FOR A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD AND NEW REVELATIONS
What is Grace?
It is unmerited favour. You don’t deserve it yet you receive. Not wage or salary. It is free. 1) Law was given through Moses to the Israelites – the rest of the world, the Gentiles were not under Law. 2) Grace & Truth came through Jesus. Grace of God came as Jesus to all mankind. We are not under Law so no more to fear.
It is not easy to be a mother. We go through a lot of physical, emotional and mental stress. 1) Pregnancy 2) a new born baby 3) teenager. The buck stops with you. You will be overwhelmed with the tasks you do. Sometimes you DO something and you wish you would have overlooked. Sometimes you DON’T DO something and you wish you did. As a mother I gave up saying a prayer, “GOD, You take full control of my children and I give you all the glory for whatever they are going to be.” But I did not want to talk about me but one mother who was of high status, Mother Mary. In her time one group of Jewish people knew the prophecies about the birth of Messiah and they were expecting it to happen during that time.
The name ‘Christians’ are given to the disciples of Jesus, therefore if we call ourselves Christians then we are supposed to be like Jesus’ disciples working in power and authority over demons and to cure diseases through the Holy Spirit anointing. Many of us have the anointing because when anyone asked the Lord would have immediately given, but not realising that we never try to use them. You know what, you might be surprised if you really take the courage trusting God and operate in His power and authority, which He has given us all freely.
As a Christian we should know the value of God’s grace; otherwise we end up misusing it and get punishment from God. Law with the Ten Commandments was given by Moses for the Jews and all of them failed and could not keep it. In this way people are reminded of their sin more than before and their heart condemned them and all were punished. God knew this would happen so in due time He gave Jesus, who came as Grace and Truth to fulfill the law for us to set us free. So God’s Grace is more precious than gold or silver because God gave His only begotten son on the Cross for that.
Apostle John led by the Holy Spirit describes saying Jesus’ Life on the earth itself was the light to all mankind. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:1-5 (NIV) This shows the whole mankind were walking in darkness not knowing what is good or evil. When Jesus spoke, His teachings brought light to their consciousness and those people who had followed Jesus understood the difference between God and the devil.
What is Self- conscious?
For some people life is all about I, myself and me. Meditating on self all the time, makes you self-centred, selfish which results in— Self- pity, which hurts you all the time or Self-righteous, which makes you feel boastful , which separates you because you get offended very fast. This life-style is fleshy, sensual and demonic. Paul in the letter to Timothy says about the LAST DAYS people will be self-centred.
Jesus was born of God through virgin birth and everyone who believes this supernatural birth of Jesus by Virgin Mary believes in God. God showed His love by sending Jesus, the lamb of God, as our sin offering and that is why He was born in a manger. We are indebted to God to receive His love and reciprocate by keeping His Commandments given through Jesus Christ’s teachings. Only by keeping Jesus’ Commandments through faith one can overcome the world and be victorious as He expects us to be.
The teachings of our Lord Jesus are always convincing and making us feel good in His Presence. We can feel that He has chosen us and lavishing us with His love. Let us be reminded of His love and care more than other things that are required of us. We belong to God and so we are different and blessed. If we follow all Jesus’ Commandments with His Holy Spirit power working in us our life will be so easy and enjoyable. God knows our hearts therefore be faithful in the least of your activities, He will reward us with much trusting us.
We all remember our mothers and their special love apart from all others. In the world Mother’s Love seems to be the highly valued one. That is why we celebrate a special day as Mother’s Day to bless and honour them. Let every mother reads this blog be blessed for the very good job they are doing to bless the humanity. I have taken Proverbs 31, which I considered to be appropriate for studying. This chapter consists of the advices of the mother of King Lemuel.
God wanted to send His Son to earth to redeem us from the fallen state and He needed the prophets, who listened to His Voice, to speak and write the whole life of Jesus from the birth till He rose from the dead victoriously, so that God being in spirit can use those spoken words of the prophets to bring them physically on earth; because mankind was in control of the world and is still in control of the physical world. Jesus finished His work on the Cross and cried out, “It is finished”. Now it is the time for the people of God to repent and accept Jesus and proclaim of His Second coming, so that God can use the spoken and written prophecies to come to pass physically, because God waited 2000 long years and He will call on a day, we do not expect, to end everything saying, “It is done!”