Love is not self Seeking (1 Corinthians 13:5)

wishing you my readers and friends and your families a happy blessed 2013 full of Love, Peace and Joy.  Joe  

Month of December: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"Personally when I have more gifts than others, I should absolutely not have any feeling of pride or sufficiency, but on the contrary I should feel humbled for I am responsible to channel these gifts to others and more specifically for Christ." 

Dear reader: I feel humbled for your support and interest in this blog.  Hope it has been a blessing for you in 2012.   

Have a wonderful New Year holiday!
God Bless

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another (Romans 13:8)

Month of December: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"Love in Christianity makes everyone rich by others, and eventually God enriches all.  That is how the first church lived; the poor and needy requested help with a kind heart and humble eye, and the rich gave out without feeling hauphty or that his money was his own but it was Christ's money.  That is why there was no need for debt; it was all love in love." 

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Have a wonderful Christmas break!
God Bless

Honor one another above yourselves (Romans 12:10)

Month of December: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"In reality whoever prefers to be at the back he evenually matures and love increases, whoever sits at the last seat he is exulted and peace prevails, and whoever hides from peoples' eyes so they get busy with others, he won over himself, overcame world and made people happy. "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends"(John 15:13)" 

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Have a wonderful Christmas break!
God Bless

Love must be sincere (Romans 12:9)

Month of December: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"Sincere love is love without payback, after which man does not expect back any return of love or favor.  This is love which emanates from a heart that submits everything and itself to God.  Such a heart takes the love from God and gives it out as is without keeping anything for itself.  A sincere man sets his heart on love and delivers it in the hands of God; he takes from it and gives it out and its balance increases.  This is the sincere love because it is preserved in God's hand." 

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Have a wonderful Christmas break!
God Bless

And they will be my people (Jeremiah 31:1)

Month of December: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"God's people do not fear affliction nor do they get troubled by persecution.  They gladly accept hunger and rejoice in exposure, they do not fear danger nor do they worry about death.  For all these are the tools of Satan that we were given to step on and climb over to reach the last victory with glory, and through which God manifests Himself to us carrying us victoriously in His arms.  For His people, God is the air they breath, the light which fills their eyes, the bread they eat and their drink in sacrament." 

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Have a wonderful Christmas break!
God Bless

He parted the heavens and came down (Psalm 18:9)

 

I wish all my readers and friends a Merry Christmas and a happy blessed 2013 full of Love, Peace and Joy.  Joe  

 

Month of December: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"God please accept our weak thanksgiving and praise for the great salvation you gave to humanity when you united with us; the unity of creature and the creator in your blessed person.  God this is the goal of your incarnation; for us to be with you and share your glory." 

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Have a wonderful Christmas break!
God Bless

He parted the heavens and came down...He soared on the wings of the wind (Psalm 18: 9&10)

 

I wish all my readers and friends a Merry Christmas and a happy blessed 2013 full of Love, Peace and Joy.  Joe  

 

Month of December: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"The story of Nativity as a whole is a story of love which surpasses our minds; that God left His heaven, gave up His glory and united with our earthly human nature, and was born in poverty and in a manger, it is all a story of love; an awesome love that has no equal, love to the end!." 

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Have a wonderful Christmas break!
God Bless

Dear friends, since God so much loved us, we also ought to love one another (1John 4:11)

 

I wish all my readers and friends a Merry Christmas and a happy blessed 2013 full of Love, Peace and Joy.  Joe  

 

Month of December: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"God does not force us to love one another ,but it is an overflow deriving originally from Him.  If we keep it without giving it out, it stops flowing to us; for our love to others incites His love flowing into us." 

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Have a blessed weekend!
God Bless

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers (1John 3:14)

Month of December: The life of Love and Christian Unity

 

"Love is the driving force and the moving one for the mountain of hatred and hostility.  This is faith; the faith of love which tells the mountain move out of my heart and go into the sea of forgetfulness, so it responds.  Love of brothers in reality is the sign of eternal life.  Love and life are a bridegroom and a bride who meet and do not separate till the highest heaven." 

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Have a blessed day and weekend!
God Bless

Apology

Month of December: The life of Love and Christian Unity

 

"My apology for not having the time to send out the blog today.  I will resume sending it out as of My tomorrow.  Sorry for any inconvenience."


 Have a blessed day!
God Bless

Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble (1John 2:10)

Month of December: The life of Love and Christian Unity

 

"Love represents living in truth and truth is light.  He who lives in light, meaning in permanent faithful love, has no darkness which represents the stumble.  Stumble is that man befalls his brother in a sin." 

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless

Love your neighbor as youself, love your enemies (Matthew 22:39 & 5:44)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

 

Our lesson in midst of our enemy hatred for us

"Now my friend, how would people know that you are Christian and Christ gave you a new creature from His Spirit?  What is it that you could do to testify to your Christ and Lord, and be one of the deepest and most faithful testimonies you may have? It is your love for your enemies; this is Christ in you and the spirit of God that works in you." 

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless

For them I sanctify myself (John 17:19)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"The church has no business on earth but that it loves Christ and subsequently it dies for others to make all people joyful with this living love." 

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless

For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John 3:17)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"God did not abandon the world in its infirmity, poverty and darkness.  When Christ came on earth He did not sit in the temple, but proceeded in the essence of world infirmity, poverty and sickness, and shared people their affliction and humility.  Christ did not execuse Himself of the oppressing world and He did not accept to have a tent made for Him on the mountain of Transfiguration, not did He accept people to make Him a King." 

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Have a blessed weekend!
God Bless

Make them come in, so that my house will be full (Luke 14:23)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

  "Why do we confine the love of Christ, mute it and judge that it is not enough except for us and for those who only follow us?  It is about time to know also Christ of the ignorant of world, those who are ignored from the peoples of earth, and those who are lost from the peoples of world and they have no one to remember them or bring them back.  We want to know Christ of the materialist, atheist, and reckless youth of world who did not find their Christ in a church or a righteous father or a good role model." 

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Have a blessed day & weekend!
God Bless

God so loved the world (John 3:16)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"Christ of all the world has been born for all the world, because He loved all the world, and His blood was shed for all the world, and He is a redemption for the sins of all the world.  He is Christ of countries of all the world; the complete Christ; Christ of all nations without exception, or differentiaton, or bias between a tribe and another, race or color.  No difference but He is Christ of all in all. " 

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God Bless

To let the world know that you sent me (John 17:23)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

 

Prayer and Plea

"Oh our Holy Father, we admit and confess that sending your son on our hearts: "so that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith" surely creates in us an immediate inclination for Unity.  Therefore any hindrance in completing the unity, that you request for us all with you, is an infirmity in our faith and deficiency in our love.  Oh our Holy Father glorify your son in the life of church so that the church may glorify you and your son also when all abandon whichever hinders the unity and prevents love." 

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God Bless

That they also may be one in us (John 17:21)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"This is the appeal and plea of Christ that He prays for us all; for every man, every church, and for whoever wants to be inside this plea of Christ or under the obedience of His request, or specifically whoever seeks to respond to this great command of Christ." 

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless

That all of them may be one, Father, just you are in me and I am in you (John 17:21)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"As much as the power of the unity of Christ in the Father pours into us, we start to get equal, close and united by this power which is external and coming to us from God.  But notice that the unity of Christ with the Father is based on the complete eqaulity in everything, as for our unity we have in Christ and the Father is grace and mercy; it is bestowing and a gift" 

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless

That the love you have for me may be in them (John 17:26)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"Love, as the first and great command, is not distinguished as a moral action but it is a spiritual gift.  On this basis, Christ asks us for it; we have to give it as a gift as He gave it to us also as a gift." 

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Have a blessed weekend!
God Bless

Protect them by the power of your name..so that they may be one as we are one (John 17:11)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"Christ asks His disciples first to be one by the power of unity between Christ and the Father, so that the church may be established in the power of His name.  Notice that the unity Christ asks for , as a power deriving from the unity of the Father and Christ, is not meant to be imposed on them from outside, but He asks to be born in them from inside; that is when they keep in the name and by the Word and prayer." 

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Have a blessed day and weekend!
God Bless

I want to know Christ (2) (Philippians 3:10)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity
"Jesus is not just a topic for knowledge.  If we do not come to Christ as a beloved person, and we ask for His love as He asks for our love, we are not able to know Him and we can not worship Him." 

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God Bless

I want to know Christ (Philippians 3:10)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"The knowledge of Jesus is a call for unity and it is also a call for love.  There is no love without knowledge; to know Him is to love Him, because how could you love someone you do not know?!  When the knowledge is complete, love is complete and unity is necessarily complete." 

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless

We told him to stop, because he was not one of us (2) (Mark 9:38)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"The principle of Christ "whoever is not against us is for us" (Mark 9:40) should oblige the church to be all one creed and one faith, for all is true for one Christ." 

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God Bless

We told him to stop because he was not one of us (Mark 9:38)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity
"The condition of brotherhood, forgiveness and cooperation between creeds is based on all say a righteous and honest statement on Christ.  All does one work either driving out demons, healing of sickness, or righteous teaching; all serve Christ and His name." 

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless

Whoever is not against us is for us (Mark 9:40)

Month of November: The life of Love and Christian Unity

"It is impossible for two to worship Christ in truth and candor while they are in conflict and opposing each other.  As long as the one who preaches the name of Christ is not against us, we have to get close to them in love and they also get close to us in love, thus we serve together one name." 

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Have a blessed day and weekend!
God Bless

Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse. (Romans 12:14)

A lesson for all of us, especially nowadays!

Month of November: Life according to the command

"Those who persecute us we have to ask goodness for them from God, and with goodness whatever is acceptable and honorable.  As such was absolutely Christ's position from His enemies." 

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Have a blessed day and weekend!
God Bless

Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well (4) (Matthew 6:33)

Month of November: Life according to the command. 

"As much as we persevere He facilitates and helps us.  When we follow Christ we feel He is close to us, and when we carry a burden He carries it with us.  Whoever wanes under the difficulty of obstacles of the way, He Himself takes care of removing every obstacle for paving the way, for He said "I am the Way." 

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless

Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well (3) (Matthew 6:33)

Month of November: Life according to the command. 

"In reality when we seek the Kingdom of God and persevere for it and preach with it, we would complete our Christian mission in the world.  The reason and secret of our existence in the world, and the coverage of God for us in this age, are to give us the opportunity of seeking the Kingdom of God.  If we prepare ourselves to enter the Kingdom of God, we would complete the mission of our existence in the world." 

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Have a blessed day!
God Bless

I urge you to live worthy..Be completely humble and gentle (Ephesians 4:2)

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

"Humility is a virtue that was never known before Christ the Master; Christ introduced it as a basic element in the life of man who was depressed by arrogance.  Gentleness always follows and derives from humility; every humble one is gentle.  If humility is the virtue of deep inside, gentleness is the virtue that is manifested by dealing with people and God." 

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God Bless

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. (Matthew 5:44)

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

"Against the hatred of enemy, goodness steps in to extinguish the anger of the one who hates, that who does not know mercy.  If the one who hates asks the good one why are you good to me while I insult and hurt you, the good one replies because I love you for no reason as Christ loved me and was crucified for me and for whoever meant to harm Him." 

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God Bless

Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well (2) (Matthew 6:33)

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

"Christ gives us a divine assurance that if we really get busy with the Kingdom of God He promises us to give us our needs of food, drink and clothes because for him we are more valuable than the birds of air and more intimate than the lilies of the field." 

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Have a blessed day & weekend!
God Bless

Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well (Matthew 6:33)

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

"The Kingdom of God and His righteousness are the most important things man needs on earth.  Christ speaks to those who live under the authority of world and busy with the worries of life; there is no choice between man's needs in the world that worries him and the most important goal for his present and future life meaning the Kingdom of God.  The children of  Kingdom of God are the children of God and their new life is hidden with Christ in God." 

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God Bless

Each of you must speak truthfully with his neighbor (Ephesians 4:25)

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

"The Christian person's word is truthfulness; it is the Truth and a testimony to Christ.  It is counted as a bind he abides by, therefore it is considered as a document and a testimony before courts able to exonerate others or condemn them.  At the end the Christian person remains honest of the covenant of Truth he was entusted to." 

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God Bless

Each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor (Ephesians 4:25)

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

"Since Christ is our life, and our life is an extension of Him, such a terrible epidemic which is lying must necessarily be cast out of all our dealings.  Lying is the first action of the devil whose first attribute is the liar and father of all lying.  Lying is an extremely serious disease; it is trasgression of Truth, and Truth in Christianity is Christ saying: I am the Truth." 

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God Bless

Be..forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you (Ephesians 4:32)

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

"God's forgiveness to us must spontaneously be the source of our forgiveness to each other; not as a quality but a living part of our new nature in our new man.  In fact the nature of this new man is created and made by the element of God' forgiveness Glory to Him!  We should be called the Children or the creature of God's forgiveness." 

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God Bless

You are observing special days, months, seasons and years? (Galatians 4:10)

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

"The Christian man who knew the Lord, but whom was known by the Lord, is the only man granted to transform age into immortality. His hidden profession, which exceeds the knowledge of world, is worship, prayer, and bowing by the Spirit and Truth that surpass all the appearance of the worship of body, its time and place." 

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God Bless

Let the dead bury their own dead (Luke 9:60)

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

"Christ here raises up the vision of spiritual man from the level of clinging to earth and graves to the Kingdom of God where Christ is sitting above.  We also find that Christ drew a clear sharp line between serving the emotions, death and bodies and serving the resurrection and eternal life." 

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God Bless

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good (Romans 12:21)

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

"If you responded to evil by evil, or tried to take revenge for yourself or even anger, you have been overcome by the enemy because you became like him or even more.  This is where Christian man fails Christ and there he would be overcome from inside and outside as well." 

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God Bless

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me (Matthew 10:37)

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

"When God requests in order to have the first share and love for Him, and to obey His commands more than the father, mother and the needs of body and its emotions, therefore He shows how much He cares to strip man off the factors of spiritual death that he holds on to; the self and instincts.  Observe how much love and care for the human soul that is!" 

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God Bless

If your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out (Matthew 18:9)

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

"The Holy Scripture before it requests to gouge out the eyes or cut off the foot and leg, gave previously birth in us to a new whole man with all his organs; spiritually worthy for the eternal life.  Not only he is not affected by cutting off the organs, he also does not fear killing itself." 

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Becasue they refused to love the Truth....so that they will believe the lie (2 Thess. 2:10)

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

"There oh Lord we are bowing and ready for your appearance and coming, we are asking you to see it soon.  We submit to you to change according to your Will.  This is the hope that the first church and all saints had; that they will see Him as He is and will not feel ashamed before Him in that day." 

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God Bless

Can you drink the cup I drink? (Mark 10:38)

I will be out of town on Saturday & Monday; I will not post the blog on these days.  I will resume posting the blog on Tuesday 11/13 God Willing.
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Month of November: Life according to the command.  May God use this blog to bless your life with His Word.
This is an excerpt of daily devotionals I translate from Arabic from the Book "The Bible in reality of our life" for the late Father Matta El Meskeen.

"Christ established the partnership of pain with Him in the form of partnership of love with Him.  This is in reality the only way which causes the Cross to be acceptable.  Without this partnership (the partnership of pain and love with Christ) it is impossible for man to carry the cross." 

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God Bless

Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word but the worries of this life come and choke the word,making it unfruitful (3) (Mark 4:18-19)

Month of November: Life according to the command.  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.

"Who would criticize the modern civilization which half of it is deviation and lust and the other half is miseries?  However, the Farmer still goes out every day to sow His seed!!." 

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Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word but the worries of this life come and choke the word,making it unfruitful (2) (Mark 4:18-19)

Month of November: Life according to the command.  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.

"Notice that the Lord here differentiates between the wealth and the deceitfulness of wealth.  When wealth becomes a source of man's deceitfulness it means that money has been transferred from God's hand to the devil's hand; meaning that man finds in money a power and base to exalt himself over others." 

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Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word but the worries of this life come and choke the word,making it unfruitful (Mark 4:18-19)

Month of November: Life according to the command.  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.

"There are worries in the world that man has no hand in.  It would be required that man would resist it and float above it and scorn it from his balance of faith and the depth of his trust and submission to his God Whom power is manifest in tribulations." 

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Sell your possessions and give to the poor (Luke 12:33)

Month of November: Life according to the command.  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 obeys the command of Christ finds it it what surpasses man's imagination because the words of Christ have their power and the secret of fulfillment is built into the command, and the obedience of Christ forces  heaven to provide its assistance." 

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We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak (Romans 15:1)

Month of November: Life according to the command.  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 our example and He is the model that we follow.  He did not only bear with our sins but He also carried it for us; carried it in His body on the Cross." 

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God Bless

If you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you (Matthew 6:14)

Month of November: Life according to the command.  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.

"It is not out of vaccum the Christ is asking me to forgive my brother because I carry the power of the grace of forgiveness which Christ completed for me and for my brother on the cross; therefore I forgive from the same account of the power and grace of forgiveness that was fulfilled for me." 

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God Bless

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light (Matthew 11:30)

Month of November: Life according to the command.  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.

"You must believe that the orders of God are righteous and for the absolute goodness.  If you rely on God and start fulfilling the command, you find that the command gives you the power necessary to fulfill it to the end." 

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God Bless

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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God Bless

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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God Bless

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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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

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

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

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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God Bless

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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God Bless

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

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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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

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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God Bless

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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God Bless

Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes (Ephesians 6:11)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"From the practical standpoint, if the Christian man is keeping alert in prayer, and his bible is read and his faith in Christ is inflamed, the devil  impossibly can come near him nor dare to introduce ideas to him and lusts die before they reach man's heart."

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God Bless

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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 comes the absolute Christian deed when you say NO to the devil,  therefore the devil will flee and will not have any power for discussion and no gateway he can get into you.  He repeats his calling and attractions, and you repeat your NO NO NO; I cannot give up my purity, my bible, my Christ, or my eternal life.  This is the positive element in resisting the devil is to say NO from the first look, attraction, idea; that's how you paralize the devil."

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God Bless

And forcefull men lay hold of it (Matthew 11:12)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"Listen who became a child of God (according to the Father's delight), you are redeemed by grace and a son of salvation.  If you have not yet engraved your name on the stones of its foundation and the seven pillars to be a living stone from the stones of church, you are estranged from heaven and outside the fences."

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God Bless

Be Patient in Affliction (Romans 12:12)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"Affliction in the life of believer is like a circular letter that man receives, reacts to and gets comforted by; therefore he delivers it to another afflicted person accompanied with the consolation he has been comforted by.  Everyone who believes in this will discover that affliction is a source of power not weakness."

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God Bless

Never be lacking in Zeal (Romans 12:11)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"Lacking in zeal is not appropriate in Christianity, for the Christian life is a struggle and zeal at the level of the life of believer either internal or external."

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I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God (Romans 12:1)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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 are called to consider ourselves as living sacrifices of God forever; dead for the world and living for Christ.  The sacrifice, my friend, does not have an authority on itself nor on its body; it has lost its self possession, it has been consecrated for the Lord and it lives for the Lord."

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God Bless

Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God (Romans 8:8)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"Those who live in the flesh or made their life for the flesh and indulge in all of its desires how could they please God?!  If even caring for the flesh is considered against God those who made their life based on the flesh how could they desire the face of God?!  Either pleasing the flesh or pleasing god there is never a mix; either the flesh, world and sin or the Spirit, Christ and holiness and there is never a mix."

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God Bless

So that you will not grow weary and lose heart (Hebrews 12:3)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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 devil's weapon during trials and persecution is strongly based on the boredom of how intense and extended the trial is.  After boredom comes the weapon of weariness where toleration stops at zero point, then man loses heart and his cross falls from hand and heart.  Boredom is a satanic process to weaken perseverance and patience."

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My brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure (2Peter 1:10)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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 calling and God's election for us to live by faith in Jesus Christ are the two greatest gifts a man can receive.  The calling is divine and specified from God without us being worthy for it, therefore whoever is called becomes highly elected above the norm."

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God Bless

Make every effort to enter through the narrow door (3) (Luke 13:24)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"It is easy for man to believe in what Christ said or did in heart and proclaim Him by mouth.  But the test of truth of faith is in acting upon and behaving accordingly.  The commands of Christ will always be above the maximum level of man's effort so man remains always humble before God and Christ holding on to Grace."

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God Bless

Make every effort to enter through the narrow door (2) (Luke 13:24)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"Behind the narrow door there is a narrow way which is a harsh one.  But what affirms us is that many did tred it and overcame.  They sufficed with the little that God gave them, their happiness, singing and joy never calmed nor stopped for they overcame the world and became worthy for the Kingdom they seek."

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Make every effort to enter through the narrow door (Luke 13:24)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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 door of Kingdom is necessarily the narrow door which is not entered except by those for whom it was given; for it is not by power nor by might but it is the grace of God that opens and closes.  The diligent ones are accounted worthy for their keeping of the commands of Christ; the price for His Love."

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God Bless

Run in such a way as to get the prize (1Cor 9:24)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"That is how Paul the Apostle spoke about himself {Finally there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord will give to me on that day}even though Paul was still alive he was laboring since he had the time.  He was looking with an eye of the faith of victory at the crown which the Lord will give him on the day of His appearance."

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God Bless

For we are not unaware of his schemes (2 Cor 2:11)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"Your mind is the home of divine light which the head of darkness can never break into unless you yourself turned off the bright light of Divine Truth when you accept the counsel of enemy; thus you loved darkness more than light."

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Did God really say? (Genesis 3:1)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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 adversary starts his mental war with man quietly; by introducing a mere counsel or by proposing an idea (wrong for sure) but it is suitable in its sneakiness with the spiritual state of man.  Beware of this, for the devil's word in the heart is slick as oil and it is sharper than sword."

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In order that Satan might not outwit us (2 Cor.2:11)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"Saint Paul reveals the reality of conflict between the man and Satan as a hidden spiritual war.  It is a war which man can not feel unless he starts the resistance. Satan does not have authority to break in man's mind by force,for man has the power of self independance as a gift which surpasses any other effective power."

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Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature (Col 3:5)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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 man, in his works of putting to death, must face difficult problems and trials; here nothing can help man except the complete patience without any attempt to change the situation.  In middle of severe darkness, the face of God will radiate with amazing consolations which help man forget at once every suffering."

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Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature (Col 3:5)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"As much as the works of putting to death enter the soul into the depths of sadness, weariness and pain, they fly high eventually to enter it into the rows of the righteous Spirits crowned with glory and brightness."

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Let us then go to Him outside the camp bearing the disgrace He bore (Hebrews 13:13)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"As much as man humbles down himself and dies without his will, and his will together, he will feel the eternal life emerging from his depths and he lives it day after day."

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For Your sake we face death all day long (Romans 8:36)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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 in Christ is a struggle of love and crucifixion of self as a conscious response to the calling of Christ and walking with Him according to the Spirit; the Cross becomes a true Altar inside man's heart where the body and its members are crucified everyday."

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What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? (2) (Matthew 16:26)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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, for every man there is a cross god placed it on him to carry as an inevitable part of the Cross of Christ.  It is good for man to carry his cross placed on him from the Lord's hand; carry it well and thank, and with much patience and joy he does not complain or try to take it off his shoulder.  For this he will have the good reward."

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What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? (Matthew 16:26)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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.

"Saint Paul lived this verse and sang it; Saul had a good stature with the jews, and he thought of himself ahead of all his peers in knowledge, dignity and precision in law to the highest extreme!  And suddenly Christ appeared to him and he realized in Him the Truth, life and the richness of grace.  Then Paul made the comparison by which he recited his song."

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Whoever wants to save his life will lose it (Matthew 16:25)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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 words of Christ mean only one thing: without me there no salvation.  Whoever tries to save himself without Christ, it means that he loses it.  But whoever gives himself to Christ, he will surely be saved even if he dies for the love of Christ and the Gospel."

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Now is the time of God's Favor (2 Cor.6:2)

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Month of September: The Life of struggle and Perseverance.  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 Lord now is standing and ready; He has the refined gold which is the divine wisdom, once you possess it gives you wisdom and helps you discern right from wrong.  It saves you from the falsehood that you had on your self and from your thinking that you know everything.  Know that you are not called to change people, but to change your self first."

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In Christ Jesus our Lord, for thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory for ever Amen. (Matthew 6:13)

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This is the last part of the heavenly 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 last song is the weapon of every believer in Christ; we confess in it that He is glorified and the owner of every power and authority.  From the power of God we derive power, and from His glory we acquire authority over the adversary." 

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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