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ken turner

Ken Turner

Sometimes God may tell you the best strategy to win your battle is to be still. While the Bible says to be doers of the word, people of good deeds, and be courageous, there will be monumental moments in your spiritual life when God says, “Step aside, be still, I’ve got this!” How do you know when to fight and when to be still? By being a good listener to the voice of God. He will tell you what to do. --Ken Turner; High Impact Minstries;​ ​Fight By Being Still – 2 Chronicles 20:17 5.20.23

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terry turner

Terry Turner

​“We’ve come to a point where, if we’re going to have revival in our country, then our convention will have to address the issue of racism that has been prevalent in our country since the 1600s and has kept us as a people divided. Until we can come together as a unified people of God … [and] deal with that issue, true revival can’t come, because it won’t provide the oneness that God requires of His people.......I believe that [racism] has been the nemesis and the shame of America, because when it came to difficult positions of where we stood, we didn’t have a clear understanding of biblically what racism was doing to us, even in the days of slavery. The Civil War was started over the issue of where the Bible stood on slavery, and even today, many people are still dealing with unregenerate hearts that have trickled down from the Jim Crow laws as well as from the days of slavery. Until our convention comes together, and really learns to reach across racial lines, and love our brothers of different ethnicities, revival won’t come, because oneness won’t be there in the body of Christ.”  -Terry Turner; Baptist Press 12.15.14

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lois tverberg

Lois Tverberg has been speaking and writing about the Jewish background of Christianity for the past 20 years. Her passion is to translate the Bible's ancient setting into fresh insights that deepen and strengthen Christian faith. Dr. Tverberg is cofounder of the En-Gedi Resource Center, an educational ministry with the goal of deepening Christian understanding of the Bible in its original context.

Lois Tverberg

The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end (Deuteronomy 11:10-12).The difference between Egypt and Canaan was that in Egypt the crops were irrigated by the labor of hand-watering, while in Canaan the land was entirely watered by rain, geshem in Hebrew. In the ancient Middle East, that had profound spiritual implications, because rain was understood to be a gift straight from God, whereas water drawn by hand was a seen to be human self-reliance without regard to God. Egypt and Canaan, therefore, were a contrast of security of human effort compared to dependence on God.     This was a spiritual lesson for the Israelites when they left the land of Egypt for the promised land of Canaan — that when God chose a land for his people, he didn't choose a place where they could have security because of their own efforts, he chose a land where they would be far more dependent on him and would need his presence watching over them to send them the living water of rain, geshem.
     God often desires dependence for his people rather than abundance, contrary to what "prosperity gospel" teachers may tell us. While we may not have the material wealth as if we lived in "Egypt," we know that God's eyes are on us from the beginning of the year to the end. --Lois Tverberg; Heartlight; Geshem: The Water of Heaven 8.15.23

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