In God's own time ministries

05/06/2021

In God's own time,the Lord appeals to our need to forgive. " Circumcise therefore the forskin of your hearts".
This circumcision of our hearts symbolizes a cutting away of the hard outer layer of our hearts leaving it exposed to feel again. In his own time God is asking us to let go or rather to cut away hard feelings. That time is always now because we serve a now God. A present God who is always ready and able.
The questions always comes back to us.
Are we able to forgive? If so then are we ready to "cut away" that hard outer layer of our hearts?. Can we fully trust that God, in his own time, will heal us of all the pain we leave ourselves exposed to?

19/05/2021

It is with the deepest of sorrow that i write this piece, but in God's own time he has highly favoured me to write it.
I have asked myself countless times what the death and resurrection of christ realy mean to me. Not what they mean to anyone else but to me personally. The answer is what brings so much sorrow and shame to me.
The cross has been preached to me so many times, but its revalation had never truly been revealed. The revalation of the cross is where i find God's favour. Favour that makes me both thankful and sad at the same time.
Thankful for what the cross has done for me and sad for what i have done for it.
When the cross is revealed to you it devides you into pieces. You haven't been there until you cry and celabrate at the same time. It is the only place where we die and are alive. A place where we give and get, and this happens at the same time. We become servants and become kings at calvary. We will have to carry our cross and follow him, he said. The devil has successfully fooled us into believing that it is a burden. A weight that only the strong can carry. He has manipulated the word of God that says we are weak because Jahovah is strong. We are lost because Jahovah found us. Past and present are all intertwined in God. He is after all, Alfa and Omega, the begining and the end.
Be therefore wise as serpents and at the same time soft as doves. Ask for the cross to be revealed to you. So that you may rejoice and cry. IN GOD'S OWN TIME.

15/10/2020

The Third Commandment states: You shall not lift up the Name of the LORD your God in vain (Exod. 20:7). Note that the Hebrew word lashav , usually translated in vain in English, means in an empty or thoughtless manner (the LXX translates it as, "worthlessly" or "thoughtlessly"), though the word might also be rendered as for show," that is, insincerely. Obviously "lifting up the Name" of God includes invoking the Divine Presence in profane and vulgar ways, but it also includes" expressions of faith, mechanical confessions, heartless acts of service, and so on. Lifting up the Name should never be used as a weapon against others, nor should it ever be used to justify or practice violence. You cannot "call upon God's Name" in the truth without first exercising genuine reverence by recognizing the sacredness of life, the value of other people, and the LORD's all-consuming glory, love, and power...
Reverencing the Name of the LORD means being in a personal, vital, and all-important relationship with the truth. The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Truth. This means understanding God's character as "merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, extending kindness to the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin" (Exod. 34:6-7). Since the Hebrew of word is coextensive with truth, Jesus is called the Word of God who represents the Name of God to all who trust in Him (John 17:26, Heb. 1:3). Indeed Jesus is the true Name of God, the substance (being) of God, the exact imprint and representation of His nature," and so on. "His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God" (Rev. 19:12-13). Stay blessed.

13/10/2020

Some of us may fear death because we are unsure of God's heart for us... After all, life in this world is likened to a v***r or a passing shadow (Psalm 144:4). Nothing abides; good things here never last; and we labor under the unmentionable anxiety that death will separate us from everyone and everything we love. However, death is not the end for us, for "love is stronger than death, passion fiercer than the grave; its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD" (Song 8:6).
"What will death be like?" they asked the Master. "It will be as if a veil is ripped apart and you will say in wonder, "So it was you all along!". Death is a most poignant homecoming, a place of joyful welcome, wherein all shall be well for ever. The righteous have an everlasting foundation in the faithful heart of God. Faith in the LORD believes that a single supreme, all-knowing, all-powerful and benevolent spiritual Power directs all things, and that Messiah is the beginning, middle, and end of all conscious meaning, truth, and substance, as it is written:, For from him and through him and to him are all things (Rom. 11:36). A life of faith in the one true God imparts the blessing of (inner peace) and assures the heart that all shall be made well by the love of God. So then, "if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we belong to the Lord" (Rom. 14:8). For the believer in Messiah, death does not define us, and indeed, we trust that God will attend to us in the moment of our utmost extremity (John 5:24; 11:25-26). If we desire eternal life with all our hearts and remember our end before the Lord in heaven, we will be free of the fear of death.

07/10/2020

03/10/2020

Though it might sometimes *seem* that evil has the upper hand in this fallen world, we must remember that the LORD God Almighty is in complete control and works all things together for our good - even overturning the schemes of the wicked for our ultimate benefit (Gen. 50:20; Psalm 57:2; Rom. 8:28). The devil thought he had won a great victory when Jesus died upon the cross, but God utterly vanquished his evil intent by raising Messiah from the dead and exalting Him as the matchless Ruler over all principalities, powers, and kings of earth (Rev 1:5). Ein od milvado - there is no power apart from God. Everything is in His hands, and He alone is the keyholder of hell and death (Rev. 1:18). "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty One, reigns." Therefore the LORD asks your anxious heart: "Behold, I AM the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for me?" (Jer. 32:27).

02/10/2020

Some of us may fear death because we are unsure of God's heart for us... After all, life in this world is likened to a v***r or a passing shadow (Psalm 144:4). Nothing abides; good things here never last; and we labor under the unmentionable anxiety that death will separate us from everyone and everything we love. However, death is not the end for the us, for "love is stronger than death, passion fiercer than the grave; its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD" (Song 8:6).
"What will death be like?" they asked the Master. "It will be as if a veil is ripped apart and you will say in wonder, "So it was you all along!" (De Mello). Death is a most poignant homecoming, a place of joyful welcome, wherein all shall be well for ever. The righteous have an everlasting foundation in the faithful heart of God. Faith in the LORD believes that a single supreme, all-knowing, all-powerful and benevolent spiritual Power directs all things, and that Messiah is the beginning, middle, and end of all conscious meaning, truth, and substance, as it is written:, For from him and through him and to him are all things (Rom. 11:36). A life of faith in the one true God imparts the blessing of shalom (inner peace) and assures the heart that all shall be made well by the love of God. So then, "if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we belong to the Lord" (Rom. 14:8). For the believer in Messiah, death does not define us, and indeed, we trust that God will attend to us in the moment of our utmost extremity (John 5:24; 11:25-26). If we desire eternal life with all our hearts and remember our end before the Lord in heaven, we will be free of the fear of death.

31/08/2020

25/08/2020

In the book of Colossians 3 vs 1 the spirit of God speaks to our state of being as the adopted children of the most high. He goes on to help us understand how we should live our lives. In this verse he speaks to our state as being risen with Christ. We should therefore set our hearts on things above were Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Notice how God starts of saying to us "Since, then". Meaning the job of raising us from our fallen state is already done. It is left to us to simply set our hearts on things above. The king James version of our bible puts it in a more interesting way.
I watched a series called money heist. In this series a gang of robbers pounce on a bank and takes everyone hostage. The police arrive and get a negotiator to speak to the thieves. The first thing that the negotiator asks before giving any of their demands is what they called " Proof of life". This is were these robbers had to in the form of a video, prove that all the hostages were alive.
The king James version says "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God". In this version proof of life is required of us. If it is in fact true that we are risen with the holy one, proof of life is us. Seeking after the things of God