The struggle - April 27, 2014

Scripture: Job 7-8

1 “Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that of a hired hand,
2 like a worker who longs for the shade, like a servant waiting to be paid.
17 “What are people, that you should make so much of us,

that you should think of us so often?
18 For you examine us every morning and test us every moment.
19 Why won’t you leave me alone, at least long enough for me to swallow!
21 Why not just forgive my sin and take away my guilt?
For soon I will lie down in the dust and die. When you look for me, I will be gone.”
Message:
The test and punishments of GOD are the struggle of Humanity.

Observation/Promise:
We are being tested from time to time. GOD wants to form our character and make our faith into gold. Job had the hardest test, GOD was confident in Him, He was going to pass the test. If GOD is confident in you, then He will allow you to go through tough times, because HE knows that you will emerge from the storms of life, stronger, wiser, discerning, and glorifying GOD. GOD is never out of control. Everything that happens in our lives is under the permission of our great and loving GOD.

Application/Command:

We can complain but let us remain faithful to GOD. No matter what happens in life, may the LORD grant us a spirit of perseverance and faith. May our trust for the Lord Almighty deepen as we hold on to His mercies and cling to His love. Let us be humble, may we never think we deserve better than what we have now. Let us learn how to ask GOD to deliver us from every trial winning every battle always in the end.

Faithful GOD - April 3, 2014

Scripture: Job 1-2
6 Adonai said to the Adversary, “Here! He is in your hands, except that you are to spare his life.”
7 Then the Adversary went out from the presence of Adonai and struck Iyov down with horrible infected sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8 He took a piece of a broken pot to scratch himself and sat down in the pile of ashes. 9 His wife asked him, “Why do you still hold on to your integrity? Curse God, and die!” 10 But he answered her, “You’re talking like a low-class woman! Are we to receive the good at God’s hands but reject the bad?” In all this Iyov did not say one sinful word.
13 Then they sat down with him on the ground. For seven days and seven nights, no one spoke a word to him; because they saw how much he was suffering.
Message:
HE is GOD and He is a faithful GOD through the good and the bad times.

Obeservation/Promise:
All of GOD's children are in GOD's hands, He protects us from harm and everything that is not good for us. The only time GOD gives us up from His hands is when He is going to test us and so we go through trials, and great sufferings, but this is all with GOD's consent. But the great about Iyov or Job was that he knew GOD and was faithful to him in both the good times and the bad times. The devil thought that he was just like any other man on earth, that will curse GOD when horrible things happen to him, but he was none like the others and GOD was proud of him the Lord even boasted about his servant to the devil and He was right about Job.

Application/Command:
Be faithful to GOD in the good times where we are not troubled by trials and everything to GOD but most especially in the bad times when we are suffering and going through such misery. GOD is always in Control, even when we see that everything is out of control. GOD has a purpose and plan for everything, therefore trust HIM and stay faithful to Him. No matter how hard difficult life is, all the more cling and hold on to GOD. In the end, GOD will prove Himself faithful and true to us and we His servants will end in praise and rejoicing because He is good!!! 

Love is Living by His Word - March 9, 2014

Scripture: 2 John


6 Moreover, love is this: that we should live according to his commands. This is the command, as you people have heard from the beginning; live by it!
7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not acknowledge Yeshua the Messiah’s coming as a human being. Such a person is a deceiver and an anti-Messiah. 8 Watch yourselves, so that you won’t lose what you have worked for, but will receive your full reward.9 Everyone who goes ahead and does not remain true to what the Messiah has taught does not have God. Those who remain true to his teaching have both the Father and the Son. 10 If someone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, don’t welcome him into your home. Don’t even say, “Shalom!” to him; 11 for the person who says, “Shalom!” to him shares in his evil deeds.

Message:

Love is living by His commands. For GOD is love and if we love GOD we should obey Him and everything He says should be our most prioritized goal.

Observation/Promise:

We have to work hard for our faith. We cannot be relaxed about it because the devil is always prowling waiting for us to be weak and to find open doors in our lives that he may gain a foothold and try to defeat us. As long as we are on earth, we are called to be faithful , we are in battle, we need to focus and be vigilant with our prayers and our faith in GOD. Let there be nothing in this world that competes with your heart except GOD. Because everything starts from the heart. Let GOD be your heart.

Command/Application:
Love by living by His commands.
Stand strong in the truth, do not let deceivers mislead you from the truth.
Watch yourselves, hold on to the truth. Be on guard. Be faithful.
Keep on working hard for the faith until you receive the full reward which awaits you in Heaven.
Do not go ahead of GOD, wait for His command, His instructions in your life.
Do not even say shalom to those who have rejected Yeshua for friendship with such people will bring you down in your faith. 

In the Truth

24 “But I also have a message for the rest of you in Thyatira who have not followed this false teaching (‘deeper truths,’ as they call them—depths of Satan, actually). I will ask nothing more of you 25 except that you hold tightly to what you have until I come. 26 To all who are victorious, who obey me to the very end,
To them I will give authority over all the nations.
27 They will rule the nations with an iron rod
and smash them like clay pots.
- Revelations 2:24-27

What is truth? Truth is the foundation of our character and where we base our values. There are many truths out there, theologies of religion and teachings of many groups or new movements. Information has evolved from generation to generation and will not stop evolving as long as the world exists. But there's only one truth that we should stand by and we should chose that truth for ourselves. We cannot merely be passive on chosing which truth to live by because it is based how we will live our lives, not chosing a truth to live by only means chosing the truth that is easy and convenient even though it may not necessarily be right. But there is a man who declared He is the truth, who walked on earth just to prove that He is who He said that He is. This man has also declared He is not just a man but the Son of GOD. His name Is Yeshua, Jesus. 

If you believe in Him as the truth, you will chose to follow Him and His ways. You will seek Him each day because you have embraced Him as Your Lord. There are many who proclaim to be "christians" but are not really following the LORD. When we follow the LORD it doesn't mean the way will be easy and we may not always like where He is taking us but, this is the only way to live a full life. If you feel empty and that something is missing, then seek JESUS because HE alone knows where you should go. If you are a follower be careful to guard that relationship you have with the LORD because the enemy will do his best to snatch your truth away from you, many will be deceived of the false truths that will be presented to them. If you claim JESUS as your LORD, take heed to what HE is saying in the book of Revelations: Hold tightly to what you have until He comes. Do not let this world decieve you of the truths that are being lured by the enemy for you to be led astray. You will know you are in the right path following your LORD because the peace HE has promised that surpasses human understanding will be with you even if it seems chaotic around you. You will not be anxious or troubled, you will be at rest, you will be unaffected by any calamity, you will be unshaken. GOD promises to give us even more than vicotry when we have been faithful obeying HIM to the very end, HE has promised things unimaginable, things to great to even think about or explain.