Thursday, January 9, 2014
*.* Jesus is our wisdom *.*
Wisdom is like a woman, in her left hand are riches and honour and the
right hand, length of days. When you embrace her, she will embrace you
with riches and honour and length of days.
-Ps. Prince
Proverbs 9:10 (AMP)
The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is the beginning (the chief
and choice part) of Wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight
and understanding.
Beloved, the worship of the Lord is the beginning to wisdom. We all are
wise because we worship the Lord. The Holy Spirit will guide you in everything
you do. (John 14:26, Luke 12:12)
James 1:5 (AMP)
If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of [a]the giving God
[Who gives] to everyone liberally (haplōs) and ungrudgingly, without reproaching
or fault-finding, and it will be given him.
Beloveds, if we lack wisdom let us ask it from the Lord. He will give freely
(haplōs) to us. The word haplōs quoted by Thayer's Greek Lexicon is led
by the desire to bless. God desire is for us to be wise. He give liberally
wisdom to everyone who asked.
1 Corinthians 1:30 (AMP)
But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made
our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the divine plan of
salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [thus
making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration
[making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from
eternal penalty for sin].
Jesus is made our wisdom, and our righteousness and our Redemption. We
have Him in our life, He is our wisdom, ask Him for any decision making
and see His wisdom manifest in your life.
Luke 2:51-52 (AMP)
And He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was [habitually] obedient
to them; and his mother kept and closely and persistently guarded all these
things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom (in broad and full understanding)
and in stature and years, and in favor with God and man.
Jesus submitted to His earthly parents and He grew in wisdom and stature
and increase in favor. Beloved, there is an honour in submitting to leaders
put over us, not because they deserve it but because that God put them
over us and see that you will increase in wisdom.
Me blogged @ | 6:39 AM
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
*.* Jesus is the reason for Christmas *.*
Matthew 1:18-21 (AMP)
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place under
these circumstances: When His mother Mary had been promised in marriage to
Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be pregnant [through the
power] of the Holy Spirit. And her [promised] husband Joseph, being a just and
upright man and not willing to expose her publicly and to shame and disgrace
her, decided to repudiate and dismiss (divorce) her quietly and secretly. But
as he was thinking this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a
dream, saying, Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary [as]
your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of (from, out of) the Holy
Spirit. She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus [the Greek form
of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior], for He will save His people from
their sins [that is, prevent them from failing and missing the true end and
scope of life, which is God].
Beloved, Jesus void Himself of all
and come to save us from missing the mark (sin). He is thrice holy. In Him
there was no sin (1 John 3:5), He knew no sin (2 cor 5:21) and He did no sin (1
peter 2:22). God look through the earth and find no one perfect and Jesus, offered
Himself to come and die for our sins. (Heb 4) He is our wonderful savior,
without Him, no one can go to God, but because of His sacrifice, we have access
to the holy place and we call God our Father.
John 1:14 (AMP)
And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled
(fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His
glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives
from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth..
Beloveds, Jesus did not just come and dwell with us, He tabernacled with
us. He will never leave nor forsake us. In the beginning He was with God and
for the sake of us, He left heaven and came to earth for us. How loving is our savior Jesus.
Luke 2:8-16 (AMP)
And in that vicinity there were shepherds living [out under the open
sky] in the field, watching [in shifts] over their flock by night. And behold,
an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord flashed and shone
all about them, and they were terribly frightened. But the angel said to them,
Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will
come to all the people. For to you is born this day in the town of David a
Savior, Who is Christ (the Messiah) the Lord! And this will be a sign for you
[by which you will recognize Him]: you will find [after searching] a Baby
wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. Then suddenly there
appeared with the angel an army of the troops of heaven (a heavenly
knighthood), praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest [heaven], and
on earth peace among men with whom He is well pleased [men of goodwill, of His
favor]. When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one
to another, Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing (saying) that has
come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us. So they went with haste and
[by searching] found Mary and Joseph, and the Baby lying in a manger.
God the son was born into this world, without a place to stay. He was born into
a manger, a symbol of His death. A manger is a place where the animals feed on.
Feed on His finished work at the cross and His righteousness that was given to
us.
Isaiah 9:6 (AMP)
For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given (Nathan); and the
government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful
Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father [of Eternity], Prince of Peace.
Philippians 2:8-10 (AMP)
And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself
[still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the
death of the cross! Therefore [because He stooped so low] God has highly
exalted Him and has freely bestowed (charizomai) on Him the name
that is above every name, That in (at) the name of Jesus every knee should
(must) bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Beloved, the Hebrew word for the given in Isa 9:6 is Nathan, which can mean bestow also. God the Father, loves us
so much, that He bestow His son to us when we were yet sinners. Jesus is a
wonderful counsellor, whatever problem you have, go to Him, He will be there.
As Ps. Lian has explained in the service last Sunday, freely bestowed in
the Greek in charizomai, which can means give in
grace. God the Father was so please with Jesus finished work on the cross that
He gave the name upon all names to Jesus and every knee must bow to that name.
Does your sickness has a name or your problem has a name? Declare that Jesus is
King over your problem and it would bow to Jesus.
Matthew 1:23 (AMP)
Behold, the virgin shall become pregnant and give birth to a Son, and
they shall call His name Emmanuel—which, when translated, means, God with us.
Emmanuel, God with us. Beloved, God will never by any means leave us. He
came as a man and dwell with us. According to the Thayer's Greek Lexicon,
Jesus was God united with man, and showed that God was dwelling with man.
James 1:17 (AMP)
Every good gift and every perfect (free, large, full) gift is from
above; it comes down from the Father of all [that gives] light, in [the shining
of] Whom there can be no variation [rising or setting] or shadow cast by His
turning [as in an eclipse].
Christmas is a season of giving. Let us remember to thank God always
that for His perfect gift that He gave to us. In everything, give thanks to the
Lord. =D
O
Holy Night – Josh Groban
Me blogged @ | 6:21 AM
Saturday, December 21, 2013
*.* Jesus is love *.*
3:16 (AMP)
For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world (kosmos) that He
[even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in
(trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be
lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
Beloved, God loves you. He loves you
with a passion that even if you are the only person in the world, He will still
come down and die for you. Beloved, do you know that the word for world here is
“kosmos”, which can mean “inhabitants of the earth, men, the human family”. The world is big, but the Chinese bible translates it accurately,
for God so love man, that He sent His only son. (神愛世人, 甚至賜下他的獨生子，好讓所有信他的人不至於滅亡，反得永恆的生命)
John 15:9 (AMP)
I have loved you, [just] as the Father has loved Me; abide in My love [continue
in His love with Me].
1 John 4:10 (AMP)
In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent
His Son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins.
Romans 8:37 (AMP)
Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a
surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.
Beloveds let us dwell in the love of God. When you are in lack, focus on
His love for you. Even in your worst day, let His love bath you. Through His
love, we are more than a conqueror. He had overcome, therefore, be of good
cheer. (John 16:33)
Romans 8:39 (AMP)
Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to
separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Beloved, God has promise us that He will ALWAYS loves us. NOTHING, no angel, no
devil can separate us from the love of God. He will always love us. He will
always be there for us. This is agape love, the self-sacrificing love. The love
so strong that He voids Himself of everything and came to earth as a human to
die for us.
1 John 4:16 (AMP)
And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and
by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love
God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love
dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him.
Psalm 106:1 (AMP)
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!) O give thanks to the Lord, for He is
good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!
Psalm 103:8 (AMP)
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy
and loving-kindness.
God is love, when He is angry, He is strange at heart. Judgement and punishment
was never in His heart. He is merciful and kind, wonderful and loving. This is
our God.
Isaiah 53:3-5 (AMP)
He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and
pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide
their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any
esteem for Him. Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and
distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we
[ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with
leprosy]. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our
guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being
for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and
made whole.
Beloved, Jesus doesn’t need to go through the whipping. But He went
through the lashes just for us to be healed. Every whip what was whipped upon
His body was for our sickness. Have the image of Him standing up after each lashes;
telling you, “I have conquered that sickness for you”. Another whip came and He
stood up and says “I’ve take your depression for you”. Now be healed for He has
taken ALL our grief and our sickness upon Himself.
Romans 5:8 (AMP)
But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that
while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.
Luke 23:46 Bible (AMP)
And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, Father, into Your hands I
commit My spirit! And with these words, He expired.
Beloved, this is how Jesus loves us. When we were still His enemies,
when we were still in our sins, He came and died for us. There is a little
story by Kenneth E. Hagan(i think) that I want to share. I’m sure Ps. Prince has shared
it in His sermons a few times.
My little boat
A
father and his small son worked together and built a toy boat. They
whittled out it's hull, painted it red and attached a white sail. Then
they enjoyed many happy hours sailing it in the river running through
their village.
Somehow the father died. When the boy sailed the
boat alone, it brought back wonderful memories until one day a bigh wind
caught the little boat and carried the boat down the river faster than
the boy could run after it. Out it sailed into the sea.
The boy
missed his boat so much for the long time it was gone. About
thanksgiving time, he was overjoyed to see his little boat appeared in
the toy shop window. He ran inside and said "that my little boat in the
window"! My father and I made it but it was lost to the sea".
The
shop owner said that it was brought in by sailerman who found it. He
will let the boy have it but at a price. The boy had no money, he did
everything he could to earn some. He cut wood,
sold paper and each day he passes the toy show just to see if the boat
is there.
At last on Christmas day, he had enough money to buy
the little boat. Out he came from the shop, clasped the little boat in
his chest and cried, "little boat, little boat, you were twice mine,
I've made you and I've brought you!"
(Taken from the blood and the glory by Billye Brim)
This is how Jesus loves us, He made us and redeem us, not by silver or gold, but with His precious blood.
Beloved, God is not mad at you, God is mad about you.
Lastly,
Let us worship Jesus with a song....
The
love of God - MecryMe
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*.* Worry not about tomorrow *.*
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you
something to do but gets you nowhere.
- Glenn
Turner
Matthew 6:34 (AMP)
So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will
have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own
trouble.
Beloved, is
there a worry in your life? Be it a test tomorrow, or a bill due next week. Or even a demand placed
on you on the following days to come. Jesus says don’t worry about it. In the
whole of Matt 6, Jesus explained that even Solomon, the richest king in the
whole history could not be matched up with us. (Matt 6:25-33)
Matthew 11:28-30 (MSG)
“Are you tired? Worn out?
Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your
life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with
me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything
heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live
freely and lightly.”
Beloveds are
you tired or worn out? Go to Jesus and He will be your rest. He will teach you
the unforced rhythms of grace. He will teach you to live freely and without
worry.
Exodus 16:15-30 (AMP)
When the Israelites saw
it, they said one to another, Manna [What is it?]. For they did not know what
it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread which the Lord has given you
to eat. This is what the Lord has commanded: Let every man gather of it as much
as he will need, an omer for each person, according to the number of your
persons; take it, every man for those in his tent. The [people] did so, and
gathered, some more, some less. When they measured it with an omer, he who
gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack; each
gathered according to his need. Moses said, Let none of it be left until
morning. But they did not listen to Moses; some of them left of it until
morning, and it bred worms, became foul, and stank; and Moses was angry with
them.
Beloved, in the Old
Testament, God rain down Manna from heaven. It’s a sign of His provision and
His grace. His grace is like the Manna. The grace for tomorrow has not come yet.
And His grace for today cannot be used for tomorrow. If you are worry about a
presentation or a test that is due a week later, it’s because the grace is not
there yet. There will be a grace for the situation for that day.
Psalm 55:22 (AMP)
Cast your burden on the
Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you; He will never allow
the [consistently] righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail).
Proverbs 3:5-6 (AMP)
Lean on, trust in, and be
confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own
insight or understanding.
A lot of time, we worry
because we could not fully trust the Lord. We look upon our own understanding
and the situation and worry but God wants us to fully trust in Him and cast all
our cares upon Him. He promised He will never make us, the righteous fail.
Psalm 46:10 (NET)
He says, “Stop your striving
and recognize that I am God! I will be exalted over the nations! I will be
exalted over the earth!”
Philippians 4:6 (AMP)
Do not fret or have any
anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer
and petition ([a]definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your
wants known to God.
Beloved, let us stop
worrying and start praying. Praying is a privilege that was given to the new
convent people. When we pray, our worries goes up and His peace comes down.
Me blogged @ | 6:18 AM
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
*.* Seeing Jesus as your faith *.*
Luke 8:24-25 (AMP)
And the disciples came and woke Him, saying, Master, Master, we are perishing! And He, being thoroughly awakened, censured and blamed and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; and they ceased, and there came a calm.
And
He said to them, [Why are you so fearful?] Where is your faith (your
trust, your confidence in Me—in My veracity and My integrity)? And they
were seized with alarm and profound and reverent
dread, and they marveled, saying to one another, Who then is this, that
He commands even wind and sea, and they obey Him?
Hebrews 12:2 (AMP)
Looking
away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and
the
Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is
also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the
joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross,
despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Jesus
was probably pointing to Himself when He asked the disciples where is
their faith. He was trying to point the disciples away from the problems
but focus only on Him, the Solution to all the problems. Jesus who is
the source and finisher of our faith. Beloveds, if you have "no faith"
just look to Jesus. He is your faith.
Matthew 17:20 (KJV)
And
Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto
you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this
mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and
nothing shall be impossible
unto
you.
Mustard
Seed is one of the
smallest seed in Jesus' time and
Jesus used this illustration to speak to His disciples that even with a
little faith, speaking to your mountain(problems) to go away, it will
obey.
Hebrews 11:6 (AMP)
For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone
among you
not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought
[not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate
his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him.
Beloved, have you ever thought "I have no faith"?
That is a lie the enemy is trying to confuse you with. God has given us
each a portion of faith. No matter how "faithless" you are, you are
still given a portion of faith based on Jesus finished work. As we are
justified by faith (Rom 5:1). Once you believed that Jesus is your
Savior, you have a measure of faith.
Romans 12:3 (MSG)
It’s impossible to please
God apart from faith. And why? Because
anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.
God is so good that He supplied the faith for us and rewards us with the faith he has given us in the first place.
Romans 10:17(NLT)
So faith comes from hearing , that is, hearing the Good News(rhēma)about Christ.
So how do we "increase"
in faith? Simply by listing to the gospel good news of Christ and His
finished work. Read the bible, listen to sermons that talk about Jesus,
by doing that we will increase in faith. How much He loved us to died on
the cross for us just that we can be reconcile with God the Father.
The good news here in greek is the world rhēma. Rhēma means word of God. It can also mean a fresh, revelation of God words for your situation. Me blogged @ | 1:27 AM
