Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt said: “Christ’s future is not one single point in an absolute remoteness for which we are to wait – a mere coming event. This is hardly thinkable, for we would probably all go to sleep over it. Christ’s future is now, or it is not at all. It must become an experience of every individual believer and for every congregation. God’s deed through Jesus Christ must be your experience, today and tomorrow and every day.”
Willingness means to be most willing. Remember, there are no mercenaries in this battle to be willing to serve God. I mean, there are no slaves recruited into the ranks of Jesus’ troops. All armies in Christ’s fighters are entire of volunteers. Indeed, whensoever the Holy Spirit is supreme in a church there will be a free-will offering of young hearts and lives…. There are no squeezed men in our Master’s military – all are volunteers. Offer your will to…
People asked me why forgiveness, why do I need to forgive or to receive forgiveness from God? Such a large number of individuals today even fail to acknowledge why forgive or provide reasons for why to receive forgiveness? Forgiveness is a way to peace with God, and joy for righteous living. Forgiveness is never an excuse or isn’t disregarding lousy behaviour, however defeating the shrewdness or sin inside us and in our reality with love of God. To forgive isn’t…
Johann Christoph Arnold said: “What so many people today fail to realize is that forgiveness is a door to peace and happiness. Forgiving is not ignoring wrongdoing, but overcoming the evil inside us and in our world with love. To forgive is not just a command of Christ but the key to reconciling all that is broken in our lives and relationships. We get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity.”
Yes, have you heard that endurance unleashes character? As God builds in us more prominent courage and ability to manage more hardship, He brings out character. Character is the image of Christ that is available in us, turning out to be increasingly more explicit. Character intends to uncover the nature of what’s being tried. Job 23:10 NLT, I read: “But he knows where I am going. And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.” That’s…
Yes, by endurance, Christians make suffering a holy act. What? Yes, suffering unleashes endurance. Scriptures confirm that endurance means persistent abidance to a course of action despite difficulties and testing. Simply, as you go through trials, you develop greater perseverance to deal with increased challenges, therefore, making suffering a holy act. Remember, James 1:2-5; the complete work of endurance makes a Christian holy. That’s it!!!
Paulinus of Nola said: “I pray that we may be found worthy to be cursed, censured, and ground down, and even put to death in the name of Jesus Christ, so long as Christ himself is not put to death in us. The Christian must not only accept suffering: he must make it holy.”
Every time, some believers take more cognisance of the curses of the enemies. You are receiving far more blessings than the afflictions! The strength of those people praying for you out-weigh what the evils of your enemies could attain! Don’t you acknowledge that for every attack of the enemy, you have earned a thousand benefits? Let them curse, but God will always bless you: David understood that the curses of his enemies could never triumph over the blessings of God…
Yes, believers’ victory comes from God’s Hand of Victory. Meaning, every triumph, every blessing, every success, and much more is a shred of evidence that is the Hand of God upon you. Wicked human people won’t see God’s turn in anything if they can support it. When they see high individuals conveyed into their capacity, they become more affirmed than any other time in recent memory in their agnosticism. All in a great time God will emerge thus resolutely rebuff…
Eberhard Arnold said: “We must guard against the false notion that God is a purely transcendental power, removed from matter and the stuff of this earth. The coming community of life will be a kingdom of work on this earth. Work will be the binding factor in the cells of the human community. The only work people can do with their whole soul, work full of spirit and pulsing life, comes from love. And there is no love that does…