Hi Blessed Folks!

It has been a while… About 6 months since i posted anything. Been busy with work, been putting the faith march on the sidelines lately… Prompted to reactivate this blog cos i know it’s been a blessing to many already. : )

What else then do we have on this earth? It seems, day to day, the world we live in is growing bleaker, darker and reeling into chaos. How do we as believers reign in this life on earth?

One word…

HOPE.

As a Christian believer, the primary driving force in our faith IS Hope.

In the Greek text of the New Testament “Hope” in the original language is “Elpis“.

And Elpis is defined by Strong’s concordance as:
1) From “elpo” which is a primary word (to anticipate, usually with pleasure); expectation (abstract or concrete) or confidence: – faith, hope.

And defined in Thayer’s Greek Definition as:
2) expectation of good, hope

We can concur and put both definitions together in the spirit of the Good News as:
Hope = Elpis = A confident expectation of good!

What more can we ask for then? Knowing that we are the beloved one of God and now we can confidently hope for good things to happen in our lives!

Next best thing to do?

Give thanks for what we have in our hands and confidently expect good things to happen, confidently expect the miracles to happen, confidently expect supernatural abundance!

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Mark 6:36-44
36 Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.
37 He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?
38 He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.
42 And they did all eat, and were filled.
43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
44 And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.

The above illustration showed the magnitude of the miracle and abundance, with the very little Jesus had in His hands.

But where’s the key then?

Here it is!…
John 6:11
And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

Go to the One in Heaven and give thanks with what you have now in your hands and He will give what you do not have in your hands! : )

What’s the last bit then?

Enjoy the fish and bread given! Receive it! Eat it! What’s the point of a miracle or blessing coming your way and you don’t receive it and enjoy it?

Start telling Him that you’ve received your blessing already!

Mark 11:24
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

I hope you have been blessed!

I pray to all that read this, to have a Shalom 2010! A year of Abundance, Favor & Rest!

Shalom & God bless you all,
Emmanuel : )

How many times have we, in the search for THE Truth, got lost and totally veered of from the initial objective? Why do we search for God? Love and acceptance. Just like any relationship here in this world. We seek love and acceptance from our parents, children, friends, colleagues etcetera.

With all that searching, do you find the Love of God for you? Do you KNOW that He loves you so so much? Do you know He wants you to call you His own? Do you know He wants to abundantly bless the pants off you [ mind the expression : ) ] ?

With all that “head” knowledge, do you still question your acceptance before God? Do you still question your assurance to a place in Heaven? Do you feel His warm embrace in times of trouble? Do you see Him smiling at you all the time?

Jesus is truly the Way, the Truth and the Life. A God that did not spare His own, for us. How great is my GOD! To understand Jesus with the intellect is IMPOSSIBLE. GOD’s love for us is beyond reason, that’s why He is GOD!

Yeshua Hamaschiach, Jesus the Messiah, Saviour King, Lamb of GOD, I love you. But that does not compare to your love for me my Father. : )

Hallelujah!

Those who have eyes, let them see, those who have ears, let them hear.

Be greatly blessed one and all!

Emmanuel.

No one can convince you. Not any man or woman on this earth can convince you. Only God can. And only you can see the Truth when you know you’re deeply loved by Him that He gave His best for you. : )

You’re so precious to Him that He gave Himself for you. See the Love of God for you. He wants to call you His own. His child. Receive His abundance of Grace. For you to live a glorious life. A life without doubt that you are assured a place in Heaven without working or doing anything to get to Heaven. Receive Heaven as a free Gift. Live a victorious life, a life without hate, without anger because you know you ARE Loved by the Almighty God, the Alpha and the Omega.

John 14:1-4, A prepared Mansion for you .
1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

I’m sure you’d like that. But also in your heart you’d say it’s too good to be true. That’s why He is GOD and that’s His love for you. It does NOT make any sense but that’s Him. : )

Dear beloved, know that you’re loved by Him and receive His love for you that is through Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ). Yeshua is Jesus’ name in the original Hebrew. Know your Yeshua because Yeshua means: God is my Salvation. And His Salvation came through Yeshua HaMaschiach that walked this earth 2007 years ago and now He is resurrected and in all of those of us that believe in Him. And HaMashiach means: The Messiah. God our Salvation came through Messiah to save us and to show His ultimate Love and Sacrifice for us. Like i said, it does NOT make any sense. That IS why HE is who HE is. : )

Our Daddy God whom we call Abba/Father.

So beloved one of God. Believe that you ARE the beloved one of GOD.

Shalom(Peace) be upon you and your family and let His abounding Love manifest in your lives.

Your brother in Christ,

Emmanuel

Prepared for: Cell Prelim

Matt 4:18
Luke 5:1-11

Faith in relation to God taking care of our needs

• “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.” Do we do the work, and trust God in the rest, or do we worry, and leave God to do the work.
• Believe and labor. We’ve been commanded to work by God. Yet we must continue to trust that God will provide.
• We should continue to hope, even if God does delay for a time. For Peter continued to labor on through the night, even though he caught no fish, and the danger of going without food was ever present.
• After the disciples caught the fishes and tasted the fruit of faith, their faith increased and grew

Discipleship

Teach the word of God
Jesus was teaching to the crowds. And this is what we should do. In Acts 19:9-10 Luke said that Paul “reasoned daily in the hall of Tyrannus . Just as Paul who focused on teaching the word of God in each place that he went to people who have yet to know God, we should too be focus on spreading the word of God

Obey the commands of Jesus
In verse 4, Jesus told Peter to let down his nets, who answered and said, ‘Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets’” (v. 5). If Simon had not obeyed, there would probably have been no catch. Jesus could make the fish jump into the boat. But he doesn’t usually act that way. Peter is an example given to us. Not a perfect one. But a good one.

Peter was a fisherman. Jesus was a carpenter. He could have been thinking about how Jesus can’t possibly know more about fishing then he does. He’s first reply was about how he had been working all night, and was tired already. “I’m tired, doesn’t seem like a good time, but I’ll do it anyway.” How many times have we had this ‘half-hearted’ obedience. Yet God still accepts it. The time is never perfect. And our hearts are never perfect. But Christ honors simple efforts to obey him.

Humble yourselves

v 8b says, “Simon Peter . . . fell down at Jesus’ feet, saying, ‘Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!’ What are our reactions, when we look around and see God’s hands and God’s miracles on all the things around us.

Treasure Christ above all
When Peter and the rest had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed Him.” This is what it means to follow Jesus: he is more valuable to us than everything. Can we be like Paul who says that “I count everything as loss compared to knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3:8)