Giving God Your Yes (Ep. 256)

Chris gave God his ‘Yes!”

 

Our Guest: Chris Mitchell

After Chris Mitchell gave God his ‘Yes’, God led him to Jerusalem. When the world’s attention turns its attention to the explosive Middle East, CBN viewers have come to appreciate Chris Mitchell’s timely reports on this region of the world.  He brings a Biblical and prophetic perspective to the daily news events that shape our world. 

Mitchell established the CBN News Middle East Bureau in August 2000. Since then, he’s covered the major events in the region including the Second Intifada, the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the Arab Spring of 2011 and the rise of ISIS in 2014. He reported from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the front lines of the battle with ISIS and told the story of the persecuted Christians from the Middle East.

Mitchell also serves as Executive Director of “Jerusalem Dateline,” a weekly program covering the Middle East. In 2015, the National Religious Broadcasters presented “Jerusalem Dateline” the Most Creative Programming award. He is also the author of Dateline Jerusalem: An Eyewitness Account of Prophecies Unfolding in the Middle East and Destination Jerusalem: ISIS, Convert or Die, Christian Persecution and Preparing for the Days Ahead. He’s currently writing a third book about the continuing developments in the region.

Mitchell graduated from the University of New Hampshire and earned a M.A. in Communication from Regent University. After almost a quarter of a century with CBN News, Chris’s goal is to provide in his stories the Biblical understanding of the times” described in I Chronicles 12:32.

 

Scriptures and Key Points:

 

• When Chris first visited Israel, he felt as if the Lord was a proud landowner  showing His land.
• “You don’t choose Jerusalem. Jerusalem chooses you.”
• A calling to Jerusalem is not to be taken lightly.
• Chris and his wife gave their children to the Lord.

Genesis 22:1-18 NKJV Abraham offering Isaac

I Chronicles 12:32 NKJV …the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do…

• The first time worship is mentioned in scripture was in the context of obedience to God.

Romans 12:1 NKJV I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Esther 4:14 NKJV …Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

• It’s an act of worship to do what God has called you to do.
• Having a biblical perspective of what’s happening allows us to know how to pray for a situation.
• Onsite for insight

Psalm 45:1 NKJV …My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

• Chris does what he does because God called him.
• Simply say “Yes.”

Psalm 91:1 NKJV He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

• Keep going.
• Take the next step.

Philippians 3:13-14 KJV …forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

• Our destination is with God.

Hebrews 12:2 NIV  Fixing our eyes on Jesus…

• Discouragement can be like a powerful drug.

 

Pour out your heart to the Lord.

 

• If you know it’s the Lord, don’t give up.
• Surround yourself with people who will stand with you and pray with you.
• We don’t do this on our own.
• Hold on to the prophetic words spoken over you.
• God’s given Chris access to accelerate communication to the body of Christ.

Proverbs 22:4 KJV By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.

1 Peter 5:6 NKJV Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time

• “Lord, I can’t do anything without You.”
• Have people who will pray for you on a regular basis.
• “Before coming to Israel is like reading the Bible in black and white. But after you come, it’s like reading it in color.”

Isaiah 62:6 NKJV I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem…

 

Tools for Saying Yes to God

 

• Finish strong.
• Fix your eyes on Jesus and keep close to the Holy Spirit.
• Foster those relationships moment by moment.
• He is our friend.
• Stay in the Word.

Psalm 119:105 NKJV Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

• We need each other.
• And we are privileged to live in these times.
• He has a purpose for each of us.

Matthew 25:21 NKJV His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Ephesians 1:4 NKJV Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world…

Ephesians 2:10 NKJV For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

2 Timothy 4:7 NKJV I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Ephesians 4:1 NKJV …Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called

John 16:13 NKJV However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth…

 

Links:

 

• Jerusalem Dateline
• CBN
• Derek Prince
• Pray.com/ChrisMitchell
• CBN on YouTube
• The 700 Club
• Jerusalem Dateline on Facebook
• Jerusalem Dateline on Instagram

 

Books:

 

• Dateline Jerusalem: An Eyewitness Account of Prophecies Unfolding in the Middle East by Chris Mitchell
• ISIS, Iran and Israel by Chris Mitchell
• Destination Jerusalem: ISIS, Convert or Die, Christian Persecution and Preparing for the Days Ahead by Chris Mitchell

• Born Again by Charles Colson

 

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