He shall be like a tree planted by the RIVERS OF WATER, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper...Ps 1:3
Monday, July 30, 2007
Sunday Re-cap 29 July 2007
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 23, 2007
Sunday Re cap (22nd July 2007)
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)
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)
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!
Baptism-1st July 2007
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
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Sunday Re Cap 24th June 2007
Sunday Re Cap (1st JULY 2007)
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.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Breaking Ancestral Curses
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
Friday, June 29, 2007
Sunday Re Cap (24th June 2007)
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.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Sunday Re cap (10th June 2007)
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)
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?
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Lina Joy loses appeal
PUTRAJAYA: Lina Joy lost her final round of appeal when the Federal Court dismissed on Tuesday her appeal against a ruling that the National Registration Department was right not to allow her to remove the word "Islam" from her identity card.
Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim and Federal Court judge Justice Alauddin Mohd Sheriff delivered the majority decision dismissing her appeal.
Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Justice Richard Malanjum dissented.
On Sept 19, 2005, the Court of Appeal decided that the NRD director-general was right in refusing her application to drop her religious status from her IC on the grounds that the Syariah Court and other Islamic religious authorities did not confirm Linas renunciation of Islam.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Sunday Re Cap (27th May 2007)
By Michael Stubbs
Click here to listen (recorded in Victory Fellowship, Emporia, Kansas)
John 4: 1-30Some points to note:
- v7: People want to be INVISIBLE for many reasons i.e. sin. Don’t be INVISIBLE anymore!
- v14: eternal life is supposed to a perpetual spring of living water DEEP inside of us. Not just droplets here and there.
- For real transformation to take place we need to ask ourselves relevant questions. Jesus kept asking this woman; and now to us all these relevant questions.
- Through these questions God wants us to move from superficiality to depth in our believe system and emotional maturity.
- v28: God works many times through a “suddenly anointing”. Sometimes we need to keep pressing on and on for the truth with no apparent results. However, when we think nothing is happening, that’s when God is at work in people’s lives and ours.
- We need to stop making everything a personal issue. We need to ask why? Why? Why?
Sometimes the reason for this goes all the way back to childhood. - There must be a willingness to be vulnerable before God; only then can we change. The Samaritan woman kept being defensive (v20, 25).
- We can be vulnerable before God by being repentant, by opening up ourselves to correction through the Word of God, through prayer.
- When God asked Adam and Eve “Where are you?” it was an opportunity to repent and be vulnerable. However they missed that opportunity and suffered the consequences to this day. It was the same with Cain when God asked him “Where is your brother?” The purpose of the question was not because God did not know where he was but it was an opportunity to repent and to be vulnerable before God.
- Emotions are not evil. They help us be vulnerable before God.
Conclusion
Our Christianity must go beneath the surface. If the heart is right then everything will be right. Let every area of our life be saturated with God-even the good, bad, pain, sorrow, joy-EVERYTHING!
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Sunday Re cap (20th May 2007)
By Michael Lee
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2 Chr 7:16
Many are called but few are chosen. Saul, Judas and Gehazi were called but not chosen.
We praise God that when we are called, we make the choice to follow the LORD. How? The key is found in Ps 23: 1-3
The LORD is My Shepherd I shall not want.
Matt 8:22: Instant obedience is required to follow the LORD. Delayed obedience is considered disobedience.
Disciples followed the LORD immediately when they were called.
Mark 8:34: We deny ourselves (self nature) when we follow the LORD.
I shall not want- we can be assured that even when we deny ourselves we will never lack anything.
We shall not have a desire or a need of anything when we have the Shepherd. He alone is all that we need. Seek Him first.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures.
He desires that we “settle” in a local church.
He is the one who makes us lie down in a place of rest when we have found a “spiritual” home.
We humble ourselves to His leading as He makes us lie down. There is no more agenda of self.
He leads us beside the still waters.
This speaks of our constant relationship with God. He leads us to the place of intimacy.
We can see ourselves when the waters are still. We see ourselves as we are in Christ alone.
He leads us to a place of rest in the midst of the challenges of our day-to-day life.
He restores our soul.
This is not speaking of the restoring that we think it is.
It is a restoring to God’s own pattern and design for our lives.
When we are not fishing, we are fighting. Instead of being fishers of men, we become fighters of men.
If we know we are rich in the LORD, we will not desire to steal.
We become without blame-no one will blame us if we do not blame anyone.
Restoring our soul is a dying to self.
Let’s remember 2 Chr 7:14-16
2Ch 7:14-16 and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (15) "Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place. (16) "For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Sunday Re-Cap (13th May 2007)
by Shireeni
We are to bring forth “Christ” in this generation. How? By rising up, being obedient to His leading. The spiritual birthing forth might be in different ways, for different purposes, for each of us. For Queen Esther, it was to rise up and deliver her nation. For Mary, it was to bring forth The Messiah. For Deborah, it was to deliver the Israelites.
What do you think about that with respect to yourself?
Are you one who is thinking yes, this is what I am already sensing?
Are you one who is thinking, not interested? I just want to finish the service and get out of here. Do my own thing.
Are you one who is thinking, I am no Esther, nor Mary, nor Deborah? I am just an ordinary person. How can I bring forth anything? Maybe when things are better in my life.
There are another 3 ladies in the Bible who were special to God. They were not queens, nor judges, nor the mother of the Messiah. They possibly died thinking that they were ordinary people just like you and I. But now we, looking back, can see that they had a mighty destiny and it was not ordinary. They obeyed and they brought forth. They brought forth, not when things were good and fine, but in desperate and overwhelming circumstances.
1. The first is Leah. There are many women today in this world who are in similar situations as Leah was in. Her husband had 2 wives and he loved the other (Rachel) more than he loved Leah. Eventually……. She probably died thinking she was an ordinary person and did not realize this great truth. What truth? She was part of the genealogy of Jesus Christ. She was in the lineage of Jesus. Not Rachel, but her. Leah. You see God has the big picture. We have only bits and pieces. She just needed to be faithful where she was, trust Him, obey Him, move with Him. And she brought forth.
2. The second is Ruth the Moabitess. There are many women in this world who can identify in some ways to this woman. The loss of loved ones. The making of difficult choices. She had to make a difficult choice – to stay back or to follow her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law released her to go back to her home and have a chance at a new life.
She chose to come out of her comfort zone. I believe she followed her mother-in-law not knowing completely her future or what was in store. Ruth stepped out in faith and followed her mother-in-law. And she was blessed. She did get another chance at a new life. She married Boaz and had a son called Obed, who was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David. She became part of the genealogy of Jesus. She was faithful, obedient to make the right choices and she brought forth.
3. The last is Rahab, the prostitute who helped the Israelite spies from being caught in Jericho. She realized the greatness of the God of Israel. She risked her life to hide the spies. Played a part in the victory over Jericho. She was probably an ex-prostitute when she married Salmon, and had a son called Boaz. So Rahab was the great-great grandmother of David. She became part of the genealogy of Jesus. We have to align our thinking to HIS WORD and not the world. I believe God is going to send people into the church who are different from us. Receive them with unconditional love because they are special to Him, because they have been accepted by Him as they come and believe in Him. Rahab – part of the geneology of Jesus. She was faithful and rose above any feelings of unworthiness she had. But she made a difference & she brought forth.
The enemy will lie to you to keep you from your destiny. We have to be faithful, obedient and bring forth what God has purposed for us to bring forth.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Sunday Re Cap (6th May 2007)
Enthroning JESUS
By Ps Samuel Hari
Eph 1:17-23
I. THE MORE WE ENTHRONE HIM, THE MORE WE ARE ON THE THRONE (COME INTO A POSITION OF kingship)
We can say JESUS is on the throne but our lifestyle will show if this is true. Just like there’s a battle for the real throne going on in the heavenlies, there’s a battle going on for the throne in our lives. The more we enthrone HIM, the more we are on the throne ; we accurately receive power and move in authority in every situation and circumstance in our lives. We position ourselves in kingship.
1. The spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, It doesn’t just drop from heaven or simply through the laying on of hands. It requires diligence, passion, and hunger on our part as well as these things. (seeking first matt 6:33; blessed are those who hunger and thirst…they shall be filled).
2.The eyes of your understanding being enlightened. PROVERBS 2:1-6.
a. That you may know (many don’t know, understand, confused, discouraged).
i. What is THE HOPE of His calling (the confident hope he has given to those he called--). Hope does not disappoint. (ROM 5); Abound in hope (ROM 15:13); NLT Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the confidence (the confident expectation) that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.
ii. THE RICHES of the glory of His inheritance in the saints (his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance). Phil 4:19 God is able to supply…according to His riches in glory…) God’s view of riches and man’s view of riches are different. Daniel 3:16-18; man- you bless me I praise you. Godly mindset- I praise you no matter what.
iii. The exceeding greatness of HIS POWER, toward us who believe,
According to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
We need to get the whole picture of what God wants to do. Gather everywhere the word is spoken…CG, Prayer meeting, Sunday service. Get all the missing links. Fit the puzzle together. Eph 2:4-10
II. OUR UNITY ENTHRONES HIM.
Notice He
1. Made us alive TOGETHER.
He makes us alive together. Don’t forsake the gathering of the saints. Walk in the light as He is in the light, fellowship and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin.
2. Raised us up TOGETHER.
We go up together. We progress together. We advance together. No fun advancing alone. Use your talents, gifting to build together.
3. Makes us sit TOGETHER in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
All experience the power of God, the authority of God. All are far above principalities and powers and might and dominion and name in this age and that which is to come!
Its all or nothing for the Christian. For us to be sitting on the throne, we need to get this revelation. We need church, we need UNITY. It’s the place of connectivity. It’s where the throne is; where the church stands united. Endeavoring to keep the unity (Eph 4:1-6).
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Sunday Re-cap ( 29th April )
By Rev. Samuel Hari
Is Jesus really enTHRONEd in our lives? Is His THRONE in us strong?
Why do we need to ENTHRONE HIM?
Heb 12:2; Jesus is on the THRONE
Satan is afraid of the THRONE 1 Sam 5-7 esp chap 7.
Rev 3:21; We will sit down with Him and rule with Him- a place of power and authority.
What happens when we ENTHRONE HIM?
Rev 7:17 Guide us to the waters of life (refresh, renew us) and wipe away every tear from our eyes (remove every burden, sorrow, pain, sickness).
Ez 47:8,9,12
The river of God flows from the THRONE Rev 22:1-;Ps 46:4; Joh 7:37-38 Now on the final and most important day of the Feast, Jesus stood, and He cried in a loud voice, If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink! (38) He who believes in Me [who cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me] as the Scripture has said, From his innermost being shall flow [continuously] springs and rivers of living water.
This speaks of fruitfulness in evangelism. Fruitfulness has one purpose: that is to bring people to Christ.
How can we ENTHRONE HIM?
Rev 4:8-11: When we give Him the HEADSHIP/LORDSHIP/RULERSHIP in our lives.
When we worship Him. His ATTRIBUTES. Ps 22:3; Rev 4:2 in the spirit we see His THRONE; When we worship we are singing His attributes.
When we recognize the strongholds in our lives and in the lives of those around us and at a higher level in the spiritual realms.
Eph 1:20-22 Jesus is on the THRONE; Eph 2:4-6 We have the power and authority to pull it down.
2 Cor 10:3-5
Eph 6: 10-18: When we take up the whole armor of God.
We give no room to the wiles/schemes of the devil v11.
Whose armor is it? God’s! We need not fear.
Do we put it on partially or WHOLE ARMOR?
Truth/The WORD: Daily Devotion, Bible study, cell group equipping. The counterfeit and the real are so close; rolex watches in Bt Frghi. Familiarize, build a strong foundation Matt 7:24-29
Righteousness: A revelation of JESUS in us.
Gospel of peace: Looking out for opportunities to share JESUS.
Shield of FAITH: Walk by faith and not by sight; whatever that is not of faith Is sin; Faith pleases God Heb 11.
Helmet of Salvation: The battle field of the mind. Constantly protect your mind. Renewing your mind. GIGO.
Sword of the Spirit: Application!
Jesus is seen when we ENTHRONE HIM.
(Rev 5:13) And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, "To Him who sits on the THRONE, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever."
Rev 7:9-17