Here is a Christian thought that God put me in my heart for my friends in the Net:
You make your church, the window of your kingdom in the world
"And I tell you that you are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church, e t that the doors stay deaths not prevail against it "(Matthew 16: 18).
Send this prayer to the builder par excellence of the Church:
"Lord Jesus Christ, your church is not the name X or Y, even if that name was a mega-church, with its powerful economic and political influence in its medium. Your church is your body, composed of all true believers that you saved from their sins, confess your name and obey Your Word, and whose members are found in all denominations of churches across the world, large and small, and others meet in cells and houses and other private premises for two, three or more. No names of churches, whatever name it bears and the size of its greatness, can not claim a monopoly of being alone your church and none of them is qualified to grant or hello to bring someone in heaven, for you alone, Lord Jesus Christ, are the Saviour and the only one who can open or close the gate of Paradise. All individuals around the world who believe in all sincerity in your name are saved and are your people, your church, you called out to the world belong to you and sends you into the world to its your members are ambassadors, messengers, your servants. They are called Christians because they believe in yourself and learn to live with your likeness to embody in their midst your Gospel, your values. Each day, through their lives, they try to shine your light and make your taste with their fellow citizens to make you known to them, glorify God, honor his name, his holiness, his power, his love, mercy, grace, truth, justice and who rejoice to live each day in his presence in communion with you and in peace with each other and their surroundings. They are like Christians who make up your church, and who shall be your ambassadors in this world to embody and promote your virtues, without shame or compromise your gospel in its entirety (2 Corinthians 5: 20). You make your church, the window of your kingdom in the world. members of your church know that love is to follow your teachings is to obey your Word full (John 8: 30.31; 14: 15). They also know that you have established your Church to be the shining example of your kingdom on earth and in this way, you attract men and women, boys and girls, individuals, families, people of all tribes and all languages, nations and people of all colors to fit them into the life of your kingdom and to bring them to live each day on this earth that your virtues are: love , fidelity, truth, integrity, justice (Galatians 5: 22). It this Church, composed with such Christians have such moral and spiritual values, that is your church and you are spirited to build as you told and your disciple Peter asked to be one of instruments that you would use to build this Church "And I tell you that you are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matthew 16: 18 ). your Church, the real is the reflection of yourself in this world. Any true Christian would no obstacle to expressing your Kingdom on earth as any impediment to the promotion of your values are in the world makes us, not your servants and your disciples, but instruments earned to the cause of the Devil, the enemy of your kingdom, which works to oppose your ways and the fulfillment of your plans for the salvation of humanity and thus slow the growth of your kingdom in this world. Your church, the real, is composed of Christians who live in this world according to your divine identity in their body. They become human hands which you used to bring relief to your people in difficulties and their heart beats to the rhythm of your love and your compassion for their fellow man (Luke 10 :25-37). When a church, a denomination of churches can no longer question its system in light of the written revelation of God's Word, taking your Word, Lord Jesus Christ as his measuring stick in matters of faith and of conduct, the church or the denomination of churches, even if it was called Protestant, evangelical or otherwise, and belonged to a union, a federation of Protestant churches, evangelical or otherwise, can relate to your church, Lord Jesus Christ. Since it no longer represents your virtues, showed no difference between her and the world because ignores values that are dear to the heart of God and that your life, Lord Jesus Christ, was a perfect demonstration: love, truth, justice, forgiveness, compassion , mercy, integrity, joy, faithfulness, virtue without which a church is dead because it is no longer a church of Jesus Christ because it has lost its soul, its vitality, the reality of divine presence in it. Unable to live the values of the Kingdom of God on earth, it becomes a religious monument which is good only to protect the religious system as unable to promote the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and lead sinners in the way of true repentance to you Jesus Christ the Savior, receive forgiveness for their sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit to live the life of God. It brings its members to worship instead of worshiping the true and living God. Its members take pleasure in the life of sin after evacuating their heart and God in their "church" has become a system that takes himself for God, impeding the action of the Holy Spirit in her womb and leaving the enemy free rein to occupy the throne to thee and it had even allowed the devil, your enemy, to carry out the actions and operations according to his strategist who does not contribute to the progress of your work, Lord Jesus Christ, nor the expansion of the gospel in this world. By removing God from her bosom, she loses the power of God that creates and transforms again by providing the true believer a new nature in the likeness of thy nature, O Lord Jesus Christ. Your church, true that you build and which you are the head, like you and shall continue through the centuries because it can not die, for the gates of hell can not do anything against her because she has your life and maintenance within it. Churches systems will disappear when the test of true faith, but your church, Lord Jesus Christ, remains and always emerges victorious over all trials and even attacks whose purpose is to make it disappear. Your church, Lord Jesus Christ, is not built on a political or economic system, but by yourself through the lives of people really converted to thee, living your life and have been converted to your image and are full power of your Holy Spirit and show clearly the presence of God within the company to impact all systems and all the spheres of society through the life of God and the values of your kingdom and manifested through the channel of your church in the world, one that you build every day and maintain against all odds. Lord Jesus Christ, you do not say that Peter will overshadow your church by putting himself on a pedestal for t'évacuer of the Church, but you said he is down, subject to you and your Word to become a rock on which your church can be held to be the showcase of your kingdom on earth. Thou, Lord Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church and do you have to be visible and not the living stones that we are, and with which you build your Church. These living stones are to remain faithful to your Word and submitted to your authority and serve you with integrity and zeal. Lord Jesus Christ, you need all of us, like one of those living stones, to continue to build your church. To build your church and allow it to be the radiance of your glory in this world, you need to cut the living stones, each brick, each with the size you want to put in place as you want. Therefore, you our potter through the trials of life and ministry to make us more in line with you. To put ourselves in the place you want and for progress of your work in this world, do you sometimes we go through crises in the example of the plot of Joseph's brothers who sold him into slavery to the Ishmaelites to be brought into Egypt (Genesis 37: 25 - 28) which allowed Joseph a few years later, thanks for your welfare, leaving the slave status to that of a prime minister in Egypt and become a source for its salutary same brothers who sold him slave, and for their families, which he saved from famine and to them to hear Joseph, their brother, saying "You meditated harm me, God meant it for good to accomplish what is happening today, to save many people alive "(Genesis 50: 20) , or, as the persecution occurred against your church in Jerusalem that your disciples scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria (Acts 8: 1) and permitted by the very fact that crowds of people in these places are put in contact with Good News and converted to you (Acts 8 :4-13). Yes, Lord Jesus Christ as a "living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious to God" (1Peter 2: 4) , I want to be and remain, for it is with live rock that you build your Church "a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer victims spiritual, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ "(1Peter 2: 5) . All living stones through the furnace tests to be purified and then solidified to be placed in the space provided by the Divine Master, you are in your spiritual home, your church, be happy with you, share your joy and your joy because your Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God rests on them (1Peter 4 :12-16). And they form the holy house, your true Church, is the radiance of the glory of God in the world. The church where this lack reflection of God, can not be identified in your church, Lord Jesus Christ, because unable to truly represent you in this world. She is disqualified to be your window because the actions of its members does not reflect the identity of the disciples of yours. Lord Jesus Christ, forgive me for having too often been content to be a caricature of your identity instead of your reflection, the window values of your kingdom in my community. Help me Lord to be a real live rock in your Church, to live your life and reflect and to make you well know in all your virtues, which are oxygen movement in the heavenly kingdom in our world and brings peoples of all nations of good flavor and light to dispel the darkness that try to invade. Lord Jesus Christ, revival churches who say proclaim your gospel. Bring them to identify with your church, not only in doctrine but in their daily life and above all, be your window, the manifestation of your kingdom, so to report daily their credential for the mandate you entrusted us as individuals and as a Christian church to live and proclaim your Gospel in all its entirety in this world. Blessed be thy glorious name forever, my Lord and my God. Amen! .
Your brother in Christ,
Pasteur Samuel SANOU
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Pastor Jean-Marc AUSSET, France, said September 27, 2010:
The Church window the love of God among men.
"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if you have love for each other!"
Gospel of John 13 v 35
This beautiful words of Son of God to his disciples, that his Church of all times and all places, then calls each local church that now claims to his authority and his lordship.
More than ever, this speech is relevant!
In a world where reigns supreme love of money, power and pleasure, where individualism expresses springs from selfishness and pride of the human soul, it was nothing less than the reminder of this great truth to reorient the thinking of our contemporaries to the right things, those who are carriers of life and eternity.
"Do you like one another as I have loved you ", was the slogan given by the Lord Jesus Christ to his disciples. This leitmotif, not taken his apostles, shows loving your neighbor and a fortiori its enemy, is neither natural nor spontaneous and need all the resources of divine grace to implement such a program of life.
The local church, which brings together in one place the disciples of Christ, born again by the action of the Holy Spirit, is called to proclaim the virtues of love of God poured into the heart of the believer.
Love of a God who forgives and welcomes the repentant sinner, love that gives meaning to his life in the 'animating
new feelings of adoration, gratitude and service, tilting his heart to open up to others in a spirit of kindness, generosity and altruism.
For, indeed, true love does not just say, do not sing alone, does not only proclaim but he practically lives through the gift of self to others!
Words fly away, but acts remain!
The Church is therefore a showcase for these actions of love that bear witness to the reality of the work of regenerating Spirit of God in the hearts of his children. By
visible and concrete expression of brotherly love which animates
, church Local presence of God becomes the world.
She gives God to discover and see.
It is a showcase of the kingdom of God among men. But such a program which aims to reveal the light of truth in a world of darkness and lies, requires a full commitment to the One who embodied this light, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
As her Master, she will have to fight against the prince of darkness whose defeat was signed during his resurrection.
Thus, in this struggle for the triumph of love in his life
, the child of God can take this reality faith, to achieve happiness and success with the injunction left by his Master, "you love each other!
"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if you have love for each other!
That the Lord Jesus Christ be with us every day to his Church to be the showcase of his love.
Fraternally
Jean-Marc
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Jeanine Cros, France, said September 27, 2010:
Thanks Samuel for the news. ..
Thank the Lord who takes care of his beloved ... even in the storm.
Let our lives, our churches glorify you, Lord! (Maybe you know this song?)
That our lives are truly a reflection of the goodness of God's grace, expressed his great love, with power, the Cross of Calvary.
sorry, Lord for all the wrongs done to your Holy Name, and thank you for the sanctification and purification, which makes us more consistent with our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ.
To him be glory and victory!
Fraternally.
Jeanine.
