This Month in Faith Is Action

one nation under god
“Blessed is the nation who God is the lord, and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance” (Psalm 33:12”.

 

Notice lord is in small caps, because the writer substituted adonai (lord) for God’s holy name, yahweh, or jehovah in English. The Jewish people did not want in any way to do harm to the name of God by using it commonly, so they chose not to say it or write it. Even today Orthodox Jews write God as G-d. It’s not a typo, but again, the purpose is to avoid actually saying or writing the name of God, so as to keep it holy and not common. When speaking, they say, “ha shem,” which means the Name, referring to the Name of God. The point is: Blessed is the nation whose God is the God of the Bible—jehovah.  

 

The alternative is: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (Psalm 9:17)..

 

In verse 5, the Greek word is PHORTION and refers to New Testament obligations which Jesus put on His followers, which were in contrast to the heavy precepts and observances that the Pharisees demanded.

 

In order to forget someone, you have to have known them and been acquainted with them. You had to have had some kind of relationship with them that you abandoned. You don’t actually forget they exist but, you have broken off your relationship, and that’s what it means here. God said that they forgot Him, and every nation; there are no exceptions, who forgets Him, shall be turned into Hell....        Continue to read this month's message in it's entirety.

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Satan Can't Obstruct Prayers Going Up!

 

“Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid [Lazarus]. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me, and I knew that you hear me always: but because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that you have sent me” (John 11:41-42).

 

Jesus stated two indispensable facts that can radically affect our Christian walk: The Father heard Him when He prayed (to raise Lazarus), and He always heard Him when He prayed. How powerfully would it revolutionize our prayer life if we really believed that every time we pray in faith in Jesus’ name, God hears us! When we are in a right relationship with the Father, our prayers are un-obstructable.

 

John said: “This is the confidence we have in him, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know we have the petitions we desired of him” (1John 5:14-15).

 

This is a win-win proposition—why wouldn’t we pray when we know Satan can’t obstruct our prayers going up? Both David and Peter said: “The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayers” (Ps.34:15, 1Pet.3:12). Scores of Scriptures affirm this, so why is it sometimes our prayers are delayed or not answered?

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