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Send us Fan Mail The next principle for maintaining fellowship with God. It is keeping your focus eternal, in other words, having and maintaining an eternal perspective and not an earthly or temporal focus. John gives us the two spectrums of human perspective, and these are the only two. Either you have a temporal view of life, meaning a view that believes all of life consists here in this world,...

Send us Fan Mail As we continue to learn how to maintain fellowship with God, a fifth principle stated in 1 John is to keep brotherly love up to date. Loving the brethren helps us to walk in the light. Loving brothers and sisters in Christ assist you to love God more. Because you experience fellowship with God, you love the brethren, but because you love them, you experience more fellowship with G...

Send us Fan Mail When loving obedience is given to the Lord Jesus, then fellowship with Him is experienced. The very act of obedience is a kind of communion with God. It is you expressing your love and faith in Him. It is you telling Him that you see Him for what He is, absolutely and altogether beautiful and faithful. That is communion and is received by the Lord as the language of the heart, the...

Send us Fan Mail The Apostle John demonstrated in his First Epistle that if we quickly and consistently confess our sins, meaning we agree with God, then the blood of Christ removes the stain of our sins. This leads us to another question we want us to explore in this episode. If we are already justified, meaning declared judicially right with God, and all of our sins, past, present, and future, h...

Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses on how to maintain fellowship with God. Suppose you have learned how to enter into fellowship with God; you’ve listened to this podcast, and your communion with God has been helped. How do you maintain it?   There are external as well as internal forces working against your walk with God. These things are constantly striving to disrupt your intimacy with the L...

Send us Fan Mail An important ingredient for fellowship with God is transparency. All relationships must be based on honesty if they are to thrive. You need to try to impress the Lord with a pseudo-spirituality, a spirituality that you are pretending to have. We all have issues with sin. We are not to act as if we don't, but we are to acknowledge our sin to God, confessing our need for His gr...

Send us Fan Mail Since it has been so long since we’ve dealt with the topic, this episode reviews what we have learned thus far about how to have fellowship with the living God. For a refresher, please go back to season two and listen to episodes 25-30. 

Send us Fan Mail If revival is the renewal of healthy New Testament Christianity, then one question remains. How do you experience revival? How can you return to a place of vibrancy in your relationship with the Lord Jesus? In this episode, we outline three biblical mandates that, if believed and experienced, will lead you back to spiritual well-being. Please listen, and then share with family and...

Send us Fan Mail Revival is a return to normal New Testament Christianity. It is to walk in the Spirit consistently. In this episode, Michael Durham considers the indicators that evidence that a believer or a church needs revival. God wants His children to walk in the experience of their inheritance in Christ. But all of us know that we do not always do so. So, listen and discover what the signs o...

Send us Fan Mail We try to find a more biblical view of revival in this episode. One of the prevailing reasons revival is not occurring is the unbiblical attitudes about revival. Some have an idea that revival is a great evangelistic campaign, and others believe in humanistic formulas to be the key to having a revival. And others consider revival a purely sovereign work of God alone. These perspec...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss special moves or outpourings of God on His people. Many call these movements of God’s Spirit working in powerful ways revivals. The word revival has come to mean different things to different people. It is highly imperative that we rightly define the word so that confusion does not reign. It is also essential that we rightly understand the word to exper...

Send us Fan Mail How do you know if God is leading you on a specific path? Well, do not despair. The Lord is too kind to leave us to a guessing game. The Bible gives six markers or identifiers that mark the way of the Lord. You could say these six markers are six tests, tests by which we see if something is God’s will or not. So don’t panic; God commands us to exam Him and all other spirits who wo...

Send us Fan Mail How do you know if God is leading you on a specific path? Well, do not despair. The Lord is too kind to leave us to a guessing game. The Bible gives six markers or identifiers that mark the way of the Lord. You could say these six markers are six tests, tests by which we see if something is God’s will or not. So don’t panic; God commands us to examine Him and all other spirits who...

Send us Fan Mail Does God still speak personally to us, or was that something for just the Apostles and no longer viable? In this episode, Michael Durham, explains that God still does speak subjectively. However, to hear God speak is not a physical, but spiritual reality, which requires the spirit of a man to be trained and developed in the art of spiritual listening. Perhaps God is speaking, but...

Send us Fan Mail Too many times, we do not experience the Word, Jesus Christ when we read His word. How can we change this? How can you start reading the Bible and it connects you with the One who authored it? That is what today’s edition of the Real Truth Matters podcast is all about. Please join us and learn that we must not make the fundamental mistake of the Pharisees in Jesus’ day and separat...

Send us Fan Mail The Bible is God’s heart expressed to us, and that is where the Bible plays another huge role in our lives. Not only does it provide us the only revelation of God, who He is, and what He is like, but it also gives us doctrinal instruction that teaches us how to relate to the Lord and have fellowship with Him. It also serves as the voice of God to us. He speaks through it. In this...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes prayer requires more of you than at other times. There is a prayer that requires grit, a determination that will not relent. So often, the Lord tests our endurance by delays in granting the answer that we are seeking. Some have prayed for years for things they desired to see, and some have died without seeing their request answered. But they never gave up asking. Listen...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the RTM podcast, Michael Durham deals with our Lord Jesus' answer to the request for Him to teach His disciples how to pray.  The Lord's answer is the best teaching on prayer you can read. Books on prayer are wonderful, and we ought to be grateful for them and read them. But no book on prayer says as much about how to pray as this simple outline given...

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Send us Fan Mail As Real Truth Matters moves to a new location, we have selected to play these previous episodes.  This episode is about God wrestling with Jacob.

Send us Fan Mail In our last episode, we discussed how to have fellowship with God. The first thing essential is to be real and transparent with God. Any kind of duplicity or artificiality will shut down the conscious awareness of fellowship.  This episode examines the next means of cultivating fellowship with God. And that is developing a conscious awareness of the presence of God. So please list...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Michael Durham explains what is essential to have ongoing fellowship with God. If you have ever asked yourself why God seems to be distant, then this and the following episodes are crucial for you to hear. 

Send us Fan Mail It seems fitting to think that if we are to have fellowship with God, we need to know what it is so we can see if we are experiencing it or not. In this episode, Michael Durham defines fellowship with the Almighty from several key New Testament passages.  Fellowship with God can occur on two different levels. One level is not experiential, and the other is. Do you long to draw clo...