B.E.S.T. Shabbat

""For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."   Joh 3:16 (NASB) Click here to listen to " The Secret of Being the Living Sacrifice " Clearly, we are in unprecedented times in our lifetime. Never before have we seen so clearly the power of the fear of death stop the world. Man, who has in one way or another rejected the love of God, has replaced Him, in many cases, with the fear of death.  The fear of death has a distortion effect on reality as perceived in the mind and heart.  It shifts our faith. The voice of the fear of death causes us to draw in and treat other people as a threat or a potential threat. You have only to walk into a grocery store during the crisis to feel, see, and sense the avoidance and extravagant grip that fear has on people. Why is this happening? Is it the correct response to the virus? Is this how God would have His sons and daughters res...

"Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." Rom 12:1-2 (NASB) Click here to listen to " Living Sacrifice: Dying to Truly Live " Accessing the throne of God is transformational in nature. Last chapter we spoke about intercession being a transformational encounter. We come to God with a list of requests which we call prayer. If we press in to actually meet or paga with God, we come to a crossroads encounter. At this junction, we are entering the intersection of intercession. At the paga, the intercession, we will be transformed into a new man or woman. The old will pass away, not just in our identity but in the possibilities available to us as we were. ...