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Edwin Elisha James is an Evangelist whose commitment to preach wherever the Lord leads him has fructified in bringing hundreds of souls to the Lord - a dream and a desire that he has harboured for the longest time!

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

God the Father - 4

God is omnipresent (is everywhere):

Psalms 139:23-24 

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Hebrews 4:13 

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Acts 17:28-29 

28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

29 “Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man's design and skill.

Jeremiah 16:17  

My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes.

God is omnipotent (has all power):

Genesis 1:3 

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Genesis 1:11 

Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.

Psalms 33:8-9 

8 Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him.

9 For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.

Jeremiah 32:17 

“Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.

Matthew 19:26 

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Revelation 11:17 

saying: “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.


Monday, December 29, 2014

What the Bible says about Old Age - 1

What the Bible says about Old Age - 1

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 

1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”—

2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;

3 when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim;

4 when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when men rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;

5 when men are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags himself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then man goes to his eternal home and mourners go about the streets.

6 Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the wheel broken at the well,

7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Job 11:17 

Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.

Titus 2:3 

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.

Ruth 4:15 He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

Proverbs 17:6 

Children's children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.

Psalms 148:12 

Young men and maidens, old men and children.

Deuteronomy 33:25 

The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will equal your days.

The book of MATTHEW -2

What we can learn from the book of Matthew from its 28 chapters?

6

Giving 

Prayer

Worshiping God by going without eating

Treasures in Heaven

Light

Money

Worry

7

Judging others

Ask, search, and knock

The narrow gate

A tree and its fruit

A warning 

Two builders

8

Jesus heals many and works miracles:

Jesus heals a man

Jesus heals an army officer’s servant

Jesus heals many people

Some who wanted to go with Jesus

A storm

Two men with demons in them

9

Jesus heals a crippled man

Jesus chooses Matthew

People ask about going without eating

A dying girl and a sick woman

Jesus heals two blind men

Jesus heals a man who going to talk

Jesus has pity on people


Sunday, December 28, 2014

The book of MATTHEW -1

What we can learn from the book of Matthew from its 28 chapters?

1

Where Jesus came from:

The ancestors of Jesus

The birth of Jesus

2

The wise men

The escape to Egypt

The killing of the children

The return from Egypt

3

Preparing the way for Jesus:

The preaching of John the Baptist

The baptism of Jesus

4

Jesus and the Devil

Jesus begins His work

Jesus chooses four fishermen

Jesus teaches, preaches and heals

5

Jesus teaches the crowds from a mountain:

The sermon of the mount

Blessings

Salt and light

The law of Moses

Anger

Marriage

Divorce

Promises

Revenge

Love

God the Father - 3

God is omniscient (knows everything):

Psalms 139:2-4 

2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

1 Chronicles 28:9 

“And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.

Matthew 10:29-30 

29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. 

30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Romans 11:33-36 

33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!

34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

35 “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?”

36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.

God is omnipresent (is everywhere):

Jeremiah 23:23-24 

23 “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away?

24 Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the LORD.

Psalms 139:8-12 

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.


Saturday, December 27, 2014

The Holy Spirit in the Bible

Ephesians 1:17-20 

17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 

18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 

19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, 

20 which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,

Ephesians 3:14-19 

14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 

15 from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 

16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 

17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 

18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 

19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

1 John 2:20 

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

1 John 2:27 

As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.

1 John 4:1-3 

1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 

2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 

3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

1 John 5:6-12 

6 This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 

7 For there are three that testify: 

8 the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 

9 We accept man's testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 

10 Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 

11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 

12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.


The book of PSALMS - 10

One hundred fifty messages from the book of Psalms.

136

God’s love never fails

137

A prayer for revenge

138

Praise the LORD with all your heart

139

The LORD is always near

140

A prayer for the LORD’s help

141

A prayer for the LORD’s protection

142

A prayer for help

143

A prayer in time of danger

144

A prayer for the nations

145

The LORD is kind and merciful

146

Shout praises to the LORD

147

Sing and praise the LORD

148

Come praise the LORD

149

A new song of praise

150

The LORD is good to His people

Complete Self-sacrifice

Hebrews 13:15-16 

15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name. 

16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Hebrews 3:6 

But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.

2 Corinthians 6:16 

What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

1 Corinthians 6:19 

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

1 Corinthians 3:16 

Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?

Romans 12:1 

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.

Malachi 1:11 

My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD Almighty.

Isaiah 66:21 

And I will select some of them also to be priests and Levites,” says the LORD.

Revelation 3:12 

Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name.

1 Peter 4:11 

If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.