“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word WAS God.” John 1:1
Jesus is the Word made flesh. He is the beginning and the end because He is God, and nothing in this world, underneath or above, was made without Him, including the things that people have ascribed to themselves as their inventions. Without Him, nothing was made that has not been made.
Jesus’ was coming was to bring in hope to a world lost in darkness. That is why John the Baptist came as a witness to this hope; to introduce the world to the Light and hope of Life in the darkness. This Life that is Christ. That is who Jesus is. Bringing God’s love into a world that was starved of hope and granting some the grace to be called Children of God.
He came to the world which He created in His Splendor and Majesty, but the world did not recognize Him and so rejected Him. However, for those who were granted the grace to believe in Him and accept Him, He brought them the message of grace and truth, stamping out the law of Moses, introducing them to an everlasting love, and giving them the right to be called children of God.
Jesus is Grace and Truth, which He has given to a world pregnant with darkness as a source of Life, Hope and Salvation. All He wants is that we believe in Him and accept Him, and He will do the rest of the hard work, of enabling us to see in this darkness. He is waiting with outstretched arms to introduce you to an undying, unfailing love. Jesus is LOVE.
Wednesday 28 December 2011
Sunday 25 December 2011
BARBERS!!!
Hi guys, just a little word I would like to share with you.
It seems some of us are getting stressed, worried, unsure, are doubtful because of college applications or work or just school altogether.
It seems reasonable that we should be. I mean some of us may not have the 40's or the 2000's and we are thinking of applying to highly selective schools or even if we do have the grades there is something about us that should call for worry.
To the world we should be worried, after all there is no "Jesus in the college application process. Its all about grades."
But is it? I believe we are children of faith. We are "a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a people belonging to God."
Remember Elizabeth who was barren and both she and Zechariah were well advanced in years to even fathom having a child. Yet they prayed for something unthinkable. A child. Ridiculous. How can they even think of having a child at that age. To the logical mind it is IMPOSSIBLE.
Yet one day an angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah and it was revealed that their prayer had been answered. The impossible was going to be made possible. Elizabeth was going to be with child. A miracle is it not? Is that not what Zechariah had been praying for?
But funnily enough he doubted. He knew it was impossible but he still asked. At that point he had surrendered it to God. He had left it to God to perform a miracle.
BUT when God did show up to confirm His miracle, Zechariah doubted, "How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well advanced in years." If he knew this why then did he ask? Why then did he ask for a miracle??? A miracle can comprise of making the impossible possible right? He prayed to God to give his wife a child even when he knew he was old and his wife was well advanced in years but he still hoped. He hoped until the moment where he was to receive the miracle. Then doubt decided to creep him.
That is how it is with us.
We know our grades are not the best or our college essay is not as creative and does not really reveal us. But yet still we ask God to perform a miracle and make us barb that college because we know He has a plan for us, a plan of good and not to harm us. So we ask away, asking for what seems impossible to become possible.
Then as our days to barbing draw near we start to doubt. What if I don't get in. People begin to say hmm with your grades it is unlikely you will get in and you begin to subconsciously listen to them. we begin to soak it in and we begin to doubt God to give us the miracle we ask for. Why? Is the miracle too big for Him? Is getting into a mere college something He cannot provide? Are the admission officers more powerful than He is that He cant cause them to have a change of mind? Do mere mortals have the final say about what goes on in our lives or is it God who from the beginning knew where H e wanted us to go?
Didn’t he commission us to ask and we will receive? Haven't we asked to barb that unthinkable college thus wont we receive? Receiving basically is automatic as long as we have FAITH
James 1:6 "But when he asks he must believe and not doubt... "
There is just one condition… Believe in God and do not doubt! Don’t ask the what if's, don’t be worried.
Because he that doubts,(James 1:7- that man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord)
We sing every day in church, He has promised He will never fail… but yet we don’t believe that. We read His word everyday and it states clearly:
Luke 1:37 (For nothing is impossible for God / No word from God will ever fail)
If that is true, then why do we doubt that when God said ask and you will receive we will truly receive.
For isn't it written in 2 Corinthians 2:9 that
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him."
So let the world think that is impossible to barb that school, but its up to you to have that faith and say , "With my God everything is possible." It's time for you to please God by having faith for remember, "without faith it is impossible to please God."
It is time for you because of your faith to hear God finally say, "this is my child in whom I am well pleased."
So whether you are now going to click that submit button of your common application, or you have clicked it once before and have been deferred or even rejected just hold on to that faith..
For in Jeremiah 11: 29 it says. " I know the plans I have for you they are of good and not to harm you."
Jesus said , "And I will do anything you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father."
It's time for the children of God to take a stand and put everyone to shame and remember "But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise."
Its our time to claim our victory if only we BELIEVE.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
Have fun barbing
It seems some of us are getting stressed, worried, unsure, are doubtful because of college applications or work or just school altogether.
It seems reasonable that we should be. I mean some of us may not have the 40's or the 2000's and we are thinking of applying to highly selective schools or even if we do have the grades there is something about us that should call for worry.
To the world we should be worried, after all there is no "Jesus in the college application process. Its all about grades."
But is it? I believe we are children of faith. We are "a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a people belonging to God."
Remember Elizabeth who was barren and both she and Zechariah were well advanced in years to even fathom having a child. Yet they prayed for something unthinkable. A child. Ridiculous. How can they even think of having a child at that age. To the logical mind it is IMPOSSIBLE.
Yet one day an angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah and it was revealed that their prayer had been answered. The impossible was going to be made possible. Elizabeth was going to be with child. A miracle is it not? Is that not what Zechariah had been praying for?
But funnily enough he doubted. He knew it was impossible but he still asked. At that point he had surrendered it to God. He had left it to God to perform a miracle.
BUT when God did show up to confirm His miracle, Zechariah doubted, "How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well advanced in years." If he knew this why then did he ask? Why then did he ask for a miracle??? A miracle can comprise of making the impossible possible right? He prayed to God to give his wife a child even when he knew he was old and his wife was well advanced in years but he still hoped. He hoped until the moment where he was to receive the miracle. Then doubt decided to creep him.
That is how it is with us.
We know our grades are not the best or our college essay is not as creative and does not really reveal us. But yet still we ask God to perform a miracle and make us barb that college because we know He has a plan for us, a plan of good and not to harm us. So we ask away, asking for what seems impossible to become possible.
Then as our days to barbing draw near we start to doubt. What if I don't get in. People begin to say hmm with your grades it is unlikely you will get in and you begin to subconsciously listen to them. we begin to soak it in and we begin to doubt God to give us the miracle we ask for. Why? Is the miracle too big for Him? Is getting into a mere college something He cannot provide? Are the admission officers more powerful than He is that He cant cause them to have a change of mind? Do mere mortals have the final say about what goes on in our lives or is it God who from the beginning knew where H e wanted us to go?
Didn’t he commission us to ask and we will receive? Haven't we asked to barb that unthinkable college thus wont we receive? Receiving basically is automatic as long as we have FAITH
James 1:6 "But when he asks he must believe and not doubt... "
There is just one condition… Believe in God and do not doubt! Don’t ask the what if's, don’t be worried.
Because he that doubts,(James 1:7- that man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord)
We sing every day in church, He has promised He will never fail… but yet we don’t believe that. We read His word everyday and it states clearly:
Luke 1:37 (For nothing is impossible for God / No word from God will ever fail)
If that is true, then why do we doubt that when God said ask and you will receive we will truly receive.
For isn't it written in 2 Corinthians 2:9 that
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him."
So let the world think that is impossible to barb that school, but its up to you to have that faith and say , "With my God everything is possible." It's time for you to please God by having faith for remember, "without faith it is impossible to please God."
It is time for you because of your faith to hear God finally say, "this is my child in whom I am well pleased."
So whether you are now going to click that submit button of your common application, or you have clicked it once before and have been deferred or even rejected just hold on to that faith..
For in Jeremiah 11: 29 it says. " I know the plans I have for you they are of good and not to harm you."
Jesus said , "And I will do anything you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father."
It's time for the children of God to take a stand and put everyone to shame and remember "But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise."
Its our time to claim our victory if only we BELIEVE.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
Have fun barbing
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