The Sweetness of True Repentance (Everyday Emmanuel)

Many people have misunderstanding on repentance,they do not like to hear about repentance and find it hard to repent. They thought repentance is about feeling guilty or apologizing to God. True repentance is actually the sweetest thing that can happen in your life. When we are exhausted in our life problems, true repentance help us to gain strength from God's throne to move on with our lives. 

True repentance is simple terms meaning turning to the Truth of God. It is  a restoration of a believing spirit through believing in every word of God. True repentance is the changing from a disbelief spirit into a believing spirit.For example, if I repent from stealing it doesn't mean I just stopped stealing only. This is because I may fall into a different kind of sin. True repentance happens when I truly believe that God is the only provider and I feel satisfied in my spirit then slowly I hate stealing.When this happens, you faith will grow and your relationship with God too.

Psalm 103:2-5

Praise the Lord,my soul, 

and forget not all his benefits

who forgives all your sins

and heals all your diseases,

who redeems you life from the pit 

and crowns you with love and compassion,

who satisfies your desires with good things 

so that your youth is renewed like eagle's.

    

David's repentance is going back to His benefit and be satisfied with God's love and compassion. This is the sweetest true repentance. But Satan always stop us from repenting. How does he stop us?

1.What obstruct us from true repentance?

You think that God won't forgive you 

Because you believed so, therefore you remain in accusations. But God says, when we acknowledge our own struggle or weakness, it means that we are also acknowledging our disbelief. He will forgive all our sins and heals us.

You think that God don't understand what you are going through or needs

You believed that therefore you do not believe that whatever God has given you its the best. What you can see is only your failures, problems and weaknesses. 

You do not believe God has His own timetable

That's why you remain disheartened and hopeless.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is slow in keeping his promise, just as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone come to repentance.

The timetable of God is not up yet because He wants us to quickly repent so we do not remain in accusation.

You think that you can wait and things will get better

What you fail to see its that God is actually equipping us so that we will be used by Him in the future.

2. What is True repentance?

When we struggle in our spirit not because you have fall short of the standard and expectations of the men but have fall short of what God said. Our spirit is related to the word of God. For example, God ask me to love my brethren but even though I have done nothing wrong to them but because I cannot love them that's why I struggle in my spirit. So if our lifestyle, habits and decisions are not in syn with God's word then we will definitely have struggle. And we must acknowledge this struggle.

After that you realize you have no choice but to believe. Obedience is about believing and not about you being able to do so much. 

Then you nail that flesh of yours- you do not satisfy your flesh by not giving in to it. For example, I have influenced by the drama series, no matter how I have tried I still cannot stop watching it. It is only through believing His promise. His promise tells me that I will be used by Him, then it generates an inner strength so I do not want to be influenced anymore by the drama. Then keep confirming and believing, the influence will then slowly reduced.

3.We need to know that we cannot keep hypnotizing ourselves not to worry about the problems. When we do this, the problem will still remain. It is only through confirming and believing every word of God and all His attributes. Then even though the situation does not change but we will realize that all things work for the good to them that love God.

In situation we are put in is for us to experience the wide, long, high and deep of His love If there are areas in our lives that we are still struggling, we must learn to turn to, believe and confirm His promise. 

Here is the link

09/11/2013 Everyday Emmanuel

Delight in the Lord's goodness ( Everyday Emmanuel)

The goodness of the Lord is everlasting. 

Psalm 100:5 

For he is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. 

Maybe we cannot feel the goodness of God because of our own problems or areas in our lives that we are still adamant at, but one day God will prove it to us. 

God's goodness is that He saves us and He won't abandon us or ignore us just because we are disobedient. If God removes some things that we really like in our lives then He will definitely give us something better. He is actually helping us to rise up and walk the correct path when He allows problem in our lives. These are the goodness of the Lord and we must find joy in His goodness and not through getting what we want. Whatever we want is temporary and always changing,it is only His goodness that is everlasting. 

When we don't find joy in His goodness, we will feel bored or numb at His words and remain in our struggles. 

Psalm 37:1-2 

Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass, they will wither soon, like green plants they will soon die away.

1. When we are envious of the world, we will follow the ways of the world. 

So, we need to ask ourselves, what are we looking for today? And the answer will tell us the state of our spirit today.

If we only want to get our problems solved then we wouldn't want to see God's perfect will. We will lose our joy and satisfaction in Him easily.When we are always envious of the world, we will make our decisions according to it, we will go by our feelings and make many wrong decisions. Then our bondage will get stronger, making it harder for us to submit.

2. We need to rely, seek and dwell in His will. 

Psalm 37:3-5

Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the safe pasture. Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desire of your heart. Commit your ways to the Lord, trust in the Lord and He will do this. 

God will give us timely provisions, help, anointing, etc. If we are unhappy, fearful, worried about our future, accused because of our old habits then we are still relying on ourselves and what the world can offer us. We are not delighting in God's goodness.

Turn to the promise of God. All those feelings come from a disbelief spirit and our flesh. Those who turn to the Lord will receive His grace, love, strength then only our spirit will change and we will dwell in His will. 

God says take delight in Him and He will give us the desires of our hearts. It does not mean that when we are happy then only God will give us our desires but it means delight in our submission and dwell in His will- believe that His guidance is the best. 

Psalm 37:23-24

The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in Him though he may stumble, he will not fall for the Lord will uphold him with his hand.

3. We will not fall.

We will get discouraged, feel weak, worried but we must let God prove that His goodness will carry us through. The greatest blessing is He won't let us fall completely. God will never leave us, just like how He didn't abandon king David. 

Don't ask God when He will provide, bless us or fulfill His promise. This will make us tired and lost heart. We can never be faster than God in accomplishing things. Put our values on the eternal kingdom even though the world is constantly tempting us. We must hold on to God and submit to Him then He will prove to us.

This is the link!

07/11/2013 Everyday Emmanuel

Through Prayers I Do All Things ( Everyday Emmanuel)

I don't remember the last time I did a post on Everyday Emmanuel. To be honest, I haven't been translating for quite sometime. But since I am doing it again, I feel that it will be nice to share it here as well.

Many people use prayers to get their desired outcomes or to change their situation. God ask us to pray so that we can enter a state of being Holy Spirit filled. When a person is Holy Spirit filled, regardless of whatever situation he is in or whatever conditions he has he will still be able to rejoice and testify 

for the Lord. 

I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that at least you renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it. I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what is it to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all things through him who gives me strength. 

In the last verse, it does not mean that after he prayed, his situation changed. Most of the time, it doesn't change at all.  What is absolute is that Holy Spirit comes upon him.

The secret in that whenever he prays , he sees that 

1. Every of his situation is the most perfect. 

He confirms in his spirit that God is the Jehovah Jireh.

2.God still give him joy and a satisfied heart. 

If he has little, he spends less, if he has more, he will also spend accordingly. When he is constantly hungry, he knows that God wants him to pray.

His focus is in heaven and his heart is focus on listening to God so the Holy Spirit gives him pure and immense joy that enable him to see God's love in everything. 

3. He gives thanks for his faith

Not give thanks because his problems were solved. Paul is more happy in meeting God in his spirit than having his problem solved.He delights in following God more than getting the praises and approval from men; happy to see God's help rather than men's help.

Maybe our motives are wrong when we pray, we put a lot of focus on the physical outcome. 

We should focus on getting our hearts and minds influenced by God's words so that we can discern and make judgement in all things through the Truth. 

Paul only wants to see the Emmanuel God is his prayer. Therefore, he finds whatever he seeks.

This is the video. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JpSY8s1ns4&feature=youtu.be