El Shaddai ----- Genesis 17:1 ------ Dr. David Higgs ----- August 2, 2020

Deuteronomy 33:27

King James Version

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

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Truths About El Shaddai

1.     The name El Shaddai means GOD Almighty.

 

This name points to the omnipotence of GOD and that HE is able to do any  and everything at any given time.   Additionally, GOD Almighty has the power to fulfill every Promise  that HE has ever made.

 

2.     As El Shaddai, GOD operated on HIS time clock not yours.

 

3.     As El Shaddai, GOD sufficiently nourishes and satisfies us.

        Shad ---   means Mother's breast

                in Hebrew

 

4.     As El Shaddai, HIS powerful responses are worth waiting         on.

 

          We obey GOD, while we wait on GOD!

5.     As El Shaddai, HE is a GOD that you can get close to.

 

        Arabs ----Ishamael

        Jews  ---- Isaac

 

 6.     As El Shaddai, HE expects HIS people to live differently than everyone else.

 

El Shaddai ----- Genesis 17:1 ----- Dr. David Higgs ----- August 2, 2020

Psalm 91:1

King James Version

 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

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Truths About El Shaddai

1.     The name El Shaddai means GOD Almighty.

 

This name points to the omnipotence of GOD and that HE is able to do any  and everything at any given time.   Additionally, GOD Almighty has the power to fulfill every Promise  that HE has ever made.

 

2.     As El Shaddai, GOD operated on HIS time clock not yours.

 

3.     As El Shaddai, GOD sufficiently nourishes and satisfies us.

        Shad ---   means Mother's breast

                in Hebrew

 

4.     As El Shaddai, HIS powerful responses are worth waiting         on.

 

          We obey GOD, while we wait on GOD!

5.     As El Shaddai, HE is a GOD that you can get close to.

 

        Arabs ----Ishamael

        Jews  ---- Isaac

 

 6.     As El Shaddai, HE expects HIS people to live differently than everyone else.

 

 

 

I Will Support GOD'S Mission : Goer ---- Matthew 28:18-20 ------Dr. David Higgs ------ July 12, 2020

 

II  Corinthians 5:18-20

King James Version

¹⁸ And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

¹⁹ To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

²⁰ Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

 

 

 

Why Should You Be A Goer?

1. In order to obey JESUS.
2. In order to follow Paul's example.
3. Because you have something to offer.
4. You are a part of the solution.
5. Spiritual maturity

Applications

Consider going on a strategic short-term mission trip.

Consider if GOD is calling you to become a career missionary.

Help lead FBC to become an even greater going church.

El Roi: The GOD Who Sees ----- Dr. David Higgs ----- August 9, 2020

 6.     You are accountable to El Roi.

 

 

Hebrews 4:13

King James Version

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

El Roi: The GOD Who Sees ---- Dr. David Higgs ----- August 9, 2020

  5.     El Roi is looking for committed hearts.

 

 

El Roi : The GOD Who Sees ---- Dr. David Higgs ---- August 9, 2020

 5.     El Roi is looking for committed hearts.

 

 

Psalm 34:15

King James Version

 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

 

El Roi : The GOD Who Sees ---- By Dr. David Higgs ---- August 9, 2020

 5.     El Roi is looking for committed hearts.

 

 

 

II Chronicles 16:9

King James Version

 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

El Roi: The GOD Who Sees ----- Dr. David Higgs ----- August 9, 2020

 5.     El Roi is looking for committed hearts.

 

 

Psalm 33:18-19

King James Version

¹⁸   Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

¹⁹   To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

 

El Roi: The GOD Who Sees ---- By Dr. David Higgs ----- August 9, 2020

 4.     El Roi does not see as man sees.

 

 

 

1 Samuel 16:7

King James Version

 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

El Roi: The GOD Who Sees ---- By Dr. David Higgs --- August 9, 2020

 

 

 

 3.     When El Roi sees our need.  HE is moved with compassion.

         Matthew 9:36

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

El Roi: The GOD Who Sees ------ Genesis 16 & 21:1-20 ---- August 9, 2020 ----- By Dr. David Higgs

 El Roi   ---- pronounced  (El Raw EE)

Psalm 33:3

King James Version

 Sing unto him a new song; 

play skillfully with a loud noise.

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1.     El Roi sees all of the Hagars around us.

2.     El Roi looks far into the future and sees what         you are yet to become.

3.     When El Roi sees our need.   HE is moved with compassion.

 

4.    El Roi does not see as man sees.

 

5.     El Roi is looking for committed hearts.

 

6.     You are accountable to El Roi.

 

7.     El Roi is not blind.  HE sees your situation.

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. Proverbs 21:23

 

 

Proverbs 21:23

King James Version

 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life:

 

 

Proverbs 13:3

King James Version

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Fiery serpents were sent among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

 

 

Numbers 21:4-6

King James Version

 

⁴ And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
⁵ And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
⁶ And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

How many died in the plague? Numbers 16:49

 

 

Numbers 16:49

“Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.”

Children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. Not good at all, stop it.

 

 

Numbers 16:41

King James Version

 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

 

 

1 Corinthians 10:9-11

King James Version

⁹ Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
¹⁰ Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
¹¹ Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; Ephesians 5:1

 

 

Ephesians 5:1

King James Version

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Giving thanks always

 

 

 

Ephesians 5:20

King James Version

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth

 

 

Ephesians 4:29-31

King James Version

²⁹ Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

³⁰ And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

But murmured in their tents Psalm 106:25

 

 

 

Psalm 106:25

King James Version

 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.

Murmur not among yourselves.

 

 

 

John 6:43

King James Version

 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.

Double For Your Trouble

 

 

Zechariah 9:12

King James Version

 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

Ida B. Wells display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Ida B. Wells display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

 

 

In 1988, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.^[77] In August that year, she was also inducted into the Chicago Women's Hall of Fame.^[78] 

 Molefi Kete Asante included Wells on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans in 2002.^[79] In 2011, Wells was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame for her writings.^[80]
On February 1, 1990, the United States Postal Service issued a 25-cent postage stamp in her honor.^[81] 

In 2006, the Harvard Kennedy School commissioned a portrait of Wells.^[82] In 2007 the Ida B. Wells Association, was founded by University of Memphis philosophy graduate students to promote discussion of philosophical issues arising from the African American experience and to provide a context in which to mentor undergraduates. 

The Philosophy Department at the University of Memphis has sponsored the Ida B. Wells conference every year since 2007.^[83]

 In 1941, the Public Works Administration (PWA) built a Chicago Housing Authority public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the south side in Chicago; it was named the Ida B. Wells Homes in her honor. 

The buildings were demolished in August 2011 due to changing demographics and ideas about such housing.^[76]

Legacy and honors

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett 

(July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931

Legacy and honors

Ida B. Wells-Barnett House is a Chicago landmark and National Historic Landmark.

 

 

Awards have been established in her name by the National Association of Black Journalists,^[68] the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University,^[69] the Coordinating Council for Women in History,^[70] the Investigative Fund,^[71] the University of Louisville,^[72] and the New York County Lawyers' Association,^[73] among many others. 

The Ida B. Wells Memorial Foundation and the Ida B. Wells Museum have also been established to protect, preserve and promote Wells' legacy.^[74] 

 In her hometown of Holly Springs, Mississippi, there is an Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum in her honor that acts as a cultural center of African-American history.^[75]

A musical drama by Tazewell Thompson about Wells' life

 

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett 

 (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931)

Wells' life is the subject of Constant Star (2002), a musical drama by Tazewell Thompson that has been widely performed.^[106] 

The play explores Wells as "a seminal figure in Post-Reconstruction America."^[106]

 
Wells was played by Adilah Barnes in the 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels. 

The film dramatizes a moment during the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 when Wells ignored instructions to march with the segregated parade units and crossed the lines to march with the other members of her Illinois chapter.

Ida Bell Wells Drive

 

 Ida Bell Wells-Barnett 

(July 16, 1864 – March 25, 1931)

 

Representation in other media

In 1995, the play In Pursuit of Justice: A One-Woman Play About Ida B. Wells, written by Wendy Jones and starring Janice Jenkins, was produced.

 It is drawn from historical incidents and speeches from Wells' autobiography, and features fictional letters to a friend. It won four awards from the AUDELCO (Audience Development Committee Inc.), an organization that honors black theatre.^[105]
 
In 1999, a staged reading of the play Iola's Letter, written by Michon Boston, was performed at Howard University in Washington, DC, under the direction of Vera J. Katz, including then-student Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) among the cast.

 The play is inspired by the real-life events that compelled a 29-year-old Ida B. Wells to launch an anti-lynching crusade from Memphis in 1892 using her newspaper, Free Speech.

 Iola's Letter is published in the anthology Strange Fruit:  Plays on Lynching by American Women, edited by Judith L. Stephens and Kathy A. Perkins (Indiana University Press, 1998).

Autobiography ---- edited by her daughter Alfreda Barnett Duster

 

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

  (July 16, 1864 – March 25, 1931)

Autobiography and death

Wells began writing her autobiography, Crusade for Justice (1928), but never finished the book; it would be posthumously published, edited by her daughter Alfreda Barnett Duster, in 1970, as Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells.^[66][67]
 
Wells died of uremia (kidney failure) in Chicago on March 25, 1931, at the age of 68. She was buried in the Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago.

If I may touch but JESUS'S clothes, I shall be whole. Mark 5:28

 

Mark 5:28

King James Version

 

 

 For she said, If I may touch but HIS clothes, I shall be whole.

For she said, If I may touch but HIS clothes, I shall be whole.

 

 

Mark 5:24-34

King James Version

²⁴ And JESUS went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.

²⁵ And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,

²⁶ And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,

²⁷ When she had heard of JESUS, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.

²⁸ For she said, If I may touch but HIS clothes, I shall be whole.

²⁹ And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

³⁰ And JESUS, immediately knowing in HIMSELF that virtue had gone out of HIM, turned HIM about in the press, and said, Who touched MY clothes?

³¹ And HIS disciples said unto HIM, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest THOU, Who touched ME?

³² And HE looked round about to see her that had done this thing.

 ³³ But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before HIM, and told HIM all the truth.

³⁴ And HE said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

A certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, touched JESUS'S garment.

 

 

Mark 5:25-27

King James Version

²⁵ And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
²⁶ And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
²⁷ When she had heard of JESUS, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.

JESUS said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

 

 

John 11:21-25

King James Version

²¹ Then said Martha unto JESUS, LORD, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
²² But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of GOD, GOD will give it thee.
²³ JESUS saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
²⁴ Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
²⁵ JESUS said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

 

 

John 11:1-3

King James Version

 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

² (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
³ Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

Son of man, can these bones live? Ezekiel 37:1-4 KJV

 

 

Ezekiel 37:1-4

King James Version

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

² And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
³ And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
⁴ Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord