2012 - End Time Info - The Fighter in You

2012 – End Time Info Podcast

Posted By Thea 2012/01/07Posted in: Podcasts

“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” – Matthew 24:3

Many people have seen the movie 2012 and have heard of the prophesies of the Mayan calendar and are more and more worried about what the future holds. Is there any truth in any of the events depicted in those Hollywood productions or the prophesies of ancient civilizations? What does the Bible say about the end of the world?

Joseph and Johnny start the year by discussing these important questions.

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The Fighter in You

By Bonita Jewel

Amazing, isn’t it, how when everything is going fine and dandy, we are happy, the outlook is great, and we bestow our smile upon the world as we walk along a path strewn with the sweetest smelling roses.

Then the inevitable happens. Something goes wrong. We become sad. There is no longer a positive outlook and we begin to despair, looking back and forth, looking within, looking accusingly at others and saying, “What happened?” Flowers? Pathway? It is now a barren pathless desert strewn with jagged rocks. We see others facing challenges and we want to scream, “Shut up! I have it way worse than you.”

What did happen, really? When did God promise us a sunny blue sky with perfect cotton balls of white floating as leisurely as we walk, down below, gracing the earth life with our presence? What would happen if that sunny sky never became stormy? The world would be as rocky and barren as that feeling in the sorrowful heart.

Just as the earth needs the sun and the rain, the heart needs the sorrow and the joy. Just as the sapling needs to stand strong against the raging storm, as well as turn its face to the shining sun, so do we need to stand with our face to the wind and let the sun shine its beauty upon our lives, in due season.

The question is not what happened to the blue skies and scented flowers. The question is, what happened to the fighting spirit? It is said that “The spirit of a man sustains him”; it keeps him alive, “but a wounded spirit, who can bear?”1

Just as a soldier who is wounded will be rescued by those around who will carry him to safety, so is there a spiritual support system. There are people around those spirits who are strong in faith and courage and whose lives bear witness. There are also “ministering spirits” who stand by our sides lending grace and support at the times we need it most.2 And once we feel sufficiently revived by the support of friends and angels, we have the power to again take up our “sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God,” as well as our “shield of faith” and begin, again, to walk the path before us with renewed vigor and bestowed faith.3

And this time, let the fighting spirit that has taken on the armor of God come to the fore. It matters not what the horizon looks like, whether it's a peaceful blue sky or one flashing with strikes of lightning against a midnight black, to where you can barely find your way. It matters not whether the outlook is bright and cheery, with those flowers covering the landscape, or one so dry and fierce that it seems hard to imagine that joy could exist in such a place. What matters is what lies within. “The spirit of a man sustains him,” and with God’s all-powerful Spirit within us, that is when flesh merges with spirit and miracles occur.

I could use a few of those, couldn’t you?


1 Proverbs 18:14.
2 Hebrews 1:14.
3 Ephesians 6:16–17.

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