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Divine Remembrance

July 14, 2015 by

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Remember Your mercy, O Lord, and Your steadfast love
For they have been from old.
Remember not the sins from my youth or my transgressions
According to your steadfast love,
Remember me for the sake of Your goodness, O Lord!
Psalms 25:6-7

This is David’s prayer.  He had searched in his heart and saw that there was no one who could help him at that hour—only Sovereign God. He cried out for remembrance.

To be remembered is ‘to be thought of.’  And you can only remember someone you have had interaction with at one time or the other.  For one to remember you it means there has been a relationship between the two of you.  Why did David call on God to remember him?  David went to a Someone he was comfortable with trusting.

Even in this physical world we live in, sometimes you meet someone who says they know you, but you don’t quite remember them…even when they try to remind you of where the two of you met.  Perhaps you feel confused.  This is the same way with the spiritual realm.  God cannot remember you if you have never been in a relationship with Him.  He will only remember you if you have interacted with Him and that your relationship is strong and operating at the highest level.  David took courage to call for remembrance for he knew His Friend, God, would come to his rescue.

How many of us can boldly come to God today asking Him to remember us without feeling perhaps guilty in one way or another because of unconfessed sin or repeated sins?  Sins hinder us from the hand of God, brethren.

Nehemiah also cried unto God for remembrance.

Remember me, O my God, concerning this,
and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done
for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
Nehemiah 13:14

We also see David in Psalm 106:4 calling on God for remembrance.

Remember me, O Lord, with the favor Thou beareth unto thy people,
O visit me with Thy salvation.

O Lord, Thou knowest: remember me, and visit me,
and revenge me of my persecutors;
take me not away in Thy longsuffering:
know that for Thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Jeremiah 15:15

And he said unto Jesus “Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom.”
Luke 23:42

Brethren, for us to be remembered of God it means we are in a good relationship with Him.  Let us work out our relationship with God.  We need Him to remember us in all areas of our lives.

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Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for You are the Lord…full of steadfast love.  Great is Thy faithfulness.  We need Your grace, Lord, to be in good relationship with You.  Help us in our shortfalls, build us with Your love, create in us a clean heart, Lord.  This we ask in Jesus’ name, Amen!

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Faithful God

July 7, 2015 by

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Know therefore that the Lord your God is God.
He is the faithful God,
keeping His covenant of love to a thousand generations
of those who love Him and keep His commands.
Deuteronomy 7:9

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We see God’s choice of Israel was motivated by His love for them. Moreover God promised to faithfully keep His covenant and show mercy to generation after generation of those who would love Him and obey Him.  Not only was God’s love contingent on their response of love and obedience but also they would receive prosperity, good health, and military success (verses 13-16).

It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity
that you are going in to take possession of their land,
but on the account of wickedness of these nations,
the Lord your God will drive them out before you to accomplish
what He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9:5

It shows God’s gracious gift based on His love and mercy for rewarding the Israelites with faithfulness.  Moses warned the Israelites that continued possession of the land would be contingent on their perseverance in faith and in obedience to God.  If the Israelites became wicked like the Canaanites they, too, would be dispossessed of the land.  In other words, His love and mercy in His giving of the land was not unconditional.  If the people turned away from the Lord and forgot His word they, too, would surely perish.

Therefore, brethren, inasmuch as God shows us His faithfulness, let us seek to obey Him the more. For we will get a reward at the end of the race.

Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God
failing to observe His commands, His laws, and His decrees
that I am giving you this day.
Deuteronomy 8:11

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Dear heavenly Father, we thank You for Your faithfulness and Your lovingkindness.  Thank You for Your mercy that is unconditional.  We pray for grace, Lord, to obey Your commands at all times.  Help us to do what You want us to do at the right time and in the right ways.  Direct our paths, Lord; in Jesus’ name we pray.  Amen!!

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Hope (A Profession)

June 29, 2015 by

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So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering
the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgment of it,
for He who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His Word.
Hebrew 10:23 AMP

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In the KJV the same verse says,

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering
(for He is faithful that promised).

What are we seeing here?  Hope is the profession of our faith.  What is  ‘profession’ then?  In biblical terms, this is a calling.  It is ‘an occupation, practice, or vocation requiring mastery of a complex set of knowledge and skills through formal education and/or practical…’.

So if we take the AMP version that we should hold fast…without wavering…the hope, we are saying we should take the profession of our faith without wavering.

In a business world setting, if you know that you are an accountant, anything concerning administration does not concern you because there is nothing you can do about it.  You are not trained for that and you do not have knowledge concerning it. This is also true with the profession of our faith…we are called in this field of hope in which we are being trained to hope in the Lord, we are being equipped to undertake this profession without wavering.

We are called to this profession ourselves because God already knows that we need training.  The training is the faith which needs to be exercised on a daily basis.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God…
Romans 10:17

Once you hear  the Word of God, hope in the Lord moves from one level of glory to the other.   Faith and hope are inseparable professions that we as believers need to know and must have.  We need to combine these professions if we want to live a successful life.  A life of abundance only comes when we take our certificates in the profession which are desire, prayers, and belief.  (“What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them” Mark 11: 24).

For God to act on anything we need to have hope and faith in God.  Don’t doubt God.  Brethren I have never seen the righteous forsaken therefore let us hold fast our profession in God for He never fails.  Those marriages we are hoping for will come…finances needed…babies we desire…. All these will only come when we exercise our profession (HOPE).

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Father, I thank You for the wonderful time we had in Your Presence.  Thank You for the Scripture we have read;  we pray and believe that grace shall abound in us that we shall do our profession without wavering.  Grant us that grace, Lord, for we need it to exercise our inheritance in Your Kingdom.  For without faith we cannot please You!   We need it time and time again.  In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Spiritual Hope (2)

June 24, 2015 by

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Therefore, since we have been justified through faith
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have gained access by faith
into this grace in which we now stand
and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:1-2

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Justification through faith brings the believer various results—

  • peace with God
  • grace
  • hope
  • assurance
  • sufferings
  • the love of God
  • the Holy spirit
  • salvation from wrath
  • reconciliation to God
  • salvation by the life and presence of Jesus and,
  • joy in God

In our current series, we have been looking at HOPE.  Let’s see what hope did in the lives of some different men of God in the Scriptures.  Against all hope Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “so shall your offspring be” (Romans 5:5).

Whatsoever God spoke concerning our lives shall come to pass. Let us not doubt God. We will be rewarded as we believe Him.

For in this hope we were saved.
But hope that is seen is no hope at all.
Who hopes for what he already has?
Romans 8:24

Hope is expecting something you are visualizing but it is not there yet.  Brethren, when hoping for something, let us put ourselves in totally trusting God; do not have something in mind already.

God knows that we are people made of flesh and blood; and, if not properly handled,  He will lose all of us since we often lose heart when faced with adversity.  That is why in Romans 15:4 the Word says “…for everything that was written in the past was written to teach us so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”  Hope call us to testify as in 1 Peter 3:15.

But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord.
Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you
To give the reason of the hope that you have,
But do this with gentleness and respect.

Our spiritual hope should be awake at all times.  May God grant us the grace for this. Otherwise we may miss the mark through our unbelief.

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Dear Lord, thank You for this portion of Scripture we are sharing this week.  Thank You for leading us through this wonderful period of understanding hope.  We have seen a lot in Your Word about this word—HOPE.  Thank You for the insights therein.  We pray for Your grace to abide so that we will put all our hopes in You in all areas of our lives.  In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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God’s Declarations and Thoughts

June 17, 2015 by

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I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord,
plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11

The Jeremiah 29:11 declaration which God made is so powerful.  This shows that declarations are a way of establishing things in our lives.  His declaration shows how He thinks of us, along with His will and His purpose for our lives.

Thou shall declare a thing and it shall be established.
Job 22:28

What is it you declare and think about your life…family…job…school, etc?
Be positive: declare and think that which will make your future bright.  God’s thoughts over us are of good…not of evil; and He declares the same.  As we think of ourselves, we, too, should not think that which is evil but only that which is good and declare it.  “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh” (Luke 6:45).  If we are filled with wrong thoughts then the declarations we speak will be of evil and destruction.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders You have done.
The things You planned for us no one can recount to You,
Were I to speak and tell of them, they will be too many to declare.
Psalm 40:5

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God.
How vast is the sum of them.
Psalm 139:17

David came to a point of realizing that in anything and in all things about his life was centered on God and that all things were being managed by God.  Let us also align our thoughts with the thoughts God has for us so that we may accomplish His will in our lives.

As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are My ways higher than your ways
and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55: 9

Blessed be the Lord who has good thoughts for us and declares them.  May we  have good thoughts for ourselves, our family and friends and declare good over everything.  May we remember this lesson that we need to be thinking and declaring good things.

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Dear Lord, we thank You for the word that has come at the right time when we needed it most.  Your Word gives us life and teaches us new precepts every day.   Thank You for showing us how deep Your love is to a point of thinking and declaring good things (and not evil) over our lives.  King of glory, we worship You.  May we walk in that grace of thinking and declare good for ourselves, our families, friends and all that concerns us. For with our mouths we shall declare a thing and it shall be established to the glory of Your holy name.  Be exalted always, Jehovah.  In Jesus’ name, I pray.  Amen.

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Regeneration

June 9, 2015 by

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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade –
kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power
until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:3-5

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For you have been born again not of perishable seed,
but of imperishable through the living and enduring Word of God.
1 Peter 1:23

Combining these two verses shows us that the resurrection of Jesus Christ has given us a new identity.  We need to embrace this new identity and live a life that is worthy of the calling of child of God.  We are regenerated—made new.   The old things have gone and behold all things become new.  Our character, our attitude, our thinking,  our abilities should match with the new status we have been given.  We need not to forget that we are lights in the world.  People see us, and with our Christ-like character they will follow us and will be saved.  If we live to the contrary we preach death to the people.

If you know that He is righteous
you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of Him.
1 John 2:29

No one who is born of God will continue to sin,
because God’s Seed remains in him.
He cannot go on sinning because he has been born of God.
1 John 3:9

Let us strive to live a righteous life as our Father. (Be holy for I am holy- 1 Peter 1:16).  There is a worldly proverb that says “Birds of the same feather, flock together.”  Now we are told Christ lives in us.  So how can we sin when He lives in us?  The Holy Spirit is in us, how do we sin?

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God
and everyone who loves the Father loves His Child as well.
1 John 5:1

Dear friends, let us live a life that is pleasing unto God and appreciative of the love that God had for us by sending His Son to die for us to take away the sinful nature and giving us new life.

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Dear Lord, we thank You for Who You are—You are the great God, the I AM WHO I AM, the ever present, immortal God, invisible God.  We thank You because we have this new life because of Your love for us. Thank You for letting us be born again.  Give us the grace not to turn to the left or the right of Your precepts but rather do what we are supposed to do at the right time…all to the glory of Your holy Name.  In Jesus’ name I have prayed.  Amen!!!!

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Spiritual Hope

June 2, 2015 by

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For everything that was written in the past
was written to teach us
so that through endurance
and the encouragement of the Scriptures
we might have hope.
Romans 15:4

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These words came as I was addressing an issue at hand.  Reference was made to that which is written in the Old Testament.  The Word of God always gives comfort and strength.  The Word of God is an oasis of hope.

Believing the Word of God and living by it takes us from the arena of hope into faith.

And hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God
is shed abroad in our hearts
by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Romans 5:5

That means hope never disappoints. The reason it does not disappoint is that the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.  Hope is one of the three creative principles of the human spirit. They are also abiding principles.

And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13

Meaning that when all else fails, these three principles will remain and not pass away.  They are given to us and are in our spirits.  We are to choose to act on faith, to always be hopeful towards God, and to walk in love.  Hope does not function on its own; it must be applied or acted upon.

The kind of hope that always produces results is the one that has its roots in God’s Word.  No man should hope in himself for there is no strength in such hope.  However, to hope in God is to trust entirely in Him for your provision.  Yet hope is not enough to change circumstances until its given substance.  This substance is the faith.

For faith is the substance of things hoped for….
Hebrews 11:1

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Dear heavenly Father, I declare that by the entrance of your Word in my spirit let my faith grow.  I should live by Your Word for it gives comfort and strength.  Let me not trust and hope in chariots, as some others do, but let all my hope be in You in every area of my life.  I pray all this in Jesus’ name.  Amen!

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Spiritual Temple

May 26, 2015 by

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Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary
and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
1 Corinthians 3:16

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Our bodies are a temple of God and so we have to keep them holy for the Lord is also holy (1 Peter 1:14-16).  We need to not corrupt our mind, body, and soul by participating in evil activities; we are to reject all forms of immorality.

God speaks to us about the many ways of not corrupting our bodies.  This also can be done in churches. Churches are a temple of God so those who go to church should not be corrupted—the elders, deacons, pastors, Sunday school children, and the youth.  All manner of people in the church should reject corruption in the church.  Read through these Scriptures and see how serious God is on this issue of temple of God:

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you,
Whom you have received from God? You are not your own….
1 Corinthians 6:19

What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?
For we are the temple of the living God.
As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them,
and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
2nd Corinthians 6:16

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Cornerstone;
In Whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Ephesians 2:20-21

Therefore, as Christians/believers, what we do surely matters.  We need not misuse our bodies in any way.  Our individual bodies are not ours; they are God’s creation and are to be used for God’s purpose.

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Dear Lord, thank You for giving us this insight that our bodies are Your temple and the Holy Spirit dwells in it.  We feel honored to be loved in such a way!  However we confess our sins of not doing the right things at the right time with our bodies.  Cleanse us with hyssop; let us be whiter than snow.  We pray for new beginnings in Jesus’ name.  Amen.

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Good Works

May 19, 2015 by

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For we are God’s workmanship
created in Christ Jesus to do good works
which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2: 10

I am reminded of Jeremiah 1:5…

Before I formed you I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart.

This just shows us how we were created.  In Genesis 1:26-28 God said, “Let us make man in Our image and Our likeness…”  You will notice God was giving power to man to have dominion over things and what distracted is the sinful nature of man.  However God’s compassionate love gave us Christ Jesus in Whom we are born again.  Now that we are born again, what is required of us?

1. Go back to the drawing board and see the purpose of God over our lives

2. Appreciate God for giving us the second chance

3. Fulfil the call that we have without murmuring or blabbing

The anchor Scripture for this week says we were ‘created to do good works.’  What then are the good works, those that God prepared for us to do in advance?

  • Matthew 5:16
    In the same way let your light shine before men that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
  • 1 Timothy 6:18
    Command them to do good to be rich in good deeds and to be generous and willing to share.
  • Titus 2:7
    In everything set them an example by doing what is good.  In your teaching show integrity seriousness.
  • Hebrews 10:24
    And let us consider how we may spur one another on towards love and good deeds.
  • James 2:17
    Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by good deeds, is dead.
  • James 2:18
    But someone will say you have faith I have deeds show me your faith without deeds and I will show you my faith but I do.

Brethren, as we are doing good works it is not unto man but it is unto God (according to the Scriptures).  Let us take up this noble call with our whole hearts and pursue the calling.

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Dear Lord, we thank You for You knew us for all times.  We thank You for You predestined us and You knew our roles on earth for each one of us.  May we come to a full understanding of the good works that we are to do.  Use us to the maximum and all to the glory of your Holy Name.  Open our eyes of understanding to see the best inside us and how we should take action.  On our own we can hardly manage; we need the Holy Spirit—Christ in us—for this to be undertaken.  This we ask in Jesus’ name.  Amen.

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DYING WITH CHRIST

May 11, 2015 by

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I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live,
but Christ lives in me.
The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God,
Who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Galatians 2:20

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In this Scripture I hear Paul telling us that those who have faith in Christ live their lives in intimate relationship with their Lord—both in His death and Resurrection.  As Christians we have died to the Law as a means of salvation and now live through Christ for God.  Sin no longer has control over us.

Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,
why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules?
Colossian 2:20

As Christ was risen from the dead we also now live with Him in Resurrection life.  Christ and His Strength lives within us becoming the Source of all life and the center of all our thoughts, our words, and our deeds.  It is through the Holy Spirit that Christ’s risen life is  continually communicated to us.

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:3

Here is a trustworthy saying:
If we died with Him,
we will also live with Him;
2 Timothy 2:11

Our sharing in Christ’s Resurrection is appropriated through faith.  The confident belief, the love, the devotion, and the loyalty we have in the Son of God who loved us and gave Himself for us (John 3:16).

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Lord, we thank You, we bless You for Your grace and lovingkindness.  We bless You because You are a good God, who loved us unconditionally and let Christ die for us Whose death paid the highest price of our sins.  His death gave us salvation which is the biggest testimony every Christian believer has.  We thank You for this price—the greatest price ever paid—for mankind.  We honor You for everything, Lord.  Help us, Lord, to appreciate this love for us by loving You back, Lord.  For as we love You, we cannot do anything that You do not want us to do but always we strive to please You.  We pray for Your grace so that we can be in an intimate relationship with You always and obey Your commands.  In Jesus’ name, amen.

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