RTTBROS

Gene Kissinger
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We need to redeem the time as the passage in Ephesians 5 states BECAUSE the days are evil. It is vital as believers that we learn to discern. We need to acquire wisdom so we can walk in truth. Wisdom is word based and God given. We learn it from the word of God and ultimately from the God who gave us the Word. My brother Norman and I are going to be setting up a ministry and under this ministry umbrella we will establish a YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGuqrDZ3ku7C78qrb4eOyQ Tik-Tok short form video here tiktok.com/@genekissinger_rttbros https://linktr.ee/rttbros

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    The Art of Letting Go #RTTBROS #nightlight #Contentment #Circumstances #Problems

    The Art of Letting Go #RTTBROS #Nightlight "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." — Philippians 4:11 You know, there was a man born into slavery around 50 AD, a man who had every reason in the world to be bitter and broken. His name was Epictetus, and his owner once twisted his leg to the point of breaking it, just to demonstrate his power over him. Epictetus simply looked up and said calmly, "You are going to break it." And when it snapped, he said, "Did I not tell you?" Now here's what's remarkable about that story. Out of that broken, enslaved life came one of the most powerful ideas in all of human philosophy: some things are up to us, and some things are not. And wisdom, he said, is knowing the difference. That is a profound truth. But here's what I find fascinating. About a generation before Epictetus ever said that, the Apostle Paul was writing something even deeper from his own prison cell. He said, "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." Did you catch that word? Learned. Paul didn't say this came naturally. He didn't say God zapped him with a contentment ray. He said he learned it, the same way you learn anything, through practice, through failure, through getting back up and trying again. Here's the difference between Paul and the Stoics, and it matters. Epictetus said, focus only on what you can control, your thoughts, your responses, your choices, and let everything else go. Good advice, as far as it goes. But Paul goes further. Paul says, I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me (Philippians 4:13). He's not just gritting his teeth and white-knuckling his way through hard circumstances. He's drawing on a strength that isn't his own. So what are you gripping so tightly today that it's draining the life right out of you? The job situation you can't fix, the relationship you can't control, the diagnosis that blindsided you? You and I can't change most of what worries us. But we can, like Paul, practice surrendering it to the One who holds all things in His hands. That's not weakness. That's the deepest kind of wisdom there is. Let's pray: Lord, teach us what Paul learned, that real peace doesn't come from controlling our circumstances, but from trusting You in the middle of them. Help us release what we were never meant to carry. In Jesus' name, Amen. #Faith #Contentment #ChristianLiving #DailyDevotion #TrustGod #BiblicalWisdom #SpiritualGrowth #RTTBROS #Nightlight Be sure to Like, Share, Follow and subscribe, it helps get the word out. https://linktr.ee/rttbros

    3 min

  2. 2 DAYS AGO

    Water From the Rock #RTTBROS #Nightlight

    Water From the Rock #RTTBROS #Nightlight "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." — Proverbs 3:5-6 I want to tell you about a man who dug a well on a tropical island while his neighbors thought he had lost his mind. And when the water came up, they concluded he must be a god. His name was John G. Paton, and when he arrived on the island of Aniwa in the South Pacific in the 1860s, the people there were cannibals. Literally. And everybody back home in Scotland knew it. When Paton announced he was going as a missionary to the New Hebrides islands, a well-meaning church elder grabbed him by the arm and said, "The cannibals! You will be eaten by cannibals!" Paton looked at the man calmly and replied that his body would be eaten by worms in the grave soon enough anyway, and it made little difference whether it was worms or cannibals, as long as he was found faithful to Christ. That is a man who had settled something on the inside. Now, Aniwa had no fresh water. The islanders depended entirely on rain, and they were skeptical that anything useful could possibly come from the ground beneath their feet. Paton told them he was going to dig a well and find fresh water. They thought he was either deluded or dangerous. He dug down, and down, and down in the tropical heat, day after day. And then one morning, fresh water bubbled up from the coral ground of that island, something that had never happened in living memory. The people of Aniwa stood there with their mouths open. They called it a miracle. And through that well, a door swung open for the gospel that changed the entire island. Within fifteen years, the whole of Aniwa had come to faith in Jesus Christ. Paton later wrote, with tears, that he had claimed Aniwa for Jesus, and that Aniwa now worshipped at the Savior's feet. History is just HIS story. Here is what I have had to learn over these many years. God will sometimes ask you to dig where nobody thinks there is any water. To trust Him in a direction that looks foolish to everyone watching. That is not the absence of wisdom. That is Proverbs 3:5 with a shovel in its hands, "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." What is God asking you to dig into today, that looks impossible to everyone around you? Maybe it is time to pick up your shovel. Let's pray: Father, give us the courage of men and women like John Paton, who trusted You past the point where their own understanding ran out. When You call us to dig, help us dig. In Jesus' name, Amen. #Faith #Missions #TrustGod #ChristianLiving #DailyDevotion #Perseverance #BiblicalWisdom #RTTBROS #Nightlight Be sure to Like, Share, Follow and subscribe, it helps get the word out. https://linktr.ee/rttbros

    3 min

  3. 3 DAYS AGO

    God Allows #RTTBROS #RTTBROS #Legacy #Problems #Hurt

    God Allows #RTTBROS #RTTBROS #Legacy #Problems #Hurt

    1 min

  4. 4 DAYS AGO

    Covered in Prayer #RTTBROS #Nightlight #parenting #Legacy #blessing

    Covered in Prayer #RTTBROS #Nightlight #parenting #Legacy #blessing

    3 min

  5. 5 DAYS AGO

    Prison To Pulpit #RTTBROS #Nightlight #prayer #Problems #Hurt

    Prison To Pulpit #RTTBROS #Nightlight #prayer #Problems #Hurt

    27 min

  6. 5 MAR

    Words That Outlast #RTTBROS#Heart #Nightlight #blessing #parenting

    Words That Outlasted Empires #RTTBROS #Nightlight "The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace."— Numbers 6:24-26 You know, sometimes God does something so remarkable that it just stops you in your tracks and makes you shake your head in wonder. Back in 1979, an archaeologist named Gabriel Barkay was excavating a series of ancient burial caves just southwest of Jerusalem. His team figured the tombs had been picked clean by looters centuries before, and honestly, they weren't expecting much. But then a thirteen-year-old volunteer started poking around the floor of one of those caves with a stick, and that stick found a crack, and that crack led to a hidden chamber that every looter for a thousand years had walked right past without knowing it was there. Inside that little hidden room, tucked away like a secret God had been keeping, were two tiny silver scrolls, rolled up so small they looked like cigarette butts. They were so fragile it took the Israel Museum three full years just to figure out how to unroll them without turning them to dust. And when they finally opened those scrolls, they found words. Words scratched into ancient silver in a script 2,600 years old. Words from the time of the prophet Jeremiah and the First Temple. The oldest known portion of the Bible ever discovered. And do you know what those words were? The Priestly Blessing from Numbers chapter six: "The LORD bless thee, and keep thee." Friend, that blessing was being spoken over God's people before the Babylonians came. Before Rome rose and fell. Before the Middle Ages, before the Reformation, before two World Wars. And it is still true this very moment. Here's what hit me about this. Those scrolls were worn as amulets, meant to carry the blessing of God with them wherever they went, even into death. And isn't that exactly what God's Word does? It goes with us into every dark place, every uncertain cave, every moment when the world feels like it has been picked clean and there's nothing left. History is just HIS story, and He has been speaking this blessing over His children for a very long time. "The LORD bless thee, and keep thee." He hasn't stopped saying it. He's saying it over you today. Let's pray: Father, thank You that Your Word has outlasted every empire and every enemy. Thank You that the same blessing You spoke over Your people 2,600 years ago still covers us today. Help us to rest in the fact that You are keeping us, right now, today. In Jesus' name, Amen. #Faith #BibleHistory #GodsWord #Archaeology #DailyDevotion #ChristianLiving #RTTBROS #Nightlight Be sure to Like, Share, Follow and subscribe, it helps get the word out. https://linktr.ee/rttbros

    3 min

  7. 5 MAR

    Problem Of Calluses #Nightlight #RTTBROS #Heart #Hurt #Problems

    Problem Of Calluses #Nightlight #RTTBROS #Heart #Hurt #Problems

    1 min

  8. 4 MAR

    When God Answers #RTTBROS #Nightlight

    When God Answers #RTTBROS #Nightlight "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." — John 15:7 You know, I think one of the most honest struggles in the Christian life is prayer that feels like it's just bouncing off the ceiling. We pray, and then we wait, and then we wonder. Did anybody hear that? Is anybody home? I ran across something from the life of a man named Dr. Burns Thomson, a Scottish physician and missionary who lived in the 1800s. When he was a young student, he and a close friend made an agreement to pray together for specific things, very specific things. And here's what his friend wrote about it later: the answers came so quickly and so clearly that there was simply no room left to doubt that God had heard them. Once the answer came the same day. Another time, the answer came while they were still praying. Now I don't know about you, but that kind of prayer life sounds like something from another world. Most of us would settle for an answer sometime this decade. So what was their secret? F.B. Meyer, that wonderful old devotional writer, put his finger on it. He said prevailing prayer, the kind that actually moves things, has some marks on it worth paying attention to. First, it has to be aimed at God's glory, not just our comfort. We have to ask honestly, "Would this bring honor to God, or am I just trying to get out of a tight spot?" That's a question that'll clean up your prayer list in a hurry. Second, it has to be prayed in Christ's name, and Meyer makes the point that this isn't just a phrase you tack on at the end like a period. Praying in Jesus' name means praying the way Jesus would pray, with His heart, His priorities, His spirit running through every word. And third, here's the one that really gets me, we have to be abiding. Jesus said it right there in John 15:7. "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you." The answered prayer flows out of the abiding relationship. You can't separate the two. A branch that's connected to the vine doesn't have to beg for sap, it just comes. When we stay close to Jesus, when His Word is actually living in us and not just sitting on the shelf, our desires start lining up with His desires, and suddenly we're asking for things He already wants to give. I'm too soon old and too late smart on this one, but I've lived long enough to know the difference between praying from a distance and praying from a place of closeness with God. The prayers that get answered are almost always the ones that come out of that abiding place. So maybe the question today isn't "why isn't God answering my prayers?" Maybe the better question is, "How's my abiding?" Let's pray: Father, draw us close. Let Your words live in us, not just sit near us. We want the kind of prayer life where heaven moves and answers come. We seek Your face, show us Your glory. In Jesus' name, Amen. #Prayer #Faith #ChristianLiving #DailyDevotion #TrustGod #BiblicalWisdom #RTTBROS #Nightlight Be sure to Like, Share, Follow and subscribe, it helps get the word out. https://linktr.ee/rttbros

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We need to redeem the time as the passage in Ephesians 5 states BECAUSE the days are evil. It is vital as believers that we learn to discern. We need to acquire wisdom so we can walk in truth. Wisdom is word based and God given. We learn it from the word of God and ultimately from the God who gave us the Word. My brother Norman and I are going to be setting up a ministry and under this ministry umbrella we will establish a YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGuqrDZ3ku7C78qrb4eOyQ Tik-Tok short form video here tiktok.com/@genekissinger_rttbros https://linktr.ee/rttbros

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  • Creator
    Gene Kissinger
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    1.9K
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Gene Kissinger
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