True Love - May 24, 2014

Scripture: Song of Songs 5-65 

5 Turn your eyes away, for they overpower me.
11 I went down to the grove of walnut trees
and out to the valley to see the new spring growth,
to see whether the grapevines had budded
or the pomegranates were in bloom.
12 Before I realized it,
my strong desires had taken me to the chariot of a noble man.
Why do you stare at this young woman of Shulam,
as she moves so gracefully between two lines of dancers?

- Song of Songs 6

Message: 

Longing after my true love


Observation/Promise:
There is a human love so strong and powerful. The eyes of their beloved overpowers and weakens them. This love can be compared to the love between the husband and his wife. Romantic but mature love that changes a person. This kind of love is also a love between a GOD and His beloved. We are all meant to find this kind of love and thrive on it.

Application/Command:

Find your true love. You will not know what you were created for until you find your true love. True love has birthed the creation of you. You were created because you are loved. Who could love you first except the one who thought to create you? Is it not GOD above? Seek Him, know Him, enjoy and thrive on the reason why you were created.

Seek GOD - May 10, 2014

Scripture: Isaiah 29-33
22 “My people will no longer be ashamed or turn pale with fear.
23 For when they see their many children and all the blessings I have given them,
they will recognize the holiness of the Holy One of Israel.
They will stand in awe of the God of Jacob. 24 Then the wayward will gain understanding, and complainers will accept instruction. - Isaiah 29

15 This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “Only in returning to me and resting in me will you be saved. In quietness and confidence is your strength.
18 So the Lord must wait for you to come to him so he can show you his love and compassion. For the Lord is a faithful God. Blessed are those who wait for his help.

21 Your own ears will hear him. Right behind you a voice will say,“This is the way you should go,” whether to the right or to the left.- Isaiah 30

2 But Lord, be merciful to us, for we have waited for you.

Be our strong arm each day and our salvation in times of trouble. 

14“Who can live with this devouring fire?” they cry. “Who can survive this all-consuming fire?” 15 Those who are honest and fair, who refuse to profit by fraud, who stay far away from bribes, who refuse to listen to those who plot murder, who shut their eyes to all enticement to do wrong—16 these are the ones who will dwell on high.

The rocks of the mountains will be their fortress. Food will be supplied to them,
and they will have water in abundance. - Isaiah 33

Message:

The LORD wants us to depend on Him not on any human or thing else.

Observation/Promise:

When we trust in the LORD He will bless us because we wait and depend on His help and on His power alone. The LORD wants to instruct us, to guide us in everything that we do. 

The LORD wants to provide everything we need, He wants to bless us and shower us with His kindness and love but there is a requirement for those that seek His love and blessing. The LORD will only give His love and blessings to those who are truly seeking Him.

Application/Command:

We have to be dependent on GOD alone. We have to follow the ways of GOD, to be honest and fair in all our dealings, even in the thoughts of our hearts. We have to be righteous not by our own strength but by GOD's grace. We have to seek His will and follow Him diligently. We have to seek justice when there is evil in the land. We need to stand with GOD and His agenda. We cannot seek to live our lives for our own pleasure and benefit but for His pleasure and glory. We have to seek GOD and His righteousness, our lives should cling to Him and not on anything else in this world. 

Rest in GOD - April 26, 2014

Scripture: Job 5-6

9 9 He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles.
10 He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields.
11 He gives prosperity to the poor and protects those who suffer.
12 He frustrates the plans of schemers so the work of their hands will not succeed.
13 He traps the wise in their own cleverness so their cunning schemes are thwarted. 
- Job 5
8 8 “Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant my desire.
9 I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.
10 At least I can take comfort in this: Despite the pain,
I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
11 But I don’t have the strength to endure. I have nothing to live for.
12 Do I have the strength of a stone? Is my body made of bronze?
13 No, I am utterly helpless, without any chance of success. - Job 6

Message:
In troubled times, Rest in the Sovereign GOD whose love and faithfulness never end.

Observation/Promise:
GOD is sovereign, He destroys the plans of the wicked and helps the poor. But sometimes, GOD cannot be comprehendible when He also allows the righteous to have troubles and trials just like Job, and leave the poor to their own ways especially if none of them ever plan to change their ways. GOD is just and sometimes we may not understand His ways because they are mysterious most of the time. But GOD is good always, faithful to the very end and His love never fails and with this we can trust in the character of GOD, we can trust the Love of GOD for us. 

Application/Command:
When in troubled times, we only have to Trust in the goodness of GOD. We have to trust in GOD's love, He has proven this love on the cross. We don't have to ask if He still loves us, the scars on Yeshua's hands and feet prove this. GOD wants the best for us, He has to teach us now so that we can be better in the future. Though we may walk through deep oceans sorrows, GOD will split it this ocean open and carry us through it. Though we may have our own share of troubles, HE will deliver us from all of it. GOD is faithful, even though we are not. When we have no strength to carry on, we can rest in GOD.

Fear GOD - March 24, 2014

Scripture: Deuteronomy 32-34
4 He is the Rock; his deeds are perfect. Everything he does is just and fair.
He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is!4 
21 They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God;
they have provoked my anger with their useless idols.
Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people;
I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles.

Message:
The Lord's Anger burns against the unfaithful, rebellious and disobedient.

Observation/Promise:
God's ways are perfect, there is no wrong in Him. Isn't it wonderful that there is somebody perfect whom we can look to for justice, for perfection, for holiness, for everything we ever need. Looking to His perfection, His glory will make us a little more and more like Him. When GOD calls us to walk with Him, we slowly become like Him, but when He calls us, we have to respond with our hearts and not with our minds, not half heartedly, for a half hearted response is what He despise. He wants to mold us into His perfect will, it is our task to obey.

Command/Application:
We ought to regard the Lord as a High Being worthy of the highest respect and reverent fear. When we understand His Holiness, we will fear Him in a right way and not take His grace and mercy for granted. We will love Him with all our hearts when we know who He truly is. It is important to love GOD but it is equally important to fear Him.

True Love is worth the wait - March 20, 2014

Scripture: Song of Songs 5-6
2 I slept, but my heart was awake, when I heard my lover knocking and calling:
“Open to me, my treasure, my darling, my dove, my perfect one.
My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
13 His eyes sparkle like doves beside springs of water;
they are set like jewels washed in milk.
16 His mouth is sweetness itself; he is desirable in every way.
Such, O women of Jerusalem, is my lover, my friend. - Song of Shlomo 5

1 Where has your lover gone, O woman of rare beauty?
Which way did he turn so we can help you find him?
2 My lover has gone down to his garden, to his spice beds,
to browse in the gardens and gather the lilies.
3 I am my lover’s, and my lover is mine. He browses among the lilies.

12 12 Before I realized it, my strong desires had taken me to the chariot of a noble man. '
- Song of Shlomo 6


Message:
What Love truly is, is worth the wait

Observation/Promise:

Everyone needs true love. We seek it from family and friends, from a partner or soul mate. But among all these, true romantic love is hardest to find. When love is young it is sweet and wild, fresh and promising, because it has no responsibilities just the pleasure of having love. But Love is tested when it has to take on responsibilities and it becomes mature through the test of time. There is a time to wait for love until it becomes full growth. Waiting is hard but it will keep you from getting burned from rushing into love. 

Command/Application:
Know what True love is. You can find true love first in GOD. Desire true love and wait for it. Love between a man and a woman can be deceiving by its newness. Do not rush love but test it through time. Allow love to grow through time. When love lives through time, love is proving to be true. When love sticks together even after bad times, love is maturing. Seek True Love. True romantic love should that be like of GOD's. True love sacrifices for the other to the point of even giving up one's life for the sake of the other. If love comes to this point, then you know that you are ready for the commitment of loving forever.

Our Greatest Need - March 13, 2014

Scripture: Song of Songs 3-4
1 One night as I lay in bed, I yearned for my lover. I yearned for him, but he did not come.
2 So I said to myself, “I will get up and roam the city, searching in all its streets and squares. I will search for the one I love.” So I searched everywhere but did not find him.
3 The watchmen stopped me as they made their rounds,
and I asked, “Have you seen the one I love?”
4 Then scarcely had I left them when I found my love!
I caught and held him tightly, then I brought him to my mother’s house,
into my mother’s bed, where I had been conceived.
11 Come out to see King Solomon, young women of Jerusalem.
He wears the crown his mother gave him on his wedding day, his most joyous day.
Message:

His Love - Our greatest need.

Observation/Promise:

GOD's love is so deep. Like the love between a husband and wife, deeper is the love of GOD. Our need for His love is the first and greatest human need. We will at one point in our lives, be aware of a yearning and longing for such a love that is true and perfect, a love that only comes from a perfect being, when we realize all things fail, our hearts will search for perfect love, a love that will never fail. There's only one love that never fails and One Divine Being who can give it because He is perfect. Yeshua, Hamashiach, He has proven GOD's love, He already died for love to show us that this is how deep and truly serious GOD's love is. Are you searching for that one perfect love? Find it in GOD.

Command/Application:
Seek and you will Find, Search and find true love waiting for you every time you wake up. GOD is an invisible being, but His power is the greatest and His love is the strongest love you will be ever satisfied with. It is impossible to love others, when we don't love Him first. That's how important and essential His love is for us. We need Him, He doesn't need us but His love makes Him weak for us, weak enough to die a death that He doesn't even deserve. If you feel in your heart that something is missing, seek and search and you will find that day after day, we need God's love to fill us everyday, to love us every moment in our best and mostly in our worst. Seek because HE wants to sought, He wants to be found that He has been waiting for us all this time. Respond to His love

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. 

Made for love - March 6, 2014

Scripture: Song of Songs 1-2Your anointing oils have a wonderful fragrance;
your name is like anointing oil poured out.
We will be glad and rejoice for you.
We will praise your love more than wine.
How right it is for them to love you!
I am dark tan but beautiful, 
My mother’s sons were angry with me
and made me look after the vineyards.
But I haven’t cared for my own vineyard. - Song 1
Like an apple tree among the other trees in the forest 
is my darling among the other men.
I love to sit in his shadow;
his fruit is sweet to my taste.
4 He brings me to the banquet hall;
his banner over me is love.
5 Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples,
for I am sick with love.
6 [I wish] his left arm [were] under my head,
and his right arm around me.
My darling is mine, and I am his,
as he pastures his flock among the lilies.
17 Before the daytime breeze rises
and the shadows flee,
return, my love, like a stag or gazelle
on the hills of Beter. - Song 2


Message: 
Every man or woman was made for love because every creature was made by Love.

Observation/Promise:
Love is the reason why GOD has created human beings, Love is the reason why He created the entire universe. We were born to need love and to love, to have love and give love. But if we have to channel our need for love and our love to the right and important person. The very first person we ought to love and receive love is GOD because He is the perfect Being. If we love people before GOD, we will be disappointed, frustrated and heart broken. But when we love GOD first and receive His perfect love, we can love others without having to expect them to love us the same. We can give love freely without doubt because we are satisfied and secure in the love of GOD. 

Command/Application:
Love GOD first. Love GOD passionately, like a man and woman in love, GOD's love is even greater. HE is passionate about you. Be passionate about loving GOD but do not be in religion because GOD is not a religion, He is a person of Divine Being, He is 3 persons in One Being. When you need love, come to the LORD because His love is ever abundant like the waters of the sea, like the air that we breathe. His love is constantly waiting for us and it is deeper than the oceans, that we will plunge in and enjoy swimming in His great love. Sweeter than wine as Shlomo describes, His love will never run out. Enjoy His love, He is waiting for you to come to Him. Love Him first, His love never fails. 

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. 

Love Unfailing

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did as the Lord commanded them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer. 10 When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before! 11 Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials the Lord had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money[a] and a gold ring. 12 So the Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning.
- Job 42


Many people have different thoughts and opinions to many things. People are all different in many ways because we come from different background and experiences. So our way of thinking differs from one another. In Job's life, Job had friends who came from a culture or background that may have thought that when you go through terrible things, it can only mean that you are a terrible person for GOD to allow you to go through such horrible events. In other words, these friends of Job were Judgmental and probably simple and closed minded. But GOD wanted to correct this kind of thinking in man. Through Jobs life, GOD proved to Job's friends that HE is not "that" kind of GOD whom they think that HE is, the Sovereign GOD is more!


You may be going through a tough time right now, and some of your friends have left you, judged you and condemned you for what has happened in your life, where they should be encouraging you and praying for you. You may even feel that you may have done something wrong and that you don't deserve anything from GOD. But hope again my friend, in the GOD whose love is unfailing and whose faithfulness are more sure than the sun rising each morning. When you go through difficulties, consider it a way to receive greater blessings in the future. Do not give up believing in the goodness of GOD, because no matter what you go through HE will never cease to be good because that is just who HE is. Hold on to the unfailing love of GOD. If you can't understand what HE is allowing you to go through, if you can't understand what HE is thinking, trust HIS heart, because His love is unfailing. 

Attain Love

8 We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they slander us or praise us. We are honest, but they call us impostors. 9 We are ignored, even though we are well known. We live close to death, but we are still alive. We have been beaten, but we have not been killed.10 Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything.
14 Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? 15 What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil[d]? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever?

- 2 Corinthians 6

Our service to GOD should not depend on the approval of others. For what is the motivation of our hearts when we serve GOD is it to please others? Is it to receive praise and honor from man? We ought to check our hearts every time we decide to do something for GOD and even with everything that we do, is weighted by our hearts. In the end when GOD judges our works, he doesn't judge the results of how we achieved such things but HE judges by the motivations of our hearts. So that when we are tested through the fire and go through difficult times and hardships, we do not give up doing what GOD has called us to do because our reason is to please GOD and bring glory to HIM alone.

We will be tested by our works and the testings will go through shakings and fire. Some of us will have to undergo such trials that will risk our lives and will even cost us of it. We will have to give up the love for money and security of wealth. Following Yeshua and obeying Him will sometimes have to require us to own nothing because HE is our everything. We don't connect with people just because we feel like it, GOD will direct the specific steps of our life and the relationships we ought to keep will be initiated and chosen by GOD. Are you willing to give up such free will? Only if you have attained the kind of love that GOD has for you will you be able to serve HIM with all your life and to attain that love is to receive that deep love from HIM.

A Chance

11 “If they listen and obey God,
they will be blessed with prosperity throughout their lives.
All their years will be pleasant.
12 But if they refuse to listen to him,
they will be killed by the sword
and die from lack of understanding.
13 For the godless are full of resentment.
Even when he punishes them,
they refuse to cry out to him for help.
14 They die when they are young,
after wasting their lives in immoral living.
15 But by means of their suffering, he rescues those who suffer.
For he gets their attention through adversity.
- Job 36 

Listening to GOD and obeying His commands brings us many blessings with prosperity all throughout our lives. Is this our primary motivation for being close to GOD? Being religious following all His commands? But loving GOD is the most satisfying and fulfilling anyone could ever experience in their lives. It is not enough for GOD that you follow and obey Him out of obligation or fear. If that was so, He would not have to send His only Son Yeshua to die for our sakes. For it is not enough for GOD to have our obedience because we are after His blessings. He is such a wonderful being because He is after our love.

But even after what GOD has done and people still refuse to listen to Him, they will be judged by the sword of His word and die because of ignorance, lack of knowledge of the truth, no sense of wisdom and understanding. There's only two kinds of people in this world,  the godless, those that reject GOD and the faithful, those that belong to GOD because they chose to follow and obey Him with their whole hearts. There are also people who are religious but they do not belong to GOD because they say they fear GOD but in their hearts are resentment, rebellion and pride. But GOD's mercy is so great, He will try His hardest to get the godless out of their rebellion by punishing them with suffering so that when He gets their attention through hardship, they can have chance to change their evil ways and live their lives for GOD. This is how faithful and just GOD is to every one, HE always gives a chance.

His Essence

13 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so they can worship me.14 If you don’t, I will send more plagues on you and your officials and your people. Then you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth. 15 By now I could have lifted my hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the face of the earth. 16 But I have spared you for a purpose—to show you my power and to spread my fame throughout the earth. 17 But you still lord it over my people and refuse to let them go. 18 So tomorrow at this time I will send a hailstorm more devastating than any in all the history of Egypt.

- Exodus 9

How is it that the GOD of the Universe wanted His people so much to worship Him? He would fight against the Pharaoh of Egypt just so His people would worship Him. Is this how GOD is fighting for us? Is our time and worship to GOD important to Him as the children of Israel were? Yes, for all who chose the LORD GOD to be their GOD belongs to Him and they are called His people. Just how much does GOD want our time? Our worship? So very much, you can read the passages in Exodus and how GOD relentlessly warned Pharaoh to let His people go. 

Why would GOD want our worship? Is it because He loves us? Would you want your loved one to adore you the way you adore your loved one? Could this be how GOD feels for us? No one else in this world could ever love us so deeply and truly more than the GOD who created us. In fact, this is the very reason why He created humans. He wanted to have an intimate relationship with humans. He loved His created ones and wanted them to love Him back. GOD is not some strict, emotionless being that stands there waiting to punish us when we do wrong. Yet it takes faith to know the true heart and deity of GOD. His very essence is love, would you like to know how deep and wide GOD's love is? 

True Love

4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
- 1 Corinthians 13

The real meaning of love can be found in the verse of 1 Corinthians 13. Real love is described as patient. Why? Because natural human beings do not like to wait. It takes real love to be able to wait for something because it is indeed very hard to wait for anything especially in a world where everything comes fast because time is costly. Love is kind, because it's so much easier to be rude when you lose your tempter. These are just natural human ways that needs to be trained by love. Love is not jealous, no matter what success your friends achieve, it will not make you feel insecure or diminish you because you have love, and that love always seeks out the best interest in others.

If love is not proud, then what should it be? It is humble. When we have love, GOD's love, we understand that we are nothing on our own and all things have come from GOD to us. When there is love in our hearts, we will never demand what we want or demand our rights whatever it is. We give in to others, we let others go first. Love will not be easily angered, and it ceases to remember whatever wrong others have done to us when we truly have love. Love always seeks out for what is right, because love is who GOD is, the very being of GOD is love itself. Most of all, Love always perseveres, it will not stop loving, not stop believing for anything good for anyone, love will always hope and always have faith. 

For GOD and for Others

22 When I am with those who are weak, I share their weakness, for I want to bring the weak to Christ. Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some. 23 I do everything to spread the Good News and share in its blessings.
24 Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! 25 All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. 26 So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. 27 I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. 

- 1 Corinthians 9

We all have weaknesses, but some are different from others, and not of all us share the same weakness. But to acknowledge our weaknesses is a way of being humble. Humility ushers others to Christ. If we present to the world that we are strong enough and that is why we declare GOD in our lives, how can the weak relate to us? How will they even share their burdens if they will feel condemned that they are not strong enough like us who follow the Lord. Everyone of us are weak and so to bring others to Yeshua, we need to find common ground with the people we are praying for and telling about GOD.

Having faith is like running in a race. Although we are not competing against others, it is a race where when we help others to win, we win the race even more. Everything we do should be connected to GOD and related to GOD. Are we doing things intentionally for the glory of GOD or just for the sake of doing? There are greater harvest when we sow intentionally in GOD's Kingdom for those who do everything purposefully. Why are we doing what we are doing? Is it for the purpose of bringing souls to salvation in Christ or just for the sake of complying with what should be done. We win the race when we don't do things just for ourselves but for the love of GOD and the love of others. 

Blazing Fire Passionate Love of GOD

20 “Long ago I broke the yoke that oppressed you
and tore away the chains of your slavery,
but still you said, 'I will not serve you.’
On every hill and under every green tree,
you have prostituted yourselves by bowing down to idols.
- Jeremiah 2

“If a man divorces a woman
and she goes and marries someone else,
he will not take her back again,
for that would surely corrupt the land.
But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers,
so why are you trying to come back to me?” says the Lord.

- Jeremiah 3

How easy it is for anyone to forget what GOD has done for them. Israel is one that has demonstrated that it is usual for anyone to forget where they have come from especially when they are enjoying the riches of life and fill of the land. When GOD decides to bless, it is of utter importance to always remember that without GOD we can't ever enjoy great blessings. But People become proud thinking they are invincible when they are in a high place. They think that whatever they do is acceptable. But when punishment from Heaven strikes us because of wrong doing, then it comes to remembrance that life is not all about our pleasure but life is to please GOD first of all.

GOD's love is like a ranging fire. His love is as passionate as a husband towards his newly wedded bride. He is jealous for our love, jealous for our worship. Man is created to worship, and if it is not GOD we are worshipping then it must be something else, it could be ourselves or someone else. Let us always remember where we were before, where our ancestors where before we are here enjoying freely the presence and favor of Almighty GOD. Take time to repent of any sin each day, it is better to be safe than to experience the blazing anger fire of GOD, let us seek to offer a sacrifice of worship and satisfy the passionate love of GOD. How wonderful it is to know that there is such love that exists, the blazing fire passionate love of GOD towards His created beings. 

Every Bit of Me

1 “God is powerful and dreadful.
He enforces peace in the heavens.
3 Who is able to count his heavenly army?
Doesn’t his light shine on all the earth?
4 How can a mortal be innocent before God?
Can anyone born of a woman be pure?
5 God is more glorious than the moon;
he shines brighter than the stars.
Job 25

Although GOD is powerful, He is only dreadful to those that are in rebellion to Him, to those who do not know Him, to those that do not belong to Him. But HE is lovely and wonderful to all those whose hearts are seeking for Him, who wait for Him and take time to be with Him.
GOD is the firm foundation over all the earth, the Universe and every created being came from Him. He is glorious and majestic in every way, yet His heart is towards those whom He has created. His heart longs for us, mortal impure beings, because He wants to clothe us and make us pure before Him and only He has the power to cleanse us from every filth.

The LORD loves all His creations, and He delights to spend time with each and everything that He has made. Can we picture a GOD who awaits every flower to bud, the sun to rise and give Him glory and every child to look into His face and cherish Him, every man or woman to wake up from the night's sleep. He is waiting for every one of us to be aware of His Presence and acknowledge the invisible Being. We were created to be loved by GOD and to love Him. He is waiting for our faith to move because this causes Him to move in our behalf. When we believe that He is our Savior, our hearts can rest in peace, because the Savior has died for love and lived for love. He is real and He loves every bit of me.

Satisfy Your Soul

21 “Submit to God, and you will have peace;
then things will go well for you.
22 Listen to his instructions,
and store them in your heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored—
so clean up your life.
24 If you give up your lust for money
and throw your precious gold into the river,
25 the Almighty himself will be your treasure.
He will be your precious silver!

- Job 22

GOD Almighty is Sovereign over all things. He is not sovereign over one thing and that is the human heart and will. He doesn't force you to believe or love Him but He is inviting you to believe in who He is and love Him. When we believe in GOD we know He exists and His powers are real. But submitting to GOD will require more than just belief. Submission comes out of love. We couldn't submit to someone we don't love or trust. We usually submit to our higher authorities but submitting to someone unseen can be a challenge. Submitting to GOD we have to know His word and put them in our hearts each day. We have to spend time being with Him because it requires quietness to reach Him.

GOD is everywhere, anytime we want to call to Him, He is right there with us. But it requires faith to believe that He is there when we call to Him. Sometimes it is easy to take for granted someone who can be easily sought after. But to find GOD will require a heart that's truly needing and wanting Him for Himself and not only for the blessing that He gives. GOD knows the intentions and motives of our hearts. When we truly seek GOD and put Him first instead of the material things that the world offers as security, HE will be a precious treasure, no jewelry or precious stone could ever compare. You will have joy and everlasting peace, none that money or riches could ever give to satisfy your soul.

Our Love

10 “Stay here with me,” Micah said, “and you can be a father and priest to me. I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, plus a change of clothes and your food.” 11 The Levite agreed to this, and the young man became like one of Micah’s sons.
12 So Micah installed the Levite as his personal priest, and he lived in Micah’s house. 13 “I know the Lord will bless me now,” Micah said, “because I have a Levite serving as my priest.”
- Judges 17

People want to be blessed, they want to be rich and wealthy and have all the happiness they can in life. And so we find ways to get what we want. Some try to please GOD, be religious, give to the church and do good things. Somehow people are like Micah, they try to please GOD in their own way, but they are not necessarily right in trying to do so. Even though our actions seems right, GOD eventually looks at the reason for doing so. The motives of our hearts are the things that GOD weighs. Why do we try to please HIM?

According to this verse Micah tries to please GOD so that he will be blessed. By doing so, is he really pleasing GOD when he tries to set up his own "church" and install a priest he offers life support? Sometimes we try to please GOD but it's just the wrong way, and in this wrong way they are not really pleasing GOD but in themselves. One can't pay for righteousness to please GOD, none can pay someone or give enough money to win GOD's favor. So how do we please GOD? What does GOD really want from us? The answer lies in our hearts, it is every child's need towards their parents, every desire of a soul searching for a partner. Love, GOD wants our love.

The Power of Love

8 Owe nothing to anyone—except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law. 9 For the commandments say, “You must not commit adultery. You must not murder. You must not steal. You must not covet.” These—and other such commandments—are summed up in this one commandment: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God’s law.
- Romans 13:8-10

It's hard not to owe something to someone. We sometimes owe money, sometimes we owe help, favor and such. But the Bible says to make it a point, if it's possible not to owe to anyone anything, then that is the best place to be, debtless. But the one thing we do owe to everyone around is love. We owe them our love because this is GOD's great command to us. Love should be our greatest goal and when we have love and love our fellowmen, we obey whatever GOD has commanded in HIS word. True love is hard to do, especially when it is towards the unlovable. But to love the unlovable and loving our enemy is something only GOD's love in us could enable us to do. 

Love is beautiful to those who love us back, but it could be painful to those that do not care or love or even hate us. But no matter how hard, this is GOD's command that everyone of us should follow. How do we love someone when we need love the most? We come to GOD, HE has all the love in the Universe for us. In fact, it is because of His great love that He created humanity, He wanted to love His created beings. We fill ourselves with GOD's love when we spend time with GOD through reading His word, worship, and being in His presence. We can always take GOD with us whenever we go, because He is everywhere anyway. GOD has also proven His deep love for us through His son Yeshua who died for us. When we have His love, we cannot hate others, we can not do wrong to others. When we are in GOD's love, there is nothing too hard that we can't ever do - this is the Power of Love - GOD's love.