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Marriages Get Tuned Up On Grace Street

One of the biggest ways that Satan likes to attack and tear down Christians is to come between a husband and wife.  That’s why part of this year’s Fourth of July festivities included a visit and talk from a counselor who focuses on helping Christians keep their marriages alive and healthy.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Ryan Pannell of Woodland Hills Counseling Center talked about the aspects of marriage that so many people forget when they feel the rush of love and dive in.

He shared one of his desires when conducting a wedding.  He would make the bride and groom both carry large backpacks full of rocks.  They could place them down during the “I dos” but have to pick them up again when they walk up the aisle together.  He said it would be a good reminder that the joy of the marriage day doesn’t get rid of your baggage and issues and that you’ll continue to have issues after the wedding day.

Pannell spoke of the ways that we justify in our minds the actions we take but always assign ulterior motives to the actions of others including our spouse.  He said casting those assertions puts us in a place where hostility can fester between spouses for slights that may not even exist.

He said that when couples work together to strengthen their marriage, to overcome adversity, to join together to show the fruits of the spirit, then God is glorified to all.  He said that is a goal for all marriages.

The heart, Pannell said, is a key to God.   The word heart shows up in the Bible over 700 times and Ryan believes that’s God’s way of showing how much our heart means to Him.  How we need to make sure that He is number one in our hearts because that’s the only way we can truly be right for our spouses.

He reminded everyone of the promise of Psalm 139:14:  That we all are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wake Up

Pastor Jim & Lori Bakker welcome Pastor Mark Biltz as they discuss God’s Calendar for Day 1 on The Jim Bakker Show.

Quotes

God is a master timekeeper and we need to be on his clock. -Pastor Mark Biltz

How we favor Israel or not favor Israel is going to make a big difference on the consequences that happen to us here in America. -Pastor Mark Biltz

Scriptures

Genesis 1:14 KJV And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Ephesians 5:14 ESV for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Luke 21:25 NIV “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.

Revelation 13:8 KJV And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

I John 3:14 KJV We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Daniel 12:4 KJV But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Psalm 33:6 NCV The sky was made at the Lord’s command. By the breath from his mouth, he made all the stars.

I Kings 9:11 KJV (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

Zechariah 2:8 NKJV

Song of Solomon 2:10-11 KJV My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

Song of Solomon 2:17 KJV Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Song of Solomon 5:2 KJV I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Proverbs 10:5 KJV He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

Luke 21:28 KJV And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

Faith That Answers Fear (Pt. 2)

With everything that’s happening in our world right now, it sometimes challenges our level of courage to live through it all without fear.  But, that is exactly what Jesus said that we should do.  In fact, He says it very clearly right in the middle of the scriptures that tell of these frightful events.

“When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened.” (Luke 21:9)

And just a few verses later, He repeats the admonition to be careful not to fear.

“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.” (Luke 21:34) Continue reading →