Encounter the living God
What to expect in the upcoming season:
General Podcast Audio Messages
George Smith and Janet Weaver Smith speak at a prophetic conference in May of 2004 on the importance of “Building Character.” Listen by clicking the links below.
George Smith – Building Character – Part One (first half)
George Smith – Building Character – Part One (second half)
George Smith – Building Character – Part Two (first half)
George Smith – Building Character – Part Two (second half)
George Smith – Building Character – Part Three (first half)
George Smith – Building Character – Part Three (second half)
Janet Weaver Smith and George Smith – Building Character – Part Four
To have LOVE, I must know LOVE. And God IS LOVE (I John 4:8). Therefore, I must KNOW God to LOVE like Him. I thought I KNEW all of this! It seems that my spiritual Drawing Board just got erased and I am on Ground Zero and need a super-charged revelation about God’s LOVE—again.
Super-talented, amazingly gifted, dazzle-your-socks-off performances, without first investing our hearts into God’s heart and caring about what He says to care about, counts for nothing. What a waste of time, energy, and personal resources. From God’s perspective, performance-based giving has no return on our investment because it was not given out of a First Love relationship with Him.
The “Align-Abide-Agree†strategy helps us discover the vital link between knowing and acting in the kind of love that I Corinthians 13 describes.
I Corinthians 13:1-3 (NLT): If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
Character Qualities that Tell Me if I Know Him and Have His Love (or Not)
4Â Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5Â or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6Â It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7Â Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Psalm 121 – From the version of The Message (MSG)
A pilgrim song
1 I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains?
2 No, my strength comes from GOD, who made heaven, and earth,
and mountains.
3 He won’t let you stumble, your Guardian God won’t fall asleep.
4 Not on your life! Israel’s Guardian will never doze or sleep.
5 GOD’s your Guardian, right at your side to protect you–
6 Shielding you from sunstroke, sheltering you from moonstroke.
7 GOD guards you from every evil, he guards your very life.
8 He guards you when you leave and when you return, he guards
you now, he guards you always.
"I pray that this will be a living Word for ALL
in this new season." – George
By the end of 2005 and beginning of 2006, we will see signs of Isaiah 21 breaking out all over the place. “Like whirlwinds sweeping through the south land, an invader comes from the desert from a land of terror.” – Isaiah 21:1 NIV. The timing of these signs may be long-term in their unfolding.
In January of 2005, the Lord spoke to George through a dream in the night saying, “In a year from now, you will see Isaiah 21 breaking out all over the place.” George understood the word to mean that the spirit of Babylon in our country (i.e., the insatiable pursuit of materialistic gain and the oppression of the poor) would be judged and that God would raise up Deliverers and empower them to bring help and justice to the poor and oppressed in the land.
Is what is happening in our natural realm with hurricanes (whirlwinds) the entire scope of the calamity, or is it symbolic of another calamity to come, i.e., “an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror?” Are these hurricanes a natural and symbolic representation of another invasion to come from a “land of terror?”
We’re not ready for change if we’re not willing to be changed. Resistance to change comes in many different packages. For example, we could be resisting change if we want everyone to act on their beliefs and values in the same way as we act. “Change Resistors” often call anything that confronts the status quo of established, expected behavior, “a rebellion.” Yet these very acts of perceived “rebellion” often serve as agents of change—or the impetus for new beginnings.
Whether the “rebellion” was born out of good or bad motives is determined in the outcome—both immediate and long term. Sometimes it’s a mixture, and the good must be extracted and preserved while the bad is disgarded. By the Spirit of our living God, we can be keen and unafraid as we discern the changes happening in our world. Our anchor point is the truth of Jesus Christ, and Jesus was the type to call a person out of a boat and expect them to believe that they could walk on water without fear or doubting.
General Performance and faith-based love Podcast Audio Messages
You cannot "give to God" what you do not own. If fear, jealousy, and control own any part of our heart about a certain matter or a relationship; then fear, jealousy, and control "own" that part of us and squash our relationships. So why are we fearful, jealous and controlling? Listen to the 8-21-05 podcast message for an indepth view. We value your comments about this subject or our podcast messages. Please post them by clicking on "comments" below.
Performance and faith-based love Podcast Audio Messages
George and Janet Smith talk about the importance of
being real with God, ourselves, and others.
General Podcast Audio Messages
Waiting for God to bring change.
Click here: Janet Smith talks about the season of enduring.
Make the foundational aspects of close and intimate relationships revolve around your securities, not your insecurities. Why?