Training To Be Godly
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
1 Timothy 4:7-8 said: “Train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”
Training oneself to be godly and training to have a toned body has one thing in common; you are doing it on a regular basis to achieve your goal. To be godly, you need to have regular spiritual disciplines like prayer, fasting, retreats, Sabbath, reading the bible etc. these things when done in a regular basis it’ll make you spiritually healthy just like in your body, if you won’t exercise, train or workout on a daily basis you will going to have unhealthy body that will lead you to being obese and when that time happened you will think of visiting California to have liposuction Beverly Hills.
Understand That God's Desire For You Is Life, Abundant and Eternal.
The Bible declares: "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).
Giving you abundant life required the supreme sacrifice: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).
God desires fellowship and companionship with you. What a wonderful gift the Father has given, yet if God gave His own Son to provide an abundant and everlasting life, why don’t more people have what He has designed for us to receive? It is a question answered by this sobering realization.
God loves His people so much, that he gave His only begotten son Jesus Christ to save us from our sins. You see, giving your one and only son is a very hard thing to do, especially if you are a parent.
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1 Corinthians 11:2-16
I just wanted to go back on these passages, because a male friend of mine cut his hair after reading 1 Corinthians 11:2-16. I can track those times that he took care for his hair for how many months just to make it to his desired length. But all of a sudden his obsession of having a nice long hair stops with this passages.
1 Corinthians 11:2-16
2 I am so glad, dear friends, that you always keep me in your thoughts and you are following the Christian teaching I passed on to you. 3 But there is one thing I want you to know: A man is responsible to Christ, a woman is responsible to her husband, and Christ is responsible to God. 4A man dishonors Christ if he covers his head while praying or prophesying. 5But a woman dishonors her husband if she prays or prophesies without a covering on her head, for this is the same as shaving her head. 6Yes, if she refuses to wear a head covering, she should cut off all her hair. And since it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or her head shaved, then she should wear a covering. 7A man should not wear anything on his head when worshiping, for man is God’s glory, made in God’s own image, but woman is the glory of man. 8For the first man didn’t come from woman, but the first woman came from man. 9 And man was not made for woman’s benefit, but woman was made for man. 10 So a woman should wear a covering on her head as a sign of authority because the angels are watching.
11But in relationships among the Lord’s people, women are not independent of men, and men are not independent of women. 12For although the first woman came from man, all men have been born from women ever since, and everything comes from God.
13What do you think about this? Is it right for a woman to pray to God in public without covering her head? 14 Isn’t it obvious that it's disgraceful for a man to have long hair? 15And isn’t it obvious that long hair is a woman's pride and joy? For it has been given to her as a covering. 16But if anyone wants to argue about this, all I can say is that we have no other custom than this, and all the churches of God feel the same way about it.
PWF's first Gent's Night
The young men of PWF have just initiated their first Gent's Night last Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at the residence of Ptr. Sigrid. Gent's Night is a gathering of young men who have been instilled with a burden to become God's frontline warriors who will intercede for our Pastor, our ministry, our family, our friends, our country, our community and our fellow believers.
Their objective is to be sensitive with God's dealings and the Holy Spirit's moving and at the same time be sensitive with the enemy's workings and his plans against God's children, by living a life of fasting and prayer. We want to serve as the frontline force in the Spiritual Warfare against the forces of hell.
As Paul said in Ephesians 6:12, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
During the meeting they discussed about one of Satan’s top ranking demon who is at work right now to destroy ministries and churches that are having the mighty move of the Holy Spirit. This demon is Leviathan (Psalm 74:14; Isaiah 27:1), a reptile-like creature who grabs ministries and churches with its jaws to try to force them into giving-up and eventually destroy them. As warriors for Christ we need to know our enemy in order for us to be effective in discerning his plans and strategies against us and how to effectively fight him.
Unfortunately, I miss this gathering; I admit that I need things like this to make my faith stronger since I am so weak. I was a PWF member before but because of being so weak, I refuse to attend on prayer meetings and worst came where I never attend the Sunday service. Anyway, being Christian is not measured by what group you are in or what church you belong to, it is your heart’s passion to serve the Lord that is most important. As long as your faith is there for the Lord and you are welling to restore your faith in Him. But it is not like having a New Jersey hair restoration where you just pay the doctor and that’s it, it must be coming from your heart.