Friday, May 31, 2024

IS ANY AMONG YOU SICK?

 

In the Hospital Sick Man Lying on the Bed_ His Visiting Wife Hopefully Sits Beside Him and Prays for His Rapid Recovery. Tragic_ Somber and Melancholy Scene.

Is Anyone Among You Sick?

Today I want to encourage you if you or someone you know is sick. The Bible tells us how to pray for ourselves as well as others. Too many times, we rely on others to pray for us. When we are new Christians, that is fine. The faith of the mature Christian can certainly be used to heal the person. Jesus is our Healer and He is available to all who call upon Him.


Here is what the Bible says:


Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. (James 5:13)


As we grow up in Christ, we must remember to run to Jesus and ask Him to heal us. It is easy to run to others and ask them to pray, but if Jesus is our Lord, He is personally available to each one of us to heal us. It's our faith that will heal us - not someone else's. Yes, there is a time to pray for others. For this blog, we are staying with the first point, "Is anyone among you sick?"


We must flee from the spiritual roots of the illnesses we face. One thing is idolatry. That means putting anything else in the place of God. Depending on people will not work when we have the Lord as own Lord, Healer and Comforter.


Look as this song and listen to it on You Tube. "Christ Be Magnified."


When we look to our Father God, He alone is the One Who supplies all our needs. And He supplied all the healing we would ever need through Jesus' Body and Blood. The Bible tells us that by His stripes, we are healed. The Blood is for the remission of sins. His body was broken for us to be healed. One God, One Lord, and one Holy Spirit - all one awesome God. He is the One and only One to whom we need to run to for help and healing.


We need to ask the Lord, "What is the spiritual root to this illness, and then deal with that. Once we get the root pulled out, we can be free. Sickness is a stronghold and it must be broken through prayer and faith.


I pray this helps you and if you have further questions, or would like someone to help you study these principles in depth, please reach out to us. We are here to help. Don't forget to order a copy of our book, Ten Cannons in my Heart." You will be blessed if you do.


This blog is reaching people all over the world! God is sending His Word out to the nations! Be blessed and filled my dear friend, and pass this message along to others.


We love you so much!


Love and blessings!

Denny & Hanny Stearns


Denny & Hanny Stearns

Fish N Loaves Ministries, Inc.

Multiplying God's Word around the globe!

Email: Denny.Stearns@gmail.com

Email: Hannylynn05@gmail.com


Website: www.Fishnloavesministries.org

Blog:Fishnloavesministries.blogspot.com

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Don't forget to go to our website and order your copy of my new book! It's getting fantastic reviews! It is sure to touch many hearts and lead people closer to Jesus. Share a copy with a friend or relative after you have read it and keep praying that this message will have a global reach!

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Ten Cannons in My Heart Book! Order Your Copy and see your life be transformed!

 

Ten Cannons in My Heart

Today I am sending out a reminder to people to get this book! It will point people to the one true God! We have already sold many copies and the feedback we are getting is phenomenal!


There are millions in the world who do not understand that there is only one God and one Savior, His Son Jesus. This book will show you through God’s written word Who He is and what He expects of us!


Once you read it, please share it with someone who is searching for answers in their life! This book is a life saver!


You can order online at our website at:


www.fishnloavesministries.org


Look under the tab “Our books”


Orders will be shipped in approximately one to two weeks.


Thank you for reading our weekly blog and even telling others whom you feel may benefit from it. You can check out our updated website to see what we are doing in Africa among other places, in addition to our ministry duties here. Get your copy of the book today! Any donations to our ministry are completely tax deductible except for the book orders. Help us spread the Word around the globe.


Much love and many blessings to you and yours in Jesus' Name. Amen!


Denny & Hanny Stearns

FNLM

Denny & Hanny Stearns

Fish N Loaves Ministries, Inc.

Multiplying God's Word around the globe!


Website: www.Fishnloavesministries.org

Blog: Fishnloavesministries.blogspot.com

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Homosexuality in Church Leadership

 

Pastor leading a young man in prayer to receive faith in Lord Jesus

Homosexuality in Church Leadership

Friend, we are living in the end time Church, and many are diverting from the truth of scripture. It was heavy on my heart to find out more denominations are allowing homosexuals to become church leaders! This should not be so! If we are to sit under teachers in the sanctuary, they have a higher standard than the rest of us.


Here is what the Bible says about leaders' requirements:


For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you— if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination. For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled, holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict. Titus 1:5-9


How can we allow people who are living in the sin of homosexuality teach us about the Word of God? If they approve that which God does not approve, what else might they be teaching that does not line up with the Word of God.


Here is just one verse about what the Bible says about homosexuality:


If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 20:13


Friends, if God looks at this so harshly, so shall we. When a homosexual comes to the church, it's our job to teach them in righteousness. Then it's up to them to turn from their wicked way and be saved. They, like all of us, have the opportunity to repent and turn to Jesus and receive Him as their Lord and Savior.


Let us keep this in mind as we consider what church we are sitting in, what they are demonstrating by their behavior, and are they teaching in line with the Word of God. Our assembly must not be just a social gathering for fun and fellowship. The purpose of church fellowship is to be built up in godliness. It should be changing us to be more like Jesus.


I know this isn't a warm and fuzzy message this week, but it must be preached. If we want to be all that God created us to be, we must be trained in holiness and righteousness, just as Jesus taught. We must not be in agreement with these things that are an abomination to the Lord our God.


Thank you for considering this message and how it can impact your life and the lives of those around you. May you be blessed as you consecrate yourself unto the Lordship of Jesus!


Last month, this blog reached well over 1300 people all over the world! God is sending His Word out to the nations! He is awesome. Be blessed and filled my dear friend and pass this message along to others.


We love you so much!


Love and blessings!

Denny & Hanny Stearns


Denny & Hanny Stearns

Fish N Loaves Ministries, Inc.

Multiplying God's Word around the globe!

Email: Denny.Stearns@gmail.com

Email: Hannylynn05@gmail.com


Website: www.Fishnloavesministries.org

Blog:Fishnloavesministries.blogspot.com

FNLM

Don't forget to go to our website and order your copy of my new book! It is sure to touch many hearts and lead people closer to Jesus. Share a copy with a friend or relative after you have read it and keep praying that this message will have a global reach!

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Preaching the True Gospel of Repentance

Crucifixion against the sky. Prayer. Repentance. Christian. Clasped hands in prayer. Crucifixion at Calvary. Asks God. Bending his knees at the cross. A man is praying. Easter illustration.

Preaching the True Gospel of Repentance

This week as I progress through a series on repentance, we are looking at the ways in which many of us share the gospel. Many like to keep it soft, telling people about God's love and grace, and yet not telling folks that what is needed when we lead them to salvation in Jesus is a repentant heart.


The Bible tells us this:


For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

2 Cor. 7:10


Many have been led to Jesus but not discipled into a life of full devotion. Many people sitting in churches today think they are ok but have never truly repented of their sin and become born again.


With so much darkness and deception in the world today, it is super important that we tell people the truth about how to turn from their sin and receive Jesus as Lord. In addition to leading them to salvation, we must make sure they have a way of getting discipled. If they do not get taught about the things of God, they will not stick with the commitment they originally made.


Let this be a wake up call to all of us that we need to lead a repentant lifestyle before the Lord, being quick to repent of our sins, and then being faithful to preach the truth about heaven and hell, and how people need Jesus to save them so they can go to heaven.


Let this be an encouragement to you. May it help you remember to preach the real gospel, not a soft, candy-coated, watered-down version of how to get saved.


Last month, this blog reached well over 1300 people all over the world! God is sending His Word out to the nations! He is amazing. Be blessed and filled my dear friend and pass this message along to others.


We love you so much!


Love and blessings!

Denny & Hanny Stearns


Denny & Hanny Stearns

Fish N Loaves Ministries, Inc.

Multiplying God's Word around the globe!

Email: Denny.Stearns@gmail.com

Email: Hannylynn05@gmail.com


Website: www.Fishnloavesministries.org

Blog:Fishnloavesministries.blogspot.com

FNLM

Don't forget to go to our website and order your copy of my new book! It is sure to touch many hearts and lead people closer to Jesus. Share a copy with a friend or relative after you have read it and keep praying that this message will have a global reach!



Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Ten Cannons in my Heart! Get the book today!

 

Ten Cannons in My Heart

Today I am sending out a reminder to people to get this book! It will point people to the one true God! We have already sold many copies and the feedback we are getting is phenomenal! 


There are millions in the world who do not understand that there is only one God and one Savior, His Son Jesus. This book will show you through God’s written word Who He is and what He expects of us! 


Once you read it, please share it with someone who is searching for answers in their life! This book is a life saver! 


You can order online at our website at:


www.fishnloavesministries.org


Look under the tab “Our books”


Orders will be shipped in approximately one to two weeks. 


Thank you for reading our weekly blog and even telling others whom you feel may benefit from it. You can check out our updated website to see what we are doing in Africa among other places, in addition to our ministry duties here. Get your copy of the book today! Any donations to our ministry are completely tax deductible except for the book orders. Help us spread the Word around the globe.


Much love and many blessings to you and yours in Jesus' Name. Amen!


Denny & Hanny Stearns

FNLM

Denny & Hanny Stearns

Fish N Loaves Ministries, Inc.

Multiplying God's Word around the globe!


Website: www.Fishnloavesministries.org

Blog: Fishnloavesministries.blogspot.com

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

When God Sends You a Rainbow



When God Sends You a Rainbow

Maybe you need some encouragement right now. Or maybe you are just in a mountain top season in life when all seems to be going well. In every life, there comes a time when we need to be encouraged. This week, I needed that and at the right moment, I looked up and saw a beautiful complete rainbow!


When we look at the many ways that the Lord tries to say, "Hey, I love you! I am with you and I am for you," we just have to pause in awe of Him and say a heartfelt thank you.


I had an opportunity to encourage someone this week who just felt like giving up. My heart cried out to the Lord for this person and I asked God to help. And He did. This person stayed the course and is continuing on in their journey! It brought me to tears as I reached out to encourage this person and pray over him.


I know what it's like when the challenges come and the work seems hard, so when I got the rainbow this week, I knew my greatest encourager, the Lord, was speaking to me. Then, out of that, I was given the opportunity to share that encouragement with this person.


I will keep this shorter, so you can read it and share it with others. Here is what God says,


Fear not, I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10


Let this Word of God comfort and encourage you today.


Be sure to check out our website. If you want to partner with this ministry to help people in Africa and around the world, you can donate on a monthly basis. Every person who partners with us as we share the Word of God and pray for people will certainly be blessed by sowing good seed into good ground.


Last month, this blog reached well over 1300 people all over the world! God is sending His Word out to the nations! Be blessed and filled my dear friend, and pass this message along to others.


We love you so much!


Love and blessings!

Denny & Hanny Stearns


Denny & Hanny Stearns

Fish N Loaves Ministries, Inc.

Multiplying God's Word around the globe!

Email: Denny.Stearns@gmail.com

Email: Hannylynn05@gmail.com


Website: www.Fishnloavesministries.org

Blog:Fishnloavesministries.blogspot.com

Don't forget to go to our website and order your copy of my new book! It is sure to touch many hearts and lead people closer to Jesus. Share a copy with a friend or relative after you have read it and keep praying that this message will have a global reach!






Wednesday, May 1, 2024

DEEP CALLS TO DEEP

 

Swimming Pool Guide Rail Upper Frame Left Connected to Steps Leading into the Water Below in Late Afternoon Sun Lined with Cement Deck Pink Tiles

Deep Calls To Deep

I saw a great big pool in a dream last night! There was a man rubbing the handle bar with a cloth that led down into the pool. It was empty. He was at the deep end, and I heard a voice saying, "That's deep!" It was probably my voice. When I looked at the length of the pool, it was very long. And the deep end was very deep.


When I came to spend time with the Lord, I came to a song that began to touch my soul. One song led to another, and the tears flowed. I was reminded again just like yesterday about the deep passion that Jesus stirred up in my heart back in 2005 at a Church in Plymouth, Michigan. I could see myself with hands lifted high as I praised my newfound love of my life - Jesus!


I heard something yesterday afternoon that really threw me for a loop. It was "You are going to go back to Michigan." I thought that couldn't be God saying that! But today, I see that He meant spiritually. I would go back to that place when I first fell in love with Jesus at Northridge Church. Another "Wow God!"


The songs kept rolling and so did my tears. It's like falling in love with Jesus all over again. Here are some verses that began to speak to me as I opened the Word of God.


Amos 5:24 AMP “But let justice run down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream [flowing abundantly]."


I thought, "Wow!" Everything seems to be pointing to water! Even today as we finally went out to walk our Jesse, we noticed there were men working on the pool!


As I proceeded to read in the Word, I looked at the book of Amos, chapters 5-9. It was a judgment against Israel for they had not sought the Lord. He was calling them to seek Him and live, and in the end of the book, He brings restoration. Thank You Jesus!


Next, I looked at this verse... Psalm 42:7 Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me. This looks to me like Jesus is at the deep end and He is calling me, (us) to the deeper places with Him.


The beginning of Psalm 42 shows a cry of the heart - in verse 1 - as the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You O God. Verse 2 says my soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Once again, I continue to see the whole theme about water and being thirsty for God. Our soul needs to be filled with His Spirit.


I heard this in my spirit as I was getting showered this morning, "The well is deep." Look at this in John 4. My last blog talked about the woman at the well. She looked at Jesus when He offered her water and here is what she said, " The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?


More about the water, representing Holy Spirit. Look at this... "But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.


All I can say is "Wow God!" There aren't enough hallelujah's we can sing compared to the Spirit of God bringing revelation to the Church today! This is touching me so deeply. I felt the Lord calling me to leave the stack of work alone for a time with Him. He was speaking to me so profoundly, and I had to set everything aside to come to the well and get replenished. Everything else had to take a back seat to this. Eating and other work had to wait.


When I continued through my study this morning, I saw this... 2 Cor. 4:17-18 "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."


My heart cries out to myself, my husband, my family and all the Church that we have got to stop playing Church and get back to our First Love - Jesus! It's all about Him and coming to that well of Living Water that can only be found in Him! It's the call of God to us all right now to move past the things of this world and get into the realm of the Spirit of God and allow Him to take us to the deeper places.


Here is a song that He is putting on my heart, "Prophecy the Promise." Check it out. In it, they sing to God that He will finish the good work He started in us. See Philippians 1:6. He is just getting started. All we have to do is come. Jesus is calling. He is waiting. Our souls need Him so much!


My heart's cry is that we read this and share it with as many as possible. Last month, this blog reached well over 1300 people all over the world! God is sending His Word out to the nations! We are reaching many in Hong Kong among several other countries! He is amazing. Be blessed and filled my dear friend, and pass this message along to others.


We love you so much!


Love and blessings!

Denny & Hanny Stearns


Denny & Hanny Stearns

Fish N Loaves Ministries, Inc.

Multiplying God's Word around the globe!

Email: Denny.Stearns@gmail.com

Email: Hannylynn05@gmail.com


Website: www.Fishnloavesministries.org

Blog:Fishnloavesministries.blogspot.com

FNLM

Don't forget to go to our website and order your copy of my new book! It is sure to touch many hearts and lead people closer to Jesus. Share a copy with a friend or relative after you have read it and keep praying that this message will have a global reach!