Rodney Howard Browne New Years Ablaze

Mates care sufficiently to come without being asked to come.

No one sent a message announcing to Eliphaz and Bildad and Zophar, “Would you please come and bring a little sympathy and comfort for Job? The person is dying in this cooking pot of suffering and pain.” That was not required, because real chums show up when anyone they like is truly injuring. Sympathy includes identifying with the sufferer.

They enter into their melting pot, for the point of feeling the misery and being personally touched by the agony. Comfort is making an attempt to reduce the pain by helping in making the sorrow lighter. Pals overtly express the depth of their feelings. They have methods of doing that, don’t they? It is not odd to see a mate standing nearby in the surgery room fighting back the tears.

It isn’t unusual for the buddy to express deep feelings. To the contrary, they come alongside and they get as near as possible. Pals aren’t offended as the room has a bad smell. Chums don’t turn away as the one they have come to be with has been reduced to the shell of his previous self, weighing half what he used to weigh. They don’t walk away as the bottom dropped out of your life and you are at wits’ end. These men literally tore their robes, spattered dust on their heads, and raised their voices and sobbed as they sat down on the ground with Job. They demonstrated the depth of their torment by staying a week and 7 nights without letting out a word. Buddies understand, so they say little.

But what did He reveal? Verse twelve tells us : he said His written word. The very first thing God gave to this person who met up with Him was His truth in written form. Nobody has ever had in his possession a more valuable document than this. Moses possessed the autograph of Deity—the autographa etched in stone by God’s own finger.

God gave His folks the Word of the Lord that they’d know His mind and obey. He gave them the design for the church that he’d come and dwell among them. He didn’t wish to stay detached high up on a mountain. He learned that it takes discipline and preparation to do so.

It’s one thing to grasp what to do ; it’s quite another to basically do it. What percentage of us take a course on prayer but infrequently pray, or learn the methods of evangelism but rarely share our faith? In this account of Moses’ life, we might have learned small new, but we’ve been challenged with some profound reminders from the Lord God’s Word. We don’t need a creative new strategy quite as much as a swift kick in the pants.

We need a rebuke from the Lord God Almighty, as we are so slothful and slow and knackered when it comes to climbing that mountain and meeting for 30 minutes with the Lord. Regardless of our bad track record, may He stop us this moment with the reminder that we might become far stronger women and men of The Lord God if we’d only maintain a period of meeting with Him. It could be on a craggy mountain top, in a closet, or, as with my personal mummy, in a locked loo with a “Do not disturb” sign on the door.

God isn’t particular in the least about the place you select or the quantity of time you spend.

First surprise. Next puzzlement, followed by fear, like icy fingers round the heart. When Moses’ well-tended secret hit the prime-time networks, he got the shakes. And acting on fear, the biblical account states that “he left from the presence of Pharaoh.” Why did he run? Verse fifteen tells us, “Pharaoh attempted to kill Moses.” Now that Moses had tipped his hand and shown his true duty, Pharaoh couldn’t stomach having such a threat around. In the king’s eyes, a faithless and out-of-control prince was better off dead.

What terrible consequences grew out of Moses’ ill-considered action. It is truly possible that you, too, have been forced to address such consequences. Your track record may reflect a pattern of great aspiration but tiny information. Great need but tiny discernment. Great hopes but small mildness. Great fervour but tiny knowledge. And so you’ve got to run the rabbit trails right to the sour dead-ends, one after another. You have run quicker every time, but never succeeded. None has taken you where you wanted to go. And if the truth were known, your rash actions have led to an intolerable situation. In my book, there’s just one thing worse than being at the end of a self-directed life, and that is being in the middle of one. You assert, “Well, I am in my thirties, I ought to understand better than that.” Moses was 40.

You assert, “Hey, I’m no novice! I have got education and coaching like you would not believe!” Better than Moses? Remember, by this time in his career, he was “educated in all of the learning of the Egyptians.” Our electrifying resum is a part of the difficulty. Infrequently we are educated beyond our own intelligence.

We know more than we are safe to handle! The reality is, when you depend on the flesh to find employment done, you do not need more schooling. You do not need another degree. You do not want more coaching conventions. Plain and easy, you want knowledge. So do I. So do all of Almighty God’s folk. But discerning knowledge needs time. It takes some major bumps in the road. It takes enduring some failures and swallowing large and sour applications of modesty. Welcome to fact.

Luke 5:1-11

Teaching children to swim begins with a simple lesson – they must be taught to put their face in the water. That first step will open the door to learning how to swim. Unless the child masters that one small skill, swimming remains out of reach, and some future pleasure is sacrificed.

Obeying God always begins with a small step, one that may sometimes seem insignificant or unrelated to the task at hand. Yet it is where God wants us to begin. Jesus had been addressing the crowds when He asked to get into Peter’s boat. This did not seem like a request that would open the door to ministry or even great blessing. But it was the place where Peter was to start. Our saying yes to God in the small things is an essential step to His greatest blessings. Other people will also derive benefit from our obedience. When Simon Peter consented to Jesus’ request, the result was two boatloads of fish, more than enough for all those with him.

Obedience to God may require us to do some things that appear unreasonable. A carpenter asked professional fishermen to stop fishing and take Him on board. Those with Peter may have questioned why he suspended the work to accommodate Jesus. Others may question us on whether the matter is important or reasonable. We may wonder too.

Obedience in the smallest of matters can open the door to God-ordained opportunities and lead to blessings for us and others. How do you respond to God’s requests? Does the word “yes” come quickly to your lips?

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Teaching kids to swim starts with a straightforward lesson – they have to be taught to put their face in the water. That primary step will open the door to learning the way to swim. Unless the kid experts that one little talent, swimming remains out of reach, and some future pleasure is sacrificed.

Obeying God always starts with a small step, one that may infrequently seem trivial or not related to the task to hand. Yet it is where God wants us to start. Jesus had been addressing the crowds when He asked to get into Peter’s ship. This did not appear like a request that would open the door to ministry or perhaps great blessing. But it was actually the place where Peter was to start. Our saying yes to God in the tiny things is an essential step to His best blessings. Folks will also derive benefit from our obedience. When Simon Peter consented to Jesus’ request, the result was 2 boatloads of fish, more than needed for all those with him.

Obedience to God may need us to do some things that appear irrational. A carpenter asked pro fishermen to stop fishing and take Him on board. Those with Peter could have queried why he postponed the work to accommodate Jesus. Other people may query us as to whether the problem is vital or reasonable. We may wonder too. Obedience in the tiniest of matters can open the door to God-ordained opportunities and lead to blessings for us and others.

MY ABSOLUTES—THE THINGS I CANNOT COMPROMISE
THE DEITY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST

Foundation Scriptures: John 1:1-2; John 8:58; John 10:30

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  John 1:1-2 NKJV

Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”  John 8:58 NKJV

I and the Father are One.  John 10:30 AMP

Rodney Howard Browne discusses His Virgin Birth.

1. Isaiah 7:14 AMP—Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, the young woman who is unmarried and a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [God with us].
2. Luke 1:26-38—The angel visits Mary
3. Matthew 1:18-23—The angel comes to Joseph in a dream: Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

Rodney Howard Browne discusses His Sinless Life.

1. Isaiah 53:9 AMP—And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.
2. 1 John 3:5 NKJV—And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
3. Hebrews 7:26-28—Jesus, our perfect High Priest.
4. 1 Peter 2:22 AMP—He was guilty of no sin, neither was deceit (guile) ever found on His lips.

Rodney Howard Browne teaches about His Miracles.

1. Acts 2:22 AMP—You men of Israel, listen to what I have to say: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man accredited and pointed out and shown forth and commended and attested to you by God by the mighty works and [the power of performing] wonders and signs which God worked through Him [right] in your midst, as you yourselves know.
2. Acts 10:38 KJV—How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
3. John 2:11
4. John 2:23
5. John 3:1-2
6. John 11:47
7. John 20:30-31 NKJV—And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

His Substitutionary Work at the Cross.

1. 2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV—For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2. Hebrews 9:28a NKJV—So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many.
3. 1 Peter 2:24a NKJV—Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness.
4. 1 John 2:2 NKJV—And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
5. 1 John 4:10 NKJV—In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
6. Propitiation: an atonement; to render favorable; favorable, gracious, kind. The earliest recorded form of the word is propitiatorium: the mercy seat, place of atonement.
7. Colossians 1:22 AMP—Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father's] presence.
8. Hebrews 2:17 NKJV—Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
9. Romans 4:24b-25—Jesus—betrayed and put to death because of our misdeeds and raised to secure our justification.
10. 2 Timothy 2:11 AMP—The saying is sure and worthy of confidence: If we have died with Him, we shall also live with Him.
11. Colossians 1:13-14 NKJV—He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
12. Revelation 1:5-6—Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood.

His Bodily Resurrection from the Dead.

1. Matthew 28:5-6 NKJV—But the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. 6 He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. Luke 24:36-43—Jesus shows Himself alive to His disciples after the resurrection.
2. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4—He was buried, and rose again the third day.
3. Acts 2:23-28—God raised Jesus from the dead, because it was not possible for death to hold Him.

His Exaltation to the Right Hand of God.

1. Acts 1:9-11—This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”
2. Acts 2:32-36—Jesus was exalted to the right hand of God.
3. Hebrews 1:1-3—Jesus appointed Heir of all things.
4. Philippians 2:9-11 NKJV—Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.