God created the universe with speaking . . . “Let there be . . . ”
Today, through Jesus Christ, He lives in you. How do you learn to hear Him speaking into your heart, and really know it’s Him?
Kingdom Faith Ministries International is devoted to helping God’s people learn to hear and obey His still small voice. Deuteronomy 8 declares that God’s purpose in having His people wander in the wilderness for 40 years was to learn to hear and live by every word that proceeded from His mouth.
God is still speaking, and like the Israelites, we must learn how to hear Him with confidence and precision. Are you eager to hear what the Lord Jesus Christ is speaking today to those who have discovered how to find Him in the secret place and drink from His fountain of Living Water? He will invite you to sit on His throne if you overcome in the pursuit of hearing His voice (Revelation 3:21).
Browse these pages to discover how we might help you in this wonderful quest.
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In America, each November we celebrate a national holiday called Thanksgiving. Initiated in 1863 during the height of the bloody Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln called all Americans to prayer, reminding them that even in the midst of dark days, there is much to be thankful for.
As Christians, we should practice gratitude to God every day. While the world continues to spin out of control and uncertainty looms at every turn, praise and gratitude to God keeps us grounded in His presence. When anxiety knocks on our hearts’ door, being thankful leads us to His peace.
Ephesians 5:20 tells us to give thanks always to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Scripture
reminds us of numerous benefits to a having a thankful heart, affecting our total well-being—mentally, physically, and spiritually.
Thankfulness helps us grow in godliness and contentment, which brings great gain (1 Tim. 6:6). It protects our hearts from the deceitfulness of sin, and the effects of a hostile world.
Gratitude extinguishes anxiety and pity parties, and replaces them with a cheerful heart.
Numerous studies reveal how thankfulness strengthens our emotions, gives us greater resilience to life’s adversities, and makes us more likely to help someone else. Griping, complaining, and bitterness fly out the door when we’re thankful.
Scripture abounds with exhortations of giving thanks and praise to God, the Giver of every good gift, including life itself.
Do you need something to be thankful for? Here are 20 things from Scripture to get you started:
At KFMI, we are thankful for each and every one of you: those whose lives have been touched by our Bible teachings, books, and materials; those who faithfully support the ministry; and every reader who takes a few minutes to read a blog post like this.
May God continue to lead you deeper into His presence. God bless you all!
The magnitude of Jesus’s words on the cross is continually astounding, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”
Our human response to pain and suffering unjustly inflicted by others is outrage, anger, retaliation. Who among us would not immediately respond with spontaneous unforgiveness?
Not Jesus . . .
How much He loves us! We are His greatest treasure. We are so ready to condemn ourselves, to find a reason to think less of ourselves than Jesus thinks of us. This is a function of distance between our hearts and Him.
One time several years ago as I was praying and sharing my heart with Him, I could tell that He had tears in His eyes. “Why are you crying Lord?” I asked. His answer surprised me. “Because I am lonely, I have so few people I can have conversations with.”
How often we run to and fro, directing our thoughts to the problems and agendas of our day, and forget to bring them to our King. Quiet moments with Jesus become fewer in proportion to our busyness, yet at our busiest those moments with Him yield the assistance we desperately need.
The truth is, God made us to run best with his constant and continual divine partnership. God created us to have moment by moment access in interactive fellowship. His favor and strength flows to those whose hearts stay centered on cultivating His presence, hearing His voice, and obeying His abiding counsel. Psalm 16:11 declares that our path of life is His presence with fullness of joy. Jeremiah 11:4 further illuminates what distinguishes God’s people from everyone else: hearing and obeying His voice.
The world before us is in chaos, and its worrisome evils compete against the perfect peace of those whose hearts are fixed on God (Isaiah 26:3). How do we keep our minds stayed on Him in the midst of our fallen world?
Jesus shows us how.
Our looking unto Jesus is not meant to be from the distance of a crisis, or an occasional visit to a church. Our friendship building with Jesus will look more like regularly sitting down and having a cup of coffee with Him, taking a walk with Him, or sitting by a river purposely to talk with Him.
He endured the cross through the joy of the loving fellowship He kept with our Father, and the supernatural ministering He received therefrom. Our strength and joy arises the same way through the fellowship we keep with Him. Revelation 3:20-21 even shares that by the fellowship we keep with Him, He will invite us to sit on His throne.
This is the path of life for our times. In His presence is fullness of joy!