His gentle leading=)

It’s just so beautiful how Abba brings His Words to us and gently leading us into it.

This morning I decided to pick up one of Smith Wigglesworth book(Greater Works) to read, wanting to find out somethings on healing…unknowingly the first page that I flip to was the verse 1 Cor 10:31 He gave me on Sunday. It was also e verse he led me to search deeper into it in my last journal. I’m sure this is not by chance, because everything happens in His divine plan. If it was by chance, the probability of me searching for it the next time would be 1/576 pages without me first looking at the page.Hee.Wouldn’t it be much faster to allow Him to lead us than to find it ourselves? =) So be it in your career and studies. But dun take this as a formula as to how God speaks and start trying em out like buying toto.But remember, at times you have to be the one to initiate it...you see He didnt just drop the book at me. I look for it and He directed me. Follow the inner leading in you in your daily work. You’ll be surprised by His many surprises for you =)He’s more willing to speak to you than your ability to hear.

Continuation from last journal…

The text below tells us how we could live to glorify God with our body by Smith Wigglesworth.Enjoy!

Energized by the Spirit

            So there is a necessity from every one of us to be filled with God.It is not sufficient to have just a touch or to be filled with just a desire. Only one thing will meet the needs of the people, and that is for you to immerse in the life of God. This means that God takes you and fills you with His Spirit until you live right in God. He does this so that”whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do,[it may be] all to the glory og God” (1Cor 10:31). In that place you will find that all your strength and all your mind and all your soul are filled with a zeal, not only for worship, but also for proclamation. This proclamation is accompanied by all the power of God, which must move satanic power and disturb the world.

            The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading the Bible occasionally, and praying sometimes.

            Beloved, if God lays hold of you by the Spirit, you will find that there is an end of everything and a beginning of God. Your whole body will become seasoned with a divine likeness. Not only will He have begun to use you, but He will have taken you in hand, so that you might be “a vessel for honor”(2 Tim 2:21). Our lives are not to be ourselves, for if we live for ourselves we will die(Rom 8:13) but if “by the Spirit [we] put to death the deeds of the body, [we] will  live”(v13). He who lives in the Spirit is subject to the powers of God, but he who lives by himself will die. The man who lives in the Spirit lives a life of freedom and joy and blessing and service-a life that brings blessings to others. God would have us see that we muct live in the Spirit.

Grace be with you, God's beloved!

You are a priceless possession.Treasure it=)

I was at service last sunday when he drop this verse from 1Cor 10:31 at me. Took hold of my bible and flip to it. His usual way of suprising me again =)...the first page was that very verse. When this happens, it's usually means He is going to show me something later.
    ³¹Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

The first thought that came across my mind when I read it was how we handle ourself with people or with ourself to our bodies, be it what we take in internally(solid or spiritual food) or how we handle our body externally.

But it never did come across me of how truly significant my body was, why was is it so important to glorify Him in it...maybe just knowing that Christ lives in me.So I ought to glorify Him in what ever I do.

Yest, which was e day after I received that verse, I just felt impress to finally take hold of the book my fren lend me-Bodily Healing and The Atonement by Dr. T. J. McCrossan.

The very first verse that I open up to was from 1 Corinthians 6:19,20 with the word redeem(it caught my eye because it was just fresh from what pastor had preached on sunday)This stirs me even more to go deeper into it.

 1 Cor 6:19,20..."What!know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought(egorasthete)/redeem with a price:therefore glorify God in your body, and in the spirit, which are God's"

I will be copying down some text from the book which I thought was prefectly what I needed to know. You might get a lil confuse at first by being bombarded with so many Greek translations.Hee.worry no =)I was at that stage once. But I do encourage you to read them over and over again till you get the juice out of it =)

My writings will be in coloured background so you could differentiate it from the Author =)

Here's a lil summary from the book and my own as well as a guide=):

Your body IS significant bec you were bought/redeemed with the very same price; viz.,the blood of Christ.

The three different meanings of redeemed translated in the New Testament. One being the one that saves our soul(agorazo) and the other two(exogorazo,lutroo) refers to something which takes place subsequent to it(agorazo). This gives us the answer to why our body still suffer pain and sorrow.

The reason behind the importance of pleasing God in all we do and why He calls us to do that. Who are we as a new creation and how to attain inherit our inheritance in Christ-by Confession and hearing and meditating on the Word preached.

From the Author:

In First Corinthians 6:19 Paul says "What!know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought(egorasthete) with a price:therefore glorify God in your body, and in the spirit, which are God's"Note, our body is God's as well as our spirit.

The Greek construction here reads hatina estin tou theou(which are of God). Hatina is the nominative plural, neuter of the relative pronoun hostis, and so includes both the body and the spirit.Theou is the genetive singular of theos (God), the genetive of source or origin, and so brings out the gracious truth that our bodies are God's for the very same reason that our spirits are His; viz because both originated for Him.

The word for "bought" here gives us a clue. This word is egorasthete, the 1st Aorist passive, 2nd plural of agorazo, I buy or redeem. Turn now to Revelation 5:9

"And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof:for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed[egorasas] us to God by thy blood"

The Word "redeemed" here is egorasas, the 1st Aorist, 2nd person singular or agorazo, I buy, the very same word that Paul uses in 1 Cor 6:20, where he asserts that both our body and spirit were bought or redeemed with a price. Peter also uses this same word(agorazo) to express Christ redemptive word(2 Peter 2:1)...

"But, "someone says" if Paul here teaches that Christ died to redeem our body as well as our soul, why does he says in Romans 8:23"...we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption...the redemption of our body?"Does not Paul here teach that our body has not yet been redeemed?"

In Romans 3:24 it shows three verbs in e NT translated "redeemed"; viz.,agorazo, exagorazo, and lutroo.

In Romans 8:23, Paul uses the word apolutrosis. This is derived from apo, from , and lutroo, "I set free after a ransom has been paid" The apolutrosis(redemption) in Romans 8:23 means "a setting free of what has been already ransomed."

In 1Cor 6:19, 20 Paul declares we have now been "redeemed"(agorazo), body spirit, by having the price paid for us. In Galation 3:13 he asserts we have been "redeemed," of bought out from under"(exagorazo)the curse of the law;but, as yet, we have experienced"redemption"(apolutrosis, Romans8:23)in the sense that we are entirely free from our former bondage.

Remember Paul here asserts(1Cor6:20)that we have been bought, body and spirit, with a price, and uses the very same verb for bought"(agorazo)as is translated "redeemed"in Rev 5:9, where we are told we are bought with a price.

Note, Paul uses the Aorist tense of this verb in 1Cor 6:20;viz egorasthete which tells us, as plainly as words can express it, that the redemption of spirit and body was then something already accomplished.

But although the price of our redemption already has been paid, Paul says in Ephesian 4:30. "And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God by which ye have been sealed[literal reading] unto the day of redemption[apolutrosis of Rom 8:23]" This is a positive proof , therefore, that this "redemption" of Romans 8:23(apolutrosis) refers to something which takes place subsequent to that redemption which saves our souls, when we accept Christ, as the One who shed His blood to redeem us.

Our spirits also, like our bodies, are still awaiting this same"redemption"(apolutrosis) for Paul says (Romans 8:23, "...we ourselves[hemeis autoi] groan within ourselves." "WE ourselves here refers to our spirits, which inhabits and control our bodies. We are absolutely sure of this, because the pronoun "we"(hemeis) is the very same word that we find in Rev1:5"...and washed us[hemas, Accusative of hemeis] from our sins in His own blood." Then our redeemed spirits, which have been washed from sin, as well as our redeemed bodies, can now groan and suffer pain. The Word "groan"(stenazo) means to sigh deeply, or moan with pain and anguish, whther mental or physical.

All will be changed, however when this redemption called  apolutrosis(the setting free from), takes place. When this "redemption," apolutrosis(Rom8:23), does take place, then both our spirits and our bodies will be completely free from sorrow, pain, weeping, and al the consequence of sin bondage from which Christ has already redeemed us by His awful scourging and death. See Revelation 21:4(This was also the verse Pastor relate to with 2 Cor 5:17,18)

Knowing that our body can still suffer pain after we have been redeemed(agorazo) when we first accepted Christ...but we also have a better promise from Him that we could also be redeem(apolutrosis) from every sorrow, pain and weeping.How do we come to that truth.

I think it boils down to what Pastor have been emphasizing.To BELIEVE in the truth! When we believe in Him, The Holy Spirit being the spirit of truth will bear witness with our spirit with signs and wonders. If you need healing, believe for healing then He can work. A you have taken e step to believe for your salvation, it goes well with His promises too.

If you need faith to believe, confess His Word in your life. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing the Word of God(Rom 10:17). Without faith it is impossible to please God(Heb11:6)

Confess you are a New Creation In Christ, old things have pass away, the new from Abba is to come.

Confess Jesus Christ is your Redemption(Psalms 107:2)Now we see the significant of why redeem was mention twice although we are already redeem by His blood when we receive Christ as our Saviour(agorazo). Bec the second redeem(apolutrosis) comes when we believe the truth.

Why do we need to please God with our body, in our conducts...like its being said in Eph 5:10(and find out what pleases the Lord) when we are no longer in darkness,Romans 12:1(to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice pleasing to Him),in 1John 3:22(doing whats pleasing to Him) the answer is found in 1John 3:22 it self.Because we receive ALL things that we ask from Him when we do what pleases Him.Walking in His good, pleasing and prefect will thru continually renewing our mind in His Word(Romans12:2).

When you know how much He loves you, you will want to please Him. Remember, you are a priceless possession.You are His favoured prince/princesses In-Christ. A gem from heaven =) Treasure it like how you would treasure your jewels because you are ONE in His sight =)

Grace be with you, God's beloved!

His revealed will-The Word of God

Below are some important truths of passages I pick out from George Mueller’s book. I happen to run by this book as I was rushing out of house today. The first thought that came "Wow, George Mueller?!(I have a liking for his writings since Pastor Prince introduced it) Never knew my landlord would have his book…" =) It was also a confirmation to me on the subject of the importance of the Word I’ve been pondering about lately.
I grew up all my life as a Christian. One may think that I would have known/memorized a considerably number of Scriptures but no…that was not the case. Having full attendance as a kid in children’s church which gain me some presents =) and in youth meeting did not attain for my knowledge of the Word. I love the Lord. I love going to church camps esp when there’s praise and worship where we will all get fired up. Later in my teens, I started to have an interest for the Word. I enjoy sermons (no matter how dreadful it may seem…=)) and even started of reading Max Lucado books and make sure I would get every single one of them. But guess what, I realized I hardly know more than 5 verses memorized. Not as a child, but only 5 months back.
The verses that I knew was John 3:16, Proverbs 3:5,6(which I recite every nite as a kid-and the only verse I could come up with when problems arise Hee,) Ephesians 4:32(kids song)….
But I was sensitive to the things of the spirit then, it may have been my close relationship I have with Abba.
Then recently, someone prayed for me. He told me He saw two wings, one was the Spirit and the other the Word. He said I was sensitive to the spirit but not grounded in the Word.I need to be grounded so that I could soar like the eagles…
The pass 4 months had been my hardest times…I had no other means but to sought the Lord day and nite….in prayer and in e Word.
One morning, the Lord asks me to write down all the blessings and supernatural touch He has given me all my life. I started drafting them out. Later, He ask me to tick the ones I received 4 months back in pink, my 4 years of grace in new creation in orange and before I came new creation in blue.
Guess what amazing truth I found.
Before I came to New Creation it was only 5, my four years of grace…30+, my last four months 100+ by now…
It was this pass 4 months that I kept reading and reading and meditating the Scriptures…it was this 4 months that I had supernatural confirmation in His Word(never before this 4 months) and it was this 4 months that I had my greatest growth. I am so in love with Him now that I cannot pass by one day not reading His Word.
Beloved, I always grew up thinking that it’s ok not to expound on the Word…just knowing that it’s somewhere in the bible or maybe telling yourself oneday will come when I will take up the precious book and read…but you’re missing out something great I wont be able to explain to you!
His awesome love for you!
I encourage you to feed on what George Mueller has written…I know it’s long. But maybe you can just read a few sentence a day =) but it’ll be nourishing to your soul.
The careful and consecutive reading of the Holy scripture
Concerning this subject Mr. Muller says, "I fell into the snare, into which so many young believers fall, the reading of religious books in preference to the scriptures. I could no longer read French and German novels, as I formerly done, to feed my carnal mind; but still I did not put into the room of those books the best of all books. I read tracts, missionary papers, sermons, and biographies of godly persons. The last kind of books I found more profitable than others, and had they been well selected, or had I not read too much of such writings, or had any of them tended particularly to endear the Scriptures to me, they might have done me much good. I never had been at any time in my life in the habit of reading the Holy Sciptures. When under fifteen years of age, I occasionally read a little of them at school;afterwards God’s precious book was entirely laid aside, so that I never read one single chapter of it, as far as I remember, till it pleased God to begin a work of grace in my heart. Nowe the scriptural way of reasoning would have been : God Himself has condescended to become an author and I am ignorant about that precious book, which His Holy Spirit has caused to be written through the instrumentality of His servants, and it contains that which I ought to know, and the knowledge of which will lead me to true happiness; therefore I ought to read again and again this most precious book, this book of books, most earnestly, most prayerfully, and with much meditation; and in this practice I ought to continue all the days of my life. For I was aware, though I read it a little, that I knew scarely anything of it. But instead of acting thus, and being led by my ignorance of the Word of God to study it more, my difficulty I had in unerstanding it, and the little enjoyment I had in it, made me careless of reading it( for much prayerful reading of the Word, gives not merely knowledge, but increases the delight we have in reading it); and thus, like many believers, I practically preferred, for the first four years of my divine life, the works of uninspired men to the oracles of the living God. The consequence was that I remained a babe, both in knowledge most sadly kept me back from walking steadily in the ways of god. For it is the truth that makes us free (John 8:31,32), by delivering us from the slavery of thelusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. The Word proves it. The experience of the saints proves it; and also my own experience most decidedly proves it. For when it pleased the Lord in August 1829, to bring me really to the Scriptures, my life and walk became very different. And though I have very much fallen short of what I might and ought to be, yet, by the grace of God, I have been enabled to live much nearer to Him than before.
"If any believers read this, who practically prefer other books to the Holy Scripture, and who enjoys writings of men much more than the Word of God, may they be warned by my loss. I shall consider this book, should it please the Lord, through its instrumentality, to lead some of His people no longer to neglect the Holy Scirptures, but to give them that preference, which have hitherto bestowed on the writings of men. My dislike to increase the number of books would have been sufficient to deter me from writing these pages, had I not been convinced, that this in answer to my prayers, the reading of my experience may be the means of leading them to value the Sciptures more highly and to make them the rule of all their actions.
"If anyone should ask me, how he may read the Scriptures most profitably, I would advised him that:

1. Because it throws light upon the connection; and a different course, according to which one habitually selects particular chapters, will make it utterly impossible ever to understand much of the scriptures.
2. Whilst we are in the body, we need a change even in spiritual things; and this change the Lord has graciously provided in the great variety which is to be found in Hi Wors.
3. It tends to the glory of God for the leaving out some chapters here and there, is practically saying that certain portions are better than others; or, that there are certain parts revealed truth unprofitable or unnecessary.
4. It may keep us, by the blessing of God, from erroneous views, as in reading thus regularly through the Scpirture we are led to see the meaning of the whole, and also kept from laying too much stress upon certain favourtite views.
5. The Scripture contain the whole revealed will of God, and therefore we ought to seekk to read from time to time through the whole of the revealed will. There are many believers, I fear, in our dauy, who have not read even once through the whole Scriptures; and yet in a few months, by reading only a few chapters every day they might accomplish it.

1. It is also of great importance to meditate on what we read, so that perhaps a small portion of that which we raed, or, if we have time, the whole may be meditated upon in the course of the day. Or a small protion of a book, or an epistle, or a gospel, through which we go regularly for meditation, may be considered every day, without, however, suffering oneself to be brought into bondage by this plan.

"Learned commentaries I have found to store the head, with many notions and oftern also with the truth of God; but when the Spirit teaches, through the instrumentality of prayer and meditation, the heart is affected. The former kind of knowledge puffs up, and is often renouced, when another commentary gives a different opinion, and often also is found good for nothing, when it is to be carried out into practice. The latter kind of knowledge generally humbles, gives joy, leads us nearer to God, and is not easily reasoned away; and having been obtained from God, and thus entered into the heart, and become our own, us generally carried out."

Above all he should seek to have it settled in his own mind, that God alone, by His Spirit, can teach him, and that therefore, as God will be enquired of for blessings, it becomes him to seekk God’s blessing, it becomes him to seek God’s blessing previous to reading, and also whilst reading.

He should have it, moreover, settled in his mind, that, although the Holy Spirit is the best and sufficient teacher, yet that this teacher does not always teach immediately when we desire it, and that, therefore, we may have to entreat Him again and again for the explanation of certain passages; but that He will surely teach us at last, is indeed we are seeking for light prayerfully, patiently, and with a view to the glory of God.

It is of immmense imporatnce of understanding the Word of God, to read it in course, so that we may read everyday a portion of the Old and a portion of the New Testament, going on where we previous left off. This is important: