July 2025 NEWSLETTER

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ROBERT LINDENBERGER

405 INDIAN RIVER AVE.  504

TITUSVILLE, FLA.  32796

321-225-4452

Expas65@yahoo.com

 

God is good all the time; all the time, God is good!

 

I know this is the July newsletter, but I’d like to go back to June 25 and share with you what I did that day.  June 25, 2025, was a Wednesday, and here at the Towers, we have a Bible Fellowship class.  I got up early this morning to pray and be prepared for the meeting.  I went down for the meeting, and I must say it was one of the best we have ever had.  Jesus was lifted up, and we can feel him drawing us closer and closer to Him.  I came back to my apartment doing a Snoopy dance, even in the elevator on the way up.  I sat down at my miracle table to write in my time journal a wonderful, good thank you to the Lord.  I glanced down at my calendar to see it’s Danny’s Birthday.  The evil spirit of intimidation took control of my mind and had a heyday with that.  It told my mind what a terrible person you are, Bob, to forget your Son’s birthday.  And remember, Bob, how terrible you were to him when he was dying.  You left him to die alone, with many people watching.  You are going to pay for that one, Bob.  Well, somehow, someway, I finished the day.  I sat down at my miracle table for my BBB (Bible Before Bed) and asked the Lord why I had such a miserable day.  And here is what He said to me:

 

REFUSE TO WORRY, MY CHERISHED ONE.  Displace those worry thoughts with trusting and thankful thoughts.  Affirm your faith in Me, while praising Me for all that I am and all I have done.  This combination of praise and trust is potent.  It drives away anxiety and the powers of darkness.  Also, it strengthens your relationship with me.  You may still have legitimate concerns to deal with, but I will help you with them.  As you become more peaceful, you can look at your problems in the Light of My Presence and seek My counsel.  The Scripture informs your thinking so that I can communicate with you more clearly.

      Take time to thank Me for many good things in your life.  I want you to express greatfulness in your prayers, in your conversation with others, and in your private thoughts.  I read your thoughts continually, and I rejoice when they contain gratitude.  You can thank Me even for things you wish were different, so that they help you break free from negative thinking.  In everything give thanks; this is My will for you.

 

Psalm 31:14, but I trust in you, O Lord; I say, “you are my God.”

 

Psalm 32:8, I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.

 

1 Thessalonians 5:18 NKJV, In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 

                                                                                       –JESUS ALWAYS, Sarah Young, June 25

 

 

 Bible Fellowship for July 2.

                                   July 9

 

 John’s epistle reminds us to exercise love (1 John 2:7-11) — the right kind of love.  Now it warns us that there is a wrong kind of love, and love that God hates.  This is love for what the Bible calls “the world.”  There are four reasons why Christians should not love “the world.”

 

 BECAUSE OF WHAT THE WORLD IS.

The New Testament world has at least three different meanings.  They sometimes mean the physical world, the earth: “God that made the world {our planet} and all things therein” (Acts 17:24).  It also means the human world, mankind: “for God so loved the world.” (John 3:16).  Sometimes these two ideas appear together: “He (Jesus) was in the world, and the world (earth) was made by him, and the world (mankind) knew him not,” (1:10).  This “world” they hear is our enemy is an invisible spiritual system oppose to God and Christ.

 

“The world,” in the Bible, is Satan’s system for opposing the work of Christ on earth.  It is very opposite of what God in principle (1 John 2:16).  “We know that we are God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one” (5:19 NASB).  Jesus calls Satan, “the Prince of this world.”  (John 12:31).  The devil has an organization of evil spirits (Ephesians 6:11-12) working with him and influencing the affairs of “this world.”

 

BECAUSE OF WHAT THE WORLD DOES TO US (2:15-16)  “If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him.”

  Worldliness is not so much a matter of activity as of attitude.  It is possible for a Christian to stay away from questionable amusements and doubtful places and still love the world, for worldliness is a matter of the heart.  To the extent that a Christian loves the world system and the things in it, he does not love the Father.  Worldliness not only affects your response to the love of God, but it also affects your response to the will of God. 

 

BECAUSE OF WHAT A CHRISTIAN IS (2:12-14)  A Christian is a person who has said yes to believing Jesus is The Christ of the living God, and is born into a new nature, born into a New Family of LOVE.  A Christian stays away from the world because of what the world is (a systemic system that hates and opposes Christ), because of what the world does to us (attracts us to live on sinful substitutes), and because of what he (the Christian) is-- a child of God.

 

BECAUSE OF WHERE THE WORLD IS GOING (2;17) “The world passes away... But he that does the will of God abideth forever.”  Jesus explained it this way in John 3:17-18 “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  He that believeth in him him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”  Love for the world is the love that God hates.  It is the love a Christian must shun at all costs!

                                                                                   --Remember, Jesus loves you and so do I!

                                                                                                            ‘Ol uncle Bob, storyteller

 

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