Ron Brown's Weekly Word - Always Pray: Recent Episodes
Ron Brown | Exec. Dir. of Teen Challenge of Southern California
Ron Brown's Weekly Word - Always Pray, is a series of weekly devotions based on biblical principles such as faith, joy, perseverance, and hope; with a connection to the call and commandment of our Lord, to pray. Thank you for joining me on this journey, as we share together in this series of weekly words. May the Lord bless you! Ron Brown - Executive Director Teen Challenge of Southern California
Episode 45| Lord I Bow
This week’s message is Lord I Bow.
The music that you’ve been listening to in the background of this podcast, is a song that I wrote
some time ago, that I hope will be a blessing. It's called Lord I Bow. As you worship listening to this song, I pray that you will be blessed and encouraged.
In Revelation 4:10-11, it says, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say: “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will, they were created and have their being.”
Worship the Lord Today, Lord I bow, and may the Holy Spirit touch you and minister deeply to your soul.
Lord I Bow: Ron Brown
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(Always Pray- Weekly Word | November 2022/Week 2 - Episode 45)
Episode 37 | Inspiring Leadership for Troubled Times
Greetings, my name is Ron Brown. Welcome to the Weekly Word. Our theme this year is, Always Pray. I hope this message is a blessing to you. Now, let’s get into the Word of God.
This week's message is Inspiring Leadership for Troubled Times.
Matthew 24:37-39 “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.”
The Apostle Paul writing to his protégé Timothy, in 2 Timothy Chapter 3, declared that in the last days perilous times will come. These will be times of great danger upon the earth. Jesus described in this passage from the gospel of Matthew how things would be upon the earth during the end times. He declared that as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. The people of Noah’s time were completely unaware of what would befall them until the great peril of the flood was upon them. Noah himself was chosen by God as an inspiring example of leadership for troubled times. We find the story of Noah in Genesis Chapters 6 through 9. The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become upon the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord‘s heart was troubled by what He saw, but a man named Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. The times and seasons that we are living in now seem to very much mirror the times of Noah. Who was Noah? What kind of man did God choose to lead during these very troubled times upon the earth? He was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. He walked faithfully with God in the midst of all the corruption the Lord saw and the earth was full of violence. Noah was raising his family and staying true to God‘s ways of righteousness, truth, and justice. He was a man of prayer and as he communed with God, the Lord revealed His plans to put an end to all the violence and corruption by destroying the earth with a great flood. Noah was obedient to God and entered into covenant with Him to preserve a remnant of all the creatures God had made by building an ark according to the specifications and instructions he received during those powerful seasons of prayer. Beloved brothers and sisters, God has a plan to not only preserve you and your family during these difficult and perilous times, but like Noah, He wants to use you to warn this generation who are stubbornly unaware of how short time is; that they can be saved, enter into a place of safety and rescue from the violence and corruption all around them. Jesus Christ Himself is our ark of safety. He is our life, our peace, our hope, our soon coming King.
Noah was able to raise his family without fear, filled with vision for a better future because he was a man of prayer and a leader who stood for what was right when it would have been easier to go along with all that was wrong in the society around him. Noah was obedient, he did everything just as God commanded him. During the approximately 50 to 75 years it took to build the ark, the people were warned because Noah was a preacher of righteousness. According to 2nd Peter 2:5 that is exactly what was written, that Noah was indeed a preacher of righteousness. So, it’s reasonable to assume that he warned the people about what God was going to do but clearly, they ignored him because the flood caught them completely by surprise. When we look at the parallel of our times, many have closed their hearts, eyes, and ears to the gospel and will be surprised when the Son of Man returns. God is looking for preac
James 5:14-15 Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.
Exodus 4:31 So the people believed. And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about the sons of Israel, and that He had seen their affliction, they bowed low and worshiped.
Psalms 139:23-24 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.
Matthew 18:19-20 “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
Luke 11:1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
Romans 8:26 In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Alway Pray is based on Ephesians 6:18, in which the Apostle Paul exhorts believers to always pray for all the Lord’s people.
Ephesians 6:18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.