How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! (Psalm 139:17, NASB1995) In yesterday’s Interruption #1074, I discussed “end-times fear” – a type of anxiety and distress released by our supernatural enemies into the world in the latter days. This fear will be rooted in economic uncertainty, plagues, […]
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There is a sentence in Philippians 4 that contains one of the most important teachings in the entire Bible. The Lord is near! (Philippians 4:5, NASB1995) God isn’t traveling in another country, He isn’t offline, and He doesn’t dwell on the east or west coasts of the U.S.A. while avoiding the “flyover” states. God is with
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People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world (Luke 21:26, NRSV). Jesus gives a list of end-times signs in Luke 21. In this list, He says, “People will faint from fear and foreboding.” There are many types of anxiety and hundreds of differing phobias, but there is an end-times
He said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19, ESV). The Greek word for disciple is mathetes. The word is found about 250 times in the New Testament and the book of Acts. The method of discipling found in the Gospels isn’t found in the Old Testament. With the word
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From the tribe of Issachar, there were 200 leaders of the tribe with their relatives. All these men understood the signs of the times and knew the best course for Israel to take (1 Chronicles 12:32, NLT). My wife and I were in the Philippines when we heard reports of the attacks in Israel originating
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Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3, NASB1995). I memorized the Beatitudes 45 years ago, and I often meditate on them. There is a tearing down and building up with the Beatitudes. Something must change that hinders our peace to then be replaced by a blessing. Jesus’
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Let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near (Hebrews 10:25, NLT). Many are leaving church today in America. Will they come back? Before writing the book The Great Dechurching, one of the book’s authors (Jim Davis) was
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At that time many will turn away from the faith (Matthew 24:10, NASB1995). Many latter-day prophecies are being fulfilled right in front of us. As Jesus says . . . Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is
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In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, O Lord, will keep me safe (Psalm 4:8, NLT). In a recent Interruption, I wrote the following . . . The way our sleep has been designed by God allows our predisposed thought patterns to magnify when we wake up in the middle of the
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I lie awake thinking of you (v. 6, NLT). When you can’t sleep at night, what do you do? Psalm 63 gives an answer. Are we to take a Temazepam®, read our Kindle®, or perhaps get a 3 a.m. snack? King David wrote Psalm 63, and in this psalm, he explains his solution for lying
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