29 Aug 09 A Surrendered Life
General William Booth of the Salvation Army once said, “The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender”
Indeed the mark of a spiritual life is the submissive, surrendered life, and the surrendered life is the powerful, blessed life.
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23 Jun 09 Mistakes mean different things to different people
If a barber makes a mistake,
It’s a new style
If a driver makes a mistake,
It is a New path
If a engineer makes a mistake,
It is a venture
If parents make mistake,
It is a New Baby
If a politician makes a mistake,
It is a new law
If a scientist makes a mistake,
It is a invention
If a tailor makes a mistake,
It is a new fashion
If a teacher makes a mistake ,
It is a new theory
If a ministry makes a mistake,
It is a New Policy
If a minister makes a mistake,
It is a New Way of Doing Things, Let’s move on
If our boss makes a mistake,
It is a New idea
If an employee makes a mistake,
It is a ‘Mistake’ No argument, please
If an employee makes a mistake,
It is a ‘Mistake’ No argument, please!
Tags: Mistakes
18 Jun 09 Peace
There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who could paint the best picture of peace.
Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.
The other picture had mountains too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell, and in which lightening played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all.
But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest… perfect peace.
The King chose the second picture. “Because,” explained the King, “peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace.”
03 Jun 09 Devil’s dogs
Three of the Devil’s dogs with which he hunts us are:
· Swelled head.
· Laziness.
· Cupidity. (CT Studd)
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01 Jun 09 Anger is happiness lost
Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you’ll never get
01 Jun 09 Life is short
Life is short,
Forgive quickly,
Kiss slowly,
Love truly,
Laugh uncontrollably,
Smile and make others smile.
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31 May 09 CT Studd
C.T. Studd was an outstanding County and All-England Cricketer. He was a freshman at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1879-1880, and took a degree in law.
He gave up his cricketing fame and the family fortune and followed Hudson Taylor to China when challenged to become a full time missionary.
He returned 21 years later, broken in health, after serving in China and India.
Unexpectedly he received a new and very distinct call to the heart of Africa.
At 53, leaving his invalid wife in England, he set out in utter reliance on God’s promises.
His answer to all who questioned the wisdom of his action was found on a postcard on his desk:
If Jesus Christ be God, and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
Tags: CT Studd, Missionary
31 May 09 What I learnt about giving?
“A living church is a giving church.”
A young man said that he does not want to go to church because the pastor is always talkng about giving back to God. He could not understand the meaning of giving. Neither does he understand that a Christian need to give to be spiritually alive.
A wise old man told him this story:
” My wife and I spent so much on hospital and maternity care since my son was conceived. After he was borned we spent even more money. We had to buy new clothes, pampers, milk and toys. Later we had to enroll him in kindergarten, schools and college. The cost of keeping my son alive and making sure he grows physically and in other skills kept going higher and higher till we wiped out our life savings.”
“Two years ago, my son died from a road traffic accident. All of a sudden our cost of living dropped dramatically and we were able to save more money for our retirement”, the old man continued his story.
Turning to the young man he asked, ” Would you rather that I continue to spend money and have my son by my side or have a bigger bank account with a dead child?”
“God prospers us not to raise our standard of living but to rasie our standard of giving”
The error of the false doctrine of Prosperity Gospel.-They preach that we should give so that God will give us back more for our selfish living
The correct doctrine is: We give and we get so that we can be more generous in giving
2 Corinthian 9: 9-11 (NIV)
As it is written: “He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
“We give and get and we can’t out give God”
50% of Jesus’s parable deals with money and giving . Why? Because to many people, “money is their god”
Many people are financially strapped simply because they are not giving.
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. (Proverb 11: 24-25)
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. (Luke 6:38)
We should give sacrificially
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. (2 Cor 8:9)
“Gladly I would make the floor my bed, a box, my chair, use another box for a table rather than suffer men to perish eternally for want of knowledge of Christ. ” CT Studd
Statistics about Christian Giving.
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12 % of all born again believers give faithfully
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65% of all born again believers give haphazardly
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23% of all born again believers give nothing at all
Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands. (CT Studd)
Tags: Blessing, Charity, Christian Giving, CT Studd, Generous, money, Tithings
30 May 09 To make money we lose our health
To make money we lose our health, and then to restore our health we lose our money. .
We live as if we are never going to die, and we die as if we never lived . . .
30 May 09 I forgot to live
First, I was dying to finish my high school and start college.
And then I was dying to finish college and start working.
Then I was dying to marrry and and have children to grow enough so I could go back to work.
But then I was dying to retire .
And now I am dying.
And suddenly I realized I forgot to live.
Please don’t let this happen to you. Appreciate your current situation and find the true purpose of life and enjoy each day that God has given you.
…. From an old man
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