   A tribal king had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) as well as the lives of others and remarking, “This is good!” He based it on two Scriptures: one that says that […]
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  (…continued)  The song “Sounds Like Life to Me” by Darryl Worley is a good song, and a true song, and it says some of the very same things as those Bible verses in yesterday’s meditation.  And it can be a helpful song for someone like Johnny Ray who is just going through some tough
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By Ron Boyd-MacMillan in “Why I Need to Encounter the Persecuted Church”    The Persecuted Church teaches us that everyone is either an agent of God’s will, or an instrument of God’s will. Everyone in this world has only two choices: they can choose to do God’s will by co-operating with God, or they can choose
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From an October 2012 Standing Strong Through the Storm daily devotional at : http://www.opendoors-usa.org ————————— Pastor Samuel Lamb (1924-2013) —————-    Pastor Samuel Lamb from southern China celebrated his 88th birthday in October, 2012. A quarter of his life was spent imprisoned for his faith. He still preaches several times on Sunday in his
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From the Standing Strong Through the Storm daily on-line devotional of the ‘Open Doors’ organization, posted November 12, 2019 at:  http://www.opendoorsusa.org ——————– Hope In The Face Of Rejection    A young lady from India who received “Standing Strong Through The Storm” training shared this poignant story:    Though I long to see
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By Randy Alcorn, from his book If God is Good While people living in relative comfort reject faith in God due to the problem of evil, those subjected to the worst evil and suffering often turn to God. Isn’t it remarkable that from Sudan to China to Cambodia to El Salvador, faith in God grows deepest in
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By John Piper. © Desiring God Foundation. Source: desiringGod.org     (…continued) Second, Paul told me, as I waited for the doctor, the positive side of “This is not wrath.” He said, “God has not destined [you] for wrath, but to obtain salvation.”    This cancer is not wrath. It is the path to salvation. Salvation
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Above: John Piper (1946- ) By John Piper. © Desiring God Foundation. Source: desiringGod.org    Two hours before writing this sentence, I received a phone call from a friend whose adult son was just told by the doctor that the medical professionals have done all they can do, and that barring a miracle, his cancer
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From the NEW YORK POST, December 12, 2014:    Four Christian children were beheaded by ISIS militants in Iraq for refusing to denounce Jesus and convert to Islam, according to the leader of the Anglican church in Baghdad.  Canon Andrew White, know as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” fled Iraq in October for Israel and recounted how
Pictured above:Â A recently discovered mass grave of soldiers from the Battle of Lutzen in the Thirty Years War ————————— Â Â Many people have asked me if I think we are living in the end times. Â After all, they say, the Bible talks about famine and war and earthquakes, and we certainly have all of
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