To Him Who is able to keep you from falling
and to present you before His glorious presence
without fault and with great joy- to the only God
our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority,
through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now
and forevermore! Amen.
(Jude 24 & 25)
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life
for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions
and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth,
and how we set our hearts at rest in His presence whenever our
hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and He knows
everything.
(I.John 3.16-20).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
O Lord, you have searched me thoroughly and have known me.
You know my downsitting and my uprising. You understand my
thought afar off.
You sift and search out my path and my lying down, and You are
acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, behold, O Lord, You know
it altogether.
You have beset me and shut me in- behind and before, and You have
laid Your hand upon me.
Your infinite knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high above me,
I cannot reach it.
Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where could I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in the place of the
dead, behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the morning or dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the night shall be the only
light about me.
Even the darkness hides nothing from You, but the night shines as the day;
the darkness and the light are both alike to You.
For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother’s
womb.
I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the
awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner
self knows right well.
My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret and
intricately and curiously wrought in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days of my
life were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of
them.
How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is
the sum of them!
If I could count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I
awoke, could I count to the end, I would still be with You.
If You would slay the wicked, O God, and the men of blood depart from me-
Who speak against You wickedly, Your enemies who take Your name in vain!
Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You? And am I not grieved and do I not
loathe those who rise up against You?
I hate them with perfect hatred; they have become my enemies.
Search me thoroughly, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my
thoughts!
And see if there is any wicked or hurtful way in me,and lead me in the way
everlasting.
(Psalm 139).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
That you may really come to know
experientially for yourself
the love of Christ, which far
surpasses mere knowledge,
that you may be filled unto
all the fullness of God ( may have the
richest measure of the divine
Presence and become a body
wholly filled and flooded
with God Himself)!
(Ephesians 3.19).
POINTS FOR PRAISE
AND MEDITATION
1) As the Father grants us His
holy empowerment through
the Holy Spirit living in us
Jesus is now residing in us.
2) This is how we are secure in
His love and experience with all
the saints the fullest measure of
His totally amazing love.
3) Then we are able to truly experience
the love of Christ.
4) Experiential knowing far surpasses
mere knowledge both qualitatively and
quantitatively. This is a real life phenomenon
which is lifelong, actually forever.
5) When this is actualized, our entire being and
the church is flooded with all fullness, the entire
fullness of God with the richest measure of the
divine Presence and become a body completely
filled and flooded with God Himself.
This is real fulfillment!
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS!
Oh come, let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock
of our salvation.
Let us come
before His presence with thanksgiving
let us shout joyfully to Him with
psalms.
(Ps.95:1-2).
RIGHTEOUS
Oh, sing to the Lord a new song!
For He has done marvelous things,
His right hand and His holy arm
have gained Him the victory.
The Lord has made known His
salvation.
His righteousness
He has revealed in the sight
of the nations.
( Psalm 98.1-2).
POINTS TO SING ABOUT
Consider the goodness and majesty
of our Lord.
Sing and celebrate His
love as revealed in the passion and
cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
He has saved us by His blood.
He reconciled us by His death
on the cross.
He made us alive by His
resurrection and He made us
to sit in heavenly places by
His ascension.
FORGIVEN
“Now we know that what ever
the law says, it says to those
who are under the law, that
every mouth may be stopped,
and all the world may become
guilty before God.
Therefore by the deeds of the
law no flesh will be justified
in His sight, for by the law is
the knowledge of sin.
But now the righteosness of God
apart from the law is revealed
being witnessed by the law and the
prophets.
Even the righteousness of God, through
faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe.
For there is no difference
all have sinned and come short
of the glory of God,
Being justified freely by His grace
through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus,
Whom God set forth as a
propitiation by His blood,
through faith, to demonstrate
His righteousness, because
in His forbearance God had
passed over the sins that were
previously committed,
To demonstrate at the present
time His righteousness, that He
might be just and the justifier of
the one who has faith in Jesus.
(Romans 3.19-26).
GOD’S LOVE IS THE BEST NEWS
St. John, the disciple who penned this statement in I. John 4.8
experienced intimately the close relationship, love, friendship
and presence of Jesus Christ.
He referred to himself as” the disciple Jesus loved”. You might ask
whether the other disciples did not feel or experience the same love.
The fact is that because St. John “The Divine” had a close friendship
with Jesus, he in turn experienced the love of Jesus much more
intensely than the rest.
He also wrote,
” By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us.”
That’s how we know the extent of Jesus’ love for us.
While we were yet sinners that’s what Jesus did for us to reconcile
us to God.
Much more now we experience the perfect endless love of God,
indeed we experience who God truly is by the Holy Spirit who
is in our hearts to the extent that we call the Eternal Father our “Daddy”.
” See how the Father has lavished His love on us, that we should be called
children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not
know Him.”
” Beloved , now we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed what
we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for
we shall see Him as He is.” ( I. John 3: 1 and 2).
Much much more to come..