Blessed morning!
We would like to strongly encourage all of us to attend tonight's meeting with Ps Samson.
As we saw last night, God moved mightily and all who were present we highly blessed through the message of Breaking Foundational Curses.
Please make every effort to attend tonight as the subject covered will be Breaking Ancestral Curses. This message is so important that we will be videotaping it.
Details as follows:
Date: 30th June 2007 (Sat)
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: GROW BM
PLEASE FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST!
Remember, you are greatly BLESSED, highly FAVORED and deeply LOVED!
Praise God!
Ps Samuel
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
Sunday Re Cap (24th June 2007)
What Does This Mean?
by Daniel J.
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Question 1: How are we saved? Answer to that is found in Ephesians 2 :8&9
Summary
Salvation is a gift, you can’t work for it.
You receive this gift through faith.
Question 2 : Is faith the same as belief? Answer :No!
Parable 1 – The unmerciful Servant : Matthew 18:23-35
The king represents the Jesus and the servants represent believers. The first servants debt as an impossible debt to pay – it represents our sins against God. There is nothing we can do to repay it. We need the Kings forgiveness. The debt one servant owes another represents our offences against each other. God demands that we forgive one another! Its not an option. Failing which the unmerciful servant is thrown in to prison forever, representing eternal punishment.
Parable 2 – the parable of the Talents: Matthew 25: 14-30
The master in this parable represents Jesus and the servants represent believers. Jesus has deposited in each of us differing measures of gifts and talents. When he returns he expects us to give an account of what we did with it. In the parable the servant who did not use his gift and talents for the Kingdom was thrown in the outer darkness (hell)
Question 3: Can a believer be cast into hell?
Answer : Yes
Question 4: Under what condition can this happen?
Answer : Matthew 7:21"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
James 2:14-26 states that faith without deeds is dead. The deeds spoken of here is not just doing just anything but deeds that are inspired by faith and done in obedience to God.
In short ‘ faith without obedience is dead’
We need to look at our lives and ask ourselves if we truly have faith because true faith will prove itself through works of obedience.
It’s not too late. We can make things right in our life today. We can’t change the past but we can change the future. Gods love for us is unconditional and its His desire that none should perish.
Church you and I need to put our faith into action and desire obedience in our lives.
by Daniel J.
Click Here To Listen
Question 1: How are we saved? Answer to that is found in Ephesians 2 :8&9
Summary
Salvation is a gift, you can’t work for it.
You receive this gift through faith.
Question 2 : Is faith the same as belief? Answer :No!
Parable 1 – The unmerciful Servant : Matthew 18:23-35
The king represents the Jesus and the servants represent believers. The first servants debt as an impossible debt to pay – it represents our sins against God. There is nothing we can do to repay it. We need the Kings forgiveness. The debt one servant owes another represents our offences against each other. God demands that we forgive one another! Its not an option. Failing which the unmerciful servant is thrown in to prison forever, representing eternal punishment.
Parable 2 – the parable of the Talents: Matthew 25: 14-30
The master in this parable represents Jesus and the servants represent believers. Jesus has deposited in each of us differing measures of gifts and talents. When he returns he expects us to give an account of what we did with it. In the parable the servant who did not use his gift and talents for the Kingdom was thrown in the outer darkness (hell)
Question 3: Can a believer be cast into hell?
Answer : Yes
Question 4: Under what condition can this happen?
Answer : Matthew 7:21"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
James 2:14-26 states that faith without deeds is dead. The deeds spoken of here is not just doing just anything but deeds that are inspired by faith and done in obedience to God.
In short ‘ faith without obedience is dead’
We need to look at our lives and ask ourselves if we truly have faith because true faith will prove itself through works of obedience.
It’s not too late. We can make things right in our life today. We can’t change the past but we can change the future. Gods love for us is unconditional and its His desire that none should perish.
Church you and I need to put our faith into action and desire obedience in our lives.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Sunday Re cap (10th June 2007)
Survival, Success and Significance
by Dr Paul Ang
Text: Ps 90:5-6, 10, 12
v12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
In the first 40 years of our lives we learn and do things that will affect the next 40 years.
Moses first 40 years-lived in a palace and had a palace mentality. This is like some of us who are born into rich families.
The next 40 years Moses chose to downgrade-Heb 11:24-27.
It's a difficult thing to downgrade in anything in life. We always think about upgrading but God wants us to choose to downgrade i.e. dying to self.
We need to ask ourselves: Are we doing what God wants us to do and are we in the right place?
Do we view life in eternal and spiritual perspective or material and financial perspective?
Gen 13 -Lot viewed life from material and financial perspective whereas Abraham viewed life from an eternal and spiritual perspective. Abraham gave way to Lot and was “greater” than Lot. The “greater” gave way to the “lesser”.
What Lot chose in the first half of his life affected the next half-he lost everything and Abraham gained everything!
We need to ask ourselves:
What is your spiritual destiny?
What is your yardstick for success? God's yardstick and ours may be very different.
When you leave this earth, what do you want to be remembered for?
Are you maximizing your talents for God?
Traps in the 2nd half
David-adultery
Lk18:22 Rich Young ruler made to realize that there was more to life than having money and possessions. Its about being stewards of God's blessings upon our lives.
Lk19:8-9 Zacchæus realized that if we're losing the first half then we need to change the game plan for the 2nd half.
To avoid the trap:
We should not be moved by public opinion.
Saying sorry alone is not enough, we need to right the wrong.
Take stock of our life; ask God what to do.
Make peace with God and man.
Have a big and seeking heart like Zacchæus.
Conclusion
1st 40 years-planning, surviving.
2nd 40 years- harvesting, reaping, impacting lives.
We need to progress in life from survival to success to significance! Change your game plan NOW!
by Dr Paul Ang
Text: Ps 90:5-6, 10, 12
v12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
In the first 40 years of our lives we learn and do things that will affect the next 40 years.
Moses first 40 years-lived in a palace and had a palace mentality. This is like some of us who are born into rich families.
The next 40 years Moses chose to downgrade-Heb 11:24-27.
It's a difficult thing to downgrade in anything in life. We always think about upgrading but God wants us to choose to downgrade i.e. dying to self.
We need to ask ourselves: Are we doing what God wants us to do and are we in the right place?
Do we view life in eternal and spiritual perspective or material and financial perspective?
Gen 13 -Lot viewed life from material and financial perspective whereas Abraham viewed life from an eternal and spiritual perspective. Abraham gave way to Lot and was “greater” than Lot. The “greater” gave way to the “lesser”.
What Lot chose in the first half of his life affected the next half-he lost everything and Abraham gained everything!
We need to ask ourselves:
What is your spiritual destiny?
What is your yardstick for success? God's yardstick and ours may be very different.
When you leave this earth, what do you want to be remembered for?
Are you maximizing your talents for God?
Traps in the 2nd half
David-adultery
Lk18:22 Rich Young ruler made to realize that there was more to life than having money and possessions. Its about being stewards of God's blessings upon our lives.
Lk19:8-9 Zacchæus realized that if we're losing the first half then we need to change the game plan for the 2nd half.
To avoid the trap:
We should not be moved by public opinion.
Saying sorry alone is not enough, we need to right the wrong.
Take stock of our life; ask God what to do.
Make peace with God and man.
Have a big and seeking heart like Zacchæus.
Conclusion
1st 40 years-planning, surviving.
2nd 40 years- harvesting, reaping, impacting lives.
We need to progress in life from survival to success to significance! Change your game plan NOW!
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Sunday Re cap (3rd June 2007)
Our Christian Response
by Rev Samuel Hari
Luke 21:13 But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony. 14 Therefore settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer; 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist. 16 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death. 17 And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. 18 But not a hair of your head shall be lost. 19 By your patience possess your souls.
by Rev Samuel Hari
Luke 21:13 But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony. 14 Therefore settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer; 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist. 16 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death. 17 And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. 18 But not a hair of your head shall be lost. 19 By your patience possess your souls.
1. An Occasion for testimony
We have prayed together with Christians in Malaysia and in many parts of the world. After having prayed, we may of may not have received the outcome we expected. So how do we respond? We have to believe that God has the better, best plan.
We need to come to the realization that every adversity is an opportunity for growth.
With every TEST there is a TESTIMONY.
Esther used her occasion as a testimony. She spoke up and God will raise many Esthers, Mordecais’ in this land for such a time as this.
2. Settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer;
Not to use human reasoning or methods i.e. spread hatred, bitterness, anger, violence, rioting, etc. The moment we are bitter, we lose the battle. When we encounter adversity, things don’t turn out the way we pray, desire, we can either become BITTER or BETTER. Bitterness closes the door for God to move in our nation and in whatever situation we are praying over. God moves only through one channel; LOVE.
Rom12:2 ; 1Jn 4:18
3. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist.
Not an earthly wisdom. 1 Cor 1:12-16 (NKJV).
He’s going to give us a different kind of mouth.
It’s a time of training the believer in all godliness for the events that are to come. We must begin to condition our spirit-man. An occasion to be transformed from worldly, carnal thinking to godly thinking and a way of life that follows that pleases the Father and brings forth a testimony to the world. That we may prove.
Rom 12:2b
4. You Will Be Hated By All For My Name’s Sake.
The outcome of this situation is in fact well within the plan of God! They cannot understand because it is foolishness to those who do not know.
1 Cor 1:18-21
5. Not A Hair Of Your Head Shall Be Lost.
We need to understand that whatever the outcome, we will never lose out; even if we are put to death through physical death of death by defamation (at work, home, the press). We have the victory!
6. By your patience possess your souls.
Patience: cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy: - enduring, patience, patient continuance (waiting).
Don’t let your soul/emotions run wild. Don’t let it take the carnal, worldly course (anger, retaliation, bitterness). The key is through your patience. Let the fruit of patience increase through situations like these…When pray or desire patience, God uses situations like these.
Will you be the Esthers’ and Mordecais’ of today? At your work, school, business?
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