Thursday, December 3, 2009

A time for all things


A time for all things

per Tommy H. Briggs, Sr. Associate Pastor, Freedom Ministries

Passage in Ecclesiastes a time for all things.

Time most valued commodity

No rewind, you will never be at this point of time again.
You will never see this second again

    You can see the life of God in the face of people,
  • the light of God can be seen in peoples' faces
  • At times, when I am in public I like to see the faces of people
  • light of God is in people's faces at times
  • you can always tell the presence of God or
  • lack of it in the faces of people in public

There is a seen and an unseen world in all people and in all places. Book of Job was the first written book of the Bible, it was the first concept that God thought was necessary for people to know. This is evidenced in the time of it's writing. If it was the first piece of inspired writing bearing God's message. It must have been the most important concept to understand. The first chapter features a dialogue. This dialogue shows God and Satan In this dialogue, Satan is not in the presence of God but God does invite him into the throne area of heaven. In it one can see that neither world was fully cognizant of the other one. It was not until God questioned if Satan had considered Job that Satan saw that Job had left an opening where by Job could be tempted. So the book of Job clearly reveals a heavenly and an earthly kingdom.

    The God of the Bible is the only true God,
  • but there are other gods
  • both in the Bible and in our world today.
After the Children of Israel, left the Desert, God said I am the God who delivered you out of your slavery and out of Egypt , therefore, He required Worship and Honor as Such. There are other forces who would lay claim on them and will upon you if you surrender to those voices. but God is the only one with the right to do so. This is the contrast between religion and Christianity: We who are in Christianity are the ones that know the only true God. When we confess sins we are really forgiven, For so many years we walked around nor knowing this simple fact. To ask for forgiveness is to have it. .It is like throwing out the Garbage. We don't need to walk around with the junk any longer . Only by pitching the bgage of guilt may we walk in freedom. This is the way that we walk in freedom.

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Additional comments

Healing room is closed the weekend of Christmas, DEC 26-28.

Healing Ministry Response cards are only for people making Dedications, Rededications, Confessions of salvation etc. They are designed to prompt our followup volunteers to make a follow-up especially where new birth is indicated. The purpose of the healing room is strictly to disciple people .
We want to translate people from the outer fringes
to the center of God' will for their life.

A time for all things Ecclestias chapter 3

  1. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
  2. A time to be born, and a time to die;
    a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
  3. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
  4. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
  5. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
    a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
  6. A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
  7. A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  8. A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
  9. verse 17 says:
    I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked:
    for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
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