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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake God worked mighty miracles through the disciples, beginning with healing a man, forty years crippled and infirm from birth. He had begged for money. Instead, they healed him. For that, Peter and John were arrested. To the priests, the healing was an act of resistance. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, says, “The greatest cause of anemia in women is fibroid tumors.” (Read more below.)
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Special Prayer was offered for “T”, who has fibroid tumors, a friend and daughter who has mental challenges, and Rosalee, along with her family. Please keep them in your prayers. Please also pray for Enith, who is in critical condition with bone marrow cancer and must decide about chemo therapy. Continue to pray for Evelyn who has knee problems and Diane who needs a kidney transplant. Also pray for Sister Annette’s mother-in-law (who is declining in health and strength) and sister-in-law, who’s kidney is failing. Please continue to pray for the Fortson family. Pray for Ray, Brittani, our sister with a brain tumor, and the juice feast groups in Indianapolis. Thank you.
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – August 13 – 19
Worship Sunday – God’s Purpose for His Church; Monday – The Training of the Twelve – Tuesday – The Great Commission; Wednesday – Pentecost; Thursday – The Gift of the Spirit; Friday – At the Temple Gate; Saturday, the Sabbath – A Warning Against Hypocrisy [All topics per The Acts of the Apostles by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – God’s Purpose for the Health Message; Monday – How to Diagnose Disease; Tuesday – The Blood, Part 1; Wednesday – The Blood, Part 2; Thursday – The Blood, B-12 and Folic Acid; Friday – The Blood and Fibroid Tumors
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Words of Encouragement
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
1 John 4:17 Herein is love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this present world.
For Heaven’s Sake…
“Having committed themselves to a course of opposition to Christ, every act of resistance became to the priests an additional incentive to pursue the same course. Their obstinacy became more and more determined. It was not that they could not yield; they could, but would not. It was not alone because they were guilty and deserving of death, not alone because they had put to death the Son of God, that they were cut off from salvation; it was because they armed themselves with opposition to God. They persistently rejected light and stifled the convictions of the Spirit. The influence that controls the children of disobedience worked in them, leading them to abuse the men through whom God was working. The malignity of their rebellion was intensified by each successive act of resistance against God and the message He had given His servants to declare. Every day, in their refusal to repent, the Jewish leaders took up their rebellion afresh, preparing to reap that which they had sown. . . . AA 61.2
“The wrath of God is not declared against unrepentant sinners merely because of the sins they have committed, but because, when called to repent, they choose to continue in resistance, repeating the sins of the past in defiance of the light given them. If the Jewish leaders had submitted to the convicting power of the Holy Spirit, they would have been pardoned; but they were determined not to yield. In the same way, the sinner, by continued resistance, places himself where the Holy Spirit cannot influence him. AA 62.1
“On the day following the healing of the cripple, Annas and Caiaphas, with the other dignitaries of the temple, met together for the trial, and the prisoners were brought before them. In that very room and before some of those very men, Peter had shamefully denied his Lord. This came distinctly to his mind as he appeared for his own trial. He now had an opportunity of redeeming his cowardice. AA 62.2
“Those present who remembered the part that Peter had acted at the trial of his Master, flattered themselves that he could now be intimidated by the threat of imprisonment and death. But the Peter who denied Christ in the hour of His greatest need was impulsive and self-confident, differing widely from the Peter who was brought before the Sanhedrin for examination. Since his fall he had been converted. He was no longer proud and boastful, but modest and self-distrustful. He was filled with the Holy Spirit, and by the help of this power he was resolved to remove the stain of his apostasy by honoring the name he had once disowned. AA 62.3
“Hitherto the priests had avoided mentioning the crucifixion or the resurrection of Jesus. But now, in fulfillment of their purpose, they were forced to inquire of the accused how the cure of the impotent man had been accomplished. ‘By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?’ they asked. AA 63.1
“With holy boldness and in the power of the Spirit Peter fearlessly declared: ‘Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.’ AA 63.2
“This courageous defense appalled the Jewish leaders. They had supposed that the disciples would be overcome with fear and confusion when brought before the Sanhedrin. But, instead, these witnesses spoke as Christ had spoken, with a convincing power that silenced their adversaries. There was no trace of fear in Peter’s voice as he declared of Christ, ‘This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.’ . . . AA 63.3
“The principle for which the disciples stood so fearlessly when, in answer to the command not to speak any more in the name of Jesus, they declared, ‘Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye,’ is the same that the adherents of the gospel struggled to maintain in the days of the Reformation. When in 1529 the German princes assembled at the Diet of Spires, there was presented the emperor’s decree restricting religious liberty, and prohibiting all further dissemination of the reformed doctrines. It seemed that the hope of the world was about to be crushed out. Would the princes accept the decree? Should the light of the gospel be shut out from the multitudes still in darkness? Mighty issues for the world were at stake. Those who had accepted the reformed faith met together, and their unanimous decision was, ‘Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power.’–Merle d’Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5. AA 68.1
“This principle we in our day are firmly to maintain. The banner of truth and religious liberty held aloft by the founders of the gospel church and by God’s witnesses during the centuries that have passed since then, has, in this last conflict, been committed to our hands. The responsibility for this great gift rests with those whom God has blessed with a knowledge of His word. We are to receive this word as supreme authority. We are to recognize human government as an ordinance of divine appointment, and teach obedience to it as a sacred duty, within its legitimate sphere. But when its claims conflict with the claims of God, we must obey God rather than men. God’s word must be recognized as above all human legislation. A ‘Thus saith the Lord’ is not to be set aside for a ‘Thus saith the church’ or a ‘Thus saith the state.’ The crown of Christ is to be lifted above the diadems of earthly potentates. AA 68.2
“We are not required to defy authorities. Our words, whether spoken or written, should be carefully considered, lest we place ourselves on record as uttering that which would make us appear antagonistic to law and order. We are not to say or do anything that would unnecessarily close up our way. We are to go forward in Christ’s name, advocating the truths committed to us. If we are forbidden by men to do this work, then we may say, as did the apostles, ‘Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.'” AA 69.1
(This study is based on chapter 6, “At the Temple Gate” in The Acts of the Apostles (AA), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake…
Caused by excess estrogen and too many toxins in the body, fibroid tumors are typically benign and attach themselves inside or outside of the uterine wall. Symptoms include abdominal pain and excessive bleeding, which leads to anemia. The excess estrogen and toxins are caused by eating a diet of animal flesh, which typically is also pumped with estrogen to induce rapid maturation to meet product demand.
As diet is at the root of the problem, diet is also key to the cure. Pastor Flemons suggests beginning with a 10-day juice feast of green vegetables. A base of cucumber and celery as half of the juice, should be topped with a fourth of the juice being kale and cilantro, with the final fourth being fresh squeezed lemon juice, a Granny Smith apple, and ginger.
But there is no one panacea in the world for anything, he says. The lifestyle itself must change. That begins with relying on God for healing; eating a plant-based diet with the help of TOR’s cookbook; getting fresh air, rest and exercise; and using self-control to avoid all harmful things and only doing in moderation those things that are good. But it also means drinking a sufficient supply of good water daily. A sufficient supply is half your body’s weight in ounces. It means getting at least 20 minutes of sunlight daily. It means persevering by never giving up and finally, giving to others in need. That is the REFRESHING Way to overcome fibroid tumors and avoid a hysterectomy, which is the industry’s most unnecessary surgery on women.