Bread Breakers Ministry

And Grace Upon Grace...

 

Virtual message
By Rev Deb
2/16/11

"A TIME FOR GRACE"

"for of His fulness we have all received, and grace upon grace" (Jn. 1:14-16)
                                                                            
The Apostle John reveals a powerful insight about God's fullness and truth!
He writes that this fullness can ONLY be found in the WORD (Logos) that had been made FLESH, - Christ Jesus!

Verse 15 is a momentary side tracks from John's original thought concerning the "fullness" of the one begotten of the Father in order to add greater strength to his testimony.  Then in verse 16  John switches back to his original thoughts of the "fullness that we have received, and grace upon grace".

In this verse it is also noted that John is addressing strictly believers.  We knows this by the fact that John includes himself also as receiving "grace upon grace".

The word "UPON" is the Greek word anti and means "in the place of" or "in exchange for"  in other words, As a believer we receive, all the fullness of the New Testament covenant, because of all the fullness of deity that dwells in bodily form.  We can now receive God's blessings or grace one after another like the waves of an ocean.  The Lord's grace never runs out, because of the fullness that belongs to Christ!

DID YOU KNOW

                                                                                                                            4/16/12

Did you know-

That God was the first to ever reveal a "lie detector"?  Yes it's true!  In Numbers chapter 5 verse 19-22, Moses writes,

"The priest shall have her take an oath and shall say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray into uncleanness, being under the authority of your husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings a curse; ²⁰ if you, however, have gone astray, being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you” ²¹ (then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people by the LORD making your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell; ²² and this water that brings a curse shall go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh waste away.” And the woman shall say, “Amen. Amen.”"

Health Tip And God's Wonders In Everyday Food

Onions, designed by our Lord to resemble human cells. Research has shown that the properties in onions help clear waste materials from all the cells in the body.  The pungent odor even causes tears which washes the epithelial layer of the eyes... Garlic, is the onion's companion which also helps to eliminate waste and dangerous free radicals from the body.  What a wonderful God we serve!

 

A TIME FOR GRACE Part 2

Understanding God's Grace!
By Rev Deb
4/8/11
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Since grace is unmerited favor and what God does is based on this grace, we should not think that we could somehow obtain it through works (human effort). Works (human effort) and grace cannot work simultaneously! Wherever one is present there is the absence of the other.

I think that this is one of the hardest truths to understand. Many believers struggle with the same obstacle that the believers in Galatia did. The apostle Paul rebuked the believers in Galatia for thinking that salvation began with grace and then the right to keep it was to be earned (Gal 3).

 

King David was the most beautiful example of God's grace at work in the believer's life. David had sinned greatly for over a span of a year, he had committed adultery, he murdered Uriah the Hittite and many of the front line soldiers and yet king David could still say, "If you Lord should mark the iniquities (sins), O Lord, who could stand? BUT there is forgiveness with you, that you may be reverently trusted" (Ps 130:3-4).

King David was said to be by the Lord Himself, "a man after God's own heart". This was because he truly understood the GRACE of God. The Lord God LOVED him even though he failed miserably. And why? Because it is on the BASIS OF GRACE not on human effort! GRACE heaped upon GRACE!

Now that doesn't mean that we have a license to sin. It simply means that God saves us according to the finished work on the cross that His Son accomplished on our behalf! As sons and daughters of God the Father we are disciplined when we err, so as not to conform to the world, but rather to the image of Christ His Son!

Life Application Bible

	June 20, 2011
	Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the truth, if you have faith and don't doubt, you can do things like this and much more. You can even say to this mountain, 'May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and it will happen." Matthew 21:21, NLT
	Many have wondered about Jesus' statement that if we have faith and don't doubt, we can move mountains. Jesus, of course, was not suggesting that his followers use prayer as "magic" and perform capricious "mountain-moving" acts. Instead, he was making a strong point about the disciples' (and our) lack of faith.
	What kinds of mountains do you face? Have you talked to God about them? How strong is your faith?

HCL What is it and What does it do for your body?

 

Hydrochloric Acid, Your Alkaline Ace in the Hole July 14th, 201 It takes the right acid to create systemic alkalinity—the key to health, longevity, and weight loss. Yes, you heard that right. I’m talking about HCL here, the only acid your body actually produces on its own that is not a byproduct of metabolic waste. It may sound counterintuitive, but although HCL is an acid,  it’s the key to the proper alkaline/acid balance—which is seriously deficient in anyone beyond the age of 35. A lack of iodine, salt, B vitamins, potassium, and/or too much stress are common culprits of inadequate HCL production. But, acid into alkaline—how could that be?

Get Up and Fight

You Are A Warrior The greatest battle you may ever fight is the fight to forgive yourself. Remember, My beloved, all my chosen ones had to get up and receive My gift of grace to finish living out their faith. I gave My disciple Peter the strength to get up from guilt from denying he ever knew Me. I gave My anointed King David the grace to get up from the shame of committing adultery. I gave My apostle Paul the mercy to get up from pride and arrogance. I gave my warrior Gideon the courage to stand above his fears. The time is now to accept My forgiveness, and finish what I called you to do. Nothing can keep you down, because My power to rise again is in you. Love, Your King who helps you up whenever you fall       ~ "Even if godly people fall down seven times, They always get up." ~Proverbs 24:16~ By Sherri Rose Shepherd His Princess

How Do You Spell ROCK?

By Rev Deb                                                                                                            11/14/11  

 The word of God shows basically three different types or foreshadows.

1. the direct reference, 2. the implied, and 3. the interpreted type..”

In a way, types are a word studies.  Each object being studied serves as a metaphor to describe how the type should be understood.   

For example if we were to take the word ROCK in the bible it should first be looked at through the scope of a direct type.  A direct type will clearly reveal its intended meaning, such as Matthew 7:24.
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 

Here, Christ is saying that building our faith on Him is like building a house on a rock, both have strong foundations. Christ has the characteristic of strength that a rock has. He also implies that He is our house, the place where we will be safe. This is an example of a direct type.

Oh Ye Of Many Faith's ???

 What does the word "faith"mean in Scripture?  In order to answer this we must ask ourselves,  what does the author mean?  How is he applying this word?  And what is the message he wants his readers to receive from what he has said?  By doing this, we are approaching Scripture in what scholars call "Thematic Hermeneutics"

 

Joke Of The Month

One day, two planes land at an airport. President George W. Bush gets out of one. A man wearing a white robe gets out of the other and starts walking away. The Pesident catches up to him, and says, "Excuse me sir. Are you Moses?" the man keeps walking. The president follows him. "Excuse me sir. Are you Moses. The man keeps on walking. The president runs ahead of the man and stops him, repeating himself once more. "Excuse me sir. Are you Moses. finally, the man stopped and replied, "Yes, but the last time i talked to a bush i ended up wandering the desert for 40 years."

WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THESE ALLEGORIES?!!

Virtual Sunday Message                                                                                          7-26-09                                                                                                                                                                                   By Rev Deb

An Allegory Study

The term "allegory" simply means a symbolic or figurative story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral.  It is a figurative way of telling the plain language - in other words the allegory or figurative story is the same as the plain language.

Allegories are descriptions of one thing under the image of another
(Ex. Rom. 11:11-29; Jo. 15:111; Gal. 4:21-31). 

The Light Of The World!

By Ann Spangler

According to Jewish tradition, one of the names for the Messiah is "Light." How fitting, then, that Jesus is called the "Light of the world." John's Gospel portrays Jesus as the light that vanquishes the darkness brought on by sin — a darkness that ends in death. Christ has opened the eyes of a sin-darkened world to the truth of the gospel. We who believe in him have moved from darkness to light, from death to life. When we pray to Jesus as the Light of the world, let us remember that we are calling on the One who was so determined to draw us into his light that he spent nine months in the darkness of his mother's womb in order to become one of us. Let us ask Jesus, our Light, to make us shine with his reflected glory.

Out OF The Mouth Of Babes!!

 Isaiah 57:15
"I refresh the humble and give new courage to those with repentant hearts."
                             

I have learned that the most profound statements usually rise up out of the simplest questions.

I had asked, what I thought was a very simple question to a friend one day over lunch.  My question to my friend was "how long have you been a Christian?  Seems simple enough, right? Well. the answer I had received back from her was absolutely profound... Her answer to my question was - "well, I have been a Christian all my life, but I have only been a believer for about 2 years."

Just as Jesus said, "out of the mouth of babes..."

You see, what was so profound was the fact that she realized that to be a christian simply meant that she believed that God exists based on her up bringing and the stand our country has held since its conception, but to have a personal relationship with His Son (Jesus, Yeshua) was unequivocally another thing. 

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Blessing

Rev Deb

WHAT PURPOSE HAVE I?

2-7-2012

Rev. Greg Pep

Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy! I look to you for protection.

I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings until the danger passes by. I cry out to God Most High, to God who will fulfill his purpose for me. He will send help from heaven to rescue me, disgracing those who hound me.

 

 

My God will send forth his unfailing love and faithfulness. (Psalm 57:1-3 NLT) 

Regardless of What is happening in the world or our personal lives today, God has a purpose for our lives.  Don't worry about the fact that currently there are approx. 7 billion people on the planet leaving one to think who am I in God's sight?  Each of us are created unique not only in our outward appearances but more complex in our individual DNA makeup.  Man did not create us nor did we come into being through a evolutionary chain of events.  God's hand designed us to be who we are and with individual purposes.

Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus! What's Your Opinion?

 

Archaeological Evidence for Sodom: Recent Findings Shed Light on Discoveries of ‘Biblical Proportions’

 

By Brian Nixon
Special to ASSIST News Service

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (ANS) -- There are few events in a person’s life where one can say that they have changed a society’s understanding of history. For Dr. Steven Collins of Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque, this just may be the case.

 

Dr. Steven Collins monitoring the dig

Upon his recent return from the Tall el-Hammam dig in Jordan, Dr. Collins was full of fascinating facts and possible historic findings.

But before I get into his recent finds, allow me to review what occurred during last year’s dig.

In my article “Sodom Found?” I wrote, “According to Collins, ‘The traditional "Southern Theory" site of Sodom does not have the geographical parallels described in the [biblical] text. Namely: 1. One can see the whole area from the hills above Jericho (Bethel/Ai), 2. It must be a well-watered place (described "like Egypt"), 3. It has a river running through it (the Jordan), and 4. It must follow the travel route of Lot" (who went to the other side of the Jordan, eastward, away from Jericho.)’”

QUOTE by Charles H. Brent

God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Charles H. Brent

Today's good word!

4/26/11

Be An Optimist!

  Don't complain that rose bushes have thorns...
Thank the Lord that the thorn bushes have roses!

Food for thought!  Remember the "Rose Of Sharon" who bore the crown of thorns and hung upon a wooden cross to wipe away OUR pain!  Let's be thankful for what Jesus accopmlished on OUR behalf!

Blessings
Rev Deb

GOD'S MESSAGE THROUGH ART!

THE MELIPONA AND THE VANILLA BEE-N