Where Strength And Joy Are Found by Joel Osteen

Today’s Verse: “Honor and majesty are [found] in His presence; strength and joy are [found] in His sanctuary” (I Chronicles 16:27, AMP).

Today’s Word:

Do you need more strength and joy in your life? The Bible tells us that in God’s presence there is fullness of joy—the most abundant and complete! And when you have His joy, you have His supernatural strength. There’s nothing that can come against you when you are filled with the strength and joy of the Lord.

Notice this verse says that strength and joy are found in His sanctuary. One translation says they are found “where He is.” And do you know “where He is?” His Spirit is alive in every believer, but in His Word He promises that He inhabits, or manifests, in the praises of His people. That means when you begin to praise and worship God, either corporately in a church setting or privately in your personal time, God is there. You are His sanctuary.

Anytime you feel depleted or overwhelmed by life, just begin to sing a song of praise to Him. Declare His goodness and faithfulness. Draw near to Him, and He will draw near to you. He’ll fill you with His joy and strength to live in victory all the days of your life!

Prayer for Today: Heavenly Father, I bless You today. I thank You for Your goodness in my life. Thank You for filling me with Your strength and joy as I praise and worship You this day. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

All That Jesus Is Before God, You Are

All That Jesus Is Before God, You Are

2 Corinthians 5:21
21For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

When an Israelite brings an animal as his sin offering, he lays his hand on it before killing it. (Leviticus 4:1–4) By laying his hand on the sin offering, his sins are transferred to the innocent animal. The animal dies for his sins and he goes free.

In contrast, during the burnt offering, when the Israelite lays his hand on the animal (Leviticus 1:3–4), the beauty, worthiness and acceptance of the unblemished animal are transferred to him. God accepts the perfection of the animal sacrifice on his behalf to make atonement for him. Because God accepts the unblemished burnt offering, the offerer now has right standing before God.

Do you know that the two offerings speak of Jesus’ one offering of Himself when He hung on the cross? He is both our sin offering and burnt offering — “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us [as our sin offering], that we might become the righteousness of God in Him [as our burnt offering]”. The moment you put your faith in Him, just by His one sacrifice, your sins were transferred to Him, and His righteousness was transferred to you. That is the grace of God toward you!

As our sin offering, He offered Himself once and for all. (Romans 6:10) The sin offering was never a daily offering because God does not want His people to be sin-conscious. However, the burnt offering was both a morning and evening sacrifice (2 Chronicles 13:11) because God wants His people to be righteousness-conscious.

Beloved, God wants you to lay claim daily to Jesus as your burnt offering and say, “Father, I thank You that Jesus is my burnt offering. All that Jesus is before You — His righteousness, excellence, beauty and perfection — has been transferred to me. Jesus has Your unclouded favor, so I enjoy Your unclouded favor in my life. Jesus is the righteousness of God, so I am the righteousness of God in Christ. As He is before You, so am I.”

Because Jesus became your burnt offering, what He is to the Father today, you are! That is what it means to be in Christ.




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Little Child...Smile:)

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Why Are You Still Struggling With Who You Are?

We all fail. Even while we are sleeping
....and the next breath that
we are about to take in reminds us that life is full of nuisances,
incapabalities,boredom and mistakes..

It just easy to tell ourselves that we can be perfect.
But we cannot. In this mad-fallen world, we will never be perfect.

Traffic jams...bitchy colleagues...irritable people...bad news...
broken marriages...stingy boss..broken hearts....cheaters...tempers..etc.

Those are packaged in this world.

So don't worry..Like you...I am as imperfect as you could imagined me to be.

God understands that. He knows!

That's why He sent Jesus to die on the cross so we could all be
saved from all these "imperfections"..

Your job is just to believe and that's it!


My Daily Verse
“The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.” (Hebrews 1:3)

My "imaginary" friend

Someone just commented in one of my threads here and he said Jesus is my imaginary friend.
I asked Jesus if He really is my imaginary friend and He said "for now, that's ok. But wait till I come, "




I said,
"Ok Lord.. I believe you now. Because you said so in the Bible. Those people who don't believe you don't have their own bible...a real thick Bible. Lolx!"

Jesus,"you will be mocked in my name. People will call you names but be still. I won't let you down. "

I said, "Amen Lord, Yes, I wont spend a time gettin mad with them. No use right. Because they are godless. And if they godless, they have no one to protect over them, guide them with wisdom so they wont fall unto this world and spend the rest of their lives hating and they got no one to teach them how to cope up with a broken heart..only themselves .Aww! "

Jesus, "you can just pray for them instead...."


I said, "yes... I keep praying for them. Because I know, you value their soul so much. "






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Good morning !

Good morning everyone!
TGIF!
Be blessed and
Enjoy your weekend!!:)





Took this shot from our new block.

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God Is Your Strength by Joseph Prince

God Is Your Strength

Ephesians 6:10
10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
When you say, “I can manage this problem by myself, Lord,” God says, “Okay, you do it then.” But when you say, “Help me, Lord! I need You. I cannot do this on my own,” God says, “Good, I have been waiting for you to say that. You cannot, but I can. Now, watch Me!” That is how God is — He loves it when you depend on Him.
You see, when you think that you are strong and don’t need God, He cannot help you. But when you need Him and look to Him, He will not leave you weak and helpless. He comes and becomes the strength of your life. He becomes the breakthrough that you need.
A church member with a smoking habit came to me one day and said, “Pastor Prince, please pray that God will help me. I want to stop my smoking habit.”
I told him simply, “You cannot, but God can.”
He replied, “Yes, I know that I can’t. But with God’s help, I will discipline myself and try my best to quit the habit.”
I told him, “No, you cannot, but God can.” I repeated this to him a few times until he realized that it was not his self-discipline or willpower that would help him overcome his smoking habit, but the power of God. He finally understood that true deliverance from this destructive habit would not come by his own strength, but by “[being] strong in the Lord and in the power of His might”.
When I saw him again a few weeks later, he said, “Pastor Prince, since that day, I didn’t even try to stop myself from smoking. But each time I lit up, I told God, ‘I cannot, but You can.’ Then one day, the craving was gone! Jesus has completely delivered me from my bondage to nicotine!” This man experienced true deliverance, not just an outward form of discipline and willpower.
So when you say, “I can do something about it,” you are still relying on your human strength. But when you say to God, “I cannot, but You can,” you have just tapped into the real source of your strength — Jesus. And as you rest in His strength, you will see His power manifesting in your life!


© Copyright Joseph Prince, 2006. All rights reserved.
No part of this document or any related files may be modified, adapted, reproduced, distributed
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without express written consent of the copyright holder.
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Copyright © 2006–2010 New Creation Church