A WORD TO ENCOURAGE US FROM EVANGELIST REINHARD BONNKE....

JESUS has time for nobodies, unknowns and common people, that the Pharisees said were cursed because they did not know the law. But the Lord could testify ‘The poor have the Gospel preached unto them’. He was their champion. Like the Psalmist said ‘The lifter up of my head’. Whatever the mental capacity of the woman with the issue of blood, He saw in her the capacity for the greatest things in the world, faith and love. ‘Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung round his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.’ Matthew 18:6. He had no time for Herod the King, but the first person He went to when He left the grave was Mary Magdalene, because she loved Him. That is an ordinary thing to say about Jesus – which makes it so wonderful! It is so common for Him to lift people out of their littleness into greatness, and make apostles of fishermen. One doesn’t have to read between the lines of the Bible or delve into the Greek or Hebrew grammar. It is written large in God’s book – Jesus loved the unloved and unlovely. It is so usual, so normal and so workaday for Him. He picks up with drab uninteresting people living grey little lives and makes them special. In fact the whole Bible is full of it. God choosing the unlikely people, the youngest sons, the barren women, not many mighty and giving the nameless a name, putting His arms around them and acknowledging them. That may be even you. God bless you. REINHARD BONNKE

Why always doubt the Word of God? Why not doubt the lies of the devil? Why not having doubts about doubts and deciding to believe and trust Jesus? If you do, you’ll soon receive heavenly assistance from the Holy Spirit. Faith moves the mountains which doubt creates. God bless you today. REINHARD BONNKE
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One man had no intention of having "R.I.P." (rest in peace) on his grave in Egypt. (Gen 50: 22-26). The mummy of Joseph was intended for export. Joseph knew the promises of God and what the future would hold, and he was determined not to be left out of it. Joseph, who died at the age of 110, wouldn't even be found dead in Egypt. He was the man “who lived tomorrow”. "By faith Joseph ... gave commandment concerning his bones" (Heb 11:22). He didn't want to lie quietly in the grave when the Red Sea and the River Jordan opened. When carried through the wilderness, Joseph’s bones did not rattle in the box, they rejoiced. There was more life in his bones, than in those who carried them. Joseph’s eye of faith saw the faithfulness of God fulfilling His word, that word which He had given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob long before. In fact hundreds of years before it happened, Joseph shouted with the armies of men who, yet to be born, would bring down the walls of Jericho. Faith renews our youth. A man of faith, at the age of 110 years, is younger than a doubting teenager. So many of our young are "old" and futureless. They are the defeated crowd whose song is that of the Beatles: "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away ... I believe in yesterday." Without God and without hope.” Where are the men of Joseph's battalion today? Faith gives life to the fearful. Faith mocks at that king of terrors, death, and terrifies he who has the power of death, even the Devil. "O death, where is thy sting?" (1 Cor 15:55). Ready? REINHARD BONNKE