Value: what do we value? can we truely appreciate the importance, the value of knowing, appreciating, communing with and being filled with the unsearchable riches of Christ?
That's the only way our hearts can be saved from worshipping the worthless. That we might know Him, obey Him and be changed into His likeness! That our hearts might be ever captivated by the value of His blood, His sacrifice, His excellent person, His infinite worth, power, Majesty, wisdom, grace, mercy and favor. to know Him to dwell in His presence and to express Him to the world
Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts
Monday, March 21, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
How to keep an unbroken spirit?
How to keep an unbroken spirit?
Mandela was in prison like Josepth for 20 years.
how were they able to maintain a lion like, fearless spirit, without giving in to the forces which were designed specifically to break a man or reduce him to become an animal.
Both came into prison as leaders and princes, and left prison as leaders and princes, only with more humility and wisdom.
Daniel 11:33-35 about those who are righteous but yet imprisoned at the end times,
33“Those who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.
34“Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.
35“Some of those who have insight will fall, in order to refine, purge and make them pure until the end time; because it is still to come at the appointed time.
Learning that God is sovereign and mightily rules the earth but yet here i am in prison, is a tough lesson to learn. He must have some special purpose to try me, to make me pure for his comming.
How can one hope and continue to hope, becomming even stronger and stronger in hope, unless He sees clearly His invisible object of His hope clearly in heaven waiting for him?
Mandela was in prison like Josepth for 20 years.
how were they able to maintain a lion like, fearless spirit, without giving in to the forces which were designed specifically to break a man or reduce him to become an animal.
Both came into prison as leaders and princes, and left prison as leaders and princes, only with more humility and wisdom.
Daniel 11:33-35 about those who are righteous but yet imprisoned at the end times,
33“Those who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.
34“Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.
35“Some of those who have insight will fall, in order to refine, purge and make them pure until the end time; because it is still to come at the appointed time.
Learning that God is sovereign and mightily rules the earth but yet here i am in prison, is a tough lesson to learn. He must have some special purpose to try me, to make me pure for his comming.
How can one hope and continue to hope, becomming even stronger and stronger in hope, unless He sees clearly His invisible object of His hope clearly in heaven waiting for him?
Overcome, overcome, overcome
By God's power, by His grace and By His strength, I must overcome every challenge of aimlessness, laziness and weariness.
by the grace of God i must pick up the skill of superb administration - the thing which i hate but have to excel in here.
Need to exercise my thinking function (tertiary function - ie. a weak psychological function for me) in practical things and develop it by sheer practice.
by the grace of God i must pick up the skill of superb administration - the thing which i hate but have to excel in here.
Need to exercise my thinking function (tertiary function - ie. a weak psychological function for me) in practical things and develop it by sheer practice.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Game of life - proverbs, modern rephrase
Game of life
Resouces:
Quick reaction time, wisdom, quality relationships, humility, sincerity, quality information, credibility, leadership ability, comunication, ability to give and receive accurate information, wits, emotional strength, sense of humour, insight, ability to gain trust and keep trust, honor, integrity, fear of the Lord, the word of God, discernment, prayer.
Judicious usage of the above will win the game, rewards will be as follows:
Wealth, influence, favour, authority, power, prestiege, influence, long life, honour.
Resouces:
Quick reaction time, wisdom, quality relationships, humility, sincerity, quality information, credibility, leadership ability, comunication, ability to give and receive accurate information, wits, emotional strength, sense of humour, insight, ability to gain trust and keep trust, honor, integrity, fear of the Lord, the word of God, discernment, prayer.
Judicious usage of the above will win the game, rewards will be as follows:
Wealth, influence, favour, authority, power, prestiege, influence, long life, honour.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Guard your priesthood
Numbers 18:7 And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”
(Numbers 18:7 ESV)
I have to break old behavioral patterns of dominion and playing the victim and the used and abused. I refuse to become a slave of man when I have been bought with the price of the blood of Christ to become His servant His slave, His ambassador and son. I am called on His mission, His building project, to preach the gospel to every creature, to manifest the wisdom of God to principalities and powers in heavenly places. No time to be a slave ‘stand fast in the freedom for which Christ has set you free no longer return to slavery.’ I am a free son of the Kingdom of heaven.
(Numbers 18:7 ESV)
I have to break old behavioral patterns of dominion and playing the victim and the used and abused. I refuse to become a slave of man when I have been bought with the price of the blood of Christ to become His servant His slave, His ambassador and son. I am called on His mission, His building project, to preach the gospel to every creature, to manifest the wisdom of God to principalities and powers in heavenly places. No time to be a slave ‘stand fast in the freedom for which Christ has set you free no longer return to slavery.’ I am a free son of the Kingdom of heaven.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Free will vs calvinism argument
When we stand before a judge for a crime you did commit, is there ever a time that you can say, it really wasn't me, was someone else who made me do it, when all evidence points indeed to you?
Are you or are you not responsible for your actions?
if it was the force of predestination of factors existing already which are beyound your control - your temprement, your environment and influences which they contained that caused you to do your crime, then God must be the one on trial because in effect you are saying that God is the one who caused you to do it, because He is the ultimate cause of all the conditions which you mentioned, and you are indeed innocent.
Rubbish. You are tried because you are responsible. because there is a power in you which you, not God controls to do or not to do. The usage and stewardship of that power is what God we are accountable to God for. We will all be tried before God and answer to Him on that great day what we did with our time, our choices, our minds, our families.
Yes people indeed blame God and blame others, but in doing so they believe the law to be unjust and the judge to be partial, which is a greater offence than any crime they have commited.
You are in fact saying 'I am a law to myself and there is no objective criteria of morality which i a moral being, capable of choosing my own behaviors and actions- is responsible to'.
Such a person is not human. He has lost the essence of being even human and exists on the the basest level,. The essence of being human is that we are moral beings, responsible to an absolute standard of morality and responsible to God for our actions, words and choices.
Are you or are you not responsible for your actions?
if it was the force of predestination of factors existing already which are beyound your control - your temprement, your environment and influences which they contained that caused you to do your crime, then God must be the one on trial because in effect you are saying that God is the one who caused you to do it, because He is the ultimate cause of all the conditions which you mentioned, and you are indeed innocent.
Rubbish. You are tried because you are responsible. because there is a power in you which you, not God controls to do or not to do. The usage and stewardship of that power is what God we are accountable to God for. We will all be tried before God and answer to Him on that great day what we did with our time, our choices, our minds, our families.
Yes people indeed blame God and blame others, but in doing so they believe the law to be unjust and the judge to be partial, which is a greater offence than any crime they have commited.
You are in fact saying 'I am a law to myself and there is no objective criteria of morality which i a moral being, capable of choosing my own behaviors and actions- is responsible to'.
Such a person is not human. He has lost the essence of being even human and exists on the the basest level,. The essence of being human is that we are moral beings, responsible to an absolute standard of morality and responsible to God for our actions, words and choices.
The first sniper rifle
The stone went up and up and up and the giant came down, down, down, and the first sniper rifle was invented! Headshot!
Staying awake to rouse the dead
We need to stay awake in prayer so that the world around us might awaken to the reality of a dawning God over their lives.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Your Grace
Your Grace is more than overflowingly enough to cover our differences, and is the prime thing we have in common, it is the bond of our love and unity. Thy Tender Mercies.
Thursday, March 03, 2011
tough talk
you are extremely rude and your attitude stinks. take you stink somewhere else. get out of my face.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Courage
Someone asked the question today 'when will I have the courage to do what I want?'
I like the question, I also like the answer which we see in the word and in the lives of the saints.
Help me to live courageously daily that when You see when I am ready, you are able to launch me.
Let me not waste the lessons and time in the training process.
I like the question, I also like the answer which we see in the word and in the lives of the saints.
Help me to live courageously daily that when You see when I am ready, you are able to launch me.
Let me not waste the lessons and time in the training process.
Fathers
My Father was a severe gambler and a smoker and never was one to me. But You are now my Father, you give me an overcoming strength in Your love.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Finding heavenly treasure
Frustrated at times, I feel like what I do has no eternal value whatsoever. At least if I serve your people there is a reward in small deeds of service.
But can these things not be used for you, for your glory? Could temporal and easily forgotten deeds earn an eternal reward?
If getting a glass of water for the redeemed could earn a reward how about serving people who don't know You, who do not deserve service? Not too far to think that it could earn a reward in heaven. If done with the right spirit.
But can these things not be used for you, for your glory? Could temporal and easily forgotten deeds earn an eternal reward?
If getting a glass of water for the redeemed could earn a reward how about serving people who don't know You, who do not deserve service? Not too far to think that it could earn a reward in heaven. If done with the right spirit.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Fathers
Fathers do not look to children to meet their needs they look to God. the role of a Father is primarily to give.
A broken, sorrowful past
1 cor 5:16-18 nasv
16 Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. 17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 18 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ...
1 Chron 4:9-10 esv
9 Jabez (pain) was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” [1] 10 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm (evil)[2] so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.
Joel 2:25 esv
25 I will restore to you the years
that the swarming locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,
my great army, which I sent among you.
Spent the night thinking about the past, in part in sorrowful rememberence. Felt a distinct challenge to my soul(not of the God-kind). The challenge goes along the lines of -'look there, these people are happy, blessed by God and fulfilled. What do you have, you came from a life of pain, a life of shame. What is God doing now in your situation? Since you have believed in Him, where is the fulfillment of His promise? What do you have? Others have suffered for Christ, the suffering you have suffered are they not altogether your own foolishness, your own doing?' In short it is a challenge to relax my hold of faith in God and succumb to envy, impatient frustration, to have sorrow with myself, and turn to unbelief and disilusionment with God.
I am encouraged by the first passage that My past is dead, gone, destroyed in Christ. My life is so interwined with the risen glorified Savior that everyday is a new beginning for me. I am a new beginning in Christ.
I am thankful for these challenges for they only make me cling to my Savior even more, to trust Him that He is able to redeem my life from the dunghill and put me on a throne, place my feet in a broad place, take me to a fair land of milk and honey and strengthen me to fight the enemies that guard and surround that land.
It is true that I do not have anything to be proud about. Many years have been wasted in sorrow. I have seen more sorrowful years than I have seen years of joy and fulfillment. But that will not kill my hope in God! 'Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.' It amazes me that God would choose me to be His child and give me entrance and bestow His kingdom on me. Indeed all I have to offer him is this poor life, which as my enemy rightly pointed out: is a life only of shame, a life that is without honour. Indeed I am last, but in God's topsy turvy kingdom I may yet emerge first!
1 Cor 1: 26-3 esv
26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, [2] not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being [3] might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him [4] you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
O God, restore all the years that the locusts have eaten, I wait in patient, enduring, sometimes painful trust to continue to hope that You will fulfill Your own promise: that you will restore the years of waste and pain, and you will prosper us and keep us from evil and pain and do a full restoration with this broken life. No devil, I will not deny my experience in my life, indeed the past has all contributed to who I am today. But the past is broken, gone, dead and a new hope and redemption dawns for me in Christ, as i offer up this broken life to Him. I will hold on to Him until i experience fully His full redemption and restoration for my life.
16 Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. 17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 18 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ...
1 Chron 4:9-10 esv
9 Jabez (pain) was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” [1] 10 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm (evil)[2] so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.
Joel 2:25 esv
25 I will restore to you the years
that the swarming locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,
my great army, which I sent among you.
Spent the night thinking about the past, in part in sorrowful rememberence. Felt a distinct challenge to my soul(not of the God-kind). The challenge goes along the lines of -'look there, these people are happy, blessed by God and fulfilled. What do you have, you came from a life of pain, a life of shame. What is God doing now in your situation? Since you have believed in Him, where is the fulfillment of His promise? What do you have? Others have suffered for Christ, the suffering you have suffered are they not altogether your own foolishness, your own doing?' In short it is a challenge to relax my hold of faith in God and succumb to envy, impatient frustration, to have sorrow with myself, and turn to unbelief and disilusionment with God.
I am encouraged by the first passage that My past is dead, gone, destroyed in Christ. My life is so interwined with the risen glorified Savior that everyday is a new beginning for me. I am a new beginning in Christ.
I am thankful for these challenges for they only make me cling to my Savior even more, to trust Him that He is able to redeem my life from the dunghill and put me on a throne, place my feet in a broad place, take me to a fair land of milk and honey and strengthen me to fight the enemies that guard and surround that land.
It is true that I do not have anything to be proud about. Many years have been wasted in sorrow. I have seen more sorrowful years than I have seen years of joy and fulfillment. But that will not kill my hope in God! 'Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.' It amazes me that God would choose me to be His child and give me entrance and bestow His kingdom on me. Indeed all I have to offer him is this poor life, which as my enemy rightly pointed out: is a life only of shame, a life that is without honour. Indeed I am last, but in God's topsy turvy kingdom I may yet emerge first!
1 Cor 1: 26-3 esv
26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, [2] not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being [3] might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him [4] you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
O God, restore all the years that the locusts have eaten, I wait in patient, enduring, sometimes painful trust to continue to hope that You will fulfill Your own promise: that you will restore the years of waste and pain, and you will prosper us and keep us from evil and pain and do a full restoration with this broken life. No devil, I will not deny my experience in my life, indeed the past has all contributed to who I am today. But the past is broken, gone, dead and a new hope and redemption dawns for me in Christ, as i offer up this broken life to Him. I will hold on to Him until i experience fully His full redemption and restoration for my life.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The world and Jesus
The world is constantly telling us to reach out, grab and possess it. What it does not tell us is that the price is small and large chunks of our soul in exchange.
Jesus also is asking the same. For the soul sold and paid fully to Him He gives a life worth living, wholeness in our soul and freedom from the control of the world in exchange.
What seems so much like bondage to the natural mind results in freedom, that which seems so much like freedom results in profound bondage.
Jesus also is asking the same. For the soul sold and paid fully to Him He gives a life worth living, wholeness in our soul and freedom from the control of the world in exchange.
What seems so much like bondage to the natural mind results in freedom, that which seems so much like freedom results in profound bondage.
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