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Elisha’s Three Successive Different Prayers of Faith

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June 12, 2020
Nathaniel Fajardo

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Elisha’s Three Successive Different Prayers of Faith

(Based on: 2 Kings 6: 8-33; as told in Prophets and Kings, ch.21)

Before Elijah, only the second man after Enoch (the seventh of the godly patriarchs from Adam), was translated, God hand-picked Elisha to succeed, continue and expand on Elijah’s prophetic and reformation ministry. Elisha’s father was an affluent yet God-fearing farmer whose household were among “the seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to Baal during the time of well-nigh universal apostasy of Israel during the reign of king Ahab and queen Jezebel, his wicked and cruel heathen wife. See 1 Kings 19: 1-10, 11-20.

To underscore our focus today on faith versus fear, we cite the examples of two faith giants, Moses and Elijah, compared and contrasted to Christ’s temptations, who at their weakest moments, which were few were few and far in between yet momentous, allowed their faith to be temporarily overcome by fear. They yielded to the temptation to fear. Anytime and every time we yield t0 any temptation we sin against God. The following is quoted from Prophets and Kings:

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THE PRESENT TRUTH OF REVIVAL & REFORMATION

March 4, 2020
MID-WEEK MESSAGE FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:


THE PRESENT TRUTH OF REVIVAL & REFORMATION

“Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you always of those things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.” 2 Pet. 4:12. 

“We are in the great [anti-typical] day of atonement, when our sins are, by confession and repentance, to go beforehand to judgment [Dan. 8:14; Eccl.12:13,14].

God does not now accept a tame, spiritless testimony from His ministers. Such a testimony would not be present truth. His message for this time must be ‘meat in due season’ [Luke 12:42;2 Tim. 4:2-4] to feed the church of God. . . We must no longer remain on enchanted ground.

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Tracing the Advent Movement from Its Embryonic Origins

FRIDAY MORNING MANNA               December 7, 2018 

Nathaniel Fajardo                       Email: [email protected]

Tracing the Advent Movement from Its Embryonic Origins

God still works in mysterious ways. This past Sunday evening, as I sat in front of my computer, my eyes wandered on its own towards a faded, soft-bound book squeezed between larger books arranged in my computer’s book shelf. (I am old school, preferring to read directly from the book itself where my fingers can feel its pages and hear the soft, rustling sound as I flip through them. Sorry. E-books deny me this satisfaction).   

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Nothing Has Changed  

Pope Francis (L) celebrates an open-air mass at Lobitos Beach, near the Chilean northern city of Iquique, on January 18, 2018. Pope Francis will close his visit to Chile on January 18 with the open-air mass near Iquique, before leaving for Peru on the last leg of his South American trip. / AFP PHOTO / Vincenzo PINTOVINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images

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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER SEVEN – Part 26

Nothing Has Changed  

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK:

“Pope Shocks Chile by accusing sex abuse victims of slander”

 – News headline, Nicole Winfield/Associated Press, published Jan. 18, 2018 at 6:07.

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Revival, Repentance, and Reformation – Part II Will All America be Saved?

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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE- Part XXXIX

 

Revival, Repentance, and Reformation – Part II

Will All America be Saved?

Michael Thompson of WorldNetDaily (WND) wrote 09/13/2013: “The movement was born in a commentary by Joseph Farah, CEO and founder of WND in April. He explained that while millions flocked to churches and houses of prayer after the terror attacks, ultimately, America did not change its course. “As Jonathan Cahn pointed out so effectively in ‘The Harbinger,’ and ‘The Isaiah 9: 10 Judgment,’ he said, ‘America prayed after Sept. 11, 2001. But America did not repent.”

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Revival, Repentance, and Reformation

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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE- Part XXXVIII

Revival, Repentance, and Reformation

II Chronicles 7: 14 is the key Scripture of the founders of the 9/11 National Day of Prayer and Repentance movement that many mainstream Christians hope will precipitate an end times spiritual awakening in America.

One of the leading causes for not comprehending, thus misapplying God’s Word is failing to be like the early Berean Christians whom Paul and Silas commended as being “more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.” Acts 17: 20, 11.

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The Union that the Third Angel’s Message Warns of

The Third Angel's Message

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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE- Part XXIX 

The Union that the Third Angel’s Message Warns of

 We wish to remind the reader of the engine that drives this column from its inception, with a quote from the first of my favorite authors:

     “The Holy Spirit’s work is to guide into all truth [John 16: 13, 7-15]. When you depend on the Word of the living God with heart, and mind, and soul, the channel of communication will be unobstructed. Deep, earnest study of the Word under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, will give you fresh manna, and the same Spirit will make its use effectual . . . Then it [the soul] will be led into all truth.” – Ellen G. White, With God at Dawn (Devotional), p. 122.

Rev. Kevin Annett, M.A., M.Div., a modern-day Martin Luther in courage, advocate for truth and  liberty, and similarly hated thus, wrote:

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What Evangelical Protestants Owe the German Princes?

The Diet of Spires by George Cattermole

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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE- Part XXVIII

What Evangelical Protestants Owe the German Princes?

 

   To think that God acts in history by the intermediary of political actions of man, revolutionary or conservative, is the complete opposite of hope.- Jacques Ellul.

Ellen G. White in her book Great Controversy (1911 ed.), “Protest of the Princes” ch. 11, quoted below, reminds the remainder of evangelical Protestants of the epic history of the heroic struggle the vastly outnumbered German princes put up in refusing to compromise with Rome in the sixteenth century so that in this 21st century, Christianity is still enjoying religious freedom and free access to God’s Word where over a thousand years these were treated as heresies punishable by some of the worst forms of torture invented through the Office of the Inquisition.

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