************P.S: Sorry, for the delay. Got my off on a Saturday this month-in preparation for Christmas. See you then. God's Peace!************
My People,
My People,
Good
Morning! It’s a wonderful life and we need to praise God for every second we
live on this earth. So I thank God for the morning, I thank God for my family,
I thank God for all the people and the people that I have come to know and
love, I thank God for the planet we live in, I thank God for my guardian-angel,
I thank God for all the Angels and the Saints and most of all I thank God for
YOU!
Every one aspires to be the best they can be. We all want our dreams to come true. The only thing is we can never know-the day or the hour or the moment, when things happen. I think we hurt the most, when we feel that somewhere down the line things did not work out for us. We get disappointed. Some of us are on the verge of getting our dreams realized when all of a sudden we get rejected. Some of us face rejection over and over. Some of us face disappointment every now and then, so much so that we have grown accustomed to it. And somewhere at some point of time, we become unknowingly rude to others. Some people constantly nag others. Some people simply end up seeing bad in each and everything they do or others do – as if somewhere there is no hope left.
Every one aspires to be the best they can be. We all want our dreams to come true. The only thing is we can never know-the day or the hour or the moment, when things happen. I think we hurt the most, when we feel that somewhere down the line things did not work out for us. We get disappointed. Some of us are on the verge of getting our dreams realized when all of a sudden we get rejected. Some of us face rejection over and over. Some of us face disappointment every now and then, so much so that we have grown accustomed to it. And somewhere at some point of time, we become unknowingly rude to others. Some people constantly nag others. Some people simply end up seeing bad in each and everything they do or others do – as if somewhere there is no hope left.
When
our dreams fail, we fail. Some of us fall to never rise again. And some of us
struggle. And through the struggle some of us believe that there will be such a
moment and some of us are ready to wait.
Too
often, we condemn someone. We think of ourselves as doing better than the
other. Often, we forget what it is like to walk in another’s shoe? We look at a
fault and we immediately pass judgement on that person without even giving a
second thought to how it must be for that person. The point I’m trying to make
is we don’t need to be so hard on a person. My simple suggestion, is don’t look
at that act which is committed but rather have mercy on that person, who finds
it so hard in his or her heart to do good. Luke 6:37 states- "Do not
judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be
condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”
What
we need is a whole dose of honesty. We need to be honest in everything we do. Now
I know what I am saying here, but this does not imply that you go and tear a
person apart with your honesty. Honesty also means keeping it simple. When God
begins with a lesson-He does not expect you to give in a whole 100% on first
attempt. No. God will make you walk a step at a time. He will not collect all
your faults and bring them before you-so that you have no space to breathe. But
what He will do is bring it one at a time. God never blames you, He just makes
you right. He makes you capable to walk in His mighty presence.
William
Shakespeare said it best, when he said ‘To thine own self be true and it must
follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.’
On
the 22nd of October, after the mass, while I sat to talk with God, just for
that 40 seconds, I felt Jesus move on the cross. At that moment I thought I was
hallucinating. Then I felt all the love of Jesus and His humility. I never
thought so much humility could ever exist; because I never thought you could
ever measure humility by anything. I never will forget the feeling. It’s the
sweetest feeling ever.
Now,
after that day, when something becomes too much to bear, all I have to do is
think of the ‘love of Christ,’ and everything just disappears. Philippians 4:13
states: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Love
is the greatest thing in the world. How many of us can say, that we love
someone or anybody for that matter unselfishly? The hardest part in this world
is to give your life to someone? ‘What can I get in return?’ is the question
that I hear often. I don’t believe in a give and take relationship? I don’t
believe any relationship should dwell on that principle? If it does, you know
the answer. It ain’t love.
Love
is sacrifice. Sadly, this is something that is missing these days. The most
beautiful part of love is definitely this and only this – SACRIFICE.
Think about it, JESUS loved us. Love was the motivating force in Jesus coming to this world. But who was Jesus coming into this world for? We are – absolutely nothing. But in God, we are His people – created by the Almighty God. So why is it that the Son of God, Jesus, must come to get Himself killed in a world full of people who don’t even understand what Love is?
Think about it, JESUS loved us. Love was the motivating force in Jesus coming to this world. But who was Jesus coming into this world for? We are – absolutely nothing. But in God, we are His people – created by the Almighty God. So why is it that the Son of God, Jesus, must come to get Himself killed in a world full of people who don’t even understand what Love is?
God
has given us a free will. We can choose what we want to. I choose God’s will.
Logically
speaking-do you know everything about yourself? We
may think we want something, but when troubles come…our opinions change. God is
aware of our every thought process.
I
love this chorus from the song ‘One moment in time’. It is from a
Whitney Houston track. Here goes the paragraph that sums up what a dream feels
like for me:
Give me one moment in time
When I'm more than I thought I could be
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away
And the answers are all up to me-I leave it to God
Give me one moment in time
When I'm racing with destiny
Then in that one moment of time
I will feel
I will feel eternity.
‘ONLY-LOVE’ is to eternity and this is my DREAM.
With all my love,
For Love Prevails!
AnitA.
“And what is the immeasurable
and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who
believe…” Ephesians 1:19
God
has been good to us. We’ve all seen God’s favor at work at different times in
our lives. He has protected us and opened doors for us. But I believe that God
wants to show us His unprecedented favor — that’s favor like we haven’t seen
before.
In
the verse above, Paul said that in the “ages to come” we would see “the
immeasurable, unlimited, surpassing greatness of God’s favor.” I
believe that we are living with God’s unprecedented (unmatched) favour on us.
You may have seen God’s favor in the past-but get ready - because you haven’t
seen anything yet. What God has in your future is going to supersede all of
your expectations-it is going to catapult you to a whole new level. He is going
to show you His goodness in ways you’ve never seen before. Keep standing, keep
praying, keep believing and keep GOD first. Watch as God works marvels in your
life, it will be Above and Beyond all your expectations!
"And
to know the love of Christ." Ephesians 3:19
No other subject did the mind of the apostle Paul dwell with so much delight, as on that of the redeeming love of Christ. It was the love of Christ that sustained him amid all his trials and persecutions, and enabled him to finish a glorious career. Paul, writing to the Ephesians, desires and prays that Christ may dwell in their hearts by faith, that they be rooted and grounded in love.
"I have loved you with an everlasting love therefore, with loving kindness have I drawn you."
A wonderful thought, everlasting love! Christ loves us, and His love is everlasting. From all eternity He thought upon our lost condition by nature; and how willingly He left the throne of glory to bring salvation to us. His love never had a beginning and it never has an end.
No other subject did the mind of the apostle Paul dwell with so much delight, as on that of the redeeming love of Christ. It was the love of Christ that sustained him amid all his trials and persecutions, and enabled him to finish a glorious career. Paul, writing to the Ephesians, desires and prays that Christ may dwell in their hearts by faith, that they be rooted and grounded in love.
"I have loved you with an everlasting love therefore, with loving kindness have I drawn you."
A wonderful thought, everlasting love! Christ loves us, and His love is everlasting. From all eternity He thought upon our lost condition by nature; and how willingly He left the throne of glory to bring salvation to us. His love never had a beginning and it never has an end.
It was love that led Jesus to assume human nature, in order that He
might suffer and die and thus atone for the sins of His people. Yes, love led Him
to the garden of Gethsemane
God’s love is too boundless for our feeble minds to grasp. None can comprehend its vastness: none can measure its immensity; and there is no language that can put in all the words in perfect details to describe it; human thought cannot fathom it; time cannot disclose its depths.
The love of Christ fills the soul with immortal joys. There is nothing so reviving to any one, as the sweet thought of Christ's love to him. There is no subject stored with such divine consolation, and heavenly joy, as that of the redeeming love–the love of the Son of God to a lost world. And what do we not owe to the love of Christ? All the comforts and happiness of life and all the joys of a blissful eternity flow from this love.
God’s love is too boundless for our feeble minds to grasp. None can comprehend its vastness: none can measure its immensity; and there is no language that can put in all the words in perfect details to describe it; human thought cannot fathom it; time cannot disclose its depths.
The love of Christ fills the soul with immortal joys. There is nothing so reviving to any one, as the sweet thought of Christ's love to him. There is no subject stored with such divine consolation, and heavenly joy, as that of the redeeming love–the love of the Son of God to a lost world. And what do we not owe to the love of Christ? All the comforts and happiness of life and all the joys of a blissful eternity flow from this love.
The
love of Christ conveys a joy to the believer's heart, which is unspeakable and
full of glory. The tongue cannot express the delight of the heart which arises
from the manifestation of this love.
Oh
to be made like the adorable Redeemer, and to praise Him throughout the
countless age's of eternity, for the wonders of His redeeming love! If we could
exclaim with the Psalmist, "Whom have I in heaven but you? There is none
upon earth that I desire besides you!"
14 For this reason I kneel
before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its
name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with
power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in
your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in
love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how
wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love
that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the
fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at
work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout
all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:14-21
Romans 8:35 states,
"Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ." Notice the goal of this prayer is in verse
18: "[That you] may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the
breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ
which surpasses knowledge." Paul wanted for the Ephesians the power to know and understand how high and deep and wide and
long is the love of Christ. He admits it is beyond human understanding.
Paul
says that, to understand the love of Christ and prove the height
and depth of it we should be rooted in it. That is, the roots of our lives
should be sinking down ever more deeply into the love of Christ. That's where
we got our life. And he said we should be founded on it. That is, the
foundation of our lives should be spread out on the solid rock of the love of
Christ for us.
The
roots and the foundation of our life are firmly held by the depths of Christ's love.
God
is calling us to new depths of love for each other and for those outside. If
that is going to happen, something else must happen first (which is happening).
Paul's prayer must be answered: This
should be our earnest prayer that all of us grasp more and more what it is to
be loved by Christ—so that nothing can separate us from His love. Then the
power to love each other will flow freely.
How
long is the love of Christ? The length refers to the duration of his
love. He never gives up on His sheep. Jesus demonstrated His love in John
chapter 13 by washing His disciples’ feet. Jesus’ love endures forever because He
is the same, yesterday, today, tomorrow, and forever.
How
long... So long that it lasts for all of eternity – you can’t get any longer
than that! In such a rapidly changing world, it can feel as though we want to
hang on to the way things used to be done. But God’s love lasts for all
eternity. That is a time-frame way beyond what we can conceive or imagine.
God’s love in Christ is so wide that it embraces all. Let us ensure we remove every barrier that keeps us apart, so that we can increasingly show to others and experience for ourselves how wide the love of Christ is.
God’s love in Christ is so wide that it embraces all. Let us ensure we remove every barrier that keeps us apart, so that we can increasingly show to others and experience for ourselves how wide the love of Christ is.
How
deep is the love of Christ? Jesus gave up His glory of Heaven and
came down all the way to Earth to show His love. He gave up His life on the
cross to save us from the power of sin and death. The depth refers to the worst
condition of fallen men. Jesus dying words on the Cross were, “Father, forgive
them for they do not know what they are doing” Luke 23:34.
How
high is the love of Christ? It is higher than the heavens. He lifted
us up from the pit of sin and seated us to the heavenly realms. It is truly an
amazing grace given to us. We need to practice the love of Christ in our daily
life.
How
high... There is a mysterious quality to the love of Christ, which makes it
hard to describe in words. It reaches right up to the highest
heavens. Let us ensure in our prayers, in our worship, that we do not limit our
expectations of the enormity of God’s grace at work within our day-to-day
lives.
Jesus showed His love for all sinners and
gave us His example how to love. Love is the essence of our faith. Every
decision must be based on love because God is love. Our ultimate prayer goal is
to filled with God’s fullness. We are not yet near the fullness of God. We have
to grow spiritually until we reach God’s fullness.
“Be still, and know that I am God...” Psalm 46:10
Remember,
our battles are spiritual battles. When you choose to be still and know that
God lives on the inside of you, you are putting yourself in a position of
strength. Today, let His peace cover you. Remember, the battles you face belong
to the Lord. Be still before Him so that you can see His hand of victory in
every area of your life!
“...imitate those who through
faith and patience inherit what has been promised.” Hebrews 6:12
Remember,
through faith and patience we inherit His promises. Trust His Word, trust His
timing and trust that your answer is on its way!
“Enter into His gates with
thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His
name.” Psalm 100:4
Scripture
says that we can come to His throne of grace and receive His mercy, because He
loves us.
But
notice today’s verse tells us that we should come with our praise, our
thanksgiving. We are to enter His gates with an offering from our hearts of
adoration because He is worthy!
Praise
is the expression of gratefulness to God the Father for Who He is and all that
He has done. Praise gets God’s attention. Praise is a powerful tool because God
inhabits our praises! When we enter His presence the right way, He enters our
circumstances, and when God shows up, the enemy must flee! Today, enter into
His gates with thanksgiving and open the door for Him to move on your behalf!
“For we who have believed do
enter that rest...” Hebrews 4:3
There
are times that have been set in our future, but we don’t know when. Your God
ordained moment could be at just about any time. It could be a day from now, a
month from now or two to three years from now. Trust that God is a God of
IMPOSSIBLES!
Get
a new perspective in life. Remember, the God ordained time is already in your
future. Don’t let the negative thoughts talk you out of it. When you really
believe, you have rest on the inside and you will be at peace. You know the
answer is on the way. You trust that God is working behind the scenes.
Trust
in God, and know that, what God has PROMISED God will DELIVER!
PRAYER:
Abba Father, Your Will be done. Keep me always obedient and faithful to You I
pray. Amen.
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