Tabitha Arise!

In the beginning of creation, the book of Genesis Chapter 2:18-23 recorded when Adam was created in the image of the Lord God.  Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.  At the completion of the creation, the Lord God assessed Adam’s situation and reported that “it is not good that Man should be alone, I will make him a helper comparable to him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of...

Key Text: 2 Timothy 1:1-5 Let us look at the Bible definition of travailing found in John 16:20-22 “ Verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembered no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you” According to our Lord’s explanation on the travailing period, the Lord compared the period or process of bearing pain to bring forth, but the joy of bear forth surpassed the pain process. In other words, means, Endurable Pain for an end result of Joy; Travailing is a manifestation of the grief of the heart for the Joy of the Lord. This morning let us look at the seed that was in the lives of these two women t...

2 Kings 22: 8-20/2 Chronicle 34: 22-28   Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left (2 Kings 22:1-2). Josiah’s Reforms Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the Lord.” He gave it to Shaphan, who read it. 9 Then Shaphan the secretary went to the king and reported to him: “Your officials have paid out the money that was in the temple of the Lord and have entrusted it to the workers and supervisors at the temple.” 10 Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king. 11 When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes. 12 He gav...