Soul Savation

As John Bevere studies, the process of our soul's salvation begins when we become a child of God. Our souls are saved, or transformed, by the Word of god and our obedience to it. The apostle James writes:

"So then, my beloved brethren..Lay aside all filthiness an overflow of wickedness, an receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." (James 1:19, 21-22)

The True Faith: Blind man walking, full reliance on voice.

Another documentary that my heart was being carried away. "Father of Lights" unravels the simplicity of God's requirement of us.

Every single miracle was performed as God has told every individual who has the gift of discerning His will. The key to make this happen, simply just wait and listen to the instruction of God. A little further to the claiming of salvation for a lost soul, is a little action by faith.

Prayers were heard immediately, healing and deliverance took place so quickly that brings me to think that God is actually around us. There could be more of these taking place in our lives than it could be thought happening only in the ancient times when Jesus and his disciples were around. Now the next question would be, how can we cooperate with this amazing God to direct His grace to others?

Not long before I ponder on this, God directed me to the passage of the Book of which I read for my daily Bible dosage. The current passage that I am reading is Mark 4 which goes around the Parable of the Soil.

Jesus explained this to His disciple,
"...You are permitted to understand the secret about the Kingdom of God. But I am using these stories to conceal everything about it from outsiders, so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled:
'They see what I do, but they don't perceive its meaning.
they hear my words, but they don't understand.
So they will not turn from their sins and be forgiven' "

Some people do not understand God's truth because they are not ready for it. God reveals truth to people who will do something about it. When you talk it with people about God be aware that they will not understand if they are not yet ready. Be patient, taking every chance to tell them more of the truth about God and praying that the Holy Spirit will open their minds and hearts, making them ready to receive the truth and act on it.

That explains why the prayers that came out from me have never come to past as miracles. I am not ready as I don't understand God's heart. The pride has shielded me away from receiving the uttermost instruction, needed for His work to be done. And more often, I just missed the most important conversation with God because of the overwhelming schedule and work of which I see more crucial than anything else.

As the priority gets in the wrong order, things started to fall apart. To prevent this from rotting further, I ask for God's forgiveness for letting His work passed me by so many times without realizing. And may the restoration of the sharpness in spirit be taken place in immediate effect. Going to keep learning on the area of listening to God's voice. I believe there are more to learn each day with this exciting walk with the Lord.

Want to be in a relationship? Ask yourself this question.

After the devotion today, this statement keeps running in my head, especially after I have prayed for my future partner. It goes like,

"Are you currently the man of your household?"

This statement takes in a lot of explanation. It can be interpreted as "Are you the provider for your family?" or simply "Have you taken the responsibility as a son/leader to take care of your family?"
To bring it further, it could mean "How have the relationship between you and your family members gone so far?"

Neither of the questions gave me a "yes" for I am not even in par to my current age to have the maturity to resume my position as "the man of the household". Probably, I have been in a good life for the past 31 years of my life. The least i could worry about, as parents provide most of my daily needs.

The question trembles me and finally I realized the truth behind my singlehood. I am telling myself that I need to change, immediately.

Lord Father, I need your wisdom to help me in my discipline in all that i do. You have shown me the picture of how a godly family is formed. It takes years to build a leader and it's under such leadership that the house prospers. Lord you taught me that in order to own/build a family, I must first become the leader myself in the current family. 

I ask that Lord you will show me the quality of Jesus, who is not only the leader of the household but the leader of the community. That i may learn from Him to prepare myself to be not only the right person but a righteous person to be wedded to the lady you have prepared for me. 

My gratitude to you Lord with all the praise, honour and glory. In Jesus name, i seal this prayer. Amen.   

One Step Closer to a Disciplined Life

It's half way through the month of February and i am starting to get the hold of how my new year resolution works. Struggling to juggle with the tight schedule that i put myself through, at least I am pretty much settled and adapted to the busyness that I viewed as "almost impossible" to cope with.

Praise God that I have regained my focus back that was lost since I came back to work in Penang. Probably it's the sadness and disappointment that cause the drifting to be significantly high until i was lost and, at one point, failed to even "navigate" myself back on track.

God's faithfulness is unspeakable. If it wasn't His constant care and a consistent watchful eyes around me, I think I wouldn't have come to this stage to write about His goodness. I was reminded that God has all the resources "planted" almost everywhere I could land my feet on. He leads me to have a unceasing thought of how to make good use of the resources. And this question requires a good plan to be exchanged for fruitful products.

Immediately, the word "knowledge" struck me. Nothing in this world is more valuable than knowledge, so to speak. It seems easy to acquire because of its free access but little do we know that it's hard to pursue. However, by having the proper knowledge applied on the right work only we are able to see the products or outcome that we truly desire.

I am glad that I am back to the "learning circle" again like I was before in college. And it's great to see learning drives a powerful stimulus towards opening up a wider view of a person. Making him understand something that has hidden within an element or more. Unlocking the mysterious path towards compreheding the creation of God.

Apart from this, i believe that knowledge would help so much on the instruction of what is meant by the consecrated living that the Lord had been pushing hard on Moses and Aaron. Truly enough it's tough to live in such great habitat as Earth. Manual is needed to allow mankind to continue their stay and so that's the real purpose of having to acquire God's wisdom on transforming the knowledge we could gain for "survival".

Praise God once again to give me such thing to ponder on. And i will carry on further to unveil more of what God want of me and the mankind. At least now one thing I know for sure, Jesus didn't come to die for nothing. He gave up one thing so that we can gain everything.