I'd really intended to get back to our series on Dealing With Fear today, but just felt to continue the break a bit longer. During the past three weeks we've talked about the Eskdale Miracle.
We're going to run long today as we finish up this story. Sorry about that, but when Holy Spirit goes to work, we have long since come to the place of not thinking about time.
Let's get right to this story. I'll back up just a bit for you to get the context of what unfolded next.
When I first shared this story back in 2005, it was the first time I'd publicly shared many of the details of an event that destroyed some of the religious doctrines that that had boxed me in and restricted my spiritual growth.
Throughout more than 50 years of ministry, the Lord has opened some unusual doors of utterance to me in some pretty unusual places. I can truthfully say that walking with the Lord has been a nonstop adventure!
We start again with II Timothy 1:7, amplified from the Greek text: "For God has not endowed, or committed to our being and existence the spirit (the very breath and speaking forth) of fear, timidity and faithlessness; but of miraculous power, might and strength, and of agape love, and of a disciplined mind (under control and not subject to "flights of fancy")." (RAC Translation and Amplification)
We have a lot of ground to cover today, so without any preliminaries, let's get underway again today with the verse from II Timothy 1:7, amplified from the Greek text: "For God has not endowed, or committed to our being and existence the spirit (the very breath and speaking forth) of fear, timidity and faithlessness; but of miraculous power, might and strength, and of agape love, and of a disciplined mind (under control and not subject to "flights of fancy")." (RAC Translation and Amplification)
Today's Coffee Break is a departure from our new series on Dealing with Fear. Because we celebrate Independence Day as a nation, I just felt to make some comments and observations and requests to all of you on this 4th of July. We will return to our series on fear next week.