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Testimonies of God’s Faithfulness

December 6, 2023August 7, 2018 by Jan Magiera

Testimonies of God’s Faithfulness The word faithfulness in Hebrew is EMUNAH and the action of the verb root is “to lean on.” There are 3 things that are testimonies or proof that God is faithful: 1) the heavens and the earth, 2) his Word, and 3) his covenants and promises. “There is no shadow of…

Dressed for Success — The Armor of Victory

December 6, 2023May 21, 2018 by Jan Magiera

Dressed for Success Part 1 The Armor of Victory Seminar Ephesians 6:10-11a: Be strong in our Lord and in the immensity of his power and put on the whole armor of God… This is the introduction to the seminar in San Diego on May 26-17, 2018. We are to BE strengthened and not rely on…

Adoption and Abba Father

December 7, 2023April 16, 2018 by Jan Magiera

Meaning of Adoption KJV Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, There are three different cultures that need to be reviewed in order to understand how this phrase in Ephesians 1:5 should be translated. In the Jewish culture, adoption…

Walking in Power and Authority

December 6, 2023February 26, 2018 by Jan Magiera

Walking in Power and Authority We have been given both power and authority to use! Power is the “dunamis” of the spirit and is like the generator or dynamo of a dam that makes hydro power. Our job is to open the water gate to move the turbine. When we use our authority, then signs…

Prayer (From Things to Come)

December 7, 2023February 20, 2018 by Jan Magiera

Prayer E.W. Bullinger FROM Things to Come, January 1904, Volume 10, No. 7 Prayer is the breath of the New Nature; as the Word of God is its food. In the natural world of physiology, we do not concern ourselves with the phenomena of digestion, but with the obtaining and partaking of our food. It…

Answers to Prayer — A Study of Habakkuk

December 6, 2023January 29, 2018 by Jan Magiera

Answers to Prayer – A Study of Habakkuk January 14, 2018 Click Here to Play or Download There are five keys to answered prayer in Luke 11:5-13 1. We need to seek 2. God always gives Holy Spirit answers to those who ask 3. Ask the right questions and change the question if…

Jehoshaphat: A Lesson for our Times

December 7, 2023January 2, 2018 by Jan Magiera

Jehoshaphat: A Lesson for our Times by E.W. Bullinger The history of Jehoshaphat is written not only in the Book of Chronicles, but in the Book of Kings : and it is well to be quite clear as to the difference between those two books ; or at least between Samuel and Kings on the…

The Name of Jesus

February 28, 2024September 18, 2017 by Jan Magiera

The Name of Jesus The word picture in Aramaic for the name of Jesus is “the power of change completely experienced.” He is our helper (Exodus 2:17). In order to move from distress to safety or deliverance it requires the help of an outside party which is why Jesus is our Savior for eternal life…

Strengthened in Our Lord

December 6, 2023August 30, 2017 by Jan Magiera

Strengthened in Our Lord God made Jesus Christ Lord in the resurrection (Romans 1:4) and because of that he appointed him the-Son-of-God-in-power. We now as sons of God can be strengthened in the immensity of HIS authoritative power. That is the source of our strength (Ephesians 6:10). Then we walk in that power and exercise…

Living the Mystery in the House of God

December 6, 2023July 17, 2017 by Jan Magiera

Living the Mystery in the House of God You are the temple of God because the spirit of God dwells in you. Love is the mortar and Christ is the complete foundation. This illustration of the mystery is another way for us to understand the unity we have with God and each other. It is…

Responses to the Resurrection

December 6, 2023June 20, 2017 by Jan Magiera

Responses to the Resurrection Fellowship Teaching April 16, 2017 Each one of the people who first saw Jesus alive and heard about the empty tomb had a choice of whether to deal with their emotions or not. There are wonderful passages in the gospels of the disciples being set free from sorrow, grief, confusion, guilt…

Walk According to the Spirit

December 6, 2023June 20, 2017 by Jan Magiera

Walk According to the Spirit Fellowship Teaching June 11, 2017 God is holy and God is Spirit and he has given us the gift of who he is, which is also the fulness of Christ. Now we get the privilege to choose to walk according to that spirit or according to our flesh. The illustration…

Cheerful Givers by George Mueller

December 7, 2023March 24, 2017 by Jan Magiera

I have been fifty years by God’s grace, acting on the principle of Christian giving according to the Scriptures, and I cannot tell you the abundance of spiritual blessing I have received to my own soul through acting thus; that is, seeking to be a cheerful giver; seeking to give as God has been pleased…

Psalm 1

November 27, 2023February 24, 2017 by Jan Magiera

1 Psalm 1 1 B 1 Blessed is the man who does not walk [live] in the way [manner, custom] of the wicked ones and does not stand in [remain in, occupy himself with] the thinking [counsel, opinion] of sinners and does not sit on the seat [dwelling place, thus company] of the mocking [scornful,…

Living Water

December 6, 2023February 3, 2017 by Jan Magiera

Living Water Fellowship Teaching December 4, 2016 30 min. Falls of En Gedi Living water, in contrast to a cistern, springs up from underground and it is an unending source of life at the places where the water comes up. Jesus Christ is the living water to us by way of the spirit, and we…

Establishment of the Offering

December 7, 2023January 31, 2017 by Jan Magiera

Establishment of the Offering The first offering recorded in the Bible is from Abel and Cain. It is recorded that at the end of days (meaning the end of the week) Cain and Abel brought something to the Lord, Yahweh. The end of the week might imply that it was on the seventh day, however…

What God Did Beforehand

December 7, 2023January 31, 2017 by Jan Magiera

There is a small word in Aramaic, qedam, which means “beforehand.” This word is used in combination with other verbs as an adverb to tell the time in which an action took place. It is very revealing to see these combinations of what God did beforehand in light of our calling. Many of the places…

Table of Figures and Emphasis

December 27, 2023January 13, 2017 by Jan Magiera

Table of Figures of Speech ID Figure English Name Category Definition Emphasis Notes 1 Allegory Allegory Illustration Continued comparison by representation or implication Points of comparison Allegory is broader term in Semitic languages than Western. 2 Anadiplosis Like Endings & Beginnings Repetition Repetition of the same word or words at the end of one…

Samples of Figures of Speech from the Sermon on the Mount

December 7, 2023January 7, 2017 by Jan Magiera

Samples of Figures of Speech from the Sermon on the Mount REPETITION Blessed [are] they, 5:3-10 “Truly I say to you” or “I say to you” 5:18, 20, 26, 28, 32, 34; 6:2, 5, 16, (these three are as a refrain) 25, 29. Truly I say to you: a very solemn phrase used by Jesus…

Appendix 2 from Aramaic Peshitta New Testament