He has made me glad

As the deer..... splendid

Vera Ikeji: Christian Pastor in Iran sentenced to death for his faith

Vera Ikeji: Christian Pastor in Iran sentenced to death for his faith

Beautiful Song

Beautiful Song

GET UNDERSTANDING

I 've got my mind made up with lyric -

BE THOU MY VISION- One of my favourite hymn

One of my favourite hymn

An exceptional wife

This story was shared by Dr. Paul Chapell of  Lancaster Baptist Church

On May 2, 1962, a dramatic advertisement appeared in the San Francisco Examiner. "I don't want my husband to die in the gas chamber for a crime he did not commit. I will therefore offer my services for 10 years as a cook, maid, or housekeeper to any leading attorney who will defend him and bring about his vindication."

One of San Francisco's biggest lawyers saw the advertisement, felt pity, and contacted the woman. After much work, he took on the case and ended up getting the innocent man released from all charges. Afterward, the attorney refused the lady's offer of ten years of service, noting that he was satisfied to have saved an innocent man from death.

A mighty fortress is our God - absolutely lovely

This is absolutely lovely

conclusion of the post THOUGHT ON THE LOVE OF GOD

3.     God’s love was expressed-  God’s love was not latent but expressed, He demonstrated it to us in full terms. Many may give without loving but it is difficult to love without giving. God demonstrated His love for us by giving us his only begotten Son to die for our sins. John 3:16-17  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world… KJV. The scripture tells us that Open rebuke is better than secret love. Prov. 27: 5 KJV. The above is to tell us that our love must be expressive, we should express our love to our God.

4       God’s love is limited by His Word- The intention and the will of God is that none should perish. We read in John 3: 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. Also, in 1 Tim 2:3-4 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. KJV. God had no desire for anyone to go to hell. Notwithstanding, He is bound by His Word. People who refused His word must face the consequence. He will not allow His sympathy for them to make His Word of none effect. He created the hell fire for the devil and fallen angels but as many as refused the Lord Jesus Christ is hell bound. They voluntarily chose hell because they fail to acknowledge the Only Saviour. Is this your case? Think and turn for Jesus is waiting to save you. 

5. God’s love should be reciprocated- God demands that we love Him back. KJV Deut 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Mark 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

 Jesus said if you love me, you will keep my commandments. I will always remember the story of a boy who had a boat he cherished so much. One day, the wind wrestled the boat with him and he finally lost the boat, the wind took the boat to another village. Someone else found the boat cleaned it and offered it for sale. The boy whose boat got lost went everywhere looking for it. When he got to the other village, he was so happy to have found the same boat been offered for sale. He quickly paid for it. The love he had for the boat now increased because it was twice his. The same thing with us, we were God’s by CREATION and again we are His by REDEMPTION. If not for anything else, these two are two good reasons why we must love God.

Here is what that great theologian Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Believers love Jesus with a deeper affection then they dare to give to any other being. They would sooner lose father and mother then part with Christ. They hold all earthly comforts with a loose hand, but they carry Him fast locked in their bosoms. They voluntarily deny themselves for His sake, but they are not to be driven to deny Him. It is scant love which the fire of persecution can dry up; the true believer's love is a deeper stream than this. Men have laboured to divide the faithful from their Master, but their attempts have been fruitless in every age. Neither crowns of honour, now frowns of anger, have untied this more than Gordian knot. This is no every-day attachment which the world's power may at length dissolve. Neither man nor devil have found a key which opens this lock. Never has the craft of Satan been more at fault than when he has exercised it in seeking to rend in sunder this union of two divinely welded hearts. It is written, and nothing can blot out the sentence, "The upright love Thee ." The intensity of the love of the upright, however, is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough. Would that our hearts were capable of holding more, and reaching further. Like Samuel Rutherford, we sigh and cry, "Oh, for as much love as would go round about the earth, and over heaven—yea, the heaven of heavens, and ten thousand worlds—that I might let all out upon fair, fair, only fair Christ." Alas! our longest reach is but a span of love, and our affection is but as a drop of a bucket compared with His deserts. Measure our love by our intentions, and it is high indeed; 'tis thus, we trust, our Lord doth judge of it. Oh, that we could give all the love in all hearts in one great mass, a gathering together of all loves to Him who is altogether lovely!

(from Spurgeon's Morning & Evening, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 1999, 2003 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.) 

There is no doubt that God loves us. We love Him because he first loved us. If we indeed love God let it show not only in our profession but also in our action.

very, very nice hymn

My faith has found a resting place. Very nice Hymn

Holy are you Lord. - Inspirational Song

Before he turned two

Jerusalem, our feet shall stand within thy walls.