Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Glory and Praise to our God

Worthy are You our Lord and our God to receive glory and honor a d power, for You created all thing, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.
Revelation 4:11

What a song from heaven! God willed the physical universe to exist, and so it did. Why did God create the universe? Proverbs 16:4 tells us that "the Lord has made everything's for its own purpose." He did it for one simple reason because it was what He wanted. The psalmist said, "He spoke and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast (Psalm33:9).
The universe exist because it was the will of God. The stars don't hang up there on nothing. They are held in place by the will of an omnipotent God. The tide at the beach doesn't just coincidentally stop at its boundaries and return to the sea. It is ordered back by divine design. The earth isn't spinning on its axis because of in own momentum. That's the will of God at work. He designed it that way. The inanimate world in which we live conform to the will of God.
If that is true of you! Your God created you because He wanted you. YOU WERE THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART before your mother ever got one glimpse of you. You have been eternally wanted. Glory and Honor to our God.

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Modern Ruthless People

This Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to the cross by the handsome godless men and put Him to death. But God raised Him up again.
Acts 2: 23-24

HAS ANYBODY EVER BEEN terribly unfair to you? Have you ever been almost destroyed by the ruthlessness of another? You're not alone.
The greatest offense ever committed against a man was what done to Jesus by those who opposed Him. They tortured and killed the perfect Son of God. The amazing thing about the mistreatment of Jesus (and you) is the Father's ability to redeemed it.
God is bigger than the wrong men do. Human being were completely responsible for crucifying the Son of God. "You nailed [Him] to the cross," Peter said. But God was sovereign over even this and in fact, had planned it before the foundation of the world: Christ was "delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God." Do you see how the two fit together? WE do have and awesome God!
Mentally release those who have treated you with unfairness or even cruelty. Don't live in the past. Your God stands above all that has happened in your life. He  can redeem and use those things for your good and His glory.

YOUR BREAK THROUGH WITHIN

Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the list of the flesh.
Galatians 5:16

IN HIS LETTER TO CHRISTIAN in Galatian, Paul tried to get them to understand the inner conflict that all who belong to Christ will experience. This battle is between "the flesh" (our sinful human nature) and the Holy Spirit who lives within us (Galatia 5:17).
Becausd our self-centered nature wants its own way, it fights the rule of Christ within us. So we often end up doing our will rather than God's (v.17).
Once I Pray in desperation.
"Lord, please show me how over come! God directed me to Paul's words in the  Galatians 5:16--"Walk in Spirit." I kept reading, and came to recognize my own "work of flesh" my envy, anger, hatred, and selfish ambitions (vv19-21).
I asked God for forgiveness, and I came to understand that I have been crucified with Christ. (2:20). The power of my sinful flesh has been broken (5:24; Romans 6:6-7). I've gradually learned to bring this "death" into effect by allowing my flesh no more rights than a corse! So I resolve daily to recognize and obey Christ will alone. I sometimes fail, but repentance puts me back in step with the Holy Spirit.
We, I faced conflict every day, but the Spirit can overcome our sinful desire and win the battle. Which side is winning in life?
Putting into practice Ask God to help you overcome the flesh today, Read mediate His word and walk in the Spirit your battle is within.

Saturday, May 5, 2018

IMAGE CONSCIOUS

We all...are being transformed...by the spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:18

When going through old family photos, my cousins and I joke about which physical characteristics we've Inherited. We notice primarily the negative ones: short legs crooked teeth. Unruly collides. All of us can easily identify in our ancestor our own least favorite body part. In addition to physical attributes, we also Inherited characters traits some good, some not so good. But we don't always pay as much attention to those.
  According to my unscientific observation, people try all kind of method to overcome physical imperfections—exercise routines weightless programs makeup, hair coloring cosmetic surgery. But instead of trying to overcome our character flaws, we tend to use them as an excuse for behaving badly. I suppose this is because chapter going our looks is easier than changing our character. But imagine how much better off we'd be if we put our energy into character development.
   As God's children we're not limited by our genetic makeup we can surrender our flaws to Him and allow Him to fulfill the potential He had in mind when He created us as unique expressions of His love. The power of God's spirit and the life of God's Son are at work in US, conforming us to His image (2Cor.3:18).

Friday, May 4, 2018

LIVING BEYOND THE ODDS

Constant Prayer was offered to God for [Peter] by the church
Acts 12:5

Many of us make daily decision based on the odds. If there's a 20 percent chance of rain. We may ignore it. If there's a 90 percent. We'll take an umbrella. The greater the odds, the more our behavior is affected because we want to choose wisely and be successful.
   Acts 12:1-6 describe a situation in which Peter's odds of survival were very low. He was in prison, "bound with two chains between two soldier" while other guarded there door (v. 6).
Herod had already executed James, one of Jesus closest follower, and he had the same fate in mind for Peter (vv1-3). A gambler would not have put any money on Peter getting out of this alive.
    Yet God's plan for Peter included a miraculous deliverance that even those who were interceding for him found hard to believe (vv13-16). They were astonished when he showed up in their prayer meeting.
   God can operate outside the odds because He is all powerful. Nothing is too hard for Him. The one who loves us and gave Himself for us is in charge of our lives. In ordinary circumstances and impossible situations, God can reveal His power. Whether we are showered with success or sustained in sorrow, He is with us.

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Every Good GIFT

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from a above, and cometh down from the Father of light, with whom is no variable Ness, neither shadow of turning.
James 1:17

What is Good?
Acts 10:38 says that Jesus went about doing good and healing. Healing is good! Sickness is not good. Every healing comes down the Father. Every sickness does not come down the Father.
In the first place, where in the world would God get sickness to put on you? He doesn't have any in heaven. He would have to borrow some from the devil! (You can't give somebody something you don't have.) The Bible says there is no sickness in heaven. Therefore, sickness can't come from heaven.
What does come down from heaven?
Every good gift and every perfect gift!

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

WHAT ABOUT PAUL'S THORN?

NUMBERS 33:55
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitant of the Land from before you; thorn it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be price in your eyes, and thorns to your side, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

"Don't you remember, though, Paul was sick all his life."
"No, I don't remember that."
"But he had a thorn in the flesh."
"Where did you ever read in the Bible that a thorn in the flesh is sickness? Nowhere!
Go to the Scriptures, See how the Bible uses that term. In the Old Testament, God said to Israel, in effect, "If you don't kill those Canaanites when you poses the land, they will be thorn in your side. They will torment you" (Number 33:55; Joshua 23:13; Judges 2 :3).
Paul tells exactly what the thorn was:"... The messenger of Satan to buffet me... " (2Cor.12:7). Everywhere Paul went to preach, this evil spirit went before and behind him, and stirred up everything it could. (And Paul couldn't command the evil spirit to leave the earth, because the devil has the right to be here until Adam's leave run's out.)
So there is no separating sickness and disease from satan--- he causes them. Jesus' attitude toward sickness was uncompromising warfare against Satan.