How do you see obstacles? As objects that get in your way, or do you see obstacles as the way? Take a look at today’s message and see how the truth is that when God is leading you, these obstacles that keep getting in the way, are the way. === ► Subscribe for new videos: [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4fcqiHjODJfZpHIIysc-QA?sub_confirmation=1](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4fcqiHjODJfZpHIIysc-QA?sub_confirmation=1) ► Access free Bible studies: [https://itiswrittencanada.ca/bible-studies/](https://itiswrittencanada.ca/bible-studies/) ► Spotify Podcast: [https://open.spotify.com/show/7DRlZlGkvYb9ZWOB1oGASx?si=1a8cb04adc134a77](https://open.spotify.com/show/7DRlZlGkvYb9ZWOB1oGASx?si=1a8cb04adc134a77) ► Apple Podcast: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-is-written-canada/id1506471104](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-is-written-canada/id1506471104) === Follow us! ► Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/it_is_written_canada/](https://www.instagram.com/it_is_written_canada/) ► Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/ItIsWrittenCanada](https://www.facebook.com/ItIsWrittenCanada) === Mike and René Lemon are the hosts for It Is Written Canada, a nationwide television ministry that spotlights the life-transforming power of trusting God’s Word. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JIJXouq0nA
500 People Attend a Revival Event by an Adventist Church in Scotland
As God’s creations, the longing of our hearts can only be satisfied by His love. In the Scottish Mission, a record number of Adventists gathered to pray and worship the Lord, in search of spiritual revival. The “Operation Enduring Faith” event was a testimony to a church hungry for God. Learn more on ANN Weekly and find more news stories on our website, adventist.news. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvLP8JCJxJM
Being Salt and Light to the World (What Does Jesus Mean By This?) – Pastor Ted Wilson
In this episode, Pastor Ted Wilson talks about being salt and light to the world, what Jesus means by this, and why we should be such. Jesus said, "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot…" (Matthew 5:13). Salt not only brings flavor; it also serves as a preservative. When Jesus calls us to be like salt, He invites us to become agents in saving others. "Christians who are purified through the truth will possess saving qualities that preserve the world from utter moral corruption" (Ellen White, Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, page 35). To accomplish this mission, we must mingle with others through caring, personal contact. They must see Christ's love and righteousness in our lives, allowing the Holy Spirit to win their hearts as they see our Christ-like love for them. However, this does not come by our own power but with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Ellen White says, "Without a living faith in Christ as a personal Savior, it is impossible to make our influence felt in a skeptical world. We cannot give to others that which we do not ourselves possess. It is in proportion to our own devotion and consecration to Christ that we exert an influence for the blessing and uplifting of mankind" (Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, p. 36). Aside from salt, Jesus also compared His followers to light. "You are the light of the world," He said. "A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house." Then, He instructed, "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven" (Matthew 5:14-16). We have no light within ourselves. But when Jesus, the Light of the World, comes into our lives, "He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life" (John 8:12). As Jesus gives us His light, we must share His truth with other people. We are to "look upon every needy soul as our neighbor and the world as our field," Ellen White writes. "If the church of Christ were fulfilling the purpose of our Lord, light would be shed upon all that sit in darkness…Instead of congregating together and shunning responsibility and cross bearing, the members of the church would scatter into all lands, letting the light of Christ shine out from them, working as He did for the salvation of souls, and this 'gospel of the kingdom' would speedily be carried to all the world" (Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, pages 42-43). Are you ready to be like salt, preserving others for God's kingdom? Are you willing to go and let His light shine through you and on everyone you come in contact with? To learn more about this topic, read Ellen White's book Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing and download its digital copy at https://egwwritings.org/. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpO-bGdxbl8
Inside Story: Accepting the Word, Part 2
Accepting the Word, Part 2
By Andrew McChesney
Eulalia Rashid completed her goal of reading the Bible from cover to cover on the Pacific island of Saipan in three years. Based on what she read, she began to keep the Sabbath and eat a plant-based diet. An alcoholic for 37 years, she told her family that Jesus had taken away her desire to drink.
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But she had colon cancer, a medical diagnosis that was made before she started reading the Bible. Then she came down with painful shingles. The two illnesses caused terrible suffering. But her attention was elsewhere. She did not understand why she felt like she did not really know Jesus even though she had read the entire Bible. She earnestly prayed.
Abruptly, an inexplicable desire overcame her to call the Saipan Seventh-day Adventist Clinic. “I’m sorry, but this is not concerning the clinic,” Eulalia told the person who answered the phone. “I need to talk with someone from church. I’ve read the whole Bible, but I’m still hungry and thirsty.”
A short time later, a young pastor showed up at Eulalia’s door. The two hit it off immediately. Eulalia felt like she had known the pastor her whole life, and they began to study the Bible together. Eulalia asked to get baptized.
About a month before the fall 2019 baptism, Eulalia’s terrible pain suddenly vanished. A doctor had told Eulalia that shingles was untreatable and she would suffer for many months. But now the pain was gone. She touched her stomach and sensed that something else was different. A short time later, the doctor pronounced her cancer-free.
Today, Eulalia is a missionary to her neighbors and family of four children and 13 grandchildren on Saipan. She prays for them as she tends her luscious green garden, which she calls her prayer garden. She gives the fruit of her labors to neighbors. A room in her house has been set aside as a worship place where Adventists and others gather on Sabbath evenings.
Eulalia, 66, has no doubt that the psalmist was correct when he said, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105, NKJV).
“My hope and encouragement to other people is: Follow the Word,” she said. “Jesus is the Word. He is the way to everlasting life.”
This mission story illustrates the following components of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s “I Will Go” strategic plan: Mission Objective No. 1, “To strengthen Seventh-day Adventist institutions in upholding freedom, wholistic health, and hope through Jesus, and restoring in people the image of God” and Spiritual Growth Objective No. 5, “To disciple individuals and families into spirit-filled lives.”
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Friday: Further Thought ~ The New Testament Hope
Further Thought: Read Ellen G. White, “The Thessalonian Letters,” Pages 255-268; “Called to Reach a Higher Standard,” Pages 319-321, in The Acts of the Apostles.
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“The Romans,” wrote Stephen Cave, “were well aware of the Christians’ belief that they would one day rise bodily from the grave and did everything they could to mock and hinder those hopes. A report of a persecution in Gaul in 177 CE records that the martyrs were first executed, then their corpses left to rot unburied for six days before being burned and the ashes thrown into the river Rhône — ‘Now let us see whether they will rise again,’ the Romans are reported to have said.” — Stephen Cave, Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization (New York: Crown Publishers, 2012), Pages 104, 105.
This little object lesson in theological skepticism, however dramatic, is beside the point; it proved nothing about the biblical promise of the resurrection. The Power who raised Jesus from the dead can do the same for us as well, regardless of the state of our body. After all, if that same Power created and upholds the entire cosmos, He certainly could translate the living and resurrect the dead.
“‘Even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him’ [1 Thessalonians 4:14], Paul wrote. Many interpret this passage to mean that the sleeping ones will be brought with Christ from heaven; but Paul meant that as Christ was raised from the dead, so God will call the sleeping saints from their graves and take them with Him to heaven. Precious consolation! glorious hope! not only to the church of Thessalonica, but to all Christians wherever they may be.” — Ellen G. White, The Acts of the Apostles, p. 259.
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