God of the impossible - ONE FOR ISRAEL

SHALOM! I think God loves to surprise us. To stack impossible odds against himself, and then knock them down. Consider the Exodus, the birth of Isaac, and of course the resurrection! What thoughts and feelings might Yeshua have experienced when he revealed himself to Mary outside the tomb, and to his friends? We are seeing the risen Jesus perform the impossible time after time here in the Middle East. The Son of David is working out His plans to reach the nations in a wonderful way, and it is always with wonder that we see Muslims respond to the truth of the gospel. Dr. Erez Soref, President of ONE FOR ISRAEL  NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD One of the new Muslim background believers we are in contact with recently made a dramatic escape from a very dangerous situation in the Middle East. He has already traveled to two different countries, and is seeking asylum in a place where he will be free to live and express his faith as a follower of Jesus. He arrived at a safe house where a room was prepared for him, in the home of a family who love Israel, and there was an Israeli flag on the wall. "Does the flag bother you?" His host asked. "No, I have family there!" He replied. Despite growing up in an environment full of fury against Israel, there was no hatred in this man's heart. He knows that we love him and have been praying for him without ceasing over the last couple of years that he has been in touch with us, learning more and more about Jesus. He even counts us as family. We feel so privileged that he sees us this way, to the degree that it would override such strong sentiments that have been instilled since birth. You can also imagine that we are feeling the weight of responsibility for the safety of this young man, his family, and for all the others in similar situations that we are in touch with. Again we ask for your prayers for him and his family, and for wisdom for us, as we hold out the gospel in dangerous and dark places. Their decision to follow Jesus can cost them everything, and we are very mindful of that. But our God is worthy, and mighty! Find out more... Jewish, Arab and international students from our Bible College enjoying the first field trip of the school year! GOD'S WORD IS COMING OUT FROM ZION... IN ARABIC!!! Our Arabic evangelism is reaching far and wide - we have had Muslims not only from Gaza and the West Bank responding, but also new believers in Jordan, Iraq and Syria. More than that, we now have a Muslim background believer from Syria who has started to study with our Bible College, via distance learning! He used to study the Qu'ran for many hours a day, and now hungers to know the word of God in the same measure. It is wonderful that Israel is in pole position to help, with born-again Arabs as well as Jews here in the Body of Messiah. Our team are trained and ready to serve in a region that is hungry for God. About our Bible College FOLLOW US  ‌  ‌  ‌

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"God of the Impossible in 2016" Robert Hotchkin - The Elijah List

"God of the Impossible in 2016"

Robert Hotchkin, Maricopa, AZ

The Elijah List

He is "El Shaddai" – God Almighty, God All Sufficient, God All We Need

Here we are on the threshold of 2016, and I want you to know that the Lord is setting us up for some incredible breakthroughs, increases, and transformations.

A couple months ago when I began to pray into the New Year, I heard the Lord say that He wanted to re-introduce Himself to His people as "El Shaddai." I knew that this was one of His names, and that it could be translated as "God Almighty" or "The All-Sufficient One"; but after hearing from the Lord, I was intrigued and I wanted to dig deeper. Why did He want to re-acquaint us with Himself as El Shaddai? What was He up to? What does this mean for the new season we're entering?

When I did a word study on "El Shaddai," I discovered that there were many times when the Lord announced to His people that He was "God" or that He was "All Mighty," but there were only a few times when He declared that He was "El Shaddai – God Almighty, the All Sufficient One!" What was most intriguing to me was that the handful of times that He did this, profound things happened: Seemingly impossible things that had been severely hindered, delayed, or even abandoned, suddenly were renewed, revived, and released.

The first mention of "El Shaddai" in the Bible is in Genesis 17:1, when the Lord appears to Abram to remind Him of the promise He has made to give him an heir and a line of descendants who will inherit all God has blessed him with. What's really interesting is the context in which this happens. (Photo via Pixabay)

This promise of the Lord goes back to Genesis 15 when He first told Abram He would give him a son (15:4). Abram heard the word of the Lord and believed (15:6). This was a big step of faith for Abram as he and his wife, Sarai, had not been able to conceive up to that point. God told Abram that this was a "covenant" deal (15:18) – affirming that no matter how difficult or improbable, Abram could count on the promise because he could count on God. Amen! 

But as time passed and God did not move according to the schedule Abram and Sarai were expecting, doubt and impatience began to creep in. Can anyone relate?

In Genesis 16, Sarai and Abram decide to hatch their own scheme to bring forth the promise of God (16:1-3). Never a good idea. What results is years of headaches, heartaches, and hassles in their household, their lives, and beyond (see Genesis 16:4 – Genesis 17:1). Abram's and Sarai's scheming took a situation that was difficult and improbable and turned it into a complete mess that was seemingly impossible. This is the context in which God shows up and declares that He is "El Shaddai" – God Almighty, God All Sufficient, God All We Need. In other words – God of the Impossible!

The end result of this announcement is that the promise of God is back on track, and Abram is forever changed. He goes from being "Abram, Exalted Father" to "Abraham, Father of Multitudes." Do you see it? When God announces that He is El Shaddai, increase and transformation break forth!Messes become messages. Tests become testimonies. The impossible becomes possible. This is who El Shaddai is. This is what El Shaddai does. He is not limited by the past, by our mistakes, or by our insufficiencies, and He wants us to know that when we walk with Him, neither are we!

The Lord Did Not Show Up to Chastise, But to Invite

The Lord did not show up in Genesis 17 to punish Abram, to chastise him, or to announce that his blunders had disqualified him from the promise of God. No! He showed up to declare that He was "El Shaddai," and to invite Abram to walk with Him.

In the realization that He is God Almighty, God All Sufficient, God All We Need (17:1), He showed up to declare to Abram that He was God of the Impossible, and that He was well able to deal with the situation as it was (17:2). He showed up to invite Abram to rest in Him, trust in Him, and to rely completely, utterly, and totally upon Him (17:4). Abram got the revelation of El Shaddai (17:3). He let go of trying to bring about the promises of God in his own strength and by his own means. He let go of the "flesh" and grabbed hold of God afresh (Genesis 17:11-12) – and he was increased and transformed because of it!

Do you have a mess in your life? Are there promises of God that seem like they are just never going to happen? Do you sometimes fear that your inadequacies or mistakes have disqualified you? Are you wanting to give up? Don't! (Photo via Freeimages)

We are entering an hour when God desires to reveal Himself to you as "El Shaddai" – God Almighty. God All Sufficient, God All You Need – God of the Impossible! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). He is the Lord, and He does not change (Malachi 3:6). 

What He did for Abram, He can do for you. Begin to welcome and worship Him as El Shaddai, and watch as He shows up and does the impossible for you!

Prayer Directives

Let's pray and declare that:

1. Jesus Christ is El Shaddai – God Almighty, God All Sufficient, God All We Need!

2. What is impossible with man is possible with God (Luke 18:27).

3. The Lord will show up in notable and remarkable ways for His people in this new year, bringing breakthrough, increase, and transformation. Messes will become messages, and tests will become testimonies!

4. A new level of faith will be released to the Church. We will not be moved by what we do or don't see, or what we do or don't feel. We will stand firm on the promises of God, knowing that He is well able to bring them about in His perfect timing!

5. We will trust in the Lord, and rest in His goodness and glory!

6. We will not fear, but only believe! (Mark 5:36)

Robert Hotchkin
XP Ministries
Email: robert@xpministries.com
Website: xpmedia.com/channel/rhotchkin

Robert Hotchkin ministers with Patricia King and XP Ministries. He fervently believes every Christian is a miracle-working explosion of the Kingdom waiting to happen. His preaching, teaching, and ministry inspires Believers to grab hold of their restored relationship with the Father through the finished work of the Cross and walk the earth as Jesus did – destroying every work of darkness everywhere they go! Rob is a passionate lover of Jesus Christ, and that passion is truly contagious! 

He ministers with strong faith, releasing revelation, prophetic decrees, healings, miracles, and the love of God. He is a true carrier of the glory and revival. People have been healed, refreshed, set free, and empowered through his life. He believes for Heaven to impact lives and regions everywhere he goes.

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Here’s Why Not to Give Up - HEIDI BAKER, Spirit-Led Woman

Heidi Baker

Here’s Why Not to Give Up

3/30/2014 HEIDI BAKER

Sometimes we feel foolish dreaming the sorts of dreams God puts in our hearts. Our truest dreams always look too big for us.

We may be afraid of how bizarre we will look trying to achieve them. We might start out trying to paddle a kayak alone to islands many miles away only to find the task much harder than we ever knew. Nonetheless, we can be confident that He who began a good work in us will bring it to completion (Phil.1:6).

Scripture says Paul prayed for the church to have patience and endurance (Col. 1:11). Sometimes we give up too quickly. I might have given up when my kayak idea turned out to be laughably inadequate. I might have given up when our first real boat sunk and we found ourselves shipwrecked.

Never mind the boats—I might have given up on Mozambique in general many times before that. I might have given up when people shot at me or when gangs were chasing me. I might have given up when we were in deep psychological distress after friends of ours in the Congo were dismembered with machetes in a church. I might have given up when I was reported in the newspapers as a drug dealer because of mistaken results at a lab, where they were testing some vitamins that were donated to us. I might have given up on the fifth, sixth, or seventh occasion when crowds began to stone me for preaching about Jesus.

Most especially I might have given up when my husband, Rolland, got cerebral malaria and suffered a series of micro strokes that almost killed him. Though he was eventually healed, for two years he lost his short-term memory and was totally unable to function in ministry or administration.

The only reason I did not give up any of these times was because I know the One who placed His promises within me. When you know Him intimately, you never give up, because He is worthy!

You have to wait a long time for some promises. I was 16 when the Lord told me I had a destiny in Africa, Asia and England. It took me over 20 years before I reached Mozambique and began to step into that piece of my calling.

Truthfully, I am being overshadowed more now than I have ever been before. At times it is still very uncomfortable. There are days when I feel terribly stretched as God’s promises grow within me, but even those days are a joy because I long to birth what God has given me.

Continue to carry your promises faithfully. Nurture them as they grow. It does not matter how old you are. It is never too late. The Lord wants to take you beyond who you are and what you can do. God is the One who can take a barren woman in her old age and make her fruitful for the first time, just as the angel told Mary.

“Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1:36-37).

Two things will come from being overshadowed. The first is a particular promise from God that is naturally impossible to fulfill. The second is a general promise from God that nothing is impossible with Him.

Our God is the God of the impossible. He can take a barren ministry and breathe His Spirit into it. Even in your old age, He can breathe over you and cause you to bear a ministry, a promise, or a revelation—a beautiful gift that will carry His glory to the ends of the earth. He can take the most barren and broken life—even the kind of life that has aborted its own promises many times—and in it plant a glorious new promise, along with all the strength needed to carry it to full term.

We have a mighty calling to carry God’s heart and to reveal His glorious love to the world. None of us can fully imagine or expect what the Lord has for us or what the journey to its fulfillment will look like. I don’t think Mary was expecting to carry a child before she was married or to give birth to the Son of God. She could never have anticipated the magnitude of the call or the price she would have to pay.

If we are wise, we will make the choice to say yes to God many times a day. We say yes to taking the time to worship, to having a positive attitude, to releasing people, to stopping for people when we might be in a hurry, to trusting God for a seemingly impossible financial situation. Our yes is a daily choice. There is a daily sacrifice and a daily joy as we participate in God’s dreams for this world. As we do this, we participate with Jesus in the sacrifices He too made for the joy that was set before Him. What an awesome privilege!

Adapted from Birthing the Miraculous by Heidi Baker, copyright 2014, published by Charisma House. In this book Heidi Baker weaves true stories from her life and ministry together with the biblical story of Mary’s pregnancy with Jesus to show you how to become a catalyst for God’s glory here on earth. Learn to believe for the impossible and watch God do the miraculous through you. To order your copy click here.

Prayer Power for the Week of 3/31/2014

This week choose to say yes to God every day. Declare that you will submit to His will in your life as He reveals and unfolds His promises. Thank Him that His plans for you are perfect and that you can trust Him to do the work He promised. As we enter the Easter season, pray that hearts will turn toward Him as His story is told through church services, television programs and motion pictures. Ask Him to use you however He can to carry His love and message to those in desperate need. Remember those who have lost loved ones, either through natural disasters such as mudslides and fire or the Malaysian plane crash. Pray that God would accomplish His purpose through Israel, the spread of the gospel worldwide and our own nation. Col. 1:11; Phil. 1:6; Jer. 29:11.

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