Faith

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Every battle brings its own glory and a lesson. Without falling, there is no rising and our life will not have any meaning with out these. Two things are more important than anything else in life - faithfulness to God and LOVE and kindness to others.

These two are the two basic components of all laws of the lord - to be completely faithful to God, to be a man after his heart. We need to respect and fear him even when things look silly and not real. We need to be faithful in almost every area of our life. We need to be faithful in marriage, faithful in our responsibilities, faithful in our job, faithful in our tight, faithful in our worship, faithful in our fasting and prayer, faithful in our thoughts and faithful in our heart.

All because you want to fear and respect him no matter what.
Not because you fear not to get fired, or not to be humiliated by others. Jesus teaches why we need to fear only God and not others by saying,

"I will show you who you need to fear, not those who can only hurt your body, but the one who puts you in fire after he kills."

In some other place Jesus also teaches the importance of our faithfulness to God by saying,

"You faithful servant you have kept yourself faithful with the things that looks little in mans sight, But I will make you rule over big things."

The only thing God sees from us and rewards is our faithful service to him. After that he multiples the LOVE we have one another. I believe the precedence of these two major laws of God matters here. First come to faithfully obey God and his laws, then comes to LOVE one another.


This is the whole idea of who we are and how things are meant to be. No body can change this fact. This is the very reason we are created. This is why angels fall. This is the reason why family broke. Why most of us struggle through bad financial, mental, health conditions.

It is not just because we dont understand the importance of these. But we dont understand the consequences of unfaithfulness to God. We have no idea how to fight it. Faithfulness is an act of wisdom to establish and maintain a committed relationship with God. What makes it hard is it is an eternal commandment as we are eternal.
We need to be consistent - not even 100 years is not enough.

Any form of unfaithfulness act in between will cause a lot of grief like Abraham or David. What Abraham did with his servant Hagar is not faithfulness or what David did with Uriahs wife. They both face a bad consequence.

Most of us spent a lot of time trying to put the affairs of others first by showing LOVE. And we think that is all the lord expected from us. But God is putting a challenge that there is still another way to serve him. And that is through faithfulness to him. Faithfulness goes beyond logic and beyond the LOVE we have for others. You cannot completely obey God by being logical or only loving others. Does this mean faithfulness is better than LOVE? Well, even if it is less, it is still important.

I can assure you that you wouldnt eat from the blessing God has prepared unless you are faithful to him.

The idea of LOVE is introduced because people understand LOVE better than faith. In fact many are faithless and dont know what to believe any more. I believe that is why God put LOVE first above everything else. By expressing it through Christ and that is why it is the main instrument to judge the world latter on. Does it mean LOVE without faith is love at all? No, LOVE has to be build on top of faith.

LOVE has to be made considering faith. With out believing something, there is no need to LOVE it. Faithfulness comes also after a matured state of LOVE. Who do we believe? It is what we LOVE most. Therefore let us pray to God so that he teaches us LOVE from faith. And he teaches us faithfulness from LOVE.

I believe this is what is called wisdom. May we are given the fear of the lord [FAITHFULNESSNESS]. May we shall be given the heart of a child [LOVE]. We should pray by asking God to give us the heart of a child so that we may see his face and we may inherit his kingdom. And also to teach us the fear of the lord so that we shall inherit the earth.


The definition of LOVE for God is to LOVE God with all your heart, mind, and Saul, and this is nothing but to be faithful to him.


We have to know our major enemies. It is not the devil or something else. It is ignorance on three main categories: fear, disappointment and anger. Do not entertain these three in your life. The fear of what am I going to do, the fear of the pressure from others, and the fear of ignorance, and the fear of man. We need to stand firmly on the promises of God by faith.

When we are disappointed after a great effort to do something, Hope is the cure for that. Therefore: When we feel anger, LOVE come to the rescue. When we feel fear, have faith. When we feel disappointed, get hope and wait for the lord. When we feel anger, get LOVE.

I believe there is faithfulness in doing these and these are the way to express our love and faithfulness to the lord.

Everything that is written in the bible, every prophesy and all scriptures teaches about faithfulness.

If we see a huge accumulation of treasure, say a room full of treasure, we may think it is awesome. But when God see that, it is nothing but a bunch of worms and full of crap. But when he turns a little far from it, he founds so little thing that no body saw it before. No body can even knows it was there. Something for him it is more than gold and silver that he calls it his treasure.

Then he will make it the decorator of his kingdom with his delight. He will make it greater than of all things on earth since he has found faithful in it. But as for that mountain of wickedness, that evil in Gods sight that look like a huge treasure in the eyes of men, as for that he couldnt wait till he washed it away with flood gnashing from ocean.

As for that rubbish thing in his eye, he couldnt wait as fire comes from the heavens and swallow it alive. As for that he couldnt wait till his anger consumes it with rage. God said, "Where can I find such valuable things? Where can I hide them till I come again and take them with me?"

He said, "I know where to keep them. I will hide them from the madness of this earth. I will lead them out of the valley of darkness."

The idea of LOVE between a man and woman is faithfulness. It is not LOVE if there is no faithfulness between them. It is all to represent the LOVE of Christ to us. But yet how can the evil deceit Eve and then Adam.

I think pleasure as in sex has come to play for Adam listening to Eve and not God. I think the idea of power has come to play for Evil to deceive Eve since she wants to know something more powerful than her, something beyond her God given imagination.

Something only God think and decide. Even the punishment goes with it make her a little less that she was originally. That she will be always under the control and supervision of the man. And the man cursed by God that he will eat his lunch with pain and dinner in agony because of too much labor and hard work.

Faithfulness is not to be smart and do what you think is right. Faithfulness is to wait for the lord and to listen what God said all the time. Does she want the power that is taken from her back? I believe so. As man want to live in a non-troublesome and non-tiresome world
where he want to get realief from a world in which he toils and toils and doesnt get as much as he should get.

But yet there is still hope even in this world. Jesus has been sent to us to free us from our bondage. He is sent to bring a blessing instead of the curse that is already on us. But we must be all obedient children of God. Not one driven with passion with out wisdom. But yet how can the abused live a life of freedom. Abuse is one thing that has got to do with power. It is an act of selfishness and not LOVE.

Revenge is some thing inevitable for the abused by God even if it is a life time task - To meet power with power, punishment for the wicked. But it is not with the hand of man but with God. Now the evil presented false power before the real true power comes.

That is the trick he used all the time to steal us the real blessings that comes from the lord. The evil present its own things when true things are on the way to come. The evil presented false blessings when true blessings are about to come. The evil brought you a false husband/wife when true husband/wife is already coming to us.

We shouldnt do the right thing at the wrong time. So the wisdom to differentiate if it is the right thing to do it is to ask the question:
"It is the right time to do it?" Because God has made everything beautiful in its time, and there is time for everything.

So watch out for the time and wait faithfully the true visitation of the lord. Just know the truth and truth shall set you free. What a short but powerful statement from the word of God. May be probable the most important.

Why we need to be faithful? How we can be faithful? How we shall seek life and not death? Why we shall know the truth? Why we shall forsake our own foolish ways and gain some wisdom? How to break the kingdom of darkness? All this are raveled to us by the Holy Spirit if we ask for the truth and nothing but the truth.

Passion with no wisdom in it, it will bring a great destruction. I saw passion and wisdom and power but there was not the fear of God in it. So there it was a great destruction to those people who want to build a great building for their name.

I saw evil getting the opportunity to use the passion of someone else and change it in to great destruction. That was again because there was no love in it and it was all about selfishness. I saw LOVE in all its fullness and there was no the fear of God in it and it bring a lot of grief to the person. I saw passion to live a meaningful life by serving other for the benefit of others and thereby serving God and bring personal satisfaction by doing purpose. But that was also was considered foolish because there was no the fear of the lord in it.

But then I saw a someone grown with everything the lord wants him to do: LOVE, faith, hope but also grow with him a long bush that is waiting to hide him not to be seen when the right time comes for him to be seen and to bring glory to God.

This bush was there from the beginning even though the man has not noticed it. It was something that must be eradicated long time ago. But the man has not removed it and it grows with him. It was the bush that the man always used to express anger, disappointment, hopelessness, disbelief, distress, discomfort and anxiety.

Everything the boy goes in to trouble, it will go in to this bush and do what ever necessary and express his feelings. May be that is all it is: a platform for expression of feelings.

The boy liked it until one day, one day that he became a man. That is until he had to live a grown up life. He had to get rid of all childish things and move on as a grown-ups do to make very difficult decisions and follow them. This is until he missed some of the opportunities that come as a package for a grown man.

As he was lifting his hand expecting to receive it, it was given ot someone else who is old enough to take huge responsibility and since the boy was not in that category at all. Believe me the package that he missed was not just an ordinary package. It was one of those real blessings from the lord and how intoxicating it is for him. Dont go to such kind of bush again, please!

When people curse and despise you and humiliate you, it is good to remember that they did the same to the lord. You are not better that the son of God. If they can say and do such evil things to him, how much more they can do to you? Stay away from people like that.

Some people come to test you. Some are to hammer you. Some are to refine you. So dont withhold yourself from all people. But some come to destroy you. When a program is written some other program is also written that look like the first one. But the purpose of the second program is to make sure the first one does what is was suppose to do. We call such programs a test program.

So are some people to the others. There main job is to make sure others do what they were suppose to do. I am not talking about managers or CEOs. Managers do not care about your Gods given purpose. I am talking about other people who came across just by chance.

Saul was a test for David. If Saul was not there in the bible, so will not David and his poems. At least David will not write those beautiful songs to the lord if he hadnt passed through those issues in life.

Also when people fall out of the God given purpose, they will be a test for Gods servant. Even evil exist to proof that light exist. I believe God mad light first. I believe there was only good at the beginning
I believe God dont take delight in seeing evil in this world. But how can one know the good with out knowing evil? I believe God doesnt create evil but whenever there is light there will be darkness too.

This idea was proposed to Eve by the Devil through the serpent.
So then she asks God boldly with out any fear in her heart that she want to see the evil also. She knows how to ask. She would have asked him face to face. But she knows other ways to do it and she knew it was not the right thing to do.

If she want to do it in the right way, she would have asked God for another kind of revelation - To know not only good but also evil. But she does it with disobedience. I believe this why we must complete our life with obedience. She broke the agreement that her family has made with God. She becomes unfaithful.

This is not to condemn her at all as she was not the original creator of this idea but the devil is. God become angry as he was betrayed. He said, "Get the out of my kingdom and, get out of my presence and my face."


But he hasnt said with the intention that he has made an eternal enmity between him and us as he does with his kingdom and the devils kingdom. For that he promised Adam and Eve that he will send his son, Jesus Christ, in the fullness of time to restore the relationships he had with them in Eden.

That is why you should never trust any source. Never hate anyone for any reason. People say something that is not there original idea. There was a famous quote, "I do trust you, and it is the devil inside you I dont trust."

Sometimes I believe as Devil is the real enemy of God, why God want to destroy some wicked people with him also. But still I am the pot and I have no right to ask such questions to the potter. I am the created and he is the creator. My life is like a wind that blows away in a second. But thousand years in Gods sight is like a dream gone by fast.

But yet I still wonder why we have to fight with evil all the days of our life. Why our live is created to suffer and to suffer more. In this very short days of our lives where most of our lives are spent living as a child, foolish as a child, Not able to differentiate the good from the bad.

But you dont take back what hearts you most with an embrace.
That is the real problem of Christianity today. Not be able to understand what the story about the vagabond/disobedient child.

I mean the whole idea of the new Christianity was made on that chapter. That God is merciful and he is abundant in grace. He will forgive what ever sin we have. We shall always come to him. Now this makes us addicted to sin. But we were supposed to understand the last line of the paragraph. That Jesus told the prostitute women that not to sin again. And also as of the disobedient child to create a heart so humble that he thought to him self:

"I dont deserve anything any more. I have wasted my life. I have spent my grace with sinners and by doing evil. I dont deserve to be called a son any more. My strength has gone working to make someone rich. Starvation is going to kill me in this place. The evilness of this place is huge and I cannot take it any more. My whole dignity as a human being is gone. Everyone is considering me like some other creature. But I will turn to my father. He is rich and kind, I know that for sure."

Then the father saw his son coming to him giving up all his own way of thinking turning to him with all his heart, he embrace him and kiss him and welcome him in to his presence. With disobedience and selfishness that is what he said before he leaves his father; give me my share.

Also the book of Joel teaches about turning to God with all our heart. With out that there is no forgiveness and we are simply wasting our time. May be we got a little bit grace.

There is measure for forgiveness as there is for LOVE. Sometime we receive forgiveness just to come out and go back safe to our home. Sometimes it is for more time like a month. And we know it too. When that duration expires, we sin again.

How to get forgiveness for life? Some is for life time but not eternal. This is like God will feed you, bless you and LOVE you but until you die. After you die, there is no remembrance to your name. This is cool teaching about why LOVE is more than anything in life.

Think of for your self, would you marry what you dont LOVE?
If you do, you never heard of the kind of LOVE that is in the scriptures that is Gods Love - a true love and faithful one. That is why God doesnt welcome anyone to his kingdom that has no love for him and his son. That is because they never believed what God has done for them through Christ Jesus.

We hate addiction in general. It is like some external force governing our life. It was the one who created me should control me and no one else. Addiction is like a hooker in the mouth. Like a fish is captured in bait or a bird in a cage. What so ever thing we do, we are just circling around that same orbit. We are addicted to sin because we relentlessly depend on the grace of God.

Now we have come in to a position we cannot control that. We cant control our selves any more. What needs to be controlled first and most importantly is not your clothing habit or your eating habit and your talking habit.
You need to control those habit you and God know that you know it is not good. Devil may even try to convince you that it is ok to do it.

I know the poor who cannot afford to eat good, quality food will make it to heaven. But I dont know some immoral people would. So fight immorality in general. Praise God

You need to control those habit you and God know that you know it is not good. Devil may even try to convince you that it is ok to do it.
I know the poor who cannot afford to eat good, quality food will make it to heaven. But I dont know some immoral people would. So fight immorality in general. Immorality is the source of all addiction.
Immorality is the source of all addiction.

And control your feelings. You cannot do righteousness with your feelings. But we can achieve that through endurance in faith and hope, through LOVE for one another and faithfulness to the Lord.

Dont try to put yourself higher than anybody else. Dont allow also any one to put your feelings down. That is called dignity and self respect and fighting for your freedom. But even if you have found
some one who violates this, please dont take it as his original idea.

All evil thoughts come from one source and fight your problems from the source. Instead of hating that person, try to change him through Holy Spirit. I know this look like war instead of life. But what is life?
Life is not just only eating and drinking. No, it is more than that.

Life is all about being faithful to God and humbly obey his instructions. Life is to faithfully wait the kingdom of God for it shall come soon. I have asked my self many times which one is greater: LOVE or FEAR of the lord? Work or righteousness through Christ? Is there any righteousness we gain with out Christ? No. There is no other means of doing our own salvation.

Salvation comes through believing God that he has sent his son to redeem us from sin. But faith is dead with out work. So we have to believe and do our righteousness. It is not like some kind of religion that we should only do one thing after another and have no faith. But to do what we have to do and to leave the rest to God.

In fact to humbly lower ourselves under his feet after we have completed our job. We have to say to him, "Here I am your servant." We need to learn one more thing with the rest of our life.
That is to fear God and work out own righteousness through Christ. We need to do this with out leaving the original instruction that is to LOVE the lord.

It is not as if LOVE is not complete but it is because we did not understand the full meaning of it. Some where in the definition of LOVE, we got lost and we miss some basic concept like to fear the lord. Now just in case we want to give another name for a full LOVE - It is called faithfulness.

If an angel, or a human teach us anything other what the scriptures tells us about faithfulness, let it be a curse. These are some of the words of Jesus before he goes to the father. I believe you see some faithfulness in it.

"I have brought glory to you here on earth by doing everything you gave me to do" - So he did everything he needs to do to glorify his father.

Believe me or not, every thing we did either will glorify God or Satan. So choose wisely whom you want to glorify before you decide what to do next. Everything we do makes us the son of God or of the Devil.
Jesus wants to do his purpose that the world knows that he LOVES his father - Showing his love by work.

Other wise LOVE is dead without work, as faith is dead with out work and as hope is dead with out work. Otherwise how can the world know that he LOVES his father? How can the enemy know that he LOVES his father?

So he took this very painful moment of grief and destitution as a great opportunity to express his LOVE. You know when we speak words like I LOVE God, we should proof it that we do.

There is no true LOVE other than the LOVE of God expressed in Christ Jesus. So every other LOVE is selfish LOVE and it is a deceiving LOVE. Therefore it cannot be proofed to be a true. The lord confirms true LOVE in our spirit.

Every desire of human is wicked but we dont understand that until we get hurt or make some one hurt. But one thing is still true. If we humbly obey our God and fear him, that will show we have true LOVE for God and for one another. This is what the bible call faithfulness.
"If you LOVE me", Jesus said, "Keep my commandments."

There is no LOVE with out sacrificing our selves for the lord as burning offering. He has no desire for burnt offering of lambs and bulls any more. Instead he has prepared a body for us so that we shall continually offer ourselves as a burning sacrifice.

That is to desire God with all our heart and do his will and not ours.
We thank you Holy spirit for bringing up these serious of lessons that will draw us closer to the father and make us able fighting the good fight of faith.

Faithfulness is not how giant is the enemy we kill rather to use and depend on Gods name to kill a giant enemy. It is all about trust and LOVE and hope and faith. When it is in our capability, we find no help. But when it is more than we can bear, help is also with the package.

No disappointment, no anger is bigger than faithfulness. But in these last days, pleasure is its major enemy.

Jesus said,

"I seek not my own pleasure but to do what my father tells me to do."

He also said in some other place,

"If you believe in me, ask me and I will do it,"

Jesus gives his desire for his father and whoever believes in him.

The desire of a man is to his parents when he was young, to serve his wife and his parents when he was adult and to his God when he was old.

The quality how good we will serve our family depends totally how well we serve our parents.

The quality how good we will serve our God depends totally how well we serve our parents and our family.

I believe faithfulness is not a gift like grace or LOVE. It is some thing to work on and to build. It is something to earn. It is something to bring to the king as a gift. It is something we work all day as a worker. We do work to live, dont we?

When it is to our earthly matters, we get up at 4 am if we have to. We know we have to survive. We do anything to please our boss or manager or owner. We clean and we do anything. That is faithfulness to earthly things.

But the questions is do we do the same thing to the lord? Do we care for his feelings? I know by faith that if our reighounessouss is not greater than some do, we are not going to enter the kingdom of God.

It is the same as unless we do as good as some other workers; we wont stay long as a worker. We will get fired!

Does faithfulness is greater than love? Yes.
The love we know is selfish and caused us every kind of trouble.
There is only one true LOVE that is from the lord and it is faithful LOVE.

It is not good to disobey the lord by pleasing men. Obedience leads to faithfulness. Pleasing men is our way of definning love. Therefore faithfulness is better than our selfish love.

Is faithfulness better than humility? Yes. The humility we know is false and caused us every kind of trouble.

Time and money are servants of faithfulness. When you are faithful, time is your servant.

God is Faithful. No one on earth, above or below is like him. Even Angels are not clean in Gods eye. Only his son is pure and worth to be accepted to him. Thats why he made him a burning sacrifice for our sin.

We find grace and favour in the eyes of men and God if LOVE and faithfulness is found in us. LOVE goes until the boundary of faith.
Faithfulness takes over from that to complete the journey.

We shouldnt get too much reward for something we can easily do.
Rather for something we believe God will help and he will be there for us even if we think it is beyond our qualifications. Isnt this what the lord meant when he said in the book of Revelations,

"Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life."

Knowing the truth doesnt make us free. Rather what makes us free is to be faithful to the truth. That is to persist and to dedicate our selves to it. Perseverance is a character that will be developed after our faith is tested many times.

It is like a muscle in our spirit and it will come after many up and downs. But we will never see it if we are hesitant and our thoughts are running on every direction.

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. What does we refused by faith?

We should all refuse to be abused by the devil. He used to do all manner of things on us. Now, we should use our faith to cast down his wickedness and break the strong hold.

By faith we need to say, No, I dont want it! I dont want anything that can be bought with sin. I dont want anything that will latter cause me grief. I dont want to displease my lord. It was good to know it and do it before it is too late. As long as there is some time left, it is good to say no.

NO! What a powerful word. We should start to refuse and to say No to many things that Gods spirit dont confirm in to our spirit. It is not arrogance to say no. It is faithfulness to the lord. And sometimes we can even do that without even explaining why.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit give us strength to be faithful, in Jesus Name, AMEN!

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