Coffee With The Lord

Here’s a “Sip” that will challenge and build your faith!

“A man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and asked Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. He said, ‘Sir come down before my child dies!’  Jesus said to him, ‘Go; your son will live.’ The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.  As he was going, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering!  So he asked them the hour when he began to get better… they told him, ‘Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.’  The father knew that was the hour when Jesus told him, ‘Your son will live.’  And he himself believed, and all his household.” (From John 4:46-54)

There are people we look at and wonder if they would ever be open to the things of God – wealthy people, powerful people, important people, or famous people. Others that we may put in that category are those who may be evil and opposed to the things of God (they may even be a bit frightening). It may, however, simply be a loved one, a family member, a neighbor or an employer. At any rate, we more or less, write them off as beyond being influenced for Christ… Let me tell you, Daniel 4 blows that line of thinking (you owe it to yourself to read the whole chapter)!!!

Daniel 4 is really an “open letter” from Nebuchadnezzar himself, king of Babylon, the most powerful man in the ancient world and about an experience he had with the Living God. Here it is in his own words…

“King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth… It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. How great are His signs, how mighty His wonders! His Kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His dominion endures from generation to generation… At the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored Him who lives forever. For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and He does according to His will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand or say to Him ‘What have you done?’ Now I Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are right and His ways are just; and those who walk in pride He is able to humble!”

Wow! Builds your faith doesn’t it! Believe me, God ways to reach people like that! In this case He used Daniel to help facilitate it (check it out – Daniel 4) … Hey, He may just use you or me to help reach someone like that with the gospel as well!

A new season of “DISCOVERY Bible Study” hosted by Dr. LeRoy R. Bartel is just around the corner! Our first online session will be held Tuesday, September 13 (Zoom invitations will go out September 6)! Get the date on your calendar NOW and sign up to participate! It will be held “Live” via “Zoom” weekly on Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. CDT/CST (but each Bible study session will also be taped and available online as well).

If you are not already signed up for “DISCOVERY Bible Study” from last season, message your preferred e-mail address to 972-921-9317 or via e-mail at LeRoyBartel@gmail.com and we’ll get you enrolled and on the distribution list for the weekly Zoom sessions this season.

We call it “DISCOVERY Bible Study” because good Bible study – enriching, satisfying, life-changing Bible study, is “MORE than just a talking head!” DISCOVERY is built right into the experience! It’s engaging! It draws you in! It encourages you to DISCOVER and apply the truth in the Bible for yourself! Another name – the “technical name” – for this kind of Bible study is “Inductive Bible Study!”

Dr. Bartel, longtime Bible professor at SAGU (Southwestern Assemblies of God University) and former National Director of the Division of Christian Education for the Assemblies of God, will “teach”/guide/facilitate each session.