Monday, January 29, 2018

INDESCRIBABLE - Laura Story - You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name You are amazing God All powerful, untameable, Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim You are amazing God You are amazing God


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Indescribable
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From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea
Creation's revealing Your majesty
From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring
Every creature unique in the song that it sings
All exclaiming

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Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God

All powerful, untameable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God

Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom

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Indescribable, uncontainable,
You see the depths of my heart and You love me the same

You are amazing God
You are amazing God
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Would you want to have a deeper relationship with God?

God has made it possible for you to know Him and experience an amazing change in your own life by receiving His Son, Jesus Christ, and have eternal life.
Say the following prayer:

“Father God, I confess I am a sinner and my sins have separated me from You. 
I am truly sorry. I now want to turn away from my past sinful life and live a new life pleasing to You.
Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again.
I believe that Your Son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer.
I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Thank You that according to your Word, I am now born again.
Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. I promise to study Your Word - the Bible.
Please use me for Your glory.
In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.”

"Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and decisions and how unfathomable and untraceable are His ways!" Romans 11:33   Amplified Bible (AMP) 

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COLD HEARTS - If you feel no love for God, you may well have a counterfeit form of godliness—a shell of the reality but no power of God. What do you do? Seek Jesus through his Word and his Spirit. Run to Jesus. The Spirit of God gives not only spiritual birth but also spiritual awakening. The Word of God not only brings about your first love of faith, but also the revival of your faith’s first love.


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Cold Hearts
Hearts That Turn Cold and the God Who Revives
Kerry Stokes 



Do Not Love the World

15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.  1 John 2:15-17 English Standard Version (ESV)  

John commands us not to love the world or the things of the world because if we do it means the love of the Father is not in us.
We don’t want to love the things of this world, rather we run to Jesus as our all-satisfying treasure.

Love Can Grow Cold
But what if your love for God has grown cold?
Verse 15 explains that lack of love for God is because love for the world has taken over the heart. Love for God begins to get choked out.
Remember, the love of the Father and the love of the world cannot coexist.
Verse 16 describes this “world” we are not to love. It is characterized by the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life.
In the first two of these characteristics, there is the common thirst for pleasure in something other than in God. They contain an expression of our neediness, but seek fulfillment in the world, not in God.
Both of the lusts are drives to seek fulfillment in what you do not have. The third description of boastful pride is the opposite, but just as sinful.
It is a pride in the things you do have. The world in all its cravings still boasts in its possessions.
What Do We Do About It? 

So if you feel no love for God, you may well have a counterfeit form of godliness—a shell of the reality but no power of God.
What do you do? Seek Jesus through his Word and his Spirit.
Pray for new affections. What if you have some sense of assurance but your love for God has grown rock hard and icy cold?
Dissatisfaction of your cold love is often a motivation to seek God for personal revival and renewal.
Run to Jesus. The Spirit of God gives not only spiritual birth but also spiritual awakening.

The Word of God not only brings about your first love of faith, but also the revival of your faith’s first love.
Would you want to have a deeper relationship with God?
God has made it possible for you to know Him and experience an amazing change in your own life by receiving His Son, Jesus Christ, and have eternal life.
Say the following prayer:

“Father God, I confess I am a sinner and my sins have separated me from You. 

I am truly sorry. I now want to turn away from my past sinful life and live a new life pleasing to You. I receive Your free gift of salvation.

Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again.

I believe that Your Son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer.

I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Thank You that according to your Word, I am now born again, has eternal life, and I am now Your child.

Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. I promise to study Your Word – the Bible.

Please use me for Your glory.

In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.”

If you have just put your trust in Jesus Christ, you have been born into God’s family.
As a spiritual baby, you need to grow by feeding on God’s Word – the Bible (1 Peter 2:2).
You must have a good modern translation Bible and begin prayerfully reading it. Start in the New Testament, such as the Gospel of John or Paul’s letters to the Ephesians.
Also, you need to join a Christian fellowship where the Bible is taught and where God is truly worshiped.
God bless you as you begin your new life with Him!

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CHANGE MY HEART O GOD - Change my heart oh God, Make it ever true. Change my heart oh God, May I be like You.


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Change my heart oh God, 
Make it ever true.
Change my heart oh God,
 

May I be like You.

You are the potter, 
I am the clay,
 
Mold me and make me,
 

This is what I pray.

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EDDIE ESPINOSA Eddie has had a rich experience in worship leading, songwriting and recording with the Maranatha Praise Bands and with the Anaheim Vineyard.
"Change My Heart Oh God" is a heart cry song that came to me after a time of being in the presence of God during a private time of worship. The experience that I had was very similar to that of Isaiah, chapter 6.
During my time of being in God’s presence, sin and attitudes of the heart were

suddenly glaring me in the face. I realized that in order for me to walk uprightly before the Lord, I needed a heart transplant.
I desperately needed for God to change my heart in order to love the things that He loves and to hate the things that He hates.
I also was aware that only He could change my heart.
I began to sing without paying attention to the melody, it just flowed from the depths of my being. — Eddie Espinosa
hymnary.org 
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Saturday, January 27, 2018

GOSPEL IN THE STARS - When we look at the stars, we are to be drawn to worship the Creator and not His creation. God's intended purposes for the stars were to give light and to be signs for seasons, days and years.God gave clear guidelines that those who follow Him are not to worship the stars or any other forms of idolatry.


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Gospel in the Stars
God gave clear guidelines that those who follow Him 
are not to worship the stars or any other forms of idolatry.
Is There Really a Gospel in the Stars?
Jared Laskey 
God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). 
On the fourth day of creation, God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons, and days, and years" (Genesis 1:14). 
God created the sun, moon and stars. The sun was to rule the day, and the moon was to rule the night. 
The stars were created "to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness" (Genesis 1:17-18, Psalm 36:7-9). 
God's intended purposes for the stars were to give light and to be signs for seasons, days and years. Mankind learned to find directions at night using stars and to formulate calendars. 
When we look at the stars, we are to be drawn to worship the Creator and not His creation. 
The prophet Isaiah revealed in Isaiah 40:26, that we are to lift-up our eyes to see the One who created them. He gave each star a name and knows their number just like He knows us better than we know ourselves (Psalm 147:4-5,
Luke 12:7).
In the book of Job, we are drawn into awe for God who commands the sun and seals the stars. He is the One who made Orion and all constellations (Job 9:7-9, 38:31-33). 
God gave clear guidelines that those who follow Him are not to worship the stars or any other forms of idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:19). 
He clearly stated that any source of spiritual guidance outside of Scripture is forbidden. 
And those who prophesy by the stars cannot save anyone but will be consumed by fire (Isaiah 47:13-14). 
I have seen people prophesy that when a specific star or comet or constellation is in a certain location, then the Holy Spirit will be poured out more on a geographic location or ministry. 
But these proclamations are not scriptural. The Holy Spirit is poured out upon us already, just as He was poured out on Christ (John 3:34, Acts 2). 
If a star or constellation is in a certain location in the sky, it has no bearing on the Spirit of God or the manifest presence of God. 
It is only to be a light and a designation for days, seasons and years, and make us admire the Creator for its beauty. 
But someone may ask, "What about the star of Bethlehem?" Numbers 24:17 says, "a star will come out of Jacob." 
It is a prophecy that many people consider as referencing the star that lit the way for the magi to travel form the east to Israel. 
The magi were closely acquainted with Jewish scriptures as they were in the discipleship lineage of Daniel. However, this star was not a supernova, comet or a triple conjunction of Jupiter and Regulus. 
Instead, the wise men were familiar with the prophecies of the coming Messiah, and upon seeing the star, they knew it was the supernatural sign of the newborn King. 
It did not act like a normal star as it would appear and disappear for them (Matthew 2:2, Matthew 2:10). 
It also did not stay in the cosmos, as it later appeared directly over the house Jesus was living when the Magi arrived into Bethlehem. 
This sign lit the way to the Savior for these magi to honor Him. 
The theory of a gospel in the stars was first published in the 1860s with no ancient sources verifying its claims. 
Among the proponents of this theory, there is no agreement for which "Biblical" zodiac chart is the true one to allegedly date back to Adam or Seth. 
And when the scriptures used to justify this theory are studied, the "gospel in the stars" disappears, similarly to how the stars will eventually fall from the sky, being burned up and dissolved (Matthew 24:29, 2 Peter 3:10). 
These theories are recycled and rebranded from time to time, even though they have been refuted many times. 
A principle of Biblical interpretation is that Scripture interprets Scripture. 
The stars are not interpreters, and no zodiacal chart can be used to interpret the Bible. Even though the stars do not preach the gospel message, we can look at them and be drawn to worship the Lord. 
But we also cannot interpret star constellations by Scripture because the Bible makes no room for this. There is no verse encouraging us to do this, and God has only spoken through His prophets and recorded word. 
As Hebrews 1:1-2 says, "God, who at various times and in diverse ways spoke long ago to the fathers through the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the world." 
And we only respond to the original gospel preached which is "how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, was buried, rose again the third day according to the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). 
Any other gospel message that does not align to this is contrary to the Bible. 
David, the psalmist, said, "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork" (Psalm 19:1). 

This only refers to general revelation, that everything around us and above us points to a Creator, like a work of art was painted by an artist and is not a reference for the stars having a secret or hidden gospel message. 
As we look upon all God has created, seeing its wonder and beauty, considering all it contains which is a great masterpiece, we worship the great Artist, the designer of all creation. 
And each one of us are to preach the Gospel to the whole world, as faith comes by hearing the Gospel and not by the stars (Mark 16:15, Romans 10:17). 
Jared Laskey is starting Destiny Open Bible Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and is a contributing writer to Charisma magazine online. He lives to see Jesus awaken this generation to the power of His Holy Spirit. You can follow him on Twitter @jaredalaskey. For more information check out firebornministries.org.
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