(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(´*•.¸ 09 Noiembrie 2013 (`*•.¸ ♥ ¸.•*´) (`*•.¸ ♥ ¸.•*´) DevotionalTIN - Devotional 2013 ¸.•*´)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(•❤•)Astăzi citirea Scripturii:Evrei6;Ieremia51,52✞✞✞(•❤•)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)„Dacă vine cineva la Mine, şi nu urăşte pe tatăl său, pe mama sa, pe nevasta sa, pe copii săi, pe fraţii săi, pe surorile sale, ba chiar însăşi viaţa sa, nu poate fi ucenicul Meu.” (Luca 14:26) (•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(•❤•) ♥ Dilema: Crezi că Dumnezeu este împotriva familiei şi vrea să te despartă de cei din familie ca să-L urmezi pe El?(•❤•) (•❤•) (•❤•)Dumnezeu nu este împotriva familiei, ba din contră de multe ori în Cuvântul Său ne învaţă cum să avem familii unite. Dar când vine vorba de a-L urma, El spune că nu trebuie să se interpună nimic între El şi tine. Nimic nu trebuie să te împiedice să-L urmezi cu toată inima pe Cel care este sursa vieţii. Nu trebuie sa-ţi părăseşti familia pentru Hristos, dar Hristos trebuie să fie prioritatea numărul unu. (•❤•) (•❤•) (•❤•)„... voi aduce... o nenorocire, care va fi rodul gândurilor lui...” (Ier. 6:19)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•) (•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)Dilema: Crezi că este posibil să îţi controlezi gândurile? Care este sursa gândurilor? Ţi-au trecut vre-odată gânduri de sinucidere prin minte? Cum poţi dezvolta gânduri pozitive?(¸.•*´ (¸.•*´ ♥ ´*•.¸) (¸.•*´ ♥ ´*•.¸) ´*•.¸)Fie că vrem sau nu, orice lucru ne influenţează mai mult sau mai puţin gândurile. Orice carte pe care am citit-o, orice film pe care l-am vizionat, anturajul, chiar şi anumite cuvinte pe care le-am auzit fară să vrem. Prin urmare dacă vrem să avem gânduri bune, trebuie să ne hrănim mintea cu lucruri pozitive. Biblia ne învaţă că mintea omului funcţionează în strânsă legătură cu trupul acestuia. Dieta pe care o avem (folosirea unor alimente excitabile favorizează un anumit tip de gânduri), prezenţa sau absenţa exerciţiului fizic (exerciţiul fizic ajută la producerea serotoninei, hormon supranumit şi „hormonul fericirii”) ne influenţează mintea şi gândurile. Pe lângă toate aceste soluţii, încrederea în Dumnezeu este de departe cel mai important ingredient în influenţarea minţii şi a gândurilor. Descărcarea sufletului înaintea lui Dumnezeu prin rugăciune aduce pace si linişte în mintea oricărui om. Gândurile pot fi educate. Întrebarea este: cât de mult îţi doreşti şi cât de dispus eşti să faci acest lucru?(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)„…cercetaţi toate lucrurile şi păstraţi ce este bun.” (1Tes. 5:21)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(´*•.¸ (`*•.¸ ♥ ¸.•*´) Dilema: De ce eşti creştin? Eşti convins că ceea ce crezi este corect? Este suficient să fii sincer, chiar dacă crezi ceva greşit, pentru a fi mântuit?(`*•.¸ ♥ ¸.•*´) ¸.•*´)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)Credinţa sinceră în Dumnezeu este cheia mântuirii. Insă, sinceritatea nu este suficientă pentru a fi mântuit. Imaginaţi-vă o persoană care urmează să bea un pahar cu apă ce conţine otravă. Nu există nici un semn că apa ar conţine o substanţă otrăvitoare. Este în continuare incoloră şi nu are nici un miros. Însă credinţa sinceră a persoanei în cauză că apa aceea este potabilă nu o va putea salva de la moarte. Datoria oricărui creştin este să creadă cu sinceritate însă aceasta nu îi garantează faptul că ceea ce crede este şi corect. Atâta timp cât există posibilitatea să verifici dacă ceea ce crezi este corect, este de datoria ta să faci lucrul acesta. Dumnezeu nu ţine cont de vremurile de neştiinţă dar suntem responsabili de ocaziile pe care El ni le oferă de a cunoaşte şi a împlini mai mult în vieţile noastre. (•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(•❤•) ♥ (•❤•) (•❤•) (•❤•) Daily Devotional For 09/11/2013 – The Power of God’s Word Convicts Men of Sin! (•❤•) (•❤•) (•❤•)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)Today’s Scripture Reading: Hebrew 6;; Jeremiah 51.52(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)“For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, as it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart. No creature can hide from Him, but everyone is exposed and helpless before the eyes of the One to whom we must give a word of explanation. Therefore, since we have a great High Priest who has gone to heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us live our lives consistent with our confession of faith.“ - Hebrews 4:12-14 (ISV). (•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(¸.•*´ (¸.•*´ ♥ ´*•.¸) (¸.•*´ ♥ ´*•.¸)In Romans 4:16, we understand that Abraham is called “the father of us all.” And that is from the standpoint of our “faith!“ Abraham was certainly the personification or representation of a man of biblical conviction as the book of Genesis and in our Scripture passages for today, in Romans 4:18-22, illustrates. When all the probability or likelihood were built against Abraham, and even though at times he tried to give God a hand by taking matters into his own hands, he was holding fast—tending to hold persistently—on to the promise of God. Brothers and sisters in Christ, there are great deal of people who are confused about conviction. What exactly do we mean by the word “conviction?“ Conviction is the act or process of convincing, the state of being convinced, or a fixed or strong belief. So, by “biblical conviction” we mean convictions or beliefs formed and developed from and based on a commitment to the Bible. As God’s Holy and Living Word, it is the absolute key or guide for the whole of our Christian lives—faith and practice—as believers of the Lord Jesus Christ our God. Therefore, conviction refers to the state of being convinced and confident that something is true. Meaning, conviction is a strong persuasion or belief. Put differently, conviction stands opposed to doubt and mental rejection or disbelief. By a man of biblical convictions we mean a man whose convictions are obtained from the Bible and whose convictions affect him as written in the Scripture. Since “biblical conviction” is in reality the product of three things that identify the ideal Christian leader or the person of maturity—a commitment to the Bible as one’s authority, the construction of specific beliefs and convictions based on that authority, and the courage to act on those convictions in faith. Christian believers in the Lord, the Living Word of God is not just Words from God. God’s Word is our vehicle for communicating ideas—it is living, life-changing, and powerful or spirited as it works in people like you and me. Consider the incisiveness of a surgeon’s knife, God’s Word reveals who we are and what we are not. It discerns what is within us, both good and evil. The very reason why we must not merely listen to God’s Word, we must let it shape our lives as Christian believers. Because nothing can be hidden from the Lord our God! Why is that? For God sees all we do and knows all we think. Even when we are unaware of God’s presence, even when we try to hide from Him, He knows. We can have no secrets from God! Unusually, while God knows us intimately or personally, He still loves us. In Hebrews 4:12, our key verse says “For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, as it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart.“ Sometimes, the writings of men may awaken or provoke the emotions, search the conscience, and influence the human will, but in a manner and order possessed by no other book the Bible convicts men of their guilt and lost will. The Living Word of God is the Divine mirror, for in it we read the secrets of our own guilty souls and sees the ugliness and wickedness of our own evil nature. In a way completely or perfectly strange or unusual to ourselves, the Bible discern and/or recognize the thoughts and intents of our hearts and reveal to us the fact that we are all sinners (see Romans 3:23) and/or lost sinners in the very presence of a Holy God. My dear brethren in Christ, now what other book in the “secular” world outside of the Bible, contains a sentence or even a chapter which, without the aid of any human commentator, is capable of convincing and convicting a heathen—the lost soul or unbeliever—that he is truly a lost sinner? Does not the fact of the miraculous power of the Bible, which has been demonstrated by thousands of fully authenticated cases, did declare that the Bible are the inspired Living Word of God—held completely, permanently, and inalienably with the same might as their Omnipotent Author—God? Some people or even our Friends-Relatives-Associates-Neighbors might be impressed and they could plainly see there was far more evidence for the truth of the creation story than for evolution. And they might say, “But I have no intention of becoming a Christian! Because it would mean turning from my sin, and I am not ready to do that.“ We should remember that it is a moral issue, not an intellectual issue. And this is why some people—men and women—are so reluctant to believe the biblical account of the Great Flood. Because it is clearly tied to the judgment of God and the sinfulness of man. Now brothers and sisters in Christ, as we witness to people, especially to our F-R-A-N, we may encounter those who say, “I don’t believe the Bible.“ When that happens, just remember that we are not out to win arguments but to win men and women to “personal” faith in or “intimacy” with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. That takes prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit. So keep sharing the truth of the Bible, even with or to those who say they can’t believe it. God Bless! “I instruct you in the way of wisdom and lead you along straight paths.“ - Psalm 4:11 (NIV). ´*•.¸)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(´*•.¸Todays Devotion (`*•.¸ ♥ ¸.•*´) Belonging - 1 Corinthians 6:19,20(`*•.¸ ♥ ¸.•*´) ¸.•*´)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)Do you know that ... you are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:19 (•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(•❤•) ♥ (•❤•) God made us to be his loved children. However, ever since Adam and Eves fall into sin, we generally believe that we are the rulers of our own destiny. By our way of living, we are silently saying to God, our Creator and Redeemer: `We will do as we please; we know how to get on in life. There are dangerous consequences for this way of living. No one has ever belonged to themself. We are either living in faith in Jesus Christ and the underserved kindness that he gives us. Or we are serving our selfish desires and are ‘owned’ by them. While Christians still carry within themselves their own sinful nature, they strive daily to battle against sin, and to glorify the God who bought them at a great price. Paul reminds us, as he reminded the Roman Christians: How can we who died to sin still live in it? (Romans 6:2). By faith, Christians strive in body and spirit to glorify God in all of their living. Not that any of us can add to Gods glory. However, as children of God, Christians want to live to God’s glory. We strive, with the enabling power of the Holy Spirit through faith, to think and live as grateful children of God. In doing so, we discover that this is the only life worth living. God, you created us for your glory; enable us more and more day by day to live to your glory. In Jesus name. Amen.(•❤•) (•❤•) (•❤•) (•❤•) (•❤•)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)VENI, SANCTE SPIRITUS Veni, Sancte Spiritus, Et emitte coelitus Lucis tuae rádium: Veni, Pater páuperum, Veni, Dator múnerum, Veni, Lumen córdium. Consolátor óptime, Dulcis hospes ánimae, Dulce refrigérium. In labóre réquies, In aestu tempéries, In fletu solátium. O lux beatissima, Reple cordis intima Tuótum fidélium. Sine tuo númine, Nihil est in hómine, Nihil est innóxium. Lava quod est sórdium: Riga quod est áridum. Sana quod est sáucium. Flecte quod est rigidum: Fove quod est frigidum: Rege quod est dévium. Da tuis fidélibus In te confidéntibus Sacrum septenárium. Da virtútis méritum: Da salútis éxitum: Da perénne gáudium. Amen. (•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)English version(¸.•*´Come, Holy Spirit, send forth the heavenly radiance of your light. Come, father of the poor, come, giver of gifts, come, light of the heart. Greatest comforter, sweet guest of the soul, sweet consolation. In labor, rest, in heat, temperance, in tears, solace. O most blessed light, fill the inmost heart of your faithful. Without your grace, there is nothing in us, nothing that is not harmful. Cleanse that which is unclean, water that which is dry, heal that which is wounded. Bend that which is inflexible, fire that which is chilled, correct what goes astray. Give to your faithful, those who trust in you, the sevenfold gifts. Grant the reward of virtue, grant the deliverance of salvation, grant eternal joy. Amen. (¸.•*´ ♥ ´*•.¸) (¸.•*´ ♥ ´*•.¸) ´*•.¸)Allegiance to the Living God.(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)“I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.” Daniel 6:26(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(¸.•*´ (¸.•*´ ♥ ´*•.¸)What rules in your life? Work? Family? Perhaps a favorite pastime? What about God? What place does He have in your life? If you’re a Christian, God likely plays a very significant role. But does He actually rule in your life? Does He hold such a preeminent place you’d be willing to suffer even imprisonment and death for your allegiance to God? That’s what was at stake for Daniel. He openly and boldly worshipped God even though it meant instant death—a horrible and painful death of being ripped to shreds by lions. But, as we read more of this story, we see that God sent an angel into the lion’s den to protect Daniel. He emerged the next morning untouched by the ravenous carnivores. The miracle was so astonishing it caused King Darius, who was not a follower of God, to issue the decree found in today’s verse. Even though he didn’t know God, he recognized the ultimate power and authority of God and acknowledged that the Lord deserves complete reverence and allegiance. God deserves our full and unfettered commitment because He is Lord of all and His kingdom will last forever! Will you let Him rule your life today? Dear God, I acknowledge that You are the one true God, whose kingdom will never end. Thank You for saving me from the ravenous sin that consumed me. I commit myself fully to You as my God and my King. In Jesus’ name, Amen. (¸.•*´ ♥ ´*•.¸) ´*•.¸)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(•❤•)Take Action Take time today and reflect on who or what rules in your life. Does the God of Daniel have dominion over your heart? Over your whole heart? If not, bring your struggles to God in confession. Then willingly, gladly, and boldly proclaim your allegiance to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords today!✞✞✞(•❤•)(•❤•) ♥ (•❤•)Prayer to Love God Above All Things. (•❤•) (•❤•) (•❤•)God, my Father, may I love You in all things and above all things. May I reach the joy which You have prepared for me in Heaven. Nothing is good that is against Your Will, and all that is good comes from Your Hand. Place in my heart a desire to please You and fill my mind with thoughts of Your Love, so that I may grow in Your Wisdom and enjoy Your Peace Amen. (•❤•) (•❤•)(•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•) (•❤•)✞✞✞(•❤•)(¸.•*´ (¸.•*´ ♥ ´*•.¸) (¸.•*´ ♥ ´*•.¸) ´*•.¸)(•❤•)
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