"and you know you do know is our purpose in this world "
" Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. And he said unto them, Thus it is written that Christ will suffer and rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things "(Luke 24 :45-48).
Send this prayer to Him who grants salvation:
Lord Jesus Christ, it is a great privilege to have known you. Me, a sinner, once removed from my Creator, here I am now one of your beloved, friend and brother you are the Creator of the universe, you, the creator of the Eternal Word made flesh in this world to become my Savior, my Friend, my Brother with whom I became co-heir of the heavenly kingdom. Your great love has been shown to me by your incarnation not only performed the nativity that we celebrate at Christmas, but also and especially by your death on the cross for the forgiveness of my sins and resurrection from the dead that as we celebrate Easter and celebrate every Sunday. You have reconciled with my Creator and you make me enjoy the privileges of being a citizen of the Kingdom of heaven. Through forgiveness you grant me for my sins, you brought me into a big family that is your church, consisting of all those who know you and are your disciples. Thou art the head of this family that resembles a body that has many members and a single head. You are the head of the Church in your body. You joined this family by strong bonds of divine love that crossed the boundaries of nations, tribes, languages, races and other barriers to build bridges that can unite those who once were far and separated by prejudice or other than your cross came to be demolished. Thanks to your knowledge, all your true disciples can know and experience true fellowship. Glad to know you and be yours, but also happy to take responsibility for you to inform those who have not themselves the privilege of knowing you. know you and you do know is our purpose in this world. Every true disciple made disciples for you. For thy gospel, when actually received in a heart, he not only transforms the life of the person who has received, but he allows that person to bear much fruit with the ability to lead lost souls to you to save them from eternal fire. That's what you call us after we have saved. The Evangelist Luke says your words with this mission that you entrust to us as we both now and in your first disciples there are over two thousand years "Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. And he said unto them, Thus it is written that Christ would suffer and rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things "(Luke 24 :45-48). All those who claim to be your disciples the mission to impact and positively transform their communities with your message of love and forgiveness that is not a formula or a theory but must respond to real needs and connect with people today, according to the pattern you have us on your own legacy. You we Team to enable us to communicate the Good News that brings life and transforms lives. Wherever your Holy Spirit works in lives that you have impacted It becomes a spiritual atomic energy which is chain reaction (Acts 1: 8, 2 :1-12). It makes every Christian a tool that is triggering the spiritual atomic power to increase the amount of your Life, Lord Jesus Christ in this world by converting about you every day new people who open their heart to receive you and which in turn make you known to others around them in their community. It is the mark of the normal life of a true church or your life, this spiritual atomic power is present and released by your true followers , Because it brings life and not death, and because your life is meant to be shared and communicated to all those who have not yet received (Acts 4 :4,18-31, 5: 12 - 14; 6: 7, 8 :26-40, 9: 31, 35.42. Wherever your life is missing, the Lord Jesus Christ, there develops an atmosphere of spiritual death characterized by all the works of the pulpit (Galatians 5 :19-21). Where your Gospel is received, believed and lived, the Lord Jesus Christ, then it becomes a power whose gravitational pull is irresistible. His ability to transform lives that it is convincing because it is not received as a formula, but a reality that is embodied in the daily lives of those in whose hearts you live. Lord Jesus Christ, my God, I want you to be seen in my life with the virtues that characterize yourself in the Gospels. Let your Holy Spirit take control of my entire life. My mouth opens to announce your wonders, the Good News of salvation and forgiveness of sins. Thank you Lord to be associated with your work to be one of your messengers who know you and work to make you understand, to be the bearer of the gospel of life that transforms lives and try to be a marker that can contribute the transformation of my community to your image. Blessed be your wonderful name. Amen! .
Your friend and brother in Christ, Pastor Samuel
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Gozegba Pastor Rudolph, Central, replied on 23/12/2009:
Dear Lord in the morning,
I just wanted to thank you for your efforts night and day for our Lord and tell you my support. Know that the Lord will not forsake you. It will reward you a hundredfold in a timely manner. Whether to give a word of encouragement to the church which you are responsible is to say: The path is still long, but courage and she knows that the Lord will always remember her.
All my thoughts are with you
You are blessed
Pastor Rudolph
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Jeanine Cros, France, responded on 23/12/2009:
Thanks Samuel for new promising.
May our Lord and Savior, keep us in the joy of the awareness of him who alone illuminates the night of Christmas and beyond!
Rm 15. 13: May God who gives hope fill you with peace and joy! .
In his love, mercy, forgiveness!
Jeanine.
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My dear Samuel,
WORDS THAT DO NOT FLY!
strange assertion seems to contradict the popular adage: the words fly away, writings remain!
It is also necessary to define what is meant by "words".
In this case, it is not a question of form, verbal or written, but the background, content, meaning which these words carry.
Some words are so light, so meaningless, frivolous if the slightest breeze carries them away like dead leaves. Others are so dense, so rich in meaning, so rooted in a soil that breathes truth they stand the test of time.
Some even, by what they express, seem to defy time and carry with them like a perfume of eternity!
The two texts are presented to you in this vein.
These verses introduce respectively Psalm 95 and Psalm 96 that we find in the Bible.
Psalm 95:
"Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord!
Let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation!
Come out to meet Him with thanksgiving,
Let sounding hymns in his honor!
For the LORD is a great God.
It is a great King above all gods! "
Psalm 96:
" Sing unto the Lord a new song!
Sing to the Lord, all ye inhabitants of the earth!
Sing to the Lord, bless his name,
Advertise day to day his salvation!
Tell his glory among the nations,
Among the peoples his wonders! "
there in the literature of men a single text that is animated by such a blast, so powerful, such a conviction, such a momentum and that offers readers a spectacle as grand and prospects?
While you will be able to marvel at such and such a gem expertly crafted by the pen of a great writer or a famous poet, and you may be transported by the beauty of images that evoke nature in that it can have delicate as majestic, peaceful or otherwise tumultuous awakening in you the full range of your feelings, you will perhaps be as upset by the admirable praises carried by a great voice at the funeral of a person of high rank accompanied to the Pantheon, and these are natural reactions!
But, however, you must recognize that once these big emotions off, you just a memory in the past that time will take care of hopelessly blurred.
fact is that, admirable though these texts are also moving these speeches, they only describe objects, animate or inanimate, which are part of a passing world and dies, sending us tragically in our human condition stigmatized by its transience!
So goes the breath that extolled, creature creation and, inevitable in a return to its roots, earth, end of all hopes and all illusions!
But back to the Psalms we read the first verses and you will discover the underlying reasons that make them exceptional texts!
Here, no sadness, no fear, no regrets sterile, no tears, true or false, no face stuffy, no emotions or feelings labile fugitive!
Item not more inward-looking in pain and suffering, no more than savored in enjoyment of the narrow circle of his intimate me selfish!
Here, everything is combined in the plural in a communion of joy that feeds on the joy of each other to go further intensify in an upward motion that leaves the earth to ascend to heaven!
But what or whom do we owe such enthusiasm?
Where does this force of attraction which thus causes such an outcry?
In what mysterious place, how invigorating source as the psalmist did he go his inspiration to dare to proclaim the universal call also?
Summons Does the size, intelligence or power of a man raised to the rank of demi-god in the image Roman winners advance to the finale?
Or better yet, does it refer to the demiurge of Plato in his Timaeus, is presented as a pure intelligence authorizing the cosmos? Not at all!
Summons Does the natural elements as much or entities supermundane immanent gods could justify such enthusiasm?
Not at all! For, indeed, the eye of the Psalmist is attracted by a character infinitely more senior whose stature and power beyond any human conception. It is, nothing less than the great King who reigns over all the gods!
Better yet! It bears the glorious name of Jehovah the great God who dwells in heaven.
Better yet! It is presented as God the Creator.
Better yet! It is called the rock of our salvation.
Therefore, we understand better the riches of the resonances which vibrate these texts that have survived to reach us today ..
More than that, they know how to vibrate the strings of our hearts, naturally sensitive to the dimension of eternity.
And it is because the Lord God, everyone has the concept of eternity that the image of the "rock of our salvation" also called "the Rock of Ages' takes on even greater relief.
But now this "rock of salvation" which the psalmist speaks with so much flame, implicitly recalling the saving action of the LORD for Israel, its people, here it stands before us in features an unusual character, even those of Jesus Christ, the Son of God became the son of man for the salvation of men.
This Jesus who left us these words that no one on earth has dared say:
"If anyone thirsts, let him come unto me and drink. Whoever believes in me, rivers of living water flow from within him. "(Gospel of John ch 7v38 cf Isaiah 12V3 ch and ch 55v1)
The apostle Paul, addressing the Christians of Corinth (1 Cor ch10v1à4) affirms the preexistence of Jesus Christ by presenting in metaphorically as the "spiritual rock" which followed his people into the desert to quench his thirst:
"Our fathers drank in the wilderness the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ. "
What's more, if not that strong from what we know about the grace of God manifested in Jesus Christ who died for the redemption of our sins and rose for our justification, all things does the psalmist was a glimpse, we can not we go with the same breath from above in a gushing praise of our hearts overflowing with eternal gratitude.
So, my friends, come sing joyfully to the Lord!
Let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation!
Telling his glory among the nations,
Among the peoples his wonders!
Jean-Marc Ausset, on 15/11/2009
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