Author: John Dunning

GIVE GOD TIME 

Inspirational Radio… 

We have launched our new online discipleship radio station…. 

Our new discipleship radio station:- “Inspirational Radio”, has hour-long Bible readings, David Pawson sermons, testimonies, and classic hymns. Just follow the website links, to https://internetchristianradio.com/

A WORD IN YOUR EAR 

Luke 17:1-19 Discipleship 

1-2 Sin brings death

Then Jesus said to the disciples, 

“You cannot stop sin trying to tempt you, but death waits for the one who tries to make you sin. ²It would be better for that person if a huge stone were hung around his neck and he then dropped it into the sea instead of tempting one of these little ones to sin.

3-4 Forgiveness

³Watch yourselves! If your brother sins against you, tell him where he is wrong, and if he wants to turn around and put things right with you, wash the slate clean. ⁴Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, if he says, ‘I repent’, forgive him”.

5-6 Faith

⁵The special disciples said, 

‘Lord, increase our faith’.

⁶The Lord said, 

“If you had faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this sycamore tree, ‘be uprooted and be planted in the sea’, and it would obey you.

7-10 Obedience

⁷If you had a servant ploughing or feeding the cattle, would you say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Go and sit down and eat’? ⁸Wouldn’t you say, ‘Get the food ready for my meal and bring it to me. Then you can eat and drink.’ ⁹Do you think the servant is thanked for obeying commands? I don’t think so! ¹⁰In the same way, when all you have done is to obey commands, you say, ‘we are just servants doing our duty’.”

11-19 Only the Gentile social outcast returned to say “thank you.”

¹¹As He went to Jerusalem He went through Samaria and Galilee. ¹²As He went into a village, ten lepers were waiting for him but at a distance. ¹³They cried out to Him, 

“Jesus! Master! Have mercy on us”.

¹⁴When He saw them, He said,

“Go and show yourself to the priest”.

As they went, they were healed. ¹⁵When one of them saw that he was healed he went back and gave glory to God. ¹⁶He fell down on His face giving Him thanks and yet he was a Samaritan.

¹⁷Jesus said to him,

“But weren’t ten healed? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸Only this stranger has come back to give glory to God!”

¹⁹He said to him,

“Stand up and go on your way, your faith has made you whole.”

—-Summary

3-4 Forgiveness

³Watch yourselves! If your brother sins against you, tell him where he is wrong, and if he wants to turn around and put things right with you, wash the slate clean. ⁴Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, if he says, ‘I repent’, forgive him”.

• Today’s Verse… Who is Jesus? 

11-19 Only the social outcast said thank you.

¹¹As He went to Jerusalem He went through Samaria and Galilee. ¹²As He went into a village, ten lepers were waiting for him but at a distance. ¹³They cried out to Him, 

“Jesus! Master! Have mercy on us”.

¹⁴When He saw them, He said,

“Go and show yourself to the priest”.

As they went, they were healed.

¹⁵When one of them saw that he was healed he went back and gave glory to God. ¹⁶He fell down on His face giving Him thanks and yet he was a Samaritan.

¹⁷Jesus said to him,

“But weren’t ten healed? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸Only this stranger has come back to give glory to God!”

¹⁹He said to him,

“Stand up and go on your way, your faith has made you whole.”

• Today’s Challenge

3-4 Forgiveness

³Watch yourselves! If your brother sins against you, tell him where he is wrong, and if he wants to turn around and put things right with you, wash the slate clean. ⁴Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, if he says, ‘I repent’, forgive him”.

“… He went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.” Matthew 14:23. 

Jesus taught His disciples what we call ‘The Lord’s Prayer’; (Luke 11).

Listen here to Albert Malotte’s ‘The Lord’s Prayer’. 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, 

thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread. 

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever;- Amen.

Prayer suggestions;-

1. The world. (ie ‘For those in authority.’)
2. The ‘suffering church.’ https://barnabasfund.org/nz/pray/daily-prayer/#previous-dates
3. Your own situation. (Suggest ‘needs’ rather than ‘wants’.)

Pray along with this hymn… He touched me and made me whole …

GIVE GOD TIME 

Inspirational Radio… 

We have launched our new online discipleship radio station…. 

Our new discipleship radio station:- “Inspirational Radio”, has hour-long Bible readings, David Pawson sermons, testimonies, and classic hymns. Just follow the website links, to https://internetchristianradio.com/

A WORD IN YOUR EAR

Luke 16: Money 

Luke 16:1-12 Using unholy money wisely

He also said to His disciples, 

“There was once a rich man who had a steward who was accused of wasting his money. ²He told him to come and see him, when he asked, ‘How come I have heard this about you? Show me what you have been up to, as you may not be in charge much longer’.

³The steward thought, ‘What shall I do? I am about to lose my job. I am not a labourer and I would be ashamed to beg. ⁴I know what I can do to find work after I lose this job’. ⁵So, he called in the farmers who owed his boss part of the harvest and asked them, ‘Tell me how much you owe’? 

⁶The first said, ‘Two thousand two hundred litres of oil’. 

So the steward said, ‘Quickly, sit down and change it to one thousand one hundred’. 

⁷To the next one said, ‘And how much do you owe?’ 

And he replied, ‘Twenty-two thousand litres of wheat’.  

So, the steward said, ‘Take this old bill and change it to twenty-one and a half.’ 

⁸The boss told his bad servant how clever he was. 

The worldly wise show a worldly wisdom that is not shown by those who are children of the light. ⁹But listen,  make friends of those who love unholy money, so that when you die, they will be there in heaven to welcome you. ¹⁰Whoever can be trusted in the small things can be trusted in the big things. Whoever is not just in small things will not be just in big things. ¹¹If you have not been faithful with unholy money, who will trust you with true riches? ¹²If you cannot be trusted with other people’s property, how do you expect to be given your own property?

Luke 16:13-15 Choose God or money

¹³No servant can work for two masters. He will love one and hate the other. He will be loyal to one and not the other. You cannot serve God and money”. ¹⁴Also the religious leaders, who loved money, heard Him say this, and so they tried to make Him lose His face before the people. ¹⁵Then He said, “You are the ones who try to make yourselves look good to everyone, but God knows your hearts. What you love, God hates.

16-18 Religious laws were COMPLETED, not abandoned, but laws about how we treat each other continues on…

¹⁶“The law and the prophets were valid up until John, but after that the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone wants to enter into it. ¹⁷It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest grammar mark of ‘The Law’ to be done away with. ¹⁸Whoever divorces his wife and marries another is an adulterer. Whoever marries the divorced woman also commits adultery.

19-31 Jesus’ parable of a millionaire and the pauper, Lazarus…

¹⁹There once was a rich man who dressed very expensively in the best purple clothes, and ate a lot of very rich food. ²⁰There was a beggar named Lazarus who was carried to his gate, with sores all over his body. ²¹All he wanted was the food left over from the meal table. Even the dogs came to lick his sores. 

²² When he died, angels took him to Abraham, but when the rich man died, he was buried. ²³From his pain in hell he looked up and saw Abraham a long way away with Lazarus by his side, ²⁴so he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus with wet fingers to cool my tongue, as I am in torment here’. 

²⁵Abraham said,  ‘Son, you remember that you had all the good things in life and Lazarus had the rotten things? Now he is comforted and you are in torment. ²⁶Anyway, an impossible gap to cross has been fixed between us, so that no one can go from here to you or to come from where you are to us’.

²⁷So he replied, ‘Then I beg you father, send Lazarus to my father’s house, ²⁸as I have five brothers. He can tell them, so they don’t come to this place of torment.’

²⁹Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. All they have to do is to hear what they had to say’.

³⁰He replied, ‘No father Abraham, if someone returns from the dead, they will repent’.

³¹He answered him, ‘If they don’t pay attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not even listen if someone returns from the dead’.”

—-Summary;- 16-18 Religious laws have been completed

¹⁶“The law and the prophets were valid up until John, but after that the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone wants to enter into it. ¹⁷It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest grammar mark of ‘The Law’ to be done away with. ¹⁸Whoever divorces his wife and marries another is an adulterer. Whoever marries the divorced woman also commits adultery.

• Today’s Verse… Who is Jesus? 

³¹He answered him, ‘If they don’t pay attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not even listen if someone returns from the dead’.”

• Today’s Challenge

The worldly wise show a worldly wisdom that is not shown by those who are children of the light. ⁹But listen,  make friends of those who love unholy money, so that when you die, they will be there in heaven to welcome you. ¹⁰Whoever can be trusted in the small things can be trusted in the big things. Whoever is not just in small things will not be just in big things. ¹¹If you have not been faithful with unholy money, who will trust you with true riches? ¹²If you cannot be trusted with other people’s property, how do you expect to be given your own property?

Prayer, Praise and Worship

“… He went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.” Matthew 14:23. 

Jesus taught His disciples what we call ‘The Lord’s Prayer’; (Luke 11).

Listen here to Albert Malotte’s ‘The Lord’s Prayer’. 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, 

thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread. 

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever;- Amen.

Prayer suggestions;-

1. The world. (ie ‘For those in authority.’)
2. The ‘suffering church.’ https://barnabasfund.org/nz/pray/daily-prayer/#previous-dates
3. Your own situation. (Suggest ‘needs’ rather than ‘wants’.)

Pray along with this hymn…

GIVE GOD TIME 

Inspirational Radio… 

We have launched our new online discipleship radio station…. 

Our new discipleship radio station:- “Inspirational Radio”, has hour-long Bible readings, David Pawson sermons, testimonies, and classic hymns. Just follow the website links, to https://internetchristianradio.com/

A WORD IN YOUR EAR 

Luke 15 The Father-heart of God.

1-10 God’s heart for the lost.

After that the ‘tax collectors’ and the public who had given up trying to follow all the religious rules, who were called ‘sinners’, came close to hear Him speak, ²so the religious leaders criticised Him for spending time eating with ‘sinners’.

³Then He told a story with a hidden meaning.

⁴“What shepherd wouldn’t leave ninety-nine sheep to go looking for one that got lost, until he found it? ⁵And then having found it, wouldn’t he then happily carry it back on his shoulders? ⁶Then, as soon as he was home, wouldn’t he celebrate with his friends and relatives saying, ‘Be happy with me that I have found the sheep that got lost’? ⁷In the same way, those in heaven will rejoice more when one sinner turns his back on sin than over all the ninety-nine who didn’t need to. ⁸It’s also like a woman who lost one of her ten pieces of silver, who gets a light and looks for it until she finds it by cleaning the house from top to bottom. ⁹When she finds it, she invites her friends around so that they share her happiness that she found the silver piece she lost. ¹⁰In the same way, there is joy like that in heaven over one sinner that turns away from sin”.

11-32 The Prodigal son… 

¹¹And then He said to them, 

“A man had two sons. ¹²The younger one said to his father, 

‘Father, give me now what I’ll get when you die’. 

And so he gave him his inheritance. ¹³Not much longer after that, he left home and went far away to another country, where he wasted his money on a playboy lifestyle. ¹⁴Just about the time when all his money had been spent, the land had a famine, so there was very little food left and he became very hungry. ¹⁵So he went and worked for a local man in that foreign country who told him to feed the pigs. ¹⁶He was still hungry even after eating the pigs food, and no-one even gave him anything to eat. ¹⁷After he had thought about his situation, he thought, 

“How many of my father’s staff have more than enough food to eat, when I am going hungry? ¹⁸I will go back home and say to my father, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, ¹⁹and I am not good enough to be called your son, so just make me one of your workers”.

²⁰So he got up and went back to his father, but as soon as his father saw him coming in the distance, his heart melted and he ran to his son, hugging him and greeting him with a kiss. ²¹The son said, 

‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, and I am not good enough to be called your son.’

²²But the father said to his staff, 

‘Get my best clothes and give them to him. Put my ring on his finger and shoes on his feet. ²³Kill the fat young cow for us to eat and be happy, ²⁴as my dead son is actually alive. Having been lost, he has been found. So, they were very happy for him’. 

²⁵Just then the older brother came in from the fields and heard music and dancing, ²⁶so he asked a servant what was going on. 

²⁷He replied,

‘your brother is here, and so your father is having a feast to celebrate his safe return.’ ²⁸This made him so angry that he refused to go into the house, even after his father asked him to. ²⁹Instead the brother said, 

‘I worked hard for you for years, obeying everything you said. In all that time, you never even let me have a goat so I could invite my friends round for a meal, ³⁰but as soon as this son of yours comes back after wasting your money on prostitutes, you give him the best fatted young cow we had’.

³¹The father said, 

‘Son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. ³²It is right that we should have a party now that your dead brother is alive, who was lost but has been found’.”

—-Summary

²¹The son said, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, and I am not good enough to be called your son.’

• Today’s Verse… Who is Jesus? 

¹⁰In the same way, there is joy like that in heaven over one sinner that turns away from sin”.

• Today’s Challenge

¹⁸I will go back home and say to my father, 

‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, ¹⁹and I am not good enough to be called your son, so just make me one of your workers”.

²⁰So he got up and went back to his father, but as soon as his father saw him coming in the distance, his heart melted and he ran to his son, hugging him and greeting him with a kiss. ²¹The son said, 

‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, and I am not good enough to be called your son.’

Prayer, Praise and Worship

“… He went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.” Matthew 14:23. 

Jesus taught His disciples what we call ‘The Lord’s Prayer’; (Luke 11).

Listen here to Albert Malotte’s ‘The Lord’s Prayer’. 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, 

thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread. 

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever;- Amen.

Prayer suggestions;-

1. The world. (ie ‘For those in authority.’)
2. The ‘suffering church.’ https://barnabasfund.org/nz/pray/daily-prayer/#previous-dates
3. Your own situation. (Suggest ‘needs’ rather than ‘wants’.)

Pray along with this hymn… I will sing the wondrous story…

GIVE GOD TIME 

Inspirational Radio… 

We have launched our new online discipleship radio station…. 

Our new discipleship radio station:- “Inspirational Radio”, has hour-long Bible readings, David Pawson sermons, testimonies, and classic hymns. Just follow the website links, to https://internetchristianradio.com/

A WORD IN YOUR EAR 

Luke 15:1-32 The Father-heart of God

1-10 God’s heart for the lost.

After that the ‘tax collectors’ and the public who had given up trying to follow all the religious rules, who were called ‘sinners’, came close to hear Him speak, ²so the religious leaders criticised Him for spending time eating with ‘sinners’.

³Then He told a story with a hidden meaning.

⁴“What shepherd wouldn’t leave ninety-nine sheep to go looking for one that got lost, until he found it? ⁵And then having found it, wouldn’t he then happily carry it back on his shoulders? ⁶Then, as soon as he was home, wouldn’t he celebrate with his friends and relatives saying, ‘Be happy with me that I have found the sheep that got lost’? ⁷In the same way, those in heaven will rejoice more when one sinner turns his back on sin than over all the ninety-nine who didn’t need to. ⁸It’s also like a woman who lost one of her ten pieces of silver, who gets a light and looks for it until she finds it by cleaning the house from top to bottom. ⁹When she finds it, she invites her friends around so that they share her happiness that she found the silver piece she lost. ¹⁰In the same way, there is joy like that in heaven over one sinner that turns away from sin”.

11-32 The Prodigal son… 

¹¹And then He said to them, 

“A man had two sons. ¹²The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me now what I’ll get when you die’. And so he gave him his inheritance. ¹³Not much longer after that, he left home and went far away to another country, where he wasted his money on a playboy lifestyle. ¹⁴Just about the time when all his money had been spent, the land had a famine, so there was very little food left and he became very hungry. ¹⁵So he went and worked for a local man in that foreign country who told him to feed the pigs. ¹⁶He was still hungry even after eating the pigs food, and no-one even gave him anything to eat. ¹⁷After he had thought about his situation, he thought, “How many of my father’s staff have more than enough food to eat, when I am going hungry?

¹⁸I will go back home and say to my father, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, ¹⁹and I am not good enough to be called your son, so just make me one of your workers”. ²⁰So he got up and went back to his father, but as soon as his father saw him coming in the distance, his heart melted and he ran to his son, hugging him and greeting him with a kiss. ²¹The son said, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, and I am not good enough to be called your son.’

²²But the father said to his staff, ‘Get my best clothes and give them to him. Put my ring on his finger and shoes on his feet. ²³Kill the fat young cow for us to eat and be happy, ²⁴as my dead son is actually alive. Having been lost, he has been found. So, they were very happy for him’. ²⁵Just then the older brother came in from the fields and heard music and dancing, ²⁶so he asked a servant what was going on. ²⁷He replied, ‘your brother is here, and so your father is having a feast to celebrate his safe return.’ ²⁸This made him so angry that he refused to go into the house, even after his father asked him to. ²⁹Instead the brother said, ‘I worked hard for you for years, obeying everything you said. In all that time, you never even let me have a goat so I could invite my friends round for a meal, ³⁰but as soon as this son of yours comes back after wasting your money on prostitutes, you give him the best fatted young cow we had’.

³¹The father said, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. ³²It is right that we should have a party now that your dead brother is alive, who was lost but has been found’.”

—-Summary

²¹The son said, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, and I am not good enough to be called your son.’

• Today’s Verse… Who is Jesus? 

¹⁰In the same way, there is joy like that in heaven over one sinner that turns away from sin”.

• Today’s Challenge

¹⁸I will go back home and say to my father, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, ¹⁹and I am not good enough to be called your son, so just make me one of your workers”. ²⁰So he got up and went back to his father, but as soon as his father saw him coming in the distance, his heart melted and he ran to his son, hugging him and greeting him with a kiss. ²¹The son said, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and you, and I am not good enough to be called your son.’

Prayer, Praise and Worship

“… He went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.” Matthew 14:23. 

Jesus taught His disciples what we call ‘The Lord’s Prayer’; (Luke 11).

Listen here to Albert Malotte’s ‘The Lord’s Prayer’. 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, 

thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread. 

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever;- Amen.

Prayer suggestions;-

1. The world. (ie ‘For those in authority.’)
2. The ‘suffering church.’ https://barnabasfund.org/nz/pray/daily-prayer/#previous-dates
3. Your own situation. (Suggest ‘needs’ rather than ‘wants’.)

Pray along with this hymn… Seek ye first the kingdom of God…

Inspirational Radio… 

We have launched our new online discipleship radio station…. 

Our new discipleship radio station:- “Inspirational Radio”, has hour-long Bible readings, David Pawson sermons, testimonies, and classic hymns. Just follow the website links, to https://internetchristianradio.com/

A WORD IN YOUR EAR 

Luke 14: 25-35 Commitment

¹⁶Then He replied, 

“A man put on a feast and invited many to come. ¹⁷He sent out his staff to tell the guests to come, as everything was ready. ¹⁸Then they all made different excuses why they couldn’t come. One man was more interested in looking at his property, ¹⁹another his business ²⁰ and yet another his wife. They all made excuses. ²¹Well, when the staff reported back to their boss, he was so angry that he said, ‘Invite the general public to come. Everyone you can find in the streets, including the poor, the sick, those unable to walk, and the blind. It doesn’t matter”. ²²Well, the staff reported back, ‘Lord, it is done as you said, but there is still plenty of room’.

²³So the employer told his staff, ‘Then go out into the countryside and invite them all to come. In fact, bring them back with you. Do everything to help them to come so that we will have a full house. ²⁴Make sure that there is no room left for the ones invited at first. They will not even have a taste of the supper’.”

²⁵Crowds of people followed Him and He turned and said to them, 

²⁶“If anyone wants to follow Me, you must put Me before your father, mother, wife and self, otherwise you cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ If you do not carry your cross, then you cannot be my disciple”.

 ²⁸Who would build a property before checking the cost, to see if you can finish it otherwise people will laugh at you, ³⁰saying, ‘look at him, he can’t finish what he starts’. ³¹Or what King would start a war with another King who had an army twice the size of his own army? ³²If a King finds himself up against a King like this, don’t you think he would negotiate a peace before it was too late? ³³In the same way unless you give up everything you have got, you cannot be my disciple. ³⁴Salt is good, but what use is it if it is ruined? ³⁵You can’t even use it to fertilise the land or as a cleanser on the sewage pit. It is just thrown away. If you are listening because you want to understand, then pay attention to the point I am making”.

—-Summary

³³In the same way unless you give up everything you have got, you cannot be my disciple. ³⁴Salt is good, but what use is it if it is ruined? ³⁵You can’t even use it to fertilise the land or as a cleanser on the sewage pit. It is just thrown away. If you are listening because you want to understand, then pay attention to the point I am making”.

• Today’s Verse… Who is Jesus? 

²⁶“If anyone wants to follow Me, you must put Me before your father, mother, wife and self, otherwise you cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ If you do not carry your cross, then you cannot be my disciple”.

• Today’s Challenge

³³In the same way unless you give up everything you have got, you cannot be my disciple. 

Prayer, Praise and Worship

“… He went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.” Matthew 14:23. 

Jesus taught His disciples what we call ‘The Lord’s Prayer’; (Luke 11).

Listen here to Albert Malotte’s ‘The Lord’s Prayer’. 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, 

thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread. 

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever;- Amen.

Prayer suggestions;-

1. The world. (ie ‘For those in authority.’)
2. The ‘suffering church.’ https://barnabasfund.org/nz/pray/daily-prayer/#previous-dates
3. Your own situation. (Suggest ‘needs’ rather than ‘wants’.)

Pray along with this hymn…