Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life,
to mind your own business and to work
with your hands, just as we told you, so
that your daily life may win the respect
of outsiders and so that you will not be
dependent on anybody.
(I. Thessalonians 4.11 & 12).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers,
even though they are strangers to you. They have told the church
about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a
manner worthy of God. It was for the sake of the Name that they went
out, receiving no help from the pagans. We ought therefore to show
hospitality to such men so that we may work together for the truth.
(III. John 5-8).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray.
He who does what is right is righteous, just as He
is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil,
because the devil has been sinning from the beginning.
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the
devil’s work.
(I. John 3. 7&8)
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind
your own business and to work with your hands,
just as we told you, so that your daily life may win
the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be
dependent on anybody.
(Thessalonians 4.11 & 12).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Therefore my dear ones, as you have always obeyed my
suggestions, so now, not only with the enthusiasm you would
show in my presence, but much more because I am absent,
work out to full completion your own salvation with reverence,
awe and trembling (with serious caution against temptation).
(Not in your own strength) for it is God Who is all the while
effectually at work in you ( energizing and creating the power
and desire), both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
(Philippians 2. 12&13).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
To make it your ambition and endeavor to live peacefully, to mind
your dealings and to work with your hands as we charged you.
So that you may bear yourselves becomingly and be correct and
honorable and command the respect of the outside world, being
dependent on nobody (self-supporting) and having need of nothing.
(I. Thessalonians 4.11 & 12).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Not in your own strength, for it is God Who is all the while effectually
at work in you energizing and creating in you the power and desire
both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
(Philippians 2.13).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
“As He passed along, He noticed a man blind from his birth.
His disciples asked Him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his
parents, that he should be born blind?
Jesus answered, It was not that this man or his parents sinned,
but he was born blind in order that the workings of God should
be manifested (displayed and illustrated) in him.
We must work the works of Him Who sent Me and be busy with
His business while it is daylight; night is coming on when no man
can work.
As long as I am in the world, I am the world’s Light.
When He had said this, He spat on the ground and made clay with
His spit and He spread it on the man’s eyes.
And He said to him, Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam- which means
Sent. So he went and washed, and came back seeing.”
(John 9.1-7).
“Then Jesus said, I came into this world for judgement ( as a Separator,
in order that there may be a separation between those who believe on
Me and those who reject Me), to make the sightless see and to make those
who see become blind.”
(John 9.39).
Those with eyesight who have physical vision, but with no spiritual vision
unless they believe in Jesus are declared to be spiritually and actually
blind.
Those with spiritual insight see Jesus and believe even if they lack physical
eyesight like the blind man who was healed by Jesus.
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS!
BORN FROM ABOVE
By faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we are born of the Holy Spirit.
“ That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit.” This spiritual birth, second birth is the the prerequisite for being in
God’s Kingdom. Apart from this new birth we remain dead men walking.
With this new birth from above, of the Holy Spirit we are new men.
If we are new men, then the old man is dead and buried at baptism.
We see that Jesus Christ has set us free. If the Son makes you free you are
truly free.
We are free from sin and death. We stand as righteous before God and in
our weakness we are strong. The first is last, the last is first and the weak is
strong with God. The least, the last, the lost and the little find salvation
in Christ Jesus our Lord. He redeemed us and we are free at last.
He made us what we are not. He made us new. He made us for Himself.
He has started a good work in us and will perfect it.
He created us for good works which he prepared in advance.
He is with us. He takes us as His own.
His victory is ours and His peace is our peace!
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
BUILT TOGETHER
So I ask you not to lose heart
(not to faint or become
despondent through fear)
at what I am suffering in
your behalf.
(Rather glory in it) for
it is an honor to you.
For this reason (seeing
the greatness of this plan
by which you are built
together in Christ), I bow
my knees before the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
For Whom every family in
heaven and on earth is named
(that Father from Whom all
fatherhood takes its title and
derives its name.
(Ephesians 3.13-15).
POINTS OF MEDITATION
AND PRAISE
1) We do not become discouraged
by the difficulties and adversities.
Rather we consider those as an
honor and glory in them. We know
that all things work together for good
to those who love God and are called
according to His purpose. (Romans 8.
28b).
2) Seeing the greatness of God’s plan
according to which we are now being
built together in Christ, we worship
our Heavenly Father, the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
3) Our Heavenly Father is the originator
of fatherhood, motherhood and family.
We are His children in the truest sense.
HALLELUJAH! AMEN!