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Does God Still Provide Warning Signs?

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 31, 2013 at 11:24am

by Sonja Burketh

Road signs provide the protection needed for us to travel as reasonably and safely as possible. At least when we pay attention and follow the instructions that is.

Stop signs in particular, are crucial as they usually signal a potential danger that if not heeded could mean immediate harm.

Unfortunately, there is poorly designed intersection located in my neighborhood.

The stop sign is placed so far back that in order for you to see clearly when making a left or right turn, you mu

Forgiving the Sinner

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 29, 2013 at 11:16am

by Rev. Brian H. Mathis

I have been struck by a passage in 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 that has made me stop and ask a question that I had never given a great deal of thought to before today. It has to do with forgiveness and how Paul directed us to treat the sinners among us. Not the person you meet on the street who does not know Jesus but the individual who for whatever reason has fallen away from the faith and has chosen to live in sin. I once had a man tell me that as a New Pastor in a church in

The Ambassador "YAH! You See Me" HORS D’OEUVRES | THE DEVOTIONAL. The Ambassador shares his lyrics and a devotional thought for "YAH! You See Me"

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 29, 2013 at 12:30am

Yah! You See Me Lyrics

Explanation

Even as Hip hop culture, based on its history, is no stranger to rejection, marginalization, and the

pursuit of “mainstream” acceptance, the hip hop artist that seeks to rep Jesus Christ often goes

through the same trek. Jesus said that “a city on a hill cant be hid,” which means that the light of

His representers should be seen, and their presence be felt—even in a culture that can sometimes

be unwelcoming to anything perceived as “too preachy.” The song “YAH

Are You Ready For A New Beginning?

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 28, 2013 at 11:30am

by Jack Vorster

If we look at the world of Adam (before the fall) and compare it to the fallen world since then up to today, we see a huge difference in human livelihood.

Adam was given the opportunity to eat of the fruit of the tree of life and live forever in blessed fellowship with his Creator, in whose image he was made. Instead, he partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and as a consequence stepped out of grace into disgrace. Since then man has been a disgrace to his Maker a

Discipline of Prayer

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 27, 2013 at 8:19pm

by Rev. Brian H. Mathis

I woke up this morning with this thought going across my mind; "You have not because you ask not." I got up and started looking for this passage of scripture and it is found in James 4:2;

2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. (ESV)

I know I have heard it preached time and again and James is rather direct about why we fail to get what we ask for. It comes from having the wr

Prosperity Teaching, Is it Truth?

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 23, 2013 at 11:23am

By: Rick L. King

I recently read an article that addressed the prosperity teaching by some well known TV preachers. I had to agree with most of what this person said. I am not writing this to slam any ministry but to attempt to look at this from a scriptural basis. I am using many scriptures as they are the basis for truth that we all must look at.

First of all we know that we all are a human being. If we have met Jesus we also know that we have a spirit man. Scripture says:

1Theselonians 5:23 A

Pastors, Please Don't Neglect Your Wife

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 23, 2013 at 1:33am

by Thom S. Rainer

I love the community that has formed on this blog. There are several of you who are regular commenters; you have become a part of this blog family, and I feel like I know you.

Some of you come to the blog in affirmation of what I have written. I am always grateful for such encouragement. But some of you disagree with me. I gladly post your comments for two reasons. First, I want to be fair to all who take time to read my blog. Second, I am wrong some of the time and I need t

Why Men Hate The Truth

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 22, 2013 at 10:55am

by Dr. Henderson Ward

The truthful, serial truth-seekers, lovers of truth and all those who make it their business to endorse, highlight and practice truth is faced with a hostile world agitating for, even relishing their destruction. Truth, like light to darkness, is the most implacable foe of the ungodly and hence the sustained and virulent hostility.

We live in a world so toxic with evil that we are afraid to believe our eyes, we are hesitant to trust our hearing and we cannot be sure how to t

The Ambassador "Hors D'Oeuvres" devotional

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 21, 2013 at 12:12pm

The Ambassador shares his lyrics and a devotional thought for the title track on his EP "Hors D'Oeuvres". A new devotional message will be released each week to accompany a song from the EP.

HORS D’OEUVRES | THE DEVOTIONAL

Hors D'Oeuvres Lyrics

Turn this light out...

And so it begins

Hook

Imma be a waiter/ I can take the order/

How about that bread of life, how 'bout living water/

You didn’t ask but here’s an offer/

Come and get up on these hors d’oeuvres

This is just a

Two Are Better Than One. Many of you have a good man or woman and you are taking them for granted.

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 20, 2013 at 12:17pm

by Angeline Williams

Two are better than one; because it is well worth the effort. For if they fall, the one will lift up their companion: but woe to one that falls alone; for there is no one to help them up. Also, if two sleep together, then they arouse each other: but how can one become aroused all alone? And if one is overwhelmed, two can stand together; a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

I see many married people take their marriage and their spouse for granted.

Are You A Christian Wannabe or Christian Ought To Be ?

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 19, 2013 at 6:29am

by Steve Countryman

I have to be honest here, as I write this it is painfully clear to me that I have a LONG way to go to be the Christian that my God wants me to be. I could use that right there for an excuse to quit trying. But all I have to do is take one look back and see how far my God has brought me from the guy I used to be to His servant today and I am totally in awe!

A Christian wannabe is someone who wants to be a Christian but on their terms not God's. Going to church, being active in

Devotional: The Lord is the Light of Your Life, Volume 22

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 17, 2013 at 11:00am

by Joseph-Paul Timpano

Surrender your will to God the Father.

If you want to be healed and helped, get off of yourself, reach out, and help someone else.

Quit being angry at what has happened in your life. While you continue to be angry you don't heal. It's time to move on!

Share the burdens that others you know are carrying. It's time that you take a look around you and see more than your own image in the mirror.

Believe in yourself, as I the Lord believe in you.

Live your life as a f

Devotional: No Trespassing

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 15, 2013 at 11:43am

by Pam Ford Davis

The Five Man Electrical Group, based in Canada, had a popular song in the 1970's. "Signs" had a catchy tune and an ironic theme. Signs are everywhere and some have a way of restricting our freedoms. If we see signs reading "Posted-No Trespassing," we are not free to enter that property. The owner of the land can legally place charges against anyone who trespasses, purposely violating the posted sign.

How many times a day do I trespass against the Lord and others?

In most Bible

14 Ways To Be Like Jesus

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 14, 2013 at 12:13pm

Righteousness ( 1 Jn 13:7; Jn 15:10-14; 1 Cor. 1:30; Eph 1:4; 5:27)
Freedom from the world. (Jn. 17:14-16; Rom. 12:1; Jas 4:4; 1 Jn. 2:15)
Self crucifixion (Rom. 6; Gal. 2:20)
Walking in newness of life (Rom. 6: Gal. 5:16-26; Eph. 4 1-24)
Enduring persecutions (Mt. 10:25; Jn. 15: 18-20; Mk. 10:30
Works (Jn. 14:12; Mk. 16:17-18; 9:23; Mt. 17:20; 21:22)
Fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23; Jn. 13:34; 15:11-13)
Total setting for Yah’s works (Jn. 10:36; 17:17-19;20
Walking in the light (1

Daily Devotional: Truth, How Do We Recognize It?

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 7, 2013 at 10:48am

by Reid Ashbaucher

Jesus prayed in John 17:17: "Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth." (NASB) One of the standards I established in my book, "Made in the Image of God", to help interpret what I was trying to say within its pages was this: there are no contradictions within Scripture, for biblical truth the be true it must agree with all other biblical truth. What does that mean? Simply this. If the Scriptures says God hates divorce or drunkenness or homosexuality and a thought or sugge

Daily Devotional: Prayer of Release from Childhood Stories, Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes Etc.

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on August 5, 2013 at 6:32am

by Alice Susan Harding

Prayer of Release from Childhood Stories, Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes Etc.

Heavenly Father, in the mighty name of your precious son Jesus Christ, I come before you to renounce the love of and break the power off my life of childhood stories, fairy tales, nursery rhymes and songs, myths, legends, fables, chants, odes, poems, limericks, riddles, jokes, games, old wives tales, superstition based mythologies and folklore, sayings, phrases, idioms and expressions through son

Bible Studies: What Happens at Death?

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on July 31, 2013 at 10:19am

by Paul Taylor

You gasp and breath your last breath, your body falls limp and begins to cool, your skin color begins to pale, your heart is no longer pumping the life carrying blood through your veins; this is the end process as the body transitions into the final stage of life we call death, a route we all must take; but then what?

Does your spirit drift off towards some distant light at the end of a tunnel with departed family and friends beckoning you on?

Maybe your spirit drifts into a burn

Daily Devotional: Who Are We Listening To?

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on July 29, 2013 at 11:08am

by Reid Ashbaucher

It's Sunday morning and we get out of bed thinking, another day to get through, I need a word from the Lord to tell me what to do or how to get through this day. So we turn on the Television or Radio and watch or listen to some preacher that spouts off words of wisdom but fails to mention a single word from the Scriptures (Bible). We try to follow that advise, but we seem to have no success in all the advise given as failure sets in. We then begin to doubt that there really

SOUL WINNING. Are You On Your Grind?

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on July 26, 2013 at 3:07pm

By Stanley Osaigbomwankan

"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise... Proverbs 11:30"
As Born Again Christians, we are called into the priesthood ministry and is our duty to engage in the ministry of reconciliation by reconciling others to God which is winning of souls to God, so we can all be at peace with God. Without "Love", your faith is nothing. In John 13:34-35, Jesus said; "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved

Bible Studies: Love-The Fruit Of The Holy Spirit

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on July 25, 2013 at 1:00pm

by Ngozi Nwoke

How can one ever truly walk in love in this world, where everyone thinks only of himself? People want to rise in the society at the expense of another. But God demands that we walk in the love of God. How possible is it? This article explains how this fruit of the Holy Spirit can be developed in you by the help of the Holy Spirit.

But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, for

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Does God Still Provide Warning Signs?

Forgiving the Sinner

The Ambassador "YAH! You See Me" HORS D’OEUVRES | THE DEVOTIONAL. The Ambassador shares his lyrics and a devotional thought for "YAH! You See Me"

Are You Ready For A New Beginning?

Discipline of Prayer

Prosperity Teaching, Is it Truth?

Pastors, Please Don't Neglect Your Wife

Why Men Hate The Truth

The Ambassador "Hors D'Oeuvres" devotional

Two Are Better Than One. Many of you have a good man or woman and you are taking them for granted.

Are You A Christian Wannabe or Christian Ought To Be ?

Devotional: The Lord is the Light of Your Life, Volume 22

Devotional: No Trespassing

14 Ways To Be Like Jesus

Daily Devotional: Truth, How Do We Recognize It?

Daily Devotional: Prayer of Release from Childhood Stories, Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes Etc.

Bible Studies: What Happens at Death?

Daily Devotional: Who Are We Listening To?

SOUL WINNING. Are You On Your Grind?

Bible Studies: Love-The Fruit Of The Holy Spirit

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