Leviticus 19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord. My 6 year old baby, Winnie Jr., had just spent an afternoon with a baby sitter that was a little too judgmental for my taste. When we picked her up, Winnie […]
Daily Gleanings
Vision
Watch our video (below) of our two young Italian Volunteers! They watched that freedom movie and were inspired to help us to help the children (our neighbors are great!) What a blessing !https://youtube.com/shorts/QGA9pKvsACk Habakkuk 2:2 write the vision and make it plain Bible scholars love to accuse me of taking the Bible out of context. While […]
One Chance
watch our newest PHCF videohttps://youtu.be/Qqf0UzMEqTo?si=95j-4ydlAuxWr2h3 The following is a weekly blog of my missions experience and my take away from what I feel God has shown me this week. 1 Samuel 16:7 The Lord said Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the […]
Out of This World
Please enjoy our newest video of our students. Thanks to Gutierrez Bros for our Jingle. Click here: https://youtube.com/shorts/BC7WnuEmjuA?si=35-8u-MTwYiGO8R1 John 14:27 ‘Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.’ The word ‘world’ has […]
Two Edged Sword
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” As I am teaching through the book of Romans, I […]
Resign
CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO SEE OUR LATEST VIDEOhttps://youtu.be/yjs0dGaN1Xs?si=LQVif9pp_NLgWzfi John 3:3 Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. There are a lot of ‘agains’ in the new life in Christ. One of the hardest things I have to re-enforce (enforce again) to the Million Friends kids (and our […]
Step 4 of the Roman’s Road
Yes!! It’s That Easy To Have Peace With God! (Step 4 of the Roman’s Road) Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; […]
Step 3 in the Roman’s Road
Go Winners!! Praying before a match. We have a new life, and new opportunities in Christ. Our team was fortunate enough to find someone willing to pay for 80% of the cost of full uniforms (including shoes). The boy in the blue (opposing team) didn´t have shoes. Only socks, and beat us anyway. So Team […]
Pay Day
Romans 6:23 The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life PAY-DAY for an employer is usually a big stress for the boss and a great relief for the workers. Many a night I woke up Winnie saying ‘we can’t make pay-roll tomorrow!!’ (We have 10 employees which is […]
5 Minute Rule
Matt 26:40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? No, this is not the rule about food on the floor. This rule is about praying. Now that we are in the ‘time saving’ age of the eMyth, let’s just […]
5 Steps of the Roman Road
5 steps of the Romans Road (1 of 5) 1rst step Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: Every journey begins with one step. The road to drug addiction begins with stealing cigarettes and booze from you parents. The journey of compulsive lying begins with a fib in […]
Hard Way is the Easy Way
Proverbs 14:12-16 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of that mirth is heaviness. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: And a good man shall be satisfied from […]
Just As You Are
Matthew 8:21-22 “Another of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, first let me go and bury my father.’” In today´s terms, we would say something like ‘let me take care of my father first, until he dies’ or ‘let me first get a college degree’ or ‘let me polish myself up first by stopping sinning, […]
There is None Like You
Jeremiah 10:6. There is none like you. There is no one like the Lord! But be careful of cheap imitations and sloppy (or even near ‘perfect’) counterfeits. I always loved that hymn by Don Moen. ‘THERE IS NONE LIKE YOU. https://youtu.be/wPtSTpAba4w In fact, I sing it all the time. It was probably the first song […]
Winners
Philippians 3:8 “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them butdung, that I may win Christ,” While we are never told in the Bible to win anything but Christ, […]
Filters
Luke 2:19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. I planned to write about joy this week, but this seems to have more urgency in my heart. With the rapid deterioration of America, I believe we all better get ready for the next era. We need to be more […]
Love
Galatians 5:22-23 KJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Notice fruit isn’t plural. It talks about 9 things but as a singular group. All 9 are necessary to make 1 fruit. If you don’t have all nine, you […]
Marital Problems
Exodus 4:24 And it came to pass on the way, at the encampment, that the Lord met him and sought to kill him. 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a husband of blood to me!” 26 So He let him go. Then she said, “You are a husband of blood!”—because of the circumcision.
First off I want to say that Winnie and I are fine. This is just my Mother’s Day sermon for the school and my daily home Bible Studyand I thought you’d like it. I learned 2 amazing things when I got saved.
Christians aren’t perfect nor are their marriages. We are all under a lot of internal and external pressure to show perfection when we get saved, but the fact is that we are still going to have problems. That’s not an excuse for giving up, divorce or separation. It’s just a reality that walking out Christianity and a healthy marriage require diligence and hard work.
David’s marriage was lousy. Peter’s wasn’t that great either. Paul’s was virtually non existent and we knew he was married by the title he held before he met Jesus on the road to Damascus. Moses was separated for 5 years until his father in law brought them together again.
Exodus 4 tells us that although Moses was going to be a minister and free his people, yet failed to minister to his own family. Zipporah, his wife, took the matters into her own hands. She cut the flesh away from her son with a knife (sword). The Word of God is a sword, and we should use it to cut away our own fleshly thoughts and desires, and teach our kids to do the same.
This is my Mother’s Day sermon. Kind of awkward but it’s a very valid point, especially in the matriarchal society of Latin America. The message is, if dad won’t be the priest of the house, the spiritual leader, mom has to do it. That will always cause turmoil and the mom will always have resentment because of it, but someone has to look out for the little one’s souls.
Our lives aren’t perfect, our marriages and families aren’t perfect, but we are saved. And we want everyone we come into contact with to be saved. Our mission is to live Godly lives (imperfect as they are) and keep doing the right thing the right way. Charles Stanley for example was abandoned by his wife and eventually divorced but had a string ministry to the end. When Moses’ wife left him, he didn’t run after her, he just kept on doing what God showed him to do.
1 Cor 7:13 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace
Likewise the wives.
The fact was that Moses was married to a Medianite. A non-believer. She did the right thing, what God wanted, but without the right attitude. She took the kid and moved back in with dad. She was a good woman, she just didn’t know the one true God. Moses knew the one true God, but neglected teaching his family. He neglected the family devotions as we would say today. He left the training up to his heathen wife and now had to suffer the consequences.
Proverbs 22:6
King James Version
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Moses didn’t run after her. She didn’t run after him, in fact she left him. It wasn’t right. It wasn’t good But both were at fault. The truth is, a separation or even a divorce isn’t the end of the world. It’s not God’s will. Actually marital problems are signs heart and spiritual problems.
Jesus said, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so” (Matthew 19:8).
Your family (or friends) look out for you. Seek God. Focus on Him. Do things for the right reasons, in the right way and eventually He will work things out. In Moses case it took a long time, but Jethro (his Father In Law) brought her back. As a result of the separation, His Father-in-law, his wife and his kids all became believers. The moral of the story is all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord (Romans 8:28). Trust Him!
Exodus 18:1-18 KJV
When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, and her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: and the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: and Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: and he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent. And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them. And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods
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Manna
2 Cor 10:5. Take every thought captive to obey Christ Encouraged by the VA, my son, my mission director and other close friends, I have been studying mindfulness. It is not woo woo yoga, or eastern religions. It is about not be a spastic shell shocked vet with adhd. I am studying it, I am […]
Safe
Proverbs 29:25. The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe. People often think they’re safe, when they are in extreme danger. Jeremiah 8:11 saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. We are in perilous times. Things can change overnight, spiritually, physically, politically and worldwide. […]
Threatening
Ephesians 6:9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with THREAT – a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.“members of […]
Object Lessons
Exodus 9:14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that [there is] none like me in all the earth. Plagues are a good thing if they draw you to the Lord. Plagues are devastating if they […]
God is Now
Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. I AM (written in Hebrew is YHWH, a word so holy it is written without vowels so that mere humans can’t pronounce it) I […]
Unsolicited Advice
Luke 18:18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? My take away from this year so far is to stop giving unsolicited advice in a one-on-one personal level. Jesus never just jammed His thoughts down someone’s throats. We should intentionally imitate Jesus as we are […]
Think Before Thinking
Wishing you the happiest of Easters! Today is Friday but Easter Is comin’. Read this thought on the thief on the Cross ! How does the thief on the cross fit into your theology? No baptism, no communion, no confirmation, no speaking in tongues, no mission trip, no volunteerism, no financial gifts, and no […]
Joseph
Today’s story is about Joseph. Winnie reminds me of Joseph. She just keeps pushing through all the trials and pains. The purpose of this weekly missive is things I learned this week (usually the hard way). on the mission field and in Christian life in general. None of ot is easy. My journaling (these writings) […]
Just Quit
Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. There are two ways to quit. A good way and a not so good way. Never quit God, serving Him, or living for Him. Early in my ministry, […]
Lists
‘Mary treasured all these things in her heart’ 12-23 Treasuring things (pondering thing) in your heart means you are making a list in your heart. When you ponder something, (treasuring it in your heart) you are unintentionally making a list that is indelible. People remember how you (or God) made them feel. You can’t […]
1 Thing
you can listen to this message here if you wish https://freetts.com/audio/ad0c6fe3-5a94-45e7-ad03-d0edcaabf960.mp3 Matt 10:21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. ———— This is the story of the rich young […]
Healed
if you prefer, you can listen to this message here; https://freetts.com/audio/553339c6-0631-4b1a-8faf-f1fd06269707.mp3 1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. A TESTIMONY OF HOW GOD HEALED ME Well. I had cancer. All the markers said so. […]
Right
Proverbios 12:5. The thoughts of the righteous are right Righteous means right. To be right with God (Righteous) is a choice. When Jesus rose from the grave, and showed Himself to the disciples and 500 more people, they believed. They thought right (because they believed) and that’s what made them right with God. Right thinking saves your soul. Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt […]
Friends
If you’d like, you can listen here: https://freetts.com/audio/5b9ab6bc-3b9a-4f74-b3a9-4d74a6c1916a.mp3 Friends Jesus said “I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father” (John 15:15) Here’s a mind blowing fact, some of your […]
Bauty
If you don’t feel like reading, listen here: The message of today is about Beauty. Psalm 96:9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth. My biggest regret in life was not teaching my own children how to fully throw themselves into the worship of the Lord, because […]
GOD
Psalm 68:18 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits Today’s Godwink moment. So I mentioned that God put in my heart to give away 100 balls to the kids, because we didn’t have enough last week. Well, Jason Sparks *Simpli Insurance* was used by God to provide those balls! Click here to […]