...............The New Beginning.....................
Dearly Beloved worldwide family member of the 'Household of Faith (Gal 6:10c),
Greetings to you in the matchless Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ! I really welcome you all who have joined in this 'Apostolics in Christ' group from the BOTTOM OF MY HEART. Thank you for joining in this family of faith and I pray for all of you to be blessed in such a way that you start to live as a light and a salt in this dark and tasteless spirituality of our end times.
I hope that you are all doing wonderfully by His GRACE! I would like to remind you with a promise that I believe that the Lord is releasing in the heavenlies in this special month. I am so excited about it. You may be asking by this time, what is it that you are speaking about? The Lord says, "This is a new beginning for many in the ministry, personal life, job and in many other areas that you have been praying for years. This is the 8th month [i.e. August] of this year. 8 is the number of new beginning. It is 7 plus 1. Hence it is the number specially associated with Resurrection and Regeneration, and the beginning of a new era and order. I am bringing a NEW beginning in your ATTITUDE, DESIRE and THE SUPER ABUNDANT VICTORIOUS LIFE OF CHRIST IN YOU. Look forward with expectation for surprises from the throne of God and keep praising ME for the breakthrough that I am going to give in advance."
I stir you up all with this promise to hold on this new month, “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I WILL DO A NEW THING, NOW it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I WILL even MAKE A ROAD in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The beast of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I GIVE WATERS in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, TO GIVE DRINK TO MY PEOPLE, MY CHOSEN” (Isaiah 43:18-20). Your breakthrough is just before you friends, brothers and sisters. It is like you taking the last step before the miracle you have prayed for, cried for and waited for breaks forth before you. Praise the Lord!
Satan will try his best to stop you from believing and aborting the plans of God for your lives (John 10:10). He and his demonic minions know that you are unstoppable because of the faith that God has given you and which you have worked out until this season (1 John 5:4). To hold on and believe in faith for the breakthrough, God gave a confirmation promise saying, "FEAR NOT, O land; BE GLAD and REJOICE, For THE LORD WILL DO GREAT THINGS" (joel 2:21). Here we see 3 things that we need to remind ourselves in this coming months and even years ahead, where there will be a great spiritual warfare intiated by Satanic cohorts in the heavenlies because of the NEW BEGINNING that God is bringing in to every one's lives, you need to deal in the physical realm when it manifests.
Don't Forget to Do the Following 3 Things Without Fail,
1) Do not allow yourself to become fearful of any circumstances that arises suddenly. But talk to yourself by saying, '...tell your name and then say....FEAR NOT O MIGHTY MAN/WOMAN OF VALOUR, THE LORD IS WITH YOU' (1 sam 30:6; Jud 6:12).
2) Choose to rejoice in God by seeing all the positive things that are going to happen in your lives because God has promised you a NEW BEGINNING in the coming days ahead (Phil 4:4). Rejoice in faith and be still with out allowing youself to become anxious by praying continuously because of the hopeless situations that you see around you (Ps 46:10; Phil 4:6-7). Never forget that Jesus is inside the boat of your heart even though storms may be blowing outside (Matt 8:23-27).
3) You don't have to even try to fulfill the destiny and dreams that God has given you in the season ahead, but the LORD Himself will walk in to all your hopeless situations and fight for you in HIS TIME and bring your destiny to fullfillment as years go by (Psa 105:19; Is 45:2; 52:12; Exodus 23:23).
May the Lord's Grace empower you and carry you as you apply these principles in this new season of your life saints (2 Cor 13:14). God Bless you greatly with His great grace and favour in this season of NEW BEGINNING, just like Jesus was in His life when he lived on this planet earth (Acts 4:33; Luke 2:52). In the next letter I will be continuing with the topic of New Beginning...so get ready for living this new kingdom lifestyle of joy, peace and righteousness ahead (Rom 14:17)! I am sending a wonderful devotional article named, 'What is Your Heart Desire?'. So read, enjoy and be blessed in Jesus Name! Don't forget saints, I love you and Jesus loves us all!
Apostolically Yours in His Sevice,
Abraham Israel
...............What is Your Heart Desire?.......................
These days as spiritual things gets commercialised just like any other market commodities in the business, we as Christians have truly lost what it means to be in relationship and intimacy with Jesus. The saints of old longed for fellowship with God, this was the greatness in life they intensely desired after. Loving Jesus in an intimate way will make our hearts tender and will lead us to love others unconditionally (Matt 18:3; 1 John 4:20-21). This is what made the apostles who were sold out lovers of Jesus to share through their apostolic letters, how we as the child of God can have a tangible fellowship daily with Jesus (1 John 1:3; 1 Cor 1:9). The apostles were men full of joy and swam being drunk in the Spirit (1 John 1:4; Eph 5:18). These apostolic men hardly were able to remember their miseries of life because they were too drunk in the Spirit of Christ to remember it (Prov 31:7; Rom 8:9).
They were too addicted and enraptured to the contagious and ecstatic Joy that they experienced daily in fellowship with Jesus, they were not able to clearly express to people what makes them experience such heavenly life on earth and finally told to the people to believe the word of God to experience such Joy in their lives too (1 Peter 1:8; Acts 3:19). They never thought that they were sacrificing their life greatly for God, but they considered the ministry that they were doing as a privilege that God has given it to them mercifully because of His great unconditional love toward them (1 Tim 1:12).
The one thing that the apostles consistently desired in their lives was to live like Jesus lived on earth. They wanted to speak like Jesus, behave like Jesus, love like Jesus, eat like Jesus, sleep like Jesus, walk like Jesus and die like Jesus. In other words, they wanted their heart to beat the same way like Jesus. They had great apostolic family and fellow apostles around them, but they never looked on to their lives as any examples to emulate in their lives (1 Cor 11:1). Their eyes were fixed on Jesus and consistently exhorted the apostolic believers to live like they lived because of the qulaity of abundant life they experienced (Heb 12:2). The one desire that the apostles had in the recesses of their heart for the believers was to take their lives as a pattern to walk, be intimate with Jesus, walk in the joy of the Lord that is set before them always and set themselves as an example for others to follow (Phil 3:17; Phil 4:4).
These men knew what it means when the Bible says, "Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough." (Sos 8:7, BBE). They gave up their possesions, status, frienships, comfort and even their time spent with their family to follow this embodiment of love whose name is Jesus (Matt 19:27; Phil 3:7-8). If we ask the question, what did they find in Jesus that they were willing to lose their very life for Him? In Jesus they found the true meaning for the existence of life. They found a passion for living that they did not find anywhere in the world. In short, by willingly losing interest in all the temporal things which they held as something of great value in their past life, they found out the very reason for the existence of life on earth (Matt 10:39; John 14:6). This is why the only man who was called by God as the one after His own heart said this wonderful statement, "Your unfailing love is better than life itself; how I praise You!" (Psa 63:3, NLT).
The true mark of a man of God is not how big and powerful their ministries are, but how devoted they are to Jesus in this life. This is the scale of measurement that should be used to measure a man or a woman of God.
Read the following devotion of the great man of God Thomas O. Chisholm and his desire to be like Jesus that drove him in to deeper intimacy with Jesus and be inspired to follow Jesus with the heart beat that he has expressesed in the following poem,
I have one deep supreme desire,
That I may be like Jesus.
To this I fervently aspire,
That I may be like Jesus.
I want my heart His throne to be,
So that a watching world may see
His likeness shining forth in me;
I want to be like Jesus.
Oh, perfect life of Christ my Lord,
I want to be like Jesus.
My recompense and my reward,
That I may be like Jesus.
His Spirit fill my hung'ring soul,
His power all my life control;
My deepest pray'r, my highest goal,
That I may be like Jesus.
-- Thomas O. Chisholm
My question to you is, 'Are you longing for fellowship and intimacy with Jesus?' I praise God if you really are, other wise I advice you to change priority and spend your time with Jesus daily (Eccl 12:13). At the end of your small life that God has given you (Ps 90:10), all that matters will be how much time have you spend with Jesus alone. The out of this world retirement benefits awaits you if you are really intimate with Jesus now. The supernatural heavenly world's joy, empowerment and satisfaction is yours, if you continue to carry your cross that Jesus has given you in order to be yoked with Him and fullfill His plan for your life (Matt 10:38-39; Mark 8:34-35; Luke 14:26-27).
...........................God Bless You All................................
Please Note:
I would like you all to participate in the discussion board where all of the important questions of faith can be learned by sharing our thoughts in it. It is a way in which the fellow worldwide 'Household of Faith' members can share their knowlege of God and also learn from other family members to increase in their faith (Rom 10:17). In this regard I would like to remind you of the exhortation of Apostle Peter who said, "Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord" (2 Peter 1:2). In other words as we participate to know more of Jesus, grace and peace wil increase proportionately in our lives.
The Discussion topic is :'Is Binding Satan Biblically Right?' - Click the link to have your say, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Abraham-Israel/199111139427?v=app_2373072738&ref=sgm#!/topic.php?uid=199111139427&topic=16228
Also Just Drop in to the Group at least once in a while to say HI! to all the family Members of Faith and your comments and feedback will always encourage each on of us in our walk with our LORD.
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Click the link to see the wall of Our Group 'Apostolics in Christ' and write a few words of love - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=107991784900
Published on (Tuesday, August 17, 2010)
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