James and Betty Robison: God’s Word in Our Hearts

Life Today hosts James and Betty Robison urge Christians to proclaim the good news of God’s authority on Earth through our words and actions. They proclaim the timeless truth of God’s Word as the only principles that stand firm in this world.

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The following program is sponsored by Friends of Life Outreach International. Coming up on Life Today, James and Betty challenge you to share God’s unconditional love with people everywhere.

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He’s building up his family, his army, people that are ready to fight for God’s truth in love and to show people what real love of Jesus Christ is. People are hungry for they’ve tried everything else. James. Nothing’s worked except God’s love. It works.

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Betty. Now welcome you to life today. It’s been a joy to be sharing with you. I want you to know that we are asking you to help us feed 350,000 starving children and their families. Most of these are in Africa, and some of them with other third world countries close to the continent of Africa. And we have literally saved millions of people’s lives.

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You’ve helped us do that. And, just remind you 30, 50, 100 page three, 5 or 10 children the next month. We really need your help. Okay, Betty, it’s been a joy to butt in ministry because I started a couple of years before we married. We’ve been 64 years in marriage. Have you enjoyed.

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It? It’s been quite the journey. So many. Yes. Everybody has their challenges on their journey, you know, but the blessing. So outnumber the challenges. It’s been a journey that I never would have picked for myself. You know, I’m. I’m the quiet little girl that just wanted to sit in the corner and not be noticed. Just just do just live, you know, and want to please God.

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But at the same time, I was a little fretting that if I did the wrong thing, then he might get me. But I learned about it through your love and through your testimony that he was to be my friend. And he is my friend. He’s my father.

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You know, I got a scripture sent to me. That, let’s just listen to it. Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This letter is written out with pen and ink, but with the spirit of the living God. It’s carved not only in tables of stone, but on human hearts.

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And second Corinthians three three, where we are literally writing a message in the hearts of people. That’s what we do. Many, many people will not read the Bible, but they will read the pages of our lives. So let’s let the spirit of the living God write the message of Christ in our attitudes and our actions. Just as the spirit of the living God puts influence in the Bible so he can put his influence in and on us.

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You may be the only Bible they ever read. In time, you will be given the opportunity to share your life story with others. The Holy Spirit wants you to be an open letter that tells of Jesus. We all want unbelievers to see Jesus in our lives. I pray that for you. Paul went on to say in the word, we can write a letter in the fleshly tables of people’s hearts.

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That is literally what we’re doing. What we hear in the news every day is disheartening. It’s troubling, to say the least. In the 80 years I’ve been on this earth. I’ve never seen the situation. I’m talking about what’s been shared by me. Encouraged by so much in the media, is disturbing and distressful. Beyond words. We are literally sitting on a powder keg.

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And sadly, many national leaders have invited the enemies from all over the world to come into our nation. Sadly, often with national support and even transportation, we’ve seen it. We’ve watched it for years. Now there’s a resistance rising up against it that is answered prayer. Yes. When we allow the boundaries and the borders and the walls to be torn down, we’re literally inviting the gates of hell to come in.

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Certainly we understand death and destruction from show to show. This breaks my heart. But I would like for us to hear is the truth that transforms many. Do you get disheartened and discouraged by what you hear in the national news media?

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It is. It’s heartbreaking, you know, because you can hear and see the lies that are coming forth. But at the same time, I feel like God is working, so to speak, behind the scenes. James. He’s building up his family, his army, those that he has nurtured and he has matured in him and people that are ready to fight for God’s truth in love and to show people what real love of Jesus Christ is.

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People are hungry for it. They’ve tried everything else. James. Nothing’s worked except God’s love. It works.

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And only the church can demonstrate that love. I mean, we have to show people what the love of God looks like. We let him reveal, be revealed, innocent through us, and that he is in us. But too often, we quench the spirit, so to speak. You don’t have to quote a Bible verse to confirm the truth of God’s Word.

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You know, the rich farmer Jesus called us to prove the effectiveness of proper farming principles. He knew what they were. He obviously understood something about proper construction because he had great farm, right? Barns. He was capable of building even more. He was ready to build more. He didn’t use lousy principles, or he wouldn’t have grown great crops. But he had big ball.

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At the same time, he was presenting people with a lot of work opportunity and a lot of labor, a lot of benefit. And somehow, while he was what he was going was the benefit of people because somebody ate some of what he stored, others, it needed to be there for the people when they needed it. The guy used the good principles in his life, but his life was a wreck.

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The great blessings that have come to us too often throughout history, just like with him, have in many ways even the supernatural applied wisdom of God which people boldly stood up for boldly gave their life for, and everybody benefited from it. But many people are being blessed by it, and they don’t even recognize what those principles are doing.

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Who gave them the principles and who are able to be blessed like they are? Help us open our eyes. But you see, the enemy is feeding deception nonstop. He’s making, believing, deception and doing those things that are totally destructive and disregarding God’s Word and His principles. They are promoting those until they’re taking people over and leading to more destruction.

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And you can’t have anything effective if you don’t have those unshakable principles in place. Please God, speaking to us, cover to cover in the Bible and he confirms truth throughout all history. The leader applies proper, meaningful, effective, proven not to fail principles and those principles, when not applied, the consequences are also irrefutable. He won every one about the beasts of the field and the birds of the air.

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That’s why he warned about the pestilence, about the tares, the weeds and all that would attack the crops. You can see that we’re we’re the ones bringing forth the healthy crops in our lives, the healthy fruit. And the enemy is attacking us every way he can, especially through the media, especially through what’s taught and what is proclaimed and what comes out in too much of the modern media.

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That’s not predator control or pest control. That is not what it is. It’s talking about the spiritual realm. When God’s talking about the beasts of the field and the birds of the air, he’s talking about the invisible spiritual realm of the enemy. The Bible is a spiritual book that’s still 100% correct physically, historically. Any way you want to look at it, it’s 100% right.

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The purpose for the Bible is that everything that happen is an example for all of us. It shows us what we should do and what we should not do. And if you have idol in First Corinthians, it says, if I think about this, you have idols, you’re fellowshipping with demons. Once you have an idol. You begin to hear demonic voices.

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You begin to hear demonic suggestions, demonic invitations. Do not put anything in your life before God. You will fellowship traffic with demonic deception, pounding your mind continually, if not the majority of your thought processes and practice and habits will be influenced. As I share with demons, that’s if you’re not following God. If you have an idol, in other words, you’re going to be in fellowship with the realm of the spirit.

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This is not the father’s voice, not the father’s mouth, but the enemy’s lies, deception, division, and ultimately destruction. We have those who people and we can do this. That is very simple. We don’t have to talk about difficult times. We don’t have to be caught in the Bible all the time. If a word is written in us and we are carrying it in our lives, and it is written in our hearts.

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And hidden in our minds, our whole conversation is reflecting that truth and will be refreshing. If I say a truth to you tonight, if you do a quick study, you’re going to find many verses confronting the truth the same way Jesus shared truth in the parables, the stories, and even illustrations of current events happening. He made an application of it.

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He explained spiritually what’s going on, but he didn’t always do it in verses. He might quote of ours and say, now this is happening, and then explain what’s happening in ways that you might not have understood. They never understood the kingdom of God. People today don’t understand the kingdom of God is in us, and that kingdom being manifest through us is the will of God being done on earth.

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Now, is God’s will not spending all of our time trying to get out of here? We’re not trying to get out of here. We’re trying to get him in here in and through our lives and in and through the truth that transforms. That’s what we’ve been left to do. The Lord told him before he ascended. Stop arguing about if this is the time we’re going to do certain things that only God knows about.

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I’m not leaving you here to discuss getting out of here. I mean, listen, it’s settled. You do what I’m leaving you here to do. That’s what you have to do on this earth. Where his will is done on earth is determined by whether or not we’re going to proclaim his truth and share his truth and live his truth and demonstrate it.

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That’s what God wants to do. It’s what he did with those disciples when they came out of that upper room. Maybe they were changed people. Simon Peter was a different person. Nobody could even believe he was still with him, with all the favors he made. I don’t see any place where he said, I repent for the mess I made.

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He just said, you know what I am. He didn’t try to boast anymore with all the nonsense, but when he came out of that upper room, he left the others. The other 120 were transformed. The way God wants to transform us. We need to show people every time God’s will is kept and put in practice. We and others are blessed.

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What we’ve got to do is acknowledge it where it came from. Look at all the good things that were happening. Why were those good things happening? Why did things get better for people? Because they applied the proper principles. They did that throughout the New Testament. And Paul was still teaching the gospel of the kingdom to the very end of his life.

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Many I’m going to be preaching and by the grace of God, living the gospel of the kingdom until he comes, and he’s going to come when the father’s will is being done on his earth in this kingdom. Because those same challenges are not in the next kingdom. There’s no enemy there. We are going to have to do it now.

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Absolutely, James. And as I was listening, you shared about we can’t always have to be quoting scripture. God gifted you in that area so much to be able to. We used to memorize scriptures on our days. You were so full of what God wanted you to share and to preach. And so I was always amazed at how you used to do that and memorize all those scriptures.

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And he’s like, oh, I wish I knew God like that. I wish I had that zeal in my heart to do that. Yes, I have memorized some scriptures growing up going through life. But you know what? The biggest thing to me is through reading God’s Word and absorbing it, letting him teach me through His Word. I may not be able to quote it to you, but it’s in my heart and it comes out.

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Would you say, James?

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Oh, absolutely.

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Thrilled me with his truth in my heart. And that’s what James is talking about. It’s just not words you may speak. It’s the heart of God that he shows through you as you relate to others and do life.

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Well, I’ll tell you, and everybody watching knows it. God’s truth flows is purely and is beautifully through use anybody they’ve ever heard and there’s nobody you let us know is that you’d just like to hear talk. No. When she’s not going to roll out. But you love to hear her heart because it’s his heart. My love you, honey.

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Thank you personally. Standing on my side. But taking the gospel of the kingdom in person all over the world. Thank you so much. Thank you for helping us do what God put in our heart. Thank you for helping us feed the starving right now. Right now we’re in our feeding program, and we’ve got 350,000 children and families located there starting.

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Would you help us right now? Yes, sir. Could you make a large gift? I tell you what, it is actually happening. It’s $30, $50, $100 for three, 5 or 10 children. About $1,000 100 kids become the miracle answer to their mother’s prayer. Because somebody gave them food because of God’s love. Would you do it? Would you go get your bank card?

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Use it like a check? Nine. I’ll call that number. Please make the biggest gift you can change. Somebody’s life saved my life. And I know if you’ll just watch Isaac Pretorius and his daughter. You’re going to be greatly moved.

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And I have just been talking to this mother. And I say to you. And she’s been explaining to us the trauma that is her life.

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But I didn’t.

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Come for the children have died. She said the three year old died in the last year. She said starve to death because they just isn’t any food. She goes into the bush and she can let work. Wild fruit she can find. And she brings that home to children. But she said even now she struggles to even find that.

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She said, I fear that my other children are going to die. She expressed that because there’s no food. Oh, she said, I’m. I’m hopeless. I have no hope.

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At that moment I looked into her eyes and I. I realized that I was looking at a mother who has done absolutely everything to save her children, that she can’t. And that is why she’s hopeless. But then she said, now that you have seen, now that you know my story, my hope is there to help. And that’s our hope today.

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Donate her story. Be wasted. Donate it. Become common. Let her story touch your hearts and give so that she may be one of the last ones who loses her children from malnutrition.

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Powerful words shared with you from.

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A young lady who is not yet a mother, and yet has heard too many stories of her. Who? Life of mothers just like this. Please make her one of the lost that has to lose a child just because there isn’t enough food.

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Wow.

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You know, James, I heard them say that. And I told her that her children would probably lose their lives. Can you imagine? I hear nothing like that. Your children are going to lose their life because they don’t have enough food. That’s just unspeakable. It doesn’t make sense to us. We have food on our tables every day. This mother is crying out to be able to watch her children grow up, to be able to feed them anytime they’re hungry.

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Please help us help these mothers that are crying out for help with their children. They have no one else to turn to. You be the one they turn to.

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Please or would you please them? If you had to give up a meal or two to give some meal? Then you’re not trying to be as good of givers as it’s possible to be. And we give to every program and outreach of life. From the moment we found the starving and the thirsty, we just started giving faithfully, regularly.

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God did seem like he said, I will bless you when you do my will in my kingdom. My purpose is fulfilled through your life. I’m going to fulfill your dreams. I tell you one thing. I’m going to do better for the rest of my life. I’m going to lose my life to see the father’s dream fulfilled. And that’s where the gospel of the kingdom will be preached and demonstrated in every nation.

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And the gospel of the kingdom is what you’re seeing those missionaries visits and what you’re seeing. The people who watch life and support those missionaries do. That’s the gospel of the Kingdom. That is the kingdom impact of God on this planet in this time, in this kingdom, because the next kingdom, there’s nothing to conquer. Nothing to overcome. The enemy is gone where you belong.

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But we can overcoming now. And I’m asking you, please, please help me make the greatest gift you possibly can. If there’s any way you can give $1,000, you can feed 100 kids for the next month. $30 will feed three. And if you feed five and a hundred of them, can you do that? What better place to put $100?

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Would you do it now? Go get your bank card, go online or call that number. Get your check. Make it. The life would call us and tell us you’re making it. We need to know. We’ve got 350,000 children and the missionaries working with them. When you hear the food on the way, you’ve provided it. Would you do that, please?

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And be praying for us and praying for the stream to become that river of life, taking God’s transforming truth to every nation on earth. The gospel of the Kingdom. Would you help? Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. We have some gifts for you. You simply ask. But thank you for giving life. Thank you so much.

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Transform the lives of thousands and your own family. Do it today. As we’ve traveled around these communities here in southern Angola, family of to family have told us how they’re experiencing the worst drought they’ve ever seen. Statistically, it’s the worst drought in over 40 years. Families tell us of how their crops have failed. Of how they are running out of food.

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And you can literally see when you look at these crops, you can see why these crops have failed this. There’s no life, and yet there’s no way that these crops can produce any food. The soil is literally just dry. No life in it at all. Failed crops mean failed lives. And as there’s no life left in this soil, if we’re not able to respond here soon, this drought will not just steal the life from the soil, but the life in the communities.

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There’s nothing to sustain these families. And this, we’re able to help them. That’s the reality in these parts of southern Africa right now. We cannot bring an end to this crisis. We cannot save the lives we need to save without you. We need you to open your hearts today, please. And to say yes, to respond yes. I will provide the resources needed.

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I will make it possible for you to express God’s heart and to extend his hands by extending food to these families, food to the mothers and the children here in Angola to save those precious little children’s lives. So please, I’m asking you to dial the number on your screen or to get online and to give the very best gift that you can give today.

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To give the gift of life by giving the gift of food.

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You. You thank. Our viewers are going to help save the swelling.

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In my heart that will.

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Thank you so much. I wish I could give you a hug. I would somehow when you touch people because God has left you here to do that. Put his arms around. I feel like God gives us a. He loves to hold us. He loves to lift us up. When we lift him up, he says he’ll exalt us for a wonderful father.

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Oh, oh. And they.

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