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“Fruit of the Vine” brings you real Bible truth to grow in the Holy Spirit and fulfill your purpose in Christ. Be healed, get clean, and press into the Word of God as He transforms your heart step-by-daily-step. Enjoy fellowship time with Andrea and Ann Marie as together you join the Holy Spirit in the work of Christ.
Build your faith like the kingdom castle it is meant to be. Pour yourself into the Bible every day. Visit a few minutes with your Charisma Podcast Network hosts Andrea and Ann Marie and the Fruit of the Vine podcast as they continue their conversation on all things God.
Psalm 1:15 teaches, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; its leaf will not wither, and whatever he does will prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly will perish.” As sinners saved by grace, we are accorded God’s richest blessings. But how do we access His blessings, power, equipping, joy, peace, and grace? We will continue missing the boat until we finally grasp for the last time that God’s Word is the direct line we have to God’s heart. What we consume in God’s Word we are accountable for. Press in to God’s Spirit by taking hold of His Word. Enhance your lifestyle by building your days around spending time in Scripture.
Isaiah 58 teaches, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high” (vv 14, KJV). What we consume in God’s Word we are accountable for. Press in to God’s Spirit by crucifying your flesh in fasting, a wonderful path forward to breakthrough and change. Invest a few of your minutes with your Charisma Podcast Network hosts Andrea and Ann Marie and the Fruit of the Vine podcast as they continue their discussion on fasting.
We must speak life—turn from negative thoughts and dead-end words about yourself. Rest in the finished work of Christ believing in the hope and confident assurance purchased for us through the blood of Jesus on the cross. Fasting is our God-given way of peeling away the world’s distractions and leaving the battle to our Lord. That is because that battle already belongs to Him. The glory is the Lord’s. His victory is our victory when we seek His plan in the form of fasting.
Get closer to God’s Spirit by putting down your flesh. It is called fasting and it’s a wonderful way to press in to our Lord for breakthrough and change. Steward a few of your minutes with your Charisma Podcast Network hosts Andrea and Ann Marie and the Fruit of the Vine podcast while they discuss the who, what, when, where, why and how of fasting.
Leave your flesh’s old ways behind using one of the most tremendous and powerful weapons God has ever given us, fasting. Fasting is not merely eating a bit less, choosing a salad or a smaller meal. It is a specific bypassing of meals and beverages over a set period of time. That period can be anywhere from three hours or twelve hours up to two days, three days, a full seven-day week or more. Forty-day fasts like Jesus did are always called forth by God, so it is prudent to seek Him in prayer to plan any fast longer than the usual few days.
When planning your fast, give yourself a few days at least for prepping. This will include tapering off your caffeine intake, your media diet and your sleep patterns. If you happen not to taper your caffeine you run a higher risk for large headaches under any sort of “cold turkey” abrupt stoppage of caffeine. And keep in mind that caffeine is in many of our favorite beverages each day, not least coffee and iced tea among many others.
Go forth confidently in planning the time you will spend with God in prayer and stilling your heart and spirit, knowing that the first thing our Lord Jesus did after His baptism was fast in the desert. He instituted fasting and as with all of God’s blessing delivered to us through Jesus’ blood, we can embrace fasting right now today, joyfully expecting the vibrant opportunity to humble ourselves, quiet our souls and hear whatever our Father longs to share with us.
Sanctification is not a pleasant stroll. We have to fight for our faith. Invest a few minutes of your time with the Fruit of the Vine podcast and your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network. Add to your wisdom about our Father’s renewing of each of us moment by moment through the rest of our lives.
We put on the new man and we are new wine in old wineskins, but we are not guaranteed peaceful moments into our future. The moment we’re saved is the moment the battle begins. The enemy of our souls puts each newly saved believer squarely on his radar. That enemy wants nothing more than to peel away anyone it can lay its cloven hooves upon and separate God’s children from their Father in heaven.
And that is why we must fight for our faith.
Pray all the time the way we’re taught in the Bible to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:16–18). But what is beyond that? Lift up in prayer every corner of your life’s foundation. Pray over your spouse, your children, your parents and siblings, your employer and your co-workers. Keep your fellow church members prayed up, believing for God’s promised grace and peace. In your prayers seek God’s Will and ask Him to unleash His Will everywhere through you. Know you are set free through Christ and charge forward in sanctified power toward God’s Will for your life.
Jesus is real and risen and alive to connect us to our Father in heaven. Enjoy this Part II of Fruit of the Vine podcast with your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network. Learn the answers to the mysteries Ann Marie spent her youth searching for arriving ultimately at salvation in Christ. Ann Marie Kelly was an independent young lady. Her family’s Catholic faith gave her the solid foundation to see adolescent risks. But instead she was drawn down dangerous paths including a dark-spirit introduction with astral projection. Thankfully due to a remark in conversation with her sister-in-law, she opened her eyes to the reality of the presence of Jesus. She discovered she could go directly to God through Jesus instead of remaining trapped in the empty and hollow things she sought to fill her emptiness. She would never again be vulnerable to the spiritual attacks from ravenous occultists attracted to her innocent vulnerability. God revealed to her, the seeking through dark spirits and drugs had been ever-deeper bondage to sin—and Jesus is the key that unlocks our prisoner’s chains and releases us to eternal freedom.
Jesus is real. He is risen and alive to connect us home to our Father in heaven. So, why was he hanging on the cross? Enjoy a brief visit with Fruit of the Vine podcast hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network. Learn the answers to the mystery Ann Marie spent her youth searching for arriving ultimately at salvation in Christ.
Ann Marie Kelly was brought up in a religious home. That should have given a young, Catholic Ann Marie enough of a solid foundation to steer clear of adolescent risks. But having been born to somewhat older parents, combined with peer influences that opened doors to dangerous distractions, she drifted down an unhealthy path. Unsavory habits including drug use and dabbling in occultism clouded the “good Catholic girl's" life from the end of grade school up through her early twenties. By the end of her teens, she was married with two children.
A chance remark during a conversation with her future sister-in-law opened Ann Marie’s eyes to reality of the presence of Jesus. She finally discovered she could go directly to God through Jesus instead of having to remain trapped beholden to mortal man in the person of a church priest. Never again would Ann Marie be left completely vulnerable to spiritual attacks from fellow astro-plain practitioners. God gave her revelation that all her seeking through dark spirits and drugs had been ever-deeper bondage to sin—but Jesus is the key that unlocks our prisoner’s chains and releases us to eternal freedom.
While the world grows colder, harsher, and more distant, there is refuge and peace waiting and its cost has already been paid. Invest a few minutes with Fruit of the Vine podcast hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network, and unlock the secret to lifelong grace, love, and mercy already waiting for you.
We must be born anew in the Spirit. God is a god of reason and purpose, but He’s especially a god of more. Everything God does is exquisitely designed to lead to the following logical step. In our fallen flesh-driven existence, we remain the drowning man batting away the life preservers repeatedly as they’re offered to us time after time. Only sinful flesh could spit irrationally in the face of its logical God offering His infinite lovingkindness. His reason is flouted by utterly unreasonable sin-infested flesh. But only what any of us ever may do for the cause of Christ will last with eternal value.
Lay down every frustration and guilt. Leave shame behind. Embrace His peace by your side. Get into His Word and stay there. Renew your mind and don’t stop. Reach for the place where your innermost being says, “Thy will be done, Father,” and follow David’s example in Psalm 139 hungering for the Lord so search you and show you anything not of Him and that you have not let go of yet.
God gave us Jesus so we could connect back to God. When we get connected to God, we need to stay connected. If we ever drift from God, we must remember that He never gives up on us, and we can continue in the Vine, our Lord Jesus, and reconnect back to God. Invest a few minutes with Fruit of the Vine podcast and your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network, and discover what it looks like to trust God through life-changing blessings.
God is real and is changing lives every day as He works through us. Naomi learned this firsthand when her middle-school-aged daughter began having behavioral problems in class. An otherwise bright and successful student, Naomi's daughter also came from a solid and stable home, but one that did not have Jesus in its foundation. Naomi was an educator and knew what disruption a challenging student could cause in a school. Her daughter's Dean tried to help, but eventually a breaking point arrived. Naomi’s daughter purchased alcohol from a classmate. Naomi had enough. She packed her daughter’s belongings in a trash bag and took her to wherever they might find help. Finally arriving at a local church, she believed a solution was about to happen. But the church was closed. Naomi finally broke. She sat down on the church steps and wept. But she resolved to come back to the church the next Sunday morning. Naomi was returning to familiar territory, having grown up a pastor’s kid in the Pentecostal church. She was going back to church, believing “Come on God, help me do this.” After several weeks her husband began attending with Naomi and their two daughters. Little by little their household grew into a home seeking God and His wisdom. “The devil is not allowed, and we’re not going back to where we were,” Naomi declared. Her new church encouraged and nourished her.
Naomi reconnected to God through our Vine, our Lord Jesus, and rebuilt her family in peace and strength.
It’s time for a quick Proverbs 3:5–6 tune up—if you are not trusting the Lord with all your heart and you’re leaning on your own understanding, then it's time re-surrender your all in all to Jesus, your Lord and Savior. Invest a few minutes with Fruit of the Vine podcast and your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network, and take Jesus back our of the box you in which you have packed Him away.
How does it make any sense to limit the Maker of heaven and the Earth with your own fears, worries, doubts, and the rest of our human fleshly frailties? The God who saved us while we were yet still sinners is the solution to your ongoing fears, worries, and doubts. Never let yourself trap Him in the dungeon of your finite human expectations. Believe on Him and receive His grace, mercy, and blessings in abundance. Put Him first—and leave Him there!
If there is a guaranteed way to earn strong returns investing in the stock market, would you pounce on the chance to do that? If there is a guaranteed way to be healthy forever, would you pounce on that chance to resist sickness? Well there is a guaranteed way to stay plugged in to God’s grace through our Lord and Savior Jesus, and that is by investing God’s time He has given you on His Truth! To repeat—Read. Your. Bible. Every day. Find a chapter, any chapter, read it, and feed your heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit the eternal nourishment it’s probably starved for. He is infinitely and permanently faithful to multiply His knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in you the moment you take in the first syllable. Put Him first, keep Him there, and live the fact that He loves you and the more you press in to His truth, the more He will reveal His truth to you and through your life.
Recharge your peace by pressing in to God’s forever compassion. We know our Lord’s mercies are fresh and new every morning. Invest a few minutes refreshing your spirit with Fruit of the Vine podcast and your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network.
Scripture guides us to guard our hearts and keep our peace, the Lord’s peace in our hearts. God’s Word will soothe your soul and it will empower you to preserve His peace within you. He will fortify your heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit with His precious hope.
Nothing God does ever is by accident. His perfect purpose leads us forward in His calling on which we can build our days. And that purpose has been written for us before any of us were but the briefest twinkle in our parents' eyes. As we know His ways are higher than our ways, we must seek through trust and faith our Lord’s roadmap forward in service of His Kingdom in the works of our hands.
Your flesh clings to its sin appetite out of desperate survival. But a heart once turned over to Jesus Christ is a heart forever entrusted to our Lord. On a very special Fruit of the Vine podcast, visit with your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network. They chat with Andrea's son-in-law José Colón as he discusses his season of trial during which the Lord showed him that he knew that he knew Jesus had been guiding his every step and every moment without ceasing, regardless of any season of pain or difficulty, since he gave his life to Jesus as a boy.
God is our Protector and Provider when we turn to Him and seek and accept His grace and ever-flowing abundant blessing. United States Marine José Colón is a protector, too, honorably and bravely standing in the gap like the rest of our military services ensuring our homeland remains free. But shortly after getting married and moving overseas to serve in Romania, José blew out his left knee. What would have been a routine ligament treatment cycle became a crisis of severe clotting and an extended hospital stay in a foreign country. But God’s hand never left José for a single nanosecond. Without that uncomfortable visit to a Romanian hospital—quite different from the standards Americans are familiar with—José might have taken the scheduled airline flight back home for continued treatment, a decision that would have dangerously exacerbated his left leg’s condition and certainly resulted in José death. God was honoring José’s faithful prayers each day, eventually leading him to new levels of faith and freedom through Jesus. Our Lord exchanged José’s "I need to handle it myself" mentality for the Holy Spirit's renewing grace and a new heart's ability to extend his hands and accept all of God’s blessings.
God gives His grace in overwhelming surplus. He offers His grace in amounts that we can never understand and never be shocked by. But we don’t grasp it. Give yourself a few minutes with the Fruit of the Vine podcast and your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network.
Grace overcomes everything including sin. Especially sin! Grace is the explosive fuel that energizes our faith and hope and love. But—most people, including believers, don't get it. They don’t take the time to understand how powerful God’s grace is. That God’s grace is the wonder working power available inside every Christ follower.
God's Word is not a magic trick or a mysterious spell to cast over a moment or a person, it is the living water of God’s grace and the reason we must speak words of life and truth. This is why each day the believer should be praying God’s Word over their lives. More specifically, begin praying His hedge of protection of His angels around you each morning. Pray over your life including your family members, your coworkers, your neighbors, and God's purpose for your life that you’re walking through. We must be ready to give an account of every word we have spoken in every moment of our lives on our Judgment Day. Grace enables us to be able to do what we cannot otherwise do in our own weak, fallen flesh’s power.
Walk in God’s abundant grace.
“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,” Romans 3:23. God invites His children to partake of the full breadth and depth of His glory composed of His character, His acts, His attributes, who He is, and what He does. Come revel in the Bride's feast set by our Father in heaven for all eternity. Invest few minutes in a visit with the Fruit of the Vine podcast and your co-hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network.
God created us for relationship with Him. We are His joy—if and when we give Him our attention. We cause God His joy through connection, living in relationship with Him beyond a few two-minute prayers a week and maybe fifty-five minutes sitting in a church pew on the occasional Sunday morning.
Our faith makes up the relationship He longs for with us when we live it actively like a verb. God wants connection with His children exactly the same way any parent misses their children when they haven’t seen them nor heard their voices in a little while. He adores the moments to feel like that precious piece of a parent’s heart when the children aren’t far away. That’s what God wants every moment of every day, to see us and hear us and adore each one of us in His presence.
Our Father in heaven longs to lavish us in His glory—and we have no better way to glorify His holy name than by accepting and living faith and choosing morning by morning to build our lives on His Word, obey His truth, and walk in our God-given position of victory, truth, and faith.
“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,” (Romans 3:23.) to accepting small snacks when God gave us Christ on the cross so we can revel in the buffet feast of His blessings for all eternity. Take a few minutes and pay yourself by investing in a visit with the Fruit of the Vine podcast, with your co-hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network. God created us for His joy. How do we cause God His joy for which He created us? Connection. Relationship. This is why "religion" unto itself is a dead end road, but "faith" is a relationship when lived as a verb instead of an abstract concept. God wants connection with His children exactly the same way any parent misses their kiddos and longs for time with them to see them and hear them and be among them, and have a moment to feel like that precious pieces of their parent’s heart isn’t quite so far away for a little while. That’s what God wants every moment of every day, longing to see us and listen to us and adore His kids in His presence. Our Father in heaven longs to lavish us in His glory—and we have no better way to glorify His holy name then by accepting and walking in and living His glory, choosing morning by morning to build our lives on His Word, obey His truth, and walk in our God-given position of victory, truth, and faith.
Godly friendships are among our Lord’s most precious blessings. Connecting with God’s other children gifts us the opportunity to present Jesus to other people, to lend a hand in return for grace. Visit with Charisma Podcast Network’s Fruit of the Vine co-hosts Andrea and Ann Marie to learn the encouraging testimony of Enrique Suarez and the word God did in his life.
Growing up in the Catholic Church gave Enrique Suarez a knowledge of God, but he recalls having taken some quality naps in church with his Mother when he was a child, instead of learning the Gospel and fortifying his spirit with Scripture. Through a series of destructive choices, he eventually found himself incarcerated multiple times culminating with a twenty-four month sentence in a maximum security prison. During this time Suarez lost his marriage, his family, his business—he later recognized he as like Job, having lost just about everything. But God had plans for Enrique. It was during the thirteen months he spent in prison that the Lord kept him secured and effectively “free" to spend time in the Lord praising God and learning every day. Fortified with the wisdom of God, Enrique rejoined civilian life after his sentence and attacked his service to the Lord with the hunger of a lion. He spent time serving in homeless shelters, street ministry, and every opportunity to honor God’s provisions as he rebuilt his life. Later those provisions from heaven would include a certificate from Rollins College while well on his way to earning his bachelor's degree. When he didn’t know where to go, God provided. When he didn't understand what was going to happen next, God provided. When the last bits of his life spun out of control, God provided Enrique new mercies, a fresh vision of hope for his life, and a testimony that keeps a wide joyful grin across his face.
Sin is a prison that wants to kill you yesterday. It is no respecter of persons while it seeks to drive your existence to nothingness. Travis Hamzik learned this lesson the hard way and now lives the difference between knowing about Jesus versus knowing Jesus. Spend a quickly passing half hour with Charisma Podcast Network’s Fruit of the Vine and co-hosts Andrea “Dre" Holder and Ann Marie “Mar" Kelly while they visit with Travis Hamzik and understand the amazing work the Holy Spirit has done through his life.
Our testimony is God's story He composes through our living our lives. After living a life of total sin, seeking any next pleasures as his only purpose, Travis Hamzik would lose a close friend in a tragic automobile accident when that sin life finally caught up to him. In 2002, his truck overturned and of his two passengers, only one survived. Wracked by guilt and endless pain, Hamzik even considered ending his life if only that would bring the release from pain he craved. Realizing he wasn’t actually living for God, he told the Lord that if he could just be set apart for a little while, he would be able to make the changes he had to make. A few days later, an arrest landed him in the local jail and the setting apart season he needed to steer his life onto God’s path. From his lowest point during his first night in jail, Hamzik plowed his energy into devouring an old Gideon King James Version Bible and the Holy Spirit ignited the first in the deepest corner of his heart that burns more brightly than ever now several years later. Revelation 3:20 came true for him when gladly he threw open the door of his heart as the Lord knocked.
Want to multiply grace? Die to self. Press in to John 3:30 and live out the prayer, “more of Him, and less of me.” God multiplies His grace among us when we finally realize that head knowledge is a dead end if it isn’t animated and empowered and activated with heart knowledge, especially that revelation only breaks through with ever-growing heart knowledge. Enjoy a few minute's visit with Charisma Podcast Network’s Fruit of the Vineand co-hosts Andrea and Ann Marie during their discussion of God's gifts in His grace.
Our Father in heaven longs for relationship with each of His children. But why don't more of seek Him wholeheartedly, surrendered and sold out to the God of our very creation? The flesh resists under the lie of control, as if we have anything more than an elaborate mirage of control over our daily existence in the first place. How much sweeter, better, and more peaceful when we arrive at the place where we can say truly, “thank God that He is God.” He already measures our heart’s condition by the overall combination of our words, thoughts, and deeds, and what the Creator of the heavens and the Earth thinks about me is the final factor at the last minute of each day. But if I cannot seek Him and give myself over to Him in the relationship He wants, I have nothing. He is a God of more and more than enough, offering us the light of His truth versus the darkness of this fallen world. Help me to let this heart seek You today, my Lord.
I met the Holy Spirit at around the age of eleven and didn’t even know it until nearly thirty years later. I had grown up in the church. I made my decision for Christ at a Southern Baptist church's Spring Revival before I reached the teen years. I went all the way through Sunday School to youth group, from elementary school to college. Later I had that mid-twenties swoon some believers go through when I didn't even bother with His knowing better or did I know better, I just barged forward in late-late-adolescent verve into life after college doing my thing my way.
God in His infinite patience and lovingkindness gave me lots of leash to run off for a while, until He gave me a loving yank and pulled me back in my early thirties. It was a hard day, but a wonderful day. Through it all I tried to stay pressed in, at times more effectively than not. But what little I thought I could say I confidently knew, it was at least that little bit that I thought I knew that I knew, in what the Gospel is about, Who God is, and how I fit into all of His grand purpose far bigger than me.
But it was back at the age of eleven that, as I would only begin to realize years later, the Lord was making in me a heart after His, that had this almost unrecognizable capacity to see the good, humble, possibly even vulnerable heart in every person I encountered each day, whether that was the kindly grandmotherly figure at the grocery store or some hulking wall of muscle from the nearby middle school that would sooner grind my person into a fine powder and sprinkle me over the schoolyard fence into the parking lot. It was my own Mom who saw it, at a time when I was sure no one noticed, not least where I wasn’t sure what it was, either. I happened to have overheard her on a telephone call with her twin sister, our beloved aunt, saying something about how, "...even if someone gave him a box of chocolate-covered ants, he’d still appreciate the thought.”
The Word of God is Spirit and gives life—but none of that happens until and unless we answer the still, small knock at the door of our hearts, greet Jesus, invite Him into our hearts, and have Him call it all glory for the Father as Jesus dwells in us. If you’re thirsty. If you hunger. If you’re among the weary craving rest, then be refreshed by wisdom and encouragement in this episode of the Charisma Podcast Network's “Fruit of the Vine” featuring your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie.
Jesus wants us to see Him in Scripture, so that we might discover His message, that we don’t have to carry the weight of our sins anymore because He took our sins and nailed them to His Cross—but none of that can happen until we open the door of our hearts to Him. When we build a relationship ship with the Son, we may have fellowship with the Father.
And He is the same Father who does not need us, but wants us, and longs for our fellowship with Him that He sacrificed His most precious treasure, His Son, that we may be declared clean and washed white as newly fallen snow and innocent before Him and thereby spend all eternity with Him in His kingdom. If you are tired of being tired. When—not “if”—you hear His voice. Harden not your heart, and accept the truth that you are His masterpiece among all of His Creation across the heavens and the Earth. And Jesus is a gentleman, He will not barge into your life, but will await your invitation, for He longs to be invited into your heart so that He may bring the Father, too, and dwell within you forever.
How often do we as believers gladly and willingly surrender our whole selves to our Lord—but really we’re only giving God the living room and the guest bedroom, when He expects and wants the whole house? There is no good thing our Father in heaven will ever withhold from us, so we need to grit our teeth and take courage and get bold, and give Him our all-in-all, our everything, right down to our very hearts. We can rest in His blessed assurance that good change will come to us when we entrust our whole story to Him.
Visit with your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie on this episode of the Charisma Podcast Network's “Fruit of the Vine,” and enjoy the highly engaging testimony of “Fruit of the Vine” board member Greg King. Like many of us, Mr. King grew up in the church. He knows from Grandma’s “church gum” in the bottom of her purse, but then drifted a bit during his teen years. After a gut-wrenching divorce in his mid-twenties and a brief season of difficulties thereafter, Greg ran back to the loving, patient arms of the Father.
Now happily remarried and blessed with five children between his and his wife’s first marriages, he has learned the key to pressing in to everything the Lord has for us, and that is spending time in God’s Word because getting into the Word means getting into God’s presence. And by God’s perfect design, the more we press in to Him, His presence, and His Word, the more we want to surrender all we have, like the timeless praise hymn teaches, surrendering all.
The path forward in the perfecting of our faith inevitably leads through a season crying out to God, “Why, God, why?" Why do bad things happen to good people? Where was God when a child is taken by disease? How does God allow new parents to lose a precious newborn infant? Why do pandemics happen? Why didn’t God protect the husband and father on his way home from work from being taken in a tragic car accident leaving behind his bride and their precious little son and daughter?
On this episode of “Fruit of the Vine,” your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie of the Charisma Podcast Network show how Jesus is our Rock, our Fortress, and Deliverer, in whom we can place our full trust. God in His Living Word promises to carry us through the darkest of awful moments life throws at us—not to magically give us only happy days. And it is in every one of those moments that Jesus Himself is working through us. Paul said nothing ever can separate us from the love of our Father in heaven, and it is Jesus who placed us in that love and keeps us there, even in our worst days. Jesus promises to lift us soaring on wings like eagles because He has already overcome death and the trials of this life. All we have do is take the promise of Scripture because it is the Word made flesh—trust Him and take that first step now!
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If you are trying to force not-yet-believers, then you’re not demonstrating Christ to them—that’s the same Christ Who died on the Cross for each of us when we all yet were sinners. On this episode of “Fruit of the Vine,” your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie of the Charisma Podcast Network present a rich and high-substance conversation in how to put on love, show other people Jesus, and do it the right way. That means never sitting in judgment, but always being ready to speak grace. The good news is that our Sanctification from Christ each day is the motivation we need to bring others to Jesus. We are able to love because we were first were loved by Him. It’s also practical since we have no idea what burdens our neighbors are struggling beneath on any given moment. Andrea and Ann Marie will show the key to bringing Sanctification through grace in every thought, word, deed, and plan—getting back into God’s Word and staying there. Don’t give God your leftovers, start giving Him your right-overs! Get right again in your daily, frame each day within God’s Word starting with Jesus first.
Line up your prayers with God’s Will and watch Him work! Psalm 139 reminds us that God made us “fearfully and wonderfully,” and that He will complete His work through us according to His Spirit in us. The more we press into Him and seek and obey His guiding, the more His peace will flood our souls.
Elizabeth suffered a severe car accident---and that was after enduring a stroke and arthritis. But she knew that she knew we are called to showcase God’s awesome wonder-working power.
Through ten grueling months following her accident, she remained always about God’s purpose while desperate in her soul for God’s intervention. She was positive there were other folks in the church who must have been thinking, “…she needs to just give it up… it ain’t happenin’!” But by her faith and unwavering hope, our Father in heaven released his healing miracle flowing for and through Elizabeth. Today she affirms, “He rescued me from my prison!”
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God calls us to freedom in Christ, the highest calling any of us aspire to this side of glory in our eternal home in heaven. Join “Fruit of the Vine” hosts Andrea and Anne Marie studying Ephesians 3, starting as the Father does with new mercies and new grace every sunrise. But add this to your knowledge and your understanding---building the life God calls you to will be sidetracked without keeping the Sabbath holy, applying God’s law of rest. The sermon for today--we have the ability to control our “go, go, go” lives and steer back to God. Don’t give up, trust in God and walk in His love for you.