REVIVAL TALK

Loneliness is a natural, common emotion that can be experienced even when we are surrounded with people. The susceptibility to this impression begins as a subconscious awareness and response to a combination of factors occurring in everyday life ranging from stress to unfulfilled expectations of self and others. While there may seem to be justifiable reasons for the feelings, the enemy is always looking for an opportunity to snare us emotionally in order to isolate and defeat us. Instead, we can allow these catalysts for defeat to become opportune times to grow in character. Spending one-on-one time with God will bring satisfaction from the duration and intensity of such teachable moments. First, we must know we are never alone. The word “lonely” describing people never appears in the New Testament. Jesus said in Matthew 28:20, “And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” The Scriptures remind us that we will never be left nor f

Matthew 27:33 – “And when they had come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, Place of a Skull.”             Outside the old city walls of Jerusalem in an Arab neighborhood is a place called, “Gordon’s Calvary,” or the “Garden Tomb.” It is surrounded by an Arab Bus Station and on the top of the sight believed to be Golgotha, the Place of the Skull, there is a Muslim cemetery.   Outside the walls of this serene place is all kinds of activity. People are consumed with their everyday life. Like any other city in the world the people are trying to survive. When we made our journey to what is believed to be the place where Jesus died, was buried, and rose from the dead, there were several things that captured my attention. There were a number of birds that were singing. There were many signs of life in the garden. I experienced such peace as we spent time in prayer and communion with our guides.   Perhaps those who live in the surrounding neighborhoods only see thi

Genesis 2:18-24 – “And the Lord God said, ‘ It is  not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.’ Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought  them  to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that  was  its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.    Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: ‘This  is  now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’ Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”