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Ray BentleyFaith That Works As Alive • James 2:18 • Part 2God is omniscient. He knows everything. Pastor Ray Bentley points out why that fact is so encouraging. I want you to know this. Your dad in heaven loves you so much. He knows you how you're wired. He knows what would make you the most complete, happy, and fulfilled. And guess what? If you will delight yourself in the Lord. The Bible says he also will give you the desires of your heart. 2025-06-3025 minRay BentleyFaith That Works As Alive • James 2:18We are saved by grace through faith. The Bible is clear about that. It's not by anything we've done. And yet, pastor Ray Bentley says, the Bible also points out works are still important. James comes along and says, hey, if you have faith or belief, but you don't have works in your life that demonstrate that you actually believe, he says, then you have a dead faith and that won't save you. 2025-06-2725 minRay BentleyLiving Faith • James 2:8 • Part 2Insights on attitude today from pastor Ray Bentley. What's the best attitude of the heart you can have? It's to have a merciful heart. Jesus was known for being merciful. He was known to the sinners as a friend of sinners because he was merciful. He got in trouble with the religious leaders for the same reputation being too mercy spread. 2025-06-2625 minRay BentleyLiving Faith • James 2:8Albert Einstein said, make things as simple as possible, but no simpler. Today, pastor Ray Bentley makes the Christian life simple. If we would live by this one royal law to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, we wouldn't need all the other laws that there are. Basically, the reason we have so many laws is because nobody loves one another. 2025-06-2525 minRay BentleyThe Overflow of Grace • James 2:1 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley begins today with a word about our purpose in life. We are here to share grace with all and the beauty of the Lord is that he ignores national differences. God wants to raise us all up and treat us all as royal sons and daughters. I guess the true test of our belief in grace is how we really treat people loving them, befriending them, being a witness of the love and the grace of Jesus Christ spreading.2025-06-2425 minRay BentleyThe Overflow Of Grace • James 2:1Pastor Ray Bentley says, our love for God on the inside reveals itself in the love we display on the outside. The way we treat other people reveals what we really believe about God. In other words, you cannot separate human relationships from divine relationships if they are a Christian, we love them because Christ is in them. If they're not a Christian, we still love them because Christ died for them. 2025-06-2325 minRay BentleyPure Religion Transforms • James 1:21-27 • Part 2To live a life of real blessing and satisfaction before God. Pastor Ray Bentley says it takes full surrender, radical obedience. That's what God's will is for your life and mine. You want to know the reality of the Bible? You want to experience the glory of the Lord. Then radical obedience. Lord, I want to obey you in every area radically. 2025-06-2025 minRay BentleyPure Religion Transforms • James 1:21 -27Today, pastor Ray Bentley points out why some people don't choose the good news of the gospel. Every other path other than Christianity offers an easier road. That's why it's so alluring, and why so often the Colts and weird things and people go after it, but it doesn't answer to the sin problem that you finally go, mama! I need something more powerful to deliver me. 2025-06-1925 minRay BentleyGod Is Good All The Time James 1:16 • Part 2Today, pastor Ray Bentley points out, full blessings come with full surrender. There are degrees to which we are willing to obey God's Word, and we have to make the conscious choice that I must submit all of my life and all areas of my habits, behavior, and feelings. Submit them to the Word of God. If you will submit every area to the word, it will be life to you. 2025-06-1825 minRay BentleyGod is Good All The Time • James 1:16Pastor Ray Bentley points out how to reach others most effectively. The Holy Spirit is speaking in a thousand different ways every single day. To those who here invest in the Kingdom of God and grow in your faith, because then come what may. You will have better than gold shining within you. You have peace that passes understanding, and that's what we'll be able to share with others, even in difficult times. 2025-06-1725 minRay BentleyFor God Alone Satisfies The Heart • James 1:12 • Part 2Today, pastor Ray Bentley highlights the message of James to a generation facing great temptation. Since we are God's children and he is content gingerly showering us with gifts from the perfection of his throne. Why should evil have even the slightest attraction for us? So take temptation. Can't get to the curb and walk into the light of the glory of God.2025-06-1625 minRay BentleyGod Alone Satisfies The Heart • James 1:12Pastor Ray Bentley with insight today on our times of testing. Every child of God has a unique path that is designed by God to bring you into areas where you will be tested. He tests us to let us know what's really in our hearts or what areas need to be worked on. He does not test us so that he can find out what's in our hearts.2025-06-1325 minRay BentleyTaking Responsibility • James 1:12Some real life insights today from pastor Ray Bentley. You were never going to get to the point where you're not going to have bad thoughts or wicked thoughts, or lustful thoughts, or prideful thoughts or covetous thoughts. But Lord, what can I do? He will not condemn you for having the thought. But now take that thought captive and say, Christ. 2025-06-1225 minRay BentleyTaking Responsibility • James 1People follow their hungers. Passion. Popularity. Pleasure. Pastor Ray Bentley says God wants us to exercise self-control. All of the normal desires that you have. They are not sinful in and of themselves. And in fact, without those desires, we couldn't function as human beings. It is when we seek to satisfy these desires outside of God's will that we get into trouble. 2025-06-1125 minRay BentleyA Surrendered Will • James 1:2Pastor Ray Bentley on God's plan for our lives. God's goal for your life and mine is maturity. Too often our prayers are spent wanting to be sheltered from the very things that will bring that maturity and trustworthiness. God cannot build our character without our cooperation. If we resist him, he will chastened us into submission. If we choose to submit to him, he will accomplish his work, and that is our maturity. 2025-06-1025 minRay BentleyThe Need Of The Hour Is Wisdom • James 1With the problems of life. Sometimes when it rains, it pours. Today, pastor Ray Bentley has encouragement for each and every one of us. All of us are facing a variety of trials in our lives right this moment. But how many of us say when we are being tested? Lord, what I really desire and what I really need is wisdom.2025-06-0925 minRay BentleyBring Strength • James 1Pastor Ray Bentley shows us how we can consider it joy when we face various trials. When you go through horror, it draws you close to him. If you are a child of God, no matter what happens to me physically, no matter what diagnosis the doctor shares, no matter what financially is taken away from me. I have learned by experience and I have passed the test.2025-06-0625 minRay BentleyBeautiful Benediction • Hebrews 13 • Part 2Problems come in tangled clumps like bird's nest. Pastor Ray Bentley says untangling is the Lord's specialty. How many of us have gone out and made a bird's nest out of our lives? And we go, oh, man, I can't do anything with this. Our father is very, very good at untangling the mess and then putting the pole back in our hands to make us fishers of men and women once again spreading disease. 2025-06-0525 minRay BentleyBeautiful Benediction • Hebrews 13:20Pastor Ray Bentley has words of reassurance for troubling times. Our God is a God of peace. And no matter what happens in the next few years, your God will pick up the pieces. He will order your steps. He will take care of you. He will heal all your wounds. He will fill all that may be lacking in your life. 2025-06-0425 minRay BentleyOur King • Hebrews 13:17-19Pastor Ray Bentley says if Jesus found benefit in prayer, we all the more. Jesus prayed more than all the disciples and that was the source of his strength. But he did not just pray. His prayer moved him into action. Prayer is where he derived his strength from his relationship with the Heavenly Father, but it was also where he received direction from the father.2025-06-0325 minRay BentleyThe Offering of Praise • Hebrews 13:9-14Pastor Ray Bentley urges us to cling to the truth no matter what. One of the things that happens when there's pressure and persecution is that people are no longer satisfied with the simple gospel, and they want something new. It blows into this church, or that church or this denomination or that movement. Everybody races around and gets really excited for a while, and then it and it's gone.2025-06-0225 minRay BentleyLove is Everything • Hebrews 13Forgiveness can be a difficult but necessary assignment. Today on Maranatha Radio, pastor Ray Bentley says her own outlook on life depends on it. We are to forgive even if they don't ask, because unforgiveness only leads to bitterness and bitterness only hurts you. You simply must forgive. You choose to forgive. Spread disease. All love is people coming down before the key. 2025-05-3025 minRay BentleyIs The Christian Life Worth It? • Hebrews 13Coming up today on Maranatha Radio. Pastor Ray Bentley encourages us to have a long range view of where we invest ourselves. We have only one life, and only the things we do for Christ are going to last. Everything else is going to be destroyed. So if you put all your values in the material world, you're going to lose everything. 2025-05-2925 minRay BentleyConsuming Fire and Love • Hebrews 12:25The mighty Roman Empire at one time was allied against the small fledgling Christian church. Pastor Ray Bentley gives us a glimpse of history. What happened to the Roman Empire? It came and it is no more. What happened to those little tiny Bible studies meeting in homes 2000 years ago? Today they're about 2.5 billion people. Not because of walls and institutions. 2025-05-2825 minRay BentleyConsider Jesus • Hebrews 12Life can give us so many things to worry about. Pastor Ray Bentley says believers don't have to fall victim to that. What can you do to reduce stress and that floating anxiety that attaches itself to anything negative that happens in your life? The spiritual antidote to that is a growing faith. If you could have a faith this year that would grow and that would reduce your anxiety level.2025-05-2725 minRay BentleySeeing is Believing • Hebrews 11:32-35Without faith, it is difficult to please God. No, that's not what the Bible says is without faith it is impossible to please God. Pastor Ray Bentley, how many of you want to please God in your life? I say you want to please God? Then believe in him not only intellectually, but by your choices and by your actions and by your obedience. 2025-05-2625 minRay BentleyRehabs Princess Diaries • Hebrews 11:31 • Part 2The Bible's Faith Hall of Fame includes the name of a harlot. Pastor Ray Bentley says that's not the only surprise about Rahab. Do you realize Rahab is in the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the incarnate God, manifest in the flesh? So, wow. An MRI harlot becomes a believer. What does that tell you about our king and about his kingdom spreading?2025-05-2325 minRay BentleyRehabs Princess Diaries • Hebrews 11:31Sometimes we find surprises in the Bible where man focus is on one thing. God sometimes focuses on something else. Pastor Ray Bentley brings us a case in point. Here is a woman, Rahab, the harlot, whose faith is so great that she is included in the Hall of Fame or the Hall of Fame in Hebrews 11. Rahab is right along with Moses, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and all the rest spread. 2025-05-2225 minRay BentleyThe Shout Of Victory • Hebrews 11:30Pastor Ray Bentley takes us to a critical moment in Joshua's life, when he faced an overwhelming obstacle and cried out to the Lord and Joshua begged and sought God for wisdom. What are we to do? What is the plan? I need divine guidance. As you were with Moses. You said you would be with me. Help me Lord. Suddenly Joshua saw something that made him freeze.2025-05-2125 minRay BentleyFaith That Makes Sense • Hebrews 11:17-22Pastor Ray Bentley points out, in the midst of a difficult life, remember we serve a powerful God. Life and real faith will stretch, challenge you, and will take you to the end of yourself. Life and its test will reveal what do you really believe and what do you really love about your father in heaven? But we are to ascend, to believe and obey a God who can even raise the dead. 2025-05-2025 minRay BentleyEternity In Their Hearts • Hebrews 11:8astor Ray Bentley says, our walk of faith today is reminiscent of the walk of faith of the father of the faith, Abraham. When we heard the gospel itself, we heard the Word of God. And through the word we heard the voice of the Lord himself calling us, saying, come, follow me. Every single one of us. Who then said, yes, Lord, I will follow you began a holy pilgrimage. 2025-05-1925 minRay BentleyFaith Sees What Is Coming • Hebrews 11:7Today on Maranatha Radio. Pastor Ray Bentley helps us take the pulse of our relationship with God. Here is a sign that you are growing spiritually, and that is that when you hear what God says, there is a emotional response to what is happening. It is not a healthy sign to just look at it and be flat emotionally, and it could be a sign that you're not mingling faith with what God is having to say. 2025-05-1625 minRay BentleyFaith That Pleases God • Hebrews 11:1Happiness in life doesn't come by direct pursuit. Pastor Ray Bentley says it comes by fulfilling our God given purpose in life. The Bible says that what we were really made for is to bring pleasure to God and in so doing, fulfilling the reason that we exist. Then in return, we experience more love, more peace, more joy, more pleasure than we could have ever dreamed, and a hundred lifetimes spread. 2025-05-1525 minRay BentleyFaith Sees the Invisible • Hebrews 11 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley explains why faith is the evidence of things unseen. Every time you see leaves blowing, that's evidence that there really is wind. And so also every physical evidence that you see, you know, the planets, the stars, the sun and the moon, everything in this galaxy. And then in fact, the entire universe is evidence of the invisible God who created all things and spoke all things into existence spread. 2025-05-1425 minRay BentleyFaith Sees The Invisible • Hebrews 11The unseen world and the physical world are just separate, as we might think. Today, pastor Ray Bentley points out, they're inseparably linked together through God Himself. Everything that is seen was made by that which is invisible. That's true, isn't it? In fact, if you can see something with substance and physical tangibility to it, it's proof that it's made of something invisible, spreading. 2025-05-1325 minRay BentleyThe Secret Of All Life • Hebrews 10:32 - 39Do you need some encouragement today? Well, pastor Ray Bentley points out the words of reassurance we find from today's study. God is saying to you, I see your life. I know exactly what's going on in your mind, in your heart. I know the pressures. I know what you're going through physically. I know where you are. Emotional. It's all right in front of me.2025-05-1225 minRay BentleyWords Of Passion • Hebrews 10:26 & 27 • Part 2We can trust in God's plan of salvation. Today on Maranatha Radio. Pastor Ray Bentley says God made a way for sinners to be saved. What about all the people that have never heard? Here's what I've learned about God. God is fair. Fair would be. You guys blew it. I'm done with you. I'm starting over again. Beyond fair is you blew it.2025-05-0925 minRay BentleyWords Of Passion • Hebrews 10:26 & 27When our hearts are right with the Lord. Pastor Ray Bentley says, we really have nothing to fear. Not now, not tomorrow. Not even on the day of Judgment. There is a day of judgment coming. And so you know, when you know the Lord and you love the Lord, and you want to honor the Lord and bless him. Then judgment is nothing to fear. 2025-05-0825 minRay BentleyYou Have Been Invited • Hebrews 10:10Pastor Ray Bentley explains why having a relationship with the Lord is so important. If you choose to reject God from your life, you'll find it. Then you'll probably step on people, even in your own family. And the further you go along that path, the more fear will come in your life, and the more fear in your life, the more lonely and isolated you will become.2025-05-0725 minRay BentleyFrom Shadows To Reality • Hebrews 10 • Part 2Today on Maranatha Radio. Pastor Ray Bentley helps you find what you're looking for. How many of you would love to have a bigger, deeper, or wider experience of joy in your lives? Jesus shows us that the path is not resisting and fighting with God and trying to get our own way, but it is finally with abandon, saying, thy will, father, I trust me. 2025-05-0625 minRay BentleyFrom Shadows To Reality • Hebrews 10God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Pastor Ray Bentley says God is self-sufficient, but he also yearns to have a relationship with us. It's amazing to me that God wants to be loved. God wants to be sought after. God wants to be desired. God reveals his glory in order that he might be pursued. Spreading disease. All of his people coming down before the king. 2025-05-0525 minRay BentleyThe Blood Of The Lamb • Hebrews 9:15 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley points out how blood is the key to life, both physically and spiritually. God put a crimson river system within us that brings life just like out in the desert. You put a stream and you put water through it and things obviously begin to grow. And there's greenery. So God put life. Don't ever be afraid or ashamed of the blood of Jesus.2025-05-0225 minRay BentleyThe Blood Of The Lamb • Hebrews 9:13How complete is the remission of our sins in Christ? Pastor Ray Bentley has the answer. When God forgives your sins by the blood of Jesus, it's not like the the print on my page or writing something on a paper and getting out an eraser and erasing it. The idea of forgiveness that is talked about biblically goes beyond that. 2025-05-0125 minRay BentleyHis Blood Is Love • Hebrews 9:11 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley points out, God doesn't just forgive sins, he wipes them out. When God raises your sins. It's as though they never happened in the beginning. And then God says, I will remember your sins no more. Don't be ashamed of the blood of Jesus Christ. It's powerful. That's why the enemy is attacking the blood and the cross and the uniqueness of Jesus Christ right now.2025-04-3025 minRay BentleyHis Blood Is Love • Hebrews 9:11Coming up today on Maranatha radio. Pastor Ray Bentley points out the danger of sin and its remedy. Sin is severe. Sin kills. Sin is responsible for disease, death, the plague, war, evil, selfishness, greed all the rest of it is because of our separating ourselves from God. So we want to be reconciled to him the only way. Mr. blood spreading disease. 2025-04-2925 minRay BentleyPictures Of Glory • Hebrews 9In the pages of the Old Testament, we read that sacrifices were required to cover the sins of God's people. Pastor Ray Bentley says that was then. This is now how thankful we are that when finally Jesus came, the Lamb of God, then he has dealt with our sins once and for all. God doesn't need any more sacrifices for all time and all eternity.2025-04-2825 minRay BentleyThe Cup Of The New Covenant • Hebrews 8 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley with an interesting fact about the New Covenant. There is no covenant made with the church per se. There's only one covenant called the New Covenant and the New Covenant, according to Jeremiah and now quoted in Hebrews, was made with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. The church doesn't exist until acts chapter two, when the Holy Spirit is poured out and they get graft in to the original covenant spread. 2025-04-2525 minRay BentleyThe Cup Of The New Covenant • Hebrews 8Today, pastor Ray Bentley points out, we often think about getting into heaven, but we don't often think about heaven getting into us. Heaven has already entered you. The Lord is what heaven's all about. Wherever Jesus is is heaven. There's heaven in you. But if you want to experience more heaven, you have to seek the Lord. Those who seek after me with everything they've got will find me spread. 2025-04-2425 minRay BentleyThe Way Better Covenant • Hebrews 8Pastor Ray Bentley points out power and authority in the business world. You've seen it. How many people work for you? The one who reaches the top of the ladder gets all the other people to serve him. And the more people you have serving you, the bigger that you are. You can't get any higher than Jesus. He's seated next to God the Father and what does he do with all power and all authority? 2025-04-2325 minRay BentleyJesus Is The Perfect Priest • Hebrews 7 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley says we should intercede for others just as Jesus intercedes for us before the father. Jesus loves you, therefore he talks. Intercession means prayer. He talks to his Father about you because he loves you. When you and I grow in love, we'll start talking to God about our family and our loved ones. Love for God will bring a love for people in our lives.2025-04-2225 minRay BentleyJesus is the Perfect Priest • Hebrews 7In the Old Testament. Priests and their idiosyncracies would come and go. But pastor Ray Bentley says, under the New Covenant, Jesus is our priest. The beauty of the New covenant and our perfect grace Jesus. Number one, he is a man. So he resonates with us, but also he is perfect. He never has a bad day. He is always the same.2025-04-2125 minRay BentleyAccess, Holiness • Hebrews 7:11Ever wonder what God may have been thinking and giving us the law? Pastor Ray Bentley says it's God's message about an eternal truth. You guys don't understand how radical sin is. Therefore, I'm going to give you an original covenant. The law and in the law, I will teach you the radical nature of my holiness, and I will teach you how radical sin is.2025-04-1825 minRay BentleyAccess Holiness • Hebrews • Hebrews 7Pastor Ray Bentley says those who followed God in the Old Testament yearn for the same thing that New Testament believers do. Access to God was the goal of every believer in the law. They wanted to access into God's presence. It would mean that if you were accepted into the presence of God, that your sins had been forgiven. And it also coming into the presence of the Lord would involve an exposure to the glory of his holiness. 2025-04-1725 minRay BentleyThe Giver of Good Things • Hebrews 7An uncomfortable dose of truth from pastor Ray Bentley. There are enemies who want to rob and steal and kill and take captive your precious children. It might be your own son or your own daughter. It might be literally a niece or nephew. It might be your grandchildren. That's why in every generation God says, I need men and women of faith.2025-04-1625 minRay BentleyThe Anchor of My Soul's Rest • Hebrews 6Pastor Ray Bentley draws on Paul's rich assurances about the steadfastness of our salvation. There is an eternal security of salvation for those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ, and a full assurance of hope to the end. As long as we continue to walk with him and not become sluggish, but imitating those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises spread. 2025-04-1525 minRay BentleyGoodness of God • Hebrews 6Sin separates us from God. But pastor Ray Bentley reminds us God is an expert at forgiving sin. For we know that God is gracious. God is merciful. God is long suffering. God is patient. We know that he doesn't reward us according to our iniquities. But as high as the heavens are above the earth, so are his mercies toward those who love him. 2025-04-1425 minRay BentleyLet's Go For It • Hebrews 5:14-16 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley points out, God is looking for conduits of blessing, not repositories, a mark of spiritual growth and maturity as being able to share biblical truth with others. It's not a personal bless me club. It's not just all about you, it is about others beginning with outside of you to God and loving him with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.2025-04-1125 minRay BentleyLet's Go For It • Hebrews 5:14-16Veteran Christians should be maturing Christians. But pastor Ray Bentley says, we never reach a place where we've grown enough. There is a time in every believer's life where they go. You know, I've read the Bible, but you can reach a point where you think, you know, I kind of know it. I kind of have heard it. I've asked the questions, and now I have the answers. 2025-04-1025 minRay BentleyWe Are On His Heart • Hebrews 5 • Part 2In the Old Testament, priests had special access to God. Today, pastor Ray Bentley reminds us that now we are priests. You and I, now in this age, are priests. We are members of a royal priesthood. We, as we come in contact with the world, are representing God in our humanity and our weakness with all of our problems. So I just wanted to remind you that you are priests. 2025-04-0925 minRay BentleyWe Are On His Heart • Hebrews 5In the Old Testament, priests had special access to God. Today, pastor Ray Bentley reminds us that now we are priests. You and I, now in this age, are priests. We are members of a royal priesthood. We, as we come in contact with the world, are representing God in our humanity and our weakness with all of our problems. So I just wanted to remind you that you are priests. 2025-04-0825 minRay BentleyPromised Father • Hebrews 4:11-16 • Part 2Today on Maranatha Radio. Pastor Ray Bentley gives us fresh insights on prayer. We are encouraged to enter the throne room of God, and we're going to leave with the idea of bringing to God His own word and his own promises and saying, Lord, you said. And now I am coming before your throne of grace and mercy. I'm merely asking you to do that.2025-04-0725 minRay BentleyPromised Father • Hebrews 4:11-16Pastor Ray Bentley says we need to make our study of the scriptures personal. When you do a Bible study and you hear the word and read it daily, find a promise that you are going to claim. And that's where Christianity becomes exciting, a life and personal. When God answers a prayer, when a promise becomes something tangible that you see evidence and fruit in your life that is making a difference. 2025-04-0425 minRay BentleyWrite Jerusalem Blade • Hebrews 4:8The Christian life can seem difficult. But pastor Ray Bentley says that's not the Lord's intention. In Jesus Christ, the gift of God to you and me is a perpetual, ongoing Sabbath of rest, of open communion with God, of fellowship, of relaxing, of not living life in my own strength, power, ability, but trusting in the Lord. 2025-04-0325 minRay BentleyRest Found • Hebrews 3:12Today on Maranatha radio. Pastor Ray Bentley explains why we all have a natural yearning for a relationship with God. If our hearts are made with eternity. That means you have an infinite gaping hole, and only that which is infinite itself can fill that hole. And the only thing that's infinite is God. Therefore, the more of the Lord God you fill your heart with, the more rest, peace, and fulfillment will come to your life. 2025-04-0125 minRay BentleyConsider Jesus • Hebrews 3:1-7 • Part 2Are all the benefits of being a believer stored up for us on the other side of eternity. Pastor Ray Bentley says no, there's abundant life here as well. Heaven is not merely your future destination. Heaven is something that you can taste here and now because you know what makes heaven? Heaven. What makes heaven heavenly is Jesus, wherever Jesus is.2025-03-3125 minRay BentleyConsider Jesus • Hebrews 3:1-7I wonder if I speak to anyone that says, man, I need more peace. I need more rest in my soul. Pastor Ray Bentley points to where we can find real peace and rest for our souls. The harder the things go and the worse in one sense that the outside becomes and the greater the pressure becomes more and more a precious commodity clinging to the source of rest and peace Jesus Christ spread. 2025-03-2825 minRay BentleyTouched By Jesus • Hebrews 2:10-18 • Part 2Jesus was in the heavenlies, reigning supreme, the creator of the universe. And yet, pastor Ray Bentley points out. Jesus chose to become a human being and walk among us. He came to save human beings, and that meant he had to take on flesh and blood. And by dying and being perfect, he was able to rise, resurrect, and all who trust in him shall be led back to that former place of glory spread. 2025-03-2725 minRay BentleyTouched By Jesus • Hebrews 2:10-18Pastor Ray Bentley says, we need to remember everything was created by Jesus. And for Jesus, your only happiness and fulfillment is when you know and understand and begin to live. When the realization that I am made for the Lord, and that everything I do in one way or another should be a reflection of him, and draw me near to him and live for him purposefully and passionately. 2025-03-2625 minRay BentleyJesus is Our Anchor • Hebrews 2Pastor Ray Bentley says, just as Christ reigned supreme. One day we as his followers, will also rule and reign. Jesus put all things in subjection 2000 years ago with the cross, because there he defeated and put into subjection sin. He put into subjection death he put into subjection. Satan. It's not a maybe. It's a fact that God's children will rule and reign with him as kings and queens spread. 2025-03-2525 minRay BentleyAngels Worship Jesus • Hebrews 1:1-14There's only one person allowed to be worshiped in all of heaven, and that is God. Pastor Ray Bentley says, God the Son is superior to angels. Angels worship Christ because they recognize him as of a totally different and superior nature to theirs. They are the servants of the father and the son. They are the winds and the flames fulfilling his purpose in spreading.2025-03-2425 minRay BentleyAngels Worship Jesus • Hebrews 1f we could somehow pull back the veil separating this world from the spiritual world, we may be surprised at what we see. Pastor Ray Bentley, there's at least as many angels here as there are human beings. And as God's messengers, they can wield immense power. And we're going to share eternity with them. And yet, when compared to Jesus Christ, he is far superior. 2025-03-2125 minRay BentleyLord You're Bigger • Hebrews 1 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley explains how the Lord is not only the creator, but the sustainer of the entire universe. God spoke all things into existence. When God speaks, things are created, things happen, and God sent the message of his love. It turned into the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. He upholds all things by the word of his power. 2025-03-2025 minRay BentleyLord, You're Bigger • Hebrews 1:1-3Pastor Ray Bentley with a look at what's coming up today on Maranatha Radio. You and I are going to go on an adventure together in Hebrews because I am telling you that the real God that we love and that we worship is far bigger than what you now know of him. And by the time we've worked our way through Hebrews, he's going to become so large that it will win your heart to say, now, Lord, I love you with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. 2025-03-1925 minRay BentleyGod's Love Catches a Runaway • Philemon 1 • Part 2Sometimes when trials overwhelm, we want to just run away. Pastor Ray Bentley responds, I wonder if I speak to someone here this morning that is tempted to run away. Maybe you've had somebody run away from you. May I suggest perhaps God knowing allowed this to happen and has a greater and a bigger purpose than you could have dreamed or imagined.2025-03-1825 minRay BentleyGod's Love Catches a Runaway • Philemon 1Pastor Ray Bentley says. So many think in the give and take of love, it's better to take rather than be taken. That's the world's idea of love. It's very much a 5050. What are you going to do for me? What have you done for me lately? And that's why it falls apart so many times. There's no commitment. There's nothing there. That's not what the Bible says. Love is. Love is saying what is important to you is important to me. 2025-03-1725 minRay BentleyYou Are The Light Of The World • Titus 3 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley wants to know if you're ready to step up to the next level in your faith. So what I'm asking you is I. I'm reaching out with my hands and saying, who will walk with me and say, let's move beyond the borders of what has been safe and where we have been comfortable, and let's go all the way deeply as far as we possibly can.2025-03-1425 minRay BentleyYou Are The Light Of The World • Titus 3f heaven could come in the form of a book. Pastor Ray Bentley says it would be the Bible. I love God's Word. I love the Bible because it's filled with God. And why I encourage you to read the Bible. It's like when you open the Bible, you are opening a window to heaven into your mind and into your heart. 2025-03-1325 minRay BentleyThe Coming Glory • Titus 2:11There's an undeniable relief having our sins forgiven. Pastor Ray Bentley explains what's going on. When you believe in Christ and ask Jesus in your life, the Holy Spirit comes in you. You are righteous in Christ. You are holy and complete in him. The utter relief of walking in holiness. That's what the grace of God teaches us. Spread. You see all of his people coming down before the King. 2025-03-1225 minRay BentleyThe Gospel is Enough • Titus 1:10-16 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley says the gospel is sufficient to bring us into a productive relationship with God. Most people think that because they do not measure up, they are worthless to God. So they give up and give in to this world. The gospel says, you know what? God loves you just as you are, loves you, will forgive you by his grace and by His Spirit, and will come inside of you. 2025-03-1125 minRay BentleyThe Gospel Is Enough • Titus 1:10-16What do you hope to take away from today's Maranatha radio? Here's what pastor Ray Bentley hopes to give you my hope. And I guess if I had a two fold checklist of what I would like to accomplish every time we come together and spend time in the word number one to exhort you, which means to encourage you, to inspire you, to bless you, to comfort you, to hear you, on the other hand, to convict, to bring some sense of conviction spread. 2025-03-1025 minRay BentleyCharacter And Characters • Titus 1:5-9Are you ready to experience eternal life? Pastor Ray Bentley says you can start experiencing it right here, right now. Eternal life is not just the duration of how long you will live with God in the presence of God, but it's a quality of life. And in that sense, eternal life actually has already begun. You don't have to wait till you die and go to heaven to begin experiencing eternal life.2025-03-0625 minRay BentleyCharacter And Characters • Titus 1:5-9 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley points out, it's wrong to think God wants us to keep our emotions bottled. It's all right to have intense emotions. Jesus felt raw, powerful, intense emotion. So take your passions and pour them out before God and let God order them. Because when God can take that intense, raw, powerful emotion and focus it according to his will, he can do great and mighty things. 2025-03-0625 minRay BentleyGod Is Everything • Titus 1Today on Maranatha radio. Pastor Ray Bentley explains why we need to live for God. Do you realize that you were bought God, first of all, made you so whatever you make you own, right? God made you. He owns you in that sense. But then, because we ran away, he had to buy us back. But if that is true, because we no longer belong to ourselves, we should no longer live for ourselves. 2025-03-0525 minRay BentleySurrender • 2 Timothy 4:16:22When we have Jesus in our lives. Pastor Ray Bentley explains how priceless that is. If you have Jesus, you have the grace of God. You have favor with God. Oh, how God loves His son. And wherever he sees His Son living inside of a human being, the father is deeply in love with you. So make sure that you walk with him and abide in him, and let his word abide in you and bear the fruit, the Spirit of Christ within you.2025-03-0425 minRay BentleyThe Importance Of Friends • 2 Timothy 4 • Part 2Friendships were actually God's idea. And today on Maranatha Radio. Pastor Ray Bentley shows us how they fit into God's plan and purpose. As someone has said, friendship is what love looks like when it is put into practice. Accumulate as many friends as you possibly can. Don't stop. Keep accumulating them as many as you can. All the way to the end. 2025-03-0325 min
Ray BentleyThe Importance Of Friends • 2 Timothy 4Pastor Ray Bentley explains the tremendous blessing God gave us in the form of relationships. There is no gift so precious as a friend, and there is no power greater in heaven or on earth than the power that is released. And the bonds of relationship. Relationship is everything. It is not what you know that will get you to heaven. 2025-02-2825 minRay BentleyThe Importance Of Friends • 2 Timothy 4Pastor Ray Bentley explains the tremendous blessing God gave us in the form of relationships. There is no gift so precious as a friend, and there is no power greater in heaven or on earth than the power that is released. And the bonds of relationship. Relationship is everything. It is not what you know that will get you to heaven.2025-02-2825 minRay BentleyWhen Heaven Calls • 2 Timothy 4We know heaven will be wonderful. But dare we ask how wonderful? Well, today on Maranatha Radio, pastor Ray Bentley addresses that question. If, while on the earth you were blessed financially and you prospered and God gave you a lot of blessings and material things, but you were a believer and you've come to the end of your life and you depart and go to heaven.2025-02-2725 minRay BentleyWhen Heaven Calls • 2 Timothy 4We know heaven will be wonderful. But dare we ask how wonderful? Well, today on Maranatha Radio, pastor Ray Bentley addresses that question. If, while on the earth you were blessed financially and you prospered and God gave you a lot of blessings and material things, but you were a believer and you've come to the end of your life and you depart and go to heaven.2025-02-2725 minRay BentleyA Time to Speak • 2 Timothy 4Pastor Ray Bentley has practical encouragement today for those living lives that fall a bit short of happily ever after. Would you agree with me that life can be frustrating and sometimes you just get overwhelmed. You get angry. It's not easy to be married and keep your head down, children, and keep your head. Life isn't easy. It's going to be hard.2025-02-2725 min
Ray BentleyA Time to Speak • 2 Timothy 4Pastor Ray Bentley has practical encouragement today for those living lives that fall a bit short of happily ever after. Would you agree with me that life can be frustrating and sometimes you just get overwhelmed. You get angry. It's not easy to be married and keep your head down, children, and keep your head. Life isn't easy. It's going to be hard.2025-02-2625 min
Ray BentleyThe Beauty of God’s Word • 2 Timothy 3 • Part 2Are you in the ministry? Pastor Ray Bentley points out, we're all involved in ministry, whether we know it or not. The ministry is not. Being a pastor and giving Bible studies. The real ministry is what happens in your life outside of these doors. The real ministry is when you go outside and are sprinkled like salt and the earth.2025-02-2525 min
Ray BentleyThe Beauty of God’s Word • 2 Timothy 3Pastor Ray Bentley says God has the resources to meet those needs. You can do an instant survey here anywhere and ask people, okay, what are the top three things that you want out of life? Well, I would like more love. I would like joy and happiness and please give me more peace.2025-02-2425 min
Ray BentleyThe Thrill of Hope • Isaiah 7:14Today, pastor Ray Bentley examines the miracle moment when the angels announce the birth of the Christ child. I absolutely love this. The angels literally take the veil between heaven and earth. Step through that veil as they now announce to the shepherds down in the fields of Bethlehem. Behold unto us born this day a Savior, which is Christ the Lord spread.2025-02-2125 min
Ray BentleyThe Real Christmas Story • Luke 1astor Ray Bentley points out how the little town of Bethlehem fits into God's plan of redemption. Bethlehem is the place where shepherds raised the sheep that would be used for sacrifice. How amazing, then, that Jesus, who is called the Lamb of God, he would sacrifice his life as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world.2025-02-2025 min
Ray BentleyThe King Is Born • Luke 1:31 & 32 • Part 2Pastor Ray Bentley explains the Kingdom connection to Christmas. The message Jesus commissioned his disciples to teach in Luke chapter nine, verses one and two, was they were called to give the good news of the kingdom. In Matthew chapter 19, Jesus equated salvation with entering the kingdom and the gospel of Mark, the hope and comfort of the Christian hour in entering into the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven spread.2025-02-1925 min
Ray BentleyThe King Is Born • Luke 1:31 & 32The message of the gospel is the King is coming and returning to the kingdom that he purchased, with his own body being broken in his own blood that was shed. Pastor Ray Bentley says Christmas celebrates the birth of our king and our connection to our father. You are members of a royal family, and one day the Bible says that we will rule and reign with Christ and the days of the coming kingdom spread.2025-02-1825 min
Ray BentleyThe Imitation Of Christ • 2 Timothy 3Pastor Ray Bentley on the self-sacrifice of evangelism. There is something about those who really follow Jesus who so love their fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters, that when abuse and insult and ridicule is heaped upon them, they absorb it. And they say, you know what? I will take it so that you will one day change your mind about the direction you are headed and say, maybe this love is authentic.2025-02-1725 min
Ray BentleyGoing Deeper With God • 2 Timothy 2:14Pastor Ray Bentley maps out the pathway to a deeper fellowship and friendship with God. Perfect love casts out all fear. When you're not afraid, you start to relax. And when you relax, you find that you can actually be yourself when you're really if someone's friend. The friends that I have or the friends that I can just be me.2025-02-1425 min
Ray BentleyAmazing Grace • 2 Timothy 2:8oday on Maranatha! Radio, pastor Ray Bentley highlights the blessing of knowing Christ and the blessing of sharing Christ. If you're a believer in Jesus Christ, eternal glory is in you. And the greatest privilege you will ever have in your life is sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with another human being, and see them open their heart and receive Christ.2025-02-1325 min