Prepare to meet God anytime anywhere. This is not a warning but an encouragement that we should keep drawing closer to our God. The Word of God always admonishing each person to consider getting ready to meet God and manage life wisely without neglecting the most important theme of daily life. In our everyday routine, let us not miss taking into consideration the thing that matters most everyday - meeting God. It has been said that the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ will be coming the second time around anytime.
That information is always true. It is fact that we should not ignore. We have to prepare ourselves to meet our Creator everyday. With the various rumors of wars around the world, natural and man-caused disasters and global chaos, it is no wonder that Jesus Second Coming will soon take place. Well, whether it be soon or later, the most necessary responsibility that we have to consider is that we are always ready to face Him and assured that He will take us in His Kingdom when He comes again.
Stress management gives a stress-free life everyday. Having a stress-free life everyday is everyone’s business daily. Even if we know a lot of side effects of thinking too much and doing vast activities everyday to the extent that we almost run out of strength and joy, we still cling on stresses and worries. Stress has been part of our daily life. In everything we do, there is always stress in it. Thus, the issue is not really on stress itself but on the way we manage it.
Stress management is a study that deals with managing or handling stress in life. All of people have to deal with it everyday because it has been considered as something that goes with us wherever we go. Managing stress is then a responsibility of every individual. Stress may cause our days to shorten. Managing it well will bring more years in our lives. Stress can make us aged fast while managing it the right way can help us look younger than our age.
Manage stress by simply lifting up to our God every care of our lives. He loves us more than anything else. We matter so much more to Him than anything we think we need to keep living. Thus, let us just cast all of our cares to Him and everything we need will be provided. Get wisdom from the Word of God or the Bible before we do anything in a day and our day will end up great. Learn to lean on God and believe that all things are possible unto Him. Then, learn to laugh more but laugh with faith that God is in charge.
Finding strength in your weakness? How can this irony be possible to happen in one’s life? It has been a wise thought that weakness is an opportunity to find strength. It is normal that at times. weakness tends to surface in your life because we cannot be strong at all times as events come your way in variety. Nevertheless, it has been proven that God can release His power in your weak time. Yes, God can show His glorious power even in your weakest moment! Your weaknesses have a holy purpose when they are being submitted to God.
They actually challenge your self-reliance and remind you of your need for the greater strength that God can provide. Taking the life of Paul for instance, He proclaimed God’s strength in his weakness. When the people in Corinth accused him of being unimpressive, he did not boast of things that he accomplished to defend himself. Ironically, he had boasted in his weakness recognizing only the strength that God had provided him.
Finding strength in your weakness is a great challenge where you can practice to be strong when you are weak because God will definitely provide you the necessary strength so that you will not rely on your own but learn to rely on the power of God alone. Do not be dismayed then when you are at your weak point of life because that is a great chance for you to see the amazing power of God who can strengthen you all the while. Just bring such weaknesses in His courts and you will find yourself in awe of what He can do to you in such moment.
Obeying God Is Everyone’s Privilege. Have you observed that the more obedient you are in following God, the more odds are getting your way? Well, this case does not only happen to you but to almost everyone who is determined to really obey God. I, for one, has been experiencing adversity in life when i decided to follow Him. However, I am also determined to keep on with my walk in His light no matter what this life brings in my way. With the grace of God that has been abounding around me coupled with consistent prayer time every morning and night and bible reading, too, I am still standing on His Word and obeying His will.
Obeying God Is Everyone’s Privilege. The story of Moses in the bible has been inspiring me to keep my obedience on. God had instructed him to go to Pharaoh and tell him to free the Israelites. Actually, God had mentioned that He was going to give these people the freedom from the hands of Pharaoh through Moses. However, God had to harden the heart of Pharaoh in order to make more and grreater miracles to the people. At the Book of Exodus, we see that God was actually behind this hard heart of the king. Each plague and delay have been done with a purpose.
In this sense, I realized that God has a reason for everything He does. We encounter some delays and we complain not accepting the fact that the delays have been designed to bring greater glory to God and have been purposely made to be a lasting legacy of God’s miracle-working power not only for the current generation but for generations that will still come. In the story of Moses, we see that he eventually learned that God’s promises are all made to come to pass but in a different timing from ours. He always wants a greater glory than what we might be willing to give him. Another lesson is the perseverance and greater faith that would be developed through the obstacles and adversities that God allows to come in our lives. At the final step, God will be glorified as His promise will be fulfilled after a hard times of obeying His will. I have learned that it is worthy to demonstrate obedience even in the midst of adversity. Finally, I have realized that Obeying God Is Everyone’s Privilege.
Being born again: Its importance. First, it is important for us to know what does it mean to be Born Again. Here, we are referring to being born again by the Spirit of God. It is a very amazing and unmistakable work of God and is as mysterious as the wind. Actually, we do not know where does it begin and it hidden away in the very depth of our soul.
Being Born Again means being born again from above and it is considered as perpetual, enduring and eternal beginning. It brings a continual surprise of the life of God in a person’s life which provide freshness at all times. Freshness in talking, living and thinking every day. Jesus said at the gospel Book of John chapter 3 verse 3. “….Most assuredly, I say unto you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Thus, being born again is absolutely biblical and it must be experienced by everyone who professes to be Christ- believer.
Being born again of the Spirit means much more than we think. It practically gives us fresh vision and keeps us fresh for everything through the never-fading supply of the life of God in our lives. As a final note to this topic, I sincerely wish that every guest of this website will keep searching about the truth and find it the soonest time possible. Much more to pray that all guests will encounter the Lord Jesus and experience being Born Again by the Spirit and lead a new, fresh and victorious life every day.
A Happy Marriage Makes A Happy Home. It is true that when parents are getting along well with each other, children will also get along well with each other. The couple who are also called the parents will be very glad when their children relate with each other in a smooth manner. On the other hand, children will be disciplined and very happy, too when they see their parents are always in good terms.
A Happy marriage makes a happy home is a motto of one family who has been experiencing happiness in at home with couples who are really happily married. Thus, marriage must always be enriched in order to have a joy-filled home. In this situation, no member in the family will love going out with other people more than with their own family.
If you have been longing to see your home a happy one, see to it that your marriage is a happy one as well. If you are still single and wishing to have one someday, be sure that you will be married with the right partner.
Knowing Jesus personally is not done automatically.I believe that you already have heard about Jesus Christ but you never have known Him personally yet. Here are some significant ways to lead you know Him. Before you can really have an intimate encounter with Jesus, you have to learn some basic truths about God and yourself.
First, you have to believe that God loves you. As said in the book of John Chapter 3 verse 16, ” For God so loved the world that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”. God loves you and He actually had originally created a world of peace and life for you.
Secondly, You have to know that every human being has been separated from God. As seen in the bible scene where Adam and Eve had disobeyed God and went on their own way. This case had created a gap between God and man like you and I. This is the separation which has been known as Sin. In this way, human beings became unable to get near to God by themselves. You have to accept that good thoughts and good deeds will ever fail to bridge the said gap. Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned and come short of thew glory of God”. We are then so far from our Creator.
Thirdly, I guess that you will rejoice to get informed that God had made a remedy. Actually, He offers this way to everyone . God sent His only begotten Son to bridge the gap of separation. Of course, God is so loving that He cannot afford to see you in distress and in need. So, Knowing Jesus personally as Someone who took our sins on Himself, shed His blood and died in our place. Know Him as both God and man wherein He provides the way of access between God and man. John 14:6 goes this way, ” Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one can cometh unto the Father but by me”.
You will now finally come into Knowing Jesus personally when you invite Him personally into your life. You have to receive Jesus into your heart and life, at large,by faith, so that you will be able to cross the bridge to God and lead a new life with and in Him. You may try to prayerfully ask Him now to come into your life and be your Lord and Saviour. In the book of John 1:12, you will find a great truth: “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God,e ven to them that believe on his name”.
Have you ever tried getting alone with your Creator? Can you figure out what is going to happen to you when you are alone with God? Everything that will happen to you when you are with God alone will be greatly amazing. If you have not yet set yourself being with God alone, I would encourage you to try it and you will surprisingly amazed at what God will pour out upon you.
Being alone with God is the most wonderful moment that will ever happen in your life. It is the time when God speaks to you audibly and show you visions vividly as you sincerely get yourself in His presence alone. When you are alone with God, you will be able to look inwardly without any shame because you will also feel God’s tight embrace then. It is true that God will lead you to deeper searching of your heart and He will lead you to encounter Him in the most intimate way as well.
When you are alone with God, you will be able to dig to your innermost and you might even see that there are some elements that you could hardly recognize like conceit, laziness, envy and other more negative emotions that for you are simply trivial but to God are significant. In the place where you are with God alone, you will have a glimpse of what you are like in His sight and you will realize how great is His loving arms to keep holding you through days. You might feel some agony of seeing yourself keeping some misplaced desires but still at peace to lay them down before God and have your heart filled with new desires that are aligned to His purpose.
When you are alone with God, every matter in all areas of your life will be clear. Just a final note to this topic: God can use you well only after we allow Him to show us the deep areas of our character.
This is like the profession I am holding now: An unknown profession to some. A not so important job to a lot of people. Why? It is because I just used to remain silent for I see things beyond the capacity of my naked eyes and I do things that most people do not do and do not recognize.
I have to learn living by faith and not by sight; getting grace from the gracious Lord at many times and entrusting my whole life unto the One Who has been designing it.
I also have been trying to enjoy every day no matter what a day may bring me. I have no choice but to enjoy everything and everyone because I do not have any control to what is coming my way. As long as I am yielding all areas of my life to the Lord Jesus, I have no fear of the future.
If you have been looking for a true friend, then you have landed in the right website. Yes, it is also my intention for all of my guests to find a true friend for I believe that everyone has really been longing to have someone for support and who is really worthy to be trusted of any deepest secret. However, it will really take you so hard to draw yourself to somebody for friendship. It is undoubtedly accepted that it is not easy to trust anyone now a days. People tend to be so concern of themselves that make them so difficult to care for others.
Nevertheless, I want to introduce to you the only Person who can definitely be trusted at all times. I would encourage you to draw yourself to Jesus Christ, the only One who will never ever fail you. He had already given His own life to show you that He loved you more than Himself. He alone had demonstrated such selfless love. There is no way not to be confident that He will ever be able to give you the support, comfort and constant company. Take a deep look at the book of John chapter 15 verse 15 wherein He assures you that He will call you friend and He alone can really be your true Friend.
John 15:15 “Henceforth, I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. To Him your every request is granted. To Him you will always be embraced and lavishly loved.
Now that you already have met your true Friend, get more intimate to Him everyday. He is always near to let you know whatever you want to know of Him. He can make your life more joyful, meaningful and useful. He can take you to the place of eternal life even while you are living in the land of living. I have been in this friendship and I find life more beautiful because of this relationship that I have with this True Friend. Have fun ahead with this friendship you have just discovered!
Time and again, we have reached another new year. A whole year to enjoy the gift of life wherein we do experience a variety of things such as exciting surprises, burdensome problems, laughter , sorrows, victories, frustrations and a lot lot more. As I met the year 2011, I asked the Lord to give me a message which I would carry within the whole year. It is about giving out my utmost for God’s highest. It is doing my best for His glory.
God had led me to the book of Philippians Chapter 1 verses 20 and 21. “According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
I have learned that I have to really surrender to Jesus all areas that He has been asking me to yield to Him. In this way, there is nothing to be ashamed of. God is calling me to be determined to be at my utmost for His highest in all aspects of my life. Giving the best for His glory actually means surrendering the will and that I should obey Him not by reasoning but by will. Just like Paul in the New Testament who had been so determined that nothing would have stopped him from doing exactly what God wanted him to do. In the other hand, I was also awaken that sometimes I am putting myself into place that seemed to be a crisis in my life. By then, God is developing in me a deeper sense of Himself until I get more selfless so nothing and no one can hinder me to give my best for His glory alone. Finally, my eyes have been opened to the fact that whenever it is taking me so difficult to surrender my all in all to Him, I will just look at what God had done to me at the Cross. Then, I can do nothing but surrender all to Him.
The first blessing that the soul receives from the practice of the presence of God is that its faith is livelier and more active everywhere every time. Even in times of difficulty, the soul rejoices because he has the grace of God. The person who practices the presence of god actually sees and knows that God is still with him even in times of temptation and trouble. The faith becomes more penetrating as it advances through practice.
The second blessing is that the practice of the presence of God strengthens us in hope. Our hopes increases as our faith penetrates God’s secrets through practice of our holy exercise. The soul definitely discovers in God a beauty infinitely surpassing not only that of bodies that we see on earth, but even that of the angels. Our hope increases and grows stronger.
Next blessing is that this practice causes the will to rejoice at being set apart from the world, setting it aglow with the fire of holy love because the soul is always with God.
Finally, by practicing God’s presence and continuously looking at Him, the soul familiarizes itself with Him to the extent that it passes almost its whole life in continual acts of love, praise, confidence offering, thanksgiving and petition. In this way, the soul is always in the ceaseless exercise of God’s Divine presence.
I have been traveling miles away in this life and I had a number of things I counted important. I thought I already have been dealing with the most important when I was trying so hard to finish my education. But after graduating from a prominent university in my country, I found another thing to consider as the most important and that was the socially known employment wherein I had to be employed to step on a higher status of life in the society and to show that the sacrifices of my parents to finance my education did not go to waste. Then I got employed in a white collar job but a lot of important things were still trying to enter into my mind like marriage, family-building, traveling to other nations and a lot lot more.
Almost all of the things that people deem most important have already been passed and still I feel that I have not yet dealt with the most important. Good thing that I have come to know the one most important thing I have to deal with in my lifetime. It is my salvation. Yes, you have read it right. The most important thing that we have to deal with is our salvation, the spiritual salvation. Furthermore, we have to deal with the issue on where are we going to spend our life after this life.
Salvation is the most important thing that you and me have to deal with everyday for we cannot afford to simply enjoy life on earth but suffer after such life. Our future address depends on our decision in the present. Let us be reminded that our soul will either spend eternity in heaven or in hell. Thus, we got to decide where will our souls be when God takes our lives back. If we are saved, surely our souls will be embraced by our Lord Jesus in heaven. On the other hand, if we are not saved, our souls will definitely go to hell. The decision is to be made here on earth as we live. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but has an eternal life (John 3:16). Let us then believe and accept our Lord Jesus, the Son of God, as Lord and Savior and claim our salvation in Him. Deal with the most important issue of life now.
Have you tried viewing the movie entitled “The Passion Of The Christ”. I had tried it many times and many times, I am touched by the great love of Christ towards the people. Jesus Christ, played by Mel Gibson, has been portrayed in the movie as human and at the same time as divine. Yes, the movie actually shows the humanity of Jesus as well as His being Divine.
The movie has been leading my mind to contemplate how great is the passion of Christ. His passion not only to save the world or the people like you and I, who had been put astray and are deserving to go to the place other than heaven but His passion to obey the will of His Father had actually captured my heart and led me to keep asking the Lord to help me obey His will, too.
The Passion Of The Christ Is not only an amazing movie but a very motivating instrument to cause all Christ-seekers and Truth-seekers to keep on searching the profound issues of life. There is really much more vital things to be considered in this life. It is not only riches or gold is to be sought in the land of the living. The Passion of Christ has to be known by everyone bought by the blood of Jesus Christ. Everyone includes me and you who have been making a lot of goals and dreams that are just temporal. The said movie also leads its viewer to take every pain, tear and fear into the altar and just live freely and filled with Christ’s passion.
Just some notes from my devotional book authored by Mr. Oswald Chambers:
A Christian worker has to learn how to be God’s man or woman of great worth and excellence in the midst of a multitude of meager and worthless things. Never protest by saying, “If only I were somewhere else!”. All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. Unless we have the right purpose intellectually in our minds and lovingly in our hearts,we will very quickly be diverted from being useful to God.
Chambers had mentioned Paul as a n example of this message wherein Paul’s heart, mind and soul were consumed with the great purpose of what Jesus Christ came to do and he never lost sight of that one thing. Thus, we must continually confront ourselves with one central fact -..Jesus Christ and Him crucified, if we are really determined to submit to God’s purpose which is the highest calling of our lives. God is always willing to fulfill His purpose in our lives but it is up to us whether we submit to His way of breaking , molding and doing exactly as He chooses to do in us.
Woe to me if I am going to turn aside when He is calling me to do His will. When He calls me then may I let Him have His way in me. Oh, there is really no higher calling than to stay tuned in God’s will and no greater challenge than to let myself submit to His Purpose.