Today, many approach the Holy Bible as they do other books. It is easy to see that they do not know the difference between the Holy Bible and other books. The Holy Bible is the letter inspired by the Spirit of God. Holy men were carried along by the Holy Spirit as they wrote the Holy Scriptures. This means that the Holy Spirit is the author of the Holy Bible, and you must be carried along by the Holy Spirit as you read the Bible so that you can bring the Word to reality. When you read the Holy Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, you are reading history, past events, stories. Therefore, we should seek the attention of the Holy Spirit, for it makes the Bible a powerful tool for us.
God speaks to us through His Word by His Spirit. He calls you through His Word by His Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the communicator and our heart is the contact point. The Holy Spirit cannot communicate with a heart full of bitterness, hatred or bad feelings towards others. You may read the Bible a hundred times, but if you do so while holding grudges against anyone, the Bible will be of no meaning to you. We should read the Bible with devotion. We should keep meditating on it until it becomes a reality. Read it slowly, repeatedly and attentively. You must also free your heart to follow Him, for only a free spirit can attract the Spirit of God.
Prayer: O Holy Spirit, free my heart to follow You, in Jesus Christ’s name! Amen!
Man has a tendency to look at external characteristics whenever he is looking for some cooperation or some kind of companionship. Unlike the grace of God, which does not look at color, origin, gender or age. God has made everything in such a way that everything is a result of His grace!
In more detail, the Word of God in 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝟗:𝟏-𝟔, states: “[…] 𝐒𝐨 𝐡𝐞, 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝, 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, ‘𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨?’ 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦, ‘𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐨.’” Apostle Paul, while he was not one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ, and in fact was a fanatical persecutor of His church, Saul became the Apostle Paul, a useful vessel in the hands of God! Undoubtedly, then, Jesus Christ did not come for the righteous, but for sinners!
If one deserved God’s grace, then it would not be called grace, it would be called wages! God therefore chooses grace over works! If the weak come to Him, He is ready to help their weakness, as He would help the strong. He knows our limitations, so He chooses grace! This, then, is the mystery of God’s grace, because no one deserves it, but God gives it to everyone! Almighty God takes unworthy, sinful, unusual people, clothes them with His glory and puts them in His Kingdom for eternity!
Jesus Christ did not consider Paul’s past and He will not consider your past either. Jesus knows how undeserving of His grace we are, that is why He has decided to brush aside our past in order to determine our future. So what counts more? God’s grace or human works? Get ready to receive His grace, in Jesus’ name!
🙏𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫: “Lord, from today I will learn to lean on Your strength, and not on my knowledge, my degrees, and my experience, and I know that as I lean on Your strength, You will guide and protect my paths – in the name of Jesus Christ I pray -amen!”
Exactly 9 years ago, something changed in the city of Thessaloniki. A fire was ignited that no one has been able to extinguish and it will continue to spread; it was the fire of the Holy Spirit! Many had prayed for that day to come and since then, thousands of visitors of the Christian Church of All Nations – Thessalonica from every continent of the earth have tasted the supernatural power of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Through His servant, man of God Harry, the Lord is creating a new future for His children, casting out darkness and bringing light into their lives! Because we know that better is not good enough but the best is yet to come, we look forward to seeing in what ways God will continue to reveal His glory in our midst!
We want to hear from you! How did you learn about this ministry? How has your life changed ever since? What else do you expect God to do for you through this church? Let us know at the comments below!
Galatians 2:20 says, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
When you gave your life to Christ, when you said no to your life of sin and made the ultimate decision to follow our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, you became His representative here on earth. As a man born of the Spirit, as a believer, you are a representative of Christ. As His representatives, we must mirror Him because He is our standard. I mean, if we say that Christ dwells inside of us, we must speak it, act it and show it because our life is the greatest sermon.
For us to represent Christ, we have to be conscious of His presence in our lives. When we are conscious of Christ’s presence, we will be moved to do only what pleases Him. How we live then matters because we are expected to live right. For us to live right, we must be willing to let go of everything that will hinder our relationship with God. I mean, we must be ready to pick up our cross and follow Him. We must strive every day to know Him more so that we can become more like Him; this is the only way we can represent Him.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, give me the grace to know You more, the grace to be more like You, in Jesus’ name! Amen!
People’s greatest successes are the result of hard work, patience, persistence, big risks, and many failed attempts. The number of failures doesn’t matter as much as the lessons learnt from them! As any successful person would say, the road to success is anything but easy. The secret of those who succeeded is that they never gave up! A man with a vision never gives up, no matter how many failures he has. Think of a person you admire – an athlete, an entrepreneur, anyone. It’s easy, looking at their life, to be lulled into the illusion that they got to where they are today without ever facing hardships or making mistakes. The reality, however, is that failure is a part of life, but what matters is our reaction when it comes.
Let us take Peter’s life as an example, reading from 𝐋𝐮𝐤𝐞 𝟓:𝟒-𝟕. If Peter had caught many fish that day, he probably would have missed the opportunity to meet Jesus Christ. Thanks to his failure, he encountered the Lord, and everything else that followed! Of course, Peter did not stay put, but directly obeyed the instruction of Jesus to cast his nets again. In other words, he faced his adversity according to the instruction in righteousness that was given to him. This teaches us that disappointment sometimes serves to keep us for a new level in life!
Failures can bring forth opportunities that otherwise might have never come our way. Therefore, let us not underestimate the doors failure can open for us. However, there is one crucial requirement: we must recognize our mistake, accept it, see what we have learned from it, and dare to try again! No one said that our road will be paved with rose petals, it isn’t written anywhere in the Word of God; what is written is that Jesus Christ will be with us all the days of our life, and with God on your side, you can face life’s final road with courage!
🙏Prayer: “Father, help me to not be discouraged every time I fail. Help me realize that mistakes are not a sign of failure, but the lever to my success, and that the road to success goes through difficulties first, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray, amen!”
Philippians 3:12 says, “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.”
The Lord has given us the ability to learn from our mistakes and errors. There are errors you committed in the past that would have led to your death; many others did the same but are not alive today. This proves that we are able to learn from mistakes and move on. As far as there is flesh, as far as you are not yet perfected, mistakes will come, but you should learn from them and move on. Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, never promised to keep us away from mistakes; however, He has given us the grace to learn lessons and move on. He never promised to keep you away from all these challenges, but He promised to see you through them. If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace. If you must be a Christian, there is a process. What it takes for gold to be gold is what it takes for you to be a Christian. Your character must be tested in real situations. Each challenge moves you either forward or backward. To make a change, you must take a stand on God’s Word, accepting that the assurance of His salvation will help you to maintain that change.
Prayer: O Holy Spirit, take more of me and give me more of You! Give me more of Your love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, and self-control, in Jesus Christ’s name! Amen!
Since you live in this world, disagreements or even arguments with other people are inevitable. Surely, in the course of your life, you will also meet people who will sin against you, intentionally or not.
And this is a trap of satan where many fall today – including Christians. That is, they do not forgive other people’s sins. But learn that when you are holding offenses such as bitterness, anger, hatred, pain of the past and so forth, you are building a wall. A wall that doesn’t only isolate you from others, but from God as well.
In 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰 𝟏𝟖:𝟐𝟏-𝟐𝟐, Jesus Christ makes it perfectly clear, “𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝, ‘𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐈 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞? 𝐔𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬?’ 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐈 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬.” It is, therefore, extremely important to forgive, not just because we need forgiveness, but because no one can succeed alone. We depend on others to succeed in our respective callings.
Therefore, to improve your relationships, learn to give people another chance!
🙏𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫: “Father God, teach me Your opinion about me and about the people around me. Empower me so that I can forgive and give others another chance, just as You always give me another chance, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen!”
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