Apostolic Quotes

Å℘◎﹩☂øł☤ḉ ℚυ◎тℯṧ : "Worship is not just attending the Church service on sundays and sing some moving soft songs to our Lord saying 'I love you and praise you' and live the rest of the week like a unfaithful wife by being in love with the world and worship the devil who gives a sinful thrill mockingly to all believers. But true worship is a lifestyle of love, sacrifice and passion that looks for every possible way to please God all the time. " — Abraham Israel

Art of Living #27

Åґ☂ ◎ḟ ʟ☤√ḯη❡ #27 : "Lift up your hands... and bless the LORD." (Ps.134:2).

Ѧ℘☺﹩☂◎łḯ¢ €ϰ℘øüηḓ : Many times when we go out to worship the Lord in the public meetings, we feel very much apprensive to life our hand and worship the Lord in public. It will be easy for us to do it in public if we do it in private worship first. Is it Biblically a New Testament practice? What does a seasoned apostle like Paul say about lifting up our hands to bless the Lord in the public worship? Paul says,"I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting." (1 Tim 2:8). This shows that men even in the first century were very much apprehensive and uncomfortable to lift up their hands. Paul the apostle desired all to lift up their holy hands and pray everywhere in all nations because all the people in the Church did not want to lift their hands freely. Lifting up our hands is an act of surrender to God that is a powerful tool that makes us to draw near to God easily. Our hands become holy to the Lord only when we choose to lift up our hands for the Lord and clap our hands when we sing a song to the Lord. Or even at times when we do not know the song we will be able to easily participate in the worship actively by clapping. Next time you worship in private just lift up your hands and close your eyes and see what happens. Suddenly you will be able to easily enter the Holy of Holies of God in the spiritual realm through your sprit-man. Lifting up our hands is a physical act which expresses to the Lord about our faith and love which we have in our hearts towards Him. If God knows the worship in our heart, why do we really need to lift up our hands. The whole of heaven watches even the slightest moment of worship and praise that arises out of this planet earth and rejoices to see men expressing their love towards God (Luke 15:10). God who sees it will be greatly glorified before the angels.

Humans always have a so called ego of the soul that controls them usually, rather than allowing the spirit-man inside them to control them. This ego will always tell, 'What will the other person who is standing near you will think when they see you lifting up your hands like a mad man in love with a God who is mad after you?' This reasoning of the soul will never please God in any way. Rather the soul should be trained by us day after day not to be too conscious of its surroundings but to become conscious of the God who is closer to us than the air we all breathe. This is the reason a man who is close to the heart of God said to His soul, "Bless the Lord, O my Soul!" (Psa 103:1). In other words, David too felt in His soul exactly the same ego as we feel in our soul, but because of a passion and extreme love he had towards the Lord, he trained his soul by commanding it to bless the Lord and be conscious of Him rather than his immediate surroundings. When you lift your hands and bless the Lord the next time, expect a great victory in your life, family, friends and your surroundings. This is the way God gave victory through Moses when He lifted up His hands in a symbolic act of surrendering the battle that the Israelites fought to the Lord (Exod 17:11). When battles come to you, you don't have to fight to win as the world says, just lift your hands and continue to bless the Lord in an act of surrender and worship. The Lord will fight the battle for you and the victory is as sure as the sun that rises up in the east every morning (Exod 14:14; 2 Chron 20:15).

“To lift up the hands” is also a gesture that expresses adoration in the context of worship. Worship means we are giving God our Worth-ship, telling him that He is worthy of all our adoration we give to Him voluntarily out of our own will. When you think of all the blessings the Lord has given to you, learn to BLESS HIM BACK DAILY. How can a mere human like us BLESS THE BLESSOR of all things? This is the privilege of the CHILDREN OF GOD only. This is the reason WE NEED TO LEARN TO LIFT UP OUR HANDS AND BLESS OUR DEAR LORD ALWAYS FOR WHO HE IS TO US. Much Blessings.....

Great Quotes

Ḡґℯαт ℚυø⊥εṧ : "Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?" — Martin Luther

"Salvation is from our side a choice; from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our accepting and willing are reactions rather than actions." — A. W. Tozer

‎"There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience." - Hudson Taylor

Apostolic Quotes

Å℘◎﹩☂øł☤ḉ ℚυ◎тℯṧ : ‎"SALVATION is an EVENT, but FRUIT BEARING is a LIFE LONG PROCESS. Don't try to mix one with the other, when you do that you will become unsure of either." — Abraham Israel

Art of Living #26

Åґ☂ ◎ḟ ʟ☤√ḯη❡ #26 : "I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD." (Gen.49:18).

Ѧ℘☺﹩☂◎łḯ¢ €ϰ℘øüηḓ : Actually in context, this is a word of prophecy and blessing that Jacob spoke over His sons just moments before he died. When he actually spoke the prophetic word over His son Dan and how their descendants will be like in the end times. The content of the prophetic word is a prophecy that Dan will judge the nation as one of the tribes of Israel (Gen 49:16). Yet because of some strong prophetic rebuke succeeding the promise (Gen 49:17), it seemed that this tribe will cease to exist before God in the future. True to the saying, when John describes the tribes of Israel who will be sealed before the end time Tribulation starts, he left the name of the trible of Dan completely from it (Rev 7:4-8). Then the question comes up, then how can God's prophecy that they will judge his people as one of the twelve tribes can be fulfilled in the future Millenial Kingdom on earth?

The answer to this has been clearly given by God in the immediate next verse that says, "I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD." (Gen.49:18). In other words, God wanted them to trust in the promise of God to keep them safe even up to the time of His Millenial Kingdom and keep expecting from the Lord to sustain them through hard times. Exactly according to this promise, God added their name again in the list of the tribes in the time of the Millenial Kingdom which he gave through Ezekiel the prophet (Ezek 48:1-8, 22-29). Through the time of the GREAT TRIBULATION, even though the tribe of Dan will not be sealed on their forehead during the this time for a special protection to keep them alive, God will keep His Promise because all of them will wait for the Messiah to come and save them from getting extinct forever. God will keep on His promises and strengthen those who will look to Him through their tough times, till his appointed time will come to pass.

In our spiritual life, God saved us once and for all time when we received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior of our life. Then He sealed us with His Holy Spirit as a gurantee of keeping us saved till the day we will be resurrected in our BRAND NEW GLORIOUS BODY (Eph 1:13-14). But in between the time we are saved to the time we go on to be with Jesus forever, there will surely be times of great struggles that will come to us. During those times we should not look to ourselves but to God who strengthen us with His supernatural strength and who has also promised us that we who have come to Him for refuge in to His mighty hand will never ever be snatched out of it by any any demons, sin, sickness or even death (John 10:27-30; Rom 8:38-39). GOD IS FAITHFUL EVEN WHEN WE ARE FAITHFLESS TO HIM (2 Tim 2:13), BUT WE NEED TO ACCEPT THAT WE ARE WEAK BEFORE HIM IN HUMILITY AND LOOK TO HIS PROMISES RATHER THAN OUR FEELIINGS TO REACH THE DESTINATION WHICH HE HAS PREPARED FOR US. When we keep waiting for God's salvation we will sail through through the hurdles by God's grace with out getting in to any hidden snares of the devil and reach the destination safely. God only works for those who wait for him. Much Blessings.......