Manna for the Day

ℳαηηα ḟøґ тℌℯ Ðα¥ : "For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13, NKJV).

Many times as we seek to please God with all our heart, in the passion of our activity we forget that we are doing it by His grace and strength. Then as we settle on with a mind that we have done much for God, then God allows our weaknesses to show up. Then the first question that arises in our mind, are we really worthy to be called a son of a holy God? Like the prodigal son we start to say to God and ourselves, "I am not worthy to be called your son, but at least let me be your servant forever." God in His love for us at that time embraces and starts to say to our heart, "My son it is I who works in you from the day I saved you from sin to the day you will be rewarded for all the good works that you have done in my name. I will love you and stay faithful to keep you in my ways until the end. Just learn to trust me and walk in my ways. You will be safe from all the harms of the enemy." O what a reassurance we get from our Loving Heavenly Father! May we always know that what ever we achieve in our life for God, from the starting to the end it is not our strength but it is God who is doing it to to fulfill His will and good pleasure. When we have this mind set, we will be able to overcome when our weaknesses shows up to discourage us, because of receiving much grace for being humble before God. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DISCOURAGED IN LIFE DOING GOD'S WORK ARE THOSE WHO DO NOT REALIZE THAT GOD IS THE ONE WHO IS DOING IT THROUGH THEM. The sooner we realize, the faster we will enjoy doing God's work and will consider it as a privilege given to us.

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Manna for the Day

ℳαηηα ḟøґ тℌℯ Ðα¥ : "Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses." (Mark 11:25, NKJV).

The first step that we need to take in order to learn the art of praying is to forgive anything that we have against anybody unconditionally, so that God the Father in heaven may start to commune with us by forgiving our day today sins as we become sinful by the pollution of the world which He actually hates. We are the one who open up the channel for God to commune with us by forgiving others, if we do not do that and keep crying to God to forgive our sins, I bet in a million years we will be in the same position with God. God cannot commune with unforgiving sinful being who are not covered by the blood of Jesus. They may be saved, but are unfit for communion with God until they choose to let go the faults of others which might have been done against them intentionally or unintentionally. Unforgiveness is the worst of all sin that a believer can hold on to, God starts His relationship with us by forgiving us unconditionally through Christ and He expects us to do the same as we have become His beloved children when we were saved. UNFORGIVENESS IS LIKE DRINKING POISON AND EXPECTING THE OTHER PERSON TO DIE, SO CHOOSE TO FORGIVE EVERYONE UNCONDITIONALLY LIKE GOD IN CHRIST FORGAVE YOU.

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Art of Living #50

Åґ☂ ◎ḟ ʟ☤√ḯη❡ #50 : "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things." (Phil 4:8, NIV).

Ѧ℘☺﹩☂◎łḯ¢ €ϰ℘øüηḓ : God has given us all a gift that is more valuable than any material blessing that He gives. It cannot be equated with anything material that God provides us because all material blessings of God need to have this gift along with it for any person to really enjoy it on planet earth. By now I think you might have guessed it? It is nothing other than the power of a beautiful mind within us. If the mind in us is filled with beauty and the glory of God, all the world around us becomes beautiful. Have you experienced the miserable times when you have all things that you need with you, but do not have a calm heart to enjoy the things surrounding you and the beautiful environment around you? If you have realized the value of this blessed mind, then you need to know how we can really improve its performance to stay joyful, peaceful and serene all the time.

The blessed Apostle Paul who wrote atleast one third of the whole New Testament developed a blessed mind by the power of God and said the following, "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate [and think intentionally] on these things." (Phil 4:8). In other words, only when we choose to think on things true, noble, pure, lovely and of good report which is full of the virtue of God's character and power display, worthy of praise to God, then we can be able to little by little increase the performance of our fallen sinful mind to a beautiful blessed mind filled with an incresing level of God's glory! We need discipline and consistency to really attain this blessedness.

Whatever effort or hardship God allows us to go through in order to train us and reward us with a beautiful mind is worth every effort on our part, because the whole world becomes beautiful when our mind starts to think beautifully with the blessed thoughts of God. When we change our thinking, the whole world around us changes instantly. This is the one of the greatest miracle of all. Our mind can think only one thought at a time. When silly, evil, sinful and discouraging thoughts arises in our mind through the influence of our sin nature within, immediately we should make a good choice to replace it with a positive, life-giving, and soul enriching Word of God based thought immediately. God who sees whether we are sincere in our effort to intentinally think on His word in our soul constantly, will start to slowly record those things in our spirit and then give His quickened word from our spirit-man which will become a blessed thought of the moment to replace the sinful and mundane in our soul. After some months and years of hard work, the blessedness of God's glory will start to flow without our effort perpetually. Like a river it starts to constantly flow in to our mind and keeps our soul like a tree planted by the rivers of waters. O what a blessedness! SO KEEP THINKING ON THE GOOD THOUGHTS OF THE WORD OF GOD CONSTANTLY BY MEDITATING AND CHEWING ON IT AS A CUD AGAIN AND AGAIN, UNTIL IT GOES DEEP IN TO YOUR SPIRIT AND COMES OUT OF IT AS A BLESSED THOUGHT FROM THE THRONE OF GOD IN TO YOUR SOUL AGAIN, ANOINTED AND SHINING AS A RAINBOW OUT OF A PRISM. May God help us all to train, discipline ourselves to think intentionally the good thoughts of God and His Word so that we could keep the beautiful mind to be filled with the rainbow of God's glory all the time more and more progressively!

"Continued meditation brings great profit to the soul. Passant and transient thoughts are more pleasant, but not so profitable. Deliberate meditation is of most use because it secures the return of the thoughts." — Thomas Manton

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Manna for the Day

ℳαηηα ḟøґ тℌℯ Ðα¥ : "Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us." (Hebrews 12:1, NKJV).

The people who had like nature and equal opportunities like us excelled in throwing away the weight of sin that the world system brought in to their lives by their unconquerable faith. The sin of unbelief easily ensnares a person of faith and destroys him from finishing the race with the honor of great eternal reward from God. We see little exploits done for our BIG GOD, because of our lack of BIG FAITH which our Lord loves to provide freely. But when we takes patience as our closest friend and run the race, the same friend will stay to the end and will make sure that we attain the reward God has for us without fail. Say to patience now, 'You are my friend that God has given for a lifetime. I thank God that you will stay with me till we achieve God's plan for my life.' And I bet that you will never miss the finish line of the spiritual faith race that God has set for you without a prize of honor.

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Apostolic Quotes

Å℘◎﹩☂øł☤ḉ ℚυ◎тℯṧ : “When I do things that I do not like, that is when I realise that there is a sin nature that dwells in me to do things contrary to what God likes me to do. God understands and seperates what I do from what the sin nature tries to do tyranically through me. It is a great encouragement to know that God does not see our faults when He sees us through Jesus, but sees our expected end and expects us to depend on Him to fullfill it.” — Abraham Israel

“When we give in to temptation we lose the joy of being in the war zone as more than conquerors in Christ. But when we immediately cry out to God for His mercies under the blood of Jesus and receive grace, we are restored, supernaturally healed and rejuvenated to again stand as more than conquerors in Christ. The sooner we bounce back, that much faster the enemy backs off.” — Abraham Israel

"We try to hold that which we cannot keep, the Lord holds that which He is only able to keep. Unless the Lord holds our salvation for us there is no way we can keep our salvation intact." — Abraham Israel