let him guide your ways.........

Refreshing Sunday...........

                         
                           ITS GONNA BE SUNDAY AGAIN




As a week passed by,lets check back wot happened n our life's last few days........... As hours passed ,incidents that changed our past took place,that lasted black memories may had took place.

And after all that its Sunday again;THE day of refreshing hope....

“People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.”

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

Fight On

How easy it is to falter. Our weak human nature doesn't want discipline, doesn't want hard work, doesn't want the straight and narrow path. Oh, to just swing away our life in a great summer hammock and doze off to the crickets singing. It is so easy to be lulled away from our army post. We must resist.

Paul wrote this to the church in Colosse: "For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good discipline and the stability of your faith in Christ."(Colossians 2:5) "Good discipline" and "stability of faith" -- these two can pull us back to reality.

When we get sloppy in our prayer life or negligent in our good works, discipline can put us back on track. When we forget the greatness of our God or become pessimistic and discouraged, faith can overcome our doubts. In fact, stable faith can even out the high and low places we encounter all along life.

Let's remember that we are called to battle and this battleground (earth) is a very temporary place. Soon we will be called to an eternal furlough and our hammock will be more pleasurable and the crickets will sing a sweeter song. Time enough then for lulling and dozing.

For now--fight on

Teaspoon of Faith

After coming to know the gracious grace of God, don't you sometimes wonder how you stayed in the dark so long? I remember I just couldn't SEE it until the day I could finally SEE it. But even though I appeared to be totally blind there was a measure of faith at work within me. It wasn't saving faith yet but it would be.

Romans 12:3 says; "as God has allotted to each a measure of faith."Even in our blindness there is a portion of faith inside each of us - enough to prepare us to believe. In my case, small things I didn't notice at the time were influencing me to look up to God. Many people, events and prayers played a part and God's hand was tending my "measure" until I was ready.

You may wonder how the one you are praying for can ever turn around and receive God's love. It may look like they have utterly rejected every attempt of the Lord to reach them. Maybe they have so far. But don't forget about the measure of faith.

Keep praying and your prayers will help to cultivate whatever faith God has already apportioned to them. Don't worry about how small it may seem now. Maybe yours was smaller than theirs in the beginning. When God activates faith, even a teaspoon is enough.

We turn now to the Seven Gifts of the sanctifying category. They are: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety and fear of the Lord.

They each perfect certain basic virtues. Four of them perfect the intellectual virtues. Understanding gives an intuitive penetration into truth. Wisdom perfects charity, in order to judge divine things. Knowledge perfects the virtue of hope. The gift of counsel perfects prudence.

The other three gifts perfect virtues of the will and appetites. The gift of piety perfects justice in giving to others that which is their due. This is especially true of giving God what is His due. Fortitude perfects the virtue of fortitude, in facing dangers. Fear of the Lord perfects temperance in controlling disordered appetites.

The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit by Rev. William G. Most

                                                                Salvation

There is no issue more significant in time or in eternity than our attitude toward Jesus Christ.  God divides the human race into two groups, those who believe or accept the Lord Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world and those who reject.  

Salvation is as simple as accepting what Christ has done. The work has been accomplished through Christ’s substitutionary death on the Cross. God the Father judged your sins while Jesus Christ hung on the Cross bearing the sins of the world.  Now, eternal life and a spiritual birth is offered to everyone who will believe in Jesus Christ.

...... Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, ..... (Acts 16:31)

Hebrews 11:1-39

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.  This is what the ancients were commended for.  By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.  By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.  By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.  And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.  By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.  By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.  By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.  For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.  By faith Abraham, even though he was past age--and Sarah herself was barren--was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise.  And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.  All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.  People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own.  If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.  Instead, they were longing for a better country--a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.  By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son,  even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned."  Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.  By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.  By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.  By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions about his bones.  By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.  By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.  He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time.  He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.  By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible.  By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.  By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.  By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.  By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.  And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets,  who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,  quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.  Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection.  Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison.  They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated--  the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.  These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised.

1 Peter 1:7

These have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.