The Power of Your Words. The Bible teaches that our words effect our life. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. If we believe in our heart that what we say will come to pass Jesus said we could move mountains with our words. Jesus taught this principle to his disciples as a way of ministering to others.
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In order to understand the purpose of Christianity we must first
understand the condition of the world system before Jesus came to the
earth. In other words, why did Jesus have to come? In this program we
look at a number of scriptures to demonstrate that the Bible teaches
that prior to Jesus arrival the world was Satan's kingdom.
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That's the title of an interesting book review from the Wall Street Journal's online opinion division, OpinonJournal. The book is Imperial Grunts, written by Robert Kaplan, and is about the U.S. Military. The author has traveled around the world meeting the guys who are on the front lines of the military's 6 "commands," i.e. there geographic areas of operations. But what was interesting were these statements:
One of the more surprising of Mr. Kaplan's findings is that evangelical Christianity helped to transform the military in the 1980s, rescuing the Vietnam-era Army from drugs, alcohol and alienation. That reformation, together with the character-building demands of Balkans deployments of the 1990s (more important, in his judgment, than the frontal wars against Saddam Hussein), created our "imperial grunts…"
"We're the damn Spartans," explains Maj. Kevin Holiday of Tampa, "physical warriors with college degrees." A civil engineer with three kids, he is a National Guardsman with an attitude. "God has put me here," he tells Mr. Kaplan. "I'm a Christian. . . . You see this all around you"--the dust, deprivation and anxiety of Injun Country--"well, it's the high point of my life and of everyone else here." It's not just officers, and not only the Green Berets. Cpl. Michael Pinckney, a Marine, tells Mr. Kaplan: "I don't want to be anywhere else but Iraq. . . .This is what manhood is all about. I don't mean macho [stuff] either. I mean moral character."
Interesting stuff. Go read the rest of the article here.
The Bible School Becky an I attended, RHEMA Bible Training Center, had been collecting funds to help alumni in the New Orleans area. Today they sent out an email detailing how the money had been distributed and also included some hurricane stories from alumni I thought you might find interesting:
" There is one issue that we would like for you to agree with us in prayer.
As of this writing there are two alumni that are unaccounted for:
Beverly Paul we have found her name on a Red Cross list but we have not
been successful in locating her.
Judith Sisk we have no word of her whatsoever.There are many amazing survival stories of Gods protection and provision.
Included with these is the emotional gratitude being expressed by our
alumni for your generous gifts. The alumni who have been called, visited
and given relief checks have been touched deeply by the RHEMA family
reaching out and blessing their lives at this time. Here are just a few of
their stories:
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La Biblia enseña que en nuestras palabras hay poder una de las maneras
que habla de esto es hablando de bendecir y maldecir. Cristo maldijo,
ósea uso sus palabras para afectar al mundo natural, y dijo que los que
tenían fe podían hacer lo mismo.
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Why did Jesus come? Why was he born of a virgin? Why did he die? Why
was he raised from the dead? What is the purpose of Christianity? If we
don't understand the purpose of Christianity we won't understand the
Church's purpose, or the pastor's purpose or our purpose. For most
western Christians the answer is so that we can go to heaven when we
die. But Jesus didn't talk that much about going to heaven when you
die. The Bible says that Jesus went around preaching the Gospel of the
Kingdom of God? What exactly does Kingdom of God mean? In order to
answer these questions we must first understand the condition that the
world, mankind, the world system were in before Jesus came.
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God has not left us defenseless. Most Christians live a "Que sera,
sera, whatever will be, will be,…" kind of life. Most Christians
believe that we're just subject to the whims of life there's nothing
much that can be done. But Jesus said that through faith in him we
could triumph over the storms of life. God has give us weapons so that,
if we learn to use these weapons, and apply them to our lives we can
have the victory in life that he promised. One of these weapons is our
words. Jesus said The God kind of faith can
move mountains. What is the God kind of faith? The faith that sends its
words to do things and believes that what it sends them to do will be
accomplished.
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When the Bible uses the words Blessing and Cursing it is referring to
words of power. Spoken words can effect the world, at least that's what
the Bible teaches. The curse of the law and the blessing of Abraham are
both examples of words spoken with the intent of effecting the world.
In the case of the curse of the law the words of the curse were
designed to bring poverty, sickness, destruction, and defeat on those
who did not keep the law. In the case of the blessing of Abraham the
words of the blessing were designed to bring prosperity, health,
abundance and well being to Abraham and his children. The good news is
that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a
curse, i.e. poverty, sickness, destruction and defeat for us, so that
the blessing of Abraham, i.e. prosperity, health, abundance and well
being could come on us.
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The sensei's son Zach, a third degree blackbelt,who's in the Navy, taught the karate class last night. He taught us how to break boards for fun and profit. Okay, no profit. Out of about 14 students I went first. Zach said he was calling on someone who he knew would break it, guess who?
Anyway it was a little intimidating. The thought in the back of my head was, "Hitting a board with your hand is going to hurt, a lot. The thought in the front of my head was, "It's going to be pretty embarrassing if I can't break this," especially since Zach told us at the beginning that his 9 year old daughter had done it.
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