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Discipleship Tape MinistriesWhat If There Had Been No Christmas?Have you ever thought of what life would be like had there been no Christmas? Russell Kelfer gives us a glimpse of the “twelve ways of Christmas”, or the twelve ways Christianity revolutionized life. For Christmas to have its truest meaning, we must find out what life would be like if there were no Christmas. For many, this situation exists because they have not accepted Jesus Christ as Savior. It is our prayer that this lesson will guide you into the true message of Christmas, so that the Person of Christmas, Jesus, will dwell in your...2025-03-1527 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesMessages From Murmurers (Part 2)What are the marks of a murmurer?
What are the kinds of things God's people murmur over?
If God is in control, what possible reason could we have to murmur.
Let's take a look at some of the murmurers we find in the Scriptures and see what the results were.
Read lesson: 918B
2024-04-2535 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesMessages From Murmurers (Part 1)Complaining, murmuring, and nagging form the three-cornered triangle of trouble that mark off the boundaries of our next phase of study.
They all have in common a discontented spirit and a negative concept of the sovereignty of God.
We'll be looking in this lesson and the next at the characteristics of these three tongue-twisters, and how to bring them under control.
Read lesson: 918A2024-04-2435 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesIt’s Time to Give a Good Report (Part 2)What makes us give a bad report of people?
Why do we so delight in verbally destroying another person's character?
We will find several reasons.
How can we begin to give a good report of others and our circumstances?
We can purpose in our hearts to make this concept of giving a good report an integral part of our lives by using a threefold triangle of faithfulness - Commitment, Accountability, and Renewal.
Read lesson: 917B2024-04-2339 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesIt’s Time to Give a Good Report (Part 1)When you look at the cup of life, is it half-full or is it half-empty?
When someone asks you, "How was your day?" do you tell them the good or the bad?
It is our perspective that causes men and women to give a bad report, or conversely, a good report.
We sometimes get so busy describing the size of the enemy that we forget how big our God is.
We need to have the right perspective.
Read lesson: 917A2024-04-2139 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Sparks of an Arguing Tongue
Proverbs is practical, and it practically puts the arguer in his place.
It says arguing is a senseless pastime enjoyed only by fools who are prompted by pride.
It elevates self, wounds others, and breaks the heart of God.
The process is to trace the spirit that causes us to argue and root it out, replacing it with the cleansing power of the Word of God.
Read lesson: 916B2024-04-2039 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Tongue: Tiny Sparks and Great FiresIs it possible to control your tongue?
Is it possible not to live on a highway paved with regrets over words you wish you had never said?
Is it possible not to have to spend the rest of your life constantly asking for forgiveness for things you uttered in anger or frustration?
Is it possible to bring the tongue totally under control?
If you are a Christian the answer is "Yes."
Read lesson: 916A2024-04-2040 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesBe Not Drunk: Be Filled
Part two of this lesson on what Proverbs teaches about drunkenness delves into issues and answers on the subject of intoxication.
It will seek to answer these questions:
Who says I can't drink?
Who's in control of my life?
Who's watching what I do?
What kind of fruit is my life producing?
What is the issue of the hour?
What are my options as a Christian?
Read lesson: 915B2024-04-1942 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Issue of Alcohol: Born Free!
We come to the sixth roadblock to godliness, which is so clearly defined in the book of Proverbs - the issue of drunkenness.
It involves behavior, but it involves more than behavior. It involves why we get drunk, how we get drunk, what happens physically, what happens emotionally, and finally, what happens spiritually.
Let's take a look at what the Scriptures say on the subject.
Read lesson: 915A2024-04-1837 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesFrom Feasting to Fasting
This part of our study on gluttony should be entitled, "The Road to Moderation."
How do we get back to the constant control of our will over our own emotions?
If controlling our appetites frees us in the spiritual realm to receive greater feasts from God's table, then the logical end of self-control in this area of our lives is fasting.
We will also look at the purposes and promises of fasting in this lesson.
Read lesson: 914B2024-04-1737 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesPrinciples from Proverbs on GluttonyIt has been said that the most crucial test of a man's character comes as he slides his tray through a cafeteria line. It is then that the real person emerges.
Today, we look at the principles from Proverbs on gluttony. God deplores gluttony.
The reason is simple - it wrestles control of a key area of a person's life away from the Holy Spirit, and exercises his own will in response to an appetite.
God wants to control man's appetites - all of them.
Read lesson: 914A
2024-04-1633 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesWalking on Hot CoalsThe purpose of this lesson is for us to see adultery from God's perspective - adultery of the eye, mind, will, body, and spirit - and having seen it from God's perspective, never again to toy with immorality.
Can we walk through fire and not be burned? Can we toy with immorality and not be burned? We cannot.
God has erected signposts in His Word that clearly warn us: Danger: Hot Coals - Stay Away.
Read lesson: 913B2024-04-1440 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesBe Ye HolyIn this lesson we will take a look at both the character of God, which makes morality possible, and the portrait of His holiness, which makes our morality essential.
The power to behave is not based on our determination, but on God's nature, imputed to us by virtue of the new birth.
His Spirit placed in us gives us the capacity to behave. We must choose to behave so that the portrait of our Saviour might not be blurred.
Read lesson: 913A2024-04-1437 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesChristian, Behave!Self-control has two parts: Internal attitudes, a process of transformation, and external behavior, a principle of obedience.
It is into that painful second area that we are moving in our study of Proverbs.
We will look at four public enemies of the Christian faith over which the Christian is commanded to exercise self-control—sexual immorality, drunkenness, gluttony, and the tongue.
Read lesson: 912B2024-04-1332 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesIt Is I..Don’t Be Afraid! (Part 3)In this lesson, we are going to look at the subjects of why not to fear and how not to fear.
God says we have no basis for fear because of Who owns us.
We need to trust His Sovereignty. So, how do we conquer fear?
Find the two keys that will drive out the Satanic fears that hover over us and threaten our peace.
Read lesson: 912A2024-04-1235 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesIt Is I..Don’t Be Afraid! (Part 2)God does not want us to be afraid.
He does not want us to fear what man can do.
He does not want us to fear what Satan can do.
But above all He is saying that He does not want us to fear what He can do, if we will but let him.
He wants to be Lord and rerelease first-century power into twenty-first century Christians.
He will do it, if we will just stop being afraid.
Read lesson: 911B2024-04-1124 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesIt Is I..Don’t Be Afraid! (Part 1)What are you afraid of?
Do you have a stronghold that holds you in bondage in an area of living in which God intended you to be free?
Does Satan approach you with a temptation to fear saying that God is not in control?
God has created an alternative to fear. This alternative is the fear of the Lord. We will discover just what the "fear of the Lord" is in this lesson.
Read lesson: 911A2024-04-1036 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Enemy Called EnvyEnvy.
It will surface in your prayer life, both in who you pray for and who you don't.
It will surface in your thought life - the people to whom you compare yourself.
It will surface in your relationships and how you spend your money.
How do you combat this enemy called envy?
Let's begin by asking some hard questions from the Scriptures concerning envy.
Read lesson: 910B2024-04-0937 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesTurning the Curse into a BlessingTaming the temper involves redirecting the energy of anger into transforming, revolutionary spiritual power so the curse becomes a blessing, and the enemy is not only withstood but totally defeated.
God is calling us to resist the devil, to choose not to get angry, and then to go on the offensive.
Let that temptation to anger become a springboard to loving, blessing, praying, and doing good until a confused and discouraged Satan flees from you.
Read lesson: 910A2024-04-0733 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesTeakettles, Sundown, and a Second HandIn this fourth of a series on dealing with anger, we are given three practical ways of dealing with our anger.
These three principles, if put into practice, will give us victory over anger.
Victory will not come overnight, but one day we will awaken to find an ebbing of the old urge to retaliate, a softening taking place in the spirit.
The bitterness and rage will be gone. It starts when we begin to seek the mind of Christ in controlling anger.
Read lesson: 909B2024-04-0734 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesReconing with Our RightsMuch of our anger comes from claiming rights we do not have.
The violation of those imaginary "rights" brings about a response in us that God never intended us to have.
The result is that we demand our day in court, or boil with resentment, or explode in a rage because we have assumed the place of God.
What rights are we claiming that are not ours?
Read lesson: 909A2024-04-0637 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesTaming The Temper (Part 2)
The essence of anger surfaces in detail in the New Testament which seems to reflect three expressions of anger that simply are not acceptable to God.
As we look at these different types of anger, we need to ask God to search us for what rights we are clinging to that we have not given to God.
What should our proper response be?
Read lesson: 908B2024-04-0534 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesTaming The Temper (Part 1)Anger is the emotion that, if not properly handled, unravels reason, distorts the truth, and releases a venom that falsely accuses, denies sensibility, and becomes on occasion vicious, vengeful, and vindictive.
Is it any wonder that a life under God's control must also have under control the enemy of ungodly anger?
Is it any wonder that taming the temper is no option for the Spirit-controlled life?
Read lesson: 908A2024-04-0435 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesDecisions, Decisions, Decisions! (Part 2)Decisions are a major part of God's scheme of things.
If we accept the Scriptures for what they are: a living God speaking without error, and if we accept life for what it is: a temporary journey through a foreign country as a chosen ambassador for a conquering King, then all of life's decisions are made through the Word with eternity as the only criteria.
If we learn that, decision-making will be simplified.
Read lesson: 907B2024-04-0333 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesDecisions, Decisions, Decisions! (Part 1)What the Christian life boils down to is decisions.
It is the process of making right choices without being swayed by Satan's input into our appetites or emotions.
We will begin our look at the enemies of the controlled Christian life by looking first at the enemies of God-controlled responses.
We will begin by focusing our attention on the central enemy: Satan's attack on our response to making the decisions themselves.
Read lesson: 907A2024-04-0230 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesSelf-Control: Mirage Or Miracle?Nearly every page in the book of Proverbs reveals the need for self-control: Godly restraint in our attitudes, godly restrain in our appetites, and godly restrain in our actions and activities.
Only the Christian under the Spirit's control can experience the miracle of self-control that the book of Proverbs describes as the normal Christian life.
We are to choose who we will serve - the spirit or the flesh.
Read lesson: 906B2024-04-0133 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesWanted: Correctable Christians (Part 2)How does God go about getting our attention so that He, in us, can change our attitude?
God is looking for correctable Christians.
See how God uses the Word to change our hearts and minds. He may also use those in authority over us to rebuke us and turn our hearts around.
What is our response to rebuke?
There is also a pressure God places on us through counsel and through divine discipline.
Would we make a choice to be a correctable Christian?
Read...2024-03-3131 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesWanted: Correctable Christians (Part 1)God is looking for men and women who want to be changed - who want to be changed so badly they will cooperate with joy when He sends rebuke or admonition or counsel into their lives.
How correctable are you?
How graciously do you respond to rebuke?
That's the question we're asking in this lesson from the book of Proverbs.
Read lesson: 905B2024-03-3034 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesSearching for Hidden TreasureHow often do we search the Scriptures with the same intensity we would if we were searching for hidden treasure?
When we begin to see a nugget of truth appear, do we take all our tools, our concordance, our translations, our Bible dictionaries, and do we dig and dig?
The Word of God is the treasure house wherein all the rare jewels of spirituality are buried at different levels beneath the surface.
We need to become treasure-hunting Christians who daily uncover the priceless gems that turn the commonplace into crowns, the natural into...2024-03-2837 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Battle Is Not Yours; It’s God’sHow many times have we faced circumstances that were completely overwhelming?
We had no idea how to deal with them and seemed powerless to face them.
Jehoshaphat had the same feeling as he was surrounded by his enemies. In fact, he cried out to God, "We have no might, neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on Thee."
God must have smiled. He knew all along that the battle would be won by Him, not Jehoshaphat; and so it is with us. We must turn to Him, because He gives...2024-03-2836 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe High Cost of HumilityPeter said, "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God."
Just how do we go about doing that? Our goal is to examine seven ways to do that.
As we humble ourselves before God, we are purposing before God to cooperate with Him as He does the rest.
There are at least four tools that God uses to humble His saints. We find these tools in the lives of Joseph, Job, Peter, Paul and Moses. The cost is high, but it is worth it.
Read lesson: 904A2024-03-2731 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesLandmines and Lies – Part 2Landmines and lies. Subtle. Well-hidden and devastating if ignored.
In this lesson, we will look at three landmines known as the landmines of kingdom ambition, that attitude that is so busy competing, seeking to be the greatest, that it misses the message of the cross.
We need to be careful also of silent battlefields. The absence of warfare doesn't mean the war is over.
We must be careful to guard against the perennial problem of success, of watching God do the impossible, only to be deceived into thinking we made it possible. These...2024-03-2633 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesLandmines and Lies – Part 1What are the reasons for spiritual pride?
What are the land mines and the lies that the father of lies uses to deceive the children of God?
We will ultimately be looking at nine ways Satan trips up the Christian and causes pride to surface in robes of spirituality.
We step on these landmines, because we don't exercise caution in our walk in the area of spiritual pride, and behind or beneath each land mine rests a lie from Satan. We will take a look at nine of those land mines which damage...2024-03-2434 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Problem of Spiritual PrideSpiritual pride is perhaps Satan's most impressive tool.
Through its deceptive destruction, he has moved right onto the Christian's home turf, taken the very things that mean the most to him and used them against him, and in essence has literally used the building blocks of spiritual success to build an altar to the false god of self.
It's so subtle, so disguised in spiritual robes, that we miss it.
What God wants is serving saints, not proud of their church, their spirituality, their leaders, or talents - just in love with Jesus.2024-03-2334 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesLook at Me!The disease of pride seems to break out in the Christian's life in two deadly forms.
The first is "natural pride", various forms of preoccupation with the natural man.
The second is "spiritual" pride. Both are vicious.
Nearly always, Satan takes five simple statements and through subtle variations, tricks us into conforming to his slimy image.
Find out what those five questions are in this lesson.
Read lesson: 902A2024-03-2335 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Perennial Problem of PrideThe perennial problem of pride so blinds the mind to truth that we do not see anything but ourselves.
All He wants is to be Lord.
All He wants is for us to take that wretched corpse called self down from His throne.
We are to see pride for what it is and to choose humility, the mind of Christ.
How does God look at pride?
How does God respond to pride?
Finally, how does God deal with pride?
We will take a look at...2024-03-2231 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Four Faces of WisdomHow would you like to have the wisdom of Solomon?
How would you like to know how to make the right decision every time?
How would you like to see your life in harmony with the heart of God in the way you think?
The wisdom God gave Solomon is yours, and then some, if you'll just read and heed the book of Proverbs.
This lesson will begin a series of lessons on the book of Proverbs where we will find real "shoe leather" Christianity.
Read...2024-03-2137 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Legend Lives OnAs we wrap up the living legend, Elijah, we see God taking Elijah home in a whirlwind. What a picture book of reality his life was!
We can think of Elijah as our hearts begin to resist God's call, or when we are called to some thankless task, or when we are called to some magnificent cause and feel terribly unequipped, or as we sit depressed under life's juniper tree.
God gives us the whole story regarding the lives of His saints. We can learn much from the life of Elijah.
2024-03-2028 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesWhat Are We Doing Here ElijahWhat happens to a man when he takes his eyes off of the Lord and puts them on himself? That happened to Elijah, right after he witnessed the power of God in all His glory.
He was tired and exhausted. Satan began to feed him lies, until he thought that he alone stood for God. His eyes were placed upon himself and selfpity set in.
What was the Lord's reaction to Elijah?
What three attitude problems surfaced in Elijah's response to God?
Read lesson: 1114A2024-03-1827 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesUnder The Juniper TreeIt was after Elijah's greatest victory, as he saw the Lord destroy the prophets of Baal and the people crying out that the Lord is God, that Elijah finds himself in an unexpected place - under a juniper tree.
Satan knows when we are most vulnerable. Perhaps it is after an exhausting day when all of our energies are spent, or perhaps we are caught up in the victory letdown - that is when we are on a spiritual "high" from answered prayer, or a visible victory.
How can we prepare ourselves against those onslaughts...2024-03-1727 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Lord He Is GodElijah has outlined for the people of Israel the one great principle that governs all the other principles in man's relationship with God.
It is this: Either you belong to Him or you don't.
Either He is your Saviour and Lord, or He is nothing to you.
Elijah was about to reveal his God to all the prophets of Baal.
No matter how big the circumstances seem, nobody should surrender.
The odds that seem to be so in the enemy's favor are but an exciting backdrop to highlight the...2024-03-1728 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesBetween Two OpinionsThis was a big moment for our friend, Elijah. God has taken him along an indirect route to prepare him for this moment.
There was a confrontation between Ahab and Elijah. The question was, "If the Lord is God, then follow Him. If He is not, then Satan is, so follow him."
Someone is in charge of the spirit world that dominates this universe, and it has to be either Satan or God.
We cannot claim to be Christians and then refuse to take our place on the witness stand of eternity and...2024-03-1529 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesAnd The Lord HeardNothing in life is by chance. God has a plan in everything that He does.
It was no surprise, then, when God sent Elijah to a sad widow and her son. The Lord does hear our cries and in His perfect timing gives His solutions.
God is patient and never writes off anyone, even a widow and her son who are on the brink of starvation.
As Elijah prayed for the little boy, God demonstrated the power of prayer to Elijah, because Elijah was about to demonstrate the power of prayer to a...2024-03-1426 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesYou Want Me To Go Where LordGod has a personal, private, wonderful plan for your life.
It may include drying brooks and starving widows.
It may include standing before kings and presidents.
It may include none of these.
One thing is for sure, God has to take you to some out-of-the-way places if He's ever going to use you. He's going to have to let some rivers run dry to teach you to trust, then let some people with needs cross your path to teach you to love. It is all in His will.
Read...2024-03-1328 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesBut The Brook Dried UpThis is the first in a mini-series on the living legend, Elijah.
This lesson comes from 1 Kings 17 and concerns determining the will of God in regard to;
His direction,
His timing,
His purpose and
His provision.
Living by a dried up brook was not Elijah's idea of a perfect plan, but God knew that it was just what Elijah needed.
Each step of the way was a divinely designed training mission that the Commander-in-Chief placed on Elijah's itinerary to get him to where he needed to be. He does the same with you...2024-03-1226 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesHow To Rejoice When The Battle Is OverThis is the final of a four-part series outlining a "Blueprint for Battle" from the life of Jehoshaphat.
As we saw the enemy bearing down upon Israel, we saw Jehoshaphat pray, surrendering his will to God's. We saw him stand in the midst of battle and watched to see what God would do.
This lesson is about what to do when God has handed us even the smallest of victories. We need to stop and praise Him as God gives us rest.
It may be for only a day, or for a long...2024-03-1127 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesHow To Walk In The Midst Of The ConflictIn this passage of Scripture, God paints a vivid picture of the kind of victory that is ours when we set Him free to be Himself. The enemy has no chance against God. The battle is not ours - it's the Lord's.
In this passage, God outlines a principle for spiritual warfare that is so essential that there is no hope of victory without it. It is a three-fold plan of stationing ourselves, standing, and watching the Lord win the victory on our behalf.
As we do this, we will learn how to walk in...2024-03-1029 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesHow To Pray When Hope Is GoneHow do we pray when hope is gone?
How do we pray in the midst of circumstances that are very difficult?
As we continue our study in 2 Chronicles, we again take a look at Jehoshaphat as the enemy was bearing down upon him. As he calls the people together to tell them what is happening, he begins to pray.
It was not a prayer for God to deliver them, letting God know how bad their circumstances were so that he could release the valve a little and give them a break. This prayer...2024-03-0927 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesWhat To Do When Bad News ComesThe Christian life is not a bed of roses. There is lots of heartache and lots of warfare.
In our study of 2 Chronicles, God portrays the reality of the Christian life. He uses a man named Jehoshaphat, a splintered remnant of His people called "Judah", and an unexpected invasion by their neighbors as a backdrop to paint a three-dimensional image of a life of victory in the midst of a life of warfare.
Let's see how Jehoshaphat handled the bad news that was given to him to know how to respond when we face bad...2024-03-0927 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesBe Careful What You DoThere is probably no single characteristic of fallen man more consistent than his desire to be "in charge".
The kings of Israel were perfect examples of the subtle dangers of being leaders in the kingdom. Such is true in the church as well.
This lesson is a word of warning given to those who were given the reins of authority among God's people. And even in our day it is a word of warning to those of us who are privileged to lead. We need to be careful what we do. Our God will have...2024-03-0830 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesWhat My God Saith, That Will I Speak
In this lesson, we will take a look at the life of Jehoshaphat and glean some spiritual principles that we are prone to violate as believers.
Jehoshaphat did not choose to listen to man's wisdom, but wanted to hear a word from the Lord.
This message tells of receiving wise counsel and not compromising and allowing the cunning ways of Satan to deter us from the path in which God is leading.
Read lesson: 1108A2024-03-0629 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesWhat In The World Is God Looking For?
What is God looking for in his children? He is looking for a heart that is completely His. He is looking for a heart that is guileless and pure before God. It should be constantly his heart's desire to let God be God. A perfect heart doesn't produce a perfect life. The flesh will jump in and make mistakes. But even those mistakes will be followed by immediate grief, not just at the consequences, but at having broken the heart of God. Beloved, that's what God is looking for.
Read lesson: 1107B
2024-03-0628 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesHave You Ever Heard Of AsaEvery so often, our loving God seems to sprinkle the Scripture with portraits of Men and Women who did things His way. He pulls back the curtain and reveals the miracle of obedience and the blessings that accompany that obedience. Today's story is such a story.
Today's lesson is about the life of a Man who understood leadership from God's perspective.
2024-03-0529 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesHe Did Not Set His HeartThis study examines the rest of the life of Rehoboam in the following parts;
The battles you must not fight. 2 Chronicles 11.
When He was strong. 2 Chronicles 12:1-7.
That they might learn the difference. 2 Chronicles 12:8-11.
He did not set His heart. 2 Chronicles 12:14 - 16
2024-03-0426 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesRehoboam... If You Will Be KindThis study series presents a biographical sketch of how to and how not to be a leader.
The lesson will be in 3 parts;
The end of an era. 2 Chronicles 9:30
High noon at the palace. 2 Chronicles 10:1-6
If you will be kind. 2 Chronicles 10:7-18
Learning to be a leader. 1 Peter 5:2-6
2024-03-0325 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Beautiful AttitudesThis is a recap of all the previous studies in the beatitude series.2024-03-0240 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Response To PersecutionHow does God expect us to act in the furnace of affliction?
Follow the last beatitude teaching series to see the scriptural answer to the question and learn what should be the believer's response to persecution.2024-03-0136 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Results Of Persecution Pt 2The Scripture teaches that persecution is not an abnormal Christian experience. We therefore cannot judge its normality based on our experience, we must rather judge the normality of our experience on the authority of the scripture.
This study will continue with an exposition on the resultant benefits of Christian persecution based on the Scriptures.
2024-02-2938 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Results Of Persecution Pt 1This study is focused on the result of persecution. Jesus said we are blessed whenever we are persecuted for righteousness' sake.2024-02-2837 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Reason For PersecutionThis study is a continuation of the final beatitude. It examines the topic in the following ways;
The reality of persecution
The reason for persecution. What drives the world to attack the Christian
The result of persecution and
God's response to persecution
2024-02-2735 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Reality Of PersecutionReal Happiness is a state of being, not a state of having!
This final beatitude depicts the following features. It is;
An attitude of response and resolve rather than one which initiates and creates which in itself. It is the result of something God has done and the response to something God allows.
An enigma to the world
Perfectly placed following the beatitude "Blessed are the peace-makers"
Affords the Christian the same promise as the first one - theirs is the kingdom of Heaven
2024-02-2541 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesLife On Two Mile Island Pt 3Yield and you become a peacemaker.
God said give up your right to your reputation and thus the right to retaliation.
Give up the right to your possessions
Give up your claims to your time and your strength and be willing to praise God for divine interruptions. 2024-02-2439 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesLife On Two Mile Island Pt 2This study is an exposition of Matthew 5:41 - Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with Him two.2024-02-2436 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesLife On Two Mile Island Pt 1This teaching is a continuation of the Christian's peace-making role. It touches on the following stages:
Leading men to peace with God
Living in the peace of God
Leading men in peace with men
2024-02-2337 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Yes Sir Of The HeartThis lesson is focused on the third phase of peace-making - peace with men.
How do we as Christians bring about an atmosphere of peace into personal relationships in the world in which we live?
The study examines the practical study in two phases;
The Yes Sir of the Heart (Involves peace under authority, peace with authority and the 4 stages of submission in a Christian's life ) and
When rights are wrong - involves keeping the peace among our peers, the rights of a dead man and beyond right when wronged.
2024-02-2235 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Ear That Needs A HandA God's man/woman is a peacemaker. This teaching is focused on the principles - God's sword at His peacemakers and God's showcase of peace.2024-02-2134 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesLet Not Your Heart Be Troubled
Every Christian is called to be at peace and every Christian is called to be a peacemaker!
John 14:27 - Stop allowing yourself to be agitated or disturbed and do not be fearful, intimidated, cowardly or unsettled.
What is peace?
Is the heart of man in a reclining position
Is Jesus asleep in a boat while the storm rages and the disciples panic
Is Paul thankful for the privilege to be a witness in chains
Is total surrender to the sovereignty of God and then total enjoyment of the life of God
Is a quiet...2024-02-1941 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Tests Of A TestimonyTestimony is when you tell someone what you've seen and heard. 1 John 1:3. Fellowship is unity based on a common heart.
Here are some tests of a Testimony:
- Make it natural and personal
- Make it concise (short enough to listen to but long enough to understand)
- Make it understandable (clean up the religious lingo)
2024-02-1934 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesPeacemakers... Gods Perfect ExampleHow do we become the witnesses we're meant to be?
Your spiritual gift and personality go into the making of a unique message through which your ministry blossoms forth.
Your ministry involves your witness, your means of discipleship, the kind of service you do and the way you're involved in the body of Christ.
2024-02-1840 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesLeading Men To Peace With GodThis teaching focuses on the following titles;
- a reminder of our purpose
- a recognition of our placement
- review of our preparation and
- a record of our promise.2024-02-1734 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesBlessed Are The Peacemakers... Gods Peace PlanIn Matthew 5:9 Jesus said: Oh what bliss, what self-contained Joy awaits the man or the woman who assumes His God-given role as a peacemaker. Because He, the maker of peace will be exalted as God's called-out children.
For Jesus says if I became the way of peace, they become the instrument of peace.
Blessed are the peacemakers filled with bliss. Are you a peacemaker?2024-02-1633 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Pure In Heart... Spiritual SurgeryThis is a conclusion part of the series on the study of Christ's calling to be pure in heart.2024-02-1539 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Pure In Heart... MeditationThis lesson deals with the fourth answer to the thought life problem - if the thought life is the accumulation of data from birth, that means we should guard it from birth. We should guard what we expose ourselves to continually.
Here are some basic areas of purifying the heart.
- Prevention: The case for innocence.
- Precaution: What you see is what you get. That is the principle of guarding the eyes. What we look at must be controlled at any cost.
- The business of making...2024-02-1437 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Pure In Heart... The AnswersThe mind is what you think when you think no one knows what you think. That is the real heart. It is your emotions, how you really feel about God, your parents, husband/wife, children, self, job, circumstances in your life. That's the real heart.
And it's your real will - what you will choose to do in any given situation if there were neither restraint nor consequences. That's your heart and that's what God sees.
God desires that the heart be pure. Pure being;
- Increasingly...2024-02-1336 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Pure In Heart... The IssuesThis study broadly discusses the issues and the answers regarding the heart characterized by a clean thought life.
The issue has to do with;
- what is the heart?
- what are the marks of an impure heart and then
- your thought life - the real you and me.
- What is lust? 3 things we lust over; 6 things we lust for.
- the crises of our secret thoughts and
- 5 motives for wanting a pure thought life.
The answers;
...2024-02-1136 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About Satans LiesThis is a concluding part of the series on God's truth and satan's lies. We've examined;
- the Picture: outlines nine areas of conflict between the Christian and the world, twenty-six lies that satan tells that have corresponding Biblical truth.
- the pattern that has emerged and
- the present events that are unfolding.
2024-02-1139 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About Alliances... DatingIn the will of God, there is power. And the Christian in the will of God has the power to withstand the enemy.
You must remember that when you enter into an alliance relationship, you become unequally yoked together with unbelievers, you stepped out of the will of God because you ignore the known word of God and you loose your power.2024-02-1043 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About Alliances Pt 2The Christian is called to live in the world, to minister to the world without conforming to the world or becoming of the world.2024-02-0935 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About Alliances Pt 1How can two walk together except they be agreed?
This lesson outlines some basic concepts and definitions on the following;
What is a pure relationship?
What are authority relationships and
What are alliance relationships?
It further clarifies some of the misconceptions of the doctrine of separation, satan's lies and God's truth about alliances and unequal yoking.
It covers the principles and the practical - The principles involve the basic truth (2 Cor. 6:14-18) and then the practical in three areas; nationally, personally...2024-02-0830 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About HeroesThis teaching will challenge us to see from God's perspective who His true heroes are.2024-02-0741 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About ResponsibilityThis teaching is focused on satan's lies about responsibility.2024-02-0635 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About Gods WordThe Word of God tells us all we ever need to know about God. We don't need to experience sin to know what it is, the word of God will tell us all we need to know about it. The same goes for several other subjects.
The Word of God is perfect, permanent, precious, personal, practical, powerful and pre-eminent.
- Perfect: It contains no error
- Permanent: It has not and it will not and it cannot change
- Precious: It is to be cherished by God's people above all of...2024-02-0538 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About Rebellion And PatriotismThis study is focused on God's truth in the areas of Authority, Rebellion and Patriotism.
2024-02-0440 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About Authority And DisciplineThis teaching is focused on the sixth area of conflict between the lies of satan and the truths of God.
Satan's lies about Parents, Authority and Discipline.
2024-02-0232 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About The Roles Of Men And WomenThis teaching focuses on the scriptural role of men and women especially in a male-female relationship.2024-02-0238 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About The HomeThe plan of God is that the home is the center of society. That the parent-child relationship is the key to everything that is spiritual. That is the intent in the heart of God and that is why the home is so vital to God.
God has two basic reasons for protecting the home at any cost;
- God, from the foundation of time ordained that the principles of the faith must be passed on, one principle at a time, one day at a time, from one generation to the next. His basic agency of...2024-02-0137 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About Marriage And DivorceAnytime you bend the truth to believe a lie, you're not being led by the Spirit of God. God's standard hasn't changed.
Satan has two basic lies about morals and marriage;
- the first is that marriage is not necessary for a physical relationship.
- the second is that marriage is not permanent and can be terminated at will.
The first leads to the second.2024-01-3141 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About SuccessThis lesson deals with the third lie about God and His relation to men.2024-01-3034 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesGods Truth About The Character Of ManThis teaching is a continuation of the fourth attribute of a pure heart: a single-minded spirit.
In today's world, the enemy has launched an offensive in 5 particular areas of society;
- The media: which reports as natural, the standards of the world.
- Secular education: which teaches as reality, the standard of the world.
- Secular counselling: which reinforces as redeeming, the standards of the world.
- Entertainment: which demonstrates as fulfilling, the standards of the world and
- Organized religion: which accepts as progressive, the standards...2024-01-2940 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesWhat Is Spiritual AdulteryThis study is focused on the fourth aspect of a pure heart: single-mindedness. What does it mean to be single-minded?
This study answered the question with an exposition of James 4:1-10.
- The complaint. Verse 8. - Double-mindedness or spiritual confusion.
- The characteristics. Verses 1 - 3. Spiritual weakness.
- The cause. Verses 4 - 5. Spiritual Adultery.
- The cure. Verses 6 - 10. Spiritual Transformation.2024-01-2838 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesClear Conscience With MenThe heart is the real us where God sees us. It is the mind, it is what you really think when you think no one knows what you think. It is your feelings, your emotions.
How you really feel about God, your wife, neighbour and others.
And it is your will. What you would do if you could do without restraint or consequences what you chose to do.
Mind, emotion and will. That's the heart: the real you deep down inside.2024-01-2740 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesAm I My Brothers ConscienceThis teaching is focused on the third evidence of a pure heart: a clear conscience.
There are three areas in which our conscience must be clear the first one being no offence between us and God - we must have a clear conscience before God - the scriptures say void of offence towards God and void of offence towards men.2024-01-2640 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesClear Conscience Toward GodThis teaching covers the third attribute of a pure heart: a clear conscience.
It will be considered in two perspectives;
- a conscience defined and
- a conscience directed.2024-01-2535 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesMotives... The Love Of ChristThis teaching focuses on the second evidence of a pure heart - Pure motives.
While hypocrisy and motivation are closely related, they're really not the same. Hypocrisy deals for the most part on how we deceive others, motivation deals with how we deceive ourselves.2024-01-2441 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesHypocrisy: The Reason, The Results And The RemedyThe reason - Why is it we're such phonies?
The results - What effects does it have on our lives?
The remedy - Can we start today becoming more real?2024-01-2338 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesHypocrite Of The Year AwardThis teaching is a continuation of the sixth beatitude. A heart-shaped mirror that reflects back to us the condition of the real us.
It opens with the five evidences of purity in the heart. The characteristics of a pure heart:
A transparent life - the absence of hypocrisy.
Purity of motives - the ability to honestly evaluate why you do what you do so that you can progressively begin to reject unholy motivation.
A clear conscience - as the scripture said, is void of offence toward God and void of offence toward men.
Singleness of heart...2024-01-2243 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesBlessed Are The Meek Pt 2In this second part of the Blessed Are The Meek teaching, Pastor Russell expounded on Jesus' call in Mathew 11.28-30 using the picture, the paradise, the purpose and the power.2024-01-1337 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesRelative ExpectationsThis teaching is a continuation of the description of those who are poor in spirit. The poor man is aware of His relative insignificance. In this part, Pastor Russell dwells on what's ours and what isn't. What our rights are and aren't as heirs of the kingdom of God.2024-01-0637 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesRelative InsignificanceThis is the 4th part of Russell's teaching on the Beatitudes: Jesus's portrait of the beautiful life. 2024-01-0637 minDiscipleship Tape MinistriesThe Poor In SpiritWhat does it mean to be poor in spirit?
In this second part of the Beatitudes lesson series, Russell Kelfer expounded on what the mind of Christ was on the subject when He originally took the sermon.
Happy listening!!!2024-01-0336 min