August 18
One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, "Cornelius!" Cornelius stared at him in fear. "What is it, Lord?" he asked. The angel answered, "Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. Acts 10:3-4.
Cornelius answered: "Four days ago I was in my house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me and said, 'Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor. Acts 10:30-31
I read this yesterday and a blessing of encouragement and understanding hit me like a brick. God had seen Cornelius' offerings to the poor and his offerings added praise to the garment of praise the Lord wears. Cornelius' good deeds shone like a light and brought praise to the Father, whether people saw or did not see him giving to the poor, because Cornelius did it for the glory of the Lord. The way I used to see it: I had no idea how in the world feeding some homeless guy or taking care of bratty, stubborn little kids was for the advancing of Kingdom. But now I see that we aren't just giving, ministering or serving to the people around us when we do these things, but we are serving, ministering and giving to God the Most High when we do these things. So praise the Lord and let us do our good deeds which are no longer rags of filth because of our sin but holy and beautiful offerings before the eyes of God because of Christ covering us with His blood, and let us do them for the glory of the Lord. Amen
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August 18
If it wasn't for Him I wouldn't be here anymore. Not even wishing to walk the face of an aching and birthing planet. A planet ready to be destroyed and renewed. But I remember something: that He loved me first with all of His heart and there's a reason to all of this madness. I take a look around. A few years ago I would've thought that God must be sleeping because of how disgusting and distraught the world is. But now I think that my God must be the most powerful and imminent being to keep all of this madness together the way he truly does. I'd run away f it didn't matter anymore. But tis the truth, that I'd deserve hell for all of the things I've done but there's one truth that keeps me here: He first loved me and shed His blood out of some manic and extravagant love that His heart swells up with for me. I don't think I'm going anywhere, knowing that there's no way that I am the only one who sees and feels the hurt that I do. Knowing that my Father has the antidote to all of our hurt: Christ; I'll give it to them all. Or at least as much as I can.
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August 18
Repent or perish. Well what does that mean? Does that mean simply to drop down on your kness because you are afraid of the power of Hell? Does it mean simply to beg for forgivness so that one day we can "kick it" in Heaven? No. It means to turn from our ways, which are sinful by nature. To turn away from our sins because we are so awestruck by God's magnificent love for us. If we stay in our sins, there is no way we can find life; on earth, we will die and spiritually we will never find life. But if we repent we find a life worth living here on earth, which is a life bent on advancing the Kingdom of God & we begin to see a mere glimpse of life in Heaven, a life filled with knowing God. And when our lives here on earth do pass away, we live on still with our Lord and His Father in their divine Kingdom, being filled to completion with the awesome presence of such an awesome God. There is simply and truthfully no way to have Life, but to repent. Or...we can just perish
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August 18
I was meditating upon God today in my shower. And I realized something, lately all of my speech has become more and more edifying than anything else and lately I have become more and more cheerful in the Lord at all times as Christ has commanded us to do through the apostolic teachings. And the thing is, I was not trying to do either one of theses things. When I tried in my own way to serve the Lord, I tried to be "mature". Instead of being lively in the love of Christ I was grim and cold and tried to judge everything the way I saw best & instead of being filled with edifying speech, I held my tongue because I thought I ought to be mature by not speaking at all in certain situations, when all along God had something for me to say on His behalf. Tonight I realized, that I have been doing the same exact opposite, and at first I thought that maybe I was in the wrong because what I was doing was not very "mature" by my standards. But God pointed to me that nowhere in scripture does it say that we are not to be cheerful because of what we have in the Lord or that we should not try and love one another by sharing our fruit with one another in speech. And God was saying to me "You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all of your heart". These past days I have been doing nothing but devoting myself to God, in loving Him by worshiping Him non-stop whether it be reading the bible and praying to my Father almost always, with other siblings in Christ or just by myself or it be that I'm outside using my spiritual gits to praise Him and give glory to His holy name that is worthy of all praises. And I stopped worrying about everything but instead I took care of all responsibilities in diligence and trusted in our Father to bless me with His providence. And I've been careful to make sure that I have been in constant fellowship with the Lord and always praying to the Lord and making sure that all of my fruit is pleasing to the Lord and devoting my time on worshiping Him all day long. And as I did nothing but try to focus on Him, the Holy Spirit has started to truly conform me more and more to His absolute likeness and to the teachings of the apostles that we try so hard to follow. And by His grace He continues to make me holy. All in all, what we need to be doing is giving ourselves over to the Lord. I heard that back in old testament days, when the Israelites were devoting themselves in worship of that almighty and sovereign Ancient of Days,that they would get so lost in worship and be so filled with fear and trembling of from the Holy Spirit, that would dare not utter the name of the Almighty. This is how I want to be. I pray for you the same thing my beloved brothers and sisters of God, the Almighty. In grace and peace, Kishane.
p.s. We won't start truly knowing and understanding and really being happy in God our Father's name, until we search for Him with all of our hearts :) Be blessed my beloved brothers and sisters in Christ. Amen.
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August 18
Please, please be redeemed. The time is nearing and my generation is distressed with the lack of faithful worship to a mighty God who is so deserving of alll praise and glory. Please, seek out the almighty God because his contempt for mediocrity has begun to overflow on us all. And can't you see that his words are being fulfilled; the words of the Everlasting. His sons, your young men have begun to burn zealously for their God to come and make his dweliing upon the earth eternally; His favored children have begun to dream dreams and pour out righteousness and have been filled with visions from the spirit. O my God, how heavenly and holy you truly are? Brothers and sisters, the forerunnners are here and we are filled with dread for the lack of godliness and righteousness amongst God's people. Please, please leave out your excuses from here, you people, because God and the rest of us are sick and tired of hearing them. This is the day, now is the time and we will begin to worship from His spirit and refuse to stop until His glory is made manifest in us and His light comes down from Heaven to redeem all of the whole entire world along with all of His holy people with it. Seek now the glory of the Lord, and by His grace through your faith, which makes his heart burn zealously for us, we will set this whole entire world ablaze, amen and grace and peace
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