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033: A Year Crowned With Goodness
Unfolding Words - January 07, 2019 08:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsPsalm 65 paints a picture of the earth and our lives being blessed with the bounty and glory of God. As we set out into 2019, may God encircle your year with His presence and crown it. God crowning the year has a meaning that points to how God can make a year which was naturally prosperous eve...
032: Learning to Choose the Good Portion
Unfolding Words - December 24, 2018 08:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things”. Jesus repeats Martha’s name as a gentle rebuke. He points out her distraction rather than her hospitality. Certainly, he was appreciative of her heart to serve, but at the time discipleship was of more importance. He is on the roa...
031: You Are Gifted For God's Glory
Unfolding Words - December 17, 2018 08:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsYou are gifted for God’s glory. Use every single gift He’s given us—whether it’s in a small and seemingly unseen arena like your home or on a larger platform. The issue isn’t how big the audience is your gift (because God is the biggest audience there is) the issue is whether or not you value wh...
030: When the Word of God Dwells Richly In You
Unfolding Words - December 10, 2018 08:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsMary, the mother of Jesus, is esteemed for her faith in hearing the word that she would carry the promised Messiah. But also consider that she was carrying the Word which was from the beginning in her womb as mentioned in John 1. Given this, it seems natural that she would accept God’s word con...
029: Every Place is Holy Ground
Unfolding Words - December 03, 2018 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIt's easy to get exasperated and overwhelmed with the daily routines. Mounds of laundry. The piles of dirty dishes. The discipline that has to be doled out daily. But God never designed it to be this way. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lo...
028: God's Relentless Pursuit of You
Unfolding Words - November 26, 2018 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWe often hear much talk about free will. But God is relentless in His pursuit of us even though we have the free will to turn down His persistent chasing. The whole Bible is the story of how God is seeking out His people to return to Him. That’s the heart of the gospel—God going after sinful peo...
027: Blessings and Bitterness: It’s All For Your Good
Unfolding Words - November 19, 2018 08:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsGod brought Jacob and his family to the land of Goshen. This is where the children of Israel flourished. It’s also where they experienced hard times and eventually slavery. God was letting them know-this is not your home. This is not the place I have ordained for you. A place that was once a b...
026: Serve God With What You Have
Unfolding Words - November 12, 2018 08:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsLuke 8:1-3 tell us Joanna was the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward. We read that she herself received healing from Jesus. As a result, Joanna “provided for them out of [her] own resources” (Lk. 8:3). ‘Provided’ translates the Greek diakoneo. It has been commented that the word “refers almost exclu...
025: God Has An Appointed Time and Season for You
Unfolding Words - November 05, 2018 08:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsEvery one of us is like a fruit tree in the garden of God, and God is expecting fruit from our lives. That is why we are here. He puts us here for a purpose, since everything on earth is here for a purpose. What is the purpose God has for you and me? It is to produce fruit. I love the metaphor...
024: Problems In Your Promised Land
Unfolding Words - October 29, 2018 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe initial launch of Abraham’s journey into the Promised Land was not promising. There was fierce competition for the land (Gen. 12:6), and Abraham spent a long time trying to find a place to occupy (Gen. 12:8-9). Rocky economic conditions forced him take his family to Egypt, hundreds of miles ...
023: When Your Worship and God's Willingness Meet
Unfolding Words - October 22, 2018 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAs soon as Jesus came down from delivering the Sermon on the Mount, He encounter a leper. In the Sermon on the Mount (chs. 5–7), Jesus teaches about the kingdom of heaven; now He begins to demonstrate it through powerful deeds. In the Old Testament, God was not to be touched or handled—think of...
022: Why You'll Never Succeed at Holiness...On Your Own
Unfolding Words - October 15, 2018 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWhile reading through the book of Leviticus, what struck me is that the Israelites had to always be aware of their state of purity or impurity. Anything could turn their otherwise clean state into an unclean one, like touching a dead animal, giving birth, or something as simple as a skin rash. ...
021: Circumstances Don't Define Your Identity
Unfolding Words - October 08, 2018 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIt’s easy to let circumstances dictate your identity and direction. Like Mephibosheth, the grandson of King Saul and son of Jonathan, we are all sinners have been wounded, crippled, because of the fall of Adam and Eve in Garden of Eden. Like Mephibosheth, you are crippled—it may be a crippled h...
020: Is Your God Too Safe?
Unfolding Words - October 01, 2018 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsGod promised the children of Israel a land flowing with milk and honey as they wandered in the wilderness for decades. And just as they were on the cusp of crossing over into it, a group rose up and asked to stay in nearby cities east of the Jordan because the land was beneficial for their flock...
019: Moved With Compassion: Jesus Cares For You
Unfolding Words - September 24, 2018 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings"He was moved with compassion." This is said of Christ Jesus several times in the New Testament. It is expressive of the deepest emotion; a yearning of the innermost nature with pity. Theologian Benjamin Warfield’s book is called “The Person and Work of Christ” There is a chapter in that book e...
018: The Sneaky Sin of Unbelief
Unfolding Words - September 17, 2018 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsLike the children of Israel, if you wander around in the wilderness for just a little bit, you're bound to run smack dab into your own unbelief. It's one thing to see that sneaky sin of unbelief slithering around someone else, but it's altogether different when you find its python-like grip arou...
017: 5 Tips to Make the Most of Your Bible Study Time
Unfolding Words - September 10, 2018 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe Bible is a historical, factual book, but, above all else, it is a book about God and who He is. We can't possibly fathom all that God is, so we come in knowing that there will always be more to learn about the Bible and God....always. We will never exhaust its knowledge. Keep in mind that t...
016: A Proper View of Faith
Unfolding Words - September 03, 2018 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsFaith is not a personal power you possess to create your own future. Faith is not a tool given by God to create your own reality and change your world. It’s not a magic wand that you wave at your own will. God is sovereign. You are not. He’s in charge and He’s calling the shots. God gave you fai...
015: Your Faith Makes All the Difference
Unfolding Words - August 27, 2018 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe Lord is able to reach down and rescue you from any sinking condition, but His mode of operation is that He usually sends human arms and hands and/or words and wisdom as a means of rescue. The prophet Jeremiah needed all four. They came from an unlikely source: Ebed-Melech an Ethiopian eunuch...
014: How's Your Spiritual Appetite?
Unfolding Words - August 20, 2018 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsGod designed us with an appetite to sustain life in our bodies. Appetite and hunger are sometimes used interchangeably, yet they are not the same thing. You can have an appetite without being hungry. We can apply this principle to our spiritual lives. When our appetites are filled with things th...
013: The Holy (and blessed!) Practice of Writing Scripture
Unfolding Words - August 13, 2018 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsFor thousands of years God’s people wrote the Bible out by hand. In the Old Testament, scribes were revered for their knowledge of Scripture developed through copying the Scripture. Today, we don’t need to write out the Bible thanks to technology, but the blessings and benefits of this disciplin...
012: God's Table: A Divine Battle Strategy
Unfolding Words - August 06, 2018 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWhen God prepares a table in the presence of your enemies, He is not only providing spiritual nourishment and fellowship, but He’s using the table as a strategic battle tool. God is known for unconventional means to win battles, so why not an unconventional means to celebrate battle victories? P...
011: Your Provision Is God's Priority
Unfolding Words - July 30, 2018 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsMark 6:30-44 where Jesus feeds the 5,000 is more than just a miracle to wow the crowds. It is instead a picture of how Jesus is a very personal good shepherd, who has compassion and aims to provide good things. As Jesus and the disciples seek to find a quiet spot to rest and regroup, the crowd ...
010: When You Don't Recognize Jesus
Unfolding Words - July 23, 2018 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsHow many times have we not recognized Jesus? We don't recognize His provision because it didn't come in the manner we thought it would. We don't recognize His Word because it came from a person that we least expected. Sometimes we are face-to-face with our Savior, but we just don't recognize Him...
009: Just Let Me Be a Woman
Unfolding Words - July 16, 2018 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsGod did not design women to be and do everything that men do. Our roles are distinct and glorious. When you seek to operate outside of that which you are designed, you are sending the message that God didn’t know what he was doing when he created you woman. This trend towards blurring gender ide...
008: But Evil Is Winning God
Unfolding Words - July 09, 2018 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWhen evil seems to be winning, we have to remember three things about God: God will bring redemption of out the enemy’s evil plans. God not only saves Joash, but uses Jehoshabeath to redeem the role of women. We also see that Jehosheba and Jehoiada together are agents of redemption for marriage...
007: GROW UP: Practice Your Patience
Unfolding Words - July 02, 2018 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThis episode marks the final in the three part series titled Grow Up. Patience is defined as the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. Children paint an accurate picture of how patience is developed. Patience is a virtue rarely seen in young ...
006: GROW UP: Watch Your Step
Unfolding Words - June 25, 2018 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsA mature believer’s life is marked by a consistent walk—not one that’s marked by fits and start. There should be consistency in your walk. Paul instructs us to "Let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ." (vs. 27, NKJV) In the Greek this phrase refers to giving equal weight. In other wo...
005: GROW UP: Knowledge of Good and Evil
Unfolding Words - June 18, 2018 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsEpisode Summary: This is the first in a series titled Grow Up. Maturity in God has nothing to do with chronological years and everything to do with your knowledge of good and evil. God intended for us to grow into maturity under the guidance of His loving care. Listen and learn how you can cont...
004: How Is the Joy of the Lord Your Strength?
Unfolding Words - June 11, 2018 07:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe Bible says the joy of the Lord is your strength. But what does that really mean? Let's look at how this joy isn't cultivated in our hearts, but in God's heart towards us. Support the Show.
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