Have a Blessed Christmas!

“Silent Night”

Let me tell you about my Jesus!

A Paul Washer confession. We can not see God’s greatness until we don’t see our smallness! We have a great opinion about us, we are great! Even we don’t recognize it and we pretend we are humble.

It’s a trap! You can not tell lies to God! You can not tell lies to Jesus! You can not tell lies to Holy Spirit! But we lie ourselves that we are Christians, that we are His disciples. We lie that we are truly dedicated to Him. We lie…  Until when? Until one day. When we will not be able to lie anymore… and we will loose. We will loose ALL!

THE PINEAPPLE STORY

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“A pineapple garden, a group of natives, a missionary who fought hard & long for something that God eventually called him to release…. Join Otto Koning as he shares about dealing with surrendering rights and conquering anger in a Dutch New Guinea village.”

It is not only full of adventure and wisdom, but also… funny. I really recommend you to watch it. This story is split in 6 parts, each 10 min long.

Part 1 of 6

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Part 2 of 6

THE RAPTURE

 

Are you ready? He could come any moment now.

Matthew 24.27:  For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

1 Corinthians 15.51,52: Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

1 Thessalonians 4.16,17: For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

Philippians 3.21: He, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

The video youtube file is from: http://www.rapturealert.com/2006/080806readyforrapture.asp

I also recommend you THIS post. You can watch here Paul Washer preaching a powerful message

 

NAMES OF JESUS CHRIST

Few of our Lord Jesus Christ names:

HOLY ONE ; GOD WITH US ; IMMANUEL ; THE GOOD SHEPERD ; THE LAMB OF GOD ; THE BREAD OF LIFE ; THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE ; THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD ; THE MORNING STAR ; THE AUTHOR OF ETERNAL SALVATION ; SON OF GOD ; SON OF MAN ; REDEEMER ; DELIVERER ; SAVIOR ; THE PRINCE OF PEACE ; THE ALPHA AND OMEGA ; THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER

WE HAVE TIME by OCTAVIAN PALER

I don’t know if you ever heard about OCTAVIAN PALER ? He was a Romanian Journalist, a most respectable one. He died last year, age 80. Click on his name to read some lines about his bibliography.

One of his most known and wonderful writing is “WE HAVE TIME…” (“Avem timp…” – the original title – in romanian). Click on the romanian flag to read the romanian version on Shalom – Jurnal de Pace.

BUT,

If you don’t speak romanian, I invite you to read this writing in english, on another wordpress weblog, host by Aurel Mateescu. I am sure you will not regret. Click HERE to open this weblog and scroll down because the english version is under the romanian one.

CHRISTIAN LIFE (I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE LAMB)

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE LAMB (singing Ray Boltz)

A father talks with his son about the christian life:

(conversation between father and son)

(Son) Dad, has it always been this way?

(Dad) Well, even from the beginning men hated Jesus

Even thought he did nothing but love them

And teach them and heal them.

They nailed him to a cross.

They thought they had killed Him, but they only set him free

To live in the hearts of people like you and me who believe in Him.

Then came the apostles and most of them were killed

For telling other people about Jesus.

But that time it was too late. There were hundreds of people who believed in Jesus

So they tortured them and killed them

And even left their bodies to rot as an example to other people,

But the church kept right on growing

Watered by the blood of these precious Saints.

(Son) But Dad, did they want to die?

(Dad) No. They didn’t want to die.  I mean, many of them had children

Just like you they had to leave behind.

But they were forced to make a choice.

They could choose to live this one life here on earth and reject Jesus

And be damned or they could chose to believe in the words of Jesus

And live forever.

(Son) I think I understand.

(Dad) Here, maybe this will help you understand.

 

(Song: I pledge allegiance to the Lamb)

I have heard how Christians long ago

Were brought before a tyrants throne

And they were told that he would spare their lives

If they would renounce the name of Christ.

But one by one they chose to die

The Son of God they would not deny

Like a great angelic choir sings

I can almost hear their voices ring.

 

CHOURS:

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb

With all my strength

With all I am

I will seek to honor His commands

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb.

 

Now the years have come and the years have gone

But the cause of Jesus still goes on

And now our time has come to count the cost

To reject this world, to embrace the cross

And one by one let us live our lives

For the One who died to give us life.

Till the trumpet sounds on the final day

Let us proudly stand and boldly say

 

REPEAT CHORUS:

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb

With all my strength

With all I am

I will seek to honor His commands

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb.

 

To the Lamb of God who bore my pain

Who took my place, Who wore my shame.

I will seek to honor His commands

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb.

 

(conversation between father and son continues)

You’ve got to remember that it wasn’t always this way.

I mean, my dad could even pray in school.

Of course, they took that away from him.

Then it became incorrect for us to believe in the Bible

And after that they just stripped our right to worship away from us

And we quietly stood by.

But son, I hope that you’ll never put in the position

That you have to choose between your faith and your life.

But if you are – I know which choice you’re going to make

Because I know that Jesus lives inside of you.

In the meantime, just pray like I taught you how to

And take care of your mom

And remember that God is the Father of the fatherless.

 

REPEAT CHORUS:

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb

With all my strength

With all I am

I will seek to honor His commands

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb.

 

REPEAT CHORUS:

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb

With all my strength

With all I am

I will seek to honor His commands

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb.

 

REPEAT CHORUS:

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb

With all my strength

With all I am

I will seek to honor His commands

I pledge allegiance to the Lamb.

 

This christian song is composed by Ray Boltz, a singer-songwriter, whose songs often tell stories of faith and inspiration. Click Here to open more of his christian songs lyrisc.

Also, here it is another christian link about this song: http://members.aol.com/war4head/Page19.html

 

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PSALM 91

 

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you make the Most High your dwelling – even the LORD, who is my refuge - then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

“Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

1 CORINTHIANS 13

” If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. “

This is passage 1 Corinthians 13 from the Bible

I think that we used this word “love” so many different ways nowadays, so the real meaning of LOVE was lost in time. Not only lost, but its meaning was also deformed, according to the person who uses it. We know who is interest in deforming this meaning, by giving it many wrong images.

 

How big our God’s love was for us that “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3.16).

 

Love is not vogue, it is modesty.

Love is not when you convert yourself in your own idol, when you promote yourself, and your image.

Love is not what we watch on TV day and night (and especially at night).

Television sells image. This is its role. It is shallow and it sells shallowness. The image is what they sell, not the substance. There are advisors and counselors behind each smile, behind any retort. Behind that seemingly blunder, too.

 

Nowadays it is up to date aggressiveness, vulgarity and their degradations. (as also said in About this weblog). More violent we are, much more we win in this world.

 

Love can’t be selfish, even we watch all around this feeling. It seems to be love but it is not.

Love is not intrigue; even the soap operas are based on this feeling.

Love is sacrifice, is giving up at something important (for you) in order to do something important for the other one. And especially doing that with joy!

Love can’t be jealous, because a person is not an object, a thing. You can’t posses him/her. If we feel jealousy for someone this is not love, it is pride and imagination.

 

SOMEONE really loves us with jealousy but this is the only right feeling, because He really owns us. He bought us with His Son’s blood, so He is the only one who can claim what He owns.

Love was so beautiful in those old times, 2000 years ago, in 1 Corinthians 13

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the author of “The Little Prince” (you can read it here) was giving a wonderful definition for love: “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” Aimer, ce n’est pas se regarder l’un l’autre, c’est regarder ensemble dans la même direction. (French)

 

THE PASSION OF CHRIST