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By Kimberly Coyle NOVEMBER 19, 2014

I began my brief career as a nurse with no vision, apart from survival—my own and that of my patients. Fear drove me, rather than love for the work. In an attempt to find a job that didn’t suck the life out of me, I bounced from hospitals to long-term care to pharmaceutical work.

In stark contrast to my somewhat dubious work history, I grew up watching my father give all of his time and energy, his very life, to the same small community church where he pastored for over twenty years. He was, and still is, passionate about spiritual care. He extended grace and the good news of the gospel, with a deep desire for growth in both the church and the individual.

Despite giving his all year after year, the church remained relatively unchanged in terms of attendance. Caring for the spiritual health of a church doesn’t lend itself to measurable success. Society measures success in numbers, in tangible change we can see, touch, or count. But how do we measure the impact of church community on a person’s spirit? Or the success of families knit back together and prodigals returning home? If we use the measuring stick of today’s world, we can’t grasp the width of it. We try to label it a success or a failure, but our perspective is temporal and profoundly human.

After twenty years serving one congregation, working towards imperceptible church growth, my dad teetered on burnout. He took a sabbatical to seek God’s direction for his church and his career as a pastor. After a month’s respite, he felt God leading him back to the same pulpit and the same people.

Realign your measurement of success

God sometimes keeps us in seemingly impossible situations, providing just enough daily bread to strengthen us for the task ahead. When the work of our hands feels inadequate, he multiplies it like loaves and fishes. Where we lack, he is enough.

Do you find yourself on a career path bound toward burnout? Are you among those who choose to embrace a hardscrabble calling, wearing the weight of it across your shoulders as the prophet wears his mantle? Are you weary, cynical, or tired of chasing the impossible and immeasurable ideals of earthly success? Take heart, friends. There is One who fashioned you for the work of your hands, and his idea of success is born in another realm altogether.

The Psalmist wrote, “The Lord looks from Heaven … From the place of His dwelling He looks on all the inhabitants of the earth; He fashions their hearts individually, He considers all their works … Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him…”1

If you find yourself in a difficult place and God has not released you from your current situation, allow these words to breathe new life into your worn-out, weary places. Seek rest if you must. Regroup and realign your measurement of success with that of a God who wrote its true definition.

There is a wellspring of life hidden in the deep. There is a reserve found in Christ, for those who trust that God fashioned their hearts for a specific work.

We may feel frustrated, exhausted, and brought low under the weight of impossible standards. In order to prevent burnout we may require a time of respite and a season of prayer. Other times, we will need to lean further in to the call of God on our lives, nourished by our daily bread, secure in the knowledge that God created us for this place and these people.


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As the boys grew up Esua(the birth of the Caucasian nation ) was his dads favorite.... Jacob (the birth of the Hebrew nation ) was a mommas boy.....Esua was out hunting was hungry afterwards and this shall forever change history....Genesis chapter 25v30-34.....And Esau said to Jacob Feed me, i pray thee with that same red pottage for i am faint;therefore was his name called Edom;And Jocob said ,sell me this day thy birthright,And Esua said behold im at the point to die ;and what profit shall this birthright do to me?and Jacob said, swear to me this day;and he sware unto him;and he sold his birthrights to Jacob.Then Jacob (father of the Hebrew nation )gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles and he did eat and drink and rose up and went his way thus Esau despised his birthrights ...during Issacs last says he was blind so he called Esua told him to prepare a meal and he would give him his blessing....Their mother was listening dressed Jacob as Esau prepared a meal and Jacob stole Esau s blessings as well.....which is why the edomite jews say their the real Hebrews.....which is why the level of brutality (during slavery ) never seen before in the history of mankind.......this was a war between two nations that were fighting inside their mother's womb....so yes it doesn't get more personal

Written by Chris Mizrany November 2014

What do a record-breaking tightrope-walker, a martial arts expert, and a successful businessman have in common?

They have learned self-discipline. In each of their professions, discipline is the key—discipline that’s manifested in allocating time to practice, honing their skills, and in some cases, giving up things in their diet or personal life to achieve their goals.

Self-discipline is more than holding back from some things, more than buckling down to do what is necessary out of duty. It is a means to an end. Reaching their goals means so much to them that the effort and sacrifice of leading a disciplined life is almost a non-issue. They are willing to push themselves to the limits of endurance to achieve success. And their discipline clearly shows in their achievements.

Most of us can probably improve our level of self-discipline. Even if you don’t aspire to cross a chasm on a rope, how about getting through that pile of work on your desk, meeting your fitness goals, or improving your time management? Self-discipline is not really about denying oneself; it is, in fact, liberating oneself. A friend once said to me, “Only when you’re truly disciplined can you be truly free.” A simple sentence of wholesome wisdom that changed my viewpoint completely.

On another occasion, the manager of an international chain store told me, “Success is not only about what you want to do. It’s about what you must do to achieve.” When you’re self-disciplined, you’re able to go beyond things that might have limited you or held you back before.

New York Times bestselling author Jackson Brown Jr. put it this way: “Talent, without discipline, is like an octopus on roller skates.

There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backward, or sideways.” On the other hand, if we channel our energies in the right direction, toward the things that are important to us, we are positioned to achieve powerful forward movement.

Jesus was the ultimate example of discipline. He did what had to be done, even when it was not just hard but resulted in His death. The discipline and commitment He manifested for His cause had world-changing results.

If we’re willing to discipline ourselves, we too can change our lives and our part of the world.
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Chris Mizrany is a web designer, photographer, and missionary with Helping Hand in Cape Town, South Africa.



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Yeshua is great!!!!!Alot of the lost books of the Bible I've been looking for is right on play store .....for free!!!!!!!type in lost books of the Bible it's amazing!!!!!the story of adam and eve is completed and much much more!!!!so ill be busy reading and hopefully you will too.....praise Yah

Written by Maria Fontaine November 2014

Are you faced with options, choices, and decisions, but you don’t have any idea which direction to take? You know you want to move in the direction God is leading, but the problem is you don’t know which direction that is. You’re floundering, not knowing where to go, what to do, or how to do it. You can’t see far enough ahead to know what the outcome of each choice will be. Very few things can be decided on their own, and many factors have to be considered in making each single decision.

I was reminded recently of the verse, “Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart.” It led me to meditate on the wisdom of waiting for God to dispel the fog, rather than making decisions when we can’t see clearly ahead. Given time, things fall into place, and we are able to see the way more clearly.

I’m sure you can think of times in your life when you had to make a certain decision but you couldn't seem to get any answers; but when you waited in prayer and with faith, trusting God to come through for you, He eventually made the way clear—and you were glad you’d waited and trusted.

Waiting is an important element of the faith life. It’s not easy, but it’s part of the process that God uses to instruct us, teach us patience, build our character, and draw us closer to Him. The next time you’re in a holding pattern or in waiting mode, be encouraged. The fog will lift—it always does!
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Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you.—Psalm 37:5 NLT

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.—Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV

If we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.—Romans 8:25 NLT

After waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.—Hebrews 6:15 NIV

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.—Hebrews 10:23 NIV

The testing of your faith produces patience.—James 1:3

See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm.—James 5:7–8 NIV



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"Darkness Of Christ"

Mankind in his insatiable search for divine knowledge has discarded all biblical teachings. Realizing that the strength of religion is the repression of knowledge, all structures of religion have collapsed. Life prays for death in the wake of the horror of these revelations. It was never imagined how graphic the reality that would be known as the end of creation would manifest itself. We believe all this chaos and atrocity can be traced back to one single event. We hold these truths to be painfully self-evident all men are not created equal. Only the strong will prosper. Only the strong will conquer. Only in the darkness of Christ have I realized, God Hates Us All.

Ive been noticing alot of "good"Christian women who're. Divorced or separated saying they're looking for a relationship....there's no such thing;Matt.5/32;But i say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife saving the cause of fornication (meaning if she wasn't a vigin)causeth her to commit adultery ;and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery /Mark10;11,12);And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife :and marry another committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband,and be married to another she committeth adultery

Jesus' pattern for prayer can be a helpful aid to prayer in the early morning hours or the last minutes of the day. In the morning, use Jesus' pattern for prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) as a way to begin your own prayer time. Alone, it touches every element of prayer: praise, petition, "penance" (confession and absolution), provision, and protection. Pray it straight through, or use it as an outline, inserting specific prayers of your own that parallel Jesus' words.

Then, at night, use it as a way to thank God for His work in your life during the day: thank Him for kingdom work you accomplished, for daily bread,for forgiving your sins and giving you grace to forgive others, for not leading you into temptation, and delivering you from Satan and evil.


Make the Lord's Prayer a pattern for your personal daily disciple's prayer.

Compiled from the writings of David Berg

Matthew chapter 24 is quite clear on the subject of Jesus’ Second Coming, when He is going to return to gather all those who have received Him as their Savior and take them with Him back to Heaven--an event commonly referred to as “the Rapture.” The rest of the Bible is also clear on when this happens. That’s why for nearly 1,800 years practically every Christian believed Jesus would come back after the period He refers to as “Great Tribulation”--three and a half years of intense persecution.

It’s only in the last couple of hundred years that people like C.I. Scofield (1843-1921) came along with the false doctrine that Jesus would come before the Tribulation. “Don’t worry, Jesus is going to come and take you out of this world before the trouble comes, so you won’t have to suffer.” Naturally that became a very popular doctrine because it was just what everybody had been waiting to hear. (2 Peter 1:20)

In Matthew 24, Jesus’ disciples ask Him what will be the sign of His return, and Jesus answers with not one but a number of signs--wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes, persecution of Christians, a proliferation of false prophets, lawlessness, a pervading lack of love, and the Gospel being preached in every nation. “Then,” He says, “the end will come” (Matthew 24:4-14).

Beginning with the next verse, Jesus tells us what we can expect during the Great Tribulation--the last three and a half years leading up to His return, which is also the last half of the Antichrist’s reign. “When you see the ’abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place... then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:15,21). We find out in the book of Revelation that this “abomination of desolation” is an image of the Antichrist, or Beast (Revelation 13:14-15). Both Daniel and Revelation tell us that this image will be set up in the holy place at exactly the middle of the Antichrist’s seven-year reign (Daniel 9:27; 12:11; Matthew 24:15-21; Revelation 13:5).

When does Jesus come back for us?--That’s also plain as day: “Immediately after the tribulation of those days” Jesus returns (Matthew 24:29). Jesus doesn’t say that when we see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place He’s about to rescue us out of this world, away from the Antichrist and the trouble to come. He warns us to head for the hills (Matthew 24:16 Daniel 7:25; 12:11; Revelation 13:5).

Some people who teach a pre-Tribulation Rapture go so far as to say that it’s going to be a secret Rapture--that nobody is going to see Him except the saved. Nobody else is even going to know He came. All of a sudden a bunch of us are just going to disappear, and those who are left behind won’t know what’s happened to us.

If the Rapture is supposed to be a secret, why will the Lord make so much noise and put on such a show when He comes? His Word tells us that He’s going to “come in the clouds with great power and glory.” In fact, it says that “every eye shall see Him.” They’ll hear Jesus, too, because He’ll “descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and a great sound of the trump of God.” And why are all of the unsaved going to mourn?--Because they’re going to see and know what’s happening (Matthew 24:27,30; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 1:7). It will be the greatest spectacle the world has ever seen.

And there it is again, plain as day: After the dead rise to meet the Lord, “then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thessalonians 4:17). If we got raptured before, then what are we doing still here?

Continued in “Left Behind?: Part 2”


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When small children awake in the middle of the night, if they don't run to their parent' bedroom, they will at least call out for them. They want to know-without being able to express it-that they are not alone. One little guy, after being reassured by his parents that Jesus was with him, said he needed "a Jesus with some skin on!"

Are we so different? When the storms of life roll in and we find ourselves handling them alone, we look for assurance that God has not forsaken us. We know that's what the Bible says, yet we still want to run down the hall of God's "room" to make sure He is there. We have no shortage of promises in the Bible that He is, and yet we can't see Him in person. That's why the Bible encourages us to "walk by faith, not by sight" ( 2 Corinthians 5:7). Just as it is possible to love someone we have'n seen (1 Peter 1:8), so it is possible to trust someone we can't see.

During the storms of life, trust the promises of God.