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Big Vision of God – December 1, 2022

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Big Vision of God

I believe that one of the primary things for a thinking person to recognize is that God, who created time, space, and matter, exists outside of time, space, and matter. God, by definition, must transcend that which He creates.

The Creator used no substance or energy to make the universe; it came from nothing but His own word, or His own reasoning. We humans use the substances, energy, and creative thinking patterns that have already been provided to us. In a very real sense, we “create” nothing; rather, we “rearrange” that which God has already given to us.

To understand that the God of Bible, while choosing to enter our world and interact with our world, is nonetheless infinitely greater than our world and is the only self-sustaining being, is a basic tenet of faith. From this starting point, we gain the “big vision” of God that is necessary to comprehending what He has revealed in the Bible.

– Shelli Prindle

“By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” (Hebrews 11:3)

Do You Know a False Jesus? – October 3, 2022

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Do You Know a False Jesus?

If you hear the name of Jesus spoken in your church or in the culture, and His name is not often and readily mentioned in conjunction with that long-forgotten word, “sin,” then you most likely are not hearing of the true Jesus.

If religion seems powerless or boring to you, or if it appears to be one of many tools for use in your life, then it is probably because you have not yet encountered the true Christ. In fact, I will go so far as to say that the very dangerous spirit of the antichrist can be closest when Jesus is spoken of, but not accurately so, or – more subtly – not fully described in terms of His essence and mission.

The angelic announcement of His coming to Joseph puts it all in perspective. The very words of God’s supernatural herald ought to be known, repeated, pondered, and upheld in every circle of ministry that claims the title “Christian.”

“Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:20-21)

And from that introductory statement of who Jesus is and what He does, spoken to Joseph and to us, we see two indisputable and critical facts:

1) He is God, not born of the seed of man, but placed in the womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit; and yet, He is in flesh, sharing our humanity; and

2) He came to save us from our sins.

In Christendom today, we see the weakening of pure doctrine from the lips of unfaithful people. In alignment with Scripture’s prophecy that spiritual delusion will swell, false teachers will abound, and the spirit of the antichrist will gain ground, we observe so much spoken of Jesus, except the essence of His reality and mission.

Jesus Christ is the God-Man who came expressly to save us from sin. Sin is not only what goes against God and His standards; it is whatever falls even the tiniest bit short of His all-encompassing glory. Sin is rampant in us. Moreover, we cannot be delivered from it without Jesus. We cannot draw near to God and His holiness without the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ, the God-Man. He is God with flesh on, to stand in our place and pay for our sinfulness.

Jesus is not your moral teacher. He is not your example. He is not your source for community leadership. He is not a political pawn. He is not one of many ways to God. He is not a cosmic consciousness. He is not the source of holistic medicine. He is not someone who comes along to make you a better version of yourself.

He is the Savior from sin. He is the Re-Maker of a human heart. He is the only Restorer of relationship with the Father.

We are not simply “better off with Him.” We are lost in sin without Him.

Sinners need a Savior. If no one speaks of sin anymore, then people do not know the Savior; they instead know a false Jesus, an antichrist.

– Shelli Prindle

Red Heifer Delusion – September 28, 2022

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Red Heifer Delusion

It is true that red heifers have been delivered to Israel from Texas. As reported by The Jerusalem Post on September 20, 2022, “Five perfectly red heifers required for the ritual purification of those who have touched a dead body, arrived in Israel from a ranch in Texas on Thursday, as the Temple Institute continues preparations to lay the ground for the construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem.”

As someone who has been teaching the books of Daniel and Revelation for years, I have boldly declared the biblical truth that a temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt in preparation for the coming Antichrist to declare a peace treaty with Israel that allows Jews to reinstitute the sacrificial system. Antichrist will break the treaty midway through the tribulation and stop the sacrifices in the temple, as the beast himself will then demand worship from the world. This I wholeheartedly believe, for Daniel 9:27, Matthew 24:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, and Revelation 13:15 are just some of the Scriptures proclaiming the coming event.

Many Jews and people associated with the Temple Institute are working to prepare for the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. They do so, however, with an intention that is antithetical to biblical Christianity and our trust in Jesus Christ as Savior. Strangely, their wrong motives are being used by God Almighty to accomplish His plan for end-time events. The very people, the Jews, are the ones who the Lord will focus on saving during the tribulation period. God is using every circumstance to bring about His intended end.

The current goal of the rebuilding of the temple has nothing to do with Jesus Christ. In fact, the website of the Temple Institute clearly says, “This is the role of the Holy Temple in the life of man: to enable one to realign himself, to dedicate one’s whole self to G-d, to elevate every aspect of the human experience to holiness and return the energy which He gives us to His service.” As biblical Christians, we understand the pivotal truth that nothing can make a person right with God except for Jesus Christ. We depend on His death and resurrection as the sacrifice for our sin. Sin is not mentioned as a problem for the people who are seeking to rebuild the temple, nor is the name of Jesus mentioned in any context. Clearly, the efforts behind the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem are religious in nature. In other words, humans are attempting to reach God without the only Mediator, Jesus Christ.

Priestly garments and vessels for the temple are being prepared. And the long-awaited red heifers have arrived. Why does it matter that these red heifers have been delivered to the land? I quote here from the Temple Institute’s website, “Perhaps it would be difficult for some to believe that a cow could be so important. But in truth, the fate of the entire world depends on the red heifer. For G-d has ordained that its ashes alone are the single missing ingredient for the reinstatement of Biblical purity – and thereafter, the rebuilding of the Holy Temple.”

I must be unequivocally clear on this: no one, not me, or you, or anyone, can have sin forgiven and spirit renewed and relationship with God restored without the blood of Jesus Christ. His blood – and His blood alone – is the only substance that brings “purity.” While it is true that under the old covenant of law, the Lord required “a red heifer without defect, in which there is not blemish, and on which a yoke has never come” (Numbers 19:2) for purification for temple service, that requirement has been completely absorbed by the work of Jesus Christ on the cross.

Read carefully the following pivotal passage from Hebrews 10:11-13:

“And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.”

Jesus paid the price for all sin at one time. There is no other offering that can be given. There is no other blood that could be shed. There is no other death that could be effective for forgiveness and restoration with God Almighty. Jesus did it all.

Speaking of those who had once followed the law but now trust in the work of Jesus, the writer of Hebrew then adds in verses 15-18 of chapter ten:

“And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,’ then he adds, ‘I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.’ Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.”

The red heifers are part of a greater plan of religion that looks to laws of purity and sacrifice to attempt to walk with the Lord. However, no work of man can produce this outcome. Every sacrifice of the Old Testament times was a foreshadowing of the ultimate and only sacrifice that can save us – Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection.

In fact, those who seek to rebuild the temple and employ sacrifices once again, are clearly looking to the physical temple in Jerusalem as their source of relationship with God. The Temple Institute website declares that the Holy Temple “was the world’s true spiritual center, and the medium for that unfolding relationship.” Then, “It is the reality of the living memory of that relationship as it once was, and the dream of its renewal, that keeps the fires of the Temple altar burning within the collective heart of the nation of Israel, and the hearts of all those who cherish her G-d and His message for humanity.”

My friends, the physical temple and the animal sacrifices are not the greatest reality. These things only pointed to the greatest reality. Speaking of the priests and sacrifices of the old covenant, Hebrews 8:5-6 proclaims, “They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things … But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.”

The red heifers are part of the old system whose purpose was to point to the devastating sinfulness and impurity of mankind without Jesus Christ. Every drop of blood and every burnt offering pointed to the offering of Christ on the cross. To those who believe in Him, they are restored to relationship with the Father. (John 1:12) The red heifers (whether these ones or others to come) are part of the human effort to bring about a “God consciousness” that is not substantive. It is a diversion from the only Way, the only Truth, and the only Life – Jesus Christ. (John 14:6).

Nonetheless, these things must take place, according to biblical prophecy, for this temple that will soon be built in Jerusalem will eventually become the temple of Antichrist. This makes complete sense, for everyone who denies that Jesus is God in the flesh, is already operating by the spirit of the antichrist. (1 John 4:2-3) Know this, when people believe that in any final sense a human work of sacrifice can placate the wrath of God and please the Creator’s heart, they are of the antichrist spirit of this world system.

As a matter of fact, so central is the work of Christ on the cross as our ultimate sacrifice, that He is referred to as “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world”! (John 1:29) And when we who trust in Jesus finally see “the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God” (Revelation 21:2) the Apostle John proclaims, “I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.” (Revelation 21:22) Did you hear that? The heavenly Jerusalem of the New Heaven and New Earth will have no temple! None is necessary! For Jesus is the temple of God. The Lamb has fulfilled all the requirements of the temple.

For now, we watch prophetic events unfold, but we must do so with an eye toward Jesus always. Do not get caught up in the “hype” of events, without pointing people to our only salvation. Because – after all- the God who superintends all end-time events is the God who sent His Son to save the world.

– Shelli Prindle of Hope & Passion Ministries, Inc.

Spiritual Inventory – September 19, 2022

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Spiritual Inventory

Are you on cruise control, or are you building yourself up in your most holy faith? Do you take your relationship with Jesus for granted, or are you actively investing in your walk with Him?

Are you going through the motions of everyday life, or are you praying in the Holy Spirit? Are you repeating rote prayers, or are you allowing the Spirit of God to direct what you bring to the Lord?

Is your receiving of the love of God something you think of as past tense, or are you carefully guarding the love of God in your life? Do you treasure it and grow in it?

Finally, are you stuck in thoughts of the here and now, or are you eagerly awaiting the greatest of mercy of Jesus Christ that we shall ever receive – the entrance into sinless and everlasting life? Do you crave the day of full redemption when we shall stand in glorified bodies with the King?

The above is a real checklist for those who claim to be Christians, for the Word of God bears forth the reality of believers. Hear it in the tiny book of Jude:

“But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.” (Jude 1:20-21)

– Shelli Prindle

Why a Pillar of Salt? – September 16, 2022

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Why a Pillar of Salt?

Lot’s wife stood in her sad tracks with head looking backward as a pillar of salt on the plain. She directly disobeyed God’s command to “not look back” at the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and she was turned into a statue of salt. Dead on the spot. Memorialized as a hunk of rock near cities still burning under the judgment of God.

Jesus minced no words about how we are to process what happened to Lot’s wife. “Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.” (Luke 17:32-33)

Clearly, Jesus is setting this example before us to warn us that true salvation leads to a devotion to the cause of Christ that is unmistakable. We must be willing to leave behind our sinful and selfish life to follow the Lord and His plan. We cannot “look back” longingly on the “old life” or the “familiar sins.” We must yield our heart, mind, and body to Jesus and to the work of His kingdom.

Lot’s wife became a pillar of salt. Why salt in particular? Could it have something to do with what Jesus said in Matthew 5:13? “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.”

Christians are to be the preservative of the world. (Salt was used in Bible times as a critical source of food preservative, for there existed no refrigerators or freezers.) We are also to show to the world the flavor of righteousness. By our living differently and righteously, we both present the reality of what Jesus can do in making us new creatures, and we help preserve the world from God’s judgment.

Right before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham interceded for those sinful cities. However, it was determined that not even ten righteous people remained in these places, and so God decided the time for judgment had arrived. He would have spared it for even ten righteous people still standing as a testimony to God, but since there was not enough “preservative,” destruction fell.

When believers do not act as believers, or when people who profess Christianity act just like the world, what use is the profession of Christianity? When the salt loses its flavor, how damning is the outcome! If Christians are not holy – set aside for God’s purposes – and showing the world what righteousness is, they do more damage to the world than good! A person who says they are Christian but acts like an unsaved sinner leads more astray than an atheist! People look at the “worldly Christian” and say, “So that’s what Christianity is?” And the truth is perverted and hidden.

In the days of Sodom, Lot’s family lost its saltiness. There is myriad fallout from Lot’s compromised life. We have not the space here to discuss the sadness of it all. And because of the lack of righteous people, God brought judgment, for the place would now self-implode from rampant and degrading sin.

Apparently, Lot’s wife looked back longingly at the familiar place of sinfulness, when she should have been running for her life toward the will of God and His escape route! Therefore, having lost her saltiness, she became “good for nothing” as far as a testimony to the world is concerned. Instead of being the salt of the world in vibrant, forward motion with the Lord’s will, she became a statue of salt – stuck in a backward glance – with a totally divided heart toward the Lord. It’s as if God said, “If you won’t be a part of preserving the world like salt does, you will be preserved as a monument to disobedience and half-heartedness.” The very thing you rejected will be the thing that damns you.

My friend, there is no place for indecisive discipleship. When we decide to trust Jesus as Savior and Lord, we must move forward. We must not long for what “used to be,” but for what the will of the Lord is! We must run toward righteousness and Heaven, and never look back at sinfulness and Hell.

– Shelli Prindle

But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26)

Temple Mount Tensions & Prophecy – September 15, 2022

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Temple Mount Tensions & Prophecy

The coming Antichrist inevitably sets himself up in the temple of God and proclaims himself to be God. (2 Thess. 2:4) Of this fact, there is no doubt. It will happen midway through the Tribulation. This will take place in Jerusalem, at the Temple Mount.

The prophet Daniel declares by inspiration of God’s Spirit, “He [Antichrist] will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven’ [set of years]. In the middle of the ‘seven’ [set of years] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.” (Dan. 9:27)

Antichrist will be the one who is finally able to resolve the Temple Mount issue in Jerusalem between Jews and Palestinians. He will enact a peace treaty with Israel and allow the Jews to reinstitute their Old Testament sacrificial system. (Plans for this are already well underway; check out the Temple Institute of Jerusalem.) For now, the Temple Mount is a constant source of battle, as the Muslim “Dome of the Rock” shrine now sits on the temple mount. Jews and Muslims both desire to pray and worship at the Temple Mount.

“Temple Mount is a near-constant point of tension in Jerusalem.” This quote is from an online article at “The Jerusalem Post” on Sept. 13, 2022, titled, “Jewish, Arab activists issued restraining orders from Temple Mount.”

Things are ramping up over there in Israel around this area held sacred by both Jews and Muslims. The biblically prophesied Antichrist will be given the power to barter peace in the area that lasts for 3.5 years, in which time Jews will engage in their sacrificial system at the newly built temple. When the 3.5 years is over, Antichrist will break his treaty with Israel, throw off the help of another group of ten world leaders who had assisted him, and he will demand to be worshiped from that same temple. He will proclaim himself to be God of the world.

Revelation 13:5 declares, “And the beast [Antichrist] was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months [3.5 years].”

And Revelation 13:15 proclaims, “And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.”

When you hear news from the Middle East, including that of rising tensions over the Temple Mount and religious worship, take note. The Lord has prophesied from the Old Testament into the New Testament that these things would take place. We are now living in the time of the end. We may be in the last days, or – more likely – the last of the last days.

In any case, all that is happening in the world aligns with the setting of the stage for God’s end time plan. It could be any day that Christians meet Jesus in the air.

– Shelli Prindle of Hope & Passion Ministries, Inc.

Antichrist Operative – September 12, 2022

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Antichrist Operative

The antichrist spirit is not simply working through the spiritual leader who outright comes against Christ and denounces the Jesus of the Bible. In fact, this type of leader is perhaps the least dangerous.

The antichrist spirit works most readily and effectively through the pastor or teacher who acknowledges Jesus and uses the Bible, but who also diminishes the subject of human sin and the blood of Jesus Christ. The preacher who talks of Jesus but ever so unrecognizably begins to diminish Christ to a moral teacher, agent of change, social reformer, or the source of self-actualization, is a pastor who is operating by the influence of the antichrist spirit.

There is no middle ground. You are either holding fast to the Jesus Christ of all the Bible, or you are working for the devil – knowingly or unknowingly. Every leader who operates by the antichrist spirit will be held responsible, for at some point, he or she neglected the full Gospel. Perhaps they did so because of a motivation of selfish gain or increased popularity. Maybe they neglected the full Gospel out of laziness of study, absence of sincere prayer, or inundation of cultural “norms.” Whatever the reason, each is culpable.

The Bible speaks for itself. And when preachers avidly, purposefully, and prayerfully study and teach its contents, Jesus Christ will be exalted.

Be wary, my friends. The antichrist spirit is not simply the spirit that is “against” Christ; it is also the spirit that is “in place of” Christ. So many churches have exchanged the fullness of the Christ of the Bible with a Christ of their own, worldly making.

– Shelli Prindle

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
(1 John 4:1-3)

Point of Rapture – September 9, 2022

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Point of Rapture

As demonstrated in the historical truth of Sodom and Gomorrah, when Lot was taken out at the last minute before destruction, and as indicated by the Apostle Peter, that the Lord, to our understanding, seems slow to keep His promise of return, because He desires that no one perishes eternally, we know that Jesus will come suddenly to snatch His people from this world right before the judgment of the tribulation.

God is waiting for every last soul that will put their trust in Jesus as Savior to do so. Simultaneously, He is waiting for wickedness to reach a threshold that He will no longer tolerate, to the detriment of His people.

Therefore, when these two factors meet that God-given point of intersection, Jesus will whisk away His followers from this world, and then God will usher in the tribulation period.

The number of truly righteous people declines as the last-days apostasy sets in, and wickedness grows as godlessness and lawlessness increases. Surely, a number of falsely “spiritual” people still exists, but only those dedicated to the truth of Jesus Christ are righteous, for it is only the blood of Jesus Christ that He shed on the cross that can make any of us right with God.

The rapture is coming. Judgment is coming. Jesus is then coming back with His people to set up His millennial kingdom. Amen!

– Shelli Prindle

“The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but hat all should reach repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)

“As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, ‘Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.’ But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.” (Genesis 19:15-16)

“And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.” (Matthew 24:10-12)

“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)

Common Abomination – March 9, 2022

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Common Abomination

Do you want to hear one of the most scathing statements of Jesus? This one hits us right between the eyes when we sincerely consider what the culture exalts. Money. Power. Influence. Busyness. Possessions. Admiration.

Just listen to what the Lord said to the Pharisees, and I will share it in three versions. When reading this scary verse, ask yourself, “Do I value what the world values? Do I basically live like the culture around me lives? Do I aim for what most people aspire to?” Because if the answer is yes, then we are living an abomination.

What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight. (Luke 16:15, NIV)

What this world honors is detestable in the sight of God. (Luke 16:15 NLT)

For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. (Luke 16:15, ESV)

Do you see how clear Jesus made this? If the world places high value on something, then God is horrified by it. We, His people, ought to live lives pleasing to the Lord. Our lives ought to be antithetical to the general ways of the culture. If it’s popular and exalted and proposed as “the way things should be,” then we need to analyze it against God’s Word

The world says to make your goal the accumulation of riches, a high career status, lots and lots of purposeless entertainment, the admiration of others, a life that is packed full of activities so that others think highly of you, children’s lives that are packed full of activities and sports so that other parents can be jealous of your kids, a big house with many cars and many things, etc.

Have we yielded to the world’s goals? Because what the world does not value is simplicity of living, quietness of soul, the pursuit of godliness, investing riches and time for the kingdom of God, a willingness to spread the Gospel no matter what people think, humility, etc. And those things are what God loves. Remember, what the culture exalts the Lord hates.

– Shelli Prindle

Why Should God Hear My Prayers? – July 3, 2020

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Why Should God Hear My Prayers?

Why should God hear my prayers? I mean, He’s the Creator, and I’m the created. He’s holy and I’m a sinner, so why should God listen to the cry of my heart? I have one word for you – Jesus. The Bible says that Jesus died on the cross and shed His blood, so that people, like you and me, could be forgiven of our sins and have a way to talk to the God of the universe.

When you pray, not only does God hear you, but He responds to you. Now, He is going to answer our prayers in a much better way than we would answer them, because He knows infinitely more than we know, but He hears you.

You see, to pray “in the name of Jesus” is not just to tack a phrase onto the end of your prayer. To pray in the name of Jesus is to pray because of who Jesus is and because of what He has done. Jesus is the reason that we get to talk to God. Talk to Him today.

– Shelli Prindle

“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, … let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.” – (Hebrews 10:19a, 22a)

He Holds You – July 2, 2020

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He Holds You

Light travels so fast that in the time it takes me to say, “light,” it has already gone 186,000 miles. At that rate of speed, it would take light 2.5 million years to get the nearest neighboring galaxy of stars! That’s right! And scientists tell us that there are billions of stars in each galaxy – and billions of galaxies in the universe. We have no idea how many stars exist and how far away they are. Yet, the Bible says in Isaiah chapter forty, that God holds each and every star in place and calls them each by name.

Stars are just burning balls of hydrogen and helium, but you, my friend, you were made in the image of God. You were made to have relationship with Him. If He knows the stars by name and holds them each in place, then He certainly knows you on the face of this earth. He knows you and He is holding you right now. Please pray and call out to Him.

– Shelli Prindle

“Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.” – (Isaiah 40:26)

Jesus Understands – July 1, 2020

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Jesus Understands

Did you know that Jesus wasn’t a particularly good-looking person? The Bible says that He had no beauty that anybody would really desire Him (Isaiah 53:2). Did you know that He grew up in the town of Nazareth – on the wrong side of the tracks – a town about which people would say, “Nothing good could ever come from there!” (John 1:46) Did you know that Jesus grew up poor, and that throughout His life, most of His friends completely abandoned Him (Isaiah 53:3)?

And yet, the Bible tells us in Romans 8:34 that Jesus is now at the right hand of the Father praying for His people. That’s right. If you’re a Christian, you can know that Jesus is praying for you, and you can know that He understands. When He came to the earth, He didn’t come as a beautiful, popular, or wealthy person. He came in a way that He could understand the average person. He “gets” our problems and our hurts. When you pray to Him, know that He understands – and that He is praying for you!

– Shelli Prindle

“Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.” – (Romans 8:34)

“He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” – (Isaiah 53:3)