Thursday, 18 September 2014

THE WORD OF GOD



Everything in nature contains all the powers of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Robert Browning

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

Albert Einstein was a slow learner at school. He was expelled for his poor learning ability. Today we know him as the father of modern physics.

Abraham Lincoln, the renowned president of United States of America had a humble beginning. He failed many times while he attempted to run for office. He would not have tasted success, had he given up midway!

1. Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

2. Michael Jordan
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

3. Confucius
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

4. Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

5. Samuel Beckett
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

6. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jesus Christ
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
Nothing is impossible; the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Jim Elliot
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy

2 Timothy 3:16-17New International Version (NIV)

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Hebrews 4:12New International Version (NIV)

12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

John 1 King James Version (KJV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Psalm 119:105King James Version (KJV)

105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Genesis 1 King James Version (KJV)

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

John 17:17New International Version (NIV)

17 Sanctify them by[a] the truth; your word is truth.
Every reference to "the word" or "the word of God" or "the Word of the Lord" in the New Testament is either logos or rhema, both of which mean "words spoken by a living voice."

Heb 11:3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

The heavens were made by the word of the Lord, and all their host by the breath of his mouth. Psalms 33:6. Notice! The word of the Lord is a "his" — the word is a living being, not a book, not a writing, not the Bible, not a scripture.

The above two verses prove that the word of God or the word of the Lord is the Lord Jesus Christ, who created all things in heaven and earth, and whose name is "the word of God."

·  1 Peter 1:23,25
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, by the word of God that lives and lasts forever.
The Bible does not live and last forever, but Christ, the Word of God, does live and last forever.

You cannot be born again by scripture, reading or hearing it read; but you can be born again by the Spirit, as you respond to hearing and obeying the Spirit, or the word of God within your heart.

The word is the Spirit of Jesus, not a scripture.

The Greek for word in this (click to see) verse is logou (from logos) <3056>: 1) of speech; 1a) a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea; 1b) what someone has said. 

25 But the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word [the word in your heart] by which the gospel is preached to you.

The Bible does not endure forever, but Christ, the Word of God, does endure forever.

The word of God is not motivational speech.
It is power; it is the sound of the living; the effect that is evidently visible in the life of him who believes.
Motivational speech deals with your intellect and offers a soothing effect that is momentary and waxes of with time.

The word of God on the other hand may not excite and at times may baffle you.
It is a scalpel under the arms of the master surgeon.
It is not impulsive, but powerful and active.
It does not act out of conjecture, but out of the skillful art of the greatest scientist, the master architect of the world. Jehovah is his name. Mighty power, great in battle, Jehovah is his name.
Before action and you know it is quick, sharp and active i.e. alive. It analyses the situation case by case, diagnosing item by item that needs to be attended to.
When the sure and you know God is never wrong neither does he do guess work in his judgments, he identifies the kind of medication to prescribe.
Jesus speaks of His word abiding in you. 

Paul said: "The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart [so you may obey it]; that is, the word of faith, which we preach. " Rom 10:8. Where is the word again?
It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it?'  
Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it?' But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, so that you may obey it. Deu 30:11-14.

What good did studying the scriptures do for the Jews? They had the scriptures, but they grossly misunderstood them because they were not listening to the word of God in their hearts to teach them; instead they were searching the scriptures. So in colossal error they crucified the Holy One of Israel, just as the Christians of England and America killed, imprisoned, and seized the property of the early Quakers; the Christians read the scriptures too, but they too were not listening to God, and so they hunted and killed many early Quakers that had the Spirit of Christ risen in them to govern their words and deeds.

You can read the Bible until you have it totally memorized, but the word, (which is a living voice), will not be abiding in you.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me [they obey]. John 10:27
Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice. John 18:37

  Revelation 19:12-16
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
And he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

So Jesus and his Spirit is the Word of God, not the Bible!

The Greek for word in this (click to see) verse is logov (from logos) <3056>: 1) of speech; 1a) a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea; 1b) what someone has said.
·  Ephesians 6:17
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

The Greek for word in this (click to see) verse is rhma (from rhema) <4487>: 1) that which is or has been uttered by the living voice, thing spoken, word; 1a) any sound produced by the voice and having definite meaning; 1b) speech, discourse; 1b1) what one has said.

And a sword will pierce through your own soul also--that the secret thoughts and purposes of many hearts may be brought out and disclosed. Luke 2:35. Repent; or else I will come to you quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. Rev 2:16. And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: Rev 19:15.

So, the sword of the spirit is not the Bible; it is the spoken words from the mouth by the Spirit of Christ, the Word of God.
When the decision God arrives at is that of facing the scalpel, beloved you better prepare yourself and stop procrastinating. There is no convincing God of substitutes; taking tablets or even going for the injection.
No surgeon worth his salt ever fears tearing into the skin of the patient to open it up to attend to the nagging problem because the patient will feel pain. With courage, he tears into the skin right into the tissues, the organs fixes them, closes the wound, bandages it and prescribes sessions of re-examination on the progress of the wound. During this time stretching parameters are prescribed.

Wounds take time to heal. Proverbs 27:6King James Version (KJV)

6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Friend, this is the place we are this morning, some with fresh wounds, some partly healed and other left with the marks that reminds us where we have been.
Only the word of God is able to address this case effectively.
Allow me to mention that sitting under the voice you are hearing this morning is sitting under the authority of The Most High God.
The word I bring us this morning is not my researched work. It is not my choice, I would have gone for something inspirational.
The lord simply compelled me to stop what I was doing and write down these words letter after letter.
I heard it flow just the way a river flows down its course.

Many at times we have heard the Lord speak to us and shrugged it off and said “Hiyo ni yake”
Many at times the warning of God and not dictated as final the way human beings give final warning. We have remained un-moved and stiff necked promising ourselves I am ok. 

And so God sends us his word saying as a surgeon, I have come down to circumcise your hearts we start giving excuses and postponements.
Our sacrifice cannot replace the obedience that Yahweh expects of us
Surgeons and good one for that matter do not open the skins of men for fun; neither do they do it as a hobby. 

Here it is matter of either life or death.
With men even critical decisions do not await the signature of the next of kin for an operation to take place as it were.
Some of them are critical and very urgent medical they have to be treated as such.
God in his own judgment likewise looks at us at does not wait to remedy our situation.
When he speaks you better listen or face the consequences.
Beloved, we are at cross roads.
They say chance and opportunity appears only once.

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.” 

― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature
“No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages
1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.
3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”
4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.
8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.
9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.
10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.
11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23
13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24
14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record
15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France
17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28
18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world
19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter
20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind
22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest
23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream."
24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics
25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight
26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.
27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.
28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas
30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger
31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States
32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.
33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"
34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.
35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.
36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.
37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.
38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".
40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived
41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise
42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out
43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US
44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats
45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President”
Take advantage when it so lasts
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
― Milton Berle
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Never take the work of God in your life for granted
Are you stuck in the valley of decision? Allow the surgeon to undertake the operation.
For sure their will be some pain as the pieces of flesh struggle to come together. There will be some privileges denied, but remember denial is not delay. God’s desire is that you become his righteousness.
This demands that the word be your guide.
Like David learn to hide his word in your hearts that you might not sin against him.
Let god carry out the purging exercise.
No complaints, no fears, no suggestions and no postponements neither proposals.
I realize because of avoiding to opinions of men doctor’s use anesthesia.
But my father is not about to start this business of killing pain
He uses pain to humble us when we cannot enforce the word and live with it.
John 15:1-8

The Vine and the Branches

15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.


“The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.”
― Stephen Richards
 
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away...”
― Melvin Burgess, Smack
 
“Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.”
― Cameron Diaz
“Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.”
― Mandy Hale,

God is not going to make sure you’re dead asleep before he carries out his intended operation.
So you better be prepared. He will come earlier than expected.
This allows him time to do his work efficiently and effectively without disturbance.
He never makes any mistake in his assignments.
David confesses and says in Psalms 139:14: “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well”.

Friends, our opinion, thoughts and comments are not going to change the situation. The thing is I better change or sheep out.
The lord wants to operate on your heart.
Please lie on the operating table and allow him do his work.

After this exercise, the 2Peter 1:8-10 will co to play 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Thus will he declare his will for you as in Jeremiah 29:11-141 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
14 And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
This will is no subject to my feeling not even my disposition.
For God to start thinking and making plans for you and I, we must be aligned to his sovereign will.
Leave and abide in the vine
Then will we achieve the status of Ephesians 6:10 “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God”:
Ephesians 6:3
3 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Let us stand up.
Song all to Jesus I surrender

Lyrics

All to Jesus I surrender
All to Him I freely give
I will ever love and trust Him
In His presence I will live
All to Jesus I surrender
Savior make me wholly thine
Let me feel Your Holy Spirit
Truly know that You are mine

[Chorus]
All to Jesus I surrender
All to Him I freely give
I will ever love and trust Him
And in His presence I will live
I surrender all, I surrender all

All to Jesus I surrender
Lord, I give myself to thee
Fill me with Your love and power
Let Your blessing fall on me
All to Jesus I surrender
Now I feel the sacred flame
O the joy of Your salvation
Glory, glory, to His name

[Chorus]
All to Jesus I surrender
All to Him I freely give
I will ever love and trust Him
And in His presence I will live
I surrender all

[Bridge 1]
At Your feet I lay me down
All my scars and all my crowns
Jesus, I surrender all (I surrender all)
No more having my own way
No more chasing yesterday
Jesus, I surrender all (I surrender all)

[Chorus]
All to Jesus I surrender
All to Him, all to Him I freely give
All to Jesus I surrender
All to Him I freely give
I will ever love and trust Him
And in His presence I will live
I surrender all, I surrender all

[Bridge 2]
No more having my own way
No more chasing yesterday
Jesus, I surrender all (I surrender all)
I surrender all
Believe it, Take it Act it and Live it in Jesus’ name!



Numbers 6:24-26 NKJV
The LORD bless you and keep you;
The LORD make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
AMEN!
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