Speak Faith

As we begin a New Year, we want it to be much better than all the years gone by. But it will be better only if we claim God’s promises. What we believe we must then confess with our mouth - but our confession must be based on God’s promises (See Rom.10:8,9).

When God gave Abraham a promise – a promise that looked impossible to be fulfilled (humanly speaking), what did Abraham do? “Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb; yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.” (Rom.4:19-21).

So with faith in what God has promised, let us make the following eight confessions many times during this year. Say it to yourself and to Satan often, from your heart:

1. God the Father loves me as He loved Jesus - So I will always rejoice (John 17:23).

2. God has forgiven me all my sins - So I will never live with guilt (1 Jn.1:9; Heb.8:12).

3. God will fill me with His Holy Spirit - So I will be strong enough for every task (Luke 11:13).

4. God has determined all my boundaries - So I will always be content (Acts 17:26; Heb.13:5).

5. God's commands are ALL for my good - So I want to obey ALL of God’s commands (1 Jn.5:3: Deut.10:13).
6. God controls ALL people and events that affect me - So I will always give thanks (Rom.8:28).
7. Jesus defeated Satan and freed me from his power - So I will never be afraid (Heb.2:14,15; Heb.13:6).
8. God wants to make me a blessing - So I WILL be a blessing to others (Gen.12:2; Gal.3:14)
“Without faith, it is impossible to please God” (Heb.11:6).

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AJMAN CHURCH
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AJMAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

Glory of God

We must never stop looking upwards and seeing more of the glory of the Lord. There is much of the glory of Jesus that we still haven’t seen. We must hunger for this, because that’s the image into which the Holy Spirit seeks to transform us. As we see the Lord’s glory, it will humble us because we will see our own need. This is the secret of remaining in humility, till the end of our lives. It is very easy for one whom God has anointed and used mightily to become proud. What is it that can keep us in brokenness and humility till the end of our lives? Only one thing: Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. When we look at Jesus it is impossible to be proud. A man becomes proud when he starts looking at other people, and imagines himself to be better than them, or more anointed than them, or more used than them etc., If however he looked upwards at Jesus, he would fall on his face in the dust in repentance - like the apostle John did on the Isle of Patmos. And if he keeps looking at Jesus, he will keep his face in the dust forever. All of us need to learn to keep our faces in the dust at all times. That’s the place of safety. So if you want God to be happy with you until the end of your days, keep looking upwards.

God has wonderful things in store for us. He has a great job for us to do. We don’t know when we will have to leave this world. But before the Lord comes, we look forward to doing something useful for Him on this earth. Most people in the world look to the future with fear and anxiety. But we look forward in faith.
In Deut.11:21 (KJV), Moses told them that God’s longing for them was “that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land like the days of heaven upon earth.” This is God’s will for all of us - that our days on earth may be like the days of heaven. God wants us even now to have a foretaste of the joy, peace, love, purity and goodness of heaven in our homes and in our churches. If we had experienced a little bit of that our life and ministry wold not been a heavy burden for us. Not at all. It has been joyful and every day has been exciting, because we have learnt to live by the principles of heaven, and not of earth. It’s easy for you to determine to do this when you start your Christian life. But I hope that you will determine to live by heaven’s principles and not earth’s even during this coming year. Fix your eyes on Jesus Who endured until the end - so that your days can be like days of heaven on earth. That is God’s will for us.
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AJMAN CHURCH
P.O.BOX: 5998,
AJMAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

todays Word

35 -36When his disciples thought this had gone on long enough—it was now quite late in the day—they interrupted: "We are a long way out in the country, and it's very late. Pronounce a benediction and send these folks off so they can get some supper."
37Jesus said, "You do it. Fix supper for them."
They replied, "Are you serious? You want us to go spend a fortune on food for their supper?"
38But he was quite serious. "How many loaves of bread do you have? Take an inventory."
That didn't take long. "Five," they said, "plus two fish."
39 -44Jesus got them all to sit down in groups of fifty or a hundred—they looked like a patchwork quilt of wildflowers spread out on the green grass! He took the five loaves and two fish, lifted his face to heaven in prayer, blessed, broke, and gave the bread to the disciples, and the disciples in turn gave it to the people. He did the same with the fish. They all ate their fill. The disciples gathered twelve baskets of leftovers. More than five thousand were at the supper.