EDWINJEYARAJ's Blog – December 2011 Archive (9)

 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." 

 The gift of God.  Why do so many people miss His gift?  One reason might be the rather ordinary wrapping; "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him" (Isaiah 53:2).  And you can't get less majestic than being…

"For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again.…" ( NKJV).

You have probably read how "Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read. Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school. Beethoven's music teacher once said of him, 'As a composer he is hopeless.' When a boy, Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was too…

  AND THE LORD, HE IS THE ONE WHO GOES BEFORE

  YOU.  HE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU;

  DO NOT FEAR NOR BE DISMAYED.

                     ( DEUTERONOMY 31:8  )



     There are times when we are fearful of current events or

  even the future.  For fear is a tool that satan uses to attack

  our faith in our Heavenly Father.  After…

  WHEN YOU PASS THROUGH THE WATERS, I WILL BE

  WITH YOU; AND THROUGH THE RIVERS, THEY SHALL

  NOT OVERFLOW YOU.  WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH

  THE FIRE, YOU SHALL NOT BE BURNED, NOR SHALL

  THE FLAME SCORCH YOU.

                          ( ISAIAH 43:2 *NKJV )





      There are times in our life when we find ourselves in

  difficult situations.  Times when our faith is put to the test.

  We may even feel that God has abandoned us, and that

  we are…

THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS THROUGH

 FAITH; THAT YE BEING ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN

 LOVE, MAY BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND WITH ALL

 SAINTS WHAT IS THE BREADTH AND LENGTH AND DEPTH

 AND HEIGHT; AND TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH

 PASSETH KNOWLEDGE; THAT YE MIGHT BE FILLED WITH

 ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD.

                      ( THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS THROUGH

 FAITH; THAT YE BEING ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN

 LOVE, MAY BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND WITH…

God doesn’t desire more of our time, sometime, He desires more of our attention all the time.

Paul's letter to the Philippians is one hundred and four verses filled with encouragement and joy.  Paul didn't write this letter to explain deep theology or to deal with any particular sin.  Rather, his purpose was to express love for his friends and to encourage them (and us) to live a joy-filled Christian life.



In chapter one, Paul encourages us that God's work in us WILL continue;

 "He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion"…