MODEL OUR LIVES IN HIM

Who do you most admire? People with power, influence, fame or wealth? Who is most influential in your life? And who do you most want to be like? We naturally look up to other people we want to imitate or emulate. If we truly want to live as God's sons and daughters, then it greatly helps us to have models and examples of godly people who show us how to live in the power of God's love and holiness. His grace frees us from the tyranny of fear and the pressure to please others rather than to please Him.

Allow God's grace to fill you with faith and courage to choose what is good and pleasing to Him and to reject whatever would keep you from embracing His love and will for your daily life?

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - FAITH

"I would rather live my life
as if there is a God, and die to find there isn't,
than live my life as if there isn't,
and die to find out there is."

Bishop T. D. Jakes

KEEP OUR FAITH AND TRUST IN HIM

At the prayer group's gathering last night, we discussed about keeping our faith and trust in the Lord. The very problem with us is that we really do not trust what He promises He will do in the Holy Scriptures. The object of our faith is our Lord Himself, and if we fully understand who He is, that He is not only holy and righteous, but loving, forgiving, all-wise, all-knowing and full of mercy--we should have no problem trusting Him. His love is unconditional. Can we think of anything more wonderful that could happen to us than to trust our lives completely to Him?

INSPIRATION - THREE THINGS THAT LAST

"Though sun and moon may pass away,
His words will ever stay!"

What are the things that last which could have real meaning in our lives? If we speak with human tongues and angelic as well, but do not have love, we are a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal. If we have the gift of prophecy and, with full knowledge, comprehend all mysteries, if we have faith great enough to move mountains but have not love, we are nothing. If we give everything we have to feed the poor and hand over our bodies to be burned, but have not love, we gain nothing.

Prophecies will cease, tongues will be silent, knowledge will pass away, and everything will come to an end. Our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecying is imperfect. When the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.

Now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Our knowledge is imperfect now, then we shall know even as we are known. There in the end three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love because it never fails.

Inspiration
St. Paul - 1 Cor 13:1-3, 8-13