What is God's will for the church right now? Will Church ever be the same?

LET'S REBUILD!

Churches, businesses and lives, are born and with great expectations.  Imagination and vision run wild, followed by prayer and plans being drawn.   Pastors, parents,  proprietors and property managers as well as the public,  invest in the future of these endeavors, with their success in mind.

The wheels of the mind begin to roll, action get's traction, people are attending Church, kids are on the way to school or there is a line at your cash register.

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Due to poor choices, weather, even government policies, business is soft, churches are dying, Families are breaking up.

Yours and the above scenario are not hopeless.  It isn't over.  While watching the evening news, after a flood, fire or tornado you see people that have every reason to collapes and call it quits or to be swallowed up by depression.  More often then not, when you hear the victim interviewed they say: "By the grace of God. We will rebuild!"

                                              

Headed to 2022

Look into the Book of Nehemiah in the Bible.  It will inspire you.  The wall and gates have been destroyed. God's people are vulnerable. On occasion they have been looted etc. One man described it as being; "in great distress and reproach."

The man Nehemiah walks onto the scene. A person of dreams, vision and action! His thought is not to create a new development, but to REBUILD!

I'll shut up and let you listen to what the people of the city said:  "LET US RISE UP AND BUILD."
Then they set their hands to this good work!

I think with the grace and power of God, as we share the good news of :  Peace and an eternity spent with God through faith in Christ , we can build.  Let us begin rebuilding our dreams and families, cities, churches and homes, even the next generations future.  Let us set our hand to do this good work.

When We Feel Distant From God - Psalm 77

When We Feel Distant From God - Psalm 77

Why should we trust God in a crisis? A Study in Psalms Chapter 11

Is it wrong to doubt or question God? Psalm 13

Does God Have a Specific Will for My Life? - Acts 8:26-40

Are We Prepared Today for Persecution and Purpose? - Acts 8:1-25

The Book of Acts - Acts 6:1-14

The Book of Acts - Acts 5:17-42

Book of Acts - Acts 2:40-46,3:1-10

The Book of Acts - Acts 1:12-26

Acts 1: 12-26 Keep busy while waiting!

Acts 1:12-26 the Bride Church 

Take a listen.

Woe, I almost Slipped! (of Psalm 73)

Even though some appear to have it going on and all together, yet falling apart on the inside, we can follow the Apostle Paul’s direction in 2nd Corinthians;

“God comforts us, that we might be able to comfort others with the same divine comfort or encouragement we have received.”

The gift we have been given, can now be given to others, as we declare God’s marvelous works.

 

May we, like Asaph, have a new desire to worship and trust God, knowing that God is good to the pure in heart.

 

We close with Jude 24,25;

“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you faultless before the presence of His Glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power. Both now and forever. Amen. 

 

KNOW that God is in control.

And we’ll see you next time.

In this fallen world,

Keep your focus on God

 

"Whatever things are true..."

 

Todays culture has many questions. Asking questions is the way we learn and discover new ideas.  We have great difficulty, when we think we have arrived and become unteachable.

                        "Knowledge puffs us up."-Apostle Paul

There are many questions. Your daily life has become filled with the noise of many answers. There may be no wrong question but there are obviously wrong answers.

 Libraries, book stores, as well as the overstocked shelves on the internet, will provide you with an answer, right or wrong.

Todays thought influencer and ministry guru has everything covered from Heaven to hell.

Our duty to ourselves is to pray for discernment, wisdom, even awareness that in the Spiritual warfare, enemies use people and the harmful answers sent out as "truth that will set you free," only to enslave the questioner.

Within the noise of many answers, Christian believers are being deceived by twisted scripture in the name of love.  All roads don't lead to God.  With what the Apostle Paul calls "itching ears" and only hearing what we want to hear (selective hearing), we begin following the wolf out of the sheep pen.  In the book of Acts, Paul the Apostle warns the leaders from Ephesus, wolves will arise from within the flock.

We must test the spirits, test the conversation of the serpent offering growth in the world of intellegencia.

While there is gold in knowledge, discovering and digging in fools gold has wasted many a life.  

Jesus said that He was the Way, Truth and the Life.  Learn from Him the true Gospel. We need that truth at the point of becoming a believing follower of Christ and it is needed every day as a disciple of Christ.  I pray as you read say; The book of John or the letter to the Ephesians, the Holy Spirit will light your heart and mind with truth and answers for your questions.

Proverbs 22:17-21says:

Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise,

And apply your heart to my knowledge;
18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you;
Let them all be fixed upon your lips,
19 So that your trust may be in the Lord;
I have instructed you today, even you.
20 Have I not written to you excellent things
Of counsels and knowledge,
21 That I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth,
That you may answer words of truth
To those who send to you?

Keep praying and reading His truth and I'll see you next time.- Tim

        

The Joy of the Cross - Hebrews 12:1-2

The Message, Mission, and Mobility of Today's Church

The Message, Mission and Mobility of Today's One Another Church.

https://soundcloud.com/aaron-podgorski/one-another-pt-7-the-bride-church-tim-flener

Make the Connection - Acts 2:40-47

A Study in Psalms - Psalm 44

Hey Brother!

Jesus had been teaching and healing.  At one point He told them to get a boat ready because of the crowds by the shore. Some were there to honor God, while others were sticking around to catch Him in a misquote.
Many knew it was lunch time and they were hoping fish would jump ashore as a result of one of His miracles. Those were out to get what they could get.  When that didn't happen they might have said "You call yourselves Christians." (actually, that title came years later).

Now in the house, surrounded by more company than I care to entertain, He may have been teaching while having coffee. There were so many demands, He couldn't eat.  His family said;  "He's crazy , He's beside himself. Let's go bring the poor guy home and do an intervention."  "Jesus your mom and brothers are outside looking for you!"

Please notice, He didn't say that the ones in the room were His mother and brothers.  Because they were not.  Also not everybody in the church house is part of the family,  Jesus looked around at those in the house and said; These that do the will of my Father are my mother and my brothers. 

It is not just those that show up today. It is the ones that have a relationship with Him.  Spiritual family of course, outweighs the natural family. I can remember those Christians that called each other; "Brother" or "Sister."  They did and,  could, because they had the same Heavenly Father!

He was not dissing the roles of the earthly family but announcing the family of God.  Paul wrote;  "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God."  Wow God brings us into His family as His Children.

"We have peace with God through faith in Christ Jesus our Lord."  I am trusting in Jesus Christ and that, as my only hope to spend eternity with God.

"And if children, then heirs-heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ....."  I am a part of the family of God!

Are you? You can be.  Call to Him in prayer and repenting and following Jesus the rest of your days.  You still are able to go about your occupation and family lives.

"Who's that?"  "That's brother Jim." the truck driver
"Who's that?"  "That's brother John. He's a policeman
"Who's that?"  "That's sister Monique" store manager
"That's a big family".   "Maybe a number, no man can number."

Rich Yet Poor - Luke 18:18-30

A Study in Psalms - Psalm 42 part 1

This Man Went Away Justified! - Luke 18:9-14