The eternal Sacrifice

Hebrews 9:13-14
13For if [the mere] sprinkling of unholy and defiled persons with blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a burnt heifer is sufficient for the purification of the body,
14How much more surely shall the blood of Christ, Who by virtue of [His] eternal Spirit [His own preexistent divine personality] has offered Himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, purify our consciences from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the [ever] living God?

I thank Go for this great sacrifice, that not only purifies the Body, but also purifies our consciences from the dead or fleshly works of our hands and makes us serve the living God. This is not of our own, but only by the death of the lamb we will be able to serve the King of kings not with dead works but with life, the life of Christ.

Hebrews 9:15-17
15[Christ, the Messiah] is therefore the Negotiator and Mediator of an [entirely] new agreement (testament, covenant), so that those who are called and offered it may receive the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance--since a death has taken place which rescues and delivers and redeems them from the transgressions committed under the [old] first agreement.
16For where there is a [last] will and testament involved, the death of the one who made it must be established,
17For a will and testament is valid and takes effect only at death, since it has no force or legal power as long as the one who made it is alive.

How great is God, because of His love for us, He had to nullify the first law which He had made, to give way to a great law coming out of His great love for us. But for this He chose to humble Himself and come in the form of a mere man (His creation), as flesh. The one how was Spirit, now is flesh also. And this flesh was hurt, scorned, abused, spat on, beaten, chastised, mocked, betrayed and crucified for the redemptions of all flesh; that we might be spirit.

Hebrews 9:22
22[In fact] under the Law almost everything is purified by means of blood, and without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins.

What if Christ had not died for us? What a lifeless life we would live? With dead works, hypocrisy. Above all life with all its guilt and the fear of death.
Now since Christ has died we have peace and joy which He had promised to us, through His suffering. Yes, it is that very peace, that enables us to walk through a mob of ten thousands who against you unharmed. Just because we are the sons of God. Yes, God himself enables us to walk. Even more it is that joy to rejoice and dance when someone abuses you or when we are going through suffering, cause it is not we who is able to go through this situation by by God alone for we are His children. Yes, we are indeed His children, through Christ. Thank God for dying for me. Thank You.

Let God be Glorified.

My prayer, the Great one

Lord, I have spent all my years in Your wrath. Lord, I am the worst of sinners. There is only person, that I can come to. It is You Lord. If not You who else? Have mercy on me, and forgive. Thank You for saving me from the penalty of sin. You are a God, and You do know that nothing good shall come out of me. Thank You, for Your spirit, anoint with Your spirit, that I may be able to do Your will. Thank You once again for the spirit for give the power over sin. And Lord enable me to rejoice in the fact, that a day is to come when You will return and take us home and will remove us from the presence of sin. Like the woman who had bleeding for many many years touched and was healed, so do I reach out my feeble hands to touch. Lord reach out Your hand and and pull me out from this sinking ground and make stand on the rock that is higher than I. Thank You Lord for hearing my pray and thank You for touching me.

He Touched Me

Shackled by a heavy burden
'Neath a load of guilt and shame
Then the hand of Jesus touched me
And now I am no longer the same

For He touched me, He touched me
What wonderful joy that floods my soul
Something happened and now I know
He touched me and made me whole

Oh since I met this blessed Savior
And since he cleaned and made me whole
Oh I never cease, never cease to praise Him
I'll shout it while eternity rolls

Oh He touched me, oh He touched me
And oh what a joy that floods my soul
Something happened and now I know
He touched me and made me whole.

Drudgery

    Man is a wanting machine, not because he want to have all. But he wants something more/better than what he has now.
    Same old day, with the same old routine. One may ask, how is possible to live like that? - so do I many a times (as on today). Thank God for nothing exciting was happening today, for if it did happen you could not have done it for God's Glory.
    My be my last sentence was hypocrisy but there is something in me that keeps hoping in His mercies to change me. I don't know, I guess I myself can't find out if I am a hypocrite or not. Guess it is because of the long years in hypocrisy.
    I have not written a negative blog yet, and this won't be one them. Cause I remember this song, which I used to sing when till I was in 5th grade or so. Yes, it is in my mind, but I want to sing it from my heart. Lord, help me I pray.

My God is so big
So strong and so mighty
That there nothing my God cannot do.

My God is *so* big
*So* strong and *so* mighty
That there *nothing* my God cannot do.

The mountains are His,
The valleys are His,
There *nothing* my God can't do.

*My* God is *so* big
*So* strong and *so* mighty
That there *nothing* my God cannot do.

(For the tune listen http://www.biblestudycharts.com/sounds/childrenshymns/mygodissobig.mid )

May the good God Bless you.

This is the Day the Lord has made

    How are you feeling today? Good, bad, happy, joyous, sad, ..... . Whatever you may be feeling today, just speak this out loud.

This is the day that the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it

    Believe in what you have spoken for it is true. God made this day keeping you in mind, yes - you in mind. And remember, He never does anything that will make Him sad. Here it is once again :)

This is the day that the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it.

Thank You God for this day, it may not have gone well, but since you made it, I will rejoice and be glad.

The mind of Christ

    There is this verse in Philippians, which mentions the mind of Christ. This is how the verse goes :

(2:21) "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's."

    What can I say about, "seek their own", everyone have a first hand experience about this. Some are may be ashamed of this and some will be least bothered. Yes. seeking our ow, we have all done that; we have gone astray in our own ways, our own ways for lust, fame and pleasures of the world. And Lord I am ashamed of it, and come before you for forgiveness. Glory be to God for he has forgiven me once for all on the cross.
    Coming to "things which are Jesus Christ's"; Jesus Himself rebuked Peter regarding this:

Matt 16:23
But Jesus turned around and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an offense to me, for you are not thinking God's thoughts but human thoughts!”

    What is exactly the mind of God? We can answer this by looking at the way Jesus lived on earth. The answer comes from the great passion. The mind of God was the salvation of you and me. The mind of God was the redemption, justification and sanctification of all flesh. The mind of God was filled with the blessed and greatest love for the world. The mind of God was filled with holiness and righteousness. The mind of God was zealous and jealous. And on the cross I am cent percent sure that he had me too on His mind. The mind of God was upon the kingdom to come.
    Where are we brothers, where is our mind stuck at? Filth right. I remember a song.

(God said)
I have longed to hold you in my arms,
To take all of your fears away,
I will take your *filthy rags*,
And make them clean,
If you receive My love,
If you receive My love,
So wait on Me,
And hear my spirit say,
In repentance and trust,
Is your salvation,
In quietness and rest,
Is your strength. Ooo Oo Ooo Oooo

(Repeat)

So wait on Me,
And hear my spirit say,
In repentance and trust,
Is your salvation,
In quietness and rest,
Is your strength. Ooo Oo Ooo Oooo

    Let us trust God and long for His mind. Give God all glory.

O Lord, You are faithful and always will be,:
You never give up on working with me;)
So as I am striving to serve You each day,
Help me show others Your will and Your way. —Fitzhugh

Do u love fish, onions, .. ?

Numbers 11:4-6

4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

    The Israelites mouths are now watering at the thoughts of the food they got in Egypt. Above all they say they got it *freely*.
    Freely!! Hmmm, I think they sold themselves for that food. That food, costed them their freedom - the cost of bondage. It also also costed them the penalty of death, the absence of the presence of God. The very same thing that Christ felt on the cross when sin was in Him - (Mark 15:34) "Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
    Ok, now tell me do you still love that food. Lord, I pray that we love you, make in us a Lord - a craving for your presence. Thank You for answering even before I prayed. - Amen.

Praise be to God

Genuineness of faith

    How do we know if our faith is genuine? Do we faith in God, just because He solves all our problems, or do you go to God for secretly (ie before men) glorifying the self? What could it be, it is like that. Most of are like that. But that does not stop, He is the one that makes our faith genuine. There is no point cribbing that, "I don't truly love the Lord." For God in His holy scripture or rather from His heart said (and remember when He utters something *it is done*) he will refine us. Like gold and silver. It is understood by God that when a man receives Christ his heart though being redeemed and cleansed by the blood of God. His mind is not willing, or rather his flesh is not willing to accept the above truth. So the flesh will try to bring fleshly attitudes into our faith. But this is what the scriptures say:
1 Peter 1:6-9

6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

      The trial of faith, the purification and making of the genuineness of faith is a tough thing. But Lord, I want to be genuine in our grace. So be it unto to me according to your word. Make me genuine, what ever it may cost. I just ask for Thy hand to hold, hold me firm. like that very young child how hands his father holds. When there is a pothole or a puddle, the father first jumps across and then child swings on his fathers hand across that puddle or pothole or the father while he jumps; the child is made to swing on his fathers hand, knowing that his father wont leave him. I need your hand to hold me Lord when You take me through those fires. I need your grace, protection and guidance. Bless the Lord for He is a good Father, and will uphold me in His hands.

    1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Glory be to God alone.

Comforted to comfort, Afflicted to save the soul of others

2 Corinthians 1:3 (Good News Bible)
1:3 Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God from whom all help comes!
1:4 He helps us in all our troubles, so that we are able to help others who have all kinds of troubles, using the same help that we ourselves have received from God.
1:5 Just as we have a share in Christ's many sufferings, so also through Christ we share in God's great help.
1:6 If we suffer, it is for your help and salvation; if we are helped, then you too are helped and given the strength to endure with patience the same sufferings that we also endure.
1:7 So our hope in you is never shaken; we know that just as you share in our sufferings, you also share in the help we receive.
1:8 We want to remind you, friends, of the trouble we had in the province of Asia. The burdens laid upon us were so great and so heavy that we gave up all hope of staying alive.
1:9 We felt that the death sentence had been passed on us. But this happened so that we should rely, not on ourselves, but only on God, who raises the dead.
1:10 From such terrible dangers of death he saved us, and will save us; and we have placed our hope in him that he will save us again,
1:11 as you help us by means of your prayers for us. So it will be that the many prayers for us will be answered, and God will bless us; and many will raise their voices to him in thanksgiving for us.

This scripture talks of a life that carries the cross daily and follows Christ.
Christ suffered for our salvation, that we may endure the suffering that comes upon us. As you and I go through the suffering, others aare coming into salvation. Furthermore, we will be comforted, for Christ was comforted. Why is this? Because God loves you just the same way as He loved Christ. If He would comfort Christ in all the temptations and tribulations so will He comfort us too.
Blessed are those who chose the path of the cross, those who carry the cross. We can't carry the cross, it is too heavy for us. Only by the Spirit can we do great things as carrying the cross. Blessed is Christ, for thruogh His suffering we are saved. Blessed are those martyrs, who with all deligence and hope suffered with Christ and carried the cross with Him, that we may be saved. Blessed are those, who carry the cross today and are partakers of Christ's suffering, that many be be saved. I thank You, God for Christ firstly, then the matyrs and for those who carry the cross today.
I speak these things, but I my self have always denied an oppurtunity to carry the cross, went behind pleasures that could satisfy the flesh, not knowing of the blessed comfort, peace and joy that God gives in these times of tribulations. Yes, it that very same comfort, peace and joy that Christ promised us, the very same that the world can't comprehend. But I am speaking out these words, cause of faith, that God will work and is already working in me. I pray, "God, that you will wrought these words into my heart, will inscribe Your will in my life. Such that Christ may be manifest and be made real in my life"
It is not possible by me to carry the cross, but I can do all things by Christ who strengthens me. To God be the Glory.

God of small things

I want to share something that God has been conveying to me, and I believe that God is going to inscrbe these words onto my heart in these days. I prasise Him for He was *done* it.
__God_of_the_SMALL_things__
Yes, God is Big. He thinks and does things that are big and huge. It is like a huge painting that God is making. This huge painting will only be beautiful when He looks at very small details, may he a black strand or a blot of black paint in a 1x1 cm area of the canvas of universe. Yes, He searched for small things like you and me. He went for the weak, faint and the unworthy.(Isaiah 40:29 "He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.")
When God, is faithful in small things, He expects us also to be faithful in small things. Just like to put down few verses and let God talk with our hearts.

Songs of Solomon2:15 Seize ye for us foxes, **Little foxes**--destroyers of vineyards, Even our sweet-smelling vineyards.
Zechariah 4:10 For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things?

Here the word of God is reffering to stopped work of the Temple of God. The people gave less importance to God's House. This is just another small thing you may say. In the New Testamant, this House of God is you and I, the Temple of God. Haggai describes the heart of God when we care less about the House of God.

Haggai 1:1-11
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.
3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
9 Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

Let us be faithful in small things, which is possible by Christ. I can do all things with Christ that strengthens me. Glory be to God alone.

Strength of God

Isaiah 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

People are searching for God. They are searching for someone who is greater than temselves, their problems, their difficulties and their sin. They want solace, shelter and a firm ground to stand on (ie someone who never changes). As the Psalmist says in Psalms 61: 2 "From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I (lead me to a rock that is too high for me - JPS Bible)."
And sadly or rather fortunately, all their attempts to got to God is going vain, they become faint in their search, weary with their their works and eventually fall in this widerness, where the vultures of the sky behold very act of faintness, and devour them.

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

We then do we have the confidence to stand, and not only stand but to fly and run. This is because the Lord, God of all the earth (ADONI) has has sent His Son. His Son has bought was if a price. Not 1 hour, not 2 hours, not 5 hours, not 24 hours, but for 72 hours God the creator of Hell and Heaven had to bear the sight of The Holy One going through the fire that never quenchs. The Son of God took the worst punshment that the whole of earth could give to a sinner, though he was without sin. Glory to God. The One who knew no sin, was made sin. It is like saying, the one who knew not the smell of a rotten dead rat, was the very stink of the rotten dead rat, such that man may dispise. Yes, with the very blood of Christ that fell from the cross, gave me a badge, rather made me a badge which had nothing more than the filling and covering of the Blood of Christ. When with this badge when I enter God's throne, dare the gaurds take me away from the courts of the King. When I recognize the fact that I am nothing and can do nothing (no works of righteousness, no thoughts of holyness, no words of peace), yes, it here that the Lord, God of Hosts (God of the Heavenly Army) renews my strength, gives me wings of faith, to fly. Gives me the grace to run and not go weary, and the peace of the most high to walk and not faint. Yes, this is what Isaish was talking about, (Isaiah 40:29) "He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."

Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things

Glory be to God !!! What can I say, but thank my Lord Jesus for dying for me. He paid the ultimate price for my soul. Behold, and rejoice for we are our masters'. I inquired my Lord, of my dirty state. Great is the Lord, who stays close to those who have hope in His mercies. Great is my God.

I just want to say few words about His glorious acts. O let His glory and power be revealed.

Luke 10:38-42

38 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.

40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.

41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:

42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

How many times, how many times do we go astray with the cares and duties the Lord has given unto us? And then end troubled with “many things”. “But there is need of only one” (LITV), and that is Christ. Yes, Mary had taken the right choice, to sit at the feet of the master. To partake of Christ and to partake with Christ is what we as His called should hunger and thirst for.

Look at the promise that Christ gives, “which (Christ) shall not be taken away from her”

Blessed are those how chose Christ as their Lord, rather blessed are those who the Lord has chose. He is in a business to make a new generation, a group of Levites how loves the Lord with all their heart.