“All bondage starts with a lie, there’s no bondage that doesn’t start with a lie. Adam and Eve, it started with a lie. You’ll be like God if you eat this. They were already like God. Well that was the biggest lie ever told. They were already like God. All bondage begins with a lie” Senior Pastor Gateway Church, Robert Morris.
“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour” 1 Peter 5:8 (ESV).
“Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor” Proverbs 22:9 (ESV).
“Happy is the generous man, the one who feeds the poor” Proverbs 22:9 (TLB).
“Generous hands are blessed hands because they give bread to the poor” Proverbs 22:9 (MSG).
“We all have happy memories of good men gone to their reward, but the names of wicked men stink after them” Proverbs 10:7 (TLB).
“The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot” Proverbs 10:7 (KVJ).
“A good and honest life is a blessed memorial; a wicked life leaves a rotten stench” Proverbs 10:7 (MSG).
“The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot” Proverbs 10:7 (ESV).
“The memorial of the just shall be blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot” Proverbs 10:7 (GNV).
“In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive'” Acts 20:35 (ESV).
“And when the Son of man cometh in his glory and all the holy Angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory, And before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on the left.
Then shall the king say to them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my father: take the inheritance of the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I thirsted, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in unto you.I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee drink? And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in unto us? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the king shall answer, and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me” Matthew 25:31-40 (GNV).
While standing for marriage is not new, it is a somewhat misunderstood and often very lonely experience. Having discovered Rejoice Marriage Ministries brought like-minded men and women into my life, if only from afar. While returned prodigal, Bob Steinkamp, has been in Heaven now for several years, Charlyne Steinkamp and family faithfully continue on with the ministry which God forged from their own marital issues and eventual restoration.
Bob Steinkamp wrote a fictional Christmas story about standing for marriage which allows us to see inside not only the stander’s heart, but the prodigal’s as well. While my heart is warmed each time I reread “Millie’s Christmas”, I no longer find my heart aching as it once did, largely due in part to Rejoice Marriage Ministries. With much appreciation to Rejoice Marriage Ministries and their generously allowing me to share, please take a moment to read this light yet heartwarming story of a prodigal spouse’s holiday homecoming.
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“Therefore we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed daily. For our light affliction which is but for a moment, causeth unto us a far most excellent and an eternal weight of glory: While we look not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen for the things which are seen, are temporal: but the things which are not seen, are eternal” 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (GNV).
“Prayer sends angels, praise sends God” Bill Winston.
“Sing ye loud unto the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyfulness. Know ye that even the Lord is God; he hath made us, and not we ourselves: we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with praise, and into his courts with rejoicing: praise him and bless his Name. For the Lord is good: his mercy is everlasting, and his truth is from generation to generation” Psalm 100 (GNV).
“For what shall it profit a man, though he should win the whole world, if he lose his soul?” Mark 8:36 (GNV).
“For God so loveth the world, that he hath given his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life” John 3:16 (GNV).
