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Thursday, December 1, 2011
FW: “The (New) Golden Rule”
From: TSPOON93@aol.com [mailto:TSPOON93@aol.com]
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Subject: "The (New) Golden Rule"
"The (New) Golden Rule"
One of the most well known and most often quoted beliefs of Christianity is the "Golden Rule" – taken from the words of Jesus when he spoke by the Sea of Galilee in what we call "The Sermon on the Mount." Most of us grew up hearing this scripture as recorded in Matthew 7:12 from the King James Version of the New Testament.
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them…"
A translation in today's language (from the Contemporary English Version) is:
"Treat others as you want them to treat you..."
This statement is profound because it sums up how we are to live on this earth – how we are to react and interact with those around us – both Christian and non-Christian. Still, there was more to Jesus' statement and I believe that "more" was a harbinger of things to come.
Jesus completed that statement by adding, "…for this is the law and the prophets" (KJV); or, as translated in the NIV, "…for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."
Remember that at the time Jesus spoke these words, His Kingdom had not yet come. He had been going all over Galilee – to Capernaum, in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali – preaching "Repent, the Kingdom of Heaven is near." Most of the audience for the Sermon on the Mount were Jews from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan. To these Jews, keeping the Law (The Law of Moses) and of the Prophets was the capstone of their faith – all their beliefs were inseparably wrapped up in keeping the Law.
However, today, Jesus Kingdom has come – we are living in the age of grace and in a time when God's gift of forgiveness and salvation through the acceptance of His Son Jesus has been fully revealed to the world by Scripture and by the Holy Spirit. The capstone of our faith is not the Law and the Prophets; the capstone of our faith is Jesus the Messiah. In light of God's wonderful gift of eternal salvation through His Son, I humbly suggest that Christians think of the "Golden Rule" in a slightly different way.
"Treat others as you want God to treat you... for this sums up the love and forgiveness of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Real security can only be found in that which
can never be taken from you - your
relationship with God.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
FW: TRW MARKET SNAP SHOT FOR 29TH NOVEMBER 2011
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
Don’t Copy, be yourself...
An inspirational speaker said:"Best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman, who wasn't my wife."Audience was in shock and silent. He added: "She was my mother." A big round of applause & laughter!
A very daring husband tried to crack this at home. After a dinner, he said loudly to his wife in the kitchen: "Best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman, who wasn't my wife", standing for a moment, trying to recall the second line of that speaker.
By the time he gained his senses, he was on a hospital bed, recovering from burns of boiling water!
Don't Copy, be yourself...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
When Others Disappoint You
When Others Disappoint You
Os Hillman
"Do your best to come to me quickly, for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica" (2 Tim 4:9-10).
Adversity molded the apostle Paul into the greatest warrior for Christ the world has ever known. But there were times when adversity and disappointment took its toll on this rugged warrior. We can sense Paul's hurt and discouragement near the end of his second letter to Timothy:
Do your best to come to me quickly, for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica... At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me... Do your best to get here before winter (4:9-11,14,16,21).
Do you hear the pain in those words? Twice he urges Timothy to come to him. Do you feel his anguish when he twice speaks of being deserted by his friends?
In most of his letters, Paul seems to have an invincible spirit. Yet he was a man who suffered, felt betrayed, and was at times very lonely. However, Paul chose to look at life from a heavenly perspective. That's why he could write:
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body (2 Cor. 4:8-10).
Paul had experienced a level of opposition and suffering that you and I can scarcely imagine. People said they would do things but did not follow through. He could not depend on certain people. Yet he was not crushed, and he refused to give in to despair. He viewed his life as a continual process of dying. His goal was to live in such a way that the life of Jesus would be revealed in his response to adversity.
Beware of placing too much expectation on others. Realize that people will let you down from time to time, but do not let that impact your faith. Trust God to work even through these disappointments.
Your emotions are the shallowest part of your nature.
Salvation is the deepest work of God.
He is not going to do His deepest work in the shallowest part.
The story of Jonah
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Funnies
Never under estimate the power of “Hunger”
And it’s time to “Warship”………………………..
Need to recharge????
Watch out at that party or you’ll get served...............................
Maybe the earlier meal didn’t fill us up, let’s go out for lunch
Got financial targets?? Please meet this prospect (He is into Oil and Gas)
Lastly, if you need to fix your car, take the wise choice else?
FW: The Depth and Width of Your Calling
"If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are
comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance
of the same sufferings we suffer." - 2 Corinthians 1:6
"God must love you a lot! He doesn't allow someone to go through the kinds
of adversity you have experienced unless He has a special calling on your
life." Those were the words said to me by two different mentors at two
different times within a three-year period. Later I would learn another
related truth from a respected man of God - a man who lives in another
country, a man whom God uses throughout the globe. "The depth and width of
your faith experiences are directly proportional to your calling." What
were these men of God saying?
They were describing a process of preparation that God takes each of His
leaders through when He plans to use them in significant ways. A "faith
experience" is an event or "spiritual marker" in your life about which you
can say, "That is where I saw God personally moving in my life." It is an
unmistakable event in which God showed Himself personally to you. It was
the burning bush for Moses; the crossing of the Red Sea or the Jordan
River for the nation of Israel; Jacob's encounter with the angel. It was
the feeding of the 5,000 for the disciples. It was the time when you saw
God face to face in your life.
If God has plans of using you in the lives of many others, you can expect
that He is going to allow certain faith experiences to come into your life
in order to build a foundation that will be solid. That foundation is what
you will be able to look back on to keep you faithful to Him in the times
of testing. Each of us must have personal faith experiences in which we
experience God personally so that we can move in faith to whatever He may
call us. Do you need a personal faith experience right now in your life?
Pray that God will reveal Himself to you. He delights in doing that.
For the Christian Prayer is not an option but an opportunity.
"In prayer; expect setbacks, but refuse retreat. R. Eastman
Exposure To The Son Will Prevent Burning
Seven days without prayer makes one weak!
Do your best; bring out the best in others,
Don't tell the Lord how big the problem is,
tell the problem how Great the Lord is!
Put God first, be happy at last!
Friday, July 29, 2011
House Passes Boehner Bill After a Good Hollerin’ Match
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Agreeing With God's Word
Agreeing With God's Word
When the twelve spies returned from searching the promised land, they said,
"We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we"
(Numbers 13:31).
That was the report they brought back—at least ten of them that is. The other
two, Joshua and Caleb, had this to say,
"Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they
are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with
us. Do not fear them" (Numbers 14:9).
They all saw the same things in the land of Canaan, but only Joshua and Caleb
chose to agree with God. The Lord had previously told them that He would give
them victory and that they would be able to drive out the inhabitants of the land.
The ten spies (along with all Israel) died without ever possessing what God had
promised. Only two men from that generation entered into Canaan and possessed
the land. I think you can guess who they were—Joshua and Caleb. The only
two who agreed with the declarations of God.
Check out what you have been saying. Do your words agree with God or not?
Your emotions are the shallowest part of your nature.
Salvation is the deepest work of God.
He is not going to do His deepest work in the shallowest part.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Automated banking deposits come to Nigeria
Dead Guy Wakes Up in Morgue
Monday, July 25, 2011
Larry King Wants to Marry Anderson Cooper
Larry King Wants to Marry Anderson Cooper
Esquire Sees Erotic Opportunity in DSK Rape Narrative
Esquire Sees Erotic Opportunity in DSK Rape Narrative
FW: A WICKED MOTHER !!!
A 29-year old woman, Mrs. Grace Jacob, has been arrested for battering her 10-year-old son, Emmanuel, and forcing him to sleep in the staircase of their home at night.
If not that a non-government organisation, Esther Child Foundation, came to the rescue of little Emmanuel, he might have been dead by now as he now nurses severe injuries inflicted on him.
Mrs. Jacob, 29, who lives at 4, Muhammed Street, Santos, Egbeda area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, gave birth to Victor when she was 19 years old.
She had the boy for her lover, Mr. Paul Emmanuel who had since left her. She is now married to a new husband and has a child for him.
It was gathered that Victor was severely beaten by his mother at the slightest provocation, which led to deep injuries and cuts all over the boy’s body. The boy’s face is swollen with deep cuts on his cheeks.
According to Mrs. Esther Ogwu, the founder of Esther Child Foundation, she received a call from a resident in Egbeda to come quickly to rescue a boy who was being abused and tortured in the most dehumanising way by his mother.
“When we came, we met Victor in the staircase and that is where he sleeps. When I saw the wounds on his body, I couldn’t stand it and we had to arrest the woman and bring the boy to the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to take up the issue,” she explained.
She said that the woman beat her son severely because his new husband had told her he did not want to see the boy and that she should do something about the situation if she wanted him to stay with her.
Ogwu alleged that the woman’s intention was to kill the boy so that she would keep her new husband, adding that the boy needed urgent treatment and attention so that he would not die from the wounds inflicted on him.
“We rescued him because we don’t know the next action that may lead to the boy’s death. The boy does not even attend school,” she added.
At the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA, where the woman and her son were taken to, staff of the ministry were in shock when they saw the deep wounds on Victor’s body and could not believe that his mother could treat him like that.They described her as a wicked woman.
A top official of the ministry, who craved anonymity because she is not authorised to speak with pressmen, said the first thing the government would do was to write a letter to the management of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, to urgently admit the boy and treat him so that he would not die.
When asked if Victor was truly her son, Mrs. Jacob said yes, saying that she regretted her action, admitting that she was guilty of beating her son in such a deadly manner.
She was in tears but her tears did not move officials of the WAPA ministry who were angry at the way the boy was maltreated by her.
According to Jacob, she gave birth to Victor when she was not yet married and that Victor’s father used to beat and throw her out of the house on several occasions, which was why she left him.
Mrs. Jacob, who hails from Akwa Ibom State, said when Victor was brought to her from the village and that when she remembered the way her former lover treated her, she unleashed her anger on her son.
“Anytime he did something wrong, I vent the anger of what his father did to me by beating him. I was angry about the manner I was beaten by my former husband,” she said, adding that her new husband had left for South Africa because he did not want to see the boy again.
When asked, little Victor, who managed to speak in Pidgin English said his mother used to beat him with cable when he did something wrong.
However, the state government is considering prosecuting the mother under the child rights law, while Victor would be taken to one of the state’s rehabilitation homes for adequate care.
