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Holy Week 2019

by Open Gate Ministries

Isaiah 53    The theme for our Holy Week observation is “The Suffering Servant”.  The inspiration for this theme came out of verse 10 of Isaiah 53. “The Lord says, it was my plan to crush him and cause him to suffer. I made his life an offering to pay for sin. But he will […]

The Schematic of Prayer

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C.S. Lewis on prayer… “God is the thing to which to which he is praying, the goal he is trying to reach. God is also the thing inside him which is pushing him on, the motive power. God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal… The man […]

Prayer is Surrender

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Jeremiah 10:23 “Lord, I know that people’s lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps.”    Prayer is surrender to the will of God and ultimately our co-operation with that will. An illustration found in the book, “A Song of Ascents” by E. Stanley Jones’s might be helpful; if […]

Where is Your Head?

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John 15 / Where is your head? 7 If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.    Prayer is a gift […]

Be Joyful in Hope, Patient in Affliction, Faithful in Prayer

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Romans 12:12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.    I was recently a part of a conversation about death with a few of my friends. The question arose among us, “what would you want to be said about you at your funeral”? One said “he was a nice man”. Another chimed […]

Truth

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Romans 10:9&10 “…if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.” There is more to this than meets the eye. […]

Work It

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Genesis 2:15 (NIV) 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. From the beginning man was a worker. God made man to take care of the garden of Eden. The scriptures don’t give a lot of detail as to what […]

The Mighty Ear

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Proverbs 18:15 “Wise men and women are always learning, always listening for fresh insights.” Message I heard a country song this week “Shut Up and Kiss Me”. You never know where inspiration will spring from. If I could write a song I think I would title it “Shut Up and Listen”. (Thank God, my mom […]

Pragmatism

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Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. Our contemporary culture has been formed by pragmatism; a philosophy that measures truth by its practical value. We […]

Materialism

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John 18:36 “My kingdom is not founded of this world…” Philosophically, materialism, is the doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. In other words, nothing exists but what is material or measurable, and if there is any value to be found in life, it must be in material terms. The materialism […]