Manna for today

God’s help and protection

Psalm 121
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills— where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD watches over you— the LORD is your shade at your right hand;
6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life;
8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Amen! Praise the Lord for His divine care and love!


Works of the sinful nature

Galations 5:19-21
19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery / fornication (sexual immorality), uncleanness (impurity), lasciviousness (wild living),
20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance(strife), emulations(jealousy), wrath(ill temper), strife(selfishness), seditions (divisions), heresies (party spirit, factions) ,
21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings (carousing), and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Danger of pride and anger

Proverbs 29
22A man of wrath stirs up strife, and a man given to anger commits and causes much transgression.
23A man's pride will bring him low, but he who is of a humble spirit will obtain honor.

Thanks be to Abba Father for these precious teaching. Thanks also for the power to obey your words.

All glory be to you in Jesus Name. Amen!

What is Repentance?

"Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."

Repentance is not merely conviction of sin.
If it were, what a different world we should have, for there are tens of thousands in whose hearts God's Spirit has done His work of convincing them of sin. We should be perfectly astounded if we had any conception of the multitude whom God as convinced of sin, as he did Agrippa and Festus. They are convinced of sin, but they go no further. They live this week as they did last. That is not repentance.

When God applies the rod of His Spirit, of His providence, and His word, sinners will cry, wince, and whine and make you believe they are praying and want to be saved, but all the while they are holding their necks as stiff as Iron. They will not submit. The moment they submit they become true penitents and re saved. There is not mistake more common than for people to suppose they are repentant when they are repentant when they are not. Repentance, therefore, is not mere sorrow for sin. A man may be ever so sorry and all the way down to death be hugging some forbidden thing, as the young ruler hugged his possessions. But that is not repentance.

Neither is repentance mere sorrow for sin.
Neither is repentance a promise that you will forsake sin in the future. It if were, there would be many more penitents. There is scarcely a poor drunkard that does not promise, in his own mind, or to his poor wife, or somebody, that he will forsake his cups. There is scarcely any kind of a sinner who does not continually promise that he will one day give up his sin and turn to God, but he does not do it.

What then is repentance?
Repentance is simply renouncing sin, turning round from darkness to light, from the power of Satan unto God. This is giving up sin in your heart, in purpose, in desire; resolving that you will give up every evil thing, and that you will do it now. Of course this involves sorrow; for how will any sane man turn himself round from a given course into another if he does not repent? it implies, also, hatred of the course he formerly took, and from which he turns.
Bible story of the prodigal son. That is Jesus Christ's own beautiful illustration of true repentance. Submission is the test of true repentance.

The difference between a spurious and a real repentance.
A spurious repentance: they were convinced of sin - they were sorry for it; they wanted to live a better life, to love God in a sort of general way; but they skipped over the real point of controversy with God; they hid it form their pastor, perhaps, and from the deacons, and from the people who talked with them. They have something that you are holding on to, that the Holy Spirit says you must let go, and they say, "I can't". Then another difficulty comes in, and people say, "I have not the power to repent." There is a grand mistake.

You have the power, or God would not command it. You can repent!

Now, do not say, "I do not feel enough." Do you feel enough to be willing to forsake you sin? That is the point. Any man who does not repent enough to forsake his sin is not a penitent at all. When you repent enough to forsake you sin, that moment your repentance is sincere and you may take hold of Jesus with a firm grasp. Then "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved".

Christian 4 "R"

There are 4 important “R” in every christian and in the body of Christ.

1. Revelation
We need to have Revelation of who God is and who we are in Christ.

2. Remove
We need to remove all our old nature, old sinful ways, old tradition in order to receive God’s fresh anointing.

Matthew9:16-17
16"No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. 17Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."

3. Renew
We need to renew our hearts and minds.

Romans12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

4. Recruit
Once we have been transformed by renewal of our hearts and minds. We are ready to be sent out to win souls for the kingdom of God.

We need the power of the Holy Spirit to go through these 4 "R".
Let's cry to God to send His revival to the who body of chirst.

Mary Or Martha

I keep hearing the Lord saying to my hearts these 2 days:
"I have many Martha but very few Mary"
Martha represents worker of the Lord;
Mary represents lover of the Lord.

Jesus said Mary has chosen the better portion than Martha.
The Lord desires us to be His lovers more than His workers.
He longs to have intimacy with us. He longs to have "love-talk" with us everyday.

What is our decision today? To be Mary or Martha?

God's Manna for 3 July

The Holy Spirit Gives Life
Romans 8:1~2,14,17
1 Those who belong to Christ Jesus are no longer under God's sentence.
2 I am now controlled by the law of the Holy Spirit. That law gives me life because of what Christ Jesus has done. It has set me free from the law of sin that brings death.
14 Those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
17 As his children, we will receive all that he has for us. We will share what Christ receives. But we must share in his sufferings if we want to share in his glory.

Children of God
Gal. 3:26,27,29.
26 You are all children of God by believing in Christ Jesus.
27 All of you who were baptized into Christ have put on Christ as if he were your clothes.
29 You who belong to Christ are Abraham's seed. You will receive what God has promised.
Gal. 4:7.
Because you are his children, he gives you what he promised to give his people.

God Gives Spiritual Blessings
Eph. 1:3,8,9
3 Give praise to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing. Those blessings come from the heavenly world. They belong to us because we belong to Christ.
8 He poured his grace on us by giving us great wisdom and understanding.
9 He showed us the mystery of his plan. It was in keeping with what he wanted to do. It was what he had planned through Christ.

Jesus Prays for Us
John 17:24~26
24 "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am. I want them to see my glory, the glory you have given me. You gave it to me because you loved me before the world was created.
25 "Father, you are holy. The world does not know you, but I know you. Those you have given me know you have sent me.
26 I have shown you to them. And I will continue to show you to them. Then the love you have for me will be in them. I myself will be in them."

Halleluah! What a blessed life we have in Christ!
Glory and Praise to God.