Right Belief Produces Right Behaviour
Ps. Christopher K
What is my belief concerning:
1. My Calling
2. My Dream / Vision
3. My Desire
Matt 16: 13 -20 Jesus was a misunderstood man. “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” Jesus said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
What is my Calling?
My calling is “I am a son of God”. Whatever belongs to the Father belongs to the sons.
A son has the same vision, passion and work of the Father. Know you are God’s son and live like one, Work where the Father is already working.
Gal 3:26- For we are all sons of God in Christ Jesus. Sons are not passive but active in doing the will of God and His work.
Are you a son or servant?
Pray against the slave mentality and live as a son.
We do proclaim that we are sons but unaccomplished work that we do shows that we
are servants. All your dreams should be focused to glorify God the Father.
Father’s desire - Rev 7:9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands
Make right with the Father first before we can make right with men. Having the right
relationship with God the Father.
Matt 21:28-31 – The parable of the Two Sons – There are those who say they will do the
Father’s work but don’t do. The Father’s desire is to see the son willing, careful and cheerful in doing what the Lord wants him to do – share His love to others.
So church lets have the right belief that we are sons of God and we are greatly loved, highly favoured and wonderfully blessed
Monday, July 30, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Sunday Re cap (22nd July 2007)
Breaking The Power of the Past-Part III
by Ps Samuel Hari
The New Birth into a Spiritual Family
Jesus described becoming a Christian as a new birth (John 3:3-5). 2 Cor 5:17
We become a new creation when we receive the nature of God which recreates a new spirit in us causing us to be a new species among men.
The NT describes becoming a Christian as a spiritual rebirth through which we are adopted into a new family. Rom 8:14-19; Gal 4:1-9; Mark 3:33-35.
In fact, family is the most significant metaphor used to describe the church.
Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth parents. Adoption results in the severing of the parental responsibilities and rights of the biological parents and the placing of those responsibilities and rights onto the adoptive parents.
The critical factor that most significantly determines my new identity as a Christian and character is not the blood of my biological family but the blood of Jesus. Mat 10:37
The NT world is unable to imagine a healthy family life apart from a healthy church life!
The question then is, why isn’t this happening? We are different from the world yet, on another level, we are pretty much the same?
The Importance Of Process.
The Word of God is a seed. All truth comes in seed form. What we do with the seed after it is planted will determine whether it will bear fruit for us.
We also need to realize (revelation) that we are no longer under the old genealogy.
We are not recipients of our old family nature, character; we are recipients of our new family.
Our reparenting process includes coming to church every week to learn and practice this new set of values and culture. It’s like migrating to another country.
When we don’t forgive, we are going back to the old genealogy. When we are offended, we are going back to the old genealogy. The idolatrous genealogy!
Whenever we come together i.e. Cell Group, Prayer Meeting, and hold hands and pray, we are re-affirming our new genealogy. We are being reparented; we are walking through the process. We are declaring that we are no longer under the old family, we are under the new. The most powerful statement is coming to the LORD’S Table together.
We are one family. The family of God, where God is now our Father. We have a new genealogy. We are blessed for a thousand generations! We are healthy, spiritually, emotionally, financially.
by Ps Samuel Hari
The New Birth into a Spiritual Family
Jesus described becoming a Christian as a new birth (John 3:3-5). 2 Cor 5:17
We become a new creation when we receive the nature of God which recreates a new spirit in us causing us to be a new species among men.
The NT describes becoming a Christian as a spiritual rebirth through which we are adopted into a new family. Rom 8:14-19; Gal 4:1-9; Mark 3:33-35.
In fact, family is the most significant metaphor used to describe the church.
Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth parents. Adoption results in the severing of the parental responsibilities and rights of the biological parents and the placing of those responsibilities and rights onto the adoptive parents.
The critical factor that most significantly determines my new identity as a Christian and character is not the blood of my biological family but the blood of Jesus. Mat 10:37
The NT world is unable to imagine a healthy family life apart from a healthy church life!
The question then is, why isn’t this happening? We are different from the world yet, on another level, we are pretty much the same?
The Importance Of Process.
The Word of God is a seed. All truth comes in seed form. What we do with the seed after it is planted will determine whether it will bear fruit for us.
We also need to realize (revelation) that we are no longer under the old genealogy.
We are not recipients of our old family nature, character; we are recipients of our new family.
Our reparenting process includes coming to church every week to learn and practice this new set of values and culture. It’s like migrating to another country.
- Our covenant with our heavenly father is directly related to our covenant with one another. 1 Jn 4:20-21; 1 Jn 1:7
- Our mission in this world is directly related to our covenant with one another. Jn 17:20-23
- Our life, health, prosperity, growth is directly related to our covenant with one another. 3 Jn 2, Eph 4:16
When we don’t forgive, we are going back to the old genealogy. When we are offended, we are going back to the old genealogy. The idolatrous genealogy!
Whenever we come together i.e. Cell Group, Prayer Meeting, and hold hands and pray, we are re-affirming our new genealogy. We are being reparented; we are walking through the process. We are declaring that we are no longer under the old family, we are under the new. The most powerful statement is coming to the LORD’S Table together.
We are one family. The family of God, where God is now our Father. We have a new genealogy. We are blessed for a thousand generations! We are healthy, spiritually, emotionally, financially.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Sunday Re Cap (15th July 2007)
Breaking the Power of the Past- Part II
by Samuel Hari
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II. Discerning the Major Influences in your life
Events and people have impacted who I am today and will help me understand “what makes me tick.
by Samuel Hari
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II. Discerning the Major Influences in your life
Events and people have impacted who I am today and will help me understand “what makes me tick.
- David-family influence, Saul, wilderness influence.
- Joseph-family influence, slave, prisoner, prime minister.
- Children of Israel-family, community, wilderness, conquest.
Q. What are a few events or people that have impacted who I am today, that will help me understand “what makes me tick”?
- Sickness in the family/personal health/personality.
- Traumatic Experience in workplace/loss of job/finances
- Failed marriage/divorce/infidelity/betrayal.
- Racism/Favoritism/Partiality.
- Breakdown of trust in church leadership-church splits, character/trust issues.
Not all of the above are negative but some can be very positive traits.
Is it really important?
Some have mentioned that “we have been redeemed from the curse”. Jesus has broken every curse. It’s true. However, why do we still behave in the same way? Why is there no change in the way we responds to certain things in exactly the same way as we were when we were born again? We are in the process of growth in our emotions. i.e. when we go through a difficult issue at work, we just bind and curse and hope for the best; sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t; when there’s sickness, lack, we pray in tongues and quote scriptures and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Why? Then we either get disillusion or blame God or run after another speaker or church or conference that claims to have the answer!
Yes we have been redeemed! No doubt about that. But what did God redeem us for? 1 Thess 5:23; Acts 20:32. He is far more interested in the building of our character, emotions, maturity in and through the process than simply giving us the answer. Heb 6:12. When we were children in Christ, we got milk. We cannot go on with milk but need other nutrients, exercises for the growth of our character/emotion and faith. 1 Cor 3:2; Heb 5:12-13.
If we don’t learn in the process, we will face it again and again because God is far more interested in us learning and growing than just giving us answers.
“Sometimes instead of giving us answers, He gives us Himself”.
We get a picture of Him, what He did for us; take communion and reflect if you don’t understand. Pray in the spirit to get understanding and to be aware of His presence. Then we actually start valuing the process instead of complaining. Js 1:2-4. God’s desire is that we may be perfect and complete, LACKING NOTHING!
What is the alternative? We are spiritually one mile wide and emotionally one inch deep. And keep coming back to the same mountain and sometimes for generations.
Proverbs 16:32 says - "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."
Proverbs 25:28 says - "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls."
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Sunday Re Cap (8th July 2007)
Breaking the Power of The Past-Part 1
by Ps Samuel Hari
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Read Ex 20:5-6
God punishes the sin of the Fathers to the third and fourth generations. Are there things in the past that are hindering us from fulfilling God's purposes and destiny for our lives?
Like everyone in the human race, we are descendants of Adam and Eve. Their intent after they disobeyed was to shield and defend themselves from God and one another. This aim of protecting ourselves from God and others manifest in different ways-controlling, fixing (repairing, damage control, destructive maintenance), fear, withdrawing, ignoring, denying, pacifying, or in conflict, loneliness, anxiety, frustration, resentment, blaming and more.
Ex: How did our parents/family resolve conflicts? Anger, denial, withdrawal?
“It is impossible to help people break free from their past apart from understanding the families in which they grew up.”
King David & His Family
Three themes surface from generation to generation in David’s family.
Theme 1: Having a Heart for God.
David compromises his relationship with God by committing adultery with Bathsheba and murdering her husband. This decision reverberates through his family and nation of Israel for generations. His son Solomon’s heart is described as not fully devoted to God. He mixes worship of the God of Israel with the worship of gods of the nations around him. By the third generation, this decline in spirituality reaches the bottom. Solomon’s son Rehoboam ignores the God of Israel and engages in idolatry and detestable practices of other nations.
Theme 2: Sexual Sin
David collects wives. Commits adultery with Bathsheba. His oldest son Ammon rapes his half sister Tamar and disgraces her forever. Solomon who carries on further the sexual sins of his father by accumulating 700 wives and three hundred concubines. Solomon’s son Rehoboam has 18 wives and 60 concubines. It was an act of rebellion against God’s commandments. (Deut 17:17).
Theme 3: Family Division and sibling rivalry
David had some tension with His brother (1 Sam 16-17). His son Absalom murders Ammon in revenge for raping his sister. The family is divided as a result. Absalom grows bitter and proclaims himself as king, conquering Jerusalem. Solomon’s son Rehoboam carries this pattern even further as his family disintegrates. Finally the once united 12 tribes of Israel split into a northern kingdom with 10 tribes and a southern kingdom with 2 tribes. The split family is eventually carried into exile.
Sin is passed on from generation to generation.
“Unless we grasp the power of the past on who we are in the present, we will inevitably replicate those patterns in relationships inside and outside the church.”
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Their generational blessings reach even down to us. However, their sins and emotional maturity also passed from generation to generation.
Again three patterns emerge:
Pattern 1: Lying
Evident in all four generations and even increases in intensity with every generation. Fearful, Abraham lies twice about Sarah, denying that she’s his wife. Rebecca and Isaac’s life is also dominated by lies and trickery (Gen 27).
Jacob increases the level of manipulation by lying consistently to almost everyone with whom he is in relationship. In fact his very name means “deceiver”. By the 4th generation, 10 of Jacob’s sons fake the death of their younger brother Joseph. They even go through the motions of a wake, funeral and a time of mourning to maintain such a lie.
Pattern 2: Favorite Child
Abraham favors Ishmael, but Sarah wants him removed from the family.
Isaac favors Esau and wants him to receive to receive the powerful family blessings.
Jacob favors Joseph and later Benjamin.
Pattern 3: Sibling Rivalry and Relational cutoff
Isaac and Ishmael-this division and tension continue till today in the Middle East between the Arabs and the Jews.
Esau and Jacob become open enemies once Jacob steals Esau’s blessings.
Finally, Joseph is cut off from his 10 older brothers for most of his adult life.
Conclusion: The sins of the fathers often intensify and remain for generations even when we are believers. We cannot cover up these areas by being “more spiritual”. There are areas of our lives that need to be confronted and dealt with by the power of the Holy Spirit if we are willing to be honest and open. The result is Emotional Maturity, Unity and Breakthrough Living!
by Ps Samuel Hari
Click here to listen
Read Ex 20:5-6
God punishes the sin of the Fathers to the third and fourth generations. Are there things in the past that are hindering us from fulfilling God's purposes and destiny for our lives?
Like everyone in the human race, we are descendants of Adam and Eve. Their intent after they disobeyed was to shield and defend themselves from God and one another. This aim of protecting ourselves from God and others manifest in different ways-controlling, fixing (repairing, damage control, destructive maintenance), fear, withdrawing, ignoring, denying, pacifying, or in conflict, loneliness, anxiety, frustration, resentment, blaming and more.
Ex: How did our parents/family resolve conflicts? Anger, denial, withdrawal?
“It is impossible to help people break free from their past apart from understanding the families in which they grew up.”
King David & His Family
Three themes surface from generation to generation in David’s family.
Theme 1: Having a Heart for God.
David compromises his relationship with God by committing adultery with Bathsheba and murdering her husband. This decision reverberates through his family and nation of Israel for generations. His son Solomon’s heart is described as not fully devoted to God. He mixes worship of the God of Israel with the worship of gods of the nations around him. By the third generation, this decline in spirituality reaches the bottom. Solomon’s son Rehoboam ignores the God of Israel and engages in idolatry and detestable practices of other nations.
Theme 2: Sexual Sin
David collects wives. Commits adultery with Bathsheba. His oldest son Ammon rapes his half sister Tamar and disgraces her forever. Solomon who carries on further the sexual sins of his father by accumulating 700 wives and three hundred concubines. Solomon’s son Rehoboam has 18 wives and 60 concubines. It was an act of rebellion against God’s commandments. (Deut 17:17).
Theme 3: Family Division and sibling rivalry
David had some tension with His brother (1 Sam 16-17). His son Absalom murders Ammon in revenge for raping his sister. The family is divided as a result. Absalom grows bitter and proclaims himself as king, conquering Jerusalem. Solomon’s son Rehoboam carries this pattern even further as his family disintegrates. Finally the once united 12 tribes of Israel split into a northern kingdom with 10 tribes and a southern kingdom with 2 tribes. The split family is eventually carried into exile.
Sin is passed on from generation to generation.
“Unless we grasp the power of the past on who we are in the present, we will inevitably replicate those patterns in relationships inside and outside the church.”
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Their generational blessings reach even down to us. However, their sins and emotional maturity also passed from generation to generation.
Again three patterns emerge:
Pattern 1: Lying
Evident in all four generations and even increases in intensity with every generation. Fearful, Abraham lies twice about Sarah, denying that she’s his wife. Rebecca and Isaac’s life is also dominated by lies and trickery (Gen 27).
Jacob increases the level of manipulation by lying consistently to almost everyone with whom he is in relationship. In fact his very name means “deceiver”. By the 4th generation, 10 of Jacob’s sons fake the death of their younger brother Joseph. They even go through the motions of a wake, funeral and a time of mourning to maintain such a lie.
Pattern 2: Favorite Child
Abraham favors Ishmael, but Sarah wants him removed from the family.
Isaac favors Esau and wants him to receive to receive the powerful family blessings.
Jacob favors Joseph and later Benjamin.
Pattern 3: Sibling Rivalry and Relational cutoff
Isaac and Ishmael-this division and tension continue till today in the Middle East between the Arabs and the Jews.
Esau and Jacob become open enemies once Jacob steals Esau’s blessings.
Finally, Joseph is cut off from his 10 older brothers for most of his adult life.
Conclusion: The sins of the fathers often intensify and remain for generations even when we are believers. We cannot cover up these areas by being “more spiritual”. There are areas of our lives that need to be confronted and dealt with by the power of the Holy Spirit if we are willing to be honest and open. The result is Emotional Maturity, Unity and Breakthrough Living!
Baptism-1st July 2007
Praise God for the 9 blessed members who were baptised and the family members who were there to welcome them!To God be the GLORY!
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
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Sunday Re Cap 24th June 2007
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Sunday Re Cap 24th June 2007
Sunday Re Cap (1st JULY 2007)
How To Create New Records
By Ev Samson
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Text: 1 Chr 4.9-10
Jabez said bless me to the fullest. If there's anything we need today, it’s the hand of God and the capability to create new records.
Lk 5:1-11.. Peter's breakthrough in creating new records. Don’t listen to yourself; listen to God. When Jesus is in our boat there’s always a breakthrough.
Either we are pressed or oppressed.
How To Create New Records?
- You must be committed to what you love. What do you love most? When we are committed we are commissioned to succeed.
- Always close your ears from what people say about you. Do not mind man. When you try to please everybody we become a failure. Jer 17:5-8
- Do not accept failures even when we have failed. Failures are only events. Stand up! God has always got something better.
- Renew your mind-Rom 12.2-don't get angry if others are blessed. We must have a positive mind/attitude. Casting all our cares...have good thoughts towards one another. The heart is the central point of our blessing. Phil 4:8; Pro 4:23
- Change your attitude. It determines our altitude. Our attitude is a stumbling block to our miracles. Phil 2:5
- Live by the word of God. 2 Tim 2.15.
- Be a prayer warrior Lk 18.1 if your battle is fought for you, you will lose your crown.
- Be Humble 1 Pe 5.5
- Always be excited-joy of the LORD is our strength.
- Must live a life of covenant. Ps 50.5, Josh 5.9-when we are stingy we don't receive.
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