Close to GOD - May 9, 2014

Scripture: Psalm 15-172 

1 Adonai, who can rest in your tent? Who can live on your holy mountain?
2 Those who live a blameless life, who behave uprightly,
who speak truth from their hearts
3 and keep their tongues from slander; who never do harm to others

or seek to discredit neighbors;
4 who look with scorn on the vile, but honor those who fear Adonai;
who hold to an oath, no matter the cost;
5 who refuse usury when they lend money and refuse a bribe to damage the innocent.
Those who do these things never will be moved.

Message:

The Secret to being close to GOD.

Observation/Promise:
Humans are not perfect. In fact we fail more than we succeed, we are evil more than we are good. But who can rest in the mountain of GOD or who can enter His most Holy presence? Who is worthy? Is anyone ever worthy? There is no one, no one is worthy but those who trust in His Son Yeshua who is worthy can enter the rest of GOD. For when we trust in His Son Yeshua, we begin to be transformed by His grace. We do not act as we used to, His grace and amazing power changes us into the likeness of Him.

Command/Application:

We are not perfect, but with everyday we live, we have to strive to be holy not by being perfect because we can never achieve holiness or perfection on our own. But by being dependent on GOD's grace and humble to accept and receive His mercy and forgiveness when we diligently ask for it each day. For every breath we breathe and the thoughts that my come in and out of our minds may not be pleasing to the LORD. How easy is it for us to judge others when the weakness that they have is our strength but when we remember to be merciful to others because GOD has shown us the same mercy, we ask forgiveness because we understand just how frail and sinful we are. It is not by being righteous that brings us close to GOD, it is by humility and trust in His Son Yeshua. The One who saves.

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

Yeshua - the Only One

17 But suppose we seek to be made right with God through faith in Christ and then we are found guilty because we have abandoned the law. Would that mean Christ has led us into sin? Absolutely not! 18 Rather, I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down. 19 For when I tried to keep the law, it condemned me. So I died to the law—I stopped trying to meet all its requirements—so that I might live for God. 20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.

- Galatians 2:17-21

The Laws of GOD are meant to be obeyed, and obeying GOD's laws is the only way for us to be made right with GOD or to be at peace with GOD. How can any human being completely follow GOD's laws? Are we truly capable and able to do what GOD has instructed us to do and not do what HE told us to not do? How many of us has never coveted in their entire life? To Covet is to want something that is not meant to be ours. Covet can mean to be jealous about your friends about something for which they have that you don't have. Even if we have not sinned against GOD in which we never killed anyone because GOD said "Thou shall not murder", when we have coveted, it means we have sinned against GOD in all of His laws, thus we are guilty even in the sin of murder. Have you never been angry with someone in all your life? If you have, then you are already guilty of murder for Jesus has said this is where murder begins, it begins with your thoughts.

But Yeshua, Christ the Messiah is the only perfect being that became GOD and has never sinned against GOD. Yeshua, Jesus is above the law and so when we have faith in Yeshua, who has died for our sins and never sinned against GOD, we receive salvation from every sin and we gain perfection through the righteousness of Yeshua. When we believe in Yeshua, we are pardoned from every other sin we may have committed, because Yeshua is above the law and the very word of GOD. Trying to keep the laws of GOD out of our own efforts is useless because when we break one commandment, it is equal to breaking all commandments. That is the very reason why GOD our faithful Father sent His son, so that through faith in His Son, we have died to sin and raised again to life in Yeshua. Through His Spirit, we are able to live not breaking any law because we could never attain Heaven on our own will and strength. For if we were able to keep GOD's laws on our own, then there won't be any need for a Savior. Therefore, it is impossible to please GOD without faith in Christ -for Yeshua is the only One that pleased GOD.

Never Missing Anything

16 Consult the book of Adonai and read it:
not one of these will be missing,
none will be lacking a mate.
For by his own mouth he gave the order,
and by his Spirit he brought them together.
17 It is he who cast the lot for them,
his hand measured out their shares.
They will possess it forever,
and live there through all generations.
- Isaiah 34: 16-17


The LORD GOD Almighty is the Creator of everything, the Holy Being, never committing any mistake, perfect in all His ways. We can be assured that GOD will not be mistaken with whatever HE does with our lives. When we belong to the LORD, we can trust that HIS ways are perfect and if we have surrendered our lives to HIM, we can be assured that GOD's ways are complete and we won't miss any good thing that was meant for us. His word - the Bible tells of all HIS great works. Whatever HE has spoken, HE always fulfilled them, every promise coming to pass in it's perfect time and place.

It is by His Spirit that things happen, according to HIS plan and purpose. It is not by human effort or the result of manmade plans, it is by HIS Spirit that things happen and came to be. He has already allocated to each of us according to which HE sees fit and right. When GOD gives us a promise, when HE has set allocated for us a certain lot, we can be assured that we can possess it, not only do we enjoy HIS promise only in our lifetime but through generations to our children after us as we teach them to follow the same covenant of faith we have with GOD Almighty. We who belong to the LORD, can be assured that whatever happens in our lives, we are complete, never missing anything, it is perfect according to the LORD JESUS whom we put our whole faith in and trust our lives with.