Oh, the love that drew salvation’s plan!

Fountain filled with Blood of Jesus
Fountain filled with Blood of Jesus

At Calvary

  1. Years I spent in vanity and pride,
    Caring not my Lord was crucified,
    Knowing not it was for me He died
    On Calvary.

    • Mercy there was great, and grace was free;
      Pardon there was multiplied to me;
      There my burdened soul found liberty,
      At Calvary.
  2. By God’s Word at last my sin I learned;
    Then I trembled at the law I’d spurned,
    Till my guilty soul imploring turned
    To Calvary.
  3. Now I’ve giv’n to Jesus everything,
    Now I gladly own Him as my King,
    Now my raptured soul can only sing
    Of Calvary.
  4. Oh, the love that drew salvation’s plan!
    Oh, the grace that brought it down to man!
    Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span
    At Calvary!

Source: http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/342#ixzz2jFcY0uMZ

 

A STUDY ON SECOND BIBLE LOVE STORY (4) : SOLUTIONS FOR LOVE FAMINE

Women in their best

What is true love like? Many ask. We read in the history of Ruth what true love is like.

We have come to the last episode of the love story of Ruth -She stood out for the beauty of her character, a woman famous for her kindness and faithfulness to someone who loved her and whom she loved. Yes, she loved and respected and did a great kindness to her old mother in law. But it was also her love for her dead husband who died young, before he could leave her a son or a daughter. She did not bear a grudge against him and his family. Instead she voluntarily took care of his mother and went to the dead husband’s country, away from her own folks. No, it was not legally required of her to go with the mother in law. In fact Naomi, the matriarch widow had…

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A STUDY ON SECOND BIBLE LOVE STORY (3) : SOLUTIONS FOR LOVE FAMINE

See the strength of a woman’s love…

Women in their best

Here is the third episode of the love story of Ruth. It is not just a story about finding another husband after she lost her first love  to death. It is finding her position in the grand plan and kingdom of God. Ruth became the great grand mother of king David, in the tribe of Judah, part of the human ancestral lineage of the Lord Jesus. What did she do? She merely agreed with her only relative, her mother in law, Naomi’s advice. Why? She knew Naomi, like her, trusted God. They both trusted in the goodness and faithfulness of God. Indeed, God did not fail them. Did she find someone who loved her (a widow and a foreigner)? Yes, she did. He was God sent, not exactly young, but the right partner for life, at the right time in history. Any other choice would have removed her name from…

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Healing God’s way: How Jesus healed and not judged

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My Healing Life

It is very difficult to share how a ‘soul’ (mind and mood/emotion) afflicted persons could seek divine healing just as a physically afflicted person does. Being Christians, we seek healing solutions from what Jesus did and how He treated those humans with non-physical illnesses. I am led to read the book of Mark 1-6 when I asked the Lord. Here is a summary of what Jesus did. Take note that Jesus was interested in healing the sick, no matter what conditions they were in. He did not give different value judgment to any type of sickness.

  1. Mark 1:23-26 Jesus went into the synagogue and a demon-possessed man suddenly began shouting. Jesus cut the demon short and ordered it to come out of the demon-possessed man. The evil spirit screamed, threw the man into a convulsion, and then came out of him.
  2. Mark 1:29-31 Simon Peter’s mother in…

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Keep children away from spirit of death!

Take heed of the Bible warning against pagan practices:

 Deuteronomy 18:9-14 Avoid Wicked Customs
“When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed such for you.
1 Samuel 15:22-23
22 So Samuel said:

“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He also has rejected you from being king.”
2 Kings 17:16-18 (NKJV)
16 So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.

 2 Chronicles 33 (NKJV)

Manasseh Reigns in Judah 33 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel… And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. He even set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God…So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.

Jeremiah 7 17 Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger. 19 Do they provoke Me to anger?” says the Lord. “Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?”…

30 For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the Lord. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it. 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart. 32 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Tophet until there is no room…34 Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness…
Revelation 6:So I looked, and behold, an ashy pale horse [black and blue as if made so by bruising], and its rider’s name was Death, and Hades (the realm of the dead) followed him closely. And they were given authority and power over a fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with famine and with plague (pestilence, disease) and with wild beasts of the earth.
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Halloween  
History: Gaelic and Welsh influence

Today’s Halloween customs are thought to have been influenced by folk customs and beliefs from the Celtic-speaking countries, some of which have pagan roots…those associated with religions that were Irish before Christianity arrived”. Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while “some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia,
the above is quoted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Article by Kimberly Daniels based on her many years of ministering to people involved in the occult. Excerpts: “The key word in discussing Halloween is “dedicated.” It is dedicated to darkness and is an accursed season. During Halloween, time-released curses are always loosed. A time-released curse is a period that has been set aside to release demonic activity and to ensnare souls in great measure. You may ask, “Doesn’t God have more power than the devil?” Yes, but He has given that power to us. If we do not walk in it, we will become the devil’s prey. Witchcraft works through dirty hearts and wrong spirits.”