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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Revolution in My Heart

After about 2 years I am on my blog again. I have got to tell something today... We all seem to be friends on facebook, orkut, emails.. and we all seem to be very close... but are we really? Why cant we make a good use of these social networking sites?

I want to share some little but GREAT secrets of life with you all..
1. “Seek peace, and pursue it. (Proverbs 34:14)”....
2. Give what is most dear to you, there is no more joy in life than doing this, believe me.. and
3. THINK DIFFERENT..
Lets make a difference in our thinking...

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Give Your All For God

There are times in our life when we feel under extreme pressures. Do you ever feel so? Sometimes there are stressors, tasks, and responsibilities in life that we feel we can't get rid of, we are overburdened with them, and there is less or no time left to prepare for service to God.

One pastor, after a hectic week full of sermons and invitations, did not have sufficient time even to prepare notes for his sermons itself. On the next Sunday morning as he walked to his pulpit, he didn’t have enough notes in his hand. He felt guilty. He felt like the Lord asking him, “Is this the best you have done for me?” He replied honestly, “Yes Lord, this is what is my best”. He told a friend later that Jesus took that ill-prepared piece of work in His hands “it became a trumpet” to his congregation.

Same was St. Paul’s motivation to the Thessalonians: “give your all for God”-- 1 Thessalonians 5:14-22. They were to exhort, warn, comfort, rejoice, pray, and express their gratitude to God—among other things.

We too should always do our best in our life and service. But when pressure times come and we really don’t have the time we feel we need, we should do the best we can and then prayerfully trust God’s faithfulness. 1 Thessalonians 5: 24. We feel guilty, but God knows what exactly is in our heart.

Give of your best to the master;

Naught else is worthy His love;

He gave Himself for your ransom,

Gave up His glory above:

Laid down His life without murmur.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Faith - What Bible Says

Faith

To understand better for my previous post, the following is a thorough understanding of 'faith'.

Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true (Phillipians 1:27; 2 Thessalonians 2:13). Its primary idea is trust. A thing is true, and therefore worthy of trust. It admits of many degrees up to full assurance of faith, in accordance with the evidence on which it rests.

Faith is the result of teaching (Romans 10:14-17). Knowledge is an essential element in all faith, and is sometimes spoken of as an equivalent to faith (John 10:38; 1 John 2:3). Yet the two are distinguished in this respect, that faith includes in it assent, which is an act of the will, in addition to the act of the understanding. Assent to the truth is of the essence of faith, and the ultimate ground on which our assent to any revealed truth rests is the veracity of God.

Historical faith is the apprehension of, and assent to, certain statements which are regarded as mere facts of history.

Temporary faith is that state of mind which is awakened in men (e.g., Felix) by the exhibition of the truth and by the influence of religious sympathy, or by what is sometimes styled the common operation of the Holy Spirit.

Saving faith is so called because it has eternal life inseparably connected with it. It cannot be better defined than in the words of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism:

“Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel.”

The object of saving faith is the whole revealed Word of God. Faith accepts and believes it as the very truth most sure. But the special act of faith which unites to Christ has as its object the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ (John 7:38; Acts 16:31). This is the specific act of faith by which a sinner is justified before God (Rom. 3:22, 25; Gal. 2:16; Phil. 3:9; John 3:16-36; Acts 10:43; 16:31). In this act of faith the believer appropriates and rests on Christ alone as mediator in all his offices.

Faith is necessary to our salvation (Mark 16:16), not because there is any merit in it, but simply because it is the sinner's taking the place assigned him by God, his falling in with what God is doing.