Appropriating the Promises of God
The Flaming Sword Newsletter
July to August 2012
The Corner – The Holy Spirit wants you to be encouraged.
Appropriating the Promises of God – As most Christians, I’m aware that my prayers must be in accordance with God’s will. It’s also exciting to find that in addition to the revelation of God’s will as it is written in His law, we also have His promises. Unlike mankind, God always keeps His promises and therefore I know that when I find a promise from God in scripture, it is a statement of His will for me and that I should seek it. I’ve also found that most of His promises are conditional.
The Fatted Calf – “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8)
GOING BEYOND BELIEF
Everything hung in the balance as Jim Miller found himself flying a crippled aircraft over hazardous Arizona mountain terrain one morning in November, 2006. Minutes away from a potential deadly emergency landing, with smoke filling the cabin, suddenly everything made sense. Going Beyond Belief is the author’s own story of initial reluctance to enter the business world with no formal business training or start-up money, followed by adversities encountered after making the decision to follow his heart.
Pursuing his dream of founding and building an aircraft painting company to support ministry outreaches throughout the world, he soon discovered that we have an enemy who fears what we might accomplish, and who does everything within his power to discourage and turn us back.
This book is about the battle for your heart, with multiple stories of God’s creative and miraculous last-minute interventions when all seemed lost. It tells how his fledgling company eventually scaled seemingly impossible heights, involved in missions all over the world, and then of the devastation which followed, threatening to rob him of his faith and financial resources. Continue >>
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
David Edwin Harrell, Jr. is a professor of history at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He has tried to write this book in an objective way, although you may not agree with all that he says.
Published in 1979, this is the first objective history of the great revivals that swept the United States after World War II. It tells the story of the victories and defeats of such giants of the revival as William Branham, Oral Roberts, Jack Coe, T.L. Osborn, A. A. Allen. It also tells of more modern day evangelists who are carrying on the revival, including Robert Schambach and Morris Cerullo.
The book includes pictures of Schambach, Allen, Cerullo, Branham, Roberts, Osborn, Coe and many others. Those who lived through the great revival of the 1950’s and 1960’s will be thrilled to read about those exciting days. Those who do not remember those days need to read this book to see what has led us up to this present moment in time.
Professor Harrell has done a staggering amount of research in hard to discover sources; his scholarship is impressive and he is eminently fair-minded. It is a missing link in the chain of American religious movements and is full of surprises, both seriousness and scandal strangely blended. Continue >>
How to Live Victorious in a Hostile World
The world in which we live is certainly not the Garden of Eden; it is a hostile world where Satan freely roams about seeking someone to devour. From the very beginning, the world has hated Jesus. As a result, the world will also hate each believer in Christ; this is a truth that each Christian should understand and accept.
Before we can be successful, we need to know about the power of God, and once we know about it, we need to apply it!
The Devil doesn’t like it when men are moving in the power of God and will go to any length to stop it; however, it doesn’t matter what the Devil thinks or does, God is still in charge!
When the same power that raised Jesus up from the dead is surging through a human body, there will be nothing but total victory! >>>Purchase
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