Courages Mother Delays Chemotherapy to Save Twins Just hours before surgery to remove an aggressive tumour, Rachel Crossland was given the bittersweet news that she was pregnant with twins the Daily Mail reports. ‘I was devastated,’ said Mrs Crossland. ‘Before, I was only really worried about my life. We really wanted to keep them, but didn’t know we would be able to.’ Doctors told her the tumor on her bladder was the size of a golf ball, and after surgery sh...

Phoenix Arizona Kidnapping Capital USA In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too occupied with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own backyard right now. When you think of kidnappings, you think of areas like Colombia, Brazil, Somalia or Iraq and A...

LESSON 20: GODS’ CHOSEN WORK FOR YOU! YOU HAVE A CALLING AND A MISSION! Isaiah 58:6 [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? ISAIAH 58:6 [IS] NOT THIS THE FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN? Your mission! What Does It Mean To: loose the bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burdens, let the oppressed go free, break every yoke? Isaiah 58:7 to deal thy bread to the hungry? (To) bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? (To cover the naked when thou seest...

WAIT FOR THE LORD’S ANSWER. Psalm 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. Psalm 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings. Psalm 40:3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. Psalm 40:4 Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his tru...

DON’T TURN YOU BACK ON THE LORD. He wants to speak to you. Exodus 19:24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, 19:2 I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. … 20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw [it], they removed, a...

EZRA SHOWED US THE IMPORTANCE OF REBUILDING OUR TEMPLE. I Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are. Nehemiah showed us the importance of rebuilding the walls. Nehemiah 1:3 …. the wall of Jerusalem also [is] broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. 1:4 And it came to pass, whe...

BINDING WAS UNDERSTOOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. Bound as a prisoner. Psalm 68:6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are <bound> with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry [land]. Psalm 107:10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] <bound> in affliction and iron; H615 ‘aciyr, aw-sere’; from 631; bound, i.e. a captive: (those which are) bound, prisoner. YOU CAN BIND YOUR SOUL Numbe...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LOOSE? Mathew 18:18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.G3089 luo, loo’-o; a prim. verb; to "loosen" (lit. or fig.): break (up), destroy, dissolve, (un-) loose, melt, put off. Comp. 4486.It can mean to untie or undo. (It is only used once this way). Mathew 21:2 Saying unto them, {Go into the village over against you, and straightway y...

GOD RESPECTED THE SACRIFICE OF ABEL. Genesis 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: GOD TAUGHT ABRAM THE FIRST SACRIFICE. Genesis 15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid ea...

Lesson 13: FALLING DOWN IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD I. COMING FACE TO FACE WITH OUR LORD. 1. Revelation 1:9 I, John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What th...

Lesson 12: REMEMBERING THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST AND THE LAST FIRST Washing the feet! I. THE EXAMPLES OF JESUS. John 13:3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; 13:4 He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. 13:5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe [them] with the towel wherewith he was girded. ...

Lesson 10: THE POWER OF FAITH AND PRAYER. Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have [them]. I. JESUS HIMSELF SAID BE PERSISTENT. 1. Luke 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them [to this end], that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 18:2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 18:3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me...