1 Corinthians 1:12; 3:4 - 1 That I mean is this: One of you says, "I follow Paul"' another, "I follow Apollos"; another, "I follow Cephas; still another, "I follow Christ." 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings?
Once accepts Jesus Christ as our Savior. We will receive the blessing from God and we will also improve our wisdom. This will enrich us in the knowledge about God and improve our speaking about that knowledge. It is because this is the spiritual gift from GOD. This is all the grace of God and not because of our own strength. If we do not love GOD wholeheartedly and praise Him because of His mercy and grace, then we would not follow Jesus Christ wholeheartedly. Then we will love the person we love the most, rather than Jesus Christ. The risk of this issue is whoever we love the most then we will follow that person. Since all of us are the body of Jesus Christ therefore we should not be following and want to be the same as the perosn we like. We should love and follow Jesus Christ over all human. And as Isaiah 48:17 states: "This is what the LORD says--your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD your GOD, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go."
This does not mean we should argue and against others. We must be humble and let Jesus Christ to lead all of us. If all the believers are concentrated just on the same target, which is Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit then there won't be any controversy among the believers, because our faith and hope is in God.
PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, You are full of mercy and grace to all the people. I praise You and thank You for Your love. Please help all Your people to follow Jesus Christ and to be Your matured servants and not a baby style. Pray in Jesus Christ victorious Name. AMEN!
Monday, September 2, 2013
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Psalms 42:5, 11, and 43:5 - Tranquil Our Soul
Psalms 42:5, 11 and 43:5 - "Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God."
Body is only a physical (external) view, and soul is the inner being (internal) that is correlate to our heart and mind. If internally I am anger about something but externally I look happy then people might not know my real feeling. I thank God for His enlightenment on how to cheer my soul. To cheer our soul in this contemporary world is especially significant. As news nowadays showing so many disasters due to humans’ wickedness; and almost all human’s wickedness is because of the fret in the heart of human beings; as Psalm 37:8 says “Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret – it leads only to evil.”
There are only 16 verses in Psalms 42 and 43, and 3 out of these 16 verses proclaim the similar words on how to overcome our downcast soul. Since sufferings downcast our soul (inner being-mind & heart), so to avoid the downcast of our soul, we must totally put our hope in God because He is our Savior and God. Praising Him even we are still encountering the sufferings. This is a sincere trust in God’s mercy and protection to His people.
PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father. You are my GOD and my Savior, this is Your grace to me. I thank you for your mercy to me. I confessed my evil behaviors to You, my GOD of justice. Please forgive all my sin and may the Holy Spirit help me to be Your good servant, no more psychological weakness that incite my sicknesses and learn how to be the true follower of Jesus Christ. And please bless and have mercy on the brothers and sisters who seeks the peace from You. Pray in Jesus Christ victorious name. Amen!
Body is only a physical (external) view, and soul is the inner being (internal) that is correlate to our heart and mind. If internally I am anger about something but externally I look happy then people might not know my real feeling. I thank God for His enlightenment on how to cheer my soul. To cheer our soul in this contemporary world is especially significant. As news nowadays showing so many disasters due to humans’ wickedness; and almost all human’s wickedness is because of the fret in the heart of human beings; as Psalm 37:8 says “Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret – it leads only to evil.”
There are only 16 verses in Psalms 42 and 43, and 3 out of these 16 verses proclaim the similar words on how to overcome our downcast soul. Since sufferings downcast our soul (inner being-mind & heart), so to avoid the downcast of our soul, we must totally put our hope in God because He is our Savior and God. Praising Him even we are still encountering the sufferings. This is a sincere trust in God’s mercy and protection to His people.
PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father. You are my GOD and my Savior, this is Your grace to me. I thank you for your mercy to me. I confessed my evil behaviors to You, my GOD of justice. Please forgive all my sin and may the Holy Spirit help me to be Your good servant, no more psychological weakness that incite my sicknesses and learn how to be the true follower of Jesus Christ. And please bless and have mercy on the brothers and sisters who seeks the peace from You. Pray in Jesus Christ victorious name. Amen!
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Psalms 32:5 - Confess of Sin
Psalms 32:5 - "Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord" - and you forgave the guilt of my sin."
Confess of sin is a command not just to the non-believers but also to the believers. David was chosen by the Lord when he was a youth. But today’s verse of the Psalms he taught us was that he had been a believer for a long time. So, this verse to me is to enlighten the believers to be humble and confess the latest sin to the Lord through prayers.
God is so mercy to His believers. Once accepted Jesus Christ as Savior then He will bless believers because the sin has been forgiven. This is the blessing of the Lord. However, once blessed by the Lord, we might still sin in the view of the Lord. But many believers might not be worry about it since we have already been delivered by Jesus Christ; and we lived in the corrupted world, also we have freedom to do anything.
Thank God for today’s bible reading because if any believers who refuse to confess their sin to the Lord then they will not be godly anymore. Affliction might be laid on the ones who do not pray for the Lord to forgive their sin. As a believer, I think we should not just read the bible and do not meditate what we have read. By the help of the Holy Spirit in meditation then we will perceive our sin, and then confess it to the Lord. The one who confesses the sin to the Lord will make them become the godly believers. And the Lord of Almighty will protect these believers from troubles because their sin has been forgiven due to their godly behavior.
PRAYER: Dearly Heavenly Father, I thank you for your mercy on us all. I also praise for your faithfulness and justice. Thank you for the lead of the Holy Spirit to enlighten me. Please forgive my transgressions, my Lord; without your mercy then I might not be notified my sin. I praise You my Lord of Almighty. Please heal my sickness once You have forgiven my sin. Dear Heavenly Father, I pray in Jesus Christ victoria's name. Amen!
Confess of sin is a command not just to the non-believers but also to the believers. David was chosen by the Lord when he was a youth. But today’s verse of the Psalms he taught us was that he had been a believer for a long time. So, this verse to me is to enlighten the believers to be humble and confess the latest sin to the Lord through prayers.
God is so mercy to His believers. Once accepted Jesus Christ as Savior then He will bless believers because the sin has been forgiven. This is the blessing of the Lord. However, once blessed by the Lord, we might still sin in the view of the Lord. But many believers might not be worry about it since we have already been delivered by Jesus Christ; and we lived in the corrupted world, also we have freedom to do anything.
Thank God for today’s bible reading because if any believers who refuse to confess their sin to the Lord then they will not be godly anymore. Affliction might be laid on the ones who do not pray for the Lord to forgive their sin. As a believer, I think we should not just read the bible and do not meditate what we have read. By the help of the Holy Spirit in meditation then we will perceive our sin, and then confess it to the Lord. The one who confesses the sin to the Lord will make them become the godly believers. And the Lord of Almighty will protect these believers from troubles because their sin has been forgiven due to their godly behavior.
PRAYER: Dearly Heavenly Father, I thank you for your mercy on us all. I also praise for your faithfulness and justice. Thank you for the lead of the Holy Spirit to enlighten me. Please forgive my transgressions, my Lord; without your mercy then I might not be notified my sin. I praise You my Lord of Almighty. Please heal my sickness once You have forgiven my sin. Dear Heavenly Father, I pray in Jesus Christ victoria's name. Amen!
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Job 4:3-6 - Deal With Calamity By Faith
Job 4:3-6 (NLT) - “3 In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak. 4 Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees. 5 But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you. 6 Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope?
God allowed Satan to test Job, who was God's finest man in the earth of that time. We may astonish how could this happen to such a great person to God. The fact is strengthening of the faith is when we encounter affliction. If our faith just depends on the affluent life then the faith is feeble. This world is corrupted since Adam's disobedience to God therefore all humans will encounter miseries. Miseries will happen to all of us no matter we are a Christian or not. To deal with calamity we need to have true faith in God by a righteous heart. Although God had stated Job was blameless, upright, fear of Him, and shuns evil; but God did not mentioned that Job was righteous. Only Job himself thought he was righteous, as verse 32:1 says "he was righteous in his own eyes."
When we have true faith in God then we will have confidence and hope in God no matter what conditions we are dealing with. Faith will lead us to overcome our weaknesses and receives even more blessings from the Almighty God.
Prayers: Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for the lead of your Holy Spirit to learn about your teaching. In this corrupted world, to be a truth follower of Jesus Christ we will encounter sufferings. God, may your Holy Spirit lead us to gain deeper faith in You. Please heal us all with Your healing hands. Pray in Jesus Christ Victorious Name. Amen!
God allowed Satan to test Job, who was God's finest man in the earth of that time. We may astonish how could this happen to such a great person to God. The fact is strengthening of the faith is when we encounter affliction. If our faith just depends on the affluent life then the faith is feeble. This world is corrupted since Adam's disobedience to God therefore all humans will encounter miseries. Miseries will happen to all of us no matter we are a Christian or not. To deal with calamity we need to have true faith in God by a righteous heart. Although God had stated Job was blameless, upright, fear of Him, and shuns evil; but God did not mentioned that Job was righteous. Only Job himself thought he was righteous, as verse 32:1 says "he was righteous in his own eyes."
When we have true faith in God then we will have confidence and hope in God no matter what conditions we are dealing with. Faith will lead us to overcome our weaknesses and receives even more blessings from the Almighty God.
Prayers: Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for the lead of your Holy Spirit to learn about your teaching. In this corrupted world, to be a truth follower of Jesus Christ we will encounter sufferings. God, may your Holy Spirit lead us to gain deeper faith in You. Please heal us all with Your healing hands. Pray in Jesus Christ Victorious Name. Amen!
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