tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100092002024-03-09T05:28:10.044+05:30Divine Solutions!Shanta Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401119490401842618noreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10009200.post-10241930995507424172017-11-25T06:40:00.002+05:302017-11-25T06:43:26.872+05:30Thank You, Lord- Thanksgiving 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Prophecy continued from Ezekiel 36.....<a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/wordofgod?source=feed_text&story_id=10211558140405743" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">WORDOFGOD</span></span></a></div>
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This is the declaration of the Lord God. “I will no longer allow the insults of the nations to be heard against you, and you will not have to endure the reproach of the peoples anymore; you will no longer cause your nation to stumble.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.”</div>
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Here is a Word of God from Ezekiel 36: 1-11 <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/restoration?source=feed_text&story_id=10211508884054365" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">Restoration</span></span></a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/godsblessings?source=feed_text&story_id=10211508884054365" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">GodsBlessings</span></span></a> </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">36 “Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. 2 This is what the Lord God says: Because the enemy has said about you, ‘Good! The ancient heights have become our possession,’ 3 therefore, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander, 4 therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become plunder and a mockery to the rest of the nations all around.</span></div>
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5 “This is what the Lord God says: Certainly in My burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom, who took[a] My land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt so that its pastureland became[b] plunder. 6 Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I speak in My burning zeal because you have endured the insults of the nations. 7 Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I swear[c] that the nations all around you will endure their own insults.</div>
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8 “You, mountains of Israel, will produce your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel, since their arrival is near. 9 Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown. 10 I will fill you with people, with the whole house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. 11 I will fill you with people and animals, and they will increase and be fruitful. I will make you inhabited as you once were and make you better off than you were before. Then you will know that I am Yahweh. </div>
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Dear Friends, I would like to share the promise of God for this Year 2017:</div>
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God is going to make us experience good times in proportionate to the bad times we have experienced in the past.</div>
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The Promise is based on Psalm 90:15</div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil</span>.</div>
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Psalm 91 is written by the God's Chosen Prophetic Leader Moses. He offers as a prayer to the Lord. But God wanted to reveal His heart that He wanted to make us glad in accordance to the years of affliction, evil, and troubles. </div>
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<u>Key to the Promise: God's Mercy Psalm 90:14</u></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.</span></div>
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God is going to send Mercy Rain from His presence and drench and satisfy us with HIS MERCY. So we are going to seek the Lord every morning early and plead for His Mercy Rain to fully drench and satisfy us for this Promise 2017 to be fully fulfilled in our lives.</div>
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May the Lord Bless Each and Every One of You!! </div>
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In Christ's Service,</div>
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Shanta Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401119490401842618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10009200.post-66973430245935415172016-09-12T14:23:00.003+05:302016-09-12T14:23:44.538+05:30I am a Child of God<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters," says the Lord Almighty </div>
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“He (Jesus) came to His own, and His own people(Jews) did not receive Him. But to all (all the people of the World) who did receive Him, He(Jesus) gave them the RIGHT to be children of God, to those who believe in His (Jesus') name, who were born, not of blood, or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man, but BORN of God.”</div>
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And because you are sons and daughters, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son (Jesus Christ) into your hearts, crying out, 'Abba, Father!' Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son/daughter, and if a son/daughter, then an heir of God through Christ" (Galations 4:1-7).</div>
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Receive this right of becoming the Child of God by believing the name of the Lord Jesus Christ!! God Bless You!!</div>
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Shanta Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401119490401842618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10009200.post-35392608777642787582016-08-10T09:05:00.003+05:302016-08-10T09:08:08.067+05:30God Is Able - Bob Fitts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Shanta Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401119490401842618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10009200.post-5912670519449542132016-08-01T14:24:00.001+05:302016-08-01T14:24:43.567+05:30Glory To God, Forever<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Shanta Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401119490401842618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10009200.post-30989510441292781792016-02-05T11:50:00.004+05:302021-03-27T00:55:09.251+05:30Understanding the Body of Christ - Part 2<!-- Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools --> <div class="addthis_sharing_toolbox"></div>
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This is a continuation of my previous post <a href="http://www.shantadaniel.com/2014/12/understanding-body-of-christ.html#.VrQuALNdarV" target="_blank">Understanding of the Body of Christ.</a> I strongly recommend you to read the first part to get better understanding.</div>
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<b><u>Body of Christ built on the Foundation of Apostles and Prophets:</u></b><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">Ephesians 2: 20 You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus Himself the Chief Cornerstone.</span></i><br />
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Just like a building is built on a strong foundation, God builds His Ekklesia - the Assembly of His Called out ones - on the foundation of Apostles and Prophets. <br />
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<b><u>Apostolic Function:</u></b><br />
The Apostles receive the superior authority to govern the Body Of Christ. They are special messengers of God. They are the "sent" ones. God would send them from one place to another. They also govern and oversee from one place different churches in the Body of Christ. Invariably, God would assign at the least one Apostle for one church. No church that is found in Christ would be without an apostle connected to it. In the first century A.D., churches are governed by the Apostles and they had local overseers who would report to the group of Apostles who would be spiritually governing them. Now, the local pastors have full autonomous administration. They also miss out of the Apostolic and Prophetic functions.<br />
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The making of an Apostle is not an easy thing. Apostles are hand-picked by God. They are chosen. They are disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. They follow Him wherever He leads. They are with Him in life and death. They bear the marks of the crucified savior on their bodies. They may not be highly impressive by their backgrounds or looks. Peter was a fisherman by his background and Paul was not impressive by looks. In fact, Paul was timid and not a very good speaker. He was not accepted by the Corinthians though He went to them with powerful demonstration of the Power of God not just with wise enticing impressive words.<br />
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<i><span style="color: lime;">1By the humility and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am “timid” when face to face with you, but “bold” toward you when away! </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">2I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">3For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">4The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">5We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">6And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">7You are judging by appearances. If anyone is confident that they belong to Christ, they should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as they do. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">8So even if I boast somewhat freely about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of it.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">9I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">10For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing.” </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">11Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">12We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">13We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the sphere of service God himself has assigned to us, a sphere that also includes you.</span></i><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><i>14We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we </i>did get as far as you with the gospel of Christ.</span><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">15Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting of work done by others. Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our sphere of activity among you will greatly expand, </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">16 so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else’s territory.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">17But, “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">18For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends. </span></i><br />
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<b><u>1 Corinthians 2:1-5 NIV</u></b><br />
<i>“And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.”</i><br />
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<b><u>Marks of an Apostle:</u></b><br />
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The <b><a href="http://www.shantadaniel.com/2012/02/signs-wonders-and-miracles.html#.VrRTQ8WSxa4" target="_blank">signs, wonders and miracles</a></b> will be the mark of the Apostle. An Apostle of God can be a woman, even an young looking person, the calling of God upon a person does not change, He sees the End from the Beginning. God trains them in such a way, they will do nothing without hearing from Him and they are disciplined in many ways in order to attain that authority. They are also matured through the sufferings in the Christ. They also part take in the sufferings of Christ. Their sufferings cannot be despised and they cannot be looked down because they are suffering for the Body of Christ.<br />
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<i><span style="color: lime;">Paul says in Colossians 1:24-29 NIV</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">“Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of His body, which is the church. I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.”</span></i><br />
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The enemy will shift your thinking against them and use you to sift them as a tool in the hand of Satan. God forbid that you do not yield yourself to that situation because there is sure punishment for those who follow satan and all his evil devices.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">God will back up His authority, His chosen ones, that He has placed over the Body of Christ in the spiritual realm. Paul says <span class="bld" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #552200; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">—Most probably, the same Alexander, mentioned in the First Epistle (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/1-20.htm" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" title="Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.">1 Timothy 1:20</a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">) “as delivered to Satan”</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">. </span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">It has been suggested that this Alexander, an influential Ephesian Jew, had done much injury to the cause of the Christians generally, and to St. Paul personally, with the imperial authorities at Rome. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #552200; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Paul surrendered this man to the Lord's Judgement; He says the Lord shall reward him according to his works. </span><br />
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<i><b><u>Spiritual Authority and Demonstration of Gods Power: 2 Corinthians 13:10 NIV</u></b></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">“This is why I write these things when I am absent, that when I come I may not have to be harsh in my use of authority—the authority the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.”</span></i><br />
God gives them Divine Authority for building up of the Body of Christ.<br />
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<i>“<span style="color: lime;">since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you. For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God’s power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God’s power we will live with him in our dealing with you.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: lime;">2 Corinthians 13:3-4, 10 NIV</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">“since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you. For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God’s power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God’s power we will live with him in our dealing with you.</span></i><br />
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Paul governed Corinthian Church and Many other churches from remote spiritually. God would show Paul the Spiritual Condition of the Church and make him write letters to them. The church there would read them and follow His instructions.<br />
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<u><b>Traveling Function:</b></u><br />
Like a pastor or a teacher of the church, an Apostolic function is not tied to a place. He/She would go wherever and whenever the Lord sends him or her. Apostle mean "Sent." God would send them to different places to execute His Divine Assignments. The key to this is they can hear from God directly. They get instructions from God and they execute it. <br />
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Jesus told His disciples who were well-trained under His direct leadership to travel to different nations and make them disciples like themselves. This commission is not given to newly born babies. A newly born Christian can lead another to a church congregation to hear from a mature Spiritual Pastor but he cannot himself teach another in an enthusiasm to bring people to Christ. This action actually frustrates the recipient/hearer and they would not come to Christ. As the new-born Christian grows in Christ, the Christ in him will lead automatically others to Christ. <br />
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Matthew 28:18-20 NIV<br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">“Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.””</span></i><br />
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<b><u>Full of the Spirit:</u></b><br />
Apostles are full of the Holy Spirit. They move by the Spirit and with the Spirit. <br />
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<i>Acts 13:1-2, 4 NIV</i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">“Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: lime;">The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.”</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: lime;">Acts 13: 9 NIV</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said,</span></i><br />
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<b><u>Apostles Can Marry:</u></b><br />
Among the apostles of the Bible, Peter was married and Paul did not choose to marry. So it is not required that an Apostle must remain unmarried to carry out his or her spiritual calling and function. No body can enforce this on anyone. God is the one who ordained marriage and Bible says it is Holy. In the perfect Will of God, the relationship between the Bride and the Groom is Holy in the sight of God.<br />
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<b><u>Apostolic Function - Not Gender Based:</u></b><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">John 20:16-18 NIV</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">“Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”). Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ” Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.”</span></i><br />
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Mary Magdalene was a disciple of Jesus and she was the first to see the Risen Christ. She received a direct message from the Lord to deliver to the Lord's other disciples. She was an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ though much of her ministry is not recorded perhaps because of male-dominated society. There is no male or female but all are one in Christ Jesus.<br />
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<i><span style="color: lime;">Galatians 3:26-28 NIV</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: lime;">“So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”</span></i><br />
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To be Continued.<br />
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Shanta Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401119490401842618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10009200.post-53683644113621603682015-07-26T12:29:00.002+05:302015-07-27T21:49:19.969+05:30Divine Solutions Godly Counsel to deal with the thoughts pertaining to past mistakes and move forward in the Lord Jesus Christ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just posting
some of the prayer requests and the corresponding Divine counsel that went out
via Divine Solutions. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here is a series of mails between June 20 and July 4,
2015, for Divine help to deal with thoughts pertaining to past mistakes and move forward in the Lord Jesus Christ...Read prayerfully...May the Lord help you rise above your
overwhelming situations.</span><br />
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<u><b>A PERSON WROTE:</b></u><br />
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Hi Shanta, I have been wondering how you are doing . How are
you?<br />
I am ok my battle rages on with new thoughts like have I blasphemed the holy
spirit by turning my back on God or ignoring the holy spirits warnings? Has my
past stubbornness finally quenched the holy spirit? I had read in Hebrews if we
continued in sin no sacrifice remainder for us.<br />
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I ask because I know I can ask you anything. Also my friend prayed with me and
said God showed him how much I want a relationship with him. Is that Good? Then
I thought it just showed only how much I want the relationship but then thought
..oh no do I not have this relationship with God?<br />
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Seriously Shanta if there were really not consequences that had torn up my life
I would not be thinking like this.<br />
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Thank you for any thoughts and I am praying for you. God bless you:) _____</div>
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<u><b>RESPONSE FROM DIVINE SOLUTIONS:</b></u></div>
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Hi ____:</div>
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Greetings to you in Jesus Mighty Name. I am good by God's
grace just with a little fever and severe chest cold starting Friday Evening (I
always drink the lemon/cucumber/mind/ginger infusion drink for fat burning -
but this time i added more lemons based on one's instruction and caught sever
cold. LOL) </div>
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I read your mail last night, Indian time. I did not answer
because I was not getting any thoughts from God regarding your mail.
Usually, I get instant flow of thoughts, but in your case I was not able to
grasp what I should be saying to you. It is not that some kind of
encouraging words should flow out. It should be precise for your life. </div>
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It looks like you are dwelling on your failures. I do not
see you taking steps really to overcome your failures. Are you? </div>
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Christian life is a progressive life. If you are not
progressing, you are actually backsliding.......there is no place for self-complacency......the
standard keeps rising, just like in pole-vault game or high jump, how high you
can keep on going....</div>
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You are saying that you did not hear the warnings of Holy
Spirit and went ahead and crushed the Spirit of Grace under foot and insulted
Him...the consequences is tangible and you are suffering in reality in spirit
and body.....that may be true....but the hope is you are not dead and
gone...you are still alive....you can take some efforts to in your thoughts and
mind and lifestyle changes, to receive the grace still present for those who
truly repent of their sins and want to get back to God....</div>
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For example, if anyone has fallen into a sin and lost the
presence of God in their life, one need to realize how precious the Presence of
God is and how much it means to them.....and one has to show one's desperation
to God and compel God for His compassion and mercy......God is compassionate
and long-suffering and is merciful....He will look down upon the person and
restore the joy of salvation and renew a steadfast spirit within that person...</div>
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Psalm 51 New King James Version (NKJV)</div>
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A Prayer of Repentance</div>
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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the
prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.</div>
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51 Have mercy upon me, O God,<br />
According to Your lovingkindness;<br />
According to the multitude of Your tender mercies,<br />
Blot out my transgressions.<br />
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,<br />
And cleanse me from my sin.</div>
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3 For I acknowledge my transgressions,<br />
And my sin is always before me.<br />
4 Against You, You only, have I sinned,<br />
And done this evil in Your sight—<br />
That You may be found just when You speak,<br />
And blameless when You judge.</div>
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5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,<br />
And in sin my mother conceived me.<br />
6 Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,<br />
And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.</div>
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7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;<br />
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.<br />
8 Make me hear joy and gladness,<br />
That the bones You have broken may rejoice.<br />
9 Hide Your face from my sins,<br />
And blot out all my iniquities.</div>
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10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,<br />
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.<br />
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence,<br />
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.</div>
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12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,<br />
And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.<br />
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,<br />
And sinners shall be converted to You.</div>
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14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,<br />
The God of my salvation,<br />
And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.<br />
15 O Lord, open my lips,<br />
And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.<br />
16 For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it;<br />
You do not delight in burnt offering.<br />
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,<br />
A broken and a contrite heart—<br />
These, O God, You will not despise.</div>
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18 Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion;<br />
Build the walls of Jerusalem.<br />
19 Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,<br />
With burnt offering and whole burnt offering;<br />
Then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.</div>
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The anointed servant of God and the King of Israel, David
committed adultery, a conspired brutal murder, and covered up his hideous crime
under a illusion of nobility and authority....but he did not escape the
Righteous El Roi - The God who sees me...He sees both the good and bad...not as
people see, but sees the motives and intentions of the hearts....He faced
judgement in the hand of God, his baby born out of sinful act died, but he
accepted the judgment of God, for he knew <b><u>GOD HAS THE RIGHT AND POWER TO JUDGE</u></b>
and HE IS THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE AND HE HAS TO ESTABLISH JUSTICE IN ALL THE EARTH
<i>e<b><u>ven in the life of His chosen anointed ones......</u></b></i></div>
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Then follow David.....take steps to follow God with all your
heart with all your soul....now how David's heart has changed so much after the
judgment...when he was old and cold and even his blankets did not keep him warm
in the nights, they married him a young damsel to keep him warm...<br />
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I kings 1:1<br />
Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but
he could not keep warm. So his servants said to him, "Let them seek a
young virgin for my lord the king, and let her attend the king and become his
nurse; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep
warm." <br />
So they sought for a lovely young woman throughout all the territory of Israel,
and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 4 The young
woman was very lovely; and she cared for the king, and served him; but the king
did not know her.</div>
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See the change in David...that was the drastic
change....totally transformed....</div>
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What I am saying move on...to take steps to get back in
relationship with Jesus, show Him how important for you the relationship with
Him matters, if you take one step to get to Him ...He takes 9 steps towards
you...that is our God......</div>
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When we love somebody, we tend to please that person.
We tend to give importance to the things that are important to that
person. It is the same with God....What does He like? What does He
hate? Everything is in the Bible. <br />
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Proverbs 6 says<br />
These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him:<br />
17 A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, <br />
18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to
evil,<br />
19 A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among
brethren. </div>
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<b><u>Ask the Lord to help you love the things He loves and hate
and remove what He hates. Until you take step in remove the things He
hates , out of His love He will take action to forcefully remove the things He
hates in you because He loves you. </u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>Do not assess your worth based on anybody's approval or
otherwise.....Try always win for HIS approval in your life...that will bring in
content and satisfaction and meaning to your life......</div>
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With this I wind up here.....may the Lord help you to take
steps in getting close to Him</div>
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<u><b>THE PERSON WROTE BACK:</b></u></div>
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Hi Shanta, <br />
<br />
Thank you for your really encouraging email, which you took so much time to
write and put much care into. <br />
<br />
I hope you will be feeling better quickly and I will be praying for you!<br />
<br />
I hope it is not bad that is so unforgivable to God that I am having these
thoughts and problems feeling joy and him in my life? <br />
<br />
Well yes I was explaining the time when I backslid and ignored Gods warnings.
Sad and embarrassing. Yes it is hard to not keep going over the things of the
past that have had really bad consequences that is a reminder each and every
day. <br />
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I don't have any desire to sin or anything now I hate sin. I am not repeating
my old sins and as I may still sin as we all do I am aware of and really care
if i am sinning. <br />
<br />
I do love Psalm 51 too. Thank you. I printed out the other emails you gave me
and read them. They said if we still have air in our nostrils it is not too
late and God loves the repentant sinner like the man whos father ran to him. I
want these to atill be true for me today and hope I am not causing harm. I will
try to change the thought patterns. <br />
<br />
I am sorry for hurting God and I am taking steps to move towards him. I haven't
gone back to old ways I just want to have peace knowing everything is ok with
God and I and hope he understands what I am going through. <br />
<br />
We keep the praise music on all the time and going to church and because I am
trying to get close to God. <br />
<br />
I was only hoping I had not messed up my chances through my thinking patterns
during this valley I am going through. I have been a huge disappointment to God
and myself. I so do not know how he sees me. I never felt such sorrow, loss,
and pain in my life. I cried the other morning and it felt like God was wiping
the tears off my face. All he wanted to ever do is love me. <br />
<br />
Thank you friend in India:)
I hope it has cooled down I saw it was very hot in the news and that people
were suffering and that some people died. That is so heartbreaking to me . <br />
<br />
Thank you so much again. I also loved your last post on your website. Thank you
for being so caring and a safe person to talk to. <br />
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God bless you, <br />
_____</div>
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<u><b>RESPONSE FROM DIVINE SOLUTIONS:</b></u> </div>
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Dear ____:</div>
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I am doing better with "peppered and gingered" hot
chicken soups. Thank you for reading the posts on the website. Your
questions and life, I believe, is a blessing to many many people. </div>
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<br />
India
is cooler now with the South-West Monsoon started across the </div>
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western coast of India
and North India. Some parts of India are
receiving heavy showers. The season has changed from hot summer to rainy
monsoon. </div>
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you yesterday. You are fighting with the thoughts of failure that you have let
down the Holy Spirit. Just know that God understands you and He wants you to
have to come back to Him again. He wants you to have that steady walk
with Him. Not falling and getting up...again falling and getting up...but
now the most important point "YOU ARE TO GET UP" and You are doing
that..."YOU ARE GETTING UP" you are not laying down...still in
that fallen state..... </div>
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yesterday. It just flashed back in my mind in my prayer time and I kept
saying to God "Lord You are Important to Me..." sometimes...ministers
are carried away by what they do for God and not by what they are to GOD.....</div>
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with Bathsheeba, after his baby was struck dead by God...do you think that was
the judgement of God???? No.... subsequent chapters showed how much he suffered
after....<br />
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His daughter was wronged by her brother - David's daughter Tamar who is the sister
of Absalom was liked by another son of David called Amnon ....Amnon liked Tamar
and wanted her and then wronged her but hated her very much after using
her...this was more wicked than before...Absalom was very angry and kills
Amnon....just imagine the agony of David...one daughter was mistreated by his
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13 After this Absalom the son of David had a lovely
sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. 2 Amnon
was so distressed over his sister Tamar that he became sick; for she was a
virgin. And it was improper for Amnon to do anything to her. 3 But Amnon
had a friend whose name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David’s brother. Now
Jonadab was a very crafty man. 4 And he said to him, “Why are you, the
king’s son, becoming thinner day after day? Will you not tell me?”</div>
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pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please
let my sister Tamar come and give me food, and prepare the food in my sight,
that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’” 6 Then Amnon lay down and
pretended to be ill; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king,
“Please let Tamar my sister come and make a couple of cakes for me in my sight,
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brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.” 8 So Tamar went to her
brother Amnon’s house; and he was lying down. Then she took flour and kneaded it,
made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes. 9 And she took the pan and
placed them out before him, but he refused to eat. Then Amnon said, “Have
everyone go out from me.” And they all went out from him. 10 Then Amnon
said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, that I may eat from your
hand.” And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them to Amnon
her brother in the bedroom. 11 Now when she had brought them to him to
eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”</div>
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me, for no such thing should be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful
thing! 13 And I, where could I take my shame? And as for you, you would be
like one of the fools in Israel.
Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.”
14 However, he would not heed her voice; and being stronger than she, he
forced her and lay with her.</div>
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And Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”</div>
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servant who attended him, and said, “Here! Put this woman out, away from me,
and bolt the door behind her.” 18 Now she had on a robe of many colors,
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19 Then Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her robe
of many colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head and went away
crying bitterly. 20 And Absalom her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your
brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother;
do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar remained desolate in her brother
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21 But when King David heard of all these things, he
was very angry. 22 And Absalom spoke to his brother Amnon neither good nor
bad. For Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.</div>
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of 2 Samuel 15 through 19....<br />
Absalom wants to become the king while David was still the king and David runs
for his life...finally Absalom gets killed and David mourns for his son's
death... <br />
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<u><b>Shimei curses David</b></u>....David endures it patiently saying that the Lord has
allowed it ....</div>
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Judgement after judgement...because of sin......He kept
accepting the rightfulness of God's Justice in his life...and then He says
finally in his last words......‘He who rules over men must be just, Ruling in
the fear of God. “Although my house is not so with God, Yet He has made with me
an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things and secure."</div>
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David’s Last Words</div>
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23 Now these are the last words of David.</div>
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Thus says David the son of Jesse;<br />
Thus says the man raised up on high,<br />
The anointed of the God of Jacob,<br />
And the sweet psalmist of Israel:</div>
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2 “The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me,<br />
And His word was on my tongue.<br />
3 The God of Israel
said,<br />
The Rock of Israel spoke to me:<br />
‘He who rules over men must be just,<br />
Ruling in the fear of God.<br />
4 And he shall be like the light of the morning when the sun rises,<br />
A morning without clouds,<br />
Like the tender grass springing out of the earth,<br />
By clear shining after rain.’</div>
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5 “Although my house is not so with God,<br />
Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant,<br />
Ordered in all things and secure.<br />
For this is all my salvation and all my desire;<br />
Will He not make it increase? </div>
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He understood God perfectly and said that God wants those
who rule over the people must be just, ruling in the fear of God. In
cases if they do wrong God's judgment will come. Although my house is not
so just and fearing the Lord, yet he has made with me an everlasting
covenant.....I have included the verses below...just imagine ____, how much GRACE
David had in the Old Testament period...how much more we have in this ABSOLUTE GRACE
PERIOD of New Testament. You need to claim the blood of Jesus for your
washing daily and to have a relationship...the blood of Jesus speaks better
things about you and me....EXALT the Sacrifice of JESUS on the cross for your
sake and come before the Father...When FATHER GOD comes to smell your worship and prayer,
HE SMELLS only JESUS' and THAT SATISFIES HIM and THAT JUSTIFIES YOU!! </div>
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Your questions of acceptance and approval are settled in the
SACRIFICE of JESUS CHRIST. BELIEVE THAT AND PROCLAIM THAT...WALK IN IT
AND POSSESS IT!!</div>
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With Love and Prayers,</div>
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In Christ's Service,<br />
Sis. Shanta Daniel</div>
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<u><b>THE PERSON WROTE BACK:</b></u>
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Hi Shanta.....</div>
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Glad you are doing better, the soups sound really good.
Thanks for saying that my questions and life are a blessing, i hope so!
You are a blessing. Thank you. </div>
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True, what you say about David, God loved him, but he still
had many consequences for his sin. I am going to keep saying "Lord you are
important to me" and sometimes, I say "God loves me," and repeat
that.<br />
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Well Saturday was such a hard day I thought i can not go on one more day.
Seriously things are that hard. Life has never been like this before, but the
next day at church was great I know God showed up because my friends were
praying for me, and one lady I have only met a few times came up and prayed for
me that my bad dreams would go away, I haven't told one person that I have bad
dreams every night now. And she prayed I can be a pillar of strength etc. </div>
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Well I go to church not to hear these things, but simply to
be in fellowship with others and to learn. I always loved to learn and to take
notes on messages. </div>
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My friend prayed for me , and I didn't expect anything,
except that God comes to us when we can't go any further on our own, when we
need help from him, or to hear from him. </div>
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My friend prayed and said "____ you will fly again, but
this time it will be different because I will be leading you" and "I
have not forsaken you or ever left you" and "you have been seeking me
for a long time now, I love you " "I will heal you" "i am strengthening
you \" well it was a lot of words, so I can't remember it all. this
is a good church, no weird vibes, and good real people teaching right out of
the Bible so I do not doubt that God is speaking to me here. </div>
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Plus the week before a man at the church i had not met
prayed with me and said "God showed me how much you want a relationship
with him" He doesn't know anything about me either. </div>
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I had felt such distance but I haven't quit, even though at times
where I thought that I committed blasphemy by ignoring God's warnings, his
voice, and more, not living right ( not like i was so horrible, i just know I
could have done so much better) so much. I thought I had quenched the Holy
Spirit etc. I guess I felt this bad because this is the lowest point in
my life. I was devastated if I had done that, life is not worth it
without God. I never meant to be distant from him. </div>
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What do you think and I appreciate you, </div>
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God bless, ____</div>
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<u><b>RESPONSE FROM DIVINE SOLUTIONS:</b></u> </div>
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Dear ____:</div>
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Sorry for the delayed response. I recovered from cold
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I was wondering that you are struggling with the feeling
that God has distanced from you though time and again He is speaking to you
through people around you. You have to believe the WORD God speaking to
you than your feelings and walk by Faith to obey Him, please and Love Him with
all your heart and soul. Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.</div>
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Believe that your prayers are heard every time you pray.
You will eventually come into the realm of hearing God speak to yourself,
sense His presence, and touch His glory......do not be in unbelief.....people
cant come to God when they have unbelief...Hebrews says...when we approach Him
we have to believe that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him....</div>
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People pleasers can’t be pleasers of God. Remember
Saul became a pleaser of God and His priority shifted...then he disobeyed the
Word of God...once you disobey the Lord, you might not hear His subsequent
commands because He does not talk to somebody who cares nothing for His words
or commands....He keeps silent...in that case Saul was disturbed that God was
not speaking to Him and so he did not seek God more and mend his ways, but
instead went to a Diviner - to talks with spirits through mediums which is
abominable to God and so he lost once and for all his scope with God.......</div>
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We need to be God chasers and set right our priorities, mend
our ways, and run after Him...go deeper...no matter how distanced you
FEEL....God is true to His WRITTEN WORD....as you walk in HIS WAYS according to
the written WORD....the cloud clears and your relationship and direction with
God gets clarity......His PRESENCE and HIS GIFTINGS operate in you and through
you for the benefit of the others....... </div>
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With love and prayers,</div>
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<u><b>THE PERSON WROTE BACK:</b></u></div>
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Thank you so much for your email Shanta...<br />
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At first this email didn't hit me the right way but thinking about it and
rereading showed me you are right and I am thankful God still loves a person
like me that he is strengthening. What a good God to take on any person
project.. and to be patient with us. <br />
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I do not want to be like Saul and yes I want to be used by God !:) <br />
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Thank you so much for your patience with me as well... Your email is very
helpful and a blessing. I will be working hard on my walk I keep the worship.
Music on all night, set aside Bible study in the morning and I am at church and
going to a bible study. & volunteer as,of last week to take food to homes.
The first day I did volunteer I felt great to be used by God and got to
encourage a young man to get back involved at church. <br />
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I will be asking Him to forgive me for doubting and or struggling. <br />
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God bless you..your friend in the USA.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span>Just posting
some of the prayer requests and the corresponding Divine counsel that went out
via Divine Solutions. Here is a prayer request that came to me on May 21-22,
2015, for Divine help to deal with DECADES of marital abuse and current
thoughts about Divorce ...Read prayerfully...May the Lord help you rise above your
overwhelming situations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you kindly
for all the prayer support thus far. Please continue to pray for my outstanding
claims. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am
contemplating divorcing my husband after 25 years of abuse, betrayal and
violence. I am not financially stable but I’m trusting the Lord to make a way
for me. I would like to get my own place and be able to serve the Lord and live
in peace. Please pray a fast tracking of my claims…also I am meeting with the
attorney who is doing my __________ Fund claim this Saturday at 9 am. Please
pray for favour and a fast tracking so that I would be able to move out soon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also pray for
peace in my family. It is not easy as we are tormented daily by my husband. I
have been through a lot in 25 years of marriage and don’t have the strength to
try anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Regards and
Blessings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thanks for
writing to me. I am praying for you at this moment. If you would
like "me" to say something as a counsel or suggestion, I could share
with you. If you would like to hear my view, please let me know.
Otherwise, the mail looks like it is addressed generally in that case it
is not right for me to say anything other than prayer for God's guidance in
your life.</span></div>
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__________</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thanks for
letting me say my views. First of all, I am sorry to hear about the
abuse, betrayal, and violence that you have been facing for decades</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>BIBLE DOES NOT
ADVOCATE DIVORCE. </b> Lord Jesus has confirmed it as well. God does not like
you breaking the covenant, which you have made in the presence of God, though
your husband has broken it time and again. Any one who ill treats other
human being loses the grace of God. They slowly, slowly lose their grace
in the sight of God. What happens is judgment, which will soon be passed.
If you would patiently endure and honor the covenant for the sake of God,
You will win favor in the sight of God. God will either turn things
around or will release you <b>DIVINELY, </b>without you making any decisions outside
the will of God and you will be blameless before His sight. <b>ENDURE!!</b> the LORD
will release you from your troubles soon and You will be BLAMELESS Sister.
Enduring is not easy. You will be able to only when the Lord
strengthens you that in turn leads you to depend on Him more and more.
More prayer, more worship, more Spirit of God, more of Him. Then
only you will be able to be in Fire and come out without a singe....Because he
is with you to protect you. Please pray about it....the rest of the pray
points, I'm praying Let GOD GUIDE YOU DAILY!!</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is a
Prophetic Voice Blog Post written a couple of years back. Please read it
and may the Lord speak to you!!</span> </span></span><br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-large;">This is what God has been reiterating for the
past whole week and for some reason I hesitated to post it. But since I got it
confirmed through another Sister whom I am ministering to, I am sharing this
warning message. I would like to share the heart of God through one
incident that truly happened in the life of a very great Man of God who was
used mightily to many thousands. The Lord has even used him to raise
the dead and many thousands were delivered from the clutches of the
enemy. The point here is he was truly a mighty man of
God. All his life he was very zealous for the Lord and followed
strict laws and was very strict with regards to sin. However, he treated his
wife always with a commanding voice and never allowed her to take up the
microphone and preach in his church. During the latter days of his
life, he started beating her. The wife used to weep inside but never
raised her voice against the man of God. When she had to visit a
sick sister in another country, the husband of the sick sister who is an
Apostle of God asked her “how are you doing Sister?” Sister said “after my
husband pronounces benediction and God’s peace and love over the congregation,
I pick up my handbag asking within “Lord where is my peace and love. This is
how my life is”....Then that Apostle of God said, “Mene, Mene, Tekel
Upharsin.” Sister, you have waited, just wait a little longer.” Upon
hearing this word, that sister thought that God is going to touch her husband
and set things right. But in just 90 days that great man of God, the
husband of this sister passed away due to sickness. The Sunday
before his death He came to church with the help of the aide and handed the
microphone to his wife and as she said a few words to the congregation, he got
it back from her and said “may this grace continue” and slowly climbed down the
podium and left the premises back to his house with the help of the
aide. Nevertheless, before his death he asked sorry to his wife and
he asked her to pray over him. The widowed wife now leads the
ministry after her husband's demise.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">THIS
INCIDENT GIVES US A WARNING ABOUT HOW GOD HATES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS MUCH
AS HE HATES THE DIVORCE. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XXgU6UYnhXo/Tp8qmdJ1c-I/AAAAAAAAA5c/CK5ERzTnsUQ/s1600/Marriage-within-the-Bible1-300x225.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XXgU6UYnhXo/Tp8qmdJ1c-I/AAAAAAAAA5c/CK5ERzTnsUQ/s320/Marriage-within-the-Bible1-300x225.jpg" width="320" /></a>MAY THE LORD HELP US NOT TO DISPLEASE
HIM BUT LOVE THE WIFE JUST AS THE LORD LOVES THE CHURCH. JESUS, THE
BRIDEGROOM, LEFT THE GLORY OF HIS FATHER’S HOUSE TO SEEK A BRIDE – THE CHURCH -
FOR HIMSELF UNDERGOING ALL SUFFERINGS AND AFFLICTIONS AND ELEVATING HIS BRIDE
TO THE SAME GLORY AND HONOR HE HAS SHOWING AN EXAMPLE THAT A HUSBAND MUST LOVE
HIS WIFE IN SUCH A MANNER. WIFE IN RETURN MUST BE SUBMISSIVE TO THE
HUSBAND JUST AS THE BRIDE OF CHRIST TO THE CHRIST. MAY THE HOLY SPIRIT
MINISTER TO US ALL.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">p.s.
This incident really shook me as well when I heard it from the concerned
person’s daughter and I am sharing it with the written consent and permission
of the person. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
Love and Prayers,</span></div>
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Christ's Service,</span></div>
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Just posting some of the prayer requests and the corresponding
Divine counsel that went out via Divine Solutions. Here is a prayer
request that came to me on May 18, 2015, for Divine help to deal with loneliness...Read prayerfully...May the Lord refine
you and help you rise above your overwhelming situations. </div>
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Hi Shanta..... how are you? I am just here for prayer in our
new home ....its hard feeling alone and needing Gods wisdom and peace<br />
Still waiting on Gods healing....</div>
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My friend prayed with me last week and in the prayer God spoke through her, in
the middle of the prayer....."__________ i have a purpose for your life a
good life for you and your daughter, i know all of your hopes and dreams ..I
delight in you, delight in me as I delight in you" and I cant remember all
but I put my faith in Him , not my friend , but I do believe he spoke to me
through her because I needed to hear it, as I feel I am going through a desert....
What do you think? I think God can speak to us through others....</div>
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I'm doing good by God's Grace!! </div>
Actually, you can enjoy the time you have now with the
Lord...play some worship songs and hymns continually...or whenever possible or
mildly in the background without disturbing your daughter or anyone around,.....the
entire house will gradually be saturated with the presence of God...remove
every form of filth from the house.....magazines, tapes, anything that would
remind you of the sinful life...or any seducing stuffs....cleanse the new house
and yourself with the precious blood of Jesus Christ and usher in His HOLY
Presence and say that I have entered this so that You will RESIDE here with
me.....You...that is YOUR BODY is the TEMPLE of the HOLY SPIRIT....HE resides
in your BODY...remind yourself of this when you feel lonely or when you face
temptations to commit sin....
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God speaks through different ways...He speaks through the
WORD OF GOD as an IMPRESSION or an highlighted WORD...or within
you...impression or a still small voice....or through somebody.....like a
servant of GOD, prophet or an anointed servant, or like an idea or
suggestion...confirming again and again through various media and elements,
through billboards, through sermons, through letters from Prophetic People,
through FB, through twitter...through youtube.....through nature, through
landscapes, through air, wind, sea, oceans, through so many ways....but the
problem is with us...it is us who are not able to decipher His VOICE....HIS
communication to us...a well-trained horse can understand its master very well,
even His whispers can be understood by the warrior horse and is ready to do
what is expected of it by the master....train yourself to hear Him....key is
patience, holiness, discipline, open your senses to HIM and shut your senses to
the WORLD....you will hear HIM LOUD AND CLEAR, every whisper, every nudge,
every heartbeat, every thought of HIS!!....</div>
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Be encouraged and DELIGHT in HIM and PRAISE HIM and WORSHIP
because HE IS WORTHY....like Mary Magdalene worship HIM with YOUR tears and
WIPE His feet with YOUR HAIR because HE IS WORTHY...GIVE HIM ALL DUE WORSHIP
AND REVERENCE...you won't feel lonely....GOD BLESS YOU!! </div>
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Just posting some of the prayer requests and the corresponding
Divine counsel that went out via Divine Solutions. Here is a prayer
request that came to me on February 25, 2015, for Divine help from guilt and worthlessness...Read prayerfully...May the Lord refine
you and help you rise above your overwhelming situations. </div>
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<u>A PERSON WROTE:</u><br />
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Hello Shanta!</div>
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I put your phone number in my phone, as I will call when I
can!</div>
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I am having the hardest time with a nagging feeling every
day that I have pushed God to his limits with me, or that he has left me. I do
not want to upset God, maybe it is the tactic the enemy is using to keep
messing with my relationship with God, it is something I must overcome I
believe. Can you pray for me to God that he would see I do want to live my life
for him, for his glory, not for works, or for what I can do for him.</div>
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I didn't see so clearly until lately, as I grew up with the
gospel message, wow....I understand the enormity of Jesus' sacrifice on the
cross for me, and for all of mankind. The weight of it makes sense, I didn't
understand all of this so clearly until lately. We all understand the concept
that Jesus died for our sins, until it really registers, he did it for me, for
all of us, and obeyed the will of his father to be the LAMB. </div>
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As a result of my disobedience/backsliding I now suffer
physically through contracted serious disease. What i did was so not like me,
way out of my character. One little sin became huge, then bigger, the next
thing i know, consuming. One night i even had the enemy plant thoughts in my
head that I couldn't be forgiven for a few things and instead of shooting those
thoughts down in my weak state, I pondered and accepted those thoughts. I pray
God will forgive me for failing in spiritual battle as well. I want to be with
him forever, and make him proud</div>
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Of course, looking back , i would never ever want to be
distant from God again, as he longed to protect me, and sent me friends to warn
me, and red flags, but unfortunately i didn't listen.. I feel that my joy has
been stolen, some health stolen, and consequences are great.</div>
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I am really sorry about my sin, and I battle with these
horrible feelings ...to be honest I felt for a month that God left me and that
i wasn't worthy to touch the Bible etc. But i keep reading and learning, and I
pray God will see I am truly sorry...thank you for being there for me to write,
and for your ministry pages, I printed some to read today on spiritual
battle.<br />
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<u><b>RESPONSE FROM DIVINE SOLUTIONS:</b></u><br />
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Dear __________:<br />
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When Jesus lived on this earth he moved with the sinners and
disciples and tax collectors. All of these people according to the
so-called pious religious people of that society are "sinners" they
do not keep the law, but JESUS most of the time moved with them. God is nearer
to the heart which beats up unto, Lord saying I am unworthy and I am a
sinner. Whereas He is afar off from them that are feeling "I
have done all things to come near to God." I do not mean that we need to
be sinning and have to be with the remorse feeling in order to come near to
God. But the TRUTH is any amount of righteous deeds does not qualify us
to get near Him, it is through the righteous DEED of the LAMB of GOD, Jesus
Christ. When we beat up our chest and say Lord I am a sinner, when we
break down before Him, He comes nearer to us. Psalm 51 depicts David's crying
and weeping state before the Lord. He is pleading with the Lord, <span style="color: lime;"><i>Cast Me
not away from your presence and take not your Holy Spirit from Me Lord.
Restore unto me the Joy of Your salvation and a new right Spirit with me.</i></span>
What you need to be doing is the same. <u><span style="color: red;"><b>God does not use a self-righteous
Saint, but He is wanting to get closer to a humble heart who knows its weakness
and inabilities and asking the Lord for help to live a life that pleases Him
alone.</b></span></u></div>
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It is impossible to lead a Godly Holy Life without His
Help. If we are not falling into sin today, it is because of His Grace
and Help and not because of our self-control or character. When we
realize His grace in our lives, we truly LIVE. When we do not realize
this truth, we are proud and God is way far away from a proud person. </div>
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I am more than willing to pray for you __________. Every
time there is a feeling to give in into temptation, we need to remember His
Word that says <i><b>"He has given all things that are necessary for us to lead
a Godly life." </b></i>Lord Your Word says this, so I have all things that
are necessary to lead a Godly life. Lord please show me the way of escape
from this temptation, I want to make you proud. The Lord shall show you
the way. It does not matter if you may have to lose some privileges but
make a choice to live a holy Godly life. All that you sacrificed to lead
a godly life, will come following you double fold. </div>
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Good that you are reading Bible in-spite of your guilty
feeling and feelings of unworthiness. Thanking the Lord that you are not giving place for Satan
to keep you far away from the Word of God. The Word of God sanctifies you and
cleanses you. These feelings don't. Please continue to read
the Word no matter what. Tell the devil, true I have messed up, but I am
asking the blood of Jesus to cleanse me from all my messes and I am repenting
and taking steps to get into the relationship with my Lord. You cannot
stop me in this process because Jesus came for me and He died for me and His
blood is speaking better things to the Father. Because the Blood is
pleading, the Father will take me into His fold and restore me into the
beautiful relationship with Him. <br />
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True, there are consequences of sin we need to suffer in this world, but that
does not say God has left us. Confess saying - I will survive the
consequences of sin through the Faith in the Son of God and will make Him Proud
by showing Him my Faith in His redemptive Power. <br />
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Jesus has done much much much deeper and glorious deeds through His death and
resurrection. Meditate on His suffering and His Word. Every
suffering of His is for you __________. There is a blessing attached to
His suffering. When You claim His suffering and His blood for your life,
Father sees His son and not you. His son's blood is what needs to be
covering us. Nothing of us is holy unto the Lord except His Son.</div>
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March Forward toward the Lord. Speak to the
Lord. Read Psalm 51. Read Numbers 20, 21, 22. How Israelites
pushed God to the far limits and made God angry, and they had to face the
consequences, yet when they repented and cried to the Lord and when Moses
prayed for them, God sent them a relief and remedy and continued His eternal
plan of taking them to the Land He has promised. We have someone much
much greater than Moses. His blood not only pleads for us, it cleanses us
from all iniquities. We are living in the days where God has promised
something awesome </div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">Jeremiah 31<br />
31 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah,
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<i><span style="color: lime;">32 Not according to the covenant which I made with
their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the
land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was their Husband, says
the Lord.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">33 But this is the covenant which I will make with the
house of Israel: After those days, says the Lord, I will put My law within
them, and on their hearts will I write it; and I will be their God, and they
will be My people.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">34 And they will no more teach each man his neighbor
and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they will all know Me
[recognize, understand, and be acquainted with Me], from the least of them to
the greatest, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will
[seriously] remember their sin no more.</span></i></div>
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According to the New Covenant brought in by the sacrifice of
Jesus on the cross, God is writing His law in our hearts. He will make us
walk in His ways and He said He will be our God and we will be His
people. The Lord Himself make us walk in His ways - All By HIS
GRACE. We just needs to depend on JESUS alone for everything.</div>
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Wishing You ALL THE BEST in this new journey. God Be
WITH YOU and SINCE HE IS WITH YOU, IT IS ONLY THE BEST. :-) </div>
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With Love and Prayers,<br />
In Christ's Service,</div>
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Evangelist Sis. Shanta Daniel</div>
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Phone: 91-9710240974</div>
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Mail: Shadan@shantadaniel.com</div>
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Website Ministry- Divine Solutions -http://shantadaniel.com</div>
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Facebook Ministry - http://www.facebook.com/shanta.daniel</div>
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Twitter Ministry - https://twitter.com/ShantaDaniel</div>
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<b><u>Person Wrote: </u></b>Please pray for me for God's help and assistance on the insults,humiliations and let downs I am going through in the hands of those that claim to be my superiors in my work place ,i have endured a lot,and tolerated even the most difficult conditions...I need God's divine intervention, cos enough is enough.i want God to prove to me that he is God in this situation,cos I believe in Him,every superiority, help and blessings comes from Him not man.i really need God's help like never before... </div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Psalmist had to under go such oppression from his own brothers, family, and from the outsiders. Most of his lifetime was in troubles, but in the midst of all he was having fellowship with God. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Constantly, Psalmist was communicating to God both his negative situations and positive situations. In between, through him the Spirit of the Lord gives Prophetic Utterances like <span style="color: lime;"><i><b>"Now will I arise, says the Lord, because the poor are oppressed, because of the groans of the needy; I will set him in safety and in the salvation for which he pants. (Psalm 12: 5 AMP). </b></i></span> </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">HELP, Lord! For principled and godly people are here no more; faithfulness and the faithful vanish from among the sons of men. To his neighbor each one speaks words without use or worth or truth; with flattering lips and double heart [deceitfully] they speak. May the Lord cut off all flattering lips and the tongues that speak proud boasting, Those who say, With our tongues we prevail; our lips are our own [to command at our will]–who is lord and master over us? Now will I arise, says the Lord, because the poor are oppressed, because of the groans of the needy; I will set him in safety and in the salvation for which he pants. (Psalm 12:1-5 AMP)</span></span></i></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speak over your lives the WORD of God which is the WILL of God. The WORD of God changes the situations of your life. Speak it and claim it and possess it for the GLORY OF GOD.</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You shall establish yourself in righteousness (rightness, in conformity with God's will and order): you shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you. (Isaiah 54:14 AMP)</span></span></i></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Follow the ways of the Lord. Be dependent on Him always, it keeps you humble. When the riches increase do not set your heart on it. When the fame increase, do not care about it and try and build a empire around you. Always know the Remanent of Israel are afflicted, poor in spirit, who trust, seek refuge, and are confident in the name of the Lord. Plead the Lord to keep you in the midst of people who do no iniquity, who speak no lies, who are not haughty and pride, nor deceitful. Plead the Lord to keep you from pain and evil just as Jabez prayed.</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span style="color: lime;">In that day you [the congregation of Israel] shall not be put to shame for all your deeds by which you have rebelled and transgressed against Me, for then I will take away out of your midst those who exult in your majesty and pride; and you shall no more be haughty [and carry yourselves arrogantly on or] because of My holy mountain. For I will leave in the midst of you a people afflicted and poor, and they shall trust, seek refuge, and be confident in the name of the Lord. What is left of Israel shall not do iniquity or speak lies, neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they shall feed and lie down and none shall make them afraid. (Zephaniah 3:11-13 AMP)</span></i><br /><b>The Lord God is a prayer answering God and He is the creator of all human beings. There is no shadow of turning with Him and He is no respecter of Persons and He is not cunning or crafty but He takes the wicked and the worldly wise in their own craftiness. Just depend and rely on Him. Be sincere and genuine. Be faithful and Be led by the Spirit of God. One of the qualities of the Spirit of God is patience. Move when He moves, until then you are preserved by the Lord by His Spirit. Let your emotions be under His control.</b></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trust In
God</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is a
message for everyone. I pray that this message will make us analyze
ourselves in terms of trusting God and will empower us to “trust” in the Lord.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Definition
of the Word “Trust”</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The definition
of the word trust is reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety of a
person or a thing. It also implies instinctive unquestioning belief and
reliance upon someone or something.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">When I say I trust in God, it means that I rely upon his integrity that means
He is true to His word, He is faithful, He is upright, he is able to accomplish
what He has said. He is strong, He is steady and unchanging. I
believe Him without an atom of doubt.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Trusting His
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">First of all, we
need to believe Bible is God’s Word. That forms the foundation of
trusting God. You and I cannot trust God without having trust in the Word
of God given to us in the form of Bible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bible is written
by chosen people of God inspired by the Holy Spirit. It is proven. <i><span style="color: lime;">Psalm 12:6 “The Words of the Lord are flawless, like silver
purified in a crucible, like gold refined seven times.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also God’s Word
is incorruptible and imperishable. Lord Jesus says in Mark 13:31 <i><span style="color: lime;">“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never
pass away.” In other words, my Words are eternal and imperishable.</span></i></span></div>
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<b><i><u><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 33: 4- 6</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">4 For
the word of the Lord is right; and all His work is done in faithfulness.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">5 He
loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the loving-kindness of
the Lord.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">6 By
the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all their host by the breath of
His mouth.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm
138: I will worship toward Your holy temple and praise Your name for Your
loving-kindness and for Your truth and faithfulness; for You have exalted above
all else Your name and Your word and You have magnified Your word above all
Your name!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">God has magnified his promise, and his
faithfulness to it, above all His other revealed attributes. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Therefore, we
cannot trust God without trusting His Word. He and His word are
inseparable. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. Therefore, it is established that we
cannot trust God without having trust in His Word.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why should we have to trust in God?</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Proverbs
28:25 says “but he who puts his trust in the Lord shall be enriched and
blessed.” Amplified / He who trusts in the Lord shall prosper.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">O
Lord of hosts, blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts
in You [leaning and believing on You, committing all and confidently looking to
You, without fear or misgiving]!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Proverbs
16:20</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
who deals wisely and heeds [God’s] word and counsel shall find good, and
whoever leans on, trusts in, and is confident in the Lord—happy, blessed, and
fortunate is he.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isaiah
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">3 You
will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its
inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to
You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">4 So
trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him, lean on Him, hope confidently in
Him) forever; for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Proverbs
29:25</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
fear of man brings a snare, but whoever leans on, trusts in, and puts his
confidence in the Lord is safe and set on high.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trust in the Lord for one’s own
prosperity, enrichment, and blessedness, happiness, Peace, security, stability,
safety, and or promotion and elevation.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">What are the challenges in trusting God?</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We will be
tempted to trust in ourselves, trust in Man, trust in riches, trust in flesh –
the behaviors or the outputs independent of the Fruits of the Spirit, trusting
in worldly wisdom, and trusting in education, wealth, influence, power, and the
like</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Temptation to trust in self:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Proverbs
28:26</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
who leans on, trusts in, and is confident of his own mind and heart is a
[self-confident] fool, but he who walks in skillful and godly Wisdom shall be
delivered</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Temptation to trust man:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm
118</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">8 It
is better to trust and take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm
62:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">9 Men
of low degree [in the social scale] are emptiness (futility, a breath) and men
of high degree [in the same scale] are a lie and a delusion. In the balances
they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Temptation to trust in carnal behaviors
and wealth and walk independently of the Holy Spirit:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">10 Trust
not in and rely confidently not on extortion and oppression, and do not vainly
hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">What are the symptoms of Trusting God?</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">You will be at
peace, at rest in God. You are not perturbed. You have full
confidence that God is in control. You are flowing with the Spirit of
God.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some of the Confessions of Trust:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm
62</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 For
God alone my soul waits in silence; from Him comes my salvation.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 He
only is my Rock and my Salvation, my Defense and my Fortress, I shall not be
greatly moved.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">5 My
soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and
expectation are from Him.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">6 He
only is my Rock and my Salvation; He is my Defense and my Fortress, I shall not
be moved.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">7 With
God rests my salvation and my glory; He is my Rock of unyielding strength and
impenetrable hardness, and my refuge is in God!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm
91: 2 I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on
Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isaiah
12:2</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Behold,
God, my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord God is my
strength and song; yes, He has become my salvation.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">8 Trust
in, lean on, rely on, and have confidence in Him at all times, you people; pour
out your hearts before Him. God is a refuge for us (a fortress and a high
tower).</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm
56</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Times New Roman";">4 By
[the help of] God I will praise His word; on God I lean, rely, and confidently
put my trust; I will not fear. What can man, who is flesh, do to me?</span></i><br />
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Share your valuable views and comments on this message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks in advance.</div>
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Written By: Shanta Daniel<br />
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Shanta Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401119490401842618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10009200.post-83520427544346441082014-12-23T16:39:00.002+05:302014-12-24T17:20:34.690+05:30Understanding the Body Of Christ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was inspired to write on the Body of Christ a few weeks
back, finally I have written one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
post is totally based on my personal experience and observation how the Spirit
of God works in conjunction with the scriptures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Experienced Apostles, Prophets who read this
post "may" find this to be "different."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kindly feel free to share your comments and experience in order for us
to analyze in the light of the scriptures. Here is the post for us all.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>What is church and
what is the Body of Christ? </u></b></div>
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A physical church mostly denotes to a building, very few
speak of the people who form the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Man has jurisdiction over the physical church. Even the State or the
government has jurisdiction over the church or the organization. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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What Christ intended to build is not a physical church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ referred to it as “Ekklesia” </div>
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<span style="color: lime;">In Matthew 16:18, "…And I (Jesus Christ) say unto thee,
That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my <u>church</u> (Greek -
ekklesia)…"</span> </div>
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One study says “The Greek word "ekklesia," is used
115 times in the New Testament, and in most Bibles, it is always translated as
"church" (except in Acts 19:32,39,41, where it is properly translated
as "assembly"). </div>
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The first complete English Bible, Tyndale Bible (in about
1524 AD ) did not use the word "church" anywhere in its pages, it
used the word "congregation." Sometime after this Bible, they started
replacing the word "congregation" with the word "church."</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>What does Ekklesia
mean?</u></b></div>
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Greek word Ekklesia means “to be called out.” Ek means “out
of” klesis means “a calling” So, Christ was telling Peter - upon this
revelation that I am the Christ, Son of the Living God, I will build “those who
are called out.”</div>
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Are you getting it? Those who are saved are the ones who
acknowledge that Christ is the Son of the Living God, the savior of mankind and
that Christ is their Lord over their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As they come into this revelation, they are taken out of the world and
translated into the Kingdom
of God’s Dear Son, The Christ,
and He is beginning to build them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
Ekklesia has no boundaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
universal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man or the government of this
world has no jurisdiction over this, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CHRIST</b>
is the Ruler and He is the Head of this “Ekklesia” the Body of Christ. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>How does Christ
build this Ekklesia?</u></b></div>
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God saves people by exercising His Divine Will and brings
them into this entity called “ekklesia” even if they do not attend any local
church, they are brought into this “invisible entity” called the body of
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are brought into the Kingdom of God. They become God’s own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, those
who are isolated are deprived of the privilege which I will mention below.</div>
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Now, those who have access to be part of the group or an assembly
of the “called out ones” or those who are brought into this entity “ekklesia” have
several privileges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This “ekklesia or
the assembly” is built up upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets with
Christ Jesus as the Chief Cornerstone by the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The master builder is the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People need not worry about building this
“ekkelsia,” they need to be simply cooperating with the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the one who is in-charge.</div>
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Please see the verses here</div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Ephesians 2: 22 In Him [and in fellowship with one another]
you yourselves also are being built up [into this structure] with the rest, to
form a fixed abode (dwelling place) of God in (by, through) the Spirit</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Ephesians 2 <br />
9 Therefore you are no longer outsiders (exiles, migrants, and aliens, excluded
from the rights of citizens), but you now share citizenship with the saints
(God’s own people, consecrated and set apart for Himself); and you belong to
God’s [own] household.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">20 You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets with Christ Jesus Himself the Chief Cornerstone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">21 In Him the whole structure is joined (bound, welded)
together harmoniously, and it continues to rise (grow, increase) into a holy
temple in the Lord [a sanctuary dedicated, consecrated, and sacred to the
presence of the Lord].</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">22 In Him [and in fellowship with one another] you
yourselves also are being built up [into this structure] with the rest, to form
a fixed abode (dwelling place) of God in (by, through) the Spirit.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Body of Christ
built on the Foundation of Apostles and Prophets:</u></b></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Ephesians 2 <br />
20 You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ
Jesus Himself the Chief Cornerstone.</span></div>
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God is much, much concerned about building His
“Ekklesia.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the master manager and
the most able administrator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
chooses people even before they are formed in their mother’s wombs and
designates them, trains, and forms them for His work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apostles normally go through a lot of
affliction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are the special
messengers of God and they can handle all the functions and so the training is
very, very rigorous. They hear directly from God.</div>
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Prophets also form the foundation of the Body of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the Apostles, they can hear directly
from God regarding the Body of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are the mouthpiece of God.</div>
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Because there are real ones, there will be counterfeits also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to identify the counterfeits by
discerning, with the help of the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even if we are able to identify the real authentic ones of the Lord, we
need to be discerning every time that the Lord is speaking to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is possible when we are also led
completely by the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One Holy Spirit is
working throughout the Body of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is the connecting media and is communicating to all in the Spirit frequency
and signals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we are tuned in
properly our receptors will grasp the right signals and receive Divine
Directions and Instructions from the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is discerning of the Spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not only discerning whether the person
is the right one or not, but also whether the right person is speaking under the
unction of the Holy Spirit or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best Example
is from the life of our Lord Jesus Christ in His interaction with Peter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matthew 16:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>15 through 23 speaks of this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
moment, Jesus commends Peter that he spoke with Divine Revelation and sometime later
Jesus had to rebuke Peter as Satan, who was influencing Peter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each time Jesus looked underneath the outcome,
into the source, and discerned things rightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Similarly, we need to be discerning every time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it is from the Holy Spirit you will know it
and if it is not from the Holy Spirit you will know it then as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But know that people are also in the
transition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, consider it as a privilege
and honor from the Lord if you are connected with the right Prophets and Apostles
and you are under their Spiritual Covering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pray for them that they will always be led by the Spirit of God, pray
for their prosperity, their blessing, their family, their protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Know the protocol of the Body of Christ that they
form the foundation of the Body of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Apostles and Prophets need to be in unity knowing that each of them have
a secure place in the Body of Christ, under the governing of One God, One
Spirit, One Cornerstone, and One Head, The Christ. </div>
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In my humble opinion, or in my observation, most of the time,
Divine alliances are made between Prophet and Apostle, Evangelist with an
Evangelist in marriages. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a
strategic alliance that would support the call and duty assigned to each individual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even otherwise, God brings His
Ekklesia the “called out ones” under the Spiritual Covering of an Apostle and
Prophet by <u><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Divine Means</b>.</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is mandatory for growth, for building
up, and for protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Holy Spirit
works within the structure for sanctification, edification, and growth
including the members within towards presenting the Body Of Christ as a
Blameless Spotless Bride for the Soon Coming Heavenly Bridegroom.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Designated
Functions in the Body of Christ:</u></b></div>
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There are designated documented functions in the Body of
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is called the Office of the
Five-Fold Ministry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below verses
explain it clearly.</div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Ephesians 4<br />
11 And His gifts were [varied; He Himself appointed and gave men to us] some to
be apostles (special messengers), some prophets (inspired preachers and
expounders), some evangelists (preachers of the Gospel, traveling
missionaries), some pastors (shepherds of His flock) and teachers.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: lime;">12 His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints
(His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward
building up Christ’s body (the church),</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Office of the
Five-Fold Ministry:</u></b></div>
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1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apostles (special
messengers) – form the foundation.</div>
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2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prophets (inspired
preachers and expounders) - form the foundation.</div>
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3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evangelists
(preachers of the Gospel, traveling missionaries)</div>
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4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pastors (shepherds
of His flock)</div>
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5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teachers (expound
and explain the Word of God in details and revelatory manner)</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Apostles:</u></b></div>
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The one who is appointed in the office of the Apostle is
authenticated to function in all five offices, what I mean is they get
direct messages from the Lord, they get the plan and the blueprint from the
Lord, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>they can also prophesy, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>they can also do evangelism accompanied with
miracles and signs, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>they can also
Shepherd the people in the congregation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They can also teach the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They possess all 5 functional giftings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
order to qualify for that office, they would also have to undergo so much of
affliction in their life.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Prophets: </u></b></div>
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The one who is appointed in the office of the Prophet are the
inspired preachers and expounders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
get the download from the Lord and they act as the mouthpiece of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is good to listen to God all the time and
get the signals and directions from the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since the Holy Spirit is dwelling within us, in this New Testament times
the Prophets act as a confirmation voice of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Authentic prophetic insights, impacts, and
impartation must be welcomed by those who have jurisdiction over their local
ministry and church in order for them to move in line with the Holy Spirit and
also to see things as God sees and to have a Godly global perspective.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Evangelists
(preachers of the Gospel, traveling missionaries)</u></b></div>
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As described, God appoints people in the office of the
Evangelism with the designated duty to preach the Gospel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are also workers of miracles, healings, deliverances,
and wonders for the furtherance of the Kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are in the front line and in the business of plundering hell and
populating heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are like the marketing
wing.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Pastors:</u></b></div>
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Person who is appointed in this office is given the
responsibility of taking care of the souls who are brought in to the Body of
Christ by Evangelism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is why they
are called shepherds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A shepherd
provides and protects his flock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lord Jesus himself has set an example for the Shepherd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> A pastor </span>is to lay his life down for his flock and
not vice-versa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 10 explains clearly
how a shepherd should be from the life of the Good and Great Shepherd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ezekiel 34 gives a picture of bad and good
shepherds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Teachers (expound
and explain the Word of God in details and revelatory manner)</u></b></div>
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The one who is appointed to this office has a gifting to
expound and explain the Word of God in a very detailed and more comprehensive
manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They tend to get revelations
from the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holy Spirit
enables them to see scriptures in a new perspective each time and makes them
dig out the treasures from the scriptures for the edification and the growth of the Body of Christ.</div>
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So, if we allow the Holy Spirit to take over the local
church, He comes in and takes over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
has limitless jurisdiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will
function in such a way from taking care of the needs of each individual to meeting the global
(Godly) perspective criteria - that is micromanaging and macro-managing at the same
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Man has control over his
jurisdiction, his local church, he thinks small and he fails to do justice to
the call of God, to his position as the leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But when a leader gives full control to the managing force, the Holy
Spirit with a global perspective of Universal Invisible Body of Christ, people
in his church will be taken care of by the Lord himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He just needs to cooperate with the “Divine Working
Force” and the rest is taken care by God - in my humble opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A pastor of a church needs to be connected
with Apostles and Prophets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God will send
Apostles and Prophets, because it is God’s building project and not man’s, and
man need to identify it and cooperate with the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if a pastor is not able to identify it,
if he is divinely led, God will connect him to His Foundation, the Apostles and
Prophets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God does follow protocols.</div>
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Likewise, each office should be interconnected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God will bring Divine Connections and Divine covenant
connections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God will not leave anyone
isolated because we are part of His Body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There will be people who will be Spirit-led, obedient, having the image
of Jesus Christ, bearing the fruits of the Spirit, whom God will send and connect with
those who are isolated, for equipping them up for the calling that is upon
their lives. This is confirmed in the below verses.</div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Ephesians 2</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">21 In Him the whole structure is joined (bound, welded)
together harmoniously, and it continues to rise (grow, increase) into a holy
temple in the Lord [a sanctuary dedicated, consecrated, and sacred to the
presence of the Lord].</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">22 In Him [and in fellowship with one another] you
yourselves also are being built up [into this structure] with the rest, to form
a fixed abode (dwelling place) of God in (by, through) the Spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">12 His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping
of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of
ministering toward building up Christ’s body (the church),</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">13 [That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the []full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ’s own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him. </span></div>
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When Christ comes the universal Body of Christ, the Ekklesia, will be received and will be removed from this world along with the governing force "the Holy Spirit." Then what is left will be the physical church - buildings and those left behind, etc. It is unimaginable how the world would be without the Holy Spirit. Life will be terrible when the Comforter is taken away. Truly, the world will be in great distress. </div>
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Again, I would like to point out that this post is from my personal observation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please feel free to share
your experience and comments for the benefit of the Body of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you.</div>
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Maranatha!! Lord Jesus Christ Is Coming Soon!! </div>
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Shanta Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401119490401842618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10009200.post-87034049107097895832014-11-27T16:43:00.002+05:302014-11-28T22:27:09.813+05:30Be Thankful!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2jJ4LszwMC8/VHXDyQfEZTI/AAAAAAAACgE/noa31ZT-ga0/s1600/1-light.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2jJ4LszwMC8/VHXDyQfEZTI/AAAAAAAACgE/noa31ZT-ga0/s1600/1-light.jpg" height="176" width="320" /></a><span class="textrom-14-6">It is so joyful to have special
days, festive days or days of celebration. It lifts up our spirits and brings in
fellowship and communion with each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, it is imperative that the reason behind the festivity and
feasting & celebration is about honoring God and giving thanks to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: lime;">Bible says in Romans 14: 6 He who observes
the day, observes it in honor of the Lord.</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: lime;">
He also who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God;</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: lime;"> </span> </span></i>It is good to give thanks to the Lord
everyday and it is also good to specialize a day to remember all the goodness
and blessings of the Lord and be thankful to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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To be thankful is nothing but doing Gods Perfect Will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has revealed His Will in His word in <span style="color: lime;">I
Thessalonians 5:18 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thank [God] in
everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">thankful</span> and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you
[who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer and Mediator of that will].</i></span> </div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Being thankful is feeling or being
appreciative of kindness or benefits received; It is most of the time expressive
either by words or actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a very
sweet attitude.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Colossians 3:15b says And
be <b>thankful</b> (appreciative), [giving praise to God always].</span></div>
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Psalmist says about expressing the thankfulness in the
sanctuary of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: lime;">Psalm 100:4 Enter
into His gates with thanksgiving <i>and</i> a thank offering and into His
courts with praise! Be <b>thankful</b> <i>and</i> say so to Him, bless <i>and</i>
affectionately praise His name!</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Ephesians 5:4 says Let there be no filthiness (obscenity,
indecency) nor foolish <i>and</i> sinful (silly and corrupt) talk, nor coarse
jesting, which are not fitting <i>or</i> becoming; but instead voice your <b>thankful</b>ness
[to God].</span></div>
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The Lord’s will is always good for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thankfulness to God and people around is also
associated with our well-being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People
who have the attitude of gratitude are happier, less depressed, less stressed,
and higher sense of self-worth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>According to <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Marcus Tullius
Cicero</span>, Roman Philosopher, "Gratitude is not only the greatest of
the virtues but the parent of all others." Multiple psychological studies
have shown the correlation between gratitude and increased wellbeing not only
for the individual but for all people involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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There is a curse if we are not grateful to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is recorded in <span style="color: lime;">Deuteronomy chapter 28 in
verse 47 and 48</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span class="textdeut-28-47"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness of [mind
and] heart [in gratitude] for the abundance of all [with which He had blessed
you],</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span class="textdeut-28-48"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Therefore
you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord shall send against you, in hunger
and thirst, in nakedness and in want of all things; and He will put a yoke of
iron upon your neck until He has destroyed you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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Therefore it is implicated here that we need to cheerfully
serve the Lord with gratitude in heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It will definitely bring in more blessings into our lives.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Know The Schemes
Of The Enemy</u></b><u>:</u></div>
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Discontentment is one of the biggest weapons the enemy
uses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes you feel dissatisfied
with your life in spite of all the good things you have and you enjoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It causes jealousy, bitterness, envying,
complaining, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It causes you to
oppress others as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes you
stingy and not generous and benevolent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You would not be able to thank God for what God has done in your life,
but you'll always be looking at the other person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Finally, you are not living your life to the fullest as God
ordained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is well said “Gratitude is
not only the greatest of the virtues but the parent of all others.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps that is why the Lord has made it one
of His Ten Commandments, not to be covetous of what is others. When we covet what is others',
it would cause discontentment with our own life causing us to ungrateful to
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may wish to have blessings like
car or house, but let that wish be not because somebody else has them, but let
that be because you need it for your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God is good and benevolent to supply all your needs according to His
riches and glory.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>How do we
cultivate this lifestyle of Thankfulness:</u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Ask the Lord for a
Sensitive Heart:</u></b></div>
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Hard and insensitive heart cannot appreciate the goodness or
benefit or blessing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would take
everything for granted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to
appreciate everything around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Albert
Einstein said “There are only two ways to live a life; one is as though nothing
is a miracle; The other is as if everything is.” If we look at everything as a
miracle, how excited we would be and it creates a positive attitude and
gratefulness towards God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That gratitude
towards God will reflect into other avenues and areas of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Though there are circumstances that you would not be able to show
your thankful because of certain constraints, when you express your
gratitude in the presence of the Lord for that person or a thing and pray for
that person, though they may not know that you are being thankful
for them but the Lord knows and He sees you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As you continue in this lifestyle of gratitude and being thankful, at
the right time, the Lord will enable you to bless those who blessed you and
express your gratitude for them in action. The Key is Gratitude in heart. For the lips
speak from the fullness of the heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Luke 6:45.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not just words you
would translate your gratitude into actions as well.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Journal It:</u></b></div>
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It is good to record events and things on a daily basis
because you may forget as you carry it over or procrastinate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I maintain a notebook called “Record of
The Goodness of the Lord In Year __________” I have been having notebooks like that
since 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should have started it
before itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is better late than
never.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has been a very effective
way to defeat the schemes of the enemy and to appreciate the Lord’s goodness
everyday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything I attribute it
finally to the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sentence would start like this invariably
“Thank you Jesus for __________.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Here is a simple or silly example:</div>
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October 23, 2014:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thank you Jesus today there’s a milestone in my ministry, today my
youtube video – Closer crossed 1000 views (1314 views actually).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This is just for example, you and I can be thankful for so
many other good and great things the Lord has done in our lives each and every
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing is simple or silly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything counts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we do not record them, we may forget them
and we may lose this lifestyle of being grateful and thankful to God.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Count Your Blessings
by The Martins have these wonderful lyric lines</b>;</div>
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He had family friends and money, loved the lord with all his
heart</div>
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So the devil went to God and said ole Job would fall apart</div>
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If you would take away his fortune, let me put him to the
test</div>
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Soon poor Job had lost his health, and wealth, and all the
rest</div>
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And as his troubles added up, he fell down on his knees</div>
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He said lord I still got one thing, and that’s your love for
me</div>
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You got to count your blessing, you’ll find one if you try</div>
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Count on the lord and watch that blessing multiply</div>
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All those might have, could have, should have beens, are
nothing but distressing</div>
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When you’re down and out, its time to count your blessing</div>
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You might go through hard times, when you fall into despair</div>
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Remember you’re surrounded by his blessings everywhere</div>
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It’s in a neighbors helping hand, or in the sunshine of a
smile</div>
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One blessing leads to one more, you’ll be counting for a
while</div>
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It’s best to look at what you have, forget what you have not</div>
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And just learn a lesson from old Job and give thanks for
what you got</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Find Ways To
Express Your Gratitude:</u></b></div>
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Praising God is a way of expressing our gratitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every morning when we get up to seek God, our
heart should be filled with gratitude for the new day, for His new mercies, for
the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross, for the salvation wrought through
Him, for the Holy Spirit who is with Us, for the Father God’s love over us, so
on and so forth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we begin our day
with gratitude for God, then we become appreciative of other things in our
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though you may feel life has been
so unfair or unkind to me what is there for me to be thankful for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are washed by the Blood of Jesus
Christ, that is enough for you to be grateful and thankful for the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just focus on Jesus Christ, His sacrifice and
His grace and what He accomplished for you on the cross and this one thing is ENOUGH
for you and me to be thankful for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
has expressed His love for you and me by dying on the cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Love of God is more than enough to be
thankful for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other things are just
additions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Express your gratitude to God not just by words also by
actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A teaching leader in our Bible
Study Fellowship has put it beautifully, </div>
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<span style="color: lime;">“Jesus Paid It All – Gratitude demands that I grow my
relationship with Him.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">“Jesus Paid It All – Gratitude demands that we live holy
obedient lives.”</span></div>
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Beautiful isn’t it?</div>
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Similarly, we should express our thankfulness and gratitude
to people in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We normally
express our thankfulness to so many people outside our family but we take our
own people for granted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Appreciate your
husband, your wife, your mother, your father, your sister or brother, even the
little ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Express your thankfulness
for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we journal everything in
our record, we also record the people who were instrumental for every goodness
and blessing, be grateful for them and express your gratitude for them in ways
you can find possible and at right times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Make them know that you are appreciative of them.</div>
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Give thanks to the Lord for the Lord is good and His Love
endures forever!! </div>
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Hope this post is a blessing to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are you grateful for today and what are
the ways you follow to cultivate this lifestyle of gratitude? Please feel free
to share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This time of the year has always been a blessed time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Happy Thanksgiving!! God Bless!!</div>
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Shanta Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401119490401842618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10009200.post-90554186634422902872014-11-07T18:39:00.000+05:302014-11-07T21:25:58.261+05:30Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<![endif]-->How many of us know the prayer taught by Lord Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that every Christian who
has gone to Children’s Bible
School or catechism in
school or any Christian who has read the New Testament would have come across
this prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a very common prayer
that is most often said like chanting a mantra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
prayer goes like this in Matthew 6:9 & 10
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“Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.</div>
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Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in
heaven.”</div>
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In this post, we are focusing on what Jesus meant by praying
“Thy Kingdom Come and Thy Will be done here on earth as it is in heaven.” </div>
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What is the Kingdom of the Father like and What is His Will
like in GENERAL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not probing into
the specific Will of the Father God, who is in Heaven, but His GENERAL WILL and HIS
KINGDOM which He has in Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will
glean through some of the verses to understand what His Kingdom is like and How
He rules and reigns.</div>
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Psalmist David himself is a king and in most of his psalms he
would address God as the King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had
the right perspective about God and always kept Him as the King of kings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through his psalms David describes the
character of the GREAT King of Heaven and Earth and His Kingdom attributes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> God has set His throne in heaven; He rules over us all. He’s
the King! Ps 103:19</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and Your dominion
endures throughout all generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Psalm 145:13</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">For God is the King of all the earth; sing to him a psalm of
praise. Psalm 47:7</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy
throne. Psalm 47:8</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">Our King loves righteousness, uprightness, and right standing
with God and hates wickedness; Psalm 45:7</span></i></div>
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David calls God as the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lord means the one who lords over or who has the dominion or authority
over something or someone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also
implies the kingship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wherever David
calls the Lord he acknowledges that He is the ruling One.</div>
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The below verses point out the characteristics of our King
and Lord.</div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">Psalm 145: 14 - 19</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">The Lord upholds all those [of His own] who are falling and
raises up all those who are bowed down. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">The eyes of all wait for You [looking, watching, and
expecting] and You give them their food in due season.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">You open Your hand and satisfy every living thing with
favor.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">The Lord is [rigidly] righteous in all His ways and gracious
and merciful in all His works.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call
upon Him sincerely and in truth.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">He will fulfill the desires of those who reverently and
worshipfully fear Him; He also will hear their cry and will save them.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">Psalm 103: 3-9 (MSG)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">The Lord forgives your sins—every one. <br />
He heals your diseases—every one. <br />
He redeems you from hell—saves your life! <br />
He crowns you with love and mercy—a paradise crown. <br />
He wraps you in goodness—beauty eternal. <br />
He renews your youth—you’re always young in His presence. <br />
The Lord makes everything come out right; He puts victims back on their feet. </span></i></div>
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The Reign of Our King Jesus Christ will be filled with
justice, righteousness, without oppression, tyranny or evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one will harm another.</div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> Psalm 103 (AMP)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-6" id="en-AMP-15556"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>The Lord executes righteousness and justice [not for me only, but] for all who are oppressed.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-7" id="en-AMP-15557"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>He made known His ways [of righteousness and justice] to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-8" id="en-AMP-15558"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy and loving-kindness.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-9" id="en-AMP-15559"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>He will not always chide or be contending, neither will He keep His anger forever or hold a grudge.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-10" id="en-AMP-15560"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>He has not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-11" id="en-AMP-15561"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great are His mercy and loving-kindness toward those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-12" id="en-AMP-15562"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-13" id="en-AMP-15563"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>As a father loves and pities his children, so the Lord loves and pities those who fear Him [with reverence, worship, and awe].</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-14" id="en-AMP-15564"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>For He knows our frame, He [earnestly] remembers and imprints [on His heart] that we are dust.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-15" id="en-AMP-15565"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-16" id="en-AMP-15566"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>For the wind passes over it and it is gone, and its place shall know it no more.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-17" id="en-AMP-15567"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>But the mercy and loving-kindness of the Lord are from everlasting to everlasting upon those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him, and His righteousness is to children’s children—</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-18" id="en-AMP-15568"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>To
such as keep His covenant [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it]
and to those who [earnestly] remember His commandments to do them
[imprinting them on their hearts].</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;"><span class="text Ps-103-19" id="en-AMP-15569"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom rules over all.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">Isaiah 11</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him—the
Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit
of knowledge and of the reverential and obedient fear of the Lord—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">3 And shall make Him of quick understanding, and His
delight shall be in the reverential and obedient fear of the Lord. And He shall
not judge by the sight of His eyes, neither decide by the hearing of His ears;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">4 But with righteousness and justice shall He judge the
poor and decide with fairness for the meek, the poor, and the downtrodden of
the earth; and He shall smite the earth and the oppressor with the rod of His
mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of His waist
and faithfulness the girdle of His loins.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the
fatted domestic animal together; and a little child shall lead them.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">7 And the cow and the bear shall feed side by side,
their young shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">8 And the sucking child shall play over the hole of the
asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">9 They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy
mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the
waters cover the sea.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">10 And it shall be in that day that the Root of Jesse
shall stand as a signal for the peoples; of Him shall the nations inquire and
seek knowledge, and His dwelling shall be glory [His rest glorious]!</span></i></div>
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Thus our King is full of love and compassion, faithfulness
and righteousness who has the power to render a perfect governance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is peace and joy in His Kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is prosperity and protection in His Kingdom. That is the reason Lord Jesus Christ taught
us to pray Heavenly Father, who is in heaven, Thy Kingdom Come and Thy Will Be
Done on earth as it is in heaven because Your Kingdom is Perfect and Your Will
is the Perfect Solution to us all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">To all the problems in the society, the solution is not in any man-made systems which is flawed but it is in the Kingdom of God. When we declare and decree the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and pave way for its rule and reign, it brings in solutions of peace and prosperity. Submitting to His Kingdom and His Will is the wise decision one can make, as taught by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So it is quite meaningful to say “Father in Heaven Thy Kingdom Come and Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven” Isn't it? </span></div>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="color: yellow;">Have you ever heard someone saying, I don’t want to hear
“all-blessing” gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just fed up
of people saying come to Jesus He will heal you, you’ll receive a miracle,
you’ll get financial miracle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, just
this week I had heard this from a sister during my conversation with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This person is a believer in Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has a deep longing and yearning to know
what exactly Jesus did by dying on the cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: yellow;">This made me think deeply and intently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I am not a person who has diluted the
Gospel and by God’s immense and sustaining Grace and Power will never do
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God gave me this vision and
burden -“to empower lives for a closer walk with God,” primarily focusing on the
relationship with God than just the blessing of God.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">When we minister to people, there are different kinds of
audiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some look for solutions to
life’s problems such as healing, finance, blessing in life, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some look for solutions to their emotional and
spiritual needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter what the need
be, the only solution is God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Him and
through Him all things are satisfied and made complete.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">When Jesus was preaching the Kingdom of God on this planet,
there were different kinds of people around Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some came for healing, some came for
deliverance, some came for other kinds of miracles, some came to hear His
sensational speech and His teachings, which were eye-opening and so
liberating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some were His close
followers who had renounced their worldly work and occupations to be with
Jesus. Some were fault-finders, always looking for ways to trap Jesus and put
an end to Him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Jesus after His 40 days of fasting began His preaching saying“Change your mind (repent), turn to God for the Kingdom
of God has arrived” Matthew 4:17 (paraphrased).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Those that changed their minds and followed Jesus closely became His
disciples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many times, we see in the four
Gospels, Jesus did not share everything with everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He shared the parables with all, but
expounded the deeper meanings with His disciples and answering all their
questions in a way to bring clarity in their mind. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of His teachings were not openly expounded to
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He shared them exclusively with His
disciples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span class="textluke-17-20"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>20 </sup>Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would
come, He replied to them by saying, The kingdom of God does not come with signs
to be observed <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">or</span> with visible
display,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span class="textluke-17-21"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>21 </sup>Nor will people say, Look! Here [it is]! or, See,
[it is] there! For behold, the kingdom
of God is within you [in
your hearts] <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span> among you
[surrounding you].</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span class="textluke-17-22"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>22 </sup>And He said to the disciples, The time is coming
when you will long to see [even] one of the days of the Son of Man, and you
will not see [it].</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">He shares very little with the others, but He takes pain to
explain the whole matter and reveal the hidden with His disciples starting from Verse 22 through to 37. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Jesus gave the commission or the authority
granted for a particular action or function to His disciples who were His close
followers and who were with Him during His 3-1/2 years of ministry on
earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says “All authority (all power
of rule) in heaven and earth has been given to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So my well-trained close followers go and
make others also close followers of me like yourself by teaching them God’s
Kingdom and God’s Kingdom Principles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Matthew 28: 16- 20 (Amp)</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">16 Now the eleven
disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to
which Jesus had directed and made appointment with them.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">17 And when they
saw Him, they fell down and worshiped Him; but some doubted.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">18 Jesus
approached and, breaking the silence, said to them, All authority (all power of
rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">19 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,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">20 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).</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Therefore, as the Ambassadors of His Kingdom, we need to
have a living, active, and growing relationship with our King, growing in the knowledge of Him and His Kingdom. The Lord God reveals Himself in our daily
walk with Him through His Word and through our situations and
circumstances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, shall we walk in the
progressive revelation that comes through the ever-growing and progressive relationship with the
Lord and King Jesus Christ?</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Hope this post has been a blessing to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What motivates you to come to Jesus daily? Please feel free to share.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;">These are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, spoken in an incident in which some of his haters were trying to catch Jesus in an offence against the then political system. Most of the teachings of Jesus was not a threat to the Roman Empire which was ruling the Provinces of Israel and Palestine though Christ came preaching about a different Kingdom in the Roman King’s Rule, but it was unbearable for religious leaders. The elders of the religion, chief priests, and pharisees were closely watching and spying to see in what manner they could catch Jesus Christ in His teaching and preaching that He had committed an offense against the Ruling Government and hand him over to the Governor’s rule and authority. This Governor was sent by the Roman Kingdom to be in-charge of the provinces.<br /><br /><br />So, they find one moment to trap Jesus by asking a question whether to pay taxes or not. Because Jesus was preaching about another Kingdom, they were expecting that Jesus would say “when you belong to the Kingdom of God, you don’t need to pay taxes.” However, Jesus gave them an amazing answer and they were not able to catch Him by His word. It is described as below. </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">20 Keeping a close watch on him,
they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in
something he said, so that they might hand him over to the power and authority
of the governor. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">21 So the spies questioned him:
“Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not
show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">22 Is it right for us to pay
taxes to Caesar or not?”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">23 He saw through their duplicity
and said to them, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">24 “Show me a denarius. Whose
image and inscription are on it?”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Caesar’s,” they replied.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">25 He said to them, “Then give
back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">The above Bible verses say that
Jesus read their thoughts and intentions and understood that they did not ask
Him out of a genuine thirst or a drive to know the truth but out of their
craftiness to catch Him by His own word and bring upon Him some kind of danger
or harm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told them to show a
coin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He puts forth a question back to
those who asked Him the question, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whose image and inscription does it have?
They had to reply Caesar’s because that was the image that was inscribed on
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then He says give back to Caesar
what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Let’s take the latter part of the
verse which says “Give back to God what is God’s.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s try and analyze, where we can see the
image and inscription of God?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The earth
and its fulness belong to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is
the creator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, Mankind is created in
the image and likeness of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
another words God has inscribed His Image upon us and He has stamped upon us
that He is the Creator and that we belong to the Kingdom of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not all are in the Kingdom of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who are not under the Lordship and
Ruler-ship of God are strangers and aliens to the Kingdom of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kingdom
of God is not visible to
the eyes (Luke 20:21) It is within us in our hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we accept the Lordship of Jesus Christ
through believing that we are made righteous by the sacrificial death and
resurrection of Jesus, we become the citizens of the Kingdom of God.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This process is called “to be born
again,” because we are re-created in the image and likeness of the Lord Jesus
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, as the citizens of the Kingdom of God, God stamps upon us His Image and
the inscription that says that we are His Royal Children, we belong to His
family, and we are His possession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Since we belong to God, we are
God’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, we don’t belong to
ourselves, but Christ the King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our eyes
are not ours, our ears are not ours, our feet are not ours, the members of our
bodies are not ours, our passion, our liking, our wills, emotions, our
properties, our possessions, everything should be centered on the Will of God.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">It is not
suffice that we are saved and born-again, but we need to have the understanding
that we are not our own and we belong to the Kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to give ourselves back to the
Kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not mean that all of us
have to leave our current occupations and professions and become full time serving
the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it means in our capacity,
in our circles which God has placed us in, we need to be doing the Will of the
King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">I once again
would like to remind ourselves that Kingdom
of God is not outside in
any church or organization, it is within us in our hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord is ruling as King from our heart and
the principles and precepts of the King are already given to us in the book
called Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Myles Munroe who has
been my inspiration ever since I stumbled upon his book “Kingdom Principles,” calls
Bible as the Constitution of the Kingdom
of God.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">It is so sweet
to give ourselves back to the Kingdom than paying taxes to the government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because our Ruler, our King is generous and
benevolent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He does not rule us with
Iron Hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look how He rules us when we
surrender to His Lordship....</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Isaiah
11:</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1 A
shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear
fruit.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">2 The
Spirit of the Lord will rest on him - the Spirit of wisdom and of
understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge
and fear of the Lord—</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">3 and
he will delight in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what he sees with
his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">4 but
with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions
for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">5
Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash around his waist.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">6 The
wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf
and the lion and the yearling[a] together; and a little child will lead them.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">7 The
cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion
will eat straw like the ox.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">8 The
infant will play near the cobra’s den, and the young child will put its hand
into the viper’s nest.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">9 They
will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be
filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: yellow;">The shoot that comes up from the stump of Jesse indicates the Lord Jesus Christ and the rest of the verses speaks of His rule, how He will rule. The result of which there will be no harm or destruction in His Kingdom. Though this speaks of His 1000-year rule, just like that God is able to provide us goodness and His care in our lives and keep us out of the evils of this world.</span> <br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">Is it not a wise
and best decision to come into the Lordship of Jesus and come under His Kingdom
care and protection?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your answer is
yes, shall we then pray the following prayer?</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Dear Father in
Heaven, holy be your name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I understand and
conceive that Jesus has paid the price for my sin through His death on the
cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I repent for my sins and I ask
for forgiveness of my sins and washing of my sins through the Lord Jesus
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe in Him and receive Him
as my savior and Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I come under the
Lordship of Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to be reborn
into your kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you for taking
me from this world of darkness and translating me into the Kingdom of Your Dear Son
Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Holy Be Your Name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your Kingdom
come upon my life as it is in heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Your Will be done in my life as it is heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you for making me a citizen of the
Kingdom of God and stamping upon me Your Image and Inscription declaring that I
belong to You.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having thoroughly
understood that I belong to you, as the Lord Jesus said, I give myself back to
You.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord have Your way in the every day
of my life and teach me Your precepts and statutes from the Constitution of the
Kingdom of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Help me to walk in loving obedience to Your Will and Ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Jesus Name I pray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">How many of us desire to be filled with God? Is it the right
desire? Is it biblical? </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">This is a very, very profound thought and can be dealt
comprehensively, but however, in this post I am sticking only to Ephesians
chapter 3. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Apostle Paul is saying in Ephesians 3:19 (THE MSG)
"Live full lives, full in the fullness of God." He prays to God for
us the family of God who has the surname titled Yahweh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For ex. Shanta Daniel
(my biological father) is actually Shanta <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yahweh
(MY ACTUAL FATHER THROUGH CHRIST)</b></span> <span style="color: lime;">(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ephesians 3:14-15 AMP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for Whom
every family in heaven and on earth is named [that Father from Whom all
fatherhood takes its title and derives its name].) </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He prays saying "you may be filled [through all your being]unto
all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence,
and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!"</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Not only that He is saying that God is able to do above and
beyond this prayer as in</span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: yellow;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ephesians 3 Verse 20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of)
the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His
purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think
[infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or
dreams]—" </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">What is meant by being filled with the Fullness of God? It is EVERY aspect
of GOD in us...IS GOD GOOD? IS GOD HEALTHY? IS GOD PROSPEROUS? IS GOD POWERFUL?
IS GOD FULL OF DIVINE LOVE? IS GOD SUCCESSFUL? IS GOD THE RULER? DOES HE HAVE
DOMINION? It is to have the richest measure of the Divine Presence in our lives so much so
our bodies are wholly filled and flooded with God himself!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sounds exciting, is it not? </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">How can we have the FULLNESS of GOD in us? The KEY to this
is CHRIST.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is so much <span class="texteph-3-8">unending boundless, fathomless, incalculable, and exhaustless
riches in Christ through whom all things were created by GOD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bible says, in and through Christ all things
were created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through the faith in
Christ, we dare to have the boldness of free access to God who is Most Holy and
who dwells in the unapproachable light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span class="texteph-3-8">When we receive Christ as Lord and
savior of our lives, He washes our sins away and comes into our heart. Through
faith, Christ dwells in us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our faith in
Him makes Him feel at home!! When Christ is comfortable within us, we are
strengthened in our inner being by His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, which dwells in
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the Holy Spirit takes control of
us in every aspect of our lives, He will enable us to be deeply rooted in the
Love of Christ and also to practically experience the breadth, the length, and
depth of the Love of Christ which far surpasses the mere knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The level to which we experience the Christ’s
Love in real and practical ways, far beyond the human understanding, to that measure we allow the Divine Presence in our lives. If the level is full, then we become wholly
filled and flooded with God Himself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Ephesians 3: 15-19</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">I have put it in a small paragraph, but this is so profound.. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">In order to have the fullness of God in our lives as Apostle
Paul desires for us, we need to have given the Holy Spirit full and complete
control and be led by Him always in our thoughts and actions, in our decisions
and choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Verse 20 says,
according to the power that is working within us, we will see the results above
and beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This power is Holy Spirit
Power, the Power of Christ’s Love within us. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the end
result of it? End result of it is GLORY TO GOD!! Yes...we end up glorifying God in our lives fully and completely!! Is it not wonderful!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span class="texteph-3-20-eph-3-21"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glory to God in the church!</i></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />
<span class="texteph-3-20-eph-3-21">Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus!</span><br />
<span class="texteph-3-20-eph-3-21">Glory down all the generations!</span><br />
<span class="texteph-3-20-eph-3-21">Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Shall we then begin to desire this by saying a simple prayer
</span><span style="color: cyan;">"Jesus you are my Lord and my savior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are my redemption and salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lord I believe in you no matter what.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let me have the faith in all situations that makes you feel at home.
Lord let me be fully rooted in the Love of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord settle down in my life and have Your way
through the Mighty Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want
to give full control to You Holy Spirit, please take full control of my
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lead me into ways that I may
practically experience Your Love, the breadth, the length, and the depth of it
in my life so that I will be filled with You so much so I may live full life,
full in the fullness of YOU, GOD, so that You Will be GLORIFIED in me and
through me!!! In Jesus Name AMEN!!"</span></div>
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Shanta Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401119490401842618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10009200.post-67733328106783684932014-06-28T13:56:00.004+05:302014-06-28T23:19:51.378+05:30The Everlasting Father!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of the names given to Jesus by the Holy Spirit, even many, many hundreds of years before Jesus was born on this planet is
<span style="color: lime;">Everlasting Father</span> (Isaiah 9:6). Jesus is the visible personification of the invisible God. <br />
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The concept of family and fatherhood is all God’s idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is never a man’s idea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we read the genealogy of Jesus in Luke
3:38 it is mentioned that the first man on the face of the earth, Adam, is the
son of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all others, Luke gives
the name of a human being as the father’s name, but for Adam he says the father
name as “GOD.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Luke 3</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">37 The son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the
son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">38 The son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of
God.</i></b></span></div>
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The very purpose of Jesus coming into the world is to
restore the relationship of Father and Son between God and Mankind, which Adam
lost because of His disobedience.</div>
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Through Jesus we are brought into the family of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have the Spirit of Adoption and the
privilege to call the Creator of the Universe as our Father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Romans 8</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">15 For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit
of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the
Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we
cry, Abba (Father)! Father!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">16 The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own
spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">17 And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also:
heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him];
only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory.</i></b></span></div>
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So, to be the son and daughter of God, we need to come into
Christ and have that Spirit of Adoption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Having come into the family, our goal should be to be led by the Spirit
of God, because Word of God says for all who are led by the Spirit of God are
sons of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This post is intended to focus the attention on the Father
and His character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two main characters that
are prominent for a father are that a father always signifies protection and
providence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Father Protects:</u></b></span></div>
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We see in the natural world a father always takes care and
protects the family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is innate and
natural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did it become natural? This
is being incorporated into the human DNA from God’s DNA. Again, I am saying
what we see in the natural setting is God originated.</div>
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Jesus says in <span style="color: yellow;">John 10</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">27 The sheep that are My own hear and are listening to My voice;
and I know them, and they follow Me.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or
perish throughout the ages. [To all eternity they shall never by any means be
destroyed.] And no one is able to snatch them out of My hand.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">29 My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater and mightier
than all [else]; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of the Father’s hand.</i></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: yellow;">30 I and the Father are One</span>.</i></b></div>
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Jesus who is the Everlasting Father gives us Everlasting
life and He also protects us from the destruction of Eternal Life that He has
given us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says you and I are safe in
His Hands and His Father’s hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
also says that He and His Father are one and the same. What a great joy!!</div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Father Provides:</u></b></span></div>
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The concept of a man providing for the family as a father is
again from God and not from man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God the
Father provided everything for His son Adam in the Garden of Eden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was nothing lacking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God made sure that His son Adam was happy and
comfortable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adam enjoyed all the
provisions until He had the perfect relationship with His Father God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, he lost it through the
deception of the enemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God didn’t give
up and He wanted to restore the relationship and the resultant blessings to
Adam’s generation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, He came in the
form of Jesus, the Everlasting Father, and got back all the lost blessings and
made a way of restoration through Himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: lime;">So, if you are in Christ Jesus through the born-again
experience of making Jesus the Lord and savior of your life, do not worry....your
provision is taken care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are
well-provided through Jesus as we read in Romans 8.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: lime;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Romans 8</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span class="textrom-8-17"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>17 </sup>And if we are
[His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs
with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering
if we are to share His glory.</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">So, we need to take our eyes off of the situations and
people and focus our attention on this Everlasting Father who is our protector
and our provider.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we do it...the next
thing is too see the manifestation of the wonderful character of this Great
Everlasting Father in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you
agree?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you agree, pls share your
thoughts and comments related to this post.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">p.s. Actually, initially intended as a FB status post and
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undeserving sinners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are chosen by
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Galatians 1:</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">15 But when He, Who had chosen and set me apart [even] before I was
born and had called me by His grace (His undeserved favor and blessing), saw
fit and was pleased</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">16 To reveal (unveil, disclose) His Son within me so that I might
proclaim Him among the Gentiles (the non-Jewish world) as the glad tidings
(Gospel), immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood [did not consult or
counsel with any frail human being or communicate with anyone].</i></b></span></div>
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Once Saul the persecutor of the followers of Jesus, Paul says that he obtained mercy and <span style="color: lime;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the superabundant grace</i></b> </span>that flowed
out of him to do the Work of the Lord. This we read in the below verses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">12 I give thanks to Him Who has granted me [the needed] strength
and made me able [for this], Christ Jesus our Lord, because He has judged and
counted me faithful and trustworthy, appointing me to [this stewardship of] the
ministry.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">13 Though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and was shamefully
and outrageously and aggressively insulting [to Him], nevertheless, I obtained
mercy because I had acted out of ignorance in unbelief.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">14 And the grace (unmerited favor and blessing) of our Lord
[actually] flowed out superabundantly and beyond measure for me, accompanied by
faith and love that are [to be realized] in Christ Jesus.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>What is the source of this superabundant grace?</u></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">17 For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death
reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God’s]
overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting
them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one
Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">18 Well then, as one man’s trespass [one man’s false step and
falling away led] to condemnation for all men, so one Man’s act of
righteousness [leads] to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all
men.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">19 For just as by one man’s disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness,
and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by one Man’s obedience
the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into
right standing with Him).</i></b></span></div>
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One Man’s offense that is Adam’s disobedience brought forth
sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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One Man’s righteousness that is Jesus Christ’s obedience brought
forth grace and life.</div>
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The source of this superabundant grace is Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His obedience on the cross channelized the
unmerited favor of God upon us. </div>
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A.W. Tozer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>puts it as
“The Cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God’s wrath to
Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.” </div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>How to receive the grace of God?</u></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have
seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”</i></b></span></div>
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Bible says Jesus the only Son of the Father is full of
grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, when we receive the Lordship
of Jesus Christ in our lives and submit our lives to Him we receive the grace
of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, salvation is receiving
the grace of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So when we are washed by the Blood of Jesus Christ, we
receive the grace and the next process is to continue in this grace.<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Be humble to receive Grace:</b></span><br />
<i><span style="color: yellow;">James 4:6</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: yellow;"><span class="text Jas-4-6" id="en-AMP-30342">But He gives us more and more grace (power
of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully).
That is why He says, God sets Himself against the proud and haughty, but
gives grace [continually] to the lowly (those who are humble enough to
receive it).</span></span></i><br />
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<span class="text Jas-4-6" id="en-AMP-30342">Attribute everything to God and give Him the glory. Humility is also complete obedience to God and His Word. If you say you are humble, yet you do not follow His word, you are not humble before. Just accept His Word for your life whatever it is and walk by it. If He says "you are going to far lands and different nations shall serve you" you do not say, Lord I want to be humble and that cannot be. Then you are not humble. Just as the Mary who found favor and grace before God, said "be unto me according to thy word," we need to do the same. If Bible say "By His stripes you are healed" believe and accept the word and walk in it. Do not exalt your sickness and situation above God's Word. Subject everything to God. Walk in His grace and the devil or satan cannot touch you.</span><span class="text Jas-4-6" id="en-AMP-30342"></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: yellow;">Proverbs 3:34<br />He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.</span></i><span class="p"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>How to Continue in Grace?</u></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Acts 13:43</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span class="textacts-13-43"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And when the congregation of the
synagogue dispersed, many of the Jews and the devout converts to Judaism followed
Paul and Barnabas, who talked to them and urged them <u>to continue</u> [to
trust themselves to and to stand fast] <u>in the grace</u> (the unmerited favor
and blessing) of God.</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="textacts-13-43">Continuing in grace means not losing
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<span style="color: lime;"><span class="textacts-13-43"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>How to Grow in Grace?</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="textacts-13-43">Growing in grace is an everyday
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are not only supposed to
lose the grace but we are supposed to grow more and more in the grace of God.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><i><b><span class="text2pet-1-2">II Peter 1</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><i><b><span class="text2pet-1-2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>2 </sup>May grace
(God’s favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all
spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral
conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and correct]
knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord</span></span>.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span class="text2pet-1-2">Grace is multiplied in the
knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is not brain knowledge about Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To know Jesus is different from “know about Jesus.” Knowing Jesus is
through experience and revelations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Philip
preached Jesus and not about Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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they have escaped the pollutions of the world through [the full, personal]
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in
them and are overcome, their last condition is worse [for them] than the first.</i></b></span></span></div>
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grace (undeserved favor, spiritual strength) and recognition <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span> knowledge <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span> understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (the
Messiah). To Him [be] glory (honor, majesty, and splendor) both now and to the
day of eternity. Amen (so be it)!</i></b></span></span></div>
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our Lord Jesus Christ with undying <i>and</i> incorruptible [love]. <i>Amen (so
let it be)</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span class="textps-18-1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I love You fervently <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span> devotedly, O Lord, my Strength.</i></b></span></span></div>
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err who devise evil <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span> wander
from the way of life? But loving-kindness <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span> mercy, loyalty <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span>
faithfulness, shall be to those who devise good.</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><i><b><span class="chapternum"> </span><span class="text2tim-2-1">So you, my son, be strong (strengthened inwardly) in the
grace (spiritual blessing) that is [to be found only] in Christ Jesus.</span></b></i></span></div>
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depending on God all the time and worshiping Him with reverential fear, we become strong in
His grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that superabundant
grace overflowing in and through us we will bear witness to the resurrection
Power of Lord Jesus Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">33 And with great strength and ability and power the apostles
delivered their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great
grace (loving-kindness and favor and goodwill) rested richly upon them all.</i></b></span></div>
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Shall we start to walk in this superabundant grace of God?
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The author of this message Smith Wigglesworth is a great and
mighty Man of God who was born in England in 1859.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is called as “The Apostle of Faith” because
of his absolute and complete trust in God and his life and ministry was based
on this aspect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was one of the
pioneers of Pentecostal Revival of the 20th Century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God confirmed his ministry through many supernatural
signs such as healing the hundreds of their sicknesses and grave diseases, raising
the dead, and many other supernatural signs.</div>
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<b><i>"That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and
the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death...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." Philippians 3: 10,13-14
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What a wonderful Word! This surely means to press on to be
filled with all the fullness of God. If we leak out here we shall surely miss
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<b><u>PRESSING ON FOR FULLER POWER</u></b></div>
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The Lord would have us preach by life, and by deed, always
abounding in service; living epistles, bringing forth to men the knowledge of
God. If we went all the way with God, what would happen? What should we see if
we would only seek to bring honor to the name of our God? Here we see Paul
pressing in for this. There is no standing still. We must move on to a fuller
power of the Spirit, never satisfied that we have apprehended all, but filled
with the assurance that God will take us on to the goal we desire to reach, as
we press on for the prize ahead.</div>
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Abraham came out from Ur
of the Chaldees. We never get into a new place until we come out from the old
one. There is a place where we leave the old life behind, and where the life in
Christ fills us and we are filled with His glorious personality.</div>
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On the road to Damascus,
Saul of Tarsus was apprehended by Christ. From the first he sent up a cry,
“Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” He desired always to do the will of God,
but here he realized a place of closer intimacy, a place of fuller power, of
deeper crucifixion. He sees a prize ahead and every fiber of his being is
intent on securing that prize. Jesus Christ came to be the firstfruits; the
firstfruits of a great harvest of like fruit, like unto Himself. How zealous is
the farmer as he watches his crops and sees the first shoots and blades. They
are the earnest of the great harvest that is coming. Paul here is longing that
the Father’s heart shall be satisfied, for in that first resurrection the
Heavenly Husbandman will see a firstfruits harvest, firstfruits like unto
Christ, sons of God made conformable to the only begotten Son of God.</div>
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You say, “I am in a needy place.” It is in needy places that
God delights to work. For three days the people that were with Christ were
without food, and He asked Philip, “From whence shall we buy bread that these
may eat?” That was a hard place for Philip, but not for Jesus, for He knew
perfectly what He would do. The hard place is where He delights to show forth
His miraculous power. And how fully was the need provided for. Bread enough and
to spare!</div>
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<u><b>THE PRESENCE OF THE RISEN CHRIST</b></u></div>
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Two troubled, baffled travelers are on the road to Emmaus.
As they communed together and reasoned, Jesus Himself drew near, and He opened
up the Word to them in such a way that they saw light in His light. Their eyes
were holden that they could not recognize who it was talking with them. But, oh
how their hearts burned within as He opened up the Scripture to them. And at
the breaking of bread He was made known to them. Always seek to be found in the
place where He manifests His presence and power.</div>
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The resurrected Christ appeared to Peter and a few more of
them early one morning on the shore of the lake. He prepared a meal for the
tired, tried disciples. This is just like Him. Count on His presence. Count on
His power. Count on His provision. He is always there just where you need Him.</div>
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Have you received Him? Are you to be found “in Him”? Have
you received His righteousness, which is by faith? Abraham got to this place,
for God gave this righteousness to him because he believed, and as you believe
God He puts His righteousness to your account. He will put His righteousness
right within you. He will keep you in perfect peace as you stay your mind upon
Him and trust in Him. He will bring you to a rest of faith, to a place of
blessed assurance that all that happens is working for your eternal good.</div>
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Here is the widow’s son on the road to burial. Jesus meets
that unhappy procession. He has compassion on that poor woman who is taking her
only son to the cemetery. His great heart had such compassion that death had no
power - it could not longer hold its prey. Compassion is greater than
suffering. Compassion is greater than death. O God, give us this compassion! In
His infinite compassion Jesus stopped that funeral procession and cried to that
widow’s son, “Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.” And he who was dead sat up,
and Jesus delivered him to his mother.</div>
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<u><b>CHANNELS FOR HIS POWER</b></u></div>
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Paul got a vision and revelation of the resurrection power
of Christ, and so he was saying, “I will not stop until I have laid hold of
what God has laid hold of me for.” For what purpose has God laid hold of us? To
be channels for His power. He wants to manifest the power of the Son of God
through you and me. God helps us to manifest the faith of Christ, the
compassion of Christ, the resurrection power of Christ.</div>
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One morning about eleven o’clock I saw a woman who was
suffering with a tumor. She could not live through the day. A little blind girl
led me to the bedside. Compassion broke me up and I wanted that woman to live
for the child’s sake. I said to the woman, “Do you want to live?” She could not
speak. She just moved her finger. I anointed her with oil and said, “In the
name of Jesus.” There was a stillness of death that followed; and the pastor,
looking at the woman, said to me, “She is gone.” </div>
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When God pours in His compassion it has resurrection power
in it. I carried that woman across the room, put her against a wardrobe, and
held her there. I said, “In the name of Jesus, death, come out.” And soon her
body began to tremble like a leaf. “In Jesus’ name, walk,” I said. She did and
went back to bed.</div>
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I told this story in the assembly. There was a doctor there
and he said, “I’ll prove that.” He went to the woman and she told him it was
perfectly true. She said, “I was in heaven, and I saw countless numbers all
like Jesus. Then I heard a voice saying, ‘Walk, in the name of Jesus.’’’</div>
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There is power in the name of Jesus. Let us apprehend it,
the power of His resurrection, the power of His compassion, the power of His
love. Love will break the hardest thing - there is nothing it will not break.</div>
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Courtesy: <a href="http://www.smithwigglesworth.com/">http://www.smithwigglesworth.com</a></div>
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Published in Pentecostal Evangel p. 2 August 4, 1945 <br />
Published in Redemption Tidings p. 5-6 March 28, 1947 </div>
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week and for some reason I hesitated to post it. But since I got it confirmed
through another Sister whom I am ministering to, I am sharing this
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I would like to share the heart of God through one incident
that truly happened in the life of a very great Man of God who was used mightily
to many thousands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord has even
used him to raise the dead and many thousands were delivered from the clutches of the
enemy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point here is he was truly a mighty
man of God. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All his life he was very zealous
for the Lord and followed strict laws and was very strict with regards to sin. However,
he treated his wife always with a commanding voice and never allowed her to take
up the microphone and preach in his church. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the latter days of his life, he started
beating her. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wife used to weep inside
but never raised her voice against the man of God. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she had to visit a sister who was sick, the
husband of the sick sister who is an Apostle of God asked her “how are you doing
Sister?” Sister said “after my husband pronounces benediction and God’s peace and
love over the congregation, I pick up my handbag asking within “Lord where
is my peace and love. This is how my life is"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then that Apostle
of God said, “Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sister, you have waited, just wait a little longer.” Upon hearing this
word, that sister thought that God is going to touch her husband and set things
right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in just 90 days that great
man of God, the husband of this sister passed away due to sickness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sunday before his death He came to church
with the help of the aide and handed the microphone to his wife and as she said a
few words to the congregation, he got it back from her and said “may this grace
continue” and slowly climbed down the podium and left the premises back to his
house with the help of the aide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Nevertheless, </span>before
his death he asked sorry to his wife and he asked her to pray over him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The widowed wife now leads the ministry after her husband's demise. </span></div>
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<i><b>This incident gives us a warning about how much God hates
domestic violence as much as he hates the divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May the Lord help us not to displease Him
but love the wife just as the Lord loves the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus, the bridegroom, left the glory of His Father’s
house to seek a bride – the church - for himself undergoing all sufferings and
afflictions and elevating His bride to the same glory and honor He has showing an example that a
husband must love his wife in such a manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wife in return must be submissive to the husband just as the Bride of
Christ to the Christ. May the Holy Spirit minister to us all.</b></i></div>
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p.s. This incident really shook me as well when I heard it from
the concerned person and I am sharing it with the consent of the person concerned. I said "Lord help me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should not cry to you but should be wise
to win your favor for my loved ones that they might know Your heart and please you."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">For other Prophetic Voice message <a href="http://www.shantadaniel.com/2012/12/prophetic-voice-prophetic-message-to.html#.U1JHq6LTlWo" target="_blank">click here. </a></span></div>
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