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Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Yesterday after class i got to talk with two Muslim classmates about God. One of them even took a book of John. Im just praying that they both would receive a revelation of Christ.

Sunday, 05 October 2008

I've been learning alot about the personality of the Holy Spirit in a class I take once a week. We're on the third chapter of this book. The book was written by Fuchsia Pickett and its entitled Understanding the Personality of the Holy Spirit. Anyways in the book she talks about the character of the Holy Spirit and she also describes types and emblems of the spirit. Emblem is to take something abstract or metaphor and describe it in a general ethical or spiritual meaning(what the book says). So one of the emblems that stuck out to me was Earnest. That word means first down payment. Eph 1:13-14 says' yet me are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession'. Ms. Pickett wrote that We have not received the fullness of our inheritance yet, but God gave us the Holy Spirit as a SAMPLE of what life would be like when we are FULLY redeemed.
To hear that He is the sample overwhelms me to even think what it would be like to get the full dose. God has sealed us with the Holy Spirit and part of His character shows a down payment or promise that God is coming back to fully redeem. PRAISE GOD.

Thursday, 25 September 2008

Currently Listening
Christmas with Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne & Nate King Cole
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God is sooooooooooooooooo faithful. My brother rededicated his life to Jesus today.

Sunday, 07 September 2008

Thoughts

Believing in the promises of God takes precedence of what we understand in the natural. To get a sneak peep at what is to come is a blessing but yet an encouragement in itself. This encouragement is knowing that He has bigger and better things planned that might now be seen in the mist of the fog but trusting Him through it gets us to the other side. A promise can't happen without God taking us there to get it. Trusting in the Lord with all you heart and leaning not on one's own understanding in all your ways knowledge Him and He will make your path straight. In the natural it doesn't make sense but He is SUPERnatural(knowing exceedingly more then what is natural to man...HE IS GOD).

Sunday, 31 August 2008

Book: Power in the Blood
Author: Charles Spurgeon
pages: 190

           This book was so awesome. I cannot just talk on just one thing from this book. I bought this book during war week at Revival Tab at the very end of july-Aug 1st. In the first chapter Spurgeon talks about sin as a disease. He says, "Sin is a disease because it puts the whole system of man out or order. 'It places lower faculties in the higher place, for it makes the body master over the soul' ". When I was in Chicago some weeks ago there was a man by the name of Robert Madu that spoke of Adam being connected to God like a plug getting power from a socket. He said that he could do the things of God because he was plugged into the very source that gave him power. He responded and operated on a spiritual level because he always stayed connected to the father who is spirit. The connection broke when disease(sin) started to take over, body was master over his soul.
             It makes sense to say that sin puts the system of man out of order. Sin robs us of the glory of God. Some people sin in different ways or for different reasons because of a lack of hope. When there is faith in the Father your actions produces that hope. When a someone is sick the body works to fight off the sickness. Fighting off that sickness causes other symptoms to occur whether its fever, cold sweats, hives etc whatever. The body is not the same even while fighting. When a cure is given, it helps the body to return back to its original state. The blood of Jesus is the cure for our disease(sin). Spurgeon explains the verse Isaiah 53:5, "with His stripes we are healed". Not only does it mean sickness but the disease of sin that keeps us from God. How awesome it is that He is the great physician is able to heal any and every disease. PRAISE GOD.
       We have no idea the cost that was paid with and through His blood. If sin was viewed as crime, we would all fall short but God in His greatness has looked at our sin as a disease that He the Great Physician is able to heal and restore no matter how great or serious it may be. HE IS GOD. BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.