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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE-JOHN PIPER


Don't Waste Your Life

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God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

John Piper
God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
THE MAJESTY OF CHRIST IN MISSIONS AND MERCY—A PLEA TO THIS GENERATION
God is closing in on some of you. He is like the “Hound of Heaven” who means to make you far happier in some dangerous and dirty work. Missionaries and ministers of mercy don’t come from nowhere. They come from people like you, stunned by the glory of God and stopped in your tracks. Sometimes it happens when you are going in exactly the oppo site direction.
I urge you in the name of Jesus to wake up, and enlarge your heart, and stretch your mind, and spread your wings. Mount up above your limited life—yes, a very important life, which God does not diminish—and see the great and thrilling big picture of God’s global purposes for the history of the world that cannot fail. “My counsel shall stand,” says the Lord, “and I will accomplish all my purpose” (Isaiah 46:10). “At the name of Jesus every knee [will] bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10-11). “This gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come” (Matthew 24:14).
DON’T TAKE OFFENSE
And as God gives you wings to rise up and see the world the way he sees it, many of you, I pray, will be loosened from your pres-ent situation—job, neighborhood, state, nation, plan—and be called to a direct engagement in this great historic,
global purpose of God as a goer and not only a sender. Let no one who is devoted to local ministry or to crucial secular engagement take offense at this plea. Rather rejoice. You are free to stay or free to go. Many of you must stay. Your staying is crucial for God’s purposes where you are, and it is crucial for his purposes where you are not, but where others may go. There is no need for guilt or resentment. There is great need for joyful partnership.
Those of you who stay—the senders—should keep this remarkable fact in mind: Foreign missions is a validation of all ministries of mercy at home because it exports them abroad. Planting the church in an unreached people means planting the base of operations for all the mercy Jesus commanded for the poor. If we don’t let our light shine before the people at home “so that they may see [our] good works and give glory to [our] Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16), what kind of obe dience will we export to the nations? The Great Commission includes the words, “teaching them to observe all that I [Jesus] have commanded you” (Matthew 28:20). And what did he com mand? He told the story of the desperate wounded man and the good Samaritan who “showed him mercy,” and then said to all of us, “You go, and do likewise” (Luke 10:37).
GOD ISSUES A CALL TO THIS GENERATION: LISTEN!
There is a call on this generation to obey the risen Christ and make disciples of all the unreached peoples of the world. I am praying that God will raise up hundreds of thousands of young people and “finishers” (people finishing one career and ready to pursue a second in Christian ministry). I pray that this divine call will rise in your heart with joy and not guilt. I pray that it will be confirmed with the necessary gifts, and a compelling desire, and the confirmation of your church, and the tokens of providence. Fan into flame every flicker of desire by reading biographies, and meditating on Scripture, and studying the unreached peoples, and praying for passion, and conversing with mission veterans. Don’t run from the call. Pursue it.
THE MEANING OF YOUR DISCONTENT
Many of you should stay where you are in your present job, and simply ponder how you can fit your particular skills and rela tionships and resources more strategically into the global pur pose of your heavenly Father. But for others reading this book, it is going to be different. Many of you are simply not satisfied with what you are doing. As J. Campbell White said, the output of your lives is not satisfying your deepest spiritual ambitions. We must be careful here. Every job has its discouragements and its seasons of darkness. We must not interpret such experiences automatically as a call to leave our post.
But if the discontent with your present situation is deep, recurrent, and lasting, and if that discontent grows in Bible-saturated soil, God may be calling you to a new work. If, in your discontent, you long to be holy, to walk pleasing to the Lord, and to magnify Christ with your one, brief life, then God may indeed be loosening your roots in order to transplant you to a place and a ministry where the deep spiritual ambitions of your soul can be satisfied. It is true that God can be known and enjoyed in every legitimate vocation; but when he deploys you from one place to the next, he offers fresh and deeper drinking at the fountain of his fellowship. God seldom calls us to an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of his sustaining grace.
AND YOU?
And so it is with many of you. Big issues are in the offing. May God help you. May God free you. May God give you a fresh, Christ-exalting vision for your life—whether you go to an unreached people or stay firmly and fruitfully at your present post. May your vision get its meaning from God’s great purpose to make the nations glad in him. May the cross of Christ be your only boast, and may you say, with sweet confidence, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

WHAT FAITH CAN DO -KUTLESS w/lyrics

What Faith Can Do- Kutless w/lyrics

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DAYS OF PRAISE -BE PATIENT

Days of Praise
Be Patient
September 26, 2010
"Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts:
for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh."
Many of us have been looking for the return of the Lord Jesus
for a long time. This writer has kept a simple little plaque on
his office wall for over 50 years. It reads: "Perhaps today,"
and serves as a daily reminder that today might indeed be
the day when He comes again. We do long for His appearing,
and as things seem to grow worse in the world year by year,
it is easy to become impatient--or perhaps even despondent-
-when He doesn't come.
Yet day by day "the coming of the Lord draweth nigh!" as our
text teaches. "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye
have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For
yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will
not tarry" (Hebrews 10:36-37).
Even the first-century Christians had to learn patience as they
also anxiously were awaiting Christ's return to deliver them out
of their tribulations--tribulations which were so great they
seemed to fit "end-time prophecies."
"Occupy till I come" (Luke 19:13) is His admonition to all who
await His second coming. "Blessed is that servant, whom his
lord when he cometh shall find so doing" (Luke 12:43). But
rather than hoping the Lord will come quickly to free us from
our tribulations, we should "count it all joy when fall into divers
temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of faith worketh
patience" (James 1:2-3). We need patience, and "tribulation
worketh patience" (Romans 5:3). For God will render "to them
who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and
honor and immortality, eternal life" (Romans 2:7). We should
"be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and
patience inherit the promises" (Hebrews 6:12). "Be patient
therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord" (James 5:7). HMM
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

BE STILL MY SOUL

Be Still my Soul


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LYRICS:


Be still my soul - the Lord is on thy side;
bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;
leave to thy God to order and provide;
in every change - he faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul - thy best thy heavenly Friend
through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.

Be still my soul - when dearest friends depart,
and all is darkened in the vale of tears,
then shalt thou better know his love - his heart,
who comes to soothe thy sorrow and thy fears.
Be still, my soul - the waves and winds still know
his voice who ruled them - while he dwelt below.

Be still my soul the hour is hastening on
when we shall be forever with the Lord,
when disappointment - grief and fear are gone,
sorrow forgot - love's purest joys restored,.
Be still my soul - when change and tears are past,
all safe and blessed - we shall meet at last.

Friday, September 24, 2010

PSALM 103-HYMNS PODCAST

Psalm 103

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Here’s an original composition which I think was by the late Rev Timothy Tow.

Lyrics: Psalm 103
Music: Londonderry Air

Good is the Lord and full of kind compassion
Most slow to anger, plenteous in love
Rich in His grace to all that humbly seek him
Boundless and endless as the heavens above

Refrain1:
His love is like a father’s to his children
Tender and kind to all who fear His name
For well He knows our weakness and our frailty
He knows that we are dust, he knows our frame.

We fade and die, like flowers that grow in beauty
Like tender grass that soon will disappear
But evermore the love of God is changeless
Still shown to those who look to Him in fear.

Refrain2:
High in the heavens, His throne is fixed forever
His Kingdom rules o’er all from pole to pole
Bless ye the Lord, through all His wide dominion
Bless His most holy name, O thou my soul

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

MINUNATA BIBLIE-OMUL NU TRAIESTE NUMAI CU PAINE, CI CU ORICE CUVANT CARE IESE DIN GURA LUI DUMNEZEU – MATEI 4:4

MINUNATA BIBLIE
OMUL NU TRAIESTE NUMAI CU PAINE, CI CU ORICE CUVANT CARE IESE DIN GURA LUI DUMNEZEU – MATEI 4:4

Proverbe 21:15-18

Este o bucurie pentru cel neprihanit sa faca ce este bine, dar pentru cei ce fac raul este o groaza. -

Omul care se abate de la calea intelepciunii, se va odihni in adunarea celor morti. -

Cine iubeste petrecerile va duce lipsa, si cine iubeste vinul si untdelemnul dresurilor nu se imbogateste. -

Cel rau slujeste ca pret de rascumparare pentru cel neprihanit, si cel stricat, pentru oamenii fara prihana. -

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Psalmul 56:3-4

Ori de cate ori ma tem, eu ma incred in Tine.

Eu ma voi lauda cu Dumnezeu, cu Cuvantul Lui. Ma incred in Dumnezeu, si nu ma tem de nimic: ce pot sa-mi faca niste oameni?

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Marcu 9:41-44

Si oricine va va da de baut un pahar cu apa, in Numele Meu, pentru ca sunteti ucenici ai lui Hristos, adevarat va spun ca nu-si va pierde rasplata.

Dar, daca va face cineva sa pacatuiasca pe unul din acesti micuti, care cred in Mine, ar fi mai bine pentru el sa i se lege de gat o piatra mare de moara si sa fie aruncat in mare.

Daca mana ta te face sa cazi in pacat, taie-o; este mai bine pentru tine sa intri ciung in viata, decat sa ai doua maini, si sa mergi in gheena, in focul care nu se stinge,

unde viermele lor nu moare, si focul nu se stinge.

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Ioan 12:35-36

Isus le-a zis: “Lumina mai este putina vreme in mijlocul vostru. Umblati ca unii care aveti lumina, ca sa nu va cuprinda intunericul: cine umbla in intuneric, nu stie unde merge.

Cata vreme aveti lumina printre voi, credeti in lumina, ca sa fiti fii ai luminii.” Isus le-a spus aceste lucruri: apoi a plecat si S-a ascuns de ei.

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Proverbe 21:4-6

Privirile trufase si inima ingamfata, aceasta candela a celor rai, nu este decat pacat. -

Planurile omului harnic nu duc decat la belsug, dar cel ce lucreaza cu graba n-ajunge decat la lipsa. -

Comorile castigate cu o limba mincinoasa sunt o desertaciune care fuge, si ele duc la moarte. -

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Geneza 1:2-4

Pamantul era pustiu si gol; peste fata adancului de ape era intuneric, si Duhul lui Dumnezeu se misca pe deasupra apelor.

Dumnezeu a zis: “Sa fie lumina!” Si a fost lumina.

Dumnezeu a vazut ca lumina era buna; si Dumnezeu a despartit lumina de intuneric.

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Ioan 17:11-17

Eu nu mai sunt in lume, dar ei sunt in lume, si Eu vin la Tine. Sfinte Tata, pazeste, in Numele Tau, pe aceia pe care Mi i-ai dat, pentru ca ei sa fie una, cum suntem si noi.

Cand eram cu ei in lume, ii pazeam Eu in Numele Tau. Eu am pazit pe aceia, pe care Mi i-ai dat; si nici unul din ei n-a pierit, afara de fiul pierzarii, ca sa se implineasca Scriptura.

Dar acum, Eu vin la Tine; si spun aceste lucruri, pe cand sunt inca in lume, pentru ca sa aiba in ei bucuria Mea deplina.

Le-am dat Cuvantul Tau; si lumea i-a urat, pentru ca ei nu sunt din lume, dupa cum Eu nu sunt din lume.

Nu Te rog sa-i iei din lume, ci sa-i pazesti de cel rau.

Ei nu sunt din lume, dupa cum nici Eu nu sunt din lume.

Sfinteste-i prin adevarul Tau: Cuvantul Tau este adevarul.

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Matei 16:24-27

Atunci Isus a zis ucenicilor Sai: “Daca voieste cineva sa vina dupa Mine, sa se lepede de sine, sa-si ia crucea, si sa Ma urmeze.

Pentru ca oricine va vrea sa-si scape viata, o va pierde; dar oricine isi va pierde viata pentru Mine, o va castiga.

Si ce ar folosi unui om sa castige toata lumea, daca si-ar pierde sufletul? Sau, ce ar da un om in schimb pentru sufletul sau?

Caci Fiul omului are sa vina in slava Tatalui Sau, cu ingerii Sai; si atunci va rasplati fiecaruia dupa faptele lui.

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Proverbe 24:17-20

Nu te bucura de caderea vrajmasului tau, si sa nu ti se inveseleasca inima cand se poticneste el,

ca nu cumva Domnul sa vada, sa nu-I placa, si sa-Si intoarca mania de la el. -

Nu te mania din pricina celor ce fac rau, si nu pizmui pe cei rai!

Caci cel ce face raul n-are nici un viitor, si lumina celor rai se stinge. -

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Iov 22:24-29

Arunca dar aurul in tarana, arunca aurul din Ofir in prundul paraielor!

Si atunci Cel Atotputernic va fi aurul tau, argintul tau, bogatia ta.

Atunci Cel Atotputernic va fi desfatarea ta, si iti vei ridica fata spre Dumnezeu.

Il vei ruga, si te va asculta, si iti vei putea implini juruintele.

Pe ce vei pune mana iti va izbuti, pe cararile tale va straluci lumina.

Vina smerirea, tu te vei ruga pentru ridicarea ta: Dumnezeu ajuta pe cel cu ochii plecati.

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Psalmul 91:1-4

Cel ce sta sub ocrotirea Celui Prea Inalt, si se odihneste la umbra Celui Atotputernic,

zice despre Domnul: “El este locul meu de scapare, si cetatuia mea, Dumnezeul meu in care ma incred!”

Da, El te scapa de latul vanatorului, de ciuma si de pustiirile ei.

El te va acoperi cu penele Lui, si te vei ascunde sub aripile Lui. Caci scut si pavaza este credinciosia Lui!

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