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your work of faith, labor of love, and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ

December 16, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

This morning I enjoyed this verse so much – 1 Thes 1:3, ‘Remembering unceasingly your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father’. Just to pray over this verse, to ask the Lord, Lord, may my work be a work of faith, […]

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our Christian life is a life of preaching the gospel by loving one another

December 14, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

Until the Lord comes, since we are saved, we preach the gospel through our living, our attitude, our words – our very Christian life is a preaching of the gospel. Actually, according to Paul’s word in Phil 1:5-6, it is Christ who does this good work of preaching the gospel. Christ preaches the gospel in […]

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Our Christian life is a life of the altar and the tent, just like Abraham’s life

December 9, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

Abraham’s life was characterized by these two things: he built an altar, and he lived in a tent. Whenever God appeared to him, he didn’t GO and do something immediately: he simply built an altar, consecrating himself to God, putting everything he is and was and had on the altar. This is actually what God […]

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our believing is not our natural virtue, but a reaction to the appearing of God

December 8, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

If you read the history of Abraham, you will see that, even though people call him a “giant of faith”, he was not such a big “giant” (actually, God is the giant of faith). All his “great steps” were taken in faith after God appeared to him. It looks like just after God appears to […]

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faith and love are two inseparable virtues of the believers in Christ, Titus 3:15

December 3, 2009 by aGodMan 1 Comment

My words are not adequate, but I enjoyed Titus 3:15 all these past few months, especially by listening to it being sung, me singing it, singing it with the saints in a spontaneous way, and reading & enjoying the explanatory footnotes on this short verse. It is indeed true: the Word has so much in […]

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we were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ

November 27, 2009 by aGodMan 1 Comment

1 Cor. 1:9 says God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Our God is a faithful God – He called us into the fellowship of His Son – He called us and placed us in the vine, Christ as the embodiment of God! Here […]

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