How GOD’S people should behave?

Should not be

• Blameless
• Husband of but one wife
• A man who his children believe
• Not being wild
• Not disobedient
• Not over bearing
• Not quick tempered
• Not given to drunkenness
• Not violent
• Not pursuing dishonest gain

Should be

• Hospitable
• Loves what is good
• Self controlled
• Uptight
• Holy and discipline
• Hold trustworthy message
• Encourage others
• Sound in faith, in love, in endurance
• To be subject to your masters in everything
• Try to please them not talk back to them
• To show that they can be fully trusted
• ‘NO’ to say ungodliness and worldly passions
• To be subject to rulers and authorities
• To be obedient
• Ro be ready to do whatever is good
• Show true humility towards all men

Flexibility in Prayer

Nowadays we all of us expecting flexibility in all the activities. Starting from study till the end of retirement we require flexibility. Most of us search job where we can get flexible hours. We will keep on searching to satisfy our need. Flexible hour gives us to sleep till 11.00am, do our personal works, and book thakal ticket for all of our family members and friends. Even though we dint get time to think of our daily prayer, bible study and fasting. We will see what God except from us???.......

In the Gethsemane garden Jesus request his disciple to pray one hour. Matthew 26:40 says, “Could you men not keep watch with me one hour?” At this time disciple does not have any commitment. They do not know the forthcoming problem. So they have relaxed there. Here he has not mentioned any time to pray. He expects from us one hour for a day. If our boss or our higher official called for an hour we rush up ourselves and reached their at any cost. But for God things what we are doing. We can select our own time. Shall we????????. Are we postponing the time when we remember God things? We have tempted to do so. But with God help we could overcome. May God help us to escape from the temptations.

Two Blessed Attitudes of Mind

1. Having a mind to suffer in the flesh

                               There is a pleasure in sin - but it is deceptive and short lived (Heb 3:13; 11:25). The opposite of pleasure is suffering. To suffer is to deny our flesh the pleasure of sin. Jesus suffered in the flesh; and we are told that if we arm ourselves with the same attitude, we too can cease from sin and do the will of God (1 Peter 4:1, 2). To suffer in the flesh does not mean physical, bodily sufferings, for no one ever stopped sinning that way. It refers to the pain caused to the flesh by the denial of its desires. We refuse to please ourselves, even as Jesus never pleased Himself (Romans 15:13) Thus we share the fellowship of His sufferings.

                                 A determined attitude to suffer in the flesh, Peter says, is our armour in the day of battle. But we must have that armour BEFORE the battle begins. To look for this armour after the onslaught of temptation has begun is useless, for one cannot usually find it then. No. One must be armed before the conflict begins. When one does not have this armour (the determined mind to suffer in self denial rather than get the least pleasure out of even a sinful thought) then one draws back in the moment of temptation and gives in (Heb. 10:38).

                                 But if we are determined to die, rather than sin - that is, to be 'obedient even unto death' as Jesus was (Phil. 2:8) then this armour will be our strength and our protection in the day of battle.

                                 If we love material things, for example, then we shall easily lose our peace and fall into sin when we face some material loss or when someone else damages or loses some valuable possession of ours. But if we have chosen the way of 'suffering in the flesh' believing that God orders all things for our good (Romans 8:28), then we shall take even the loss of our goods joyfully (Heb. 10:34).

2. Pressing forward

                                Peter says that if we keep pressing on in our Christian life (adding... adding... adding) we will never fall [2 Peter 1:5-10]. Many Christians fall into sin because they become content with their spiritual progress, instead of pressing on further towards perfection. Paul spent his life doing ONE THING - pressing on towards the goal of becoming like Jesus (Phil. 3:13, 14). This kept him from stagnation and also from sin. He exhorted Timothy not only to flee from temptation, but also to PURSUE AFTER godliness and love and gentleness etc. (1 Tim 6:11; 2 Tim 2:22) Many have stopped committing sin and are satisfied, even though they keep falling. Thus they never stop falling.

                                We are to judge ourselves in the light of God continuously, in every situation, if we are to make any headway in discovering the latent evil that resides in our flesh. If we put the flesh to death, we can partake increasingly of the Divine nature.

                                Thus we can keep adding to our faith, virtue, brotherly kindness, love etc. If we thus, fill our mind with good thoughts at all times (Phil 4:8), sin will not be able to enter our mind easily. It is the empty mind that falls an easy prey to temptation.

Author:-
Zac Poonen

One minute Evangelism

Dear Friends,
How to lead our beloved to Jesus within one minute
I would like to share FIVE small steps which I heard last Sunday service in New life AG church, Chennai
1. Permission: Get permission to share with him/her which you had experience in your life
E.g.: Could you spent some time with me?
Then ask one question
What is your most favorable experience in your life?
Let him/her share his/her experience
Now you ask him to share your most favorable experience.
Now start from beginning i.e.
2. Before Christ(BC): Before come to Christ how you are?
3. Turning point(TP): Now tell him at which stage or by whom you had met Jesus Christ
When did you know about Jesus?
How did you come to know Jesus?
4. Anno Domini(AD): (After die with Jesus)
After received Jesus Christ what are the changes happened in your life
5. If I had not met Jesus Christ?
If you have not received Jesus Christ where you would be?

Is GOD is LIVE?

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty.

He asks one of his new students to stand and.....

Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof : Is God good? Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student : Yes. Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm? (Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes. Prof: Is Satan good? Student : No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Prof: So who created evil? (Student does not answer.)
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So, who created them? (Student has no answer.)
Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't. (The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.) Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold .. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat .... We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy . Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it .. (There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor.Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir? (The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in uproar.)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain? (The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain,sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir? (The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH . That is all that keeps things moving & alive.