bibletoyou

We are a always pleased when God allows us to minister to another person, whether to show them the way of salvation, or to teach them the way they should walk after salvation. God added two precious folks to our outreach.  They are a husband and wife deaf couple who live for  the Lord.  We asked JL how she came to know Jesus since she was already saved before she signed up for lessons.  The following is her own precious testimony, word for word.

My husband tried witness (to) me about salvation. I was (,I) thought. I was baptized and speak in tongues former United Pentecostal Church. We went to his church in Georgia and Pastor gave us post card about Bill Rice Ranch in Tennessee . We went to Bill Rice Ranch. Two Deaf Preachers    Holy Spirit touch me   My heart open (knock)  I was cried (crying) and went to altar   I did confess (my sins) and I want (wanted) to accept Jesus   (He) came into my heart   I’m saved!  I don’t want to go hell! I want to go Heaven! ….I believe in him, yes!  Can’t wait to meet Jesus in Heaven     Rapture (caught up) or I will die  meet him there (Heaven)

We are ever grateful to God for allowing us to serve Him in ministering to others.  This dear family is a special example of just how important it is for people like us and others to be ready to teach, willing to reach out with God’s Word!

In a day when not many children have a clear understanding that there is a God, a wonderful God, a creator, a Saviour, we must reach and teach the Bible to as many as we can!  In our site, you will find many lessons for children.  Some of the most power packed lessons for children would be on the Children’s lesson page under the “Junior” heading.

The lessons are developed for children who are 10 to 12 year olds, although some who are younger may be able to grasp them.  They teach the same biblical concepts as in the adult lessons, but they are designed with language that juniors can understand.  They also have graphics that cause them to stay with the pages and hopefully remember more from them!

These lessons were prayed over and labored over, making them into an excellent choice for leading this age group into an eye opening experience as well as a clear spiritual guide!  If a lesson seems to be too long for one session, you can use it for two classes.  If you are mailing them out, simply mail the portion you feel that the child will be able to do, along with a note that there is more to come. Add the rest in the next mailing.

If you find the Junior lessons to be a blessing, or if you have a question, please email us. Our email is bibletoyou@windstream.net. And for all that is accomplished, we say “To God be the Glory, great things He hath done!

You may ask why we use the King James Bible for all of our lessons in English.  There are specific reasons for that.  One reason is for uniformity, so that all lessons and answers fit correctly together. That only makes sense!

Another reason is because the Word of God, as we have it in the King James Bible, is preserved as seen in Psalms 12:6.  “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.  Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.”

The King James is a word for word translation of the original Greek and Hebrew texts, not a version, but an exact copy of God’s words.  All versions have come from faulty manuscripts and are compiled by men such as Wescott and Horte, who were intellectuals of their day, but who also practiced spiritual evil.

To learn more on this, please study our lessons called God’s Word Preserved, which are listed under the adult lessons in English. They reveal the texts, the translators and the techniques used  in the King James development versus those used in all other English versions.

Let us hold fast to truth, and share that truth without fainting, and to God be the glory!

In the Old Testament we read where God gave His people bread from Heaven, miraculously saving them from physical death while journeying in the wilderness. Nehemiah 9:15 says “And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.”

In the New Testament, God gave the Bread of Heaven! John 6:33 highlights Jesus as that Bread. “For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.”   In John 6:51 Jesus proclaims himself to be that Bread, the Spiritual Bread which is all we need to satisfy our need for salvation of our soul.  Jesus said  “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

John 6:58 makes clear that the God of Heaven miraculously fed a nation of people in the wilderness for 40 years, and that same God later sent His own Son; “This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.”

Brother and sister in Christ, rejoice in that Bread which came down from Heaven.  As we traversed this spiritual wilderness,  God miraculously saved you from dying an eternal death in Hell and the lake of fire!

Bible To You is still alive and being blessed by God.  We are also receiving blessings that leave us with nothing to do but praise Him, our Lord, an ever present help.  With the new radioactive medicine used recently in treating Carl, all spots of cancer in his spine and lymph nodes are gone!  Carl’s PSA count has finally dropped to a .3. This is amazing!  Kays pain level is much lower and she is able to care for our home, cooking, and Bible To You fairly well, which was the desire of her heart.

Another blessing is that a lady accepted the Lord as her Savior while doing lesson one, a few weeks ago.  Many of our students have been sending notes of thanks for the lessons.  Some are growing in the Lord, which is obvious by their letters back to us.  For instance, one person wrote this when she returned her lesson on Bible versions: “Wow what an eye opening lesson.”, and she also said “God gives us gifts sometimes we don’t even realize. I’ve realized God gave me you as a gift, studying and learning from your lessons…”

Another person wrote: I just want to thank you guys for allowing Christ to work through you, and to be able to bless me.  Everything that’s being sent to me from Bible To You is a blessing, helpful, and inspirational.  It not only helps me to get closer to God, but it helps me to become free from my sins, also to become a better person.”

Yes, we still have difficulties and trials to work through, but we have been given more time to serve the Lord.  We continue working with Bible To You. We are truly blessed by God.  We trust that you also are experiencing blessings as you worship and serve the Lord.

While having devotions in the book of Exodus today, I began to wonder how big the Red Sea was that God separated for his children? So I looked up its’ size and found it to be  approximately 1,400 miles long, with a surface area of roughly 169,100 square miles. Its maximum width is about 220.6 miles and it reaches a maximum depth of 9,970 feet at the central Suakin Trough.

Then I thought, “There were two seas mentioned in the Bible that God overpowered for his children.”  Later in the day I was relating these thoughts to two others, wishing to encourage them in our days of many trials and tribulations. One of them reminded us that God also divided the Jordan River for both Elijah and Elisha.

Now we were really finding ourselves rather humbled for allowing the trials of life to get us down, but also lifted up as the conversation continued.  Two of us almost declared at the same time that the ground was even dry for the people to walk on!  It would normally have been saturated to a great depth, leaving it impossible to walk over, but it was dry!

Many times we feel tossed about on the sea of life, whether by financial difficulties, physical trials, personal problems, or any other storms of life. Life can present deep seas and wide rivers, but let us encourage you to trust in the God of all power.  He is the God who cares for his children, the God who hears and answers prayer, the God who made the world and the entire universe, the God who overpowers deep seas and wide rivers, even providing dry ground!

Do you remember the old adage, “Only what’s done for Christ will last”?  The saying may be old, but the truth of it is still the same.  While writing a “Bits of Home Chat” for our “Bible To You” students this week, I felt the need to help them to give their all to Jesus, to serve Him. This is what I wrote:

“It does not matter what grades you made in school or if you are cross eyed (I was for years), or if you are nice looking, nor if you are not nice looking.  Carl and I just want each of you to understand that you are special to Him and that He loves you and knows your abilities.  He is all knowing and all powerful.  He made the dumb to speak and the blind to see; He can help you to serve in His work that He knows you can do.

Stay in His Word, pray without ceasing, and do all that you know you should do.  I was reading in Ezekiel, and it dawned on me that God knew that Ezekiel had a mind for numbers and such.  He also knew that he was fully dedicated to His God.  God was able to show Ezekiel the temple, in the Spirit, in a finished state, and to tell him every measurement of every part.  He used Ezekial’s abilities because Ezekiel was sold out to Him, the God of Israel!

There was a poor man from a little-known place, a woman, and countless everyday people who were used by the Lord in  great ways as leaders in the Book of Judges and in the New Testament and so forth.  I do not know what you can do, but I know that, in Christ, you can do things with eternal value, things you could not do on your own.  I like to say that Carl and I were not smart enough to plan and execute Bible To You!”

Now, in closing, let me remind you all that, after all, only what’s done for Christ will last!

God has carried us through more weeks and months of difficult times physically.  There is no one to stand in the gap here.  We are still able to reach out to a small degree with our lessons.  We are also praying and seeking help to advance the outreach, with the Word of God, through the internet.  Please pray for God’s perfect will in this.  We have three godly men, at present, who are seeking affordable and manageable resources.

That will most likely usher in a new era for reaching and teaching with “Bible to You” lessons.  It will call for technical advancements, new methods, and new church workers across America.  It puts a smile on our faces, knowing that God has led all the way, and God continues to lead.

God has also supplied for this outreach all of 28 years.  We look to him to supply in all future needs as well!  It is good to be back at the “Keys” here, but I shall close for now.  God’s blessing to all who read this blog!  May you be drawn ever closer to your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

Dear ones, your writer has been undergoing physical struggles which greatly reduce my ability to write this blog.  That grieves us, but we are still going on with weekly work in Bible To You at the home station, hoping others are following our footsteps for Jesus.

Dwayne, who is a friend and a former pastor, recently carried the BTY work to The Sword of the Lord conference in North Carolina. He set up our display and stayed with it to answer questions and give out free thumb drives of the lessons to those who planned to use the lessons in various ways.  One gentleman said he wished to use the junior lessons for his bus kids.  That’s a wonderful way to build some young people up in the Word!

We have not met with Dwayne to learn more about his time there.  After we do, we will endeavor to pass the good news on to you.  In the meantime, please carry on the work that God has given you.  Utilize Bible To You in any place and in any way that you are able.

Please contact us to let us know how you are using the lessons.  That would be a real encouragement to us as well as something we can pass on so others can follow in your footsteps for Jesus!