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Proverbs 30

32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

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I MUST TELL JESUS

Elisha A. Hoffman (1894)

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I must tell Jesus all of my trials;

I cannot bear these burdens alone;

In my distress He kindly will help me;

He ever loves and cares for His own.

Refrain:

I must tell Jesus! I must tell Jesus!

I cannot bear my burdens alone;

I must tell Jesus! I must tell Jesus!

Jesus can help me, Jesus alone.

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I must tell Jesus all of my troubles;

He is a kind, compassionate Friend;

If I but ask Him, He will deliver,

Make of my troubles quickly an end.

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Tempted and tried, I need a great Savior,

One who can help my burdens to bear;

I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus;

He all my cares and sorrows will share.

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O how the world to evil allures me!

O how my heart is tempted to sin!

I must tell Jesus, and He will help me

Over the world the vict'ry to win.

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The more I meditate on God’s attributes, the more I find myself ever so inadequate to be called a faithful servant of God.  :( 

God help us to start being faithful to Him and His Word (if not yet) wherever it is He planted us..

God help us to start being faithful to Him and His Word (if not yet) in maintaining the purity of our lives..

God help us to start being faithful to Him and His Word (if not yet) in giving to the Lord’s work..

God help us to start being faithful to Him and His Word (if not yet) in ministering to the other believers and to the world by living out a pattern of good work (a good testimony being the observable manifestation of our new nature in Christ)..

God help us to start being faithful to Him and His Word (if not yet) in our daily walk with Him..

God help us to start being faithful to Him and His Word (if not yet)  in committing to live a life so dependent on prayers..

God help us to start being faithful to Him and His Word (if not yet) in whatever it is He called us to do and be  us according to His sovereign purpose in our lives all for His glory. 

Lamentations 3: 22-23. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Praise be to God for His unchanging nature! Great is Thy faithfulness! 

Lord, teach us, to be faithful, to you, too. 

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Psalm 94:19  In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

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5 things I’ve learned from difficult seasons

I think we’ve all had a season of our lives where we felt like we were in the valley and it was challenging to see what God could possibly have planned for us. Seasons like that can cause us to doubt and sometimes even fear for the future. We can lose sight of God’s promise whenever life takes a painfully unexpected turn. But I believe that, even if it’s hard to see from time to time, God knows what He‘s doing. I believe He’s looking out for each one of us (maybe even in ways we never could’ve imagined). I know I’ve been through the valley before. Here are 5 lessons I’ve learned. I hope they give you peace and assurance no matter where in your life you happen to be.

1. There’s a purpose

Nearly every trial I’ve faced during a dry season of my life has benefited me in one way or another. Now, it wasn’t always easy to see how it was benefiting me at the time, but that was where I had to really put my trust in God. I won’t lie. It was hard sometimes. But now, looking back, I can see that He was with me every step of the way, molding me, cultivating my character, making me holy just as He is holy.

The struggles I faced grew me in ways I never thought possible. They made me resilient and seriously strengthened my faith. But, more than anything I think, they taught me that we serve a God who will never give up on us even when we want to give up on ourselves. That made a huge impact on me.

2. God knows what we really need

Life can feel out of control sometimes. And I know there were moments when I felt completely overwhelmed and, truthfully, just kind of exhausted even thinking about the direction my life was going. I was letting my anxieties over the present state of things get the best of me and because of that, I wasn’t able to clearly see what God was doing through them—what He had in mind.

Often, we may be tempted to doubt how God could possibly use our circumstances to better us and make us into the people we were meant to be. We may even start to question His provision when things get dark and it’s difficult to make out the road ahead. But it’s my firm belief that just as God cares about the world as a whole, He also cares about you and I as individuals. He knows what we need even when we may not and He’s leading us ever onward towards the ultimate goal.

Sometimes, that means enduring tribulation. Sometimes, that will hurt. But that’s why it’s so important to constantly lean into Him and trust Him with our whole hearts. He has our best interests in mind, and we can be fully confident of that regardless of what the future may hold.

3. Trials teach dependence

Often, we have to come to the end of ourselves to learn to fully depend on God. And when it seemed confusion and doubt had taken the reigns in my life, I was left with no other choice than to turn everything over to the Lord and believe that He would do what was right and take care of things in His own way and time.

I‘m strongly inclined to believe that sometimes, God will allow us to go through trying times in order to bring us back to Him. He is truly all we need. He loves us with such an amazing love and His continual pursuit of us even when we’ve lost our way proves that.

4. We’re developing empathy

Not only has difficulty helped me become the person I am today, but it’s also equipped me with the ability to help others who are facing similar situations. Because of the things I’ve been through on a personal level, I’m able to really empathize with people who are dealing with the same things and offer advice based on my own experiences.

It’s such a blessing to be able to help others through my past struggles and I’d never be able to connect with them in that way had I never gone through some of these things. Our greatest trials can become life-changing testimonies that ultimately draw people closer to God (how incredible is that?).

5. It will pass

God may not always allow us to avoid the storms of life, but He’ll always be there with us so that we‘re strong enough to brave them. When the waters rise, He is our strength and our portion.

The Bible says to fix our eyes on what is unseen, because all the things that we can see are temporary, but what‘s unseen is eternal. I’ve learned to fix my eyes on God no matter the circumstance, because troubles will pass. Confusion will pass. Pain will pass. But God remains.

My prayer is that we’ll always remember how fleeting the things of this world are and choose to glorify God no matter whether life seems perfect or everything seems to be falling apart. He has promised to work all things together for the good of those who love Him and who have been called according to His purpose. That’s an amazing promise! And thankfully, it’s a promise we can always hold fast to.

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If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him. Work for Him.

J.C. Ryle (via thesovereignword)

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Pattern your life after the most Godly examples you know, and always let your conversation reflect that of heaven. Let your heart have the fragrance of true affection and love for the souls of others.

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The Christian must approach the study of Scripture in humble dependence on the Holy Spirit, sure that he can learn from it nothing of spiritual significance unless he is taught of God.

J.I. Parker (via kingdomreigns)

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Have you, in any way, managed to share the Gospel message of Christ Jesus’ saving grace to them whom you consider dear and close to your heart?

Those around you who have a concept of a God of Creation but do not really bother to seek the Heavenly Father’s will?

Those whom you’ve shared  a  fragment  of your  life with while in your  unregenerate  state, but now that you’ve experienced God’s gift of salvation and the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit,  you  don’t spend as much time with no matter the reason?

Those whom you’ve known from a long way back, prior to the accomplishments,  degrees and appended initials alongside your names?

Do you pray that they may know Jesus in an intimate and personal manner and receive Him as their Lord and personal Saviour?

Today, I am reminded of them.. 

Today, I am reminded to pray for them, and reach out. 

Friends usher friends to heaven.  

“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”  (James 4:14).    

Many a times, I take for granted that day by day, in God’s loving and tender mercies, He grants me with new chances to encounter Him, through the people He put in my life and the environment He designed me to be in at a given moment. 

Today, I am reminded that my friends need Christ Jesus as their Saviour, and my heart is terribly aching for them. I don’t want them to die not knowing they are accountable to God one day, should they waste their lives doing their own thing, pursuing their own will, subscribing to the idea that Christianity is but a fool’s uninformed worldview.   “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).

Looking back, I can’t help feeling grateful when I ponder on the fact that God in His loving kindness saved me at a time where skepticism and doubts and bitterness pervaded my thinking. It is only by His grace that I am saved. He can do that for my friends, too,  but I should be doing my part.  

To you, my brother and sister who is reading this, don’t be that one Christian friend in your circle who failed to do his part in proclaiming Jesus’ work on Calvary’s cross to pay for the penalty of ALL man’s sins. Share that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). The simple message of salvation and way to heaven rests on this elemental truth-- ”Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Him” (John 14:6).  

Without one admitting his sinfulness before God, without one genuinely repenting from his sin and without him turning toward God and accepting Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, he cannot attain a truly delightful and fulfilling life. He simply lives a purposeless and senseless existence, devolved from the view of  the bliss of eternity, here and now (qualitatively). He misses out on the promise that someday in heaven, we can get to spend our lives in the presence of  our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, our Blessed Hope (Titus 2:13), praising Him and  ever satisfied in Him. After all, our earthly lives are ephemeral, but our souls eternal.

If one chooses to harden his heart concerning this truth, or in an unlikely circumstance, failed to hear the salvation message from those around him or events in His life that revealed God at work, what a sad and heart-wrenching reality that is for that person! My heart aches deeply for him. 

Instead of a life free from the bondage of sin and thirst to sin, one is doomed to live a life with a clouded view of what truly is essential. It isn’t wealth, riches, fame and accomplishments. I do not mean that they are bad in and of themselves. Such just don’t count as much with eternity in view.   “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36). 

Instead of the promises and the joy of communing with God daily, one is doomed to a sentence in the unquenchable punishment in hell someday with the Father of this world  Satan, the deceiver of many.   “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world”  (1 John 2:16).   

Instead of a life so transformed and mightily used by God, if one chooses to willfully deny that Jesus Christ indeed is God and Lord of all, that He saves regardless of how unforgivable our sins may seem humanly speaking, one is carrying the burden he need not carry. 

There will always be a void, an emptiness, a longing within the human soul to find peace. I am speaking as a person so damaged by sin, rebellion and unrest.  (Aren’t we all?)

Let it be known that the “Prince of Peace”, “the Counsellor”, “the mighty God”, “the  Everlasting Father” (Isaiah 9:6) is still into the business of saving lives, and offering peace for our weary souls. He says lovingly, 

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30)

I beg you, my brother and sister in the Lord, share God’s love for the whole of mankind. Share it with your friends, lovingly. Let them see how Jesus Christ  offers forgiveness, peace and life eternal that cannot be taken away from them who received Him gladly in their hearts.  “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12).

Friends usher friends to heaven. 

You know this to be true. I know this to be true. 

Let us do our part in fulfilling the great commission out of love, for the souls of those whom God consider precious-- enough that He let His Son shed his blood and die, an unblemished, blameless and perfect sacrifice to atone for the penalty of the whole of the wicked world, us included. 

Let us share the message that “God commendeth His love towards in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).

Share the Good News of God’s free gift of salvation by His grace, and pray for them that are yet without the eternal life in Christ Jesus.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9).

“They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. “ (Psalm 126:5).

Friends usher friends to heaven.  Have you, in any way, managed to share the Gospel message of Christ Jesus’ saving grace to them whom you consider dear and close to your heart? Let us. 

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Eight long years since I last posted things in here! I’m just grateful to the Lord for ever sustaining me.

I cannot imagine the dark places I’ve let my mind and life wander as I reviewed drafts and published notes here (that are now made private).  

The clouds of depression that so hovered above my head, the intimate confessions of how slowly I lost grip of the meaning and purpose of life, the desire to just end it all... Oh how desolate I was! 

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By the grace of God, I’m still here, breathing, alive. 

Praying. Waiting. Loving. 

Learning.  Growing.  Hoping.

Desiring to live for the One who has always proven Himself faithful and true in my life despite my countless failing Him. 

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever. 

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