Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts

Friday, October 12, 2007

The Children of God

John 1: 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to go the children of God, to those who believe in his name.

Are you a kid of God? To voyage your manner through life and ageless life you necessitate to go a son/daughter of the life God. You can go a kid of Supreme Being by believing and receiving His Son Jesus Of Nazareth into your heart.

Today the word Negro Negro spiritual or spiritualty mentions to many beginnings of projected spiritual powers. Many believe all you necessitate is a Negro spiritual connexion with some kind of higher power. This higher powerfulness can be a tree, a grouping or anything you chose. The term spiritualty takes on new significance when affiliated to the Son of God. Spiritually goes a meaningful human relationship with God's boy Jesus Of Nazareth Of Nazareth Christ, the Jesus of this world.

Receiving Jesus is an bosom enactment of family and labor union with the Supreme Being of this existence through His Son. To be called a boy or girl of Supreme Being bespeaks how of import you are to God. He cares deeply about His kids. He cares deeply about you. Supreme Being desires the best for you. You are on His head and in His heart. He gave His lone boy to decease on a cross in order to reconstruct and guarantee your human relationship with Him.

If you have got never received Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus as your lord, Jesus and friend, you can make this today. Simply inquire Him to come up into your heart, your life and salvage you from your ego and sin. Becoming a kid of Supreme Being is not perplex or hard however, it necessitates low request. Volition you do this petition today? If you do, you will happen yourself in the changeless company of an Godhead Supreme Being and Father.

Prayer Focus: Godhead Jesus Of Nazareth Of Nazareth Iodine believe on the name of Jesus. I desire to go a kid of Supreme Being and I desire a deep, personal human relationship with you. Please come up into my heart, give me life, and do me your child.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Life in the Spirit, Your Divine Miracle

Jesus did not come up to Earth just to be my illustration of how to live. He came to Earth to make a manner for Himself to dwell in me, and do the plant of the Father. Jesus Of Nazareth is alive today on a greater scale of measurement than he was when his physical organic structure was here on earth. Jesus Of Nazareth lived here, taught here, did miracles to show window the Glory of God; then paid the terms in full so that his spirit could dwell in God's children. The Holy Place Ghost is the spirit of God. The Holy Place Ghost, Jesus' spirit, not only dwells in me, but it is alive in me to canvass the Earth with the plant of Supreme Being Himself. I necessitate to develop my spirit man, and develop the spirit portion of me so that I may pass on and walk in unity, harmoniousness and family with the holy ghost.

Jesus was a miracle. If you believe about it, the first miracle that was performed on Jesus' behalf was when Virgin Mary conceived Him. Supreme Being took His ain Spirit and created flesh that would show window the plant of Himself on the earth, not only to present world from death, but to deliver them from every sickness, oppression, and hindrance. In obeisance to the Father, Jesus Of Nazareth lived on Earth as a adult male anointed by God, but did not make any mighty plant until Supreme Being publicly proclaimed His sonship. After that point, Jesus Of Nazareth Of Nazareth verbally told the human race His purpose.

Luke 4:18, "The Spirit of the Godhead is upon me, because he hath anointed me to prophesy the Gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to mend the brokenhearted, to prophesy rescue to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to put at autonomy them that are bruised,"

Throughout Jesus' earthly ministry, He did exactly that. He delivered the prisoner and healed the sick. He restored the broken and implemented the powerfulness of Supreme Being on the earth. That wasn't the end of His ministry, He then paid the terms in full so that His spirit could dwell in God's children. Jesus Of Nazareth went to the cross and made the manner for the Spirit of Supreme Being to dwell in every 1 that would receive. By doing this, He made the manner for me to make everything that He did.

Acts 1:8a, "But you shall have power, after that the Holy Place Ghost have come up upon you."

This is the powerfulness that is talked about in Mark 16 when Jesus Of Nazareth said, "And these marks shall follow them that believe. In my name, they shall project out devils…they shall put custody on the sick, and they will recover."

The miracle workings powerfulness of Supreme Being is occupant in believers, in me. The Spirit of Jesus Of Nazareth gives us the ability to execute the miracles that Jesus did. Supreme Being is not a Supreme Being of inactivity. It's His desire for every human to hear the gospel, to cognize His voice, and to be whole spirit, soul, and body. Jesus Of Nazareth 'went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of devils'. We don't just read about Jesus Of Nazareth Of Nazareth doing miracles, we also see the adherents performing miracles in the name of Jesus. Jesus Of Nazareth would direct them out in groupings to mend the multitudes, and when he ascended, He told them to put custody on the ill and ticker them recover. He wasn't just talking to the 500 that were standing there, He was talking to every individual that would obey His bids and share in His life.

Earlier I stated, "Jesus is alive today on a greater scale of measurement than he was when his physical organic structure was here on earth." How is that possible? He Lives IN ME, He Lives IN the Believers- and we are canvassing the Earth with the Glory of God, through miracles. The Miracle Working Power Of Supreme Being Flows Through My Life Because I Am A Disciple Of Christ.

Scripture references


Romans 1:4 And declared to be the Son of Supreme Being with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he powerfulness to go the boys of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Matthew 17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my darling Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the powerfulness of Supreme Being unto redemption to every 1 that believeth; to the Hebrew first, and also to the Greek

John 5:6 When Jesus Of Nazareth saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long clip in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thousand be made whole?

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with unfastened human face beholding as in a glass the glorification of the Lord, are changed into the same mental image from glorification to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Doing His Will

"...ye cognize not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a small time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Godhead will, we shall live, and make this, or that. Therefore to him that knoweth to make good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." (James 4:13-17)

It is a good pattern in all things to state "if the Godhead will, we will make this or that" as our life is a vapor. It is of import to retrieve life is short and to see if what you're choosing and doing counts in your ageless record. One manner of doing this is how Jesus Of Nazareth said that He states nil and makes nil except what our Father have given Him to do, and He volition & can only make His volition since He is the spotless lamb and the King of Righteousness who cannot go against even one of His commands.

Many say they're seeking to make God's will. There is only one diagnostic test as to what His volition is, which is His ageless law. The Holy Place Spirit can never take person against God's law, only our ain flesh and the human race can take us on a destructive way outside of God's will. His volition is His WORD, AKA "the Bible". If you desire to cognize His volition in your life, you'll happen it in the pages of His word. The complete revealed will to His people is His word or law. In all lawsuits Jesus Of Nazareth kept God's law perfectly, He lived the word better than any other. The Sabbath was made for healing which is why He did 7 healings on the Sabbath days.

Jesus spoke the truth saying the Pharisees make cull the law of Moses by their man-made traditions (Mark 7:7-9).

Many Christian churches today also fall into this rejection of God's word through keeping their ain unbliblical man-made traditions. We cognize Supreme Being had already promised that "..they World Health Organization reject God's law, Supreme Being will in tax return reject them..."and as a consequence "forget our children". (Hosea 4:6)

Our day-to-day supplication is that we and others make God's volition in the earth, the same manner that it is perfectly being done by the angels in heaven, as we have got been told to pray, that His Kingdom makes come up up to earth:

Matt 6:10 "Thy land come. Thy will be done in earth, [as it is] in heaven." (KJV)

James Chapter 1 poetry 22 again gives us the biblical counsel of abiding in Christ: "be ye actors of the word, and not listeners only..."

This of course of study is the continual subject as Jesus is called the word (John 1:1 &14), the manner we cognize we have got a human relationship with Jesus is by how much we are doing His Word. He was the word that spoke the celestial sphere and Earth into existence, He hasn't changed the manner then sun sets since His word spoke it just as the other parts of His word hasn't.

1John Chapter 2 poetry 4 repeats this principal, which we trust is beginning to give lucidity as not to seek our ain volition in anything but God's volition we must be unfastened to exactly what His word teaches:
"He that saith I cognize Him and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in Him." For those who believe religion (or faithing as Dr. Gene George C. Scott sets it) doesn't have got to include obeisance are far off from His Grace and Freedom workings in their lives.

If you believe in the word you will react or obey it, am I right? of course! Romans 10:17 states "Faith come ups by hearing the word". So we cognize how religion comes. "Faith without plant is dead" (James 2:17).

We must go back to biblical definitions of words, as we "live by every word". The definition of sinfulness is misdemeanor of God's law (1John 3:4). If the spirit sets you free from sin, then the spirit will authorise you to obey the law of Supreme Being of course.

As Jesus Of Nazareth said we must make it in love for God, not tradition. It have always been the bosom status He is after, which is why the New Testament is those same laws being written on our Black Maria (as per Heb 8:8 and Jer 31:31).

The Holy Place Spirit will never do you go against God's law. Only the incorrect spirit or old thought of our life before Jesus or without His head operating in us gives us such as thoughts. All things go new when we come up to Christ.

We all turn day-to-day in saving grace and cognition and "a good apprehension have got all they that maintain His commandments". (Psalms 111:10) In Toilet 8:31-32 Jesus said "...they who go on in His word will cognize the truth and the truth and ...will put you free." Not they who disobey or reject it. He said "if you don't believe Moses' word ye CANNOT hear me or cognize me" (John 5:46 & Saint Luke 16:31).

Grace is the Grecian word Charisma where we acquire the word Charismatic or a very capable and talented person. This word Charisma is also translated as some of the manifestations of the Holy Place Spirit, such as as when you through the powerfulness of Supreme Being put manus on person for healing, this is called the personal appeal or gift of healing. Romans 1:15 states "Grace(charisma) is for obedience". A good illustration of biblical saving grace is "For it is Supreme Being which worketh in you both to shall and to make of His good pleasure." (Philipians 2:13) This isn't our ain righteousness when He makes it. The Holy Place Spirit fill ups us both to desire to make His volition and to make it.

Many like to cite "we're saved by by grace" and not complete the sentence which goes on "..through religion unto good WORKS". When the last portion is left out people are highly misled to travel on with the complete antonym thought the Bible conveyed in that passage. It desires you to recognize the Blood of Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus permanently saved us by His ain dear grace, but for what? To make His good works!

It is not the good plant that save but we're saved to make them, people have got just had it backwards because no amount of Good Plant can gain your lasting Negro spiritual salvation. It is only gained by accepting Jesus Of Nazareth Of Nazareth Of Nazareth Christ's punishment paid through His blood.

When our King Jesus the Jesus was asked what is the top commandment He first said "Hear Type Type O Israel" quoted from Deuteronomy 6:4,

Mar 12:29 "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Godhead our Supreme Being is one Lord:"

That word HEAR in this transition is the word SHAMA (the word for responding & obeying in Hebrew). As we cognize religion come ups by "HEARING" again we see we acquire religion by obeying what we heard. As we go on doing His volition which is His word law.

So as we cognize His volition and His word are one and the same it is up to us to now choose. Our old flesh nature habit desire to make the law, only the Negro spiritual nature will. "For I please in the law of Supreme Being after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into imprisonment to the law of sinfulness which is in my members." (Romans 7:22-23 and "the law is spiritual" (Romans 7:14). Now Choose "As ye have got therefore received Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:"

Recommended songs:

"God Brand Me Like You"

"In Him We Live"

"All He Wants is You"

"I Just Desire To Praise You"

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Loved Whether I Like It Or Not

I grew up in the Middle West on a farm. My household consisted of ma and dada and my blood brother and me. Iodine was the oldest, born to a ma who liked to over achieve. She really was and is a singular woman. The job was that I felt more than than than and more pressure level as I grew up to be more than I could be. Somewhere Iodine got it in my caput that I was loved more than when I did good things. People noticed me. Strangers commented that they had heard of me. It helped (and hurt) that I lived in a little town environment where everybody knew everybody. My parents were large clip husbandmen in the area, so everybody knew me before I knew them from my parents. I felt all through my growth up old age that I was supposed to be superior, that the baseline was well above average. If I was going to attain it and acquire the awards I wanted, I was going to have got to really excel. So I did.

I was the squad captain and the star jock and the shining illustration (sometimes) of what I thought everybody wanted me to be. I liked the attending I got, and I really was pretty good at a batch of things. I got noticed a lot, and liked it. The job came as I got older, because somewhere I learned that I needed to stand out to be loved. Being loved just for who Iodine was remained a conception foreign to me. I could only attach being loved to performing well. So I pushed to execute well. All the time. I thought it was the lone option I had.

When I became a Christian, I put a end for myself the first hebdomad after I decided to follow Jesus; I wanted to be the best Christian that ever lived. And I put my head to it and worked difficult for it. See anything incorrect with this picture? It had go so entrenched in my having to execute for attending and love that I was going about having a human relationship with Supreme Being the same way. I knew that Supreme Being loved me, but I figured I was going to acquire more than loved or loved longer if I was really a great Christian. Iodine worked many old age as a truster to depository financial institution up hours so that I would acquire loved when I wasn't so lovable.

Taking in the undeniable fact that I am completely loved – end of sentence- have been really hard. I can acquire my head around being loved if I have got earned it. But to accept it just because? That 1 blows my mind. I really am in the thick of it right now – acquisition to cognize I am loved, and to dwell from that 'knowing' have got been the simplest and most hard lesson of my Christian walking in the 25 old age I have known Him. I am humiliated to state that I still happen it far easier to work out my redemption than it is to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I am loved. I'm working on it. I inquire if I work harder if I can acquire Supreme Being to love me more.

I am trying to see myself through God's eyes, not my own. I look different through that lens. I cognize in my caput that He made me. Now I am trying to allow my bosom know. I recognize that I am unique, just as I am, without doing anything. That 1 is a small difficult to swallow, because when I reflect on my life there is a batch there that ain't existent pretty. Choosing to believe that he cognizes all the debris and all the gifts and loves me profoundly anyway – well, that's absolutely mind blowing.

I am finding in the center of the battle that when I get to know, even on the shallowest of levels, that He really loves me, it go forths me a small better off. I happen it easier to love myself, to forgive others, to overlook trivial things, and to dwell in a saving grace that tin literally travel the world. I am beginning to cognize I am loved, not because of anything I have got done or could do, but simply because I am loved – His choice, not mine.

So I am learning to dwell without performance, and remainder in His limitless offering of love regardless; regardless of the points I work to gain; regardless of the sinfulness that still malodors up my life; regardless of the one thousands of ways I believe I should be eliminated. I am learning to allow Supreme Being be God, and halt telling him how to make his job.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Why God Doesn't Answer Your Prayers and Other Puzzling Questions We All Have

Life is full of hard questions. Here's an answer to a few of them.

Q. How come God doesn't always answer our prayers?

A. God doesn't always answer your prayers because you may be asking for something unreasonable or that doesn't fit into the plans God has for you. God is like a good parent; he won't let you do something that is bad for you. Asking to win the lottery might sound like the solution to your money woes but it will probably cause you more harm in the long run than working hard for a living.

Another reason God might not answer your prayers is because you took the credit for the answer. Pulling off that big job or saving your marriage. The expression "all glory goes to God" means you have to give God credit for answering your prayers or he may not answer the next one. And, sometimes the lack of an answer is your answer.

Q. Why do people kill in the name of God?

A. Unfortunately there are people who lose the meaning of what God is saying to us. The Old Testament in the Bible has stories about God helping the Jews fight off their enemies. They win because God is squarely on their side. The problem comes when people today think God is telling them to fight for him. God can fight his own battles. He can win them too!

After God made a new covenant or agreement with us, each of us became responsible for our own outcome. We win the battle by choosing to follow God, and conversely, lose it by not choosing God. And if we don't choose God, by default we've chosen to follow the devil. Scary thought isn't it?

Q. If God exists, why is life so difficult and why is there so much suffering in the world?

A. God is not the one who makes us suffer. God is the one who saves us from the suffering. It's ironic how most people wait until their lives are so bad or they are so miserable they want to end it all before they even consider that God might be able to help. God is available to us 24 hours a day, every day of the year, even on holidays and weekends. God will help you when you call on him, but he won't step in unless you ask.

The devil is the one who brings suffering. His only job is to literally make our lives hell so we'll turn away from God. The devil also tempts us with all sorts of pleasures too but as many people soon find out, those pleasures ruin their lives and bring suffering through loss of jobs, relationships, dignity and even our lives. Once God banishes the devil, all suffering will end.

Q. Why doesn't God just banish the devil right now?

A. As bad as this sounds, God and Satan entered into a kind of bet and we are the prize. Thousands and thousands of years ago, Satan bet God that he could turn us away from God, so God decided to give him a little time to see what would happen.

If you look at what's going on in the world, you might be convinced Satan has won. But more people than ever are turning back to God after trying Satan's pleasures and finding them lacking the one thing every human craves–love. I think we have a God hunger that cannot be satisfied by anything else and that all humans will eventually come back to God.

Q. Why does God cause bad things to happen to good people?

A. God never punishes us. The bad things always come from the devil–Satan. Satan's whole job is to get us to turn away from God so he uses the things that work the best–suffering, pain, tragedy, loss, death. All of this suffering wears us down if we don't have any help. God is there to help.

Your suffering may not end right away but suddenly there is someone else sharing the suffering with you. This is a difficult concept for most people to understand. Why doesn't God just fix it? Mostly God doesn't fix it because we don't learn anything from it. It's like a child who gets in trouble, if the parents always swoop in and fix it right away, the child doesn't learn the lessons. We are the same way.

If you've never had severe financial struggles, how can you have sympathy for someone who does? God wants us to be available to help others so we all have to struggle with something in order to be there to help someone else. Usually the most compassionate people have had the most suffering in their lives. Be thankful for whatever suffering you are going through because it prepares you to help someone else.

Q. Why are some Christians so judgmental? And why do they act so holy but aren't?

A. On the whole, most Christians are less judgmental than the average person is. Some people run into Christians who are not really saved or who are early in their journey with God so they appear to be very judgmental. Just like any other person, there are Christians who are kind, compassionate, smart, funny, goofy, serious, plodding, fussy, messy, quiet, loud, fair and yes, judgmental. Everyone travels a different road to being a better person. Some people take longer to get there than others. Some of the most judgmental Christians are actually much less judgmental than they were before being a Christian. That's all we can hope for–that they'll get less judgmental with every passing day.