PRAISING GOD
PART 19
Who is the man who desires life
and loves length of days that he
may see good?
Keep your tongue from evil,
And your lips from speaking deceit
Depart from evil and do good
Seek peace and pursue it.
The eyes of the Lord are toward
the righteous
And His ears are open to their
cry
The face of the Lord is against
evildoers
To cut off the memory of them
from the earth
The righteous cry and the Lord
hears
And delivers them out of all
their troubles
The Lord is near to the broken
hearted
And saves those who are crushed
in spirit.
Many are the afflictions
of the righteous
But the Lord delivers him out of them all.
He keeps all his bones
not one of them is broken
Evil shall slay the wicked
And those who hate the
righteous
shall be condemned
The Lord redeems the soul
of His servants
And none of those who take
refuge in Him will be condemned.
next post 29th April
PRAISING GOD
PART 18
I will bless the Lord at all times
His praise shall continually be
in my mouth
My soul shall make its boast in
the Lord
The humble shall hear it and
rejoice
O magnify the Lord with me
And let us exalt His Name
together
I sought the Lord and He
answered me and delivered
me from all my fears
They looked to Him and were
radiant
Their faces shall never be
ashamed
This poor man cried and the
Lord heard him
and saved him out of all his
troubles
The angel of the Lord encamps
around those who fear Him
And rescues them
O taste and see that
the Lord is good
How blessed is the man
who takes refuge in Him!
O fear the Lord you His Saints
For those who fear Him
there is no want
The young lions do lack and
suffer hunger
But those who fear the Lord, shall
not lack of any good thing
Come you children, listen to me
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
next post 28th April
MY FAVORITE PSALMS
PART 100
Sing for joy in the Lord, O you
righteous ones
Praise is becoming to the upright
Give thanks to the Lord with the Lyre
Sing praises to Him with a harp and
ten strings
Sing to Him a new song
Play skillfully with a shout of joy
For the Word of the Lord is upright
And all His work is done in faithfulness
He loves righteousness and justice
The earth is full of the lovingkindness
of the Lord.
By the Word of the Lord the heavens
were made
And by the breath of His mouth
all their host
He gathers the waters of the sea
together as a heap
He lays up the deeps in storehouses
Let all the earth fear the Lord
Let all the inhabitants of the world
stand in awe of Him.
For He spoke and it was done
He commanded and it stood fast
The Lord nullifies the council of the
nations
He frustrates the plans of the peoples
The council of the Lord stands forever
The plans of His heart from generation
to generation.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord
The people whom He has chosen for His
own inheritance.
The Lord looks from heaven
He sees all the sons of men
From His dwelling place
He looks out
On all the inhabitants of
the earth
He Who fashions the heart
of them all
He Who understands all
their works
The king is not saved by a mighty army
A warrior is not delivered by great strength
A horse is a false hope for victory
Nor does it deliver anyone by its great
strength.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those
who fear Him.
On those who hope for His lovingkindness
To deliver their soul from death
and to keep them alive in famine
Our soul waits for the Lord
He is our help and our shield
For our heart rejoices in Him
Because we trust in His Holy Name
Let Thy lovingkindness O Lord
be upon us
According as we have hoped in Thee.
next post 27th April.
ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY
PART 113
(copied from Mark Cahill's Book)
God tells us that:
"even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, has now been made manifest to His saints.
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."
(Colossians 1:26-27)
You now have the Son of God living inside of you.
You are going to be humbled by the changes that will be occurring in your life! Look at who you have become as a follower of Jesus Christ:
"I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me."
(Galations 2:20)
Jesus now lives in you and through you. As Spurgeon said:
"The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will begin to reflect your true identity!"
Now take a look at who you have become! (from
Victory Over the Darkness by Dr. Neil Anderson)
WHO AM I ?
I am accepted.
* I am God's child John 1:12
* I am Christ's friend John 15:15
* I have been justified Romans 5:1
* I am united with the Lord
and am one spirit in Him 1st Corinthians
6:19-20
* I am a member of Christ's
Body 1st Corinthians
12;27
* I am a saint Ephesians 1:1
* I have been adopted as
God's child Ephesians 1:5
* I have direct access to God
through the Holy Spirit Ephesians 2:18
* I have been redeemed and
forgiven of all my sins Colossians 1:14
* I am complete in Christ Colossians 2:10
next post 23rd April
WAS THERE A DA VINCI CONSPIRACY ?
PART 5
(copied from
Y-Jesus.com)
Firing on the canon
The Da Vinci Code also states that Constantine suppressed all documents about Jesus, other than
those found in our current New Testament canon
(recognized by the Church as authentic eyewitness reports of the apostles), it further asserts that the New Testament accounts were altered by Constantine and the bishops to reinvent Jesus.
Another key element of the Da Vinci Code Conspiracy was that the four New Testament gospels were cherry-picked from a total of "more then 80 gospels," most of which were supposedly suppressed by Constantine.
There are two central issues here, and we need to
address both. The first is whether Constantine altered or biased the selection of the New Testament Books. The second is whether he barred documents that should have been included in the Bible.
Regarding the first issue, letters and documents written by second century church leaders and heretics alike confirm the wide usage of the New Testament Books. Nearly 200 years before Constantine convened the Council of Nicaea, the heretic Marcion listed 11 of the 27 New Testament Books as being the authentic writings of the apostles.
And about the same time, another heretic, Valentinus, alludes to a wide variety of New Testament themes and passages. Since these two heretics were opponents of the early church leadership, they were not writing just what the bishops wanted. Yet, like the early church, they still referred to the same New Testament books we read today.
So, if the New Testament
was already widely in use
200 years before
Constantine and the
Council of Nicaea, how
could the emperor have
invented or altered it ? By that time the church was widespread and encompassed hundreds of thousands, if not millions of believers , all of whom were familiar with the New Testament accounts.
In his book, The Da Vinci Code Deception, an analysis of the Da Vinci Code, Dr. Erwin Lutzer remarks:
* Constantine did not decide which Books would be in the canon, indeed the topic of the canon
did not even come up at the council of Nicaea. By that time the early church was reading a canon of books it had determined was the Word of God, two hundred years earlier."
Although the official canon was still years from being finalized, the New Testament of today was
deemed authentic more than two centuries before Nicaea.
next post 25th April
ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY
PART 112
(copied from Mark Cahill's Book)
Chapter 10
Who am I ?
"Therefore. if any man be in Christ, He is a new creature,
old things have passed away, behold all things have become
new.
- Apostle Paul 2 Corinthians 5:17
An amazing thing happens when you become a
Christian. The things you once loved, you now
hate. And the things you once hated, you now
love. Think about it as the journey to serve the King continues.
If you have not made that decision, to follow
Jesus, read on to see what you will experience when you finally surrender your life to Him.
If you have made your decision for Jesus Christ,
you are going to be amazed at what you read now. You are now, officially, a different person in God's eyes - a new creature in the eyes of God! You have
been justified. The ransom has been paid in full.
No debt remains to be paid for your sin. It is
forgiven! You are a different person!
One guy put it this way: "If you played football, you are as good as your talent and work level. But if one day Michael Vick came to live inside of you,
look at the changes: you could run a 4.2 40 yard -dash, you'd have lightning quick moves, and an arm that could throw a football down the field with a flick of the wrist. You are now a totally different player. Why? Something changed on the inside."
This leaves out one thing. Having Michael Vick inside you, wouldn't give you Michael Vick's body. So the desire to be great might be there, but would you have the ability to be great?
But when the Son of God is living inside of you, and has changed your life because of what He did for you, life is truly worth living! Although having Michael Vick living inside of you, might change your life, you better believe that having the Son of God WILL change your life in unimaginable ways now that you believe in Him!
next post 19th April
HYMNS
PART TWO
(1) Be not dismayed, whate'er betide
God will take care of you
Beneath His wings of love abide
God will take care of you
refrain
God will take care of you
Through every day o'er all the way
He will take care of you
God will take care of you
(2) Through days of toil when heart doth fail
He will take care of you
When dangers fierce your path asail
He will take care of you
(3) All you may need He will provide
God will take care of you
Trust Him and you will be satisfied
God will take care of you
(4) Lonely and sad,
from friends apart
God will take care of you
He will give peace
to your aching
heart
God will take care
of you.
(5) No matter what may be the test
God will take care of you
Lean, weary one upon His breast
God will take care of you
next post 22nd April
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