Didn't think I had anything to share - Episode 337
Speak Life Church
I thought I didn't have anything to share with you this week but I do. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13 God is faithful. Prayer for you. Love you, Rev. Kenn Blanchard
info_outline
Put a little spring in your step
Speak Life Church
Spring revival Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. This means that our knowledge of men can no longer be based on their outward lives (indeed, even though we knew Christ as a man we do not know him like that any longer). For if a man is in Christ he becomes a new person altogether—the past is finished and gone, everything has become fresh and new. All this is God’s doing, for he has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ; and he has made us agents of the reconciliation. God was in...
info_outline
Are You Waiting for a Sign? (Episode 335)
Speak Life Church
Signs and Wonders. Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. - John 4:48 Supernatural Signs: The Bible narrative also includes supernatural events following Jesus’s death: Earthquakes: The ground shook, breaking open tombs (Matthew 27:51). Torn Veil: The veil in the temple tore from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51), signifying access to God through Jesus. Resurrection of Saints: Dead saints briefly returned to life, testifying further to Jesus’s divine identity3. Presence of false christs and false prophets (Matt. 24:5, 11)...
info_outline
Why Did He Come? (Episode 334)
Speak Life Church
Going heavy on this Resurrection Sunday. Why did He come? For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Luke 19:10 A challenge to do better. J.O.Y. Great Commission: Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Greatest Commandments: But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the...
info_outline
He Sees You. (ep. 333)
Speak Life Church
El Roi. God sees what you have overcome and dealing with still. He loves you. Psalm 56:8, “You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.” (NLT) Proverbs 15:3, “The LORD is watching everywhere, keeping his eye on both the evil and the good.” (NLT) After Lot had gone, the Lord said to Abram, “Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west.15 I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.16...
info_outline
Thou Shalt Not Kill?
Speak Life Church
God says, “You shall not kill,” but He kills. Does He contradict Himself? No.
info_outline
Don't Cuss (episode 331)
Speak Life Church
Exodus 20:7 speaks about cursing God. (Don't do it) But what about our language to everyone else? 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. We honor God’s name (v. 7). The command to not take God’s name in vain is more than simply a prohibition of cursing Him. Profanity not only reflects a heart darkened with hate, but it shows an utter disrespect for a holy God. The commandment also means that we are not to take God’s name and talk in a way that dishonors us as His reps....
info_outline
Put Jehovah First
Speak Life Church
Exodus 20: 3-6 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Watch out there now. Love you,...
info_outline
A look at the Book of Job (episode 329)
Speak Life Church
Giving Links Thank you for listening, downloading and supporting the Speak Life Church and this podcast. Zelle - [email protected] You can support the ministry by check or money order by sending it to Speak Life Church, 14713 Kent Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 Rev. Kenn Blanchard 202-437-1972
info_outline
There is no normal life, it’s just life.
Speak Life Church
“There's no normal life Wyatt, It's just life. Get on with it.” ― Val Kilmer as "Doc" Holliday To give them hope, dig them out of a funk or to help them heal from some shame or regret they may be experiencing. You cannot ever judge someones journey and experiences against another's for no two are exactly the same from conception to death. So stop looking to the next guy to gauge what you have or where you are in life because you can't compare the two as they are not the same things. There is no normal life, there's just life. the Bible reminds us that all...
info_outlineWhat motivates you to do what you do?
I love to fish. If I fish in freshwater, I take a smaller rod and lighter line. I use artificial bait that looks like a bug or edible thing to a fish that might find its way by accident into the water.
In saltwater, I have to go heavier. Anything is possible but I am not capable of anything so I have to moderate.
We are all fishing for something.
Earthly accolades, wealth, something of value, women, men, forgiveness, acceptance, to belong, for love,
- Men pleasers- Ephesians 6:6 Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
- Gold/wealth- Matthew 23:17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
- Treasures-Proverbs 10:2 - Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- Lust of the flesh- Galatians 5:16 - This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
What’s in your tackle box?
If all you are catching is hell? You might want to change your bait. You might want to change your tackle. You might want to mend your nets.
Simon Peter, and Andrew had already joined him, now he was asking the sons of Zebadee.
Matthew 4:21 Going on from there He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them.
James and John, quit fishing for the wrong thing. So what are you fishing for?
Nets were used back in this time for everything.
I am fishing for the people with a mind for God. I am fishing for the hurt and the lost people of God. I am fishing for the one. The mini, not the mega. I am not fishing for attention, recognition, accolades, or compliments.
I am fishing to bring families back together. To bring wives back to their husbands, husbands back to Christ. I am fishing to bring parents back to parenting.
I am fishing to let young men, be men. I am fishing to make old men wiser, revered and loved again. I am fishing to put you back in right order with God.
And I will do it by hook or by crook. Fishing hook or shepherds crook.
Only you can bring back your crazy kids. Pastor can’t do it. if you kids have strayed, its your fault, own up to it, and minister there first.
Oops, just lost some folks. You were with me until I went there.
Deuteronomy 32:46
And he said to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
Ephesians 6:4
And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord
So what are you fishing for?
(4 points) Fishing requires patience. It requires the right equipment. It requires commitment. It requires knowledge.
- Patience (Rom 5:4) And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation
- Equipment -That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. (2 Tim 3:17)
Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. Ephesians 4:12
- Commitment Proverbs 16:3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.
- Knowledge A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. (Proverbs 14:6)
Wisdom and knowledge are granted unto you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before you, neither shall there any after you have the like. 2 Chron 1:12
Mark 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
What’s in your tackle box?
“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God…” Ephesians 4:11-13
Giving Links
Thank you for listening, downloading and supporting the Speak Life Church and this podcast.
Zelle - [email protected]
https://www.patreon.com/speaklifechurchpodcast
You can support the ministry by check or money order by sending it to Speak Life Church, 14713 Kent Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
Rev. Kenn Blanchard
240-200-0713