Pastor Lester Bentley

Tag: Spirituality

  • ABC’S of Prayer: Unselfish

    ABC’S of Prayer: Unselfish

    Dear Lord, I am told that selfishness precludes answers to prayer (James 4:3).  Are You willing to change my selfish spirit? Ezekiel points us to the fact that God wants to create in us “A new heart also will I give you, and, a new spirit will I put within you” (Ezekiel 36:26). It was Christ…

  • Victory Over Slavery

    Victory Over Slavery

    Sometime ago, I felt impressed to preach a sermon out of the book of Philemon.  This sermon developed out of that study.  Go to Philemon: Exploration into Forgiveness and Reconciliation for more details on that study.  Yet within this sermon there is no reference made to Philemon at all.  Studying Philemon gave the input for this sermon for I suddenly…

  • I Remember

    I Remember

    “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom” Psalm 90:12 Let’s go back to old Egypt, to the day when Joseph brought Jacob his father, before Pharaoh.  As the king looked upon the noble face of the patriarch, he said, “how old are you?”  Jacob replied in those…