Outreach for Jesus

16/10/2019

When you have faith you live a life of expectation that's what God wants us to be , because without faith we can't please Him .Have a wonderful and a blessed day

15/10/2019

Isaiah 55 v 8-9.God Wisdom is beyond infinite.brethren do not doubt God's ability to provide you with your heart desires according to His will .But for this to happen we need to have FAITH .From this month ,I will share and discuss with you on topics that will challenge our spiritual stand as children of God ,I pray that the Holy Spirit will help us understand the Word of God deeper than before. Be blessed as you meditate upon this verse

05/07/2016

Being from WikiLeaks - Not Good for Hillary

05/07/2015

When you have faith you live a life of expectation that's what God wants us to be , because without faith we can't please Him .Have a wonderful and a blessed Sunday evening

03/07/2015

Brothers and sisters wherever you're if you have any topic , testimonies, verses, inspirational stories , pictures of your church ,prayer group activities feel free to share with everyone on this page .It is good to give glory to God each and every day .

03/07/2015

Assemblies of God Malawi (CapeTown) Youth Day 28th July 2015 Wynberg

21/06/2015

Our purpose in life is to serve God , but only when we know who we are .That's when the question WHO AM I? Come in , as an individual each and everyone of us called to serve God made in His own image and He saw it was very good .We can answer the question above by reading the bible.Psalms 8vs 1 - 9., Isaiah 6v1, Genesis 1v26 - 31.May God bless you abundantly as you grow spiritually in Jesus name .Amen

06/06/2015

Phillippians 4v6-7

12/01/2015

The repentance of the thief on the cross is a powerful story indeed. It shows us that conversions can happen at the end of one’s life; that even the vilest criminals will be accepted by God if they come to Him; that no more than a request for salvation made in faith is required by God.

However, it also gives many the impression that paradise in heaven awaits them immediately upon death. The story of the thief on the cross is one of the most widely cited texts to support this idea of life after death. The text does appear to say that both Jesus and the thief will be in paradise after death on that day, the day of their deaths. It’s easy to understand why many people are confused about this text.

In order for the text to be true, as written, then both Jesus and the thief would have to end the day in heaven. Otherwise, Jesus would be lying! Does the rest of the Bible support such a scenario?

Let’s look at John chapter 20, a story that occurs on resurrection Sunday, when Mary Magdalene finds Christ’s empty tomb. She talks with Christ, thinking He is the gardener. When she realizes that He is the risen Lord, she moves to hug him. His response in verse 17 tells us something important about death and the afterlife. The verse reads:

“Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, “I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.”’”

Did you catch that? According to the words of Christ Himself, He had not gone to heaven on Friday, the day He died. He still had not been there as of Sunday morning! Jesus could not have been telling the thief that they would be in heaven together that very day. He would have been speaking a lie.

How, then, can we understand the text in Luke 23?

The problem actually lies with the placement of the comma. As it reads, the text says both men would be in heaven on Friday. We’ve seen from the Bible that this cannot be true. But if you move the comma one word to the right, it becomes:

“Jesus said to him, ‘Assuredly, I say to you today, you will be with Me in Paradise.’ ”

Indeed, Jesus did tell the thief on that day that paradise awaited him. God commonly uses phrases like “I tell you this day…” in the Bible. See Deuteronomy 7:11, 8:1, 9:3, 10:13, 13:18, and 15:5 for some examples.

Is it wrong to “change” the Bible in this way? In fact, the original Greek manuscript contained no punctuation at all! If we were to read the passage in Luke according to the manner in which it was originally written, it would look like this:

ANDJESUSSAIDTOHIMASSUREDLYISAYTOYOUTODAYYOUWILLBEWITHMEINPARADISE

The commas, periods, quotation marks, and even the spaces between the words were added to the Bible by the various translators over time. In light of the other biblical evidence, it becomes clear that the comma, which was not part of the inspired original writing, was misplaced by a translator and copied by everyone else subsequently.

Christ did not go to heaven at His death because He spent the Sabbath day resting in the grave. The repentant thief also went to the sleep of death and is awaiting the return of Jesus Christ with the rest of the sleeping saints.

06/01/2015

A woman baked banana loaves for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra banana loaf on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the banana and uttered the words:

“The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” The woman felt irritated. “Not a word of gratitude,” she said to herself… “Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?” One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. “I shall get rid of this hunchback,” she said. And what did she do? She added poison to the banana loaf she prepared for him!

As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. “What is this I am doing?” she said. Immediately, she threw the banana loaf into the bin, prepared another one and kept it on the window sill. As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the banana loaf and muttered the words: “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”

The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman. Every day, as the woman placed the banana loaf on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him.. She prayed for his safe return.

That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, “Mom, it’s a miracle I’m here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged of him for little food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole banana loaf. As he gave it to me, he said, “This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!”

” As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale. She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned banana loaf that she had made that morning. Had she not thrown it into the bin, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life!

It was then that she realized the significance of the words: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” Do good and Don’t ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time. GOD bless you all

09/05/2014

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