Pastor Ray Bentley Of Maranatha Chapel

Pastor Ray Bentley says God's judgment is decisive, but sometimes is held back because he knows the hearts of his children. God is patient with those who he knows will eventually repent. Turn around and they'll say, Lord, I'm so sorry. I was an insane man, I was crazy. What was I doing? Oh, forgive me Lord. Thank you for your grace and mercy.

Today, pastor Ray Bentley reminds us of the Bible's warnings against false teachers. It just grieves me, though, that there are still people that are susceptible to weird false teachings, false prophets, cults, and then there's money involved, and you kind of pay your way into the upper echelons of deeper secrets and knowledge and all the rest of it. So be watching and be, you know, wary and be warned.

Pastor Ray Bentley says revelation speaks to believers and unbelievers. God says, I love you. I made you. I want you to be adopted and born into my family. I've made a place for you. I want you if you want me. We're together for all of eternity. God loves you. That's the message to the unbeliever, to those who are believers. His message, basically from the book of Revelation, is this. Don't quit. Don't give up.

Some people want to focus on some spiritual experience they've had. Pastor Ray Bentley says, focus on God's Word. The Word of God is even better than an experience because the Word of God abides forever. God says, I've exalted my word above my name. Therefore you do well to take heed to the written word of God. Heed the word as a light that shines in a dark place.

Pastor Ray Bentley says, Jesus wants us to come to him by faith. I want you to know that first we put our faith in Jesus and confess him, and then he gives us the wonderful confirmation of experience. Now, quite honestly, if God wanted to, he could just have sent Jesus burning and dazzling seven times like the sun and everybody go, well, obviously he's the Messiah.

If we're really believers, pastor Ray Bentley says it'll show one of the signs that you're actually born again is that you're growing because you're saved. And you're, like, running from that life of the past that brought you to brokenness and repentance in the first place. So if you're not really wanting to grow, then where is your assurance or confidence that you really know the Lord?

Salvation is a free gift. Christian growth requires some work. Pastor Wright says the effort is worthwhile. It is worth pressing for the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Amen. It is worth the effort. God rewards those he said that diligently seek him. You seek me with all your heart. You will find me.

Pastor Ray Bentley says, God never lets go of us, but neither does he let us off the hook. I think that our father in Heaven sometimes allows us in situations where we stomp and we pout and we cry and we kick and we scream and we throw ourselves around and he goes, you're not quitting. You're not quitting on life, and you're not quitting on me.

Salvation doesn't come by the good works we do. But pastor Ray Bentley says, once we're followers, we'll do good works. Salvation is a gift that you don't earn it. But once you are saved, then you work that salvation out. Why? Because it is God who is at work in you, and he is the one giving you the will, both the will and the power to do his good pleasure spreading.

Pastor Ray Bentley says, we need to remember we're on the winning side in spiritual warfare. There are times when you get intimidated by overemphasis izing the enemy. Rather than emphasizing the greatness of our God, the greatness of our Savior, the greatness of the power of the Holy Spirit. We don't stand against Ray Bentley, against the devil. You laugh.

Pastor Ray Bentley has important information for all of us last days believers. The enemy is pulling out all the stops. He wants to keep people from looking for, naming or calling upon the name of Jesus. But here's the good news. First, John chapter two says we have an advocate before the father. That word advocate means we have a lawyer.

We are like sheep. Jesus is the shepherd. Pastor Ray Bentley explains why every single one of us was like a string lost sheep. And yet Jesus left the beauty and the perfection and the glories of Paradise and of heaven came into the wilderness. And he found us, and the idea with the shepherd would grab you and pick you up and lift you upon his shoulders, and literally carry you back to the fold.

Thoughts on the fellowship of suffering from pastor Ray Bentley. There is no such thing as private pain. All pain is communal. We are to share it with one another, and we're to bear it with one another and have compassion for one another. Someone has said that suffering is like love. It can only be shared. And if we truly share our suffering with one another, then we can also share our joys spread.

Pastor Ray Bentley has insight on inner and outer beauty. Any one of my sisters who will now spend time and attention and focus upon adorning that inner beauty of the gentle and quiet spirit will be beautiful, regardless of what your frame may seem to appear, it will compliment. It will draw people in. You'll all be beauties. Spread. You see all of these people coming down before the King.

Pastor Ray Bentley comments on Peter's admonition about the believer's outward appearance. Peter is not saying that any outward adornment is bad, but it is okay for a man to look and address. Well, it is good and all right for a woman to dress and want to be attractive and take care of her hair and you know where there is a line where the only object is only totally to focus on the outward spread?

Pastor Ray Bentley talks about proper Christian conduct in the workplace. We live in a culture that basically, you know, man, if they do something wrong or whatever, what you do is you go get the biggest, baddest lawyer you can and you sue their pants off. But what if I am a Christian? What am I supposed to do as a Christian employee?

The Lord changes us for an example. Pastor Ray Bentley says, look to the Apostle Peter. I love Peter because here's this big, rough Galilean fisherman who was now because of his time spent with Jesus Christ, loving, affectionate. Two little letters that Peter wrote to the believers 2000 years ago. Eight times in those two letters he says, dearly beloved.

God loves you so much. He chose you. Pastor Ray Bentley explains. What does it mean to be chosen? Very simply, it comes by the grace of God. You are chosen by God's amazing grace. And this is one of the amazing mysteries. We are chosen. And when did he choose us? The scriptures reveal that before the foundations of the earth were even laid.

Some treat prayer as a shopping list. Give me this, Lord. Give me that, God. Like we're pulling up to a drive thru window today, pastor Ray Bentley cautions us. We must be very careful and humble and let God bring His Word to pass, and let him live it out in our lives and answer our prayers according to his will.

Life can be hard. But pastor Ray Bentley says the Son of God wants to help us. Jesus desires to bear our burdens. You know why? Because it is what he said. His own words. It's easy for me, he said. Your burdens are easy for me, and my yoke is easy. My burden is light. If we will only let him and come to him.