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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Thursday, October 09, 2008
A STORY OFTEN EDITED-OUT.
When Mary was told that she was to have a child conceived in the most unexplained way.... she had the faith to accept it as it would be.
ABOUT MARY:
Imagine a sweet 17 year old minding her business... dating a guy with looks like mine and a heart of gold, well, one like err... mine. (let's talk about Mary first.)
So Mary is in a courtship with a guy to "die" for and she has to break his heart with the news that she was PREGNANT.(that's a hard paper!)
ABOUT JOSEPH:
With the looks that we described and that kind of heart Joseph was a descent guy. The bible says he was thinking of 'honorably' dumping Mary. Now that's a guy of INTEGRITY.
How many guys would swallow their pride and go on with the wedding. remember he had not said I DO just yet. Well, that was also faith in action!
ABOUT JESUS:
We forget that Jesus had to discover who he was....
Do you ever see Jesus as the boy that the village gossip ever excluded in their vibe.
Do you see Jesus as the guy the bully tried to oppress with talk about his conception.
I hate to imagine the insults that must have flown from the people that did not like his guts. Trust me if we have those today, they were here at the time of Jesus.
We hear no account of what happened in the life of JESUS because just like today the press were looking for a story with scandal but He was above that... He goes undetected but noticeable until he is 12 and blows the scribes away with the level of understanding of the scriptures.
He read scripture and possibly listen to his uncles and aunties... it must have struck him early that even though he was a carpenters' son he has a man in his Lineage that made him ROYAL, his forefather DAVID.(I bet this sent Jesus to the scriptures until ADAM)I bet when he read that from the womb of the WOMAN shall come one who would crash the devil... Lights were switched on for him.
Well after that incident at 12yrs the bible says he went and lived in obedience... we don't hear about him till he is READY to RAMBLE!!!!
FRIENDS... U think you have issues? JESUS is the ANSWER!
ABOUT MARY:
Imagine a sweet 17 year old minding her business... dating a guy with looks like mine and a heart of gold, well, one like err... mine. (let's talk about Mary first.)
So Mary is in a courtship with a guy to "die" for and she has to break his heart with the news that she was PREGNANT.(that's a hard paper!)
ABOUT JOSEPH:
With the looks that we described and that kind of heart Joseph was a descent guy. The bible says he was thinking of 'honorably' dumping Mary. Now that's a guy of INTEGRITY.
How many guys would swallow their pride and go on with the wedding. remember he had not said I DO just yet. Well, that was also faith in action!
ABOUT JESUS:
We forget that Jesus had to discover who he was....
Do you ever see Jesus as the boy that the village gossip ever excluded in their vibe.
Do you see Jesus as the guy the bully tried to oppress with talk about his conception.
I hate to imagine the insults that must have flown from the people that did not like his guts. Trust me if we have those today, they were here at the time of Jesus.
We hear no account of what happened in the life of JESUS because just like today the press were looking for a story with scandal but He was above that... He goes undetected but noticeable until he is 12 and blows the scribes away with the level of understanding of the scriptures.
He read scripture and possibly listen to his uncles and aunties... it must have struck him early that even though he was a carpenters' son he has a man in his Lineage that made him ROYAL, his forefather DAVID.(I bet this sent Jesus to the scriptures until ADAM)I bet when he read that from the womb of the WOMAN shall come one who would crash the devil... Lights were switched on for him.
Well after that incident at 12yrs the bible says he went and lived in obedience... we don't hear about him till he is READY to RAMBLE!!!!
FRIENDS... U think you have issues? JESUS is the ANSWER!
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
WHY THE SON OF DAVID? :- A BLESSING TO ERASE A CURSE.
1 KINGS 9:
Solomon builds a temple and does all he had ever desired. Putting the Name of GOD on it and praying for God to dwell in it, God hears him and approves it.God is all knowing and looks at Solomon and tells him to keep things as they are. "Remain a guy of Integrity and I will reside here." Infact, as Solomon's father had been promised that... he would have a son on the throne of Israel forever.
God goes ahead to assure Solomon that not sticking to his part of the bargain would mean Him leaving the temple. In fact God tells Solomon what people will say about the temple after the Lord has departed... " A symbol of RIDICULE"...
I don't know what you think but, i think that that's a CURSE waiting to happen.
Fast forward to 1 kings 10 when the gorgeous queen of Sheba visits and we know what happens.(The curse is evoked and the God departs the temple and it becomes a symbol of ridicule.)
REMEMBER AT THIS POINT GOD HAS BLESSED DAVID, SOLOMON and the GENERATION TO COME BUT THE GUY HAS JUST EVOKED A CURSE!!
1 CHRONICLES 17
This is where the promise to David is made through the prophet Nathan. Just look at the wordings in these verses...
verse 4: "Go and tell David that the Lord says that he isn't the one going to build the temple (Permanent place of God's residence)" God was living among them in their tents and moved with them.
The promise in 1CHRO 17: 11-14
From the above text, God had made a long term generational commitment to DAVID that Solomon tried to fulfill by building the temple. However the temple the lord was after was one in the integrity of heart and not the one of wood and stone.
This is ULTIMATELY why JESUS is born into the LINEAGE of DAVID.
To fulfill the written word and the promise of GOD in 1CHRON 17:12-14.(READ IT PLEASE)
JESUS is the SON OF DAVID (who always sits on the throne) THE BLESSING that ERASED the CURSE. If you abide in CHRIST, no one will ridicule you for your past... "THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION for THOSE in CHRIST JESUS"
I hope I haven't attempted to be THEOLOGICAL!!
Solomon builds a temple and does all he had ever desired. Putting the Name of GOD on it and praying for God to dwell in it, God hears him and approves it.God is all knowing and looks at Solomon and tells him to keep things as they are. "Remain a guy of Integrity and I will reside here." Infact, as Solomon's father had been promised that... he would have a son on the throne of Israel forever.
God goes ahead to assure Solomon that not sticking to his part of the bargain would mean Him leaving the temple. In fact God tells Solomon what people will say about the temple after the Lord has departed... " A symbol of RIDICULE"...
I don't know what you think but, i think that that's a CURSE waiting to happen.
Fast forward to 1 kings 10 when the gorgeous queen of Sheba visits and we know what happens.(The curse is evoked and the God departs the temple and it becomes a symbol of ridicule.)
REMEMBER AT THIS POINT GOD HAS BLESSED DAVID, SOLOMON and the GENERATION TO COME BUT THE GUY HAS JUST EVOKED A CURSE!!
1 CHRONICLES 17
This is where the promise to David is made through the prophet Nathan. Just look at the wordings in these verses...
verse 4: "Go and tell David that the Lord says that he isn't the one going to build the temple (Permanent place of God's residence)" God was living among them in their tents and moved with them.
The promise in 1CHRO 17: 11-14
From the above text, God had made a long term generational commitment to DAVID that Solomon tried to fulfill by building the temple. However the temple the lord was after was one in the integrity of heart and not the one of wood and stone.
This is ULTIMATELY why JESUS is born into the LINEAGE of DAVID.
To fulfill the written word and the promise of GOD in 1CHRON 17:12-14.(READ IT PLEASE)
JESUS is the SON OF DAVID (who always sits on the throne) THE BLESSING that ERASED the CURSE. If you abide in CHRIST, no one will ridicule you for your past... "THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION for THOSE in CHRIST JESUS"
I hope I haven't attempted to be THEOLOGICAL!!
Friday, October 03, 2008
CHURCH IS BUSINESS: get used to it!
I am writing this blog for that “spiritual” individual who thinks church is what happens on Sunday morning. Also to that conservative Christian who sees business as “financial politics”, and as many have put it, politics is a dirty game. Please be Christ like and make church your business.
LUKE 2: Christ declares to his mother and those that had come looking for him after pulling a disappearing act at the temple. Only aged 12 he says. “ How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?” KJV.
I know some translations will say house and not business, but we agree that only the father’s business can happen in the father’s house.
If your church fellowship is not a business then your pastor/head has not yet sold the vision of the church to you. Matter of fact you are not paying your tithe and giving your offering in full knowledge of the cause (why you belong).
A tithe is a “MANDATORY TAX” I will call it PAYE (pay as you earn) that is meant to go to the business projects of your home church called “MINISTRIES”. For instance, the church where I fellowship recently had a ministry fair and all these areas or projects better known as S.B.U’s (Strategic Business Units) were exhibited. This was to show where the investment of the shareholders (members) goes.
MALACHI 3: Not paying the tithe into these business units through the church fellowship (BUSINESS) is robbery.
With all this done, the church is in the business of TRANSFORMING LIVES of individuals thereby touching communities and healing nations. If you think church is not a business that demands loyalty, accountability and leadership you are blindly walking into a building on Sunday and paying your tithe and offering out of guilt…. I did this for some time so I know.
REMEMBER GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER!!
LUKE 2: Christ declares to his mother and those that had come looking for him after pulling a disappearing act at the temple. Only aged 12 he says. “ How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?” KJV.
I know some translations will say house and not business, but we agree that only the father’s business can happen in the father’s house.
If your church fellowship is not a business then your pastor/head has not yet sold the vision of the church to you. Matter of fact you are not paying your tithe and giving your offering in full knowledge of the cause (why you belong).
A tithe is a “MANDATORY TAX” I will call it PAYE (pay as you earn) that is meant to go to the business projects of your home church called “MINISTRIES”. For instance, the church where I fellowship recently had a ministry fair and all these areas or projects better known as S.B.U’s (Strategic Business Units) were exhibited. This was to show where the investment of the shareholders (members) goes.
MALACHI 3: Not paying the tithe into these business units through the church fellowship (BUSINESS) is robbery.
With all this done, the church is in the business of TRANSFORMING LIVES of individuals thereby touching communities and healing nations. If you think church is not a business that demands loyalty, accountability and leadership you are blindly walking into a building on Sunday and paying your tithe and offering out of guilt…. I did this for some time so I know.
REMEMBER GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER!!
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