Sacrificing Our Best To God

The Power of Sacrifice

Åρ☺ṧ☂◎ℓї¢ ℐᾔ﹩℘ḯґαт☤☺η : Our sacrifice should cost us something great, so that the Lord will be pleased with our sacrifice. Father gave His only Son which cost Him his everything, what are we willing to give to Him?

It is easy to give our time, talent, treasure and yet not give our body and life to Jesus Christ our Lord. When we give our life to Jesus and surrrender it to Him, our very motivation will make us to live sacrificially to fullfill God's plan, purpose and His will for our lives. God's true New Jerusalem saints will always live by sacrifice in their mindset toward God, seeing Jesus as their forerunner and example to follow (Heb 12:22-24; 6:20; 1 Peter 2:21; 2 Cor 8:9). But those who have allowed the Mystery Babylonian spirit to influence them, will live in the same way as any other person in the world (1 Chr 21:24; Rev 17:5-6). Babylonian lifestyle is indulgence and the babylonic spirit makes people to give to God only what they want and that too when they feel it is comfortable to give. Man's power, ego and strength of the flesh is worshipped in disguise in the name of God in this false religion.

The Bible tells us to give our body as a living sacrifice which is a reasonable and acceptable sacrifice to our God (Rom 12:1)! When we give to God more and more area of our mind that controls our body daily, smoking, pornography, greed, covetousness and all uncleanness will cease and God will be glorified through our lives (1 Peter 4:1). It is our daily surrender and sacrifice of our body to God that makes our earthly life a living monument of our loving and living Christ in heaven. May God help us live a self-sacrificing life day after day for HIS GLORY!

“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?” — Leonard Ravenhill


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Learning To Live By Essentials

One Thing You Must Do!

"13 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, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (Phil 3:13-14).

In the recent times, I have been doing only one thing spiritually and I believe that is the only one thing that we all must learn to do in order to do well to reach for the eternal heavenly prize that Jesus has set before us and have thus called us to receive it by winning the prize for the spiritual race we run on earth.

The devil has tried his best to bring in to my mind some of the mean spirited brethren and sisters who have behaved very meanly towards me for no reason of mine. To one person I have been a long time childhood friend and the other person is some one whom God delivered through me. The devil tried to bring those old incidents and also a hearsay speech of them in to my mind again and again to make me think something bad against them and therefore develop a grudge towards them in my hidden heart.

One thing I learned in my twenties when God touched me in my desperate hopeless times of physical infirmity was to forgive people no matter what they have done, so that I may not try to justify my position and hold on to my ill feelings towards them and their behaviour. During that time of my life, God showed all the unforgiveness that have been stored in my heart for years in the past and told me to let it go by His strength and help. That was the day I learned real spirituality, which is to forgive others as God has forgiven me unconditionally (Col 3:13). That day God reminded me that all the misery I have faced in my life was because of unforgiveness and that if I do not choose to forgive people of their misdeed against me, God also will not forgive my ongoing sins without which demonic torturers will begin to control and afflict me (Matt 18:34-35).

Compared to the forgiveness we have received unconditionally as a gift from God, the number of people whom we forgive is nothing in comparision. It is like God forgiving us a million dollar debt and expecting us to forgive others some few dollars.

So I again and again did not want to retain the bad behaviour of the people whom the devil was bringing to my mind. Immediately I thanked the Holy Spirit for showing me the tricks of the devil and chose to bless them loudly from my heart (Matt 5:44-45). Ever since I chose to forgive people of all their tresspasses against me, I have learned how blessed I can become in God as His child.

We need to forget all things that are behind us inorder to really run for the prize that is ahead of us. If we can't forgive people, then we cannot run competetively against our own self. The devil will get a foothold in our lives easily through unforgiveness and will start to make our lives miserable day after day (Eph 4:26-27). We train our body to run the spiritual race by denying itself the right to defend for itself and instead take up the cross of forgetting people's tresspasses by forgiving them and letting God work on behalf of us to justify us and to take vengeance in His own way and time.

Once we forgive others, we should not let the enemy try to harbor ill feelings in our heart against people whom we have already forgiven and thus make us not to forget it. If we do not forgive people from our heart unconditionally by the Lord's strength, we will not forget people of their tresspasses which will again bring us in to the bondage of unforgiveness and grudge towards them. Thus bless those who curse you is the law we should apply by the Lord's help to over come this subtle work of our enemy Satan and his demons.

When we forget others mistake, God will be pleased to forget our mistakes too. Then we should choose to love the people whom we have forgiven by being filled with the love of God in our heart, then we are moving in to a spiritual zone of God's perfect favour which is inaccesible to a believer who does not do these things (Matt 5:46-48; Rom 5:5; Col 3:14). Every time we choose to love unworthy people who does not deserve our love, remember it God who is making us to do such a thing by His power. By loving our enemies unconditionally, God will be glorified through our lives on earth and He will glorify us in the life to come with great honor, authority and power. So if ever we try to do one thing in this life before we die, may this abundant life of forgiveness and love be the one thing that we choose to do and thus win the eternal prize with great joy for running the race by God's strength.

This metaphor of a race is spoken by Apostle Paul to emphasize that all the believers in Jesus Christ have got qualified for this spiritual race in which he included himself. In the times when Paul the apostle wrote this to believers, the greek citizens had the great world champion contest of ancient Olympia games where they will first get qualified to attend the event as citizens of greece. Once they get qualified, then they will start to practice for the prize that once a year people long for to receive. So a unbeliever cannot run this and take part in this spiritual prize contest that every believer runs. But we as the citizens of the heavely kingdom of God have been qualified to run the race against our fleshly desires.

Remember saints, if we do not choose to run the race now in forgiveness and love, we will never be able to win the race then.

DON'T LET YOUR PAST MAKE YOUR FUTURE POOR, INSTEAD FORGET YOUR PAST TO ENJOY YOUR PRESENT TIME ABUNDANTLY AND YOUR FUTURE RICHES ETERNALLY.

"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life." — George MacDonald

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Blessings!!!!

The Power Of Blessing Others

God said to the priests of the Old Testament time to put His name on the children of Israel, and if they do that, God had promised to bless the people (Num 6:27).

Thus the protocol for the priestly blessing was instructed by God through Moses to say like the following words,

"24 “The LORD bless you and keep you; 25 The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; 26 The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.” (Num 6:24-26). In the Old Testament God Himself has claimed His name to be THE LORD (Isa 42:8; Exod 6:2, 6). The Lord is the covenant name that was introduced by God only at the time of Moses, when he was sent initially by God to go to Egypt to resucue the Israelites from the house of Slavery.

Today we must remember that Jesus as our one and only LORD has made a new covenant with God the Father in heaven and have thus given us the priviledge to pronounce the same priestly blessing over people in His name. Jesus said that whatever we ask in His name, He himself will move on our behalf and do it for us (John 14:14).

As Jesus instructed us to bless people who curse us, how are we to bless them (Matt 5:44-45). Is it we should bless people only in the name of Jesus? and say literally, "Jesus Bless You!". The other question we might ask is, is it OK to bless people saying "God bless you!" in a general sense. Again this is OK as Jesus Himself said that when we ask the Father in His name, He will give you (John 16:23). In other words, when we as God's children by faith in our heart towards the name of Jesus pronounce a blessing upon people and say, "God Bless You," generally, we are actually pronouncing a mighty blessing. So with the heart we are believing in Jesus name and are confessing with our mouth the name of one God who is our Father in Heaven (Php 2:14-15; John 1:12; Matt 6:6; John 20:17), and so it will happen (Rom 10:10). Here is an invocation of God’s blessing: “May God almighty bless you and make you fruitful” (Gen 28:3; Num 6:24-26; Ruth 2:4). In other words, it is in short saying, "God Bless You."

See, to us there is only one God who is the true one whom we have inside us, even though there are so-called gods and a lot of different faiths in the world, we are not bothered about all of that (1 Cor 8:5-6). So when a true Christian says the name "God", he is invoking the power of the Father God in heaven. So the next time you say "God bless you" to some one, you as a child of God is invoking a priestly royal blessing and the power of the our one true God upon them (1 Peter 2:5, 9-10; Rev 1:5-6; 5:10, 12).

There is a mighty power in saying, "God Bless You", so bless each person you meet, whether it is a man in the grocery shop, or your fellow student in your college, or your friends, or your enemies and even those who hate you openly to highhandedly use you wrongly and persecute you. Actually blessing them with faith in your heart in the name of Jesus will set a powerful chain reaction of divine intervention in to their lives. So believe in the power of God's blessing and speak it freely in to the lives of all people whom you meet day to day.

Here is what the Psalmist David who was called by God Himself as the man after His own heart said about ungodly people, "As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him." (Psa 109:17). In other words, only as we start to delight in blessing others, we will come to understand more and more of the power of God's blessing in our lives and in the lives of others through us. I pray that the Lord who has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings of God in the heavenly places already, might get delighted to see us blessing people all over the sphere of our influence wherever God takes us in our appointed days on earth as His child (Eph 1:3; Psa 91:10, 12). May our lives glorify our Father in Heaven truly!

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A Week In Weakness

Live Abundantly With God

As I have made it a habit to seek God daily in my life, there are times when I feel a impasse that would come upon me spiritually. Manytimes during these times of distress, Satan and his demonic cohorts would come with all the temptations that I would be susceptible and weak toward, and will try to make me love his evil seeds of the flesh. During these times I would feel as though God is very far away from me. As the beloved song writer Don Moen beautifully describes this dilemma in his song, "I Will Sing" where he says,

"Lord You seem so far away.

A million miles or more it feels today.

And though I haven't lost my faith, I must confess right now that it's hard for me to pray.

But I don't know what to say and I don't know where to start.

But as you give the grace with all that's in my heart.

I will sing.

I will praise even in my darkest time through the sorrow and the pain.

I will sing. I will praise.

Lift my hands to honor You because Your word is true. I will sing."

As such darkness comes upon our soul suddenly for no reason, we feel that no one can understand our depressive and gloomy situation that has come upon our soul which has come like a dark cloud that covers the sun light completely to make a day gloomy. At that point of time we will feel that we have lost our purpose and become blinded to the plans and purposes of God that is ahead of us. In those times of distress we should never forget that even though we feel as though God has forgotten our distresses, we should depend on His word to encourage ourselves in the Lord saying that the Lord is with us as He has already promised in His word (Heb 13:5). We should lift our hands in an act of surrender to God and shoul start to praise Him for who he is and what he has done already to us through saving our souls for eternity ahead.

So the same song continues saying,

"Lord it's hard for me to see all the thought and plan You have for me, yes it is. 
But I will put my trust in You. Lord we made Your die to set me free. Oh thank God You did.

But I don't know what to say and I don't know where to start.

But as you give the grace with all that's in my heart.

I will sing.

I will praise even in my darkest time through the sorrow and the pain.

I will sing. I will praise.

Lift my hands to honor You because Your word is true. I will sing."

When we walk by faith to declare God's faithfulness and praise Him in the midst of the dark night of our soul, God will be pleased to deliver us from such attacks of the enemy with great favour and joy given to us thereafter. God tests us to refine and trust us for greater responsibilities to be given to us. The man of God David confessed his faith to God in the midst of such sorrows, adversities and affliction of his soul saying, "You have known my soul in adversities" (Psa 31:7). In other words David knew deep within him that such adversities is known perfectly by the Lord and that God will see in to such enemies attack and will surely show his mercies to lift him up again in joy and resurrect him spiritually to keep him on the high places of His Presence.

So learn to sing your song of praise towards God in the midst of sorrow and pain believing His word to be true inspite of such severe troubles of the enemy in your soul. God will be pleased greatly to see you like that. God will declare your life as a testimony of His reflection on earth to all the principalities and powers in the heavenly places (Eph 3:10; Job 1:6-8; 2:3, 10). God will lift you higher and higher in to the high places of spiritual blessings to make you a blessing to the whole world (James 5:10-11). I have learned in my life to come again and again by faith toward God, thus bounce back in to intimate and deep fellowship with God strongly after each impasse of the enemy and hence was blessed by God with a great blessedness of soul more and more. NEVER LET A WEEK PASS BY WITHOUT GOD, AS IT WILL MAKE YOU WEAK. The Lord will become your shield and strength as you continue to seek the Lord seeking His grace to lift you up from all the distresses and dark nights of your soul. God is with you to make you successful in all your ways. Be blessed and be a blessing as you continue to be a face seeker of God! Amen!

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Love Before It Is Too Late!

"30 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. 31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these." (Mark 12:30-31, NKJV).

 Robby's Night

At the prodding of my friends, I am writing this story. My name is Mildred Hondorf. I am a former elementary school music teacher from DeMoines, Iowa.

I've always supplemented my income by teaching piano lessons-something I've done for over 30 years. Over the years I found that children have many levels of musical ability. I've never had the pleasure of having a prodigy though I have taught some talented students.

However I've also had my share of what I call "musically challenged" pupils. One such student was Robby. Robby was 11 years old when his mother (a single mom) dropped him off for his first piano lesson. I refer that students (especially boys!) begin at an earlier age, which I explained to Robby. But Robby said that it had always been his mother's dream to hear him play the piano. So I took him as a student.

Well, Robby began with his piano lessons and from the beginning I thought it was a hopeless endeavor. As much as Robby tried, he lacked the sense of tone and basic rhythm needed to excel. But he dutifully reviewed his scales and some elementary pieces that I require all my students to learn. Over the months he tried and tried while I listened and cringed and tried to encourage him. At the end of each weekly lesson he'd always say, "My mom's going to hear me play some day." But it seemed hopeless. He just did not have any inborn ability. I only knew his mother from a distance as she dropped Robby off or waited in her aged car to pick him up. She always waved and smiled but never stopped in. Then one day Robby stopped coming to our lessons.

I thought about calling him but assumed, because of his lack of ability,that he had decided to pursue something else. I also was glad that he stopped coming. He was a bad advertisement for my teaching! Several weeks later I mailed to the student's homes a flyer on the upcoming recital. To my surprise Robby (who received a flyer) asked me if he could be in the recital. I told him that the recital was for current pupils and because he had dropped out he really did not qualify. He said that his mom had been sick and unable to take him to piano lessons but he was still practicing.

"Miss Hondorf... I've just got to play!" he insisted. I don't know what led me to allow him to play in the recital. Maybe it was his persistence or maybe it was something inside of me saying that it would be all right. The night for the recital came. The high school gymnasium was packed with parents, friends and relatives. I put Robby up last in the program before I was to come up and thank all the students and play a finishing piece. I thought that any damage he would do would come at the end of the program and I could always salvage his poor performance through my "curtain closer."

Well the recital went off without a hitch. The students had been practicing and it showed. Then Robby came up on stage. His clothes were wrinkled and his hair looked like he'run an egg-beater through it. "Why didn't he dress up like the other students?" I thought. "Why didn't his mother at least make him comb his hair for this special night?" Robby pulled out the piano bench and he began. I was surprised when he announced that he had chosen Mozart's Concerto #21 in C Major. I was not prepared for what I heard next. His fingers were light on the keys, they even danced nimbly on the ivories.

He went from pianissimo to fortissimo... from allegro to virtuoso. His suspended chords that Mozart demands were magnificent! Never had I heard Mozart played so well by people his age. After six and a half minutes he ended in a grand crescendo and everyone was on their feet in wild applause.

Overcome and in tears I ran up on stage and put my arms around Robby in joy. "I've never heard you play like that Robby! How'd you do it?" Through the microphone Robby explained: "Well Miss Hondorf... remember I told you my mom was sick? Well actually she had cancer and passed away this morning. And well.... she was born deaf so tonight was the first time she ever heard me play. I wanted to make it special."

There wasn't a dry eye in the house that evening. As the people from Social Services led Robby from the stage to be placed into foster care, I noticed that even their eyes were red and puffy and I thought to myself how much richer my life had been for taking Robby as my pupil. No, I've never had a prodigy but that night I became a prodigy... of Robby's.

He was the teacher and I was the pupil. For it was he that taught me the meaning of perseverance and love and believing in yourself and maybe even taking a chance on someone and you don't know why.

This is especially meaningful to me since after serving in Desert Storm Robby was killed in the senseless bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April of 1995, where he was reportedly.... playing the piano.

What can we learn from this real life story? Never underestimate the talent of anyone based on your standard. You may never know who they are until you are in their boot. See as God sees you perfectly through Jesus Christ and hopes for the best out of you even when He knows already that you don't measure up and are full of weaknesses. We may never learn to love someone until we really love them in their weaknesses. See each person as God's child and not as a someone based on what talent they have or display.

Each person we meet in our life are some one whom God has appointed to us to minister the love of God as God's children. We may never be able to empathise with people until we learn to love people by receiving the unconditional love of God through the Holy Spirit of God. The person whom we meet today by God's appointment may not be there tomorrow if we miss to show God's love to them today. Oppurtunities we miss today may be the biggest orchestration of God to dispense the work of God to deposit our treasure in heaven, if we do not realise it now we may miss it for eternity ahead. Why not you make a choice today to love all the people whom we meet today, whether they are good or bad who cares. May we learn to love like our God unconditionally!

Say it out loud,

"I am my neighbor's Bible

He reads me when we meet....

He may not even know my name,

Yet he's reading me when we greet.

Lord help me receive your love,

Unconditional and pure in motive.

To give out love when I feel otherwise,

Thus be a true child of my Heavenly Father.

To see people not as I see them on the outside,

But as you see them in their state of need and compassion.

May I not rob the robbie's of their love that you have for them,

To show the face of My Heavenly Father through me so that they will come to know that you love them truly!

In JESUS name AMEN!"

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FOUR KEYS TO DESTINY!

Four Keys To Destiny

ไ Stillness : "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!" (Psa 46:10).

When we quieten our soulish mind and begin to be still from our self, world and the voice of the devil, then we slowly tap in to our spiritual mind where God's voice always speaks to us as we are ready to listen to Him. God always wants to speak to us, the question we should ask ourselves is, are we hearing it all the time? God simply speaks to us when He sees that we are willing to obey His voice !

ไ Vision : "And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams." (Acts 2:17).

The main vehicles God uses to speak to us personally right now in our times in the New Testament mostly, as well as to the Old Testament saints are by giving them visions and dreams (Num 12:6-8; Job 4:12-17; 33:14-18). Many people who are not serious enough to believe the dreams and visions God gives them inorder to walk by faith, will sadly miss the greatest adventure of a lifetime and the reward for eterntiy thereafter. Old men are promised dreams because they will be praying for those dreams to come to pass in their succeeding generation. Young men are given visions because God wants them to be part of the fulfillment of the end time vision of the greatest harvest of souls of all time in which God will pour out His Spirit upon all flesh benevolently before rapture happens. So be filled with the Holy Spirit and as a result of it get dreams and visions for your life, ministry, buisness, family, city, nation and people groups around the world to affect it for the glory of God!

ไ Spontaneity : "For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ." (1 Cor 2:16). Praise the Lord!

When we walk out the will of God that God has given to us through His dreams and visions, our very mind get filled with the thoughts and guidance of God daily as we walk by faith. Unless we start to walk by faith, God will not speak to us further. When God sees that we are serious enough to believe the impossible that God has told us to do, God will start to speak more and more through His word and His Spirit deep inside our spirit-man. The more we hear God speak to us in our journey of faith, the more strength and grace of God we will receive to fulfill our destiny. So we must allow the thoughts of God to flow in to our hearts and minds like a river and get soaked in it spontaneously to penetrate our mind deep within our spirit-man, in order to build the vision inside us first before others can see the vision manifest tangibly outside in the physical arena for the glory of God!

ไ Journaling : "2 Then the LORD answered me and said: “ Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." (Hab 2:2-3).

Finally we need to journal and declare the vision that God has put in to our heart to all people whom God brings to us, so that together those who believe the vision can work together collectively to fulfill the purpose of God for our life, ministry, buisness, family, city, nation and the people groups around the world. When we fail to declare by faith what God has given to us in a dream or vision, people whom God wants to touch through our lives will perish because of our unbelief and reluctance to declare the truth (Prov 29:18, KJV). When we fail to declare the visions and dreams God has given as a key to unlock the destiny for us and through us to many others, it is like digging the ground, planting a seed, putting some fertilizer and mud over it but finally fail to pour water regularly to make it grow in God's time.

In my life I have used these four keys consistently in all the seasons that God has led me this past decade and am really reaping the blessing of it daily in all areas of my life. Sometimes when we repeatedly use these keys, to others around us it may look like we are foolishly doing it. Some may laugh, others may mock, still others may wonder why we are doing it so passionately these simple things, but take heart these same people will later see and realize that they have missed their chance to make a impact in our generation for Jesus. It may be too late when these people realize the truth that they have missed it. The mockers will hate you for it and they will be destroyed by their own coveteousness, jealousy...cursing. But for you, the Son of God will arise with healing in His wings to lift you higher and higher in to His blessed life as you keep walking in the will of God (Mal 4:2). Surely you will be a destiny maker with God in our generation. Praise the Lord!

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Amazing Grace of the New Testament

Grace, Grace to the Mountains

In the Old Testament times, the key word that was used often is 'mercy', which means God's forgiveness for all our sins which deserves only God's wrath. God's forgiveness in itself is great because it frees us from guilt and condemnation but it does not give us the power to overcome sin. Even when the word 'grace' is used in the Old Testament, it meant not God's overcoming power but a goodness and benevolence of God to His people.

The Law came through Moses (John 1:16). In the Old Testament once the people realised that they have sinned, they will bring a sin offering of bulls and goats to the anointed priest in order to lay their hands on it and transfer their sin upon it, and then kill and sprinkle its blood on the horns of the altar [i.e. which was situated on the outer court], and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar (Lev 4:27-35). And also once a year the High Priest will sprinkle the blood of bulls and goats upon the mercy-seat in the same way, and before the mercy-seat for the atonement of the soul of himself, his household and for all the assembly of Israel (Heb 9:22; Lev 4; 16:15, 17; 17:11). The mercy seat was the golden top cover which was placed upon the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy place (Exod 26:34; 25:17), upon which the very Presence and glory of God stayed literally (Exod 25:17). God promised to speak to Moses from above the mercy seat where He tangibly dwelt from between the two cherubim (Exod 25:22). God had also promised these Israelites that all their sins will be temporarily covered for the bygone year when blood is sprinkled on the mercy seat. God had promised to forgive their sins when they would reverently approach him for His mercy and atonement through the blood sacrifice of animals which reminded them the value of God's forgiveness and His hate towards all sins (Heb 9:13). Through the Law God restrained people from sin and wanted them to realise that they were desperate sinners in need of a Savior, so that by their faith in the coming Messiah they could be saved in their future (Gal 3:19, 22-23).

The maximum the Law and the prophets could promise was the forgiveness of sins, but no more than that. No Old Testment Prophets could ever promise a victory over sin. But thank God something amazing happened when Jesus incarnated to become one among us humans. Jesus who owns all the good things of heaven legally, started to disperse it as the grace of God's blessing upon blessing to everyone who believed Him and started to ask Him for more and more (John 1:16; Matt 7:7-12). The very key word of the New Testament is 'grace'. The acronym for grace at best can be desribed as 'God's Riches At Christ's Expense' (2 Cor 8:9). Once Jesus began to give His grace to over come sin, Paul made a magnificent statement of promise under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit saying, "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace." (Rom 6:14). In other words, no matter how sin tries to pull you down spiritually and intimidate you to make you believe that you can never overcome its wicked hold, once you ask Jesus humbly and persistently for more grace, sin will immediately have to loosen itself and run away from you because of the mighty power of God that will begin to be released to you and through you (Jam 4:6-7). The word of God says that when you submit to God and resist the devil, he will flee from you. To submit to God is to agree that as a sinner made righteous by God's mercies, we do not have the power to overcome its lure in our lives and that only God can help us overcome it. To resist the devil is to speak the word of faith against Satan and his demonic cohorts that will make them flee away from us (Rom 10:10; Matt 4:3-4, 11; Rev 12:11). The thoughts that cause us to do the sinful actions usually comes from the wrong root of the sinful heart inside us, so the root will be dealt by God when we start to cooperate with God to overcome sin in our lives (2 Cor 10:3-6). The Prophet Zechariah by inspiration cried out to declare that all our mountains of problems that stand unmoved before us will become plain when we say with our mouth, "Grace, Grace to it!" (Zech 4:7). This grace is received and spoken to victory only in the name of Jesus who is described by the prophet Zechariah as the capstone (Matt 21:42). Jesus was the stone rejected by men but approved by God to build the great house of God in and through the very physical body of believer's world wide for God to dwell in them through the Spirit (2 Cor 6:16; Eph 2:22).

Now as believers under the new covenant, we do not have a physical mercy seat but the one that is originally in heaven which is called as "the throne of grace", where we not only obtain mercy of forgiveness for our sins but find grace to overcome sin at the time of need in the midst of our temptation when we come confidently by faith (Heb 4:16). Our temple is now in heaven where God resides and speaks to us in our spirit-man inside us (Heb 12:22, 25). Because of Jesus taking his own blood once and for all time on our behalf and have sprinkled it in heaven's original tabernacle, we have been now given a direct access to the throne of God in heaven through our spirit-man (Heb 9:12, 24). Now as we confess our day today sins to Jesus Christ our High Priest who represents us before God, we are forgiven by the blood of Christ and our conscience is cleansed without spot from dead works to serve the living God (Heb 9:14; 4:14)

Praise the Lord! "For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh"...[so that] "now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life [which is God's heavenly life experienced beforehand on earth itself]." (Rom 8:3; 6:22). I pray that our Lord might enlarge our inner spirit man to not only understand this beautiful theme of overcoming life over sin but also help us receive the grace to reign over sin in this life as He has promised to us (Rom 5:17).

"A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough for the next six months, or take sufficient air into his lungs at one time to sustain life for a week. We must draw upon God's boundless store of grace from day to day as we need it." — Dwight Lyman Moody

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Live Now or Never

Graced With A Present

Each day is a new day that God gives us everyday of our life. There is nothing new in appearance under the sun, whatever has happened will happen again according to the set plan of God (Eccl 1:4-11). But what makes each day special is the new mercies that comes brand new each day from the throne of God (Lam 3:22-23).

As each new day comes, new needs arises. We face tempations, trials and sorrows that need to be met supernaturally by God. Or else we will soon sulk in dissappointment beneath a heavy heart. So the writer to the Hebrews says in the Bible, "Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help [us overcome] in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it]." (Heb 4:16, AMP).

For each new day the challenges we face can only be met when we confidently and boldly approach God's throne by faith through the completed work of Jesus. The moment we call God as "Abba Father in Heaven...." he will respond without fail in the present time if we come to Him in faith by the qualifications given to us through Jesus.

The greatest enemy to make us deny this beautiful relationsip with God which rejuvenates and restores our soul is when we fail to thrown away our guilty, shameful and condeming thoughts that comes from our past experience under the blood of Jesus through faith and give our worries about our uncertain future to God. The soul is at its best state when it is neither weighed with the past nor is shaken by uncertainties of our future life, but is firmly grounded in the gift of God's present time.

The past is a good place to visit to learn our lessons, but it is not a right place to pitch our tent and live there. The future stares at us when we strain to see the past without realising that we are made not to look back but just give a half glance and look forward. When you look upfront, you are ready to walk now and keep moving to a place where you have not seen yet. When your feet are grounded now in God's present time, you will realise that your future may be a mystery but it will surely be solved supernaturally as you have already started unwrapping the present God has graciously given to you.

Why don't you choose to make a difference in your life by saying this prayer with me to the God of your life, "Dear God, I have been weighed down by my past and have been shaken like a reed thinking about my uncertain future all these past days. I have not lived to enjoy your abundant life that you freely give to those who ask for it. From today I choose to give to you all my past and future to walk from now on in the present time moment by moment. Help me enjoy every moment of my life day today through Your Presence which multiplies the forgiveness of your mercy and the overcoming power of your grace. I will look up and be satisfied each morning when I wake up renewed in your image and light. Help me be thankful and to praise you all the days of my life for what you have done for me in my life. Bless you and ask you in Jesus name I pray! Amen!"

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Talk The Walk

A Living Bible

His name is Tim. He has wild hair, wears a T-shirt with holes in it, jeans, and an ugly old shoes. This was literally his wardrobe for his entire four years of college.

He is brilliant. Kind of profound and very, very bright. He became a Christian while attending college.

Across the street from the campus is a well-dressed, very conservative church.. They want to develop a ministry to the students but are not sure how to go about it..

One day Tim decides to go there. He walks in with informal shoes, jeans, his T-shirt, and wild hair. The service has already started and so Tim starts down the aisle looking for a seat.

The church is completely packed and he can’t find a seat. By now, people are really looking a bit uncomfortable, but no one says anything.

Tim gets closer and closer and closer to the pulpit, and when he realizes there are no seats, he just squats down right on the carpet.

By now the people are really uptight, and the tension in the air is thick.

About this time, the minister realizes that from way at the back of the church, a deacon is slowly making his way toward Tim.

Now the deacon is in his eighties, has silver-gray hair, and a three-piece suit. A godly man, very elegant, very dignified, very courtly. He walks with a cane and, as he starts walking toward this boy, everyone is saying to themselves that you can’t blame him for what he’s going to do.

How can you expect a man of his age and of his background to understand some college kid on the floor?

It takes a long time for the man to reach the boy.

The church is utterly silent except for the clicking of the man’s cane. All eyes are focused on him. You can’t even hear anyone breathing. The minister can’t even preach the sermon until the deacon does what he has to do.

And now they see this elderly man drop his cane on the floor. With great difficulty, he lowers himself and sits down next to Tim and worships with him so he won’t be alone.

Everyone chokes up with emotion…

When the minister gains control, he says, ‘What I’m about to preach, you will never remember. What you have just seen, you will never forget.’

‘Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible some people will ever read!’

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Live Big and Die Empty

Live Rich and Die Rich, With Riches Stored Out of this World

The businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The businessman complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied only a little while.

The businessman then asked why he didn't stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs. The businessman then asked, but what do you do with the rest of your time? The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos; I have a full and busy life, señor."

The businessman scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and I could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats; eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman, you would sell directly to the processor and eventually open your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually New York City where you would run your expanding enterprise."

The Mexican fisherman asked, "But señor, how long will this all take?" To which the businessman replied, "15-20 years." "But what then, señor?" The businessman laughed and said, "That's the best part! When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich. You would make millions." "Millions, señor? Then what?" The businessman said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take a siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

The fisherman, still smiling, looked up and said, "Isn't that what I'm doing right now?"

What can we learn from this beautiful story? When our life is all about acquiring material things so that that we believe that at the end of of our life we will be able to enjoy it, we have actually become fools deceived by the philosophy of the world. The educated world runs on the basis of the motto, "The person with the most toys wins." This is the reason the buisness man was telling this content fisherman to get in to the deathly and coveteous drive of acquiring more and more things of the world. Greed has a cousin named as 'the grave'. Both of it never ever chooses to say, 'it is enough and we are satisfied.' Both these personalities are hellish in their pursuit. The humans who get caught in snare of these two hellish personalities of greed and grave will only stop their journey of greed unto grave when they finally end up in hell fire.

Jesus spoke nearly the same lines in the following parable usually called 'The Parable of the Rich Fool' in the Bible. Here is what Jesus said, "15 ..., “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.” 16 Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. 17 And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ 18 So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’ 21 “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”" (Luke 12:15-20).

Dear people of God, we must understand that our life does not consist in the abundance of the things we posses. In other words, even though we have all the things of this world at our disposal, if God is not pleased with our life and does not give the power to enjoy life, then all the possessions at our disposal are as equal to as having nothing at all (Eccl 6:2-3). God has clearly said that a coveteousness man who is materialistic in his pursuit will never be satisfied with his wealth and will long for more and more of it (Eccl 5:10). Unless God satisfies a man's soul with His goodness, he will never be able to enjoy it. This is why the word of God agrees with the wisdom of the mexican fisherman and says, "12 ...there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. 13 And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God." (Eccl 3:12-13, NLT).

In short, if our goal in life is to please God and walk in His ways, whether we have much or little, God will empower us to have a heavenly contentment and enjoy this life fully. He will fill our God-thirsting soul with His goodness and will make it to be like a watered garden that never goes dry even during the drought (Psa 107:9; Isa 58:11). We can now choose to live rich in contentment and die empty, at the same time we should also choose to die with riches accumulated out of this world by spending our life doing God's will on earth. We do not have the sovereign rights to move our riches out of this world because we have brought nothing in to the world and will not take out anything away from this world (1 Tim 6:7).

Live in the present of God's gift. Living in the past will sap your life out of you, living in the future will blow your mind off with doubt and worries, but the best way to live life is to enjoy the abundant life that God gives through Jesus moment by moment as we depend on Him and live our life by faith. This is why godliness with contentment is a great gain, contentment without godliness is also a gain but with out the eternal dividends and benefits of a accumulated rich life everafter our earthly one (1 Tim 6:6). But make sure your richness in life is based on your attitude and passion to please God and live a blessed life under the shadow of his wings. It is better to be a poor man and live richly than to be a rich man and live poorly.

"A poor man with Jesus is the richest person in this world and a rich man without Jesus is the poorest person in this world" — Abraham Israel

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Smile! Jesus Loves You!

Don't Wait Till The Last Minute

Å℘◎ṧṫℴℓḯ¢ Ħüмøüґ : A minister waited in line to have his car filled with gas just before a long holiday weekend.

The attendant worked quickly, but there were many cars ahead of him. Finally, the attendant motioned him toward a vacant pump.

"Reverend," said the young man, "I'm so sorry about the delay. It seems as if everyone waits until the last minute to get ready for a long trip."

The minister chuckled, "I know what you mean. It's the same in my business!"

Moral : Don't wait to get saved until the end of your life, it may become too late for you to reach your right destination. You may end up in the wrong place, when you wind up your earthly life without the spiritual petrol of the Holy Spirit's presence which is the guarantee seal of our salvation that will surely take you to heaven. By the time your turn comes to leave this earth, you may have to leave everything except whatever riches you have already stored up in heaven. So use your time and money wisely to collect eternal riches in heaven where the holiday never ends. ♏υḉн ℬℓεṧ﹩ḯᾔ❡ṧ▣▣▪▪▪▣


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The Loving Mother And A Boyish Son

Love Works For No Wages

A little boy came up to his mother in the kitchen one evening while she was fixing supper, and handed her a piece of paper that he had been writing on.

After his Mom dried her hands on an apron, she read it, and this is what it said:

For cutting the grass: 35/-

For cleaning up my room this week: 25/-

For going to the store for you: 10/-

Baby-sitting my kid brother while you went shopping: 10/-

Taking out the garbage: 35/-

For getting a good report card: 25/-

For cleaning up and raking the yard: 10/-

Total owed: 150/-

Well, his mother looked at him standing there, and the boy could see the memories flashing through her mind.

She picked up the pen, turned over the paper he’d written on, and this is what she wrote:

For the nine months I carried you while you were growing inside me:

No Charge

For all the nights that I’ve sat up with you, doctored and prayed for you:

No Charge

For all the trying times, and all the tears that you’ve caused through the years:

No Charge

For all the nights that were filled with dread, and for the worries I knew were ahead:

No Charge

For the toys, food, clothes, and even wiping your nose:

No Charge

Son, when you add it up, the cost of my love is:

No Charge.

When the boy finished reading what his mother had written, there were big tears in his eyes. And he looked straight at his mother and said, “Mom, I sure do love you.” And then his mother took the pen and in great big letters she wrote: “PAID IN FULL” and embraced her little boy with a kiss on his cheek.

What can we learn from this beautiful story? We as the sons and daughters of God, many a times boyishly demand God to pay the wages and bless us for the little work we do for God. We begin to show him our list of what we have done for Him and put our own self estimated price for each individual work, and finally add it all up to show God a grand total of how much we have done for Him to pay us. God in His love toward us many times chooses to write on the back side of the list our debt and show to us of how much we owe Him because of our past, present and future sins.

Then in a smiling way, he starts to shows us of our sins one after another and at the bottom of each sin He writes "No Charge". At the end of it all, with tears in our eyes we begin to realise how much God loved us unconditionally and has forgiven us of our debt for all of our sins, even though we owed a lot of debt which we could never be able to pay off to Him, even if we try to work our whole life for Him as bond servant. Then God takes a pen and writes on the bottom of our account "PAID IN FULL" and shows us the promise that He has already forgiven our sins and the full payment He made for us through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ in His Love Letter named as the Bible.

In the Bible when Jesus died for our sins, He cried out at last, "PAID IN FULL" and he gave up His spirit to God (John 19:30). As a sign of confirmation for our justification, God raised Jesus from the dead and have promised to us who have believed Him that we have become now His adopted sons through Jesus Christ our Lord (1 Cor 15:17; John 1:12). We who have realised God's awesome love now look straight in to the eyes of God with confidence to say, "Dear Heavenly Dad, I sure do love you.” Then as usual our God with great love He embraces us and kisses us from the recesses of our hearts and will say, "As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you shall be comforted in [the spiritual] Jerusalem [of your inner spirit-man, the place where My Presence and Glory dwells]." (Isa 66:13). I really praise God for teaching us the value of His love and our loving response of gratitude which He expects from our hearts voluntarily! Praise the Lord!

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