FEAR NOT— OUR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS SOVEREIGN AND IN CONTROL! Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.’ ” —II Kings 19:6-7 That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! So Sennacherib…

LISTEN TO JESUS! When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!” Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself. —John 6:14-15             Imagine working two hundred days just to provide one meal for a group of people.  That is what Jesus did for 5,000 men.  If there were women and children there as well then that could have been 10-15,000 people.  Still, think about that— you working two hundred days to feed people one time.             After the…

HONESTY And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.—II Kings 12:15             King Johoash did was right in the eyes of the Lord and he ordered that the house of the Lord to be repaired wherever there needed repairing.  As money was being spent for repair there was “not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.”             Imagine that today!  No invoice describing what was done.  No questioning if the repair was done right.  No…

THE WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. —John 5:24             How does one receive eternal life?  It is very clear from this verse and so many others.  First, a person hears the Word of God— How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As…

MIRACLES Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float. 7 And he said, “Take it up.” So he reached out his hand and took it. —II Kings 6:6 He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” Then Elisha prayed and said, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all…

THE GREAT PHYSICIAN! And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean…”  So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, “Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel…”  Then Naaman said, “…from now on your…

YOU ARE IN THE KINGDOM LIGHT OR THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.” —John 3:19-21             There are two kingdoms in this world and only two.  There is the Kingdom/Domain of God/heaven/light/His Son and there is the Kingdom/Domain of Satan/hell/darkness/demons. …

ABUSE OF POWER But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?” And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ And he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”  And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.” So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them…

TRUST AND FEAR NOT! Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” hen he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life. —I Kings 19:2-3             It is amazing how God gives great victory and overcomes the obstacles in our lives for us and we soon forget His workings.  How is it that when our life is threatened we become fearful and run for our lives?  Even though we have seen Him work in the past!             Think about all our…

WE ARE TO FOLLOW JESUS “Follow me.”             Are you following Jesus?  What does it mean to follow Jesus?  Do you desire to follow Jesus or not?  Your answer will determine your destiny! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk&t=14s             To follow Jesus first shows “that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him” (John 3:15).  Those who follow will be like “The wind blowing wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit” (John 3:8).  Followers of Jesus will desire to go wherever God’s Holy Spirit guides them, be what He desires them…