Wisdom Of Life

The Bible says in Matthew 5:8, “Blessed are the pure in heart,  for they will see God." - To “see God” means having experience with the presence of God, and  the one who have a pure heart get to feel the power of God. They get to know the purpose of God for their lives, they also get to live in the peace of God, and they having experience by the pardon of God.  If we want to be one of those peoples, we don’t only talking a lot about being pure in heart, but we do use the word “ integrity .” and having integrity does not mean that we are perfect, Integrity is " wholeness ."  A lot of people having perception about their life are like the pieces of the pie, this slice of the pie, is my career, or my work life, or my spiritual life, then this is my family life. That one is my social life, then over here is my secret life, my compulsions, addictions, and the things nobody else knows about. If we are being an segment, our life are like that, we lack of integrity...

"I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord , “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."   ~Jeremiah 29:11 Your mind and your thoughts could be stuck in the past, continually thinking about what has already happened. If that's the case, it's best to get over it. The past has already happened; you can't do anything to change it. Rather,  "you ought to trust God that he is working out those things for ultimate good" (see Romans 8:28).   On the other hand, your mind could be stuck in the future, thinking about what might happen, what you fear will happen, and things you wish wouldn't happen. However, being a person of faith requires trust, trusting God about the future.  Romans 15:13  says, " May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him." You'll have joy and peace when you trust in God, why?  Because you'll be able to rest and relax knowing that God has go...

"I will give thanks to you, Lord , with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High." ~Psalm 9:1-2   Praise should always follow answered prayer; as the mist of earth's gratitude rises when the sun of heaven's love warms the ground. Has the Lord been gracious to you, and inclined his ear to the voice of your supplication? Then praise him as long as your live. Let the ripe fruit drop upon the fertile soil from which it drew its life. Deny not a song to him who has answered your prayer and given you the desire of your heart. (see Psalm 37:4) To be silent over God's mercies is to incur the guilt of ingratitude; it is to act as basely as the nine lepers, who after they had been cured of their leprosy, returned not to give thanks unto the healing Lord. (see Luke 17:17-18) To forget to praise God is to refuse to benefit ourselves; for praise, like prayer, is one...

S piritual gifts, H eart, A bilities, P ersonality, E xperiences, these are the five things that make you, and it's call " OUR SHAPE."   That's the unique way that God made you that brings glory to him, means to believe that God knows best. It all comes down to the matter of trust. Do you believe that God made a mistake when he made you? Or do you trust him, knowing that he has a plan for your life?  When you say, “God, there are things I don’t like about myself. I wish I had different hair or a different color of skin. I wish I were taller, shorter, skinnier. I wish I had more talent. I wish I could do ‘that.’ I wish I looked like him. I wish I had her smarts” and on and on. This kind of thinking is basically telling God, “You blew it! Everybody else is OK. But you goofed up big when you made me.”  When you reject yourself, you are in essence rejecting God, because he’s your creator. When you don’t accept yourself, it’s rebellion against God. You’re saying, “God,...

"Because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever:"  - 2 John 1:2 Once let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human heart and subdue the whole man unto itself, no power human or infernal can dislodge it. We entertain it not as a guest but as the master of the house--this is a Christian necessity, he is no Christian who doth not thus believe. Those who feel the vital power of the gospel, and know the might of the Holy Ghost as he opens, applies, and seals the Lord's Word, would sooner be torn to pieces than be rent away from the gospel of their salvation. What a thousand mercies are wrapped up in the assurance that the truth will be with us forever; will be our living support, our dying comfort, our rising song, our eternal glory; this is Christian privilege, without it our faith were little worth. Some truths we outgrow and leave behind, for they are but rudiments and lessons for beginners, but we cannot thus deal with Divine truth, for ...

God gives us a lot of confirming emotions and often answers the mostmature, self-centered prayers so we’ll know he exists, when we are a baby Christian, after that, as we grow in faith, he will wean you these dependencies.  God’s omnipresence and the manifestation of his presence are two different things. One is a fact; the other is often a feeling. God is always present, even when we are unaware of him, and his presence is too profound to be measured by mere emotion.  The situations that will stretch our faith most will be those times when life falls apart and God is nowhere to be found. This happened to Job. On a single day he lost everything — his family, his business, his health, and everything he owned. And then, for 37 chapters, God said nothing, of course, he wants us to sense his presence, but he’s more concerned that we trust him than that we feel him. Faith, not feelings, pleases God.  How can we praise God when we don’t understand what’s happening in our li...

Then He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation."   Luke 22:46  When is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take to the throne of grace, were you not more wakeful than you are now? Easy roads make sleepy travellers. Another dangerous time is when all goes pleasantly in spiritual matters. Christian went not to sleep when lions were in the way, or when he was wading through the river, or when fighting with Apollyon, but when he had climbed half way up the Hill Difficulty, and came to a delightful arbour, he sat down, and forthwith fell asleep, to his great sorrow and loss. The enchanted ground is a place of balmy breezes, laden with fragrant odours and soft influences, all tending to lull pilgrims to sleep. Remember Bunyan's description: "Then they came to an arbour, warm, and promising much refreshing to the we...