Prayer

Sunday Service
by: Ptr. Rufino Lagat

Acts 1-4
We must pray, and pray with out ceasing!

What Prayer can do!

1. We can receive Power through Prayer
Acts1:14, 2:4 --> the Apostle received Power through Prayer
-they all joined together constantly in prayer. they where all filled with the Holy Spirit
No Prayer, No Power!




2. We can release Power  through Prayer
Acts 3:1-10 --> Peter and John healed the lame. They Receive and release the power given.


3. We can fight/response to Crisis and persecutions through Prayer
- they use prayer as a response to crisis and persecutions! some will take us in our belief , most will not but our response to these is Prayer!

4. We can resolved all in Prayer!
- wow amen to this!
Acts6:3--> even after all the crisis and the persecutions the church grew in number because they never cease in Praying!
- they pass the responsibility to continue the work of God. they build disciples through prayer.

Do not substitute Prayer with ministry. Prayer works hand in hand with the ministry of God. We work powerfully with the ministry of God if we fervently Pray with out ceasing!

MRLG

"NOBODY" ordinary to extraordinary

I wonder why the Bible uses small or little things to describe great things, such as,
ants - store up food for the whole rainy season ( not just one, for couple of months)
mustard seeds - a small plant that turns out to be the largest among the plants
coneys - little power but build their own houses
locust - no king but advance together in ranks ( leadership)
lizards - caught in a hand but found in king's palace
these are little creatures but do extra-ordinary things as God made them to be ..
Have you ever tried to think you are a "Nobody", while reading the above what are you getting?
 hmm i realize something. I am a NOBODY that is made to do great things, and that is because I am His and He is a great Big God.
sometimes we feel like  a "Nobody" , but if we do, smile because it confirms that we are made to do great things if we give ourselves to Him. God will never use people who think they have what its needs to be successful. He favored people who believe they are somebody when God is present in their lives!

with God we are made to do great things.
Win, Consolidate, Disciple, Send

Psalms 15

Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary?
 Who may live in your Holy hill?


He whose walk is blameless
  and who does what is righteous,
who speaks the truth from his heart
 and has no slander on his tongue,
who does his neighbor no wrong
 and cast to slur on his fellowman,
who despise a vile man but honors those who fear the Lord,
who keeps his oath
  even when it hurts,
who lends his money with out usury
 and does not accept a bribe against 
 the innocent.


He who does these things 

 will never be shaken.

Forgiveness is not an option it's a command

Samal Ministry

  
"Go and make Disciples"

Mathew 28:19

       Matthew 5:13      "you are the salt of the earth"

"Everything is possible for him who believes"

Mark 9:23

"For nothing is impossible with God"

Luke 1:37

"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these."

Mark 10:14




  Matthew 6:10      
"Your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in  heaven"


Goal for May Encounter: 65 participants

Paint the Town Red

Paint the Town Red

Sub title:     Paint My Love!

1John3:16

In relation to what Ptr.  Jsalem shared last Friday. Painting the town Red means spreading the blood of Jesus who saves lives. Ptr. Jsalem explained in Exodus12 that if a house is covered with blood the angel would just passed away that house and will not do any harm. Meaning Salvation is in their lives already, regardless of who the person was before . Now with these truth we ought to paint the town red for the salvation of many lives that are not yet in God’s kingdom. Now the door represents God’s kingdom. If the blood of Christ is not in door of your life you’re not in God’s kingdom, you are in the door of the enemy. As Disciples it's are greatest privilege to Paint the town Red!

Paint my love.. I guess most of us remember Michael learns to Rock? It’s a song where a man describes how a woman paints his love. But how do we really paint someones love for us? like our parents, friends and others. Paint means to shade, tint, fill-in or how do we supposed to response on someone's love.

Let's talk about Jesus who is the ultimate and perfect example of how to response to love, love for His Father

How did Jesus paint his love?

Jesus paints His love with Passion

>When comes to passion it lead Him to do far more He can imagine , that is something God imagine for Him. Because God’s imagination is far more higher than ours and when we get to the point of having Christ’s passion it will lead us to unimaginable things. It will lead us to work in an unimaginable ways. That’s how he painted his love for us with great passion. 

Jesus paints His love with Compassion 

>When it comes to compassion Christ did not just pity us because we are sinner but he found away to execute or work his compassion for us, he worked His compassion for us, feed thousand, teaching them us to live right, how to be a good citizens

Jesus paints His love with Humility

>when it comes to humility, though He is the son of God , He gave that title up for greater purpose. He has everything but He did not use that so not to fulfil His calling or deny his purpose or do it in His convenient way. Jesus paint His love for us with all humility, so that we can be free.

Jesus paints His love with Obedience

>in obedience, love is not something we know bahala masuko si papa or si mama love nako ni sya akong sundun akong gibati. Bahalag masuko silang tanan. Christ is the opposite examples of what we are today. Iya bahala masuko ang tanan masunod lang nako si God, because i know para ghapon ni sa tanan dili lng para sa akong kaayuhan. He painted His love with obedience.

All of these traits it lead me to realization that Jesus painted his love with this two radical things

His love for us

1.) Led in denying himself.  Mark 14:36, Matt. 26:42

> Abba Father, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not my will, but what you will.

-Jesus is Jesus , he is the son of God but he denied himself take up His cross because He love us..

Even the devil confesses his greatness Matt.4.

2.) Led Him to death.  Luke 23:46

Father into your hands I commit my spirit

-          Literally He gave his life for us. First was his will and then physically.

-          Now love should speak in this way. In will and it must lead to action which can be seen by physical eyes.

JESUS’ love was painted in words and in actions. His love was shown on the Cross.

Now this is very essential, very important, very basic for us to know before we could  Paint the Town Red, so that we can do it with conviction, with a believing heart, tagos sa bones ika nga.We should be the first that is convicted of what Jesus did on the Cross, and we should be the first to have this understanding that we are worth dying for, we are someone worth dying for so that we can tell the whole world with all passion that Christ did it for us.

And how do we paint His love? Paint my love! is Jesus saying give meaning life to what I have done.Is our love for God leads us to deny ourselves? Is our love for Christ leading us to death? Not physical death though, but to one’s own selfish will, wants, desire, purpose, dreams and ambitions.  Jesus is like telling us paint my love, bigyang buhay, bigyan kulay, bigyan ng kahulugan. Is our ACTION giving life, color or meaning to what he has done on the Cross?. Are we painting His love like what he did? I am speaking to myself also, these message is for us all, There are no other way that we could paint His love other than doing what he has done for us to others, by painting the town with salvation and what he did on the cross. Share God’words and his love. Care for people, love his people. It is not difficult to love God, but it's difficult and so hard to love the people of God, this will really show how much we love God if we can love his people even if they are unlovable. We can do these if we have the  revelation of his love for us. But Jesus demonstrated his love to us like that, and he is telling paint my love by painting that town with the kind of love I am showing you to other people! By doing it you are loving me much --> Jesus

How will we paint His love? 1John3:16

For those who are in Christ do what he did, for those who are not yet in Christ accept what he did! Then all together we will paint the town Red.

by: Ptr. Marie Rotess

Wilderness

composed: Nov2, 2011
posted: Nov6, 2011

Deuteronomy 2

There are two things I learned from this chapter and has kept in my heart and of course have also change my mindset. First, we all pass through "wilderness". and second thing, it's up to us how long we will stay in the "wilderness".

There may be a lot of reasons why we pass through "wilderness". In this chapter, they have to, to get to the promise land. They wandered through the desert for forty long years to get to the promise land, and sadly because of the long journey and because of their disobedience some of them were not able to make it.
Now here's the good news, it's not only you who are passing through the wilderness, marami pala tayo! And "wilderness" could be describe as a place where you don't exactly understand why you are there but it's necessary to complete the process of building one's Christian life, in or with regard to Faith, love, loyalty should I say, hope, humility and for the grace of God to work to get to your promised land. You and I pass through this stage maybe, it is because it’s our fault or could be, it's God's way of shaping us. But one thing for sure either way God is there with you and with me in the "wilderness". Because God is God, He is a Father and will always be no matter what.

In Deuteronomy 2:2
“You have made your way around this hill country long enough, now turn north”

But one thing that hit me was the long journey. The journey, originally, should take for about 11 days, but wow! they extended it for 40 long years. Let us try to differentiate 11 days to 40 years. Hmm... in 1 year there are 365 days times 40 years that is equals to 14,600 days. Now that is a big difference! What I am trying to point out, is yes! we all pass through wilderness, that’s a fact. But as to how long we will stay in the wilderness is a big different story. It’s up to us if we want to take the journey in the wilderness for 11 days or 40 years. Yes God will be with us either way ( sa 11 days or sa 40 years) but the question can we live up to that years? And for those who are behind us, can they wait for us until we are over with our wilderness? Or they too, will perish as we take the long journey in the wilderness? God can stay up to that years, but I don’t think we can!
If you believe you are in the wilderness, there’s only one thing to do, Trust God! Next thing to do is to move forward with humility. Do not complain or grumble because it will just prolong the journey and the agony. Huwag makipagtalo kay God! The more we do these things, like try to negotiate the will of God in our lives or do it our way, the longer we stay in the wilderness until we die there and never get to the promised land.
Ok lang agi ta or maka agi tag “wilderness” basta dili lang magtambay didto! agi lang ayaw puyo!
the choice is ours!

Keep moving forward!