Monday, September 24, 2012
GOD’S SEVENFOLD PROMISE
GOD’S SEVENFOLD PROMISE
1. I will make you into a great nation
2. I will make your name great.
3. I will bless those who bless you.
4. I will bless you.
5. You will be a blessing whoever curses you I will curse.
6. All people on earth will be blessed through you
7. I will not leave nor forsake you.
O God, as you took Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac, take me through a land that flows with milk and honey, multiply me and grant me my own Isaac in Jesus name.
GOD’S WAYS ARE UNFATHOMABLE
GOD’S WAYS ARE UNFATHOMABLE
Isaiah 55:8"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.
God often deals with our problems and difficulties, not by removing them, but by giving us a greater vision of Himself. This may not remove the irritating circumstances, but it deepens our conviction that God knows what He is doing.
O God, you are not a man, that you should lie; neither the son of man, that you should repent: hath you said, and shall you not do it? or hath you spoken, and shall you not make it good? Because your word never fails, let your word accomplish for me what no man can do for in Jesus name.
Isaiah 55:8"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.
God often deals with our problems and difficulties, not by removing them, but by giving us a greater vision of Himself. This may not remove the irritating circumstances, but it deepens our conviction that God knows what He is doing.
O God, you are not a man, that you should lie; neither the son of man, that you should repent: hath you said, and shall you not do it? or hath you spoken, and shall you not make it good? Because your word never fails, let your word accomplish for me what no man can do for in Jesus name.
LEARN THE ACT OF NAVIGATION, BECAUSE THERE WILL STORM
LEARN THE ACT OF NAVIGATION, BECAUSE THERE WILL STORM
Matt 5:11"Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
The best time to learn the act of navigation is not when you are in the storm, but prior to it. How will you cope with a Job – size problem?
Have you a strategy for dealing with issues before they arise? If not perhaps now is the time to start working on it.
O Lord, enable me to take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. Make me strong in my time weakness in Jesus name
Matt 5:11"Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
The best time to learn the act of navigation is not when you are in the storm, but prior to it. How will you cope with a Job – size problem?
Have you a strategy for dealing with issues before they arise? If not perhaps now is the time to start working on it.
O Lord, enable me to take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. Make me strong in my time weakness in Jesus name
TIME AND CHANCE STILL HAPPENS
TIME AND CHANCE STILL HAPPENS
1 Peter 3:16 “….having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed”.
Roman 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose”.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. (KJV)
Why do bad things happen to good people? If you have often pondered that problem you are not alone here is only one answer. God allows bad thing to happen to is people only if He sees a way of turning the bad into greater good.
Almighty God, make known the riches of your glory on the vessels of mercy, which you had prepared beforehand for glory for in Jesus name,
1 Peter 3:16 “….having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed”.
Roman 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose”.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. (KJV)
Why do bad things happen to good people? If you have often pondered that problem you are not alone here is only one answer. God allows bad thing to happen to is people only if He sees a way of turning the bad into greater good.
Almighty God, make known the riches of your glory on the vessels of mercy, which you had prepared beforehand for glory for in Jesus name,
SOMEONE WITH A MISSION
SOMEONE WITH A MISSION
Philippians 3:13 -14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
What make a missionary? Crossing the sea? No.. seeing the cross! A missionary (a word, incidentally, you’ll not find in the Bible) simply means “someone with a mission” As you study Paul missionary strategy, spare a moment to consider your own.
If you are a Christian, you are “someone with a mission” It may lie across the sea, but on the other and, it may lie across the street!
Philippians 3:13 -14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
What make a missionary? Crossing the sea? No.. seeing the cross! A missionary (a word, incidentally, you’ll not find in the Bible) simply means “someone with a mission” As you study Paul missionary strategy, spare a moment to consider your own.
If you are a Christian, you are “someone with a mission” It may lie across the sea, but on the other and, it may lie across the street!
DEALING WITH YOUR YESTERDAY
DEALING WITH YOUR YESTERDAY
2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Song of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
2 Timothy 2:21-22 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
The powers controlling many lives are their yesterdays, you must break the power of your yesterday, over your tomorrow. You have to make a clear cut between you and your sinful past, otherwise, it will backfire and work against you in a way you did not expect it.
When a polluted past is ignored, it becomes a dangerous future. When you refuse to tame your today, it will grow into a very wild destructive ‘tomorrow’.
God asked Saul to destroy the Amalekites, but he spared their king and the aft cattle. Haman, who almost destroy the children of Israel was a descendant of Agag. This shows that, the enemy that you spared yesterday, will not spare you today and is likely not to spare you tomorrow.
The story of a boy who went to play a far distance from the father’s house. He picked a ... cub of a lion for a small dog. He hid it from his parents, and continuously feed the cub as a puppy.
One day, he travelled and did not provide food to the cub; when he arrived home from his journey he went to inspect the ‘dog’. On seeing the boy, the cub jumped on him and ate him up.
Sin is like that; it will wait for you to nurture it, feed it, romance it, and then it will destroy you.
Victory at Jericho- but defeat at Ai. Why? A simple reason – sinful disobedience. When the sin is purged, then victory is given. Is there something in your heart that is holding up the victories you ought to be experiencing? Then root it out - today. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. Refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Song of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
2 Timothy 2:21-22 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
The powers controlling many lives are their yesterdays, you must break the power of your yesterday, over your tomorrow. You have to make a clear cut between you and your sinful past, otherwise, it will backfire and work against you in a way you did not expect it.
When a polluted past is ignored, it becomes a dangerous future. When you refuse to tame your today, it will grow into a very wild destructive ‘tomorrow’.
God asked Saul to destroy the Amalekites, but he spared their king and the aft cattle. Haman, who almost destroy the children of Israel was a descendant of Agag. This shows that, the enemy that you spared yesterday, will not spare you today and is likely not to spare you tomorrow.
The story of a boy who went to play a far distance from the father’s house. He picked a ... cub of a lion for a small dog. He hid it from his parents, and continuously feed the cub as a puppy.
One day, he travelled and did not provide food to the cub; when he arrived home from his journey he went to inspect the ‘dog’. On seeing the boy, the cub jumped on him and ate him up.
Sin is like that; it will wait for you to nurture it, feed it, romance it, and then it will destroy you.
Victory at Jericho- but defeat at Ai. Why? A simple reason – sinful disobedience. When the sin is purged, then victory is given. Is there something in your heart that is holding up the victories you ought to be experiencing? Then root it out - today. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. Refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
RELY ON GOD
RELY ON GOD
Hebrews 11 :13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Why did Israel lose the battle even though the ark was with them? Perhaps they came to rely more on the ark than on God. When faith in God wavers, faith in animate objects increased. And when that h
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