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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY
As we take a day to pay special attention to our earthly fathers, may I suggest to make this a day for every father to bring the focus of his family on our Heavenly Father to Whom ALL honor and glory is due! Take time to share with our families the attributes of God that causes Him to bestow His love upon us through Jesus Christ! What a perfect day to share the "love of the Father" with our children and grandchildren! What I am suggesting is not to just remember Abba Father ... BUT TO FOCUS ON HIM this day! As your family's father, lead your family to honor our Heavenly Father at the beginning of the day's festivities and you may just find that doing so will have an impact upon your family that lasts an eternity!
Many Blessings!
Dr. Timothy
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 From Dr. Timothy
Uniqueness Of "Our Father"
It is said that the Muslims have 99 names for the Supreme Being, but there is none that resembles the intimacy of the Christian's "Our Father." The tender love of God for His children is only revealed in the Bible.
Heathen religions present their deities as gods who should be feared, but do not conceive of them as gracious, compassionate beings filled with concern for suffering humanity.
The Christian alone is able to look up with the intimacy of a child stretching forth his arms to his affectionate parent and exclaiming, "Abba, Father!" (Galatians 4:6).
The term "abba" literally means "papa."
Brokenhearted Father
Among the first glimpses we get of our God is that of a Seeker: "
Adam...Where art thou?" (Genesis 3:9). In commenting upon this question to his Bible class, a teacher said, "You can never be a preacher if you read it as though God were a policeman. Read it as though God were a brokenhearted Father looking for a lost child!"
—Al Bryant (The above two articles are from the Encyclopedia of 15,000 Illustrations: Signs of the Times.)
GOD THE FATHERIn the Christian religion God is conceived of as "Father," "Our Father .... in heaven" (Matthew 6:9, 14, 26, etc.), "the God and Father of the Lord Jesus" (2 Cor. 11:31, etc.). The tenderness of relation and wealth of love and grace embraced in this profound designation are peculiar to Christ's gospel. Pagan religions also could speak of God as "Father" (Zeus Pater), and in the general sense of Creator God has a universal fatherly relation to the world (Acts 17:24-28). In the Old Testament God was revealed as Father to the chosen nation (Exodus 4:22), and to the special representative of the nation, the king (2 Samuel 7:14), while fatherly love is declared to be the image of His pity for those who fear Him (Psalm 103:13). In the gospel of Jesus alone is this Fatherhood revealed to be of the very essence of the Godhead, and to have respect to the individual. Here, however, there is need for great discrimination. To reach the heart of the truth of the Divine Fatherhood it is necessary to begin, not with man, but with the Godhead itself, in whose eternal depths is found the spring of that Fatherly love that reveals itself in time. It is first of all in relation to the eternal Son—before all time—that the meaning of Fatherhood in God is made clear (John 1:18). In "God the Father" we have a name pointing to that relation which the first Person in the adorable Trinity sustains to "Son" and "Holy Spirit"—also Divine (Matthew 28:19). From this eternal fountain-head flow the relations of God as Father (1) to the world by creation; (2) to believers by grace. Man as created was designed by affinity of nature for sonship to God. The realization of this—his true creature-destiny—was frustrated by sin, and can now only be restored by redemption. Hence, the place of sonship in the gospel, as an unspeakable privilege (1 John 3:1), obtained by grace, through regeneration (John 1:12, 13), and adoption (Romans 8:14, 19). In this relation of nearness and privilege to the Father in the kingdom of His Son (Col. 1:13), believers are "sons of God" in a sense true of no others. It is a relation, not of nature, but of grace. Fatherhood is now the determinative fact in God's relation to them (Ephes. 3:14ff). It is an error, nevertheless, to speak of fatherhood as if the whole character of God was therein sufficiently expressed. God is Father, but equally fundamental is His relation to His world as its Moral Ruler and Judge. From eternity to eternity the holy God must pronounce Himself against sin (Romans 1:18); and His fatherly grace cannot avert judgment where the heart remains hard and impenitent (Romans 2:1-9). (FROM: The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.)
In Christ & With His Love,
Dr. Timothy
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PROPHET'S CORNER
IT’S TIME FOR THE “SHOUT”
It’s all
over but the “Shouting”, and that is the truth. This shouting is not
just what we have known as people making a loud noise. In fact we
probably do not know what a loud noise is until we hear this noise. This
“Shout” is unique and unprecedented. The Son Of God died on that old rugged Cross to earn this right to give the “SHOUT ” of the ages.
This shout will signal that the “Day Of The Lord” has arrived. It will
be so earth shattering that every “Saints” in the graves of the earth
will hear and will arise fully alive in glorified bodies. Isaiah
described it in unmistakable terms. The earth in its cursed state will
actually hurl them out of its grip.“Thy
dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake
and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and
the earth shall cast out the dead. (Isaiah 26:19)
The Son of God is so committed to the success of this events that He comes down Himself. In fact He comes down “SHOUTING”.
It appears to me that a trumpet blast precedes his shouting. This
trumpet is the right Horn of a Ram and represents the 100th trumpet of
the Feast of Trumpets. It’s a special sound that awake the Saintly dead
so they can then hear the Lord Jesus Christ when He shouts.
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first:”(I Thessalonians 4:16)
Notice how
Apostle Paul emphasizes, “The Lord Himself”. There is a lot of shouting
that is right down this tough road we are traveling and it will make it
all worth while. This trumpet is like a talking trumpet because there
will be no misunderstanding of what it is saying. Then the Lord shouts
and the Archangels cry’s with a loud voice and then it will be our time
for shouting.“And they sung a new song,
saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof:
for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of
every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;” (Revelation 5:9)
God’s Saints are soon to be out of hear with a lot of shouting both from above and from below. |
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What's it going to take?
By: Bill Wilson
The Congress and the White House are locking horns over the audacity
of the president reporting to Congress that the United States is not
involved in hostilities in Libya. Even deeper is seemingly overwhelming
evidence that the White House is funding Libyan rebels with ties to al
Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist sponsoring group wishing
to overthrow the United States with "Civilization Jihad," is now a
foreign policy partner. Peeling back the layers of deception on this
political onion reveals an undeniable trend that this White House is
supporting the advancement of radical Islam through its Middle East
"reform" policy, which is a threat to national security--a genuine
Constitutional crisis.
Last week, my son Christian had dinner
with House Speaker John Boehner. It's part of the Ashbrook Center for
Public Affairs at Ashland University where my son participates as an
Ashbrook Scholar. Christian was all fired up that Congressman Boehner
was going to take on the president with respect to the illegal and
unethical war in Libya. But Christian has also lamented that so very few
of his generation even know that we are in a war in Libya. He says that
so many of his contemporaries are more concerned about partying,
playing video games, and hanging out, that they could care less about
the direction their country is taking. He believes it poses an
extraordinary challenge for future leaders.
Another leadership
vacuum...On one end of the spectrum, the church is busy laying hands on
people and prophesying about how many great things they are going to be
doing, jobs they are going to have, wealth they are going to accumulate
and on and on. On the other end of the spectrum, the church is busy
sitting in its pews on Sundays, listening to another boring sermon,
looking at their watches and eager to get it over with. In between are
the workers busy doing a lot and getting nothing done. There is a small,
and I believe it to be very small, remnant that is concerned about the
very salvation of their neighbors and the soul of their nation. They are
trying really hard to do what is right in the eyes of God.
I
remember the Vietnam War era where the communists organized gullible
young people into massive protest forces against war. Are communists the
only ones that organize war protests? Can it be that good people, with
solid morals, who know right from wrong, and strive to do the right
thing, just do not want to put their foot down and draw a line in the
sand? Is it going to take our sons or grandsons being killed in the vain
support of a disguised Islamic Caliphate before we act? You see, this
is not just about America, its about the advance of a principality of
darkness manifest in the physical. Romans 13:12 says, "The night is far
spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of
darkness, and let us put on the armor of light."
This article and more like it can be found at the Prophezine Website, go to:
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