16 GLAD TIDINGS AUGUST 2024 anchorwoman Deborah, who speak with such authority that they will predict weather patterns and at times they will change as God's people pray. We must pray for those who are now connected in the news media. Another great shaking is coming upon them. Let's pray they will be shaken into the Kingdom through what is happening on the earth. And pray for the promotion of those whom God is bringing in to report His perspective upon these world events. In closing, I sense the Lord saying, "Watch and Pray the News with All Eyes on Me!" u BILL YOUNT NEWS ANCHORS - con’t Exodus 14:14: "The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent."There will always be trials and tribulations in life, but God will carry you through every storm in your life. And give you strength to make it. … For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2:14 GLORY: GET LOADED The Old Testament word for glory is kabod. It simply means heavy - as in heavy or loaded with the goodness of God. In 2 Chronicles 5:13-14, when the people praised God saying, “The Lord is good and his mercy endureth forever,” the glory filled the temple. “Heavy” filled the house and the priests could not stand up. The manifest presence of God filled the temple. Today we can be so filled with the glory of God that we get loaded with His goodness and saturated with the life of God. RICHES IN GLORY: TAP INTO THE TREASURY Whenever we say glory, we are including all the goodness of God. We are carriers of His glory and this is why satan hates us and tries to hinder us. But he cannot succeed because, “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world,” 1 John 4:4. There are five references that use the words riches in glory. 1. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. (Ephesians 1:18) 2. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. (Ephesians 3:16) 3. To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Colossians 1:27) 4. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory. (Romans 9:23) 5. But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in gloryby Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19) Our prayers, our faith, and our giving allow us to access to God’s treasury and the riches of His glory! ACCESS INTO THE GLORY BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God. Hebrews 10:12 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. Hebrews 10:19-20 Only through the blood of Jesus can there be remission of our sin, presenting us holy and unblamable in His sight (Colossians 1:22). Hebrews 2:10 says, “For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons untoglory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” We can now go into the glorious presence of God with boldness and confidence. Whenever the blood of Jesus is acknowledged and honored, the Holy Spirit, who is the glory of God, shows up. Through the blood we have access with boldness and confidence into the presence of God where we experience all the goodness of God. When we receive by faith, the free gift of righteousness, God’s glory (His light and brightness) is manifested. That’s when we are filled with joy, we experience change, we are healed, and every need is supplied! u HIS GLORY - con’t ... limitations, Julie had an undeniable hope. She says, “I never felt as if I was alone. I always felt the Lord’s presence in my whole walk through my recovery, and from the minute I woke up, he was there with me. I felt that because of the experience that I had.” While in the coma, Julie had been given a glimpse of heaven. “It was so vast, and there was no real beginning or end to it. It was just perfect peace. I knew that I was there in that place, because I was dead. I knew that, and I was not afraid. I was not afraid to be there. I was happy. It was like I was home, and I wanted to stay there.” She remembers her deceased grandmothers suddenly standing with her. “My grandmother said, ‘No, you can’t come with us. You have to go back.’ I said I can’t go back. I’m not physically okay, and I was pointing to my left side that was paralyzed. She said, ‘Your body will heal.’ I felt right then like someone had come and put a warm blanket around me and their arms around me, and I knew right then that I was in the presence of our Lord. I felt it. I knew it, and then she said, ‘Go back and be happy.’ Then the next memory I had was waking up in the rehab hospital.” Julie was alive, but her road to recovery was difficult, both physically and mentally. “I kept thinking and saying, ‘God, why did You not let me stay there? Why did You bring me back to this body that doesn’t work and I have to struggle so hard to do everything?’ To wake up in a body like that, like I did, it was so incredibly disabled. I don’t know how I would have ever gotten past it if I did not have the experience of hope that He shared with me through my grandmothers.” After two months of physical therapy, feeling and movement slowly returned to her left side. Her progress was nothing short of miraculous. Dr. Shea confirms, “With the type of injury that Julie had, she had a four percent chance of surviving. Most people that have a four percent chance of recovery, if they survive and they live longer than six months, very often are in a nursing home in severe disability or persistent vegetative state. Her recovery is not due to medicine. Her recovery is some miraculous event -- some miracle that happened because theoretically she should have died.” Julie progressed so well that in 2007, 10 years after her accident, she trained for and finished an indoor triathlon. “When people hear I did a triathlon, they say that’s impossible,” Julie says, “but I believe nothing is impossible, because I have been in front of the Lord. I feel like anything is possible.” Today Julie shares a message of hope and purpose with others who have suffered similar injuries. She says, “I want people to know that truly inside themselves that they matter. There is nothing that is ‘less than’ about them, because they’ve gone through those circumstances.” She has also written a book about her experiences and recovery entitled Go Back and Be Happy. “I have more purpose here on earth to fulfill, and I take that very seriously. The Lord is with me, which I knew, but it just makes it so much clearer that He has been with me through all of it and that He has an intention, a good intention, for my life. I feel a much closer personal relationship now that He really has a definite purpose for my life, for this story and for this gift of hope.” u TO HEAVEN - con’t The church's ability to overcome the world does not depend on our own strength, but on the strength of Jesus. QUOTE FROM JOYCE MEYER “Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we're not going to quit. When we're bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I'll never give up! God's on my side. He loves me, and He's helping me! I'm going to make it!” Joyce Meyer
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