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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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Friday Nov 05, 2021
Friday Nov 05, 2021
This is episode number 80.
Today we are looking at the promises we find in the NT book of 1 Thessalonians, which is a letter the Apostle Paul penned to the church at Thessalonica.
Chapter 5 of the book, verse 24.
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In the Amplified, it says this:
Faithful and absolutely trustworthy is He who is calling you (to Himself for your salvation), and He will do it (He will fulfill His call by making you holy, guarding you, watching over you, and protecting you as His own).
The word of God is tremendous. The word of God is powerful. This is life change in a handful of words. This is the real thing. Nothing compares with God’s Word. Nothing.
Who is this Lord making us all these many promises? He is faithful and He is absolutely trustworthy, that is who He is. Your promise maker is faithful and cannot be unfaithful. Your promise maker is absolutely trustworthy and will never do one single thing that deems Him untrustworthy. The promise maker is also the promise keeper, and it is He who has called you to HImself.
This verse says that He is the one who will do what He intended to do.
Now, that takes a whole lot of pressure off, doesn’t it?
That does not mean that I can pull off a weekly podcast episode or a live video in my prayer group or work on a prayer journal for parents without me doing anything. But the pressure is off. And frankly, I need to be reminded of that fact. Hey Jan - if one person downloads or a thousand today, the pressure is off you because it was never placed on you by the Lord. If one person watches the video or every member of the group does, the pressure is off of you because God never put that burden on you.
My work is to be obedient and to trust Him to do what it is that He wants done.
But that obedience does not usually mean sitting on my hands, resting on my laurels, doing a whole lot of nothing. God cannot bless what I will not do.
If He has called you to a season of rest, say in some certain area, then you need to honor Him and show your love for Him by obeying that call to rest.
However - and this is a big, big however in light of today’s verse and the promises we see therein - however, not doing the work He has called you to be doing and calling that “resting” is not really a safe bet. Love the Lord your God with all your heart & all your soul & all your mind & all your strength. All - Your - Strength. That is absolutely God’s will for you, for all who are His disciples. And that does not sound like doing nothing. It sounds like someone who will do what God wants them to do, and do it as well as they can, with a fully devoted heart, and who will also leave the results to God.
He is no less the Great I AM on this day than He was on the day He said those words to Moses in the desert thousands of years ago.
God cannot bless what you will not do.
So, be about the doing He has told you to be doing. But don’t internalize the end result of that doing. Don’t let that become your identity.
What you do is not who you are and it never, ever will be.
But what you do is an indicator of Whose you are, and that is as it should be.
He will fulfill His call by making you holy, guarding you, watching over you, and protecting you as His own.
That word will tells us that this is a promise. And it assures us that we are not under the gun to make God’s promises happen.
But what is He promising to do here, exactly?
To make you, to make me, holy.
To guard us.
To watch over us.
To protect us as His own.
Guard us? Yes, please!
Watch over us? Oh, yes, more of that please Lord!
Make us holy? That process is sometimes filled with growing pains. But it is His will, and so it is what He is going to do. Since He has promised to make us holy, then we know He will keep that promise.
And protect us as His own.
Don’t miss this - as His own.
You were bought with a price, my friend, and that price was the precious blood of God’s only Son. The value is inestimable. And so, that makes you highly valued because you are highly valuable. He will today and tomorrow and next week and in 2022 protect you as His own. Because You are His - ownership rights belong to the Lord Most High. Don’t try to wrestle them back from Him. You got a good deal when you gave your life to Jesus. Let it stay right there, remind yourself that this was a very, very wise trade you made, this running your own life and facing the consequences now and eternally for your sins being traded for the life Jesus died to give you. Live THAT life - and live it right now. He has promised to protect you as His own, so let that happen and don’t fight against being owned by the Lord. It’s a good thing. Embrace it and receive all the blessing that comes with it.
Have a blessed day and know that I have prayed for you - for everyone who listens to this episode. I know God hears and answers prayers - expect to see Him move in your life, even this very day.
And remember, today’s episode is sponsored by The Power of God’s Will - 40 Days of God’s Promises - it is on sale now at Amazon at a lower price than normal for a short time.
See you back here next time for episode 81.
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Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Well hey there hello again everyone.
Welcome back! I am so glad you’re joining me today here on The Burt (Not Ernie) Show. This is episode 79.
I am going to read a passage from the NT book of Matthew today, more than just one verse on this episode. And let’s look at these verses in the NLT.
Listen as I read aloud -
Matthew 25:14-30 (New Living Translation) -
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a man going on a long trip. He called together his servants and entrusted his money to them while he was gone. He gave five bags of silver to one, two bags of silver to another, and one bag of silver to the last - dividing it in proportion to their abilities. He then left on his trip. The servant who received the five bags of silver began to invest the money and earned five more. The servant with two bags of silver also went to work and earned two more. But the servant who received the one bag of silver dug a hole in the ground and hid the master’s money. After a long time their master returned from his trip and called them to give an account of how they had used his money. The servant to whom he had entrusted the five bags of silver came forward with five more and said, ‘Master, you gave me five bags of silver to invest, and I have earned five more.’ The master was full of praise. ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let’s celebrate together!’ The servant who received the two bags of silver came forward and said, ‘Master, you gave me two bags of silver to invest, and I have earned two more,’ The master said, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let’s celebrate together!’ Then the servant with the one bag of silver came and said, ‘Master, I knew you were a harsh man, harvesting crops you didn’t plant and gathering crops you didn’t cultivate. I was afraid I would lose your money, so I hid it in the earth. Look, here is your money back.’ But the master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy servant! If you knew I harvested crops I didn’t plant and gathered crops I didn’t cultivate, why didn’t you deposit my money in a bank? At least I could have gotten some interest on it.’ Then he ordered, ‘Take the money from this servant, and give it to the one with the ten bags of silver. To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. Now throw this useless servant into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit upon His glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered in His presence, and He will separate the people as a shepherd separates sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep at His right hand and the goats at His left. Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. For I was hungry, and you fed Me. I was thirsty, and you gave Me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited Me into your home, I was naked, and you gave Me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for Me. I was in prison, and you visited Me.’ Then these righteous ones will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You? Or thirsty and give You something to drink? Or a stranger and show You hospitality? Or naked and give You clothing? When did we ever see You sick or in prison and visit You?’ And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these My brothers and sisters, You were doing it to Me!’
Does anything stand out to you, or even jump out at you, from this passage? I am going to encourage you to read it for yourself, or re-read it in the show notes. Highlight, underline or take notes on any portion(s) of this passage that stand out to you. Be an active reader. Read this while thinking about your own life. Ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you about this passage.
Then, read it one more time.
So, yeah, for a podcast I just asked you to read, and that is not just listening, not the norm for a podcast. Now you don’t have to read this, hearing God’s Word is tremendously powerful and has real benefits to us in our every day lives, so long as we do something with what we are hearing, right? Not just nod our heads and give an amen here and there, but live out what the Word of God is teaching. And honestly, it often is revealing things in us that the Holy Spirit is wanting to work on, to heal, to dismantle lies and strongholds, to restore and bless and move us along on this walk with Him. So be an active reader when you open God’s Word - and also, be an active listener when you hear God’s Word.
But do, for 100% certain, be sure to ask the Lord to speak to you about what His Word says.
Sit quietly before the Lord, maybe with pen and paper in hand, and write what He speaks to your heart about this passage. Ask Him to show you where you are rightly using what He has given you for His glory and His purposes. And, on the more difficult side of the coin, ask Him to show you where you are not.
If you will take the time to do this - to agree with the Lord that He meant it when He said He will ask for an account of the assets He has given to each one of us - He will most certainly reveal something (or several things) to you. Let Him do that! And then honor Him by doing His will with what He has given.
He has something for you in His Word today, that I can promise you.
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Let’s look again at this passage, this literal timestamp, a series of events that actually really and truly happened, from the life of the Lord Jesus.
First off, a beautiful reminder that our God is not ever, ever far off. He is not at all similar to man-made, little g gods who are aloof and distant and above mere mortals and all of that. Our God, who is the One True God, is not distant. He is not aloof. And these verses show us how up close and personal Jesus was to people. What makes us think He is less up close and personal with us, right now, today? The Spirit of the Living God indwells all who are in Christ, so how could He be aloof or far off or distant or detached? How do you detach from someone and also indwell them simultaneously? Well, you don’t because you can’t, right?
And I have to just focus on that word WILL - it’s kind of a thing for me on this podcast, and really it predates me ever having a podcast. I have done this for a long, long time, when I see the word WILL in a promise in the Bible, or like this passage where Jesus very clearly states what WILL happen on the day we stand before His throne.
He will separate the sheep from the goats. That is going to happen. And there will probably be some goats we did not realize were goats, if I am being totally honest. I mean, the last few years I have seen a falling away that I never dreamed of. If it is in the Word of God, and here in the NT penned in words of red, well then I surely am not going to argue with whether or not it will actually happen like it says. It will be just as He has said that it will be. Period.
The final judgment will take place, my friends. And based on the parable of the servants that Jesus told just before He began to speak about the final judgment, we are going to have a close examination of what we did with every single thing He entrusted to us. You and I, like it or not, have been entrusted with things - so many varying things. Big things, tiny things - and we are expected, says the King of kings, the One who was and is and is to come, to use them well and be prepared to show Him what we did to grow, to increase, to use wisely what He gave us for His cause. His Kingdom. That’s our truth, whether we live like it is or not. No getting around it, either. Now we can’t go back and change what we did or did not do in the past, even one minute ago, but we can right now get our heads on straight and be about using the talents, giftings, abilities, resources, time and money and platform and all of it for the right purposes. His purposes.
He will sit upon His glorious throne and all the nations will be gathered in His presence.
That is two uses of the word WILL that should be like cold water thrown in our face - wake up! Get with the program! (and it isn’t your program, nor mine - get with God’s program!)
Can I just encourage you, but with some firmness in my tone of voice, like a strong-ish encouragement, to evaluate what you have available to use for the Kingdom of God and to get busy using it to that end?
I do not care if you are five years old and what you have is a heart to pray for your sick uncle to come to know Jesus and to get better. Pray. Jesus sees it and He will reward it. If you are 99 years old and can hardly get out and about, but you like to talk to text your grandkids prayers and Bible verses. Do it, and expect Jesus to bless it.
Start where you are today and do, do, do something for the Kingdom, for the Master, today. And then keep on doing. No, we are not saved by works, it is solely by grace and the price Jesus paid at the Cross. But James tells us faith without works is dead and if you have even a bit of rigor mortis creeping into your spiritual life, well let’s nix that nonsense and get ourselves all sorts of alive in the Lord Jesus.
I’m not really kidding around, either, my friend. Get after living this life for the Lord before the afterlife gets after you.
Okay, that is all for today but I do want to thank remind you that next week my November giveaway on my website will get started - if you want to be eligible to win a couple of books, shipped to your mailbox, be sure to sign up for my email list at JanLBurt.com and also my devotional is on sale right now on Amazon (and so is my Bible study for homeschool mothers - I am working on a new cover and dropped the price and have seen some interest, some sales picking up, so maybe check that out). Just search for Jan L. Burt on Amazon (spell it out). And so this episode is focusing on OCC & is sponsored by The Homeschooling Mothers Bible Study.
Thanks for being here and have a truly blessed day investing into the Kingdom of God.
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Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
This is episode 78. And today’s episode is sponsored by “The Next 7 Days - A Weekly Prayer Journal” available at JanLBurt.com - that’s Jan L Burt dot com
I’d like to look at a few verses from the OT, a small book entitled Haggai and also one verse from the NT.
Ephesians 3:20 - I’d like to read it from the AMP first and then maybe from another translation as well.
Eph 3:20 (AMP) - Now to Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us,
J.B. Phillips says it this way - Now to him who by his power within us is able to do far more than we ever dare to ask or imagine—to him be glory in the Church through Jesus Christ for ever and ever, amen!
(Verses 20 and 21 of Ephesians chapter 3 from the Phillips translation)
Isn’t it freeing to know it is His power within us that gets done what He wants gotten done? And how profound that what He often wants to get done is described as far more than we ever dare to ask or imagine. I can ask a lot. I can imagine a lot. But that word dare, in the Phillips… what do I DARE to ask for? What do I dare to imagine? What’s the biggest of the big stuff I can desire from the hand of the Lord?
Like, so big it takes some daring to even ask for it! To even imagine it!
That is not what He wants to do. Nope. Those are the small potatoes. He is able, and we know from our NT look into the life of Jesus here on the earth, that willing isn’t an issue with the Lord (Didn’t He say If I can? If I am willing?) Oh He is often far more willing than we are! He is able and He is willing to do far more than those daring imaginings and daring asks!
He is so well able to carry out His purpose. You never have to really worry whether or not He has a purpose for your life. Or if His purpose will happen. Look, if you want to hear from the Lord, if you have a heart to do His will, if you have a genuine desire to know what it is He wants you to be doing in this life, then He will make sure you know His will. In big things, in little things. Start where you are and be faithful to Him. Love your family well - like, ask God how you can love them well today. Then do it again tomorrow. Don’t be a time waster in your work. Work well, work wisely. These are the things that honor the Lord. Start there and expect Him to lead you and guide you and speak to you about His purpose for you and His purpose for the world right now. He is able to carry out His purpose. And He is also able to make sure that you know what He wants you to be doing. He created you and He knows how best to communicate with you and let you know what He would like for you to know on any given day of your life.
Okay - now, that little piece of wording there from the AMP that says “superabundantly”.
Whoa. Now that is a word!
Super Abundantly.
More than enough.
Excessive abundance.
Redundancy.
Plethora. Surplus. Overmuchness.
A very large amount of something, more than is usual or needed.
Did you know this is how God wants to work in our lives?
We cannot fully grasp it, it is too much muchness to actually wrap our little finite minds around. But it’s true! And my challenge to you today, and to me also, is to fully and totally believe, like just make the decision to believe, to flat absolutely believe this is true for you. Overmuchness. I love that word. May be one of my new favorite words. Overmuchness. Lord, thank You for the overmuchness You are going to pour out into our lives in every area as You see fit. We are grateful for it, we will be healthier because of it, and we will see Your hand at work in us and then through us to bless others in all sorts of ways.
What a promise!
Okay, let’s take a look at the OT verses I mentioned earlier, from the book of Haggai. Not a long book, just two chapters, right toward the end of the OT.
Chapter two, verses 4 through 7.
From the AMP -
4 But now be courageous, Zerubbabel,’ declares the Lord, ‘be courageous also, Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and be courageous, all you people of the land,’ declares the Lord, ‘and work; for I am with you,’ declares the Lord of hosts. 5 ‘As for the promise which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, My Spirit stands [firm and immovable] and continues with you; do not fear!’ 6 For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. 7 I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the desirable and precious things of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory and splendor,’ says the Lord of hosts.
Be courageous and do the work, for I am with you.
Is there any part of your life that those words fit right now? Like, we want to be wearing what fits us in each season of life, ya know? So if you have some work you know God has for you to be doing - could be simple, like a text message you need to send to encourage someone or tell someone something about the Lord - or it could be more than that. Invite someone to church with you or to your Bible study. Gift someone a Bible. Pray out loud on an Instagram live. If you have something you know He wants you to do, can you step up to the plate and be courageous and do it, knowing He is with you. Do the work, for the Lord is with you.
What’s scary when He is with us? Well, actually things settle down and get way way less intimidating when we know that we know that we know God is with us. His Spirit stands, firm and immovable, and continues with you.
That is awesome. The Holy Spirit, who dwells in you if you know Christ as Savior, He is standing firm and immovable. You ain’t gonna move Him and nothing and nobody else is, either. It won’t happen because it cannot happen.
He continues with you. It’s a covenant. He won’t leave you, He won’t forsake you. He continues with you. So good!!
And when the shaking starts (it seems as if it has started, you know? This shaking… it is happening and has been happening since I feel 2020 and I don’t think we are quite done just yet with this shaking). So when we are seeing that shaking happening, and it’s hard to deny this is a season of God shaking the nations of the world, and then He says He will (oooh He says He will, and what does it mean when God Almighty says He will do something? Will means WILL!) He will fill His house with glory and splendor.
That’s so good. We want to see God glorified all the time. And we should want to see His splendor. If we love Him, we really should get excited about things like this.
Okay, I will post these verses in the show notes. And also, real quick, I want to let you know my book The Power of God’s Will - 40 Days of God’s Promises devotional is going to be at a lower price for a couple of weeks on Amazon. So maybe if you’d like to get a new devotional or as an early Christmas gift idea, you can check that out.
Have a fabulous rest of your day and know that God is desiring and planning and wanting to do the superabundant in your life. Ask Him for big big things and then just know His idea of big is way bigger than your biggest big could ever possibly be.
I’m believing God for that overmuchness to be a huge part of your life in the very near future.
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