“Enter into His gates with Thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.” Psalm 100:4
Month: November 2018
What Does the Bible Say about Thanksgiving?
Christians look forward to the time of the year when we celebrate two important holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. These holidays have their beginnings and roots in Christian celebrations. The word holiday actually means “holy day”; hence these events should be remembered and celebrated in a holy manner. We have strayed from that purpose over the years as we have embraced many unholy practices and worldly customs and added them to our “holy days.”
Compromises as Christians in Celebrating Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving is one of our main national holidays here in the USA. A good question to ask is “Are we as Christians celebrating it the way the Lord would have us celebrate, or have we compromised with the world?” Have we lost the emphasis on thanksgiving and prayer and shifted it to a gluttonous feast of food, drink and games like those in the world have done? God wants us to enjoy family, friends and feasting, but leaving God out of the day breaks His heart. More and more the media is referring to this holiday as “turkey day” instead of Thanksgiving Day. They also eliminate the object of who we are to offer our thanks. We are just to be “thankful” we are told. Who should our thanks be directed to? The object of our thanks for our many blessings should be directed to the Lord God. It should not just be a general “thanks.”
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Personal Message from the Millers
Dear Internet Friends:
Thanksgiving is here and we want to take this time to thank each of you who have written or contacted us at BibleReources.org/Christ Unlimited Ministries. We are very thankful for your love, support and prayers. Our pulpit is the Internet and the Lord has called us to preach the gospel and share Bible truths to people around the globe. We are praising God that people from over 180 countries in the world, visit this site every month.
God has called each of us to be a witness to this world and to teach others the things we have learned in the Bible as well; so this website is a witness to the world. We must all be witnesses in order to change the worldly thinking in our culture if our children and families are to live in a world that promotes peace and godliness.
Acts 1:8: “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
Hebrews 12:1: “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us…”
As Bud and I grow older (he is now in his eighties and I am in my seventies), we value our friends more and more. We feel most blessed to have an abundance of them. Since we receive an enormous amount of mail with over 87,000 unique visitors to the BibleResources.org website each month, it is impossible for us to reply to each one personally; however, we do address our mail with auto responders and answer as many as possible.
Thank you for your many kind words and your prayers for us. We greatly appreciate it. If you have not been to our site recently, please come back for a visit as we have added new material to the already existing 71,000 pages that offer Bible resources such as a Bible Search, Daily Devotionals, Bible Questions and Answers, a Prayer Room and many other Bible Resources. We have maintained a website outreach since 1993. We would appreciate your prayers for us to be able to continue as the BibleResources.org site is our full time ministry and we remain here to serve you. We have no desire to retire, but to remain in service to our King. Please pray for our continued health and strength and the help to finish our race and calling.
We also want to thank all those who have donated monetarily to the ministry. Your help made it possible for us to come this far. Please ask the Lord if you are to give to the ministry on a regular basis; this would lighten our load and make it possible to do many other things on the site. Your gifts are tax deductible. We would love to be your cyberspace missionaries. Click here to donate.
I read the scripture below recently and it reminded me to always be thankful and rejoice in the fact that our names are written in heaven. We not only have authority in the world over the evil spirits in it, but the Lord told us to rejoice and be thankful that our names are written in the books of heaven! Praise God! Let us all who have God as our Father and Jesus as our savior, be most thankful for this reality on this Thanksgiving Day.
Luke 10:20 “Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.”
May the Lord Jesus grant you His grace and love as you celebrate the Thanksgiving Holidays and may you be blessed as you gather with your family and friends. May He protect you and your loved ones in these perilous times. We claim Psalm 91 over you.
His Grateful Servants,
Bud and Betty Miller
Christ Unlimited Ministries
BibleResources.org
BibleResources@ChristUnlimited.com
Please Pray About Helping this Ministry Continue to Reach The World
During this time of Thanksgiving we want to express our thankfulness to each of you, who support us. We are thankful for all those who have used their gifts of encouragement and wrote us to lift us up exactly when it was needed. We are so thankful for all of those who are prayer warriors and lift up this ministry on a regular basis by praying for our finances and the needs of all the lives that Christ Unlimited impacts. We do pray for you as well. We give thanks to all of you who faithfully listen to the Lord’s leading and give of your finances to further His kingdom and change lives through this web based ministry that reaches all over the world. Your support and prayers enable us to continue to bring God’s Biblical Truths over the World Wide Web and reach people whose lives are being changed.
We truly need your help to keep His light shining! Each gift is precious to us right now. We have expanded our ministry and kept our costs low by having only part time staff, each of whom is deeply committed to the ministry. However, we do have software, server, bandwidth, and other service costs to go along with the support of our ministry team that needs meeting on an ongoing basis. We have always walked by faith in regard to the provision we need in the ministry and will continue to do so. We only ask that you seek God and ask him if you are to help us, as we reach out to a hungry and hurting world that needs Jesus to touch them and the Bible to teach them. Click Here to Donate Online.
Ways You Can Help
- We are seeking prayer intercessors who will pray for this ministry and us personally, as well as praying for all those who seek help through our website. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12). This is our number one need.
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What’s New — New Audio YouTube Teachings
- Overcoming Life Series Teachings on YouTube You can now listen to these audio teachings: 28 Bible School Teachings on the Overcoming Life by Betty Miller, 3 Covenant Teachings by Bud Miller and the first in a series on teachings on the Holy Spirit by Betty Miller. (All teachings are 1 hour long.) If you want a strong foundation and establish solid doctrine in the Word of God, these teachings will help you in your Bible Studies.)
- New Updated Website Search and Bible Search Features on the Home Page. This website contains over 71,000 pages of Bible Resources and now you can find the specific topics you are looking for by using the new website search box or locate the scriptures you need by using the upgraded Bible Search feature
- New Audio Bible Verses in a Play List You can now listen to an Inspirational scripture or scriptures every day as you choose from a Play List of 374 Overcoming Life Bible Verses.
- Most Recent Blog by Betty Miller – “Liberal or Conservative Thought?”
Kindle Books Are Available
Christ Unlimited Ministries is now presenting 10 books written by Betty Miller that are now available in Kindle versions. Kindle versions include our ever popular daily devotional, God’s Wisdom for Daily Living and the Overcoming Life Series books which include: Prove All Things, The True God, The Will of God, Exposing Satan’s Devices, Healing of the Spirit Soul and Body, Neither Male Nor Female, Extremes or Balance, and Pathway into the Overcoming Life. All of the Overcoming Life Series have Bible Study Workbooks available as well and the workbooks can only be purchased in the printed versions at our Online Ministry Bookstore. Check your Kindle Reader for these titles or listings under the author’s name, Betty Miller, or you may also go to Amazon Books and check out books by Betty Miller.
NEW — The Overcoming Life Series is now available in Spanish on Kindle as well.
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A Firm Foundation Art Print
We have been given 1200 Dudash “Firm Foundation” autographed, numbered prints entitled: “A Firm Foundation.” These are autographed and numbered (2500 total in the series), 18″ x 24″ limited edition, collector’s lithograph printed on heavy premium stock ready for framing. PAINTING THEME: The Bible and faith were hand-in-hand with the founding of America. This beautiful painting features a Bible on a freshly signed Declaration of Independence, with a Founder dreaming about the future of America (seeing a modern city in his thoughts). It reminds each of us that America’s future must be founded on the Bible and faith in God, just as its past.
The original price of this print was $75.00 and we are giving it to anyone who donates $25.00 or more to the ministry to help us at this time. This print is not sold in stores, nor anywhere else. Your donation to Christ Unlimited Ministries will help us to continue getting out the gospel and in turn, we are able to bless you with a lovely gift of Christian art.
You may click here for instructions on how to donate and receive your own autographed copy of this art print: Bible Resource Ministry Bookstore
Or, you may send a donation by mail to: Christ Unlimited Ministries, P.O. Box 850, Dewey, AZ 86327 requesting “A Firm Foundation” art print. To donate by phone: Call toll free 1-888-292-4253
Ministry Goal: Christ Unlimited Ministries Goal is to strengthen the church worldwide and bring new converts to Jesus by making the Bible available in every format and language possible, along with sound scriptural teaching. Our desire is to honor Jesus and bring glory to God by continuing to share the gospel of the kingdom via the Internet as commanded of us in the Great Commission.
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