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Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke - Official Pages Facebook-Notizen
13. March 2010 - 15:35
The coming of Christ was the beginning of the end for the devil. The spiritual advance goes on today. The armies of God form a new race of men and women, a holy nation, born again, presenting the Word of God with faith and prayer. We have new access to God, a new method of operation and new authority, “by a new and living way,” through Christ Jesus (Hebrews 10:20). Victory is assured. “The creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God ... For we were saved in this hope” (Romans 8:21, 24).
Why live as if we were not on speaking terms with the Lord? He dwells with us. We are not mere neighbors, living with a brick wall between us. The Lord has broken down the middle wall. We have been “brought near by the blood of Christ” (Ephesians 2:13). The Christian life means life with God, with everything centered on Him, God-orientated. The Holy Spirit gives us “utterance” to get through to God (Acts 2:4).
Christ’s model prayer ends with “For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory” (Matthew 6:13). God’s is the power, ours is the prayer. Prayer is necessary, not just nice – a vital part of the equation. Ezekiel the prophet pictures the currents of the Spirit as waters to swim in (Ezekiel 47). The Lord provides the waters, but we do the swimming. Without prayer we are not “in the swim” at all. Blessed? REINHARD BONNKE
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Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke - Official Pages Facebook-Notizen
13. March 2010 - 2:09
We are facing a tremendous fact. The Gospel is built into creation. Evangelism was not an emergency measure. It was not brought in to deal with an unexpected situation - a kind of plan B when plan A didn’t work out. It was in-built. When God said “Let their be light”, He also said “Let there be a Lamb slain”.
Now that is an awesome thought. When God created the world the Lamb was slain. It makes me look upon the world around me with different eyes. The Cross in creation! There are millions of facts, but the major fact is that when God created the heavens and the earth the Cross of Christ was put into it.
That was the expensive part. Making the stars and planets cost Him no more than a word of command. He commanded and it was done. The heart of God bubbled with joy and laughter as He flung into the void all the glittering marvels of galaxies and suns. Adam could look up and see the glory of the heavens ‘fretted with fire’. But sin was the potential threat. God knew sin would creep in like a mould across the fair face of the world. The only antidote was the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God. God spared nothing and gave His Son to make His creation complete. It was not an after-thought. The Cross of Christ was the price to pay for creation. It cost Him everything. It was the only thing that made Him groan. “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” Blessed? REINHARD BONNKE
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Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke - Official Pages Facebook-Notizen
12. March 2010 - 17:59
The Holy Spirit is committed to fulfil Christ’s promise “I will build my church”. That is His business. It is also our business and explains the whole vibrating scene of the ministry.
Nobody can destroy what God builds. Nobody can shut a door He opens. The Cross of Christ is the immoveable rock in the history of the roaring seas of mankind. Atheists and rulers have announced that God was dead or about to die. He hasn’t. They have! While inscribing Christ’s gravestone with RIP a hand has been laid on their shoulder and a voice has said “I am He that was dead and behold I am alive for ever more”!
We are late comers. The torch has been passed to us from the hands of heroes, scholars, martyrs, and millions of unknown believers. They look over the cloud of glory to encourage us. We dare not fail them. REINHARD BONNKE
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Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke - Official Pages Facebook-Notizen
12. March 2010 - 13:43
Here is an example from Luke’s Gospel (7:11-16). Jesus raised a young man, the son of a widow, from the dead in the village of Nain. We read that Jesus had compassion on the weeping mother. In the same region, the great prophets Elijah and Elisha also had raised mothers’ sons from the dead (1 Kings 17; 2 Kings 4). That was 800 years before.
Now notice this. In each case, the Bible says that Elijah and Elisha gave the son back to his mother. Jesus did exactly the same. He raised the young man from death, and gave him back to his mother. Christ knew the Scriptures, and it was His way of showing that, what He had just done for this grieving mother, He had done long before for other mothers. It was He who had raised those two sons from death. Jesus had been around in Israel long before His birth in Bethlehem, and had worked through Elijah and Elisha. Eight centuries made no difference to His power or compassion. Generation after generation has experienced Christ’s healing touch. We recognize His fingerprints, His typical way of working. He is like the noonday sun, yet He never switches off. His powerful sunlight kills the virus of evil. Jesus is with you now! He is your healer too. Be blessed. REINHARD BONNKE
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Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke - Official Pages Facebook-Notizen
12. March 2010 - 0:49
Ever since Satan rose up wanting the honours of God (Isaiah 14:12-15), his aim has been domination. Humans must have seemed an easy target to him, but in God’s eternal plan, “God has chosen the weak things to bring to naught the things that are mighty” (1 Corinthians 1:27). Satan continues with his aims to this day. Among his strategies is the occult with all its manifestations. Against all these dangers, the Christian carries the bullet-proof shield of faith.
There are Christians who seem more demon-conscious than Jesus-conscious. Satan loves to distract us with demon manifestations. But neither exorcism nor healing is the whole Gospel. We follow the example of Jesus in such things, and His mission was the Kingdom of God. Jesus gave us a warning, too; “In this rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven” (Luke 10:20). Actually, the occult is not the “root of all evil”, that’s “the love of money” (1 Timothy 6:10). 1 Peter 5 echoes this and tells us to, “Resist (Satan), standing firm in the faith…” The battle is in us. We overcome the devil by guarding ourselves with the shield of faith, throwing our trust upon God, giving the devil no place in our lives. “This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith” (1 John 5:4). Understood? Be blessed! REINHARD BONNKE
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