Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.
Friends when you came here to read about revelation that the member have posted, do not touch(agree) and go (not doing anything). Pray and meditate on the revelation
Joshua 1:8 (New International Version)
8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
and being to work on it, be a doer(obeying which meant putting into practice when God begin to command you to do ) of the word. Romans 2:13 13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
after a incident hits me then a great burden begin to fell on me. A day there is 1000 upon 1000 of souls are perishing for they do not know Christ.
many of us would be complacent with souls where we are not serious with evangelism(bringing souls into the church(kingdom of GOD )) GOD is very serious with soul winning as time is limited for our physical body where people do die due to sickness and living in a old broken body.
Luke 13;5 to 9 5I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."
6Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. 7So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'
8" 'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone for one more year, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it. 9If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.
from verse 6to 7 GOD is saying that GOD do not like unfruitful life and will cut down and throw away. How to determine how fruitful you are in evangelism is how many souls you have 'saved' (brought them to church and integrate them ) from verse 8 to 9 is saying that there is a solution which is uproot and fertilize(changing of mindset)fertilizer are 1.prayer, 2.fasting(1 and 2 are faith)3.counseling ,4.discipleship 5. stepping out (3 ,4 and 5 are works) 3 and 4 is learning from leader approaching the leader yourself and not waiting for the leader to approach you and 5 is self experience which you take the steps yourself (getting out of your comfort zone when you begin to talk to the new friends, reaching out to your friends.
James 2:14 (New King James Version)
Faith Without Works Is Dead
14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
faith is very important where is the the foundation of evangelism but the second step is work which is the building. without foundation if a building is build upon the building will crash. but if there is foundation but there is no building what is the purpose of it ?
sometime you may say, it is not that easy to win souls, it is tiring and i would want to do my own things, i do not want to step out of my comfort zone.
and GOD says in
Matthew 11:29-30 (New International Version)
29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
what is His burden , His desire , His deepest thoughts , His greatest treasure?
IT IS THE SOULS !
THE UNSAVED!
GOD wants them to be save! and we that are saved are called to save them by bring them to the LORD and of course the modern,relevant way but not forsaking our value in the midst of reaching out.For He say you are in the world but not of the world. do not be conform to it. GOD's burden is not heavy but light, while in the midst of reaching out do lean on GOD for
Psalm 127
A song of ascents. Of Solomon.
1 Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.
2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to a]">[a] those he loves.
Begin to be serious and rise up and no longer let the souls pass us by anymore!
after this reading of revelation do pray and repent and carry the cross together to win the souls together!
3. Strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for anything.
4. The object of such fondness or desire.
5. State of being acted upon or affected by something external.
6. The sufferings of Christ on the cross and/or His sufferings subsequent to the Last Supper.
Above are some of the definition of passion. What to you is the suitable one? Do you have a thing or someone that you have passion for? For me, my passion is handball. Handball is a sport whereby I can vent my anger and frustration on physically. If you all didn't know, I recently took part in the selections for YOG National Youth Squad. I trained really hard for it just to get into the team. But on that very tuesday night, I receive the letter saying I am not selected into the team. I was upset of course. I was disappointed that after all I've been training for, thats what I got. What made things worst was that instead of encouraging me, my dad was demoralizing me saying things like "its good that you fail", "you this kind of people, sure wont make it" it really tore me, I couldn't care much about the results of the selection and instead its how my dad perceive me as that crushed me. But friends have been encouraging me not to give up and continue striving for it since its my passion! I shouldn't just stop halfway just because I met up with a few obstacles in my life.
And that reminded me of how we have a passion for Christ, our journey with God. We cannot give up our walk with God or stop halfway just because devil tried to stop us or even do things that make us feel anger towards God. But instead we should put that all aside and cast out the evil or bad thoughts caused by the devil. And continue burning the fire for God because our God is a good God! How can we proclaim that we have the passion for God unless the passion consumes us? For example, how can I say I have the passion for handball if I don't even attend the regular training? Its the same for us Christians. How can we have the passion for God if we don't even go to church, if we don't give our tithes or offerings? A passion for God can only occur when our heart is purely devoted to God and Jesus's purposes. James 4:8 (NIV)- "Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your heart, you double minded" We cannot have a passion for God if on one hand we are paying our tithes and going to church, but on the other hand lusting for sexual immoralities, having anger towards other fellow brothers and sisters? That isn't what God wants us to do, or want us to behave like. Like what Jo shared for CG on 21 August, we have to keep that in mind and be more like God.
So friends, if you feel that the passion that you have with God is burning out, its fading slowly. Do open up to anyone of the cg members and we will be more than happy to pray for you :D
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight."
Proverb 3:5-6
Are you facing difficult time now? Trying to solve your problem? Do you realize that sometimes you solve it by your own understanding? In the Bible God says that lean not on your own understanding. Guys when you face problem again lets trust in the Lord and ask for His help or opinion. First Pray to Him, lift up you problem to Him,then ask for His help. And remember to thank Him. He also says that He will make your path straight when we acknowledge Him. In NKJV, " ..,And he shall direct your paths."