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Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Well hey there, hello to you & welcome to The Burt (Not Ernie) Show podcast, part of the Spark Network, now playing on the edifi app - getting the promises of God into the people of God, one episode at a time. I’m your host, Jan L. Burt, and I’m so glad you’re joining me today! This is episode 90.
In this episode let’s take a look at a verse from the book of Psalms. There is always so much hope, honesty, and encouragement in the Psalms - it is a book we don’t want to neglect. And the particular verse I am going to read to you in a moment is from Psalm 138, getting toward the end of the book of Psalms. Verse 8 of Psalm 138. I am reading today from the Amplified Bible.
Psalm 138:8 - The LORD will accomplish that which concerns me; Your (unwavering) lovingkindness, O LORD, endures forever --- Do not abandon the works of Your hands.
We find here both a personal declaration and then a sort of prayer for this truth to continue to prevail.
There are some strange and unbiblical teachings that have been floating around the interwebs - so when I use the word declaration here, please know I’m not using that word the same way as it’s often being used wrongly. This isn’t manifesting something or declaring something as a means to manipulate God or try and be the boss of Him, overriding His will. Those things are not Biblical. And this verse from Psalms isn’t that kind of declaration, not in the least.
It is, however, a human being stating that God is going to accomplish the things He has planned. And there is nothing wrong with saying that out loud, for others to hear, for your own ears to hear, and for the devil to hear, too. Nothing at all wrong with declaring that.
So what is it that the author of this psalm said, again? The Lord will accomplish that which concerns me. And God’s unwavering lovingkindness endures forever.
What God intends for you is for you and He does not want it prevented, stopped, delayed, deferred or deterred. God wills for His will to be the will that is accomplished. True for you and true for me.
If it is encouraging for you to remind yourself of that, then please do so!
And remind others, too!
When God begins to move, to act, to change things, I don’t find much evidence in the Bible for slow movement. The Exodus took place quickly once God began moving. Joseph rose to power in Egypt overnight once God began to move. The church grew by the thousands once the Spirit of God began to move in the book of Acts. The promise may not happen on the same day that it is given, but it will come to pass and when it is time to get the ball rolling, when God says to move, that’s the time for things to really start moving. So, beware when people tell you to slow down as it relates to something the Lord is saying to be busy about right now. We don’t hold back from the Lord; we go all in with Him and we do exactly what He says, exactly when He says. Safe bets yield nothing in God’s Kingdom.
The Lord wants to accomplish that which concerns you, my friend. So that implies that there is value in what concerns you - because if it’s something God wants, which is what this verse says, then it is of value to Him.
Psalm 138:8 - The LORD will accomplish that which concerns me; Your (unwavering) lovingkindness, O LORD, endures forever --- Do not abandon the works of Your hands.
His unwavering lovingkindness is your promise as you keep on doing the things He has called you to do. The good works that He prepared in advance for you to do. Not you doing my good works, or me trying to work at what He wants you to be doing. Let His lovingkindness, which endures forever, be the promise you bear in mind as you follow Jesus and do what He asks of you. Let Him accomplish that which concerns you. And stay vigilant in prayer about the people or the circumstances that will try and slow down or hinder or hamper you from doing the good works He prepared in advance for you to do.
It’s not our want-tos and hope-sos that accomplish the will of the Lord, it is us doing what James says to do - to be doers of the Word, and not hearers only. Some people in the church do a lot of hearing, but not much doing. Now, you will see this coming from a mile away outside of the church, outside the body of Christ. When it takes place within the church, that’s when we stumble over it, ya know? We question if God really laid that certain thing upon our heart. If maybe we heard wrong. If we are on the wrong track. But there is a way to know what His will is. The Word of God, when we open it, and the Holy Spirit, our Counselor, and the time we spend in prayer are all ways to know for certain what God’s good and pleasing and perfect will truly is. We can know the will of the Lord, but we get muddled up in our thinking sometimes and we start wondering if we can hear Him at all. But we can, according to the Bible! And that’s such great news for us! If some folks within the church are regularly the ones who say, “Slow down. Not so fast. Might want to think about that. What are your priorities?” when it comes to doing what God is leading you to do, then maybe, just maybe, they are the ones who aren’t hearing from the Lord? Perhaps they have some fear of stretching out their tent pegs and preparing room for the work God is going to do next? Where there is no vision, the people perish. Don’t let someone else’s lack of vision cloud your vision. Trust Your good God to guide and direct your steps, and He will. He is more than able to tell you this is the way, walk ye in it. Turn now to the right, now go to the left. That’s not difficult for Him at all. And if you want to know His will day by day, moment by moment, in every relationship, in every endeavor, in every nook and cranny and aspect of your life, and you truly want to know His will in order that you might do His will, if you just don’t want to miss it for the world, then you won’t. He will make it clear. Just be prepared that sometimes people may be quote unquote encouraging you to be cautious, to be careful…and that quote unquote encouragement could really be discouragement. Your courage comes from the Lord God Most High, the Almighty One, the Great I AM. He has no lack of courage to give to you. Discouragement, literally a lacking of courage, that is not from God. I never in my bible see the Lord stripping away courage and encouragement from those who want to do His will. And there is no shadow of turning with Him, so He isn’t going to suddenl;y begin to do a thing that contradicts His word.
Trust God enough to trust His word, because He is the Living Word.
And remember, He will never ever abandon the works of His hands.
He holds you in the shallow of His hands, right there in His palm. You are safe, you are secure, and you are held by the One who is going to accomplish that which concerns you.
Naysayers don’t hold a candle to that, ya know?
Lord bless you today as you continue to live in the light of the promises of God.
This is episode 90 of The Burt Not Ernie Show, part of the Spark Network, now playing in the edifi app.
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Thanks for listening and I’ll be back next time for episode 91!
God bless - bye bye!
Jan L. Burt is an author, speaker, podcaster, homeschooling veteran, mother to five, and has been happily married to Tony for thirty years. She served in youth ministry alongside her husband for twelve years & has led several Bible studies for women as well as hosting two online prayer retreats.
Jan is the host of the podcast “The Burt (Not Ernie) Show” & author of the new book “A 60-Day Prayer Journal for Parents” & “The Power of God’s Will – 40 Days of God’s Promises Devotional” (available on Amazon) & “The Once-A-Year Homeschool Planner” (a multi-grade, multi-subject planning system) – which can be found at JanLBurt.com. She has also been a regular contributor to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. Find Jan Instagram: @JanLBurt or at her website JanLBurt.com or at her YouTube channel, “God’s Promises for You with Jan L. Burt”.
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Well hey there, hello hello to you! Happy New Year!
Welcome to this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show, part of the Spark Network, now playing in the edifi app. This is episode 89.
We made it to 2022. And I am praying that this year will be an amazing one for you. By faith, I am choosing to believe that this year, we will indeed see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. And we will see our God on the move!
He is up to some amazing things, my friends, and we are blessed to be alive at this point in time to see Him moving in this world. Get some excitement going for what God is doing now and what He is going to do in the coming days and weeks and months. He is good and he is faithful, and He can be nothing less.
Today we are hearing what God has said to us from the book of Isaiah, chapter 58, verses 6 thru 11.
I will read those verses from the Amplified.
“(Rather) is this not the fast which I choose, to undo the bonds of wickedness, to tear to pieces the ropes of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free and break apart every (enslaving yoke)?
Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into the house; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not to hide yourself from (the needs of) your own flesh and blood?
Then your light will break out like the dawn, and your healing (restoration, new life) will quickly spring forth; your righteousness will go before you (leading you to peace and prosperity), the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away from your midst the yoke (of oppression), the finger pointed in scorn (toward every form of) wicked (sinful, unjust) speech,
And if you offer yourself to (assist) the hungry and satisfy the need of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness and your gloom will become like the midday.
And the LORD will continually guide you, and satisfy your soul in scorched and dry places, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.”
So, that’s a lot.
Kind of a clarion call, I suppose, to us who follow Jesus in the new year. Let’s just think about these words from the book of Isaiah. Really think about them and whether or not we, each of us, are doing these sorts of things. Cuz to get the blessings, all that God has promised here, and it’s a lot and it’s really, really good stuff, these promises - but the getting of the promises is linked to the doing of some things that are important and dear to the heart of our God.
What kind of fast does God choose? Good to think about in a brand-new year… because so many are fasting of all kinds of things right now. And in all honesty a lot of that fasting is self-serving. Food related to losing weight or getting more fit to look better, stuff that is vanity. Health related? That’s being a good steward of the body God has given you to do His will in this world. Wanna be more cutesy in your jeans? Yeah, that’s not about health. God knows when we say we’re fasting or eating this certain way for our health but really it’s for our looks. Let’s this year not pretend He doesn’t really know. He knows… He always knows….(yeah, I just quoted a movie right there).
He chooses this kind of fasting: to undo the bonds of wickedness. To tear to pieces the ropes of the yoke that bind people and to let the oppressed go free.
Sounds a bit different than our version of fasting, doesn’t it? When is the last time you or I got busy about undoing bonds of wickedness. In prayer. Fasting to remind us to pray each time our stomach starts to rumble and growl, to stop and pray with some intensity for the bonds of wickedness to be undone and for the oppressed to go free. Donating money normally spent on coffee and big work lunches to whatever causes the Lord leads us to where people are fighting to get other people new levels of freedom. That kind of fasting. Not skipping lunch to lose a few pounds (and what we call intermittent fasting in the US is called starvation in third world countries… and those folks would think we were nuts to starve ourselves by choice when we have access to enough food, we don’t watch our children waste away to nothing, we starve ourselves by choice to look better in our blue jeans and we rename self-starvation “intermittent fasting”). Look, the way I see it, fasting belongs to the Lord. He came up with it and it’s not about your dress size. Let’s be brave enough to call things as they are and stop doing things to serve ourselves but pretending it’s for the Lord’s sake. Because according to Isaiah 58, if it’s for the Lord’s sake, the evidence will be in undoing other people’s bonds, letting them go free who have lived oppressed. So if our fasting isn’t leading to talking about Jesus and the freedom we have in Him, if it isn’t drawing us to prayer, then is it the kind of fast our God chooses? And if He didn’t choose it, is it really a fast unto Him?
Divide your bread with the hungry, that’s God’s chosen fast. Take care of the poor, that’s God’s chosen fast. Don’t hide yourself from the needs of your own flesh and blood, that is God’s chosen fast.
And then the promises can break forth in your life - Then your light will break out like the dawn, says verse 8, and your healing, your restoration, your new life will quickly spring forth (oh man, when God moves quickly it is life-changing!). Your righteousness will go before you and it will lead you to peace and prosperity. Need some peace? Could you use some prosperity? Try fasting God’s chosen fast and as you do that, which is literally in real life walking in righteousness, then that’s your direct path to quickly springing forth peace and prosperity. This is the way, walk ye in it.
And not only the blessings I just mentioned, but as you walk along this path of life, walking in righteousness, breaking those bonds of oppression off of others by being a freedom fighter and showing people Jesus has freedom for them, God promises that His glory will be your rear guard. You will be protected from any sneaky enemy attacks from behind. So good, this promise! It’s so good!
And now more promises, more blessings, that have to do with your praying.
When you call, the Lord will answer. You cry for help, He will say “Here I am”.
You take away from your midst the yoke of oppression (God says you are to do that - that’s me and you, right? Not our government, not our pastors, but God says you… me. We must do this.) Get rid of the finger pointing in scorn. Scorners and mockers are not highly favored according to the Word of God. So, let’s not highly favor them. Don’t be a scorner and stop being a mocker if you are one. Just stop. It’s important to do what the Bible says to do, and when it says not to do something, let’s not do it. Let’s stop doing that. Wicked, sinful and unjust speech do not please the Lord.
Assist the hungry. Most of us can do that some way, somehow, can we not? If you need some ideas, email me at JanLBurt@outlook.com and I have some ideas for you that are easy and will really help people in need.
Then your light will rise in the darkness. Your darkness will not be dark anymore. What part of your world seems too dark today? This is how you push back that darkness and get God’s light to shine and break forth over your dark places. Your gloom will become like midday. Sun shining at high noon in the summertime - that’s what your gloomiest, darkened winter night will become. God says He will do this exact thing and when He says will, does He ever not really mean it? Rhetorical question.
The Lord will continually guide you and He will satisfy Your soul in a scorched and dry land. This is a huge promise and there is no reason any of us should not grab hold of it and run with it in the new year. It’s too good to lay aside and too vital to ignore. When you have a check-up, your vital signs are taken for a reason. They are revealers, right? This is your spiritual vital sign check-up, and you need to pay attention to what is being revealed right now regarding your spiritual health.
God will give strength to your bones and you will be like a watered garden, you will be lush and lively and vibrant and will bear good fruit. Like a spring of water whose waters never fail. The Living Water, Jesus, will spring forth from your life continually. Not stagnant water, but fresh and always flowing waters.
I pray that these verses will be a great way to start your new year and get your focus on Jesus. It’s easy to focus on Jesus at Christmas and then focus on yourself in the New Year. This year let’s fast God’s chosen fast and see real change, real freedom, start to flow out of us like living waters. It’s a good year to be alive, my friend. And it’s a great time to be a freedom fighter according to God’s Word here in Isaiah 58 verses 6 thru 11.
Lord bless you and keep you and may His face shine upon you today and every day of 2022. Thanks for listening today. Please share The Burt (Not Ernie) Show with your friends or on your social platforms. And remember it is now playing on the edifi app as part of the Spark Network.
God bless! Bye Bye
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Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Well hey, hello there!
Welcome to this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show - getting the promises of God into the people of God one show at a time. TBNES is part of the Spark Network, now playing on the Edifi app.
Today we are doing that thing that comes so naturally to mankind at the close of a year… looking back in reflection and with thanksgiving, mourning what needs to be mourned, celebrating all that there is to rejoice about, praising God for all He has done in the last 12 months, and taking time to pause, reflect a bit, and remember whatever it is that each one of us needs to remember. (And if you maybe don’t feel like you are all that great at this, ask the Holy Spirit and He will show you what needs to be remembered… we can, and should, always always depend on the Spirit of the Living God to show us what we need to see. Ask him, and He will answer you!) And it is of course the time of year for looking forward. Sometimes, or honestly most of the time when we reach this point on the calendar, these few days between Christmas and the new year, we don’t simply LOOK ahead, we lean hard into the future, we pull toward it. More than a healthy time or reflection, quieting ourselves before the Lord so that we can fully dedicate all that just occurred and all that is about to occur to Him alone, we do far more than look ahead toward the new year with a listening ear and a calm, quieted heart. We rush ahead and leave behind things that God may just want to do a bit of work on… He may have some closure He wants to bring before we jump straight on into a brand new season. And a new year is, like it or not, a new season.
We only get to do this whole end-of-year thing once every twelve months, so let’s sort of relax enough to see what He wants us to see, listen for what He is speaking, and move forward into 2022 at His pace… because, if we are honest, the pace we choose is not usually the same pace God chooses, and the pace we choose is usually not perfect. But as for God, His way is perfect. So let’s just close this thing out His way, at His pace. (Psalm 18:30 says that)
And that brings me to the verses for this episode, which is episode #88.
The Old Testament book of Lamentations is where we will be today.
I will read it from the Amplified version, and I hope it brings you just buckets full of peace and trust and a calmness as we embark upon a new year. (Which I personally sense is going to be a pretty remarkable year overall for God’s people - I think it may start out much like 2020 and 2021, but in a matter of weeks I really think we are going to see things happen within the kingdom of God that will make a beautiful mark on the world at large. Just how I sense the Lord leading as I pray over the coming year & I am always ready to live my life in light of His good and perfect and pleasing will, as I am sure you are. So, let’s see what these verses have to say to us at this time of both exiting and entrance, shall we?)
Lamentations 3:21-23 Amplified -
But this I call to mind, Therefore I have hope.
It is because of the Lord’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed,
Because His [tender] compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
Great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness.
I am pretty sure you’ve heard these verses before. And with good reason! They are so, so good. Always encouraging, always bringing hope. Filled with the promises of our loving Father. We can hear these words and we know what His will is for us. So of course these are often referenced. They bring hope. And that is what the world needs. Always. There is not a time when the world as a whole doesn’t need hope, and we as followers of Christ have the only actual hope that works, and that is the hope we have in Jesus.
Which is why I have said many times before, we ought to be the most hopeful people on the planet.
Wouldn’t that be something for 2022, if believers everywhere were the most hopeful people in the world? Now, that would be a sight! What kind of change would that bring to people who are hurting, confused, grieving, and seeking light at the end of the tunnel?
Verse 21 - But this I call to mind, therefore I have hope
Look, if we aren’t doing this, we are gonna be flailing around and feeling all sorts of hopeless. And that, my friend, is not our identity as Christians. Hopelessness is not our bag, not our dealio.
If we don’t call some certain, specific things to mind, we will feel very hopeless.
So let’s make sure we call these things to mind - daily! Get that Bible open every day! Pray to your good Father every day! Trust Him and believe Him and grow in Him every day!
No matter what, we can choose to say, “But this I call to mind, therefore I have hope.”
Verse 22 - It is because of the Lord’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because His (tender) compassions never fail.
Yeah, there is a whole slew of hope here. These are our promises as we wrap up 2021 and look toward 2022. On the last day of the year, these words are true. And on the first day of the new year, they also prove true.
Because of His lovingkindnesses (oooh, that’s a plural word! Many many lovingkindnesses are implied here! So expect a lot of them, because He promises a lot of them!) we are not consumed. We Are Not Consumed. Got that? You will not be consumed. He said it, it’s His promise to keep because He is a perfect promise maker and a perfect promise keeper. His lovingkindnesses are what you are going to see, experience, live with in 2022.
His tender compassions never fail.
It’s enough to just say “compassions”. But God makes sure we know they are tender compassions. Your God is tender toward you.
Try a little tenderness, the song says.
God has the corner market on that.
And He will never fail in his tender compassions toward His people, His children.
Verse 23 - They are new every morning; Great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness!
Every. Single. Morning.
When are God’s tender compassions new?
That’s how often. On the daily.
Oh this is a very remarkable promise for us.
Great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness, Lord Most High!
Just say that to Him today - tell Him out loud how good He is. How you know that you know that you know He is so, so good.
Great is His faithfulness toward you and toward me.
It is beyond measure.
What’s the last thing you found to be un-measurable? Beyond measure?
The ocean? The sky? And God’s faithfulness.
Can you join me in taking time, even if it’s just ten to fifteen minutes, and sit with the Lord, listening for Him to speak to you about the last year and the upcoming year. And as you sit with Him, don’t say a whole lot, mostly just listen, but do remember this great and beyond measuring faithfulness. I know you will be blessed and encouraged as you do so.
Thanks for joining me today for this episode of TBNES, part of the Spark Network now playing in the Edifi app.
I’d love to invite you to sign up for my email list at JanLBurt dot com where I will be sending out some info about a way to set the new year apart and dedicate it to the Lord. You can also check out my latest book, A 60-Day Prayer Journal for Parents, available on amazon. Not much better way to spend the first 60 days of the year than praying intentionally big prayers over our children, ya know? So grab a copy and I know it will be a lasting blessing to your family.
Have a wonderful day, a blessed remainder of 2021, and a very happy new year to you, my friend.
See ya next time for episode #89! Bye Bye.
Jan L. Burt is an author, speaker, podcaster, homeschooling veteran, mother to five, and has been happily married to Tony for thirty years. She served in youth ministry alongside her husband for twelve years & has led several Bible studies for women as well as hosting two online prayer retreats.
Jan is the host of the podcast “The Burt (Not Ernie) Show” & author of the new book “A 60-Day Prayer Journal for Parents” & “The Power of God’s Will – 40 Days of God’s Promises Devotional” (available on Amazon) & “The Once-A-Year Homeschool Planner” (a multi-grade, multi-subject planning system) – which can be found at JanLBurt.com. She has also been a regular contributor to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. Find Jan Instagram: @JanLBurt or at her website JanLBurt.com or at her YouTube channel, “God’s Promises for You with Jan L. Burt”.
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Well, hey there!
Hello again, everyone, and welcome to this special Christmas episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show.
For Christmas this year, my friend Misty Philip (founder of the Spark Media Network) wanted to put together a compilation of short Christmas messages from several podcasters.
I am blessed to part of this special episode & I hope you enjoy it as you celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus the Christ.
(you can find my contribution around the 14:25 minute mark)
Have a very Merry Christmas & know that you are so dearly loved and cherished and valued.
And if nobody has told you this today, let me just say that you matter.
Thank you for being part of my life via this podcast & I look forward to a very blessed 2022 for all of you!
P.S. - I was invited to guest host on Val Harrision's podcast "The Practically Speaking MOM" for Christmas and I shared a devotional there. Here is the link to that episode - I really think it will bless you to hear it!
Lord bless you & I'll be back next week with another episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show!
~ Jan
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Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
As we head toward Christmas, I wanted to share one of my older episodes with you this week.
I’ve chosen episode #38 from that profound year that changed everything, 2020, because I really feel that the content of this particular episode holds some big, massive, whopper sized encouragement that many of us really, truly need right now.
Listen in to this episode from the vault of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show and see if it doesn’t bless you as you prepare to celebrate Christmas and enter into the brand new year of 2022.
Lord bless & happy listening.
Isaiah 40:31 - Amplified
But those who wait for the LORD (who expect, look for, and hope in Him) will gain new strength and renew their power; they will lift up their wings (and rise up close to God) like eagles (rising toward the sun); they will run and not become weary, they will walk and not grow tired.
Isaiah 40:31 - CSB
But those who trust in the LORD will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run an not become weary, they will walk and not faint.
Psalm 103:5 - NIV
Who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Psalm 103:5 - Amplified
Who satisfies your years with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the (soaring) eagle.
Often around the 30 year mark of life, an eagle goes through an intense molting process. During this time, they find a place to "hide out", usually high up on a mountain top with some sort of rocky, barren area, and they remove all of their feathers, break off their beak and scrape away their talons. Older eagles, who themselves have been through the molting process, will bring food to the eagle as he/she lies on the rockface and soaks in the sunshine.
After the molt comes to an end, the eagle will be faster, stronger, sleeker, with improved eyesight and better hunting and survival skills than even in their youth. This process actually allows them to live a longer life.
Are you enduring a time of molting? If so, hang on to hope and know that the promise of these verses are for you. You will have your strength renewed - you will soar one day - you will run & not grow weary - you will walk and not grow tired - God will satisfy your desires with good things & your years will be full of the blessings of the Lord - you will be stronger, faster, see more clearly, love people better, have more hope and will be even more impactful for God's kingdom than ever before, bringing Him great honor and glory.
Your best days still lie before you.
You have a very bright future, my friend. God's Word promises it!
~ Merry Christmas!
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Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Well hey, hello again everyone! Welcome back to another episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show - part of the Spark Network, now playing on the Edifi app. This is episode 85.
(Real Quick - here is the link for the #ChristmasBlessingGiveaway -
Today we are going to take a look at the OT book of Isaiah, chapter 33, which is a really encouraging chapter of that book by the way. And fun fact about the book of Isaiah - it divides the way the Bible divides - the number of books in the OT (which is 39) is the same as the number of chapters in Isaiah that we read before the book takes a turn toward enormous, unstoppable hope (which is one of my favorite words at Christmastime). And then there are 27 books in the NT of the Bible, and 27 more chapters in Isaiah. A total of 66 chapters and 66 books, and the division in Isaiah where you can literally read along and see the entire tone change corresponds perfectly with the number of books in the Bible, with the change we read at the birth of Jesus. Which is the one and only reason I can say to you, have a Merry Christmas.
Kinda cool, isn’t it? God never ceases to amaze me. Never ever.
Okay, let me read the verse to you and then let’s chat about it a bit, shall we?
And He will be the security and stability of your times,
A treasure of salvation, wisdom and knowledge;
The fear of the Lord is your treasure.
Well, you may know (or may not know if you’re new to the podcast) what comes to mind when I read the word WILL in one of God’s promises in the Bible - and this is a promise, make no mistake about it. And God has never yet failed even once in the keeping of His promises, so this is a check we can take to the bank and it will cash all day long.
What is the promise here for us?
I’m so glad you asked!
He, meaning God, will be the security and stability of your times.
Oh, hello there! That sounds like pretty much exactly what we need to know right here, right now, at this moment in history. Does that not sound good? To know beyond all shadow of a doubt that you have security and you have stability regarding your times - your personal times - never forget our God is a personal God. You know those genealogies you might find kind of boring in some of the OT books and also in the Gospels? Um, consider this: God took up space in His Word to put down the names of individuals. He is a very personal God, and every name listed in those lists of names shows us how much He loves each one of us individually and personally.
You have security and stability regarding your times, personally, in Him. When God says that He will be something for us, His people, He means it. So our duty, and I do take it seriously, like a duty in the military is serious, our duty is to believe Him.
Can you do that this Christmas? Believe He is gonna be today and tomorrow and et cetera your stability and your security, even in what may be the most unstable and insecure time in our lifetimes, and maybe even possibly like ever? I mean, things could get worse (and they will in time, says the book of Revelation) but our God, He never gets worse. Walking with Jesus, things only and always get better.
Call me a sap, but I believe that 100%.
It goes on to say God will be a treasure (oh yes He is our greatest treasure, isn’t He?) and wisdom and knowledge.
Anybody else ever need some wisdom, some knowledge?
I ask the Lord for those things all the time. And I pray those things for other people, loved ones, all the time. And you know what? God hears and God answers those prayers all the time.
He has promised to be your treasure, your wisdom, your knowledge. How cool is that?
Verse 6 ends with this:
The fear of the Lord is your treasure.
Yes!
Do you have a healthy fear of the Lord? Oh now I do know that I know that I know that when people saw the Lord in the Bible, they were stone cold out… on their faces, unable to stand, knowing that just being in His presence they ought to drop dead.
Yeah, there is a holiness we just cannot fathom. We don’t get it - how can we? Our God is an all consuming fire, says the Word. How can we get that?
But here is what we can get - a fear of the Lord that honors Him, reveres Him, holds Him in such high esteem that we order our days around Him. We wake up to Him and we fall asleep in Him. He speaks, we hear and we obey. He is moving over here in the world, and we get on board with that. He asks us to pray for someone, and we pray and pray and pray and it’s Holy Spirit led praying. He is our everything every day, our all in all at all times.
Do we live like that?
Do you live like that?
How about this December, this Christmas season, you decide to live that way?
You won’t regret it.
In fact, you may well grow to love it and never want to live differently.
Okay, it’s a shorter episode today - it’s December, right? And I have one more thing to mention. I am part of the Woman 2 Woman ministry 10th annual Christmas blessing giveaway. And there is a cash prize, like just under $500 is going to someone. It’s easy to enter - the rafflecopter link is in the show notes and also on the blog page of my website, which is my name - Jan L Burt dot com. I hope you enter and I hope you win.
And thank you to all of you who follow my platforms via the giveaway. I really want to grow my new YouTube channel because that’s what makes YouTube happy, subscribers, and when YouTube is happy then when people search for God’s promises (and let’s be honest, YouTube is a search engine at its core) then they will find my page and I hope be encouraged by God’s promises from His Word. So, thank you. Really, thank you thank you thank you.
Okay - that’s it for today. And thanks so much for listening today, part of the Spark Network, now playing on the Edifi app.
See you back here next time for episode 86!
Bye Bye!
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Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Well hey there!
Welcome back to The Burt (Not Ernie) Show - part of the Spark Network now playing on the Edifi app.
I'm your host, Jan L. Burt, author of the brand new book "A 60 Day Prayer Journal for Parents" available via Amazon (if you would like to receive a pdf copy in exchange for a review as a BETA reader, please email me at JanLBurt@outlook.com with the subject line BETA).
Today we are looking at Hebrews chapter 6, verses 9-20 from the Amplified.
Better Things for You
9But, beloved, even though we speak to you in this way, [c]we are convinced of better things concerning you, and of things that accompany salvation. 10For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown for His name in ministering to [the needs of] the saints (God’s people), as you do. 11And we desire for each one of you to show the same diligence [all the way through] so as to realize and enjoy the full assurance of hope until the end, 12so that you will not be [spiritually] sluggish, but [will instead be] imitators of those who through faith [lean on God with absolute trust and confidence in Him and in His power] and by patient endurance [even when suffering] are [now] inheriting the promises.
13For when God made the promise to Abraham, He swore [an oath] by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, 14saying, “I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU.” 15And so, having patiently waited, he realized the promise [in the miraculous birth of Isaac, as a pledge of what was to come from God]. 16Indeed men swear [an oath] by [d]one greater than themselves, and with them [in all disputes] the oath serves as confirmation [of what has been said] and is an end of the dispute. 17In the same way God, in His desire to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable nature of His purpose, intervened and guaranteed it with an oath, 18so that by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge would have strong encouragement and indwelling strength to hold tightly to the hope set before us. 19This hope [this confident assurance] we have as an anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whatever pressure bears upon it]--a safe and steadfast hope that enters within the veil [of the heavenly temple, that most Holy Place in which the very presence of God dwells], 20where Jesus has entered [in advance] as a forerunner for us, having become a High Priest forever according to the order of [e]Melchizedek.
Please take seriously the importance of knowing who you are according to God's Word, and don't ever opt for living like someone God says you aren't. The best you is the you God created you to be - so don't let satan dupe you into living like you're not who you truly are - free in Christ, a beloved child of God, welcome in His presence at all times, dear to His heart, the apple of His eye.
The header of this section of Hebrews 6 is entitled "Better Things For You".
As we head into Christmas and the end of 2021, start of 2022, does anybody want some better things? For yourself? For your family? For your church? Your workplace? For your health? Your ministry? In your walk with Jesus?
Well, me too!
Let's just simply assume that these verses will give us exactly that - better things for you and for me.
First off, God sees.
And He is never unjust.
He does not have the ability to forget your work for His causes or your love shown as you have ministered to people. He sees & He is never unjust. That's good to remember!
So stay diligent. Don't slack off!
The promise here is if we don't slack off, don't be a slacker, we will enjoy the full assurance of hope right up until the very last moments of our time on planet earth.
Feeling hopeless?
Can I ask if maybe you're lacking some diligence in your calling (& you have a calling, a ministry, a purpose in God's kingdom & His work to advance the Gospel of Jesus!) - in your ministry - in your love for the Lord? Is He your first love? Does your love for Him burn hot, or is it more like ashes cooling down and a fire smoldering out?
See verse 11 - this isn't Jan talking here, this is just Jan reiterating what God has said in His word.
Don't be spiritually sluggish. The opposite of sluggishness is to lean in (as in, we have to personally do the work of leaning, not just as the church as a whole, but as individuals) and trust the Lord absolutely. Have full confidence in Him and in His power. And He has power, believe me you!
This is the way to those better things that lie ahead for us!
You have an inheritance coming - live today in light of that future.
God made His promise and took an oath by His own name because there is no greater name than the Name above all names. It's a trustworthy promise because of the One who made the promise. Just as He kept His word to Abraham, He will always be about the work of keeping His promises to you, too.
To doubt God's word is to dispute it. Don't live in unbelief, in disbelief, and be a person who disputes God's word.
By two unchangeable things, says verse 18, His promise & His oath, it is impossible for God to lie.
When God, who says all things are possible with Him, states that something is impossible, we need to pay attention! It will never be a possibility for God to lie. He has never lied to you and He isn't going to start now. Why don't we believe that with everything within us?
I hope, starting today, that we will!
He has strong encouragement for us, this passage says. And indwelling strength to hold tightly to the hope set before us.
Hope is a wonderful word to describe the Christmas season. Be hopeful! Your inheritance is on it's way, my friend! Hope is the anchor of the soul - it cannot slip - it cannot break down under whatever pressure bears upon it. It is a safe & steadfast hope, this hope that we have in Jesus. He is our living hope! And it ushers us into the Most Holy Place in which the very presence of God dwells. Fight to hold on to your hope - it is life-giving and we need it!
This December, may hope be your watchword & the assurance of better things for you bring you comfort & joy this Christmas.
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Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Welcome to this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show, where we aim to get the promises of God into the people of God & encourage people to know who they are in Christ - no longer living as someone God never intended them to be.
This is episode #83.
Jeremiah 17:7-8 (HCSB) - The man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence indeed is the LORD, is blessed. He will be like a tree planted by water; it sends its roots out toward a stream, it doesn't fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green; it will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.
IS
As in, this present and exact moment in time.
Right here & right now.
Is.
Are you trusting the Lord, putting all of your confidence in Him, leaning the full weight of all of your hopes and dreams and expectations onto Him and Him alone?
If your answer is "Yes", then this promise is true for you in this very moment. Right now, it's your promise. Right now, it is true for you.
This verse states that you are blessed - not simply will be blessed at some point in the future, but are blessed at this very moment.
This is a crystal clear promise & it leaves no room for uncertainty or doubt.
You will be like a tree planted by streams of water - your source of living water is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Your roots will go down deep and spread out toward your living water source, and you will not need to fear when heat comes along and begins to warm things up.
When the heat is on, what we believe matters most. And when the heat is on, Jeremiah 17:7-8 tells us that we will remain green. No season of drought can stop us from producing fruit.
We are blessed, because God has promised that we will be blessed.
God will always be the answer for your every concern. So, don't panic when the heat increases. God is going to take good & careful care of you in those times & you will be able to keep on living, and live well, as you stay green and bear fruit.
So when changes come - and they most certainly will! - do not give in to fear or fret or worry or hand-wringing.
Instead, give yourself over to the Lord in total trust, and expect to see green things starting to grow even in a season of drought.
You are meant to thrive, my friend; God has promised it, and He always keeps His promises!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend - see you back here for Episode #84.
Bye bye!
~ Jan
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Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Well hey there, hello again & welcome back to The Burt (Not Ernie) Show - a podcast dedicated to getting the promises of God into the people of God.
This is episode #82.
A very Happy Thanksgiving to you all - and if you don't happen to reside in the States, I hope you have a fantastic week and that you are blessed beyond measure, filled to overflowing with the goodness of the Lord. He has so much good for you - and my prayer is that you receive blessing heaped upon blessing this very week!
Today we are taking a look at several verses and I am took them from something I wrote a few years ago - "21 Days of Prayer ~ 21 Prayer Devotions to Impact Your Life". This is a free download of 21 devotions focused on prayer, and you are welcome to sign up and grab your copy at the links in this podcast. I also want to invite you to join my email list at JanLBurt.com where I host a monthly book giveaway (recently I have been giving away two books each month). I am planning to send out the prayer guide as a Christmas gift to everyone on my email list, and since it is a really neat thing to dedicate the first 21 days of a new year to the Lord by praying and fasting from something to hear from Him about His will for us individually for the coming 12 months, I thought this 21 day prayer guide could be an easy way to set apart that time for Him to speak into our lives and set the tone for 2022.
So grab your free copy of the prayer guide & sign up on my email list - I will be tickled pink to have you there! (oh, and my new YouTube channel is coming along... I hit some kinks and they didn't allow me to launch my channel quite yet, but I am getting there, so watch for info on that very soon - it's called God's Promises for You with Jan L. Burt)
John Wesley said this: " God will do nothing but in answer to prayer."
And here is a quote from E.M. Bounds: "God shapes the world by prayer."
What do you think about those statements? Do you agree? Disagree? Kind of, sort of agree?
In Ephesians 3:20 (NIV), it says, "Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us..."
It does not say "Now to Him who can maybe sorta do a little bit here and there..."
Nope!
To Him who is able, fully able, to do more than we can measure, above and beyond what we could ever ask, think, hope, dream or imagine.
Give Him glory and honor and praise this Thanksgiving! Great things He has done!
Psalm 95:2 - Let us come into His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise.
Take some time to come to the Lord without a list of wants and needs, but simply with a heart of praise. The enemy cannot stand it when we praise our mighty God. And it always does us a tremendous amount of good to simply sit before Him and offer thanks and praise. He has blessed us - let us thank Him for His blessings.
Luke 17:5 - Increase our faith!
These words are kind of dangerous! Now, sure, it can seem dangerous to pray like this because we don't want to be placed in situations that pull and tug and stretch our faith. But that isn't why I think these are dangerous words. I believe that asking God to increase our faith is dangerous because our enemy knows that God will surely answer this request and there will be a subsequent and lasting impact on Satan's kingdom. And he does indeed have a kingdom of evil! When we pray this prayer, asking God to increase our faith, He will answer us in ways that demolish the kingdom of darkness. So never stop asking God to increase your faith. Pray dangerously!
John 17:5 - "My prayer is not that You take them out of the world, but that You protect them from the evil one."
Jesus did not ask the Father to take us out of the world. He wasn't seeking that type of protection for us; but He was seeking protection for us as we continue living in this world, difficult as that may be at times. If we take Jesus at His word, then we can have total trust that God heard this prayer and is continually answering it. Rest easy knowing that you and I cannot leave this planet, will not taste death, until the Lord calls us home. Any weapon formed against us will not prosper. Trust that God is fully protecting you from the evil one and nothing gets past Him unseen. You can pray like a warrior who is fully armed and fully protected, because that is exactly what you are!
Psalm 33:18 - But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His unfailing love.
The eyes of God are upon you - while you sleep, as you go about your daily work, when you study His word, and of course as you pray. God keeps His eyes on you - to watch over you, to be attentive to your needs, and to show you that He sees how much you love Him. Put your hope in His unfailing love. We have great cause to celebrate our God and ample reason to revel in His love. Rest in the knowledge that you are secure because God's eyes are upon you today!
Romans 4;21 - ...being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised.
What does it mean to be fully persuaded? If you are married, do you remember signing your marriage license? If you are a parent, do you remember giving birth to your child? Or finalizing the adoption process? Then you know what it is to be fully persuaded on a matter. No one can convince you that you aren't legally married or that your child is not really yours. That would be laughable, even offensive, for someone to imply! Now, let me ask you this: do you pray as if you are fully persuaded that God has the power to do everything He has promised, exactly as He has promised? If not, why not?
Just as you know that your child is your own because you clearly remember labor and delivery, you ought to know that God has all power and He does indeed always keep His promises. Pray accordingly today, my friend!
Promises Made = Promises Kept
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I hope it has encouraged and blessed you today!
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Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Well hey there everybody - hello again. Welcome to this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show. I am really excited to be here with you all today. I have this optimism that is rooted God’s Word, His promises to us, and it is a growing optimism in spite of what seems like dark days in our world. God is good. And He has not abdicated His throne or lost even the tiniest iota of His power, His prominence, His total preeminence in all things. That has me pretty excited today.
So, let’s get started discussing some of the things our good, good God has promised to us.
This is episode 81. And it is sponsored by the soon-to-launch YouTube channel “God’s Promises for You with Jan L. Burt”.
The book of Hebrews is a game changer for anyone who reads it and applies it, appropriates it, just simply believes what is written there.
We are looking at Hebrews 10 verses 19 & 20 ( NLT) today.
Let me read the verse to you first from the NLT.
19 And so, dear brothers and sisters,[a] we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. 20 By his death,[b] Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place.
When was the last time you pondered the incredible direct access that you have to God?
I mean, really thought about that fact. It’s the absolute truth for all Christians, and it is something that the Hebrews from the Old Testament, the descendants of Abraham, would have staggered to believe. It is incredible what we have been gifted with.
So, when was the last time you really thought about it?
Today, that’s what we are going to do.
Dear brothers and sisters.
I love that! We are dear to the Lord and we ought to be dear to one another, too.
When someone uses the word dear to address another someone, it is indicative of devotion, genuine love, and heartfelt concern for the other person (so often our conversations are only focusing on our concern for me myself and I, right?)
And so, dear brothers and sister (talking to you today, my friend!) we can boldly (boldly! With boldness!) enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.
Do we think enough, say enough, pray enough for the fullness of every blessing God has given to us through the blood of Jesus to be made 100% true in our lives? If we would pray more while standing firmly on the power of the blood of Jesus, what mountains would move?
The appeal here is that we would know that we are in the Beloved, we are dear to our Father, we are close to His heart because He loves us so much! And that we would boldly enter the Most Holy Place (think of the OT Holy of Holies, where the High Priest entered just one time a year - that’s where we are told to boldly enter - with no restrictions or limits on how often we can enter). And we can enter because of the blood of Jesus. The hymn that says there is power in the blood - it is spot on correct.
Okay let me read that first sentence to you once more - I challenge you to really think on this as I read - what does this mean for you today?
And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.
You can enter, my friend. But the word “can” reveals it’s up to you. I can’t make you. God won’t make you. If you can do something, you also can not do that thing.
Will you?
Today will you boldly enter the Most Holy Place, where the powerful blood of Jesus gains you entrance?
The second verse says this -
By His death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place.
Opened.
Jesus opened the way for you. The way to something new, as in before the death and resurrection of Jesus, this was not possible! The way to something life-giving.
Most people like being part of something new, trying something new, especially if the new thing is a good thing. This is not just a good thing - it is the ultimate good thing, it is the Good News, and so we should get excited about it!
But when the new thing we can experience is also life-giving, well then that ups the ante, doesn’t it?
How many things do you know of that are actually, really life-giving? I mean, like they come with an iron-clad guarantee that they will meet the promise of being life-giving?
Not hoped for, not wished for - this is a promise, this is a covenant our God has made with His children.
Look, if you are not entering the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus and praying right there in God’s throne room, before His throne of grace, and experiencing all that He wants to give you (I mean, His word says it is life-giving, so if it’s anything less than that you are walking away from your prayer time with, then can I remind you that God has much, much more for you? So much more! If God Almighty says something is life-giving, then by golly that is what He intends for it to be and if that is not what you are experiencing, then the devil is ripping you off in your prayer time, or you have not fully taken advantage of this amazing promise perhaps, or you may not be entering boldly…)
Get your boldness on when you go into your prayer closet, into your war room, sit down with that prayer journal, pray in your small group, with your spouse, on your drive to work in the morning. Get your boldness on! Be bold!
God says it, or I would never, ever dream of spurring you on to get bold when you enter His presence to pray.
What needs do you have? And are you boldly entering the Most Holy Place of your Father and expressing those needs to Him with confidence and trust that He will hear you and answer you?
Take your every need to your good Father and be bold about it. You walk in there, my friend, and you pray your prayers with love and adoration and trust that will only be bigger and bigger, increase more and more, because you stand praying with boldness.
My acting boldly does not limit or shrink my grasp of God’s holiness, of His power, of His sovereignty and His perfection in all that He does. No! The opposite happens when I boldly enter His throne room, the Most Holy Place. When I enter under the blood of Jesus into the Most Holy Place, I better grasp His holiness. If I am in the Most Holy Place, I will of course better understand how holy my God actually is! And I will pray bigger, bolder prayers because a holy God can’t do otherwise than answer prayers in His justice, in His mercy, in His power and His righteousness. I see more clearly how holy our God is and I expect Him to move and act out of His holiness. So, I pray better. I pray more holy, more God-honoring prayers. I will leave the Most Holy Place with a more tender heart, I’ll love people better, I will trust God more with circumstances and situations and thus strive less in my own strength. I will be different, because I have been in the life-giving place.
Aren't these two verses from Hebrews just fantastic?
And just think, this is all for you.
Can I encourage you today to spend some time praying boldly and see if it doesn’t bless you abundantly?
Thank you so much for being here today - I am so thankful for every download, every listener.
I have a couple of things to mention here - first, I am participating in a Christmas blessing giveaway (a group of us are joining forces for a cash giveaway this December so be on the lookout for more details and also, would you pray we can reach a total of $1000 to give away? Please pray for that amount, or even more, if you would!)
Also, I will be guest hosting on another podcast in December and I am really excited about it. What a blessing it will be! And I will share a Christmas devotional on that website - so keep your ears peeled for info about that coming up really soon.
Last thing - I mentioned my upcoming YouTube channel earlier. One of the topics that gets a lot of searches on YouTube (because it basically is a search engine, right?) is God’s promises. Isn’t that awesome that people are searching to learn more of what God has promises in the Bible?
And I am going to share on that topic on my channel. I hope to have it launched sometime before November 15th (pray that happens - it’s a lot of work to finish up but I believe the Lord is leading me this way so here I go!) I will still have this podcast, nothing will be changing with The Burt (Not Ernie) Show. Just adding another outlet, but it won’t be a copy and paste of these episodes. I plan to start with ten minute videos about God’s promises. And if I can get to 1000 subscribers, I am gonna add a community tab to my channel and that is a way to have a better connection with people on YouTube. So just dropping this here for ya - when the channel goes live, I sure do hope you will consider becoming a subscriber.
Okay, that’s it for my announcements and I want to remind you to boldly enter today, and to remember the power of the blood of Jesus that was shed for you. Pray big! And let God bless you with all the life-giving blessings He wants to. It’s a lot - so make some room, get some space available to be blessed.
Thanks for joining me today & I will be back here next time for episode 82.
Bye-bye!
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