MARRIAGE

Husband and Wife are Co-Rulers Together God created the institution of marriage so that both husband and wife could be co-rulers on the earth. Conducting your marriage by God’s manual—the Bible—is the only guarantee for success. Do not be concerned with what your spouse is doing. Instead, concentrate on what you should be doing. There are some things that spouses should never do or say to one another. 1. Wives should never be critical of their husbands. a. A wife should never tell her husband that he is not a real man. b. Don’t nag, but let your quiet spirit and godly conversation win him over (1 Peter 3:1). 2. Husbands should never speak harshly toward their wives. a. Never tell your wife that you hate her. 3. Don’t be led by your emotions. a. When you are hurt, you will say the wrong things. b. The things you say may damage your relationship beyond repair. c. When you do say hurtful things to one another, repent to one another and make- up your minds to never be unkind again Husbands and wives are co-rulers through partnership. 1. You cannot show love for and support of others and not show it to your spouse. 2. A wife is not less of a person than her husband; they are equal partners in the marriage. 3. Wives should communicate their love for their husbands by supporting them. If you do not support your husband, you are not showing him love. Invest in the inner man. 1. Make sure you invest in the hidden man of the heart, which is your spirit (1 Peter 3:4). 2. Cultivate a meek spirit. a. A meek spirit refuses to contribute to chaos in the home. b. A meek spirit is one that is peaceful. Wives should make sure that they are not the cause of marital problems. 1. Manipulation, crying and complaining do nothing to contribute to a stable household. a. Husbands and wives must get rid of the baggage in their lives so that they can have a healthy relationship. b. A virtuous woman guides her house into peace (Proverbs 31:10-28). Husbands are to dwell with their wives according them due honor and respect.(1 Peter 3:7). 1. Every husband needs to take responsibility for his marriage. a. Husbands should educate themselves on marriage. i. Read books. ii. Listen to tapes. iii. Go to seminars. b. Don’t operate according to the world’s system concerning marriage. i. Do not listen to talk shows and television for advice and counsel. c. Read the best marriage manual ever written—the Bible. d. Conducting your marriage according to God’s method guarantees that your marriage will be healthy, wholesome, prosperous and happy. i. You have to understand the different roles in marriage Co-rulership is the partnership of life. 1. You and your spouse are heirs together in the kingdom of God. a. When you are in agreement, your prayers are not hindered (1 Peter 3:7). 2. Co-rulers are two people jointed together in the adventures of marriage and life. a. If a spouse is treated as “less than,” his or her partner will be discouraged. Bitterness, discouragement and hardness of heart can occur as a result. b. When a husband and wife treat each other as joint-partners, they empower themselves and their relationship. 3. Husbands should treat their wives as partners. a. Involve your spouse in all major decisions. b. Treat one another with mutual respect and honor. You and your spouse are to be of one mind. 1. It takes time, patience, commitment and communication to become one with another person in the area of your soul. a. Be compassionate, caring, sympathetic and kind in order to achieve oneness of mind. b. Effective communication occurs when two people clearly understand one another. c. When you are not talking to each other (the silent treatment), the devil will talk to both of you. i. Make sure to continue communicating—even when you are frustrated. 2. The Word of God is the final authority. 3. Allow the Bible to settle every argument. Above all put all of your trust in God alone. He will take care of everything for you

MY SOUL YEARNS FOR THEE

Jesus make me love you more andd more. My heart and my entire being should be filled only by your loving presence O Lord !

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COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

Gospel
Lk 14:25-33

Great crowds were traveling with Jesus,
and he turned and addressed them,
“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, 
wife and children, brothers and sisters,
and even his own life,
he cannot be my disciple.
Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me
cannot be my disciple.
Which of you wishing to construct a tower
does not first sit down and calculate the cost
to see if there is enough for its completion? 
Otherwise, after laying the foundation
and finding himself unable to finish the work
the onlookers should laugh at him and say,
‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’ 
Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down
and decide whether with ten thousand troops
he can successfully oppose another king
advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? 
But if not, while he is still far away,
he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms. 
In the same way,
everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions
cannot be my disciple.”

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Secrets to attaining prosperity

Prosperity Overflow: Eight Steps to Your Destination (I) God wants His people to enjoy life in abundance, to the full, until it overflows. This is fulfilling the will of God. When you focus on the Word of God, you will begin to experience true prosperity and be able to bless others as well. Believers must use their God-given authority on the earth. 1. Never forget that Satan’s purpose is to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:7-10). a. Do not give him authority over things in your life. b. God does not stop the devil because He has given Believers the authority to stop Satan themselves. i. There is no need to tolerate sin or lack in your life. 2. Heaven is waiting to hear what you have to say about your situation. a. Begin prophesying what you want to see in your life. b. Don’t say things that empower the devil. Instead, say things that empower heaven. Jesus came so that you might have and enjoy life in abundance, to the full, until it overflows (John 10:10, AMP). 1. If you are not enjoying life, you are not fulfilling the will of God for your life. 2. Money cannot define prosperity and abundance. 3. Abundance applies to every area of life—relationships, health, finances, etc. 4. Real prosperity is having everything you need to do what God has called you to do. 5. Prosperity is an expression of God’s love. 6. When God told Adam he could have all the trees in the garden it was an expression of His love

A Pastor with Guts-(At the Opening Session of the US Senate)

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A Pastor with GUTS!

Thought you might enjoy this interesting
prayer given in Kansas at
the opening session of their Senate. It seems
prayer still upsets some
people.. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open
the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is

what they heard: *Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask
your forgiveness and to seek your direction and
guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to those
who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we
have done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed
our values.

We have exploited the poor and called it
the lottery.

We have rewarded laziness and called it
welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it
choice.

We have shot abortionists and called it
justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our
children and called it building self esteem..

We have abused power and called it
politics.

We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions
and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and
pornography and called it freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values
of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts
today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.
Amen! ****

The response was immediate. A number of
legislators walked out during the prayer in
protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian
Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than
5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls
responding negatively. The church is now receiving
international requests for copies of this prayer
from India , Africa and Korea .

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on
his radio program, ‘The Rest of the Story,’and
received a larger response to this program than any
other he has ever aired.

With the Lord’s help, may this prayer sweep
over our nation and wholeheartedly become our
desire so that we again can be called ‘one nation
under God.’

If possible, please pass this prayer on to
your friends. ‘If you don’t stand for something,
you will fall for everything.’

Think about this: If you forward this
prayer to everyone on your
e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be
heard by the world.

How many people in your address book will
not receive this prayer…..do you have the guts to pass it on?

23Oct.09 

 

Acts 22:12

 “The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will  and to see the Righteous One  and to hear Words from His mouth.”

                               

 

Eve was no match for  Satan 

 

As we have seen yesterday Eve was not well equipped with the word of God and hence she was a poor match for Satan.

 

The more we know about the good qualities and love of a person we  trust  that person more and have more faith in that person’s words. Similarly the less we know a person the less trust and faith we have in the person’s words.

 

Since God is spirit,we cannot see him. We know about his goodness and his love  only through his words. Of course in history he manifested himself in flesh as Jesus Christ. Even today we know God only through his words once spoken to the prophets and as narrated by the Gospel writers. All of these spoken words of God have been faithfully  recorded in the Bible under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

 

In Acts 22:12 quoted above the word of God declares that “God has chosen us to know His will.” Knowing God’s will means  reading God’s mind and knowing the desires of His heart. For this purpose God has promised that He would enable us “to hear words from His mouth”,  as contained in the bible. His loving intention, was to make us see the Righteous One. The expression seeing the Righteous One means, intimately experiencing the love and bliss of God in our  hearts and in our spirit. Now, the intensity of this blissful God experience is in proportion to the level of our faith in God. What a great privilege and blessing God has given us. However the extant of this privilege and blessing is only to the extant as to how well we  know , understand and obey  the word of God.

Therefore love for God, would want us  to know more of God’s words and this in turn builds up our faith level gradually. The less we know about God and God’s words to that extent our faith level is reduced. Therefore God wants and expects us to know Him more deeply  by knowing His Word thoroughly so that strengthened by a strong faith and trust in him we can withstand temptations and troubles in life.

 Eve could not withstand the Devil because her faith and trust in God was rendered weak by her insufficient  knowledge and understanding of the words spoken by God. When we reverence and respect God as He deserves we will carry his exact words in our heart. We will not add to it or subtract from it. Eve did this, and from this we know that she did not respect or reverence God properly. Let us once again recall the conversations :-

 

God’s command

 

 Gen.2:16 “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;”

 

 Gen.2:17 “but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of  

                   good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely

                   die.”

 

Satan quizzes Eve

 

 Gen.3:1  “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in

                  The garden ?”

 

Eve’s reply to Satan

 

 Gen. 3:2  “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,

 

  Gen.3:3    but God did say, ’You must not eat fruit from the tree

                   that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not

                    touch it, or you will die”

                

        

    

 

Satan’s reply to Eve

 

Gen. 3:4   “You will not surely die”

         3:5   “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will

                   be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and

                   evil.”

 

God’s observation after the sin of Adam

 

 Gen. 3:22   “The man has become like one us, knowing good and

                      Evil.”

 

Conclusions

 

1. 1.    Satan confirms the immediate result of sin and makes it sound like a thrilling experience ! (See the yellow portion of the texts ) True, man becomes like God in a way, but he will have to die spiritually and physically. Then we are not really like God in the true sense.

God does not disclose this to Adam, because this was a sinful and a needless experience with disastrous results. God informed that man would ultimately die if he disobeyed. God never wanted man to die.

 

Satan speaks the truth,but his intention is bad. Eve is carried away by the pleasure of sin and the exalted status of becoming like God.Her desire for God vanished and now she was consumed by the sinful and selfish desire to become like God.Her mind became fuzzy.

 

1. 2.    Satan directly contradicts God regarding the ultimate consequence of sin, that is, death of body and soul. (See the red portions of the text) Satan removed the fear of the punishment of sin from Eve’s mind. So with the punishment removed ,sin became extremely attractive and desirable. So Eve chose to believe Satan.
2. 3.    Satan rephrases (See the shaded blue portion of the texts) God’s command in Gen.2:16 into a negative question stating to mean ‘Did God being God, really say such a thing in order to deceive you? What he was hinting that God being what He is should not lie. He plants the seed of doubt in Eve’s mind. He flatly contradicts God that death of body and soul would not follow by eating the fruit. May be, he also implied that even by touching it one does not die,  as wrongly stated by Eve, since satan’s denial of punishment in Gen.3:4 is in reply to Eve’s statement in Gen.3:3 . Eve added her own words to God’s word and moreover Eve did not describe the tree in the way as God described it as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but simply located the tree in the middle of the garden. (See the gray shaded portion ). One more thing, Eve did not emphasise the word death  but quoted God  as only  saying “you will die” when God had actually said and meant “you will surely die” meaning double death, of body and soul .(See the red shaded portions). All this shows that Eve was not really serious about God’s commandment and hence had no proper reverence for God.

 

 Satan cleverly exploited the situation by first planting doubt in Eve’s mind, then questioning the motive of God and trying to make God out to be a liar, kindling a sinful desire in Eve to become like God, denying punishment of death for sin, and making sin attractive and achievable, and finally succeeded in deceiving Eve into disbelieving God and believing in satan.Now Eve was only looking forward to eat the fruit and cared two hoots for God and God’s Word!

 

 

We shall see tomorrow, what made Eve to take the final plunge to eat the fruit !

 

Lesson for  Today

 

Satan is powerful, we should not underestimate him.But in Christ we can defeat satan by the power of the Word and by the grace and assistance of God. We need not fear because Christ has won for us the victory over Satan  , sin and death on the Cross. Praise God !

 

Prayer

 

Lord God give us the grace and your assistance to be ever watchful and alert, lest satan surprise us. Strenghten us in prayer and sacraments and by your Holy Word to lead a life entirely pleasing to you. Help  us to know your will for us and live accordingly and never to be separated from you. Teach us your word and lead us deeper and deeper into infinite love.

In Jesus’ name we pray.Amen              God Bless !