Heart Of Worship

HEART OF WORSHIP
When we go to church to hear mass or to a Christian church to attend our fellowship service with the Lord, we do all things to prepare ourselves. We come in our Sunday's best. We choose the choicest seats in the church and acknowledge the presence of other church goers. We listen in rapt silence as the priest celebrates the mass or as the pastor delivers his soul moving sermon. We are thrilled to sing praise and worship songs to the Lord. But have we forgotten something? Have we forgotten the heart of worship? The reason why we are in the church, hearing mass or celebrating fellowship together with other Christians, is the very essence of our spiritual relationship with the Lord. We must never forget the sole and real heart of worship and that is, focusing our hearts, mind and soul to our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. He is the sole heart of worship. We must never leave the church without being filled with the Holy Spirit as we commune with God and feel the intimacy of His wondrous relationship with us. We must realize the full potential of our sonship of God and being co-heir with Jesus Christ of the kingdom of the Father. We must seek that intimacy with God, feeling His very presence in our hearts as we sing from our heart and soul our love, yearnings and aspirations in an intimate communing with the King of kings and the Lord of lords. We go home filled with so much joy and bursting with the fruit of the Holy Spirit as though we are walking on thin air. Yes, whenever we go to church, we must never forget the heart of worship who is Jesus Christ.


Hear this song and receive a special blessing in your life.

Heart Of Worship - Michael W. Smith




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Posted by: Mel Avila Alarilla
Philippines
Spiritual/Inspirational/Motivational

Contentment

CONTENTMENT
Contentment is living a life totally surrendered to the Lord. Circumstances will not bother us because we know that our God will take care of all our needs. We learn to become happy and content in moments of plenty and scarcity because we know that all these things shall pass, even temporary adversities and trials. Not that we will just fold our arms and wait for the blessings of God to fall down on our laps. We must always do our best to provide for our needs but expectant of God's divine providence in our lives. God will always make a way for us even in the most impossible situations, for He is a loving Father, ever loving and gracious to His beloved children. Did He not admonish us not to worry what we shall eat or wear for He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the lilies of the field whose beauty surpasses all the pomp and pageantry of Solomon's wardrobes? Remember how Jesus fed the five thousand in the wilderness with five loaves of bread and two fishes? And how God rained down manna and quails to the Jews during their desert trek? Let us live simple lives, fearing the Lord and walking in His ways. For the Lord who created the whole universe and countless of galaxies, who created the earth and everything in it, shall never let us suffer deprivation if we obey His will and walk in His ways. Living a simple life and thanking God for all the blessings we receive gives us a life of pure contentment.



Tags: God, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Contentment, Pure Joy, Peace, Loving Father, Gracious In Every Way, Divine Providence, What A Wonderful World, Gospel, Word of God, Holy Bible

Posted by: Mel Avila Alarilla
Philippines
Spiritual/Inspirational/Motivational

Today, July 15, Is My Birthday

Today, July 15, is my birthday. Don't ask me how old I am, lol. As they say, ask me no questions and I will tell you no answers. I gifted my kids with a 24 inch LCD Flat Colored TV and I treated them to McDo last Sunday so I may not be able to cook much on my natal day. To all my friends and readers, I share the joy of my birthday with a prayer for God's divine providence for all your needs. Thank you so much for always being there for me and giving me so much happiness by your wonderful comments. This is a birthday I dedicate and offer to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY. God bless us all always.


Birthday Song - Don McLean

Paul The Psychic Octopus Picks Spain To Win The World Cup

Breaking News: Spain won the 2010 World Cup of football upholding the 100% accuracy of the oracles of Paul- the psychic octopus. Amazing animal. Spain beat the Netherlands 1-0 in a gripping finale of the World Cup which was decided only in the last minute.

Paul the Octopus

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Paul the Octopus
Paul the Octopus in his aquarium tank next to a football boot marked with the German flag colours
Species	Octopus vulgaris
Sex	Male
Born	2008 Weymouth, Dorset, England
Occupation	Exhibit
Known for	Making predictions for the results of Germany's football matches
Owner	Sea Life Centres, Oberhausen, Germany (aquarium keeper: Oliver Walenciak)
Named after	A poem by Boy Lornsen, Der Tintenfisch Paul Oktopus

Paul the Octopus or Paul Oktopus (hatched in 2008, German: Paul der Krake) is a common octopus living in a tank at a Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany. The octopus is used as an animal oracle in an attempt to predict the results of football matches, usually international matches in which Germany is playing.

During a divination, the octopus is presented with two boxes. Each contains food, and is marked with the flag of a national football team in an upcoming match, among which he is said to choose his predicted winner. The octopus is reported to have chosen the box with the flag of the winning team in several of Germany's six Euro 2008 matches, and in each of their first six matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. On July 9, when presented with a box with a Spanish flag attached to it and another with the Netherlands flag, he ate the mussel in the box with the Spanish flag. That act was interpreted as a prediction that Spain will win the World Cup final on July 11.^[1] On the other hand, Mani the Parakeet has a Dutch win over Spain.^[2]

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Tithing

TITHING
Of all the obligations which a true Christian must do for God, the hardest thing to accomplish is to give our tithes to the Lord. Christians are bound by this precept of the Lord, that we should give ten percent of whatever we earn to the Lord as a gesture of acknowledging that everything in this world is His. It is very hard to dissociate ourselves with the things we possess and acknowledge that we are only stewards of God's blessings in our lives. Testing the Lord is normally a grievous sin against Him. But in the area of tithing, God challenges all His children to test Him on this. In Malachi 3:10, the Lord challenges all with this verse, "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this, says the Lord Almighty, and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." I must admit that I really had a hard time complying with this admonition especially if the money on hand was not even sufficient to cover all the projected expenses. But if we faithfully comply with this precept of God, we will see God's miraculous power unfold in our lives. God will give us wisdom to spend only what is truly necessary and bounties will come from unexpected sources. And God will perform His miracle of multiplication which He did when He fed the five thousand people with just five loaves of bread and two fishes as narrated in the Bible. We will just be amazed that our few and insufficient money will be able to cover all our necessary expenses. Help will come from unexpected sources. I have seen this happen in my life so many times that I lost count of it. Try it and be totally amazed.


Tags: God, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Tithing, Divine Providence, Faith, Good Steward, Faithful, Miracle, Trust In The Lord, Gospel, Word of God, Holy Bible

Posted by: Mel Avila Alarilla
Philippines
Spiritual/Inspirational/Motivational

Walking Canes And Blacthorn Walking Sticks

Ever since I discovered that I have scoliosis (a bone deformity in the lower lumbar section), I learned that it was the cause of my lower back pains. I am having difficulty walking unaided and I decided that I must buy a walking cane to aid me in walking more comfortably. 1001 Walking Canes.com produces the best quality and highly effective Walking Canes that will satisfy the needs of the most discriminating buyer. They provide stability and strong support for those whose walks are wobbly due to various diseases.

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Total Surrender

TOTAL SURRENDER
Do you want your life to be in step with God's will in your life? Do you want to walk in the way of the Lord in your life? Then surrender yourself totally to the Lord. Surrender everything you have to the Lord- your life, your ways, your mind, your possessions, your loved ones, everything you have to the Lord. Then you will stand totally dispossessed in front of God and will not care because you know that God will provide for all your needs. It is not that we will just stand idle and wait for manna to come down from heaven. It is that we totally dissociate ourselves with everything that is worldly and do everything to please God and glorify His name. Jesus always prayed to ascertain the will of His Father and acted accordingly to that will. That was why He could safely say that He and His Father are one because He works in perfect step to the will of His Father. It is really hard to live in this world but not of this world. But so long as we keep on associating with things worldly, so long will we be pulled back to the orbit of the earth's worldliness. We enjoy the things of this world to the detriment of the development of our soul to be in step with God's purpose for our lives. We develop cravings and desires which nurture discontent in our lives. We compare ourselves with others and begin to covet what others have which we do not have. Soon a spirit of bitterness and covetousness develops in our hearts. To counteract this, we must be willing to surrender everything we got at the foot of the cross and have them nailed to the cross with our Lord Jesus Christ. Then we are born again to the transcendent world of pure joy and ecstasy in our hearts, knowing fully well that we will enjoy eternal life with our God.


Tags: God, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Total Surrender, Will Of God, God's Divine Providence, Cravings And Desires, Spirit Of Bitterness And Covetousness, Pure Joy And Ecstasy, Gospel, Word Of God, Holy Bible

Posted by: Mel Avila Alarilla
Philippines
Spiritual/Inspirational/Motivational