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Another
Coffee Break:
Aphiémi Healing, Part 31
May 23, 2014
This is a strange way to begin today, but let me begin by asking
you a question. Why is it that we continue to put up with the physical
attacks on our bodies? Why do we simply accept colds, flu, headaches,
allergies, sinus attacks, muscle aches and pains that just seem to be prolonged
when we really haven't done anything to stress or overtax our muscles and
tendons?
Let me take this one more step. Why do we stand idly by
and just say something like, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I'll pray for
you," when we see leaders in the body of Christ under attack?
Now that I've got your attention, let me explain. Just
about everyone who is involved in our weekly healing prayer calls has been
under attack in some way or another. Dwain McKenzie is fighting with
severe shoulder pains. George Robinson is continually being hit with
either heart issues (despite the fact that just a couple months back the
doctors told him his heart was "doing great!") or extreme shoulder
and arm pains. Randy Ramhoff has been hit with a variety of issues, any
of which serve to distract him (or attempt to distract) from his focus on our
prayer calls.
Breaking away from our prayer calls, there's our prophetic
brother in the Lord with White Dove Ministries in Alabama, Paul Keith Davis,
who for some time has had to pull back from his travel schedule in ministry
because of heart issues. Likewise, James Maloney (who is also a brother
in prophetic ministry) has had ongoing attacks against him that have curtailed
.
What I'm getting at here is that when folks are out on the
frontline of ministry, they nearly always become the target of Satan's
attacks. He is not happy with them because they are taking territory from
him and repossessing spiritual land that he has held illegally.
It goes beyond that, however. All of us as believers are
continually under attack from the Enemy in one way or another. The time
has come for us to stand up and say, NO, YOU WILL NOT! As long as we
tolerate or accept these attacks as "just something you have to put up
with," we let Satan get away with things we don't have to. Jesus
paid for our freedom from sickness, disease, infirmity, demonic control and
everything that came with the curse! It's time for us to exercise the
authority we have being "In Christ Jesus!"
That said, let me begin today's discussion
(I'm playing catch-up after having been very late with last Friday's post) with
the translation that I did in last week's Coffee Break from Romans 8:
"For those whom He [the
Father] could foresee and know [their choices and decisions] beforehand, He
also did ordain and determine to become jointly formed and fashioned into the
image and likeness of His Son, so that He might be first begotten son among a
multitude of brothers and sisters.
“Furthermore, those whom He
ordained and determined [by virtue of knowing in advance their choices and
decisions] He also called, beckoning them in their inner beings; and those whom
He called, He also determined and declared to be innocent [rendering judgment
of them beforehand]; and those whom He determined and declared to be innocent,
He made glorious [magnifying them as He magnified His Son].
“What shall we say, then,
regarding these facts? If God the Father be for us, having made these
determinations on our behalf, who can possibly succeed in opposing and
withstanding us?"
(Romans
8:29-31, my translation with amplification)
This is where we are in Jesus Christ!
Unless we appropriate that place, however, we live in unbelief, thinking that
we somehow have to measure up to some kind of mystical and almost unattainable
standard. The body of Christ has been so peppered with doctrines of
unbelief that it is staggering. We've gone through centuries of
measurement standards trying to become pleasing in His sight based on legalistic
perceptions, all of which are rooted in the Fear of Evil.
We MUST come to the place of accepting that
there is nothing we can do to become righteous in God's sight! I am
righteous, folks, but NOT because I say so. I didn't make myself
righteous. The Lord says I am righteous, and that righteousness comes by
virtue of my being in Him! If the Lord says I am righteous, why -- pray
tell -- do I try to add to what He has already done in, for, and through me?
Are my performances (and that's all they are:
performances) going to improve on Jesus' suffering, the stripes
He bore on my behalf, the crown of thorns He suffered as it was thrust through
His scalp and skull, the mocking and belittlement He took from the religious
people as He hung on the Cross, the indescribable torture his body took as
nails were driven through His hands and feet, followed by being hung on the
Cross and left to die slowly as the blood drained from His body, and -- finally
-- dying and taking all of our sins, all of our iniquities (character flaws),
all of our shortcomings, all of our diseases, and -- make sure you get
this part of it! -- ALL of the legal authority that Satan had exercised
over us as his slaves!
Next, Jesus took all that and dumped it at
Satan's feet in Hell while He preached deliverance to the captives that were
there. Then, Father raised Him from the dead and set Him at His own right
hand, imbued Him with that onoma that is above every onoma, restoring to Jesus
that authority and place He had enjoyed previously with Father in the
Heavenlies, and then bestowing upon Jesus all the authority, power, character
and makeup that was in Father to begin with.
We're not done, yet, folks! Then the
apostle Paul tells us that:
Ephesians
2:4-7
(NASB): "But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love
with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us
alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up
with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in
kindness toward us in Christ Jesus."
As committed believers in Jesus Christ,
living our lives in absolute pursuit of His receiving His inheritance in us and
manifesting His Glory, THAT'S US, people! THAT'S US!
We are seated with Christ Jesus in the Heavenlies! More than that, we are
seated IN CHRIST!
It’s
time for us to take on the nature of Spiritual Authority and talk about a
hierarchy that exists in the spiritual realm. Just as there is a
hierarchy that operates in the Kingdom of God, so also is there a hierarchy
that operates and functions in the demonic.
Throughout
the years I’ve seen many Christians who were afraid to take on the demonic
realm because “Satan is almost as powerful as God.” Hogwash! Next
to God, next to the Lord Jesus Christ, and next to every blood-bought believer
in Christ, Satan and his realm is a virtual nothing! His power is
absolutely time-limited, and he is running scared.
This
is a study that will likely take several weeks, so let’s lay some foundations
in our understanding of demonic hierarchy by looking at something Paul wrote:
Ephesians
6:12: For
we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities (arché), against
powers
(exousia), against the rulers of the darkness of
this world
(kosmokrator), against spiritual
wickedness
(pneumatikos/poneria) in high places.
There
is a clear hierarchy spelled out in this verse with four levels of Satan’s
command-level. Let’s take a look at each of the words that occur in the
Greek text.
Arché: A head or a
chief; first; creator, initiator; it means a causal beginning or act; origin; Arché means: extremity
or outermost point, rule, authority, dominion; the verb form (archoô) denotes being
first, or to rule.
Exousia: Permission,
authority, right, liberty, power to do anything; Exousia denotes executive
power, while arché represents the delegated authority
representing that power. Exousia means: it is
allowed; one can; it is permitted; denying the presence of some hindrance.
Kosmokrator: Contraction of kosmos (order of world)
and kratos (power or
authority); this word is used almost exclusively to describe demonic powers
which rule or hold authority over certain parts of the world, i.e., a lord of
[certain or specific] darkness.
Pneumatikos/poneria: There are two
forms of the word pneumatikos – both of which have the root (pneuma: for wind or
spirit): the first form denoting a person under the influence or control
of sin and its propensities; and the second describing a spiritual man
or woman assisted by the Holy Spirit to perform supernatural acts. Pneumatikos is differentiated
from psuchikos (soulishness,
soulish control, soulish behavior).
The second word used in this Greek phrase
is poneria, which is derived
from poneros (a malicious person), and identifies one who is not
only evil, but expresses his malice in such a way as to affect or influence or
control the behavior and/or activities of others.
The Greek phrase utilizing these two words
is usually translated “spiritual wickedness” (in [epouranios] high places), but
that translation misses the fact that Paul is describing spiritual forces at
work in [usually] political or governmental places, operating through
individuals to maliciously alter their lives or their thoughts and activities
in such a way as to prevent them from operating in, from and out of the Kingdom
of God. How do these spiritual forces work?
A classic example would be Paul’s use of
the phrase in his letter to Timothy (I Timothy 4:1), “giving
heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,” thus causing the
individual to be manipulated by these demonic forces into believing something
contrary to the Word of God, and thus rendering them ineffective and impotent
as believers in Christ.
The use of the Greek word epouranios in Ephesians 6:12
makes the translation “high places” somewhat misleading. This word is
universally translated throughout the N.T. as “of the heavens” or “heavenly”
places.
As an adjunct to this, we have had teaching
during the past months and years dealing with the “first heaven, the second
heaven and the third heaven,” often taking II Corinthians 12:2,4 out of context
to paint an understanding of how or where demonic powers operate.
I am indebted to E.W. Bullinger for his
Greek commentary and lexicon as he draws strictly from the Word to clarify the
difference between the first, second and third heaven.
The Greek word, ouranos, is a “one-size
fits all” to describe the over-arching and all-embracing heaven beneath which
is the earth and all that is therein. (Contrast this to our western
thought and mindset which creates boundaries for different heavens.) The
plural nominative form of ouranos is epouranios (heavenly) and
defines that which is “of the heavenly (or spiritual) realm.”
Genesis 1:1 tells us: “In
the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Peter tells us (see
II Peter 3:5,6) that “The heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the
water and in the water; whereby the world (kosmos), that
then was, being overflowed with water, perished.”
What succeeded that heavens and earth is
called (see II Peter 3:7) “The heavens and the earth which now
are.” John
now calls these (see Revelation 21:1) “the first heaven and the
first earth,”
that is to say, the former (see also verse 4)(I will explain this a bit better
next week).
These are “kept in store,
reserved unto fire.” In the day of the Lord “the heavens shall
pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,
the earth also and all the works therein shall be burned up.” Again in verse 12
he says, “The heavens being on fire shall be dissolved.”
What shall follow is called (see II Peter
3:13) “New heavens and a new earth;” and in Revelation 21:1, “A
new heaven and a new earth.”
In Isaiah 65:17, God says, “Behold
I create new heavens, and a new earth.” (See also Isaiah 51:16 and 66:22)
We thus have three heavens.
The first heaven is seen in II
Peter 3:5, 6: “The heavens were of old and the earth.” Also: “The
world that then was.”
The second heaven is seen in II
Peter 3:7: “The heavens and the earth which now are.”
The third heaven, then, is first
revealed in Isaiah 65:17: “The new heavens and the new earth.”
As Bullinger notes in his commentary, “The
origin, causes and progress of these changes make up the whole subject matter
of the Word of God.”
A great deal has been made of Paul’s
comment in II Corinthians 12 about being “caught away into the third heaven,”
and this statement has been taken out of the context of all the other
scriptures. Our western mindset sets boundaries and tries to proscribe a
lower heaven which reaches to a certain boundary, where a second heaven takes
over; and from the limits of that second heaven to a third boundary line where
the third heaven exists. There really is nothing in the Word anywhere
that allows for this kind of interpretation.
Paradise was in the First heaven and earth
(see Genesis 2). The earthly part “perished” with them at the flood, and
therefore is absent in the Second. It appears again in the Third, with
its Tree of Life (see Revelation 2:7, 22:1, 2, 14). To this “Third
heaven” and “Paradise” Paul was caught away (see II Corinthians 12:2, 4), not
“up”, in visions and revelations of the Lord.” (See II Corinthians
12:1) He was transported into the future!
It is, therefore, one “catching away” with
a double revelation of the New heaven and the New Earth, the whole earth being
then a “Paradise.”
In the light of this revelation we must –
in Luke 23:43 – place the comma after the word “today,” which would be required
according to the structure of the Greek phrasing (compare Luke 22:34 and
Matthew 21:28 with Mark 14:30, Luke 4:21 and 19:9).
We’ve taken this look at the “first, second
and third heaven” because it bears directly on Ephesians 6:12 and the spiritual
authority that we have being seated in the Heavenlies in Christ Jesus.
The last phrase in this verse says that we wrestle with “spiritual wickedness
in heavenly places” or more accurately “in the heavens.”
I'm going to pause here for today and pick
it up at this point next week. Without a doubt, my sharing today has been
quite technical in terms of the Greek, and I'm sorry it is necessary to stop
here because today's sharing is very incomplete. Bear with me.
We'll complete this picture -- or at least this part of it -- next week.
Again, if you are in need of
healing -- especially if you have some terminal disease or prognosis of a
very short time to live from the doctors -- please join our prayer conference
calls on either Monday or Wednesday of each week at 7:00 PM Eastern. Once
again, the number to call is (805) 399-1000. Then enter the access code:
124763#. Let us minister to your need for healing!
Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A.
Capener
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Another Coffee Break:
Aphiémi Healing, Part 30
May 16, 2014
A quick note before we get started today: due to increased family activities on Fridays with the encroaching summer, more and more people are finding Friday nights an issue to join us for our Healing Prayer Call. Accordingly, we are temporarily suspending our Friday night calls until the need requires its resumption. Meanwhile, we continue to minister to folks on Mondays and Wednesday nights at 7:00 PM Eastern (4:00 PM Pacific).
For months, now, we've been focusing on healing, on the Table of the Lord as it relates to healing, and to the Covenant that Jesus Christ made on our behalf which is demonstrated so effectively and so phenomenally with His Table. I'd like to take another crack today at describing this Covenant we have in Christ, with Christ, and the co-equal benefits we (both Jesus and us as Covenanted believers) receive.
Let me begin today by saying that if Jesus Christ is going to get His benefits from the covenant He has made with us and on our behalf, we MUST become His co-equal partners. I keep saying this, and it is at the center of all covenants: those who enter into covenant regard each other as co-equal. Covenant shores up our weaknesses. I know some folks have a struggle with the idea that Jesus has any weaknesses -- and from our perspective, He absolutely does not. From Jesus' viewpoint, however, until we have been transformed and conformed to His image and likeness, He is incomplete, lacking, and minus His counterpart, His other self.
Perhaps I can render this another way. Covenant completes us. Jesus has made Himself to be incomplete without us. (I will get to that picture in a moment.) We are, without doubt, incomplete without Him!
Jesus fulfilled both parts of the Covenant -- His part as the provider and enforcer, and our part, which required the shedding of blood for the remission (aphiémi: eradication) of all past sins, iniquities, failings, etc., and -- more than that -- the curse that brought about sin, sickness, disease, infirmity and demonic affliction. In his general letter to the Hebrews (the Jews scattered abroad), Paul expressed it this way.
"Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high." (Hebrews 1:3. KJV)
" But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God, From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool." (Hebrews 10:12-13, KJV)
This phrase, "sat down," is an expressive metaphor from the Hebrew meaning that He finished everything that He needed to finish and fulfill on our behalf. The expectation that His enemies would be made "His footstool" was His expectation that we would do our part, empowered by Him, to defeat those enemies. Perhaps we can get into this a bit more as this discussion proceeds.
Where I want to take today's discussion is to show you the concept -- from Jesus' perspective -- of His being made complete in us. That, my friends, is what being co-equal is all about. That is what THIS covenant was ordained for.
Take a look at something that Paul writes in his epistle to the Romans.
"For those whom He [the Father] could foresee and know [their choices and decisions] beforehand, He also did ordain and determine to become jointly formed and fashioned into the image and likeness of His Son, so that He might be first begotten son among a multitude of brothers and sisters.
“Furthermore, those whom He ordained and determined [by virtue of knowing in advance their choices and decisions] He also called, beckoning them in their inner beings; and those whom He called, He also determined and declared to be innocent [rendering judgment of them beforehand]; and those whom He determined and declared to be innocent, He made glorious [magnifying them as He magnified His Son].
“What shall we say, then, regarding these facts? If God the Father be for us, having made these determinations on our behalf, who can possibly succeed in opposing and withstanding us?" (Romans 8:29-31, my translation with amplification)
Now are you beginning to get the picture? Do you see where we stand with the Father? Do you see where we stand with Jesus Christ?
God the Father has determined to have for Himself a family. He -- in concert with Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit -- made this determination before Creation ever unfolded. If you take the concept of family, you understand that you WILL have an older brother who is the firstborn. But that older brother is going to have younger brothers and sisters; and those brothers and sisters have all the same rights of inheritance and access to the resources and assets of the family that the older brother has access to.
The older brother's position gives him some rights of determination and delegative authority on behalf of the younger family members, but positionally he is treated as co-equal with his brothers and sisters. All of the siblings have equal access to, and use of the family resources, along with the family's authority and power by virtue of their extreme wealth.
Put that in context, now, to Jesus Christ as our older brother. Consider His statement to the disciples as He prepared to leave them: "All (exousia) privilege, force, authority, power and jurisdiction is given unto me in Heaven and in earth. You go, therefore, [by virtue of your relationship to and with me] and disciple, instruct and teach all nations, tribes and ethnic groups and peoples, immersing them in the (onoma) character, the makeup, the power and authority -- the very essence -- of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe, guard and protect all that I have charged you with [in every respect, without compromise or redaction]; and take notice of the fact that (eimi) [all that] I am [have been, and ever will be -- the totality of my existence] with you, even unto the final and total completion of this age. So be it!" (Matthew 28:18-20, my translation with amplification)
Jesus, therefore, was commissioning His disciples to go forth in, with, and through ALL of the power and authority that He had -- and Brother, was that ever SOME power and authority! Look at what Mark records concerning this same event.
"[All of] you go into every area and segment of the world and proclaim, herald, declare and preach the good news [that I have given you] to every single creature. He that believes, implicitly trusts in, exercises faith, and is immersed [in the character, makeup and essence of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit]] shall be saved, healed, delivered, preserved, caused to prosper, and made completely whole; but he who disbelieves [refusing to trust in and exercise faith] shall receive sentence and judgment [according to the Law].
"And these (semeion) distinguishing signs, evidences, wonders and proofs [of my commission to you, and your relationship to and with me] shall accompany and closely follow you: In my (onoma) character, makeup, power and authority -- the very essence of who I am -- they shall cast out demons (evil spirits); they shall speak with fresh new [and previously unlearned] languages and tongues; they shall take on (serpents) artful, cunning and malicious persons whose arguments cannot and will not dissuade; should they drink or partake of any deadly, poisonous thing, it shall not hurt or injure them in any way; they shall lay hands on the sick, the infirm, those who are weak and without strength; and they shall recover, mend, and see their infirmities cease." (Mark 16:15-18, my translation with amplification)
No promise or prophecy of the Lord could better describe our co-equal status. These are the distinguishing signs and evidences that followed and accompanied Jesus. Fully one-third of all the miracles that Jesus performed as recorded in the Gospels incorporate the casting out of demons, as Jesus exercised the authority that was His to exercise.
The remaining two-thirds of His recorded miracles include the raising of the dead, healing of the sick and infirm, cleansing the lepers, commanding the weather, commanding plant-life such as trees, walking through walls, disappearing in the midst of crowds, taking on the Serpent following his 40-day fast, along with other (serpents) artful, cunning and malicious Scribes and Pharisees whose legalistic and twisted demonic arguments from Scripture could not and would not dissuade Him, and -- surprise, surprise! -- remitting the sins of people even before He had gone to the Cross.
I've always been a bit amused at folks who think that Jesus was advocating the handling of snakes. EVERYTHING He prophesied of and to "them that believe" was a demonstration of exactly what He had accomplished and fulfilled during His three-and-a-half years. Jesus never handled snakes, but He DID take on serpents -- regularly! He referred to the Scribes, Pharisees and Sadducees on more than one occasion as a "generation of vipers," meaning of course that their lives, their motivations and their speech were artfully crafted to manipulate people and lead them into further legalistic bondage, away from the relationship with God purposed from the beginning.
Everything, therefore, that Jesus promised to and prophesied of His followers was something they had a proof text for in His life and ministry.
I know that some folks have tried to become so technically picky (legalistically artful and manipulative) with the Scripture as to suggest that these "signs" and evidentiary proofs of the "Lord working with them and confirming the Word with signs following" (Mark 16:20) applied ONLY to the apostles and disappeared shortly after the turn of the century.
These same doubters and unbelievers promote the idea that apostles and prophets died out in that same time frame, and that Paul's statements in I Corinthians and Ephesians are to be ignored because the body of Christ has already "come to the unity of the faith," having been perfected at the Cross.
It really is one of the looniest doctrines I've ever heard. It defies any rationale concerning Paul's preaching on apostles and prophets roughly 30 years after Jesus ascended, and forces one to dismiss whole portions of God's Word if they are to believe such nonsense. Those who "artfully craft" and "maliciously use" God's Word so as to seduce believers and keep them from their full covenant benefits are nothing more than a modern "generation of vipers."
If we are seated with Christ in heavenly places -- as Paul writes in Ephesians 1:20-23, "Far above all principality, and power, and might and dominion, and every name (onoma) that is named, not only in this world but that which is to come: and hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the Ekklesia (not church) -- that called out and betrothed company of people by the Bridegroom -- which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all," then we most certainly ARE co-equal with Jesus Christ!
When have you ever seen a body-less head accomplish anything? When have you ever seen a headless body accomplish anything?
NOW do you understand covenant?
We've been fitted together and joined together with Jesus Christ as a living, breathing extension of Him. If you'll pardon the rather oversimplification, He is us, and we are Him. Whatever He does, He does through us. Things don't happen without our participation. Jesus Christ does not randomly, mystically, perform miracles in the earth, or work some kind of sign and wonder in the earth without the direct participation of His covenant people.
We have and live a covenant that requires our all. Jesus has made a covenant with us that requires His all -- and the last time I checked, He hadn't left anything out or stopped His covenant partners from living in, and operating in all that He is and has.
Folks, His covenant is as alive and breathing today as it was when He said, "All (exousia) privilege, force, authority, power and jurisdiction is given unto me in Heaven and in earth. You go, therefore.." .
That's OUR responsibility. Our covenant responsibility to the Lord is to do the works that He did, to preach the Word that He preached, and -- moreover -- to fulfill His prophetic Word,
"Truly, of a surety, I declare to you, He who puts their full faith and credit in me, entrusting their entire well being to me, shall not only take care of my business, performing the same acts, deeds and [miraculous] works that I do, he shall enlarge upon them, working and accomplishing greater, stronger, more powerful [and magnificent] acts and deeds because (and by reason of) I leave to join with [and be seated with] my Father.
"And whatever [deed, act or work you have seen and heard of me] you desire, call for or require in My (onoma) authority, makeup, nature or essence, that will I perform and accomplish so that the Father will be rendered and esteemed glorious, being magnified in and through the fully matured and patterned Son." (John 14:12-13, my translation and amplification)
Finally, finishing up with some Scriptures we used last week:
Ephesians 1:18-23 (NASB): "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all."
Ephesians 2:4-7 (NASB): "But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus."
Do you see where this leads?
We've been seated IN CHRIST and with Him in the Heavenlies. That's our legal position! Jesus paid the necessary -- COVENANT -- price so that we would once again have access to the Throne with all the authority and power necessary to make Jesus' enemies His footstool.
Again, if you are in need of healing -- especially if you have some terminal disease or prognosis of a very short time to live from the doctors -- please join our prayer conference calls on either Monday or Wednesday of each week at 7:00 PM Eastern. Once again, the number to call is (805) 399-1000. Then enter the access code: 124763#. Let us minister to your need for healing!
Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Email Contact: Admin@RiverWorshipCenter.org
Our book, A Tale of Two Brides, published by Destiny Image, is now available on Amazon.com as an E-book: http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Two-Brides-Relationship-ebook/dp/B00BSV6HZC/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1363139096&sr=8-8&keywords=A+Tale+of+Two+Brides#_
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