Friday 31 August 2012

And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one (Matthew 6:13)

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Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

{With this request,we attack the trial with our shouting to the powerful who is capable to save, but if we slack off the adversary will surprise us and try to kill us.  If we come near to God with shouting, the adversary will flee defeated from us. "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God, and He will come near to you."(James 4:7)}

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God Bless

Thursday 30 August 2012

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespassed against us (Matthew 6:12)

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Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"The man who was able to forgive others' sins is in reality a man who confronted the world and has been crucified for it; he "is not from this world" because he reached the climax of crucifixion and the crucified."

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God Bless

Wednesday 29 August 2012

Give us each day our daily bread (Luke 11:2)

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Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"After we asked for the coming of Kingdom on earth according to His Will as it is in heaven, we have to ask for His bread; meaning the bread of Kingdom every day and whenever we hunger and thirst to His righteousness till He comes, and surely we will be filled."

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God Bless

Tuesday 28 August 2012

Thy will be done in heaven as it is on earth (Luke 11:2)

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Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"If we asked for the interference of God's Will in our life, we have to follow this will exactly; meaning Christ's submission of His life on the Cross and Him drinking from the cup of bitterness until the death ."

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God Bless

Monday 27 August 2012

Thy Kingdom come (Luke 11:2)

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Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"Christ said "The Kingdom of God is inside you" Thus coming of the Kingdom for us is taken for granted; we ask for it not to come from outside, but to be revealed in us and by us."

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God Bless

Saturday 25 August 2012

Hallowed be Your name (Luke 11:2)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"God ordered us to be holy as He is holy; this means to sanctify God in our hearts, minds and mouths, for blessing the name of God can sanctify our life."

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God Bless

Friday 24 August 2012

Who Art in Heaven (Luke 11:2)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.

This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"When we fulfill Christ' saying and pray "our Father who art in Heaven", this points to the bond which got us attached to heaven; for if our father is in heaven, surely are children too, thus Christ is indicating to our coming home."

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God Bless

Thursday 23 August 2012

Our Father (Luke 11:2)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"When we say to God "our Father", these words embody the person of Jesus Christ the Son of God, by and in whom we talk to God, and without whom we have no talk with God, nor has God any talk with us.  The initiative of telling God "our Father" is the treasure of New Testament."

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God Bless

Wednesday 22 August 2012

When you pray say: Father (Luke 11:2)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.

This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"Before we pray we have to stand quietly for preparing the will first in order that prayer comes out of a heart which seeks talking to God while it is fully aware that God hears the pulses of our heart before the words of our mouth."

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God Bless

Tuesday 21 August 2012

When you pray (Luke 11:2)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"When you want to pray"  Prayer is a Will before anything; as when you are hungry you want to eat right away, likewise the prayer is a spiritual hunger if it is severe on man he wants to pray immediately.  This is the true hunger and thirst to God in the essence of prayer."

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God Bless

Monday 20 August 2012

Honesty in Christ

God guided me to write about His Honesty.  May God use this blog to bless your life.

When we hear the word honesty we often think of avoiding wrong actions or feelings.  Despite this is true, but honesty in Christ has a much broader meaning.  It means What Would Jesus Do WWJD if He were us?  It means Christ Himself is the one living in us.  It means walking the second mile no matters what.  We cannot be honest unless He gives it to us through His Holy Spirit when His word dwells in us richly.  Let us ask Him for His honesty and we surely will be given.

Dear reader: please share your reflections.  Have a blessed Monday!
God Bless  

Saturday 18 August 2012

And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground (Luke 22:44)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"Christ reminds us that Prayer transforms the tribulation into victory, pains into glory, death into resurrection, by the direct intervention of God.  Prayer is the best security for our daily life which is full of trials and tribulations; thus we enter it all into the circle of the Heavenly Father's Will, because in prayer we submit ourselves fully to the Will of God and His control."

Dear reader: Please share your reflections.  Have a blessed weekend!
God Bless

Friday 17 August 2012

If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free (John 8:31-32)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.

This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"Holding to Christ's teaching is holding to Christ Himself, for Christ does not speak from His words but from the Father's uttering in Him.  That is why holding to Christ is holding to God.  Whoever is a disciple for Christ, the Truth will be revealed to him; he will be knowledgeable of the mysteries of Bible and all the secrets of the eternal life."

Dear reader: Have you known the Truth yet and did it set you free in Christ?  Please share your reflections.  Have a blessed day and weekend!
God Bless

Thursday 16 August 2012

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly (Co 3:16)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"If we do not increase in faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, so why do we live?  Do we live merely to eat and sleep to wake up to eat and sleep?  If the word of God does not rest richly in our hearts, the adversary will rest with his lusts and falsifying of the Truth."

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God Bless

Wednesday 15 August 2012

Do nor merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says (James 1:22)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"The one who asks to read the Bible in fact he asks for the eternal life and the one who asks for the eternal life has to decide where he stands from the present life."

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God Bless

Tuesday 14 August 2012

Humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you (James 1:21)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"No way man can understand what he hears from the words of God unless he has an absolute honesty in God and he determined and insisted to submit his life, responsibilities, interests, dignity and everything he has under the feet of God."

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God Bless

Monday 13 August 2012

You are in error because you don't know the Scriptures or the power of God (Matthew 22:29)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.

This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"The Word of God is not like the word of people; because once it is uttered by God becomes effective and takes its core in existence to the end of time.  This living power still works up till now by the word of Christ, and blessed is he who hears it and submits to its authority to accept its action through the simplicity of faith"

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God Bless

Saturday 11 August 2012

He who comes to me and hears my words (Luke 6:47)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"Hearing is not the ears' hearing but it is the Spirit's hearing "He who has ears to hear, let him hear"  The vigilant heart with the spiritual ears opens up immediately to the word.  God does not ask for ears only, but for ears and heart.  If we suffice with hearing, the word will die in us."

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God Bless

Friday 10 August 2012

The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life (John 6:63)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"The bible is the first source for spiritual discipline.  The strange mystery in the bible is that any command in it is poweful alone of leading you to the Kingdom of God if you were faithful for it from all your heart and you were precise in fulfilling it, for if you have success in fulfilling it you figure out that you unconsciously fulfill the other commands."

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God Bless

Thursday 9 August 2012

Why is my language not clear to you? (John 8:43)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word. 

This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"If man does not have spiritual ears that hear the word of God so they reveal its divine nature, it is impossible for him to understand what Christ speaks about.  The ears that are attuned to the divine wave and feel the life and truth of the word of God are the only ones which can understand what Christ and the Spirit say."

Dear reader: please share your reflections.  Have a blessed day!
God Bless

Wednesday 8 August 2012

Don't be so jammed up!

I would like to change course today and share with you this article from AACC.  We all fret over trivial things; surely it is time not to be so jammed up!!  Enjoy it and share your comments.  Have a blessed day.

http://www.aacc.net/2012/08/07/don%E2%80%99t-be-so-jammed-up/

Tuesday 7 August 2012

Blessed are your ears because they hear (Matthew 13:16)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word. This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"Dear reader, we have to renew the covenant with God every morning "His compassions never fail. They are new every morning" Lamentations 3:23.  They continually deliver for us new meanings and righteous initiatives for the eternal life."

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God Bless

Monday 6 August 2012

To obey is better than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22)

Month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word. 
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"God repeatedly made it clear that He does not accept a prayer or fast or offering, except according to His orders and commands, because the goal is not in these things, but what counts is following God's orders in seen and unseen manner."

Dear reader: please share your reflections.  Have a blessed Monday!
God Bless

Saturday 4 August 2012

Here I am, I stand at the door and knock (Revelation 3:20)

Happy month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.  

This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"Every time we stand before Christ for praying truthfully, our will is close to His will and we find mercy, and the more we pray sincerely the two wills get closer."

Dear reader: please share your reflections.  Have a blessed weekend!
God Bless

Friday 3 August 2012

Pray that you will not fall into temptation (Luke 22:40)

Happy month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.  

This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"This divine command is the only weapon against the seen and unseen works of the devil.  It is the invincible fort which we refuge to in the coming days of tribulation."

Dear reader: please share your reflections.  Have a blessed Day & weekend!
God Bless

Thursday 2 August 2012

What is Counseling?

Beloved friends,
Counseling means different things to different people; so what is Counseling.

Counseling is about developing a trustful rapport with your Counselor to discuss issues and find out the root causes of issues for working on it. It is not about blaming others; judging them or finding a quick fix for issues. It is about better understanding ourselves, our emotions and triggers of actions, and understanding others as well. Christian Counseling is seeing all of that in the light of God's Word the true spiritual guidance for our life.

Dear reader: please share with us your comments.  Have a blessed Day!
God Bless

Wednesday 1 August 2012

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you (Matthew 7:7)

Happy month of August: The Life of the Word and Prayer.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.  
This is an excerpt of the daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"The law of reponse for Christ is: go and you will have according to your faith!  A very few people pay attention to this law!  We have to believe that we secured from God before we take, and that is how we take.  The level of our faith in the certainity of God' response is what controls His response, because this means that we reflect God' truthfulness on our faith thus faith wins immediately for it is supported by the truthfulness of God."

Dear reader: please share your reflections.  Have a blessed Day!
God Bless