The Word of God

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The Word of God

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12

Read: Isaiah 40:6-8

40:6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : 2 KINGS 3:1-4:37 and PROVERBS 21:1-15

Message

The word of God is God communicating with us and the word of God is God revealed to us. In it we see His nature and His character. The word of God is forever settled in heaven. The word of God is a living spirit (John 6:63). The word of God reveals the mind of God and therefore His will to us. What can man do without the word of God? Nothing! It is the word of God that gives us the means of salvation from sin. It confronts us with the reality of our fallen state, the doom of sinners and the way out through the love and mercy of God. It is the same word that serves as our compass on our journey to Heaven (Acts 20:32).The word of God also reveals God’s provision for our successful and victorious living here on earth, and how to harness His promises in our lives. What would we do without the word of God? Any congregation of God’s people that give prominence to the word of God, teaching and preaching it, and patterning their lives according to it will be blessed. But those that do otherwise are treading on very dangerous grounds.

“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”
Isaiah 40:7-8
The word of God will outlast anyone. Though heaven and earth shall pass away, the word of God shall not pass away (Matthew 24:35). What should your attitude towards the word of God be? The word itself reveals this: “Tremble at God’s word” (Isaiah 66:2). This directs God’s attention to you for favour and victory (Isaiah 66:5). You are to uphold the word of God in your life irrespective of circumstances. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego upheld the word of God even at the point of death, and God did not disappoint them. You are to feed your mind the word of God. This will renew your mind to think the way God thinks and will restrain you from sin (Psalm 119:11). The word of God coming out prophetically from the mouth of God’s anointed servants is as powerful as the written word. The story of the official in Samaria, who derided the word of God from the mouth of Elisha attests to this. He paid for it with his life (2 Kings 7:18-20). I encourage you to tremble indeed at God’s word; study it, meditate on it, obey it and you will prosper (James 1:25).

Action Point:

Prayerfully improve on your reading, studying, meditating and memorising of God’s word.

Author : Pastor E. A Adeboye. Pastor Adeboye is the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Visit their website  for more info – www.trccg.org

Football Player Penalized For Saying Prayers

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Football Player Penalized For Saying Prayers

A Florida high school football player was penalized for kneeling for a quick prayer in the end zone after scoring a touchdown.

According to The Blaze, Sam Turner, a senior at Fort Myers High School, was penalized for offering a word of thanks to the Lord and pointing his finger in the air. An official gave Turner’s team a 15-year penalty for “unsportsmanlike” conduct.

“I said ‘thank you, God, for this talent you’ve blessed me with,’” Turner told the News-Press. Turner explained that he also remembered JoJo Brunson in his prayer, a student who was killed in a drive-by shooting last year.

Turner says he’s mostly received support following the incident.

“I use my faith as a platform for my talents. My teammates are giving my tons of support,” he said. “They all know I’m strong believer, even though it cost us 15 yards.”

The National Federation of State High School Associations’ rules allows an official to penalize a player who behaves in such a way that causes attention on him or herself.

National Football League policy, however, allows such action as long as the player is exercising his faith.

“I saw the flag and I was so confused at first. I was like, ‘Are you seriously flagging me right now? What did I do wrong?’” he said. “Eventually the ref came up and talked to me and said I was trying to bring attention to myself and I was trying to explain to him that that wasn’t the case at all. I wasn’t trying to bring attention to myself I was just trying to thank God.”

Fort Myers High School won the game, 49-0.

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Pope Francis Pulls Over at side of Road to Bless Disabled Woman

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credit: Daily News

He’s at it again! Pope Francis pulls over his car to bless disabled woman lying on a stretcher by the road Pope was hailed over as he returned from giving mass in Calabria Banners by the roadside read: ‘Please Pope stop here to see an angel’ He bent over and kissed her forehead before greeting her relatives

Pope Francis stopped his car on a quiet country highway to kiss a young disabled women who was waiting by the side of the road with her family to see him pass.

The leader of the Catholic Church had been returning from an appearance in Cassano allo Jonio in Calabria, southern Italy, when he spotted signs asking him to stop.

Disregarding any danger – he had hours earlier threatened to excommunicate members of the Mafia – he ordered his driver to pull over and he got out to greet and bless the group.

The Vatican’s news.va website reported that people had been waiting with banners reading, ‘Please Pope stop here to see an angel who has been waiting for you’.

As soon as the Pope stepped out of his characteristically modest blue hatchback, the group approached him with the young woman, called Roberta, who was lying on a stretcher.

He bent over and kissed her on the forehead before shaking hands with her family, to cries of ‘bravo’ and ‘grazie’

Catholic News Agency reported that Roberta, whose surname is not yet known, is so badly disabled she cannot travel far from her home and is reliant on a machine to breathe.

The whole incident was captured on video and uploaded to YouTube, where it has been viewed nearly 500,000 times.

The impromptu stop on Saturday is something that would never have been expected of Francis’s predecessors, but the current Pope is becoming well known for his spontaneity, courage and personal touch.

It comes just over a week after he revealed he was to dispense with the bullet-proof shield on his popemobile, saying: ‘It is true that anything could happen, but let’s face it, at my age I don’t have much to lose.’

Previously, he’s taken a boy with Down’s Syndrome for a spin in the papal runabout, embraced a man whose face is badly disfigured, and washed the feet of children in jail during a Holy Week ceremony.

Roberta’s family posted a thank-you message on Facebook to the Pope.

‘I still can’t believe it, thank you Holy Father…I thank the Pope for having given us a moment of great joy,’ wrote her sister, Pamela, according to The Daily Dot.

Ivan Vania, a family friend who helped make the posters that drew Francis’s attention, wrote: ‘Today we can say that Christ stopped in Sibari in the vestments of Pope Francis.

‘It was very emotional to see how Pope Francis greeted Roberta, here are gestures in life that are worth more than speeches, much more than you would think…Pope Francis is unique.’

Source : Daily News

Egypt To Enact New Law on Removal Of Restrictions on Church Buildings

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Egypt To Enact New Law on Removal Of Restrictions on Church Buildings

A proposed law to remove restrictions on the building of churches in Egypt will be presented to parliament early next year, according to Barnabas Aid.

Ibrahim Henaidi, Egypt’s Minister of Transitional Justice, told reporters last month that a committee comprising church representatives and government officials would discuss the new bill before its presentation.

Parliament is expected to vote on the bill in early 2015.

Under Egypt’s new constitution, parliament is required to “issue a law aimed at regulating the construction and restoration of churches in a way that ensures that Christians perform their religious rites freely”.

In Egypt, a church cannot be built within 100 meters of a mosque and Christian congregations must get permission to erect, renovate or even repair a church building under legislation that goes all the way back to the Ottomans. Previously, permission could only be obtained from Egypt’s head of state, but though former President Hosni Mubarak delegated this authority to regional governors, the application process can take years to complete.

Source: Worthy News

Christians Attacked by Hindus In India

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Christians Attacked by Hindus In India

Twelve Christians were injured by a mob of nationalist Hindus in the Bastar district of India’s Chhattisgarh state last week, according to Barnabas Aid.

The Christians were among 40 believers who had gathered together in Madota village for what was supposed to be a mediation meeting to resolve rising tensions with the Hindu community. Local officials had called the meeting after months of conflict concerning legislation in the Bastar district that banned all non-Hindu activities. But when the Christians arrived, they were violently attacked by armed assailants.

Other anti-Christian attacks have taken place in the district since the legislation was introduced.

Source: Worthy News

VaShawn Mitchell To Release 5th Album by November 10th

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VaShawn Mitchell To Release 5th Album by November 10th

“Unstoppable” is the title of VaShawn Mitchell’s fifth studio album slated for released on Monday, November 10, 2014. According to the Motown Gospel recording artiste and “Nobody Greater” crooner, ‘Unstoppable’ is not about being invincible, it’s really about understanding who you are in Heaven, who you are on this earth.

“God knows our ending before our beginning and I created the music to tell one big story that I hope empowers people.”
“All the songs speak to my 18-year journey,” said the Grammy award nominee.

“When I say Unstoppable, I’m saying I [You] can be who God says I [you] am. While there are some things that we all go through … experiences, mistakes, failures, successes it’s all a part of the story that makes us who we are in order to walk out our destiny.”

The UNSTOPPABLE album offers a universal sound; one that marries contemporary Christian with contemporary Gospel. Immensely rooted in the Word of God, song after song, every message is designed to reinforce the themes of Mitchell’s Unstoppable movement…Read More

Source:Praiseworld Radio

Newboys Release Debut Hymns Collection

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Newboys Release Debut Hymns Collection

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Hallelujah For The Cross, the debut hymns collection from Gold-selling, GRAMMY®-nominated Newsboys, releases today from First Company Management/Capitol Christian Distribution. Produced by Seth Mosley, the project features the legendary group’s take on nine classics and one new selection.

Hallelujah For The Cross includes the title-cut and debut single, which is currently impacting Christian radio around the country. The album also showcases a new arrangement of Newsboys’ “Where You Belong” with “Turn Your Eyes On Jesus,” as well as favorite hymns “Jesus Paid It All”; “Holy, Holy, Holy”; “It Is Well”; and “All Creatures Of Our God And King,” among others.

“Hymns are important to me,” says Newsboys frontman Michael Tait. “We picked through songs that went way, way, way back into my past and my dad’s Baptist church. I love modern worship but I just love that old stuff because they were written in such desperate and perilous times, and out of great pain comes great resolve, I think. When I sing them, they go deeper in ways to me than a lot of things I reach out for when I’m in that spiritual drought… Read More

Source: PraiseWorld Radio

Nasa Releases 3D Video Tour

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Nasa Releases 3D Video Tour

You could now have a 3D tour of the International Space Station and experience how astronauts orbit in zero gravity while sitting in front of your computer at home.

Nasa has posted a new playlist of 3D videos on the agency’s official YouTube channel, providing a realistic representation of living and working on the International Space Station and other fascinating images from its space programme.

Some of the first footage posted shows a tour of the space station and astronauts exploring water surface tension in microgravity with both a 3D camera and a miniature HD (high definition) camera in a waterproof case.

“Nasa’s imaging experts have advanced the science of imaging technology so that even more breathtaking pictures let viewers virtually experience the phenomenon of spaceflight,” the US space agency said in a statement.

“Delivering images from these new and exciting locations is how we share our accomplishments with the world,” said Rodney Grubbs, who is the principal investigator for the 3D camera study on orbit.

Nasa first sent a 3D HDTV (high-definition television) camera with the crew of STS-135 on the orbiter Atlantis in July 2011.

And you will soon have a lot more videos coming, as Nasa is now planning to send up a camera that could shoot nearly six times the resolution of an HD camera, encouraging the crew to record more video to share with the public.

Source: ndtv.com

13 Year Old Indian Enterpreneur Gets Funding From Intel

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13 Year Old Indian Enterpreneur Gets Funding From Intel

If Shubham Banerjee cannot lay claim to being the world’s youngest venture capital-backed entrepreneur, he comes very close.

Banerjee was 12 years old when he closed an early-stage funding round with Intel Capital, the company’s venture capital arm, last month for his prototype for a low-cost Braille printer. The San Jose, California, middle-schooler has since turned 13.

That’s young, even by the standards of Silicon Valley, where many venture capitalists unapologetically prefer to fund youth over experience.

Young entrepreneurs are usually in their mid-teens when they hit it big. Nick D’Aloisio, founder of online news aggregator Summly, was 17 when Yahoo bought his company last year for $30 million.

Brothers John and Patrick Collison, behind payments service Stripe, were 16 and 19 when they sold an earlier business to a Canadian company for $5 million.

After reading a fundraising flyer about the blind, Banerjee felt inspired to turn a high-tech version of Legos, the toy building blocks, into a device that could print in Braille. One day, he wants to mass-produce the printers and sell them for about $350, far less than Braille printers cost now… Read More

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