The Blessing from GOD - April 16, 2014

Scripture: Genesis 8-11Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth. 2 All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, all the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the fish in the sea will look on you with fear and terror. I have placed them in your power.3 I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables. 4 But you must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it.

8 Then God told Noah and his sons, 9 “I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants, 10 and with all the animals that were on the boat with you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals—every living creature on earth. 11 Yes, I am confirming my covenant with you. Never again will floodwaters kill all living creatures; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”

Message:

Be Fruitful and Multiply. 

Observation/Promise:

GOD has put power within us humans so that the animals of this world may fear us. HE has given different kinds of animals for food and the plants, grain and vegetables. He wants us to live by providing us the things that enable us to live. More than that, GOD has blessed us with a blessing to multiply and fill the earth to be fruitful with everything we do. We cannot be stagnant being idle, we need to do something which GOD has called us to do. GOD has confirmed His covenant with us to bless us and not to harm us with HIs raging flood of anger and judgement. How wonderful it is to hear and receive the blessing of GOD for humanity in the morning when you just woke up.
Application/Command:

Be Fruitful spiritually and physically, multiply your good works. 

Do not eat animals that still has blood on it. 

Eat your fill in the land which the Lord our GOD has given us.

Fullness of GOD's love - March 2, 2014

Scripture: 1 John 4-5

4 But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.

7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 17 And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. 

18 Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. 19 We love each other[b] because he loved us first.

20 If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 21 And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters. - 1 John 4

13 I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life. 14 And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him.15 And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for. - 1 John 5

Message:
The fullness of GOD's love is the power that enables us to love others.

Observation/Promise:
We cannot love others if we don't have the love of GOD. And this is the way that the world knows that we belong to GOD is through our love for each other. We have to live in GOD day by day, so that our love grows deeper and becomes more perfect. This perfect love is not afraid of anything, for fear is not of GOD but is of the devil. Perfect love expels fear. There is also no such thing as loving GOD and hating other believers. It is difficult to love others especially believers when they have hurt us. But when we soak ourselves in the love of GOD and fill ourselves with His love everyday, His love will heal all our brokenness and give us the power to love the unlovable, to love our enemies. Whatever seems difficult, ask this of GOD, especially in loving others and GOD will answer the requests of your heart for you know that when you ask something that pleases GOD, HE will certainly answer you prayers.

Command/Application:
Soak in the love of GOD, be filled with the love of GOD. For GOD's love is always available for us, always waiting for us to partake of it like the air we breathe. GOD's love is freely given to us and is shown by the life and death of His Son Yeshua. GOD's love is waiting for you and me each day. GOD's love longs to heal, to restore our broken lives, our wounded hearts. There's no other power that can enable us to love others, and enable us to win our daily battles but the love of GOD and the Spirit of GOD in us. Believe in His Son Yeshua, and partake of His love so that you can be confident that whatever you ask for you in prayer pleases Him. For when we are one with GOD, He makes our desires conform to His will and when we ask in accordance to His will, we are sure to  receive whatever we ask for in prayer. 

Doing Comes From Thinking

22 “You must keep all my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you as your new home will vomit you out. 23 Do not live according to the customs of the people I am driving out before you. It is because they do these shameful things that I detest them. 24 But I have promised you, ‘You will possess their land because I will give it to you as your possession—a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from all other people. 
- Leviticus 20

The LORD has many commands and decrees, it is all written in His word for us to know and keep them but it's not enough to read them, we have to take them in our hearts and into our thoughts so that we understand and remember them. How do we take them in us? We meditate on GOD's ways, and put them into practice. It's not hard to understand the laws of GOD such as Leviticus 20:10 “If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the man and the woman who have committed adultery must be put to death. But it is a hard thing to NOT do when a man whose thoughts have already been consumed about committing such adultery with another woman, and she doesn't even have to be another man's wife. 

Sin does not bear fruit without being planted a seed first in the thought life of a person. So we have to be careful with whatever we sow in our hearts, because everything starts with our thoughts before it can become an action.So if all things starts with our thoughts, then it is important to guard our thought life and fill it with the laws and commands of GOD. Filling it with His word is an offensive of being strong in the Spirit realm. We cannot allow ourselves to be empty minded because the enemy can fill such thoughts and it is our responsibility to feed ourselves by filling our minds with the words and ways of GOD. So make a decision to fill your mind with GOD. If you do not chose, the enemy will fill them. Do not let your thoughts be taken captive to someone or something else but JESUS. All "Doing" always comes from "Thinking".