He desires to give Himself to us far more readily than we desire to receive Him... we only need to know how to seek God...
By prayer, you can live in God's presence...
Let us prepare our hearts...
Word for today thru pastor Daniel Rozen "Prayer without ceasing" (1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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When you have enjoyed God & the sweetness of His love, however, you wil find it impossible to set your affections on anything other than Him.
He desires to be more present to us than we desire to...
Jesus had LOVE. It was a new kind of power. Pettiness, self-interest and all the other rubbish that had ruined hearts, was likely to be atomized by this new force. He did not seem to notice enmity against Him. He overwhelmed hatred as if it did not exist. His quiet peace was more exuberant than our drunken orgies. To a world full of dungeons, His coming was as heaven. Be blessed.
A Christian is a positive piece of Divine workmanship. We are not just re-named, re-christened. The work of Christ is not a touch-up job, a new coat of paint. He does not merely paper over the cracks. ‘Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision but a new man’ (Gal. 6:17). God does a glorious work; each convert is a masterpiece of Divine grace, each one a product of infinite love. Be blessed.
Why did God create human beings on the first place? What for? A question that has so many answers! So many books are written on this topic, so many sermons preached! Some say He did it so we would serve Him, others say so we would worship Him, yet others say the reason He created us is to have fellowship with us. These and so many answers are floundering around the theological world! And yet, somehow I’m not satisfied with either one of these answers. Why?Well, let’s take a look each of...
John says that God loved the world so much that He gave. But what was His gift? A diamond? A kingdom? A planet? A universe? no…so much more. Something priceless and beyond imagination. He gave His Son. And not one of many, but the only one that He had. If you think this was an easy sacrifice think again. God gives us a glimpse into His own pain in the story of Abraham and Isaac. A.W. Tozer describes the scene:
‘Take now thy son,’ said God to Abraham, ‘thine only son Isaac, whom thou...
Salvation comes from God’s own deepest nature. It wasn’t in Him to let us suffer the consequences of wickedness. He MUST save because He must. He is like that. It came from His own spontaneous compassion and love. Unsolicited grace and pity brought Christ the Son of the Father to Calvary. To enter Hell we would have to step over His wounded form, broken on the Cross. This is how I see it.
Each person has a plan for his or her life according to the Word of God. We have been predestined for greatness and the highest purpose of God. However, the enemy of our souls has another plan for our lives.Satan’s plan is activated by fear, selfishness, lack of self-control, lack of faith and many other weaknesses that Satan and his dupes feed upon to try and ruin the lives of all human beings.I am very sad to hear many “Christians” receiving dreams, visions, and revelations which are...
Jesus loved the unloved and unlovely. It is so usual, so normal and so workaday for Him. He picks up with drab uninteresting people, living grey little lives and makes them special. In fact the whole Bible is full of it. God choosing the unlikely people, the youngest sons, the barren women, not many mighty, give the nameless a name, putting His arms around them and acknowledging them. Blessed?
You might think that to be an evangelist is a boring job. Preaching the Gospel over and over would seem to be a mundane assignment. But I have discovered that the more I preach it, the more I see it, and the more addicted I become to its beauty. It is the love story of all love stories. It is a story that has captured the human heart for 2,000 years in an unprecedented way.
Napoleon said, “…Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these...
LOVE
1. Who which one will love the God more: that one who has many sins ore the
one who has few sins?
! * Luke 7/41-43/ “There were two men who owed money to amoney-lender”,
Jesus began. “One owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other owed
him fifty. Neither of them could pay him back, so he cancelled the debts of
both. Which one, then, will love him more?”
“I suppose,” answered Simon, “that it would be the one who was forgiven
more.”
“You are right,” said...
October 30th, 2008
John 3:16 is perhaps the most well known verse in all the Bible…and rightly so. I am not tired of it…I wish the whole world knew it by heart. It captures the endless wealth of the entire Gospel message in one verse. I have been meditating on just the first statement of that verse today and what inexhaustible riches are there. “For God so loved the world that He gave…” To say, “I love you” is one thing. But to express love through tangible transaction…that is another thing...
When Jesus restored Peter He did not say, "OK, you are forgiven. Forget the past. Just get on with your work." He said, "Peter, do you love me?" (see John 21:15,16,17). Peter's love for Christ was the first and the last question. Really it is the only question. He won't ask us how many souls we have won. He will only measure us by our love. His words are still "Do you love me?" Do we?
God who made the world and identified Himself with it. He did not set it going like clockwork and then withdraw and just let it tick away without Him. It is stupid to suppose God would lock Himself out of the universe and not be able to do anything in it. The world is a statement of His love. It expresses what He is. He didn’t stop loving the world, ever. By love He upholds all things.
Evangelism is God touching people’s lives through us and through our compassionate words and deeds. We are not charged to denounce, but to draw people to God. God calls people to repent because He loves them. He doesn’t say, “I’m furious and you had better change your ways or else!” God may be angry with sinners, but with a heart breaking with love for them. Just look to Calvary…
February 8th, 2011
John 3:16 is perhaps the most well known verse in all the Bible…and rightly so. I am not tired of it…I wish the whole world knew it by heart. It captures the endless wealth of the entire Gospel message in one verse. I have been meditating on just the first statement of that verse today and what inexhaustible riches are there. “For God so loved the world that He gave…” To say, “I love you” is one thing. But to express love through tangible transaction…that is another...
February 8th, 2011
John says that God loved the world so much that He gave. But what was His gift? A diamond? A kingdom? A planet? A universe? no…so much more. Something priceless and beyond imagination. He gave His Son. And not one of many, but the only one that He had. If you think this was an easy sacrifice think again. God gives us a glimpse into His own pain in the story of Abraham and Isaac. A.W. Tozer describes the scene:
‘Take now thy son,’ said God to Abraham, ‘thine only son...
How important is love in our life as Christians? Hope is the target, faith is the bullet, but the explosive force is love. This is expressed by the apostle Paul in the following verse: 'The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love' (Galatians 5:6, 1 Cor 13:13-14:1). God bless you and greetings from Austria.
Our God is not a God of law, but a God of love. The Ten Commandments was the same voice that had said to Pharaoh 'let my people go'. He did not give them laws to turn them into slaves again. The God who thundered from Sinai was the one who had set them free from oppression. His voice is full of concern. It does not threaten. Sinai throbbed with affection, not anger. His love lifts us today. God bless you and greetings from Sierra Leone.
We are shaped for God’s love. Alternative life styles, such as love of money, happiness before principle and general decadence, are God-substitutes. “But he who does the will of God shall remain forever.” (John 2,17) God bless you.
We know nothing about the love of God except in practice, in His goodness, His provision, and His million efforts as we walk in this earthly life and beyond everything what He did for us in Christ Jesus. “For God so loved the world that He gave…” (John 3,16) And He gives today. God bless you.
