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Living This Out!
Disarm The Day #1 - What Is Disarm The Day?
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When we Disarm The Day we are learning to come into the Light of Christ (I John 1:7) and receive whatever ministry He has for us. His Word and Spirit have the right to judge us and minister Christ's life to us.
"But if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin." - 1 John 1:7
10 to 15 minutes to reset your compass any time of the day. Jesus Christ wants you to live clean, forgiven, and victorious through the Holy Spirit and His Word.
Disarm The Day #2 - God Is Always Ready To Receive You!
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There is NEVER a time or place that the God of Love will not receive you if you turn to Him. Psalm 139 tells us that there is no place we can go to escape His Presence. Turn to Him at every time of need, no matter how sinful or dark and you will find God's love and power at work on your behalf.
Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. [Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is [too] high, I cannot attain to it. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me. If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night," Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike [to You]. - Psalms 139:4-12
10 to 15 minutes to reset your compass any time of the day. Jesus Christ wants you to live clean, forgiven, and victorious through the Holy Spirit and His Word.
Disarm The Day #3 - His Commandments Are Not Burdensome
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Our attitude towards the commandments of God are a great, real-time indicator of the condition of our hearts. Victory is found when the commandments of God are not a burden to us. The Holy Spirit will help us as we repent of any resistance we have towards God's Word.
"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world-- our faith." - 1 John 5:3-4
10 to 15 minutes to reset your compass any time of the day. Jesus Christ wants you to live clean, forgiven, and victorious through the Holy Spirit and His Word.
Frequently Asked:
What Is Aftercare?
For NBF, aftercare is the spiritual support someone needs upon release from corrections, or as they are coming out of addiction.
Do You Need Volunteers?
We need Titus 2 Brothers and Sisters. We also need leaders willing to launch new groups and provide Children's ministry at NBFW meetings.
What Are Titus 2 Brothers And Sisters?
Based on Titus 2:1-8, these are Christian men and women who attend and participate in Discipleship Groups. Primarily, they focus on building relationships, and become "passive mentors." These men and women do the work of modeling how to follow Christ.
What Is NBFW?
NBFW is New Beginnings For Women. This is branch of the ministry is for the women who love a New Brother: mothers, wives, girlfriends, etc. It also provides aftercare support for women coming our of corrections or addiction.
What Is Your Success Rate?
God's success rate is 100%! Every man who gets connected and stays connected, stays out of jail and out of his lifestyle of addiction and sin. In the past 12 years we have worked on this mission field, this has been true for countless men. It is God's work, and He does it well.
Why Should My Church Get Involved?
7.3 million Americans are in prison, or on parole or probation.–that is one in 31 adults. The Body of Christ cannot ignore these statistics, or the vast mission field in our own backyard.
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From the Blog:
Sometimes the things we think we know the most about can be the things we actually know the least about. The Cross of Jesus Christ is just one of those things. It’s something we’ve read about and heard about, many of us, all our lives. One consequence of this familiarity, is a diminished sense of needing to know more. And so the ancient Christian discipline of meditating on the Cross rises to its deserved place of prominence only periodically through history, usually during times of persecution.For those in bondage to sin, (isn’t that everyone?) meditating on the Cross is one of the most powerful means of finding permanent freedom and transformation for the soul -i.e., sanctification.
I just want to encourage you to do one thing today: ask God.
Ask Him for anything and everything. Ask Him for whatever it is you desire or need. Ask Him for the thing you would never admit to wanting, but long for desperately in your heart. Just ask Him. Go ahead!
Honestly, I feel really strongly about this. I really believe we ask too little of God, and try too hard to make things happen for ourselves. I’m not opposed to us trying to make things happen for ourselves, and sometimes that’s the way to do it, even as we pray for the Lord’s help in our doing.
However, too often we just don’t think God cares about our problems. We don’t think we deserve His help.
This is a testimony account of our transistion into prison ministry that I wrote sometime in 2004. I recently found it on a previous website that we used to publish: Living Arts Ministries.
In June 2004 I began to sense God was bringing a change to Living Arts Ministries. I shared this with Caroline and together we began seeking the Lord for wisdom and direction. What we did not know then was that God had already been directing us, gently conforming us to His will and preparing us for some major changes. The first change would come in August, when we relocated to Haverhill, Massachusetts. Every circumstance leading to this move made it abundantly clear God wanted us in Haverhill and was asking us to make a dramatic lifestyle change.
A day after we moved in, we knew God must have blinded us to things our flesh would not have been able to overcome. That week we discovered that we were now living smack dab in the middle of the worst neighborhood in town.
11 reasons why Jesus will come back before the TribulationFrequently I am asked to explain or defend the end-time view of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Church. For that topic, lots of Bible verses, readings and references rattle around in my skull. I can extract each like a Powerball out of an air machine and present it to the inquiring mind, but never in a linear, comprehensive manner in which I particularly appreciate. And so, this article is my attempt to organize my brain on the Pre-Tribulation Rapture view. You’re welcome to come along on the journey!
Satan is a mobster - a hit man - and he wants nothing more fervently than to rub you out. He’s a murderer, a liar, a gangster, and he’s got a contract out on your life. His final days as god of this world system are spent manically battling the angels of God for the souls of men. And if he can’t have your soul, he’ll settle for desecrating your call as an ambassador of the Kingdom of God.
As children of light, we have no business even dabbling in Satan’s kingdom. We have no business sleeping with the enemy in compromise and sin. Everything he lures us with is a lie. It’s darkness. It’s cursed. Church of the living God, we’ve got to wake up and declare, “No more! My life of compromise is over.
It hits everyone at some time in their life. The big question. Why am I here? What is the purpose of my existence? I for one refused to let go of the question until I got an answer.After observing the seeming futility of human existence in the face of war and hatred and famine and disease, I became fiercely unwilling to acquiesce to the “just go along with it and don’t ask questions” mentality of the world. I was not created a lemming and I would not live my life as if I had been, fated to tumble off some unseen abyss into a nevernever land of meaninglessness. If there was no transcendent meaning to life, I did not want to live it. To do so would make life a sad joke played by a ridiculous excuse for a God. On the other hand, if God did exist, I was going to get an answer from Him on this most important question and, hopefully, fulfill what it was He created me to do.
Last newsletter, we dealt with the fundamental question of why evil exists. Now we want to examine what, in the face of evil, we are meant to do with our lives here on earth.
The most astounding thing about the subject of Christians drinking alcohol is the narrow focus that both sides of the discussion tend to stay on.
The spiritual root of drinking is one of authority, and friendship with the world; neither of which do I ever hear discussed. The very nature of an intimate relationship with God is one of increased presence, resulting in increased holiness. This conversation on whether a Christian should drink, or if drinking is sin, is shallow and weak. The real question should be:
“Why aren’t Christians more Christ-like?”
We are called out from among them, to be separate. Friendship with the world is enmity with God, and brings us under the authority of the world and its spirit. The spirit that drives alcohol is undeniably of the world, and under the authority of Satan.
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