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Those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. 

~ Isaiah 40:31

 

There are two types of Christians… overcomers and non-overcomers. Non-overcomers believe that the goal of salvation is to populate heaven with “saved sinners”. Overcomers know the real goal of salvation is to put on the mind of Christ. Do what He did… crucify the works of the flesh, and get what He got… a crown of Life. Read it for yourself in James 1:12 and Revelation 3:21

Overcomers are professional assassins of their own carnality. An overcomer asks himself three questions every day.
1. Is what I am doing now building Christ-like character?
2. Is what I am doing now producing the fruit of the Spirit? ~ Galatians 5:22
3. Is what I am doing now helping me overcome the carnal mind?

 

Overcomers rely on the Holy Spirit to guide them into Truth. Overcomers do their own research and use Strong's Concordance to check the true meaning of the words God inspired to be written. 

 

True Christianity has been hijacked by organized religion, celebrity pastors, and get rich preachers. With so much false doctrine in the modern Church most Christians are a lost people - not their salvation, their direction. 

 

They don't know who they are, where they came from, or where they are going. Like the children of Israel after leaving Egypt, they wander aimlessly in the wilderness of Churchianity. 

Renew Your Strength Ministry was Founded in 2007 as as Bible study group. Our subscribers are simply Truth Seekers from every denomination and some non-Christians. You're cordially invited to share your Christian experience with Renew Your Strength Bible Study Group on Facebook 

The main focus of Renew Your Strength Ministry is to get people to think about what they believe and why they believe it, not debate who's right or wrong. To learn the revealed truth of God we must know and understand the true meaning of the words God inspired to be written. 

 

One reason why people get confused about the Bible is because they follow their pastor instead of following Jesus. "Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.” ~ Matthew 15:14

 

B.I.B.L.E. Best Instructions Before Leaving Earth

 

Use Strong's Concordance to check the original word before it was translated. Do your own research, make up your own mind, rely on the Holy Spirit to guide you. Just because we believe something does not make it true. God looks on our heart, He knows when we are sincerely seeking the truth, or just going along with the crowd.

Renew Your Strength is not a "know-it-all" type ministry. We don't claim to be Bible scholars. No Church, or individual, has a franchise on God or a monopoly on the truth. We urge people to search the Scriptures to find the truth. Why pay a preacher to tell you what he believes the Bible says when you can read and study for free. ~ 2 Timothy 2:15

We do not ask for, nor accept, donations. Our ministry is self funded through SeYah Humanitarian Outreach. As it is written:  "Freely you have received, freely give."~ Matthew 10:8 

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Eve and The Serpent

 

What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?

There is more to the "snake in the grass" and his conversations with Eve... much more. This snake called Nachash shows up one day while Adam was tending the garden. He engages Eve in a conversation about what God had said concerning the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. 

 

Eve knew very well what God had said. Just like we know very well what God says... but like Eve we don't believe it because we have not experienced it. Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, "All true learning is experience. Everything else is just information."  

 

Satan, disguised as this crafty, subtle, bright, very intelligent person placed the thought in Eve's mind that she was missing out on something... that God was holding back vital information. 

 

 As a noun, nachash means serpent.

 As a verb, nachash means a diviner of secret knowledge.

 As an adjective, nachash means a shining man - not a talking snake. 

 

Shining man in the sense of a bright, highly intelligent being. The Bible describes Nachash as more cunning that any other creature... making use of clever and indirect methods to achieve something.

 

After Eve was seduced by Nachach she told her husband, Adam, and their lives changed dramatically. Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. 

~1 Timothy 2:14

 

Adam loved Eve so much he was not willing to abandon her and took her punishment on himself... similar to what Christ did for all mankind. However, Adam used a very poor choice of words when replying to God about the situation. ~ Genesis 3:12

 

Eve blamed the serpent and Adam blamed God. Mankind never likes to take responsibility for disobedience. It's easier to blame others and then complain about the mess they brought on themselves.

 

 

“And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.” ~ Genesis 3:7

If Eve sinned by simply eating an "apple", why were Adam and Eve ashamed to be naked and covered their private parts? Of course I can't prove this scenario from Scripture alone. I think God is too modest to speak bluntly about sex. He left it up the us to read between the lines and figure it out. God wants us to concentrate on the consequences of disobedience, not on the sin Eve committed.

Who is Cain's biological father? Were Cain and Abel actually fraternal twins? Fraternal twins (also called dizygotic twins) result from the fertilization of two separate eggs with two different sperm during the same pregnancy. If Adam truly was the father of Cain, why is Cain's name missing from the genealogy of Adam? 1 Chronicles 1 and Luke 3:38

Does the seed of the "serpent" have living descendants on earth today? Why did Jesus call Judas a devil? ~ John 6:70-71. Was Jesus making reference to Cain in John 8:44?

 

In Matthew 3:7; 12:34; 23:33 and Luke 3:7, Jesus calls the Scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees "serpents and brood of vipers." Why would Jesus say this if it was not true? We can see why the high and mighty self righteous religious leaders hated Jesus. He did not show them proper respect. Jesus must be put to death for this grievous offense.

When Eve sinned by eating the "Forbidden Fruit," she broke covenant with God. Worse than that, in breaking the covenant with God, she formed a covenant with the serpent, i.e. Satan. Because of Adam's love for Eve, he left the garden with her.

The covenant between Adam, Eve, and the serpent is not just Adam and Eve. All those who break covenant with God make a covenant with "the Adversary"... that serpent of old called the devil and Satan. ~ Revelation 20:1-3

Jesus never broke covenant with his Father, but when He took the sins of the whole world on Himself it was so horrible that He felt abandoned by His Father ~ Matthew 27:46

 

Be very careful what doctrines you ingest. There are serious consequences for eating poisoned fruit.

 

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  ~ 2 Timothy 2:15

 

The Story of Snow White

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