Good day to you in Jesus' blessed Name.🤗💞May our focus be especially on what Jesus did for us in His great love for the whole world. Let us spread the hope to all who do not know Jesus yet. Let this Good News that is like a healing balm spread all over the earth.
Blessed Easter weekend to you and your loved ones.
Jesus came to serve others, to give His life for us. We are to live our lives for Him by serving others, by bearing one another's burdens. That is true love, selfless love. For everything we do for/to others, we are doing for/to Jesus and He will reward us in heaven one day.
God bless you.
Greetings to you in Jesus' blessed Name saints of God.
A while back, in a comment on a local news article, a woman said that we have no hope in our country and that even God has lost all hope in our country South Africa. That is not true. Why would God lose hope when He is the God of hope?!
Jesus is our hope, the foundation of our hope and in believing, He fills us with all joy and peace so that by the power of the Holy Spirit we may abound in hope!
What hope is that? The hope of righteousness by faith (Gal. 5:5) which we heard in the truth of the gospel (Col. 1:5) and our hope of our inheritance of eternal life in heaven with God because the Holy Spirit testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. What great hope we have!
What kind of faith speaks of no hope in God to heal our country? That is unbelief! We have to pray for our country and believe God and trust God to do a work in our country, in the hearts of the people, for His glory alone. He shall do it! God wants our faith. He does not work without faith. It is impossible to please God without faith.
Someone who speaks in such hopelessness and unbelief is not praying for our country in faith.
Is anything impossible for God? No, nothing is impossible for God. So we have hope for this nation of ours and you for yours, whichever country you are in.
God has not forgotten us and He never will. The Lord longs to be gracious to us;
therefore He will rise up to show us compassion.
For the Lord is a God of justice.
Blessed are all who wait for Him!
(Isaiah 30:18) [In faith!:)]
Be blessed in Jesus' Name. Have a happy day.
#KeepPraying #NeverLoseHope #JesusIsLORD
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Beloved of God, I greet you in the Name of our Lord Jesus. (Rom. 9:25)🤗💞
My message is from Haggai. Seeing as we are going through a drought in Cape Town, it is a very apt message. In Haggai the Lord punished >>His people<< with a drought because they were neglecting to rebuild His temple that was in ruins, but they were very busy fixing and beautifying their homes.
In those days God's presence was with them in His temple.
God also accused His people of being defiled.
So I was thinking how can I apply this to today and our drought and it came to me that today the Lord is not concerned about temples built with hands, but with us, His body, the living stones whose bodies are His temple. What are we neglecting?
We are so busy with ourselves and our own lives. Our focus is on uplifting ourselves, making life better for ourselves and in our busyness, we may neglect to do what Jesus commands us to do.
We are to uplift others, the poor, our own families, to lend a helping hand, to encourage, to bear one another's burdens. To use our own resources and money to help others, but sadly many believers in Christ do not, they only focus on self, building our own kingdom, not a care about others and the troubles they are going through.
But there is good news even though the Lord our God punished His people with a drought, He also encourages them. It is written in Haggai that the Lord stirred up His people to start rebuilding His house. The Lord also promised His people to be strong, that He is with them, that His Spirit will remain among them, that they are not to fear. (They were afraid when prophet Haggai told them what the Lord said regarding His temple in ruins and that they are doing nothing to rebuild it.)
So let us as the body of Christ have willing hands to do the work of God for He works through people. God's Spirit is not in a building anymore, but IN US and He will not leave us to our own devices when we cry out to Him to help us, to show us the way, to provide for us so that we can be a blessing to others. His Spirit will stir us up and strengthen us to do what is required, He will bless us with all we need to do His will. He only requires faith, obedience and willing hands. We have a task to make His presence visible in this world that we live in.
God refers to Zerubbabel as His signet ring, for He has chosen Zerubbabel. We are God's chosen and we are His signet ring! So let us as His signet ring make His mark in this world.
May this drought be a wake-up call to the Christians in Cape Town, but also the church all over the world, that we are to be about our Father's business and do what Jesus commands us to do. Clearly, God is not happy with many of the things that we as the church are doing and neglecting to do and it is clear from Revelation in the letters to the 7 churches, the dead church, the lukewarm church, the corrupt church, the compromising church, the loveless church. The persecuted church and the faithful church are the only ones not warned by Lord Jesus to repent.
And through all the letters, apart from warning them to repent or else, the Lord also praise the good things they do and encourages them. So do not fear, but let us repent of any sin in our lives and from neglecting to do what Jesus commands us to do. God bless His church.
Yesterday after rebuking a Nigerian sangoma who was advertising his voodoo services online, telling him about Jesus and the gospel, pleading the blood of Jesus against his demons and God's consuming fire, he comes to my inbox on FB and threatens me and tells me "I don't like this. You serve your God, I will serve mine. Be warned."
Yes, I'm sure the demons oppressing him doesn't like that he heard the word of God.
Well, I fear no man and no demons, only our holy God.
I prayed warfare prayers and I have faith because I know who I am in Christ and no weapon formed against me shall prosper, because greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world! Halleluyah! Glory be to God! Thank you Jesus.
God bless your day and your family and may He protect you from the enemy who prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom to devour. In Jesus' Name. Amen. Seek His face and abide in Him always. The enemy is under Jesus' feet, therefore he is under our feet! Jesus said to His disciples that they will tread on scorpions and serpents! We are His disciples! He gave us that authority over all the power of the enemy. Halleluyah! But we have to be sure not to be in any willful sin or else the enemy will have an open door to attack us. Thanks for reading.
