.

Pick Up Your Mantle - Same-Page Podcast for Jan 6, 2017

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Today we open the Word of God and call out to Pick Up Your Mantle..  (Pray)


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Today's Reading comes out of II Kings 2:12-13
9    And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
12  And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;


Commitment:
Elisha was committed to living in the right-now.  He was constantly living in the present and expectant of the future.  He was ready to step out and take what the Lord had granted him, the double portion of Elijah's mantle.  Are you ready to walk out what God has called you to do?  Maybe you need to re-commit to the call.
Here, today, let's commit to follow the Lord all the way.  Say it with me.

I realize that God has had a plan for my life.  He had the plan for my life before the foundation of the world.  I make a total commitment to this plan.  I will follow the Lord all the way.  I will teach others also about God's call for their lives.  In Jesus' name.  Amen.

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The Cross in the Middle - Same-Page Podcast for Jan 4, 2017

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Today we take a brief look into the significance The Cross in the Middle.  (Pray)


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When Jesus Christ was put to death by being nailed to a wooden cross, wicked men thought they were just executing a man who was disturbing their way of life.  They did not realize that the Cross was planned by God from the beginning of the world.

Through His Son's death on the Cross, the great Creator God was dealing with ever person's sin, suffering and sorrow.  Jesus was dying the the place of ever individual in the world.  Receiving personally what He has done on the Cross brings the answer to all our needs.

Relationship, Freedom, Love, and Justice all found a place there on the Cross in the Middle


Commitment:
Today I put my whole trust in what God was doing for me when Jesus died on the Cross.  I believe He took the punishment for my sin.  I receive the forgiveness that God is offering to me.  And I thank Him for the relationship this now gives me with Him.  I make a decision today that I will live each day in this person relationship with God and commit myself to share this truth with others.
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Entering the Promised Land - Same-Page Podcast for Jan 2, 2017

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"And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of."  Genesis 28:15

     There's much more to Salvation than the day you receive Jesus as Lord and Savior.  It restores our relationship with the Lord, it unifies us with Him and His purpose in the earth which is to receive all honor and Glory. Our hope is in the fulfillment of His promise and it is that we look to, the hope of the ETERNAL "salvation", the redemption of the purchased possessions (you and I) being completed at His return.

With our purpose being to Glorify God in all things, "What is God's will for my life?" becomes the wrong question and "What is in my hand?" The right one.




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