Last week Friday, God blessed me so much in Colosians 1. I just realised that this is my heart in ministry. I know that God has called me for the ministry, to minister the Spirit of Christ to all people, to everyone who receives me. This scripture just cemented it in my heart. There is a specific purpose God has with the preaching of the Word. It is to make the Word of God fully known to all people. The Word then in turn has the power to save our souls if it finds entrance into our hearts, and is rooted and implanted in our hearts (James1:21 So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls.)
The Word then works perfection in us. So what am I called for? To make the Word of God known to all men, so that I can present them mature, and perfect in Christ. What a vision. What a task. How is such a great vision possible? Only by grace. Only by His superhuman energy which He so powerfully works in us. I will preach this Gospel untill the very last person on earth looks like, walks like, and talks like Christ. Only His Word and His Spirit has the ability to accomplish this.
So here comes the scripture:
Col 1:25-29
In it I became a minister in accordance with the divine stewardship which was entrusted to me for you [as its object and for your benefit], to make the Word of God fully known [among you]-The mystery of which was hidden for ages and generations [from angels and men], but is now revealed to His holy people (the saints), To whom God was pleased to make known how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ within and among you, the Hope of [realizing the] glory. Him we preach and proclaim, warning and admonishing everyone and instructing everyone in all wisdom (comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God), that we may present every person mature (full-grown, fully initiated, complete, and perfect) in Christ (the Anointed One). For this I labor [unto weariness], striving with all the superhuman energy which He so mightily enkindles and works within me.
About 5 years ago I had a vision. In this vision I was in darkness, holding something like a dark veil over my head. I felt someone pull on the veil like object over my head, and it was pulled off me. I saw light and as I looked up into the light, I was elevated from my dark surroundings to look from above. I saw a landscape of veils draped over the heads of people. I went down, and pulled a veil from someone else's head, and the person saw the light and was elevated. I started to fly over this landscape, pulling as many veils off people's heads as possible. Some people persisted and rejected the light, saying NO! Leave me under the veil! Others welcomed the light, and joined me in flying over this landscape of veiled people, removing the veils with me. Then God gave me 2 Cor 3:15-18:
3:15 Yes, down to this [very] day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their minds and hearts.
3:16 But whenever a person turns [in repentance] to the Lord, the veil is stripped off and taken away.
3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom).
3:18 And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit.
This means that every sinner will receive God's uncoditional forgiveness, every sick person will be healed, every poor person will be amply supplied for, every distressed person will receive peace! This is a Kingdom Vision. It is not only for one man. Join me in reaching every person on the planet, making the Word of God fully known to them, so that they can be presented perfect in Christ!
If you want to learn more, visit http://www.christlife.co.za/, or e-mail me at contact@christlife.co.za, or come and join us in our the services, at the Alkantrand Community Library Hall, c/o Lynnwood & Daventry, Lynnrodene, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Sundays @ 17:00 (5pm) and Wednesdays @ 19:00 (7pm). There is a detailed map on the website.
Bless you!
G
Friday 27 February 2009
Tuesday 10 February 2009
God is on your side!
Psalm 121:1 I WILL lift up my eyes to the hills [around Jerusalem, to sacred Mount Zion and Mount Moriah]-From whence shall my help come?
121:2 My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.
121:3 He will not allow your foot to slip or to be moved; He Who keeps you will not slumber.
121:4 Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
121:5 The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand [the side not carrying a shield].
121:6 The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.
121:7 The Lord will keep you from all evil; He will keep your life.
121:8 The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
Psalm 124:1 IF IT had not been the Lord Who was on our side-now may Israel say-124:2 If it had not been the Lord Who was on our side when men rose up against us,
124:3 Then they would have quickly swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us;
124:4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us and swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us;
124:5 Then the proud waters would have gone over us.
124:6 Blessed be the Lord, Who has not given us as prey to their teeth!
124:7 We are like a bird escaped from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!
124:8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.
Rom 7:24 O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from [the shackles of] this body of death?
7:25 O thank God! [He will!] through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One) our Lord!
Rom 8:31 What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?]
8:32 He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things?
8:33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?]
8:34 Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God actually pleading as He intercedes for us?
8:35 Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword?
8:36 Even as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter.
8:37 Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.
8:38 For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers,
8:39 Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
GOD IS ON YOUR SIDE!
There is nothing He won't save you from. There is nothing He won't help you with. God is for you. Embrace Him. Let Him help you! Stop trying so hard to be strong. God is strong for you. Let Him fight. Stand back and let Him move. The battle is not yours, the battle is the Lord's!
1 Sam 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands. (David speaking to Goliath).
Ex 14:13 Moses told the people, Fear not; stand still (firm, confident, undismayed) and see the salvation of the Lord which He will work for you today. For the Egyptians you have seen today you shall never see again.
14:14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace and remain at rest.
God is with you. God is for you. He will deliver you from everything that stands against you. Fear not!
Ps 34:17 [The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
When trouble come, rejoice, for the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. When temptation comes, rejoice, for the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Bless you
G
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