When you feel of giving up, Stand Up! The Lord will give you His"Grace"..

MARVELOUS GRACE

What is there in us that attracts the marvelous grace, mercy and pardon of
our
Savior? Is it some kind of beauty, goodness, or strength? Is it some kind of
potential in us?

No! It is our great need and utter helplessness that attracts his grace. It
is
our weakness that attracts his strength. Our helpless condition is
exemplified
by the palsied man in Mark, chapter two: "And they came unto him, bringing
one
sick of the palsy..." (Mark 2:3).

Here is a picture of absolute helplessness, a man without one iota of
strength
or power. He cannot even bring himself to Christ. Look again at that
trembling,
weak, helpless creature-a prisoner to his own bed. That is you and me before
we knew anything of Christ's power.

Jesus stood before this helpless man, let down to him through the roof, and
did
not even mention his physical condition. The Lord chose to bring him into
the
Father's presence clean and cleared. He would be accepted before he was
healed.
"When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy
sins
be forgiven thee" (Mark 2:5).

What a beautiful picture of the love of God in Christ Jesus! Here is a
helpless
man, too overwhelmed by his infirmity to even whimper. He cannot even muster
a
weak confession.
"We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2:10). The
Pharisee, with all his good works, his boasting, never did attract the grace
of
the Lord. It is not of works, lest any man should boast.

Show me the child of God who struggles against a hated besetting sin, one
who
is crushed beneath a load of guilt and despair, one who feels helpless and
weak-and I will show you the one who is the object of abundant grace. Where
sin abounds, grace abounds much more (see Romans 5:20).

When you have repented, stand by faith on the finished work of the cross!
Through faith in him, your sins are under the blood. You now live on the
other
side of the veil, seated with Christ in heavenly places, accepted in the
beloved, one with Christ and the Father! God's wrath against your sin has
been
satisfied. You are now more than a conqueror, living and moving in the
Spirit.
You are filled with the fullness of Christ with power to meet everything
having
to do with life and godliness. You are the apple of his eye, renewed in your
mind, and made an heir to all that belongs to Christ the Lord!

The Devil wants to Steal your peace, Joy and everthing and most of the time he uses People to destroy you so be ALERT!

Whenever you are going through trials in your life praise God regardless how you feel.The devil is a spirit and God is a Spirit. They are both watching you. The worst thing you could do is allow fear in your heart to the point that you start talking negative towards your situation.The devil is after your faith in God because He knows faith pleases God Hebrews 11 v6 without faith it is impossible to please God. He doesn't want us to obey God's word. Resit the devil and he will flee from you. Give thanks to Him and praise His name psalm 100 Vs 4 when you start talking negative against God you are doing exactly what the devil wants you to do and you are hurting yourself and the devil is also using you to make a mockery of God too. Don't try to figure out what's going on in your life trust God. 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 path straight Proverbs 3 vs 6 .The tongue has the power of life and death and those who love it will eat its fruit Proverbs 18vs 21. Speak the word of God over your situation and find a scriptures that pertains to your situation and stand on it. Speak it out loud on a daily basis no matter what it looks like in the natural. Please don't say it's hard for you to do . Philippians 4 vs 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. The devil is already defeated 2000 years ago when Jesus died on the cross for our sins and arise from the dead. He is at the right Hand of God cheering for us right now. my brothers and sisters in the Lord you have to understand when a teacher is giving you an exam the teacher never talk during the exam. It's the same thing with God too. If you look at the story of job when the devil ask God permission to take everything away from Job. During that time God stay silent while Job went through His trials .Job never said anything negative about God. He had family and friends who told him to curse God but yet Job never said anything negative about God. please go and read the story of Job in the bible for yourself . God knew that he could trust Job no matter what Job would never stop believing in God's word.At the end Job passed the test. When you are going through a trial in your life the devil put fear in you and you cannot think straight. Fear is False- Evidence- Appear- Real when you spell out the word fear that's exactly what it is. Even if you are feeling afraid speak out the word of God out loud regardless how you feel. The devil cannot see what's in your heart but he can hear what's coming out of your mouth and see your reactions towards your situations. No matter what you are going through in life always put a smile on your face say all is well with you. The joy of the Lord is your strength Nehemiah 8vs10 you have to understand not everyone in your life who really wants what's best for you. There are people in your life who really don't want you to be bless Spiritually financially at all. They want you to stay where they are and not go up or grow spiritually or to be bless by the Lord. Some people when they call you and ask you how you are doing they are not really concern about you at all. They just want to see how bad you are doing. It's a spirit of Jealousy and the devil is behind it all. You have to understand that Judas was one of Jesus disciples and the devil uses him to betrayed Jesus.We have to be careful to guard our heart. Proverb 4vs 23 Above all else guard your heart. We are responsible to guard our hearts. The next thing for you to do is to find Christians who are filled with the Holy Spirit. who are strong in the Lord who's going to uplift you in the Lord. Who is going to encourage you by speaking the word of God in your life. We are who we hang out with. don't hang around with people who's so negative to the point that they drained the life out of you. If you are not affecting someone's life in a positive way and that person is affecting you in a negative way it's time for you to keep your distance from that person. Rather be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell Matthew 10 vs 28.There are people the devil uses to bring you down it doesn't matter it could be family members friends co-workers he is a spirit. He hates God and hates God's people. We need to open our Spiritual eyes in here not many people can go with you where God is taking you. Abraham had to separated himself from His nephew lot because He couldn't go with him where God was taking him. you can read the story for yourself Genesis 13. God has a plan for your life and you cannot people with you where God is taking you. There are people who are hindrance in your life and need to let them go they are keeping you from moving to the next level in God. You have to understand the closer you are getting to your destiny the more the devil will attack you.Moses was called the friend of God.And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him." Gen. 5:24 .We need to keep our peace it doesn't matter what we are facing in our life.The peace Jesus is talking about in here is when you are going through trials of life. you keep the peace of God in your heart no matter what the devil throws at you # 1 you praise God for the Victory . # 2 you keep the peace of God in your heart. # 3 ) you keep joy in your heart. when you rooted in the word of God nothing will move you. That's a signs of maturity in the Lord. you also keep the focus off the situation by serving God when you serve others in different ways by encouraging someone else pray for your brothers and sisters whatever God places in your heart for you to do just obey God.Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the way law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not whither. Whatever he does prospers Psalm 1 vs 1, 2, 3 peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. john 14 vs 27 God bless you all.

Trials & Weaknesses or If you cannot get what you desire most is One perfect way how God will make you Humble & Patient person

Life is always a test because God is molding you to become more patient & humble; hence, its always an easy way to be proud if you have everything but if you possessed weaknesses such as you cannot reach what you want then that's one way to make you humble & patient to wait for God..That is what Happened to St Paul when He said that God allowed weaknesses in his life to keep him from becoming proud but don't you know God can make a weak person shame the powerful? The answer is YES.. Why? Because God is not limited to our limitation; hence, God loves to display His power to weak people just like when Jesus made the weak blind man see and all the people who heard it were so amazed.

Saint Paul admitted in His letter in the bible that He cried out three times to God to removed the the sufferings he was facing but God said NO because it is the Grace of God which is sufficient enough for us to conquer any sort or kinds of sufferings and trials or why you cannot get all the things you desire in life such as:" Unsuccessful Marriage or divorce; Financial Problems; Physically handicap; Joblessness; Barren womb; death of your love ones in the family and among others; etc..

But wait! before you get frustrated, you must realized that whatever problems you face in life, God allowed it for a purpose to make you a better person and that God will used you mightily beyond what you can imagine. And one Great example is the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago. Don't you ever think that Christ crucifixion does not make sense at all as it was very painful and shameful experienced Jesus Christ has to suffer until HE died naked on the cross of calvary?

What do you think is the reason why God the father allowed such thing to happened to His one and only Son Jesus Christ?

The answer is Because of His great Love for you and me. It is the only way to let us be redeemed and become saved from the fires of hell that has already prepared by God for the devil and his children. God knew before the creation of the world the you, me and all humanity is destined to go to hell because no one can saved us except the blood of Jesus which must be shed in order to pay all our sins.

Therefore, I want to conclude that you must not be discouraged if you are a victim of divorce, broken relationships; Financial Limitation and all sort of problems which cannot be imagined anymore because God allows it for a reason only He is the only Person who knows why.

Do you want to know why? Because He has plans to make you great one day just like Abraham & Sarah in the bible history. Abraham & Sarah prayed to have a child but they are already very old and Sarah's womb was barren so Abraham felt so down as there is no longer reason to hope for yet Abraham kept His faith that One day God will answer his prayer.

As a result, Sarah gave birth to Isaac at age more than hundred and God made Abraham the father of all nation and His children was as many as the number of stars in the sky.. Now let me challenge you, Do you now believe that what God did to Abraham can also happened to you? The answer is just persevere and wait on God even though there is no more reason to believe because God knew and sees what is in your heart; and, one day HE will grant the desires of your heart the least you expect of it

Jesus says:"The End Times Is None Of Your Business & Focus More On Doing His Will & Stop Talking About It!!!

"Be Ready but Forget the End Times rather just do His will"

Matthew 24:36-44 declares, “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father…Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come…So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him.” At first glance, these verses would seem to provide a clear and explicit answer to the question. No, no one can know when Jesus is coming back. However, those verses do not say that no one will ever be able to know when Jesus will return. Most Bible scholars would say that Jesus, now glorified in Heaven, knows the timing of His return, indicating that the phrase “nor the Son” does not mean Jesus will never know when He will return. Similarly, it is possible that, while Matthew 24:36-44 indicates that no one at that time could know the timing of Jesus’ return, God could reveal the timing of Jesus’ return to someone in the future.

In addition, there is Acts 1:7, which states, "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority." This was said by Jesus after the disciples asked Him if He was at that time going to restore the kingdom to Israel. This would seem to confirm the message of Matthew 24. It is not for us to know the timing of Jesus coming back. But, there is also the question of to which return these passages are referring. Are they speaking of the rapture or the second coming? Which return is unknowable—the rapture, the second coming, or both? While the rapture is presented as being imminent and mysterious, the timing of the second coming could potentially be pinpointed based on end-times prophecy.

With that said, let us be abundantly clear: we do not believe that God has revealed to anyone when Jesus is coming back, and we see nothing in Scripture which indicates that God will ever reveal to anyone when Jesus is coming back. Matthew 24:36-44, while spoken directly to the people in Jesus’ time, also contains a principle. The timing of Jesus’ return and the end of the age is not for us to know. Scripture nowhere encourages us to try to determine the date. Rather, we are to “keep watch, because we do not know on which day our Lord will come” (v. 42). We are to “be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when we do not expect Him” (v. 44). The force of Jesus’ words diminishes if at some point in the future someone will be able to determine when Jesus is coming back. If the date is discovered, we no longer need to “keep watch” or “be ready” until the date is approaching. So, with the principle of Matthew 24:36-44 is mind, no, it is not possible for anyone to know the date that Jesus is coming back.

Despite this clear biblical principle, many throughout Christian history have attempted to prophesy the date that Jesus is coming back. Many such dates have been proposed, and all of them have been wrong. Today, there are two popular proposed dates: May 21, 2011, and December 21, 2012. The December 21, 2012, date is related to the Mayan calendar, with no biblical data used as evidence. The May 21, 2011, date is proposed by Harold Camping of Family Radio. It should be noted that Harold Camping previously predicted that Jesus would come back in 1994. Obviously, Camping was wrong. This should give us yet another reason to doubt the validity of his prediction of May 21, 2011. Camping, does, however, claim to find evidence for the May 21, 2011, date in Scripture. By using a speculative date of 4990 B.C. for the Flood, and then applying the “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years” of 2 Peter 3:8 to the seven days of Genesis 7:4, and then counting down the 7000 years from 4990, the year 2011 results. Then, based on “the seventeenth day of the second month” from Genesis 7:11 and using the Hebrew calendar, the date of May 21 is determined. So, is there any validity to Camping’s methodology?

First, Camping conveniently ignores the second half of 2 Peter 3:8, “and a thousand years as one day.” Further, 2 Peter 3:8 is not providing a method for dating the end times. Rather, 2 Peter 3:8 is simply saying that God is above and beyond time. God is timeless, infinite, and eternal. Second, nothing in the context of Genesis 7:4-11 indicates that the “seven days” and “seventeenth day of the second month” are to be interpreted as applying to anything other than what God was specifically saying to Noah. Third, the Flood being dated to 4990 B.C. is speculative at best, with no explicit biblical evidence. Camping’s calculation of May 21, 2011, falls apart with even the most basic biblical scrutiny. Now, is it possible that Jesus is coming back on May 21, 2011? Yes, but it is just as possible that He will come back on any other date. Does Harold Camping’s particular dating methodology have any biblical validity? No, it does not. Assuming that Jesus does not return on or before May 21, 2011, Camping and others will surely calculate new future dates and will attempt to explain away mistakes by “errors in the formula” or something to that effect.

The key points are (1) the Bible nowhere encourages us to attempt to discover the timing of Jesus’ return, and (2) the Bible gives no explicit data by which the timing of Jesus’ return can be determined. Rather than developing wild and speculative calculations to determine when Jesus is coming back, the Bible encourages us to “keep watch” and “be ready” (Matthew 24:42-44). The fact that the day of Jesus’ return is unknown is what should motivate us to live every day in light of the imminence of Christ’s return.

What does it mean to say that you need to Forget the past because You are now a New person?

Newness of life! “If anyone is in Christ Jesus, he (or she) is a new creation; old things have gone, new things have come!”

Our old lives were often full of despair; of sin; of regrets; of unhappiness; of serving ourselves and not serving God. Our new lives once we have accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior can be filled with the fruits of God’s Holy Spirit — peace, and love, and joy, and patience, and kindness, and gentleness, and faithfulness, and self-control. The Kingdom of God can reign in your life and in mine.

How do we experience the kingdom of God in our life? First, we must accept Christ as our Lord and Savior. We must also repent — which means to turn from our own ways and from sin and turn to God. Ask forgiveness of your sins. Then ask the Holy Spirit of God to come into your heart and life and fill you full of God’s love, and His life, and His Holy Spirit. You can experience newness of life.

Finally, focus your mind on things that are good. “Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about these things.” Set your minds on the things that are of God and not on the things on earth. Focus on Jesus Christ and His kingdom and fill your thoughts with what is good — and let Jesus Christ transform your life and make everything new.

Why Pride is like a cancer in our lives? I Encouraged comments and Reactions to this Topic

Why Pride is like a cancer in our Lives? It is because all sort of troubles such as anger, violence, unforgiveness, hatred in many forms; lying and all source of evilness comes from pride alone because it all started from satan himself when he was made by God as one of the the most beautiful angel in heaven, he wanted to become like God and started acting like one therefore, he was casted out in the heavenly world and he was called satan or the devil and popularly known as the devil. You might wonder that there are so many terrible things the devil did to God and His people here on earth. In other words, everytime there is pride in you, be better watch out because that is satan residing inside of you and you can do terrible things by destroying your life and other's because of that simple as you may wanna call it:"The pride".. Because of Pride many marriage were broken due to unforgiveness and nonacceptance of one's fault. Because of pride, there is war among nations; because of pride there is rebellion even inside the wonderful family; because of pride, people fights until bloodshed has reached; because of pride, people don't get married; because of pride, people are ready to kill and do anything. That is because Pride is the capital of all sin.