Scriptures to Remember

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,

A broken and a contrite heart—

These, O God, You will not despise.  

Mazmur 51:17 

Korban sembelihan kepada Allah ialah jiwa yang hancur; hati yang patah dan remuk tidak akan Kaupandang hina, ya Allah.

Jeremiah 9:23-24

²³ Thus says the Lord:

“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
Let not the mighty man glory in his might,
Nor let the rich man glory in his riches;
²⁴ But let him who glories glory in this,
That he understands and knows Me,
That I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these I delight,” says the Lord. 
Yeremia 9:23-24 
Beginilah firman TUHAN: "Janganlah orang bijaksana bermegah karena kebijaksanaannya, janganlah orang kuat bermegah karena kekuatannya, janganlah orang kaya bermegah karena kekayaannya, tetapi siapa yang mau bermegah, baiklah bermegah karena yang berikut: bahwa ia memahami dan mengenal Aku, bahwa Akulah TUHAN yang menunjukkan kasih setia, keadilan dan kebenaran di bumi; sungguh, semuanya itu Kusukai, demikianlah firman TUHAN."

 

6 deeper life things to say or do

Taken from M.Robert Mulholland Jr- The Deeper Journey

1. Centre yourself in God's presence. Acknowledge God as the context of your very being and the content of your living.

Reflect on what we are to do today, who we are to meet, what we will be saying and put God's presence in there. God with us in there.

2. Pray "Stir up in me the desire to be all yours in all things today"

3. "Free me from care for myself" There may be something that we love more than God. Ask God to free us from it. If we are about to do or think something that puts God second, tell yourself to stop and ask God to remind us that He has freed us.

4. Abandon yourself to God. "Lord help us to have You as the sole content of our lives today"

5. Spend time on the Word. Read and meditate. Let His words sink in.

6. Spend time in silence with God. God can be found in the inner silence. God is our true life. We are hid in Him.

No one is ever united in Christ until he is willing to relinquish not only sin but his whole way of looking at things- Oswald Chambers

Being of Use

Being of Use

...that if One died for all, then all died. 

And He died for all that those who live should live no longer for themselves but for Him who died for them and rose again

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.old things have passed away behold all things have become anew.

2 Corinthians 5:10, 15,17

The Lord has already put to death the false self ( the self that makes itself god). Our role is to appropriate this fact by mind and by action. How? Turn/change/ reorient our minds our whole self and being to lose our self to Christ. Radical abandonment of self reference to God reference. Deny yourself, take up your cross.

We were made to be in union with Christ. Yeshua prayed for this union. (John 17:21 & 23- that they all may be one as you Father are in me and I in you that they may also be one in Us. I in them and you in me that they may be made perfect in one). The life in union is true life. Yeshua came in human form to show us how a human should be. The false self has uprooted this union and rooted itself in other things that draw us away from the Father. These could be our titles, our possessions, our status, our performances, our intellect, our ethnicity, our wealth. Detach ourselves from these. They are crucified with Him. We need a whole new way of thinking of acting. Acknowledge that our life is hidden with Christ. We are hiding in Him. Do all our everyday things for Him. No need to ask how we may be of use. We are to radically abandon to Him, the fruit of which is availability for service to other. He will use us. We need to only abandon all.