by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 19, 2024 | Contemporary Issues
The Biblical meaning of oppression is “to exercise power over; to tire down with toil; exhaust with labor; afflict”, according to Vine’s Expository Dictionary. When Israel was in Egypt and being cruelly treated, Scripture declares that God saw their oppression and...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Dec 17, 2024 | Contemporary Christianity, Contemporary Issues
“You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works...
by Ray Viola | Sep 20, 2024 | Contemporary Issues
Then said the Lord to me, You have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it. (Jeremiah 1:12 AMP)Jeremiah was ordained by God before the foundation of the world to be a prophet to the nation of Israel. He was given the difficult...
by Ray Viola | Sep 12, 2024 | Contemporary Issues
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.I am very thankful for...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Aug 28, 2024 | Contemporary Issues
Jeremiah 2:5 Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? Micah 6:3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me....
by Ray Viola | Aug 27, 2024 | Contemporary Issues
1Corinthians 2.12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. There are only two spirits at work in the lives of mankind today. One is the spirit of the world. The...