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Seeing The Big Picture
Contributed by Charles Payne on May 12, 2025 (message contributor)
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1. God's Love In Mother's Love
Contributed on May 12, 2025
God—who is Spirit, eternal, and beyond gender—has revealed His nature to us through the language of both Fatherhood and Motherhood. On this day, let us gaze in awe at the Scriptures where our God speaks with the voice of a mother’s compassion.
PROLOGUE Today, we rise to bless the women who hold the world’s most sacred title: Mother. Not merely by biology, but by the daily sacrifice, the sleepless vigil, the whispered prayers in darkened nurseries, and the fierce, protective love that mirrors the very heart of God. “HEART OF GOD IN THE ...read more
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2. Shiphrah And Puah
Contributed on May 12, 2025
We know story of Shiphrah, Puah and Pharaoh Of Egypt We are the now ones in the birthing room of history, standing between the innocent and the machinery of moral decay. Are you ready to stand—cost be damned?
PROLOGUE: The cries of labor echoed through the mud-brick corridors of Egypt. Israelite women, wide with promise, clung to their beds while the future thrashed in their wombs. But Pharaoh, hungry for control and drunk on fear, issued a decree: “If it is a son, you shall kill him.” The words hissed ...read more
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3. Christian Bucket List
Contributed on May 26, 2025
What if God gave you Hezekiah's message today? What would you do—right now—if you knew your time was almost up?
A CHRISTIAN’S BUCKET LIST (Getting Ready to Meet the Lord—Without Fear) SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 38:1 (KJV) “In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and ...read more
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4. Name Game
Contributed on May 26, 2025
The command God gave to man to name the animals is far more than a simple task; it is a divine mandate pregnant with meaning.
NAME GAME SCRIPTURE: Genesis 2:19-20 ERV 19 The Lord God used dust from the ground and made every animal in the fields and every bird in the air. He brought all these animals to the man, and the man gave them all a name. The man gave names to all the animals and birds. And whatever the man ...read more
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5. Discerning The Times, Reading Heavens Clock
Contributed on Oct 8, 2025
When the World Is Changing and No One Knows What To Do
READING HEAVEN’S CLOCK TEXT (1 Chronicles 12:32) “And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their command.” PROLOGUE: When the World Is Changing and No ...read more
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6. The Gaurdian Jehosheba
Contributed on Oct 15, 2025
Jehosheba’s name barely appears in Scripture, but her act altered history. She wasn’t a prophet like Elijah, or a warrior like David — she was a guardian.
THE GAURDIAN JEHOSHEBA TEXT (2 Kings 11:1–3; 2 Chronicles 22:10–12) “But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons which were slain; she hid him… even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, ...read more
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7. Curing The Monday Blues
Contributed on Oct 15, 2025
A 7-minute charge to flip your week from drained to driven
CURING THE MONDAY BLUES A 7-minute charge to flip your week from drained to driven SEEING THE BIG PICTURE TEXT: Call to worship: “This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24) PROLOGUE: What day is Psalm 118.24 referring to specifically? It’s one ...read more
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8. Threads In The Palace
Contributed on Oct 15, 2025
Walk through a royal palace and you’ll find polished marble, priceless art, golden thrones — and in the corner, if the light is just right, the shimmer of a web.
THREADS IN THE PALACE SEEING THE BIG PICTURE TEXT (Proverbs 30:28; 1 Corinthians 1:27; Matthew 19:30) “The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.” “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and the weak things of the world to confound the ...read more
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9. Beggars Before God
Contributed on Oct 16, 2025
When you see the beggar at the corner: • Don’t think, “I am better.” • Whisper, “That’s me, O Lord — I’m the beggar, too.”
“BEGGARS BEFORE GOD” (Luke 16:19–31; Mark 10:46–52; Matthew 5:3; Revelation 3:17–18) I. PROLOGUE — THE MAN WITH NOTHING Imagine the man under the bridge. He has no bed, no shelter, no table, no name anyone remembers. He stretches out his hand not because he is lazy, but because he has nothing ...read more
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10. The Melting Snail
Contributed on Oct 17, 2025
You don’t often find snails in Scripture. Yet David, in one of his fiercest psalms, chooses the snail as a picture of the wicked — “melting away as they go.”
“THE MELTING SNAIL” SEEING THE BIG PICTURE TEXT Psalm 58:8 (KJV) “As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away…” PROLOGUE: THE SLOWEST CREATURE IN SCRIPTURE You don’t often find snails in Scripture. They don’t fight, fly, or roar. They move silently, leave slimy icky trails behind ...read more
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11. Dead Flies The Little Things That Rot The Soul
Contributed on Oct 18, 2025
There are things in my life that never destroyed me all at once — they didn’t hit me like a storm… they leaked into me like a slow poison.
🪰 “DEAD FLIES” — When Little Things Rot a Soul SEEING THE BIG PICTURE TEXT Ecclesiastes 10:1 “Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.” PROLOGUE There are things in my life ...read more
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12. Dead Flies In A Nation
Contributed on Oct 18, 2025
America did not begin in perfection — but it began in fear of God. Our earliest laws quoted Scripture. But dead flies do not fall all at once. The jar spoils slowly.
🪰 DEAD FLIES IN A NATION (National Decay) SEEING THE BIG PICTURE TEXT Ecclesiastes 10:1 “Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor…” PROLOGUE: A NATION ONCE FRAGRANT America did not begin in perfection — but it began in fear of God. Our earliest ...read more
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13. Dead Flies In The Church
Contributed on Oct 18, 2025
The Church was meant to be the fragrance of Christ. We were not put here to be popular. We were put here to be holy.
DEAD FLIES IN THE CHURCH (When the Fragrance of Christ is Replaced With the Stench of Compromise) SEEING THE BIG PICTURE TEXT Ecclesiastes 10:1 “Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour…” PROLOGUE: THE CHURCH WAS MEANT TO BE THE FRAGRANCE OF CHRIST We ...read more