People talk about examining your heart and we as Christians are encouraged to confess our sins to God so that our fellowhsip with him is not affected by unconfessed sins. Here are a few points to help you get right with God.. take some time to reflect on these and remember God is very willing to cleanse us of our sins. He has already sent Jesus Christ to pay for your sins.. all you need to do is believe Him.
2min
Ask God to reveal to you the sins that are keeping you from being closer to him.
1min
Am I taking care of my body? Are my eating/activities according to God's will?
1 Corithians 6:19-20
1min
How important is money? Am I giving enough? Have I held back or not used money well?
1 Timothy 6:10
1min
Am I Self-disciplined? Have I given in too easily to sleepiness? Hunger? Temptations?
2 Peter 1:5-7
1min
What is the overriding influence in my life? my circumstances or my faith?
2 Peter 1:5-7
1min
Any room for improvement in my bahavior?
2 Peter 1:5-7
1min
How do I rate in the categories of kindness and love? When have I neglected to love?
2 Peter 1:5-7
1min
Is my tongue getting the best of me? When have I failed to discipline my tongue?
2 Timothy 2:23-24
1min
Is my God big enough? Where have I doubted his ability to provide or look after me?
Ephesians 3:20-21
1min
Are my words building up or tearing down? Are people directed to God as a result of my speech?
Ephesians 4:29
1min
Time management. Have I wasted or "killed" time?
Ephesians 5:15-16
1min
Do I possess my possessions? or do they possess me?
Luke 12:15
1min
Attitude check. How do I view myself and others?
Luke 14:11
1min
Who is my Lord? Who do I listen to most? Myself or God?
Luke 6:46
1min
Am I standing for God? Have I been ashamed of God?
Luke 9:26
1min
Heart check. Is my heart, mind and strength all towards God?
Matthew 22:37-38
1min
Do I care if others go to hell? When did I neglect an opportunity given by God?
Matthew 28:19-20
1min
Who is my real master?
Matthew 6:24
1min
Pursuits. Am I chasing things other than God?
Matthew 6:33
1min
Have I been worrying about things that I should leave to God?
Philippians 4:6
1min
Thought life - what occupies my mindmost? What do I think about when I am not doing anything? What do I worry about?
Philippians 4:6
1min
Hey, I'm pretty good!
Romans 12:3
1min
Is one foot on earth and the other in heaven? How?
James 4:4
1min
Where's my dependence? When things go wrong, did I seek God? Or who? Or what?
Matthew 5:3
1min
Where's my focus? What is driving me every day?
Matthew 6:33
1min
Am I thanking God in all things? How have I been ungrateful towards God?
2 Timothy 3:1-5
1min
Am I being obedient to God? Do I listen to the Holy Spirit's advice?
Luke 12:47
1min
How am I seeking after God?
2 Chronicles 12:13
1min
How's my temper?
Ephesians 4:26-27
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
LIFEHACK - One thing you should know about life... after death
Lifehouse video called "EVERYTHING"
IF you ever wanted a 5min video version of what Christians are trying to tell you, here it is in interpretive dance. Jesus Christ died for your sins. The best hack for your life is to accept the payment GOD paid on your behalf for your wrongs. Your sins are not worth losing your soul.
If you got questions, comments, abuse.. please comment.
IF you ever wanted a 5min video version of what Christians are trying to tell you, here it is in interpretive dance. Jesus Christ died for your sins. The best hack for your life is to accept the payment GOD paid on your behalf for your wrongs. Your sins are not worth losing your soul.
If you got questions, comments, abuse.. please comment.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
What's wrong with Christianity today
This is pretty much why:
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. - Jeremiah 6:16
Enough said..
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. - Jeremiah 6:16
Enough said..
Why Revival Tarries?
"No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.
Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of praver. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.
The two prerequisites to successful Christian living are vision and passion, both of which are born in and maintained by prayer. The ministry of preaching is open to few; the ministry of prayer-the highest ministry of all human offices-is open to all. Spiritual adolescents say, "I'll not go tonight, it's only the prayer meeting." It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying. Modern Christians know little of "binding and loosing," though the onus is on us-"Whatsoever ye shall bind...” Have you done any of this lately? God is not prodigal with His power; but to be much for God, we must be much with God.
This world hits the trail for hell with a speed that makes our fastest plane look like a tortoise; yet alas, few of us can remember the last time we missed our bed for a night of waiting upon God for a world-shaking revival. Our compassions are not moved. We mistake the scaffolding for the building. Present-day preaching, with its pale interpretation of divine truths, causes us to mistake action for unction, commotion for creation, and rattles for revivals.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning. We are beggared and bankrupt, but not broken, nor even bent.
Prayer is profoundly simple and simply profound. "Prayer is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try," and yet so sublime that it outranges all speech and exhausts man's vocabulary. A Niagara of burning words does not mean that God is either impressed or moved. One of the most profound of Old Testament intercessors had no language "Her lips moved, but her voice was not heard." No linguist here! There are groanings which cannot be uttered."
Are we so substandard to New Testament Christianity that we know not the historical faith of our fathers (with its implications and operations), but only the hysterical faith of our fellows? Prayer is to the believer what capital is to the business man.
Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our accent is on paying, theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!
In the matter of New Testament, Spirit-inspired, hell-shaking, world-breaking prayer, never has so much been left by so many to so few. For this kind of prayer there is no substitute. We do it--or die!
Taken from Why Revival Tarries, by Leonard Ravenhill. Copyright 1959, Leonard Ravenhill. Published by Bethany House Publishers.
Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of praver. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.
The two prerequisites to successful Christian living are vision and passion, both of which are born in and maintained by prayer. The ministry of preaching is open to few; the ministry of prayer-the highest ministry of all human offices-is open to all. Spiritual adolescents say, "I'll not go tonight, it's only the prayer meeting." It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying. Modern Christians know little of "binding and loosing," though the onus is on us-"Whatsoever ye shall bind...” Have you done any of this lately? God is not prodigal with His power; but to be much for God, we must be much with God.
This world hits the trail for hell with a speed that makes our fastest plane look like a tortoise; yet alas, few of us can remember the last time we missed our bed for a night of waiting upon God for a world-shaking revival. Our compassions are not moved. We mistake the scaffolding for the building. Present-day preaching, with its pale interpretation of divine truths, causes us to mistake action for unction, commotion for creation, and rattles for revivals.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning. We are beggared and bankrupt, but not broken, nor even bent.
Prayer is profoundly simple and simply profound. "Prayer is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try," and yet so sublime that it outranges all speech and exhausts man's vocabulary. A Niagara of burning words does not mean that God is either impressed or moved. One of the most profound of Old Testament intercessors had no language "Her lips moved, but her voice was not heard." No linguist here! There are groanings which cannot be uttered."
Are we so substandard to New Testament Christianity that we know not the historical faith of our fathers (with its implications and operations), but only the hysterical faith of our fellows? Prayer is to the believer what capital is to the business man.
Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our accent is on paying, theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!
In the matter of New Testament, Spirit-inspired, hell-shaking, world-breaking prayer, never has so much been left by so many to so few. For this kind of prayer there is no substitute. We do it--or die!
Taken from Why Revival Tarries, by Leonard Ravenhill. Copyright 1959, Leonard Ravenhill. Published by Bethany House Publishers.
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