From: simon
Christmas greeting
To : all my friends . . . .
Christ Bell in Christmas time
THE BELL
I KNOW WHO I AM
I am God's child (John 1:12)
I am Christ's friend (John 15:15 )
I am united with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17)
I am bought with a price (1 Cor 6:19-20)
I am a saint (set apart for God). (Eph. 1:1)
I am a personal witness of Christ. (Acts 1:8)
I am the salt & light of the earth (Matt 5:13-14)
I am a member of the body of Christ (1 Cor 12:27)
I am free forever from condemnation ( Rom. 8: 1-2)
I am a citizen of Heaven. I am significant (Phil 3:20)
I am free from any charge against me (Rom. 8:31 -34)
I am a minister of reconciliation for God (2 Cor 5:17-21)
I have access to God through the Holy Spirit (Eph. 2:18)
I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realms (Eph. 2:6)
I cannot be separated from the love of God (Rom 8:35-39)
I am established, anointed, sealed by God (2 Cor 1:21-22 )
I am assured all things work together for good (Rom. 8:28 )
I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit (John 15:16 )
I may approach God with freedom and confidence (Eph. 3: 12 )
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4:13)
I am the branch of the true vine, a channel of His life (John 15: 1-5)
I am God's temple (1 Cor. 3: 16). I am complete in Christ (Col. 2: 10)
I am hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3).. I have been justified (Romans 5:1)
I am God's co-worker (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor 6:1). I am God's workmanship (Eph. 2:10)
I am confident that the good works God has begun in me will be perfected.
(Phil. 1: 5)
I have been redeemed and forgiven ( Col 1:14). I have been adopted as God's
child (Eph 1:5)
I belong to God
Do you know
Who you are?
Keep this bell ringing...pass it on
'The LORD bless you and keep you;
The LORD make His face shine upon you
And be gracious to you;
The LORD turn His face toward you
And give you peace...
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
Simon Hadipranoto & Family
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From: Suzianty Herawati
"Arise, and depart." --Micah 2:10
The hour is approaching when the message will come to us, as it comes to
all--"Arise, and go forth from the home in which thou hast dwelt, from the city
in which thou hast done thy
business, from thy family, from thy friends. Arise, and take thy last journey."
And what know we of the journey? And what know we of the country to which we
are bound? A little we have read
thereof, and somewhat has been revealed to us by the Spirit; but how little do
we know of the realms of the future! We know that there is a black and stormy
river called "Death."
God bids us cross it, promising to be with us. And, after death, what cometh?
What wonder-world will open upon our astonished sight? What scene of glory will
be unfolded to our view? No traveller has ever returned to tell. But we know
enough of the heavenly land to make us welcome our summons thither with joy and
gladness. The journey of death may be dark, but we may go forth on it
fearlessly, knowing that God is with us as we walk through the gloomy valley,
and therefore we need fear no evil. We shall be departing from all we have
known and loved here, but we shall be going to our Father's house--to our
Father's home, where Jesus is--to that royal "city which hath foundations,
whose builder and maker is God."
This shall be our last removal, to dwell for ever with Him we love, in the
midst of His people, in the presence of God. Christian, meditate much on
heaven, it will help thee to press on, and to forget the toil of the way. This
vale of tears is but the pathway to the better country: this
world of woe is but the stepping-stone to a world of bliss.
"Prepare us, Lord, by grace divine,
For Thy bright courts on high;
Then bid our spirits rise, and join
The chorus of the sky."
CH Spurgeon
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From: Suzianty Herawati
"I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of
blessing." --Ezekiel 34:26
Here is _sovereign mercy--"I will give them the shower in its season." Is it
not sovereign, divine mercy?--for who can say, "I will give them showers,"
except God? There is only one voice which can speak to the clouds, and bid them
beget the rain. Who sendeth down the rain upon the earth? Who scattereth the
showers upon the green herb? Do not I, the Lord? So grace is
the gift of God, and is not to be created by man. It is also needed grace. What
would the ground do without showers? You may break the clods, you may sow your
seeds, but what can you do
without the rain? As absolutely needful is the divine blessing.
In vain you labour, until God the plenteous shower bestows, and sends salvation
down. Then, it is plenteous grace. "I will send them showers." It does not say,
"I will send them drops,"
but "showers." So it is with grace. If God gives a blessing, He usually gives
it in such a measure that there is not room enough to receive it. Plenteous
grace! Ah! we want plenteous grace to
keep us humble, to make us prayerful, to make us holy; plenteous grace to make
us zealous, to preserve us through this life, and at last to land us in heaven.
We cannot do without saturating
showers of grace. Again, it is seasonable grace. "I will cause the shower to
come down in his season." What is thy season this morning? Is it the season of
drought? Then that is the
season for showers. Is it a season of great heaviness and black clouds? Then
that is the season for showers. "As thy days so shall thy strength be." And
here is a varied blessing. "I will
give thee showers of blessing." The word is in the plural. All kinds of
blessings God will send. All God's blessings go together, like links in a
golden chain. If He gives converting grace, He will also give comforting grace.
He will send "showers of blessing." Look up to-day, O parched plant, and open
thy leaves and flowers for a heavenly watering.
CH Spurgeon
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Yadahis
Yadahis a Hebrew verb with a root meaning "the extended hand, to throw out the
hand"; therefore, "to worship with extended hand."
The antonym is to bemoan by wringing of the hands. Yadah means to willfully
throw your hands up to praise with power. II Chronicles 20:19-20 is the yadah
type of praise. Lifting your hands is almost always equivalent to a Yadah,
especially when listening to music.
When you Yadah to music you are worshiping the image of the creator/ source of
the music.
