RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

What do we do when life is hard and God does not seem to be helping. We are being tested to become fearful and disappointed. Why are things so hard? What happened to having our “best life now”?

The Bible is full of stories of people who went through hard things.  David comforted his soul be reminding himself the God was his rock. He was not going to be moved out of his place of confidence in God.

He counseled his soul to wait on Go...

Marriage was meant to be a covenant between a man and a woman. In Genesis, God made a help mate for Adam to keep him from getting lonely and help him with the Garden. But after they sinned, everything changed.

Adam refused to admit he had any part in the disobedient act of eating the fruit. Instead, he said, “it was the woman You gave me.” This opened up the first can of worms between them.

Bitterness, blaming and distrust sprang u...

Cries of "Hosanna!' had turned to cries of "Crucify Him!". Once on the cross, the religious leaders mocked Jesus saying, "If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross." "If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him..." Jesus would not come down from the cross because He came down to earth for the cross. Jesus isn't about saving Himself. He's about giving Himself completely to sav...

The hostility against Jesus mounted as it became more apparent who He was. The Honeymoon with Jesus and His enemies was over.

He was a threat the them and everything they had built out of the bricks of religion and fear. They were losing control of the people who were shifting their faith over to a new commandment of love.

As the time drew nearer to the Cross, the words and snares and intentions to trap Jesus in His Words became m...

An eye for an eye does not promote the law of love. Satan is the god of this world. What would ever make us think that he would promote the justice due a man? Or that his administration of this world would right the wrongs and distribute the goods and opportunities of his "Snake Pit" fairly?

We are left with several options, to trust God to bring justice or to get mad and become bitter. How do we stand in this evil day and having d...

The Lord instructs His people to have other gods before Him and that He is a jealous God visiting the iniquities of the fathers onto the children to the third and fourth generation. Unless we put the devil into the equation this sounds like a threat from God to punish those who do not serve Him. If God were acting independently, He would have to be both good and evil.

The psalms are full of David’s blessing the Lord for His graciou...

Life is the place where love and fear meet and make war. It is the co-mingling of the two most powerful and compelling forces on earth. "Perfect love casts out fear." But what is love?

We are told that God loved us even when we were still sinners. We are conditioned to define love as conditional, contingent upon our behavior.  Love, according to the scripture "suffers long and is kind."

Love does not bend to fear or try to find som...

The dictionary defines pain as penalty, and suffering inflicted as punishment of an offense. This is a perfect lead in for the spirit of guilt to gets us to agree with the implication that we deserve to be punished for sins we have committed. Agreeing that we deserve to be punished opens the door to pain.

Guilt feels justified in putting pain on us because we agreed that we ...

Only those written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will be permitted to enter into the temple. (Rev.21:27) Jesus told His disciples to rejoice that their names “were written in Heaven.”

“And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God and books were opened. And another book was opened which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their words, by the things which were written in the books.” (Rev.20:12)

We know...

There is not much glory in this Snake Pit down here. Atrocities, horrific injustices, vile hatred and sin rule the day. Jesus came to lay down His life in the Snake Pit to glorify the Father and redeem us from the destruction of the Evil One.

“Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and g...

Isaiah said it well. Pits of despair, lies, caves of fear and confusion have locked up God’s people. It is time to come out of the strongholds Satan has set, the snares of hopelessness.

“But this is a people robbed and plundered; all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses. They are for prey, and no one delivers; for plunder, and no one says, “Restore.” (Is. 42:22)

Jesus took our iniquities and bore our so...

Be anxious for nothing. Fear not. God is for me. Fear makes us anxious. Perfect love casts out fear - if we know God is for us. What are the thoughts fear is putting in our minds to build its case for anxiety and against love? Fear says, what can I do, what is going to happen, what happens if I don't get_____, etc. Fear flips us from beings to doings. I've got to do something, but I do not know what to do. This creates anxiety.

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Emmanuel (Immanuel) means "God with us." God is above us. God is against us when we sin. God is among us. God is for us. God is in us. God is with us.

And because Jesus came to be with us, we can now be with Him. He lives in us and we can live in Him. The beauty of our relationship with Him is that He has chosen to dwell among us and be in us and live forever together in heaven where all tears will be wiped away, all fear will  be ...

Our foundations are in shambles, our minds have been overtaken, and our eyes blinded to see what is right in front of us. The snatcher (aka Satan) truly has done a magnificent job of distracting us from the liberating power of the truth of God’s Word. 

This is changing. People are waking up! They are hearing and getting delivered. Jesus is bringing the revelation of His love and power into the lives of those lost and broken. 

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Promises delayed are painful things. Will they ever come to pass or is this just another place for sadness and complacency to hide? Jesus did come the first time. The promise was kept. The second promise of His second coming is yet to be fulfilled, although is may be very near. 

As it was in the days of Noah, before the Flood, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. Men will be eating and drinking, marrying and ...

Joseph and Mary were not sinless but they were holy, living in obedience to the Law as it had been brought to the Jewish people through Moses and the Prophets. The world was full of political unrest, injustice and power grabbing, just like it is today.

This is a real and royal story. Christmas is about the coming of the Christ. Satan has worked to bury the truth about Christ and his coming.

Even to this day, he has tried to smother...

When will all this suffering end? The longing for things to change, the sorrow and loss of loved ones and the blatant injustice?

In the fullness of time God sent His Son Jesus as the Ransom Redeemer to set us free from the tyranny of Satan. We are told to “count it all joy” when we fall into various trials.

As we choose to let God heal and deliver us from the separation of sin that afflicts us, the joy of the Lord will return to br...

Not easy to do unless you know that the grace and goodness of God are going to make it right and repay those who trouble you. But wait, there is more. We get to live in and by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to glorify Him in and through those tribulations. Nothing is wasted. Everything we are going through will be redeemed to bring glory to God and blessing to us. Be patient and be strong to wait for the Lord to make the wrong ...