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I often wonder if this saying is true "What you sow, you'll reap" in other words, God gives as per your inner conscious ?

LAW does not apply to GOD! He can do what ever He wants and no one can question Him. He can make a wicked man rich, famous, healthily and prosperous but a honest man a beggar.... That's His will. And how can anyone question Him? He is the  LORD forever and there is no one who can  challenge His authority and power! After all, everything in the world belong  to Him.. He rules for ever and ever, and there is no end to His Kingdom.

Even Moses did not want the task He had given him... When God wants He wants it... no matter who you are. He can select anyone and give whatever he wants... whenever He wants... however He wants...

Now if we go as per the saying ""What you sow, you'll reap"" than we are fit to receive nothing... still He gives... why? because He loves us and gives us freely... remember it is He who initates and we take-over.

There are many people who want to make a change in their lives but are unable to do so. Frequently, it is fear that keeps them from making that change.  Fear of stepping outside of their comfort zone, fear of the unknown and even fear of failure.

That's not the end... I know people that will not openly talk about God for fear of being labeled a Jesus Freak, or heretic. They strongly believe in the word of God but are afraid to express how they truly feel because of what others might say about them.  They won't even bow their heads when eating in public for fear of being caught in a position of worship.

It happened to me too, when I started writing for this website, I was afraid that others wouldn't find any value in what I had to say. Infact I did not want TO START this website " GUADIANANGEL".

BUT, I truly had to be accountable to God and myself. Today I am alive because He has saved me from many dangers... And in return, what have I done to Him?

Obviously, I wasn't expecting "GUARDIANANGEL" website... Its too risky and lots to do with bible reading... and I have not touched Bible for more than 15 years nor did I attend Mass every Sunday. My going to Church was only on a easter day and christmas / new year.

Frankly, I was not afraid of being rejected, but was very sure that I would not be able to build "GUADIANANGEL". Then one day, I realized that the only person, who was holding me back, was me. If I truly believed in my heart all of the things that I had been taught and BELIEVED about the word of God, then I had to overcome my fears and step out on faith.

Now! The word of God had already told me that the Holy Spirit indwelled within me.  The word of God had already said, that
"I can do all things through Holy Spirit."  The word of God said, "He would never leave me nor forsake me." His word says that He gives strength to the weary, blesses and encourages our hearts.

So my friends, I challenge you to trust God and know that He can do anything but fail and that means that if You trust Him, so will You, no matter who you are!

Or-else this world will be filled with evil people and WE are to be blamed!

Ah! Why WE?

The Bible tells us Satan has a kingdom. Jesus called him "the ruler of this world" (John 12:31). Paul said he was a prince with power over "the air." The devil rules the atmosphere in which we live and breathe. His ideas influence conversations we hear. He shapes much of the content in today's movies, TV programs, and music. All our lives, he has been broadcasting, and we are in agreement with him. He's willing to use anyone and anything to convey his diabolical messages. This is what has to be overcome.
 
Satan also has followers to do his bidding. In addition to his hoard of demons, he also seeks to lure people into his service. As Paul said, his spirit "now works in the sons of disobedience. " Many people, even without knowing it, come under this satanic influence.

Satan is with us always. But we have to understand that nobody else can dicide for us, God has given us our right of choice of whom we want to be in union with. When God begins to convert us, He makes us well aware that we have a choice and that we can resist and determine who we want to be united with—God or Satan—just as we can determine in our own lives who we want to be friends with.
 
Yet the kingdom of darkness has limits, and Satan can be defeated. It's crucial that we not be "ignorant of his devices" (2 Corinthians 2:11). This means we can't walk "according to the course of this world" or seek to fulfill "the desires of the flesh and the mind." Instead, we must live under the direction of the Holy Spirit.

God has put us into the position where we have the opportunity to use our time and energy to make the choice of whether we will be in union with Him. He leaves the choice to us. It is a tremendous thing that He does this because it produces wonderful effects.
 
Today, remember that God has given you the tools to defeat Satan. But you must fill your life with God's Word and fight in the power of His Spirit. Declare the promises of Scripture, and let them shape your thoughts. Be ready to exercise the authority God has given you. Be careful what you allow into your life through TV, the Internet, and other media. As a member of God's Kingdom, you can be victorious!






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Great!
by Sofia L on 15th Aug, 2008
Ah, got it! Thanks.
 
Trust
by Theresa on 15th Aug, 2008
All of us have our ups and downs, but this does not mean we look else where for comfort. Turn toward God and he will help you. During times of troubles when I am confused and don't know what to do I just open the Bible and the answer to my problem lies there. I have never known any instance when I turned towards the Lord and He did not help me, it's true He may have not given me an answer when I wanted it or needed it or when I thought was the right time, He gave it to me when He thought it was the right time. Do not give up on the Lord if he does not answer your prayers at the same time, may be you think it is the right time for you but the Lord knows better, trust Him.
 
God wants the best of us...
by Yankita on 15th Aug, 2008
Trusting in the Lord is the patient exception that God will fulfill His promises in His Word and strengthen us to rise above life's difficulties.
Do you believe God loves you and wants the best for you?
Can you relax; confident that His purposes are right?
Are you convinced that He has the power to control all of life--and your life as well?
Though your faith may be struggling or weak, accept His provision and care for you.
 
Life is a series of experiences!
by Henry on 15th Aug, 2008
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
 
Everything we do, there is a lesson to be learned.
by Cyntia Mendes on 15th Aug, 2008
I would like to believe that in everything we do, there is a lesson to be learned. I know that is usually the case for me. Even our failures and disappointments can be a learning experience if we allow it. Remember, our life experiences are but an opportunity for God to step in and show out!
Be Blessed
 
GODS VOICE !!!
by Margaret on 15th Aug, 2008
When God really wants to get your attention, He doesn't just say something once. He echoes. The same scripture, idea, or theme will reappear until you can't help but wonder if a greater something, or Someone, is at work.
The persistent voice of God in our lives--the sacred echo--is available if we take time to slow down and really listen.
In our modern world, it's easy to think you can do things on your own. But if you want to begin hearing God's voice, you need to seek Him and recognize your dependence on Him.
That means being honest with Him. Admit your need for Him. Confess your disappointment with Him. Ask Him to give you ears to hear and eyes to see the ways in which He is speaking. And ask Him for the ability to discern His voice apart from your own.
 
Dear God ! ! !
by John Pinto on 15th Aug, 2008
Dear God...
I know you're watching over me
And I'm feeling truly blessed
For no matter what I pray for
You always know what's best ! ! !
 
LEARN FROM OTHERS TOO
by Francisco Afonso on 16th Aug, 2008
LEARN FROM OTHER FAITHS TOO.
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist

We live in an age of discovery and research, a phase when concepts dating back to the past are being challenged and reworked. This applies to religious concepts as well. No one can say that his or her religious viewpoint is the universal truth. The so called gospel truths that we speak of are not unanimous axioms which are irrefutable like mathematical propositions. This applies to sayings within the Bible and in other religious texts too. Many of us, erroneously believe, that because a statement has been made by someone of our faith from antiquity it must be correct because it was handed down the ages. But is it really so? For instance, for many decades the church endorsed the view that earth was the centre of the universe because the Genesis chapter gave our world a special privilege. It was Copernicus and Galileo who subsequently proved the biblical notion wrong. They challenged the then prevailing church perception. Since every so called religious doctrine errs in one way or the other, no religious text can claim authenticity as the word of God. There are fundamentalists within every major religion like Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and so forth who on some pretext or the other adamantly assert that theirs is a version which has been divinely ordained. Can any Muslim testify in a court of evidence that God actually wrote the Koran? Can any Jew testify that God really wrote the Talmud or a Christian swear that Jesus uttered all the sayings in the Bible?

The answer, which nevertheless challenges many of our precepts, is a plain no. Bigotry is one of the major ills affecting modern society. The Muslim likes to think the Koran is genuine, the Jew prefers to think otherwise, the Catholic despises the Jew because the Bible tells him the Jews killed Christ and so the line of hatred continues. Because they can never come to a compromise, religious wars have been fought and are still being fought today. This is not because there is a man called Satan, who has two horns protruding out of its head, trying to tempt one to do evil.There is no devil who as the Bible suggests is hovering above the air and influencing whatever we watch or hear or touch.

The answer to why we humans tend to act in disgusting ways lies in our very nature. All of us, no matter what faith we subscribe to, have the capability to do virtuous deeds and we also have the ability to inflict the greatest harm. When we lose a grip on our conscience we let our baser selves take over. It is not because of some Narkasur or Satan that we do this. These are merely man-made personifications of our evil side . Whether one hears of Satan or not, the potential to do evil resides in everyone. Whether you believe God is going to reward you or not, there is also the potential to do good. Everyone knows doing good is constructive, doing evil is destructive. In fact deliberately doing evil is very often self-defeating because what we do to others irreversibly affects us in return, no matter the creed we profess. . We cannot say that it is alright to tell a Hindu a lie because God will save us since we are regular church or mosque goers.

When we do any action that is morally repugnant by being discriminatory or harmful, it is our conscience that tells us we are deviating from the right path That conscience has been bestowed to all human beings by God in order to help us decipher when we are treading along a path that is detrimental to us. It is not something that has been granted only to Jews because they claim they were the ones who were the first to hear the word of God. Can you be certain God spoke to them first? Historical scholars are discovering that the Jews borrowed many of their spiritual theories from other civilizations like Zoroastrians, Egyptians and so forth. Because of the criss crossing of cultural and other traditions, no faith can claim any exclusivity to such notions as being the first to hear the word of God.

There were religions with morally sound principles that predated or at least existed contemporary to Judaism. What all this boils down to is that we can all learn from other faiths too on how to better ourselves. True, we can turn to the Bible for solace but it does not have all the answers. Yes, one can seek refuge in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib but it too does not have all the answers. We think we have all the answers because we have been told to treasure our religious books. But we don't. This does not mean we swallow everything from all other religious texts. What it means is that we can always broaden our horizons through interaction and be ready to reject whatever is incongruous even if it means discarding long-held beliefs. Have you ever wondered why deeply devout people commit murders and why sometimes total atheists have gone out of their way to selflessly help others? Can any one religion provide the riposte to such questions? Definitely not. We have a lot to learn from others who do not belong to our flock or share our views. After all haven't we born into this world to constanly adapt, learn, relearn and make this world a better place?
 
To Francisco Afonso - pl wait for my reply
by Jenifer Mascarenhas (USA) on 16th Aug, 2008
To Mr. Francisco Afonso, just give me a day, i will give you a reply for your above right-up!!!
 
Reply to Mr. Francisco Afonso (part One)
by Jenifer Mascarenhas (USA) on 16th Aug, 2008

[Reply to Mr. Francisco Afonso (part One)]
When you say that we live in an age of discovery and research... Its nothing new. This has been happening right from the day world was created. And there's always some who will challenge or rework, that does not mean "TRUTH is NOT TRUTH". Now if a person can't say that his religious viewpoint is the universal truth, that means he does not know his religion. It is not true that we believe the Bible merely because its by someone of our faith or because it was handed down the ages. We believe the Bible because it is God who gives the Grace to us to believe, for instant , there are many who read the Bible. Do everyone believe it? No. Only person with Gods Grace can Believe! If you Talk and Think like a fundamentalists, there's lots to say, still most fundamentalists pray when they are confused and cant find an answer to their problems. One of the most valuable lessons to learn is to recognize Gods anointing / Holy Spirit and stir it up inside of you. Each of us are anointed differently. One thing is clear it is the anointing (or the empowerment of the Holy Spirit) that defeats the enemy.

What is the anointing? The Definitions are: (1) A Strong Unction by the Holy Spirit (2) Specific empowerment for service (3) Special endowment of the Holy Ghost.

One definition is -the anointing is the presence of the Holy Spirit being smeared upon someone. It is literally the smearing of the anointing of God into our lives that makes us able to do what He wants done. It is the overflowing life of Gods LOVE which imparts supernatural strength enabling an person to perform a special task or function he is called and appointed to.

One of the definitions is when the Holy Spirit supernaturally makes you able to do something that you cannot take credit for by natural talent or physical means. It is the Holy Spirit gifting that makes you able to achieve anything that you achieve for the LORD. You have nothing that God didn’t give to you.

One thing is sure that in order to walk in the anointing there is a price to pay, and it is a heavy price. To receive the anointing and to walk in it are two entirely different things.

In the Old Testament, God would anoint a person to function effectively in a particular office. For example, He would choose a person and anoint him to stand in the office of a prophet. He would choose another and anoint him to stand in the office of a priest. He would choose still another one and anoint him to stand in the office of a king. David, God's chosen one, had the anointing of a king, a prophet and also a priest.

Moses was anointed deliverer. Even though they killed all the babies under two years old, they couldn’t kill Moses, because He was anointed to do that job. God’s hand was on him.

You can see what the anointing of God can do in the life of a person who is called by God. After the time in the wilderness, Jesus was no longer passive, but He started to demonstrate the power of God's kingdom by destroying the works of the devil. The anointing is for service to the King of kings. It is not to build our little kingdoms on earth. Jesus was there to do God's will, not to please an organization, or any man but to be the carrier of God's anointing.

Our flesh is no match for satan. There is no power, no bomb, or no technology that can destroy the works of the devil. It is only the anointing of Holy Spirit that can break the yokes. It shall come to pass in that day that his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil. Isaiah 10:27

When you stir up the anointing, the Holy Spirit teaches you. I found that if I would seek God, He would see that I had what I needed. Many times I was praying about something I was trying to study when He caused that to be the very sermon that the pastor preached or a specific question was answered on the radio for example. I have passed billboards on churches where the scripture displayed was the exact answer that I needed from God.

In John 15:7, He said if you abide in me and my words abide in you… That empowerment of the Holy Spirit inside of you will bear witness when the Holy Spirit is teaching you something. You will know by the spirit when it is of God because God is washing your mind in the Word of God. (1 John 2:27) But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

Satan is not a creator. He is a counterfeiter. He always tries to imitate the genuine, even right in the midst of church sometimes. Now don't misunderstand what I am saying. It can be a genuine move of the Holy Spirit, but in these last days we have to discern. Satan will give you ten gallons of good if he can sneak in one teaspoon of his poison. We have to be grounded in and bathed in the Word of the GOD and His Holy Spirit to discern the real from the fake. We can’t take everything for granted. Those who are really anointed will never speak against the will and the word of God and will bring life to others.

We must seek God continually in so many ways to be sure that we have the Holy Spirit to do whatever it is that God wants done. The Holy Spirit is always in you, you just have to stir it up.

My kids are up, will get back soon [part Two is yet to come]
 
Response to Ms Jenifer Macarenhas Part One reply.
by Francisco Afonso on 17th Aug, 2008
Dear Ms Mascarenhas,
Before you proceed to counter my position with a second part, permit me to point out certain discrepancies in the first part of your discourse. You begin with the defective premise that discovery and research have been happening since the world has been created. Im using the term research to mean systematic investigation to establish facts A fact is something verifiable. Although mankind has always been postulating various theories and seeking answers, the need to cross examine what has been stumbled upon or arrived at is not immemorial. Verifiability is one important aspects of truth. Your retort that this does not mean that "truth is not the truth" is very vague. You are presupposing that what you wish or believe to be true, must therefore necessarily be correct. Many people insist that UFOs do exist because they think they saw one. I did not suggest that people who cannot say their religion is the universal truth do not know their religion.What I said was that even people who know their religion thoroughly cannot convincingly defend their version to be the genuine reality.

Truth has its own intrinsic value. Something is true and verifiable independent of your beliefs and your behavior. An apple will fall to the ground because of the law of gravity and that law does not change for you to suspend that apple in mid air, irrespective of whether you know little about your religion or a lot of it. A belief does not change or constitute the truth. As I said in my previous post many people once believed that the earth was the centre of the solar system.Would you still tell your children today that all the planets revolve round the earth? Now. if you believed the Bible is right you would have told them the Old Testament view is correct. But you certainly know that the Bible view on the earth's position in the solar system is incorrect. If you still want to lean on the Bible version it does not change the actual proven fact: that it is the sun that planets revolve round and not the earth.

Another aspect of truth is that it should be universal. If a statement is true in Africa, it can not be false in India. or partly true in New York. If someone accepts that two times five equals ten in Africa, he cannot claim that the result is fifteen in New York. Even a person without God's blessings can see that two times five equals ten is true everywhere and anytime.

Because you believe something is true by divine grace it does not automatically become the truth as defined according to the standard above .By this standard even the Muslims could equally say that the Koran is true because Allah's grace has led them to believe so. I do not think and act like a fundamentalist. That label would more appropriately apply to you since a fundamentalist assumes that every word in his religious text is the literal truth. I beg to differ on whether each and every word in any kind of religious text is actually true. You boldly proclaim "one thing is clear that anointing or empowerment of the holy spirit defeats the enemy." What enemy are you talking about. Satan? Or an enemy in real life? Or someone who does not concur with your views? Does something cease to be false because it has been uttered by your friend? If my maths teacher in school shows me that the sum I worked on has a flaw in it, can I discard what he has demonstrated to be wrong because I detest him for not going to Mass ? Or may be I should empower the Holy Spirit to drive Satan away from him so he gets empowered to go for Mass and lets me through with my skewed calculations.

Your specifying about what anointing is whether as a ritual of smearing or empowering is irrelevant to the debate here. But I will tackle this issue too. Do you mean to say that those who have not been smeared on their foreheads and have not asked for something or someone to empower them been unable to perform supernatural feats? I would suggest that you see record holders in the Guiness Book of World Records and note down how many of them have been anointed or walked in it. Anointing is a man made ritual, Because some holy books mention about anointments (not only the Bible), it does not mean God has sanctioned it.Agreed there is nothing that God hasn't given us but anointing does not add to it, nor does not being anointed or empowered subtract it. What do you have to say about those people who have occupied important positions of power such as kings and statesmen who were supposedly not anointed at all?
Contrary to your perception not everyone who supposedly is anointed by God functions effectively, at least not so in a moral sense.
The Inquisition was carried on brutally by those very men who reiterated they were appointed by God to do those dastardly acts. Not that crimes in the name of God or barbarism is not a feature of other religions either. On the flip side, not every effectve ruler has been empowered or anointed. Have you seen any scripture flash across the screen that explains why the Inquistors who swore allegiance to God committed such unchristian acts? Or are you trying to tell me that the Holy Spirit teaches it was God's will that those who do not believe in Christ must suffer. Then may be it is also God's will that all those who do not consent to Muhammad being a holy prophet should be killed by jihadis. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander too.

Mere anointing does not teach anyone to learn. Nor does it mean that you accept everything at face value if you are anointed. If that were so Bill Gates would have been taught to learn how a computer works and write his Windows programme (with the help of which you respond to my mail ) only after having his forehead marked with ash. What makes someone learn is willingness and an insatiable curiosity. Software programming involves rejecting those steps that hinder the computer operating system from reading the language written . Anointment does not matter here. One can learn things and yet be a morally upright person even if he or she has not been anointed or none have called upon the Holy Spirit to empower him.

By saying Satan tries to imitate the genuine right in the midst of the church sometimes, you are getting yourself trapped in a circular argument.A vicious circle where you unknowingly imply God is powerless to ward off evil or lets Satan tempt everyone just for the fun of it.. No I don't misunderstand you Ms Mascarenhas but I know you misunderstand yourself. In the next breath you say we have to discern these days whether it is a genuine move of the Holy Spirit I am not quite sure what exactly you are trying to get at.
"Those who are really anointed will never speak against the word of God and bring life to others" This translates as all those who speak the word of God bring life to others right?. Im sure by bring to life you mean more than resuscitation. History proves otherwise. Please awaken an Inquisitor from his grave and ask why after speaking the word of God he took the life of some of our Hindu ancestors. Here's an example closer to you. CBS News once reported that its Los Angeles correspondent Vince Gonsalves had uncovered a Vatican document kept secret for 40 years laying out a a church policy that calls for absolute secrecy when it comes to sexual abuse by priests - anyone who speaks out could be thrown out of the church. Is this bringing life to others? Yes these may be isolated cases and this does not mean the church is itself a devious instituition but it only refutes your statement that those who never speak against the word of God bring life to others. Like I emphasised above a statement that does not hold ground universally cannot be true.

Im not here to stop you or anyone else from believing things Ms Mascarenhas. It's quite possible for a person to believe in things that are not yet proven to be true or false. But I object to people insist in believing things are true and good when they are explicity shown to be false. My yardstick applies to people of all faiths. What I wrote in my previous posting and have written now applies to non-Christians as well.

As for what exactly was Jesus mission on earth, I leave it entirely on religious scholars, historians and anthropologists to decide We need not delve into it in this discussion.
I have emailed this rejoinder not as a personal affront on you or anyone else but to demonstrate how ,when not reasoned out, inconsistent human cognitive processes can get.Sorry, I don't believe a two-horned Satan persuaded me to write this. I believe in what is right and just, in truth goodness and inner beauty. I believe in peace and harmony. And I pray that God bless you, me and everyone else with these endearing virtues.

With regards,
Francisco Afonso.
 
The beauty of grace.....
by Jenifer Mascarenhas (USA) on 17th Aug, 2008
The beauty of grace..... is that it meets us where we are and gives us what we don't deserve.

“God does not give His grace as He gives His sunshine - pouring it out on all alike. He discriminates in spiritual blessings. He gives strength according to our need. His eye is ever on us in tender, watchful love, and what we need He supplies.”

just give me a day, i will give you a reply Mr. Francisco Afonso!!
 
Heal your Heart Francisco!
by Jenifer Mascarenhas (USA) on 18th Aug, 2008
Do you think God could heal your heart Francisco? Do you want Him to? This is not a tricky question. “Do you want to be well?” You may be addicted to two-horned friend. But if you want Him to, he can change your identity. Do you want Him to do so?

Do you have a better option?
Like moving to a rejection-free zone? If so, enjoy your life on your desert island.

God can help you get rid of your two-horned friend. He made galaxies no one has ever seen and dug canyons we have yet to find. God will load your world with flowers. He hand-delivers a bouquet to your door every day. Open it! Take them! Then, when rejections come, you won’t be left short-petaled.

The difference is huge. And the interpretation is obvious.
God loves you. Personally. Powerfully. Passionately. Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love. And His love--if you will let it--can fill you and leave you with a love worth giving.

The knife of the heavenly Surgeon never cuts deeper than is absolutely necessary. A mother's heart cries, "Spare my child"; but no mother is more compassionate than our gracious God.
 
NO REJECTION
by Francisco Afonso on 19th Aug, 2008
Dear Ms Mascarenhas,

Thank you for your reply. You have, however, failed to grasp the import of my posting nor have you read it carefully. You jump to hasty conclusions. While my ways of approaching God and seeking divine benediction may differ from yours, it does not infer that I live in a rejection free zone or that I am living in a desert island.

You seem to be obsessed with this mythological interpretation of evil as a two-horned beast and wrongly insist that this creature has a hold on me. Just because I question or challenge an incongruous religious viewpoint, it does not mean my heart is not well spiritually or physically.

While I may not agree with every interpretation of a person, it does not follow that I personally hate that person. I only don't see consistency in that person's manner of thinking. Despite my questioning attitude of men's beliefs, I have not stopped trusting in God and do not think God has or will ever abandon me.

God bless and regards,
Francisco Afonso.
 
Catholic - Double Life Is Doomed To Fail
by Ken Fernandes on 21st Aug, 2008
Living a double life as a Catholic who goes to Mass but does not witness his or her faith publicly is doomed to fail. Going to Mass on Sundays but being unwilling to share the faith in public with friends and family or others is contrary to living as a true disciple of Christ, it is like "living in a vegetative state." "Jesus wants all of us, and not just on Sundays. We need to take Christ at his word, We need to Love Him like our lives depend on it - right now! Loving and believing in Christ and trusting his church is every Christian's mission in life. We cant live in a half-way Christianity. Every double life will inevitabily self-destruct. Being a Christian is who you ae, and being a Christian means your life has a mission. It means striving every day to become more like Jesus in your thoughts and actions. Jesus' message to the man who told him he wanted to be a disciple but first wanted to bury his father - "Leave the dead to bury the dead' follow me and proclaim the kingdom of god" is a stark and disturbing reminder. "There can be no more urgent priority in our lives than following Christ and proclaiming his kingdom.

"Don't worry about anything, instead pray about everything, Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done

Alleluia
Ken Fernandes
 
What you sow, you will reap
by Anthony P. Pereira on 15th Aug, 2008
Very nice article. I believe and have experienced this in life.

I am 60 now and regret lot what and how I managed my past life. During my younger days, I had no guidance and tried to seek guidance from people who misguided me and influenced by their actions did not go forward with my life due to fear of more failures in life and today I am lonely due to my own faults and decisions.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the above article and would like to read more such articles which will bring me more closer to God and do everything according to his Will. - Thank you Guardian Angel.

Very sincerely Yours in Christ, -Philip
 
Reaping what one sows.
by James Lewis on 19th Oct, 2008
"Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done" (Isaiah 3:10-11,).

Every right thinking man wants good things happen to him. He wishes good things for himself. He does good things to himself. Nevertheless, good things cannot be his portion if he is not good to other people.

The Lord told Prophet Isaiah to inform His people about what He planned to do for them according to what they were doing: good things for the righteous and disaster for the wicked. This is not a matter of either God is good or not. It is a matter of reaping what one sows.
 
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