We are pleased to announce that Doc will be featured on the Born Word Radio Station, based in Kampala, Uganda, every Thursday and Friday evenings from 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm time Thursday and Friday EAT (East Africa Time).
Eagles In Leadership was invited to the radio station earlier this month and Doc’s teachings will be featured there each week.
You can listen using this link: bornwordradio.caster.fm
Like a new calendar at the beginning of the year, there is something that stirs my heart when everything begins new. One of the things that I love the most is when God gives a fresh word for a new season in my life!
Hi there, I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Today about the fact that once God remembers us in the midst of our raging storm, His expansion plans for our lives will begin afresh!
Hope For Today is a part of the ministry of Eagles In Leadership. If you would like to know more about the hope God gives and His abundant life through Jesus Christ, I would invite you to check out our website: EaglesInLeadership.org.
We are so excited about what God will do with us in 2020 – Our Year of Expansion! We want to include YOU in that EXPANSION!
We hope you’ll consider going to Israel with the Eagles In Leadership! In early December of this year, we will be leading a tour throughout Israel! You have ALWAYS wanted to “walk where Jesus walked!” THIS is your opportunity! Just click the tab, Israel Tours, on the Eagles in leadership website for more details and a registration form.
And if you are ordained clergy and would like to go to Israel AT AN AMAZINGLY LOW PRICE THIS FALL, take a moment and go to our website – Eagles In Leadership .org– and message us concerning a ridiculously low price for an Israel tour!
We all know that life is busy and hectic, and often we are swallowed up in it. However, there re many people who simply have no peace, no quiet and now assurance.
I remember one time some years back that one of the elders of my new church was walking through our home in our open house and he kept looking around and finally said, “There is so much peace in this house! Why is there so much peace in this house?”
Of course, he was testifying as the to opposite condition in his home. But I was surprised. I thought everyone enjoyed what we had. Yet, the reality is that they don’t.
The question is, “Is that what I want?” If it is, I am rebellious!
These are strong words, but you can read the text for yourself and see …
“Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and note it in a book, that it may serve in the time to come as a witness forever;
Like in a hurricane or an earthquake, when everything around us is shaking and spinning and tearing apart, fear can grip us and terrorize us. How we handle storms, like the global pandemic, reveals more about us, and our relationship with God, than we could have ever imagined
Hi there, I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Today about the fact that even when our path seems unreal and without precedence, God can provide supernatural hope and help to accomplish the expansion plans He has given us.
Hope For Today is a part of the ministry of Eagles In Leadership. If you would like to know more about the hope God gives and His abundant life through Jesus Christ, I would invite you to check out our website: EaglesInLeadership.org.
We are so excited about what God will do with us in 2020 – Our Year of Expansion! We want to include YOU in that EXPANSION!
We hope you’ll consider going to Israel with the Eagles In Leadership! In early December of this year, we will be leading a tour throughout Israel! You have ALWAYS wanted to “walk where Jesus walked!” THIS is your opportunity! Just click the tab, Israel Tours, on the Eagles in leadership website for more details and a registration form.
And if you are ordained clergy and would like to go to Israel AT AN AMAZINGLY LOW PRICE THIS FALL, take a moment and go to our website – Eagles In Leadership .org– and message us concerning a ridiculously low price for an Israel tour!
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So, what about in our Houses of Worship?
For all too long we have been told to worship in quiet. As a pastor, I have been excoriated by members who don’t like the style, don’t like the energy, don’t like the volume … and who ALLOWED those drums and guitars on the platform?
I’m not advocating for loud worship all the time or for no reason. However, I am advocating for the removal of lifeless worship and the replacement with worship that stirs and is passionate and VOCAL!
Yes, read the text …
“In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.
Above it stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
One cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.”
THE POSTS OF THE DOOR MOVED AT THE VOICE OF HIM WHO CRIED,, and the house was filled with smoke.” (Isaiah 6:1–4, MEV)
Now, we know this is just the PRAISE part of the worship! Imagine what happens when the music starts!
“And on that day they offered great sacrifices,
REJOICING because God had given them GREAT JOY.
The women and children also rejoiced.
THE SOUND OF REJOICING in Jerusalem COULD BE HEARD FAR AWAY.”
(Nehemiah 12:43, NIV)
After all, God doesn’t bless rebellion. And while He is patient and doesn’t want to see any perish, there is also His justice that brings Him to deal with lingering rebellion.
Just because a nation has given God their lives in the past does not mean that they can trade on the past virtue in their present sin.
Read the text here …
“For now the Lord, the Lordof Hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stock and the store, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the prudent and the ancient, the captain of fifty and the honorable man, the counselor and the skillful artisan, and the eloquent orator.” (Isaiah 3:1–3, MEV)
* We all want more from God.
* We all want His blessing
* We all want to be liked and well known
* We all want to be promoted into something wonderful
* We all want to people to be generous to us
* We all want God’s protection from those who would curse us
* We all want to have the ability to help others “more than enough”
So, if that is true … and those are the longings of almost every person’s heart …
* Why don’t we have them?
* How do we get them?
“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.” (Hebrews 11:8, NIV)
• We have to OBEY GOD
• We have to GET OUT of where we are
• We have to GO WHERE GOD TELLS US to go
So …
• What are we not obeying that God has told us to do?
• Why haven’t we left where God has told us to leave?
• Where are we not going that God has told us to go to?
Whatever else we want to say about the global pandemic we have been in, one thing is for sure: We have never seen anything like this in our lifetime. Everything closed, people frantic and panicked; People struggling and trying to come to grips with what we’re now calling the new normal.
Hi there, I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Todayabout the fact thatfor our expansion plans to survive great storms, we must hear and heed all that God tells us to do!
We started 2020 believing in this being our year of expansion. Some people believe that that our expansion is over and survival is the name of the gamein 2020. But God is …
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Hope For Today is a part of the ministry of Eagles In Leadership. If you would like to know more about the hope God gives and His abundant life through Jesus Christ, I would invite you to check out our website: EaglesInLeadership.org.
Kate and I are so excited about what God will do with us in 2020 – Our Year of Expansion!
As we start planning and putting our lives back together from the storm that is Covid-19, we will all need to get out and away and be inspired! God wants us to expand this year in 2020!
We want to include YOU in that EXPANSION!
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