Saturday, 29 September 2012

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

Friday, 28 September 2012

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

Thursday, 27 September 2012

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

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

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

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

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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Monday, 24 September 2012

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

Saturday, 22 September 2012

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

Friday, 21 September 2012

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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God Bless

Thursday, 20 September 2012

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

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

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

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

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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God Bless

Monday, 17 September 2012

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

Saturday, 15 September 2012

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

Friday, 14 September 2012

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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God Bless

Thursday, 13 September 2012

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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God Bless

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

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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God Bless

Tuesday, 11 September 2012

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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God Bless

Monday, 10 September 2012

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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God Bless

Saturday, 8 September 2012

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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God Bless

Friday, 7 September 2012

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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God Bless

Thursday, 6 September 2012

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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God Bless

Wednesday, 5 September 2012

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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God Bless

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

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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God Bless

Monday, 3 September 2012

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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God Bless

Saturday, 1 September 2012

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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God Bless