This Marvelous Love!
Ephesians 5:1-2 NKJV “Therefore, be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.”
Monday, October 24, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
International School of the Bible
8:06 PM
Ambassador Fellowship International
Get ready because Ambassador Fellowship International will soon be starting this exciting new program. Keep watching here for more information about where/when and more. We are so excited about this and hope to see you there.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
THIS MARVELOUS LOVE!
3:48 PM
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THIS MARVELOUS LOVE!
By: Rachel Storms
Ephesians 5:1-2 NKJV
“Therefore, be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.”
Have you ever noticed how beautiful a person who walks in love is? They may not be physically attractive, but because they are covered in a spirit of love they appear lovely. All of their imperfections seem invisible and everyone wants to be around them. That’s how powerful love is! It’s an active force or energy that literally draws people in.
So, how do we obtain that kind of love? Romans 5:5 says, “…the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us”. When we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit comes to live in us and God’s love is poured into our hearts. Did you notice the word “poured”? In the Bible, whenever God gives something, words like “fill”, “pour”, 
and “overflow” are used. Nothing from God comes in small portions. God isn’t holding anything back and He never does anything half way. Everything that comes from Him involves filling to the full and overflowing. The greatest love of all is made available to us simply by having a relationship with the source, the Father. After all, God is love (1 John 4:8).
Now that we know God’s love has been deposited in us, we should learn how to tap into it. About three years ago the words “major on love” began to echo in my spirit, so I began to dig into God’s Word concerning the subject. Over a period of time, having studied scripture after scripture and having read other books written on love, I started to notice changes taking place inside of me. It wasn’t long before I began to feel love for individuals who had previously hurt me. My attitude toward them was shifting from anger and resentment to mercy and forgiveness.
How did this transformation happen?
By studying the Word, I was able access the love that had been placed inside of me by the Holy Spirit. I want you to know that once I forgave them, not only did I release them from past wrongs, 
but I was also set free. I encourage you not to waste your time on holding grudges against anyone! It will hinder God’s blessing from working in your life and it will cause your faith to be of no effect. Galatians 5:6 KJV tells us that faith works by love. If you harbor unforgiveness in your heart, then you’re not operating in love.
Another thing that helped me was to confess God’s Word over myself and my relationships. If you need love to become a more active part of your life, put God in remembrance of His Word. Say, “God’s love has been poured into my heart by the Holy Spirit who was given to me”. Whenever you are tempted to step out of love, confess “I am an imitator of God as His child, and I walk in love just as Christ loved me and gave Himself for me”.
Keep the Word before your eyes. Meditate on it day and night. It won’t be long before you will see changes taking place in you. And always remember that “love never fails” (1 Cor. 13:8).
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Rachel Storms is the youngest daughter of Bill & Donna Borieo. She and her husband Tommy, have three daughters and currently make their home in South Carolina.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
First Quarter Newsletter 1/01/2011
1:06 PM
Ambassador Fellowship International
Got anxiety? by Bill Borieo
I know, what a stupid question right? Someone may be thinking, “Is this guy for real? Is he living in a cave somewhere? This maniac must not realize the day he is living in or, as they say in the south, He just ain’t right”
I assure you, I am not living in a dream world. I realize what’s going on in the world but, this conjecture is not original with me. I am not the first to bring it up. In fact, it was Jesus Himself who gave inference that the church could and should live, free from anxiety. Allow me to show you in the word of God this wondrous possibility! Are you ready?
First, let us examine Jesus statement leading us to believe, we can and should live without apprehension.
John 14: 1 “Let not your heart be troubled….”
Jesus was speaking to His disciples. A disciple is one who chooses to follow a particular teaching or way of life by adhering to, and acting out the tenants of that particular ideology. We, by reason of that definition, would be considered disciples of Jesus just as much as those present the day Jesus first gave this teaching. So, in light of the definition of a disciple that I have offered
We could say Jesus is talking to us, or to make it more personal, Jesus is talking to me!
Notice the phrase; “Let not your heart be troubled; …“
This phrase “Let not,” simply means to not allow. Allow what? Allow your heart to be troubled! Whose heart? Your heart, your spirit, the only one you have authority over. The suggestion is that, we have the ability to prevent our hearts from being troubled!
Trouble, according to strong's concordance comes from the Greek word tarasso, meaning; “Agitate, disturb, or to unsettle. It denotes mental agitation from fear or perplexity.”
Notice the phrase; to unsettle. The enemy is doing his best to keep our life in turmoil. As long as we live outside of the realm of peace, we experience many faith failures. We must realize that fear and anxiety act as barrier’s preventing the blessing of God getting to us. Fear and anxiety are the opposites of faith and trust.
Jesus is telling us, we do not have to allow our hearts or spirits, to fall apart under pressure. We can enjoy peace right in the middle of the storms of life! So then, we must protect our hearts.
Prov. 3:23 says; “Keep your heart with all diligence. For out of it spring the issues (seeds) of life.”
It is imperative for us to keep or guard our heart, because the life we are experiencing, originated in, has been seeded by, and will continue to, issue (bring forth seeds) from our hearts. Think about it!
What kind of issues are you faced with, Marriage problems, financial difficulties, depression, anxiety? Whatever it is you are facing in life, it all began in your heart. The enemy has been allowed to plant seeds, either by words or by images into our hearts.
Pictures of failure, doom and gloom fill our airways, and like lambs being led to the slaughter, we allow our hearts to be filled with mounds of pessimistic journalism shoveled to us nightly at 11:00. No wonder we can’t sleep at night.
Then, because of the nightmarish reports we have endured, having become the disciples of CNN, NBC or any other news medium, we believe and repeat all we have seen and heard. “…for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” Matt. 12:34 Couple that truth with Prov. 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue. And those who love it will eat its fruit.”, and it leaves little speculation as to how that fear and anxiety have the entire nation, as well as most of the church, by the throat! We cannot afford to, ALLOW OUR HEART’S TO BE TROUBLED!
Become a student of God’s word!
John 14:1 “…you believe in God, believe also in Me.”
Our faith, or confidence, must be in the Lord Jesus Christ! Faith, as I understand it, is putting trust in and relying on the word of an individual. In this case, we are to put our trust and reliance on Jesus. In order for us to confidently do this, we must have an absolute conviction, based on our understanding of, who Jesus is as revealed in the Holy Scriptures. When our belief system becomes absolutely convinced in the infallibility of God’s word, then it becomes easy to have confidence in Jesus. After faith becomes conviction, we will know that, whatever God says, He will do!
This level of confidence comes by two avenues; by knowing what the scriptures teach concerning Christ’s integrity, and by faith experiences we have enjoyed in the past, as we overcome difficulties while standing on God’s word.
Romans 10:17 “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Because we know how faith comes, then we pretty much will have it made, if, we take the time and develop the discipline to read it every day!
Fear, however, also comes by hearing. Hearing every negative voice there is in this world and also by meditating, on every negative thought planted in our minds.
Jesus said; Matt. 6:25 KJV “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?”
Other translations say; “…do not worry about your life”.
So we understand that fear and worry come to us in words and thoughts. These kinds of thoughts (negative worry filled and fearful thoughts), produce fear and anxiety and if allowed to take root, produce after their own kind. Hunger, sickness, lack, discouragement, ect.
Jesus continued to tell His disciples, that, no one can improve their stature or their well being by accepting negative thoughts. Taking or receiving the right kinds of thoughts however, will produce blessing, health and increase!
How do we allow the right kinds of seeds or thoughts to take root in our hearts?
Matt. 6:31 “Therefore take no thought saying,”
Thoughts reach our heart by saying! To embrace the right way of thinking and believing, we must be saying what God says! We must refuse to repeat everything we see and hear. When we do speak words, they, will give life to whatever we have been saying consistently, either our fears or our blessings! YOU MUST CHOOSE the words that will produce your desires.
Practice saying these kinds of words and your heart will be filled with faith and fear will flee!
Phil. 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Phil.4:19 “And my God shall supply all your (my) need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
Psalms 91:2 “I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and fortress; My God in Him I will trust.”
Psalms 91:7 “A thousand may fall at your (my) side, and ten thousand at your (my) right hand; but it shall not come near you (me).”
Psalms 91:10 “No evil shall befall you (me), neither shall any plague come near you (my) dwelling;”
Psalms 91:11 “For He shall give His angels charge over you (me). To keep you (me, in all your (my,) ways.”
Psalms 37:25 “I have been young, and now am old: yet I have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”
Emphasis added!
I want to so desperately, to see you do well and walking in all of the blessing that God has given the church. I know that there are those who will tell you that none of this works or is legitimate doctrine, but Gods word encourages us to follow after those who have not only taught faith, but those in whom we see their faith successes.
Heb. 13:7 “Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: Whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation (manner of life).”
Be sure that you are listening to the right people. “Therefore by their fruits you will know them.” Matt. 7:20
Blessings!
I know, what a stupid question right? Someone may be thinking, “Is this guy for real? Is he living in a cave somewhere? This maniac must not realize the day he is living in or, as they say in the south, He just ain’t right”
I assure you, I am not living in a dream world. I realize what’s going on in the world but, this conjecture is not original with me. I am not the first to bring it up. In fact, it was Jesus Himself who gave inference that the church could and should live, free from anxiety. Allow me to show you in the word of God this wondrous possibility! Are you ready?
First, let us examine Jesus statement leading us to believe, we can and should live without apprehension.
John 14: 1 “Let not your heart be troubled….”
Jesus was speaking to His disciples. A disciple is one who chooses to follow a particular teaching or way of life by adhering to, and acting out the tenants of that particular ideology. We, by reason of that definition, would be considered disciples of Jesus just as much as those present the day Jesus first gave this teaching. So, in light of the definition of a disciple that I have offered
We could say Jesus is talking to us, or to make it more personal, Jesus is talking to me!
Notice the phrase; “Let not your heart be troubled; …“
This phrase “Let not,” simply means to not allow. Allow what? Allow your heart to be troubled! Whose heart? Your heart, your spirit, the only one you have authority over. The suggestion is that, we have the ability to prevent our hearts from being troubled!
Trouble, according to strong's concordance comes from the Greek word tarasso, meaning; “Agitate, disturb, or to unsettle. It denotes mental agitation from fear or perplexity.”
Notice the phrase; to unsettle. The enemy is doing his best to keep our life in turmoil. As long as we live outside of the realm of peace, we experience many faith failures. We must realize that fear and anxiety act as barrier’s preventing the blessing of God getting to us. Fear and anxiety are the opposites of faith and trust.
Jesus is telling us, we do not have to allow our hearts or spirits, to fall apart under pressure. We can enjoy peace right in the middle of the storms of life! So then, we must protect our hearts.
Prov. 3:23 says; “Keep your heart with all diligence. For out of it spring the issues (seeds) of life.”
It is imperative for us to keep or guard our heart, because the life we are experiencing, originated in, has been seeded by, and will continue to, issue (bring forth seeds) from our hearts. Think about it!
What kind of issues are you faced with, Marriage problems, financial difficulties, depression, anxiety? Whatever it is you are facing in life, it all began in your heart. The enemy has been allowed to plant seeds, either by words or by images into our hearts.
Pictures of failure, doom and gloom fill our airways, and like lambs being led to the slaughter, we allow our hearts to be filled with mounds of pessimistic journalism shoveled to us nightly at 11:00. No wonder we can’t sleep at night.
Then, because of the nightmarish reports we have endured, having become the disciples of CNN, NBC or any other news medium, we believe and repeat all we have seen and heard. “…for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” Matt. 12:34 Couple that truth with Prov. 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue. And those who love it will eat its fruit.”, and it leaves little speculation as to how that fear and anxiety have the entire nation, as well as most of the church, by the throat! We cannot afford to, ALLOW OUR HEART’S TO BE TROUBLED!
Become a student of God’s word!
John 14:1 “…you believe in God, believe also in Me.”
Our faith, or confidence, must be in the Lord Jesus Christ! Faith, as I understand it, is putting trust in and relying on the word of an individual. In this case, we are to put our trust and reliance on Jesus. In order for us to confidently do this, we must have an absolute conviction, based on our understanding of, who Jesus is as revealed in the Holy Scriptures. When our belief system becomes absolutely convinced in the infallibility of God’s word, then it becomes easy to have confidence in Jesus. After faith becomes conviction, we will know that, whatever God says, He will do!
This level of confidence comes by two avenues; by knowing what the scriptures teach concerning Christ’s integrity, and by faith experiences we have enjoyed in the past, as we overcome difficulties while standing on God’s word.
Romans 10:17 “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Because we know how faith comes, then we pretty much will have it made, if, we take the time and develop the discipline to read it every day!
Fear, however, also comes by hearing. Hearing every negative voice there is in this world and also by meditating, on every negative thought planted in our minds.
Jesus said; Matt. 6:25 KJV “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?”
Other translations say; “…do not worry about your life”.
So we understand that fear and worry come to us in words and thoughts. These kinds of thoughts (negative worry filled and fearful thoughts), produce fear and anxiety and if allowed to take root, produce after their own kind. Hunger, sickness, lack, discouragement, ect.
Jesus continued to tell His disciples, that, no one can improve their stature or their well being by accepting negative thoughts. Taking or receiving the right kinds of thoughts however, will produce blessing, health and increase!
How do we allow the right kinds of seeds or thoughts to take root in our hearts?
Matt. 6:31 “Therefore take no thought saying,”
Thoughts reach our heart by saying! To embrace the right way of thinking and believing, we must be saying what God says! We must refuse to repeat everything we see and hear. When we do speak words, they, will give life to whatever we have been saying consistently, either our fears or our blessings! YOU MUST CHOOSE the words that will produce your desires.
Practice saying these kinds of words and your heart will be filled with faith and fear will flee!
Phil. 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Phil.4:19 “And my God shall supply all your (my) need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
Psalms 91:2 “I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and fortress; My God in Him I will trust.”
Psalms 91:7 “A thousand may fall at your (my) side, and ten thousand at your (my) right hand; but it shall not come near you (me).”
Psalms 91:10 “No evil shall befall you (me), neither shall any plague come near you (my) dwelling;”
Psalms 91:11 “For He shall give His angels charge over you (me). To keep you (me, in all your (my,) ways.”
Psalms 37:25 “I have been young, and now am old: yet I have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”
Emphasis added!
I want to so desperately, to see you do well and walking in all of the blessing that God has given the church. I know that there are those who will tell you that none of this works or is legitimate doctrine, but Gods word encourages us to follow after those who have not only taught faith, but those in whom we see their faith successes.
Heb. 13:7 “Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: Whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation (manner of life).”
Be sure that you are listening to the right people. “Therefore by their fruits you will know them.” Matt. 7:20
Blessings!
