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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. 11 hr ago

    The Preacher Who Emptied Franklin's Pockets #America250 #Nation250 #Nightlight #RTTBROS

    The Preacher Who Emptied Franklin's Pockets #America250 #Nation250 #Nightlight #RTTBROS “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?"” — Romans 10:14 THE STORY Benjamin Franklin did not believe everything George Whitefield preached. He said so himself. But he admired the man enormously, and the story of their friendship is one of the most charming and revealing in all of American history. Franklin, the great skeptic, became one of Whitefield's closest friends, his American publisher, and on at least one memorable occasion, an unwilling donor. Franklin attended one of Whitefield's outdoor meetings in Philadelphia with his pockets full of money and a firm resolution not to give any of it. As Whitefield preached, Franklin felt his resolve weaken. By the time Whitefield finished, Franklin had emptied every coin in his pocket, gold included, into the offering basket. He recorded this story himself, without embarrassment, in his autobiography. He did not claim to have been converted. But he admitted freely that something happened in those crowds that he could not explain by natural means. THE REFLECTION What do we do with Benjamin Franklin? He is perhaps the most theologically complex of the Founders, not a Christian in the evangelical sense, and honest enough not to pretend otherwise. And yet here he stands, publishing Whitefield's sermons and admitting the power of the gospel he had not fully received. Perhaps the lesson is this: the gospel is powerful enough to move even those who resist it. Franklin could not explain what happened in those meetings. He could not reduce it to reason or science. And to his credit, he did not try. Whitefield preached until the day he died, quite literally. He delivered his last sermon standing on a barrel in a field in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and was dead of an asthma attack the next morning. He emptied himself completely for the gospel. Even Franklin wept at the news. The Great Awakening reached people Franklin's philosophy never could. It bypassed the mind and went straight to the conscience. That is always how genuine revival works, not by argument alone, but by the Spirit of God bearing witness to something deeper than intellect. THE PATRIOT’S PRAYER Lord, we thank You for preachers who gave everything, men who wore out their voices and their bodies in Your service, who believed the gospel was worth any sacrifice. Raise up such men and women in our day. Do in us what Franklin could not explain. Empty our pockets and our pride and our resistance to Your Spirit. We do not want to leave a single meeting unchanged when You have been at work. In Jesus' name, Amen. PRAY IT FORWARD: Is there an area of your life you have decided in advance not to give to God? Bring it to Him honestly today and ask Him to do what Franklin's philosophy could not.

    3 min

  2. 1 day ago

    The Awakening Before the Revolution #RTTBROS #America250 #Nation250 #America #NIGHTLIGHT

    The Awakening Before the Revolution #RTTBROS #America250 #Nation250 #America #NIGHTLIGHT “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh.” — Acts 2:17 THE STORY Before there was a revolution, there was a revival. Between 1730 and 1745, a wave of spiritual awakening swept through the American colonies with a force that no one had anticipated and no human organization had arranged. Historians call it the Great Awakening. Those who lived through it simply called it the work of God. Jonathan Edwards watched it begin in his own congregation in 1734. Without any special promotion or effort, people began to be gripped by an awareness of their sin and their need for Christ. Edwards reported that the town seemed to be full of the presence of God. Hard men were brought to their knees. Families were reconciled. The taverns grew quiet while the meetinghouses overflowed. Then George Whitefield arrived from England, and the fire spread to every colony. He preached in fields and town squares to crowds that sometimes numbered thirty thousand. In a nation of three million people, it is estimated that eighty percent heard Whitefield preach in person at least once. The colonies had never had anything in common before. The Great Awakening gave them a shared experience, and a shared God. THE REFLECTION John Adams said later that the Revolution was complete in the minds and hearts of the people before a single shot was fired. He was right, but he was describing something that had a spiritual root. The Great Awakening did something no political movement could have done: it gave thirteen fractious, independent colonies a common identity. They were not merely British subjects with grievances. They were a people who had encountered God together. And a people who have knelt before the same Lord have something worth standing up for together. This is why the separation of revival and reformation is always a mistake. When God moves in human hearts, human society eventually changes. The Great Awakening did not just save souls. It prepared the ground for a nation. We have been praying for revival in America for a generation. Perhaps we should remember that the last time God sent one, it changed the world. Let us not be so heavenly minded that we miss what He intends to do with an awakened people on this earth.

    3 min

  3. 2 days ago

    The Praying Governor #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #AMERICA250 #NATION250

    The Praying Governor #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #AMERICA250 #NATION250 "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep." — Psalm 107:23-24 THE STORY William Bradford kept a journal for thirty years. He began it in the bitter winter of 1620 and wrote through the decades of struggle, loss, harvest, and hope that followed. Of Plymouth Plantation is not a political record. It is a testimony. Bradford wrote as a man who was absolutely certain that God was present in every moment, the devastating ones as much as the triumphant ones, and he wanted the generations that followed to know it. He recorded the deaths with grief, but never with despair. He recorded the harvests with gratitude, never with pride. When the colony struggled, he pointed to their failures of faith. When they flourished, he pointed to the mercy of God. There was no separation in Bradford's mind between the sacred and the secular, the spiritual and the political. All of it belonged to God. In one of the journal's most striking passages, Bradford described the first sight of Cape Cod, a wild, howling shore with winter coming, and asked what had sustained them. His answer was simple: the Spirit of God and His grace. He governed Plymouth Colony for thirty years. He never stopped praying. He never stopped pointing to God. THE REFLECTION There is a kind of leadership the world rarely produces anymore, the kind that refuses to take credit for what only God could have done. Bradford was not a perfect man, and Plymouth was not a perfect colony. There were conflicts, failures, and compromises. But Bradford never stopped asking the foundational question: What is God doing here, and how do we align ourselves with it? That question kept him humble when things went well and kept him hopeful when things went badly. We need governors like that. We need leaders like that. But more than that, we need people like that. Leaders lead what they themselves are. A nation of people who refuse to acknowledge God will eventually produce leaders who do the same. Bradford's journal ends in mid-sentence. He simply ran out of time to finish it. But the story he was telling has never really stopped. God is still working in this nation. The question is whether we are still watching for it, still praying, still recording His mercies, still pointing our children to the hand that has held us all along. Pick up the pen, friend. Your journal matters too. THE PATRIOT’S PRAYER Father, we thank You for the faithful ones who recorded Your mercies so we would not forget. You are the same God who preserved a handful of shivering souls on a cold New England shore, and You are the God who preserves us today. Grant us eyes to see Your hand in our own days, in the hard winters as much as the good harvests. Make us a people who point our children to You, not to our own strength. In Jesus' name, Amen. PRAY IT FORWARD: Consider starting a simple record, even just a few lines a week, of where you have seen God's hand in your own life. The generation behind you will need that testimony.

    3 min

  4. 2 days ago

    Before They Left the Ship #RTTBROS #Nightlight #America250 #Nation250

    Before They Left the Ship #RTTBROS #Nightlight "O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." — Psalm 107:1 THE STORY November 11, 1620. The Mayflower sat anchored in the cold waters off Cape Cod, and nothing was going according to plan. The Pilgrims had intended to settle in Virginia, under the jurisdiction of an existing charter. But storms and navigational error had brought them far north of their destination, into territory where no legal framework existed to govern them. Some among the passengers, the strangers as the Pilgrims called those who were not part of their congregation, began to talk openly about going their own way once they landed. No charter, no authority. Every man for himself. What happened next was extraordinary. Before a single person stepped off that ship, the Pilgrim leaders gathered the company together and produced a document. It was brief, barely two hundred words, but it changed everything. They covenanted together in the name of God to form a civil body politic for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith. They would act as one people under one God. Forty-one men signed it. They called it the Mayflower Compact. And then, only then, they went ashore. THE REFLECTION Before the houses. Before the harvest. Before the hardship they could not yet imagine, the covenant came first. Half of them would be dead before spring. The winter of 1620 to 1621 was catastrophic. They buried their dead in unmarked graves so the watching natives would not know how few of them remained. And yet the survivors planted, prayed, and pressed on. William Bradford, their governor, wrote that God had preserved them beyond all human probability. There is a reason the Mayflower Compact is considered the seedbed of American self-government, and it is not just political philosophy. It is theological conviction made practical. These people believed that human beings, left to themselves, tend toward chaos. Order comes from above. Authority derives from God. Community requires covenant. We forget this at our peril. In our age of radical individualism, the Pilgrims stand as a quiet rebuke. They understood that freedom is not the absence of accountability. It is the fruit of it. They covenanted before they landed because they knew what they were capable of without God, and they wanted no part of it. THE PATRIOT’S PRAYER Father, we thank You for men and women who covenanted with You before comfort ever came. You are a covenant-keeping God, and You have been faithful to this nation far beyond anything we have deserved. Forgive us where we have broken faith, with You, with one another, and with the inheritance left to us. Restore in us a covenant heart, and may we never mistake freedom for independence from You. Through Christ our Redeemer, Amen. PRAY IT FORWARD: Reflect today on the covenants in your own life, with God, with family, with your community, and ask Him to show you where faithfulness is needed most.

    3 min

  5. 5 days ago

    He Is Still The Same #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT

    He Is Still The Same #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT

    19 min

  6. 6 days ago

    The Fire in the Pulpits #Nightlight #RTTBROS #america250 #nation250 #America

    #Nightlight #RTTBROS The Fire in the Pulpits "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." — Proverbs 14:34 (KJV) Back in the 1830s, a sharp French philosopher named Alexis de Tocqueville made the long voyage across the Atlantic to figure out what made this young American experiment tick. He was genuinely curious, not cynical, and he looked everywhere you'd expect a philosopher to look. He examined the harbors, the rivers, the rich farmland stretching to the horizon, and that remarkable Constitution. None of it fully answered his question. Then he walked into the churches. He wrote what he found, and his words still stop me cold: "I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there... in her fertile fields and boundless forests, and it was not there... in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great." Friend, history is just HIS story, and that observation from an outside observer says something we desperately need to hear today. Now here's where I have to be careful, because I've made this mistake myself more times than I care to admit. A pulpit aflame with righteousness is not the same thing as a pulpit that beats people over the head with their failures. I spent some of my early ministry years thinking my job was to make people feel the full weight of their sin and then stand back and watch them straighten up. Too soon old and too late smart on that one. The truth is, we're called to speak the truth in love, as Paul puts it in Ephesians 4:15. Not truth without love, which becomes a hammer. And not love without truth, which becomes mush. When we're talking to a friend caught in something that's destroying them, the goal isn't to look down from some pedestal. It's to get level with them, eye to eye, one beggar showing another beggar where to find bread. That's the fire Tocqueville saw. Not rage. Not condemnation. Righteousness that loved people enough to tell them the truth. Lord, relight that fire in us today. Not just in pulpits, but in living rooms and workplaces and coffee shops, wherever Your people open their mouths. Give us the courage to speak truth and the grace to speak it with love. In Jesus' name, Amen. #Faith #Revival #ChristianLiving #RTTBROS #Nightlight #BiblicalWisdom #DailyDevotion #PracticalBiblicalWisdom Be sure to like, share, follow, and subscribe. It helps get the word out. https://linktr.ee/rttbros

    3 min

  7. 6 days ago

    Give 'Em Watts! #RTTBROS #Nightlight

    Give 'Em Watts! #RTTBROS #Nightlight "The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him." — Psalm 28:7 It was June of 1780, and the situation on the ground at the Battle of Springfield, New Jersey, was getting desperate. British forces were pressing hard, American soldiers were outnumbered, and they were running critically short on wadding, the paper soldiers packed down the barrel to seat the powder and the ball. Without it, their muskets were useless. The line was about to break. That's when Reverend James Caldwell did something nobody expected. He was a Presbyterian minister, one of the fiery preachers the British called the Black Robe Regiment, men they feared almost as much as any general. Caldwell ran into the nearest church, gathered up armloads of hymnals, and sprinted back to the firing line. He threw those books to the soldiers and hollered what became one of the most memorable battle cries of the whole revolution: "Give 'em Watts, boys!" The hymnals were full of the sacred songs of Isaac Watts, the great hymn writer who gave us "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" and "Joy to the World." And those soldiers tore out the pages, loaded their muskets, and held the line. The songs of worship literally became the ammunition of war. I have thought about that story more than once sitting with people in hard seasons of life, and in some of my own hard seasons too. There are moments when you feel like those soldiers. Outnumbered, running low, not sure you have what it takes to hold your ground through another night. And in those moments, I think Reverend Caldwell's wild run into that church has something to say to us. Worship is not just what we do on Sunday morning when everything is fine. It is what we reach for when things are not fine. The Psalmist knew this. He didn't write Psalm 28:7 from a comfortable chair. He wrote it from a place of genuine need, trusting a God he could not see to be a shield he desperately required. And what came out the other side? His heart rejoiced and he sang. I'm too soon old and too late smart, but here is something I have learned. When the battle gets heavy and my resources feel thin, the best thing I can do is not strategize harder or worry longer. It's to give 'em Watts. Pull out a hymn. Speak a promise out loud. Remember what God did the last time the situation felt impossible. Let praise become the wadding that loads the musket. History is just HIS story, and that includes the story of a preacher running across a battlefield with his arms full of hymnals. God has a way of making our songs into something stronger than we ever imagined. So tonight, whatever battle you carried through the door with you, give it the Watts treatment. Let a song of praise be the last thing on your lips before you close your eyes. Let's pray: Lord, when I'm running low and the line feels like it's about to break, remind me that praise is not a luxury for easy days. It is the weapon You placed in my hands for hard ones. Teach me to trust You enough to sing. In Jesus' name, Amen. #RTTBROS #Nightlight #ChristianWisdom #BiblicalWisdom #Faith #Worship #DailyDevotion #PracticalBiblicalWisdom #ChristianLiving #HistoryIsHisStory https://linktr.ee/rttbros #Freedom250 #America250 Reflection Questions: 1. When life gets hard, is your first instinct to worry or to worship? What would it look like to reach for praise before you reach for anxiety? 2. Think of a time God came through for you in a desperate moment. How could remembering that story become "ammunition" for something you're facing right now? Call to Action: If this story encouraged you, share it with someone who needs to hear that their praise still has power. Like, follow, and subscribe to keep the Nightlight burning. Find everything at linktr.ee/rttbros.

    4 min

  8. 28 May

    The Math of Contentment #RTTBROS #Nightlight #grace #thanks #gratitude

    The Math of Contentment #RTTBROS #Nightlight "But godliness with contentment is great gain." — 1 Timothy 6:6 You know, I was praying the other day and I caught myself doing something I'm not real proud of. My prayer had turned into what I used to call on Hee Haw, Lulu's never-ending shopping list. You remember that old sketch, just going on and on, asking for this and that, never stopping to be grateful. And there I was, doing the exact same thing. Ask, ask, ask. Want, want, want. It got me thinking. If you sit down and try to count the things you do not have, that list is practically infinite. You don't have a mansion. You don't have a yacht. You don't have perfect health, a pain-free back, or enough hours in the day. You could spend every waking moment focused on what's missing, and you'd never reach the bottom of that list. Never. But here's where it gets interesting, and I think this is what Paul was getting at in First Timothy. What if you flipped the equation? What if, instead of the things I lack being greater than the things I have, you reversed those mathematical signs? What if everything God has already placed in my hands, this breath, this day, this family, this salvation, what if I let that become greater than everything I'm still reaching for? That's not settling. That's not giving up. That's actually the most radical act of faith you can perform. There was a missionary in the early 1900s named Frank Laubach who became famous for his literacy work around the world. But before all of that, he was a struggling, overlooked man on a hillside in the Philippines, feeling forgotten and passed by. One morning he sat on a hill and made a decision to spend every waking moment conscious of God's presence and God's provision, right where he was, with exactly what he had. He wrote in his journal that the moment he stopped cataloging what he lacked and started resting in what God had already given, something broke open inside him. Out of that surrender came a literacy movement that eventually taught over sixty million people to read. All of it born from one man learning the math of contentment. I'm too soon old and too late smart on this one, friend. I've spent far too many mornings rattling off my prayer list like I'm placing an order, when what God really wanted was for me to sit down and just say thank you. Godliness with contentment is great gain. Not godliness plus getting everything you asked for. Godliness, plus the quiet trust that what He's already given you is exactly enough for exactly right now. That is the gain. That is the freedom. So tonight, before you close your eyes, try something different. Instead of the shopping list, just start counting what you already have. Let's pray: Father, forgive me for all the asking and so little thanking. You have been so good to me, and I have looked right past it reaching for more. Tonight I want to say thank You, for exactly where I am and exactly what I have, because it came from Your hand. That makes it enough. In Jesus' name, Amen. #RTTBROS #Nightlight #Contentment #BiblicalWisdom #ChristianLiving #Gratitude #Faith #DailyDevotion #PracticalBiblicalWisdom #ChristianWisdom 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
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    © Gene Kissinger
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