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19/05/2026

SETTING OUR MINDS ON THINGS ABOVE

The notion that Christians should always be optimistic and congenial is heresy pure and simple. An ill-founded optimism may, under certain conditions, be extremely harmful. A Christian is not obliged to be either pessimistic or optimistic or glad or sad or positive or negative after a preconceived rule of philosophy. He should (and will if he is Spirit-taught) reflect the will of God in any given situation. His one concern is with God?s will. His one question in any set of circumstances is ?What does God think of this?? To him nothing else matters. What the current popular attitude may be is of no importance to him. He will approve or disapprove altogether as the written Word and the indwelling Spirit indicate. Religious vogues, passing moods or popular notions will affect him not at all. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. This rather rigid attitude will, in a world like ours, quite naturally work against the one who holds it and earn him a reputation as a pessimist. People like the man who agrees with them, even if a day later they change their minds and require him to change his, too. This inconsistency they laugh off as an amiable weakness, and why be so pious about it anyway? Well, the sons and daughters of eternity care very little about this maypole dance of popular favor. Like the water bird on the shore of the lake at the approach of winter, they feel within them a strong instinct to migrate. They expect before long to take off on a journey and they?re not coming back soon. So whether they leave behind them a reputation for pessimism or optimism is of little consequence to them. They are, however, eager to be remembered as children of God and followers of the Lamb. That?s all that matters to them.

Verse
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
— Colossians 3:2

Thought
Setting our minds on things above rather than on earthly things put us in tune with eternal reality. Then with the mind of Christ we can understand more accurately what is going on around us.

Prayer
Forgive me, Lord, for undue preoccupation with earthly things. Only with my eyes on You can I keep to the road through the confusion of this world.

Daily Devotion by AWTozer
05/19/2026 Tuesday 700am🔥

13/05/2026

IGNITE Bible Study and Fishing Fellowship
05/12/2026 Tuesday

Matthew5 Beatitude Series
PURE HEART
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Greek pure is katharos meaning is unmixed, unadulterated, unalloyed. That is why this beatitude is so demanding a beatitude.

Blessed is the man whose motives are always entirely unmixed,
for that man shall see God.

It is very seldom indeed that we do even our finest actions from absolutely unmixed motives. This beatitude demands from us the most exacting self-examination.

Jesus went on to say that only the pure in heart will see God.

It is a warning thing to remember that, as by God's grace we keep our hearts clean, or as by human lust we soil them, we are either fitting or unfitting ourselves some day to see God.

Like a child
Our hearts right before Him...
seeking Him, ask forgiveness before Him, and loving Him with all our heart as His children.🔥

13/05/2026

PROPHETIC PREACHING

If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man who carries out his duties, takes his pay and asks no questions, nor the smooth-talking pastoral type who knows how to make the Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried and found wanting. Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the Throne. When he comes (and I pray God there will be not one but many), he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth civilization holds dear. He will contradict, denounce and protest in the name of God and will earn the hatred and opposition of a large segment of Christendom. Such a man is likely to be lean, rugged, blunt-spoken and a little bit angry with the world. He will love Christ and the souls of men to the point of willingness to die for the glory of the One and the salvation of the other. But he will fear nothing that breathes with mortal breath. This is only to say that we need to have the gifts of the Spirit restored again to the Church. And it is my belief that the one gift we need most now is the gift of prophecy.

Verse
Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
— Galatians 1:10

Thought
Be assured that the prophet-preacher will not be welcomed by all those in the church pews. He is blunt and straightforward, seeking not to please people but God.

Prayer
Lord, as Your servant, may I be lovingly candid in presenting Your Word and in applying it.

Daily Devotion by AWTozer
05/13/2025 Wednesday 700am🔥

10/05/2026

URGENTLY NEEDED PROPHETIC LEADERS

There has probably never been another time in the history of the world when so many people knew so much about religious happenings as they do today. The newspapers are eager to print religious news; the secular news magazines devote several pages of each issue to the doings of the church and the synagogue; a number of press associations gather church news and make it available to the religious journals at a small cost. Even the hiring of professional publicity men to plug one or another preacher or religious movement is no longer uncommon; the mail is stuffed with circulars and ?releases,? while radio and television join to tell the listening public what religious people are doing throughout the world. Greater publicity for religion may be well and I have no fault to find with it. Surely religion should be the most newsworthy thing on earth, and there may be some small encouragement in the thought that vast numbers of persons want to read about it. What disturbs me is that, amidst all the religious hubbub, hardly a voice is raised to tell us what God thinks about the whole thing. Where is the man who can see through the ticker tape and confetti to discover which way the parade is headed, why it started in the first place and, particularly, who is riding up front in the seat of honor? Not the fact that the churches are unusually active these days, not what religious people are doing, should engage our attention, but why these things are so. . . .

Verse
It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up . . .
-Ephesians 4:11-12

Thought
The Church today desparately needs prophets who can see where we are and give direction as to where to go; who understand current trends and discern their outcome.

Prayer
Lord, for Your Church to be built up qualitatively, give us leaders who understand the present and the future and can apply Your Word accordingly. In Jesus' name.

Daily Devotion by AWTozer
05/11/2026 Monday 600am🔥

10/05/2026

I have faith, that each day of our gracious life exist for one very purpose, that each longing breath and beating of our very heart ...be an expression of our overwhelming love for our Lord Christ Jesus.

08/05/2026

ILLUMINATORS

“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden..."

- Matthew 5:14

Although visibly in our eyes it may not, but we all live in very dark world. We are blinded to see the LIGHT, and worst we have been lost for a long time.

But in the darkest night, the brightest LIGHT will dawn. Jesus alone is the only true LIGHT in our very heart. And Him in us... we can bear also His LIGHT. We are not the true LIGHT but illuminators - we shed His light. Jesus shines in each one of us.

And certainly even that we don't want, we will not be hidden but He will place us on very high places. So that those who are lost and seeking for a long time, can see Jesus... as we illuminates His great LIGHT in this dark world.

07/05/2026

SALT OF THE EARTH

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

- Matthew 5:13

We might merely only few in our faith in a multitude of unbelievers, but like a few grains of salt in a large body of water... It cause saltiness and make a big gracious difference and influence. Our stand in faith ... in Jesus name even as only one, He will do His great mighty work, starting from within in our very heart, and those who are lost around us.

We are His very salts in this earth.

05/05/2026

THE DANGER OF MODIFYING THE GOOD NEWS

Our constant effort should be to reach as many persons as possible with the Christian message, and for that reason numbers are critically important. But our first responsibility is not to make converts but to uphold the honor of God in a world given over to the glory of fallen man. No matter how many persons we touch with the gospel we have failed unless, along with the message of invitation, we have boldly declared the exceeding sinfulness of man and the transcendent holiness of the Most High God. They who degrade or compromise the truth in order to reach larger numbers, dishonor God and deeply injure the souls of men. The temptation to modify the teachings of Christ with the hope that larger numbers may "accept" Him is cruelly strong in this day of speed, size, noise and crowds. But if we know what is good for us, we'll resist it with every power at our command. To yield can only result in a weak and ineffective Christianity in this generation, and death and desolation in the next.

Verse
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
-Colossians 2:6-7

Thought
Receiving Christ as Lord and continuing to live in Him is the way to life transformation. To preach Him and receive Him as less than Lord is to seriously modify the Good News.

Prayer
May I personally experience and share with others the Good News, Father, without modifying it in any way for whatever reason.

Daily Devotion by AWTozer
05/06/2026 Wednesday 600am🔥

05/05/2026

BLISS OF PERFECT SYMPATHY
Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Beatitude merciful in Hebrew "checed"
- does not mean only to sympathize ...or to feel sorry but it means the ability or attempt to get right inside the other person's skin until we can see things with his eyes, think things with his mind, and feel things with his feelings.

Beatitude mercy make a very great difference.

WE WILL KNOW WHAT IS GOOD
that can help our brother and sister.

THERE IS ALWAYS A REASON WHY a person thinks and acts, so much easier to understand and to sympathize and forgive rather than anger and judgement.

the most important is that JESUS CAME FOR US that knows very well what is happening in our life because He came right inside our lives.

That is just what God did; he came to men, not as the remote, detached, isolated, majestic God; but as a man. The supreme instance of mercy, checed , is the coming of God in Jesus Christ. It is only those who show this mercy who will receive it.

This is true on the human side, for it is the great truth of life that in other people we see the reflection of ourselves.
If we are detached and disinterested in them, they will be detached and disinterested in us. If they see that we care, their hearts will respond in caring. It is supremely true on the divine side, for he who shows this mercy has become nothing less than like God.

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05/05/2026

DISCIPLING AS MANY AS POSSIBLE

Now the serious Christian wants to escape both extremes. Yet he is much concerned about the whole matter of numbers and is eager to find the will of God for his life and ministry. Should he go out for larger crowds or accept smaller ones as the will of God for him? Does success in the Lord's work depend upon numbers? Is it possible to make up in quantity what is lacking in quality and so accomplish the same result? Perhaps an illustration or two might help. If our country should be visited by a famine and you were put in charge of feeding the starving in your section of the city, would numbers matter? Most surely they would. Would it not be better to feed five hungry children than two? Would you not feel obligated to feed hundreds rather than tens, thousands rather than hundreds? Certainly you would. Or if a ship sank and your church were given a rescue boat, would numbers mean anything? Again the answer is yes. Would it not be better to save ten than two, 100 than fifty? So with the work of God. It is better to win many than few. Each lost one brought home increases the joy among the angels and adds another voice to the choir that shall sing the praises of the Lamb. Plainly Christ when He was on earth was concerned about the multitudes. And so should His followers be. A church that takes no interest in evangelism or missions is sub-normal in every way and desperately in need of revival.

Verse
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
— Matthew 28:19-20

Thought
We are to make disciples of all peoples, all ethne. Each of us, all of us are so commissioned by our Lord. But it is disciplesof Christ we are to make. Some people will turn back rather than be disciples (John 6:66).

Prayer
Make me a discipler, Lord, not just a Good News announcer.

Daily Devotion by AWTozer
05/05/2026 Tuesday 600am🔥

04/05/2026

GROWING NUMBERS DO NOT GUARANTEE INCREASING QUALITY

The question of numbers and their relation to success or failure in the work of the Lord is one that disturbs most Christians more than a little. . . . There are Christians, for instance, who dismiss the whole matter as being beneath them. . . .They prefer to sit around the Lord's Table in a select and tight little circle, admiring the deep things of God and, I very much fear, admiring themselves a wee bit also. This is a kind of Protestant monasticism without the cowl and the beads, for it seeks to preserve the faith of Christ from pollution by isolating it from the vulgar masses. Its motives may be commendable, but its methods are altogether unscriptural and its spirit completely out of mood with that of our Lord. The other and opposite school is the most vocal and has by far the largest following in gospel circles today. Its philosophy, if it can be called a philosophy, is that "we must get the message out" regardless of how we go about it. The devotees of this doctrine appear to be more concerned with quantity than with quality. They seem burned up with desire to "bring the people in" even if they have not much to offer them after they are in. They take inexcusable liberties both with message and with method. The Scriptures are used rather than expounded and the Lordship of Christ almost completely ignored. Pressure is exerted to persuade the people (who, by the way, come to the meetings with something else in mind altogether) to accept Christ, with the understanding that they shall then have peace of mind and financial prosperity, not to mention high grades in school and a low score on the golf course. The crowds-at-any-price mania has taken a firm grip on American Christianity and is the motivating power back of a shockingly high percentage of all religious activity. Men and churches compete for the attention of the paying multitudes who are brought in by means of any currently popular gadget or gimmick ostensibly to have their souls saved, but, if the truth were told, often for reasons not so praiseworthy as this.

Verse
When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
- 1 Corinthians 2:1-2

Thought
Have we given way to a superficial, bouncy, fun-filled, engaging, culturally-in-tune Christianity in order to attract people? Jesus Christ and Him crucified is our message, which means death to self ? a message geared to spiritual quality rather than quantity.

Prayer
O Lord, may I in no way try to diminish your Lordship or disguise Your cross or mine. "Thou, O Christ, art all I want; more than all in Thee I find."

Daily Devotion by AWTozer
May 04 2026 Monday 600am🔥

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