Saturday, July 27, 2013

Sing praises to the Lord and worship God

I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High. - Psalm 7:17

Always sing praises to the Lord. Worship God at all times. And something miraculous will happen: the peace and joy of God will fill your heart to overflowing!

When we praise and worship God, we are giving glory to God. We are depending on His goodness and grace to see us through all the days of our lives. When we worship God, we are focusing on the Lord who willingly die as us at the cross some two thousand years ago. We acknowledge there is only true God worthy of our praise and worship.

When we praise and worship God, He fights our battles. Be it a dreaded disease, be it a huge debt, be it a failed marital relationship, be it a depression, He will fight on our behalf.

For at the cross, Jesus bore all the wrath of the punishment of our sins and transgressions by His very own body. By His stripe, we are more than healed, we are made whole. His precious blood washes us clean every moment of our lives. Jesus was made poor at the cross that we through His poverty shall be made rich. For my God shall apply all my needs according to the riches in glory by Christ Jesus. At the cross, He "restore" a "lost" son in John to His earthly mother. Jesus wore a crown of thorns and He shed blood of sweat so that we can live life care-free and fearless.

We sing praises and worship God during church service corporately to usher in the presence of the Lord. There is power and unity when we worship God corporately. God is honoured and exalted above all things.

Give thanks and worship God for He fights our battles. He will turn all things for our good. When we praise and worship Him in the spirit, we speak our future in existence. When we praise and worship God, the angels rejoice together with us and the devil is nowhere to be found!

Sing praises to the Lord for He is good and His mercy endures forever! Hallelujah! 

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Jesus loves us unconditionally

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:7-8

The bible tells us for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to die for the world. There is no "string attached" as to why God would send His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for the world but only His unending and unceasing love toward men. The love of God was fully demonstrated at the cross by Christ Jesus some two thousand years ago.

For by one completely complete work of Jesus at cross, all our sins are forgiven and we are reconciled with God through Christ. We can now come boldly to the His throne of grace in times of need to cry out Abba, Father! At the cross, the divine exchange has taken place: our sin for His righteousness.

God wasn't forced or coaxed into sending His Son to the cross. He sent His Son out of His love for us! He didn't want men to live in a state of sin for without Christ, we were all prisoners of sin. Yet with the finished work at the cross, we are no longer prisoners of sin but prisoners of righteousness. We are made the righteousness of God in Christ! We have Christ's righteousness!

And because Jesus died and rose again three days later, we are being justified. We are qualified by the precious blood of Jesus and nothing else. Only the sinless blood of Jesus can atone for all our sins. Only His blood can eternally washed us clean of all our sins and transgressions. Only His precious blood keeps and protects us all the days of our lives.

The bible tells us that perhaps one would die for a good man. But Christ died for all of us while we were still sinners! As sinners, we sin. But now that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, His beloveds, the precious ones that are worth saving, whatever we do are righteousness acts. Don't get me wrong here, we still sin here and there for our bodies have not been perfected yet. But we are as righteousness as Jesus is before God! God sees us in Christ. And in Christ, the full perfection of God.

We are not perfect in our thoughts and deeds yet God sees us perfect in Christ. He sees us in our finished product: the perfect reflection of the every image of Jesus. We have not contributed a tiny bit in the redemptive work of Jesus at the cross. It is all Jesus and it is all about Jesus. We are to enjoy His victory for us. We are called to enjoy His perfect love for us. For He first loves us so that we can love others.

As beloved of the Lord, we simply enjoy His peace and joy and be lead by the Holy Spirit in our daily endeavors. Know this for sure, God will never be angry with His people and He will always take good care of His people. Hallelujah!