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Articles Transferring Tested Faith Love One Another Pick Up Your Sling and Run! Rejoicing over Encouragement Be Encouraged Encourage One Another Let God Be Your Strength In Good Times and Bad
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Books Megan’s Heart Apple of His Eye and Hiding in His Love Decisions, Decisions, and more Decisions Love Connection The Crocked Legged Foal The Fig Tree Has Sprouted and Awake! Rise & Glow
Sharon Bushey Kim Miller Nick J.Schreider Lesa Childress & Jamie Ward
Danielle Norris Leon Gosiewski
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Meet Meet Sharon Sharon SHARON BUSHEY HACWN Pro Author Sharon Bushey is a freelance writer and adjunct psychology professor. She has written Children’s Sunday School curriculum, devotions, magazine articles, and two books. Her first book, The Winning Welcome…Helping Church Newcomers Feel at Home, was an instructional book for developing an effective greeting ministry. Her second book, Megan’s Heart, is the true-life story of her 23-year-old niece’s desperate need for a heart transplant. This seat-gripping tale was published in 2012 and a second printing was released May 2013. Besides writing and teaching, Sharon especially enjoys her opportunities to speak to a variety of groups: church services, conferences, retreats, and banquets. She shared her own transplant story along with highlights from Megan’s Heart at the 2013 Missouri Coroners’ Convention as well as the Donor Family Candlelight Services in Springfield and St. Louis. Sharon also enjoys the marriage and family ministry that she shares with her husband of 46 years.
By: Sharon Bushey
Megan's Heart is a seat-gripping, true-life tale about people wrestling with the ultimate questions of life as satan tries to buffet their faith. Through this inspiring story, you will find hope that‌ come what may in your life, your Heavenly Father works with timeless power and mercy.
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Transferring Tested
Faith by: Sharon Bushey After a faith-stretching conference, the women in my family determined to pray until God revealed Himself in a way that removed complacency and established a lifelong faith in our children. Only threeweeks later, our sincerity was tested. Severe congestive heart failure threatened the life of my 23-year-old niece. We knew better than to tell God how to establish faith in our kids, but taking the life of their sister and cousin didn’t seem smart. If Megan died, would they see God as a cruel jokester? As praying adults, we wrestled with some tough questions. Megan didn’t like the ugly bump on her
chest, but we could sleep easier knowing that the surgically implanted defibrillator would shock her heart in case it stopped. Megan adjusted to her new-norm and attended a few parties during the holidays. Nevertheless, the year of 2010 came in with a horrific, emotional storm. When Megan returned to Barnes Cardiac ICU, she learned that her only hope was a heart transplant. In early February, she came home to wait for news of a compatible heart while a life-prolonging, portable IV kept us reminded of Megan’s imperative need. As I prayed for Megan, Louie Giglio’s DVD, “How Great Is Our God?” came to mind. In a whole new way, I understood God’s greatness…His Sovereignty…His expansive power. I knew that God could speak a new heart into Megan’s chest; He was Creator God. I came to believe that God’s activity in our lives is for His greater purposes: to bring lost people to His Son and to awaken the faith of contented Christians. Since God’s ways are unexplainable, incomprehensible, and above and beyond any imagining, I knew I had to trust God with the outcomes.
I admit, though, that I often gave The Great I Am suggestions for how He should accomplish His work in my life…and the lives of others. With this new test to my faith, however, I determined to trust God more fully. Megan and I shared one thing that the family could not fully understand. During the days and nights of waiting, Megan imagined who might give her a heart. I also thought of the families of the 17-year-old boy and 47-yearold man who gave me corneas when I was legally blind at the age of 37. Megan and I grieved for the family who would lose a loved one in order to give Megan life. During one lonely, restless night, Megan prayed as she had done many times since she invited Jesus into her heart as a child. But this night was different. As her body shook from medication, she prayed, “Jesus, would you come lay beside me?” Immediately the shaking ceased and she fell asleep…feeling Jesus next to her. That night Jesus became more than Savior; He became Megan’s best friend. By the first of April when Megan returned to Barnes, she weighed 83 pounds, couldn’t keep food down, and her dad had to carry her to the car. Megan knew she wouldn’t come home again, unless God gave her a heart in time. Megan’s condition was desperate; her name was on the top of the MidAmerica Transplant list. When I arrived, I expected a distraught niece. I found a young woman whom God had chosen to lead me on the faith journey of my life. She quoted what had become her motto: “Through this I demonstrate that Christ is enough…come what may.”
Megan survived two emergency surgeries and multiple faith-testers. Now a temporary LVAD (left ventricle assist device) kept Megan alive. We waited. Then we reminded God that He was out of time. A four-year old note found on the exact day we needed it prompted my brother-in-law and his sister to schedule a day of prayer and fasting for Saturday, April 17. God knew exactly what we would need to transfer tested faith on that no-hope, dilemma-filled day. My phone signaled a text from Megan’s mom. Megan struggled to breathe. A few hours later, we learned that she had a fever of 102, a soaring white blood count, pneumonia-filled lungs, and body systems were failing. The doctor confirmed our suspicions. Megan was now too sick to receive a heart even if one became available that day. The doctor said, “I’m sorry. There is nothing else we can do.” My brother reminded him that we could still pray. While friends and complete strangers around the world prayed, fasted, and put their faith on the line for Megan’s life, my faith was tested. I recalled the woman’s dream on Wednesday night. Would my daughter die on her way to St. Louis? Would I be willing for God to answer our prayers for Megan by giving the heart of my girl…if this was God’s way of transferring faith to the next generation? After agonizing prayer, I came to complete surrender: the only place of real peace.
During an emergency surgery that afternoon, Megan bled uncontrollably. We were losing the battle with life. That afternoon while we were surrounded by hopelessness, children at a Bible Quiz prayed. One-thousand teens at a convention interceded. Families around the world gathered their children for prayer. Only forty-five minutes after these 3:00 p.m. prayers, a doctor acted in faith rather than let reason dictate his decision; he accepted the heart of a 30-year-old woman from Texas. During the day when we were overcome by so many impossibilities, God did the impossible. By 9:30 that night, Megan’s temperature was normal, her white blood count was steadily decreasing, and body systems were stable. She even had enough strength to sign her heart acceptance papers.
Are you going through a no-hope, dilemmafilled season in your life? A broken relationship, a depleted bank account, shattered dreams, failing health, or a difficult child who has drained you of hope? Don’t give up. “Nothing is too hard for you (God)!” (Jeremiah 32:17, NLT). April 17 was not the end of our tests and trials. Nevertheless, the faith factor in our family has continued to grow as we have intentionally transferred our tested faith. Megan keeps us reminded that “Christ is enough…come what may.” Christ will be enough for you, too!
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ONE ANOTHER by: Dr. Bill Hanshew Hebrews 10:25 NLT says, “And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.” You probably know this verse better from the King James Version of the Bible which says, “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.” Now, it is true that we are to encourage each other about attending a local–church body of believers somewhere, whether in a church building; in a home meeting or a city park. But the bottom line is that God requires His people to assemble together; and especially the more we see the end of this age approaching and the return of Jesus drawing near. Do you still believe that Jesus is coming soon? Then encourage someone else to be prepared. 2 Timothy 3:16 says, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness…” The Complete Jewish Bible says, “All Scripture is God–breathed and is valuable for teaching the truth, convicting of sin, correcting faults and training in right living;” and where this
verse said, “inspired,” it means God– breathed. So if every Word that God spoke or inspired to be written is God– breathed, it must really be important for us to pay attention to it.
God seems to think encouragement is a very important subject, so He inspired it to be added to the written Word, called the Bible. While there are many verses in the Bible — from Genesis to Revelation, which deal with encouragement, let’s look at a few from different translations of scripture about what the Bible does say about encouraging one another. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 AMP says, “Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing.” No one enjoys being torn down and beaten up by anyone. So God says that we are to encourage each other.
Actually, many other verses in the Bible instruct us to build up each other, which can also mean to encourage. Even when we tell the truth to others in a “just being honest” situation, our words should build them up and not tear them down. And this verse says to “encourage one another, just as you are doing.” In other words, they were simply being told to continue doing a good job! Hebrews 3:13 GWT says, “Encourage each other every day while you have the opportunity. If you do this, none of you will be deceived by sin and become stubborn.” When we choose not to encourage others, scripture simply calls this being stubborn. While we remain on this earth and have opportunities, be an encouragement each day on purpose. One way to encourage others is to watch for the Lord’s opportunities to be a blessing to someone in a public place or to just speak kind words spoken to someone over the phone. Acts 15:32 ESV says, “And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.” Have you ever been in a prophetic meeting before? Isn’t it great when you can leave there encouraged, instead of feeling like you had been tied to a whipping post and beaten? The ministry of the prophet has many facets to it. But whether we are given a word of instruction about our future or our past, the ministry of the prophet should be to lift you from the place you currently are, and help move you to the next level in God’s plan. Hebrews 10:24 GWT says, “We must also consider how to encourage each other to show love and to do good things.” This
verse tells us that we should consider how to encourage each other. We should consider how we use our words and actions if we are going to encourage one another to show love and to do good things. A hateful person never inspires others to walk in love. A lazy person or a stingy person who avoids acts of kindness never encourages others to do good things. So let us always consider how we are going about to encourage and inspire others. Titus 1:9 NIV says, “He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.” One problem we seem to have today is the debate of what is or is not sound or correct doctrine. One group may call their interpretation of scripture sound, while another group would argue the point. However, it is up to each person so study the Word, seek the Lord and with the help of the Holy Spirit, search out in the context of the Bible what is sound and correct doctrine so that others may be encouraged by it. And finally, Philippians 2:1-3 Common English Bible says, “1 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort in love, any sharing in the Spirit, any sympathy, 2 complete my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love, being united, and agreeing with each other. 3 Don’t do anything for selfish purposes, but with humility think of others as better than yourselves.” Wow, what a message in these three verses alone. While we find encouragement in the scriptures about many things, here the writer says “complete my joy by thinking the same way.” There is nothing more enjoyable
than seeing and hearing the body of Christ walking in agreement in the areas we are able to see eye to eye on. Christ, love and understanding, just to name a few, should be some of those biblical subjects we should have no problem agreeing on. The devil’s plan is to bring division in our doctrine and in general, our thinking. Throughout history, the church has been divided enough. But as mature believers, the
more we understand the scriptures, the more we should desire to be an encouragement, not only the church, but before the world. Our witness of Christ should be one of getting along and encouraging all. Remember this; encouragement is a choice. But to choose not to be an encouragement to each other would be stubborn and rebellious. May we encourage one another as an act of our obedience to the Lord. ‌Think about it!
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Pick Up Your Sling and Run! by: Genice Fulton God removed Saul and made David their king. God spoke favorably about David. He said, ‘I have found that David, son of Jesse, is a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do.’ (Acts 13:22, GWT)
Of all the people in the bible, other than Jesus, I have always found David’s life to be the most fascinating. One thing people remember most about David is his battle with Goliath. The bible tells us, For a long time, Goliath came out every morning and every evening and “took his stand” shouting defiantly, screaming his plans against God’s people. (1 Samuel 17:16) I’ve thought a lot about “every morning and every evening”. Why not all day long? Maybe because giving God’s army breaks in between his ranting restored hope only to strip it away again? Perhaps when Goliath went away all day, it gave the Israelites hope, “Yes, he has given up, this is finally over!” only to have hope stripped away, “Nope. Here he comes again to scream at us.” I can relate.
I have a question for you. Have you ever had a “Goliath” screaming at you all day and night, trying to torture you with his plans? I sure have. * A routine medical exam turns into further testing and even further testing because “tests show a mass”, the giants scream. “This is it, your kids will watch you slowly die. Then where will their faith be?” “You should’ve eaten better, now all that junk food has come back to haunt you.” “You’ve eaten well for yourself all your life, and this is how your God rewards you? You should’ve just eaten all the cupcakes you wanted." “You should’ve exercised more.” * When our marriages hit an all time low and we see no earthly way for us to salvage
the relationship, the giants scream. “Your marriage is over.” “Your marriage failure will cause many to stumble and you know what the bible says about that!” “You should’ve tried harder, been more exciting, and not grown boring.” “Restoring this marriage is an impossibility.” “Your failed marriage will ruin your children’s lives. Nothing will ever be as good as it was before.” *Sales have been low this week, the giants scream. ”This is the beginning of the end for your business.” “You’ve always been faithful to tithe, and now look at your sales. This will cause your business to fail. What have you done to mess this up?” “You should’ve been a more cheerful giver.” Please allow me a quick side note momentarily. It is so important to me for you to see the pattern in the giants’ attacks. No matter what we do or don’t do, attacks will come. (Psalm 34:19) God already gave us a head’s up to be prepared. I have encouragement for you today, God delivers us out of them all! Turning back to our subject. * When we say something well meaning in an attempt to help our children, but our delivery is incorrect or the child’s heart is not ready to receive. And if that child walks out the door, everything in our flesh wants to fall to the floor. We are made in God’s image (Genesis 1:27) and everything in us screams reconciliation with our children. When that relationship is strained for a
season, giants scream. “You’ve scarred your kid for life. You’ve really messed up this time.” “Your child will always hate you and will never speak to you again.” “You’ve always been a bad parent.” “Even in all your best efforts, you’ve never done anything right with your child.” “You should’ve kept your mouth shut about what the bible says.” “You should’ve opened your mouth told them what the bible says.” Please allow me to elaborate on this subject more than the previous ones because I’ve learned a lot about this in the past year. I have learned by experience, when we’ve trained our child in the way they should go, it is not necessary for us to constantly remind them of their training. Not every mistake they have made is a reflection of us. If someone tries to blame us, we need to simply reject it. Our children have their own minds. I’m not suggesting we get into agreement with everything our children do; however, we don’t need to be a constant reminder of every mistake they’ve made. Sometimes, the best thing for us to do is accept our right to remain silent (even when they want our agreement knowing they won’t get it, want to argue with us, or want to justify their mistake) and love them. Most often, they already know what they’ve done wrong, they just want assurance that we will always love them through the good and the bad. Like God loves us. (1 John 4:8, John 13:34-35) And that is what God has called us to do. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8) Rather than “call them up on the carpet”, we are better off to plead the blood of Jesus
over the situation and tell them about a time we’ve messed up and all the ways God delivered us. (Revelation 12:11) While we all need godly counsel, sometimes we need to realize we are not always our children’s counsel. So we should pray for laborers in their field instead of steam roll onto their field. (Ephesians 6:12, Mark 6:5, Proverbs 19:20, Matthew 9:38) If what have been doing isn’t working, wisdom says to do something different. Turning back to our text. Goliath was so big and loud that whenever the Israelites saw him, the bible says “they all fled in great fear” Not just fear, but great fear. The bible describes Goliath very well. Goliath: was a champion was very large had very elaborate armor
David kept his focus on God and what God was about to do! It would be easy to be fearful of him because of his appearance and his confidence. I understand the temptation to fear. I don’t know about you but I have certainly felt very small in comparison to the “giants”. God has taught us how to walk by faith (everything He has said we are) and not by sight (everything the giants say we are not). David disregarded all his past failures, his apparent lack of experience, their obvious size difference, and the vast difference in their “armor”, or should we say in David’s case, the lack thereof. David kept his focus on God and what God was about to do.
So we must too, follow David’s example when fighting “giants”! David boldly called Goliath a “disgrace”. When I read this chapter, I picture myself back in that day standing near the battlefield. Hearing David boldly refer to Goliath as a disgrace, I’m unsure if I would think, “This kid is crazy.” or “This kid is exactly my kind of kid!” David’s main focus was that Goliath was defying the armies of the living God. David didn’t consider the battle at hand or any of the specifics of the day. David only concerned himself with, the “uncircumcised disgrace” who was defying God’s Word. To complicate the situation, David faced opposition from his brothers (family) and the other soldiers. The people David should have been able to count on for support. His brother even falsely accused his motives and accused him of not doing his job. But David’s faith was not deterred and he maintained his focus. (1 Samuel 17:30) When we are faced with opposition by our biological family/church family/friends/others around us, we must stand strong, not be deterred, and maintain our focus. David boldly told the king, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.” (1 Samuel 17:32) Even though, Saul had no one willing to fight Goliath, other than David, the king informed David of his inabilities and let David know exactly how big and bad Goliath was. How many times, has someone in our lives told us (well meaning or not) everything we weren’t able to do while at the same time,
tell us exactly how huge and experienced the “giants” were that we were up against? But again, David was fully persuaded and very bold in his approach to the king, telling Saul “Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” (1 Samuel 17:36-37) David said, “because he had defied the armies of the living God”. We can now say, “because Jesus!”
Tradition, religion, theology doesn’t win the battle. Putting God first wins the battle! The king finally relented and he decided since David would go against this “Philistine“, David needed his (Saul’s) gear. The gear (the ways) that had helped Saul be successful, in the past. But David had to fight this giant and use his own experience in this battle. David said, “I cannot go in these,” So he (David) took them (Saul’s way) off. (1 Samuel 17:39) Tradition, religion, theology doesn’t win the battle. Putting God first wins the battle. (Matthew 6:33) With his sling in his hand, David approached the Philistine. (1 Samuel 17:40) Sometimes in our lives, giants have to be approached. Goliath was about to be killed in very short order but still could not shut up. “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!” (1 Samuel 17:44) That would make most people stop and
gulp but Goliath’s threats did not deter David. David did not waver, but remained bold and fully persuaded in God’s will and ability to deliver the giant into his hands. David said to the Philistine, “I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty.” (1 Samuel 17:45) We have to know that we know that we know, the power in the name of the Lord Almighty and talk to the “giants”. (Jeremiah 10:6, Ephesians 6:12, Matthew 12:37) David didn’t stop there. He went onto tell Goliath exactly how the next few minutes were going to play out, saying, “This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.” (1 Samuel 17:46-47) This kid is B.O.L.D. In my opinion, this qualifies David as the poster child for boldness! Let’s just take a moment to break this down. When faced with a giant, David boldly proclaimed: I will strike you down! I will cut off your head! I will also deal with all your friends! I will give all your carcasses to the birds! And the wild animals! But most importantly, the whole world will know that my Lord saves! And they will know, the battle is the Lord’s! And, I will also inform you, Mr. “Giant”, my God will give all of you into our hands! At that, Goliath was done and wanted to finish David off. Did Goliath’s advancement
deter David? Not in the slightest. Goliath moved closer to attack David. So what did David do? David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. (1 Samuel 17:48) Who does that?! A man and woman of God fully persuaded in the power in the name of the Lord Almighty does that! We all know what happened next. David used his sling, popped Goliath right in the head, and Goliath fell to the ground. (1 Samuel 17:50) How is that even possible?! Mark 9:23 makes that possible! And then, David danced “his victory dance”! David ran and stood over the giant. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off Goliath’s head with his own sword! (1 Samuel 17:51) Talk about adding insult to injury and rubbing it in! David had an attitude of, I am going to kill whatever comes against God’s Word and cut it’s head off! David was making sure Goliath would never return. Decapitation means death. The giant wasn’t going to return into David’s life nor will “giants” that we decapitate return to ours! Then, all the sudden, the king wanted to know who this kid was. (1 Samuel 17:56) And David, although he had acted in more bravery than the king and all his men, David never forgot who he was and whose authority he was under. Glory to God! (1 Samuel 17:58) I once heard Joyce Meyer say, “God won’t do what we are supposed to do and we can’t do what God can do.” But when we do what He has called us to to, He rebukes the devourer for us. (Malachi 3:11) I am fully persuaded, God rebukes the
devourer for me. Can you imagine what that looks like in the spiritual realm?! When a “Goliath” (sickness, pain, disease, financial attacks, marital attacks, prodigal children, etc) try to come against our covenant, we have to rise up like David did, fully persuaded, “grab our slings”, run towards the giants and boldly proclaim, “This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I will strike you down and cut off your head! And the whole world will know my God lives! All will forever know it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give all of you into our hands, in the name of King Jesus! Then what shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God be for us, who can ever be against us?!” (Romans 8:26-31)
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LOVE CONNECTION by: Lesa Childress & Jamie Ward
One Woman
– pregnant, broken, addicted to meth, homeless, and alone. Another
woman - barren, broken, addicted to bitterness, empty, and alone. Two impossible stories -no different from the many found in the pages of God’s own. Beginnings deemed hopeless and sad as the odds continued to be stacked only to be concluded by God’s grace with immeasurably more than could have been thought or asked. What does it look like when God’s hand reaches down into a broken world, picks up a broken person and rescues them from their broken life? God’s hand is so big that if He picks up one broken person, He can’t help but pick up several. Our lives are purposed to change the lives of those around us; the day that we received that touch from God is the very day others received their promise. God has begun a Love Connection as others wait in expectancy for our story--they may not know yet--but our life that was just changed has ultimately changed theirs.
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Rejoicing over Encouragement by: Dan Corse
Acts 15:31 (NKJ) – When they had read it, they rejoiced over its encouragement. All of us at some time or other face troubling times. Troubling times for Christians in Antioch during the first century B.C. existed in the form of those who insisted that Gentile converts must keep the law to be saved (Acts 15:1-31). So great became this controversy that Paul, Barnabas and others traveled from Antioch to Jerusalem to meet with the apostles and elders to resolve the matter. Eventually, it was decided that Gentile converts did not have to keep the law to be saved. Additionally, they determined a letter should be sent to the Christians in Antioch to apprise them of the decision. Upon receiving and reading the letter, the Christians in Antioch rejoiced over its encouragement. Paul’s experience related to Gentiles keeping the law to be saved was but one of the many challenges he faced. He was a man well-acquainted with trials and tribulations, providing us a description of many he suffered in 2 Cor. 11:23-28, including imprisonments, shipwrecks, beatings, stonings and persecutions by both his fellow Jews and Gentiles. Like all of us, Paul at times needed encouragement. Encountering the risen Christ on the road to Damascus (Acts 9), Saul the persecutor of Christians, also called Paul, came to embrace Christ as Savior. Yet, based on Paul’s past
persecution, the Christians in Jerusalem, understandably so, were leery to accept Paul. Acts 9:26 (NKJ) tells us “they were all afraid of him, and did not believe he was a disciple.” Though many Christians feared Paul, Barnabas took Paul and “brought him to the apostles” (Acts 9:27, NKJ). Barnabas’ encouraging act resulted in Paul being accepted by the Christians in Jerusalem, giving the ministry God planned for Paul a platform from which to begin. Years later, Paul was inspired to give us: “Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to the household of faith” (Gal. 6:10, NKJ). No doubt this doing good to all, especially fellow Christians, includes providing encouragement. The act of encouragement toward Paul was not the only one attributed to Barnabas in the Bible. Barnabas, whose name means “Son of Encouragement,” also provided encouraging intervention in the life of Mark
(Acts 15:36-40). Accompanying Paul and Barnabas on a missionary journey, Mark departed from them before the completion of the journey. This premature departure resulted in Paul not wanting to take Mark with them on the next journey. Barnabas disagreed. The contention became so great that Paul and Barnabas separated, Paul taking with him Silas and Barnabas taking with him Mark. Clearly, the encouragement Barnabas afforded Mark by embracing not rejecting him netted good results. For we later see in Colossians 4:10-11 (NKJ) that Mark was among those who “proved to be a comfort to Paul,� providing comfort being another aspect of encouragement. The seeds of encouragement sown in the life of Mark by Barnabas later produced a crop of encouragement in the life of Paul, the very one who had earlier questioned his value to their ministry.
Encouragement, for those of us in the midst of trials, physical or otherwise, or facing discouragement, what a blessing it is to receive it. Encouragement is that which inspires, comforts, enlivens, inspires and stimulates us. Void of encouragement, we are more prone to fail, to quit or to yield to discouragement. Given encouragement, we are less likely to fall prey to challenges and our propensity for success increases. Encountering others, especially fellow Christians, in the midst of challenges, may we yield immediately to God that He might empower us to respond to them with encouragement. Upon receiving encouragement from others may we be quick to thank them and God for it. And, whether giving encouragement or receiving it, may we, like those in Antioch, always rejoice over it.
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Be Encouraged! by: Kim Miller Many times, being encouraged is a choice. As believers we are not to base our lives upon our circumstances or feelings. We are to live by faith. Hebrews 10:38 says, “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” It takes staying in God’s Word and Prayer, in order to learn more and more on how to “live by Faith.” First, we make that decision, and then we renew our minds with His Word. James 2:18 says, “But someone will say, ‘You have Faith, and I have works.’ Show me your Faith without your works, and I will show yo my Faith by my works. We must step out in Faith and line up our behavior with what God’s Word says. We have all experienced difficult times when we have felt discouraged. During these times, we are to take courage. We have to take God’s Word, speak it, and believe it! We have to TAKE courage when we feel like we have none. In the 52nd chapter of Isaiah, it tells us to clothe ourselves with strength. How do we do that?? We do what Jehoshaphat did in 2 Chronicles 20. In verses 5, he began to think, speak, and believe the goodness of God. Jehoshaphat remembered God’s covenant with him. Verses 5-9 says, “Then Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem
at the temple of the Lord in the front of the new courtya rd 6 and said: Lord, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you. 7 Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend? 8 They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your Name, saying, 9 If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment,, or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.” We are to do the same thing by remembering His delivering power in our lives and what His Word says. When we have experienced difficult circumstances for a long time, with what seems like no relief; we must believe again.
Our Faither is faithful to His Word. Romans 15:13 say, “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” When we believe, we will begin once again to experience joy and peace because we will know that we already have what we are believing for. Step out in Faith, no matter how you feel! Remember God’s goodness; speak His Word and begin to praise and worship Him! Strength and encouragement will begin to rise up within you! This is not a one-time thing. We must do this daily, and if need be, several times a day! We need to combat discouragement with His Word of Faith! It will get easier and easier, as we stick with it and refuse to take discouragement.
I encourage you to gather a list of scriptures for the circumstances that you are facing. 2 Corinthians 10:5 says, “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Don’t surrender to the voice of your circumstances. Get your focus back on God and His Word. Many of you have heard the old saying, “You can’t keep birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair! Discouragement will come to you. Don’t take it! TAKE COURAGE!
Encourage One Another ‘Encourage one another and build one another up’ (1 Thessalonians 5: 11) No matter who we are life has a habit of throwing bad and difficult situations and circumstances at us. For example, how can we explain why a beloved child died? How can we deal with dreadful diseases and illnesses that not only steal a person’s life but their dignity as well? What do we say to the destitute that through bad circumstances lose everything they had? How do we deal with man’s inhumanity against man? It is in these awful times, when life is harsh or we see the suffering of others that it is easy to look for and find a scapegoat. Often that scapegoat, whether overtly or covertly is God and we vent our anger and frustration at Him. Or when times get really bad we easily fall into depression, see ourselves as victims and lose heart because everything appears hopeless. Once hope is lost we lose both focus and an anchor in our lives and fall into a spiralling-down weight of negativity. Once negativity is freely allowed to have its hold in our lives it imprisons us. It is in times such as this that we need one another. These are times to, ‘hold unfailing your love for one another’ (1 Peter 4: 8); ‘Bear one another’s burdens’ (Galatians 6: 2) and ‘be kind to one another, tender-hearted,
f forgiving one another’ (Ephesians 4: 32). This is God’s perfect intention but, it is equally true to say that we are sadly not always in a situation where true Christian support and obedience is available so how can we prepare our minds and hearts for the rough and tumble of life? There is much we can learn from those who have faced hardships and overcome their circumstances. Perhaps some of the hardest times faced by humankind are those who survived the holocaust; those that survived Concentration camps and hard labour Gulags of the Second World War. What was it that helped some to survive whilst others gave up and perished? One of the most common responses from those that survived terrible losses of homes, finances, family and health, not to mention seeing things that no human should see; the ruthlessness of human against human, is that they refused to view themselves as the victims. This thought process and attitude is important because as soon as we see ourselves as a victim we cease to take responsibility for our actions. If we are not responsible for our actions then we stop doing anything to help ourselves
and eventually we give up. In other words, we create within ourselves a victim’s outcome. The attitude of those that refuse to see themselves as victims is different. They tenaciously keep focus on something positive to live for. In the case of a Christian believer God is our source of strength. It is in Him that we tenaciously hold our faith. Of course it would be foolish to think that it was easy for these ‘positive’ survivors of inhumane treatment to sustain their resolve. The truth is it was not easy but they stood firm and believed that they would survive. They knew that the alternative was certain death. My own father was one of many who survived such horrific circumstances and losses; a man who once taken from his home, family and job never saw them again! A man who survived freezing temperatures of more than -20 degrees, imprisoned under a harsh regime of forced labour and beatings with little to eat. You see, with a positive outlook we are capable of extraordinary feats. With God on our side everything changes because as Jesus said, ‘with God nothing will be impossible’ (Luke 1: 37). One holocaust survivor wrote about the fact that you could look into the eyes of a person and know if they would still be alive the next day. Where hope failed and negativity took hold disappointment followed. Where belief was lost determination dissipated and life was lost. This is why it is so important to hold firm our belief and faith in God. Paul knew what it was like to suffer hardships but he held firm to his faith and relationship with Jesus and was justifiably able to say, ‘Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong’ (1 Corinthians 16:13). We might lose everything and life may throw terrible things
at us but if we hold firm to our faith we will win through where others fall. The Old Testament character Job had a similar experience to those I have already mentioned, he lost everything but he never blamed God (Job 1: 22). The name Job is aptly believed to mean, he who turns to God. It is God in whom we can hide and find our rest. It is because we should turn to God that we have a duty to stop blaming Him for everything that goes wrong in our lives and in the world. He has been unjustly blamed when in fact it is satan whom we should direct our frustration, anger and displeasure. When we see such things as the evil atrocities of man against man and the dehumanizing indignity of awful sicknesses and diseases they are actually clear evidence of who satan really is. They are graphic evidence of the true destructive nature of satan. None of these things are of God! It is when we see the dreadful outcome of satan's work in the world or in our lives and put the blame where it should rightly rest; on him, that we will be spiritually stirred to anger against satan and realise what his game-plan really is. No truth or good thing comes from satan. Yes, it is true that sometimes what he offers looks enticing and initially it may even give pleasurable experiences but it will always lead in the end to downfall and destruction because that, as Jesus explained is his purpose, ‘to steal, and to kill, and to destroy’ (John 10: 10). If we focus our blame attention on satan when awful things happen and expose him for who he really is it will transform our relationship with God and give Him the room in our lives that He needs to work in and through us for good. Jesus was totally honest; He never promised that we wouldn’t face difficulties and hardship but we do have this promise:
‘Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me’. (Psalm 23: 4) The problem that many of us face is that we want control of our own lives. We want to do things our way and in those good times we think we are invincible. God does not feature highly in our day-by-day living. As a result we do not store up faith knowledge and strategies from Scripture to use in times of hardship. Our relationship with the Lord is weak and so we do not have the closeness and confidence of knowing He is by our side because we abuse His love. When life gets tough we flounder and do not know what to do or how to do it. A couple of years ago whilst talking with the Lord He showed me a door and invited me to step inside. As I stepped inside the door I was gloriously met with a beautiful bright blue scene. As I looked closer I realised that I was looking at a wonderful blue sky that met equally calm blue water. As I was taking the beauty of this scene into my senses I suddenly realised that there were hundreds upon hundreds of heads in the water, but only the very top of the heads could be seen. Without thinking or saying anything to Jesus I jumped into the water and started to lift the people in it up. To my surprise the water only came to the top of my thighs and yet these people were drowning! I asked Jesus why these people were drowning in this shallow water and He explained that they did not know how to lift themselves up or what they needed to do to change their situation and circumstances. They had lost their way. It was from this time that I determined, with the help of the Lord not
only to encourage those whom God places before me but also to build them up so that they walk closer with the Lord and can do the same for others. This is an opportunity that I am grateful to receive; an opportunity to share with you the truth that compromise, lethargy and procrastination has no place in the Christian walk. We must give all of ourselves to the Lord or it is nothing. The Kingdom of God is an all-in or all-out Kingdom. There is no fence-sitting. We cannot constantly do things our way and then, when it goes wrong ask God to step in. All the time we keep our hands on the steering wheel of our life we prevent God from doing His will. We prevent the Holy Spirit from taking control and leading and empowering us. When my wife was suddenly taken seriously ill I wept bitterly and pleaded with God for hours on end. Everything looked bleak and at first it seemed as if He was not listening because my wife underwent surgery. I had two choices confronting me – blame God for not acting, give up on all I had believed or stand firm in faith, believe God’s word and trust Him completely. In honesty I could naturally see no hope but I kept shutting out my negative thoughts and replacing them with positive ones and Scripture promises. Sustaining the strength of will-power to keep believing in the face of difficulty requires persistent belief and it was in these moments that Paul’s words to the Philippians Church suddenly prevailed, ‘my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus’ (Philippians 4: 19). At the very time I needed strength God supplied it. At the time that I needed His love and assurance, He supplied it.
Whilst waiting in the hospital waiting room to receive news of the health condition of my wife my thoughts were trying to run wild and I battled to keep them faith focussed until not long before we were finally invited to see the surgeon I felt a complete peace as God supplied His comfort and assurance. God was faithful throughout this difficult time and I shall never forget those words when the surgeon said, ‘we cannot find the cause of the problem – it was there but now it seems to have burnt itself out and considering where we started this is as good as it gets!’ What an incredible and faithful God we have. Naturally I do not have the personal qualities and ability to overcome or love as I should, but with God’s help all things are possible. He has proved Himself over and again. You see what we must understand is that there are certain times and circumstances where we have no answers and we can do nothing. It is in these times that God carries us, leads us and watches over us. It is when we experience these times that we truly come to know by revelation the true God and what Jesus has done for us. It is when we place our trust in the Lord in all circumstances that, ‘We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose’ (Romans 8: 28). As Paul discovered God’s grace really is sufficient for us and His power is truly made perfect in our times of weakness (1 Corinthians 12: 9). As Christian believers we live in a world sick with sin. Jesus said, ‘In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world’ (John 16: 33). As God’s representatives we have also
been called to overcome and to shine His light into the darkness of the world. It is for this reason that as we move deeper into these last of the last days tribulation will come but with it the Christian believers assurance is that God’s grace will abound and His power will activate in our time of weakness – in those times when we hand everything to Him and allow Him to work in and through us our strength will renew. Now is the time to prepare ourselves for tribulations; charge our spiritual batteries, learn how to overcome and put our relationship with the Lord right. The year 2015 has already started with attacks on Israel, Jewish people in Europe, Christians and many other atrocities. This is only the start of a year that will see even more signs of the last days. But as God’s true children, we have nothing to fear unless our mind-set is constantly absorbed by apathy, complacency, procrastination and worldly living. The Bible says that, ‘faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God’ (Romans 10: 17). Our mind-set will be completely changed by reading the word of God, hearing it and stowing it in our hearts. It pleases God when we put our trust in Him and allow Him to work freely and unhindered so if you are facing problems and difficulties take solace from these sample Scriptures and build your faith. Helpful Scripture verses: Joshua 1: 9 ‘Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go’.
by: Kathy Weddle By the time most of you see this, Resurrection Sunday will be upon us. This is the season more attention is given to the ultimate gift of Jesus for us. The woman who broke the alabaster flask to Simon’s house during the last Passover Jesus spent on this earth is eternally memorialized by her act. Here is a portion of it below: Mark 14 NKJV And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table, a woman who was described earlier as being “a sinner; a woman of poor reputation”, came, having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on His head. But there were some who were indignant among themselves, and said, "Why was this fragrant oil wasted? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor." And they criticized her sharply. But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me. That flask of Spikenard represented the woman’s life savings; her accumulated income and wealth. Single women had few career choices. She’d been delivered of seven demons by Jesus. Her gratitude was profound: she went into that house, dangerous for a woman of her class, to thank Jesus for His forgiveness of her sins and deliverance. She symbolically turned her life of sin over to Him
when she poured the anointing oil on Him-He took, symbolically, ALL her sin, just as He took all the sins of the world on that cross! She gave her everything to Him; that flask was her entire life savings; not a tenth or even half, but all of it. It was her personal security; she exhibited her absolute faith in Him when she gave her “net worth” to Him. By using that ointment on Him, she made a commitment to live in trust to Him. The religious men sitting at the table missed it. Apparently the disciples were also there. Wouldn’t you think they would have understood at least partway by then? Yet, they judged her actions based on their rules, not Truth. Resurrection Sunday is the time we are most acutely aware of the incomparable gift the Father gave us; of His Son. Give Him Praise, Church!
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By: Nick Schneider It's easy to believe and easy to have faith when all is going well in our lives. But do we believe the same in the awesome power of God when things are not going well when we are ill, when the bills aren't paid, when we've been mistreated, when we are tired and worn out, when bad fortunate seems to follow us at every turn in our lives. Do we still have the same faith when we are in the heat of fire and being attacked from every side in a spiritual battle that we think we are too weak to fight anymore? In those situations, do we really believe, “There is nothing too hard for God.” In Jeremiah 32:17 we read: “O Sovereign Lord! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you!” Who can match the awesome power of our God? Our abilities, no matter how great and refined they may be, simply don’t amount to even a small speck when compared to God's power and ability to change things. Who are we to doubt that God can do what He says he can and will do? God is not limited by our human frailties and shortcomings. Again, I ask, 'Is anything too hard for God?' We should never allow our own thinking to persuade us to think that just because we think that something is too hard for us to accomplish that it is also too hard for God. In Luke
18:27 Jesus tells His disciples, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” Mark 10:27 is a parallel passage and it states, “Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible, but not with God. Everything is possible with God.” No matter what the situation, the problem, the mountain that needs climbed, the hurdle that needs leaped, the sickness that needs healed, the need that needs met – nothing is too hard for God. Scripture teaches us that we can cast all of our cares on Him. But do we do it? Or, do we let our doubts and worries take over and dominate our faith? Remember our worry is the opposite of our faith and it will suck the belief right out of our spiritual being, if we allow it. Nothing is impossible when we put our trust in God and rest upon His Word. We must get into His Word and learn that it states, what it promises and what we can rest our faith on. We all must get The Word down in our heart and soul and know without a doubt that God is the God of
miracles and the God of impossibilities. Nothing is too hard for God. We need to believe it, pray fervently and wait for God to move in a great and mighty way. In Jeremiah 32:17, we read: “O Sovereign Lord! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you!” Who can match the awesome power of our God? Our abilities, no matter how great and refined they may be, simply don’t amount to even a small speck when compared to God. Who are we to doubt that God can do what He says he can and will do? God is not limited by our human frailties and shortcomings. Again, I ask, 'Is anything too hard for God?' We should never allow our own thinking to persuade us to think that just because we think that something is too hard for us to accomplish that it is also too hard for God. In Luke 18:27 Jesus tells His disciples, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” No matter what the situation, the problem, the mountain that needs climbed, the hurdle that needs leaped, the sickness that needs healed, the need that needs met – nothing is too hard for God. Scripture teaches that we can cast all of our cares on Him. But do we do it? Or, do we let our doubts and worries take over and dominate our faith? Nothing is impossible when we put our trust in God and rest upon His word. We all must get it down in our heart and soul that God is the God of miracles and the God of impossibilities. Those miracles do still happen today. Nothing is too hard for God. We need to believe it, pray fervently and wait for God to move in a great and might way. So many times I pray for God to
strengthen me. Over and over I call out to him to make me stronger, but I still fail, and fail and fail. But I keep praying, God strengthen me. Does that sound like something you have prayed? Then it hits me between the eyes and my eyes are opened. I’m praying for the wrong thing. Instead of asking for God to strengthen me, I need to be praying for God to be my strength, the source of my power, my faith. Look at 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NLT and you'll get a better perspective of what I mean from the words of Paul. He writes: “Each time he said, 'My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.' So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. That’s why I take pleasure in my own weaknesses and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” God's power is made perfect in our weakness. That means instead of asking God to remove the things that plague me - my pride, my laziness, my fears of many things in life maybe all this time -I should have been praying for God to be my strength in all these things. We need to stop asking for God to make us different than we are. Stop trying to be something we are not. We need to stop pleading for Him to take away all of our thorns. We have had it all backwards. We need to understand we are insufficient, but His grace is sufficient. We are weak and God's power is made perfect in that weakness. We want to hide our problems, fix them and then celebrate our victories. Instead, we should boast gladly of our weakness. Trying to make ourselves
spiritually strong only leads to fatigue, frustration and doubt. But, Christ’s unending power rests in us. God's power and strength never grows dim and never needs recharged. We do. Sometimes the strongest among us are the ones who smile through silent pain, cry behind closed doors, and fight battles that nobody knows about. They draw their strength from a super-strong God that we serve. In Deuteronomy 31:6 we read that God goes ahead of us in our time of trouble to prepare the path. It is written: “So be
strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you.” Understand that I am discontent with my own weaknesses and difficulties, but I can choose to have contentment knowing God has a plan for it all. God's strength shines in my times of being weak. He gets the glory and praise for my life victories. Let us engrave Philippians 4:13 in our hearts – “For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.” Lord I pray, keep me weak, so that You might be my strength.
You can purchase your own copies of: Decisions, Decisions, and more Decisions directly from Nick by contacting him at: schneider.nick@gmail.com
Decisions, Decisions, and more Decisions Written by: Nick J. Schneider Nick’s book, Decisions, Decisions, and more Decisions illustrates some life lessons for your children, grandchildren, and young friends. The aim of the short stories is to teach and encourage. Join Nick as his fictional character, Jimbo, grows up and meets many challenges. Jimbo will take you through 10 short stories that will help both child and parent through hard times such as bullying, studying, avoiding injuries, and many more. Nick’s background as a news and sports reporter, feature writer, and editor for nearly 40 years gives him the necessary training as a book writer, however, he never saw himself as a children’s book writer. Sometimes God has a different plan. You can purchase your own copies of Decisions, Decisions, and more Decisions directly from Nick by contacting him at:
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