Pastor Matt McFarland

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1 Kings 17:7-11   ⁷ And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.   ⁸ And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,  ⁹ Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.  ¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.  ¹¹ And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

Ephesians 4:13-14  ¹³ Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:  ¹⁴ That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

John 16:33  ³³ These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Romans 1:17  ¹⁷ For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

1 Kings 17:12-16  ¹² And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.  ¹³ And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.  ¹⁴ For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.  ¹⁵ And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.  ¹⁶ And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.

Hebrews 11:1  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Jehovah Jireh = God, the Provider
**We need to remember to look at the Provider, not the problem.**

Thankfully, I was able to say Yes because I’ve been taught:

Romans 10:9-10
(King James Version)

10:9  That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

(New International Version)
10:9 That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

No matter what translation you prefer, the Bible says this is the way to heaven.

For the next 3 weeks, we are holding a contest to promote “TheWordIsTruth.com”. In 2nd Corinthians 5:20, it says ‘we are ambassadors for Christ’, which tasks us with the responsibility to share the gospel or good news of Jesus Christ; to be a witness.  That is the main reason this website was started, to share the Word of God, rightly-divided with those who don’t have the ability to attend a Word church.  Our goal has always been to make the Truth of God’s Word available to as many as possible.  To ‘get the word out’ about this site, we need traffic, and that’s where you come in.

At the bottom of each post is ‘Leave a comment’ or ‘# comments’ and we would like for you to leave a ‘relevant’ comment after viewing a post or attending the service in person.  You can even make a comment as a response to a previous comment and get an online conversation about The Word started.  Comments help us gain ranking on internet search engines, which will help spread the Word, by making the site more visible.

We will hold 1 drawing a week for the next 3 weeks and anybody that makes a comment to any of the postings on the website (not the Facebook page), will receive an entry into the drawing for that week.  The drawings will be held at the GTOC on Sunday May 20, May 27 & June 3, 2012 and the winner each week, will receive an Amazon $10 Gift Card. You need not be present to win; we will contact you by email.

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Thanks for visiting and may God bless you.

Bishop Bill McFarland

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Verses referenced in this teaching:

Habakkuk 3:19  The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

Habakkuk 3:17-18  ¹⁷ Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:  ¹⁸ Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

Psalms 119:105  Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Romans 4:18-21  ¹⁸  (Abraham) Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.  ¹⁹ And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:  ²⁰ He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;  ²¹ And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Luke 15:11-32  ¹¹ And he said, A certain man had two sons:  ¹² And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.  ¹³ And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.  ¹⁴ And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.  ¹⁵ And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.  ¹⁶ And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.  ¹⁷ And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!  ¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,  ¹⁹ And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.  ²⁰ And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.  ²¹ And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.  ²² But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:  ²³ And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:  ²⁴ For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.  ²⁵ Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.  ²⁶ And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.  ²⁷ And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.  ²⁸ And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.  ²⁹ And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:  ³⁰ But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.  ³¹ And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.  ³² It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Thanks for visiting and may God bless you.

Today is the 61^st annual Observation of “National Day of Prayer”.  This year’s theme is “One Nation Under God”

Psalm 33:12 ¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

National Day of Prayer calls on all people of different faiths in the United States to pray for the nation and its leaders. It is held on the first Thursday of May each year.

I would like to take this time and ask that you Pray for our Military. Our Military personnel take an oath that ends in “So Help Me God”, I ask God to Help this great Nation.

Dear Heavenly Father,

I ask that you watch over our Military and our Leaders and protect them as they perform their duties and give them wisdom to make the right choices and I also pray for our enemies’, open their minds and allow a seed to be planted that will flourish into a mind set of Peace.

In Jesus’ name I Pray.

Amen

Pastor Matt McFarland

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Verses referenced in this teaching:

Hebrews 4:16  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Jeremiah 33:3  Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

1 John 5:14-15  ¹⁴And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:  ¹⁵And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Acts 12:5  Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

James 5:16  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent (energetic, passionate) prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Matthew 21:22  And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

Acts 12:12-16  ¹²And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.  ¹³And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.  ¹⁴And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.  ¹⁵And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.  ¹⁶But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.

1 Samuel 17:47  And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hands.

Thanks for visiting and may God bless you.

Pastor Matt McFarland

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Revelation 14:14-16  ¹⁴And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.  ¹⁵And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.  ¹⁶And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

Galatians 6:7-9  ⁷Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.  ⁸For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.  ⁹And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Galatians 5:19-21  ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,  ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,  ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Luke 6:38  ³⁸Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Thanks for visiting and may God bless you.

Pastor Matt McFarland

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2nd Timothy 4:1-5  ¹I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; ²Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. ³For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; ⁴And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. ⁵But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Acts 8:26-35  ²⁶And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. ²⁷And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, ²⁸Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. ²⁹Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. ³⁰And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? ³¹And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. ³²The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: ³³In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. ³⁴And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? ³⁵Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.

2nd Timothy 4:3-5  ³For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; ⁴And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. ⁵But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

2nd Timothy 2:15 -16  ¹⁵Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. ¹⁶But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

Thanks for visiting and may God bless you.

Pastor Matt McFarland

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Verses referenced in this teaching:

Proverbs 14:17-18
¹⁷He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated. ¹⁸The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 7:9
⁹Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Psalms 37:8
⁸Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

Ephesians 4:31-32
³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: ³²And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Colossians 3:8
⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Ephesians 4:26
²⁶Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

1st Peter 2:21-23
²¹For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: ²²Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: ²³Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

Ephesians 4:26
²⁶Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

1st Peter 2:21-23
²¹For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: ²²Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: ²³Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

Ephesians 4:23-32
²³And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. ²⁵Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. ²⁶Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: ²⁷Neither give place to the devil. ²⁸Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. ²⁹Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. ³⁰And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. ³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: ³²And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

2nd Corinthians 5:17
¹⁷Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Romans 6:17-18
¹⁷But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. ¹⁸Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Pastor Matt McFarland

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Genesis 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

Judges 13:3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

Luke 1:11-13  ¹¹And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.  ¹²And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. ¹³But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

Luke 1:30-32  ³⁰And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.  ³¹And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.  ³²He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

Luke 2:9-11  ⁹And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.  ¹⁰And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.  ¹¹For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

Mark 16:1-8  ¹And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.  ²And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.  ³And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?  ⁴And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.  ⁵And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.  ⁶And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.  ⁷But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.  ⁸And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

John 10:10-11  ¹⁰The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  ¹¹I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

Luke 22:41-42  ⁴¹And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,  ⁴²Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.