Cast: NAD Adventist
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Inside Story ~ Zimbabwe
Secret to Happy Home
By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission
Home was not a happy place for Hazel Moyo. Her father drank, and her parents argued frequently in Gwanda, a small town in Zimbabwe. Hazel longed to have a happy family.
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At the age of 14, Hazel made a decision that triggered a chain of events that would change her home forever. She started going to church. She saw other children heading to Sunday services, and she wanted to go, too. So, she took her 9-year-old brother by the hand and went.
After high school, Hazel saw a newspaper advertisement for Solusi University, a Seventh-day Adventist institution located about 2 ½ hours by bus from her home. She met university recruiters when they visited her town, and her father agreed to pay for her tuition.
At Solusi, Hazel soon joined a singing group and asked them many questions about the Sabbath. One of the group members, a young married pastor named Elyght Nyatanga, announced, “I want this girl to be my daughter”, he said. “Every Wednesday, I will pray and fast for her to know God”.
Five other group members liked the idea and, together with Hazel, joined in.
For three months, they prayed and fasted. Then Solusi University held a week of prayer, and Hazel was baptized.
When Hazel turned 23, Elyght presented her with Ellen White’s book “Messages to Young People”. Hazel was touched by the advice for happy families. She wanted a happy family.
“I learned how you approach an angry parent, how you address some of the issues that you have with parents, and how to show honor to your parents”, she said.
A favorite passage says, “There are many children who profess to know the truth, who do not render to their parents the honor and affection that are due to them, who manifest but little love to father and mother, and fail to honor them in deferring to their wishes, or in seeking to relieve them of anxiety”. (page 331).
Joy began to fill Hazel’s home as she followed the book’s advice.
Then during a school break, Hazel invited her parents to read the Bible and pray before going to bed. They agreed! The next evening, Mother asked Hazel to read the Bible and pray again. Soon the family began having evening and morning worship every day.
Happiness now permeates the home, and Hazel is praying for her family to be baptized.
“Now we are a happy family – the kind of family that I always wanted”, said Hazel, left.
Part of a 2015 Thirteenth Sabbath Offering went to Solusi University to double the size of its cafeteria from 500 seats to 1,000. Thank you for your mission offerings that allow Adventist schools like Solusi to work with the Holy Spirit to change families for eternity.
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Friday: Further Thought ~ Backslidden People
Further Thought: Ellen G. White, “Rejoicing in the Lord”, pages 115–126, in Steps to Christ.
“As he set before them God’s commands and threatenings, and the fearful judgments visited on Israel in the past for this very sin, their consciences were aroused, and a work of reformation was begun that turned away God’s threatened anger and brought His approval and blessing.
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There were some in sacred office who pleaded for their heathen wives, declaring that they could not bring themselves to separate from them. But no distinction was made; no respect was shown for rank or position. Whoever among the priests or rulers refused to sever his connection with idolaters was immediately separated from the service of the Lord. A grandson of the high priest, having married a daughter of the notorious Sanballat, was not only removed from office, but promptly banished from Israel. ‘Remember them, O my God’, Nehemiah prayed, ‘because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites’” – Ellen G. White, Prophets and Kings, pages 673, 674.
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Video giornale 12 dicembre 2019
È stata intensa e ricca di interventi la festa per i 40 anni di Radio Voce della Speranza. L’evento si è svolto a Firenze il 30 novembre. Le edizioni Adv sono state candidate al premio “Firenze nel cuore”. La candidatura è arrivata dal Quartiere 5 della città del giglio. E dall’Adv arriva un’altra novità. Ogni mese potremo trovare parole di incoraggiamento e speranza nel calendario 2020 realizzato per la prima volta dalla casa editrice avventista. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVTnbtTMVCI
Smart Love Seminar: Area 5 Banquet
Camp Hill Seventh-day Adventists church was a hive of activity, as for the two last weekends in November it was the location of the Area 5 Smart Love Seminar, sponsored by the North England Conference (NEC) Children’s Ministries Department. Pastor Joseph Philpot, a charismatic speaker and his wife Nordia Philpot were the guest presenters, whilst the Children’s Ministries core team were on hand to support. For two weekends the youth hall was transformed into something of a cosy living room where…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2019-12-12/smart-love-seminar-area-5-banquet/
5 New Members at Great Yarmouth Church
Three pastors were involved in the service. District minister, Mark Borrett, presented a fitting message on the significance of the baptismal ceremony to beginning a new life in Christ. His wife Norma had prepared a well-presented short video on the five individuals having peace and salvation in JesusSource: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2019-12-12/5-new-members-at-great-yarmouth-church/
Christlike Love Blends Heart With Heart
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. Ephesians 4:12.
God is love. The love of the Father and the Son is an attribute of every believer. The Word of God is the channel through which divine love is communicated to man. God’s truth is the medium by which the intellect is reached. The Holy Spirit is given to the human agent who works in cooperation with divine agencies. It transforms mind and character, enabling man to endure as seeing Him who is invisible. Perfect love can be enjoyed only through the belief of the truth and the reception of the Holy Spirit….
Christ prayed that His disciples might realize the importance of the love that He expressed by giving His life for the world. He desired them to understand something in regard to His infinite sacrifice. If they had more fully understood His self-sacrificing love, they would never have engaged in alienation and strife.
I urge all who claim to believe present truth to practice that truth. If they do this, they will have a stronger and more powerful influence for good. The world will see that the love expressed by believers is the central and controlling principle of Christ’s followers. Christlike love blends heart with heart. The truth draws men together. It brings into harmony and unity all who have an earnest, living faith in the Saviour. Christ designs those who believe in Him to develop and become strong by association with one another. All who work unselfishly in the Master’s service bear credentials to the world that God has sent His Son to this earth.
Although a company of Christians united in church capacity have not all the same talents, yet it is the duty of everyone to work. Talents differ, but to every man is given his work. All are dependent upon Christ in God. He is the glorious Head of all grades and classes of people associated through faith in the Word of God. Bound together by a common belief in heavenly principles, they are all dependent on Him who is the Author and Finisher of their faith. He has created the principles that produce universal oneness, universal love. His followers should meditate upon His love. They should not stop short of reaching the standard set before them. If the principles of Christianity are lived, they will produce universal harmony and perfect peace. When the heart is imbued with the Spirit of Christ, there is no quarreling, no seeking for the supremacy, no striving to be reigning lords.—Manuscript 46, March 31, 1902, “Unity a Sign of Discipleship.”
The Upward Look p. 104
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Prayer Requests
—-One for my neighbors who was notified about something with his Driver License that took place in the 90’s he cannot go to work until he gets it resolved . his name ie Jess. .he is a good Christian guy . M
—-My dog has been acting strange all day. stays out in the rain. and won’t come in. that is not like her. Normally she goes.. out and runs back in. and lays near the fire.I started to take her to her vet 20 miles away. but it was too foggy and it would of been dark by the time I got out and drive 20 miles back home I have cataracts that will be taken out next month. thanks.M.
—-Please pray for Tom who is in his 60’s and is in kidney failure and possible heart failure. thanks. c.
—-Please pray for Rita, whose son’s funeral is tomorrow. Rose
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Dear Friends,
When my children were little, we lived in Wilmington, North Carolina. One spring day we noticed that some birds were building a nest in the decorative trim on the front of the mobile home we were renting. It was an ideal place for a nest. It would have been almost impossible for the babies to fall out of the nest. We welcomed them as a learning experience for the children as the nest was low enough that we could lift them up and they could look at the eggs.
Soon the babies hatched, and from inside the trailer we could hear them begging every time the parent bird came with a bug or a worm for them to eat. As they grew larger, the cheeps became louder, but it did not bother us. It was so exciting to be able to sneak outside when both parents were gone hunting for food and look at the baby birds.
One day, however, as I sat down on the sofa to rest, I noticed some tiny insects swarming on the back of the sofa. It was against the wall that was directly behind the bird’s nest. To my horror, I realized that these were bird mites! I checked the wall and it also was swarming with mites. Suddenly the thought of having those birds so close was not at all pleasant. I wanted those mites out of my house.
Immediately, I went to the store and bought some spray that could be used to rid pet birds of mites. I sprayed the sofa, the wall, and the baby birds. That helped for a time, but since I could not spray the parent birds, the problem soon returned. Finally, the only thing that could be done was to get rid of the nest. Thankfully, by this time, the babies were nearly ready to leave the nest anyway and stayed in the bushes nearby where their parents continued raising them. Once those birds were gone, we were able to get rid of the swarms of mites.
How often we become infested with the “mites” of this world. Sometimes we enjoy listening to music that leads us away from Christ. Sometimes we watch TV programs or read books that fill our minds with wrong thoughts. Soon we become like what we have allowed into our minds. We become alarmed and try to change, but we cannot. The allurement of the music or of the story pulls us in once again.
How much we need the help of the One Who “was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” to get rid of the mite-ridden nest of sinfulness that we have allowed to stay within us. Heb 4:15 How much we need His cleansing power to “kill” every wrong thought and action! Our prayer must be, “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. . . . Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. . . . Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Ps 51:1-13
Praise God, He answers our prayer for help! “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.” Isa 1:18; Exe 36:26,27
May we each day allow our loving Saviour to cleanse us from all sin and put within us that new heart He longs for us to have. May we heed the admonition of Paul, ” Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Phil 4:8 May we continually “press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” is my prayer. 3:14
Rose
Source: 100 secondi – 14 dicembre 2019
Eccoci con il nostro appuntamento settimanale con notizie flash per le chiese avventiste italiane. In questo numero: – Bilancio sociale 2018 Buona visione! Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foExp52ykZk
John 1:10-12
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
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Lester – “It’s Not My Problem, It’s God’s Problem”
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This video features a couple of beautiful testimonies by Bro. Lester Bigelow. He is a committed servant who loves and serves the Lord with all his heart. He and his wife, Sis. Audrey, have dedicated many years of service to God’s Church. This video presents amazing ways the Lord heard their prayers and proved to be in control by providing resources through extraordinary ways to facilitate His message to reach others. Bro. Lester & Sis. Audrey simply trusted in God and He opened the doors! We are convinced that this video will inspire all of us to grow in our faith in God, believe in His leadership in our lives, and depend on Him alone. These testimonies encourage us to place God first in our hearts and promote faithfulness to God’s Cause among us.
Cast: British Columbia Adventist
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