" I am the vine, ye are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in the same bears much fruit: for without me you can do nothing "(John 15: 5).
Lord Jesus Christ, you're the author of my salvation. In you I believe and receive eternal life. It also keep you came to me through your Holy Spirit that enables me to live your life and makes me able to serve you. Staying in you, makes all the difference! nothing we can undertake ourselves and succeed without your assistance. And without your life in us, our lives will remain sterile and can not bear any fruit of the Christian virtues that only your life is capable of producing in us. Therefore, in sending you to your disciples you insisted on need for them to remain in you. Your disciple John in your words relating wrote this: "I am the vine, ye are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in the same bears much fruit: for without me you can do nothing "(John 15: 5). Lord Jesus Christ, you want us to bear much fruit in your image that glorify your name as branches that remain attached to the vine. Avail himself of yourself and do not exhibit the traits of your life in our own lives is self-delusion, is to deceive the world and it is to mock God. Your salvation is a work you're doing in our lives through the power of the Holy Spirit who works the miracle of transformation. When this transformation is not obvious, when sin continued to dominate ours is that we do not really encountered thee: for thou canst not live in a heart without making a difference, without transforming the life of this person. That's why you said that he who abides in you and in which you live, this one is your fruit. That is to say that this person lives as you lived. Becoming a Christian is more than intellectual assent, is to receive you personally in her heart and leave you to perform the daily miracle of transformation. Living faith in you leads us to acknowledge you as Lord of our life and it pushes us to submit to your commands. And where your commands are accepted and lived, where your life shine like a diamond in all its magnificence. The heart in which you live and your Holy Spirit filled, is experiencing a new life as a heart s'affectionne now things of the Spirit. Your Spirit in us, distracts us from ourselves and direct our gaze to you Lord Jesus Christ for you reveal to us in all your glory and we get to love your life and live your life to glorify you. Thus, with our permission, your Holy Spirit you have made to dwell in us in our conversion to you, our gradual transformation operates in your image. Yes, life has really given to you, Lord my God, becomes your yard where your Spirit is working to produce them your life, Lord Jesus Christ, hope of glory. So, for your presence in our hearts, your light of glory shines every day ever in our lives and transforms us from glory to glory to your likeness (2 Corinthians 3: 18, Colossians 1 :27-29). Lord Jesus Christ is a grace and a great privilege to have known you. But it is also a glorious vocation for everyone who believed in you. For we who have this grace to believe, you made your light shine Life in our hearts so that our lives do shine in the Church and the world, the knowledge of God's glory, the glory as we gaze upon thy face and reflected on every true Christian who lives in you and in which you live. The true Christian is like your glorious image, Lord Jesus Christ. When a church that must shine your glory is clouded by the darkness because the Devil has become the benchmark, it has lost its vocation and purpose in this world. You are very saddened to see your church which bears little fruit to your likeness. Your heart is broken when you see the amount of people who claim to represent you in a little church in the quality of your life which must spring from within them to dump as much as a light and pleasant smell of perfume worldwide. Therefore, the Lord Jesus Christ comes to the aid of your Church, by the victory of the resurrection, all the time you see that is missing from his oil lamp and let your light flickers within it and does light over the world to show them the path. Lord Jesus Christ helps us in your church, when you see your lost sheep nature sheep and begin to look like rabies dogs ready to bite and hurt other sheep or shepherds of your flock. Forgive us, Lord Jesus Christ for the cartoons of images that we present in this world by our witness that truly tarnished your image instead of your real image shine and glorify your name. Lord Jesus Christ, I want the days, weeks, months and years that you give me to live again on this earth, either you give me opportunities to shine the light of the glorious reflection of your image in my life. This is also why I want to be daily, weekly and year that you give to live in your homes that are admirable. I want my life to be the reflection of your sweet-smelling perfume for people in my community among whom I live for and serve as testimony to better expansion of the gospel in this world Liberator. Get your scent Lord Jesus Christ, that you make known to those around us by showing them the fragrance of the heavenly atmosphere that lives in us by your presence in our hearts and that emerges from our lives make a difference. I never blessed with your holy and glorious name of my Lord and my God upon whom all my confidence. Amen! .
Your friend and brother in Christ, Pastor Samuel
SANOU
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Pasteur Simplice Osse, responded with good wishes and encouragement on 29/12/2009:
Good Day New Year and may the Lord acorde advantage
strength and peace for the work that you confide in the region. He
that you call will remain faithful to MENR out its work in you and through you
Greetings to the whole church from us.
Pasteur Osse Simplice
www.ossee.unblog.fr
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Theophilus and Mary, have responded with good wishes and encourager 12/29/2009:
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Ms. Jeanine CROS, France, replied on 29/12/2009:
Thanks Samuel for this encouraging message,
It remains true that we are constantly invited by the Lord to "remain in Christ and bear fruit. " O
our lives and our prayers are truly a fragrance of Christ the Lord
guard each of his sheep, who shares her suffering, to practices that His Holy Spirit, can not approve.
Thanks Samuel for your example of forgiveness, as the Lord asks us, thanks to the Lord who speaks to the heart, and leads some to repentance, and others to perseverance in the test.
Our sighs are enrolled in heaven.
Our Lord is the winner! ; To Him be the glory! Amen.
Fraternally.
Jeanine.
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Pastor Rudolph GOZEGBA, Central, responded on 28/12/2009:
Hello dearly loved
It is with pleasure that inexplicable every week, I open and read your mail. I would like here in a word, you say congratulations on your efforts, your multiple approaches and style show me all the events that the church has experienced! I found your photos very interesting, very well done and good qualities. Know that these things are read and seen with great interest and even addiction. Therefore I can only thank you especially for the knowledge you give me with what you do day and night. Thank you very much and please continue to do so.
I do not forget the team that you work together. May the Lord bless and that gives opportunities to productivity.
May the Lord bless his church and that you care.
Pastor Rudolph
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Justin Muzindusi, Kenya, said on 28/12/2009:
Dear Samuel and Louise
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Marc Booker, Belgium, on 28/12/2009 replied:
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George and Mado CARLSON, France, replied on 28/12/2009:
Friendship in Christ George and Mado.
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Pastor Jean-Marc AUSSET, France, replied on 28/12/2009:
SIMPLE WORDS OF MAN? to you to judge!
Many men whose name is engraved in the annals of mankind or because of the virtues of their lives, from the meanness of their acts: statesmen, poets, soldiers, politicians, writers, musicians and philosophers who have left traces of their passage here, but that time has eroded or covered with silt from oblivion.
Only witnesses of their past reputation, some of their words made famous they still remain by the symbolism they convey.
- is the "tu quoque, mi fili "You too, my son, who expresses the pain of Caesar when he sees among his assassins, Brutus, his adopted son.
- is the "eureka" Archimedes who expresses his joy when he discovered suddenly in his bath, the law of the eponymous thrust on the body immersed in water.
- is the cry of pride of Caesar: "Veni, vidi, vici" I came, I saw, I conquered, he addressed the Senate to tell the speed his victory over Pharnaces King of Pontus.
- this word is the Latin poet Horace presumptuous to say that a century of our era: "I will not die because my whole work will outlive me."
- is the cry of bitterness of Cicero who speaks against the evil men of his time: "O tempora, o mores, 'o time, o mores!
- This cry of foolish pride that threw in the face of the world, Nero, when he will be slaughtered, "qualix artifex pereo ! "What a great artist dies with me
The list is long of those whose words were in their time, their place in everyday language!
But what about today "alea jacta is" the die is cast, delivered by Caesar at the Rubicon, or "I am, I remain" Mac Mahon ?
Words, just words that dictionaries are only track!
And what of those who voted?!
Who remembers Caesar, Archimedes, Horace, Nero or Cicero, if not a handful of students, professors of classics or history of preference for which they are a necessary?
What impact, these great men, do they have in the lives of our contemporaries?
But now, defying the ravages of time and the contingencies of space, will hear an incredible statement:
" heaven and earth will pass away but my words shall not pass ! "(Gospel of Matthew ch24v35).
Who dared to utter such words that defy human reason?
is the very man who in Jerusalem, during his interrogation by the high priest, chief of the Jewish religious authorities who asked him: "I charge thee by the living God to tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God! "Replied," you said! .
Such an assertion that could not lead his speaker to a certain conviction, carries the stamp of truth and sincerity.
This Jesus, Christ, the Son of God, whose memory has been erased by time or neither slander that I invite you to meet and discover through these few lines.
His resurrection, which is the most outstanding event and the most glorious of all human history, marked by the seal of truth and authenticity of all his words and his speeches.
His message of love has transformed lives, transformed and transcended stunted existences, and even today, he continued throughout his work on the land of hello.
Neither emperor nor a general nor a philosopher nor a mathematician but a simple carpenter's son from the village of Nazareth his name is still shining in letters of fire, because Jesus Christ is the Son of God!
" Never man spake like this man ! "(Gospel of John ch7v46) and the ushers were expressed before the priests, who witnessed his crucifixion.
But so what were those words that aroused such an assessment?
Listen only one who said them and judge for yourselves!
Gospel of John ch 14 v 6:
" I am the way, truth, life. No one comes to the Father by me! "(God the Father means here)
Gospel of John ch 11 v 25:
" I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me will live, even though he dies! "These words
spawned by a ferment of revolution as they disrupt our critical criteria and our thought patterns! But this is a spiritual revolution whose concept is alien to our traditional ways of classifying psychological and physical phenomena.
And yet we are compelled to note that this also a reality that everyone can attest to all those who have experienced throughout the ages and which can describe the internal changes they experienced when they accepted the word as true and trustworthy. .
These words of Christ challenge all those who hear them because of their density and their extraordinary character.
None other than the Son of God himself, could be the author, both in scope than what the man most inventive and boldest is able to conceive.
The texts referred to, speaking resurrection and life, explode with greatness and glory of the Son of God, along with his power, victorious over death itself.
However, the greatness of Jesus Christ comes into its own when he mentions his own sacrificial death.
Matthew 20v26:
" the son of man came not to be served but to serve and give His life a ransom for many . "John 15 v12
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" There is no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you. "
Undoubtedly, if you keep reading until this line is that Jesus Christ, through his words has attracted your attention. I invite you to know him better by discovering through his biographies that give us the New Testament.
The last of his words which should not leave you indifferent is from the Gospel of John ch 3 v 16:
"For God so loved the world that He gave his only Son, that whosoever believes shall not perish but have eternal life. "
Simple words of men? What do you think?
Jean-Marc AUSSET, October 28, 2009
