Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Do You Love your people?


Do You Love your people?
    If you would ask everyone in the World do you love your People? I believe 90 % of them will always answer, yes I love my people. If someone would ask me this question I will give the same answer. I believe you will do the same, by telling I love my people.
    But there seems to be contradictions with Christ Jesus our Lord God, about this question. Jesus said “He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” Matthew 10:37 Father or Mother, Son or Daughter, it includes all kindred and makes up a People. What does Jesus tells us here? What He actually meant here is to Love Him more than any other personalities in the Entire World, and not to hate them. What do you and I got to say … I love my people more than Jesus? Or I love Jesus more than my people…!
    There are some extremists for God and in other hand for people, we need a balanced life and not to be extreme in one side. If you really love God you will surely love your people. Because “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.    This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Matthew 22:37-39. By reading this we easily understood what God want us to be in Loving God and men. There is no way to be too extreme for God and for men, but one thing “God is and must be the first Priority” in lives. And not just God and our people … every men in the entire world … this is the Command form the Lord ! someone ask Jesus ‘who’s my neighbor’ ? Jesus’ answer was simple, and  told him a parable, of ‘the good Samaritan’. So our relative is the one who is not related to us, who is a stranger became our relative and people in God’s way, if we really Love God it became our way of life.
    What’s going on here are we not talking about loving our own people? Why should I love others? You might ask me this question, but that’s not the way if we only love our own people and hating others, if this so it would mean ‘Racialism’. Jesus came for His people but His people crucified Him “He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:” John 1:11-12, this passage is talking about us, because The Jews, Jesus’ own people rejected Jesus we can come to Jesus and be the Children of God. It’s a privileged for us. Obviously Jesus was not accepted by His own people, because they were expecting the Political Messiah not the Spiritual Messiah, they will received the political one in the future who is the Anti-Christ. So don’t expect your people to be politic, they will be far from the Truth of God.  If you love your people teach them about God, help them know the Lord Jesus Christ, lead them to know the Word of God more than any other things.
      Why many racial problems are happening in the world today? because people don’t want to know more of God and care little about God. It’s not just happening in our Nation, it’s all over the world the main reason is No God needed in their lives. So here is the best suggestion if you Love your people Lead them to know God, and don’t hate other people groups … God wants us to love every one even our enemies, if you hate there is no God in your life. God bless you … ! 

Thursday, May 10, 2012

What is your Dream and Vision ?



    Dreams and Visions occurred 224 times in the Bible and one third of the Bible is consist of the Dreams and Visions, eg : the Book of Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation. The Bible is so concerned with it. Because God is the Giver and Revealer of  Visions and Dreams. He is the Source of it. Let’s see some of the examples from the Bible in concerning Dream and Vision.

  Joseph : Genesis 37:5-11 “Dreamed to be King”
      
    In Joseph’s life we see that he was called “Dreamer” by his brothers. He was chosen of his father Jacob and well loved by him that’s why his brothers envied him. So did God choose him to be Deliverer of the people of the world in his time in Ancient Near East. Before that he got Visions and Dreams from God, Who is the King of Human Destiny.

 David : 1 Samuel 16:12 “Anointed to be King”
     
     David was Anointed to be King when he was young. The story of David was an interesting one … many Christians like David … he was mostly imitated, because ‘he was called a man after God’s own heart’. Prophet Samuel came to Bethlehem of Judea to the house of Jesse to find a future king of Israel. And found David lastly a shepherd boy who was tending his father’s sheep in the wilderness. God choose David to be king.
      God gave to every one each Dreams or Visions in life, since we believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. What we got from God won’t be the same, but I am sure that all things work together for the good and Glory of God and extension of His Kingdom on Earth.

Dreams in Progress And Dream Fulfilled

    Before we achieve our Dreams and Visions or Ambition we have a period of tests, without that God is not going to anything prior, This is the most difficult part in Dreams and Visions.
     In the life of Joseph and David we found something similar, about the time their testing period, which lasts for 13 years. Joseph when he was 17 years old after receiving his dream from God sold to slavery and when he was 30 years old he became Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Egypt (Genesis 41:46) ,
     Likewise David when he was 17 years old he received Anointing from God by Prophet Samuel, then became famous and faced many threat in life and when he was 30 years old He became King of the Israel and Judah (2 Samuel 5:3). Dreams and Visions can only be fulfilled by God, Who is the “Author and Finisher of our Faith” (what we believed for) Hebrews 12:2.


     William Carey (Missionary to India) had a proverb of his own "Expect Great things from God and Attempt to do Great things for God" that's encouraging to me and i believe to you as well ...


What is your Dream ?

Martin Luther King Jr. once said in his public speech in 1963 Washington March.
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood”  That was Martin Luther’s  Dream and now it’s already been fulfilled by God.
    What is your Dream today? I do believe that God has set you on a purpose as you live in this World …! Find out your Dream and Vision if you wanted to see, Come True…!
    I have a Dream when I was young, after being born again. It is more like a vision, in that vision I saw Millions of people standing and listening before me preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, I was on a stage, it is like Reinhard Bonnke meetings. It was a thrilled to me but it is still to come, I do believe in God, that He will fulfill that Dream and Vision One Day in His appointed time …!
We need to know our Dreams and Vision and do it till it can be fulfill by the Help of God. One thing, is your Dreams and Visions for the glory of God or for yourself? If you have dreams of your own please give it up to Jesus He will give His.

This is your Dream (the most greatest Dream)

Acts 16:9 “The Macedonian Call” we all know what that mean. Apostle Paul when he was about to go Asia-minor for preaching Jesus, the Spirit of God forbade him not to go, but in his dream  a man of Macedonia call him “come into Macedonia and help us”. God has called us for His Kingdom and to Proclaim His Good News that the world longs and needs to hear … Christ is Alive today … Hallelujah …!
Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke once said “the Great Commission must be our Great Ambition” this it is. Our Greatest Dreams and Ambitions must be      “Proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ till the Ends of the Earth”

Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the Earth.

 1 Thess 5:24  Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

So don’t be afraid if God has call you to do something … God is with you and you need pursue it, and have your Dream come True … Amen … !