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The picture to the left is a link to the album "THE EMANCIPATED". We have chosen to use this song as the theme song for our ministry. Many thanks go out to the wonderful folks at Island Evangelical Community Church in Hong Kong for letting us utilize this wonderful song. The composers of this song were Jeff and Leora Caylor who are the worship leaders for Island ECC. If you would like to learn more about their ministry, their website address is http://www.islandecc.hk/ . Also, click on the above left picture to be directed to the full album "The Emancipated" on Itunes. You can also follow the link below.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-emancipated/id370770642 WALK INTO THE NEED
The electronic door at the supermarket does not open when you stand in the parking lot and command it to be opened. It only opens as you come right up to it. I believe that the Red Sea only opened up for Moses and Israel as they began to step down into the water. I believe that it wasn't until they went forward that the sea began to open. I don't know why but many times, God just does things that way. He allows us to come to the edge of a need before meeting it. That is just His way. I heard a minister once say "God is slow but He's always on time". HE IS ALWAYS ON TIME! Whatever your need is today, don't shrink back in unbelief. Walk up to your need in faith believing that God will open the door for you as you step into it. If we shrink back the door may never open. JUST WALK THROUGH! |
I will arise and go to my Father,and will say unto him. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. Luke 15:18
If you've been in christian circles for very long, you've probably heard the story of " The Prodigal Son " He takes early withdrawal on his inheritance, jets out on his own and ends up wasting all he has on a loose lifestyle. He ends up eating with pigs and feeling like a total loser. He realizes that even his fathers servants are eating better than him, so he decides to go back and ask for sympathy from his father. Who knows, he thinks, "Maybe Dad will put me to work and feed me. It'll sure beat this slop." You know the rest of the story........... The son comes home, Dad runs as fast as he can to meet him, cleans him up, gives him a ring, robe and a new pair of shoes, fires up the grill and says " Let's have a party". Have you ever felt like the prodigal? Can you identify with him? We've all been him at one time or another. We've all eaten our slop. We've all wasted the things God has so graciously given us. And yet, if we are truly His children, we are still at the very center of His heart. Yes , He hates our sin, but when we return to Him, it's as though we never left His side. Maybe your saying to the Lord "just make me a lowly servant". Boy, have I got news for you . Galatians 4:7 declares " You are no longer a servant, but a son. " Repeat that over and over again until you grab hold of it. God doesn't want us relating to Him as a servant. Serving is a wonderful thing. Jesus said that the greatest would have to be a servant of all. If we want to be anything for the Kingdom of God we must learn to serve. But let us see ourselves as a child who is doing his fathers bidding, not an employee following his boss's orders. Let this sink into your heart: " GOD DOESN'T WANT SERVANTS, HE WANTS SONS ". He doesn't need servants. He has plenty of angels to do the serving. When He calls you to serve, just see it as another way to love Him. He delights in that. If your a prodigal, come on home. Dad's waiting for you on the front porch and if he sees you he's gonna' come running. If you see yourself as a servant, He saying to you " Yes, I am THE BOSS. But I'm YOUR Father ". |
CRYING TETELESTAI !!
I do not have any tattoos. I have always felt that they were too permanent for me. If I were to get a tattoo though, a perfect one to have would be the word TETELESTAI placed somewhere on my arm where I could always see it. Do you know what the word Tetelestai means? It is the Greek word for IT IS FINISHED. We find in the Gospel of John 19:30, Jesus crying out right before He gave up the ghost, IT IS FINISHED or Tetelestai. Now let’s ask the question, what was finished? If you are a believer in Him you would probably reply “Well, He took all of my sins” and you would be correct in your assumption. Is that all though? Did he take more than just sins? What else was placed upon Him at the cross? Many years ago, while working as a delivery driver for a fiberglass company, I sat in a rest area outside of Cleveland Tennessee on Interstate I-75 in the pouring rain crying out to God concerning the state of my heart. I was a born again man but deeply troubled and certainly not free. I was a saved believer, a child of God but I also believed that God still saw me as a sinner every time that I had done wrong. I would feel good about myself when I did good and I would feel bad about myself when I did bad. I was a sinner one day, a saint the next. I was on a religious teeter-totter and did not know how to get off. I did not understand grace. I did not understand that Jesus imparts His righteousness apart from my human effort. I had not cried out from my heart, TETELESTAI. As I sat at that rest area in East Tennessee, weary from failing and human effort, I heard the Lord say to me “At the cross, I became more than just your sin, I became your hang-ups, anxieties, failures and fears. I became it all”. I had never heard this truth communicated from another man’s lips. God had spoken that word to me. Jesus had become it all and not just sins. A layer of freedom opened up to me that day and I have walked in the beauty of that truth ever since. The gospel was no longer just the good news, it was the great news. Dear child of God do you cry out "oh my sins, oh my fears, oh my hang-ups and anxieties, oh my sicknesses and failures" or do you cry out TELESTAI? Did Jesus really finish the work at Calvary? Do you really believe that? Jesus became you and I COMPLETELY at the cross. He has truly set us free from ourselves and if you will believe that today, a sense of freedom will begin to permeate your soul. He wants us to agree with His Tetelestai. Have you ever done that? I encourage you today to find a place where you can cry out to Him. Scream it out loud to the top of your lungs if you have to so that you can hear these word yourself but with all of your heart cry TETELESTAI !! |
THE GREAT EXCHANGEMany years ago, the Lord spoke to me that during Jesus death on the cross, whatever was true of me became true of Jesus and whatever was true of Jesus became true of me. Jesus literally exchanged my life for His!!! This revelation changed my life. Check out this 6 minute clip below from Joseph Prince. He illustrates this truth powerfully in an animation that he presents. Truly, ALL THAT WAS TRUE OF ME HAS BECOME TRUE OF CHRIST AND ALL THAT IS TRUE OF CHRIST HAS BECOME TRUE OF ME!!! Be blessed.
THE GIANT ZIP FILE
When Jesus cried from the cross Tetelestai (IT IS FINISHED!), what did He really mean? How much of the finished work is finished? Listen folks , all of the curse that fell upon Adam and his descendants fell upon Christ and he became all of this curse. For those of you who understand computer language, imagine that God somehow created this gigantic zip file and filled it with the sin of everyone who has ever lived. In addition to this, He placed all of the curse that was legally due to all men inside this document. After creating the file, He zipped it all up and downloaded it into one man, the man Christ Jesus. God then judged that man as though He was responsible for everyone that ever lived. This man paid for it all. This is His payment. THIS IS THE FINISHED WORK OF THE CROSS. RIGHT BELIEVING PRODUCES RIGHT LIVING !
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