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Saturday, November 12, 2011
GOD NEVER CREATED US TO TOIL; (MATTTHEW 6:26)
Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?”
We have all believed the God created us to work and that if we do not work we shall not eat, just like the scripture say “For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."2 Thessalonians 3:10”, the world has manipulated that scripture and it is now used to fit man’s concept of work.
The world system has crept into the Kingdom system and it is now what people perceive it to be.
Psalm 127:1–2. "Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives to his beloved in his sleep." I think the main point of these three verses is: "Don't eat the bread of anxious toil." It means just the same thing Jesus meant when he said, "Don't be anxious about what you shall eat."
We are in this world and we have conformed to the world, we work as the world says we should and we are comfortable with that but at the end of the day it compromises with the Kingdom system, God’s way of doing things, our relationship with Him and our knowledge of Him.
Proverbs 10:22(AMP) - The blessing of the Lord--it makes [truly] rich, and He adds no sorrow with it [neither does toiling increase it]. I Love this scripture.
The Bible tells us that we are blessed and instead of coming to a place where we truly and indeed receive that promise, we ourselves have added sorrow to God’s Blessing by conforming to this world.
(Ecclesiastes 2:26).Solomon also says in Ecclesiastes that it’s God’s gift to man to eat, drink and take pleasure in all his toil. God truly wants us to find enjoyment with whatever occupies us. We can truly do this when we know that we’re doing it for the Lord. ‘Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works’ (Ecclesiastes 9:7). I interpret this to mean its good to enjoy your food with God’s blessing. Today we work 12 hours get home so tired or stressed or depressed that we just eat because we have to, without any enjoyment.
Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. (Ecclesiastes 4:4 RSV)
How accurately this records what is happening in human history! People really do not want things, they want to be admired for the things they have. What they want is not the new car itself, but to hear their neighbours say, "How lucky you are to have such a beautiful car!" That is what people want -- to be the centre, the focus of attention.
That is saying exactly what this ancient Searcher is saying. The drive to be admired is the true objective of life. But, he says, this too "is vanity and a striving after wind."
Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind. (Ecclesiastes 4:6 RSV)
Yet, he says, so powerful is ambition and the desire to be envied that men actually keep working and toiling even when they have no one to leave their riches to. Verse 7:
In contrast, the Searcher admits that companionship is better than loneliness. Verse 9:
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 RSV)
There is some excellent advice in Ecclesiastes, and when we read it in the light of the Gospel we can find hope, encouragement and how ‘not to chase the wind’. The book of Ecclesiastes is ended with this conclusion about life: ‘Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man’ (Ecclesiastes 12:13).
"If the devil can't make you bad, he makes you busy"
But God does lay down this principle for his beloved: Don't rise early and go late to rest out of anxiety, out of fear and fretfulness. If the joy of fruitful labor lures you to work 12 hours a day, so be it. But take heed lest you are really deceiving yourself, and in fact are being driven by anxiety, or by her twin sister, selfish-ambition.
"...constantly bearing in mind your work of faith..." (I Thessalonians 1:3). Those who were chosen, or elect of God were engaged in their "work of faith." This is one of the things that distinguish the chosen from those who are not chosen. The response these people had made to the gospel was that they believed, or had faith in its message of a Redeemer. This faith was the motivation behind the work they did.
As Paul observed their "work of faith," he said that it was by this that he "knew" that they were "brethren, beloved by God" (I Thessalonians 1:4). He based, in part, his confidence of their election on their "work of faith." Had they rejected the commandments of God, they would be rejecting God (I Thessalonians 4:1-8; especially verse 8).
The Scriptures make it clear that apart from our submitting to God's commandments, we cannot be a part of the elect. In fact, if we once were one of God's elect, but later cease walking by faith, that our election will no longer be sure or certain (II Peter 1:10,11). God elects those who obey Him by faith.
As God’s Children we have to take over the mountain mandates (Education, Political, Economical, Arts and Culture etc) so that we are able to set the rule, laws (constitution). Am sure God meant for the Kingdom System to overtake the World system and it is up to the Christians today to make it happen and put a stop to toil, hard work for nothing worthwhile.
"...and the labor of love..." (I Thessalonians 1:3). Not only are we chosen of God by our "work of faith," but also by our "labor of love." "Labor" here refers to unceasing toil. But this toil is borne of love; and toil borne of love is not burdensome. Jesus invited us to take His yoke upon ourselves, assuring us that His yoke is easy and His burden is light (Matthew 11:28-30). John said "We love because He first loved us" and "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome." (I John 4:19; 5:3).
Those who do not love the Lord are not chosen by Him. Those who love the Lord show it by their "labor of love." When Paul saw the labor of the Thessalonicans, he became confident that they were among God's chosen, because God elects those who love Him.
Toil is vanity.
TO LOVE AND TO SERVE"
We have all believed the God created us to work and that if we do not work we shall not eat, just like the scripture say “For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."2 Thessalonians 3:10”, the world has manipulated that scripture and it is now used to fit man’s concept of work.
The world system has crept into the Kingdom system and it is now what people perceive it to be.
Psalm 127:1–2. "Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives to his beloved in his sleep." I think the main point of these three verses is: "Don't eat the bread of anxious toil." It means just the same thing Jesus meant when he said, "Don't be anxious about what you shall eat."
We are in this world and we have conformed to the world, we work as the world says we should and we are comfortable with that but at the end of the day it compromises with the Kingdom system, God’s way of doing things, our relationship with Him and our knowledge of Him.
Proverbs 10:22(AMP) - The blessing of the Lord--it makes [truly] rich, and He adds no sorrow with it [neither does toiling increase it]. I Love this scripture.
The Bible tells us that we are blessed and instead of coming to a place where we truly and indeed receive that promise, we ourselves have added sorrow to God’s Blessing by conforming to this world.
(Ecclesiastes 2:26).Solomon also says in Ecclesiastes that it’s God’s gift to man to eat, drink and take pleasure in all his toil. God truly wants us to find enjoyment with whatever occupies us. We can truly do this when we know that we’re doing it for the Lord. ‘Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works’ (Ecclesiastes 9:7). I interpret this to mean its good to enjoy your food with God’s blessing. Today we work 12 hours get home so tired or stressed or depressed that we just eat because we have to, without any enjoyment.
Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. (Ecclesiastes 4:4 RSV)
How accurately this records what is happening in human history! People really do not want things, they want to be admired for the things they have. What they want is not the new car itself, but to hear their neighbours say, "How lucky you are to have such a beautiful car!" That is what people want -- to be the centre, the focus of attention.
That is saying exactly what this ancient Searcher is saying. The drive to be admired is the true objective of life. But, he says, this too "is vanity and a striving after wind."
Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind. (Ecclesiastes 4:6 RSV)
Yet, he says, so powerful is ambition and the desire to be envied that men actually keep working and toiling even when they have no one to leave their riches to. Verse 7:
In contrast, the Searcher admits that companionship is better than loneliness. Verse 9:
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 RSV)
There is some excellent advice in Ecclesiastes, and when we read it in the light of the Gospel we can find hope, encouragement and how ‘not to chase the wind’. The book of Ecclesiastes is ended with this conclusion about life: ‘Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man’ (Ecclesiastes 12:13).
"If the devil can't make you bad, he makes you busy"
But God does lay down this principle for his beloved: Don't rise early and go late to rest out of anxiety, out of fear and fretfulness. If the joy of fruitful labor lures you to work 12 hours a day, so be it. But take heed lest you are really deceiving yourself, and in fact are being driven by anxiety, or by her twin sister, selfish-ambition.
"...constantly bearing in mind your work of faith..." (I Thessalonians 1:3). Those who were chosen, or elect of God were engaged in their "work of faith." This is one of the things that distinguish the chosen from those who are not chosen. The response these people had made to the gospel was that they believed, or had faith in its message of a Redeemer. This faith was the motivation behind the work they did.
As Paul observed their "work of faith," he said that it was by this that he "knew" that they were "brethren, beloved by God" (I Thessalonians 1:4). He based, in part, his confidence of their election on their "work of faith." Had they rejected the commandments of God, they would be rejecting God (I Thessalonians 4:1-8; especially verse 8).
The Scriptures make it clear that apart from our submitting to God's commandments, we cannot be a part of the elect. In fact, if we once were one of God's elect, but later cease walking by faith, that our election will no longer be sure or certain (II Peter 1:10,11). God elects those who obey Him by faith.
As God’s Children we have to take over the mountain mandates (Education, Political, Economical, Arts and Culture etc) so that we are able to set the rule, laws (constitution). Am sure God meant for the Kingdom System to overtake the World system and it is up to the Christians today to make it happen and put a stop to toil, hard work for nothing worthwhile.
"...and the labor of love..." (I Thessalonians 1:3). Not only are we chosen of God by our "work of faith," but also by our "labor of love." "Labor" here refers to unceasing toil. But this toil is borne of love; and toil borne of love is not burdensome. Jesus invited us to take His yoke upon ourselves, assuring us that His yoke is easy and His burden is light (Matthew 11:28-30). John said "We love because He first loved us" and "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome." (I John 4:19; 5:3).
Those who do not love the Lord are not chosen by Him. Those who love the Lord show it by their "labor of love." When Paul saw the labor of the Thessalonicans, he became confident that they were among God's chosen, because God elects those who love Him.
Toil is vanity.
TO LOVE AND TO SERVE"
Monday, December 13, 2010
IMMANUEL "GOD WITH US"
"TO LOVE AND TO SERVE"
There is no one in history that has been given more names or titles than Jesus Christ. If you've read through the Bible carefully then you know what I mean. Throughout the pages of Holy Writ over 100 names and titles are given to Jesus. And whether He is called "Bright morning star, Wonderful Counselor, All that, the Reason, the Root of Jesse, the Alpha and the Omega, or the Lamb of God", each of these names and titles is rich with meaning. They all say something significant about who Jesus is.However, there is no name more significant than "Immanuel".
This name, which Matthew refers to in his Gospel (Matthew 1:23), was first given to Jesus by the prophet Isaiah 700 years before His birth (Isaiah 7:14). And this very special Christmas name, as Matthew tells us, it means "God with us." Jesus Christ is Immanuel, "God with us," and I'd like to share why this is so meaningful at Christmas time.The babe born to Mary in a manger, the infant that the shepherds ran to see, the newborn child that the Magi traveled hundreds of miles to worship is Immanuel, God with us. But in what sense is Jesus "God with us?" Wasn't God always with the human race? Wasn't "God with us" before Jesus? Yes.
In one sense God, the Creator, has always been "with" His creation. Unlike the false god of the Deists and Theists and of many evolutionists, who believe in a god who started the world and then departed far away, the true God has always been with us. About this He says in Jeremiah 23 "`Am I God who is near,' declares the LORD, `And not far off? Can a man hide himself in hiding places, so I do not see him?' declares the LORD. `Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?' declares the LORD." (Jer. 23:23-24). The God of the Bible, the true Creator is omnipresent, everywhere at the same time. He fills all of creation with His presence; every mountain and every molecule; and yet He is not a part of that creation. He remains Creator distinct from His creation. And so a God who is everywhere is certainly a God who is with us.
When Paul preached to the pagans of Lystra (in Acts 14) He reminded them that the true God, the Creator, had always been with them, giving them witness of Himself by providing them with rains, fruitful seasons, and giving them food and glad hearts. Thus, God has always been with His creation in the sense that He, who is everywhere, has showered all mankind with blessings -- despite their sin.
But with the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, Immanuel, "God With Us," takes on a whole new meaning. For in the person of baby Jesus, God is "with us" not merely to bless us. Nor is He with us in the sense that He is going to merely work through Jesus to help us, protect us, and guide us. No-the little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay is "God with us" because He is God. Years later St. John the Evangelist under the inspiration of the Spirit would write the perfect commentary on the Christmas events. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; and all things were made through Him and apart from Him nothing was made which was made...And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:1-3, 14).
The true message of Christmas is one to stagger the imagination: The Second Person of the Trinity, the only begotten Son of the Father, the eternal Word, our Creator wills to clothe Himself in our nature, and to become man, our brother, one of us. God Himself lies in the manger, completely human, completely Divine.Why does mankind need "God with us?" First, because He is not. Listen to what our Creator says in Isaiah 59: "Behold, the LORD's hand is not so short that it cannot save; Neither is His ear so dull that it cannot hear.
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear." These words were spoken originally to the covenant people of Israel, but they apply to all who have sinned against the Creator. Why does the human race need "God with Us?" Because the plain truth is that without "God with us" we human beings are incomplete at best. For no matter what we in our arrogance like to imagine about ourselves, we humans are creatures. We did not will ourselves into existence by our invincible spirit. Nor do we owe our existence now to our superior intellect and will to survive. These explanations are quite flattering and are also quite without any evidence of truth. We human beings are creations: beautiful, complicated, and intricate creations fashioned by an all-powerful Creator who has revealed Himself to us as our God. His name is Yahweh. And He has revealed Himself to us as Three Divine Persons in One Divine Essence: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We human beings were created by this loving Creator in the image of God (Gen. 1:27). This means that we were created for the express purpose of knowing and loving Him. We were meant to have the most intimate relationship imaginable with Him. We were to depend on Him for all things; we were to daily walk in His light, His love, His joy, His power. But all this man chose to throw away, and did throw away, when He rebelled against the Creator by sinning against Him. And the last six thousand years of man's history has witnessed the restless creature man trying to find meaning in life apart from the Creator. St. Augustine's familiar words hit the mark, "For You have formed us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until we find rest in You." The human race needs God, the Creator, because it is built into the very core of our nature to know Him intimately. Without Him, we are incomplete, empty, unfulfilled, restless, all because we are living life contrary to the purpose for which we were made. When the creature no longer has fellowship with the Creator, he seeks to find a replacement to make the gnawing emptiness go away. Some call this "man's drive to succeed", others "finding myself", and still others refer to it as "self-actualization."
But these restless strivings are the creature trying to fill the void left by the Absence of the Creator. Some try to make the emptiness go away with romance and relationships, family and friends; Others throw themselves completely into a career hoping that will give their life meaning. Others find themselves almost obsessively buying one thing after the other, desperately hoping to find fulfillment under the sheer weight of the new.
Sadly, many turn to the dark side of drugs, alcohol, crime, and other deviant behaviors to drown out the emptiness and lack of meaning in their lives. We need "God with us" because without Him we are incomplete.This Christmas let us invite Jesus Christ in our lives because He is knocking on the doors of our hearts and waiting for us to let him in, He will not only be God with us but God in us.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR WITH LOVE!
There is no one in history that has been given more names or titles than Jesus Christ. If you've read through the Bible carefully then you know what I mean. Throughout the pages of Holy Writ over 100 names and titles are given to Jesus. And whether He is called "Bright morning star, Wonderful Counselor, All that, the Reason, the Root of Jesse, the Alpha and the Omega, or the Lamb of God", each of these names and titles is rich with meaning. They all say something significant about who Jesus is.However, there is no name more significant than "Immanuel".
This name, which Matthew refers to in his Gospel (Matthew 1:23), was first given to Jesus by the prophet Isaiah 700 years before His birth (Isaiah 7:14). And this very special Christmas name, as Matthew tells us, it means "God with us." Jesus Christ is Immanuel, "God with us," and I'd like to share why this is so meaningful at Christmas time.The babe born to Mary in a manger, the infant that the shepherds ran to see, the newborn child that the Magi traveled hundreds of miles to worship is Immanuel, God with us. But in what sense is Jesus "God with us?" Wasn't God always with the human race? Wasn't "God with us" before Jesus? Yes.
In one sense God, the Creator, has always been "with" His creation. Unlike the false god of the Deists and Theists and of many evolutionists, who believe in a god who started the world and then departed far away, the true God has always been with us. About this He says in Jeremiah 23 "`Am I God who is near,' declares the LORD, `And not far off? Can a man hide himself in hiding places, so I do not see him?' declares the LORD. `Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?' declares the LORD." (Jer. 23:23-24). The God of the Bible, the true Creator is omnipresent, everywhere at the same time. He fills all of creation with His presence; every mountain and every molecule; and yet He is not a part of that creation. He remains Creator distinct from His creation. And so a God who is everywhere is certainly a God who is with us.
When Paul preached to the pagans of Lystra (in Acts 14) He reminded them that the true God, the Creator, had always been with them, giving them witness of Himself by providing them with rains, fruitful seasons, and giving them food and glad hearts. Thus, God has always been with His creation in the sense that He, who is everywhere, has showered all mankind with blessings -- despite their sin.
But with the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, Immanuel, "God With Us," takes on a whole new meaning. For in the person of baby Jesus, God is "with us" not merely to bless us. Nor is He with us in the sense that He is going to merely work through Jesus to help us, protect us, and guide us. No-the little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay is "God with us" because He is God. Years later St. John the Evangelist under the inspiration of the Spirit would write the perfect commentary on the Christmas events. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; and all things were made through Him and apart from Him nothing was made which was made...And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:1-3, 14).
The true message of Christmas is one to stagger the imagination: The Second Person of the Trinity, the only begotten Son of the Father, the eternal Word, our Creator wills to clothe Himself in our nature, and to become man, our brother, one of us. God Himself lies in the manger, completely human, completely Divine.Why does mankind need "God with us?" First, because He is not. Listen to what our Creator says in Isaiah 59: "Behold, the LORD's hand is not so short that it cannot save; Neither is His ear so dull that it cannot hear.
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear." These words were spoken originally to the covenant people of Israel, but they apply to all who have sinned against the Creator. Why does the human race need "God with Us?" Because the plain truth is that without "God with us" we human beings are incomplete at best. For no matter what we in our arrogance like to imagine about ourselves, we humans are creatures. We did not will ourselves into existence by our invincible spirit. Nor do we owe our existence now to our superior intellect and will to survive. These explanations are quite flattering and are also quite without any evidence of truth. We human beings are creations: beautiful, complicated, and intricate creations fashioned by an all-powerful Creator who has revealed Himself to us as our God. His name is Yahweh. And He has revealed Himself to us as Three Divine Persons in One Divine Essence: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We human beings were created by this loving Creator in the image of God (Gen. 1:27). This means that we were created for the express purpose of knowing and loving Him. We were meant to have the most intimate relationship imaginable with Him. We were to depend on Him for all things; we were to daily walk in His light, His love, His joy, His power. But all this man chose to throw away, and did throw away, when He rebelled against the Creator by sinning against Him. And the last six thousand years of man's history has witnessed the restless creature man trying to find meaning in life apart from the Creator. St. Augustine's familiar words hit the mark, "For You have formed us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until we find rest in You." The human race needs God, the Creator, because it is built into the very core of our nature to know Him intimately. Without Him, we are incomplete, empty, unfulfilled, restless, all because we are living life contrary to the purpose for which we were made. When the creature no longer has fellowship with the Creator, he seeks to find a replacement to make the gnawing emptiness go away. Some call this "man's drive to succeed", others "finding myself", and still others refer to it as "self-actualization."
But these restless strivings are the creature trying to fill the void left by the Absence of the Creator. Some try to make the emptiness go away with romance and relationships, family and friends; Others throw themselves completely into a career hoping that will give their life meaning. Others find themselves almost obsessively buying one thing after the other, desperately hoping to find fulfillment under the sheer weight of the new.
Sadly, many turn to the dark side of drugs, alcohol, crime, and other deviant behaviors to drown out the emptiness and lack of meaning in their lives. We need "God with us" because without Him we are incomplete.This Christmas let us invite Jesus Christ in our lives because He is knocking on the doors of our hearts and waiting for us to let him in, He will not only be God with us but God in us.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR WITH LOVE!
DON'T GIVE-UP
"TO LOVE AND TO SERVE"
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you.
we ought to Wholly depend on him (God), show him that without him we cannot go on, because its not by strength or power but by his Spirit and since he is so gentle, he will never force us to do what we don not choose.Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. Slowly by renewing, submitting our lives and minds to the word of God we attaiin the mind of Christ our Lord and Savior.
Shalom!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
वोर्शिपिंग थे LORD
WORSHIPING THE LORD।
“… the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him। God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:23)
We must be worshiping and praising the Lord in the Spirit, singing in the Spirit, dancing in the Spirit and running in the Spirit, ofcourse one cannot do all this without the knowlege of the word। This is something that is coming directly from the Holy Spirit and this is all being done “in the Holy Spirit.” This is literally a supernatural ability that can be imparted to each and every believer by the Holy Spirit Himself if they are open to receiving it.
•Worship the Father in spirit and truth;
•Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness;
•Worship at his footstool;
•Let us worship and bow down;
•All the earth shall worship You;
•Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name;
•Exalt the Lord our God;
•Magnify His name.
Worshipping the Lord in Spirit and in truth is a gift from God, it is some supernatural power/ability given by God to those who truthfully yearn for it;
•Give thanks to the Lord for His goodness;
•Give thanks to the Lord, for He is God;
•Magnify Him with thanksgiving;
•Enter His gates with thanksgiving;
•Come before His presence with .
थान्क्स्गिविंग।
PRAISE THE LORD
"TO LOVE AND TO SERVE"
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“… the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him। God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:23)
We must be worshiping and praising the Lord in the Spirit, singing in the Spirit, dancing in the Spirit and running in the Spirit, ofcourse one cannot do all this without the knowlege of the word। This is something that is coming directly from the Holy Spirit and this is all being done “in the Holy Spirit.” This is literally a supernatural ability that can be imparted to each and every believer by the Holy Spirit Himself if they are open to receiving it.
•Worship the Father in spirit and truth;
•Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness;
•Worship at his footstool;
•Let us worship and bow down;
•All the earth shall worship You;
•Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name;
•Exalt the Lord our God;
•Magnify His name.
Worshipping the Lord in Spirit and in truth is a gift from God, it is some supernatural power/ability given by God to those who truthfully yearn for it;
•Give thanks to the Lord for His goodness;
•Give thanks to the Lord, for He is God;
•Magnify Him with thanksgiving;
•Enter His gates with thanksgiving;
•Come before His presence with .
थान्क्स्गिविंग।
PRAISE THE LORD
"TO LOVE AND TO SERVE"
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Friday, February 19, 2010
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE LORD IS GOD.
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE LORD IS GOD.
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE LORD IS GOD. HE MADE US, AND WE BELONG TO HIM; WE ARE HIS PEOPLE, WE ARE HIS FLOCK.
Repent and turn to the Lord God, Delight yourself in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday.
JEREMIAH 3:13
Admit that you've done wrong! You have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have given yourself to strangers under every large tree. You have not obeyed me,' declares the LORD.
DEUTERONOMY 4:39
Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. There is only one way to him and unless we confess our sin and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savour we are on our own
DEUTERONOMY 12:7 "And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it (Deuteronomy 10:14).
For every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills (Psalm 50:10).
The world is mine, and all that is in it (Psalm 50:12).
"The silver is mine and the gold is mine," declares the LORD Almighty (Haggai 2:8).
You might ask, "But don't some Bible verses, such as Proverbs 3:9 and Colossians 4:15, refer to people owning possessions?" Yes, they do, but underlying these verses is the knowledge that everything belongs to God and its from God to us as his children we inherit all the silver and gold that he has, the cattle and the world.
For everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all (1 Chronicles 29:11).
LET IT BE.
THE LAW AND JUSTICE THROUGH CHRIST JESUS.
Romans 3:19-31
God’s law measures us by God’s perfect righteousness. God's law is just and righteous and it declares all must do what is right. Law demands we be virtuous, upright, people of integrity, honorable, honest and morally good. That same law also demands justice be served for those who fail; however slight the infraction. Laws are virtually of no value if they do not demand justice. The very purpose of any law is justice. Law also demands recompense, reparation, redress and compensation when broken.
Romans 3:19-20
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. (NIV)
God's law is right and just, but it cannot make men right with God. God's law condemns us when we do wrong and it demands justice. Law in and of itself cannot make us right for once the law is broken the law declares us unrighteous. The law cannot make us right once we have done wrong. God's law can only declare us guilty and hold us accountable to God.
Romans 7:9-10
Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. (NIV)
Looking at the antonyms for the word justice may help us to clearly see the purpose of the law. Immorality, dishonor, corruptness, unfairness, partiality and bias are the things law seeks to set right.
Romans 3:21-26
But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished--he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. (NIV)
Although the Jews had every advantage they failed to live up to their potential. They spent their energies priding themselves in their advantages. Many Jews boasted that they were Abraham’s descendants; they felt that being a descendant of Abraham was the means of their salvation. They also felt that merely possessing the law gave them special privilege as God’s children. Some of Judaism’s principle errors stemmed from a false sense of security, due to their physical descent from Abraham and their possession of the law. Paul reveals both Jew and Gentile are lost without Christ.
Romans 3:25-27
God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished--he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith. (NIV)
Seeking self-justification through the law makes us the center of our world. We begin to look at ourselves as the power that creates and sustains the world. We begin to believe that we have a power within ourselves to give purpose, meaning, and significance to life. This type of attitude results in boasting.
Romans 10:2-3
For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. (NIV)
Luke 16:15
He said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight. (NIV)
Often we endeavor to create loopholes in the laws or array one law against another in an effort to seek justification. But the due penalty will eventually be paid.
Deuteronomy 32:46-47
"Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. They are not just idle words for you--
GOD BLESS.
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