"HE COMES"

                      But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly

                       Await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.

                                              Philippians 3 :20

        Jesus is My ambassador to the human race. He came down to earth two thousand years ago and said, "I know a country called Heaven. Anybody who follows Me can go there" then Jesus returned to heaven. "OH Jesus is Full of Grace." His offer is still open.

        But wait, there." more. Jesus is coming back to earth a second time He comes, He won't appear as a baby, Instead, He'll be riding a white horse. The sky will split open, and He'll descend with massive fireworks. He 's coming to bring My children home. If you've made Him your King, then that means He's coming back for you. Look for Him soon." Another inspired song written to exalt our God.

Title:          OH Jesus is full of Grace

Intro:

Verse1:     The earth is the Lord 

                 The fulness is in this world

                 And those who dwells therein

                 The heaven are your 

                 This earth is also yours   

                 And this world and fulness thereof

Chorus:     OH Jesus is full of grace

                  I'm save by His Grace in Him

Bridge:       Jesus only your name that we are save

                  You come for the lost thru your name

                  And we are save

Verse2:      When the fulness of time has come

                 God send forth His only Son to save

                 this world who dwells therein

                 He was born of a woman born under the law

                 To Redeem and called us to be His Son.

             

"THROW OUT CATALOG"

            "What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but 

            Lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for"       

                                   M A T T H E W 16 : 26    

            Suppose life was like a mail-order catalog, and could just flip through the pages, selecting everything your heart desired: computers, cars, clothes, fancy vacations, fame, money, power no limits. Only the day your order was delivered, it came with a bill that said, "Payment required: Your eternal soul," Would you still place the order? Lots of people do. But they don't fully understand the trade they're making. To begin with, the catalog is a rip-off. It will never deliver in full anyway. And even if it did, no amount of stuff would ever satisfy your soul's restless longing for Me.  

            Christian are commanded to lose their lives. This means they ought deliberately release their lives to God and His kingdom. One of the greatest hindrances to your being on mission with God will be your view of what constitutes your legitimate rights" that is those things thar you feel you have a right to experience and enjoy. It's not difficult to turn over to christ those things that are not sacrifice or you would prefer to do without anyway. Rather, it is the things that are good and that are dear to you that may stand between you and God's will.

             It's good to be near your grown children and grandchildren, for example, but God may want you to go to another city or continent on mission with Him. It's good to get adequate rest, but you may receive a call of distress. In the middle of the night. You may assume that you have a right to certain material things, yet God may ask you to release all of your possessions to Him and His purposes (Matt.19:21).     

             Jesus modeled perfectly this attitude toward life. He had a legitimate right to enjoy the comforts of heaven. Yet He did not look at it as a right He shoukd hold on to; nor did He see leaving all that was His as a sacrifice too codtly to make (Phil. 2:5-11). As a result, God highly exalted Him and brought salvation to a broken world. 

             Has the world convinced you that there are certain rights that you must protect? Are you trying to save your life? Have you noticed that in so doing, you are actually losing the life God wants you to have. So throw out the world catalog and open up the pages of My plan for you the Bible. My love delivers what it promises!    

 

"THERE ARE CLUES ALL AROUND YOU"

                          "I'm single -minds in pursuit of you; don't

                           let me miss the road sign you've posted."

                                               Psalm 119:10

         I have posted obvious signs along your path that lead to Me. Keep your eyes open there is no way that you've going to miss Me. I want you to find Me even more than you do. I've made the way clear and straight for those who are really looking. There are clues all around you in the outrageously beautiful world i made in the diversity of people i created in their millions of different fingerprints and individual faces, voices, and personalities. Best of all, planted clues inside of your own heart a soft voice that tells you with every beat that I am real, and I love you. Follow the clues.

        Tommy was like many Christians. He had been taught that if he truly wanted God to guide his steps each day, he should spend time. With God first thing every morning. He found a copy of a through the Bible in one Year plan and got down to business; three chapters each morning and two each at night.

         Somehow though, the inspiration he expected to discover escaped him. He discussed the problem with his friend Carl Frank said, "I wasn't sure how I would find the time to read the Bible every morning, but I manage to squeeze it in. Sometimes I have to rush through the chapters a little, but I always remember what I've read You could quiz me on it and I'd get in 'A.' So why do I feel as if haven't really read it?"

         Carl answered, "It sound to me as if you're reading the Bible the way you would a textbook. If you want to get into the meaning behind the words, pray before read and ask God to reveal things to you. Instead of looking at the Bible as a reading assignmemt, think of it as a special meeting time with God time you set aside to sit down and hear what He has to say to you."

        "I get it," Frank said. "I was doing the old 'what's in it for me?' and expecting God to reward me for putting in the time."

         "Give yourself time to read and study," Carl suggested. "Even a few extra minutes can makes a big difference. Just remember: the more time you give to God, the more time. He gives back to you. Your day will go much better if you let Him set the pace and listen for what He has to say."

         While it is important to read the Scriptures daily, it is far more important to read until you sense in your spirit that God has said something to You. Don't be concerned about a specific number of verse or chapters. The key is to read with a listening ear.

        

"Remembering God"

              "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve." 

                                        J O S H U A  24 : 15

               A rabbi once summoned the townfolk to meet in the square for an important announcement. The merchants resented having to leave the businesses. The farmers could scarely see how they could leave theirs fields. The housewives protested against leaving their chores. But obedient to the call of their spiritual leader, the town people gathered together to hear the announcement their teacher felt was so important to make at that time.

               The rabbi said, "I wish to announce that there is a God in the world." And with that, he departed. 

               The people stood in silence stunned, but not bewildered. They understood what he had said, with an understanding born of a heartfelt conviction. They realized they had been acting as if God did not exist. While they observed rituals and recited the correct order of prayers, their actions did not comply with the commandments of God. Their daily bread was sought and taken with little thought and reverence for God.

                We may not openly deny God, but we try to confine Him to some remote corner of life. We keep Him away from our daily doings, associations, obligations, experience, joys, heartaches, and all the commonplace things required to keep body and soul together. The fact is however:

    

              + There is a God in the world you call your neighborhood

              + There is a God in the world you call your workplace

              + There is a God in the offices your frequently, the hospitals

                  You visit, the airports through which you travel, the 

                  shops in which you make your purchases, and the 

                  Dozens of places you walk in the course of a week.

               There is a God....and He wants to be a part of everything

               You do.

               Recognize He is with you wherever you go today. 

               The knowledge that He is with you and that He is 

               Interested in every detail of your life will bring joy 

               and peace to every experience.

                 

"Crazy Moment"

        " Your eyes will see the king in his beauty and view a land that

        stretches afar. In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror."

                                       I S A I A H 33 : 17-18

        It's easy to lose sight of God. You get home late, you put on a casserole, but the phone rings and you forget about turning off the oven. Exasperated, you dump the casserole in the garbage. So you whip up something quickly only to have three out of five around the dinner table turn it down. And for dessert? How about refereeing a fight over who gets the last of the chocolate-chip ice cream?

        God barely gets noticed during times like that. If we're thinking, we may quickly fire off a prayer for help. But we need more than that.  We need to be driven to our knees by the overwhelming conviction that we have absolute nowhere else to turn.

         It takes crazy moments, times when you almost border on mental collapse, to force you to your knees to seek Jesus. Maybe you sing a hymn as tears splatter on the hymnal pages. Maybe you pray the Twenty-third Psalm over and over until your nerves quit jangling. Then, oh, the delicious calm that sweeps over you when all you see is the King in his beauty and an uncluttered landscape of peace. When your focus is fixed so on the Lord, those Crazy moments fade into the background, just as today's reading assures.

         

        Ah, but what about that late dinner and the failed casserole

        And the fight that spilled over into the evening? It hasn't changed.

        But your focus has. Be driven to your knees by the overwhelming

        Conviction that you have absolute nowhere else to go.

         You are the Lord of my crazy moment, and I thank You, God, for

          Allowing those nerve-wracking times. When they happens, it's

         Your way of reminding me to look to you,my King.

        

"I Want You To Meet My Friends"

        If one falls down, his friend can help him up, But pity the man 

                         who falls and has no one to him up!

                                       Ecclesiastes 4:10

        Just a word of advice: make good friends. I've designed human to need each other. No one is strong enough to succeed on his own. Even professional athletes have managers and agents. Needing friends doesn't make you weak; it just makes you human. You can tell good friends by how they treat you when you fall down in life. Do your present friends ditch you in bad times? Then you need new friends.

        From the beginning of time, God made it clear that it is not good for His people to be alone (Gen.2:18). God design us to cooperate. Throughout the Scriptures He speaks of His people as a community that accomplishes more togerther than separately. God did not create us as isolated individuals, each seeking to achieve our  own goals. Rather the success of our endeavors depends upon our interdependence. This is why He established the church and release His Holy Spirit to empower the community of believers to spread the gospel. We are to be a kingdom of priests ( 1 Peter 29).

         During difficult times it is critical that we are walking in fellowship with other christians. When a crisis hits, it is overwhelming to face it alone. But we have cultivated supportive friendships, we will find strength in the comfort  and encouragement of those who care about us. Interdependence is also a safeguard for us when we are lured by temptation. The consistent testimony of those who have to temptation is that isolated themselves from believers and were not held accountable by christian friends.

       If you are not a part of a caring community of believers, you are missing out on what God designed you for. You are also in danger of falling into sin. You must link your life with others who are seeking God's will. Seek to be a person who willingly joins others in carrying out God's assignments. Strive to be the source of support and encouragement that those around. 

You need.

       A church is a place a place where My family comes together to love Me and to love each other. A person who truly loves Me will stick with you when you run into tough times. In fact, i have some incredible new friends i want you to meet. And they need you just as much as you need them!

"Your will be done"

The Lord has been mindful of us; he will bless us He will bless those who fear the Lord, both small and great. 

Psalm 115: 12 -13 NKJV

  There is a dream dreaming us," a Bushman once told Laurens Van der Post. We are part of a dream, according to Him, part of a vision. What is more, we can become aware of it. Although we are far removed from the Bushmen and their vision, it seems we can indeed come to a sense of being dreamed, being seen, being known. Our mind's desire is to know to understand; but our heart's desire is intimacy, to be known, to be understood. To see God with our mind would be to know God, to understand God; but to see God with our heart would be to have a sense of being known by God, of being understand by God. If there a is dream dreaming us, it will be God's vision of us, and if we have a sense of being part of that dream, it will be our heart's vision of God. As we explore and encounter God's dream for us we find our clearest and highest sense of identity and purpose in life, which gives us motivation and direction for each day. Do you have a sense of God's vision for your life today? How does He see you? What does He desire for you? What does He dream of you doing, becoming, and being?

  We know from His Word that God desire for you to be a person of character and quality, a person of noble and uncompromising virtue, a person of strength and spiritual power. He is calling you to a close, personal, and intimate relationship with Him. He eagerly desires to entrust you with His plan and  desires for your life. God has given you specific talents, abilities. Spiritual gifts, and material endowments which she longs for you to use to their fullest purpose in your heart today to be His friend, His child, His heir, so that He can do what He loves to do reward you with even greater blessings.