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April 24, 2018
Daily devotional
- This is a daily devotional which I enjoyed the most and give glory to almighty.
Now let's look at the last of God's requirements for true forgiveness.
Requirement 1: Bless and do good to the person.
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. (Matt. 5:44–45)
This isn’t in the Matthew 18 parable, but from the overall teaching of the Bible, it is the final step, like stitching a wound and covering it with healing ointment. Whenever unforgiveness has existed for a long time, you have slid down that Slide of Unforgiveness. Your desire for justice has turned to a desire for vengeance. You wish the person harm. They have become an enemy—and therefore this verse applies.
Look carefully at those four commands Christ outlines for anyone who brings us pain: love, bless, do good, and pray for them. After extending compassion on the person, releasing them from your heart-prison, and forgiving them of all their trespasses, your heart is finally free to obey those commands.
In fact, your freedom to bless the very person who wounded you is also useful as proof-positive confirmation that forgiveness is finally complete. How will you know if you have truly forgiven? If you can look right at that person who hurt you so much, and bless them. You will know that you are free when you can wish well the one who wounded you. You are free.
It’s at this point that God begins to pour peace into your life. The parable has been lived, the debt forgiven. You look like your King.
Your face will soften; tenderness will come into your voice.
When we bless the one who has been our enemy, it is a love that should feel familiar.
It’s the love that Jesus has for each one of us.
This is the way of life Jesus has always intended for you. Yes, He understands the painful wounds of sin and injustice we experience in life. However, He made it crystal clear—choosing to forgive ourselves and others is always the right choice to make. To be like Him. To be like the Father.
Finally, remember, God desires freedom and peace for your life—for you to live the joyous way He intended. And the way to continually abide in His peace and freedom is to forgive and keep on forgiving. A beautiful way of living modeled and taught to us by His Son, Jesus Christ.
May God richly bless you, and may you continually enjoy the peace and freedom flowing from a life of forgiveness!
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May 19, 2017
Trusting God unconditionally
This is an excerpt from everyday devotional.
7 Daily Steps to Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart
7 Daily Steps to Trust in the Lord with All Your HeartWednesday, March 18, 2015.
Perhaps you’ve been told that as a Christian you must learn to “trust in the Lord with all your heart.” But this famous passage from Proverbs 3 contains more than just a general statement about living. Instead, you’ll find the steps you need each day to truly walk with God.
Follow these 7 daily steps to make sure you’re leaning on the Lord:
1. Don’t Depend on You
We live in a world where trust must be earned and seems to be in short supply. But Solomon, the famous king who wrote Proverbs, knew that trust is exactly where we must start:
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5)
Most of us have faced disappointments, which have taught us that we can only depend upon ourselves. But living the life God has called us to means unlearning that lesson. Instead, we’re meant to rest in God’s understanding.
We may know in our minds that He possesses all wisdom:
“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!” Romans 11:33
But sometimes trusting Him completely like that can be tough. So, each day we must consciously lay aside our own plans and expectations—and surrender to His plans.
What if we don’t feel like we can trust Him like that? That’s where step 2 comes in…
2. Cry out to God
Surrendering to God begins with our lips and our thoughts. We need more than a commitment to depend on Him; we need to cry out to Him to show that dependence.
“in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:6)
When we pray, we admit that His ways are higher than ours. We show that we’re leaving our troubles and burdens and dreams in His capable hands. In fact, the Bible promises that when we reach out to Him in prayer, He hears us:
“Evening, morning, and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice. ” (Psalm 55:17)
We handed the keys of our lives to Him, and we know that He’s able to lead us. But in order for that to work, we have to…
3. Run from Evil
So much in this world can clutter up our relationship with God. John, the writer of the fourth gospel, describes them as the desires of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the pride in our lives (1 John 2:16). In other words, our blessings can easily become our stumbling blocks when we think of them as what we deserve or what we need to be happy.
Instead, life works best when we remember the true source of our blessings—God—and focus on the things that please Him:
“Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil.” (Proverbs 3:7)
Sometimes, the only way to live the life God wants us to live is by separating ourselves from the bad influences that keep dragging us down. That works the best when we start pursuing something else in their place:
“Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” (2 Timothy 2:22)
Is that easy? Not at all. Fleeing from the evil desires that pull at us means spending a lot of time crying out to God and leaning on Him. But our Creator promises to honor our commitment to Him when we shun evil:
“This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.” (Proverbs 3:8)
When we pursue Him, we find life—abundant life. Running from evil and pursuing God doesn’t come naturally to most of us. Instead, it means we have to make a serious change:
4. Put God First in Your Life
It’s easiest to put ourselves first. When something good happens, we want to congratulate ourselves with a reward. When something bad happens, we want to console ourselves or find someone to blame. In other words, we often have a “me-centric” starting place.
And when it comes to money, the struggle is even harder. But Solomon, who had quite a bit of wealth himself, knew that his money didn’t belong to him:
“Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.” (Proverbs 3:9–10)
If we can trust God with the first of our wealth, we’re truly showing how much we depend on Him. Handing over the first part of our paycheck takes a huge amount of faith, after all. But doing so means being God-centric.
To get there, though, make sure you…
5. Check Yourself by God’s Word
Let’s be honest. We aren’t so good at evaluating ourselves. We will go to great lengths to excuse our behavior, our actions, and our sins. Who needs a defense attorney when we can pretty much find a reason for any bad thing we do? The prophet Jeremiah captures this very well:
“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9)
If we’re ever going to truly trust in God and flee evil, we have to know exactly where we stand. We have to find an objective measure that tells us the truth. And that truth comes from God and His Word.
Of course, that doesn’t mean we’ll always like what we see or how we see it:
“My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline and do not resent his rebuke” (Proverbs 3:11)
That’s right. Sometimes it takes something bad happening or seeing ourselves in a bad light before we finally admit that we need to change. And the more we’re in the Bible, the more likely this is to happen.
“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” (Psalm 119:11)
When we have Scripture planted firmly in our hearts, God will often use that to deal with us.
6. Listen to the Holy Spirit
When Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit to the church, He told His disciples that this Counselor would be their spiritual compass or GPS:
“But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” (John 14:26)
As we go through our day, this same Holy Spirit guides us, too. That means we don’t have to go it alone or hope we’re getting it right. No, the Holy Spirit leads us into all truth and protects us:
“Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.” (2 Timothy 1:14)
After all, the gift of the Holy Spirit to us believers reminds us that we can truly…
7. Rest in God’s Love
When we face a difficult world each day, we can sometimes wonder if God even cares. Why do bad things happen? Where is God when I need Him? Solomon reminds us that God never takes a break or leaves us to fend for ourselves:
“because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.” (Proverbs 3:12)
Even in the midst of turmoil, God sticks with us and uses those challenges to shape us. When we understand that, our perspective completely flips. No longer do we see our setbacks as failures; we see them as moments when God, as our loving Father, works on us.
And that’s exactly why we can trust in the Lord with all our hearts. He cares for us each and every day. He gives us what we need to thrive. He pours blessing after blessing upon us.
Of course, following each of these daily steps isn’t easy. That’s why Jesus said we have to deny ourselves and follow Him (Matthew 16:24). Trusting God takes a whole-hearted commitment from dawn till dusk. But we’re never alone in it:
“And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20b)
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May 07, 2017
Forgive and be free
This is an excerpt from The Freedom Factor: Finding Peace by Forgiving Others… and Yourself, by Dr. Bruce Wilkinson with Mark E. Strong. Used by permission.
God loves you. He wants the best for you. He wants you to have peace, a peace the world cannot offer.
Our hearts were meant to be open to Him and to others. They were meant for love, joy, and peace. They were meant for freedom, and to bring freedom to our entire being.
So why, for so many of us, do our hearts feel like a locked prison instead of an open door?
Well, our many hurts and wounds batter and warp that door. Eventually, our pain can alter even the shape of the lock until it seems impossible to find the right key. And so our hearts remain closed to the good things of God, closed to freedom. Imprisoned.
And we can forget that freedom is even possible. We forget what our hearts were made for.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
We can all experience God’s gifts and life of peace and promise. All that is required is for each of us to open the door of our heart. When we do, His Word promises that joy, peace, and freedom will flood our entire being. It’s simple. But not easy.
It’s not easy because we often don’t know where to find the key that can fit the lock on our hearts.
But Jesus revealed a key that can revolutionize your life, a powerful key that can unlock the doors of every kind of heart, break the chains of every kind of hurt. Using it will enable you to fling your heart wide open, experiencing the joy, peace, and freedom God made you for—and that He has been longing for you to enjoy to the full.
The key?
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May 07, 2017
Unconditional Love
unconditional love. Through the ages, mystics, sages, singers and poets have all expressed the ballad and call to love. As humans, we have searched endlessly for the experience of love through the outer senses. Great nations have come and gone under the guise of love for their people. Religions have flourished and perished while claiming the true path to love. We, the people of this planet, may have missed the simplicity of unconditional love. . .
"Simply stated, unconditional love is an unlimited way of being. We are without any limit to our thoughts and feelings in life and can create any reality we choose to focus our attention upon. There are infinite imaginative possibilities when we allow the freedom to go beyond our perceived limits. If we can dream it, we can build it. Life, through unconditional love, is a wondrous adventure that excites the very core of our being and lights our path with delight." - from Harold W. Becker in Unconditional Love - An Unlimited Way of Being.
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May 05, 2017
Purpose driven life
One of the most fascinating thing about our day to day life is to enjoy our life to the fullest as there must be a divinely purpose behind every sacred life .
pastor Rick Warren has said it the best for all of us at his numerous books and articles.
"Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
It is not enough to just say relationships are important; we must prove it by investing time in them. Words alone are worthless. "My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action." Relationships take time and effort, and the best way to spell love is "T-I-M-E.
Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
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May 04, 2017
Divine callings
When the Holy Spirit works mariclously within us and we want to shout out and spread His kingdom and be a disciple of Jesus Christ , we should embrace it full heartedly according to Mathew 28 verse 18 .
sometimes and on occasions we are being reminded of my fellow Christian brother and a man of faith named Dr. Jeffress who wrote this prophetic article.
The Pastor as Preacher and Prophet
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.
—2 Timothy 4:2
What are the distinct callings of every pastor?
First, the pastor’s primary responsibility is to preach the Word of God. Paul told his spiritual protégé Timothy, “Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction” (2 Timothy 4:2). That word “preach” means “to herald or to announce.” In Paul’s day, if an emperor had a message to deliver to a township, he would send his herald to announce his message. That is what the pastor is to do. He is to preach. He is to announce the Word. The clarifying words “reprove,” “rebuke,” and “exhort” give the sense of urgency with which the pastor is to deliver the message. That word “reprove” means to speak persuasively. To “rebuke” means to convince of wrongdoing. To “exhort” means to encourage in a positive way. But Paul’s message is not simply to preach. It is to preach the Word. No herald in Paul’s day was free to formulate his own message. He wasn’t free to say: “Well, the emperor said this, but I have something else I want to share with you today.” No. His job was to faithfully announce the message that had been entrusted to him. In the same way, pastors are to preach the Word of God.
The second role is the pastor as a prophet. A prophet not only confronts people about their relationship with God but confronts the culture when it departs from the teachings of God’s Word. Why isn’t that happening today? I think there are three reasons pastors are hesitant to act as prophets. One reason is a misunderstanding of the Bible. We think we aren’t supposed to speak out about ungodly behavior by unbelievers. But the fact is we are called to be prophets. The second reason pastors don’t act as prophets is because of a misunderstanding of the Constitution. Some pastors believe that the separation of church and state prohibits pastors from addressing controversial issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. This misunderstanding of the Constitution causes pastors to silence themselves. A third reason pastors don’t act as prophets is a fear of controversy. I’m sympathetic with that, but let me be very blunt. Pastor, you will never be criticized by the world for building a homeless shelter or building wells in Africa. But if you dare stand up and point your finger at the culture and say, “This is wrong, thus sayeth the Lord,” you better be ready to suffer. That’s why Paul said in 2 Timothy 4:5, “endure hardship.” If pastors fulfill our role as prophets it is going to get hard at times, but that’s the pastor’s role: not only as a preacher but as ...
May 03, 2017
An act of kindness
Todays Youth Tomorrows Leaders(TOYTL.org).org)‘s motto is God is Love.That is amazing truth that humbles and amazes everyone.The more you dwell in that love,the more you know it is true.”God’s love,like Himself,is eternal,inscrutable and immutable,He loves mankind with an everlasting love(Jeremiah 31:3)and having once set His love on man,He can never let him go.
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