Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist
is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is
the last hour. They went out from us , but they did not really belong to us.
For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their
going showed that none of them belonged to us.
(I. John 2.18 & 19).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Parents, do not irritate and provoke your children to anger
(do not exasperate them to resentment) , bur rear them
(tenderly) in the training and discipline and the counsel
and admonition of the Lord.
(Ephesians 6.4).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.
Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect,
self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and endurance.
Likewise teach the older women to be reverent in the way
they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to wine, but to
teach what is good. then they can train the younger women
to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure,
to be busy at home, to be kind and to be subject to their husbands,
so that no one will malign the word of God.
(Titus 2.1-5).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
“We who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, we ourselves also
groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, the
redemption of the body.”
Yes, the whole creation which has, for this hope subjected
to futility also groans and waits for the manifestation of the
sons of God.
We are subjected to the vanity or futility that we encounter in
nature, the death and destruction,darkness and depravity present
in this age. However the Holy Spirit heralds the Future in God,
with God through Christ Jesus our Lord.
We are pioneers of hope as we wait for our adoption, that is the
redemption of our body.
We understand that we are redeemed by our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ and sealed with the Holy Spirit. We are now the
children of God. It does not yet appear what we shall be, but
when He appears we shall see Him as He is, for we shall be like
Him. Through the Holy Spirit, we experience the love of God
which is shed abroad in our hearts and we cry, Abba, Father!
We have witnessed the New Reality in Christ Jesus.
Unseen, yet very real!
We are saved. Based on this salvation we proceed to know
and anticipate. The physical, emotional, social, economic
aspects of our lives are lived under this knowledge and
anticipation.
We are made partakers of the divine nature by Christ Jesus
our Lord and Savior through the Holy Spirit according to
the will of the Father. Now, this moment and every minute
of this fleeting temporal life we are under the hope and
anticipation of the divine Now, the eternity that is His.
“For by hope we are saved: but hope that is seen is not
hope: for what a man sees why does he yet wait? But if
we hope for the unseen, then we wait with patience.”
Waiting with hope and patiently possible only with God.
God’s thoughts of eternity, new creation, freedom, wholeness
and holiness are only accessible through His Holy Spirit.
We are as Paul, determined to know only and focus on Jesus
and Him crucified and the Holy Spirit that raised Him from
the dead. The Spirit bears witness that we are children of God.
Through the Holy Spirit we experience the love of God poured
into our hearts and we express our hope, praise, thanks, love
and longing as we cry, Abba, Father!
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
SPIRIT BORN
“What is born of the flesh is flesh ( of the physical is physical) and
what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not
(do not be surprised)
at My telling you, You must all be
born anew (from above).
The wind blows (breathes) where it wills;
and though you hear its sound, yet you
neither know where it comes from nor where
it is going. So it is with everyone
who is born of the Spirit.”
(John 3. 6-8).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR OUR
NEW BIRTH!
Born into our life in You! A life that is truly life!
Abundant eternal life!
Thank You Holy Spirit! The Spirit of freedom and sonship!
The Comforter!
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are
sons of God.
For you have now received not a spirit of slavery
to put you once more in
bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of
adoption (the Spirit producing sonship) in
(the bliss of ) which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!
The Spirit Himself testifies together with our own spirit
(assuring us) that we are children of God.
And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also:
heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ
(sharing His inheritance with Him); only we must
share His suffering if we are to share His glory.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present
time (this present life) are not worth being
compared with the glory that is about to be
revealed to us and in us and for us
and be conferred on us!
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
O GIVE THANKS
O Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His
mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has
delivered from the hand of the adversary,
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east
and from the west, from the north and from the sea
in the south.
Some wondered in the wilderness in a solitary desert
track, they found no city for habitation.
Hungry and thirsty, they fainted, their lives were near
to being extinguished.
then they cried to the Lord in their trouble and He
delivered them out of their distresses.
He led them forth by the straight and right way, that
they might go to a city where they could establish their
homes.
Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and
loving-kindness and His wonderful works to the children
of men!
For He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good.
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in
affliction and in irons.
Because they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned
the counsel of the Most High.
Therefore He bowed down their hearts with hard labor, they
stumbled and fell down and there was no one to help.
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble and He saved them
out of their distresses.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and
broke apart the bonds that held them.
Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and loving-
kindness and His wonderful works to the children of men!
For He has broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron.
Some are fools because of the way of their transgressions and
are afflicted because of their iniquities.
They loath every kind of food and they draw near to the gates of death.
Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble and He delivers them out
of their distresses.
He sends forth His Word and rescues them from the pit and destruction.
Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and loving-kindness
and His wonderful works to the children of men!
And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and rehearse His
deeds with shouts of joy and singing!
Some go down to the sea and travel over it in ships to do business
in great waters.
These see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep.
For he commands and raises up the stormy wind,which lifts
up the waves of the sea.
Those aboard mount up to the heavens, they go down again
to the deeps, their courage melts away because of their plight.
They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are
at their wits’ end, all their wisdom has come to nothing.
Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble and He brings them
out of their distresses.
He hushes the storm to a calm and to a gentle whisper, so that
the waves of the sea are still.
Then the men are glad because of the calm, and He brings them
to their desired haven.
Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and loving-
kindness and wonderful works to the children of men!
Let them exalt Him also in the congregation of the people and
praise Him in the company of the elders.
He turns rivers into a wilderness, water springs into a thirsty ground.
A fruitful land into a barren, salt waste, because of the wickedness of
those who dwell in it.
He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry ground into water
springs.
And there He makes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city
for habitation,
And sow fields and plant vineyads which yield fruits of increase.
He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and
allows not their cattle to decrease.
When they are diminished and bowed down through oppression,
trouble and sorrow,
He pours contempt upon princes and causes them to wonder in
waste places where there is no road.
Yet He raises the poor and needy from affliction and makes their
families like a flock.
The upright shall see it and be glad, but all iniquity shall shut its mouth.
Whoso is wise will observe and heed these things and they will diligently
consider the mercy and loving-kindness of the Lord.
(Psalm107).
PRAISE THE LORD! THANK YOULORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
THE LOVE OF THE FATHER
See what an incredible quality of love
the Father has given us, that we should
be permitted to be named the children
of God!
And so we are!
The reason the world does not know
us is that it does not know Him.
Beloved, we are even here and now
God’s children.
It is not yet made clear what we shall
be, but we know that when He comes
and is manifested, we shall as God’s
children resemble and be like Him,
for we shall see Him just as he really is.
(I.John 3.1&2).
Among whom we all once
conducted ourselves in the
lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the
desires of the flesh and of the
mind, and were by nature
children of wrath, just as the
others.
But God, who is rich in his mercy,
because of His intense love with
which He loved us,
Even when we were dead in trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ in
fellowship and union with Christ He gave
us the very life of Christ Himself, His
resurrection life, for it is by grace, His
favor which you did not deserve that you
were saved, delivered from judgement
and made partakers of Christ’s salvation).
( Ephesians 2.3-5).
PRAISE AND MEDITATION POINTS:
1) God rescued us from a carnal and
sinful existence.
2) His rescue mission was accomplished
because of His rich mercy and intense
love toward us.
3) While we were spiritually dead and
physically dying, He made us alive by
His life in, through and by Jesus Christ
our Lord and our Savior.
AMEN! THANK YOU LORD JESUS!
The Spirit Himself bears witness
with our spirit that we are children
of God.
And if children, then heirs also,
heirs of God and joint heirs with
Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him,
that we may also be glorified together.
For I consider that the sufferings of
this present time are not worth being
compared with the glory which shall
be revealed in us.
( Romans 8.16-18).
INSPIRATION
Meditate on the following:
1) The Holy Spirit testifies together with
our spirit that we are God’s children.
2)Since we are children of God, everything
ultimately and essentially belongs to us.
3) We are joint heirs with Christ, because
we are in Christ and we are God’s children.
3) Jesus Christ suffered and we also suffer,
however the sufferings of this life are not
worthy to be compared to the glory which
will be revealed in us.
4) These verses put the notions of property,
wealth,resources and riches in a totally new
light.
5) These verses also shed significant light on
the human condition, providing a new
perspective on the predicament of pain
and suffering not previously found in other
teachings.