Episodes
Friday Nov 24, 2023
UPON THIS ROCK WE BUILD #1361/ WITH DR. GEORGE WATKINS
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
UPON THIS ROCK, WE BUILD
While listening to the recounting of our Thanksgiving memorial as a nation, these few thoughts dropped in my spirit that I want to share today about the founding of this great nation we live in.
As our forefathers came to this land, several major miracles made the difference between success and failure.
First, we are the only nation founded as a Christian nation based upon the laws of God and the Bible from its inception. We are the only nation where rulership is from the bottom up, not the top down. This is what our Bill of Rights and Constitution means: the people have a voice regarding who is in charge and who will lead us.
Another central foundation stone in this nation is property rights, with a legal paper proving to the officials that we own this land we live on.
Another unique thing was that each person could get involved in a free market, trading and making a profit for themselves.
All these things were not true in the other nations the people came from. Yet God provided us a place to plant seeds of freedom that might grow into a tree big enough to bless the world.
The first two miracles that stood out to me in the early days are so identified with God's timing that they can't be denied.
The ones who founded Jamestown in Virginia came near starvation in the first year because they did not plant crops to eat through the winter. They ended up eating rats, dung, and shoelaces, so the historians tell us.
When the winner had ended, they packed their ship up, having given up on the founding of Jamestown, and headed for home. With all practical understanding, this experiment was over.
As they got to the mouth of the Potomac River, heading into the Great Ocean, they met another ship from England with all the supplies they needed and people to help them.
Only in a two-hour window of time did God perform a miracle. Did Jamestown become the founding city of that region?
The second miracle is even more impressive of God's timing and planning. It concerns the founding of the New England area with the pilgrims.
The Native American Indian that God had pre-arranged to be the one to save them from starvation and conflict with the neighboring native tribes is a miracle story in itself. Years before he was taken captive as an enslaved person, back to England, a group of monks purchased him and taught him English and Spanish and how to read and write. Then, they gave him his freedom, and he came back to his native land, joining himself in the neighboring tribe.
He was the one who walked into their camp one day, speaking English, teaching them about the seeds that would grow best, and negotiating peace with the tribes that were around.
Because of God's timing, the founding of this nation took seed.
We are definitely built on the rock Christ Jesus.
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Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
THE POWER AND THE PURPOSE OF THANKSGIVING #`1360/ WITH DR. GEORGE WATKINS
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
THE POWER AND PURPOSE OF A THANKFUL HEART
Have you ever considered the incredible wonder of the world's great orchestras when they gather fifty musicians and make music together? We call it music because it is coordinated, balanced, in tune, and on time. The second thing we notice is that they all focus on one person in front of them. We call the conductor.
As long as those fifty individuals exercise their talents on various instruments and follow the conductor, the crowd will cheer and go home, amazed at the genius of the conductor.
When the natural man refers to staying in tune with the balance of the earth without realizing it, they are referring to a biblical foundational truth.
Just like that great orchestra needs a conductor, everything that functions in the world we touch and see has a conductor that keeps it on time, in balance, and tune. That conductor is Jesus Christ.
The scriptures tell us that Jesus holds everything together by the word of his power.
One of the most potent things that hindered the children of Israel as they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years was that they grumbled and complained about everything.
Our heavenly father, the conductor of this great orchestra that he created, called creation and life, continues to direct every function around us.
Our most significant discovery in life is to agree with the conductor in our words and deeds. When we do that, everything balances out, and blessings come our way.
The foundation of that agreement is a thankful heart—a heart full of gratitude and Thanksgiving. At the same time, we are rejoicing in the goodness of our heavenly father. When we do that, we balance and cooperate with what he has said about us and what he is doing for us.
Paul the apostle captured that in Romans 10:9 and 10 when he said, if you believe in your heart, and confess with your mouth, you shall be saved.
Take note that the heart is the voice of God speaking, and when you agree with that voice and say it with your mouth, you are in tune with your heavenly father, and salvation is yours.
Psalms 100:4 gives us two secret keys to enter the courts of God.
We enter the first door through praise and the second door through Thanksgiving.
I encourage you this Thanksgiving day to remember that good things always come your way when you praise and worship with a thankful heart.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
WHAT DOES GOD DO WITH YOUR PRAYERS#1359/ WITH DR GEORGE WATKINS
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
WHAT DOES GOD DO WITH YOUR PRAYERS?
There is $1 million waiting for you in the bank downtown with your name on it.
To receive it, you must get off the couch, call a cab, and claim your fortune.
If you received that notice from the bank, would you see if it was real?
If, for no other reason, most of us will go for curiosity's sake alone.
Yet we have had an invitation from the Bank of Heaven to invest our prayers for a far greater and more valuable reward than just $1 million.
Jesus cried out loudly as he stood in the city's center and told the people that if they came to him, he would supply them with living water, and they would never thirst again; someone in a hot, dry country that would sound like a $1 million offer.
However, as he made that declaration, many people walked by without even taking notice, too busy to have their lives changed forever.
The whole human race has been invited to call on the name of the Lord and be saved. You and I, the believers, have been commissioned to pray to the Father in heaven that those who haven't come into the kingdom yet will come.
If we get a revelation of what prayer is and how God uses prayer, I'm sure we would be quicker and more eager to do our part in filling the golden bowls before the Throne of God.
The wonder and power of our prayer is that it is placed by the Father into a golden bowl as a sweet, smelling incense before the throne.
According to Revelation 8, Jesus, the high priest, then takes our prayers and mixes them with his prayers of intercession. Then the smoke of incense, with the prayers of the holy ones bellow up before God, from the hand of this angel. (which is Christ the High Priest)
The scriptures tell us that our prayers are put into a vile and poured out before God. Revelation also refers to the golden bowl filled to the brim with our prayers. Those prayers are then placed on the altar, and the smoke and incense fill the throne room.
The part that we have been commissioned to do is offer prayer and give our worship to the Father. He puts that prayer and worship into a container to be used at his discretion and for his desires. Your worship and prayer's sweet, smelling fragrance is to God's divine satisfaction.
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Monday Nov 20, 2023
WHY DOES THE TRUTH SET US FREE? #1358/ WITH DR GEORGE WATKINS
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
WHY DOES THE TRUTH SET US FREE?
In John 8:32, the Passion Bible says, "For if you embrace the truth, it will release true freedom into your lives." Over the past decades, philosophers and freethinkers have wondered about truth. Gathering in groups, they debate with the logic of their empty understanding, trying to find their concept of it.
After the intellectuals exhaust themselves, they conclude that you have your truth, and I have mine. Let's leave it at that. Hence the confusion we live in today. And the darkness that has overcome this generation adds to the next one to come.
You and I, as believers, understand when we speak of truth, we're not speaking of philosophy or the current theories of this age. We are talking of a person, Jesus Christ.
The only reason this nation that we call home has proven to be the greatest that history has ever recorded is that it Is connected to The prayer that was spoken over this land when the first pilgrims put their feet on the sands at Plymouth Rock, declaring that this nation would spread the gospel around the world. We accomplished the impossible, leaving England as a small group of believing Christians to establish the "city on a hill."
Our forefathers founded this republic on the principles of the Holy Scriptures and Jesus Christ, the Truth.
As an example of our nation founded upon the truth from the Word of God, we have been a citadel of freedom and truth for the whole world to not only admire but also come to and find peace.
When you encounter Jesus Christ and believe in and obey his commandments, you will know the truth and be free to live a life of peace.
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Sunday Nov 19, 2023
YOUR UNBREAKABLE MARRIAGE TO CHRIST #1357/ WITH DR GEORGE WATKINS
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
YOUR UNBREAKABLE MARRIAGE TO CHRIST
Tell me what church or theological stream you were raised in, and I'll tell you the level of anxiety you have about your salvation. That's a strange way to start a discussion of the most beautiful thing that could ever happen to us. To be born again by the blood of Jesus. God's dream from the beginning was always that he would bring us back into his family through Jesus Christ.
This experience we have is called by many different names. One group of people would ask you if you've ever been saved. The next group would want to define it a little closer and ask if you've been born again. Some of our Baptist brothers call it "walking the aisle" or "shaking the hand of the preacher."
Years ago, a missionary in the South Seas wrote about the natives, "running the trails with Jesus."
So you see, there are different names and ideas about what we call conversion or being brought into the family of God.
According to the apostle Paul, in Ephesians 5, Christ and the church (that's you) have been married. In that chapter, he uses the natural marriage between a man and a woman as an example of Christ and the church.
In our theological classes, we use the term "the security of the believer" to describe our confidence in the longevity of our salvation. Many of the Baptist brothers referred to it as "eternal security." Once you're saved, you're always saved.
Interestingly enough, the Pentecostal background denies that, and as a byproduct, we have a vast amount of backsliders waiting to come home.
Referring to our salvation as a marriage to Christ is biblically sound. According to Paul's teachings, we have been made one with him in the same way a man and a woman become one in their marriage.
Mark 10:9 makes this statement about marriage: what God has joined together, let no man separate. We are reassured in the Scriptures that we are in the hands of God, and no one can take us away from that.
So, as you sleep tonight, be assured that you will not lose your salvation before you wake up. And when you do wake up to the understanding that you are secure in your marriage to Christ, your journey will be filled with a different level of joy and contentment.
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Saturday Nov 18, 2023
Saturday Nov 18, 2023
MOMENTARY MONARCHS AND OTHER DISAPPEARING TERRORS
In my youth, we sang a song in the church called "Turn your eyes upon Jesus."
"Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full, and his wonderful face and the things of the world will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace."
That song captures the theme of my video tonight concerning the current situation of our nation and our society and how it's affecting Christians.
I have often taught the principle that you will go toward or be influenced by what you look at. This is why media outlets and even our Internet are so controlling and damning to the soul of this nation.
We are being manipulated in so many ways. This younger generation is being ripped apart by what they look at and take into their souls. The evidence of that is the high rate of suicide that is happening among them.
They have been sold a lie about the future, and even themselves, convinced they are worthless.
Psalms 73 speaks of the same condition on the day this Psalm was written. Asaph, the author of this Pslam and one of Israel's spiritual leaders, found himself discouraged and weak because of what he had his eyes on around him.
He looked at those who were wealthy, pompous, egotistical, and manipulating those who were less than them. It made him fearful of the future.
The principles of God are the same in every age that we live. It was just as accurate in Asaph Day as it is today. We look around and see the prosperity of the wicked, and the spirit of fear tells us that they will take over the world and we will be no more.
Faith becomes weakened, and we start to stumble until we turn into the sanctuary of our God and get our eyes back on his unfailing word.
What does it mean to go into the sanctuary of God?
We know that God is everywhere and is in us of a truth. So, do I go into a building, or do I find a group of people that I need to join?
Yes, and yes, but that's not enough. You can go into the most beautiful churches in your city and join a group of spiritual people, but that's not enough.
Put it this way: God himself is the sanctuary that you go into. It's simply obeying Jesus when he laid out the two commandments for us?.
Love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart and the neighbor as they self.
Keep your eyes on Jesus, and your heart will never fail you because He will draw you to Himself.
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Thursday Nov 16, 2023
YOU ARE AS CLOSE TO THE FATHER AS YOU WANT TO BE #1355/ WITH DR. GEORGE WATKINS
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
YOU ARE AS CLOSE TO THE FATHER AS YOU WANT TO BE
In the early days of our evangelistic travels, Arlis and I found ourselves on the East Coast of this great country. With a few days between commitments, we joined two of our best friends and headed for the Big Apple. New York City. Times Square. The Statue of Liberty. The Empire State Building. New York pizza.
And at the end of the day, Broadway and the hit show Evita.
What a whirlwind day that was, so much so it's still clear in my memory. As we stood in line at the ticket booth, I realized our limited finances as gospel ministers required us to purchase the ticket on the top balcony.
As we were ascending the levels of balconies, I knew now why they called it the "nosebleed section." My eyes were younger then, but I still couldn't recognize the faces I was looking at on the stage below me.
The sad point of this whole story is I wanted to be closer to the performers, but I couldn't afford the ticket.
The good news is that the ticket has already been paid for you to come as close as you want to your heavenly Father's throne and fellowship with him daily.
The Scriptures tell us that Jesus made a way where they had not been a way before. Men and women before the cross could not boldly come before the throne of God like Paul declares we can do.
Only after the resurrection could Jesus tell his disciples to ask largely from the Father, in the name of Jesus, and they would receive what they asked for.
There are no excuses not to be as close as you want to be to the Father of all spirits and the Savior Jesus Christ. After all, in Matthew 7:7, Jesus said, "Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you seek and keep on seeking, and you will find knock, and keep on knocking at the door will be open for you."
Don't let anyone discourage you from having a private personal relationship with the Father, so wonderfully intense and sweet that you won't have words to express the joy of it all.
No one is in front of you; go on in. You're next in line.
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Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT #12353/ WITH DR GEORGE WATKINS
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT
My father was a 'sage,' and he always quoted something from the Proverbs of Solomon to support his wisdom. Our family established two repetitive habits we faithfully did all my young life.
Throughout the day, my mother or father would read the Proverbs for that day. There are 31 chapters in Proverbs, and most months have 31 days. Our apostle, dad's pastor, as a young man, taught us that spiritual activity.
The second thing we did religiously was never take a trip in the car without quoting the 91st Psalm: "He that dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."
"Remove your foot from your neighbor's house lest he become weary of you."
I can't tell you how many times I've heard those proverbs quoted to me. They have saved me a lot of heartache over the years.
It seems that Jesus had the same problem in Matthew 13. After having a very successful teaching time by the seashore, in the first part of Matthew 13, he decided to go home.
As it turns out, the Home folks rejected him because he was just too familiar to them. Interestingly enough, they were stunned, dazed, amazed, taken back, and blown away by his wisdom and revelation.
In any normal circumstance, you would think that would have locked them into believing God and his messenger, Jesus.
No, it didn't. And the reason why? Most people make a common mistake when it comes to spiritual things versus natural things.
They were looking at the natural source for his wisdom and revelation instead of the spiritual source.
They said, " We know this guy. He's from our hometown. He doesn't even have a degree in theology, nor has he been to the seminary. "
I'll bet you I've heard that before in some of your church or private experiences. Church people are as guilty as anyone else by judging a man or woman of God by their age, their height, their degree of education, or where they're from—shame on us.
It's tuneup time, folks. It's time to tune into the spiritual world and listen to what God says about his kingdom and our future development.
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Sunday Nov 12, 2023
FIVE THINGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME #1351/ WITH DR. GEORGE WATKINS
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
FIVE THINGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME
NUMBER ONE, SON, BE KIND AND FORGIVING.
"And be kind one to another tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you." The Scriptures tell us that you must show yourself friendly if you want friends. In so many words, it's telling us that kindness attracts people to you.
Forgiveness toward others is the bedrock principle of Christian living; without it, you will crash and burn quickly. The scriptures tell us that if we forgive, we will be forgiven; if we don't forgive, we get bound up in our soul until we let forgiveness flow toward others.
NUMBER TWO. SHARE YOUR TOYS
Generosity is contagious in the Scriptures. They tell us that if we give to others, more will be given back to us by others. It goes on to say to us that the liberal soul will become fat. That's Bible talk for becoming prosperous.
Something happens to the personality and the emotions of a person who clutches everything to himself. After a while, people shy away from personal contact because they know you're not a generous person.
NUMBER THREE. BUTTON YOUR COAT
When you get onto a commercial airliner, the stewardess first tells you that if the oxygen mask comes down, put it on you before you put it on your children. Why? Because if you're not safe, you can't rescue someone else and save them.
Take care of yourself. Eat right, sleep right, and get plenty of exercise so that you will live long, Enjoy life, and serve the Lord well.
NUMBER FOUR. BRUSH YOUR TEETH
How do we prepare for health and success in the future? We start with the small things, such as brushing our teeth before we go to bed. These small, hidden habits shape our lifestyle.
Scriptures tell us it's the little foxes that spoil the vine. On the day the parable was written, they had vineyards around the palace. Little foxes that no one could see would lay in the shade on a hot day and nibble away at the vine, killing the entire plant.
NUMBER FIVE. DON'T HIT YOUR SISTER
You learn to respect women in the home, and you start with your sister and your mother. If you hit your sister, you'll hit your wife. Those are just the principles of life, and you form your habits early. You will treat your wife and other women like you have been trained to treat your sister.
Those five simple instructions given to a young man will shape his life forever.
Thank your mother.
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Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
WILD WHEAT AND ANGELS-WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH US?
Hidden secrets abound. The spirit of revelation is given, and we begin to see the kingdom of God develop before our eyes. Why does one person understand the mystery of God and the spiritual world while the one beside him doesn't?
Is it a matter of intellect? Or is there a more profound spiritual truth that we may miss in this explanation?
The Scriptures tell us God desires that all men and women be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. Yet the Scriptures also say you cannot come to the Father unless the Holy Spirit draws you.
If that sounds like a mystery, we have a good starting place for our discussion tonight.
The 13th chapter of Matthew is one of the most remarkable sections of the teachings that Jesus gave us in the Gospels. Jesus was dealing with two distinct groups of people: the mass crowds that he taught by the seashore and his disciples that he taught in a private house.
Matthew 13 contains his most famous parables: The Farmer and the Seed, the Good Wheat and the Wild Wheat that the Angels collected, the Hidden Treasures, the wild wheat the angels collected, the hidden treasures, and the parable of the Fishing Net.
The parables concern the kingdom of God, yet none of the large crowd understood what he was saying.
The disciples took him aside to ask questions about the parables, and he revealed the kingdom of God to them.
He told his disciples, "I will speak to you in allegories. I will reveal secrets that have been concealed since before the foundation of the world."
In verse 17, he continued, "Many prophets and godly people yearned to see these days of miracles that you've been favored to see. They would have given anything to hear the revelation you've been favored to hear."
Because you and I live on this side of the cross and resurrection, we are favored to hear the revelations that God is giving to this generation. And because of that, he is preparing us for a supernatural expansion of the visible and tangible kingdom of God that we live in today.
Some call it the third great awakening. Others refer to it as a supernatural move of God on the Earth. I call it the answer to Matthew 6: "Lord, let it be on earth as it is in heaven."
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