Wednesday 31 October 2012

But what about you who do you say I am? (2) (Matthew 16:15)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"We have a very dire need to follow the person of Christ once again in order that He is manifest in our lives.  people want to truly come to the person of Christ not to our earthly persons.  Humanity will remain desperate till it finds God; it will never find God except in Christ." 

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God Bless

Tuesday 30 October 2012

But what about you who do you say I am? (Matthew 16:15)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"People's resistance to our Christianity is absolutely not based on the person of Christ but it is based on that Christ does not exist in our Christianity.  If Christ were truly alive in our lives, no one would have never resisted to our Christ." 

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God Bless

Monday 29 October 2012

Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure (1John 3:3)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"Th e measure of purification is whatever is not suitable for the children of God and for His Fatherhood, as He said "you are to be Holy to me, because I the Lord, am Holy." Leviticus 20:26

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God Bless

Saturday 27 October 2012

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us (Romans 8:37)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 poor weakened man has got his stature raised in Christ to be above any power of enemy, raging of nature and the anger of this oppressing world.  If we were accounted like sheep ready for slaughter, the sheep has been transformed into a lion in Christ."

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God Bless

Friday 26 October 2012

But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Cor.15:57)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"What is victory over the world? It is that we exit from the middle of those who live for the world and we don't touch unclean thing so God may accept us.  For sure it is not exit with body; but it is exit of the intellect, intention, heart and will."

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God Bless

Thursday 25 October 2012

I am the way (John 14:6)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 way of faith in Christ is an insurance policy that insures our life for us and keeps our share in heaven.  It is for free and does not commit us with anything.  It is the opportunity of life which is unrepeatable."

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God Bles

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Apart from me you can do nothing (John 15:5)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 through this verse gives Himself to enter into your life and lead it in the way of salvation and redemption, so He may work in it and by it the works of God to tranfer us from the world to God and from the darkness which controls the world to the light of life with God."

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God Bless

Tuesday 23 October 2012

When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it (Matthew 16:46)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 is the Jewel of great value; He is the eternal life which we will go to after we are done with this life on earth.  Ask for it by going on your knees in your bedroom and ask Christ to accept you as a child for Him; this is how you will be granted the eternal life."

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God Bless

Monday 22 October 2012

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ (Col. 2:9)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"Is it suitable for the children of God, who are given fullness in Christ, to live in the stupidity as the children of this age?! and live their lives as children of the old curse, careless of christ' sadness for them as if He was not crucified nor He rose from the dead or conquered the world for them?!  The matters that He gave us as parteners of His Pains and Cross to become Partners in His Glory."

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God Bless

Saturday 20 October 2012

But we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"Holiness is for all; it is acquired by humility, giving, full respect, preferring others' words and opinions and the rest of others, reasoning others' mistakes to myself, adopting brethren's mistakes, immediate forgiving of trespassers, and finally considering all as saints except myself."

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God Bless

Friday 19 October 2012

We know also that the son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true (1John 5:20)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 know the Truth is to enter into it, live by it and possess it.  Whoever may know the Truth acquires understanding to realize the deception the world is based on, therefore Truth cannot get along with deception; for the cup of God has no place for the cup of Satan."

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God Bless

Thursday 18 October 2012

Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted (Hebrews 2:18)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"Here what Christ says to the sinner: I know your sin; I carried it with you without you knowing; its sourness for you is sourness for me; its weight on you is a weight on me.  Trust and be of courage I am with you; you are in me and your sin became mine; I made it dead in my death on the Cross to make you live.  I presented you to my Father cleansed, blameless and sanctified in my blood."

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God Bless

Wednesday 17 October 2012

Your grief will turn to Joy (John 16:20)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 Christian person, when he determines to leave everything to follow the savior this step seems as if it is a jump in the air, when he moves from the bossom of the world to Christ' bossom, he soon realizes the Truth embodied in the person of Christ and he attains the light, peace and continual Joy."

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God Bless

Tuesday 16 October 2012

I am the Truth (John 14:6)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 world, my friend, is a world of masks and shadows surrounded by deception from all sides, and beyond these appearances and masks exists the steadfast essence; the divine hand that runs it and controls its appearance and disappearnce.  This is the world and its gifts and this is the nature of God and His blessings.  The Truth that Christ gives "I am the Truth" does not disappear and never becomes opposite; the Truth is always one does not divide nor change; it is from the nature of God and it is the essence of His gifts."

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God Bless

Monday 15 October 2012

Blessed are the poor in Spirit (Matthew 5:3)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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, with this great hope, cancelled all feelings of inferiority that man may have due to his dire needs, moreover it gave him hope and satisfaction regardless of how weak or poor he might be.  Faith in Kingdom, eternal life and love of Christ provide man with a great energy of hope, optimism and thanksgiving that turn him into an active, outgoing and free child of God."

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Have a blessed Monday!
God Bless

Saturday 13 October 2012

When the two disciples heard Him say this they followed Jesus (John 1:37)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"Beloved brothers and sisters we must hear Jesus' words to be able to give up everything and be from the disciples; no body can hear Jesus' words and remain for the world!! Whoever seeks Jesus in Spirit must hear a calling for coming and for seeing.  Christ asks that people follow Him to stay with Him and become His; Jesus' words are an invite to know Him."

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Have a blessed weekend!
God Bless

Friday 12 October 2012

We have found the messiah that is the Christ (John 1:41)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"To know Jesus we must meet Him personally; it is not enough to know about Jesus but we have to know Him personally and meet with Him.  Jesus is Love and we have to take Him.  Jesus is the Truth and we have to experience Him. Jesus is life and we have to live Him.  Jesus is the door and we have to enter through Him, and He is the Way and we have to walk Him.  He is the Word and we have to comprehend Him."

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God Bless

Thursday 11 October 2012

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go (Pslam 32:8)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 the way gets tough on you, do not get bored and say that God forgot about me or Lord where is your teaching?!  God' guidance is measured with higher measurments than ours.  But what is important is to be under His teaching and our eyes and ears are focused on His voice."

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God Bless

Wednesday 10 October 2012

Night and day,whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how (Mark 4:27)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 more honest man is in acting upon God's word no matter how much effort and labor this would cost him, the more Christ works and manifests His voice clearly and greatly interferes in his life even to the level of miracles."

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God Bless

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Night and day,whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how (Mark 4:27)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 first and greatest work Christ does for man who submitted his life to Him is to pull him near to Him as a dear child.  Secondly, Christ puts His fingers on the unclean corners in man's life, thus man becomes increasingly conscious to realize the awesome power of Christ in knowing the details of his thoughts, intentions and actions.  Man also becomes more convinced to submit to Him the hidden parts in his heart to let Christ accompany him in his life and actions."

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God Bless

Monday 8 October 2012

You are the salt of the earth...the light of the world (Matthew 5:13-14)

This is Thanksgiving long weekend in Canada.  It is time to thank Him for all His gifts and blessings; most of all being His beloved Child.

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 Christ starts working in our life we get astonished for we notice that He does not work in us for ourselves only but He works in our Life; either to be an example or to give up our life for the sake of others.  When the Spirit of God rests in us, and trusts our obedience and honesty for Him, He starts using us for the salvation and joy of others for the glory of His name."

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Have a blessed Monday!
God Bless

Saturday 6 October 2012

For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purposes (Philippians 2:13)

This is Thanksgiving long weekend in Canada.  It is time to thank Him for all His gifts and blessings; most of all being His beloved Child.

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"Submitting life to God is exactly the life of God's work in us, and the result is continual joy with God and delight with His work in us.  It is impossible for man in life to attain a Joy that is comparable to his feeling that God works in him and by him; for the soul seeks to achieve the maximum of what it could reach from its existence and life on earth."

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Have a blessed weekend!
God Bless

Friday 5 October 2012

That Christ's Power may rest on me (2Corinthians 12:9)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"Was the Lord actually not responding to Paul when he asked Him to heal him? Absolutely not! but He was responding secretively by supporting the man who pleads to Him in weakness; by giving him a power that makes him complete without doing for him as he wished.  Likewise, we may think that our prayers are responded to or not because with God there are responses to prayers that we do not realize."

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God Bless

Thursday 4 October 2012

I no longer live, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"Life that we live now as Christians is "the life of Christ" with all its characteristics taken and derived from Him and always connected to Him.  Therefore to choose life we must submit life to the owner of life to keep in Him, to last in Him, to insure it for us against desolation and to lead it for us in order."

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God Bless

Wednesday 3 October 2012

Only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better (Luke 10:42)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 is the secret of sufficiency and also the secret of abundance.  If you want sufficiency your heart will overflow with Joy and delight.  If you want abundance He will so give you provided that you give Him your whole heart."

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God Bless

Tuesday 2 October 2012

I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest in me (2 Corinthians 12:9)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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 strong and very deep perspective from Paul makes our many interests of health, power and respect trivial in the eyes of Lord.  We must from now focus our interests on what delights the Lord, and truly feel that our attitude, discussions and interests are all in the circle of the will of God.  The end result that Paul reached at is to submit to the will and order of Christ."

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless

Monday 1 October 2012

Because I live you also will live (John 14:19)

Month of October: Our life in Christ.  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.

"Whoever lives with Christ S/he lives with the eternal life; with life there is no death for Christ is the eternal life that was hidden with the Father and has been manifest for us and He gave us to partake in it with Him.  For with Christ there is no longer death no matter what; no sickness, no senility, no weakness, nor anything that may threaten man."

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Have a blessed Monday!
God Bless