Walk in forgiveness

Bitterness and resentment brings you nothing but burden. Remaining offended by the words or actions of another can be quite painful and terribly distracting. Is it really in your best interest to give your time, energy and attention to keeping the pain?

Forgiveness does not mean that you allow others to take advantage of you. It simply means that you allow yourself to move positively forward, regardless of what others say or do. Yes, even if the other person doesn't deserve it. When you commit sin, God is not mad at you but, He is madly in love with you! It doesn't matter how many times you've made a mistake; it doesn't matter how many times you've blown it; God is always ready to receive you with open, loving arms.

The scripture tells us that if we don't forgive others, God cannot forgive also. Not because God don’t want to forgive you, but because your heart is close for that forgiving spirit. If forgiveness doesn't go out, forgiveness can't come in. Simply take a step of faith to embrace His love and forgiveness you deserve the opportunity to leave the pain behind. “FORGIVE”, and be free.

Forgiveness

Sometimes those wounds are small and easy to move past…
But, other times they are deep and take time to heal. But remember that you’re not alone. During hard times God is not by your side… but, He is carrying you. He weeps when you weep and laughs when you laugh. You are His delight, and He longs to have a loving, tender relationship with you.

The important thing is that we choose to forgive so that we can open the door to God’s forgiveness in our own lives.
Forgiveness sets you free and draws you closer to God. Choose to forgive anyone that has hurt you. As you walk in forgiveness, you’ll experience His hand of blessing in ways you never thought possible and you will move forward in the abundant life He has in store for you. God bless you!

Living In Fear

We live in an age dominated by fear. Elaborate security systems guard homes, offices, automobiles, and numerous other items. Yet it is the vast array of personal fears that create the greatest conflict and generate increasing levels of anxiety. Some of these fears are basic—the fear of death, illness, rejection, failure, old age. There may be only occasional bouts with these kinds of fears, or they can become quite possessive. Below are five reasons we become fearful.

 1. Sin. 

When God created Adam and Eve, there was no evidence of fear in man or beast. There was perfect harmony and peace between God and His creation, man.

 2. Learned Fears. 

During our childhood and adolescent years, we learn negative as well as positive behaviors. Often associated with certain negative behavior is the accumulation of fears that we derive from our parents or peers. 

Living in Fear

3. Ignorance.

 The less we know about something, the greater our level of fear. For instance, we may be ignorant that the Bible clearly tells us there is no such thing as an unpardonable sin. Yet we are under constant guilt because we think we have committed this terrible deed. 

4. Imagination. 

 Many of our fears are imaginary. We worry and fret about what might happen. We live in fear of fear itself and are anxious about anxiety itself. Our fears are always preceded by this fear-inducing statement— “What if . . .” 

5. Unbiblical self-esteem.

 Many of our fears come from failing to grasp our new position and status in Christ. We are overloaded with guilty feelings and burdened with a poor self-image that leads to fear of failure, fear of rejection, and other qualms. The good news of the gospel is good news for any form of fear.

 

Jesus came not only to save us from our sins and give us eternal life; He also came to give abundant life, a life that overflows with the peace, joy, and stability of Christ Himself. You can be set free from fear, even the most irrational kinds that keep you from enjoying life, and experience the normal Christian life.

We Are Children of God

The New Testament writers understood this distinction as well. As significant as the judicial side of our salvation of the Holy Spirit, they each chose something from either their culture or their nature that would lend itself as an accurate illustration of this unique relationship between holy God and man.

The Holy Spirit directed the apostle Paul to use the term adoption to describe the process by which God establishes a relationship with a man or woman who rusts Christ as the Savior:

For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.—ROMANS 8:15–16, emphasis mine Notice how Paul capitalizes on the relational value of doption. We are encouraged to think of our heavenly Father in the most intimate way, as a Daddy. This relationship is ontrasted to one of fear, which commonly existed between a slave and his master. God is not simply putting up with us as a master would with slaves. God desires an intimate relationship with us. And He has taken it upon Himself to remove every possible barrier.

 Paul echoes the same idea in his letter to the Galatians: But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, in order that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. —GALATIANS 4:4–5, emphasis mine Here Paul makes the connection between adoption and justification. The interesting thing is that the grammar of these verses indicates that our ustification was merely a means to an end. God’s ultimate goal in salvation was the relationship made available through our adoption. Being declared “not guilty” was simply a necessary step in that direction.

Beautiful Prayer Poem

Lord, let me live from day to day,
In such a self-forgetting way,
That even when I kneel to pray,
My prayer will be for others. 

Help me in all the things I do,

To ever be sincerely true,
To know that all I do for You,
Must needs be done for others.
 

Others, Lord, yes others,
Let this my motto be.

Help me to live for others,
That I might live for Thee.

What is Prayer ? Worship, Petition, Intercession

Worship

 The first basic form of prayer is worship. It is a spontaneous result from the conscious awareness of God. As I realize the greatness of God and His nearness to me and His love for me, I naturally respond with deep, inner worship of Him. One day I watched a little gnat flying around.I was amazed at how small it was, and yet so wonderfully designed. He was able to defy the laws of gravity, suspending himself in the air and then darting around rapidly. I thought,“God you are so wise in the design of even small forms of life.”

 Worshipping God for His creative genius is a form of prayer—that consciousness of who He is and what He has done inspires worship. When I recognize the wisdom and power of God, I stand in awe of Him. Thanksgiving and praise arise spontaneously as I become conscious of the goodness of God to me that I know I do not deserve. 

Christians should engage in this form of communion and prayer constantly. We should become more conscious of Him as He speaks to us through nature. We see His power in the storm and lightning. We smell His loveliness in a rose. We see His design in a daisy. “In the rustling grass, I hear Him pass, He speaks to me everywhere.” Sometimes we verbalize our worship; often we don’t. It’s simply an overwhelming feeling within our hearts as God manifests Himself to us in a thousand different ways. We just say, “Ohhh, God is so good!” We worship Him and commune with Him in the recognition of His love and grace.

Petition

The second form of prayer is petition, as I bring my personal needs before God and ask Him for the help that I need so desperately. Day by day I cry out to the Lord for His wisdom, guidance, strength, and provision. There are some people who dismiss personal petition prayer as selfish. They say that it’s wrong to pray for anything for yourself because you ought to be thinking more of others.

The Bible says, “The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits” (2 Timothy 2:6). In other words, you can’t give what you don’t have. Like measles, you can’t give ‘em unless you got ‘em. Therefore, I must first be a partaker of God’s grace, love, strength, and power. Then, as I partake, I have something to share with others. 

One of Jesus’ disciples said, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” Jesus then taught that model prayer: “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven so in earth” (Luke 11:1–2). The first part of the prayer is addressed to God— worshipping God for what He is: “Hallowed be thy name.” Then comes the prayer for the kingdom of God: “Thy kingdom come.” We are to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.

The very next petition is “Give us day by day our daily bread…and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil” (Luke 11:3–4). These are personal petitions for my own needs. I do have needs, and God wants me to bring those needs before Him. There’s nothing wrong with praying and asking God to supply my rent money or whatever else I might need

.

Intercession

The third form of prayer, intercession, is the type of prayer that can be considered work. Worshipping God is not work—that’s glorious! It’s spontaneous, beautiful communion and fellowship with God. Petition isn’t too much work because I’m so interested in what I need that I can become involved in it very easily. But when I begin to tercede, then I must labor. 

Paul, in his closing remarks to the church at Colosse, makes mention of one of his fellow borers, Epaphras. “Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers” (Colossians 4:12). Here prayer is described as work. 

Through intercessory prayer I reach out beyond myself and pray, not for my own needs, but for the needs of those around me. I pray for my family, friends, and neighbors who don’t yet know Jesus Christ. I pray for the needs of those in the Body of Christ. I bring before God all the various needs of others that have come to my attention. It is during intercessory prayer that I become aware of what prayer actually is: a spiritual battle.

What is Prayer ? Worship, Petition, Intercession
 Thanks To Chuck Smith - Effective Prayer  Life

Easter Promises Quotes, Always Have God

"I don’t have to be anywhere and yes, I really want to help."

" Had God sent her help via him?"

"Gran’s not getting any better, God."

"Prayers for members who were missing due to illness, hymns sung with gusto and joy, words of encouragement and teaching to remind that God truly cared about even the smallest details."

"Fear that somehow, sometime, someway, she would lose everything."

“I’ve prayed so hard for an answer to help Granny Em, but nothing seems to work.”

“You think it’s simply a matter of ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try again.’” A bitter edge made her musical voice sound harsh.

"Few understood that money couldn’t buy trust or relationships where you could honestly be yourself"

“But you can’t give up on God. He doesn’t dangle a carrot in front of you and then jerk it away when you get too close. God isn’t like that.”

“God is the giver of dreams. He places dreams and ambitions and goals in our hearts because He wants us to achieve them.”

“We don’t understand His ways sometimes, but that doesn’t mean He wants our failure.”

“Because I believe God has good things in store for you and I want you to experience them,”

“God can’t help if you let fear control you,”

“You always have God"

“But you have to start, take a stand, insist to your doubting brain that God is who He says He is, that He always keeps His word.”

‘When I am afraid, I will put my confidence in You. I will trust the promises of God.’ Or, ‘Oh God, my strength! I will sing Your praises, for You are my place of safety.’”

“It’s from the sixtieth Psalm when King David reminded himself that he wasn’t alone. He said, ‘God has promised to help us. He has vowed it by His holiness!’ Those are strong words. A powerful promise, one you can depend on"

"My protection and success come from God alone"

"I am like a sheltered olive tree protected by the Lord Himself. I trust in the mercy of the Lord forever and ever"

"God is my helper. He is a friend of mine."

"You just needed a reminder of God’s goodness. It’s easy to let ourselves get ground down by fear and worry,but that’s exactly when we need to trust in God’s goodness.”

How God Speaks Today

The Lord’s primary way of speaking to us today is through His Word. We already have the complete revelation of God. He doesn’t need to add anything else to this Book. The revelation of God is the unfolding truth of God by God about Himself. It is the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, controlling the minds of men who penned the pages that make up the Bible. The Bible is the breath of God breathed upon those men that they might know the truth.

A second method God uses to speak to us today is through the Holy Spirit. In fact the primary way Jesus spoke in the New Testament was through the Holy Spirit. Today, God still speaks to our spirits through His Spirit who now lives, dwells, and abides in us. If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers. We can claim His presence, direction, and guidance.

A third way God speaks to us is through other people. Recognizing that we can be used as God’s spokespersons should cause us to soberly examine our dialogue. Perhaps God has a message for the listener that he has chosen us to deliver, and our talking about the weather or a football game would detract from that message. Thus, we should seek to be alert, sensitive, and available to God’s Voice.

A fourth way God speaks to us is through circumstances. Such circumstances take on many forms. Sometimes it is a failure. Sometimes it is a success. Sometimes it is a disappointment. Sometimes it is a tragedy, but God uses all circumstances in life to speak to us.

Now that we recognize that God still actively participates in communicating His message to believers today, we must endeavor to hear intently. When God speaks (and He does), everyone should listen. As David declared in Psalm 85:8, “I will hear what God the LORD will speak.”

How God Spoke Yesterday

If God is still talking, how does He speak? We can discover His methods by reviewing the different ways He revealed Himself in Old and New Testament days.

 First, He spoke by direct revelation. By His Spirit He spoke to the spirit of men like Abraham, who one day heard God directly tell him to leave the land in which he was living and go into a land that God would show him.

 Second, the Bible says God spoke through dreams. A good example is evident in the experiences of Daniel, to whom God revealed His world destiny in a series of dreams. In this way, God gave Daniel tremendous insight into future world events that are still in the process of unfolding today.

Third, God spoke through His written words, such as when He gave Moses the Ten Commandments.

Fourth, God spoke through His prophets. The prophets exclaimed, “Thus saith the Lord,” and the people obeyed because they knew it came directly from God.

Fifth, God spoke through circumstances. We’ve all heard the story of how God revealed Himself to Gideon. God wanted Gideon to lead the nation of Israel in battle against the enemy. Being a little fearful, Gideon decided to lay out a fleece. In fact, he laid it out twice. One morning he asked that it be soaking wet in the midst of dry grass, and the next morning he asked that it be as dry as gunpowder in the midst of wet grass. God graciously reached down to Gideon and gave him the assurance and confidence he needed.
Sixth, He spoke through angels, introducing to Mary and Joseph the birth of Jesus Christ through angelic proclamation.

Seventh, God often spoke through the Holy Spirit. You remember that in the life of Paul, who was on his way to Asia, God spoke to him through the Holy Spirit, forbidding him to go there: “Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them” (Acts 16:6–7).

Why God Speaks Today

We might ask, “Why would God still want to talk to us today? Hasn’t He said enough from Genesis to Revelation?” There are several compelling reasons why God still has His lines of communication open with His people. We are His expression.

First and foremost, He loves us just as much as He loved the people of Old and New Testament days. He desires to fellowship with us just as much as He fellowshipped with them. If our relationship with Him is a one-way trip and there is no communication or dialogue between us and the Lord Jesus Christ, then there isn’t much fellowship. Fellowship is nil when one person does all the talking and the other does all the listening. God still speaks to us today because He wants to develop a love relationship that involves a two-party conversation.

The second reason God still speaks today is that we need His definite and deliberate direction for our lives, as did Joshua, Moses, Jacob, or Noah. As His children, we need His counsel for effective decision making. Since He wants us to make the right choices, He is still responsible for providing accurate data, and that comes through His speaking to us.
 

A third reason God speaks today is that He knows we need the comfort and assurance just as much as did the believers of old. We have Red Sea experiences, when our backs are to the wall and we do not know which way to turn. We undergo failures just as Joshua and the people of Israel did at Ai. When we undergo such defeats, God knows our need for His assurance and confidence.
 

We must believe the most important reason God is still talking today is that He wants us to know Him. If God has stopped talking, then I doubt we will ever discover what He is really like. If the priority of all of our goals is to know God, then there must be more than just a one-way trip. Rather, there must be a communication link in which He talks to us and we listen or we talk to Him and He listens.

Fullfillment Of Messianic Prophecies

There were dozens of prophecies in the Old Testament regarding the Messiah. Some of these passages may not have been recognized as predictive when they were written, such as the ones that say He would be a Nazarene (see Matt. 2:23 ) or that He would flee to Egypt (see v. 15 ). But other passages can only make sense if they refer to Messiah God. In this latter category, here are a few of me most significant prophecies which Christ fulfilled, and the New Testament passage showing that completion.
  

1. Born of a woman ( Gen. 3:15 ; Gal. 4:4 )

2. Born of a virgin ( Isa. 7:14 ; Matt. 1:21ff )

3. He would be “cut off” 483 years after the declaration to reconstruct the temple  in 444 B.C. ( Dan. 9:24) (see Harold W. Hoehner’s Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ, pp. 115–138)

  4. Of the seed of Abraham ( Gen. 12:1–3 ; 22:18 ; Matt. 1:1 , Gal. 3:16 )

  5. Of the tribe ofJudah ( Gen. 49:10 ; Luke 3:23 , 33 ; Heb. 7:14 )

  6. Of the house of David ( 2 Sam. 7:12ff ; Matt. 1:1 )

  7. Born in Bethlehem ( Micah 5:2 ; Matt. 2:1 ; Luke 2:4–7 )

  8. Anointed by the Holy Spirit ( Isa. 11:2 ; Matt. 3:16–17 )

  9. Heralded by the messenger of the Lord (John the Baptist) ( Isa. 40:3 ; Mal. 3:1 ;
      Matt. 3:1–2 )

  10. Would perform miracles ( Isa. 35:5–6 ; Matt. 9:35 )
  

  11. Would cleanse the temple ( Mal. 3:1 ; Matt. 21:12ff )

  12. Rejected by Jews ( Ps. 118:22 ; 1 Peter 2:7 )
  

  13. Die a humiliating death ( Ps. 22 ; Isa. 53 ) involving:

• Rejection ( Isa. 53:3 ; John 1:10–11 ; 7:5 , 48 )
•  Silence before His accusers ( Isa. 53:7 ; Matt. 27:12–19 )
•  Being mocked ( Ps. 22:7–8 ; Matt. 27:31 )
•  Piercing His hands and feet ( Ps. 22:16 ; Luke 23:33 )
•  Being crucified with thieves ( Isa. 53:12 ; Matt. 27:38 )
•  Praying for His persecutors ( Isa. 53:12 ; Luke 23:43 )
•  Piercing His side ( Zech. 12:10 ; John 19:34 )
•  Buried in a rich man’s tomb ( Isa. 53:9 ; Matt. 27:57–60 )
•  Casting lots for His garments ( Ps. 22:18 ; John 19:23–24 )

14. Would rise from the dead ( Ps. 16:10 ; Mark 16:6 ; Acts 2:31 )

15. Ascend into heaven ( Ps. 68:18 ; Acts 1:9 )

16. Would sit down at the right hand of God ( Ps. 110:1 ; Heb. 1:3 )

It is important to understand that these prophecies were written hundreds of years before Christ was born. No one could have been reading the signs of the times or just making intelligent guesses, like the “prophecies” we see in the check–out line at the supermarket. Even the most liberal critics admit that the prophetic books were completed some 400 years before Christ, and the Book of Daniel by about 167 B.C. Though there is good evidence to date most of these books much earlier (some of the psalms and earlier
prophets were in the eighth and ninth centuries B.C. ), what difference would it make? It is just as hard to predict an event 200 years in the future as it is to predict one that is 800 years in the future. Both feats would require nothing less than divine knowledge. Even using the later dates, the fulfillment of these prophecies is just as miraculous and points to the divine confirmation of Jesus as the Messiah.

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Matthew 19-20) 
Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days ( perpetually, uniformly, and on every occasion), to the [very] close and consummation of the age. Amen (so let it be)